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CONTENTS

From the Editors

Book Reviews

Carol Mitcbeff The Domestic Is Global: Household Workers Around the World

Karen E. Muench Domestic Violence Texts: A Review of Teaching Resources

Feminist Visions

Shannon L. Green Playing Against Stereotypes: Videos on Women in Popular Music

Jean Grossholtz Feminism, Women Workers, and Globalization: Films and Books

Compiled by JoAnne Lehman Computer Talk

Reviewed by Pbyffis Holman New Reference Works in Women's Studies Weisbard and others

Compiled by JoAnne Lehman Periodical Notes

Compiled by Teresa Fernan& Items of Note

BooksIAV Recently Received FROM THE EDITORS

Doyou ever wonder how topics days. We'd looked at a facet of the is- we're publishing two of our more typi- and titles are selected for Feminist Col- sue in a video review not long before cal, wide-ranging issues-volume 23, lections, or how we find writers to re- (Terry Brown, "Women and Econom- numbers 2 and 3 (Winter and Spring view them? Perhaps you've even ics on the Global Scene," in FCv.22, 2002)-each of which includes two thought you'd like to write for us your- no. 1, Fall 2OOO), but we hadn't fea- reviews on this topic as well as several self, but the path to publication has tured books, and much more could be devoted to other themes. been unclear. We thought we'd use done. Some subgroupings also pre- this column, this time, to elucidate sented themselves: sweatshop workers In"The Domestic Is Global: those mysteries-and maybe wen snag for transnational corporations; immi- Household Workers Around the some new reviewers while we're at it. grant domestic workers; sex workers all World (pp. 1-4), Carol Mitchell, who This Winter 2002 issue of FC pro- over the world. It seemed we might works for the Library of Congress in vides a good example of the process wen be able to publish a special issue New Delhi, India, wrestles with the behind the scenes: of FC on this broad theme. We did situation of many Third World wom- About a year ago, we (Phyllis and online searches to find additional titles, en-including some employed in her JoAnne, the co-editors) had one of our then tried to narrow down the lists- home-in a review of five books on semi-regular planning meetings. For for instance, by selecting the newest domestic workers in the "global econo- some time, we'd been amassing titles, titles, or those we hadn't seen reviewed my." On pages 14-16, academic and descriptions, and, in some cases, actual much (if at all) elsewhere. We also like activist Jean Grossholtz reviews films in copies of new books and videos that to include books from feminist and which we hear the opinions of women had caught our attention as we'd small presses that otherwise might not from the global South about what is browsed through each day's office mail get as much notice. wrong with capitalism, transnational (which includes many library, main- Then it was time to find reviewers. corporations, and the efforts of the stream, and women's publications and We thought about people who had World Bank. In the upcoming Spring catalogs, as well as cataloging-in-publi- written for us before, although some- 2002 issue, Catherine Orr (Beloit Col- cation cards from the Library of Con- times they are too busy to repeat the lege) will discuss films about sex work- gress). For our meetings, we pull to- experience for some years. JoAnne ers in Thailand, the Philippines, Fiji, gether tentative groupings of titles on went to the NWSA meeting in Minne- and the United States; and Alex Des- different topics, then consider (1) the apolis with an eye out for participants champs (University of Massachusetts) relevance of the titles and groupings for who might want to review on this top- will review a list of books that includes our audience (women's studies faculty, ic. Later, NWSA's International Task Women Working the NAFTA Food researchers, librarians, activists, and Force put out a call for us on its discus- Chain (Sumach Press) and The Global- students), (2)whether it seems like the sion list. And we searched online for ized Woman: Reportsfrom a Future of right time to feature a particular group- ,names of people who had spoken or InequaLity (Spinifex). ing (for instance, ifwe very recently written or were doing research in this Don't miss the other features- featured the same topic, perhaps we area. We approached potential review- Karen Muench's evaluation of fifteen shouldn't-r should!-address it ers as invitingly- as we could. (After all, texts on domestic violence that could again this soon), and (3) the likelihood we don't pay; on the other hand, we be used in the classroom (pp.5-9), and of finding willing and able reviewers for offer publication credit and a chance to Shannon Green's analysis (pp. 10-1 3) the topic on our time line. provide a service to other academics of films on women in popular music At this particular meeting, we no- and activists.) (ranging from Tin Pan Alley to hip- ticed a lot of titles-including some By early fall we had lined up four hop). And, if you're so inclined, let us interesting-looking books in hand- writers to review four different sets of know about your own interest in re- that could be loosely gathered under resources. Scheduling complexities led viewing for Feminist Collections, or sug- the broad topic of globalization and us to split the topic across two different gest topics you'd like to see covered. feminism--definitely of interest to the issues of FC. So, instead of one special women's studies community(ies) these edition exclusively on globalization, 0 J.L. and P.H.W.

Page ii Feminist Collections (v.23, no.2, Winter 2002) by Carol Mitchell

Jacqueline Andall, GENDER, MIGRA TIONAND DOMESTIC SERMCE: THE POLITICS OF BLA CK WOMEN IN ITALY: Burlington, VT and Aldershot, Hampshire, UK: Ashgate (http://www.ashgate.com/index2.cfm),2000. 332p. bibl. index. $79.95, ISBN 0-7546-1088-8.

Bridget Anderson, DOING THEDIRTY WORK? THE GLOBAL POLITICS OFDOMESTICLABOUR. London, New York: Zed Books (http://www.zedbooks.demon.co.uk/), 2000. 213p. bibl. index. $65.00 (£45.00), ISBN 1-85649- 760-7; pap., $25.00 (£14.95), ISBN 1-85649-761-5.

Grace Chang, DISPOSABLE DOMESTICS: IMMIGRANT WOMEN WORKERS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY: Cambridge, MA: South End Press (http://www.southendpress.org/), 2000. 235p. bibl. refs. index. $40.00, ISBN 0-89608- 618-6; pap., $18.00, ISBN 0-89608-617-8.

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, DOMESTICA: IMMIGRANT WORKERS CLEANINGAND CARING IN THE SHAD- OWS OFAFFLUENCE. Berkeley: University of California Press (http://www.ucpress.edu/), 2001. 284p. bibl. index. $50.00 (£35.00), ISBN 0-520-21473-0; pap., $19.95 (£13.95), ISBN 0-520-22643-7.

Rhacel Salazar Parre fias, SERVANTS OF GLOBALIZATION: WOMEN, MIGRATION, AND DOMESTIC WORK. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. 309p. bibl. index. $55.00, ISBN 0-8047-3921-8; pap., $18.95, ISBN O- 8047-3922-6.

Every day, millions of Third lives. The overlapping geographical Anderson in Doing the Dirty Work World women set out on a journey and ethnographic focus of these books examines domestic workers in five that will take them to countries where highlights the value of varied analyses European cities. She also broadens the they do not know the language, have and perspectives, while emphasizing historical scope by examining the no family or support system, and work the universality of the plight of legacy of American slavery, with its in virtual servitude. We call them domestic workers. contemporary consequences. Grace household helpers, domestic staff or Immigrant black women in Rome Chang's stage in Disposable Domestics "domestics," or servants. These are the are :he subjects of Jacqueline Andall's is the United States; she exposes the women who cook in the kitchens of Gendb, Migration and Domestic myths and stereotypes that shape our Paris and Los Angeles, watch over Service. Rome and Los Angeles form views and serve to define the lives of children in Rome's parks, shop for the backdrop for Rhacel Salazar women domestics as part of the groceries in Singapore's markets, and Parrefias' study of Filipina workers in globalization- of cheap sources of labor. scrub the bathrooms of suburban Servants of Globalization,while Given the overlapping geographies America. The growth of a world pool Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo limits her and ethnographies, it might be of largely invisible women as migrant exploration to the Latina domestics of tempting to dismiss these books as laborers is the dominant theme of five Los Angeles in Dombstica. Covering a recently published books that explore much broader geographic area, Bridget the lives of women domestics and the politics and policies that shape their

Feminist Collections (v.23, 110.2,Winter 2002) Page 1 similar in their politics, outlook, and world. The Filipino migrant commu- Andall's in-depth scholarly study conclusions, but each author ap- niry is truly global-a "transnational draws largely on recent Black feminist proaches her topic through a different family," in her terms, whose members thought. Her historical analysis allows lens, allowing us to gain new perspec- across the continents continually her to trace Italy's transition from tives on the lives and issues surround- provide one another with moral, using internal migration to meet the ing women domestic workers. Al- emotional, and material care. By demand for live-in domestics to relying though all of these studies are intended setting Servants of Globalization in almost entirely on overseas migrants as for an academic or activist market, both Rome and Los Angeles, Parreiias the source of labor. To Andall, race as some are far more approachable and gains comparative understanding of much as gender defines the domestic can be recommended as introductions how the "nation-state, family, labor worker's life, and her study of these to the issue of women domestics and market and the migrant community" workers' lives individually and in more generally for readings on race, affect women domestic laborers' relation to white Italian women women, and work. ability to integrate into their new contributes to the literature on race communities (p. 2). Although the and feminism. The book also broadens Domeitica is a fine introduction Filipinas in her book face different our understanding of Italy's feminist to the stories of immigrant domestic problems in these very different movement and the evolution of the workers. I was thoroughly engaged by localities where they experience movement's own awareness of race in Hondapeu-Sotelo's writing and the different "contexts of reception," relation to gendered oppression. manner in which she combines Parrefias is surprised by the shared explication of pressing issues with the roles and similar identities they Anderson in Doing the Dirty specific stories of women employers assume in their individual communi- Work and Chang in Disposable Domes- and employees. She succeeds in her ties. Like Hondagneu-Sotelo, tics are less concerned with geographies attempt to bring to life "the voices, Parreiias relies on the words of and ethnicities than with the larger experiences, and views both of the domestics to tell a story that highlights social and political ramifications of a Mexican and Central American the many contradictions in their lives predominantly female globalized women who care for other people's as they experience downward mobility workforce. Drawing from a wide range children and homes and of the women and loss of status, but continue in of readings and studies, both seek to in Los Angeles who employ them" (p. order to support their families in the expose a globalized economy that x). The stories in "It's Not What you Philippines, where the "middle class includes globalized media as a causal Know..." clearly illustrate that both does not and cannot achieve financial force in the subjugation of Third employers and workers are integral to security" (p. 152). World women as workers. There is an social reproduction, with white women transferring the worst of their unpaid householdduties to paid household staff. Domistica is a welcome addition to the growing body of literature on women migrants as well as that about Latina life in Los Angeles. Parrefias' well-documented and theoretically focused research reads easily as it reveals the complex nature of global migration. Her timely study of the Fili~inadomestic community brings overdue attention to one of the largest migrant communities in the

-- - Miriam Greenwald

Page 2 Feminist Collections (v.23, no.2, Winter 2002) undercurrent of anger as Chang feminization of the workforce in the A large underclass provides an endless dismantles U.S. immigration policies United States and Europe, has created stream of labor, allowing most middle- and practices, revealing them to be a demand for workers who will clean class Indians the luxury of drivers, constructed in favor of large business houses, care for children and the cooks, laundry help, and gardeners. interests. Media and politicians shape elderly, and staff the reception desks of Many of India's domestics are internal public perceptions of this latest wave five-star hotels for minimal compensa- migrants following in the steps of of immigrants, passing them off as tion. While the economic processing others as they seek a better life in an abusers of social services. Domestics zones in Third World countries vie for increasingly globalized economy, but who have yet to get their green cards low-wage factory workers fresh from with little hope of escaping a sixty- are vulnerable to the vagaries not only rural areas, the suburban homes, dollar-a-month salary and virtual of employers, who may actually enslave nursing homes, and hotels of Europe, servitude in their birth country. As I them, but also to the changing rules of the United States, and Canada beckon read these books, I thought of my staff the INS. Racist perceptions, as well as the college-educated middle class. and the millions of others in India who laws and regulations that can end in Across the globe, these new workers long for an opportunity to do the same deportation, drive deserving domestic are marginalized, invisible, and work in the United States or Europe, workers away from much-needed disposable. for they know these countries offer medical care, schools for their chil- their children a better education and dren, and social assistance. Anderson calls research on more opportunities. Anderson's wide-ranging look at domestics "messy" because of the domestics begins with a geographical many "contradictions and tensions in Thefeminization of the global mapping of domestic workers in individual experiences as well as work force has occurred concurrently Athens, Barcelona, Bologna, Berlin, theory" shaped by "prevailing dis- with the development of a domestic Paris, and the United Kingdom. Like courses on the public and private, labor force of poor Third World Parrefias, she examines the living domestic work, immigration" (p.75). women. Since the 1980s, when conditions of workers in relation to This is not unlike the view of Pierrette studies from Latin American and their immigration status and whether Hondapeu-Sotelo, who recognizes Southeast Asia explored the issues as an they live in with their employers or are and explores the nuances and dis- integral part of trade liberalization, the day workers. More interesting is her courses, noting that while paid migration of domestics has been an chapter "Legacy of Slavery," which domestic work may not be the worst integral part of Third World women's - ~ provides an arresting look at the job, often it "contradict[s] American movements. These five titles serve to parallels between historical and democratic ideals and modern contrac- bring the problems faced by domestics contemporary forms of slavery and the tual notions of employment" (p. x), to new audiences and broaden a debate evolving rhetoric of racism used to and that employers often feel "highly that must include women, students, dismiss the lives of nonwhite migrant ambivalent about the arrangements and labor unions in Europe and the workers. they make" (p. xi). The contradictions United States. are apparent in the educated Filipina Reading clubs will find Theglobal economic restructur- women who accept the humiliation of Hondapeu-Sotelo's DornPstica the ing of the last twenry years has domestic work in alien households to most readable book, with many introduced an unprecedented interna- provide for their families. avenues for discussion; readers can tional flow of capital as well as labor. These tensions and conflicts explore the daily life and problems Transnational corporations are easily became increasingly poignant for me as domestics face by discussing the stories able to shift the production of goods I read and reviewed these five books in and perspectives of women domestic to ever-lower wage centers, taking my home in New Delhi, India. My workers as well as those of the women advantage of seemingly endless new world is filled with domestics. In who employ them to clean their houses pools of cheap-and often female- impoverished India there is always and care for their children. Local labor labor. But unlike the production of someone to fill the role of cook, social reproduction cannot be cleaner, ayah-nanny, or laundry maid. exported. The gowth of the service sector economy, combined with the

Feminist Collections (v.23, no.2, Winter 20C Page 3 union leaders must not overlook United States. In this regard, Arab world, and more work on Disposable Domestics in their labor Anderson's Doing the Dirty Work is Indonesians working in Malaysia and education efforts; Chang's thorough especially !good because of its broad Singapore. Only with more research analysis of domestic labor in the historical analysis that incorporates an and more stories can we begin to context of immigration laws is essential examination of slavery in the United fathom the problems faced by women reading for all labor advocates. Her States. working as domestics. work can initiate a broader debate about labor and immigration policies. Thecomplete story of domestics [Carol Mitchell obtained her doctorate Although Parrefias' Servants of migrating to work in all areas of the at the University of Wisconsin- Globalization, Anderson's Doing the world remains to be told. We await Madison, where she workedfor ten years Dirty Work, and Andall's Gender, books that examine and advocate for as the Southeast Asia and South Asia Migration and Domestic Service assume women crossing the borders of Nepal to Librarian. She now lives in New Delhi background knowledge in sociology or work in India or leaving Burma to work and works as the Deputy Director of the anthropology, they can be used for in Thailand. We need studies that Library of Congress-New Dehi Ofice.] introductory courses in labor studies, examine the racism and prejudice women's studies, or ethnicity in the against South Asian domestics in the

CORELISTS IN WOMEN'SSTUDIES 2002

A new title has been added to this collection, which is compiled by the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries:

Antiquity, by Connie Phelps

Most of the other topical lists in the collection have been reviewed and updated, as they are every year, to include only books currently in print. The lists, which focus on the United States, 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 at: http:Ilwww.library.wisc.edullibrariesNCromensStudies/corelcoremain.htm

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Vera Anderson, A WOMAN LIKE YOU THE FACE OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. Seattle, WA: Seal Press, 1997. 70p. pap., $1 6.00, ISBN 1-878067-07-9.

