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Welcome to the Women & U.S. Culture Library Research Guide!
This Guide for HISTORY 32 will provide information and resources necessary to complete the assignments. Refer to Dr Bengiveno's syllabus for complete instructions on the assignment. Any questions should be direct to Dr Bengiveno during class or her office hours.
SYMPOSIUMS
This semester each of you will research ONE of the following topics under the Bold categories. There will be four components to this assignment: Annotation Assignment, Abstract, Annotated Bibliography, and PowerPoint Presentation. See Module Assignment in Canvas for due dates. NO WIKIPEDIA SOURCES ALLOWED. You should stay away from encyclopedias since they are not academic sources. There will be a Library Orientation for the Symposium.
The following topics will be used:
WORKING WOMEN IN THE 20TH & 21ST CENTURIES
The following are suggested areas to investigate. You are not restricted to the topics on this list.
Wage Inequity
Supreme Court Justices
U.S. Senators and/or Representatives
Women and Unions/leadership
Political Correspondents
Teachers/Professors
Service Industry workers
Immigrant Women's Lives
The following are suggested areas to investigate. You are not restricted to these topics.
Undocumented workers
Impact of ICE
Mothers & Daughters
Asylum Seekers
Education
Refugees
Assimilation
WOMEN AT WAR (Any WWII topic must be cleared with professor)
The following are suggested areas to investigate. You are not restricted to these topics.
Codebreakers
Lesbians in the military
Women’s workplace/sexual harassment in the military
Women in Vietnam
Nurses during wartime
Women in Iraq and/or Afghanistan
Code Pink
Sexual violence in the military
EDUCATED WOMEN
The following are suggested areas to investigate. You are not restricted to these topics.
Women in Law/Med school
Women in Higher Education
Women’s Colleges
Marian Wright Edelman
Drew Gilpin Faust
The Society of Women Engineers
Katherine Johnson
100 points possible. See Module for point breakdown. Your annotated bibliography must include a minimum of ten sources; a variety of sources including books, journal articles, and no more than five internet sources (of the ten). The annotations should be several sentences to a paragraph in length per bibliographic citation. Interviews are also acceptable as sources when appropriate.