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Copyright 1996 Regents of the University of Wisconsin System Feminist Collections A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources
Volume 17, Nos.3-4, SpringISummer 1996
CONTENTS
From the Editors
Book Reviews Contesting Culture: Gender Interests and Strategies of Resistance by Sharon Tiffany "Get Used to the Noise. The Next Generation is Coming." by Amy Shepherd Exiles, Immigrants, and Refugees: Women Making Choices by Ivette Valdes Feminist Visions: Women in Transition: Perspectives from the Chippewa Valley by Sarah Harder Come On, Join the Conversation!:'Zines as a Medium for Feminist Dialogue and Community Building by Angela Richardson Computer Talk Compiled by Linda Shult Feminist Publishing Wisconsin Bibliographies in Women's Studies New Reference Works in Women's Studies Reviewed by Phyllis Holman Weisbard (with contributions by Margery Katz and Linda Krikos) Periodical Notes Compiled by Linda Shult Items of Note Compiled by Renee Beaudoin Books Recently Received Supplement: Index to Vo1.17 Contesting Culture: Gender Interests the wave of terror that swept the Guatemalan highlands during the and Strategies of Resistance 1970's and 1980's. This cataclysm, which resulted in the deaths or disap by Sharon W Trflany pearances of 100,000 people and thk displacement of a million others - Elizabeth E. Brusco, THE REFORMATION OFMACHISMO: EVM- mainly Maya - continues to inform indigenous behavior and cultural codes GELICAL CONYERTIONAND GENDER IN COLOMBIA. Austin: of traje. University of Texas Press, bibl. index. ISBN 1995. 203p. pap., $14.95, O- Carol Hendrickson, a student of 292-70821-1. Maya weaving, presents a sensitive analysis of fraje within the framework Christine Eber, WOMENAND ALCOHOL INA HIGH- MAYA of both indigenous and non-indigenous TOWN: WATER OF HOPE, WAFER OFSORROW. Austin: Univer- images of the "enduring Indiann - sity of Texas Press, 1995. 303p. bibl. index. pap., $18.95, ISBN 0-292- images "constructed, marketed, praised, 720904. manipulated, and denounced at the local, national, and international levels" Carol Hendrickson, WEA KING IDENlTlTES: CONSTRUCTION OF (p.76). Often disparaged as "women's DRESS AND SELF INA HIGHLAND GUATEU TOW. Austin: work" or "handicrafts," women's weaving is linked in the author's University of Texas Press, 1995. 245p. bibl. index. pap., $15.95, ISBN O- analysis to Western demand for ethnic 292-73 100-0. commodities. It is also linked to the Guatemalan state's appropriation of Several months ago, Rigoberta coping with the local consequences of fraje for promoting ladino-sponsored Menchh Tum, Maya activist and global economic forces, political and events (such as beauty pageants) and for winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in the domestic violence, and the peripheral promoting international tourism. year of the Columbus Quincentenary, or absent status of men in the home. Hendrickson's text is especially spoke to a university audience.' I felt Published by the University of Texas strong when dealing with the gendered privileged to hear the words of a Press, these books reflect a long- discourse of fraje at the level of courageous woman who wore a standing support of quality texts in household and community. The social magni•’icent ensemble of backstrap- Latin American studies. meanings of women's traje are dense. woven and handembroidered cloth. I A Maya woman's decision to wear fraje rdected on the visual aesthetics of her Weaving den ti ties is a nuanced or Western clothing (vestido) is dress (fraje) and its role as a culturally ethnography of Kaqchikel determined by situation and context. significant marker of gender and (Cakchiquel) Maya women's roles as Cost, climate, work experience, family ethnicity. Rigoberta Menchh Tum is cultural bulwarks of indigenous connections, and ethnic pride are the complete woman, I thought. She identity and as bridges between Maya important considerations. By address- stands firmly in the center of the Maya and ladino worlds.2 Maya women ing the political coding of fraje, the universe as reflected in the woven produce and wear fraje, garments reader can understand individual representations of space and time of associated primarily with backstrap- survival strategies of accommodating or her fraje. woven cloth, in the biethnic commu- resisting ladino oppression by choosing Based on feminist anthropological nity of Txp611in the central high- to wear fraje or vestido in the context of research conducted in the 1980's and lands of Guatemala. Traje in Guate- la violencia and its aftermath. early 1990's, the works under review mala cannot be divorced from the demonstrate the variety of women's history of opposition and conflict that Women ondAlcohol in a High- experiences in mestizo and indigenous characterizes relations between Maya landMaya Town is based on fieldwork worlds ofLatin America. These and mestizo (ladino) populations. conducted in the Tzotzil Maya commu- carefully-researched ethnographies Most recently, this history includes nity of San Pedro Chenalh6 in the reveal the everyday lives of women the period known as "la violencia," Mexican state of Chiapas. Combiig a retlexive approach with a woman- gender in Maya communities, and to Viewing women's participation in centered analysis, Christine Eber has the enhanced social and ritual power Protestant evangelical groups as "a written a pioneering ethnography of of indigenous women as they move form of female collective action," drinking and indigenous women's through the life course. Brusco argues that women are able to strategies for dealing with alcohol use Women's pivotal roles as transform men's social roles and to and abuse in a culturally-meaningful nurturers of children and providers of redirect resources back into households context of household relations, ritual. household resources reveal insights dependent upon male income, thereby and communal values. into why Maya women may choose to raising the living standards of women Like traje, distilled alcohol is abandon tradition and convert to and children b.3). Evangelical embedded in structures of Iadino Protestantism. Health care, shelter, prohibitions against alcohol, smoking, oppression. Pedrano men and women and food offered by Protestant groups and extramarital afFaifi reflect issues in are aware of the contradictory roles of constitute major incentives for women which women have strategic interests. nun. As the ''water af hope," the living on the economic margins. These rules, along with small congre- drinking of rum during religious Maya men and women (even Western gations comprised of relatives and ceremonies solidifies community scholars) may see indigenous women friends, provide supportive structures values and enhances women's roles as as representatives of culture and for reform to men with histories of ritual participants and as bridges tradition; however, Pedranas who squandering family budgets on other between mortals and divine forces. convert also "demonstrate that they women or on drink. Pedranos are also aware of rum's make sntl, radical changes when they By recruiting female relatives and contradictory quality as "the water of perceive a threat to what they hold neighbors for home Bible study and somow" - namely, the human and dear" Q.222). prayer, evangelical women provide an social costs of compulsive drinking. Indeed. conversion to Protestant appropriate domestic forum for The narratives of individual Maya evangelical.groups is spreading like transforming the aggressive masculin- women are compelling statements of fire throughout Latin America; ity and androcentric values associated this awareness. For instance, demographers estimate that Protestants with machismo. Colombian women An&lika, herself a former drinker and will comprise the majority by the are formidable organizers of church wife of an alcoholic, vividly describes middle of the 2lst century. Elizabeth events. They preach and teach on her childhood with drunken parents Brusco's study of Colombian women topics of marriage and family, and and her marriage to Wctorio, who and Protestant evangelism is both provide a comforting domestic context occasiodly abuses her, at the tender timely in its subject matter and unique for encouraging men to attend meet- age of twelve. Angklika recounts how besause of its sfrongly feminist ings. Men initially attending evangeli- she subsequently surrendered to the framework. Rather than focusing on cal senices usually have wives or exhortations of the Moon Vugin, who men's leadership positions in Protes- female relatives who have converted. had visited AngClika in her dreams. tant groups, the author views mestiza Male converts have often had a Such narratives contain a wealth of women as significant actors in the transformative experience, typically a ethnographic detail about women's processes of conversion, recruitment, severe illness or other personal crisis lives with abusive or improvident and organization of local-level that forced them back into the nurtur- husbands, as well as women's efforts to congregations whose membership is ing ministrations of women at home. provide an economic and emotional wenvhelmingly female. Scholars concerned with the rise of centering in the household. evangelical movements in Latin Readers interested in cross- TheReformation of~achismois America need to rethink their premises culhrral issues of drinking and gender based on fieldwork conducted in of capitalist values and maledomi- will fhd chapter seven of special Bogota and a rural community during nated religious institutions from a interest In contrast to American the early 1980's. Situating her womancentered perspective. The women's experiences with problem analysis in the global context of social Reformation of Machismo provides this drinkers, the lack of "enabling" and and economic change, the author important framework. Including more "co-dependency" behaviors on the part discusses how these forces contributed narratives of individual women, who of Pedrana women is notable. Indig- to the breakdown of peasant household must cope with the social and eco- enous wives do not perceive their production and its gendered division of nomic fallout of machismo, would alcoholic husbands as the hub around labor. Increasingly dependent on enhance the book and enable the reader which other family members must men's declining waged income, to better understand the problematic adjust their behavior. Eber did not Colombian women must wpe with the meaning, for instance, of one woman's find in Pedrano households "the consequences stemming from a wish "'that I don't die without seeing shame, secrecy, and denial reported for devaluation of their productive roles in my husband come to Christ and return enabling family members" in the West the domestic economy. to the family"' @. 113). Expanded case @. 142). The author attributes this to studies of the two evangelical family the complementary division of labor by groups, who provided a focal core of the author's research, would also "Housewives of the provide a richer ethnogmphic content. Fomst: Representa- This would enable readers to evaluate tion in Ethnographic more clearly the book's thesis that "the Film. "published in revolutionary impact of evangelicalism the Spring 1996 issue is not that it transforms women's roles fiolume 25) of but that it bas the power to change Women's Studies.] men ta conform with female ideals and aspirations" (p.75). NOTES
women's social and domestic ' Rigoberta Menchu burdens have increased in the Tum, "Pueblo Maya postindustrial world of the late 20th de Guatemala: century. Individualism and consumer Participaci6n, economies threaten the foundations of Reconciliaci6n y family and community - institutions Paz." Distinguished that provide a measure of support for Lecture Series, women struggling against their Wisconsin Union increased marginalization in a global Theater, University of economy. As these books ably demon- Wisconsin-Madison, strate, women engage in the compli- October 5, 1995. cated work of preserving and trans- Ladino (mestizo) forming culture. They are revolution- Miriam Gmnwld refers to non-indigenous Mexicans or aries, accommodating and resisting in Guatemalans defined by cultural order to establish their practical [Shmn U! Zlffany, Professor of markers such as Western dress, use of interests in the home and in the wider Anthropology and Women k Studies at the Spanish language, and association world. the University of Wisconsin - with the institutions and values of the Whitewater, continues to write on dominant national society. The feminist issuesjvm a crosrmltural Spanish term indio (Indian) is perspective. Her most recent work (co- pejorative, particularly when used by authored with Kathleen J. Adams) is ladinos; contemporary Maya prefer the selfdesignation of indlgena.
