Problem: How to access Ms. Magazine archives?
Problem Last month, I got the following research question from Prof. Ummni Khan (Law and Legal Studies): I'm trying to f ind early feminist writing that is not academic (so magazines mostly) from the 1980s or early 1990s that addresses the topic of rap music & lyrics, specifically the argument that rap music is degrading to women / demeaning or encourages violence. I know there was quite a bit of this from my memory, but I can’t figure out how to search for m agazines. I was thinking that Ms. Magazine must have articles about this topic, but I don't know if there's a way to search their archive? Do you have any suggestions on how I might do this? Thanks so much for your help! Solution The short answer to Ummni’s question is, “Use Academic Onefile to search for back issues of Ms. Magazine.” Academic Onefile is one of the Gale databases to which we subscribe. But how did I figure this out? I used anoth