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Volume 24, No. 2, Winter 2003

CONTENTS

From the Editors ii

Sue Searing In Memoriam: Esther Lanigan 1

Lori Rowlett Introducing the Women & Religion Review Series 3

Book Reviews: Charlene P.E. Burns Resources for Teaching “Women & Religion”: 5 Five Readers Deborah Louis Interpreting Eve: Gender Politics & the 9 Representation of Christian Scripture in the Evolution of Western Culture Carmen Faymonville The Pedagogical Mystique: Feminist 14 Academic Discourse

JoAnne Lehman Video Updates & Short Takes 20

Pamela O'Donnell Like Catching Waves Upon the Sand: 21 The Challenges of Designing for the Web

JoAnne Lehman E-Sources on Women & Gender 23

Phyllis Holman Weisbard New Reference Works in Women’s Studies 26

M.L. Fraser Zine and Heard (Again) 31

JoAnne Lehman Feminist Publishing/Archives 34

JoAnne Lehman Periodical Notes 35

Mary Photenhauer Items of Note 38

Books & AV Recently Received 42

Subscription Form 45 From the Editors

April 28, 2003. Three weeks later, tions, which, she reminds us, are all pril 7, 2003. Three weeks into A and I worked sleeveless in the garden to be celebrated, even those that seem spring, and we’ve got a snowfall that over the weekend, in temperatures that unfocused or don’t exemplify great convinced me to turn around and reached the high seventies. My four- writing on globally significant issues: come home when I was halfway to year-old goddaughter is confused about “The idea…is that women get their work this morning. Perhaps I’m more what season it is. Perhaps Feminist Col- say, whatever that say is. This is huge.” easily intimidated by wintry road con- lections readers are confused, too; but This column will appear regularly, or ditions than most drivers in Wisconsin, yes, this is still our Winter issue. whenever we have enough zines in but there was a bus sliding backward hand to warrant the space and Mhaire’s on the hill ahead of me. I guess there lso in this issue, Professor Car- time. Pass this along to the “grrrls” in couldn’t be a better time to work on A men Faymonville analyzes two recent your classes, library, or family. the Winter issue of Feminist Collections. texts on feminist pedagogy. Both As you’ll see, we’re introducing a Berenice Fisher and Ellen Messer- e were saddened this winter year-long — or longer, if we’re lucky W Davidow, Faymonville says, “[ask] to learn of the death of Esther Lanigan — theme for reviews: religion and more questions than they answer” as — formerly Esther Stineman — the feminism. Professor Lori Rowlett, in they “seek to define what, how, when, “founding mother” of this office. Sue the introductory essay beginning on where, and why feminist discourses cir- Searing offers a tribute to Esther and page 3, explains why and how we’re culate in the academy in the ways they her groundbreaking contributions to approaching this huge topic here and do.” Her indepth review of No Angel women’s studies librarianship, begin- now. Two book reviews follow, and we in the Classroom: Teaching Through ning on page 1. hope to include at least one more in Feminist Discourse and Disciplining Until next season (whatever you every issue for as long as reviewers keep Feminism: From Social Activism to Aca- think that is), keep reading, watch- signing up. We have plenty of subtop- demic Discourse begins on page 5. ing, and searching. If you attend the ics and plenty of resources still to be As promised, Mhaire Fraser has NWSA meeting in New Orleans, reviewed! pulled together another zine review please stop by and see me in the exhibit (see pp.31-33), this time introducing hall. “cut and paste” or “bedroom” publica-  J.L.

Miriam Greenwald

Page ii Feminist Collections (v.24, no.2, Winter 2003) IN MEMORIAM: ESTHER LANIGAN

by Sue Searing

Esther Franco Lanigan, the first Women’s Studies Li- multi-campus specialist librarian position and helped to put brarian for the University of Wisconsin System, passed away the UW on the map as a leader and innovator in women’s in Monument, Colorado, on December 29, 2002. Learn- studies. By carefully documenting the emerging scholarly ing of her death, I looked back on the growth of feminist and activist literature, Esther built some of the first compo- scholarship in Wisconsin, the evolution of a women’s studies nents of the information infrastructure that underlies specialization within the library profession, and the course women’s studies today. Perhaps most important, she hired of my own career. In all these areas, Esther had enormous and mentored Cathy Loeb, who stayed on through two influence. more librarians and left an indelible stamp of editorial excel- When Esther held the UW position, her surname was lence on the office’s publications. Stineman and her title was “Women’s Studies Librarian-at- Esther understood the power of feminist networking, Large.” The “at-large” moniker signified her responsibility and for that I personally am extraordinarily grateful. I was to support emerging women’s studies programs and the li- introduced to Esther at the ALA midwinter conference in braries that served them on the twenty-six campuses that Washington, DC, in January 1977, at a time early in my had been merged administratively into the UW System. In career when I was still struggling to meld my feminist poli- less than two years, Esther laid the groundwork for the tics with my first job as a professional librarian at Yale. office’s core services and set a course that has held for a From afar, Esther was a role model and an inspiration. quarter-century. Esther left Wisconsin for a more settled life in Colorado with her husband, Charles Hinkle — but only for a while. A colleague at the University of Wisconsin–Madison In 1980, she published another pathbreaking reference Libraries, where Esther was headquartered, once described work, American Political Women: Contemporary and Histori- her to me as “the red-headed blur.” She kept up an aston- cal Profiles. Before long, she was enrolled as a doctoral stu- ishing pace of travel and work. In addition to nurturing dent in Yale’s American Studies program, and so our paths relationships with librarians on the various campuses and would occasionally cross. One afternoon, at the opening of advising them on collection development, Esther gave them an exhibit of art depicting women, Esther mentioned that tools to work with, such as the Women’s Studies Union List, the librarian who had succeeded her at Wisconsin, Linda a catalog of books held throughout the UW System. Parker, would be leaving for a new position in Nebraska. “Where Are the Women?,” a four-part slide-tape series that Did I, she asked with a twinkle in her eye, know anyone she produced (with technical help from UW–Stout), articu- who might be interested in the job? After I was hired at lated the principles of feminist scholarship and strategies for Wisconsin, I had numerous opportunities to silently thank finding information. She subscribed to catalog cards from both Esther and Linda for the solid, well-run program I had the Library of Congress for books by and about women, inherited and the warm welcome I received from women photocopied them, and distributed them as proto-bibliogra- around the state. phies; this service was the precursor of New Books on Women & Feminism. The story doesn’t end there. In the mid-1980s, Esther’s broad knowledge of relevant sources in the dis- Esther, Cathy, and I collaborated on a sequel to Women’s ciplines, as well the burgeoning literature on feminist theory Studies: A Recommended Core Bibliography. It was a difficult and the women’s movement, was captured in Women’s Stud- collaboration at times. Cathy and I were in Madison, while ies: A Recommended Core Bibliography (Libraries Unlimited, Esther commuted between New Haven, Connecticut, and 1979, 670 pp.). The volume became an indispensable refer- Monument, Colorado. Email was not yet common, so we ence tool for librarians everywhere, who praised its critical shipped books and manuscripts across the country. As we and comparative annotations. Esther proved the value of a were frantically writing annotations, rushing to complete

Feminist Collections (v.24, no.2, Winter 2003) Page 1 the work before the contract deadline and the end of our highly creative librarian who built an internationally re- NEH grant, Esther underwent surgery to remove a brain nowned program from the ground up. But I will always tumor. Despite stress and major illness, the final product remember her as the first women’s studies librarian I ever was a book that we were all proud to have coauthored. knew, a scholar and doer in whose footsteps I was privileged Recovering from her surgery, Esther completed her to follow. Ph.D. and took a faculty position at William and Mary. Her dissertation became a book, Mary Austen: Song of a [Sue Searing was the University of Wisconsin System Women’s Maverick, published by the Yale University Press in 1989 Studies Librarian from 1982 to 1991. She is currently the and reissued by the University of Arizona Press in 1997. Library & Information Science Librarian at the University of Tragically, her cancer came back. She is remembered at Wil- Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.] liam and Mary, where she was a faculty member from 1988 to 1995, as a dedicated teacher who freely shared her exper- Note: A slightly different version of this essay will appear in tise. She is remembered at Wisconsin as an indefatigable, the newsletter of the Women’s Studies Section of the Association of College & Research Libraries.

Page 2 Feminist Collections (v.24, no.2, Winter 2003) INTRODUCING THE WOMEN AND RELIGION REVIEW SERIES

by Lori Rowlett

As recently as ten years ago, Kathi Kern’s Mrs. Stanton’s Bible, which focus on what is commonly called when I mentioned religion and concerns the same era and places some neopaganism. Beginning in the late feminism together, people would ask, of the events in historical perspective. 1970s, many women, finding their “Isn’t that a contradiction in terms?” We would like to follow these own religions irredeemably filled with Suppressing a sigh, I would begin at with reviews that cover the major masculine imagery and resistant to the beginning with an explanation of religions of the world: Judaism, change, followed Mary Daly’s exodus how women had begun to challenge Buddhism, Hinduism and so on—by out of the established religious institu- their subordinate positions within scholars with specialized knowledge of tions in search of a woman-centered various religious traditions. Today, each field. We are actively seeking spirituality and sought to create their such a large body of work has been reviewers to take up these topics. own new religions. Although the West- produced on feminism and religion, I ern religions banned goddesses as rem- would hardly know where to begin. In the Spring issue, Sara nants of a degenerate polytheism, Women are transforming their Meirowitz will review young women’s women began to find deities made in traditions—or giving up on that and stories of their religious or spiritual their own (female) image in mythology creating new ones. journeys to and from many of the ma- from around the world. When Phyllis Holman Weisbard jor religions. The books under review and her co-editor JoAnne Lehman include Bare Your Soul: The Thinking Male scholars had long consid- approached me with the idea of a book Girl’s Guide to Enlightenment, a collec- ered the earth-centered polytheisms of review series on women and religion, I tion of essays from Seal Press, and Girl indigenous people to be an inferior recognized it as an idea whose time Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual “primitive” stage in the development of had arrived. While the problem a Life, by Lauren Winner. In the Sum- religion. Inevitably, they theorized, the decade ago was a dearth of materials, mer issue, Alice Keefe will review sev- “superior” and “sophisticated” mono- the problem today is exactly the eral American Buddhist women’s mem- theisms would replace the “savagery” of opposite: so many new and interesting oirs and “personal quest” stories. religions closely tied to nature and its books on women and religion are Some topics, however, do not fall processes. Feminist the-a-logians (re- coming out every month, we had to so neatly into traditional categories. placing the male “the-o” with the femi- come up with ways of grouping them What about women’s fight for ordina- nine “a” ending) reversed the values of into manageable categories. tion, for example? We debated whether male theologians, arguing that the We decided to begin at the most to examine books on the issue within separation from nature fostered by obvious starting point, with introduc- each separate religious tradition—Ju- Western modes of thought, including tory textbooks and anthologies. A re- daism, Catholicism, the African religious thought, has caused the envi- view of five such works, by theologian American Church, or whatever—or to ronmental crisis in which we find our- Charlene Burns, appears in this issue. group them together to highlight the selves today; and that the masculine Also in this issue we have included commonalities of women’s struggles model of domination and conquest of Deborah Louis’s review of nineteenth- across boundaries. We hope to engage nature has to be reversed and replaced century feminist critiques of Christian- a reviewer to do the latter. with a recognition that nature is not ity, equally germane to opening the inert matter to be used, or used up. It dialogue since two of the books re- Still other topics fall outside the is alive; one could even say that it viewed, Matilda Joslyn Gage’s Woman, world’s established religions altogether. (she?) is life itself, and therefore sacred. Church and State and Elizabeth Cady Feminist Collections did an issue many Stanton’s The Woman’s Bible, helped to years ago that reviewed books on the set the parameters of debate regarding feminist spirituality movement, with a religion for first-wave American femi- nism. Louis’s review also includes

Feminist Collections (v.24, no.2, Winter 2003) Page 3 Along with connection to the religion. Hindu women have their Spirit: Where Nature and the Sacred earth, women’s spirituality has empha- own struggles for equality, unique to Meet (Jewish Lights Publications, sized connection of people with each their tradition. Books with a 2000). Monotheism, these scholars other. The wave of spirituality that smorgasbord of goddesses divorced argue, need not be anathema to love of grew up with second-wave feminism from their contexts fail to take other the earth. tended to valorize women’s difference from men, identify- Scholarship today ing women as kind- includes many such er, gentler, less hier- Feminist the-a-logians reversed the values of male theologians, convergences, while archical, and less arguing...that the masculine model of domination and conquest at the same time tak- exploitative. Subse- ing seriously the very quent scholarship of nature has to be reversed and replaced with a recognition that real differences be- has problematized nature is not inert matter to be used, or used up. tween diverse cul- the picture of a co- tures. Our challenge hesive women’s cul- is to do justice to the ture by pointing out the differences cultures seriously. Recent works have subtle distinctions, without losing sight between women. questioned some of the earlier biases. of the similarities in women’s situations with regard to religion. We hope that Early on in the feminist Meanwhile, the feminist spiritu- in this review series we can lay open spirituality movement, Audre Lorde ality movement has developed other both the commonalities and the diver- questioned Mary Daly’s focus on branches. Many women (in Western sity of women’s experience, as seen in goddesses of (white) European origin. cultures and elsewhere) have elected to the many resources coming out today Immediately afterward, books began remain within their religious tradi- on women’s religion and spirituality. to include goddesses from many tions, attempting to transform them different cultures: African, Asian, from inside. Rather than diverging [Lori Rowlett has a Ph.D. in Religious Native American, Pacific Islander, from the goddess movement, however, Studies from Cambridge University in Australian Aboriginal. The main women in Christianity, Judaism, and England and a Master of Theological problem with some of the books from other established religions have influ- Studies degree from the Perkins School of that period, especially those written enced and been influenced (perhaps Theology at Southern Methodist Univer- for the popular market, was that the even nourished) by the neopagans. sity in Dallas. She has taught Religious goddesses were isolated from their Points of convergence can be seen in Studies at the University of Texas at Dal- larger cultural and religious contexts. theologians like the Catholic Rosemary las, Southern Methodist University, Iowa For example, a reader might learn Radford Reuther and the Protestant State University, the College of William about a Hindu goddess without Sallie McFague, both of whom seek to and Mary, and Christopher Newport learning how she fit into Bhakti Yoga create a more earth-friendly Christian University, Virginia, and is currently on in Hinduism or even realizing that theology. A similar transformation is the faculty of the Women’s Studies Pro- Hinduism as practiced by most people taking place within Judaism’s “eco-ko- gram and the Department of Philosophy in India today is a deeply patriarchal sher” movement, with books like Ellen and Religious Studies at the University of Bernstein’s Ecology and the Jewish Wisconsin–Eau Claire. She lives with her partner Sherri and four dogs.]

Page 4 Feminist Collections (v.24, no.2, Winter 2003) BOOK REVIEWS RESOURCES FOR TEACHING “WOMEN AND RELIGION”: FIVE READERS

by Charlene P.E. Burns

Elizabeth A. Castelli, ed., with Rosamond C. Rodman, WOMEN, GENDER, RELIGION: A READER. New York: Palgrave, 2001. 550p. bibl. $89.95, ISBN 0-312-24004-X; pap., $27.95, ISBN 0-312-24030-9.

Nancy Auer Falk & Rita M. Gross, eds., UNSPOKEN WORLDS: WOMEN’S RELIGIOUS LIVES. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2000 (3rd ed). 310p. bibl. ill. pap., $43.95, ISBN 0-534-51570-3.

Darlene M. Juschka, ed., FEMINISM IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION: A READER. London & New York: Continuum, 2000 (cloth), 2001 (pap.). 693p. bibl. index. $107.95, ISBN 08264-4726-0; pap., $29.95, ISBN 0-8264-4727-9.

Nancy Nason-Clark & Mary Jo Neitz, eds., FEMINIST NARRATIVES AND THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira, 2001. 141p. bibl. $59.00, ISBN 0-7591-0197-3; pap., $19.95, ISBN 0-7591-0198-1.

Lucinda Joy Peach, WOMEN AND WORLD RELIGIONS. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002. 394p. bibl. index. pap., $36.20, ISBN 0-13-040444-6.

