DHE 270: Appearance, Power and Society

Course Librarian

• Librarian: Loretta Rielly
• Office Location: Valley Library, 4th floor
• Office Hours: Tuesdays 3:00 - 4:30
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Professor Pedersen's Recommendations

BOOKS

Appearance & Power, Johnson and Lennon.  GT495.A671 1999 (6th floor)

The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf.  HQ1219.W65 1991 (5th floor)

The Invisible Woman: confronting weight prejudice in America, W. Charisse Goodman.  BF697.5.B63 G67 1995 (6th floor)

JOURNALS

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology  HM251 .J56 (5th floor)

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Rutgers Law Journal (in LexisNexis) 

WEBSITE

How Do Media Images of Men Affect Our Lives?

 

 

Smart searching

When searching in catalogs and databases:

• Be creative in the words you use; if one doesn't work, try something else
• Begin with keywords and use the subjects to find more information
• Use quotation marks around phrases
• Use catalog and database features to limit by date, language, type of article, etc.

Article Databases

Academic Search Premier   Excellent resource for finding popular and scholarly articles on all subjects related to appearance, power and society. 

Contemporary Womens Issues  

Sociological Abstracts  

Locations of books and journals

Books and journals are shelved by their call numbers.  To find it, use the Call Number Directory to find the floor where the call number is located.  

 

 The call number for Anne Hollander's book Sex and Suits is GT525.H65 1994.  

 

The G call numbers are located on the 5th floor .

 

  

Selected reference books

Located in the Reference Collection on the main (2nd) floor of the Library.

For appearance sake: the historical encyclopedia of good looks, beauty, and grooming.  Ref GT499.S49 2001

The encyclopedia of fashion.   Ref GT507.O53 1998

The Thames and Hudson dictionary of fashion and fashion designers.  Ref GT 507.O53 1998

Contemporary fashion.  Ref TT 505.A1C66 2002

Course Bookmarks