"Get Used to the Noise. The Next Generation is Coming." by Amy Shepherd
Rebecca Walker, ed., TO BE REAL: Despite a11 the media's hype identities and experiences. TELLING THE TRUTHAND about young women's fear and rejection Sometimes moving, often humor- CHANGING THE FACE OF FEMI- of the "f' word, many young women ous, and always thoughtful, these NISM (New York: Anchor Books, have stepped forward to embrace books act as documents of a genera- 1995). 292p. $25, ISBN 0-385-47261- feminism as a central philosophy, a tion struggling to remake feminism in 7; pap.. $12.95, ISBN 0-385-47262-5. way of understanding their lives. lbo its own image. Framed by two hous new collections, To Be Real: Telling the feminists, Gloria Steinem and Angela Barbara Findlen, ed., LISTEN UP: Truth and Changing the Face of Davis (who wrote the foreword and VOICES FROM THE NEXT FEW- Feminism and Listen Up: Voicesjvm afterword, respectively), with essays NIST GENERATION (Seattle: Seal the Next Feminist Generation, are by other famous feminist writers bell Press, 1995). 300p. pap., $12.95, devoted to giving young women space hooks and Naomi Wolf, To Be Real ISBN 1-87806761-3. to explore their feministfwornanist revisits the "personal is political." this ~0ththe personal and political are become yecanother ideal, much like up for grabs in this collection. In the Superwoman or Supermodel, that "Kicking Ass," %na Cabreros-Sud women don't believe they can measure contemplates violence as a "Third up to. Consequently, many think that World heirloom," a survival skill either their experiences are inauthentic passed down by generations of in terms of feminism, or feminism colonized/oppressed people" (p.42). itself is inauthentic because it doesn't She notes the squeamishness of many mirror their experiences. Whether or white feminists regarding violence, not this rule-oriented feminism exists and wonders why this distaste doesn't outside of media stereotype is debat- extend to more oqanized forms of able, but the feelings of anger and violence like poverty and colonization. anxiety it has generated are one of the She proudly asserts that she is "an "realest" parts of this book. animal who eats, sleeps, fucks and Ironically, after struggling to fights voraciously," and maintains that understand their own experiences and to "deny our instinct for self-protection fit them into a feminist framework, is to slam the door on all desires" many have settled on the solution of (p.44). redefining feminism to include folks Also treading in dangerous like themselves. This may be less the personal and political waters is Greg rebellion against earlier feminists Tate in his essay, "Born to Dyke," many Second Wavers perceive, says which he writes with the full knowl- Walker, and more a generation coming It" by Anastasia Higginbotham to the edge of the "irony" and "outrageous- of age and learning to integrate both quietly straightfonvard "Woman Who ness" of his position as a Black man politics and personality. Clears the Way" by Lisa Tiger, this writing about Black lesbian culture To Be Real reflects the identity collection is illuminated by stories of (p.205). Though not convinced that politics of Generation X, which women making a difference, to each he is a feminist C'unless you can be a Walker says is a process marked by other and to the world. feminist and a dick too"), he is sure "searching more than arriving" There is less debate in this that he is a "butch-hag" @. 198). He @.xxxiii). The selections echo some collection about who is a feminist and loves Black lesbians as a "genre," he of the best writings of Second Wave why, and more of a sense of a shared explains, thoroughly enamored of feminism, witH a sense of both feminist vision, wen when writers like Black lesbians and their culture. They discovery and confusion. What is Tiger never use the word "feminist." help him to "foresee a time when exciting about this collection is the Tiger's essay on finding "her purpose" [Bllack folk will find revolutionary creation of a Third Wave feminist by using her HIV-positive status to solidarity by celebrating rather than style, built upon the foundation laid by educate others, especially Native chastising one another's differences" earlier feminists and incorporating American audiences, about HIVIAIDS (p.199). multicultural and queer politics as only reflects a spirit of strong women Another defining feature of To Be a generation growing up under their changing the world (p. 108). Real is the preoccupation with Second influences could. Another essay, "Word Warrior" by Wave feminists and feminism. Some Jennifer DiMarco, also reflects this writers in To Be Real seem to claim Though based on the same idea feminist vision. She relates a summer feminist membership more easily than of young women writing about of imprisonment and abuse by a great- others, many of whom perceivdd feminism and the personal and uncle who invited her to New York to Second Wave style feminism as political, Listen Up is a very different visit; she survived by "faith" and authoritative and irrelevant to their book than To Be Real, proving, I "love" until her two mothers could lives. As Walker remarks in the suppose, that there are many variations rescue her (p.57). Back in the com- introduction, for many people, on feminism. Listen Up's character, pany of her family, she wrote and feminism is composed of rules, usually while no less interesting and engaging, healed. Her experience, as well as her expressed in the negative: a feminist is a little less slick and entertaining, feminist upbringing, has taught her "must live in poverty, always critique, more serious, and some pieces are that "together, all women must rise up. never many, want to censor pornogra- reminiscent of women's studies class We must take our stand in unity and phy andlor worship the Godd ess.... [A] essays, although the writing styles are power. Raise our voices against the feminist must never compromise more varied than in To Be Real. From darkness. Then, instead of being herself, must never make concessions the punk overtones of "It's a Big Fat crushed, we will stand strong. Instead for money or love, must always be Revolution" by Nomy Lamm and the of being defeated, we will be victori- devoted to the uplift of her gender," obnoxiously funny "Chicks Goin' At ous" (p.61). In addition to these and other to reward her "not for being a writer or child. With the strength and fire of strong "survivof' stories, there are a musician, but for being an aerobics young feminists everywhere, she few essays that address the central instructof' @. 15). proudly asserts herself: "I am doing theme from To Be Real, the multiplic- Another pair of striking essays on things with my life I didn't know were ity of identity. In "Ruminations of a the multiplicity of identities are "One possible. I'm a student. Teacher. Feminist Aerobics Instructor," Alisa L. Resilient Baby" by Cheryl Green and Writer. I ride horses and bake banana Wdes reconstructs her lucrative career "You're Not €he '&pe" by Laurel bread. I read Ms. and listen to Nine as an aerobics instructor, which she Gilbert. Green recounts a difficult Inch Nails and the Wolent Femmes. ultimately abandoned for a more experience growing up as an African I'm a twentysomething, thirteenth- meaningful journalism career. Wdes American "cri~~le''.. and attributes her generation 'slacker' with an attitude. I stresses that while she liked the notion coming to feminism to a foursome of am a young mother with alternative of the aerobics room as a female feminist mentors, some also African body piercings that attract questions in sanctuary where women could "sum- American and disabled. She wishes the mall. I'm just the type" b.112). mon the very core of their strength" that "all girls and women could have and "move, really move," she had to loyal mentors like the ones I finally Thewriters represented in TO Be admit all that movement was going in have" @. 147). She also expresses a Real and Listen Up bear passionate the direction of women's unhealthy wish that "nondisabled women, witness to the fact that, despite the obsession with dieting and fitness especially feminists, will become more media's allegations, we are not living @. 18). She goes on to say that committed to do more than simply in a post-feminist era. The feminist "anorexics fill my classes like worship- accommodate the disabilities of women women and men in these collections pers in a church" and "instructors and girls at events" @. 147). are proving that they are just the type starve themselves and do cocaine for In a memorable essay, Gilbert to shake things up and make all of our energy" @. 19). At twenty-three, offers her own story as a feisty "les- futures a little brighter and more Wdes could take no more; she left the bian-feminist-single-mother"@. 108) interesting. These collections are just profession she'd fallen into rather constantly confronted as not "the type" a taste of the power and potential of accidentally. gave up her steady to be a teenage mother, to be a dyke, the Third Wave of feminism - as paycheck, and went to graduate school. and asks us to "define, please the type" Ellen Neuborne remarks in Listen Up, While understanding that her decisions @. 103). She remarks that while many "get used to the noise. The next stemmed from "secondclass citizen- people assured her that "you can do if" generation is coming" b.35). ship and economic disadvantage," few believed it @. 111). She surprised @. 19) she laments that the world chose them all by graduating high school and Hmy Shephenl is a community activist going to college, all the while raising a and is currently pursuing a master k degree in library science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.]
