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WGS 700: Feminist Issues and Scholarship

This guide is designed to support the scholarship of students in Women and Gender Studies 700

Conference Opportunity

2025 WGSC Spring Conference (April 10-12, 2025)

Embodying Feminism: Calling In, Calling Out, Calling to Action

As an interdisciplinary and community-focused conference, we welcome participation from all disciplines, schools, colleges, and the community. We hope for representation from the sciences, social sciences, humanities, the arts, and community-focused organizations and justice movements. We seek submissions from women’s, gender, LGBTQ+, disability, and sexuality studies and from disciplines related to other historically marginalized groups and areas. We encourage submissions from interdisciplinary areas, including ethnic studies, class studies, international studies, poverty studies, peace studies, global health, and environmental and sustainability studies. Proposals from community activists, students, and independent scholars are strongly encouraged.

Call for Proposals Extended-- now due Nov. 11th

Make a Search Strategy

This video demonstrates how to break down a research topic into key concepts and generate terms for searching.

This video was created by  Renee Romero and Doug Worsham of the UCLA Powell Library. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Guiding Questions

Before you begin this module, reflect on these three questions:

  • What is the purpose of my literature review?
  • How will this literature review help me accomplish my goals?
  • What are the steps in writing a literature review?

Activity: Topic Charting

Deconstruct the topic and research methods of this scholarly article

Skim the article linked below-- read the abstract, section headings, and scan the body text. Then fill out the chart on page 1 of the Topic Charting Worksheet  (linked below/printed for in-class). In Part 2 of the worksheet, you'll practice planning out the details of your research.