For this assignment, you must construct a 4-5 page annotated bibliography that provides a summary of at least 5 research articles. You are free to choose any articles, as long as they are (1) research reports from peer-reviewed academic journals, and (2) cover a topic related to sex and gender.
Articles can be found using a search engine available through the university library, such as Ebsco or ProQuest.
Each review should begin with the full citation of the article, and should follow ASA formatting guidelines (we will discuss this in class). Below the citation should be a brief (approximately 150 words long) summary of the article. The summary should be both descriptive and evaluative in nature, meaning that you are telling the reader what is there as well as making a judgment about its quality. What is the author’s main research findings? Did you find it to be interesting/timely/accurate/etc.? What are the strengths of this study, and are there any weaknesses? How relevant is this research to the study of the topic? We will go over some examples of annotated bibliography entries in class.
All written assignments must be in your own words.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
1. Andersen, Margaret L., and Patricia Hill Collins (Eds.). 1998. Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology (3rd ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
2. Collins, Patricia Hill. 2008. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (New ed.) New York: Routledge.
3. Connell, R.W. 2005. Masculinities (2nd ed.). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
4. Cortese, Anthony J. 2004. Provocateur: Images of Women and Minorities in Advertising (2nd ed.). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
5. Hochschild, Arlie R., with Anne Machung. 2003. The Second Shift (Revised ed.). New York: Penguin.
6. hooks, bell. (2000) Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center. London: Pluto Press.
7. Kimmel, Michael S., and Michael A. Messner (Eds.). 2009. Men’s Lives (8th ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
8. Lorber, Judith. 1994. Paradoxes of Gender. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
9. Lorde, Audre. 2007. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Berkeley, CA: Crossing.
10. Sidel, Ruth. 1998. Keeping Women and Children Last: America’s War on the Poor (Revised ed.). New York: Penguin.
WEB SITES: Students looking for additional information related to the course online can search the following sites:
1. www.socwomen.org/web (Sociologists for Women in Society)
2. www.gender.org (Gender education & advocacy)
3. www.guardian.co.uk/world/gender (Latest news & commentary on gender)
4. www.racialicious.com (Race, gender, & pop culture)
5. www.weforum.org/issues/global-gender-gap (World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap)
6. www.socioweb.com (Sociological Resources on the Internet)
7. www.iq.harvard.edu/blog/sss (Social Science Statistics Blog)
8. socserv.mcmaster.ca/w3virtsoclib (Virtual Library in Sociology)
9. yrihs.yale.edu (Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities)
10. www.census.gov (U.S. Bureau of the Census)
11. feministing.com (online community run by young feminists)
