Monday, February 9, 2009
Miller Center Library; finding a book
The topic I drew last week was "Homophobia in Sports" and began to research relavent materials through the LRTS website. Using this site my search consisted of two key words; "homophobia sports". Just by entering these two key words, in the basic and advanced search, I found only 7 total results. This was a bit surprising since it seems to be a prevalent topic in modern sports, yet luckily I was able to find a book that's description seemed to fit perfectly; IN THE GAME: Gay Athletes and the Cult of Masculinity. This material was located in the basement of The Miller Center. The book details accounts of personal stories from the author ( an openly gay track coach of a California HS squad), stories of other gay athletes (some openly and some not) and different aspects and trends of homophobia in sports. I would assume that not all searches for topics would yield this few of 'hits' and would take more time to dig through to find the most effective one.
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Hi Chris,
ReplyDeleteSearching for books on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues solely using keyword searches can be tricky sometimes. A term like "homophobia" might not appear in the title or table of contents for a book which deals with that subject, and so it is necessary to redo the search by simply using "gay" or "lesbian" as a keyword, and comparing results.
Subject headings also help guide us to more books on the topics that we are interested in.
The book that you found sounds quite interesting, though. A documentary just came out about a gay soccer team, and I am trying to get a copy to review.
Sincerely,
R. Wexelbaum