In preparing to write this essay, I from woman-dominated religions to Women, Gender, Religion: A surveyed a number of syllabi for un- male-dominated practices and examin- Reader is an important collection of dergraduate courses in “Women and ing the distinctive aspects of women’s twenty-seven previously published es- Religion” from a variety of colleges spirituality! says (except for one, Carol Christ’s and universities. I wanted to see how short response to a critique by Miriam others teaching these courses under- The variety of approaches to Peskowitz). This interdisciplinary an- stand the subject and what emphases teaching these courses is a reflection of thology reflects the maturation of the predominate: I thought perhaps this the state of feminist work on religion field of women’s studies in that the es- information would help target the today. The emphases are broad, rang- says challenge not only “women,” “gen- texts reviewed. Among the twenty or ing from historical examination and der,” and “religion” as categories, but so syllabi I perused were courses rang- revitalization to recovery of practices to also many of the ways feminists them- ing from the 200 to the 400 level, ideological assessment. The breadth of selves have failed to recognize the with approaches ranging from specific concern is a reflection of the categories problematic nature of their own dis- to tremendously wide-ranging. One themselves: “women” and “religion” are course. Although the collection is 300-level course, for example, ap- abstract categories that resist the uni- aimed at the religious studies specialist, proaches the topic from the perspec- versalizing drift that is a necessary as- the editors’ interest in “politically and tive of gender and the body. Another pect of all survey courses. Likewise, the ethically engaged scholarly work” (a 200-level course) promises to take a anthologies reviewed here take a variety (p.21) makes this a significant resource historical and comparative look at of approaches to the question of for anyone engaged in women’s studies women’s self-understandings in reli- “women” and “religion.” All acknowl- research or teaching. Many of the es- gious traditions from Paleolithic times edge the problematic nature of univer- says, because they assume theoretical to the present day, with the goals of salizing and essentializing in speaking comfort with the field, are beyond the students achieving a grasp of the na- of women’s religious experience, al- reach of most undergraduates, but the ture, role, and meaning of women in though they succeed to varying degrees religious traditions, while evaluating in avoiding these difficulties. what the instructor perceives as a shift

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book raises such important questions tions. Categories like brother/sister that some of the essays ought to be in- and son/daughter are nonexistent. Dis- The tendency among feminists to cluded as supplemental readings for tinction is made, but on the basis of read “‘religion’ only as a form of upper-division courses. Three such es- age: different words designate older constraint” and “the embrace of says are summarized here. and younger offspring or siblings. religious affiliations…primarily Anatomy does not define social roles Castelli’s introductory piece, in Yorùbán life. Western imposition of as a sign of false consciousness” “Women, Gender, Religion: Troubling gendered thought has “made it diffi- has handicapped our understand- Categories, Transforming Knowledge,” cult to present alternative ways of ing of the complexity of human makes clear the agenda for the book. looking at anatomic sex-distinctions experience. Castelli reviews the troubling nature of without pathologizing the these categories, arguing that they female…Questions such as, Why are must remain troubled/troubling if we women victimized or subordinated? gies fail to recognize the ways those are to be honest in our exploration of and, What is the gender division of very myths were shaped by and served the issues. “Religion” is particularly labor? are not first-order questions in the patriarchal societies out of which troubling in that it complicates rather regard to Yorùbáland because [they] they came. than simply reinscribes other categories assume gender” (p.94). A proper study In Part III, “Gender and Religious of race, gender, and social class. The of the culture would ask about how Experience: Interdisciplinary Ap- tendency among feminists to read “‘re- difference is conceptualized and proaches,” variant readings of gender ligion’ only as a form of constraint” whether or not the body plays a role in and religion through the lenses of psy- and “the embrace of religious this. These are vitally important points choanalysis, queer and literary theory, affiliations…primarily as a sign of false that ought to be made clearly and and historical and anthropological re- consciousness” has handicapped our early in the academic study of feminist search are explored. The aim here is to understanding of the complexity of concerns. show that religious experience must be human experience (p.5). placed in context if it is to be read The anthology is divided into five Part II, “Origins, Identities and honestly. Part IV, “Gender, Religion, sections that focus on important theo- Appropriations,” includes essays that and Body Politics,” explores the rela- retical issues aimed at challenging the probe the wistful search for utopian tion between religious discourse and “received wisdom.” Part I, “Categories origins both of religions and of femi- social understandings of the body. The of Analysis and Critique: ‘Gender,’ nist critique. Helene P. Foley’s “A book ends with a single essay under the ‘Religion,’ and ‘Feminism,’” deals with Question of Origins: Goddess Cults heading of Part V, “Gender and Reli- the problems of universalizing and Greek and Modern” carefully uncovers gion in the Politics of the Academy”: essentializing. Oyèrónké Oyewùmí’s the problematic nature of present-day Judith Plaskow’s 1998 Presidential Ad- “The Translation of Cultures: Engen- utopian myth-making among “spiri- dress to the American Academy of Re- dering Yorùbá Language, Orature, and tual feminists.” Foley, taking the view- ligion explores the changing face of the World-Sense” is one that ought to be point of a classicist, reminds us that academy and how its changes reflect required reading in any course on we simply do not have enough ar- societal, political, and economic reali- women and religion. Oyewùmí ex- chaeological evidence to reconstruct ties. Plaskow does this in order to ar- poses the damage that Western femi- Paleo/Neolithic societies. As a result, gue that feminist scholars must not nist universalizing of gendered lan- we cannot claim accuracy in interpret- give in to the tendency to separate the guage has done to cross-cultural un- ing religious symbols from prehistory. academic study of religion from “real derstanding. Before English coloniza- For example, the Paleolithic figurines life.” tion, the social and linguistic world of so often said to be proof of the priority Yorùbán culture was based on age, not of goddess worship in fact offer no evi- Darlene Juschka’s Feminism in gender. The language itself had no dence in support of claims that they the Study of Religion: A Reader is the (and still has few) gendered distinc- represent divinities (p.219). Foley second volume of a series, Controversies shows how the authors of new myths in the Study of Religion. This excellent based in ancient goddess cult mytholo- anthology is made up of thirty-one previously published articles on

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method and theory rather than on ap- little attention has been given to the prophecy, Voodoo, the ancient Greek plication. A wide range of approaches feminist sociological exploration of re- cult of Dionysus, Latin and Native is included, and what is striking here is ligion. Aimed at exploring the inter- American traditions, various expres- the decision to include works by the connection between researcher, subject, sions of Muslim faith, Tantric and In- not-so-famous. The introduction offers and method, the book is a collection of dian Buddhisms — is impressive. In an excellent overview of the history of essays both by leaders in the field and spite of its wide range, and perhaps feminist thought — its rise, entry into by newcomers. The autobiographical because the essays are allowed to stand the academy, and interaction with the essays, which narrate how each writer alone, the book succeeds in presenting field of religious studies. The text is came to the sociology of religion and the reader with a coherent study of the well-organized into five parts, each how their own particular research in- cultural diversity of women’s religious with a concise introduction to the is- terests evolved, are interesting in that experience. sues covered in that section of the they show how the questions have book. Part I examines feminist theory changed over time. The reader is in- Lucinda Peach’s Women and and its intersection with the study of vited, by virtue of the sequence of es- World Religions is the only one of the religion. Here we find essays on the says, to compare the paths of those in- books to have been consciously written biological and psychological bases for volved in the beginnings of the field to as a textbook for a survey course. Be- gender differences, womanist concerns, the trajectory of research among new cause it does not assume prior knowl- and issues related to language usage. scholars. Questions once intensely edge, it would be good for lower-level Part II addresses the historical invisibil- contested, one sees, are now taken for courses. For example, the introduction ity of “woman” in the study of religion granted, which underscores the chang- defines such terms as androcentric, pa- and how this might be rectified. The ing nature of the field. While the book triarchal, and sexist. The work’s goal is critique of deprivation theory as an is interesting from this perspective and to “focus on ‘actual’ women, as op- explanation for women’s participation might be useful in a course on feminist posed to goddesses or other images and in new religious movements is particu- sociology or on career trajectories in symbols” because the “sexist and patri- larly well articulated. women’s studies, its specificity limits its archal” nature of religions has led to Part III of the book examines is- usefulness. marginalization of women and their sues related to feminist discourse. experiences of religion (p.2). Peach ac- Bonnie J. Fox’s essay, “Conceptualizing The last two books considered knowledges the diversity of religious ‘Patriarchy,’” raises important issues here are most useful for a survey experience but, unfortunately, neither that ought to be examined in any sur- course. Unspoken Worlds: Women’s Reli- defines nor adequately negotiates the vey or introductory course on women gious Lives offers readings on a variety problems of universalizing and and religion. Other essays in this sec- of topics, each specific to a particular essentializing. Nor does she give tion explore how ethnicity and hierar- tradition. The essays are written in a enough attention to the difficulties chy have been dealt with in feminist clear style that does not assume exten- that arise in attempting any survey of discourse. Part IV investigates race, sive knowledge of the field of women’s the so-called “world religions.” Further, class, and sexuality in feminist dis- studies. Subjects covered include ritual we see in this text a case-in-point for course; and Part V examines the par- practices, women’s rebellious expres- Castelli’s critique of feminists who tend ticular issues of gendered epistemolo- sions of faith, women’s experience in to read religion negatively, as a form of gies in the feminist study of religion. male-dominated traditions, myths of constraint. Most of the essays included Although the book as a whole is per- female power, and traditions of equal- in Women and World Religions speak of haps too theoretical for an undergradu- ity (a topic sometimes overlooked in the struggle for voice; few speak of the ate survey course on women and reli- feminist critiques of religion). The particular ways women find spiritual gion, the introduction and many of the range of ancient and modern traditions fulfillment within the traditions. essays would make for valuable supple- included — Catholic and Protestant mental reading. Christianity, various forms of Hindu- Nine chapters cover Hinduism, ism, Korean and Chinese shamanism, Buddhism, “Other Asian Religious Feminist Narratives and the Soci- Judaism, African divination and ology of Religion was published in re- sponse to its editors’ perception that

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Traditions,” Judaism, Christianity, Is- ter, Peach incorrectly states that the salizing and essentializing, and merely lam, “African Religions,” and “God- canon of Scripture was “sealed to- examine one or two specific traditions. dess-Centered Religions.” Each chapter gether” at the end of the second cen- Provided the instructor is aware of includes a one- or one-and-a-half-page tury (p.202), when in fact the first list- these limitations, Peach’s text could still overview of the tradition (far too ing of texts that matches the present- be used in combination with one that brief), a section on the relation be- day canon doesn’t appear until the incorporates more of the “positives” in tween female-gendered images and fourth century, and the canon re- women’s religious experience, like Falk symbols and “real” women (which is mained fluid until the sixteenth cen- and Gross’s Unspoken Worlds. The two odd, since the first paragraph of the tury. In the Judaism chapter’s brief texts, supplemented with additional book tells us the focus is only on “real” section on “Relationship Between Fe- materials, make useful resources for an women), the relationship of women to male-Gendered and Feminine Images undergraduate survey course in women the tradition, the changing status of and Symbols to ‘Real’ Women,” one and religion. women, and a selection of previously might expect to find mention of the published essays by various authors Shekinah, feminine aspect of divine The texts reviewed here, like the chosen to elaborate on the aforemen- spirit and “Bride of the Sabbath” imag- syllabi perused in preparation for writ- tioned. The chapters end with lists of ery. But this is absent. Were one to ing this essay, take a variety of ap- questions for discussion and resources use this book, careful attention to cor- proaches to feminist studies in religion. for further study. rect these mistakes through classroom All are anthologies, which reflects the lecture would be important. collaborative approach to scholarship While any survey text is limited in women’s studies. Their style ranges in how deeply it can cover its subject, Further, the tendency to univer- from the advanced — Women, Gender, there are a few problems with this salize takes over in “Other Asian Reli- Religion: A Reader — to the basic — book, not simply due to its broad gious Traditions” and “African Reli- Women and World Religions. The range, that must be highlighted. There gions.” Grouped together in Chapter 4 books, like the course outlines sur- is unevenness in treatment of the intro- are such divergent traditions as Confu- veyed, range from global attempts to ductory material, and some mistakes cianism, Taoism, Shinto, Japanese cover a wide range of disciplines to a that are probably a function of the “New Religions,” “Folk Religions,” very specific examination of the “state brevity of these sections. The Hindu- Jainism, and Burmese Spirit Cults. The of the field” in a single discipline. Al- ism chapter incorrectly identifies the introduction to the chapter on Africa though none of them alone makes an Brahman as one of the gods and the does acknowledge the diversity of reli- excellent text for a survey course, all of Atman as the “one God” of which all gion in Africa and notes the problem them (to varying degrees) are useful others are forms (p.15). In actuality, of scholarly ethnocentrism, but then it preparation resources for the instructor the Brahman is the Absolute, the Ulti- goes on to make generalizations about and contain great material that can be mate Reality. Brahma is the creator “religion in Africa” and ”African reli- used as supplemental reading for stu- god, alongside Vishnu, the preserver, gions.” Perhaps a more helpful ap- dents. and Siva, the destroyer. Atman is the proach would have been to resist gen- “life force” or eternal changeless reality, eralizations, take the opportunity to [Charlene P. E. Burns, Ph.D., is Assis- the Brahman that is present within all discuss the troubling issues of univer- tant Professor of Religious Studies in the living things. In the Christianity chap- Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin– Eau Claire.]

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INTERPRETING EVE: GENDER POLITICS AND THE REPRESENTATION OF CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURE IN THE EVOLUTION OF WESTERN CULTURE

by Deborah Louis

Matilda Joslyn Gage, WOMAN, CHURCH AND STATE (orig. pub. 1893); with intro. by Sally Roesch Wagner. Amherst, NY: Humanity Books/Prometheus, 2002. 527pp. pap., $22.00, ISBN 1-59102-007-7.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, THE WOMAN’S BIBLE (orig. pub. 1895–1898); with fwd. by Maureen Fitzgerald. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993. 379pp. pap., $16.95, ISBN 1-55553-162-8.

Kathi Kern, MRS. STANTON’S BIBLE. Ithaca, NY, & London: Cornell University Press, 2001 (cloth), 2002 (pap.). 288pp. pap., $18.95, ISBN 0-8014-8288-7.

Critiques of the Christian the new nation that would sooner or project of examining those sections of theological tradition by nineteenth- later undermine fulfillment of the the Bible that depicted or referred to century feminist Freethinkers became, principles of natural right and self- women and re-presenting them in an early in the twentieth, one of the best- governance on which it was (ostensi- interpretive light that was both more kept secrets of the American historical bly) founded. In the social conflict rational and more consistent with record. Their rediscovery at the that must inevitably arise from this original biblical texts than the com- approach of the twenty-first through contradiction, he continued, “The monly accepted versions. Stanton’s determined efforts to “write women Almighty has no attribute which can work was published in two sections, back into history” has been one of the take side with us in such a contest.”2 the first in 1895 and the second in most valuable contributions of 1898.3 Republished in 1993 with a contemporary feminist scholars and A century and a Civil War later, foreword by Maureen Fitzgerald (in yet activists to the ongoing discourse of Matilda Joslyn Gage expanded upon another instance of resurrection a women’s liberation. this contradiction, offering similar hundred years later!), The Woman’s Thomas Jefferson wrote, in his arguments in respect to the status and Bible prompted contemporary feminist Notes on Virginia: “I tremble for my condition of women. Her critique of scholar Kathi Kern to undertake a country when I reflect that God is institutional Christianity and its long-overdue exploration of the scope just.”1 He was speaking in that expression in civil law was first and impact of religious dissent in the instance of African slavery, the toler- resurrected in 1980 by Persephone women’s movement of the suffrage era; ance of which at the final ratification Press, with a foreword by Mary Daly, this was published in 2001 as Mrs. of the U.S. Constitution invalidated, and is now back in mass publication Stanton’s Bible. to his mind, the “only firm basis” of thanks to the efforts of Sally Roesch both the Revolution and the new Wagner, who contributed an introduc- What a joy is Woman, Church Republic—that the liberties for which tion to the new edition, and the and State! In Gage’s words: the Revolution was fought, and which Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation in the delegates at Philadelphia risked Fayetteville, New York. This work explains itself and rightful charges of treason to secure in is given to the world because the governing document for the new Originally published in 1893, it is needed. Tired of the Republic, are God-given and “not to Gage’s Woman, Church and State served obtuseness of Church and be violated but with His wrath.” To as direct catalyst for Elizabeth Cady State; indignant at the sanction the denial of these liberties for Stanton’s remarkable collaborative any class of persons, he reasoned, was a flaw in the rational underpinning of

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injustice of both towards humanity had placed her, and Life-giving definition, more truly woman; at the wrongs through itself, and its control reflective of original Scripture. Mak- inflicted upon one-half of over the state, in the doctrine ing a clear distinction between “spiritu- humanity by the other half in of “revealed rights” ality” and “religion,” Gage does not the name of religion; finding everywhere teaching an challenge the fundamental Judeo- appeal and argument alike inferiority of sex; a created Christian story itself as a basis of faith met by the assertion that God subordination of woman to and moral conduct. Rather, she traces designed the subjection of man; making her very the politicization of the story and women, and yet that her existence a sin; holding her points out that the resulting distortions position had been higher accountable to a diverse code were institutionalized in Church, under Christianity than ever of morals from man; mainstream theology, and State as a before: Continually hearing declaring her possessed of means of social control to create, these statements, and fewer rights in church and in solidify, and benefit a successfully knowing them to be false, I state; her very entrance into constructed, propertied, male ruling refuted them. (frontispiece) heaven made dependent upon class in both religious and civil life. some man to come as She proceeds to do so in a systematic, mediator between her and the Gage begins with an anthropo- eminently readable volume reminiscent Savior it has preached, thus logical survey of ancient matriarchal of both Margaret Mead and Simone de crushing her personal, and gender-egalitarian societies. She Beauvoir in its clarity, its thorough intellectual, and spiritual contrasts the ways those societies historical grounding, and its compre- freedom. (pp.508–509) integrated male and female into their hension of the dynamic relationship God-concepts — with their resulting between culture, politics, and objective In both language and content, this expressions in civil law and social social conditions: book could have been written last consequences — with the ways post- week, responding, as it does in part, to Christian-ascension societies conceptu- Crimes and criminals are intensifying mobilization of the alize God as wholly (no pun intended) built up and born because of Christian fundamentalist right in male, with female as secondary, the great wrong first done to opposition to demands for a variety of subservient and unclean. She makes a mothers; they are the social reforms, and to organizational convincing case, which completed the offspring of church and state. and tactical rivalries within the process of her marginalization both Science now declares crime to suffrage movement that threatened its within and outside of the suffrage be a disease, but it has not yet demise. movement (a process that had begun discovered the primal cause of somewhat earlier with her “suspect” this disease. It is an Gage identifies a number of Native American sympathies and inheritance from centuries of major evolutionary distortions in affiliation). As Wagner notes in the legalized crime against translation and interpretation of introduction to this edition, “Woman, women, of which the church biblical text, traces their application as Church and State stayed in print until in its teachings is a prime the basis of civil law in Western Europe 1917 and then was lost to history, as factor…As I look backward and the U.S., and describes the was its author” (p.21). While not as through history I see the grievous consequences of this develop- entirely “lost” as Gage, Stanton met a church everywhere stepping ment for the status and condition of similar fate after The Woman’s Bible was upon advancing civilization, women and, consequently, for the published. hurling women from the substance of “Western civilization” Gage tackles head-on the ideas plane of “natural rights” itself. How differently this social that Eve (female) was created as where the fact of her enterprise would have progressed, she helpmeet to Adam (male) and that suggests, had God retained the Father- Eve’s “weakness” caused humankind’s Mother definition, and Eve the Life or ejection from Paradise; that mother- hood “disqualifies” women for assum- ing civic responsibility; that women are

