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FYIS 137: Human Body: Social Control and Use
Required JSTOR Articles

Databases for Research for this Class:

JSTOR"Choosing the Tips link on any page will call up information directly related to the JSTOR page being viewed." Only scholarly articles. All full text.

Sociological AbstractsCheck the boxes for "Journal Articles Only" and "English Only." Click "Find it" to locate an article's text. Only scholarly articles.

SIRSResearcherCall x5074 for username and password. All full text. Only news articles.

Expanded Academic ASAP (InfoTrac)The opening screen searches by subject headings only. Click "Keyword search" in the left blue column for other search term options. Some full text, if not, search the College's access by title of the journal or complete citation. Both scholarly and news articles.

Optional Databases:

More databases for finding scholarly articles

Project Muse

FirstSearch databases:

ArticleFirst

Electronic Collections Online (ECO)

Philosopher's Index

To search all 3 databases at once, enter one database, then click the "Databases" tab to select the other 2 as well.

More of both scholarly and news articles

Search 3 EBSCO databases simultaneously:

Academic Search Elite;
American Humanities Index;
Communication & Mass Media Complete

FirstSearch databases:

Periodical Abstracts

WilsonSelectPlus

To search both databases at once, enter one database, then click the "Databases" tab to select the other.

Ethnic Newswatch

More news articles

Lexis-Nexis (Academic Universe)


Call for username and password for:

Alternative Press Index

Alternative Press Index Archive

JSTOR Journal Articles:
Sept 6 The Limits of Biological Determinism
Natural Head Poise and Urban-Industrialized Life

Bringing Society into the Body: Understanding Socialized Human Nature
Sept 8 Babies, Bodies, and the Production of Personhood in North America and a Native Amazonian Society
Revisiting the Critique of Medicalized Childbirth: A Contribution to the Sociology of Birth
Death in Technological Time: Locating the End of Meaningful Life
Sept 15 Women and Their Hair: Seeking Power through Resistance and Accommodation
To Veil or Not to Veil? A Case Study of Identity Negotiation among Muslim Women in Austin, Texas
Sept 20 War Bodies, Hedonist Bodies: Dialectics of the Collective and the Individual in Israeli Society
Organ Wars: The Battle for Body Parts
Dr Frankenstein and the Industrial Body: Reflections on 'Spare Part' Surgery
The Politics and Poetics of Dance
Sociology of Sport: Development, Present State, and Prospects
Sept 29 The Blacker the Berry: Gender, Skin Tone, Self-Esteem, and Self-Efficacy
Oct 4 Disturbances in the Social Body: Differences in Body Image and Eating Problems among African American and White Women

Social Comparisons, Reflected Appraisals, and Mass Media: The Impact of Pervasive Beauty Images on Black and White Girls' Self-Concepts
Oct 6 The Antisocial Skin: Structure, Resistance, and "Modern Primitive" Adornment in the United States
Oct 20 Demythologization and Demystification of African Initiation Rites: A Positive and Meaningful Educational Aspect Heading for Extinction
The Naming Drama of the Gay People
Oct 25 Menarche and the (Hetero) Sexualization of the Female Body
Oct 27 What It Means to Be Gendered Me: Life on the Boundaries of a Dichotomous Gender System
Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Preschools
Nov 15 The Bleaching Syndrome: African Americans' Response to Cultural Domination Vis-a-Vis Skin Color
Makeup at Work: Negotiating Appearance Rules in the Workplace