Contact info

For Library research help, please contact Moninder Lalli, Librarian for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, moninder_lalli@sfu.ca or Ask a librarian.

Selected reference sources

• A Dictionary of Gender Studies
• Encyclopedia of gender and society
• Encyclopedia of gender in media [Sage]
• Encyclopedia of sex and gender
• International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication
• Sage handbook of feminist theory

Concept maps

Think of all the alternate terms for each concept that you want to search. You may want to consider terms for different contexts (e.g. film, online, social media, etc.).

Examples:

• (misgyny OR hate OR rage OR anger OR violen*) AND (feminism OR "women's rights") AND ("popular culture" OR media)
• ("rape culture" OR "sexual harrassment") AND (TV OR television OR "social media" OR [names of platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, etc.])
• anti-feminist OR anti-women
• "#metoo"
• "rape culture"
• women AND anger AND feminis*

Databases for journal articles

How to find journal articles tutorial. 

What is a scholarly (or peer-reviewed) journal?

The databases below will provide articles on information technology and society.  If the full-text of the article is not available, use the "Get@SFU" link to find it or to initiate an inter-library loan request.

• Women's Studies International - for any issues related to gender, sexuality and women's studies
• Communication & Mass Media Complete: Indexing & abstracts for over 300 journals in the fields of communication, mass media studies, linguistics and film including full text for nearly 200 journals
• Film & Television Literature Index: International index to scholarly and popular journal literature on film, television and video.
• Music Index  International periodicals covering classical and popular music. Includes journal articles, book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries.
• Social Sciences Full Text  Multi-disciplinary database
• Academic Search Premier  Multidisciplinary index to academic & popular journals. Also indexes women's studies journals.
• ProQuest Sociology Collection - for issues related to class, gender, racism, sexuality and sexism and theoretical and applied sociology, social science, and policy science. Also searches Sociological Abstracts.
• CBCA Complete - Canadian Business and Current Affairs (CBCA) - indexes Canadian publications
• PsycINFO  Articles, books, book chapters, technical reports, and theses and dissertations in the field of psychology and the psychological aspects of other disciplines such as education, health, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, business, and law.

Scholarly or peer-reviewed?

Evaluating sources

Evaluating sources: for the basic questions you should be asking.

Journals

What is a scholarly (or peer-reviewed) journal?

Sometimes the article databases allow you to limit search results to "scholarly", "academic", and "peer-reviewed."  If such an option is not visible within the database then search for the journal name within Ulrich's Periodicals Directory database.  It may provide that information.

• Ulrich's Periodicals Directory / ulrichsweb.com

Books

University of Cambridge Library:  Q. How do I know if an article or book is scholarly?

• Author's credentials: Advanced degree? University affiliation?
• Some university presses and scholarly association may have a peer-review process.

Find books in the Library

How to use the Library Catalogue  [guide]

Search by topic, using Basic or Advanced Search.  For known items it is best to use "Browse by title" search.

Try searching by keywords and then limit by "Subject" (left-hand column) and "Resource type" of "books":

Examples:

• misogyn*
  • Results limited to "Resource type" of "Books" and selected "Subjects
• (misgyny OR hate OR rage OR anger OR violen*) AND (feminism OR "women's rights") AND ("popular culture" OR media)
• misogyn* AND (resist* OR fight OR empower*)
• "rape culture"
• ("video games" OR gaming) AND (women OR gender OR misogyn*)
• women AND (anger OR rage)  AND feminis*
• feminis* AND (rage OR anger OR violen* OR harrass* OR bully* OR racis*) AND (ads OR advertis*)
• Christine Blasey Ford
• ("white supremacist*" OR heteronormative OR "capitalist patriarchy") AND (women OR gender OR sexis* OR misogyn* OR feminis* OR rage)
• ("white feminis*" OR postfemins* OR "neoliberal feminis*") 
• "popular feminism" AND "popular misogyny"
• media AND (discours* OR resist* OR activis* OR feminis*) AND (misogyn* OR sexis* OR rage OR despair)
• (TV OR television OR news OR comed* OR film* OR cinema) AND (misogyn* OR sexis* OR rage OR despair) AND (feminis* OR gender OR women)
• gender* AND stereotyp* AND media