Ola W. Barnett, Cindy L. Miller-Perrin, & Robin D. Perrin, FAMILY VIOLENCEACROSS THE LIFESPAN:ANIN- TRODUCTION. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1997. 3898. pap., $46.95, ISBN 0-7619-0707-6.

Marian Becancourt, WEUT TO DO WENLOVETURNS VIOLENE A PRACTIGU RESOURCE FOR WOMENIN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIPS. New York: Harper Collins, 1997. 261 p. pap., $12.00, ISBN 0-06-273456-3.

Helen M. Eigenberg, WOMANBATTERING IN THE UNITED STATES: TILL DEATH DO US PART. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 2001. 3698. pap., $22.95, ISBN 1-57766-169-9.

Donna Ferrato, LMNG WITH THE ENEMY. New York: Aperture, 2000 (4th ed.). 176p. pap., $24.95, ISBN 0-8938 l- 480-6.

Ann Jones, NEXT TIME, SHE'LL BE DEAD: BATTERING &HOW TO STOP IT. Boscon: Beacon Press, 2000.309p. pap., $1 5.00, ISBN 0-8070-6789-X.

Ann Jones & Susan Schechter, WENLOVE GOES WRONG: ?ThYT TO DO WENYOU CAN'TDO ANYTHING RIGHT. New York: Harper Perennial, 1993. 3588. pap., $13.95, ISBN 0-06-092369-5.

Alan Kernp, ABUSE IN THE FAMILE ANINTRODUCTION. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Publishing, 1998. 3378 pap., $53.95, ISBN 0-534-34198-5.

Ginny NiCarthy, GETTING FREE: YOUCANENDABUSEAND TAKE BACK YOUR LIFE. Seattle, WA: Seal Press, 1986. 31 6p. pap., $12.95, ISBN 0-93 1 188-37-7.

Anna Quindlen, BLACKAND BLUE:A NOVEL. New York: Dell, 1999. 3698. pap., $7.50, ISBN 0-440-22610-4.

Paula Sharp, CROWS OVERA WEATFIELD. New York: Washington Square Press, 1996. 450p. pap., $14.00, ISBN 0-67 1-00 1 164-2.

Bech Sipe & Evelyn Hall, IAMNOT YOUR b7CTIM:ANATOMY OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996. 303p. pap., $32.95, ISBN 0-7619-0146-9.

Harvey Wallace, FAMILY VIOLENCE: LEGAL, MEDICAL, AND SOCUL PERSPECTIVES. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2002 (3rd ed.). 402p. pap., $36.00, ISBN 0-205-31901-7.

Susan Weitzrnan, "NOT TO PEOPLE LIKE US'? HIDDENABUSE IN UPSCALEMARRIAGES. New York: Basic Books, 2000. 289p. pap., $15.00, ISBN 0-465-09074-5.

Karen J. Wilson, WENVIOLENCE BEGINS A T HOME: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING AND ENDING DOMESTICABUSE. Alarneda, CA: Hunter House, 1997. 393p. pap., $19.95, ISBN 0-89793-227-7.

Feminist Collections (v.23, no.2, Winter 2002) Page 5 WhenI select books for my do- children, and intervention and preven- tered women and the founding editor mestic violence class, I choose one that tion programs for batterers. Her last of the Journal of Violence and Victims, provides a solid knowledge base, and three chapters address burnout, the is interviewed in "Marital Violence: then one of high interest that will help National Domestic Violence Hotline, Battered Women." Case studies inter- students apply the concepts they've and the history of violence against spersed throughout are another win- just learned. Autobiographies, novels, women. Fifty-one pages of additional ning feature, and human interest sto- and photojournalists' books meet the resources are appended. ries like "A Day in the Life of a Shelter second criterion well. I also look for Next Time, She'll Be Dead is an- ManagerICase Manager" are captivat- resources for future practitioners who other informative and credible read. ing. Summaries in each chapter help will work directly with victims of do- Author Ann Jones grew up in a family organize the material. The human in- mestic violence. Usually I discuss this of violence, with an alcoholic father terest stories especially captured my in- third category of books in class, but do who abused her mother. Jones, who terest-for example, "Defending Bat- not require students to buy them. did not believe it should have been up tered Women Who Kill" (pp.2 18-1 9). to her mother or her to stop him, ar- A chapter on courtship violence and Books That Provide Basic Knowledge gues that all women and children have date rape-a major problem for many One of the best I've discovered is the absolute right to live free from college-age students-is another Karen J. Wilson's When Violence Begins bodily harm. She passionately takes to strength, as is a strong reference sec- at Home. Wilson's simple, straightfor- task the legal, medical, social services, tion that offers research suggestions ward writing style is easily understood and mental health systems for not be- and lists of organizations that deal with by undergraduates. A survivor of do- lieving this and consequently failing family violence. mestic abuse herself, she passionately women and children. Laws began to shares what the volunteers, staff, and change, she says, only when feminist AanKemp's Abuse in the Fami4 board of the Center for Battered attorneys brought class-action lawsuits has only one chapter on domestic vio- Women in Austin, Texas, have learned against police departments and court lence, but it covers a lot of ground. in twenty-five years of dedicated work. officers to compel them to do their Kemp discusses the historical context Besides defining abuse and explor- jobs. of domestic violence, types of abuse, a ing the myths and realities surround- Jones's passion, directness, hon- working definition, incidences and ing domestic violence, Wilson dis- esty, self-disclosure, strong feminist prevalence, the impact of battering on cusses the effects of domestic violence voice, and easy-to-read style are com- victims, the cycle of violence, why on kids; teen dating violence; the cor- pelling, as are the cases she discusses. women stay, explanations and risk fac- relation between substance abuse and Her perspectives on why women stay tors, classification of perpetrators, and domestic violence; problems with the and on what society can do to end do- intervention. The chapter lacks, how- legal system; living underground mestic violence are especially powerful. ever, any discussion of such important (which she herself did); domestic vio- This book will lay a strong base of issues as safety or the response of the lence and women of color, lesbians, knowledge, particularly for under- judicial, medical, governmental, and women in prison, women with dis- .graduates. religious systems; nor does it offer hu- abilities, and older women; how fam- man interest stories or case studies. ily, friends, and loved ones can help Kmih ViolenceAcross the Thus, it would best serve as a supple- victims; domestic violence and the Lifespan includes nine chapters per- mental text. workplace; domestic violence and the taining specifically to domestic vio- Susan Weitzman's "Not to People medical community; and what reli- lence. The book is well-organized and Like Us " is both informative and per- gious communities can do. She also informative; I recommend it for un- sonal. The book, which refutes the includes strategies for developing inter- dergraduate-level courses. Each chap- myth that domestic abuse afflicts only disciplinary responses, intervention ter begins with an interview of a the underprivileged, resulted from a strategies for battered women and their prominent person in the field-for ex- qualitative doctoral research study at ample, Angela Browne, a highly re- the University of Chicago. Weitzman, garded researcher and expert on bat- a mental health professional for more than twenty-three years, first encoun- rered domestic abuse in "upscale mar-

Page 6 Feminist Collections (v.23, no.2, Winter 2002) erature. The author uses a combina- tion of original work and previously published articles. Following Chapter 1, for instance, are reprints of two very interesting essays: Judith Lorber's "Night to His Day: The Social Con- struction of Gender" and Del Martin's "A Letter From A Battered Wife." The rest, however, is less engaging, includ- ing some lifeless, academic descriptions

of research studies. This book might- be suitable for a small graduate semi- nar, but probably not for undergradu- ates.

Books That Apply Basic Concepts My favorite application book is I Am Not Your Victim, an autobiography documenting sixteen years of domestic Miriam Green wald abuse endured by author Beth Sipes. Evelyn Hall, her therapist, encouraged riages" while practicing at the Univer- traits of an abuser, and early warning her to write this powerful and engag- sity of Chicago ~os~ital'sDepartment signs and list extensive resources. I ing true story, rich in examples of do- of Outpatient Psychiatry. Many highly recommend "Not to People Like mestic abuse concepts; my students highly educated women enjoying com- Us" for undergraduates, as well as for find it difficult to put the book down. fortable, even lavish, lifestyles were en- graduate students interested in Types of abuse, the cycle of violence, during emotional and physical abuse Weitzman's research. intergenerational violence, the "power by their powerful and well-educated and control wheel," child abuse, sec- husbands, but only with great reluc- Harvey Wallace's Family KO- ondary wounding, traumatic bonding, tance would they reveal it-even lence, although it deals mostly with and the characteristics of victims and within the safe confines of her office. family violence issues, also covers issues batterers are all addressed. In a sepa- "Women felt it essential to keep silent that some of the other books don't, rate section, professionals comment on about their suffering," she writes, "in such as the consequences of family vio- how their systems failed Beth, under- order to preserve and protect personal lence; stalking; victims' rights; gay and scoring how far society needs to move life" (p.6). lesbian abuse; and abuse of "special in taking domestic violence seriously. This book challenges Lenore populations" such as persons with dis- It is clear from the commentaries that Walker's "cycle of violence" theory in abilities. Each well-organized chapter many of the systems that abused terms of upscale battered women.' includes an outline, definitions, learn- women turn to actually revictimize Weitzman contends, for example, that ing objectives, "promising practices," a them, and that many people still think the "honeymoon phase" does not exist. summary, key terms, discussion ques- domestic abuse is a private, family She also explains such contemporary tions, suggested readings, and matter that should not be interfered terms as "secondary wounding" and endnotes. The work reads like a text- in. Students are never unmoved by "traumatic bonding," and profiles up- book, however, and does not hold my Beth Sipe's story and always want to scale batterers as exhibiting narcissistic interest as much as the others. do something to make a difference. I personality disorder. The chapter on Each section of Helen Eigenbergls highly recommend it for undergradu- how family, friends, and practitioners Woman Battering- in the United States ate domestic violence courses. can either help or make things worse is frames the issues in an overview and very valuable. The book's ~racticalap- then reviews major debates in the lit- pendices help readers identify abuse,

Feminist Collections (v.23, no.2, Winter 2002) Page 7 Students also find the novel rooms, attended support and therapy Marian Betancourt's easy-to-read What Crows Over A Wheatfeld engaging. groups, visited shelters and victim's To Do When Love Turns Violent is an Author Paula Sharp, a New York homes, and interviewed women in excellent nuts-and-bolts resource for criminal lawyer, has keen insider prison for killing their husbands and women who need to know how to pro- knowledge 0.f how the legal system fails lovers. Ferrato strikingly captures the tect themselves and get away from vio- to protect women and children. Stu- effects of abuse on women of different lence as safely as possible. Betancourt dents have trouble believing that this races, cultures, and socioeconomic lev- experienced domestic violence herself well-written work of fiction, which is els. Another of the book's strengths is and knows the importance of safety for set in Wisconsin, is not a true story. its introduction by well-informed do- domestic abuse victims. She addresses Suspenseful and emotionally compel- mestic abuse author Ann Jones, who how to evaluate a woman's safety, ling, it conveys powerful messages writes, "These stark images are disqui- safety at home and at work, how to about domestic violence and defily il- eting. It's one thing to talk about do- keep children safe, and how to leave lustrates many domestic violence con- mestic violence. It's something else safely. I haven't discovered any other cepts. I highly recommend it for un- again to see it" (p. 15). Because it shows text that discusses the safety issue so dergraduates. the real faces and stories of a serious thoroughly. Many women are killed Another novel to consider is Anna social problem, I highly recommend when they are leaving or are trying to ~uindl'en'sintelligent and heartrend- this resource. It would also be an asset leave an abusive situation.' ing Black and Blue. Quindlen's obser- for primarily visual learners. Ginny NiCarthy's Getting Free, vations are acute and her arguments another self-help book, was turned well reasoned, and the story is enor- InA Woman Like You: The Face down by many before Seal mously readable, but I find it less cred- of Domestic Violence, Vera Anderson Press, believing in its marketability, ible than Crows Over a Whea$eld, es- uses photographs to counteract stereo- took it on. The guide, which counse- pecially concerning victim safety. My types of abused women. Anderson, lors and victims can use together like a own knowledge of real victims' experi- like many of the otherauthors re- workbook, targets- women who have ences makes me doubt that abused viewed in this article, was herself a vic- been physically, sexually, or emotion- women in fear for their lives would tim of domestic abuse but did not ini- ally abused. NiCarthy candidly dis- remain in a location once they thought tially recognize her own abusive situa- cusses difficulties women may encoun- their abuser had found them. tion. Her book is a direct result of ter when they leave abusive situations, (Quindlen's main character stays put asking herself, "What does a battered such as financial problems, safety con- even when she suspects that her abu- woman look like?" With her camera, cerns for themselves and their children, sive husband has figured out where she she explores the face of domestic vio- and coping difficulties such as fear of and her son are hiding.) On the other lence at women's shelters, coming up being on one's own. I appreciate her hand, Black and Blue might generate with thirty-five photos and stories that forthrightness and realism. - - an interesting class discussion about show battered women all around us. what a real victim would do. "We don't recognize them," she says, Still another excellent, compre- Donna Ferrato's photojournalistic ,"because they look like us"(^. 1). Al- hensive guide is the funny, sad, and in- Living With the Enemy is a powerful vi- though Anderson's book is strong, and spiring When Love Goes Wrong. Based sual documentation of a ten-year mis- less expensive than Ferrato's, I prefer on interviews with fifty women from sion-one that began when Ferrato Ferrato's because it offers not only various backgrounds,- classes, races, and saw a millionaire father of five hit his powerful photos and stories but a great stages in relationships, the book is de- wifeto explore the domestic abuse of deal of explicit information for stu- signed for women interested in making women. Driven to do something, she dents. changes. Authors Ann Jones and Su- used her camera as her weapon, snap- san Schechter address such issues as the ping pictures as she rode along with Books For Practitioners reasons for abuse, the likelihood of an police, visited hospital emergency I don't require my students to buy abuser changing, victims' choices to any of these, but I discuss them in class change, the choice to leave, and indi- so they know what is available. vidual problems like substance abuse. ,They also include many checklists, in- cluding a unique one that evaluates

Page 8 Feminist Collections (v.23, no.2, Winter 2002) whether or not a woman's partner is the batterer physically, emotionally, or controlling. That six-page checklist sexually abuses the victim; and the FORFURTHER READING: alone makes this book worth discuss- honeymoon phase, in which the VIOLENCEIN LESBIAN ing with students, who are often not batterer, knowing he has gone too far, RELATIONSHIPS aware of their own partners' control- tries to win the victim back by being ling behavior. contrite, promising he will change, and showering her with gifts such as flow- Some of the books reviewed in All fifteen of the titles reviewed ers, cards, candy, and trips. The vio- the accompanying article address violence in same-sex as well as in here have merit, but I would most lence subsides for awhile, but then the highly recommend Wilson's When whole cycle starts up again, usually es- heterosexual relationships. Here Violence Begins at Home, Jones's Next calating, with less time between each are some works (not evaluated) that deal explicitly with the issue Time, She'll Be Dead, or Family Vio- phase. lence Across the Lifespan for solid, basic of lesbian domestic violence: information; IAm Not Your Victim or 2. Ann Jones, Next Time, She'll Be Lori B. Girshick, WOMAN-TO- Crows Over A Whea@eld for applying Dead: Battering and How To Stop It knowledge; and Living With the Enemy (Boston: Beacon Press, 2000), p.50. WOMAN SEXUAL WOLENCE: for visual learners. Any of the three DOES SHE CALL IT RAPE? Boston: Northeastern University practitioners' books would help vic- [Karen E. Muench, who received her Press, 2002. 201p. bibl. index. tims gain a better understanding of B.S., M.S., M.S.S.W, and Ph.D.Fom themselves in relationship to domestic the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is pap., $1 6.95, ISBN 1-55553- violence. primarily afaculty member in the De- 527-5. partment of Human Services and Profes- Ellyn Kaschak, ed., INTIMATE Notes sional Leadership, and is alro a member of the Womeni Studies faculty at the BETRA YrQL: DOMESTIC V70LENCE IN LESBlAN 1. Lenore E. Walker, The Battered University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, where ~. RELA TIONSHIPS. New York: Woman (New York: Harper Perennial, she teaches a domestic violence class each Haworth Press, 2001 (co- 1979), pp.55-70. Walker describes semester. She has received two grants to published as v.23, no.3 of Women three phases in the "cycle of violence": conduct art workshops with victims of & Therapy: A Feminist Quarterly). the tension-building phase, during domestic violence at a shelter near the 138p. $29.95, ISBN which the victim feels like she has to Oshkosh campus; she believes that creat- 07890 16621. walk on eggshells so as not to provoke ing and discussing art helps victims re- abuse; the acute battering phase, when gain their silenced voices.] Claire M. Renzeti, V70LENT BETRAYAL: PARTNER ABUSE IN LESBIAN RELA TION- SHIPS. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992. 202p. bibl. index. pap., $34.95, ISBN 0803938896.

