History 271: The Modern Girl and Female Citizen in China and Japan
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Professor: Karen Teoh Librarian: Ginny Hopcroft Spring 2009 Catalogs Books Databases Primary Sources Web Sites |
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Library Catalogs
Bowdoin College Library Catalog
Search our catalog for books, videos, microfilm, web sites, etc. owned or subscribed to here at Bowdoin.MaineCat
Search the combined holdings of most Maine Libraries; users make ILL requests online; materials arrive from Colby and Bates in two days.NExpress
Locate books and articles within the combined collections of Colby, Bates, Bowdoin, Williams, Northeastern and Wellesley; users make ILL requests online.WorldCat
Use this union catalog to find books and other monographs from academic libraries nationwide.
Books
Women in Japanese society : an annotated bibliography of selected English language materials
Main Ref Z7964.J3 H82 1992
Women in China : a selected and annotated bibliography
Main Ref Z7964.C5 W44 1984
Women in China : bibliography of available English language materials
Main Ref Z7964.C5 C47 1984
Encyclopedia of Modern Asia
Main Ref DS4 .L48 2002 6 vols.
Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan
9 vols. Main Ref DS805.K633 1983
The Japanese New Woman: Images of Gender and Modernity
Main Libr HQ1762 .L68 2007
Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction
Main Libr PL782.E8 J37 1991
When "I" was born : women's autobiography in modern China
Covers 1920-1940.
Main Libr PL2278 .W33 2008
Databases
Historical Abstracts
Abstracts for articles, books and dissertations covering the world except for the U.S and Canada.
Gender Studies Database
Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, theses & dissertations, websites and other sources.
Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS)
An essential index for locating articles, books and book chapters relating to all aspects of Asia, published since 1971.
Jstor
Date coverage varies.
A full text database covering full runs of journals except for the most recent five years.
Primary Sources
For information on primary sources, please read the CBB Guide to Primary and Secondary Sources.
American Periodicals Series Online
"...Digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century."
New York Times Archive, 1851-2004
Full image of the New York Times.
PAIS International (1915-1976)
Covers economics, education, government, history
Periodical Index Online
Online indexing to periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, published from 1770 to 1990. The full text of some of the articles can be found in its sister database, Periodicals Archive Online.
Reader's Guide Retrospective; 1890 - 1982 (online)
Main Per Index; 1900 - 2003 (Print)
An index to a broad range of U.S. general interest magazines and journals. A special value of the Reader's Guide for this class is its historical coverage.
Web Sites
- Google Books
http://books.google.com/ - Use to search within books which you can find at Bowdoin, or through NExpress or interlibrary loan.
- Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com/ - Searches professional and academic literature. Check Bowdoin catalog under "find journals" to see we own it. If not, continue with NExpress or interlibrary loan.