Combine different concepts using AND
Combine same concepts using OR
Use quotation marks to search for a phrase
Use brackets for synonyms
Use asterisk (*) for different endings of words

Note:  For Catalogue Search, when combining concepts, use CAPITAL letters ( "OR", "AND")

Selected books:

• Angry white men : American masculinity at the end of an era [print]
• Beauty and misogyny : harmful cultural practices in the West [online][print]
• #CyberMisogyny: Using and Strengthening Canadian Legal Responses to Gendered Hate and Harassment Online [online]
• Digital feminist activism : girls and women fight back against rape culture [online]
• Disruptive Feminisms: Raced, Gendered, and Classed Bodies in Film [online]
• Empowered : popular feminism and popular misogyny [online][print]
• Feminism and Affect at the Scene of Argument: Beyond the Trope of the Angry Feminist [online]
• Feminist erasures : challenging backlash culture [online]
• Feminist media studies [online] [print]
• Game changers : from Minecraft to misogyny, the fight for the future of videogames [print]
• Gender Hate Online: Understanding the New Anti-Feminism [online]
• Gender in the digital sphere : representation, engagement and expression
• Handmaid's tale : teaching dystopia, feminism, and resistance across disciplines and borders [print]
• Intersectional Internet : race, sex, class and culture online [online] [print]
• Men who hate women and women who kick their asses : Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy in feminist perspective [online]
• Me, not you : the trouble with mainstream feminism [online]
• #MeToo and the Politics of Social Change [online]
• #MeToo movement [online]
• #MeToo, Weinstein and feminism / Karen Boyle [online]
• Mediating Misogyny Gender, Technology, and Harassment [online]
• Misogyny and media in the age of Trump [online]
• Misogyny in American culture : causes, trends, and solutions
• Reclaiming feminism : challenging everyday misogyny [online]
• Resisting rape culture through pop culture : sex after #MeToo [print]
• Rise of neoliberal feminism / Catherine Rottenberg [print]
• Sexing the groove : popular music and gender [print]
• Sexual harassment online : shaming and silencing women in the digital age [online]
• Speaking Out Feminism, Rape and Narrative Politics [online]
• The voices of #MeToo : from grassroots activism to a viral roar / Carly Gieseler [print]

Browse search for books by author, title or subject headings

You can use the "browse" function to browse for books by author, title or subject headings. Just change the "default", "title" search to "author" or "subject"

By author:

• Thunberg, Greta
• Banet-Weiser, Sarah

By title: Handmaid's Tale

Browse by Subject    (change the default "title" to "subject").  Browse by Subject will only result in books, not book chapters or journal articles.

• Anti-feminism
• Anti-feminism -- United States
• Feminism
• Feminism -- [name of country]
• Feminism and mass media
• Feminist theory
• Internet and women
• Misogyny
• Misogyny -- [name of country]
• Misogyny in literature
• Popular music -- Social aspects
• Rape in mass media
• Rape in motion pictures
• Sex discrimination against women
• Sex in music
• Sex in popular culture
• Sex in video games
• Sex role in mass media
• Sexism
• Sexism -- [name of country]
• Sexism in language
• Sexism in mass media
• Sexual harrassment
• Violence in video games
• Women -- Crimes against
  • see also the subheadings for different countries
• Women in mass media
• Women in motion pictures
• Women -- violence against

Writing an annotated bibliography

The guide below provides information on how to write an annotated bibliography.

• How to write an annotated bibliography

Citation style guides

• APA (6th ed.)
• MLA (8th ed.) 

Library guides

• Developing a topic [video]
• Evaluating sources
• Search tips for Google and Google Scholar
• More Tutorials

Writing help

For undergraduate students, the Student Learning Commons provides assistance and numerous, helpful guides.

• Academic writing resources
• Library Catalogue search: Academic writing
  • E.g. Writing effective course assignments : a guide to non-degree and undergraduate students
• Book a consultation