Janice L. Ristock, NO MORE SECRETS: WOLENCEIN LESBIAN RELA TIONSHIPS. New York: Routledge, 2002. 242p. $21.95, ISBN 0415929466.

Feminist Collections (v.23, no.2, Winrer 2002) by Shannon L. Green

YOURS FORA SONG: THE WOMEN OF TINPANALLEY. 55 mins. color/b&w. 1998. Prod.lDir.: Terry Benes. Co-Prod.: ThirteenWNET & Lumiere Productions, Inc. Distr.: Videostore Online, website: www.winstarvideo.com. Sale (VHS): Cat. No. FLV1562, $19.98; (DVD): Cat. No. FLV5 172, $24.98.

STRINGSATTACHED. 16 mins. color. 1999. Prod.: Marla Renee Leech, P.O. Box 460542, San Francisco, CA 94146; phone: (415) 28 1-0547. Distr: Chip Taylor Communications, 2 East View Dr., Derry, NH 03038; phone (orders): (800) 876-2447; fax: (603) 432-2723; email: [email protected]; website: http://www.chiptaylor.com/ index.htm (look under title Women in Music: Strings Attached). Contact distributor for licensing/format/pricing informa- tion.

PUNKPREm THERIOT GRRL DOCUMENTARY. 50 mins. (new 30-min. version also available.) color. O 2000. Prod./Dir./Distr.: Jackie Joice, 41 02 Orange Avenue #107-100, Long Beach, CA 90807; email: [email protected]. Sale: $45.00 (institutions); $13.00 (students, nonprofit orgs.). [Note: producerldirector is available for panel discussions, Q&A sessions, and spoken word performances.]

NOBODYMVOWS MYNAME. 58 mins. color. 1999. Prod./Dir.: Rachel Raimist. Distr.: Women Make Movies, 462 Broadway, New York, NY 10013; phone: (212) 925-0606; fax: (212) 925-2052; email: [email protected]; website: www.wmm.com. Rental: $90.00. Sale: $250.00. Order #: W01719.

THERIGHTEOUS BABES. 50 mins. color. 1998. Prod.1Dir.: Pratibha Parmar. Distr.: Women Make Movies (see contact information above). Rental: $90.00. Sale: $295.00. Order #: W99630.

These five videos have a com- four most famous female songwriters. Several of their songs are still well mon theme: all feature women who Hosted by singer Betty Buckley and known today, including lyricist Dor- challenge traditional gender roles part of the American Masters series by othy Fields' "I'm in the Mood for through their efforts as musicians. ,ThirteenWNET for National Public Love" and "Big Spender." Composer Each documentary portrays vividly the Television, this documentary profiles Kay Swift first became known with inner vision and drive of women who the careers of Dorothy Fields, Kay "Can't We Be Friends" and later wrote ignore the traditional gender line in Swift, Dana Suesse, and Ann Ronell, the score for the Broadway musical their particular style of music, from all of whom became successful during Fine and Dandy (1 930). Dana Suesse's Tin Pan Alley songs to rock, punk, the latter decades of the popular music first success was the theme song for the and hip-hop. industry (1 920s-1940s). Although 1939 World's Fair, "Yours for a Song." Yoursfor a Song offers a brief and the women aren't as readily recogniz- Also a composer of classical music, intriguing glimpse into the history of able by name as George Gershwin, Suesse was aided in her career by Paul Tin Pan Alley and the careers of its Jerome Kerne, and Irving Berlin, they Whiteman and has been compared nevertheless helped to shape the music with George Gershwin. Composer of Tin Pan Alley. Ann Ronell was successful both in .New York and in Hollywood, where

Page 10 Feminist Collecrions (v.23, 110.2,Winrer 2002) she composed the scores for several Theguitarists profiled represent The video is a sampler, leaving films, including The Story of G.I.Joe five distinct types of music. Terri Win- you wanting more information and (1945). ston, labeled "alternative," relates her more in-depth coverage of each musi- Between short historical segments,- efforts to learn guitar as a young girl in cian. Its strength is presenting each the video spends much of its time pre- a class of adults. She describes her guitarist as an individual as well as senting the biographies of the journey as she matured from playing touching on feminist issues such as songwriters and features a series of per- the "nicer, prettier" songs to address- access to training, lookism, and the formances of their most successful and ing personal issues such as anger in her music industry's separate treatment of well-known songs. It glosses over the music. Slide blues guitarist Karen men and women. It is perfect for a question why women were able to at- Almquist, whose inspiration was Rob- short classroom or lecture presenta- tain more success beginning in the ert Johnson (he "turned my head tion, where it can serve as a good lead- 1920s in Tin Pan Alley than in any around"), directly addresses the exploi- in to a discussion about women and earlier period. Undoubtedly, each tation of women in blues lyrics. Latin music and what it takes to become fa- composer overcame gender-based bar- jazz guitarist Jackeline Rago explains mous as a musician. Musicians will riers inherent in the music business, her instrument, a Quattro (4-string appreciate the film's good sound qual- but the video scarcely mentions any, guitar). She optimistically faces the ity. choosing instead to focus on the high- issues of ethniciry and feminism as she lights of the songwriters' careers rather finds herself continually explaining to Both Punk Pretty: The Riot Grrl than on any diRiculties they had in listeners not only her Quattro but also Documentary and Nobody Knows My attaining success. her place as a woman in a traditionally Name also directly confront the treat- The of the music and pic- male field: "If you're good, no matter ment of women, but in the alternative ture is high, the performances of the what, you always have a place." music fields of punk rock and hip-hop. songs are well done, and the interviews Celticlblues guitarist Lynn Vidal, In what at first may seem to be an in- with colleagues and family members who had been inspired by Elvis congruous pairing of feminists and are lively and engaging. Buckley, how- Presley's playing in her youth, uses her punk music, Punk Pretty features ex- ever, appears so infrequently in the guitar to cope with her own adolescent tensive, unscripted personal reflections documentary that her appearance in- troubles: "I wasn't a very happy girl, of a number of female punk musicians terrupts the flow, though her perfor- spent a lot of time pouring my sorrow through an exploration of the feminist mance of several songs clearly demon- into playing guitar and teaching myself punk band The hot Grrls. strates her enthusiasm for the music. how to play." Rock guitarist Carrie Punk Pretty shows female musi- Most intriguing are the snippets of Baum had wanted to be a rock star in cians from the Southern California film from the era, which give a sense her youth, but found the barriers to punk movement in live performance both of the songwriters themselves and women in music "disappointing." She and in personal interviews that provide of the times in which they were work- reflects that it is more difficult for snapshots of their lives, as well as their ing. But while I don't doubt the claim women to be successful, citing the dif- personal reflections about their place that these four songwriters helped ferent criteria for female and male mu- in the music as a whole. Musician shape the music of the time, I would sicians: The most frequent question Renae Bryant of All or Nothing H.C. have preferred to see more time de- asked about a female band is, "What acknowledges her debt as a feminist voted to proving it. do they look like?" punk musician to the sacrifices made Most intriguing about each guitar- by the first wave of feminists in the last ~ - Strings ~ttachrdis a very short ist are her reflections on the musicians century. Another musician admits (1 6-minute) documentary profiling the who inspired her in her youth and her frustration with some women in the musical backgrounds of five San Fran- recollections of those who helped her field who say they are trying to change cisco-area women guitarists. Each mu- along the way. These women have ob- sician, profiled individually, offers re- viously made sacrifices for their music flections on her early experiences with and clearly have an inner drive that guitar and how she ended up playing keeps them playing. her particular type of music.

Feminist Collections (v.23, no.2, Winter 2002) Page 1 1 are frequently called names, while Though dated (it refers to those dressed more conservatively are "women of the 1990sn), this given more respect. documentary's most obvious short- Like Punk Pretty, Nobody Knows coming is its assertion that rock is the My Name provides a fascinating and only form of music in which feminists insightful glimpse into feminism can make a difference. It also makes within a radical musical style. Al- the debatable claim that women in though it does not provide much his- rock music, more than women in any tory of the hip-hop movement, it is an other cultural phenomenon, brought excellent snapshot of women within feminism into the mainstream in the the field in various aspects of the in- 1990s. dustry in 1999. It is clear from the interviews that women face more Whileeach of these videos dif- hurdles than men do in this alternative fers in format, length and quality, they and marginalized musical style. The share one goal: to show the collective film provides a good starting point for passion for music exhibited by the discussions about the industry and women who are profiled, and, except women's place in it. for Yoursfor a Song, the women's ef- forts to overcome !gender-based- barri- Ofall the videos reviewed in this ers in the male-dominated field of essay, the well-produced and thought- popular music. Yoursfor a Song is ap- fully edited Righteous Babes presents propriate for discussions of popular the most thorough exploration of the song in the era before rock 'n roll, but intersection of feminism and popular it only superficially addresses issues of music. It features interviews with such women in music. For those seeking a artists as Chrissy Hynde, Ani more in-depth exploration of the inter- DiFranco, Courtney Love, Queen section of feminism and popular cul- Latifah, Tori Amos, and Sinead ture, Nobody Knows My Name and O'Connor, all of whom discuss how Punk Pretty, with their profiles of being female has affected their musical women in hip-hop and punk, provide careers. Using commentary by Gloria a blatant juxtaposition of stereotype Steinem and Andrea Dworkin, among and reality, while Righteous Babes pre- others, Righteous Babes addresses such sents the most thorough exploration of issues as lookism and its effect on feminism as manifested in popular mu- women in the industry, the political sic. baggage around the term "feminist," and rape and sexual abuse. [Shannon L. Green hoba Ph.D. in he film addressees the sacrifices musicoIogf;om UW-Madison and cur- women musicians are required to make rently teaches music history and theory at to succeed in the field of rock music. UWC-,lock County.] Perhaps the most interesting segment is a deconstruction of the Spice Girls as a media-constructed, false example of "girl power" in direct contrast to the 1980s Riot Grrl movement of punk rock.

Feminist Collections (v.23, no.2, Winter 2002) are frequently called names, while Though dated (it refers to those dressed more conservatively are "women of the 1990sn), this given more respect. documentary's most obvious short- Like Punk Pretty, Nobody Knows coming is its assertion that rock is the My Name provides a fascinating and only form of music in which feminists insightful glimpse into feminism can make a difference. It also makes within a radical musical style. Al- the debatable claim that women in though it does not provide much his- rock music, more than women in any tory of the hip-hop movement, it is an other cultural phenomenon, brought excellent snapshot of women within feminism into the mainstream in the the field in various aspects of the in- 1990s. dustry in 1999. It is clear from the interviews that women face more While each of these videos dif- hurdles than men do in this alternative fers in format, length and quality, they and marginalized musical style. The share one goal: to show the collective film provides a good starting point for passion for music exhibited by the discussions about the industry and women who are profiled, and, except women's place in it. for Yoursfor a Song, the women's ef- forts to overcome gender-based barri- Ofall the videos reviewed in this ers in the male-dominated field of essay, the well-produced and thought- popular music. Yoursfor a Song is ap- fully edited Righteous Babes presents propriate for discussions of popular the most thorough exploration of the song in the era before rock 'n roll, but intersection of feminism and popular it only superficially addresses issues of music. It features interviews with such women in music. For those seeking a artists as Chrissy Hynde, Ani more in-depth exploration of the inter- DiFranco, Courtney Love, Queen section of feminism and popular cul- Latifah, Tori Amos, and Sinead ture, Nobody Knows My Name and O'Connor, all of whom discuss how Punk Pretty, with their profiles of being female has affected their musical women in hip-hop and punk, provide careers. Using commentary by Gloria a blatant juxtaposition of stereotype Steinem and Andrea Dworkin, among and reality, while Righteous Babes pre- others, Righteous Babes addresses such sents the most thorough exploration of issues as lookism and its effect on feminism as manifested in popular mu- women in the industry, the political sic. baggage around the term "feminist," and rape and sexual abuse. [Shannon L. Green holdr a Ph.D. in The film addressees the sacrifices musicology from UW-Madison and cur- women musicians are required to make rently teaches music histoty and theory at to succeed in the field of rock music. UWGl'Zock County.] Perhaps the most interesting segment is a deconstruction of the Spice Girls as a media-constructed, false example of "girl power" in direct contrast to the 1980s Riot Grrl movement of punk rock.

Feminist Collections (v.23, no.2, Winter 2002) by jean Grossholtz

DOLLS AND DUSE WOMEN WORKERS IN SRZ LANKil, THAILAND, AND SOUTH KOm. 60 mins. 1998. Prod.: Committee for Asian Women (CAW). Distr.: WAYANG, P.O. Box 52, B~n~thonglang,Bangkok 10242, Thai- land; email: [email protected]. Purchase of video and companion book (see below) together, shipped to U.S. address: US $67.00 (includes check clearance fee and airmail postage).

DOLLS AND DUST: VOICES OFASW WOMEN RESISTING GLOBALIZA TION. Bangkok, Thailand: Committee for Asian Women, 2000. 238p. pap. Companion book to video (see above for ordering information).

MARKETISATION OF GOVERNANCE. 34 mins. 2000. Prod.: Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN). Distr.: WAYANG, P.O. Box 52, Bungthonglang, Bangkok 10242, Thailand; email: [email protected]. Purchase of video and companion book (see below) together, shipped to U.S. address: US $67.00 (includes check clearance fee and airmail postage).

Viviene Taylor, MARKETISATION OF GO?!ERNANCE:CRITIC4L FEMINIST PERSPECTNES FROM THE SOUTH. Cape Town, South Africa: SADEPIDAWN, 2000. 171p. pap., ISBN 0-7992-20 19- 1. Com- panion book to video (see above for ordering information).

