G402: Gender Perspectives on Population Issues
The following resources and strategies will help you locate information in order to answer the research question: Do gender differentials exist in some aspect of demographic behavior and what are social sources of these differentials?
Potential topics: birth, death, marriage, migration, age structure, population policy, and the examination of gender in the population literature or the examination of population in the gender literature.
To find population studies and gender research, search the "Recommended Resources" on the left:
- Academic Search Premier
- Gender Studies Database
- Gender Watch
- JStor
- Sociological Abstracts
To find demographic information, search the following resources (links at the right -->):
- American Factfinder
- Population Index on the Web
- Population Reference Bureau
- UN Stats
- WDI Online
To find books, films and videos, search:
To cite sources using the APA format:
To access articles assigned as course readings, search for the journal title (underlined in your G402 Readings List) in the Online Full-Text Journal search to locate the full text of the assigned readings.
Reminders to researchers:
- Consider what you already know and ask yourself what you want to find out.
- Think about the origin and quality of data and information.
- Collect all of the pertinent information from each resource consulted in order to compile a complete citation for your bibliography (list of references).
- Contact Carrie Donovan, librarian for Gender Studies, with research-related questions.
