LibGuides: Women & Gender Studies: Research Resources

Research Resources for WGST

This is a small list of book and e-books available at the University of Lethbridge Library. Use the call numbers to browse the stacks for additional resources on your topic.

Feminist Community Research
Call Number: HM 756 F46 2011
Publication Date: 2011
Library Main Collection
Recovering Black Storytelling in Qualitative Research by S. R. Toliver This research-based book foregrounds Black narrative traditions and honors alternative methods of data collection, analysis, and representation. Toliver presents a semi-fictionalized narrative in an alternative science fiction setting, refusing white-centric qualitative methods and honoring the ways of the griots who were the scholars of their African nations. By utilizing Black storytelling, Afrofuturism, and womanism as an onto-epistemological tool, this book asks readers to elevate Black imaginations, uplift Black dreams, and consider how Afrofuturity is qualitative futurity. By centering Black girls, the book considers the ethical responsibility of researchers to focus upon the words of our participants, not only as a means to better understand our historic and current world, but to better situate inquiry for what the future world and future research could look like. Ultimately, this book decenters traditional, white-centered qualitative methods and utilizes Afrofuturism as an onto-epistemological tool and ethical premise. It asks researchers to consider how we move forward in data collection, data analysis, and data representation by centering how Black girls reclaim and recover the past, counter negative and elevate positive realities that exist in the present, and create new possibilities for the future. The semi-fictionalized narrative of the book highlights the intricate methodological and theoretical work that undergirds the story. It will be an important text for both new and seasoned researchers interested in social justice. Informed and anti-racist researchers will find Endarkened storywork a useful tool for educational, cultural, and social critiques now and in the future.
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9781003159285
Publication Date: 2022
Data Feminism by Catherine D`ignazio; Lauren F. Klein
Call Number: Available online
Publication Date: 2020
Handbook of Research with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Populations by William Meezan; James I. Martin
Call Number: HV 1449 H36 2009eb
ISBN: 1560235306
Publication Date: 2009
Available online.
Handbook of Feminist Research by Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber (Editor)
Call Number: HQ 1180 H35 2007
Publication Date: 2007
Available in Print
Feminist Research Practice by Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber (Editor)
Call Number: HQ 1180 H47 2014
Publication Date: 2014
Available in Print
Queer Methods and Methodologies by Kath Browne; Catherine J. Nash
Publication Date: 2010
Available Online
Research As Resistance by Lesley Brown (Editor); Susan Strega (Editor)
Publication Date: 2005
Available Online
Indigenous Methodologies by Margaret Elizabeth Kovach
Call Number: E 76.7 K68 2009
Publication Date: 2009
Available in Print

Looking for more research resources? Check out this guide on Feminist Research Methods by the University of Victoria Libraries. The menu on the left-hand side will also provide you with titles related to a variety of research methods.

A Practical Guide to Searching LGBTQIA Historical Records by Norena Shopland This book provides a number of effective tools to aid in the recovery of LGBTQIA historic material by providing extensive glossary and non-glossary written descriptions, and how to use those terms and phrases in searching effectively online and offline. Researching hidden and forbidden people from the past can be extremely difficult. Terminology used to write about LGBT+ people shifts over time, legal terminology enforces certain set terms which some writers use but others reject to avoid informing or disgusting a reading public. Often written descriptions contain no set terminology at all. How then can LGBT+ people be found in historic records? This book provides practical tools for a researcher wanting to uncover material from online or hard copy sources, including: keyword/s covering various sexual orientations and gender diversity, along with how and when to use them; tips for effective searching in online newspaper archives; how to use genealogy, auction and social media sites to uncover information; searching in online and physical libraries; advice on researching in physical archives and the types of collections which can yield results; and researching in museums collecting and displaying LGBT+ content. Making use of a straightforward and jargon free style, this is a short and accessible guide to doing historical research on Gay, Lesbian, Trans, Queer and non-normative research subjects. This is a useful resource for students and scholars alike in Archive Studies History, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Call Number: E-book
Publication Date: 2021
The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication, 3 Volume Set by Karen Ross (Editor-In-Chief); Ingrid Bachmann (Associate Editor); Valentina Cardo (Associate Editor); Sujata Moorti (Associate Editor); Cosimo Marco Scarcelli (Associate Editor) The first major reference work on gender and media--covering a broad range of gender-focused topics The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication comprises more than 250 entries by an international team of both established and emerging scholars in the field. This innovative resource explores how gender is represented in media, who produces the content, and the ways in which audiences receive and understand media messages. The contributors offer original insights on diverse aspects of gender in film, television, visual media, social and digital media and more.  Three alphabetically-organized volumes explore contexts and issues, production, fiction and non-fiction representation, and audience consumption. Each entry provides an overview of the topic, a list of additional readings, and cross-references to related entries in the encyclopedia. Sub-topics are thematically organized, covering a wide range of issues, genres, and media formats. Comprehensive and up-to-date, the encyclopedia places gender at the center of both historical and contemporary debates in the broad field of media and communication. This unique work: Presents contemporary scholarship on a vast array of topics including film biographies, TV, film and radio histories and genres, gender representation in news, and screen-based entertainment media Explores the concept of gender as both stereotype and non-conforming with essays dealing critically with issues around identity, sexuality, and intersectionality Includes essays which range from women film producers to the boy detective, from queer cinema to political communication, from gender and news to the racialized body, and many things in between Acknowledges the importance of the digital media landscape with numerous essays on digital and social media, from online dating to the quantified self to feminist media activism Discusses new research questions about the fusion of production, representation, and reception in media  The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication is an indispensable reference for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, instructors, and scholars in media, communication, gender studies, and related fields. Online version available on Wiley Online Library at http://wileyicaencyclopedia.com/
Call Number: E-book
Publication Date: 2021

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Understanding Qualitative Research by Svend Brinkmann
Publication Date: 2013
Available Online
Interviewing as Qualitative Research by Irving Seidman
Call Number: H 61.28 S45 2006
Publication Date: 2006
Available Online & Print

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