NEWDIRECTIONS (WOMEN OFZMBABrn, WOMEN OF THAILAND, WOMEN OF GUATEMALA). Three- part series by Joanne Burke. 90 mins. color. 1997, 2000. Distr.: Women Make Movies, 462 Broadway, New York, NY 10013; phone: (212) 925-0606; fax: (212) 925-2052; email: info&mm.com; website: www.wmm.com. Rental (video): $90.00. Sale (VHS): $295.00. Order #: W01735.

These films, taken together of Governance introduces the viewer to and union organizers in Sri Lanka, (along with the books that accompany the world of women working for social Thailand, and Korea struggling against two of them), provide a rich back- change, relying more on the talking the effects of neoliberal economics, ground for students in a global femi- heads of a wide variety of women ac- debt, and structural adjustment. nism course or for grassroots organiz- tivists. The sheer number of women Women in these countries were driven ers attempting to link local, national, ,and their passionate statements is im- off the land and out of their villages by and global struggles. Dolh and Dust is pressive. The three films that make up World Bank and corporate economic a detailed description of the effects of the New Directions series describe par- development projects in the first de- globalization on women in Sri Lanka, ticular women-centered projects in- cades after independence. Mobilized Thailand, and Korea. The different tended to better the lot of women. into a new work force employed by experiences of women in these cultures companies that make export goods for and countries are made clear while we Dofi and Dust, the Committee transnational corporations, these are shown in intimate detail the pain- for Asian Women's documentary on women now serve as the world's cheap- ful similarities of their plight under the women workers, makes very clear the est labor force. Their governments, neoliberal trade system. Marketisation effects of the privatization and deregu- who earn large amounts of foreign ex- lation ~oliciesof the global trade sys- change from the labor of women either tem. The film shows women workers in the home country or working abroad, serve the needs of transnational corporations for cheap

Page 14 Feminisr Collecrions (v.23, no.2, Winter 2002) change. And the message that comes and there are no such spaces. Instead, economic independence, women can through loud and clear is, "We realized a new set of local millionaires tied to stand up for their political and social that our shared experiences in the transnational corporations and com- rights. But if one takes a cue from the shifting, contested terrain of gover- mitted to the "free trade" system has other films, the question remains nance and political power had certain taken control of the state. whether being incorporated into a glo- commonalities." The incredible differences in eco- bal economy that reduces the local po- nomic well-being between North and litical power of the state to a holding From this commonality, women South play out in this debate. North company is really a step forward for from the global South confront and American and European feminists can women. In my view, although these examine the place of the state and often ignore the reality of their exclu- are short-term and vety limited solu- nonstate power in the globalized sion from state power. But in the glo- tions, they save women's lives and en- neoliberal economy. Along with the bal South, where political and eco- able them to raise healthy, educated global social justice movement, the nomic agreements made through inter- children. Northern feminists may rail women of DAWN face the dilemma of national institutions at the global and against actions that are less than ad- trying to protect the states of the glo- regional levels (most recently at Doha equate, but women of the global South bal South from the international eco- Qatar) have effectively disenfranchised need to compromise. nomic and political attacks of the citizens and the sovereignty of their Northern capitalist states. The new laws, this is very clear. The causes of These films leave us both en- world trade system (of GATT, the poverty, ignored in the North, are lightened and hopelessly confused as to WTO, NAFTA, the World Bank, and daily reality in the South. Northern directions. One thing is clear: The the International Monetary Fund) has feminists' commitment to providing a women who made these movies will be been created by and for the profit of "helping hand to Southern women out in force to fight against globaliza- Northern-now transnational--corpo- ignores their own governments' role in tion and the globalized economy. rations. In theory, the results of this causing the desperate living conditions Anyone who does not understand the enterprise will "raise all boats." for most women in the world. The fuss in Seattle, Prague, Quebec, The state as the protector of do- massive ignorance of Northern women Genoa, and Qatar could do well to mestic welfare is under challenge. In of the realities of their governments' look at these films. the Western hemisphere, for example, global economic policies is actually not "dollarization" is being pushed to seen as ignorance, but as agreement Note bring all economies under the direc- with the capitalist conspiracy; and the tion of the U.S. dollar. Local regula- potential of a collective, global 1. From "A Short History of tions to protect local economies, pub- women's movement that could lead Neoliberalism," a talk given at the lic safety, or the environment are out- the anti-globalization forces is de- Conference on Economic Sovereignty lawed if they prevent corporations stroyed. in a Globalising World, March 24-26, from making a profit. Capital is king. The question of the role of the 1999, and posted on the website of the Feminists find themselves working to .state and state power is critical, but is Global Policy Forum at http:// protect the state and its commitment often ignored in the face of the very www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/econ/ to domestic welfare, while at the same real economic crises in the global histneolhtm time challenging the state's masculin- South. The women of DAWN have ized and classist reality. brought this dilemma to the forefront Vean Grossholtz is Chair of the Women ? The book raises a challenge to the in this amazing collection of the voices Studies Program at Mount Holyoke Col- oft-repeated argument that the "de- of women. lege. She works with the Western Marsa- mocratization" of South America- chusetts Global Action Coalition, Diverse that is, the replacement of military dic- NewDirections is a series of case Womenfor Diversity, and Womenfor tators with elected officials-has pro- studies of women-centered projects Life on Earth to educate and mobilize vided more spaces for women to par- that have incorporated women into the citizens about corporate globalization.] ticipate and ~ushtheir agenda. In "new" economy. The argument of fact, there has been no democratization the three films in the series is that with

Page 16 Feminist Collections (v.23, 110.2,Winter 2002) build new factory sites Privatization has in effect turned and pass laws to discour- the most profitable of businesses, even age labor union activity. those built and sustained by public Describing the new funds, over to transnational corpora- world economic order, tions. Under the rule of the interna- Susan George writes: tional trade agreements and the World "Starting from a tiny em- Trade Organization, these corpora- bryo at the University of tions move freely across state bound- Chicago with the phi- aries. Furthermore, the emphasis on losopher-economist the rights of capital to profit has forced Friedrich von Hayek and the canceling of health, safety, and en- his students like Milton vironmental regulations. Having no Friedman at its nucleus, particular commitment to the land and the neo-liberals and their people, corporations take what they funders have created a want and move away, leaving behind huge international net- devastated communities, governments work of foundations, in- corrupted by bribery, and land de- stitutions, research cen- stroyed by unlimited, unregulated in- ters, publications, schol- dustrialization, mining, and agricul- ars, writers and public ture. relations hacks to de- The film gives the women workers velop, package and push a forum to speak out to describe the their ideas and doctrine real effects of the "new world order" relentlessly."' To the and "free trade." The accompanying neoliberal, capital be- text clarifies the developing regional comes the critical force in and international resistance. It lays development. If capital out the various strategies for control- labor by putting legal and extra-legal makes a profit, the benefits are sup- ling global capital and redistributing barriers in the way of labor union or- posed to trickle down to everyone. profits, and the kinds of controls and ganizing. Thus it follows that all governments- alternatives that have been proposed. This film presents a firsthand look and laws should be constructed and at the period of the "Asian miracle" enforced to allow profit to corpora- Marketisation of Governance: and how it went bust from the point tions. To maximize corporate profits, Critical Feminist Perspectives jam the of view of the neglected community- cheap labor and unlimited access to South is a report from the Political Re- women. It is a remarkable document, resources and markets are necessary. structuring and Social Transformation accessible and useful both to those who Prosperity for all will be built on an research project of Development Alter- have knowledge of the World Bank international trade system that empha- natives for Women in a New Era and to those ignorant of its work. sizes the private ownership of any po- (DAWN). Hundreds of participants tential profit-making enterprise and from a wide variety of organizations In the broader context outside seeks an end to any national or local took part in a series of meetings held the purview of the film, the struggles regulations- that interfere with access to around the world during 1999 and of these women represent the power- markets and to cheap labor and re- 2000. The film and the companion less stance of labor against the eco- sources. book provide a remarkable view of the nomic force of global corporations that But the film and its accompanying world of women organizing for social are able to transfer capital instanta- text make clear that quite the opposite neously all over the world. Capital has happened. moves freely from country to country. Governments in search of foreign ex- change to pay their debt willingly

Feminist Collections (v.23, no.2, W~nter2002) Page 15 H Remember that our website (http://www. The ASIA PACIFIC ONLINE NETWORK OF WOMEN library. wisc.edu/libraries/ WomensStudies/) includes IN GOVERNANCE, POLITICS, AND TRANSFORMA- electronic versions of all recent "Computer Talk" col- TIVE LEADERSHIP, at http:// umns, plus many bibliographies, core lists of women's www.onlinewomeninpolitics.org, is run by the Center for studies books, and links to hundreds of other websites by Asia-Pacific Women in Politics in the Philippines as a "digi- topic. tal working space for Asian and Pacific women leaders." Information about electronic journals and maga- The network "believes that all women from different races, zines, particularly those with numbered or dated issues religious background, social status and political persuasions posted on a regular schedule, can be found in our "Peri- should come as one and be united in upholding women's odical Notes" column. H rights and pushing for the advancement of all women through active participation and involvement in politics, governance and decision-making." The site offers back- ground and news on the situation of women in countries from Australia and Azerbaijan to Thailand and Vietnam, as ADVENTURE DIVAS-"your globetrotting revolution on well as a fascinating section on women's suffrage worldwide. screen and onlinen-is a PBS series and also a website, at http://Www.adventuredivas.com, that best describes itself: The ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S LEAD- "a broad enterprise that unites adventure travel and mod- ERSHIP INSTITUTE (APAWLI), based in the United ern-day heroines to create fresh new media for television States, offers leadership training to Asian and Pacific Is- and the web. Home base is Seattle, Washington, USA. On lander American women through its year-long fellowship our up days we call ourselves a girl-driven media empire. program and one-day regional workshops. The Institute, On our down days.. .well, we just drink more coffee. Our which maintains a website at http://Www.apawli.org/, also PBS television series captures the humor, debacle and dis- hosts "national summits"; the next one will be in May 2003 covery inherent in low-rent travel and explores cultures with in Washington, D.C. divavision-that is, through the lens of the independent women whose vision, individualism and actions will rule the The ASIAN WOMEN'S CENTER offers help with future. This web site is a home for like-mindeds to join our "troubles or problems such as visa, family matters, children, exploration, as well as to connect and exchange informa- Japanese, diseases and jobs" to foreign women living in Ja- tion-whether it's a recipe for Kiwi tea cakes or the ingredi- pan. The Center's website at http://wwwl.plala.or.jp/ ents for accessing the diva within. There are also strategies AWCenter/indexOl.html only offers such basic details as a for planning your own pilgrimage, profiles and essays, and hotline phone number, contact numbers for support groups avant-garde travel advice from columnist Inga La Gringa." in five cities, and times and locations for a Japanese lan- One of the founders, Holly Morris, was an editorial director guage class, but it gives that vital information in English, at Seal Press; another (Holly's mother, Jeannie Morris) was Japanese, Tagalog, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, a CBS sportscaster. and Thai.

AMERICANS AND THE WORLD, a site maintained by Women's rights and gender parity in Singapore are champi- the Program on International Policy Attitudes (University oned by an NGO called the ASSOCIATION OF of Maryland), reports on public opinion about a huge range WOMEN FOR ACTION AND RESEARCH (AWARE), of topics, including women's international issues: http:// which maintains a website at http://www.aware.org.sg/. Www.americans-world.org/digest/global_issues/women/ Online discussion forums on workplace issues and other women-summary.cfm topics are available.

Feminist Collections (v.23, no.2, Winter 2002) Page 17 The CANADIAN BREAST CANCER NETWORK DESA HUMANITARIAN ORGANISATION in (CBCN), in English and French at http://www.cbcn.ca/, Dubrovnik, Croatia, originally founded to help women suf- "is the national voice of breast cancer survivors and serves as fering from the psychological effects of the war, "now pro- the pulse of Canada's breast cancer community." The site motes economic and community development through includes news releases, papers on current issues (e.g, "Envi- public education, while continuing to provide a space for ronmental Chemicals and Breast Cancer"), and articles women to support one another." One of DeSa's economic about activism. development projects is to bring back the local women's silk-production craft. See http://desa.dubrovnik.orgl. The CANADIAN WOMEN'S INTERNET DIREC- TORY, http://directory.wornenspace.ca/, has more than DIGITAL EVE, "a global, non-profit organization for 1200 links, in categories ranging from "aboriginal women" women in new media and digital technology," has chapters and "anti-poverty" to "women's studies" and "work," to in many U.S. and Canadian metropolitan areas as well as in sites that are "promoting awareness of women's equality is- Israel, Japan, and the U.K., and a website at http:/l sues, debates, campaigns, activism, creativity, services, re- www.digitaleve.com The organization is "committed to search and policy issues." providing a supportive, educational community for women." The CENTRE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH in New Delhi, India, "aims towards making women empowered and self- ENGENDERHEALTH,a nonprofit organization whose reliant individuals, conscious of their rights." The website website was introduced in this column last season (Feminist (http://www.csrindia.org/) offers information on legislation Co[[ections v.23, no.l), now offers online mini-courses in affecting women (e.g., the Domestic Violence Bill), a news- sexual and reproductive health for health care workers in letter, and more. "low-resource settings" around the world. Anyone can ac- cess the courses at http://www.engenderhealth.org/res/onc/ CO-ABODE: SINGLE MOTHERS HOUSE SHARING offers a network of support-including a way to link up FEAST, the association for Feminist Ethics and Social with potential housemates to share expenses-to women Theory, is "dedicated to promoting feminist ethical perspec- raising children alone. Membership costs $29.95 for six tives on philosophy, moral and political life, and public months; members get access to an electronic bulletin board policy." The association's fledgling website at http:// and chat room and help in finding or setting up a single www.afeast.org/ offers two listservs (one specifically for mothers' support group, as well as the opportunity to fill graduate students), information on membership and confer- out a "personal profile" and search the listings of other ences, and links to other organizations. moms seeking home-sharing arrangements. Website is at http://www.co-abode.com The worldwide electronic GENDER AND DISASTER NETWORK seeks to answer the question "Why Does Gen- The endeavors of the COMMITTEE FOR WOMEN, der Matter?" by inviting its members to submit material POPULATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT (CWPE) that can "illustrate the range of first-hand experiences include "challeng[ingl the belief that population growth is women and men have in disaster, thinking of survivors, the primary cause of environmental degradation, conflict, agency o%cials, front-line responders, relief workers, com- and growing poverty" and "support[ingl women's right to munity activists, technical specialists, academics, govern- safe, voluntary birth control and abortion, while strongly ment spokespersons, and all the other actors." One of the opposing demographically driven population policies." papers available through the website is titled "Women's Di- CWPE's website: http://www.cwpe.org/old-websitel saster Vulnerability and Response to the Colima Earth- indexhtrnl quake," by Carolina Serrat Viiias. See the network's offer- ings at http://www.anglia.ac.uk/geography/gdn/

Girls can design robots! GIRLSTART, a nonprofit with a Web presence at http://www.girlstart.org, "provides a sup- portive and empowering atmosphere in which girls perform hands-on activities with robots, microscopes, environmental

Page 18 Feminist Collections (v.23, no.2, Winrer 2002) science, math, engineering, and technology." Many of the collections of the Goteborg University Library (Sweden), is organization's activities take place at its physical site in Aus- free online at hccp://www.ub.gu.se/samlingar/dvinn/ tin, Texas, but "Club Girlstart," a twenty-week program for kvinnsamt school-based or community girls' groups, can be used any- where via CD-ROM. The MACHREQIMAGHREB GENDER LINKING AND INFORMATION PROJECT, "a forum for learning, The GLOBAL SISTERHOOD NETWORK (GSN), at communication and exchange on women, gender and devel- http://home.vicnet.nec.au/-globalsn/, "monitors electronic opment in the Arab world," has a website at http:/l and print media for developments in agriculture, econom- www.women-machreq-maghreb.com/ The project is sup- ics, employment, environment, health, law, militarism, poli- ported by OXFAM. tics, technology, trade and science which have a direct im- pact on the realities of women's lives. GSN provides regu- THE MEN'S BIBLIOGRAPHY, produced by Michael larly updated information including critical comment and Flood since 1992 "to promote feminist and pro-feminist displays of newspaper and journal articles that reinforce pa- scholarship," has been updated with about a thousand new criarchy/misogyny but which have attracted sparse attention references. Use of the bibliography is free: http:// and/or comment as the world moves closer and closer to www.anu.edu.au/-all2465/mensbiblio/ undemocra~~." mensbibliomenu.html

The INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY OF WOMEN "Women are veterans too!" proclaims the web "captain" of LIVING WITH HIVIAIDS (ICW), "the only interna- the site MILITARY WOMEN VETERANS YESTERDAY tional network run for and by HIV positive women," is a - TODAY - TOMORROW, at http://userpages.aug.com/ U.K.-based organization with a membership of over 800 captbarbl. Women in the U.S. military from the Revolu- women and a website at http://www.icw.org/ Still under tionary War to Operation Desert Fox are highlighted, and construction on the site is an online "survival kit" in En- there are pages devoted to pilots, astronauts, musicians, and glish, Spanish, and French. spies.