Exiles, Immigrants, and Refugees: Women Making Choices
by Ivette Valdks
Mahnaz w,WOMEN IN 408 North Union, P.O. Box 789, Beatrice Nied Hackett, PRAY GOD EXILE. Charlottesville, VA: Univer- Bloomington, IN 474024789), AND KEEP WALKING: STORIES sity Press of Vuginia, 1994. 2 lop. OF WOMEN REFUGEES. Jefferson, $35, ISBN 0-8139-1542-2; pap., Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, NC: McFarland, 1996. 169p. $27.50, $12.95, ISBN 0-8139-1543-0. GENDERED TRANSITIONS: ISBN 0-7864-0089-7. MEXICAN EXPERIENCES OF Jill M. Bystydzienski and Estelle P. IMMIGRATION. Berkeley, CA: Exiles, immigrants, and refugees Resnik, eds., WOMEN IN CROSS- University of California Press, 1994. all undertake the perilous journey of CULTURAL TRANSITIONS. $45, ISBN 0-520-075 13-7; pap., $16, crossing borders. If we examine the Bloomington, IN: Phi Beta Kappa ISBN 0-520-075 14-5. specific circumstances that have ford Educational Foundation, 1995. 132p. people to flee their homelands as in $24, ISBN 0-87367-463-4. (Address: Bosnia, Cuba, or Haiti - it becomes quite obvious that exiles, immigrants, courage and determination to survive life as a person who is homeless with and refugees are most often portrayed rises above the'media accounts of no future. But then again, the future is as powerless victims of macro-level refugee tragedy and destruction. in front of us. The future belongs to forces. Rejecting such negative Arranged by country, the stories in us; you build it yourself today - it's stereotyping, feminist scholars such as each of the thirteen chapters are made not too late" (pp.42-43). For the Gloria Anzaldua (BorderlanMa more accessible to readers with brief women in this volume, the ultimate F~~Exc+.' Carol Boyce Davies and introductory sketches of each country's choice was the one to tell their stories. Molara Ogundipe-Leslie (Moving historidpolitical situation. I very Beyond Boundaries: International much appreciated the Bibliographical Extremely compelling and Dimensions of Black Women b Writ- Notes at the end of the book that deeply moving. Women in Exile is a ing),' and Carol Boyce Davies (Black provide suggestions for further more focused and cohesive collection Women, Writing and Identity: Migra- reading. An index allows readers to of life stories, decidedly more political tions of the Subject)' have proposed explore intersections and convergences in tone. Each of the thirteen women moving across borders and beyond between stories. My only caveat is that who shares her story, including the boundaries as a means to cope with the chapter on women internally author herself, was fodto flee her alienation and disempowennent in our displaced in Germany during World native country due to her political modem society. For these feminist War I1 did not seem to tie in smoothly activities and philosophies or those of scholars, the act of crossing borders with the rest of the book, perhaps the groups to which she belonged. involves making choices that in turn because of the time elapsed since the Mahnaz Afkhami's sharp and insistent can be sources of empowerment for German women's refugee experience. critique of the inhumanities that women. A rehgee is broadly defined as political systems have brought about The four volumes reviewed here someone forced to flee their home due through abuse of power is echoed by attest to the fact that wen under the to a calamity. Hackett interprets the each woman as they make their most dismal Circumstances, women refugee phenomenon - eighteen collective journey away from mass find the strength to make choices and million forced to flee their homelands movements and towards grassroots in so doing become active agents in and another twenty-five million activism. reclaiming their present and their internally displaced - as a direct Each chapter is the result of a fu*. Pray God and Keep Walking: result of the mass destruction our taped interview, which Afkhami Stories of Women Refigees, Women in centuq has seen due to weapons and transcribed and edited with the Exile, and Women in Cmm-Cultural wars. Of this displaced population, approval of each woman. Because of Trunsitions are collections of personal seventy-five to eighty percent are her experiences as an exile, Afkhami narratives and life stories of women women and children. This volume shares a deep bond with each of the who made the decision to cross goes a long way toward filling the void women, as is obvious from her very national borders. Gendetvd Transi- that is the absence of women's voices personal introduction to each chapter tions interweaves personal narratives in recent media coverage of refugees. and her description of the work as a of immigrant women and ethno- Most striking and compelling for "collective biography of exile" @.x). graphic research to explore the me is the complete refusal of these As she states in the introduction, "[we relationship between gender dynamics women to see themselves as passive shared too many experiences and and migration. victims. J. Meo Chten (the women do feelings for an objective oral not use their real names for reasons of history project.... Each story is thus Pray God and Keep Walking privacy) of Cambodia chose the the product of a dynamic interaction presents the personal narratives of possibility of death over certain death. between two women" (pp.viii-x). twentyeight women refugees from a "I knew if I stayed with the Pol Pot For Afkhami and the other broad spectrum of historical, geo- soldiers, I would die. At least I was women, exile is about struggle, fear, graphical, and political backgrounds. not sure that I would die if I went with violence, chance, choice, loss, disloca- Beatrice Hackett, an anthropologist in the Vietnamese. I decided to get out tion, puzzlement, restructuring, residence at the American University and find the Vietnamese" (p. 18). Even adjustment, and rebirth. As Alicia in Washington, DC, dedicates her in the face of their ambivalence Partnoy of Argentina so poignantly book to all those who have fled their towards the future, these women describes, "The effects of exile are with countries and perished with their accept responsibility for their choices. you all your life. They are like things untold stories. Hackett's primary goal As Mahasay P. of Laos so poignantly hidden in a closet. They suddenly is to celebrate these women whose expresses, "I try to accept life, to face jump out at you, like jack-in-the-box toys" 61108). Breaking the silence to an intergenerational dialogue. As it is, proved by the other three volumes tell their stories is part of the healing the two sections show little connection. reviewed here. process for these women. Healing The mature women's narratives are by brings empowerment, which manifests far the more interesting. Because of Gendemd Transitions:Mexican itself through the very words they their age and the time elapsed, they Erperiences ofImmigration is an choose to tell their stories, as in these have processed their crossdtural exciting and much-needed contribution moving poetic lines from Marjorie transitions and do a better job of to the literature on immigration. Using Agosin of Chile: "Don't conspire wiW contextualizing their experiences. an interactionist view acknowledging oblivion,/tear down the silence./I want I had several problems with this the agency of members of both sexes to Wthe appeared womanlftom among volume. It is difficult to decipher the and the fluidity of culture and social the labyrinthslcome back, return/name aims and goals of the editors, Jill structures, Pierrette Hondagneu- myself.lCall my name" @. 140). Bystydzienski and Estelle P. Resnik. Sotelo's incisive study provides a well- In exploring the political causes of The section on mature women does not written and highly readable analysis of their exile, the women begin their seem to fit with their vaguely stated how gender and migration are reflex- individual stories by examining how aim of informing colleges and univer- ively intertwined. society has shaped women's personali- sities about the difliculties faced by More and more women and ties to fit the patriarchal world. foreign students. Even in the section families are participating in undocu- Paradoxically, though exile means on college women, there are few mented migration and settlement losing one's culture, the loss of the concrete suggestions. Somewhat more despite the cudified xenophobia of such traditional patriarchal culture has distlut,ing was the fact that these legislative measures as the Immigra- given these women the chance to move narratives are not contextualized tion Reform and Control Act of 1986 beyond the limitations culture had within a broader socio-political and more recently California's Propo- imposed on them. Liethe women in framework or a particular academic sition 187. In Mexico, this increased Pray God and Keep Walking, their discipline. I was also particularly immigration, along with urbanization journey into exile has simultaneously troubled by the editors' simplistic and women's increased participation in been a journey towards articulating essentialist assumption that it is the work force, have begun to erode the their feminism. necessary for those making cross- patriarchal ideals represented by cultural transitions to suppress their ideological constructs such as ma- Womenin Cross-Cultural emotions in order to function on a chismo and rnarianismo. In her Transitions is the result of a one-day daily basis. "We are suggesting that it exploration of these transformations of conference held at Franklin College in may be more painful for women to do gender relations, Hondagneu-Sotelo Franklin, Indiana. The narratives of this than for men," they say. "since addresses three central questions: How fourteen "cultural commuters" are women may have less experience does gender organize migration? What divided into two main sections: keeping emotions under control" 6x5). are the implications for gender "Reflections of Mature Women" and Furthermore, their obviously unin- relations among newcomers? How do "Perceptions of College Women." formed statement, "Women frequently women help to establish family and Bringing these two seldom-heard have fewer opportunities than do men community life in the US.? groups together would have worked to become myinvolved in the new This study weaves together data much better framed in the context of culture" @.5), is categorically dis- gathered through participant obsewa- views, informal conversations, and a reconstructed and selectively repro- group interview with Latina id- duced through immigration and grant women in a codependency particularly settlement. Not simply the group, creating a textured and multi- result of an individual deciding to stay layered work. The site of Hondagneu- permanently in the U.S., settlement is Sotelo's eighteen-month study was an closely tied to the presence of women, unincorporated area of a city she calls families, networks, and communities. "Oakview" in the San Francisco Bay Arguing for a womancentered model area As a child, the author regularly of settlement, Hondagneu-Sotelo visited family friends in this area, explains, "Ln terms of spatial mobility, which has since the 1x0's been household divisions of labor, and the transformed into a Mexican immigra- balance of family power and authority tion barrio. Study participants -a as indicated by decision-making heterogeneous group of forty-four processes, women gain in the process "illegal aliens," women and men, of settlement while men lose" @. 146). having resided in the U.S. for a Through daily activities such as minimumofthreeyears-are finding and keeping stable jobs (non- grouped according to their patterns of seasonal work), using public and migration: My-stage migration private forms of assistance, and (men arriving first and later sending building sa'ial ties, the Mexican for Eunilies), family-unit migration immigrant women in Hondagneu- (entire family migrating together), and Sotelo's studv hebed construct and individual migration (men and advance settkment, thus solidifying women). their own position within the family. Though I found the entire volume Furthermore, the newly reconstructed highly informative, I especially gender relations give women the enjoyed Chapters 4 and 5 because of incentive to advocate for long-term the interweaving ofpemnal narra- settlement tives. Chapter 4 begins with the Together these four volumes can premise. "Migration may be conceived help the reader begin to understand of as an individual project or event how exiles, idgrants, and refugees with origins in macro-political and make sense and create meaning out of economic transfolmations, but at an their situation. intermediary level of explanation, its causes are preeminently social" U.97). fvette Valdks came to the U.S. with Focusing on how gender relations her family in 1967 as a Cuban +gee within families and social networks and exile. She is pursuing her Ph.D. shape patterns of migration, in French at the University of Mscon- Hondagneu-Sotelo argues against the sin-Madison. Her dissertation is on household-strategies model of migra- transcultural traversals and ideologi- tion and instead interprets the house- cal transgressions in the novels of hold as a contested arena where three contemporaty women writers gender and generational differences jwn the French-speaking Caribbean.] are constantly being renegotiated. I These renegotiations take place within the broader context of social changes in gender relations in Mexico. Women in Transition: Perspectives from the Chippewa Valley by Sarah Harder