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“supposed to” suffer through child- and myriad more, are parts of difference between us is, we say that birth; that the Bible is a record of what is known as christian these degrading ideas of woman God’s word and that its various books civilization. (p.507) emanated from the mind of man, were actually written by the prophets while the Church says that they came whose names they bear; that the status All of these themes arise in the line-by- from God” (II, p.8). of women improved with the ascension line scrutiny of Christian Scripture of Christian (patriarchal) authority; that Stanton subsequently undertook, One of the most interesting and that there is any basis in Scripture and which led to similar conclusions: things about Stanton’s project was her for prohibitions against women “There are many instances in the Old use of what contemporary scholars speaking in church, serving in the Testament,”4 Stanton wrote, “[w]here would call “feminist process” in the ministry or elsewhere in public life, or women have been thrown to the mob, development of her work. She controlling their own persons or like a bone to dogs, to pacify their recruited a committee of individuals property. She chronicles the exploita- passions; and women suffer today from (including Gage) representing a broad tion and corruption fueled by the these lessons of contempt, taught in a range of viewpoints and expertise to inventions of confession, the celibacy book so revered by the people” (II, examine the same biblical passages and rule, and the gendered double standard p.16). submit their comments, which were of morality reflected in civil law: then distributed among the group for Yet both Gage and Stanton were further review and dialogue. Although It is impossible to write of the optimistic in the extreme about the the completed work was clearly church without noticing its imminent potential of enlightened, dominated by Stanton’s own thoughts, connection with the great scientific thinking to overcome long- she included many of these other systems of the world, during held popular fictions that continued to comments, attributed by initials, even its course of life. The history defeat the simplest claims to social where there was disagreement. The of Christendom is the history justice and the actualization of consti- product was initially to be entitled The of the myriad institutions tutional principles and protections. Woman’s Commentary, but that plan fell which have arisen through its Both were sharply aware that structural by the wayside due to pre-publication teachings, or that have been success in achieving suffrage would be popularization of the more memorable, sustained by its approval. a hollow victory without correspond- though potentially misleading, title The world has not grown ing change in the beliefs and percep- The Woman’s Bible (I, p.139). wise under it, except with a tions that would ultimately govern wisdom that is leading the how women would vote and what Although Stanton repeatedly purest humanitarian thought issues they would bring to the policy referred to her own language as “plain in a direction contrary to its forum. For both, the vote was only English,” used with the stated inten- footsteps. Slavery and meaningful as an instrument for tion of reaching the broadest possible prostitution, persecutions for substantive change; in itself it did not, spectrum of readers, her language was heresy, the inquisition with its contrary to what others just as fer- the Victorian English of the day, six hundred modes of torture, vently believed, constitute such a replete with terms such as “tergiversa- the destruction of learning, change. Stanton and Gage also agreed tion,” “hagira,” “traduce,” and “verily,” the oppression of science, the that the greatest obstacle to realizing which make for somewhat awkward systematic betrayal of the liberating potential of the vote was contemporary perusal. Although confiding innocence, the the Church’s socialization of women to Stanton herself was less “scholarly” recognized and unrecognized believe their status and misery were than Gage, she assembled a unique and polygamy of man, the denial ordained by God. As Stanton remarkable sourcebook in its catalogue to women of the right to commented, “And yet women meet in of biblical woman-references, their herself, her thought, her convention and denounce ‘The substantive transformation over the wages, her children, to a share Woman’s Bible,’ while clinging to the in the government which Church and their Scriptures. The only rules her, to an equal part in religious institutions, all these

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centuries by twists of English-language remarking at one point, “If Miriam trivializing Gage’s role as a full partner translation, and the juxtaposition of had helped to plan the journey across in the leadership triumvirate, Kern her own “common sense” conclusions Canaan, it would no doubt have been acknowledges in passing that “Gage and “what-if” storytelling with short accomplished in forty days instead of developed an extended historical essays by many of the most creden- forty years” (I, p.103), and, at another: critique of the Church as an institu- tialed authorities of the day. The tion. From that point on, Stanton appendix to Part I, for example, offers Far into the eighteenth began to write on some of Gage’s a biographical profile of Julia Smith by century in England, the clergy favorite topics” (p.67). In effect, Kern Frances Ellen Burr, included because dragged innocent women into becomes victim and, in turn, perpetra- the revising committee used Smith’s the courts as witches, and tor of the very injustice she addresses translation, known to be more literal learned judges pronounced on in respect to Stanton. than the succession of other versions, them the sentence of torture “as their ultimate authority for the and death...While women Kern does an excellent job of Greek, Latin and Hebrew text” (I, were tortured, drowned and untangling the internal politics and p.149). (Burr commented, “It is the burned by the thousands, generational transition of the suffrage only one ever made by a woman, and scarce one wizard to a movement at its most critical juncture, the only one...ever made by man or hundred was ever but — as did Taylor Branch in framing woman without help” as well [I, condemned...The same the political dynamics of the civil p.149]). It is also interesting that distinction of sex appears in rights movement of the early sixties Stanton created a classification of our own day. One code of around the life of Martin Luther King biblical women she labeled the “no- morals for men, another for — she gives us only part of the picture; name series” (II, p.25), for the simple women. (I, pp.93–94) thus, without further exploration, we reason that their stories are told with can easily come away believing the tusk no reference to them by name, an Kathi Kern’s analysis in Mrs. to be the elephant. Accordingly, I omission she finds telling in itself. Stanton’s Bible offers a wealth of would recommend Kern’s book to any additional historical information on student specifically researching this Stanton’s prevailing theme, the era in which these works appeared issue or the era, but not as a “baseline” however, is one of simple logic: For and were summarily censored in text or reference. clergy to point to Jael and Jezebel as ignorance, fear and outrage. Her examples of the need to beware of chronicle of organizational upheaval Woman, Church and State, woman’s treachery, while ignoring the and bitter factionalism, which culmi- however, is precisely such a baseline, character and roles of the many other nated in the passage of a National with The Woman’s Bible an extraordi- biblical women who served as lawgiv- American Woman Suffrage Association nary form of supporting documenta- ers, prophets, and warriors, is a bit like (NAWSA) resolution that denounced tion. Their respective introduction and pointing to Pharaoh and Judas and Stanton and her work, offers a portrait foreword provide rich contextual saying the lesson is to beware of men of the times that not only details the frameworks, and their relevance to the because they have a “naturally” faulty sociopolitical dynamics of that period current geopolitical landscape and moral sense! There are lessons of good in the struggle for women’s civil and contemporary issues in feminist theory and evil to be gleaned from Christian human rights, but also shows how that and activism is immediate. As Scripture, she stresses, but they in no period bears an uncanny resemblance Fitzgerald notes in the foreword to The way correspond to gender — rather, to our own. Kern’s work, however, Woman’s Bible, “newly invigorated the choices of mortal men have created tends to reinforce the impression that religious orthodoxy has for the past those illusions. She appeals to com- the ideological and tactical struggle decade constituted the most significant mon sense and the shared experience of within the suffrage movement was popular front vs. modern feminism in her contemporaries throughout, essentially a drama between Anthony America” (p.vii). A decade later, this and Stanton in which Gage and others front has intensified to become the were present but peripheral. While vanguard of support for the systematic dismantling of civil liberties at home

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and arbitrary foreign policies that have 3. In the current edition, the two [Deborah Louis, who earned her prompted condemnation in the sections retain their original page doctorate in political science at Rutgers international community. Both numbering, so citation has to accom- University, is an interdisciplinary teacher volumes are library “musts.” Woman, modate two numerical sequences. and scholar and works as an independent Church and State should also enjoy Thus, “I” before a page number public interest planning and develop- ever-increasing use as a required text in reference specifies Part I; likewise, “II” ment consultant. She has designed and a variety of courses and disciplines. means Part II. taught courses in women’s political history, women and aging, and self- Notes 4. In this context, the Old Testament employment options for community is referred to as Christian Scripture, women. She has also worked with 1. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia because it is the text as interpreted by grassroots women’s organizations to (Washington edition, 1782), pp.viii, Christians, and used as the basis of improve conditions and opportunities at 404. Christian theology, that is being the neighborhood level.] addressed. 2. Jefferson, p.404.

Core Lists in Women’s Studies 2003

Four new titles have been added to the collection of core lists of books in women’s studies, compiled by the Women’s Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries:

Education, by Ginny Orenstein Japanese Women, by Toby Matoush Labor, by Jennifer Gilley Transnational Feminism, by Lalitha Nataraj

The other topical lists in the collection have been reviewed and updated, as they are every January, to include only books currently in print. Other titles include American Literature, Feminist Theory, Health, HIV & AIDS, Law, Lesbian Studies, Mass Media, Music, Religion, Science, Sexual Abuse, Visual Arts, Women of Color, and two dozen more. The focus of many of the lists is on women in the United States; each consists of twenty to seventy-five titles, with the most important five to ten titles starred. These lists are intended to help collection development librarians and teaching faculty in selecting appropriate books for research and teaching.

Find the complete set of Core Lists in Women’s Studies on our website: http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/core/coremain.htm

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THE PEDAGOGICAL MYSTIQUE: FEMINIST ACADEMIC DISCOURSE

by Carmen Faymonville

Berenice Malka Fisher, NO ANGEL IN THE CLASSROOM: TEACHING THROUGH FEMINIST DISCOURSE. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000 (cloth), 2001 (pap.). 315p. notes. bibl. index. $85.00, ISBN 0-8476-9123-3; pap., $21.95, ISBN 0-8476-9124-1.

Ellen Messer-Davidow, DISCIPLINING FEMINISM: FROM SOCIAL ACTIVISM TO ACADEMIC DISCOURSE. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. 413p. notes. bibl. index. $64.95, ISBN 0-8223-2829-1; pap., $21.95, ISBN 0-8223-2843-7.

In order to create gendered aca- gogical dilemma: “We have relatively feminism, they have shaped theory and demic spaces in which and from which few serious discussions about the inter- practice and have themselves become it can speak and teach, a whole genera- actions involved in teaching or their part of what Messer-Davidow calls “a tion of feminist teachers, for the past meaning to us and the students” (p.1). nationwide infrastructure of some 630 thirty years, first imagined and then In a similar vein, Ellen Messer- women’s studies programs…and thou- instituted new pedagogical and schol- Davidow tells a story in Disciplining sands of academic-feminist presses, arly modes that served its feminist Feminism of where we were, where we books series, journals, and newsletters” ends. Two survivors of that struggle, are, and where we should go to start a (p.85). Seeing the personal as political, New York University women’s studies new conversation about feminism in both authors focus on beginnings, tak- professor Berenice Fisher and Univer- the academy. Disciplining Feminism, ing autobiographical, even confes- sity of Minnesota–Twin Cities profes- however, deconstructs any sense of a sional, approaches to mapping their sor Ellen Messer-Davidow, offer pan- comfortable feminist “we.” In essence experiences with academic feminism oramic insights and detailed analyses of it presents a stringent critique of and their own specific strategies of that socio-pedagogical history. Asking postmodern feminist analysis, which feminist discourse. Both draw on years more questions than they answer, Messer-Davidow claims has been serv- of personal involvement and fieldwork Fisher and Messer-Davidow carve out ing the ends of the scholarly disciplines in and outside the university. Fisher, rhetorical spaces in which they seek to but not feminist policy implementa- for instance, draws a fairly extensive define what, how, when, where, and tion (pp.212–13). sketch of her life and commitments, why feminist discourses circulate in the including her lesbianism, that have im- academy in the ways they do. They Both authors share a sense of pacted her political positions. Both both seek to find a way of speaking loneliness and isolation, Fisher’s cre- tell effective first-person stories of in- about and seeing anew the processes of ated mainly by a sense of isolation tellectual and personal struggle and feminist inquiry in the academy. Such from other teachers and Messer- narrate in great detail the influence of an ambitious enterprise must start with Davidow’s stemming primarily from the civil rights movement on the devel- defining the problems of feminist prac- her sense of separation from activists opment of women’s studies. (Messer- tice in the liberal-capitalist academic outside the academy and Davidow also talks about early sex dis- marketplace and finding ways to talk postmodernists in the theory coterie. crimination and sex harassment legal about them in theoretical and practical It is their recognition of isolation that measures). Messer-Davidow focuses ways alike. Fisher, in No Angel in the prompts both authors to transform on precise historicity and on detailed Classroom, not only pinpoints what their voices into action—if we readers descriptions of various scholarly jour- makes a feminist educator and how accept their premise that writing a nals as well as the specific resistance of feminist pedagogy is actually practiced, book, i.e., producing more discourse, is the Modern Language Association but also diagnoses a most vexing peda- a form of activist intervention. As (MLA) to feminist criticism in her at- long-time practitioners of second-wave tempt to prove her thesis that disci- plinary effects have deformed feminist activity in the academy. In compari-

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son, Fisher develops broader, more of “artifacts of disciplinary discourse.” Davidow more feistily rejects the generally applicable questions about But where the Minnesota professor multi-voiced, or split, tongue with how to practice feminist scholarship uses theories of social organization to which feminist discourse is spoken in and teaching in typical pedagogical examine the realization of change, the academy as politically ineffective scenarios, such as thesis supervision Fisher uses a less obvious disciplinary for the stated goals shared by all femi- and mentoring of young scholars. approach. Thus, Disciplining Feminism nisms. reads quite analytically, while No Angel Messer-Davidow’s main thesis is in the Classroom appears comparatively Like Messer-Davidow, Fisher also that the separation of feminist activists more memoiristic. questions a too-stringent emphasis on and scholars damages both sides, and intellectual standard without policy that academics have tacitly accepted The connection that nonetheless application or real-life political impact. this damage in exchange for the ben- links both authors is their worry about In Messer-Davidow’s case, in large efits of institutional acceptance of meeting the demands of two forces part, such emphasis on application can women’s studies. It is important to pulling at them, namely their time- be attributed to her cross-disciplinary mention here her impressive activist consuming and draining academic lives scholarly tastes and her appointments record: she initiated the founding of in the fields of English, cultural stud- the MLA graduate student caucus in ies, social studies, women’s studies, and 1975–76, when, as Joan Hartman rhetoric and composition, as well as writes, the Committee on the Status of various other academic and non-aca- Women “thought we were in danger of demic leadership positions that push creating a female version of the old her beyond the methodological blind- boys’ network that governed MLA by ers of one particular area of study. recruiting to the Commission women Since her early days as a member of the we knew, energetic friends from the MLA’s Committee on the Status of graduate schools we had attended.”1 Women, Messer-Davidow has exten- Messer-Davidow earns our respect for sively published on interdisciplinary the early activism she brought to the and other feminist and radical–liberal caucus, drawing on organizing skills political issues; her work has included she had acquired during her stint with stringent analyses of the Christian the Industrial Areas Foundation. Right’s ideologies and organizing strat- “When they knock you down, you’ve egies. Yet, like Fisher, Messer-Davidow got to go back and educate them and readily acknowledges that practice create the conditions whereby they without theory can lead to dilettantism have to make the right decision,” ad- and the general (circular) assumption vised her mentor at the University of that feminists are necessarily good Cincinnati, Marquita McLean; she teachers because they are feminist. heeded that wisdom throughout her Fisher, however, chimes in with impressive career.2 and their competing commitments to Messer-Davidow’s ritual complaint Both authors share nostalgia for political causes outside the academy, that feminist scholarship was once (in the early days of second-wave femi- exacerbated by political factionism. “I the good old days?) an aspect of femi- nism, which spurs their own deep exca- can be faulted for being ‘too political’ nist activism, and shares the veteran vation of theories of organization and or for not meeting one or another feminist’s distaste of highly theoretical practice that influenced that second feminist political/intellectual stan- work that seems esoteric except to the wave. Foucault’s echoes can be heard dard,” complains Fisher of the hair- relatively few who are the initiated. As pretty loudly. After all, the very notion splitting of academic feminism (p.2). an educational philosopher and of discipline as a rhetorical construct Yet while Fisher feels compelled to sort women’s studies practitioner at New and a system of power is Foucauldian. out theoretical differences, Messer- Consequently, Messer-Davidow’s cen- tral concern can be called the “digging”

