DHE 270: Appearance, Power and Society

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)

Strangers from a Different Shore? A History of Asian Americans, Ronald Takaki.  E184.O6 T35 1989  (6th floor)

Becoming Visible: A reader in Gay & Lesbian history for H.S. and College Students, Kevin Jennings.  HQ76.25 .B425 1994 (5th floor)

The Education of Little Tree, Forrest Carter.  PS3553.A777 Z513 (4th floor)

Masculinity Reconstructed, Levant. Request from Summit

Real Boys:  Rescuing Our Boys from the Myths of Boyhood,  William S. Pollack.  Request from Summit

Critical White Studies:  Looking Behind the Mirror, Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic.  Request from Summit

Uprooting Racism: How White People can work for Social Justice, Paul Kival.  Request from Summit

The Possessive Investment in Whiteness:  How White People Profit from Identiy Politics, George Lipsitz. E184.A1 L56 1998 (6th floor)

White Privilege:  Essential Readings on the Other Side of Racism, Paula S. Rothenberg.  Request from Summit

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?

 

 

Subject Librarian

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  


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 groomingRef 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 fashionRef TT 505.A1C66 2002

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 .

 

  

Find Books: Catalogs

OSU Libraries Catalog

Summit (Orbis Cascades) Catalog
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Borrowing from other libraries

Books:

First see if a book is available through Summit. If it's not, request it through WorldCat.

Articles in journals:

Request through InterLibrary Loan.  Articles are delivered electronically, so the turnaround time is often 24 hours or less but may take up to 5 working days.