Feminist author JO FREEMAN has a site of her own, at The NATIONAL CENTER FOR WOMEN AND RE- http://www.jofreeman.com. Includes some of Freeman's TIREMENT RESEARCH has done surveys and polls on photographs (e.g., of civil rights demonstrations and the financial literacy, divorce over age forty, retirement prepara- 1968 Democratic Convention), a of her personal tion among the Baby Boom, and other issues, and offers collections of political buttons (the feminist collection in- summary reports, publications, links, and an archive of ar- cludes "Women Make Policy Not Coffee"), and many of ticles on its website at http://www.agingfocus.com/ her articles (including eight on women at political conven- - - tions and six on the feminist movement). SAKYADHITA ("Daughters of Buddha") is the name of the International Association of Buddhist Women, founded KIDMA: THE PROJECT FOR ADVANCEMENT OF in 1987. The association's website, http:// WOMEN IN ISRAEL, based at the University of Haifa, www.sakyadhita.org/, includes a 79-item bibliography on aims to strengthen "civil society, women's righrs in Israel, "Women and the Female in Buddhism," extensive notes on the advancement ofwomen in general, and "Female Deities in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition," biog- multiculturalism." One of the project's many specific goals raphies of women Buddhist teachers, and much more. is "to bring marginalized women together (Druze women from towns outside of Haifa, Arab women from villagts in SAVING WOMEN'S LIVES is dedicated to implementing the Galilee, or new immigrants from the former Soviet the goals of the 1994 International Conference on Popula- Union and Ethiopia), in order to seize the opportunity for tion and Development as they relate to women's health and future growth." Website: http://kidma.haifa.ac.il/ rights. The initiative's website at http:// index.htm www.savingwomenslives.org/index.htmincludes news up-

KVINNSAM, an interdisciplinary scholarly database of more than 90,000 citations reflecting the women's history

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The Women's Issues Network of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada (HSSFC) has electronically published IVORY TOWERS, FEMINIST ISSUES: SE- LECTED PAPERS FROM THE WNSk7MPOSU,200& A discussion list called BALKAN WOMEN AND 2001 at http://www.hssfc.ca/english/policyandadvocacy/ FRIENDS has been launched as a resource for anyone do- win/ivorprcontents.cfm. Of the network's purpose, ing research on women in the Balkans. Find out more and HSSFC Vice-President Wendy Robbins writes in the fore- join at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BakanWomen/ word: "We work for women's equality and for gender-sensi- tive teaching, research, and scholarship on campuses and in ETUDESFEMINISTES-L is a French-language women's communities across Canada. We examine the academy-its studies discussion list. To subscribe, go to http:// infrastructure, culture, politics, organizations, and im- 1istes.univ-tlse2.fr/wws/info/etudesfeministes-1 pacts-through a feminist lens, and make recommendations and take action for educational equity and social change." FEAST, the association for Feminist Ethics and Social The collection of papers, which includes "Scaling Glassy Theory, offers two discussion lists: FEAST and FEAST Slopes to the Ivory Tower: Graduate Female Students Ne- GRAD (the latter for graduate students). Details are at gotiate Education, Research and Academic Life," by Jane http://www.afeast.org/Listserv%2OPage/listserv.htm Zigman of Queen's University, can be read on the site or downloaded as .pdf files. H-GENDER-MIDEAST, sponsored by H-Net and other groups and based at the American University in Cairo, is The NOVA SCOTIA ADVISORY COUNCIL ON THE "an electronic venue for discussion of crucial gender issues STATUS OF WOMEN offers downloadable publications in the Arabic-speaking Middle East, Turkey, the Caucuses, on DOMESTIC VIOLENCE and other topics at http:// Central Asia, Western Asia, the Mediterranean, and sub- www.gov.ns.ca/staw/pub.htm Saharan Africa." Read recent posts and find out how to join at http://www2.h-net.ms~.edu/-~end-mid Joanna Fine of Women &Environments International maga- zine has compiled lists of links to ON-LINE BIBLIOGRA- PHIES OF ECOFEMINIST WRITING and INTRO- DUCTORY READINGS ON-LINE in the Fall 2001 issue (featuring ecofeminism), which can be found at http:// www.weimag.com/ (under "Current Issue," scroll all the Find distributors of WOMEN-RELATED VIDEOS on the way down to "WE Surf'). website of the University of Wisconsin System Office of the Women's Studies Librarian: http://www.library.wisc.edu/ SEE HOW THEY GROW BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT librarieslWomensStudies/distribs.htm.Distributors listed SER WCES FOR WOMEN'S BUSINESS GROWTH, by may be companies, organizations, or individuals; many have Simel Esim (International Center for Research on Women, websites. 2001), looks at the importance of women's microenterprises to their family, local, and national economies. Listed with publications on poverty and economic growth at http:// www.icrw.org/publications~poverty.htm 0 compiled by JoAnne Lehman, with special thanks to ARROWSfor Change, CRIAWNews- The text of THE WOMEN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENE letter, James Danky, Gender &Development, Penney Kome WEREIT'S BEEN, WEREIT'S AT, a talk given to the of Womenspace, We! (ISIS International), WDBulletin, and all who point us to new online resources

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outnumber men having this surgery Sherrow credits the Chinese as the first ten to one). Although the number of people to use cosmetics for personal Victoria Sherrow, FOR APPEAR- men seeking cosmetic surgery is on the beautification, some 4,000 years ago. ANCE' .WE: THE HISTORIUL rise, Sherrow states that surgeons re- A pale complexion was the ideal for ENCYCLOPEDLA OF GOOD port that men have a lower tolerance women, who wore heavy makeup to LOOKS, BEA UTk: AND GROOM- for pain, require more medication pre- achieve this look and treated their skin ING. Phoenix: Oryx, 2001. 299p. ill. and post-surgery, and bleed more, but each night with white lead and rice bibl. index. $67.50, ISBN 1-57356- also heal more quickly. powder. Like contemporary Western- 204- 1. About half the entries in For Ap- ers, ancient Chinese women followed pearance'Sake are about individuals, fashions, including eyebrow styles, O.K., O.K., so not all material on companies, and organizations associ- which went from sharp-pointed arches good looks, beauty, and grooming per- ated with beauty and grooming. This in the second century, through curved tains to women-but the vast majority is a convenient place to find a page or arches, "sorrow brows," and "distant of entries in For Appearance'Sake do, two on Christie Brinkley, Cindy mountain" brow designs drawn on and therefore this title is suitable for Crawford, and other models; cosmetics foreheads made yellow using pigment inclusion as a new reference work of entrepreneurs such as Elizabeth Arden from Cambodia. The tradition of interest to women's studies. Even a and Mary Kay Ash; the founding and foot-binding is explained, as is the atti- seemingly unisex topic such as "bad growth of L'Oreal, Revlon, and other tude toward appearance under the breath" contains women-specific infor- well-known cosmetic companies; the Communists. Other articles describe mation: Sherrow reveals that halitosis unnamed, expert "noses" of the per- henna, the body paint used by women did not become a social problem until fume industry; and a progression of in India and Arab lands; the Wodaabe Listerine told the American populace critics of the cosmetics industry. Sub- nomads of Niger, known for their per- that it was one, with their classic ad jects such as body image, beauty con- sonal adornment; and the beauty- warning of being "always a bridesmaid tests, and weight are listed as "social products consumption patterns and but never a bride." Later Certs chimed issues" in a Guide to Selected Topics interests of Hispanic Americans. in with, "If he kissed you once, will he provided at the beginning of the book, A book on these topics would be kiss you again?" (p.66). Similarly, after signaling Sherrow's approach to these much less desirable or interesting with- reviewing the history of cosmetic sur- topics. Other entries treat each body out pictures, and thankfully, For Ap- gery, the entry for plastic surgery de- part associated with appearance and a pearance'sake has plenty of them. The scribes each procedure in use today, variery of grooming techniques and most chilling is a photograph accom- calling attention to the disproportion- practices. panying the article on animal testing, ate number ofwomen who undergo- For Appearance'Sake gathers infor- of a bunch of bunnies lined up with tummy tucks (abdominoplasty), mation on beauty and grooming in their heads poking through restraints liposuction (now the most frequently many cultures and across time from (p.18). It'll make you want to run out performed cosmetic surgery in the the ancient world through the present. and join PETA. A close second is an United States among people aged Several countries or regions have their X ray of Chinese bound feet that have thirty-five to fifty), brachioplasty own entries (Arabia from ancient times become permanently disabled (p. 120). (tightening the loose skin of the upper through the Middle Ages, Byzantine arm), eye-lifts (blepharoplasty), breast Empire, Nazi Germany, etc.). reduction, implants, and various forms of soft-tissue augmentation (women

Feminist Collections (v.23, no.2, Winter 2002) Page 23 On the other hand, there is a pretty should find the book quite helpful. books are shared throughout the book. shot of singerlactress Erykah Badu il- Rand and Parker point out features Over and over these commentators lustrating dreadlocks and one of Lillian that librarians and teachers would make the point that when they were Russell, an actress regarded as a model want to know about, such as "Carib- growing up there were no black char- of feminine beauty in 1900. All en- bean dialect" (used in Jump Up Time: acters in the books they read (one ex- tries contain suggestions for further A Trinihd Carnival Story, by Lynn ception being Little Black Sambo, later reading that range from articles in Joseph, ClarionIHo~~hton-Mifflin, scorned). As children's book author People Magazine and Roseanne Show 1998), positive use of the word nappy Eleonora E. Tare recalls, "It is hard to interviews to academic books. Web- (in Happy to be Nappy, a picture book miss what you don't know you should based information is also cited. by bell hooks, Jump at the Sun1 have ...I'm not sure which is worse-to Perhaps not an essential purchase Hyperion, 1999), and the presence of be left out of books completely or be for libraries, but an interesting survey a glossary with definitions for koppies, included and written about in a racist nonetheless of beauty, grooming, and klofi and other Zimbabwean terms manner ... But I'm sure it would have other aspects of personal adornment. found in Where Are You Going, been nicer to have had more shared Manyoni?, written and illustrated by childhood racial experiences in literary Catherine Stock (William Morrow, print" (p. 151). No African American 1993). girl need feel that way again. The The book is arranged in sections books described in this Guide and Donna Rand and Toni Trent Parker, by reading level: books for babies and those that are sure to follow will see to BLACK BOOKS GALORE! GUIDE preschoolers, for early readers (kinder- that. TO GREATAFRIC4NAMERIC4N garten through third grade), and for CHILDREN'S BOOKS ABOUT middle readers (approximately fourth GIRLS. New York: John Wiley & through eighth gades). Each section Sons, 2001. 21 Ip. illus. index. opens with examples of the types of $15.95, ISBN 0-471-37526-8. books described and themes addressed, Sybil Oldfield, COLLECTNE BIOG- mentioning several titles. An Index of RAPHY OF WOMEN IN BRITAIN, Two founders of Black Books Ga- Topics also helps find selections with 1550-1900: A SELECTANNO- lore!, an organizer of African American particular themes, including Africa, TATED BZBLIOGRAPNY. New children's book festivals, have selected friendship with peers, religion, and York and London: Mansell, 1999. and annotated a list of 360 books many books with "adolescent situa- 168p. ill., index. $1 10.00, ISBN O- about girls and women. Each features tions." Throughout the book there are 7201-2321-6. a female main character who is "attrac- numerous black-and-white reproduc- tive, bright, thoughtful, strong, re- tions of book covers accompanying the Oldfield's bibliography might also sourceful, and capable" (p. I), provid- entries, and, less often, quotations, have been titled Corrective Collective ing young readers with protagonists, such as "You and I are Africa's Biography. What's interesting is that situations, and illustrations in which .daughters... My father told me once she's not targeting the usual suspects- they can recognize parts of themselves, that Africa's daughters are the children male biographers throughout history their families, and friends. The com- of the sun; the sun has touched us. who paid no attention to women of pilers claim no "professional" expertise Our darkness is proof of its blessings" their time-but rather feminists Gerda other than being parents (and running (p.92), from Jewels, by Belinda Roch- Lerner and Carolyn Heilbrun, who in their book distribution business), and elle (LodestarIDutton, 1998). Both Oldfield's opinion overstate that only list books they would give to their fiction and nonfiction are included; women were, by and large, ignored as own daughters. Yet their choices and biographies constitute most of the subjects. Not so, says Oldfield, offer- comments seem quite well made, and nonfiction. ing 364 instances through 1901 (the as well as parents Remembrances from famous au- variation in date from the title allowed thors, illustrators, and public figures her to include the volumes of the Dic- about childhood reading and favorite tionary of National Biography Supple- .ment issued that year) in which a sig- nificant number of British women