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York University, Fisher also asks fairly 1990s, a circumstance betrayed by her are going to engage with this book will discipline-specific and practical ques- choice of examples and references, be a much smaller, more predictable tions helpful to both the beginner and some of which appear somewhat dated audience of women professors. And the seasoned practitioner of women’s since they refer to public debates at this audience presents the most impor- studies. Yet, like Messer-Davidow, she academic conferences in the earlier part tant criticism of these spokeswomen’s also offers a social history of the of the last decade. Ultimately, Disci- otherwise worthwhile projects: Written women’s movement that crosses the plining Feminism is not really about with the autobiographical voice of the activist/intellectual divide. More dia- pedagogy, but is a piece in the puzzle academic visionary, the vision is merely logic in her writing style than Messer- of Messer-Davidow’s more general ob- going to reach those already attuned to Davidow, Fisher encourages shop-talk jective of combatting the Religious the processes of disciplinary feminisms, about everyday questions such as these: Right and vicious conservatism in U.S. undisciplined and disciplined. Which philosophical directives do we culture. She is not the only one to (un)consciously follow when we claim that the political Right has Nevertheless, as Fisher echoes choose teaching methods? Are femi- gained power by getting a foothold in Messer-Davidow in emphasizing the nist teachers particularly prone to auto- what was once the liberal Left bastion advantages of social movements in sup- biographical scenes? Do feminist edu- of the university. Feminism’s co- porting academic change, and feminist cators invest too much in their stu- optation by the academy, then, is a activism as an antidote for co-optation dents at the expense of managing their timely topic for all of us who are trying in the daily teaching grind, something to change teaching styles and learning closely resembling hope and optimism outcomes in that conservative environ- overtakes the reader. Just as social ment. “Engendering knowledge” is movements are seen by both authors as now the task of all those teachers and capable of challenging and ultimately researchers who seek to introduce or to transforming any social order, so, fi- reinforce the project of gendering nally, does the empathetic reader agree knowledge into the academy. that feminism in the academy can be made more socially effective. Putting Both Messer-Davidow and Fisher much stock in the educational value are pioneers of the first generation of and rhetorical and practical strength of feminist academicians ready and able social movements, Fisher and Messer- to narrate the history and assess the Davidow courageously seek to transfer results of engendered knowledge pro- the consciousness-raising techniques of duction. Both nursed the field of twentieth-century social movements to women’s studies by being practitioners, academic discourse and to academic serving on committees, and being readers. For both, the best model for spokeswomen for and editors of femi- feminist pedagogy lies in the feminist- nist writing. Their track records in- activist style of knowledge production clude succinct analysis and interpreta- and dissemination. They exemplify tion of the real world, which they have this style in their rhetorical and practi- achieved by a new kind of research that cal step-by-step approaches, in Disci- takes into account real-world effects plining Feminism and No Angel in the own time? What problems do we face and social applications of research, not Classroom, to organizing and changing in teaching men in our women’s stud- merely abstractions. Their expressed minds. ies classes? wish is to reach people in the policymaking and social movements Disciplining Feminism sometimes Messer-Davidow began doing and to make academic work construc- works against its own goals. Messer- research for her book in the early tive and solution-oriented by envision- Davidow identifies a rather large, ab- ing action plans; but the readers who stract theme, even though she selects concrete examples as case studies and has designed her research to reach be-

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yond the narrow confines of some dis- by race, sex, sexuality ethnicity, or a specific culture and modes of con- ciplines. In essence, she addresses the whatever”4). It is unfortunate that in duct that necessarily shape faculty con- old Marxian problem of the split be- asking the Left to stand together and duct and scholarship. tween theory and practice, and arrives identify a common enemy, she chooses Diversification and diversity of at the conclusion that the integration the word “jihad” to rally the forces of positions in the academy are indeed of one specific discipline, namely feminism to a common battle. The problematic terms in Disciplining Fem- women’s studies, into the institutional feminist movement in the United inism. Messer-Davidow basically frameworks of conventional disciplines States, mostly a liberal institution claims that “feminist studies discourse has created a rift between activists and guided by mostly liberal Western val- … expressed in different disciplines, academics (p.120). Here are some ues, may be wrongly identified by identities, political ideologies and questions she might have considered in Fisher and Messer-Davidow as “leftist,” epistemic assumptions” is actually a more detail: Doesn’t one need to dis- despite the heroic prevalence of social- cause of the “balkanizing [of] academic tinguish among pedagogues, teachers, ist-feminist academic writing. In my feminism, dividing us from nonaca- and researchers and among liberal arts own experience as a foreign citizen demic feminists and progressives, and colleges, small universities, and major within the American academy, neither reconstituting social change as an arti- research universities in painting a activist (non-academic) nor academic fact of esoteric discourses” (p.86). broad canvas of the institutionalization feminism are leftist or even closely re- of feminism? Is it sufficient or expedi- lated to the socialist possibilities envi- If we accept Messer-Davidow’s tious to call for the end of separation sioned by the two authors. thesis that women’s studies has become between “town” and “gown” expres- appropriated by the academy as disci- sions of feminist action? Haven’t aca- Drawing on many of the con- plines are inserted “into normative demics joined the peace movement and cerns she previously expressed in a schemes of practice” (p.45), then how other civil rights movements in unions chapter of the 1991 book (En) can we undo the disciplinary structures or national organizations? What cre- Gendering Knowledge,5 Messer- and bifurcations that the academy has ated the split between activists outside Davidow again criticizes feminist aca- imposed on us? After all, most aca- and inside the academy, and precisely demics for remaining theoretical while demic feminists have experienced first- when was it created? Isn’t that “theory the enemies of feminism conspire and hand their institutions’ tendency to vs. practice” split a well-recognized rift actively work against women’s rights. bend to political pressures and their with much larger philosophical impact, But have those enemies really managed politically appointed leadership’s no- and wasn’t that rift already in existence to punish, tame, and discipline us all, tion of accountability in terms of test- at the moment academic feminism was as she claims? The post-sixties genera- scores for money. What are our strate- born? Does Disciplining Feminism tion surely does not need to cite Joan gies to revive social change and active offer us more than a fairly generalized Catapano and Marlie P. Wasserman in modes of learning linked to action out- historical look at the co-optation of order to admit that, generally speaking, side the academy? How can commu- grassroots movements by institutional in world history, and surely in the nity organizing and scholarship accom- forces? analysis of post-Marxists, “all revolu- plish this together? Messer-Davidow tionary movements either dissipate or does not take notice of the rather large In response to what she elsewhere are institutionalized” (p.206). Pessi- body of literature available on service calls an “organized conservative move- mism dictates so, and post-Marxism learning, such as Women’s Studies: Con- ment on a jihad to illegalize affirmative knows so but continues to work cepts and Models for Service Learning in action, dismantle social programs, and against such fatalism. Is it surprising Women’s Studies.6 further redistribute the wealth to that women, particularly feminist ones, elites,”3 Messer-Davidow takes issue have been tamed and disciplined and Defining academic feminism as a with theoretical debates and stand- seek to work within frameworks that, potentially radical attempt to trans- points that seem to splinter feminist often, they do not control? All univer- form the disciplines, Messer-Davidow solidarity in the fight for justice and sities, and especially those universities correctly observes that as feminism en- rights for all disadvantaged people (“we and colleges that are regionally or hier- don’t have time to quibble about archically “differently situated,” display whether people are more disadvantaged

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has failed, because, as Messer-Davidow argues, rather than building bridges based on rather sketchy analyses of dis- Whether or not we admit it, all between the academy and social activ- ciplinary associations in the humanities teachers despair, if only momen- ism, feminists are now imprisoned by and social sciences. And while her his- tory of MLA activities is interesting to tarily, over the when, how, and institutional structures and isolated from large-scale social feminist move- historians of English, it is less exem- why of our own practices. ments. Messer-Davidow argues that plary than she seeks to make the reader the formation of academic feminism believe. As feminism has transformed “was imploded, its salient features de- the MLA, feminists, have, of course, tered the institutions, it was trans- termined by the end of 1972 and its also been co-opted by that organiza- formed and deformed by the institu- shape fixed by 1976” (p.86). To me, tion. What else is new? tional frameworks it set out to change. the problem in her analysis of the “dis- But what does this observation leave us ciplining” of academic feminism lies in The theme of co-optation, in with, besides anamnesis? I preferred her definition of feminism as the aca- fact, deserves further scrutiny here. reading Fisher’s detailed and careful demic branch of social activism. Only While Messer-Davidow’s description of assessment of her own attempt to when defined this way has academic the intellectualization of feminist change the institution from within, to feminism failed. As Messer-Davidow analysis and its subsequent institution- be “the sand in the machine,” as has and Fisher both readily concede, aca- alization is certainly worth reading, it been attempted by many radicals who demics—especially tenured ones—be- gives little insight into the different have sought to make a living while come complacent, but is that the sum and differential ways in which feminist hanging onto their ideals (sometimes total of the evidence of their creation discourse and pedagogy were absorbed by their painted fingernails). However, and maintenance of “power prestige into different academic fields by social No Angel in the Classroom does not hierarchies” (Disciplining Feminism, activists and mainstream scholars alike. present itself as a book about teaching pp.20–21)? Does academia really not In fact, it appears that Messer- strategies, curriculum development, or deserve any credit for disciplinary Davidow, herself a beneficiary of the models of interpretation. In fact, by scholarship that activists could use as institutionalization of feminist rhetoric reviewing specific conflicts rather than tactical knowledge in advancing their in the academy, is deeply suspicious of elementary and practical questions causes? the successes of feminist power in the about syllabi and course requirements, establishment of university administra- Fisher indicates that her life experience Messer-Davidow idealizes a radi- tions (p.207). At times she buys into and thirty-five years as a feminist pro- cal past in which feminism was “once the notion spawned by young third- fessor have made her more interested insurgent,” and she believes that the wave feminists that the “mothers” now in understanding “what it means...to movement has since lost its stride. rule the university and that no avenue teach social-justice subjects such as Little evidence informs her description of rebellion remains other than talking gender, race, and sexual orientation” of conformist feminism in the 1960s back to the feminist matriarchs who (p. 1). Her targeted audience is not and 1970s, the decades in which she rule supreme, even in male-dominated the anxious neophyte but seasoned locates the bold activism that she re- disciplines. It is painful to read feminist teachers who share the doubts members (p.207). Painting a picture Messer-Davidow from the perspective that come with experience and failure of a three-phased inescapable decline, of the nontenured feminist or adjunct in the classroom. Whether or not we she charges that 1960s feminist aca- academic, because while Disciplining admit it, all teachers despair, if only demics were singularly eager and able Feminism appears sympathetic to their momentarily, over the when, how, and to combine social activism with insti- plights and points to the continued why of our own practices. tutional acculturation and scholarly exploitation of women in the academy, transformations of the academy as they it denies those readers any hope that In the most pessimistic reading of gained spaces and positions on college their radical projects might survive in the two books, the academic feminist campuses and became active in associa- the academy once they actually secure project of an entire generation or two tions such as the Modern Language a tenure-track job or even tenure and Association (pp.206–7). Much of financial security. Is there really much Messer-Davidow’s work, despite its new about Messer-Davidow’s thesis seemingly expansive scope, is, in fact, that institutionalization necessarily

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changes and disciplines, i.e., keeps in vocative and productive. They warn of where how we might want to do just check, academics who want to teach the dangers of intellectual practices that: “You organize a constituency, and make a living? Can radical move- formed by institutions and of the loss compel folks to realize its legitimacy, ments survive unscathed in the acad- of contact with non-academic social maneuver your way into negotiations, emy of tenured ex-radicals? Of course movements. But neither Fisher nor make demands, [and] apply pressure not! But who are the radicals outside Messer-Davidow addresses fully through protest.”7 the academy who remain uncorrupted enough the broader problem that even by power or security? Teaching in a social change movements experience Notes small town in Wisconsin, I haven’t institutionalization, co-optation, and 1. Joan Hartman, “A Tribute to Ellen been able to detect much radicalism in disciplinary action against their mem- Messer-Davidow,” Workplace: A Journal the wider community. In fact, the uni- bers and thus are in no better position for Academic Labor, v.2, no.1 (April versity is the only haven of any re- than is the academy. While feminists 1999), http://www.workplace-gsc.com/ motely radical thought. Although disagree about many issues—and dis- workplace2-1/wokplace2-1.html some administrators and tenured pro- agree on intellectual grounds that are 2. Heather Julien, “An Interview with fessors have indeed been disciplined by quite important—I see no value in Ellen Messer-Davidow,” Workplace: A their institutions, they continue their having an easy peace to solve Messer- Journal for Academic Labor, v.2, no.1 radical (feminist) teaching and their Davidow’s perception of a problem (April 1999), http://www.workplace- dissemination of radical ideas to stu- with academia’s “co-optation by a cul- gsc.com/workplace2-1/wokplace2- dents who arrive with little interest in ture of professionalisms that would 1.html political struggle, feminist or other- subvert their ends and break their ties 3. Julien, “An Interview,” http:// wise. to the movement” (p.117). In choos- www.workplace-gsc.com/workplace2- ing to discuss the matter academically 1/wokplace2-1.html Does the future of feminism re- and in academic rhetoric, are Fisher 4. Julien, “An Interview,” http:// ally lie in a non-academic, non-disci- and Messer-Davidow failing, them- www.workplace-gsc.com/workplace2- plinary path, as Messer-Davidow sug- selves, to bridge to non-academic audi- 1/wokplace2-1.html gests—in particular, since she acknowl- ences? Isn’t it true that at a time when 5. Joan Hartmann & Ellen Messer- edges the generally conservative envi- women’s studies has been institutional- Davidow, eds., (En)Gendering Knowl- ronment and the countless suppres- ized, the majority of female teachers edge: Feminists in Academe (Univ. Ten- sions of social change movements in are still in the lower-paid jobs (as both nessee Press, 1991). the mainstream media and the govern- readily acknowledge), and that femi- 6. Women’s Studies: Concepts and Mod- ment? We need to learn more about nism inside and outside the academy is els for Service Learning in Women’s Stud- how “language-oriented,” i.e., under heavy attack? In other words, ies (Washington, DC: American Asso- postmodernist, feminists have success- the postmodern feminists working at ciation of Higher Education, 2000). fully disciplined themselves and their large research universities whom 7. Julien, “An Interview,” http:// oppositions. After all, Fisher and Messer-Davidow targets are the excep- www.workplace-gsc.com/workplace2- Messer-Davidow have apparently, quite tions, not the rule. 1/wokplace2-1.html successfully, managed to resist disci- plinary action and punishment di- Despite my criticisms, teachers [Carmen Faymonville is Associate Profes- rected at them. Readers must ask and activists Ellen Messer-Davidow sor of English and Humanities at the themselves whether there really is a di- and Berenice Malka Fisher have, in University of Wisconsin–Platteville.] rect trajectory from social activism to these volumes, contributed another academic discourse or whether there important element to our new tradi- are crisscrossings and cross-fertiliza- tions in feminist teaching. These tasks tions. Isn’t there always a more circular remain: to continue to chronicle how discourse than the straight line and its social change in turn changes specific phallocentric rhetorical resonance? areas and disciplines, and to document the conditions and rules of emergence Disciplining Feminism and No of feminism in our current academic Angel in the Classroom are both pro- spaces. Messer-Davidow tells us else-

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by Pamela O’Donnell

[Reprinted, with minor changes and with permission, from Teaching with Technology Today, v.9, no.6 (Feb. 27, 2003): http:/ /www.uwsa.edu/ttt/articles/odonnell.htm]

In December 2000, Phyllis Web-based and not tied to a specific ity, truncation, synonyms, etc. Phyllis Holman Weisbard, the University of class or instructor, would give our chose to analyze LEXIS-NEXIS™ Wisconsin System Women’s Studies office the opportunity to reach a much Academic and Library Solutions, a Librarian and Distinguished Academic wider group of potential users.” From huge fulltext database of newspapers, Librarian, and Helen Klebesadel, the beginning, one obstacle to creating magazines, and more, because included Director of the UW System’s Women’s engaging and interactive Web pages within it is material from Contempo- Studies Consortium, received a grant was recognized — the lack of techno- rary Women’s Issues. This interna- from the Institute for Global Studies to logical expertise by anyone associated tional fulltext database contains articles create self-paced, “point-of-use” with the project. By relying on the from women-focused magazines, tutorials for students in global and/or computer skills of the Library Technol- newsletters, and journals, as well as women’s studies, as well as other fields, ogy Group at Memorial Library, reports and pamphlets from govern- to learn concepts and ments and organizations. strategies for finding quality (Oddly enough, it is accessed information in a Web via the “Business News” environment. Helen asked category in LEXIS-NEXIS.) me, then her assistant, to Students using the tutorial find work with Phyllis on the a step-by-step guide to success- project. More than two fully retrieving this material. years later, the process of designing, testing, and implementing Dreamweaver training, and help from The second module (http:// four tutorial modules is finally nearing consultants with the Learning Technol- www.library.wisc.edu/projects/ completion. In that time databases ogy and Distance Education division ggfws/iwitutorials/searchengines/ have been redesigned, screen captures of DoIT (the Division of Information iwssearchengines.htm) focuses on have become obsolete, and entire Technology) at UW–Madison, we Internet search engines such as Yahoo! examples have disappeared, all of eventually surmounted most, if not all, and Google, which search pages on the which point to the challenges of trying of the technical challenges. Web for specific keywords and return a to pin down an entity as amorphous as list of documents in order of relevance the World Wide Web. Currently, the four tutorials determined by factors built into the cover a range of topics and reinforce a program’s software. The module Phyllis, who often teaches search number of concepts central to library demonstrates a number of critical tools strategy concepts when she is invited to instruction. The first module (see for examining and evaluating informa- make presentations on campuses http://www.library.wisc.edu/ tion found on the Internet through the throughout the UW System, explains projects/ggfws/iwitutorials/ use of the tried-and-true “Who? What? the impetus for the project: “Because lexisnexis/iwslexisnexis.htm) intro- When? Why? How?” approach. Each these occasional sessions only reach a duces users to the logic of Boolean module has its own graphic design, tiny fraction of the potential audience searches and concepts such as proxim- for such instruction, I felt that creating reusable ‘learning objects,’ which are