A video wries created and produced low-income women to pursue post- low-income women frequently enwun- by the Women in Wansition Project, secondary training to help them toward ter while pursuing post-secondary Women's Studies, University of economic independence, the series training. It is designed to help the Wisconsin-Em Claire hopes to help educate members of the viewer form realistic expectations of public and policy-makers about what lies ahead and to ~lanaccord- herCindy Klwgard finished women's poverty issues, emphasizing ingly. A supplemen& fifty-page high school in rural Wisconsin in education as a solution to the poverty workbook and resource guide, made 1975, she headed to Chicago to work trap. available to student-parents, outlines as a nanny. When the family she regional support systems that can help worked for moved, she accompanied Thefirst ofthe three videos. mitigate these barriers. them to Florida. She had just begun ''Myths and Stereotypes" (24 minutes, classes at a community college there 30 seconds), addresses commonly held Given the recent "Wisconsin when she was raped, and she soon quit attitudes about women in poverty. Works" (W2) legislation passed in school to deal with the emotional ?acts that counter misinformation are Wisconsin, WIT students may indeed trauma. Her son Matthew was about a presented through statistics and data, face significant barriers to their year-and-a-half old when she finally i ntewiews with low-income women, educational plans. Because W2 left an abusive relationship to move imd an AFDC budget simulation. The participants are to complete any back to Wisconsin. .iideo also illustrates the win-win education and training within twelve Following some medical struggles .situations resulting from the decision months and then find a job, longer- and having lived on Aid to Families by low-income parents to return to term training programs, such as the With Dependent Children (AFDC) for post-secondary education. two-year medical lab technician several years, Klwgard has become The second video, "Taking the program Klevgard hopes to enroll in, part of Women in Transition, a project First Steps" (16 minutes, 30 seconds), may be a lot harder for welfare based in Eau Claire, Wisconsin that demonstrates concrete links between recipients to finish while they're tries to make educational opportunities higher education and self-sufficiency, working and juggling child care. more accessible to low-income women illustrating that higher education offers Women In Transition, however, and help them toward self-sufficiency. solutions to the poverty trap for moms, continues a number of initiatives One of twenty women in the project, kids, and community. Personal designed to help low-income women Klwgard started basic skills training at testimonials from women once on access and complete post-secondary Chippewa Valley Technical College in AFDC, whose moves toward self- training. For example, the group the fhll of 1992. She's been very sufficiency were built on post-second- facilitates a Professional Women's pleased with the staff. "They made me ary education, describe both the fears Clothing Bank, organizes a Children's feel like I could really do if" Klwgard they faced and the benefits their Back-To-School clothing exchange said in a recent newspaper article families gained from their education every August, and functions as a about the program. And she has, in investment. The primary purpose of referral service to other community fact, done well, posting a 4.0 grade this video is to motivate other women resources. Members of the WIT point average in spring semester 1993. living in poverty to consider the array coalition include student parents, key That report card bangs in a frame on of career possibilities accessed through community leaders, and representa- her wall. educational credentials. tives of agencies, organizations, the Klevgard's story is part of a video "Snakes and Ladders" (24 University, and Chippewa Valley series put together by the WIT project minutes, 30 seconds), the third video Technical College. Administered in 1995. In addition to encouraging of the series, explores barriers that through the UWEC Women's Studies office, this project is funded by the She hopes to be a model for her son sity Women (AA UW), she is currently Otto Bremer and UW-Eau Claire Matthew, too. Now eight years old, Third Mce President of the Interna- Foundations. he's already starting to save for tional Federation of University Women Klevgards's plans are certainly in college. (jrFUWJbased in Geneva, Switzerland] line with those of Women in Transi- tion. "My goal is to have myself off [Sarah Harder has worked for hventy [E&. Note: These videos - and some the [welfare] system. My goal is to get years on issues involving women at eighty other titles - are available to a job that pays more than $4.25 an grasmots, national and international Wisconsin residents through Interli- hour," she says. "I'd like to be an levels. Coordinator of Women's brary Loan from the Women's Studies example for another person that is Studies at the University of Msconsin- Audiovisual Collection held at struggling, someone in the same boat." Eau Claire and a former president of Kannann Library, UW-Plattaille.] the American Association of Univer-
COMEON, JOINTHE CONVERSATION! 'ZINESAS A MEDIUMFOR FEMINISTDIALOGUE AND
by Angela Richardson
BUST 1993 - present. 45T. $10 (or $2.50/single issue) + $2 shipping and were homemade, mimeographed handling. P.O. Box 3 19, Ansonia Station, New York, NY 10023. magazines in miniature put together for and by the fans of particular punk HERD 1994(?)- present. P.O. Box 476669, Chicago, IL 60647. bands. Over time, some of these "fanzines" evolved into "pe~zines," HIPMAMA: THE PARENTING 'ZINE 1994 - present. 45T. $12-20 sliding digests of personal diatribes, usually on scale. PO. Box 9097, Oakland, CA 94613. subjects specific to the punk subcul- ture. MY LAST NERVE - AyXX 'ZINE 9/94 - present. (on hiatus? in transforma- These days, feminist 'zines tion?) 25T. $1.50/issue or 6 stamps. P.O. Box 3054, Madison, WI 53704-0054. include everythmg from poetry to comics to creative writing to doodles PASTY. 2 stamps + spare change andfor trade. Sarah-Katherine, 734 20th and paper dolls. Clip art is used in Avenue East, Seattle, WA 98112. generous measure along with appropri- ated news items and fashion magazine spreads. Women use 'zines as a forum for interacting with, reacting to. Finding that your views still nme and Newsweek. The realm of hacking up and re-assembling pop aren't being kpre&nted in the modem-day 'zines exists as an arena culture. The 'zines provide a space in mainstream media? Maybe it's time for many marginalized populations, which we can create our own mean- you started your own 'zine! If you but perhaps for none more fittingly ings, for our own pleasure and amuse- haven't the time or resources to launch than feminists. Particularly in today's ment. a self-publishing empire, check out backlash climate, 'zines provide an Most 'zines are the results of some of the excellent titles available in alternative to, as well as an oasis from, hours upon hours of creative collage the everexpanding feminist kine the mainstream press's (mis)repre- work and story-writing, followed by a scene. sentations of our experiences as trip to the local copy shop. Articles are Like their punk rock predecessors women. sometimes hand-written (therefore of the 1970's, today's 'zine publishers Similar in form to the poetry occasionally illegible), more often are usually individuals who see little of chapbooks and small press output of typed or output on computer for their lives reflected in the pages of the 1930' and 40's. the first 'zines pasteup afterwards. Some 'zines are laid out entirely on computer, although young feminists across the country. and will also come in handy if you ever this practice is frowned upon by most Since I have yet to come across a 'zine have car trouble. The issue I got my 'zinesters, who swear by the hands-on by an elderly woman and because race hands on came out in February '95, approach of old-fashioned cutand- and physical ability are rarely men- after Jen had just moved to Chicago. A paste methods. tioned in most of the texts, I would brief intro to the fourth issue describes Some 'zines survive only single have to guess that a lot of the women her new life there. Thumbs-up to the issue runs; others last for years. 'Zines making 'zines are young, white, able- architecture, thrift shopping, and often go through metamorphoses along bodied, and middle-class. coffee shops; thumbsdown to the lack with their authors, changing title or of dyke bars. focus as well as address. Many 'zines Inthe early 1990's. as the are just a few pages long, great news punkish Riot Gml movement quickly for those of us with short attention picked up speed, more and more 'zines spans.- by girls emerged. A contagious 'zine These little magazines normally spirit was spreading among feminists, aren't done for profit, but for the with some titles gaining mainstream personal gratification of their publish- attention. Sarah Dyer, creator of Mad ers. 'Zines are also useful tools in Planet and Kikizine, was featured in feminist efforts to create community Seventeen magazine at the height of and share common experiences -both the Riot Gml 'zine phenomenon. A positive and negative. Women speak great resource for 'zines by young out in their 'zines as survivors of women is her brainchild, Action Girl sexual assault and harassment, which Newsletter, "dedicated to networking helps others to see they are not alone. organized girls everywhere." What mainstream venues are available With names like Queenie, Heck She starts the issue with a hand- for women to announce "I was raped" Yummi Hussi, Literal Bitch, and scrawled editorial on the pitfalls of and be seen as something other than Conscious Clit, 'zines from Riot Gmls "feminine protection." Later she just a victim? cover everything from sexism in the provides readers with a list of favorite 'Zines by women often focus on hardcore punk scene to girlhood hygiene products, including those to the amazing aspects of the female dilemmas to reviews of TV shows and avoid. She also wants to know what we experience that are, for the most part, lists of fun stuff to do. These girls are think, promising an indepth review of invisible in the mainstream press. working through a lot on paper - it's "viewers' favesn in future issues. Turn Many feminist self-publishers put in a often pretty compelling reading. the page and encounter a stepby-step lot of time doing research for each Feminist self-publishers everywhere instruction guide on how to do an oil issue; women's history, for example, is ,?re making their presence known, change. Accompanied by drawings of explored and chronicled. 'Zines are a reaching out, inviting conversation and the tools you'll need, Jen wraps up this place where individual women stake confrontation. The following are "girls and cars feature" with a cartoon out ideological territory, debate issues, reviews of just a few selections from portrait of herselfby her beloved and reclaim terms like girl and chick. the abundant universe of feminist automobile, wrench in hand. It is in 'zines that new ground is 'zines. Incorporating a 'zine standard, broken, issues debated in exciting and lists of likes and dislikes, Jen segues fresh new ways. HERD (Issue 4) into a monologue on the joys of eating For many women the opportunity At five-and-a-half by six inches, out. Next comes a page of poems, to publish without the threat of the Herd is "pocket-size for easy refer- followed by a journal-like piece titled editor's red pen is liberating. 