Page 24 Feminist Collecrions (v.23, no.2, Winter 2002) were included in collective biographies. all Distinguished Women.. . (1 853) is nizations are in this volume. What's more, she's convinced that "[tlhe blockbuster-900 pages and Although 1825 is an arbitrary exact women readers of their day would have over 2000 entries; a real feat of diges- start date, it is useful according to the been familiar with many of the lives tion ..." (Item 130), while William Ox- authors, because prior to the early portrayed, though no single reader berry's Dramatic Biography and Histri- nineteenth century formal women's would have known them all, because onic Anecdotes (1825) was " [eldited by organizations in Britain were run by religious divisions limited which influ- a widow who feels free to publish her men. There were plenty of informal ential women were deemed worthies. husband's candid commentary now women's gatherings, but these were A "category index" points users of the that he is safely dead. A fascinating most apt to be confined to social and bibliography to entries with material often unflattering compilation of bio- cultural matters that fit comfortably in on artists, freethinkers, martyrs, data and stage-history, including many the womanly private sphere. However, learned women, midwives, women reli- Irish and Jewish actresses, their strug- by around 1825, autonomous gious,- women of various ethnicities, gles and often bitter marital experi- women's organizations- arose in tandem women by century in which they lived, ence" (Item 98). with a growing realization that public and more. Oldfield signals- her aware- Occasionally Oldfield provides a life could-and in the view of many, ness that many of the accounts are library location in Britain for an item. should-be open to women. Many stilted-in her picturesque imagery, "a Users in the United States should women's rights organizations formed, film of dull, pietistic varnish covers all check WorldCat or other unified cata- but so did groups for a variety of other too many" (p.xvi)-but she believes logs before assuming there is no hold- purposes. As varied as the groups were, that beneath the varnish, and in the ing in America. For example, Oldfield they all patterned their structure on hands of some biographers, lie lives of located the catalogue of the Collection men's organizations, with their atten- vitality. Perhaps to stimulate that of Portraits of Eminent British Women dant rules and hierarchy. It was not thinking among the users of the bibli- As Exhibited at Chicago in 1833 at until after 1960 (and hence the closing ography, she includes numerous por- Girton College Library, Cambridge. date for the Dictionary) that women's traits and reproductions of illustrations However, it was also microfilmed as groups tried out nonhierarchical struc- from the books listed. part of the Gerritsen Collection of turing. The scope includes Britain, Oldfield found three types of col- Women's History and is held in many Scotland, and Wales throughout the lective biography: biographical ency- libraries here. time frame and Ireland through the clopedias often compiled by clerics, Well worth a purchase by aca- establishment of the Irish Free State in women-only collections without a demic libraries. 1921. common theme, and women-only col- The entries are arranged alphabeti- lections of particular categories of cally, with cross-references to name women. She comments in her intro- variants. The authors provide dates, duction on the relative preponderance names of founders and other promi- of the three types. - over time and wisely nent leaders, address, -purpose, - source arranges the bibliography chronologi- of information on, and a summary of Peter Gordon & David Doughton, cally so that a historiography of the the history of each organization. A bib- DICTIONARY OFBRITISH genre emerges. liography contains the full citations to WOMEN'S ORGAN124 TZONS Oldfield's annotations often make the sources mentioned. 1825--1960.London: Woburn Press, an entertaining read. R. Polwhele's The In addition to scholars for whom 2001. Distr.: International Special- Unsex'd Females (1798) she describes the book is intended, others will find ized Book Services, Inc. (5824 N.E. as an "[alnti-Jacobin, misogynist versi- the Dictionary an interesting work to Hassalo Street, Portland, OR 97213). fied listing of reprehensible radical browse. Every page reveals the creativ- 218p. ill. bibl. index. $49.50, ISBN women headed by Mary Woll- ity of women in coming together for a 0-71 30-0223-9. stonecraft... Deeply unpleasant tri- shared purpose. For example, we may umphing that M.W. 'Died a death Over 500 social, political, reli- that strongly marked the distinction of gious, and professional women's orga- the sexes' ..." (Item 66). Sara Josepha Hale's Woman i Record, or Sketches of

Feminisr Collccrions (v.23, no.2, Winrer 2002) Page 25 think distance learning is a contempo- affects what is studied. Unfortunately large women's feelings. Occasionally rary invention, but College by Post, for historians who will find the Dictio- heterosexual men are the targets, but founded in 1881 to help young nary such a valuable resource in other when they are, the words often veil women improve their education by ways, the authors do not list the loca- appreciation as well as disparagement. means of correspondence, puts that tion of archival holdings for any of the (Think of the difference between "slut" erroneous notion to rest. The League groups for which such records exist. and "stud.") Source material for the of Isis promoted motherhood and Presumably this information is embed- dictionary came from a variety of "more rational and humane sex rela- ded in the sources listed, but a more books listed in the bibliography and tions generallyv in pre-World War I direct listing would have been more of usages noted in the media. years. Women's Institutes in rural ar- an incentive to researchers. Neverthe- Herbst provides a definition and eas stimulated interest in agriculture, less, any budding historian looking for history of the usage for each of the helped develop local co-ops, and a project on British women's history thousand-plus entries, along with proved to be centers for educational would find reading the Dictionary a cross-references to synonyms and re- and social activities. The Rational useful experience. lated terms. One of the longer entries, Dress Society, formed in 1888, ob- for "girllgirlie," makes a good example. jected to fashions that deformed the Herbst begins with the Middle English body, impeded movement, or injured origin as gurle. Surprisingly, it started health. They set a maximum weight out meaning a young person of either for women's outfits (not including Philip H. Herbst, WMMIN, WMPS sex. Boys were knave girlr and young shoes) of seven pounds! The United & WALL FLOWRS: AN ENCY- females were gay girlr. By the fifteenth Women Bookfolders' Union must CLOPAEDIC DICTIONARY OF century it solely denoted females. But have done just what its name implies, GENDER AND SEXUAL ORTENTA- that gain in specificity was offset by as did the Union of Women Match- TION BUS IN THE UNITED many new negative connotations as makers-in match factories, not as go- STATES. Yarmouth, ME: Intercul- low-class ("serving girl") or prostitute betweens arranging marriages. There tural Press, 200 1. 322p. bibl. $54.38, (as in today's "call girl"). Herbst then are of course numerous suffrage orga- ISBN 1-877864-80-3. leaps across to the nventieth century to nizations listed, as well as the occa- when girl was established as referring at sional anti-suffrage group. Twenty- The colorful alliterative title masks times to a woman of any age, citing four illustrations of broadsides, maga- a work with a serious purpose: explor- Dorothy Parker's "Men never make zines, and photographs whet the appe- ing the patterns of language bias that passes at girls who wear glasses," with tite for more. disparage heterosexual women and les- its asymmetry benveen men and girlr. In their introduction, Gordon and bian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered He provides a series of further ex- Doughan point to the disparate atten- people. Herbst points to the large amples of asymmetrical usage. A G- tion scholars have paid to some of the number of animal and food terms that girl was 1930s slang for a woman em- organizations at the expense of others, are used to put down women. Women ployed by the federal government; a G- in their view based on "how they fit an .and girls andlor their genitals have man worked only for the Federal Bu- accepted academic paradigm" as well as been called beavers, pussies, heifers, reau of Investigation. Schoolgirl con- whether there were interesting contro- fillies, dogs, bunnies, cows, and worse. notes frivolousness and a crybaby; a versies within the groups. Those rea- Who could take seriously a female re- schoolboy is a prankster. Female sons may themselves be open to de- ferred to as a tomato, tamale, cutie pie, friends refer to each other as girpiends; bate, but that won't happen without cupcake, or dish? Sometimes gender males don't use boyfiends. He notes research on more of the organizations bias internvines with other biases, as in the 1940s usages pinup girl and sweater and, as the authors correctly mention, "hag" and other words that denigrate girl, the success of feminists in the on their individual members. It is also old age; "rednecks," directed at rural or 1970s in removing from common par- the case that the availability of material small-town whites; "squaw" and lance the demeaning oficegirl and girl "Jezebel" as Indian and Black epithets, or gal Friday, and the persistence of respectively; and a host of ways to hurt single girl, glamour girl, cover girl, and workinggirl. The negative use ofgirl ro mean a soft or effeminare boy or

Page 26 Feminist Collections (v.23, no.2, Winter 2002) man comes next, followed by the Perhaps it is best to start with of a traditional liberal arts education. mostly positive associations carried by what this book is not. It is not a basic Although Leonard sees some gains for daddy? girl compared to mama ? boy. how-to-!go-about-!getting-a-Ph.D., nor doctoral students in a managerialist Girlie and girlish are also described. is it designed to offer tips on self-im- university (more supervision), she finds Rounding out the nuances is a discus- provement so that women can better implicit a "new masculinism" that sion of the way 1990s young women succeed in a masculine setting. In- "over-values rationality, individual au- began using girl to connote strength stead, it is a feminist, research-based tonomy, objectivity, and scientism, and assertiveness, as in girl-power, volume that assumes that women are and now also political passionlessness Tank Girl (the comic-book heroine), "positioned inequitably within the and econonism" (p.45). Leonard's the various grrrlr around, and the rela- supposedly liberal, cerebral world of own passion is conveyed-another dif- tionship of this usage to Black English. postgraduate studies" and need guid- ference from standard guides to higher In a similar vein, the entries for queen ance on "how best to push back or education. In this case, she cites her and queer chart the positive uses by move around problems and come out own work on the subject ("Transform- members of the gay community of in front-without selling out" (p.2). ing Doctoral Studies: Competencies terms that were used disparagingly Like the good feminist sociologist that and Artistry," in Higher Education in about them. she is, Leonard sees gender- differences Europe v. 25, no. 2, pp.18 1-92), but The entries in Wimmin, Wimps Q as an effect rather than a cause ("Gen- numerous other scholars are quoted Wallflowers are amusing to browse and der is the effect of participating in par- and referenced throughout the book. rather comprehensive. Nevertheless, ticular social practices, rather than the The other chapters cover topics more Herbst asks for suggested additions for other way around... It is not a question typical of guidebooks: things to con- a future edition. Readers may enjoy of socially constructed/performed dif- sider in deciding to do a doctorate; thinking of some. I'll offer one: t~ophy ferences giving rise to inequality, so finding the right supervisor/major pro- w2fe for a second wife much younger much as inequalities in a binarily di- fessor, department, university, and than her predecessor and husband. vided society giving rise to constructed even country; finding the time and The intended audience for and reconstructed 'differences"' (p.7)). money; the research process; combat- Wimmin, Wimps Q Wallflowers is Leonard sees academia as a place that ing barriers to completion (problems "anyone interested in issues of gender "actively constitutes gender... within within the university, including the and sexual orientation," along with which individuals construct and recon- chilly climate for women, harassment, educators, writers, speakers, students struct themselves as gendered subjects and violence, as well as pressures from of language and society, and nonnative by engaging in masculine and feminine personal life); formal assessment of speakers of English. Most of the con- ways of thinking and talking, and doctoral work, and life thereafter. In temporary connotations will be famil- sexual and other social interactions." each case, Leonard interweaves iar to adult native speakers of Ameri- To her, "the very concept of 'being an gendered considerations with general can English, but the historical usages academic' (or a 'professional', or a 're- ones. For example, in Chapter 3, may not be, and certainly nonnative search student') is gendered and "Where to Study? Finding the Right speakers will glean a great deal about classed" (p.7). These quotations Supervisor and the Right University," the ways biases wormed their way into should make it clear that this is no or- she states that universities need stu- English and often persist today. dinary guidebook. dents and therefore that potential stu- Sc, what does a research-based dents are in a buyer's market, while guide contain? For starters, an exami- cautioning women who may lack self- nation of the effects on doctoral stud- confidence and feel flattered by accep- ies of higher education being seen to- tance to be careful in their choice. Diane Leonard, A WOMAN'S GUIDE day as increasingly market-driven and Down the road, the reputation of the TO DOCTORAL STUDIES. managerial, where the dominant goal is institution and the willingness of the Buckingham [Eng.] and Philadelphia: efficient production of skilled workers advisor to be supportive will be highly Open University Press, 200 1. 294p. rather than commitment to the values bibl. index. £50.00, ISBN 0-335- 20253-5; pap., £16.99, ISBN 0-335- - 20252-7.

Feminist Collections (v.23, 110.2, Winter 2002) Page 27 important in obtaining an academic LC' gender studies' has been a term em- A measure of the strength and ma- position. She goes over general infor- ployed by some in the UK with an turity of lesbian studies scholarship mation on what to seek in a supervisor, equal rights approach, and who (a) and activism so wonderfully captured then turns to factors that research has don't want to be tarred by radical, in Le~bianHistories and Cultures can be shown contribute to successful doc- feminist associations, (b) think focus- taken before reading a single entry, by toral experiences for women (close re- ing specifically on women is unaccept- beginning instead with the biographies lationship with an accessible supervi- able and (c) have little sense of the in- of the contributors (rightfully placed sorladvisor, often female, and integra- equality between men and women... [It] by Zimmerman at the start of the vol- tion into a student reference group). tend[s] to undermine feminism1 ume rather than relegated to the end). She also discusses the added necessity women's studies... It makes it not only Calling them a veritable Who's Who for those students who expect to do easy to 'mainstream,' but also easy to of lesbian, gay, queer, and women's feminist work of finding an advisor lose sight of women (again) as subjects, studies and activism around lesbian, familiar with feminist scholarship and actors and academics" (p. 189). gay, queer, and feminist issues may be methodology. In terms of finding the As can be seen in the last quota- a clichC, but an accurate one. Some of right department, she covers variations tion, this book is oriented toward do- the sketches are interesting because of in departmental ethos and the impor- ing a doctorate in the U.K. However, the amazing string of tags used to de- tance of being somewhere with a criti- Leonard is quite careful in all chapters scribe the contributors: black, Puerto cal mass of women staff and students to add comparative and contrasting Rican, lesbian, feminist, socialist editor and women-friendly policies and orga- information for the U.S., Australia, (Juanita Diaz-Cotto); writer, pub- nizations (especially an active women's and elsewhere. Indeed, she does this lisher, academic, and aerialist (Susan center). Each chapter ends with anno- much more than most US.-based Hawthorne), lesbian feminist theolo- tated suggestions for further reading. writers ever do. American readers gian, Episcopal priest, professor, and One chapter expands on the prob- should bear this in mind and read poet (Carter Heyard); physician, psy- lems associated with doing feminist what she actually says, rather than be- chiatric consultant, lesbian activist, doctoral research (mentioned in the ing put off by headings such as "Why and filmmaker (Dee Mosbacher); the chapter on finding the right supervi- Have a Viva?" (oral thesis defense) or only "English-born Jewish lesbian sor). Chapter 6 warns that advisors the use of "supervisor" for what would feminist academic economist in often direct the doctoral student's be termed a thesis advisor and commit- AotearoaINew Zealand (and could reading, but may do a poor job when tee here. The combination of discus- drop several components and still be they themselves have not read much (if sion of issues confronting doctoral stu- the only one!)" (Prue Hyman); and any) of twenty-five years of feminist dents and findings from research essayist, editor, poet, historian, work. Leonard advises finding a spe- makes A Woman ? Guide to Doctoral teacher, and Archives co-founder (Joan cialist on gender, or at least doing a Studies a unique book, useful to poten- Nestle) are just some examples. And thorough reading of the works listed at tial doctoral candidates and to others it's not only who they are but what the end of the chapter. She also interested in the nature of academe. they are doing that is exciting to read spends some time reviewing the stages about. Carolyn Gage does a one- of feminist scholarship since 1970, dis- woman show and has written the first tinguishing it from an equal rights per- manual on lesbian theater; Giney spective, and situating women's stud- Villar chairs the Womyn Supporting ies. Women's studies program direc- Bonnie Zimmerman, ed., LESBW Womyn Centre, a lesbian organization tors and others uneasy with a sugges- HISTORIES AND CULTURES: AN in the Philippines. Victoria Krane tion or directive to change the name of ENCYCLOPEDM. New York: Gar- studies lesbians in sports; Alice Hom, their program to gender studies may land, 2000. (Vol. 1 of Encyclopedia of lesbians of color in Los Angeles and want to read Leonard's defense of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cul- New York. Vera Whisman wrote women? studies. She says, in part, that tures). 862p. ill. index. $140.00, Queer By Choice (19 9 6); Toni ISBN 0-8 153-1920-7; $250.00 for the McNaron co-edited The New Lesbian set, ISBN 0-8153-3354-4. Studies: Into the 21" Century (1996, .with Lesbian Histories and Cultures edi-