Feminist Collections (v.24, no.2, Winter 2003) Page 21 although specific structural elements (a instances we used humor to strengthen metasites, Web pages that arrange module navigation bar on the left, a the student’s retention of key points. information and provide links on a site navigation bar across the top, Here is one example of a quiz specific topic. We encourage students contact information, etc.) and a color question from the “Evaluating to locate and use metasites since the scheme unite all of the tutorials. We Websites” module: metasite creators have already done the designed each module with its own work of scouring the Web, evaluating template to ensure consistency and If you discover that a potential sites, and providing descriptions and facilitate compliance with ADA source of information on the links only to sites that meet the criteria mandates. Internet was produced by a they have established. The tutorial uses student for a class project, The third module (http:// what can you do? the metasite produced by the Office of www.library.wisc.edu/projects/ the Women’s Studies Librarian as a ggfws/iwitutorials/genderwatch/ a. Dismiss it entirely. springboard to finding Web-based iwsgenderwatch.htm) introduces information on international women’s users to GenderWatch, another fulltext b. Mine the bibliography for issues, including material from the database that indexes articles from additional primary and “deep” or “invisible” Web not indexed secondary sources. women or gender-focused newsletters, by search engines. magazines, and journals. It also c. Determine if the argument is includes a selection of conference valid by polling the crowd at As the project nears completion, proceedings, books, and reports from Happy Hour. we remain convinced that the Internet, governments and organizations, which as a teaching tool, has unlimited are useful to students interested in d. Submit the work as your potential, and we hope that students own. transnational or global issues. The and professors across the UW System module helps students identify the will find the tutorials valuable and The answer, of course, is “b,” and type of content retrieved (be it a beneficial resources. The tutorials can when the student chooses the correct community newsletter, academic be accessed through the homepage of response, a pop-up window appears, journal, or political manifesto), the Women’s Studies Librarian, http:// saying, “Just because the paper is a delineates basic and advanced search www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/ student effort doesn’t mean that it can’t strategies, and describes various WomensStudies/, or directly at http:/ be useful. Be certain to check the features unique to GenderWatch. /www.library.wisc.edu/projects/ footnotes or list of works consulted to ggfws/iwitutorials/iwiindex.htm. see if there are any additional sources lso sprinkled throughout the Although creating learning objects for A that you could use.” If the user answers modules are Coursebuilder “interac- the Internet can be a challenge, incorrectly, a different pop-up appears, tions.” Coursebuilder, a software particularly when interfaces change stating emphatically, “No, you can still component designed by Macromedia overnight and material disappears evaluate the paper and check its to complement Dreamweaver, creates without a trace, these trials can be sources. What you can NEVER, EVER multiple-choice and true/false quiz successfully met with vigilance, do is plagiarize someone else’s intellec- questions. We included a number of flexibility, and a sense of humor. tual effort.” quiz elements in the tutorials to ensure The fourth and final tutorial that students are following the points [Pamela O’Donnell is a graduate student (http://www.library.wisc.edu/ being made, to reinforce their under- in the Department of Communication projects/ggfws/iwitutorials/ standing of the research process, and to Arts at the University of Wisconsin– metasites/iwsmetasites.htm) concerns maintain their interest. In a number of Madison.]

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Our website (http://www. library.wisc.edu/libraries/ The aim of the FRIENDS OF KAPULULANGU AUS- WomensStudies/) includes all recent issues of this column TRALIAN ABORIGINAL WOMEN’S CENTER is “to (formerly called “Computer Talk”), plus many bibliogra- support the elders of Kapululangu Women’s [Law and Cul- phies, core lists of women’s studies books, and links to ture] Centre in any and every way we can.” The Centre, on hundreds of other websites by topic. the edge of the Great Sandy Desert, serves women from Information about electronic journals and maga- many different aboriginal cultures who are trying to sustain zines, particularly those with numbered or dated issues “Australia’s most enduring traditional lifeways.” One inter- posted on a regular schedule, can be found in our “Peri- esting project of the Friends is hair collection, for the craft- odical Notes” column. ing of traditional hairstring. The Friends maintain an infor- mative site at http://home.vicnet.net.au/~fokapu/

WEBSITES “[E]ffective, efficient and equitable water resources manage- ment is only achieved,” claims the GENDER AND WATER Nell Merlino, creator of “Take Your Daughter to Work ALLIANCE (GWA), “when both women and men are in- Day,” is also co-founder of a micro-lending program for volved in integrated water resource management.” People women in the U.S. COUNT ME IN FOR WOMEN’S and organizations from around the world make up the ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE lends amounts ranging GWA, which is funded by the governments of the United from $500 to $10,000 to women starting or expanding Kingdom and the Netherlands. GWA participated in the small businesses. Its website at http://www.count-me- March 2003 World Water Forum in Japan and is making in.org/index.html also offers an abundance of aids to any- reports available from sessions there; these and more are one thinking about starting a business or looking for basic available at http://www.genderandwateralliance.org in information about bookkeeping, financing, and more. English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

EVE: A POWER-PACKED READ, http:// The INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR RE- www.evemag.com/, appears to be by and for teenagers, SEARCH IN WOMEN’S HISTORY (IFRWH) helps to mostly (but not solely) teenage girls. A masthead slogan arrange international conferences and facilitate the exchange with a rotating noun phrase proclaims, “Bringing Down the of information in its efforts to “encourage and coordinate Patriarchy One ____ [filled in variously with ‘Prom Queen,’ research in all aspects of women’s history at the international ‘Sorority Sister,’ ‘Beach-Fun Barbie,’ ‘Spice Girl,’ ‘Whistling level.” The IFRWH’s newsletter, as well as information Trucker,’ or ‘Nose Job’] at a Time.” Regular columns of this about conferences and published conference proceedings, zine-like site include “Power Chick” (currently featuring can be accessed at http://www.historians.ie/women/ Frida Kahlo), “Brain Candy” (up now is a tribute to dolls that depict women who are smarter and more athletic than MADRE: AN INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S HUMAN Barbie), “Junk Drawer” with its “Inane Diet of the Month,” RIGHTS ORGANIZATION began in 1983 with a group and a “Rant Wall,” which poses questions for readers to of women who attempted to publicize the effects of — and write in about (“Did God Write the Bible?” “All-Girls’ change — U.S. policy in Nicaragua. Twenty years later, the Schools: Is Segregation Worth It?”) The editors/contribu- mission is similar: “MADRE does much more than docu- tors are not afraid to include possibly unpopular views: for ment and condemn abuses. We work with women who are instance, right-wing Dr. Laura gets a nod for her honesty affected by violations to help them win justice and, ulti- and insight. mately, change the conditions that give rise to human rights abuses. And we challenge U.S. policies that undermine hu- FEMMENOIR (http://www.femmenoir.net/), for lesbians man rights.” The war in Iraq is a major current focus; the of color and other women of color worldwide, is a site “de- organization’s website at http://www.madre.org/ signed to build self-esteem through our history and culture” index.html offers a “daily digest” with news analyses and and “to provide a platform for lesbians of color to express promotes the “Every Child Has a Name” campaign, which themselves at a time when information truly is power on includes distribution of emergency milk and medicine to this information superhighway.” women and families in Iraq.

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MOMWRITERS™, “a community of professional and new www.library.wisc.edu/projects/ggfws/iwitutorials/ writers…who face the unique challenges of writing with metasites/iwsmetasites.htm Like the three other online children underfoot,” has a website at http:// tutorials developed by this office, “Using a Metasite” teaches www.momwriters.com/ with links to listservs, a bulletin library research skills using topics related to international board, and a chat room. Members need not be mothers, women’s issues. It defines metasites, shows how to identify but many are. Writing contests, critiques, special-interest them, and explains their usefulness as springboards to mate- groups, and self-promotion opportunities are available. rial in the “deep” or “invisible” Web that is not indexed by search engines. The MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN’S HEALTH, http://www.mum.org/, is an amazing feat of WOMEN AGAINST MILITARY MADNESS (WAMM) inspiration, research, and organization (and, one might say, had its beginnings in the anti-nuclear-war-and-military- courage) by a 51-year-old male artist named Harry Finley spending movement of the early 1980s and, not surpris- (“an old bachelor”) who used to house the collection in his ingly, is very active these days. Based in the Minneapolis/St. basement and open it for weekend tours. Finley candidly Paul area, the group proclaims itself to be “a nonviolent and convincingly answers inevitable questions in an online feminist organization that works in solidarity with others to FAQ (including “But you’re a guy…?”), and has notable create a system of social equality, self-determination and jus- names in health and women’s studies on his advisory board. tice through education and empowerment of women” and The site’s abundant resources include bibliographies, prod- that wants to “dismantle systems of militarism and global uct ads from the 1930s, visions for a future physical mu- oppression.” A newsletter is published on WAMM’s seum, humor, and (most fascinating to this reader) hundreds website, along with information about programs and events: of emailed responses from women to the question “Would http://www.worldwidewamm.org/ you stop menstruating if you could?” (The survey is ongo- ing; you can volunteer your own answer at http:// WOMEN IN THE FIRE SERVICE, a national organiza- www.mum.org/stopmen.htm) tion based in Madison, Wisconsin, offers membership to both women and men who are “seeking to make the fire ser- The SUFI WOMEN ORGANISATION, as part of the In- vice a professional place where women and men work to- ternational Association of Sufism, is “dedicated to promot- gether harmoniously.” The nonprofit network holds an in- ing universal human rights.” Headquartered in Novato, ternational conference every two years and has an extensive California, the group has chapters on every continent and a website at http://www.wfsi.org website at http://sufiwomen.org/ The WOMEN’S SOLIDARITY ASSOCIATION OF TAIWAN WOMEN, http://tw-women.formosa.org/, was IRAN (WSAI) (http://www.salamiran.org/Women/ started in 1995 by two Taiwanese women students who had Organisations/wsai.html) is a nongovernmental organiza- met on the Internet. The organization’s mission is to “pro- tion in Iran that focuses on Iranian Muslim women, with a mote discussion about women and gender issues among Tai- goal of building relationships between them and women’s wanese students in the U.S.A., facilitate the solidarity of Tai- organizations and movements in the rest of the world, as wanese women, especially among women studying and liv- well as supporting women’s rights in “the world’s deprived ing in the U.S.A., and change the second-class status of societies.” WSAI’s statement of objectives includes the claim women in Taiwanese society.” In addition to website offer- that “[w]omen may implement their duties as half of the ings, the group has a three- to four-day “winter camp” gath- population by safeguarding their families, moral values and ering in late December in a selected city; the 2002 camp, proper dress.” themed “Sex and the City,” was held in New York. The WORLD SUMMIT ON THE INFORMATION SO- The Office of the Women’s Studies Librarian for the Univer- CIETY (WSIS), whose purpose is “to formulate a common sity of Wisconsin System announces a new, Web-based in- vision and understanding of the global information society,” teractive tutorial, USING A METASITE, at http:// will convene in Geneva in December 2003 and then in Tunis in 2005. The WSIS GENDER CAUCUS is working

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to ensure that “gender dimensions” are included. The Helen Pankhurst, IN WHOSE INTEREST? A PAPER ON Caucus’s background, goals, and documents are offered at MICROFINANCE (Womankind Worldwide, 2002): http:/ http://www.wougnet.org/WSIS/wsisgc.html /www.womankind.org.uk/ (click on “Publications,” then on “Money Literacy”). Pankhurst says in her introduction, The website ZAN (meaning “woman” in Farsi), at http:// “Micro-finance initiatives, particularly in the form of credit www.zan.org/home.html, was started in 1996 as a way for and savings schemes, are an increasingly visible element of its creator to publish an anthology — called A Migrant development work. They are also an area in which women Storm — of work by Iranian women from outside Iran. To- are often targeted. This article reflects on some of the issues day, the site “continues to be the main place where Iranian behind their popularity and highlights areas of concern.” women network with one another globally and where non- Iranians learn about us.” Zan is “inclusive of all ages, reli- United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women, gions, races, colors, classes, sexual orientations, and anything INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECH- else that you can think of!” NOLOGIES AND THEIR IMPACT ON AND USE AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR THE ADVANCEMENT AND EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN, Report of the Expert ONLINE PUBLICATIONS Group Meeting, Seoul, Korea, November 11–14, 2002: 70 pages in PDF format at http://www.un.org/womenwatch/ Both the 2002 and 2003 AMELIA BLOOMER LISTS — daw/egm/ict2002/reports/EGMFinalReport.pdf For a “recommended feminist books for youth” compiled by the shorter report about the meeting by Jo Sutton of Feminist Task Force of the American Library Association’s Womenspace, who attended as an observer, see http:// Social Responsibilities Round Table — are available for consult.womenspace.ca/e-participation/DAWEGM.html downloading at http://www.libr.org/FTF/bloomer.html Frances Elizabeth Willard (1839–1898), OCCUPATIONS DECLARATION OF THE KNOW-HOW CONFERENCE FOR WOMEN: A BOOK OF PRACTICAL SUGGES- 2002: The declaration that came out of “Know How 2002: TIONS FOR THE MATERIAL ADVANCEMENT, THE A Safari into the World of Women’s Information,” held July MENTAL AND PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT, AND 22–27, 2002, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda; THE MORAL AND SPIRITUAL UPLIFT OF WOMEN hosted by Isis-WICCE and Isis International/Manila, with (Cooper Union, N.Y.: The Success Co., 1897), is available support from IIAV: http://www.isiswomen.org/onsite/ as e-text in the University of Wisconsin Libraries’ Historical knowhow/kampaladeclaration.htm Primary Sources collection: http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/ HistPriSrc/ Helen Derbyshire, GENDER ISSUES IN THE USE OF COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION IN AFRICA (Imfundo: WOMEN IN DAILY LIFE: AN ON-LINE BIBLIOGRA- Partnership for IT in Education, 2003), in either PDF or PHY is posted on the website of the Center for Jewish His- Microsoft Word format: http:// tory: http://www.cjh.org/academic/women.html imfundo.digitalbrain.com/imfundo/web/learn/ genderissues/ EMAIL LIST Lina Eckenstein (d. 1931), WOMAN UNDER MONASTI- CISM: CHAPTERS ON SAINT-LORE AND CONVENT GENDER AND WATER — “Global E-Conference on LIFE BETWEEN A.D. 500 AND A.D. 1500 (Cambridge: Gender Mainstreaming in Integrated Water Resource Man- University Press, 1896), is available in electronic form in the agement”: Read or search the archives, or join the list, at University of Wisconsin Libraries’ Historical Primary http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/water.html Sources collection: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/ 1711.dl/HistPriSrc.EckenWoman  Compiled by JoAnne Lehman, with much- appreciated input from colleagues everywhere

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HISTORY Linda Gordon, would be ideal for this Hewitt points first to early scholarship student. The essay covers the origins that explored the diverse experiences of Nancy A. Hewitt, ed., A COMPAN- and early years of the U.S. women’s women (e.g., Gerda Lerner’s Black ION TO AMERICAN WOMEN’S movement in all its complexity — Women in White America, 1972), and HISTORY. Oxford, England, & from the liberal, equal-rights wing, which was followed by a period in Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002. 492p. represented by the National Organiza- which white, middle-class women in bibl. index. $124.95, ISBN 0-631- tion for Women, to the more radical the Northeast were the main subjects 21252-3. women’s liberation movement, which and their experiences were often taken used consciousness-raising sessions to be representative of all women. Recently on an email list, a doc- where women made connections be- Thereafter, from the late 1980s on- toral student from outside the United tween their personal lives and cultural/ ward, differences among women came States posted an inquiry about women societal views of women, the roles of to the fore, in part through local and of color and the women’s liberation women of color and lesbians, and regional studies. Hewitt describes the movement in the U.S. From the way more. The two-page bibliography is debates among historians over race, she framed her question, it was clear indicative of the amount of publication class, and locale, as well as concepts that she was quite unfamiliar with the available on the topic, yet less daunting such as “experience” and “identity” topic and assumed that the movement than the results of library catalog and and, above all, the category “gender” was started only by white women and database subject searches under Femi- itself. She mentions that scholars now that women of color either subsequent- nism–United States–History or Wom- see that the history of women must ly joined it or formed their own orga- en’s Rights–United States–History. include the history of conservative and nizations later. Several members of the Perhaps because both Baxandall right-wing women as well as progres- list corrected her misperceptions and and Gordon, as scholar-activists, are so sives, and that U.S. women’s history gave her suggestions on readings, until intimately connected with the history should not be separated from the his- the conversation drifted into whether it they describe, their summary has fewer tory of women in the rest of the world. was appropriate for a student to use in-text citations to other scholars than Hewitt also informs readers that the the list as a first resort and how to an- do other contributions to the volume; essays are meant to be “expansive but swer questions from novices. I won- if who-said-what/whose-theory-is- not comprehensive, introductory rath- dered whether A Companion to Ameri- whose aspects of historiography are er than definitive” (p.xvi). can Women’s History would be a useful important to the student, she would The rest of the contributions (all resource, either for the student’s specif- need to read the books in the bibliog- by historians at U.S. universities) are ic inquiry or more generally for indi- raphy, plus others listed in a more ex- grouped around three eras: Colonial, viduals needing a better grasp of the tensive bibliography at the end of the 1600–1760; Creation of a New Na- historiography of women’s history. volume, compiled by April de Stefano tion, 1760–1880, and Modern Ameri- I am delighted to report that the (and I’d add a one-volume reference ca, 1880–1990. The essays themselves Companion scores high marks on both work on the topic: The Women’s Libera- focus on a theme, such as “Slavery and accounts. The last of the twenty-four tion Movement in America, by Kathleen the Slave Trade,” by Jennifer L. Mor- pieces in the volume, “Second-Wave C. Berkeley, Greenwood, 1999). gan, in the first era; “Conflicts and Feminism,” by Rosalyn Baxandall and The book’s introduction by Nancy Cultures in the West,” by Lisbeth Hewitt reviews approaches to Ameri- Haas, in the second; and “Urban Spac- can women’s history since the 1960s. es and Popular Cultures, 1890–1930,” by Nan Enstad, in the third. In some