'Zines ence," as Jen its publisher has noted on "Aggression," in which Jen reveals the bring a sort of freedom other publica- the front of her 'zine. The cover very personal, highly-charged flipside tions can't afford their writers. Here illustration is a lovingly handdrawn of her feelings on food and body the 'zine queen can indulge in stream- depiction of two women on a living image. There are other goodies in this ofconsciousness writing - straight room couch, one woman with her hand little gem of a 'zine, but I'll let you from the brain to the page - unfil- on the other's thigh. Another special discover them for yourself. tered, uncensored, and often charm- feature of this kine is the color Her choice of subjects and varia- ingly misspelled. photocopies interspersed throughout, tions in writing style make for a Most 'zine creators trade with providing a nice reprieve from the refreshing take on the "perzine." other 'zinesters, sometimes also typical black-and-white photocopied Additionally, Heds naive but clean sending private correspondence pages of most 'zines. design look enhances, rather than between issue releases; 'zines have Jen has compiled a feminist inhibiting, the message. As I close the facilitated the networking of many perzine that is fun to read, thoughtful, cover, I feel like I know her. BUST (Issues 2-5) Mama looks as though it's been laid I related completely to her need to 1f anyone's sthl harboring the out thoughtfully using a computer. include a Paranoia Page, even though I misguided belief that feminists have One of this 'zine's greatest assets don't share her fear of accidentally no sense of humor, the kine BUST is its attention to diversity. We hear becoming impregnated while using a will provide the very necessary rude from lesbian moms, women of color public toilet. Generously handing over awakening. These girls prove way who are mothers, and teen moms. four pages to her buddy Noah to do beyond a reasonable doubt that Contributors share parenting experi- with as he pleases, she includes his feminist and funny definitely do go ences, "motherly advice," and per- explanation of an elaborate theory on together. sonal triumphs. the subject of "jumping on the band- The ladies at BUST Cthe only wagon." Sometimes boys are allowed kine that lifts and separatesw)are like in this world of grrrlzines. the big sister I always wanted: a little Perhaps the most fascinating kooky, smart as whips, and out to have portion of this issue comes towards the a rockin' good time. This 'zine is one end as Sarah-Katherine describes how of my favorites and bas been ever since she decided to spend a day off work I picked up my first issue a couple of visiting a jail. She relates the minute years ago. The cover of issue No.2 and painful details of what she saw and features a gigantic, topless cartoon how it made her feel. dog-lady on a rampage at an amuse- ment park. Inside, readers are treated YERBOSLAMMED (Issues 6 & 7) to articles like "Fun from A-DD" and I loved the title as soon as I laid "i tbink i love you: my life on the road eyes on if even though I had no idea with david cassidy," among others. what it meant. "Verboslammed: when Each issue focuses on a carefuuy men talk derogatorily about women in selected topic. Recent issues have the presence of a woman without included: Fashion and Beauty (Issue having any idea it might bother her." 3). Sex (Issue 4), My Life as a Girl Hmmmmmmm, well, of course. (Issue 5), and Men We Love (Issue 6). This 'zine tackles a different These girls have a lot of interesting theme each issue. Number 6 was all experiences under their belts and they about women and baseball, Number 7 are willing to divulge all. This kine is was on women and cars. Rebecca, this an amazing buy considering all the The 'zine deftly weaves its poetry 'zine's coordinator, bas done a good goodies you get: comics, short stories, and fiction selections in between news, job of integrating articles she has EVkWs, c00l celeb inte~ew~,and SO commentaries, and feahue articles. written herself- often featuring much more. Hip Mama is always full of gorgeous individual profiles of obscure women As lime progresses, the 'zine's black-and-white photos of children in history - with tidbits from the appearance continues to lean in the and their loving parents. I especially mainstream and other alternative press dimtion of the mainstream - glossy appreciate that this kine makes the publications. cover, slick production, ads. But effort to discuss issues of class, race, In Issue 6, she clues readers into appearances can be deceiving and sexuality, and gender as they relate to the history of the All American Girls staying true to their early years of parenting. The mix makes for a rich Professional Baseball League. But first misbehavin', the chicks at BUST still reading experience, and although I'm up is an article about Julie Groteaq the write unapologeticallly with a fierce not a mother myself, there's plenty of first woman to ball college baseball. sense of humor about life in the girl information here of interest to me as She covers the topic from several lane. BUST never fails to make me well. angles, including mention of her own laugh out loud. discomfort and anxiety around partici- PASTY (Issue 2) pating in sports. There's also lots of HIPJUUA (issues 4 & 5) Self-identifying as a "fat grrrl," art, graphics, and photocopied pichues In the same realm of almost-a- Sarah-Katherine of Pasty has packed of women in action. magazine 'zines is Hip Mama: A her 'zine with all kinds of engaging In her seventh issue, subtitled Pmnting 'Zine. On very nice, thick stuff. SK m&es great use of clip art Station Daze, she relates her experi- paper stock and with a slick cover, Hip and found images, reworking them ence of working at a gas station and into feminist commentary. the stereotyping she encountered. The 'zine is a full eight-and-one- fact is that the majority of the cyber- Inte~ewswith female friends who half by eleven inches, bound with population is still white, wealthy, and own (and lwe) trucks are entertaining staples down the left side. A lot of male. and inspirational. Rebecca also emotion is packed between its covers. The print and digital worlds have includes some of her favorite picks for The publishers weren't shy about begun to collide, though, as traditional, underground comix, tunes, and other including it all: what makes them mad, photocopy zinesters go online and then 'zines. Both the design and content of what they find funny or frightening. circle back to write about those cyber- Verboslmed are dense; get out your One of the best pieces in Nerve's just- experiences in their print gmlzines. magn@ing glass if you want the full abouteven balance between artwork We can only hope that, over time, these experience. and articles is Carol's piece titled explorations in self-publishing will "(My) Abortion." As the author herself grow to represent an even greater MY LAST NERYE: AN XX 'ZINE had to say when discussing feminist diversity of feminist points of view. (Issues 1&2) 'zines with me. "...there's a lot of They surely will continue to be an My Lust Nerve is a healthy wisdom in these things...." combination of reviews, reactions, and My Lust Nerve is one of those funky art with a political edge. When I 'zines with an uncertain future. Other picked of my first copy of this 'zine I time commitments in the publishers' was thrilled to discover that it was lives have made getting the next issue . produced right here in Wisconsin. As together difficult. Carol has ideas for a it turns out, Carol Petrucci, one of the variety of other projects, so only time 'zine's cocreators (along with Cheri will tell. In any case, back issues are Haines) also lives right up the street still available, so get a copy for from me. yourself. Carol explained that one of her main motivations for doing a 'zine was Even though a relatively short so she'd have something to trade, "sort amount of time has passed since those of as a connection with people." At the first gmlzines came out, feminist zines time of Nerve's genesis, she and Cheri are showing up everywhere, sometimes in mutakd forms - often as homepages on the World Wide Web. It doesn't take long to realize that the world of traditional, underground print 'zines and that of the e-zine are very different The same sense of urgency, anarchy, and mischief prevails, but the important means by which like-minded physical experience of the 'zines is not women across the country establish at all the same. E-zines are a little communications, share ideas, and more difficult to read under the covers make plans for smashing the patriar- before you go to bed, and you don't get chy. the pleasure of cataloging copies for your own personal shoebox library. [Angela Richardson works as an artist The electronic world affords the on a multimedia sojhvare development luxury of immediacy; instant updates team at the Universiw of Msconsin- and alterations to an e-zine are Madison. She is a volunteer producer possible. Some webzines include really for the public access television gorgeous computer graphics and a program, "Chick Chat. "Angela myriad of hypertexted resources. But collects comics, makes videos (.22 and class issues are raised: who has access other stories for girls) and has been to lived on different floors of a duplex to the technology to create Webzinesl known to publish an occasional 'zine.] and would get together often to make And who is able to view them? Money collages, write reviews -- whatever and time are involved with any kind of struck their fancy - as a way of having 'zine creation, but that's even more fun and making art. true of web pages as 'zines. The sad COMPUTER TALK
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The mjgVindex. htm French~Englishsite has a directory of women's organiza- MIDWIFERY INTERNET RESOURCES, compiled by tions in the field of development, statistics on women's Denis Anthony in the Department of Nursing, University of issues, a documents collection, and a shopping mall. Birmingham covers a variety of resources on midwifery, Address: http:llwww.synapse.netl-focusintl born births, birth control. and other aspects of women's THE WIT1 CAMPUS is the site mounted by the Interna- health. Addrtss: http://meds~2.bhun.ac.uWnursing/ tional Network of Women in Technology, whose mission is midwifery/ to "increase the number of women hired and promoted to MS. FOUNDATION includes resources for MeOur management and executive level positions, help women Daughters to Work Day. Address: http://www.ms become more technology literate and financially indepen- .foundation.org/ dent, and to encourage young women to choose careers in technology and science." The site has articles and fact NARAL ONLINE is the site from the National Abortion sheets. Address: http://www.witi.com/ and Reproductive Rights Action League. Address: http:// www.naral.org/ WOMEN AND ECONOMIC RESOURCES on the WWW are brought together on the Institute for Global 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS Communications site. Address: http://www.igc.orglwomen/ WEB has added many works to its 'tirtual library" of activistlwork.htm1 electronic texts to its collection of poetry, novels and short stories, biographical material, documents and sites devoted The WOMEN AND SCIENCE PROGRAM, UNIVER- to 19th century American women writers. Address: http:// SITY QF WISCONSIN SYSTEM page describes its clever. netl 19cwwwl activities and participants. Address: http://www.uwsa.edu/ outside/wislindex.htm NORTHWEST FEMINIST ANTI-CENSORSHIP TASKFORCE has a site with articles discussing censorship WOMEN AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: and feminism. Address: http:l/www.aa.netl-nw-fact/ CANADIAN PERSPECTIVES is a resource guide described on the International Institute for Sustainable NURSING INTERNET RESOURCES, compiled by Denis Development (IISD) site, at http://iisdl.iisd.ca/women/ Anhny in the Department of Nursing, University of wguidel. htm Birmingham, guides users to directories, Usenet, and other The actual document