Contemporary Debates: Women and Right-Wing Populism

Listed in: Political Science, as POSC-407  |  Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies, as SWAG-400 | Moodle

Faculty: Amrita Basu (Section 01)

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This course guide provides resources for this course's research paper assignment.

We will be referring to the following for Wednesday's class:

Avishai, Orit. "Doing Religion in a Secular World: Women in Conservative Religions and the Question of Agency." Gender & Society 22, no. 4 (2008): 409-433. 

Bizup, Joseph. "BEAM: A rhetorical vocabulary for teaching research-based writing." Rhetoric Review 27, no. 1 (2008): 72-86.

Hunter College Libraries: How to Use a Source: The BEAM Method

Source Tracking Handout

    Amherst College has two catalogs where you can find books: 

    1. The Books and Media catalog has books, film and music owned by the Five Colleges.

    2. The Search Everything catalog also includes journal articles in its search.

    Below are a few e-books from the catalog that address right-wing populism. Within the links, click on "Location & Availability" to access the book's text.

    Databases are tools which allow you to search for a topic across a wide body of academic documents, such as journal and newspaper articles, book chapters, and dissertations.

    Try these databases first to find supporting journal articles for your topic.

    Databases are tools which allow you to search for a topic across a wide body of academic documents, such as journal and newspaper articles, book chapters, and dissertations.

    Try these databases first to find news articles about your topic.

    • Global Newsstream (ProQuest)
      Search the most recent global news, including major US dailies, with archives that stretch back into the 1980s from over 2,700 news sources that include newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, blogs, and more in full-text format.
    • Access World News (Newsbank) (date coverage varies)
      Electronic editions of over 2,600 local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as 1,500 international sources. Fully searchable and browsable by map.
    • Historical Newspapers (ProQuest)
      Combined search of the historic Boston Globe, Chicago Defender, Chinese Newspapers Collection, Hartford Courant, Los Angeles Times, New York Amsterdam News, New York Times, South China Morning Post, Times of India, and Washington Post.
    • LexisNexis Academic (Now called: Nexis Uni) (date coverage varies)
      Full-text federal and state laws, international legal materials, and law reviews. Also newspapers, business information and company profiles.
    • Ethnic NewsWatch (1959 to present)
      News and analysis from ethnic popular and scholarly publications.

    Citing your sources is a vital part of the research process. Citations allow readers of your work to follow in your steps, and citing demonstrates that you are conversant with the existing literature about your topic. Different fields rely on different citation styles.

    • APSA Style Manual for Political Science
      "The APSA Style Manual for Political Science, revised August 2006, is published by the American Political Science Association as a guide for authors who wish to write and submit an article for publication in one of the APSA's journals. It follows the Chicago Manual of Style".
    • Chicago Manual of Style
      The official guide for the 17th edition of Chicago style.
    • Zotero
      A free application that collects, manages, and formats citations and bibliographies. Zotero also helps organize your research by allowing you to attach PDFs, notes, and images to your references.