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GSFS 101: Introduction to Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies

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Session Outline

Here is the schedule for our session today:

  1. Introductions, and how to get help
  2. Preliminary Poll
  3. Finding (and recognizing) scholarly articles and books in...
    1. Search.Libraries
    2. Databases
  4. Exercise: Is it scholarly?
  5. Website development tools
  6. Assignment overview from instructor

Preliminary Poll

Which of these search tools or platforms do you use most frequently?
Google: 11 votes (30.56%)
Google Scholar: 13 votes (36.11%)
JSTOR: 6 votes (16.67%)
Web of Science: 0 votes (0%)
Search.Libraries: 3 votes (8.33%)
EBSCO: 1 votes (2.78%)
ProQuest: 0 votes (0%)
Something else!: 2 votes (5.56%)
Total Votes: 36
In the search tool or platform that you use most frequently, can you limit your results to scholarly articles?
Yes: 23 votes (76.67%)
No: 1 votes (3.33%)
I'm not sure: 6 votes (20%)
Total Votes: 30
In the search tool or platform that you use most frequently use, for a given article, can you view a list of later articles that have cited that article?
Yes: 12 votes (38.71%)
No: 2 votes (6.45%)
I'm not sure: 17 votes (54.84%)
Total Votes: 31

Exercise: Is it scholarly?

Tamboukou, Maria. Women Workers’ Education, Life Narratives and Politics : Geographies, Histories, Pedagogies. 1st ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Scholarly and peer-reviewed: 6 votes (25%)
Scholarly, but not peer-reviewed: 17 votes (70.83%)
Neither scholarly nor peer-reviewed: 1 votes (4.17%)
Total Votes: 24
Aronin, Scott. “The Labor Divide: EMTALA’s Preemptive Effect on State Abortion Restrictions.” Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 19.2 (2023): 189–208.
Scholarly and peer-reviewed: 14 votes (56%)
Scholarly, but not peer-reviewed: 7 votes (28%)
Neither scholarly nor peer-reviewed: 4 votes (16%)
Total Votes: 25
Nectoux, Tracy Marie. Out Behind the Desk: Workplace Issues for LGBTQ Librarians. 1st ed. Duluth, MN: Library Juice Press, 2011.
Scholarly and peer-reviewed: 0 votes (0%)
Scholarly, but not peer-reviewed: 6 votes (66.67%)
Neither scholarly nor peer-reviewed: 3 votes (33.33%)
Total Votes: 9
Jefferies, Daze. “Seawater/C-Cup: Fishy Trans Embodiments and Geographies of Sex Work in Newfoundland.” Imaginations (Edmonton, Alberta) 11.1 (2020): 17–35.
Scholarly and peer-reviewed: 4 votes (66.67%)
Scholarly, but not peer-reviewed: 2 votes (33.33%)
Neither scholarly nor peer-reviewed: 0 votes (0%)
Total Votes: 6
Amin, Kadji. “Sexology and New Queer, Trans, and Asexual Identities.” GLQ 29.1 (2023): 91–107.
Scholarly and peer-reviewed: 3 votes (60%)
Scholarly, but not peer-reviewed: 2 votes (40%)
Neither scholarly nor peer-reviewed: 0 votes (0%)
Total Votes: 5