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| SOUTH CAROLINA RESOURCES |
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The South Carolina Encyclopedia Encyclopedia of Southern Culture The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture A History of Women in the U.S. (includes SC) The Status of Women in the States (ranks SC) |
REF F 269 S764 2006 REF F 209 E53 1989 REF F 209 N47 2006 (various vols) REF HQ 1410 H58 2004 (4 vols) REF HQ 1438 A15 I57 2000 |
| Periodical Databases: |
| Most of these sources are good both for South Carolina and your chosen country. Go to the Edens Library homepage, click on Find Articles, then either Journals & Magazines or Newspapers. (Remote Access users should enter their CC email username and password.) |
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| SocINDEX with Full-Text On-Campus | Remote Access |
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| World Wide Web: |
| Alliance
for Women
See the report "The Status of Women in South Carolina" (Click on Research Center, then choose any of the four categories. There's a link to the report from each category. )
Institute for Women's Policy Research: The Status of Women in the States Click on "Read the nine in-depth state reports" for the full 2002 report (menu on the left). Click on the state of SC on the map for the highlights of this 2002 report. Guttmacher Institute South Carolina Statistical Abstract S.C. Dept. of Health and Environmental Control South Carolina Vital and Morbidity Statistics |
| INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES |
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The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide REF HQ 1726 G74 20036 The World's Women, 2000: Trends and Statistics REF HQ 1154 W95 2000 The State of Women in the World Atlas REF G 1046 E1 S4 1997 Women's Rights: A Global View REF HQ 1236 W6527 2001 Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion REF BL 458 E53 1999 (2 vols) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History REF HQ 1121 .O93 2008 (4 vols) Human Rights and the World's Major Religions REF BL 65 H78 H8595 2005 (5 vols) Religions of the World REF BL 80.3 R45 2002 (4 vols) Lesbian Histories and Culture REF HQ 75.5 L4395 2000 Encyclopedia of Women and Gender REF HQ 1115 E43 2001 (2 vols) Encyclopedia of Global Health REF RA 441 .E53 2008 (4 vols) Encyclopedia of Domestic Violence REF HV 6626 .E534 2007 Women in the Material World OVERSIZE HQ 1381 D35 1996 (Currently on reserve for LA102) |
| World Wide Web: |
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Clearinghouse on International Developments in Child, Youth, and Family
Policies Guttmacher Institute Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Population Reference Bureau U.S. Library of Congress, Federal Research Division: Country Studies United Nations Sites World Bank (good for topics dealing with 'women and employment' or 'women and business') |
| Class Exercise: |
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Web sites are not always what they seem! Compare these two websites and see if you can tell which is the better source to use:
http://www.uaf.edu/rahi/papers/tatiana98.html http://www.policyproject.com/pubs/MNPI/Nigeria_MNPI.pdf |
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