Women's and Gender Studies   Tags: gender studies, women's studies  

"Asia now has 163 million females 'missing' from its population. Gender imbalance reaches far beyond Asia, affecting Georgia, Eastern Europe, and cities in the U.S. where there are significant immigrant populations. The world, therefore, is becoming increasingly male, and this mismatch is likely to create profound social upheaval."

Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men - Hvistendahl, Mara

Call Number: HB1064 .A3 H87 2011

ISBN: 9781586488505

Publication Date: 2011

Germantown Circulating Collection

Women's and Gender Studies is cross-disciplinary, and can be a part of any academic discipline.  You will find books relating to women's issues in all sections of the library. 

If you would like to browse in the shelves to see what we have, these are the areas where you are most likely to find books about women and women's issues:

HQ1101 - HQ 2030   Women and feminism

HQ1075                       Sex roles

HQ801                         Man-woman relationships, courtship, dating

HQ793 - HQ799         Young men and women

HQ12 - HQ49             Sexual life

HQ1 - HQ2044           The family, marriage, and women

"Symbolic annihilation is used to highlight the erasure of peoples in popular communication.  George Gerbner coined the term to describe the absence, condemnation, or trivialization of a particular group in the media.  Generally applied to women and racial and sexual minorities, symbolic annihilation points to the ways in which poor media treatment can contribute to social disempowerment and in which symbolic absence in the media can erase groups and individuals from public consciousness."  --  The International Encyclopedia of Communication, 2008

Articles from library databases discussing symbolic annihilation:

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