is available on Macintosh or Windows resounxs on musing. Address: http://meds~2.bham.ac.uW nursinglresOurcednuraeresources/ diskette for $15.00 Canadian, from IISD, 161 Portage Ave. E, 6th flr, Winnipeg, ME? R3B 0Y4 Canada; Email: Rx WOMEN WEEKLY REPORT is the "Up to the [email protected] Minute" series on women's health from CBS News. Ad- WOMEN IN BUSINESS CYBERSPACE FIELD OF dress: http:Nuttm.comlnr_women/ DREAMS contains web pages from women-owned busi- SAFETYNET DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ONLINE nesses. Address: http://www.wib.com/ RESOURCES includes a handbook, statistics, bibliogra- WOMEN IN DECISION-MAKING is a network of phies, and a list of state coalitions against domestic vio- experts in the European Commission pursuing gender lence. Address: http://wwwcybergrrl.com/dv.html balance in decision-making. "We offer facts and figures, SAN FRANCISCO DYKE MARCH (scheduled June 29, principles and arguments, strategies and actions." Address: 19%) website is http://www.lesbian.org:80/d+kemarch http:lldrum.reference. Wwo-mancracyl "SOCIAL AND TECHNICAL MEANS FOR FIGHT- WOMEN IN INDIA page provides an "eclectic perspective ING ON-LINE HARASSMENT," is the title of a draft of issues facing women in contemporary India," by offering article by Ellen Spertus corresponding to her talk at the numerous articles from The 'Kmes of India, The Hindi, conference "Virtue and Mrtuality: Gender, Law and and other publications. Address: http:llwww .webcom.com/ Cyberspace," at h4.I.T. ,April 21, 1996. Address: http:// -prakasWOMEN/WOMEN.HTh4L www.ai.mit.eddpeopldeUens/Gender/gld WOMEN OF AFRICA RESOURCES brings together ELECTRONIC JOURNALS1 bibliographies, syllabi, articles, and other information on MAGAZINES African women. Address: http://www.lawrence.edu/ 4radleydwar.html COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION WOMEN ONLINE WORLDWIDE offers a forum for MAGAZINE'S March issue (v.3, no.3, 1996) focuses on women of all backgrounds to meet and share information on "Women and Gender Online." Among the topics: "Gender motherhood, education, work, and other topics. Address: W~thoutBodies," "Gmls Exude Attitude," and a review http://www.wowwomen.com/ essay on four recent books. Address: http:// www.decernber.codcmdmag/cwenUtoc.htmlthen select WOMEN WEBWORKS' aim is to "weave together many Archives and choose volume 3. threads of a women's life, such as health, family, home, careers, politics and enjoyment." Address: http:ll www.komect.com/ WOMEN'S BUSINESS OWNERSHIP HOME PAGE offers electronic access to information on programs and senices of the U.S. Small Business Administration's Office of Women's Business Ownership. The programs include training on starting businesses, as well as advice to help women obtain SBA-backed loans and federal contracts. Address: http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov/womeninbusiness/ WOMEN'S HEALTH ISSUES lists the contents of recent issues plus ordering information for this bi-monthly THE ETHNIC WOMAN INTERNATIONAL offers in its publication produced by the Jacobs Institule of Women's first issue such articles as "Congress and the Girl Child," Health, edited by Warren H. Pearse, M.D. Address: http:// "The Moh5wk Nation - Mother Earth," and "South African members.aol.codjacobsinstlwhi.html Women's Equity Charter." Address is: http:// WOMEN'S INFOLINK is an information and referral www.thefuturesite.codethnic senice fiom the Queensland State Government, Australia. FMST (FEMINIST STUDIES IN AOTEAROA) is an Address: http://www.womens-infolink.qld.gov.au/ electronic journal begun in 1994 and offering papers, news, WOMEN'S ONLINE MEDIA PROJECT has as its goal and occasional reviews on feminist studies in Aotearoa/New introducing women to electronic media and acting as a Zealand. Frequent bulletin-style publications. Address: "conduit" to information on women available worldwide. http:llwww.massey.ac.nd--ST The group sponsors eeucational seminars and hold regular HARVARD WOMEN'S HEALTH WATCH comes from group meetings. Address: http://sh.suehuo.nakano.tokyo.jpl Harvard Medical School. Articles in the November 1995 WOW issue include: "The New Weight Guidelines," "Risk: What The WOMEN'S STUDIES SECTION OF THE ASSO- It Means to You," and "New Screening Tests" for ovarian CIATION OF COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRAR- cancer. Address: http:llwww.med.hmard.edu/publications/ IES page can be reached at http://www.Iib.siu.edu/dcallaha/ Women1 wsshp.html JOURNAL OF SOUTHASIA WOMEN STUDIES began WWWOMEN DIRECTORY FOR WOMEN ONLINE publishing in 1995. The current issue we found is volume 2 provides a way to search for women-focused information (1996), containing a paper on "Hindu women's rights to throughout the WWW. Address: http://www.wwwomen property in India from the 2nd-3rd century A.D. to modern .cod times" by EMca Garzilli plus news items and a call for papers for an upcoming issue. Address: http:// YALE JOURNAL OF LAW AND FEMINISM publishes www.shore.net/-indialjsaws/ or send email to the editor, articles about women's experiences related to law. The site EMca Garzilli, at [email protected] includes tables of contents. Address: http://www.yale.edu/ lawn€em!law&fem. html MEDITERR4 NEA N REWEW: A SEA OF WOMEN offers both English and Italian versions. Published twice a year, YON1 is a 'zine "in celebration and exploration of the the issue we looked at included articles on militarism, feminine." Address: http://www.ion.com.au/yo diversity, fundamentalism, Palestinian women in Israel, and ZAN is a directory and anthology of material about Iranian women in the mafia, among other topics. Print issues are women. Address: http:llwww.zan.ord available for $40 from Mediterranean Review Association, Wale dei Giardine, Coop. Caminetto, 87030 RENDE-Italy. Web address: http://winweb.deis.unid.iUmedmome.htm M~TISSEcalls itself"the first multicultural multiracial women's magazine online" and "a forum for young women everywhere." The name derives from a French adjective VlKl AMICUS BRIEFS in the case involving the Via describ'ig a multicultural, multiracial woman. Included are. Military Academy heard before the U.S. Supreme Court are articles about Mttisse women in the news, health and beauty available via Irene Stuber's email address. Sent out in four tips, an advice column, and more. Address: http:/l parts, one of these briefs was filed on behalf of "women www3 .nand0 .nethWmetissel active in the defense of our country" and the other by NIRMANEE is a newsletter fiom Sri Lanka, produced twenty-six women's colleges. Stube's address: monthly in Sinhala language (12 pages) with a summary in [email protected] English for electronic distribution. For infonuation, send A few potentially helpful tools for working on the Internet: email to: [email protected] For those interested in developing Web pages, this SAPPHIC INK: A LESBIAN LITERARY JOLTRNAL is an * source might be useful: WEBZ Development, hc,offers online periodical with fiction, poetry, and book reviews. its I -step @ as a "do-it-yourself Web site authoring tool and Address: http://www.lesbian.org/sapphic-ink1 hosting service" which they promise can help a user "build WOMEN'S HEALTH WEEKLY is available in both print and publish a multi-page Web site in about ten minutes." and electronic versions. To find summarieslmntents of You can check out their promo at http://webz.com/ current issues, go to: http://www.eewsfile.com/lw.htm * A source titled "Web Builders and Multimedia Resources" at University of Iowa has some pieces on HTML design and aesthetics that might prwe helpful. OTHER ELECTRONIC RESOURCES * FACETS' Web site provides a listing of specialty catalogs available for kethat any listings of their CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S ISSWis the name of a 25.000+ video titles available for rent or purchase. Check new CD-ROM database product from Responsive Database their website at: http://www.intmet.neVyrideo/ Services. Created to "serve the information needs of women * Here's a websitdsearch engine that can help locate in both developed and developing nations," the database email addresses: http://www.Four 1l.d covers 500 sources from more than 80 organizations in 20 Happy 5th Birthday to WMST-L, WOMEN'S STUDIES countries, with some 9,500 full-text articles and 500 LIST. Joan Korenman noted on May 16 that the list was abstracts. For information, contact RDS at 216-292-9620; born 5 years ago on that date. This busy list now includes email: [email protected] (see other CD-ROM more than 4,000 subscribers. products mentioned below and in the "New Reference of Works" column). Another new CD-ROM product interest is WOMEN 'R' from SoftLiie, a full-text database starting with some Cybercaf& are springing up all over, bringing World Wide 25,000 articles from 1990 to the present. Among the Web and computer access to more folks. lko recently noted publications included are our own Feminist Collections, by Feminist Bookstore News are Brooklyn's Kokobar, a plus Critical Matrix, Belles Leths. Lilith, Issues Quarterly, combination cafe and bookstore owned by African American Radiance, Sage Woman. Tradeswomen, New Moon, and women Angel Wfiams and Rebecca Walker (email address: many more. For information, contact SofLine at 800-524- [email protected]). Chicago's People LieUs Bookstore 7922. now includes a 500-square-foot cybercaft, operated by Came Barnett. (Cwldn't locate email or website for this WPZS (WOMEN AS PATHFINDERS ON THE INFOR- -.I MATION SUPERHIGHWAY) is a one-year project that includes a network of women in Central and Eastern A new direaory is available on WMST-L, the women's Europe. Four partners -- from Moscow, Germany, Prague, studies List run by Joan Korenman at University of Mary- and Perm, Russa -- came together for work on women's land, College Park. JNTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY NGOs (non-governmental organizations) in the area, and OF WOMEN'S POLITICAL LEADERSHIP, prepared by hope to produce a manual pulling together some of the the Center for Political Leadership & Participation at the information gathered. They offer more news by writing to University of Maryland, College Park, is organized by them at: [email protected] region then country. Web address: http://www.inform NEW VICTORIA PUBLISHERS out lesbian fiction and nonfiction. at the City University of New York). has been celebrating its 20th anniver- Address: P.O.Box 27, Nonvich, VT According to publicity, "the writers sary. Beginning as an all-women print 05055: 1-800-326-5297. reflect on the link between publishing shop in 1975 (after some of the women and social change," discussing produc- had been fired from a male-owned A new "international collection of tion of literacy materials, pamphlets. shop for asking for a raise), the writings by feminist publishers from fiction, poetry, intemational rights, co- collective handled printing for local all parts of the globe" is PUBLISH- publishing, and more. The collection is groups as well as some national ING FOR SOCL4L CHANGE: due out in July, from Kali for Women publications (Sinister Wsdom, for FEMINIST PRESSES NORTH AND (A 36 Gulmohar Park, New Delhi 110 example). After ten years, the group SOUTH edited by Ritu Menon (of 049 India) and The Feminist Press (3 11 closed the print shop, but continued Kali for Women, Delhi, India) and East 94th St., New York, NY 10128). with the publishing company, turning Florence Howe (of the Feminist Press
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY in the use of computers, the education focusing on the topic. Although print AND WOMEN'S LIVER A BLBLI- and career paths of women in com- copies are available at no charge to OGRAPHY is the newest addition to puter science, the impact of computers anyone without Internet access, we our regular series of bibliographies. on office work and other women's encourage Interneters to access andlor Compiled by Linda Shult, the listing employment, the health concerns of download it from our website (http:/I includes more than 750 entries, most women workers manufacturing www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/ annotated, covering books, articles, computer components or keyboarding WomensStudied) or directly via gopher chapters in books, and dissertations on long hours, and women's use of online (at gopher://silo.adp.wisc.edUnO/l1/ topical areas such as gender differences resources, plus numerous Internet sites .uwlibs/.womenstudies/.infotech).