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cases a topic is revisited. Susan Juster Greenwood, 2002. 402p. bibl. $94.95, post–World War II writers worthy of examines women and religion in colo- ISBN 0-313-31783-6. study in literature and women’s studies nial America, while Nancy Hewitt courses and as subjects of research. takes up religion, reform, and radical- Laurie Champion & Rhonda Austin, There are seventy-four essays in ism in the antebellum era. Class issues eds., CONTEMPORARY AMERI- Poets and sixty-one in Fiction. Ana are explicitly dealt with in both “Gen- CAN WOMEN FICTION WRIT- Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, Grace Paley, der and Class Formations in the Ante- ERS: AN A TO Z GUIDE. Westport, and Leslie Marmon Silko appear in bellum North,” by Catherine Kelly, CT: Greenwood, 2002. bibl. $94.95, both. Reading contributions about the and “Marriage, Property, Class,” by ISBN 0-313-31627-9. same author shows how it can be help- Amy Dru Stanley, but recur regularly ful to cull information from various elsewhere, too. Thavolia Glymph’s These two works on contemporary reference works. For example, Lisa “The Civil War Era” and Karen Ander- writers arrived in our mailbox together, María Burgess Noudéhou, writing son’s “The Great Depression and accompanied by a joint press release about Paley in Fiction, cites Jane Coo- World War II” should be especially headed “Redirecting the Canon.” That per’s afterword to Paley’s Leaning For- useful to instructors who teach courses clever publicist’s phrase aptly signals ward: Poems as “one of the few critical on these time periods but who have yet that the process of redefining the considerations of Paley’s poetry” (Fic- to incorporate much about women. American literary canon is ongoing. tion, p.291); Austin Booth does not Both Joanne Meyerowitz’s “Rewriting Many of the authors profiled in the A mention this source in his essay on Pa- Postwar Women’s History, 1945– to Z Guides already exemplify the re- ley in Poets. Surprisingly, Marge Piercy 1960” and Steven Lawson’s “Civil vised approach that reaches willingly is in Poets, but not in Fiction, even Rights and Black Liberation” are terrif- for voices, standpoints, and styles be- though Poets contributor Maureen ic examples of how the new scholarship yond those exhibited by white males. Langdon Shaiman says Piercy is better challenges conventional understand- Could there still be any undergraduate known as a novelist than a poet. ings. Meyerowitz describes how histo- Contemporary Writers courses that Entries in both Guides follow the rians using divergent approaches are ignore Sylvia Plath, Maya Angelou, same pattern: contributors are Ameri- revising the stereotype of 1950s do- Toni Morrison, or Joyce Carol Oates? can literature scholars at universities in mesticity. Lawson shows how race re- In addition to those authors, introduc- the United States (plus a few indepen- lations in the South must be consid- tory women’s studies courses rely fre- dent writers in Poets); each contributor ered in order to come to grips with the quently on Audre Lorde, Cherríe Mor- begins by summarizing the author’s charge of sexism within the Students aga, Sandra Cisneros, Adrienne Rich, biography in about two pages, then Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Alice Walker, Marge Piercy, Tillie Ols- devotes about the same amount of (SNCC). Each essay in the volume en, and several other feminists covered space to the major works and themes can stand alone, and yet each contrib- in the A to Z Guides to awaken stu- in that writer’s various publications, utes to a revised, more complex view of dents through imaginative writing to moves to a page or less on critical re- history. Those who want their history the predicaments of women’s lives. ception, and finishes with a bibliogra- simple and their assumptions undis- Because they survey all major phy of works by and about the author. turbed won’t like this book; those who works by each author, the essays in the For best use of the Guides as reference are excited by diversity, complexity, Guides can offer instructors additional works, I would like to have seen the and challenges will find it to be a wor- titles to choose from when they tire of critical reception sections longer, since thy Companion. teaching The House on Mango Street most readers are probably looking for (Cisneros), Women on the Edge of Time reviews and other assessments. This (Piercy), etc. The editors of both appears to be more a reflection of a LITERATURE Guides take the position that because paucity of critical attention than of a women writers speak in many voices, decision to skimp. For example, Deb- Catherine Cucinella, ed., CONTEM- the volumes aim for representation; orah M. Mix begins her discussion of PORARY AMERICAN WOMEN PO- criteria for selection were extended to ETS: A TO Z GUIDE. Westport, CT: include several fine but lesser-known

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the reception of Kathleen Fraser’s poet- different genres, some also cross genres share a viewpoint that pre-1700 wom- ry with, “Despite her substantial pub- in hard-to-define ways. Leslie Mar- en’s writing in England is best under- lishing record, relatively few assess- mon Silko’s works combine narrative stood within the historical context in ments of Fraser’s work have appeared and poetry. Denise Chávez, says con- which it was created. This history is over the years” (Poets, p.125). Lisa Ab- tributor Beverly G. Six, “blends form itself a product of recent scholarship ney is struck by how few articles or to create new genres” and “bend[s] ... that looks at actual practice as well as books there are on prolific novelist emotional and literal space” in Face of patriarchal pronouncements restricting Barbara Kingsolver. Similarly, Eliza- an Angel, where she intersperses ex- women. Similarly, rather than confine beth Blakesley Lindsey remarks that cerpts from Soveida’s Book of Service “literature” to the category of pub- although Shelby Hearon has written between chapters and uses a double- lished, commercial works of fiction, over a long period of time and won columned text to illustrate “in form poetry, and drama — more appropri- several awards, “very few literary schol- the simultaneous yet uncommunicative ate to later centuries — they count let- ars have approached her work” (Fic- husband-wife monologues in a misera- ters; diaries; political petitions; reli- tion, p.121). Amy Moorman Robbins ble marriage” (Fiction Writers, p.53). gious treatises, prophecies, and transla- laments more specifically the lack of Deborah M. Mix calls Audre Lorde’s tions; and advice books. feminist criticism of Amy Gerstler, Zami a “generic hybridity,” combining Two other themes transcend indi- suggesting numerous topics to explore: autobiography, history, fiction, and vidual essays. One is the deep impor- “Gerstler’s portrayals of women (espe- myth (Poets, p.221). Gish Jen, an tance of religion, both for its spiritual cially those offered through the eyes of American-born daughter of well-off value and because it offered opportuni- often seemingly-obsessive male speak- immigrants from Shanghai, plays with ties to participate in public debates ers); her treatment of homophobia the stereotypic rags-to-riches immi- centering around religion. As Pacheco (‘Molly’ in The True Bride); her images grant saga in Typical American and says in her introduction, “By serving of children and childhood sexuality with pigeonholed ethnicity in Mona in God many Englishwomen adopted a (‘Elementary School,’ ‘Impressions of the Promised Land, where the Chinese- political role as well.” The other theme the Midwest,’ and ‘Alice and Lewis’ American protagonist decides to be- is the close connection between read- from The True Bride); and the perva- come Jewish. ing and writing for literate women of sive themes of illness and disease, Contemporary American Women the period. Elite women formed read- among others” (Poets, p.140). On the Poets and Contemporary American ing and writing circles. Some of these other hand, Renée R. Curry’s two Women Fiction Writers are helpful groups, as well as various family con- quick paragraphs on Marilyn Hacker, guides to women authors, their works, stellations, wrote out excerpts from announcing that her works “have been and literary criticism over the last half- their reading, intermingling com- well received throughout her life” and century. I predict that college and ments, newly composed verses, etc., that “numerous essays have detailed public libraries will find them well- into “commonplace books.” her work and her importance to femi- thumbed in a short amount of time. Historical context is addressed nism, formalism, and gay and lesbian most directly in the five essays in Part I literature” (Poets, p.161), seem too (“Contexts”), where education, reli- short for this distinguished, award- Anita Pacheco, ed., A COMPANION gion, property/law, work, and the winning poet. TO EARLY MODERN WOMEN’S meaning of writing are each pondered Several of the essays describe writ- WRITING. Oxford, England, & separately, and in the book’s final piece, ers who evidence interesting boundary Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002. 391p. “Feminist Historiography,” in which crossings. June Jordan wrote love and index. $99.95, ISBN 0-631-21702-9. Margo Hendricks surveys how feminist nature poetry, but also very political historians have altered what constitutes poems. Jamaica Kincaid combines “or- Pacheco (lecturer, Department of normative historiography, but finds the dinary, commonplace events and fanta- Humanities, University of Hertford- scholarship to date on early modern sy” (Sharon Hileman, Fiction, p.168). shire, and Aphra Behn scholar) has as- women’s writings lacking in attention While many authors write in several sembled twenty-four essays contribut- to nonwhite, non-European, non-aris- ed by academics from both sides of the tocratic women. She provides some Atlantic along with three from Austra- tantalizing examples of what awaits lia and New Zealand. The authors scholars in archives and texts that are

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still unexamined from a feminist histo- in the form of prophesies. Trapnel fell tronic cultures are alike. Both, she riographic perspective. into and remained in a trance for claims, The essays in Part II (“Readings”) twelve days in January 1654, during look carefully at ten individual writers which she prophesied in prose and po- disrupt comfortable readerly of different genres. Mary Sidney, etry about Cromwell’s betrayal of the encounters with a stable work Countess of Pembroke, began by pub- Fifth Monarchist cause. Her subse- fixed in regular lines and in- lishing the works of her brother, Sir quent journey to Cornwall to continue dentations, on uniform sheets, Philip, after his death. She also contin- her prophesying is the basis of the nar- between covers...Both realize ued and became the principal author rative of her work Report and Plea, the literal meaning of texts as of a project he had started of rendering which is analyzed in an essay by Hilary “something woven”: they al- Psalms in new metric forms. Accord- Hinds. Each of the remaining five es- low for the rearranging and ing to Debra K. Rienstra’s essay on the says similarly focuses on a single work merging of the threads of lan- Countess, this brother-sister collabora- by a woman writer. guage of which they are com- tion defies categorization, representing Part III (“Genres”) takes up, suc- posed. Both permit continual “a translation, a paraphrase, a scholarly cessively, autobiography, defenses of changes and copies. Both tol- meditation, an artist’s sketchbook of women, prophecy, poetry, fiction, and erate variations in the appear- poetic forms, a theological-aesthetic drama, all worthy treatments. It was ance of the text which may proposal and an intensely personal de- one of the two essays in Part IV (“Is- vary by handwriting, format- votional exercise” (p.113). Mary Sid- sues and Debates”), however, that this ting or software ... Correspon- ney’s niece, Mary (Sidney) Wroth, reviewer found particularly stimulat- dence through e-mail (and Countess of Montgomery, is credited ing: “The Work of Women in an Age on-line “chats”) has become with many women’s “firsts” — first of Electronic Reproduction: The Can- an integral part of postmod- sonnet sequence in English (Pamphilia on, Early Modern Women Writers and ern life, has made many peo- to Amphilanthus, 1621), first published the Postmodern Reader,” by Melinda ple into “writing subjects” in work of fiction by an Englishwoman Alliker Rabb, Associate Professor of ways that resemble exchanges (The Countess of Mountgomeries Ura- English at Brown University and mem- of letters centuries ago, when nia, also 1621), and one of the first ber of the Advisory Board of the irregularities of spelling were plays by an Englishwoman (Love’s Vic- Brown Women Writers Project (the tolerated, copies could be tory, not printed until 1988!). Con- other essay is “Feminist Historiogra- made or shared with others tributor Naomi J. Miller finds Wroth phy”). After discoursing on the origins than the intended recipient, remarkable for her versatility and un- of “the canon,” the critical apparatus replies could be sent on the stereotyped positioning of women as that accompanies it, feminist critique original document, and trivia subjects with various types of identi- of the canon, uses of counter-canons, intermixed with urgent ties. Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of and the strictures of print capitalism, matters...[S]ight or visual Newcastle, also had an extensive body Rabb develops a theory that electronic transcription (paper/screen) of fictional and nonfictional work, reproduction of texts by early modern supersedes sound or voice which she assertively published, pro- women writers will “allow...a closer (talk/telephone/recording) ... moted, revised, and donated to impor- approximation of reading pre-print Both traverse the boundary tant libraries and individuals. Mary culture material than has hitherto been between public and private, Astell championed women’s rights, but possible” by overcoming “the problems between communal and indi- as a Tory she critiqued the marriage of inaccessibility and scarcity which vidual authorship, between contract in order to attack liberal so- had rendered women’s writing invisible collaboration and competi- cial-contract theory, which likened the for so long” and offering a “new per- tion, between for profit and relationship of the king with his sub- ceptual opportunity...by detaching it not-for-profit, between pat- jects to that of the husband with his from the fixed systems of valuation and terns of circulation inside and wife and household. Calvinist and comprehension belonging to conven- outside of the marketplace. Fifth Monarchist Anna Trapnel is an tions of the book and the book trade” (pp.353–54) outstanding example of the hundreds (p.353). She offers numerous interest- of women who articulated their ideas ing ways in which pre-print and elec-

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Furthermore, says Rabb, unlike printed sis is on resources for health and well- Work & Play. Creativity subtopics run works, electronic texts “resist embodi- being. from feng shui to theater, while inter- ment ...Traditional ideals about the The genesis of the book was Mun- national women’s organizations and book encourage one kind of gendering: nis’s own life-enhancing journey. After anti-violence projects are listed in the belief in the desirability of a pure and she researched, for her own purposes, Culture & Society section. Health & uncorrupted text, a flawless edition counseling resources, spirituality offer- Healing is the biggest section, includ- that circulates,...[which] feminizes the ings, and socially conscious businesses, ing chakra, craniosacral, myofascial object of circulation and eroticizes the she found others consulting her when release, and Feldenkrais bodywork experience of reading as one of posses- they had similar needs. There was no therapies; Sexuality topics include sion, control and pleasure” (p.354). one place for her or her acquaintances polyamory and tantra/sacred sexuality. She describes the potential of encoded to turn for recommendations, so she The Spirituality section lists resources text to deploy new methods of analysis, decided to write the book she wished for major religions and New Age ad- as well as that of databases of electronic had been available. As explained in her herents of dousing, earth religions, and editions to offer a new form of anthol- introduction (pp.xix–xx), her initial psychic phenomena; and Work & Play ogy free of predefined selection and criteria for inclusion of individuals, leads to information on financial ser- order. Realization of the potential she groups, or companies were that they vices, businesses, career training, travel, sees in virtual texts will depend in part “serve a national market, be easy to sports, and recreation. The poetry, on whether her colleagues in English contact, and have a good sense of cus- quotations, artwork, and articles are are as excited as she is about the possi- tomer service,” with an emphasis on interspersed with the listings. There is bilities and will incorporate these texts those that served women only, but in- no section highlighting interests or and methodologies into their scholar- clusive of other resources “that would needs of lesbians. ship and teaching. Reading her essay be beneficial for women to know One type of reader who will be would be a great start. about.” She excluded organizations helped by this guide is someone who A Companion to Early Modern that “failed to answer the phone, needs assistance but is not really aware Women’s Writing is an excellent refer- sounded unprofessional, or expressed a of the available categories of therapies ence anthology, exemplifying feminist desire not to be listed.” What is heart- or approaches to problem-solving. An- scholarly synthesis at its best. ening in this is that it demonstrates other is the person who is interested in that Munnis went beyond finding de- beginning an inner exploration, for scriptions of likely candidates for inclu- whom articles such as “Hearing the SELF-HELP sion and actually went to the trouble of Intuitive Body Speak,” by Marcia Em- contacting them. Would that all direc- ery, and “Balanced Personal Vision,” by Stelli Munnis, ed., KALI GUIDE: A tories did that. It automatically ex- Sonia Choquette, will have appeal, as DIRECTORY OF RESOURCES FOR cludes defunct entities, as well as those will the “Must Read” book suggestions. WOMEN. Palo Alto, CA: Zenprint, that users might find unresponsive. A third is the browser who will simply 2002. 200p. ill. index. $29.95, ISBN That can certainly be a time saver. As enjoy the lovely artwork throughout 0-9714085-0-5. the press release for the Guide says, the volume. The Kali Guide won’t end “Why waste hours on the Internet, at up in most libraries, but those with The fear-inspiring — yet fear-allaying the library, or on the telephone?” — clientele interested in alternative ap- — four-armed Hindu goddess Kali is although, with respect to the library, proaches to life may want to acquire it. an apt inspiration for this self-help this librarian/reviewer hopes Munnis compilation, gracefully linked to mod- was referring only to a library search [Phyllis Holman Weisbard is the Women’s ern concerns by the cover depiction of unmediated by librarian assistance... Studies Librarian for the University of a contemporary woman with extra ap- The Kali Guide is organized by Wisconsin System. She is also co-editor of pendages. The Kali Guide is an eclec- broad topic and further divided by Feminist Collections.] tic mixture of organizational and prod- subtopics. The broad topics are Cre- uct listings combined with quotations, ativity, Culture & Society, Health & poems, artwork, book descriptions, Healing, Sexuality, Spirituality, and and reprinted articles. Topical empha-

Page 30 Feminist Collections (v.24, no.2, Winter 2003) ZINE AND HEARD (AGAIN) by M. L. Fraser