Page 28 Feminist Collecrions (v.23, no.2, Winrer 2002) tor Zimmerman); and Celia Kitzinger anism (called controversial in the entry "reinscription" and "essentialism" has published eight books and nearly by Paula C. Rust), Woman-Identified would gain an excellent summary of one hundred chapters and articles on Woman, Butch-Femme, and Separat- the positions taken in Nussbaum and lesbian and feminist issues. These are ism are other entries associated with the other scholars described by just a sampling of the scores of con- lesbians but not gay men, and there- Domina. The closest essay in Lesbian tributors to the volume. fore only appear in Lesbian Histories Histories and Cultures is "Autobiogra- Although the entries (all signed by and Cultures. phy," by Linda Dunne. While some contributors and followed by bibliog- The two-volume set was published of Dunne's bibliographic references are raphies) are arranged alphabetically, the same year as the Reader ? Guide to the same as Domina's, she uses the Zimmerman provides a guide to sub- Lesbian and Gay Studies, edited by space to discuss the characteristics of jects, again conveniently placed in the Timothy F. Murphy (Fitzroy lesbian autobiographies, several ex- front matter. Biography is, as ex- Dearborn, 2000; reviewed in Feminist amples of the genre, and the coming- pected, the biggest category, with Lit- Collections v.2 1, no.4, Summer 2000, out story (the last has its own entry in erature a close and sometimes overlap- pp.36-37), but arrived in our office the Reader? Guide, covering scholarly C ping second. Geography, History, somewhat later. Some comparison is works analyzing both gay and lesbian Language, Lesbian Movement, and now in order. Obviously, a one-vol- coming-out stories). Dunne begins I Sociology each have more than forty ume, 720-page work can't match two her essay by explaining in an accessible B entries, while Cultural Identities, Edu- volumes totaling 1848 pages (their di- fashion the importance of autobio- cation, MediaIPopular Culture, Poli- mension is smaller, but so is their font) graphical writing to lesbians: "Autobi- r tics, Sexuality, and Theory/Philosophy for breadth or depth. But their aims ographies by lesbian authors have are also well-represented. Associations are slightly different. The Reader? played an important role in defining and Organizations, with only thirteen Guide entries are structured as biblio- and changing lesbian identity, provid- entries, seems lighter than one might graphic essays, covering research in an ing a way for lesbians to rewrite the expect, but additional groups men- area, using terms familiar to academic stories of their lives, and, in doing so, tioned are accessible through the gen- users; it is therefore quite well-suited to change those lives themselves" eral subject index. Having separate to university users, whereas Lesbian (p.87). The linkage to real lives be- volumes for gays and lesbians gave Histories and Cultures and its compan- yond the academy is perhaps another, Zimmerman and Gay Histories and ion volume aspire to serve a wider au- implicit goal of Lesbian Histories and Cultures'editor George E. Haggerty dience by explaining each entry with- Cultures. Does this mean that one of the leeway to cover appropriate sub- out a great deal of jargon. In the these works is "better" than the other? jects in two fields that have until very Reader? Guide entry for "Memoirs, I don't think so. They actually recently developed independently (as Female," for example, contributor complement each other very well. they point out in their joint introduc- Lynn Domina describes seven works Academic libraries for sure should ac- tion) without having to force either (six scholarly, one more general) ana- quire both. one to mirror the other. That's most lyzing the process of autobiographical obvious with respect to entries for in- writing and situating lesbian writing dividuals, but there are many other within it. About Felicity Nussbaum's differences as well. Many stem from The Auto biographical Subject: Gender the fact that gays are men and lesbians and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century En- Jennifer Lawler, ENCYCLOPEDU are women, with all the societal stric- gland ('Johns Hopkins University Press, OF WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE tures imposed on women throughout 1995), she writes: "Nussbaum con- AGES. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, history, leading to a close association cludes that despite the transgressive 200 1. 279p. charts. bibl. index. between lesbians and feminism. For behavior of [Charlotte] Charke and $45.00, ISBN 0-7864-1 119-8. example, there are no parallels in Gay others, their autobiographies reinscribe Histories and Cultures to Ecology and gender distinctions, because they The restoration of the stories of Ecofeminism, Female Support Net- essentialize men" (Reader? Guide, individuals and the collective experi- works, the New Woman, Patriarchy, p.389). Users familiar with terms like Women's Liberation Movement, or Women's Studies. Situational Lesbi-

Feminist Collections (v.23, no.2, Winter 2002) ences of women are enduring features they would be unable to see well others. In fact, there are few if any of the field of women's history. The enough to do their jobs correctly, nor places indexed at all, though it's an massive seventeen-volume Women in could they leave their homes after obvious look-up category for readers. World History set edited by Anne dark"), and sixty-four pages of genes- The strengths of the Encyclopedia Commire and Deborah Klezmer, near- logical charts for royal houses and oc- (topical and biographical entries, help- ing completion from Yorkin Publica- casionally for other women covered in ful glossary, bibliography, and genealo- tions, Gale Group, is the definitive the book. The genealogies are easy to gies) dwarf the deficiencies (some biographical reference work on women read and compare quite favorably with choppy sentences, light on non-West- of all times and all places-and should those in Volume 1 of Women in World erners, and lack of indexing by locale), be acquired by all institutions able to History, except that Lawler's lack birth and it is recommended for appropriate afford the $995.00 cost-but there are and death dates. Longer entries in the collections. many public libraries and schools for Encyclopedia proper contain sugges- whom that figure will be prohibitive tions for further reading, and see refer- and its very size daunting. For those ences are plentiful. institutions, single-volume works such Lawler's writing is suited to her as Extraordinary Women of the Medi- intended, general audience. Academics Jean Ford, Betty J. Glass, & Martha B. eval and Renaissance World, edited by may find rather choppy her tendency Gould, eds., WOMEN IN NEVADA Carole Levin et al. (Greenwood, 2000; to pile up a series of short phrases and HISTORY;.ANANNOTATED BIB- reviewed in Feminist Collections v.22, sentences. The entry for Olga of Kiev LIOGRAPHY OF PUBLISHED no.l), and the Encyclopedia of Women (d. 969), for example, begins: SOURCES. Reno: Nevada Women's in the Middle Ages offer satisfying History Project, 2000. lv. (ca. 200p.) choices for biographical coverage of Russian princess and regent of Vi- OCLC 44615 197; LC Z7964.U.5 women in medieval times. Both have king Kiev from 945 to 964. She N38 2000 HQ1438.N3. (No price their place. The Levin book has longer married Igor, the grand prince of information found.) biographies and, as is obvious from its Kiev. After he was assassinated, title, adds Renaissance women; she seized power. Immediately, Nevada has had a wild and color- Lawler's combines individual biogra- she murdered the conspirators ful history, hinted at throughout this phies of actual and fictional women who had killed him. (p.127) bibliography of more than 400 books (e.g., Guinevere, Grendel's mother, useful to understanding women's roles Kriemhild) with topical entries such as Neither Extraordinary Women nor in that saga, from works wholly on "medicine and health," "social class," the Encyclopedia presents many women women-such as Women of the Sierra, "Inq~isition,~"chivalry," and "educa- from outside Europe and the Mediter- by Anne Seagraves (Wesanne Publica- tion." ranean region, perhaps because source tions, 1990), the stories of fifteen The Encyclopedia also contains material in English on medieval women who lived in Virginia City, several other useful features, such as a women of Asia and Africa is sparse. Carson City, and Carson Valley in the twenty-eight-page bibliography, conve- Extraordinary Women seems to sport nineteenth century-which would niently subdivided into categories such more non-Westerners than does the turn up on standard library searches of as "science and technology" and "the- Encyclopedia, though that may be an "women" and "Nevada," to much less ology, philosophy, and religion," and artifact of providing a geographical obvious titles whose coverage of an informative glossary (e.g., "Curfew: appendix, which the Encyrlopedia women would only be gleaned by ex- Restrictions placed on activities after lacks. The Encyrlopedia's general index amining the actual books. It is espe- certain hours. From the cry 'Cover could have helped in this regard, but cially the inclusion of those books and fires!' [in French, couvrirfeu]. In the doesn't. There is no index entry under descriptions that makes Women in Ne- Middle Ages, people were not allowed Japan or Japanese, for example, even vada History of assistance to research- to work once the sun had set since though there are entries for sixth-cen- ers. There are community, institu- tury empress Shiko, novelist Murasaki tional, organizational, and general his- Shikibu (978?-1031), and possibly tories of Nevada surveyed by the edi- tors and other volunteers who teased out where and how women were men-

Feminist Collections (v.23, no.2. Winter 2002) tioned. For example, the annotation have had in the U.S. in those years unexpected but welcome category for a for John M. Townley's Tough Little (Lady Las Vegas: The Inside Story Be- bibliography-. such as this one. Town on the Truckee (Great Basin hind America's Neon Oasis, TV Books, Every state should have a project Studies Center, 1983), a history of 1996). The project's criteria for inclu- like the one that resulted in this bibli- Reno to 1900, states that women were sion were broad enough to include ography. only briefly mentioned (in association women who passed through Nevada with social, religious, and other activi- briefly, whether as members of the ill- ties covered in territorial newspapers, fated Donner Party (George R. since that was the source material for Stewart's Ordeal By Hunger: the Story the book), except for a chapter con- of the Donner Party, Houghton Inter-Parliamentary Union, WOMEN cerning the murder trial of an accused Mifflin, 1963) or as residents of Reno IN POLITICS: WORLD BZBUOG- female perpetrator and details about a only long enough to obtain divorces RAPNY/FEMMES EN POLZTZQUE: messy divorce. A history of a Reno (Temporary Address: Reno, by Faith BZBLZOGRAPHZE MONDLUE. hospital is cited because it contains Baldwin, Farrar and Knehart, 194 1). Geneva: The Union, 1999. 4 lgp. background on the Dominican Sisters About half the pages in the bibli- (Reports and documents, no.32). in the American West, the founding ography are given over to indexes: top- Available free of charge from the order. Some remembered. ..Some Forgot: ics, Nevada women's organizations, Union, ISBN 92-9 142-020-4. Online Life in Central Nevada Mining Camps, personal names, race or ethnic identity, database: http://www.ipu.org/bdf-el by Firmin Bruner (Nevada State Park and genre. The wild and colorful his- BDFsearch.asp. Natural History Association, 1974), tory is readily identifiable in the topi- and Comstock Women: The Making of cal index, with entries for Alamo In 1997 the Inter-Parliamentary a Mining Community, edited by Bawdy House, brothels, women casino Council, the governing body of an or- Ronald M. James and C. Elizabeth dealers, the Cathouse News, female out- ganization of legislatures of sovereign Raymond (University of Nevada Press, laws, medicine women, Alimony Park, countries, passed a Universal Declara- 1998), are two of several works listed The Amazing Nelly Bly, and more. tion on Democracy. Included is a that recount Nevada's mining history. The race and ethnic identity index carefully crafted statement: "The Who wouldn't want an excuse to pick makes it clear that Native American achievement of democracy presupposes up Saloons of (Old and New) Nevada: women's history has been scoured with a genuine partnership between men Commentaries on the Role and Develop- the same thoroughness as that of the and women in the conduct of the af- ment of the Nevada Saloon, by white settlers. There are both specific fairs of society in which they work in Raymond M. Smith (Silver State entries for Paiute, Shoshone, Washo, equality and complementarity, draw- Printing, 1992), now that we know it and other nations and general entries ing mutual enrichment from their dif- contains "an interesting account of a for Native Americans. Besides various ferences." To promote research on the fight between Bulldog Kate and Hog nonfiction historical categories pointed status of women's participation in the Eyed Mary; two women in Eureka to in the genre index, there are listings democratic process, the Inter-Parlia- who were, 'obstreperous, vile for fiction, cookbooks, and poetry. mentary Union (IPU) published this mouthed, antagonistic and usually Recent scholarship has noted the im- bibliography, which includes citations heavily addicted to strong drink"' (En- portance of cookbooks as a primary to scholarly books and articles on the try 356). Also listed are numerous bi- source for women's history, and the topic, as well as references to docu- ographies and memoirs of individual bibliography offers several good ex- ments issued by world-wide or regional women, including Phyllis Barber (How amples, such as The Virginia City Cook international organizations, and a six- I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir, Book, by Helen Evans Brown et al. page listing of websites. Subsequent to University of Nevada, 1994), Barbara (Ward Ritchie Press, 1953), contain- publication, the IPU mounted a data- Bennett (Barbara Bennett: Mayor of ing recipes by women restauranteurs, base version at http://www.ipu.org/ Reno and Community Activist, Univer- businesswomen, and housewives from bdf-e1BDFsearch.a~~.Because the sity of Nevada, 1989), and Susan Virginia City. Women's poetry collec- Berman, who grew up in a "casino tions with poems tied to Nevada is an family" in the 1940s and 1950s, a childhood that only a Nevadan could

Feminist Collections (v.23, no.2, Winter 2002) database adds entries for newer mate- subject chapters, such as career profiles those established since perestroika in rial and has many useful search capa- and biographies, gender equality the mid- 1980s, for which few pub- bilities, that version of the publication policy, public perceptions and stereo- lished works exist compared to the vo- is a better bet long-term. On the other typing, women in civil service, luminous amount available on the ear- hand, it is much easier to get a grasp women's suffrage, and gender partner- lier periods. on the scope of the endeavor from the ship. The browsability in broad sub- The book is divided into three print edition, and until it is signifi- ject areas is lost online, because the time periods: nineteenth century and cantly out of date, researchers may database constructors eliminated the early twentieth up to the Revolution in want to browse through a copy. chapter headings and rely on the more 19 17; the Soviet period, 1917-1 99 1; The printed book contains some specific subject index terms assigned to and the transitional era and post-So- 650 citations from over a hundred the items. viet movements, 1985- . (Develop- countries and international organiza- A very useful free resource for ments that began during perestroika, tions. As of this writing (in April finding citations to topics concerning 1985-1 99 1, are covered in the third 2002), the database expands the num- women in politics. section). Each section has an intro- ber of records to 1,226. Books and ductory overview of developments dur- articles listed were primarily published ing that time period. The editors used after the Nairobi World Conference a broad definition ofwomen's move- on Women, held in 1985; legal con- ments, encompassing "any group that ventions, declarations, and other legal- purported to support or advance im- instruments created before 1985 are provements in the status ofwomen" Norma Corigliano Noonan & Carol also cited. Cited works are in English, (p.xi). Similarly, in addition to entries Nechemias, eds., ENCYCLOPEDA French, Spanish, and a smattering of for organizations, individuals are in- OFRUSSm WOMEN'S MOVE- other European languages. Each entry cluded if they "advanced the status of MENTS. Westport, CT: Greenwood, contains full bibliographic informa- women in some way, even if they per- - ~ 2001. 399p. glossary. bibl. index. tion, including subject index terms sonally were not directly involved in $100.00, ISBN 0-3 13-30438-6. (some citations have over a dozen); women's movements" (p.xi). There most are also annotated (most are in are also some thematic entries for such For feminism to take root in a English, some in French). The printed topics as reproductive rights, women country, it must feel organic to the version includes subject terms in both in the military, women's periodicals, culture of the place. It doesn't flourish English and French throughout, re- and grouped descriptions of develop- when imported lock, stock, and barrel gardless of language of the item; only ments in particular cities or regions. A from elsewhere, though outside ideas English-language subject terms are "Chronology of the Russian Women's can be useful influences. In the case of found online. Although there is a Movements in Historical Context" Russia in the post-Soviet era, local aca- country-by-country section in the helps readers keep track of external demic feminists have created a new print version, ~aralleledin the database events as well as developments within concept, "feminology," which empha- by using the geographic search field the movements. 'sizes the historical role of women in and limiting to a particular country, The division by era works fine for Russia and their place in contemporary the introduction to the book alerts us- individuals and organizations that Russian society. On the other hand, ers to the fact that entries included all came and went within the time period. just as Western feminists have come to deal with political life at the national With a topic like "women's periodi- recognize feminism and women's or federal level; none deal with the cals," however, there's some uneven- movements, so too have Russian schol- state, provincial, or region-within- ness. The first section has good sur- ars when assessing the viewpoints, pur- country level. veys of both "Women's Periodical poses, and structures of women's rights About half the printed volume Publishing in Late Imperial Russia organizations on their soil. The Ency- consists of citations arranged in broad (1860-1905)" and "Women's Periodi- clopedia of Russian Women ? Movements cals in Early Twentieth-Century Rus- surveys many of those founded in the sia," but no commensurate treatment last two centuries, with an emphasis on .appears in either of the other two sec- tions.