AFRICAN AMERICAN women, Smith and over 100 contribu- porary women whose names will bring WOMEN tors present appealing biographies of instant recognition include singed 300 more notables. As with the first songwriter Whitney Houston, athletes Jessie Carney Smith, ed., NOTABLE volume, there is a mix of historical Florence Griffith Joyner and Jacqueline BLACK AMERICAN WOMEN, and contemporary figures from all Joyner-Kersee, Senator Carol Moseley- BOOK II. Detroit: Gale Research, walks of life, both well-known and Braun (although oddly indexed only 1996.775~.index. $80.00, ISBN O- those who should be better known. under "radio host" in the occupation 8103-9177-5. These women are as noteworthy as index), outspoken former Surgeon those selected for the first volume, General Jocelyn Elders, novelist Gloria Following up on the successful demonstrating once again the breadth Naylor, law professor/unsuccessl1 first volume of Notable Black Women, of XXmn~lishmentSand contributions Clinton nominee Lani Guinier, and published in 1992 and profiling 500 of African American women. Contem- Daughters of the Dust Glmmaker Julie
Feminist CoUectiom Dash. Librarians will be gratified to individuals who would be excellent mately 40,000 entries, covering the see recognition given to seven librar- choices for a third volume, such as literature from 1989 through 1993. iandbibliographers, adding to the Smith College President Ruth Semiannual updates will include all twenty women in the library profes- Simmons and law professor/writer data from previous versions. The sions included in the first volume Patricia Williams. I hope a Notable program can run directly from the CD (thanks, no doubt, to having a librar- Black American Women 111 is on the or can be quickly and easily installed iadlibrary science professor as editor.) way. on a CD-ROM drive. A technical Most entries contain a photograph, reference booklet explains installation, which greatly enhances the immediacy software files, customizing options, of the life stories. There's the serious, CD-ROM INDEXES trouble-shooting tips, and the license dignified look of Colorado pioneer agreement. The one-page print "Aunt" Clara Brown, born a slave in WOMEN'S STUDIES ON DISC: documentation and help screens on the 1800, who searched in vain throughout THE INDEX TO WOMEN'S STUD- CD-ROM proper provide brief expla- most of her long and productive life for IES ON CD-ROM. New York: G.K. nations for function keys, keyword and the daughter torn away from her, Hall, 1995. [CD-ROM]. $495, ISBN 0- index searching (name, title, subject, miraculously finding her when Brown 7838-2139-5. Semi-annual updates, source, date, anyword), display formats was 82. Rap artist Queen Latifah's $295/yr. Requires IBM-compatible (brief, full, custom), and sort, print, gaze is poised, but directed elsewhere, computer, 640K RAM, DOS 3.1 or and download options. The system and former Wiberforce College higher, CD-ROM drive with MS-DOS includes the boolean operators AND, President Yvo~eWalker-Taylor Extensions 2.1 or higher. OR, and NOT and provides one- smiles with her whole face, as if with character as well as multiplecharacter pleasure knowing she's in this rich WOMEN'S RESOURCES INTERNA- truncation symbols. collection. The entries are culled from TIONAL. Baltimore, MD:National G.K. Hall developed its own interviews, letters, diaries, and other Information Services Corporation software, CD Searcher, obviously writings by the individuals, and (NISC), 1995. [CD-ROM]. $895 (+ intending it to be very user-friendly. existing secondary works. Quotations $18 shipping, U.S. or $35 shipping, However, experimentation reveals abound ("When you've been second- elsewhere). Semi-annual updates. problems, some more serious than best for so long, you can either accept Requires DOS-capable PC (386 or others. Item records and the help it, or try to become the best. I made the greater). networked or single station, screen for tag searches use the term decision to try and be the best in 1988" CD-ROM drive, color or mohochrome "author," but there is no author index -Florence GrifFith Joyner, p.363; "I monitor, 180Kl3 RAM (5 12Kl3 without or author tag designator, AU. The don't have a quarrel with majority extended memory. index instead uses "name" to mean rule... [but] in some instances we also author or reviewer, and tag searches have to worry about protecting the Women k Studies on Disc cumu- must use NA. This inexplicable rights of minorities where you have a lates the five volumes of its print discrepancy is very confusing. Multi- local majority that may be acting in a counterpart, Women k Studies hdex term tag searches need quotes, a very prejudiced way to rig or corrupt or (WSr). WSI debuted in 1991, receiving annoying and unexplained feature. abuse the democratic process" - Lani very good reviews. It provides the Another serious problem not men- Guinier, p.262; "My vanity requires broadest scope of the three existing tioned in the print documentation or public recognition; my confidence women's studies periodical indexes, help screens is that tag searches requires a mode of expression; my covering more than eighty journals and require terms to be entered exactly as intelligence and training require an magazines, and considers non- they appear in the corresponding intellectual challenge; my fear of academic researchers as well as indexes, including commas, apostro- boredom requires that routine be undergraduate and advanced research- phes, and hyphens. Booleans and avoided; my ego requires that I ers in its coverage. In terms of depth, truncation therefore do not work in tag contribute something and become WSI indexes more than ninety percent searches. These practices defeat the involved, and my great mistrust and of the main articles and reviews in purposes of tag searching and differ dislike for do-gooders requires that I be scholarly journals and approximately from the majority of other CD-ROM paid well for my services..." - seventy percent of the articles in more products. Michelle Clark, first Black woman popular and news magazines. WSI On the plus side, users can enter network news correspondent [on CBS], provides complete citations, doesn't searches without tags or quotes from p.93). abbreviate journal titles, includes the search prompt. The default search There are several good indexes, descriptive terms like "bibliography" appears to be "anyword" with a including by occupation, geographic or "book review" in citations, and uses boolean AND if more than one term is area, and subject. A list of individuals a controlled vocabulary. In short, WSI entered. Entering terms like "Ameri- included in the first volume is also is an excellent index. can Indian women," "black feminism," provided. I can think of several The CD-ROM contains approxi- "disabled women," "standpoint
22 Feminist Collections voL17, nos. 3-4, theory," "third world," "biracial Women Studies Abstracts (1984- ), the from a desire to educate and empower identity," "cosmetic surgery," "riot University of Toronto's Women 's women about resources. The gestation gmls," or "lesbian avengers" from the Studies Database (1972- ), Women of was over a two-year period, during search prompt successfully retrieves Color and Southern Women: A which the loyal band of editors and records from which users can deter- Bibliography of Social Science volunteers assembled and verified mine standard subject headings for Research (1975- ) from the University material in all formats - print, more thorough searches. dMemphis, a bibliography from the audiovisual, and electronic. Inspired by In cases where searches retrieve World Health Organization, and four the Whole Earth Catalog, no records, the system prompts users to tiles compiled by the University of WomanSource offers deit-yourseLf and conduct index searches. Browsing the Wisconsin System Women's Studies alternative information about a myriad indexes is easy and more than one term Librarian's Office, most notably New ~f topics from journal-keeping to car can be selected, connected by boolean Books on Women &Feminism (1987- ). repair. OR Index browsing to some extent The combination of databases on The book is divided into seven circumvents the tag searching prob- R W obviously provides broader and sections. "Wornenspirations & lems mentioned above. Users can sort longer coverage than Women b Studies Celebrations" includes a calendar search results to display, print, or on Disc. Several of the sources have wmmemorating women's birthdays download according to different been essential tools in the field for and events in women's history. "Ways priorities, such as title, source, or date, years and researchers everywhere will of Living" covers all sorts of advice on a very useful feature. Response time is IT ioice at the inclusion of abstracts basic human needs, like food, shelter. very good even for searches on very H th many of the citations. Ws and work. Everything from a woman- broad subjects like "feminism" or sc hare is much more sophisticated crafted language to sources on ''book reviews." The price of this tl m CD Searcher, with three search women's theater and music are product is reasonable, particularly n xies, full Boolean and proximity surveyed in "Ways of Communicat- since there is no extra charge for local 01 erators, truncation, and field ing." Health, sexuality, and religion area networks (serving one building). ir lexes. However, Wsprice is are addressed in "Being & Growing" Fiy,semiannual updates will in ei :hty percent higher than that of while relationships are emphasii in time correct one of the major draw- A smen 's Studies on Disc. "Ways of Caring." "Seeing &Under- backs to the print version, which is Both databases provide badly standing" is where women's studies, published annually. n :eded electronic access to essential women's history, and feminist humor G.K.Hall needs to immediately il lformation in women's studies, much are described." "Playing & Creating" correct the above-mentioned software of it not covered in subject CD-ROMs. catalogs a variety of recreational problems in tag searches, provide more Both are recommended. -Libraries resources. complete documentation, and include should buy the product most suitable to What gives the book its flavor. cross-references in the indexes. The their needs and budgets. however, is how the material is addition of proximity operators and presented. One page in the "Ways of abstracts (many journals provide these) (.?eviewed by Linda Krikos, Head of Communicating" section describing would greatly enhance this product and the Women b Studies Library, The Ohio information gateways is a good should be considered for future State University, Columbus, Ohio.) representative for the book as a whole. versions. Smaller academic libraries There's a review, excerpt, and photo- and selected large public libraries will image of the newsletter Action Agenda find Womens ' Studies on Disc highly (co-published by Media Watch and ! useful. Media Action Alliance), with contact However, libraries in institutions Rosoff, Ilene, ed., THE WOMAN information and mention of two Media with strong women's studies programs SOURCE CATALOG & REVIEW: Watch videos. Private Screenings: or research institutions should examine TOOLS FOR CONNECTING THE Television and the Female Commer, another new CD-ROM, Women b COMMUNITY OF WOMEN. Berke- edited by Lynn Spigel and Denise Resou~esInternational w). ley, CA: Celestial Arts, 1995.504~. Mann (University of Minnesota, 1992) Produced by the National Information index. $19.95, ISBN 0-89087-768-8. receives similar treatment, including Services Corporation (NISC), WRI an excerpt from what is identified as provides access to more than 10 1,000 "Information midwives" Rosoff "Defining Women: Cagney and records from several important and her staff (The Launch Pad") gave by." (It took some doing to figure women's studies resources, including birth to the WomanSoutre Catalog out that "Defining Women" was an essay from Private Scmenings, as good a guide as is Women on the Brink (Preface). She has, however, been WomanSource used no quotation marks of Divorce. selective in what she included, aiming for the title, nor did they list the Though I've placed Women on the for numerical balance in covering the author, Julie D'Acci. Compounding Brink of Divorce under the rubric topics. David is true to her objective - the confusion, D'Acci later published a "Divorce," that short-circuits the intent a little too true for my taste. I would book with almost the identical title.) a bit, which is that couples on the have liked to see more analysis of the Three other elements make this sample brink may be able to salvage their books and spice to the entries, rather page worth noting: a pithy statement in marriage if inclined to try. For them, than the even-handed descriptive tone italics under the rubric "Parlor Talk," a as well as for those stepping over the David maintains. But libraries, boxed feature, "Lexi's Lane," with brink, the first several chapters are women's centers, marriage counselors, definitions of the terms "alternative crucial. Books about self-understand- and others will be able to use Women press" and "mass media"; and two ing are followed by those that help in on the Brink of Divorce as an excellent road-sign-style cross-references to understanding men, provide an listing of books on all the topics other pages with related information. oveniew of maniageJlove/divorce, covered. The visually-appealing pages use deal with ways to save a marriage, and white-on-black, shadows, boxes, and address problem areas in marriage graphics to pack in a great deal of generally and extramarital affairs in DOMESTIC VIOLENCE information. particular. The remaining chapters One of Rosoff's goals is to continue in logical progression as they Carol J. Adam and Marie M. Fortune, demonstrate the interconnectivity of would ocxr to a woman going through eds., VIOLENCEAGAINST WOMEN resources. Woman Soume Catalog & divorce: the break-up and transition. AND CHILDREN: A CHRISTUN Review does this as well as anything the impact on children, and legal and THEOLOGICAL SOURCEBOOK. can short of electronic hypertext links. financial aspects, with sections New York: Continuum, 1995. 