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Background information

Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education / Editor, James A. Banks, University of Washington.
Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications, Inc., 2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Reference (non-circulating) » LC1099 .E38 2012 V.1
"The major aim of this encyclopedia is to describe the most important concepts, theories, research, policies, case studies, and programs at the pre-school through the postsecondary levels and their implications for educational reform. Diversity is defined broadly in this encyclopedia and includes race, ethnicity, social class, gender, sexual orientation (LGBT), religion, language, and exceptionality, which encompasses giftedness and disability." p. xlviii
Education and sociology : an encyclopedia / editors, David L. Levinson, Peter W. Cookson, Jr., Alan R. Sadovnik.
New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2002.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Reference (non-circulating) » LC189.95 .E38 2002
"Pooling together writings from leading academic authorities in education, this single-volume reference provides readers and researchers with provocative new topics and issues in the sociology of education. Entries cover both national and international perspectives and studies, and tackle controversial points in education today, from gender inequality to globalization, minorities to meritocracy."
Gender and education : an encyclopedia / edited by Barbara J. Bank ; Sara Delamont and Catherine Marshall, associate editors.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2007.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Reference (non-circulating) » LC213 .G425 2007 V.1
"In this two volume set, educators explore the intersection of gender and education. Their entries deal with educational theories, research, curricula, practices, personnel, and policies, but also with variations in the gendering of education across historical and cultural contexts. The various contributors discuss gender as a social construction. The latest research on boys and masculinities, as well as girls and feminism, is included."
Handbook of feminist research : theory and praxis / editor, Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber.
Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Publications, c2007.
Green Library » Stacks » HQ1180 .H35 2007
"The Handbook of Feminist Research is both a theoretical and a practical approach to conducting social science research on, for, and about women. A goal of this Handbook is to help readers develop an understanding of feminist research by introducing a range of feminist epistemologies, theories, methodologies, and methods that have had a significant impact on feminist research practice and on the teaching of women's studies scholarship."
Historical dictionary of women's education in the United States / edited by Linda Eisenmann.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998.
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » LC1752 .H57 1998
"a concise reference tool for researchers, scholars, teachers, students, and laypersons interested in examining significant events, ideas, movements, institutions, and people concerned with the history of women's education in the United States from the colonial period to the present."
Routledge international encyclopedia of women : global women's issues and knowledge / Cheris Kramarae and Dale Spender, general editors.
New York : Routledge, 2000.
Green Library » InfoCenter (non-circulating) » HQ1115 .R69 2000 V.1
The RoutledgeFalmer reader in gender and education / edited by Madeleine Arnot and Mairtin Mac an Ghaill.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC212.9 .R69 2006
The Sage handbook of gender and education / edited by Christine Skelton, Becky Francis, and Lisa Smulyan.
Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, 2006.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Reference (non-circulating) » LC212.9 .S24 2006
"It is a comprehensive overview of different theoretical positions on gender issues in schools. The contributions cover all sectors of education from early years to higher education; curriculum subjects; methodological and theoretical perspectives; and gender identities in education. Each chapter reviews, synthesises and provides a critical interrogation of key contemporary themes in education."
Women in higher education : an encyclopedia / Ana M. Martínez Alemán and Kristen A. Renn, editors.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2002.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Reference (non-circulating) » LC1569 .W66 2002
"documents the experiences of the many groups of women who are part of the higher education system--students, administrators, faculty, and staff--across a broad spectrum of social class, age, sexual orientation, and racial/ethnic groups."
International education : an encyclopedia of contemporary issues and systems / edited by Daniel Ness and Chia-ling Lin.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Reference (non-circulating) » LB15 .I565 2013 V.1
"Part I provides a set of entries on major topics in education that are particularly salient in an international context....Part II includes entries for the nations of the world, organized by major regions."