As promised, this installment of “Zine and Heard”1 is The East Village Inky: sweet no.16 (July 2002) all about the “cut and paste” zines that come out from all This fun little booklet is written by a New York–based over the country and indeed all over the world. Some real woman (Ayun Halliday) who is a mother of two. Her part- gems are here as well as some that have room for improve- ner is a playwright she dubbed “hot hot Tony two times” ment. Despite my somewhat dubious literary criticism, the because he won two Tony awards last year. This issue gives a most important thing to remember about these zines is that hilarious account of their voyage into the world of New voices are being raised in the finest of grassroots tradition. York Theatre when at the Tonys (they were in spitting dis- The idea behind the bedroom zines is that women get their tance of several “stars” and would-be stars, all of whom Hal- say, whatever that say is. This is huge, and it’s the whole liday makes glorious fun of). Accompanying the stories of point behind fringe feminism and Third Wave sensibility. Inky’s world are these great cartoons depicting various These are only a few and we are still seeking others. Send scenes. One story was a cartoon fest surrounding what hap- ‘em in. Here’s the address: pened when Ayun left and her partner was left alone to deal with two small Women’s Studies Librarian children. I laughed out loud at the sketch Attn: Zine Review of Ayun sprawled out snoring while Greg 430 Memorial Library was in a crazed frenzy dealing with tod- 728 State Street dler snot. Great stuff. This is a must get. Madison, WI 53706 $2 an issue, $8 a year. Cash or checks to Ayun Halliday, c/o The East Village Demonstration: no.6 (May/June 2002) Inky, P.O. Box 22754, Brooklyn, NY This little book is all about being 11202. Website: http:// Lesbian in New Orleans. Unfortunately www.ayunhalliday.com/inky if you are not in the club you miss a lot. There is an amusing but heterosnide account of trolling for Found Magazine: no.2 lesbians in downtown bars, and a small article on the Wom- What a great concept. This is all about what we find en’s Football League, which is in its inception. Good job for that people leave behind and the stories that go along with talking about this, ladies. What a bummer the article is it. On the website there is a list of dates when the publishers called “Sporty Dykes,” implying that all participants in this either found the piece or got sent the piece by readers (one sport are gay. (Imagine their surprise). Haven’t we had of the beauties of this zine). Of course I immediately went enough of this implication? Also there seems to be kind of a to my birthday (02 March), where there was a pic of an old weird obsession with Farrah Fawcett (and her Hair). I think man and a mule, along with a hilarious account of a philo- it is yet another inside joke. Best things: op-ed about Rosie sophical Serb who remarked that the person who found it O’Donnell coming out as a lesbian mother, an exposé of was both the man and the mule. For 12 January there is a Burger King’s veggie burger being grilled on the same grill as post-it with the words “self-inflicted” along with an account animal flesh, and a profile on the Lesbian and Gay Commu- of how it was found in the desk of a coworker who had just nity Center of New Orleans. If you are female and living in been fired. This is cultural anthropology at its finest. It re- the Big Easy (or if you’re attending the NWSA conference minds me of all those “ironic” asides of folks who make there in June), get to know these girls. They seem like a lot comments about how 100 years from now, people will go of fun. $3 an issue. Jes Burns, 5500 Prytania St, #602, through our garbage and won’t exactly know what to make New Orleans, LA 70115. of what they find. A really cool idea and we should support this one. Send $21.21 for 3 issues and a surprise Found

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gift, or for a single copy of issue no.1 or no.2, send $5 plus Pirate Jenny: no.4 (Men in Feminism) $2 postage (=$7) check or well-concealed cash to: Found What a gem of a zine!!! I love this girl. No, I want to BE Magazine, 3455 Charing Cross Road, Ann Arbor, MI this girl with her feminist rants and her commentary on the 48108-1911. Website: http://www.foundmagazine.com eerie white male universe in which we find ourselves. She is smart and funny and reads like a seminar in feminist stud- Mother Rebel: no.3 ies, one of the ones where you got to crack jokes and people There does not seem to be an overall theme to this. It is actually got them. This issue is devoted to the oft-unad- just a personal zine talking about whatever, and no one dressed issue of men who are feminists, and how we need thread runs through the thing. The main author has four them in our fight without praising them for doing what kids and I think she might have started the zine as a “grown- they should be doing. It is a hard line and one that is based up” outlet. It loses focus in reasonableness. There are and is a bit on the wobbly contributions by Jennifer side. The best part of it is Baumgardner (LOVE her!) the touching tribute by the and excerpts from Robin “up-tight white guy” who Morgan. Xeroxed flyers identifies himself as the about sexual harassment publisher’s dad. Not much from the new feminist em- else here. Bummer. $2 an pire are readily available issue. Kim Pratt, 1355 within this zine, as well as a Brighton Road, Sebago ME hilarious first installment of a 04029; email: day in the life of Helena [email protected] Rubenstein, written by the Riot Pirate herself. Some No Muy Lejos de Aqui (Re- pieces are written by men flections of Juarez) who define themselves easily The title means “not and without compunction as far from here,” and this is feminist and rant their little an exposé of how women hearts out of the paternalistic are treated in Juarez, Mexi- closet. (I *thought* I heard a co. This is written by the noise). As I have five broth- same woman who writes ers who all will tell you that Yellow Three, and it’s an ac- they came out of a vagina, count of her trip to Juarez were raised by a feminist with a band of artists called mother, and are tired of be- Viejaskandalossaa (which, if ing thanked for holding my Spanish holds up, trans- views of women that they lates to Old Scandalous Women). It is quite powerful and should hold, I love this zine. This is a true grrrl zine in the much more feminist in nature than Yellow Three, which is tradition of feminist awareness. I wish there were Grammys more of a travel journal commenting on cultural issues. for zines (Femmies?) because Jenny would get my vote. There is a heart-wrenching photo of evidence called “Cuer- GET THIS ZINE. Five issues thus far. $3 an issue plus po #6” (Body #6), which hurts enough by itself, until you three stamps. Pirate Jenny, P.O. Box 1544, Santa Barbara, read the caption that there are 300 of these and they are all CA 93102. women. A good reminder of what is out there. No price info. Jackie Joice, 1218 E. Broadway #100, Long Beach, CA 90802. Website: www.xanga.com/jackiejoice

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Sugar Needle: nos. 19 & 20 she goes to Ghana and connects with the “sea of ebony fac- A zine devoted exclusively to candy. While this is an es” who greet her so sincerely that it makes her cry. Most interesting premise, it is best used as a regular feature inclu- zines that are handwritten are difficult to read due to simple sion in other larger zines. Reading about candy page after illegibility. Not so this one. I wish her photos could be page would have been cool when I was 12. It bores me as an lightened up with the technology out there as I found them adult, although the first couple of commentaries were cool. fascinating. One photo in particular is of slave quarters It got old. Fast. How did they EVER make it through 20 where pregnant women who had been raped by the Gener- issues? Too bad because these girls are truly talented zine- als of War were imprisoned. There is also a provocative first makers who might have gone a bit awry with this one. half of an article remarking on Jewish and African parallels Good only if you are heavily into saccharine drips. The best of exodus as told by a Ph.D. student friend, although it ends part: the cover is fabulous art from Robert Kirby (who does abruptly. Astoundingly fun and worth trading or picking a gay comic strip which has run for years; look for Curbside up if you are into zines as personal statement. The author Boys on Amazon). $2 an issue or $8 a year to either address: explains on her website (http://www.xanga.com/ (points north) c/o Corina Fastwolf, P.O. Box 300152, Min- skin.asp?user=jackiejoice) that “Yellow Three is the stage neapolis, MN 55403; (points south) c/o Phlox, 1174 Briarc- right before a volcano erupts.” Go Jackie Go. Jackie Joice, liff, Suite 2, Atlanta, GA 30306. 1218 E. Broadway #100, Long Beach, CA 90802. No sub- scription info. This Is My Blood—This is Your Blood: first issue A women’s group called the Scarlet Tide Brigade from Note Simon Fraser University extols the joys of female bodily flu- ids. Some of it verges on the icky, but most of it is an explo- 1. The first installment of “Zine and Heard” appeared in ration of female lifeblood. It was written as a means to ed- Feminist Collections v.23, no.4 (Summer 2002), pp.6–10. ucate women about the natural forces and flows that women Read it online at http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/Wo- all experience. The intent is to demystify the pattern of de- mensStudies/fc/fczinesfraser1.htm nial surrounding menstruation. It is clever and well done although it does verge on the maudlin a couple of times. It [M.L. (“Mhaire”) Fraser recently got her Ph.D. and is looking is unclear if this will be ongoing, although I certainly hope for work in the academic realm. Her research examines social it is. It can be difficult to create ongoing zines with transito- identity and gender issues, with Third Wave feminism and pop ry populations like college groups. I hope these grrrls find a culture a special interest. She is a long-time riot grrrl and pub- way. Worth getting even if it is only one issue. The Scarlet lisher of the zine Debutante Gone Wrong (which, unselfishly, Tide Brigade, SFPIRG, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, she has not reviewed here). She likes dirty martinis, swing BC V5A 1S6, Canada. No subscription info. dancing, big fat cats, and reading about Eleanor Roosevelt. Send her more zines.] Yellow Three: no.4 (January 2003) This girl is an authentic zinestress. She really gets it. She gets why zines are true and real and feminist grassroots interpretations of who we are. In this issue of Yellow Three

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FIREBRAND BOOKS is back! Nancy Bereano found- The EMMA GOLDMAN PAPERS PROJECT, which has ed this feminist/lesbian publishing house in 1984 and ran it collected, organized, and edited tens of thousands of for sixteen years, introducing 100-some titles by the likes of documents about the famous anarchist — described as “a Jewelle Gomez, Dorothy Allison, Alison Bechdel, Barrie major figure in the history of American radicalism and Jean Borich, Audre Lorde, and Lesléa Newman. Eventually feminism” — has been in the works for twenty-three years the press was sold to the LPC group, which subsequently at the University of California, Berkeley. Biographer experienced financial woes. Now Firebrand has been pur- Candace Falk directs the project, which has produced chased by Karen Oosterhous of Ann Arbor, Michigan. The publications, course curricula, and exhibits (online and “revitalized” press’s first new title will be a novel, And Then traveling), in addition to housing primary documents. An They Were Nuns, by Susan J. Leonardi. (Breathless followers extensive website at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/ of Alison Bechdel, however, should know that the next in- offers selections from many of these resources. Visitors to stallment in the Dykes to Watch Out For series will be pub- the site can also learn more about the uproar that erupted lished not by Firebrand but by Alyson Publications, accord- over free speech and censorship when Falk attempted to ing to Bechdel’s website.) send out a fundraising letter containing Goldman quotes Firebrand, says Oosterhouse, “is actively seeking manu- that UC Berkeley officials felt were too political. scripts, both fiction and non-fiction, that are in keeping with the press’s mission of producing quality work in a wide  Compiled by JoAnne Lehman variety of genres by ethnically and racially diverse authors.” Don’t send manuscripts — or even inquiries — by email, though; instead use the postal service and this address: Fire- brand Books, Karen Oosterhous, Publisher, 2232 S. Main St., #272, Ann Arbor, MI 48103-6938. To see a complete list of titles published by Firebrand, visit the press’s website: http://www.firebrandbooks.com/index.html

Lisa C. Moore’s REDBONE PRESS exists to give voice to Black lesbian writers. Moore published Does Your Mama Know? An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories in 1997, and then Sharon Bridgforth’s Bull-Jean Stories in 1998. Next up: Spirited: Affirming the Soul and Black Gay/ Lesbian Identity, a collection of essays on religion & spiritu- ality by Black lesbians and gay men, edited by Moore with G. Winston James. In the meantime, Moore and her enter- prise have survived an apartment fire that destroyed her computer and files (not her book inventory, though) and a Black LGBT writers’ festival that left her in debt. But she presses on, regrouping and rebuilding, and hopes to develop her own website soon. BookPeople distributes RedBone’s books (http://www.bookpeople.org), and FemmeNoir posts more of this new publisher’s story (http:// www.femmenoir.net/RedBonePress.htm). Contact Moore herself at this email address: [email protected]

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NEW AND NEWLY DISCOVERED PERIODICALS are three, all dated “Winter 2003,” numbered 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3).

JOURNAL OF GAY & LESBIAN ISSUES IN EDUCA- A “journal of feminist theories and women’s move- TION (JGLED) 2003– . Publ.: Harrington Park Press. ments,” S&F Online “provides public access to the Barnard Ed.: James T. Sears (Univ. of South Carolina). 4/yr. ISSN: Center for Research on Women’s most innovative program- 1541-0889 (print); 1541-0870 (electronic). Subscription: ming by providing written transcripts, audio and visual re- in U.S., $45.00 (individuals); $90.00 (institutions); cordings, and links to relevant intellectual and social action $250.00 (libraries & subscription agencies); in Canada, add networks. The journal builds on these programs by publish- 35% plus GST & provincial tax; elsewhere, add 45%. Back ing related scholarship and other applicable resources. A fo- volumes: add 40% to subscription rate. The Haworth Press, rum for scholars, activists, and artists whose work articulates 10 Alice St., Binghamton, NY 13904. (Issue examined: pre- the ever-evolving role of feminism in struggles for social jus- publication galley of v.1, no.1, 2003) tice, S&F Online brings you the latest in cutting-edge theo- ry and practice.” The newest journal from Harrington Park/Haworth Issue 1.1, themed “Writing Towards Hope: Literature, Press, JGLED wants to bring together disparate “voices and Art, & the Struggle for Human Rights” and based on a Fall discourses.” In the premier issue, editor James Sears writes, 2000 symposium at Barnard College, contains poetry, es- “For too long practitioners, policy makers, and scholars have says, and a guest editorial by Chilean poet/activist Marjorie inhabited different worlds, spoke[n] in unrelated tongues, Agosín. Issue 1.2, “Margaret Mead’s Legacy: Continuing and read dissimilar journals. JGLED seeks to bridge these Conversations,” came out of the April 2001 Virginia C. divides while committing itself to multicultural and interna- Gildersleeve conference and includes a welcome from Bar- tional coverage.” The internationalism is evident in this nard College President Judith Shapiro. Issue 1.3, based on a very issue in the inclusion of four chapters, translated for the forum held at Barnard in January 2001, is titled “Changing first time, from a book on sexuality issues in Japanese Focus: Family Photography and American Jewish Identity.” schools. Also in volume 1, number 1: “The Angel’s Playground: Same-Sex Desires of Physical Education Teachers” (Heather SPECIAL ISSUES OF PERIODICALS Sykes); “Serving the Needs of Transgendered College Stu- dents” (Brett Beemyn); “It’s Elementary in Appalachia: AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY v.6, nos.1 & 2: “Gen- Helping Prospective Teachers and Their Students Under- der and Soil Fertility in Africa.” Guest eds.: Christina H. stand Sexuality and Gender” (Patti Capel Swartz); and fea- Gladwin, Lin Cassidy, & Parakh N. Hoon. ISSN: 1093- ture sections titled “Exemplary Programs, Projects, Policies, 2658. Published by the Center for African Studies, Univer- and Classroom Practices” and “Net Nanny Untangles the sity of Florida; online only: http://www.africa.ufl.edu/asq/ Web” (“devised as an antidote to those who seek to sanitise (home page for journal); http://www.africa.ufl.edu/asq/v6/ the web and censor discussion of all things queer in educa- v6i1.htm (this issue). tional settings”). Partial contents: “Gender and Soil Fertility in Uganda: SCHOLAR & FEMINIST (S&F) ONLINE 2003– . A Comparison of Soil Fertility Indicators on Women’s and Eds.: Janet Jakobsen & Deborah Siegel. Publ.: Barnard Men’s Agricultural Plots” (Peter Nkedi-Kizza, Jacob Aniku, Center for Research on Women, 101 Barnard Hall, Barnard Kafui Awuma, & Christina H. Gladwin); “Diminishing College, Columbia University, 3009 Broadway, New York, Choices: Gender and Household Food Security Decisions in NY 10027; phone: (212) 854-2067; fax: (212) 854-8294; Malawi” (Robert Uttaro); “Gender, Household Composi- email: [email protected]; website: http:// tion, and Adoption of Soil Fertility Technologies: A Study of www.barnard.edu/sfonline Free; online only. Frequency: Women Rice Farmers in Southern Senegal” (Amy J. Sulli- unclear (masthead indicates biannual, but also states, “New van); “Agroforestry Innovations in Africa: Can They Im- issues…are published three times a year”; currently posted