Page 32 Feminist Collections (v.23, no.2, Winter 2002) Contributors are scholars in the they easily become convoluted, for ex- United States and Russia. Their en- ample, "Abercrombie, Minnie Louie tries for organizations start with a basic Haines, Catharine M.C. (with Helen (Jane) nee Johnson." The convention statement of the purpose of the group, M. Stevens), INTERNA TIONAL used is never explained and might be its founding date and founder(s), and WOMENIN SCIENCE: A BIO- confusing for some readers. More im- location. A history follows, finished GRAPHICAL DICTIONARY TO portantly, the volume table of contents off by suggested readings and cross- 1750. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC- lists an "About the Authors" page, but references where appropriate. Entries CLIO, 2001. 383p. $85.00, ISBN in the production process the page it- for individuals adapt this model by 1-57607-090-5. self was omitted from the volume that stating at the outset what the person is I received. best known for, then reviewing her Marie Curie, Rosalind Franklin, These minor reservations aside, biography from early years onward. Mary Leakey, and Beatrix Potter are all this is a well-done volume that would In the early 1990s, the University names likely to be familiar to the aver- be a good addition to a high school, of Wisconsin System Women's Studies age reader. Anne Elizabeth Ball, academic, or public library, especially Consortium had exchanges and con- Ingerid Dal, Beryl Markham, and as a companion volume to Bailey's siderable contact with several women Margaret Rule are probably less famil- work or to add breadth to a collection involved in Russian women's move- iar or unknown to most of us. All that needs more coverage of women in ments. Eight of them visited Wiscon- have contributed in some way to sci- science outside of North America. sin in October 1991, just as the Soviet ence. Union was breaking up. They traveled In what is essentially a companion Oakes, Elizabeth H., INTERNA- to campuses throughout the state and volume to Martha J. Bailey's American TIONAL ENCYCLOPEDU OF were hosted by women's studies faculty Women in Science: A Biographical Dic- WOMEN SCIENTISTS. New York: and friends. Their hosts and others tionary (see Feminist Collections v. 16, Facts on File, 2002. 448p. $82.50 will be able to find out from the Ency- no.1, p.26), Catharine M.C. Haines ($74.25 for libraries), ISBN 0-8160- clopedia more about the efforts of four and Helen M. Stevens present brief 4381-7. of them (Valentina Konstantinova, biographies of approximately four Tatiana Klimenkova, Zoya Khotkina, hundred women who had some impact Elizabeth H. Oakes's biographical and Olga Voronina). Librarians will on the development of science and dictionaty, International Encyclopedia be interested in the Moscow-based In- who had started their careers by 1950. of Women Scientists, has two strengths. formation Center of the Independent The volume's focus is distinctly Brit- It documents many women, especially Women's Forum (ICIWF), with its ish, with Europe, Asia, Africa, and late-twentieth century scientists, whose library, planned by Larisa Fedorova, Australia included. North America, contributions are not frequently cov- and publications. According to the the focus of Bailey's volume, is explic- ered by other volumes. Sbme of the entry on the Center, by Sarah itly excluded. five hundred women included, such as Henderson and Anna Rotkirch, with The well-written, readable entries Rosalind Franklin, Augusta Ada Byron help from the Ford Foundation the detail the individuals' professional and Lovelace, and Sally K. Ride, are well ICIWF has now branched out into personal lives and are supported by documented in other sources; but oth- several other locales throughout Rus- entry-specific bibliographies. For ers, such as Andrea Bertozzi, Susan sia. The Enqclopedia does not provide many entries, the authors consulted Love, and Elisabeth Vrba, are not as websites, but the ICIWF can be found primary sources, most notably personal easy to find. at http://www.owl.ru/eng/women/ correspondence with the subject, a bi- The volume also offers very exten- org001I. ographer, or another individual knowl- sive indexing that might be helpful to The Encyclopedia of Russian edgeable about the subject's life. The a researcher. Entries are indexed by Women i Movements is a useful and in- volume includes a good index and bib- field, country of birth, country of ma- teresting guide to the people, organiza- liography. jor scientific activity, and year of birth. tions, and themes that make up the The Dictionary has two minor de- There is also a general index that al- history of feminism in Russia. fects. The authors packed so much lows the reader to look up a topic like information into entry headings that "gorillas" to find individuals involved in their study, an institution like

Feminist Collecrions (v.23, no.2, Winrer 2 Page 33 "Wellesley College" to find individuals For its extensive coverage of twen- 67 and 1968-84-heavily weighted who studied or taught there, or a prize tieth-century American figures, this toward the first period (153 pages for such as the "Great Silver Medal of volume might be useful to augment a that versus 35 for the second). Law's Galicia (Spain)" to find that marine collection that includes only such titles intention for Part 1 was to "reveal biologist Angeles Alvariiio received this as Marilyn Ogilvie and Joy Harvey's women from the past whose contribu- honor in 1993. The Biographical Dictionary of Women tion to women's emancipation has Although the scope is interna- in Science: Pioneering Lives fiom An- been lost or obscured, together with tional, this work has a definite Ameri- cient Times to the Mid-20th Centuly women whose stories are more famil- can bias. While Oakes does reach back andlor Martha J. Bailey's American iar, to capture the diversity and as far as Greek physician Agnodice (ca. Women in Science: A Biographical Dic- intermeshing nature of their contribu- 400 B.C.E.), only twenty-six of the tionary, both ofwhich end their cover- tion" (p.vii.). Selecting women for Part women covered were born before age in the mid-twentieth century. I 2 gave her more trouble, she says, since 1800. Each essay includes an intro- would not recommend this as the sole many are still active and not enough ductory paragraph giving the woman's volume of this type in a collection. time has elapsed to fully assess who is major accomplishments in brief, fol- significant. Perhaps also, she was on lowed by a quick synopsis of her per- [Barbarly Korper McConnell, who wrote less-sure ground than with the earlier sonal history (birth, education, mar- the two reviews above, is Reference and period for which she was dealing with riage, children). The narrative then Instruction Librarian at California "her" women. At any rate, the value of returns to her early education. Often State Cmiversi~Fullerton.] Women: A Modern Political Dictionary the woman's marriage date is immedi- for most users will be in studying the ately followed by a description of careers of numerous less-well-known events that occurred several years ear- figures and using Law's references to lier. So, although the entries are en- trace back to newspaper accounts and gaging, they are somewhat disjointed other primary sources. The source ma- at the start. terial for the women in the second era Cheryl Law, WOMEN:A MODERN As is true of all the many recent is mostly other reference books, such POLITICAL DICTIONARY; London: biographical dictionaries of women in as Kathryn Cullen-DuPont's The Ency- I.B. Tauris, 2000. 276p. bibl. $35.00, science, there is a fair amount of over- clopedia of Women i History in America ISBN 1-86064-502-X. lap between this and other similar (Facts on File, 1996), Lisa Tuttle's titles. This particular volume has some Encyclopaedia of Feminism (Longman, Like other resourceful scholars, serious problems. In a striking factual 1986), and various editions of Whoi Chetyl Law realized she had the basis error, Oakes claims that Rachel Carson Who. The biographees are primarily for a second book as a by-product of coined the word "ecology" in her 1962 from the U.K., though women from her doctoral research, which was pub- book Silent Spring (p. 56). A simple the U.S., Australia, Canada, and else- lished as Sufiage and Power: The search of the Oxfrd English Dictionary where are also present. Each part also Women ? Movement 1918-28 (Tauris, Online presents evidence of the word's includes sections listing and describing ' 1997). She compiled files, particularly existence back to 1873. Oakes also the women's organizations active dur- on the women she encountered, noting stresses obstacles faced by women and ing the era (respectively twenty-five each instance when each woman ap- ways in which their contributions, and eighteen pages). ~eared.By the end of her research, she even small ones, might have helped The biographical entries include had 133 women who made frequent others. Often this practice results in facts (birth and death dates, profes- appearances and over 800 others. Ad- unsupported sweeping statements. sionlendeavors, birthplace, parents, ditional study and an extension of the There is a bibliography for the volume schools, marriage(s), recreational ac- time period through 1984 resulted in as a whole, but individual entries do tivities, organizations, and address) Women: A Modern Political Dictionary. not include bibliographies. and a narrative paragraph that ranges It is predominantly a biographical dic- from a few lines for a Mrs. Hobbs, tionary divided into two parts-19 14- who was active in the Standing- Joint .Committee of Industrial Women's Or- ganizations, to a page and a half each

Page 34 Feminist Collections (v.23, 110.2,Winter 2002) for physician Louise Martindale, trade However, the entries for women Joan Nordquist, comp., FEMINIST unionist and Labour politician Marga- included in the first edition have not THEORY (II): A BIBLIOGRAPHY. ret Grace Bondfield, and Labour poli- been updated as much as one would Santa Barbara: CA: Reference and Re- tician Dr. Edith Clara (Baroness) like to see in a second edition. The search Services, 2000. 68p. (Contem- Summerskill. The entries conclude entry for Roberta Hill Whiteman has porary social issues, no.60). $20.00, with a list of publications by the her teaching at the University of Min- ISBN 1-892068-19-2; ISSN for the woman and sources. nesota, though she's been at University series: 0887-3577. A chronology of UK emancipatory of Wisconsin-Madison for several legislation from 1918 to 1984, a bibli- years and now goes by the name Another of prolific Nordquist's ography, and a glossary of acronyms Roberta J. Hill. Ada Deer's biography ready reference compilations, Feminist round out the offerings. There is no still stops with 1993, when she was Theory IIcites material published in subject index. confirmed as Assistant Secretary of the English benveen 1995 and 2000 on Interior for Indian Affairs. She is also the topic in general, plus its applica- at the University of Wisconsin-Madi- tion in various disciplines and con- son, directing the American Indian cerning women of color and feminist Studies Program. Surely there has to theory. Listed are books, articles, and Gretchen M. Bataille & Laurie Lisa, be something more recent than 1993 chapters in anthologies. Because mate- eds., NA TNE AMERIW WOMEN about Wilma Mankiller-at least her rial on feminist theory appears in a va- A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, co-editing of The Reader? Companion riety of contexts, it is a convenience to 2d ed. New York: Routledge, 200 1. to U.S. Women i History (Houghton have so much (66 1 entries) brought ill. index. $85.00, ISBN 0-4 15- MiMin, 1998) could have been men- together in one place. 93020-0. tioned. The entry for Louise Erdrich has been updated to reflect that she [Phyllis Hofman Weisbard, who wrote all When the first edition of this was married to Michael Dorris. Some- of the above reviews except as otherwise work appeared in 1993, published by thing else that has changed since 1993 noted, is the Women i Studies Librarian Garland, I was quite impressed with it. is the availability of material on the for the University of Wisconsin System As Bataille said in her introduction to Web. The lack of any website listings and co-editor of Feminist Collections.] that edition (lightly revised for the new in the "Selected Bibliography" or refer- edition), it filled in missing figures in ences following individual entries is history and cast the biographies of bet- therefore a disappointment. ter-known Native American women in My recommendation to libraries is a corrective perspective, since "the Eu- therefore cautionary. If you've got the ropean views that incorporated both first, you may want to pass on the sec- fascination and repugnance obscured ond edition and wait for a complete accurate depictions" (2d ed., p.xiv). overhaul. There was nothing else like it in 1993, and except for Liz Sonneborn's A to Z of Native American Women (Facts on File, 1998), profiling one hundred women (compared to more than double that number in the first edition of the Biographical Dictionary), there still isn't. The new edition now in- cludes 270 entries, with most of the newcomers being women born since 1921.

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Feminist Collections (v.23, no.2, Winter 2002) there's a very readable and sensible article called "Why and Representational Practices in Gold Coast Newspapers" Dieting Doesn't Work" that includes a link for anyone (Audrey Gadzekpo); "Islam and its Bigots: The Case of worried that a friend might have an eating disorder. Site Safiyatu Huseini Tugur Tudu" (Nkiru Nzegwu); "Alice in navigation is a little puzzling (no obvious link back to the Motherland: Reading Alice Walker on Africa and Screening main pagelcontents list from other sections of the site, for the Color 'Black"' (Oyeronke Oyewumi). instance), but there's lots of interesting content wherever you click. NIIilIYMAGASIN 200 1- . Ed.: Trine Lynggard. 31yr. (first two in Scandinavian language and the third in JENDA: A JO URNAL OF CULTURE AND AFRIC4N English). Print and online (.pdf format). Free. ISSN: WOMEN STUDIES 2000-. Co-eds.: Nkiru Nzegwu, 1502-152 1. Nordic Institute for Women's Studies and Mojubaolu Okome, & Oyeronke Oyewumi. 31yr. ISSN: Gender Research, P.O. Box 1 156, Blindern, NO-03 17 1530-5686. Published by Africa Resource Center, Inc. Oslo, Norway; phone: +47 22 85 89 21; fax: +47 22 85 89 Free; online only (sign up via website to receive email notice 50; email: [email protected]; website: http:// when new issues are published). Email: jen- www.nikk.uio.no (Issue examined: No. 3, 2001: "first [email protected]; website: http:ll English edition") www.jendajournal.com (Issues examined: v. 1, no. 1, 2000; v. 1, no.2, 200 1) NIms plan is to publish two Scandinavian-language issues each year, then translate selected articles from those This peer-refereed journal's co-editors are currently at and publish them in a third, English-language issue along Binghamton University, Brooklyn College, and SUNY- with some new pieces written expressly for English-speaking Stonybrook, respectively. The advisory and editorial boards readers. The first English issue features "Heterosexual draw from universities in Ghana, Zanzibar, Nigeria, South Couples Talking About and 'Doing' Gender," by Eva Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Canada, and the U.S. The Magnusson; "Sexism, Support and Survival in Academia: journal "is committed to disseminating to as wide an Finnish Experiences," by Liisa Husu; and "Young, Muslim audience as possible the research findings, analyses, and and Woman, Norwegian Style," by Christine M. Jacobsen; interpretations of scholars whose field is African Women plus other columns, including an interview with Hanne studies." Editor Nzegwu writes in the premiere issue of the Haavind, author of The Myth of the Good Mother. main objectives of Jenda: "the first is to create a space from which to theorize our experiences, presently marginalized in today's global context of unequal economic relations; and the second is to wrest ourselves from the mould of stereo- typical assumptions in which this international economic SOUTH CENTRAL REWEW THEJOURNAL OF THE order and its attendant culture of hierarchy have cast us. We SOUTH CENTM MODERNLANGUAGE ASSOCEI- chose to publish online because it offers an immediate and TIONv. 18, nos.3-4, Fall-Winter 200 1: "Whose Body: cost-effective way to reach a global audience. We can take Recognizing Feminist Mystery and Detective Fiction." our issues directly to our audience without being subjected Guest eds.: Pamela R. Matthews & Mary Ann O'Farrell. to the demeaning practices in place in the publishing ISSN: 0743-683 1. Subscriptions and back-issue purchases: industry." contact SCMLA at Dept. of English, Texas A&M Univer- A few article titles from the first two issues: '"Ties that sity, College Station, TX 77843-4227; email: scr- (Un)Bind: Feminism, Sisterhood and Other Foreign [email protected]; website: http:l/www- Relations" (Oyeronke Oyewumi); "The Challenge of english.tamu.edu/scmla/review.htrnl Marginalization: The Experience of Africans in Europe and in the United States" (Rose Uchem); "Gender Discourses

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