New books

National girls' education strategy : January 2014 / Government of Malawi, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC2475.8 .N38 2014 F
Teaching the male brain : how boys think, feel, and learn in school / Abigail Norfleet James.
Second edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1390 .J36 2015
Practice-oriented.
Private world(s) : gender and informal learning of adults / edited by Joanna Ostrouch-Kamińska and Cristina C. Vieira.
Rotterdam ; Boston : Sense Publishers, c2015.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC5225 .S64 P75 2015
Intellectual manhood : university, self, and society in the antebellum South / Timothy J. Williams.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LD3943 .W47 2015
The white plum : a biography of Ume Tsuda : pioneer of women's higher education in Japan / Yoshiko Furuki.
[Second edition].
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LA2383 .J32 F87 2015
Women education, health and mobility status / by Suchitra S. Kumar (Associate Professor of Economics, G.N. Khalsa College, Mumbai).
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC2322 .K86 2014
Black males and racism : improving the schooling and life chances of African Americans / Terence D. Fitzgerald.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC2731 .F58 2015
Vocational education of female entrepreneurs in China : a multitheoretical and multidimensional analysis of successful businesswomen's everyday lives / Mary Ann Maslak.
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1047 .C6 M37 2015
Vocational education of female entrepreneurs in China : a multitheoretical and multidimensional analysis of successful businesswomen's everyday lives / Mary Ann Maslak.
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1047 .C6 M37 2015
Mongia Mabrouk Amira : une tunisienne qui a su donner un sens à sa vie / textes recueillis et publiés par Alia Baccar Bournaz & Mouna Mabrouk Ben Laïba.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LA2388 .T82 A453 2013
The best school in Jerusalem : Annie Landau's school for girls, 1900-1960 / Laura S. Schor.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC54 .I7 S77 2013
Mobilizing Zanzibari women : the struggle for respectability and self-reliance in colonial East Africa / Corrie Decker.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC2474.6 .D43 2014
Being "in and out" : providing voice to early career women in academia / edited by Narelle Lemon and Susanne Garvis.
Rotterdam ; Boston : Sense, c2014.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2332.3 .B45 2014
Hot fudge sundae in a white paper cup : a spirited Black woman in a white world / Gwendolyn Calvert Baker.
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2014.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LA2317 .B135 A3 2014
Stories of men and teaching : a new narrative approach to understanding masculinity and education / Ian Davis.
Singapore ; New York : Springer, c2015.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC212.9 .D38 2015
Faculty fathers : toward a new ideal in the research university / Margaret W. Sallee.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2335.8 .S35 2014
Those good Gertrudes : a social history of women teachers in America / Geraldine J. Clifford.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2837 .C59 2014
A forgotten sisterhood : pioneering Black women educators and activists in the Jim Crow South / Audrey Thomas McCluskey.
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2014.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LA2311 .M39 2014
Gender transformation in the academy / edited by Vasilikie Demos, Catherine White Berheide, Marcia Texler Segal.
1st ed. Bingley, UK : Emerald, 2014.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC212.86 .G47 2014
Gender and education from different angles / edited by Małgorzata Jarecka-Žyluk and Oliver Holz.
Zurich : Lit, c2014.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC212.9 .E34 2014
Jane Addams in the classroom / edited by David Schaafsma.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB875 .A332 J36 2014
Women's colleges and universities in global contexts / Kristen A. Renn.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1567 .R46 2014
It takes team effort : men and women working together to enhance children's lives / edited by Lemuel W. Watson.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1139.23 .I8 2014
Women interrupting, disrupting, and revolutionizing educational policy and practice / edited by Whitney Sherman Newcomb, Katherine Cumings Mansfield.
Charlotte, NC : Information Age Pub., Inc., 2014.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1567 .W664 2014
Gender differences in aspirations and attainment : a life course perspective / edited by Ingrid Schoon, Jacquelynne S. Eccles.
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » HQ799.5 .G4565 2014
Measuring glass ceiling effects in higher education : opportunities and challenges / Jerlando F.L. Jackson, Elizabeth M. O'Callaghan, Raul A. Leon, editors.
San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2014.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028 .N5 NO.159
Education and the reverse gender divide in the Gulf States : embracing the global, ignoring the local / Natasha Ridge.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC2410.3 .R53 2014
Gender, feminism, and queer theory in the self-study of teacher education practices / edited by Monica Taylor and Lesley Coia.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1707 .G45 2014
Education and gender / edited by Debotri Dhar.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC212.9 .E37 2014

Journals

Gender and education.
Abingdon, Oxfordshire, Eng. : Carfax Pub. Co. c1989-
Education Library (Cubberley) » Reading Room
Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering.
New York, NY : Begell House, Inc., c1994-
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » Q130 .J678 V.20 2014
"Discipline-specific issues related to women and minorities are consolidated to address the entire educational environment from K through post-graduate and on to continuing education. Included are explorations of feminist teaching methods, black student/white teacher interactions, cultural phenomena that affect classroom climate, and new questions to ask of science."

Databases

Education databases

ERIC [electronic resource] : the educational resources information center.
[Washington, DC : National Library of Education?, 199?-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Bibliographic database of educational resources including articles, reports, and curriculum.
Education full text [electronic resource].
[Bronx, N.Y.] : H.W. Wilson Co.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Indexes and abstracts articles of English-language periodicals and books on education from 1983 on. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996 and is available for over half the 600 journals indexed.
Education week American education news site of record [electronic resource].
Bethesda, MD : Editorial Projects in Education, Inc.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Teachers College record book reviews [electronic resource].
Birmingham, AL : Teachers College Record
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
"Teachers College Record Book Reviews provides comprehensive reviews of the leading books in education and educational research by major scholars in these fields. "

Gender databases

Contemporary women's issues [electronic resource].
Beachwood, OH : Responsive Database Services,
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Contains full text of reports, articles, and newsletters on issues affecting women.
GenderWatch [electronic resource].
[Stamford, CT] : Softline Information, Inc., [1998 or 1999]-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Full text collection of journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings and governmental NGO and special reports devoted to women's and gender issues. Contains materials dating back to the 1970's.
Women's resources international.
Baltimore, MD: National Information Services Corp. (NISC), c1991,1996-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Indexes the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Over 800 essential sources include: journals, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies, important websites & web documents, and grey literature.

Websites

American Educational Studies Association

"The role of AESA is to provide a cross-disciplinary forum wherein scholars gather to exchange and debate ideas generated from the above mentioned areas. This cross-disciplinary commitment of the organization creates a landscape for the discussion of broader policy issues such as minority studies, gender studies, multicultural education, democracy, and issues of educational equality and equity. Our membership is dedicated to examining issues in education from a plurality of academic viewpoints and perspectives."

Five College Archives Digital Access Project

"This Web site provides access to digitized versions of archival records and manuscript collections relating primarily to women's history -- particularly women's education at the Five Colleges." The colleges are Amherst, Hampshire, Mt. Holyoke, Smith and U. Mass.

NAME, the National Association for Multicultural Education

"NAME celebrates cultural and ethnic diversity as a national strength that enriches a society and rejects the view that diversity threatens the fabric of a society. NAME believes that multicultural education promotes equity for all regardless of culture, ethnicity, race, language, age, gender, sexual orientation, belief system or exceptionality. Multicultural education enables the individual to believe in one's own intrinsic worth and culture, to transcend monoculturalism and, ultimately, to become multicultural."