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prove Soil Fertility on Women Farmers’ Fields?” (Christina Skrla); “Considering (Irreconcilable?) Contradictions in H. Gladwin, Jennifer S. Peterson, & Robert Uttaro); “Is Cross-Group Feminist Research” (Michelle D. Young); “The Fertilizer a Public or Private Good in Africa? An Opinion Substance of Things Hoped For, the Evidence of Things Piece” (Christina Gladwin, Alan Randall, Andrew Schmidt, Not Seen: Examining an Endarkened Feminist Epistemolo- & G. Edward Schuh). gy in Educational Research and Leadership” (Cynthia B. Dillard); “A Loving Epistemology: What I Hold Critical in ASIAN WOMEN v.15, Winter 2002: “African Women.” My Life, Faith and Profession” (Julie C. Laible); Responses Issue ed.: Rebecca Mbuh. ISSN: 1225-925X. Single issue: to Julie Laible’s “Loving Epistemology” (Colleen A. Capper, $15.00 (individuals); $30.00 (institutions). Research Insti- Catherine Marshall, Marilyn Fehn). tute of Asian Women, Sookmyung Women’s University, Chungpa-dong 2-ka, Youngsan-ku, Seoul, 140-742, Korea; MICHIGAN HISTORY v.86, no.6, Nov./Dec. 2002: email: [email protected] “Women from Madame Cadillac to our First Woman Gov- ernor.” Ed.: Roger L. Rosentreter. ISSN: 0026-2196. To Partial contents: “African Women Since 1960: Gains subscribe or purchase single issues, contact the Michigan and Challenges” (Gloria Chuku); “Trading Goes Global: Historical Center, Dept. of History, Arts and Libraries, Box Ghanaian Market Women in an Era of Globalization” (Ako- 30741, Lansing, MI 48909-8241; phone: (800) 366-3703; sua Darkwah); “The Road Less Traveled: Deconstructing website: http://www.michiganhistorymagazine.com the World of Women’s Enmity in Africa” (Margaret Kabam- ba); “Culture: The Obstacle to Active Female Participation Partial contents: “Irrepressible Millie” (about activist in Governance Among the Igbo of Nigeria” (Egodi Uchen- Mildred Jeffrey, by Mike Smith); “A Northern Star” (about du); “Swazi Women’s Professionalism: The Power That Lies Finnish immigrant and women’s rights leader Maggie Walz, in Money and Books, 1920–1950” (Shokahle Dlamini); by Laverne Chappell); “Silence on the Ocean” (about Titan- “Nawi Qwang, ‘The Black Madonna and the Changing ic survivor Winifred Quick Van Tongerloo, by Floyd An- Curve of African Feminism,’” (Mbuh M. Mbuh); “African drick); “Stealing the Show” (about former legislator Martha Women in Cabinet Positions—Too Few, Too Weak: A Re- Griffiths, by Sheryl James); “‘The Division Has Become a search Report” (Catherine Russell & Mark DeLancey). Necessity’” (about the formation of a women’s police divi- This issue’s editor, a professor of business administra- sion in Detroit in 1920, by Doris Scharfenberg). tion at Sookmyung Women’s University who is originally from Cameroon, announces that a second special issue on QUALITATIVE SOCIOLOGY v.23, no.4, Winter 2000: African women will be published to accommodate the huge “Work and Families.” Guest eds.: Naomi Gerstel & Dan response to the call for articles. Clawson. ISSN: 0162-0436. No information about pur- chasing single issues. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Journals INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUALITATIVE Department, 101 Philip Dr., Assinippi Park, Norwell, MA STUDIES IN EDUCATION (QSE) v.13, no.6, Nov.–Dec. 02061; email: [email protected]; also available to licensed 2000: “Re-Examining Feminist Research in Educational users through Kluwer Online. Leadership.” Special issue eds.: Michelle D. Young & Julie C. Laible. ISSN: 0951-8398 (print); 1366-5898 (online). Partial contents: “Being the ‘Go-To Guy’: Fatherhood, Taylor & Francis Journals, http://www.tandf.co.uk/jour- Masculinity, and the Organization of Work in Silicon Val- nals/; also available to licensed users through Academic ley” (Marianne Cooper); “My Wife Can Tell Me Who I Search Elite. To purchase single issues, contact Taylor & Know: Methodological and Conceptual Problems in Study- Francis Group Journals, 325 Chestnut St., Suite 800, Phila- ing Fathers” (Annette Lareau); “Work-Family Issues of delphia, PA 19106; phone: (800) 354-1420; fax: (215) 625- Mothers of Teenage Children” (Demie Kurz); “Challenges 8914; email: [email protected]; website: http:// for Studying Care After AFDC” (Stacey Oliker); “The Third www.tandf.co.uk/journals/subscription.html#singleiss Shift: Gender and Care Work Outside the Home” (Naomi Gerstel); “Producing Family Time: Practices of Leisure Ac- Partial contents: “Feminist Cases of Nonfeminist Sub- tivity Beyond the Home” (Marjorie L. DeVault); “The Con- jects: Case Studies of Women Principals” (Lisa Smulyan); tradictory Effects of Work and Family on Political Activism” “Mourning Silence: Women Superintendents (and a Re- (Rebecca E. Klatch). searcher) Rethink Speaking Up and Speaking Out” (Linda  Compiled by JoAnne Lehman

Page 36 Feminist Collections (v.24, no.2, Winter 2003) Call for Papers: Feminist Teacher

Feminist Teacher seeks well-written and accessible essays, articles, course descriptions, and annotated bibliographies from a variety of feminist viewpoints. The journal is commit- ted to publishing articles that challenge traditional teaching practices, disciplinary canons, research methodologies, and approaches to daily classroom interactions.

No special topics are planned at this moment, but the FT editorial collective would love to see articles on post-9/11 feminist pedagogy, peace, ecofeminism, the influx of women into business education (majors and minors), the current Vagina Monologues and V-Day phenomena on campuses, teacher education and teaching teachers, working with hostile students, transgender issues, the presence of male and female students in women’s studies classes who are there for diversity or general education or other credit rather than a self-selecting interest in women’s studies, women/girls and math, women/girls and science, nontraditional students, and disciplines that are not traditional for women.

Please send manuscripts (three copies) to Feminist Teacher, c/o Gail Cohee, Sarah Doyle Women’s Center, Box 1829, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912. For guidelines for authors, email [email protected] or visit the journal’s website: http:// www.uwec.edu/wmns/FeministTeacher/ Please do not submit manuscripts electroni- cally.

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Thomson-Gale presents SERIES SIX: ATLANTA LESBI- A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF WOMEN TRAFFICKED AN FEMINIST ALLIANCE ARCHIVES, ca. 1972-1994 IN THE MIGRATION PROCESS: PATTERNS, PRO- in the Gay Rights Movement microfilm collection. The se- FILES, AND HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF SEXUAL ries contains approximately 189 reels in four parts: PART 1: EXPLOITATION IN FIVE COUNTRIES is a recent study ADMINISTRATIVE FILES; PART 2: SUBJECT FILES; by Janice G. Raymond, Jean D’Cunha, Siti Ruhaini Dzuhayat- PART 3: ARCHIVES; and PART 4: PERIODICALS COL- in, H. Patricia Hynes, Zoraida Ramirez Rodriguez, and Aida LECTION. This series includes organizational records of Santos that describes the patterns and consequences of sexual ALFA — a pioneering organization dedicated especially to exploitation, migration, and trafficking of women in Thailand, lesbian rights and experiences — and other southern radical Indonesia, Philippines, Venezuela, and the United States. It is women’s groups, as well as the ALFA Archives and Periodi- available free online at http://www.catwinternational.org cals Collection, a “rich source of information about feminist For more information, contact Dr. Janice Raymond, Executive and lesbian activism and communities, especially in the Director, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, University Southeast, from the early 1970s to the mid-1990s.” To or- of Massachusetts, P.O. Box 9338, N. Amherst, MA 01059; der, or for more information about the five previous series in fax: 413-367-9262; email: [email protected] the Gay Rights Movement collection, contact Gale, 12 Lu- nar Drive, Woodbridge, CT 06525-2398; phone: 800-444- A new report on how the lives of Asian women are improv- 0799; email: [email protected]; website: http:// ing, due to economic and social changes and better access to www.gale.com/psm health and family planning technology, ASSESSING WOMEN’S WELL-BEING IN ASIA, by Sidney Westley, GENDER IN TRANSITION is a World Bank report that ex- Asia-Pacific Population Policy, is available from the East amines how reforms have had different effects on men and West Center, Research Program, Population and Health women in the transition countries of Europe and Central Asia, Studies, 1601 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96848-1601; and “aims to help put gender on the map of policy making in phone: 808-944-7111; fax: 808-944-7376; email: the region by raising awareness of the gender implications of [email protected]; website: http:// the social and economic changes experienced by these coun- www.eastwestcenter.org tries during the 1990s.” This report is available free online at http://lnweb18.worldbank.org/ECA/eca.nsf/General/ WOMEN’S RIGHTS, CYBER RIGHTS, a UNESCO Inter- F55E7337BA69423985256BFA0053F091?OpenDocument national Symposium Report from 2002, describes the gender For more information, contact World Bank Publications, P.O. inequalities found in cyberspace, once anticipated to be a place Box 960, Herndon, VA 20172-0960; phone: 703-661-1580; free from gender-bias for men and women. The report is avail- fax: 703-661-1501; email: [email protected]; website: able from the Research Institute of Asian Women, Sookmyung http://worldbank.org/publications Women’s University, Chunpa-dong 2-ka, Youngsan-ku, Seoul, 140-742, Korea; phone: 822-710-9177; fax: 822-714-2269; A collection of papers entitled CHALLENGES FOR FEMI- email: [email protected]; website: http:// NISM IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD, originally presented sookmyung.ac.kr/~asianfem at the “Global, Diverse and Plural Feminism” seminar dur- ing the World Social Forum 2002 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, is In a paper by Alan Greig, Michael Kimmel, and James Lang available in print, in both English and Spanish. For more (no.10, UNDP, 2002) entitled MEN, MASCULINITIES, information, contact Agencia Latinoamericana de Informa- AND DEVELOPMENT: BROADENING OUR WORK cion (ALAI), Casilla 17-12-877, Quito, Ecuador; phone: TOWARDS GENDER EQUALITY, the diverse roles of 593-2-252-8716; fax: 593-2-250-5073; email: men and the ways in which they are affected by gender [email protected] structures are discussed. This paper emphasizes the need for men to challenge the gender hierarchy and strive for gender equity. For more information, contact UNDP, One United Nation Plaza, New York, NY 10017; phone: 212-906-5558; fax: 212-906-5364; email: gidp.undp@org; website: http:// www.undp.org/gender

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A report from the Prairie Women’s Health Centre of Excel- booklet explains facts and innovations surrounding breast lence and the Canadian Women’s Health Network, IMMI- cancer, and gives advice on how to support those who have GRANT, REFUGEE AND VISIBLE MINORITY WOM- it. Available in English and French. For more information, EN EXPERIENCE POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DIS- contact DES Action Canada; phone (toll-free): 1-800-482- ORDER describes the personal experiences of immigrant 1-DES; email: [email protected] and refugee women in Saskatchewan with service providers and the barriers to service and healing. This study empha- The International Alert and Association of African Women sizes the need for more community providers to help with For Research and Development (AAWORD) has published immigrants’ and refugees’ mental health. Full study details a report based on the workshop CONFLICT TRANSFOR- are available online at http://www.pwhce.ca/ptsd- MATION IN AFRICA: AFRICAN WOMEN’S PERSPEC- immigrant.htm TIVES, which was held in Senegal. The report focuses on “women’s agency, as opposed to their victimization,” in Two textbooks from Fortress Press, HER STORY: WOM- times of war or conflict, and includes firsthand accounts EN IN CHRISTIAN TRADITION, by Barbara J. from women. Available in English and French. For more MacHaffie, and READINGS IN HER STORY, are now information, contact Ndeye Sow, Programme Manager, supplemented with a CD-ROM. The textbooks include an Women’s Peace Program, 1 Glyn Street, London, SE11 introduction to women in Christian history as well as a col- 5HT UK; phone: +44 (0)20 7793 8383; email: lection of texts about women in Christianity. The accompa- [email protected] nying CD-ROM includes a searchable text, chapter summa- ries, “reflection questions, a hyper-linked glossary, additional A report by Lorraine Greaves, Colleen Varcoe, Nancy Poole, bibliographies and updates, research-paper suggestions, and Marina Morrow, Joy Johnson, Ann Pederson, and Lori Ir- Weblinks to additional graphics, biographies, and bibliogra- win, entitled A MOTHERHOOD ISSUE: DISCOURSE phies, [and also includes] notetaking, bookmarking, and ON MOTHERING UNDER DURESS, explains how “me- highlighting capabilities.” ISBN 0-8006-3495-0; both vols. dia portrayals and public policies demonstrate a focus on (436 pp., pap.) with CD-ROM, $37.00 (Canada $59.20). ‘the best interest of the child’ while neglecting to examine For more information, visit the press’s website at http:// the effects of such a focus upon the mother.” The report www.fortresspress.com (select “Books with CD-ROM,” focuses on three groups of women in particular: mothers then click on title). with substance abuse problems, mothers who suffer from mental illness, and mothers subjected to violence. For more In a publication entitled WOMEN AND COMMUNITY information, contact Status of Women Canada, 123 Slater SAFETY: A RESOURCE BOOK ON PLANNING FOR Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1P 1H9; email: SAFER COMMUNITIES, the Cowichan Women Against [email protected] Violence Society (Duncan, BC, Canada) highlights the “im- portance of integrating the experiences and concerns of wom- The Association for Research on Mothering has recently en and other marginalized groups into the planning, design published TEACHING MOTHERHOOD: A COLLEC- and management of the places in which we live, work and play TION OF POST-SECONDARY COURSES ON MOTH- --in small, rural and/or isolated communities.” Available in ERING/MOTHERHOOD, a 90-page collection of course English and French. For more information, contact Terri outlines from U.S. and Canadian colleges and universities. Dame and Ali Grant, Women and Community Safety Project, It is intended as a research guide for people either teaching Cowichan Valley Safer Futures; phone: 250-746-9221; fax: or doing research in the field of mothering and mother- 250-748-9364; email: [email protected] hood. To purchase the booklet, send $8.00 plus $2.00 ship- ping (Canadian or U.S. funds) to the Association for Re- DES Action Canada, a non-profit organization “whose pur- search on Mothering (ARM), 726 Atkinson College, York pose it is to identify, educate, provide support to, and advo- University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada cate for people exposed to the drug diethylstilbestrol,” has M3J 1P3; phone: 416-736-2100, ext. 60366; email: published a 35-page guide entitled BEYOND EARLY DE- [email protected]; website: http://www.yorku.ca/crm/ TECTION: A NEW LOOK AT BREAST CANCER. This teachingmotherhood.htm

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PPCSSM 5 or PPSPD 9, 10, or 12 from the UNRISD Refer- The Center for Reproductive Law and Policy and the Uni- ence Center (US$8 for readers in industrialized countries and versity of Toronto International Programme on Reproduc- US$4 for readers in developing and transitional countries and tive and Sexual Health Law present BRINGING RIGHTS for students), Palais des Nations, 1211 Geneva 10, Switzer- TO BEAR: AN ANALYSIS OF THE WORK OF UN land; phone: +41 (0)22 917 3020; fax: +41 (0)22 917 0650; TREATY MONITORING BODIES ON REPRODUC- email: [email protected] Free PDF versions are downloadable TIVE AND SEXUAL RIGHTS, a report that “charts the from UNRISD’s website: http://www.unrisd.org (select collective work of six UN committees as they break new “Publications” from top of page, then “Browse by Title” from ground in translating human rights standards into state re- the left-hand column). sponsibility on a broad spectrum of reproductive rights is- sues.” A separate guide for advocates highlights strategies The United Nations Research Institute for Social Develop- for promoting reproductive rights and can be used alone or ment (UNRISD) and the United Nations Non-Governmen- as a companion to the report. Available for purchase or free tal Liaison Service (NGLS) have jointly published a volume download online at http://www.reproductiverights.org; entitled VOLUNTARY APPROACHES TO CORPORATE phone: 917-637-3600. RESPONSIBILITY. This book is divided into three sec- tions: “Corporate Codes of Conduct: Self-Regulation in a Carmen D. Valentino, Rare Books & Manuscripts, has pub- Global Economy”; “Regulating Business via Multistakehold- lished AMERICAN SOCIAL, WOMEN’S, BUSINESS, & er Initiatives: A Preliminary Assessment”; and a survey of LITERARY HISTORY: A SELECTION OF MANU- “information sources on corporate social and environmental SCRIPT DIARIES, CORRESPONDENCES, ACCOUNT responsibility, including print and web-based resources on BOOKS, LEDGERS, & OTHER MANUSCRIPTS, some codes of conduct, certification and reporting, ethical invest- of which pertain to women and women’s history. This deal- ment, fair trade, regulation, partnerships, and critical per- er catalog contains 111 entries and is subtitled CATA- spectives and campaigns.” The 219-page publication is LOGUE 54: FROM THE 18TH TO THE 20TH CENTURY, available free of charge from the UNRISD Reference Cen- WITH SEVERAL PHOTOGRAPHIC ITEMS. For more ter, Palais des Nations, 1211Geneva 10, Switzerland, or in information, contact Rare Books & Manuscripts, 2956 HTML format on the NGLS website: http:// Richmond Street, Philadelphia, PA 19134; phone: 215-739- www.unsystem.org/ngls/documents/publications.en/ 6056. index.htm (click on “Development Dossier,” then on the volume title). For review copies, contact Sylvie Brennink- The United Nations Research Institute for Social Develop- meijer-Liu; phone: (41 22) 917 3011; email: ment (UNRISD), established in 1963 to “promote research on [email protected] the most pressing social issues of development,” published sev- eral papers in 2002 with a focus on women or gender: these GLOBAL MEDIA GOVERNANCE: A BEGINNER’S include UNRISD Civil Society and Social Movements GUIDE was copublished by the United Nations Research Programme Paper (PPCSSM) 5, THE WOMEN’S MOVE- Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) and Rowman MENT IN EGYPT, WITH SELECTED REFERENCES TO and Littlefield under its series Concepts in Critical Media TURKEY; and UNRISD Social Policy and Development Studies. The guide is divided into three parts: Part I “ex- Programme Papers (PPSPD) 9, GENDER AND EDUCA- plores the overarching issues of governance and globalization TION: A REVIEW OF ISSUES FOR SOCIAL POLICY; 10, in the context of media industry and media convergence”; AGRARIAN CHANGE, GENDER AND LAND REFORM: Part II gives a descriptive overview of “key institutions of A SOUTH AFRICAN CASE STUDY; and 12, WOMEN’S media global governance”; and Part III focuses on the gover- EMPLOYMENT AND WELFARE REGIMES: GLOBAL- nance of “current global regulatory mechanisms that impact IZATION, EXPORT ORIENTATION AND SOCIAL on the media” and gives scenarios for the future. Paper, POLICY IN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA. Order ISBN 0-7425-1566-4, $19.95; hardcover, ISBN 0-7425- 1565-6, $65.00; 202 pp., 2002. Order this guide from Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 4720 Boston Way, Lan-

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