515p. The Launch Pad may try something thereafter on recovering ("Smart pap;, $29.95, lSBN 0-8264-0830-3. along those lines as well. A notice on Cookies Don't Crumble"), living the last page refers to The alone, and finding a new relationship; "But no one ever comes to me with WomanSource Catalog &Review an epilogue covers remarriage and this problem," was the common online and CD-ROM as future stepfamilies. The subject index can be response the editors heard when they projects, along with a Quarterly that used by readers interested in cross- began educating clergymen about will update information in the Catalog. cutting topics, such as communication, sexual and domestic violence in the I look forward to seeing these addi- conflict resolution, and forgiveness. late 1970's. Adams and Fortune knew tional resources come into being. Lesbian couples are not dealt with this was true, but that the reason was in the book, although "lesbian" occurs the victims were afraid of what their twice in the subject index, leading to reception would be. Clergywomen were DIVORCE two books that devote some space to having a different experience. Battered lesbians. Nevertheless, most of the women, incest and rape survivors, and Cynthia David, WOMEN ON THE topics and many of the entries are victims of sexual harassment were BRINK OF DIVORCE: A GUIDE TO relevant to lesbian couples as well. corning to them in droves. But they felt SELF-HELPBOOKS. Fort Atkinson, There are 553 books described in unprepared to deal with the problems. WI: Highsmith, 1995.272~.index. paragraph-long annotations in Women This sourcebook grew out of the First $29.00, ISBN 0-917846-54-0. on the Brink ofDivorce. Most were Theological Education and Domestic published in the 1980's and 1990's, Violence Conference held in San Self-help books are one of the except for some "classics," such as Antonio in 1985 and subsequent categories we cover only selectively in Fascinating Womanhood by Helen discussions. The collection of articles New Books on Women &Feminism and Andelin (updated in 1992), Open can help to clergy move from a belief rarely in Feminist Collections. There Marriage by Nena and George O'Neill in "keeping the family together" to an are simply too many - and too few (1972), and Gail Sheehy's famous "informed pastoral response that that say anything new -to warrant Pussages (1974). Author David tells us focuses on ending the violence" @.lo), inclusion. But a guide through the that she is not evaluating the books, and to find resources within their warren? That's something worth but rather summarizing their stated tradition that can promote healing for shouting about - especially if it is as goals, subject matter, and theories victims while holding perpetrators
24 Fcmuut Collcdionr roll 7, nor. 3-4, Sprug/Summcr 1996 acanmttable. The anthology should 4olland, for example? Born in Poland, Foster's introductory essay is a also be useful for staff in women's ;he made her first films there in the lice overview of the field to date, and centers. 1970's and early 1980's. Then she he indexes (country, film title. noved to Paris, but her next film, hronology by decade, and general 4ngry Harvest, was produced in West ubject) are useful. Anyone who enjoys ECONOMICS/ECONOMIC %many,followed by Eumpa, Eumpa, vorks by women filmmakers will hd CONDITIONS mduced in France. Gwendolyn Foster nuch of interest in Women Film rolves the dilemma by crediting all her Joan Nordquist, WOMEN IN THE =tries, plus the United States (does UNITED STATES: ECONOMIC she live here now? Foster doesn't say). CONDITIONS: A BLBLIOGWHY. Holland's -, like those of most of FINANCIAL AID Santa Cm: Reference and Research the contemporary filmmakers included Services, 1995.71~.(Contemporary In this Dictionary, may also be seen !Lizabeth A. Olsen, ed., DOLLQRS social issues series, no.38.) $15.00, throughout the world. It is no wonder, WOR COLLEGE: THE QUICK ISSN 0887-3569. therefore, that Women Film Diwctors 5WDE TO FINANCL4L AID FOR is international in scope. This pattern WOMEN IN ALL FIELDS: SCHOL The economic conditions of was also followed by Women in Film: rnHIIPS, mLLoWSHIm, LOANS, women's lives are affected by whether 4n International Guide, edited by 4ND OTHER PROGRAMS. Garrett or not they are in the workforce, their Annette Kuhn with Susannah ?ark, MD: Gamett Park Press, 1995. marital status, ethnicity, and age. Joan Radsbne (Fawcett/Columbime, 1990). mpaged. index. $6.95, ISBN 1- Nordquist's new bibliography recog- which included women associated with 380774-20-8. nizes tbese factors. First she surveys all aspects of as well as concepts books and articles that look at the of filmmaking.- Foster's work is The title, subtitle, and price for subject as a whole. Then she cites confined to directors and is further this booklet really say it all. This is the material on the economic conditions of restricted to women who direct women-focused volume of a series of African American women, Latinas, fictional narrative films and documen- quick guides from Garrett Park Press women heads-of-households, teenage taries. But these restrictions allowed mnsisting of listings with short single mothers, older and divorced her the space to cover the biography descriptions of financial aid sources. women. These are followed by a and work history of her subjects in Others in the series awer particular section focusing on homeless women more detail, in entries ranging hm disciplines, and a related series offers and ending with a page each of about one page for Ingemo Enstrtim sources of financial aid for minority references to statistical and biblio- (FinlandlGermany) and newcomer students. graphic resources. While many of the Rose Troche (Go Fish, 1994) to four This guide lists 349 organizations, citations Nordquist includes can be pages for the Hollywood actorldirector foundations, and college funds retrieved by searching online data- Ida Lupino and seven for pioneer Alice designated for women. Most have bases, her work is a real time-saver. Guy, wbo in 18% directed La Fie oux restrictions - geographic, disciplin- One would need to search more than a Choux, which Foster calls "probably ary, prior connection to the organiza- score of databases as well as print the world's first film with a plot" tion, and for use at the particular indexes to duplicate the retrieval, and (p.161). college only. Descriptions are brief, in would still lack the organized presents, About two hundred women are keeping with a "quick guide." Ex- tion. included in the book. Each entry amples: "Over 600 scholarships are sketches out the life and work of the available to students enrolled in this filmmaker, followed by a selected all-women's college, including FILM STUDIES filmography and bibliography of Trustees Awards, Presidential Honor interviews and articles about her. Awards, and Presidential Merit Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, WOMEN Bibliographic citations are almost Awards, also available are Fort Howard FILM DIRECTORS: AN INTERNA- always to English-language material Scholarships for area students" TIONAL BIO-CRITICAL DICTIO- only (exception: an autobiography by (number 8, Alverno College in NARY. Westport, CT: Greenwood Russian filmmaker Esther Shub). With Milwaukee, WI); "Scholat~hipsof Press, 1995.443~.index. $76.00. the international attention women $300 to $1,000 are available based on ISBN 0-3 13-28972-7. filmmakers are receiving, perhaps it is need and academic record" (number time for the next bibliography on 181, National Association of Negro Filmmaking today is an interna- women's filmmaking to offer multi- Business and Professional Women's tional knterprise, blurring distinctions lingual citations - at least covering Clubs). While these booklets in no way based on nationality of the filmmaker, the countries where the filmmaker has replace the general directories of film crew, or producers. Which countr: been active. college aid, or those specifically has the best claim on Agnieszka addressed to women (especially the Roe v. Wide Chicago. The rich First, I love the appearance of the Di~cto~of Financial Aid for archival collections such as the Sophia book. It has a wonderful soft brown Women), the Quick Guide is certainly a Smith Collection, Smith College, and cover with both a woodcut and pen good place for students and parents to the Schlesinger Collection, RadclifFe drawings of women. I searched but start their search for aid. College have done so much topreserve could find no acknowledgement of the the history of American women. artist or source, unless "Production/ Shouldn't they rate entries in an Design by Rivanne, Brooklyn, NY HISTORY - AMERICAN encyclopedia on the subject? But I like includes the cover. At any rate, it is the mix of entries for literary authors lovely. The print font is large and very Kathryn Cullen-DuPont, THE ENCY- and titles, psychologist Carol Gilligan, readable. CLOPEDU OF WOMEN'S HIS- and the term "mommy track," along- The book opens with an excellent TORY IN AMERICA. New Yo*: side WeChapman Catt, the Female introduction by Marcia Cohn Spiegel, Facts on File, 19%. 339p. index. Anti-Slavery Societies, and the known for her work in educating $45.00, ISBN 0-8160-26254. apparently obligatory inclusion of Jewish adult women. Her essay begins Deborah Sampson. by initially reviewing the historical EVERY high school, public, and A good purchase for libraries and baniers to Jewish women's participa- degelibrary should have on hand an women's studies programs. tion in study and writing. She moves encyclopedia of women's history in through the activities of Jewish women America. While this one isn't perfect, immigrants to America and the major it is quite seniceable and mom- changes in the lives of mended. Readers can jind entries for organizatons, events, books, laws, and individuals chosen because they have "affected the general course of Ameri- can history. .. [were] important in the struggle for (or, sometimes, against) equal rights ...[were] first to make their way into ...p rofessions and government offices... made...significant contribu- tiom,. .. created andlor inspired lasting community senice organizations, new their descendants, develop- public policy initiatives, and even JEWISH WOMEN ments in feminist spirituality and religions, and made prominent religion, the situation of Israeli women contributions to the cultural and Ann S. Masnik, THE JEWSH and Jewish women elsewhere, and the intellectual life in America" (pix). WOMAN: AN ANNOTATED SE experience of women in the Holocaust. The entries are based on secondary LECTED BIBLIOGRAPHI: 1986- Spiegel cites significant recent sources, identified in references, and a 1993 (WITH 1994-95 RECENT scholarship in each of these areas, all subject index allows readers to find TITLES LISD. New York: Biblio listed in the bibliography proper. information on topics and individuals Press, 1996. 171p. irdex. $11.95, The bibliography starts with a mentioned but not treated to full ISBN 0-930395-25-5. section of additions to Aviva Cantor's articles. Thirty-four documents, The Jewish Woman 1900-85 (Biblio ranging hmthe Record of Mary "Judge for yourself' is a statement Press) for that time period, then uses Brent's Request for Sffige, 1647, to Ann Masnik sometimes makes in Cantor's arrangement to list and excerpts hmHarris v. Forklip, 1992 annotating the prodigious number of annotate material from 1986-1993 (the "hostile work environment" case), articles and books on Jewish women (History, Holocaust/Resistance, are found in an appendix. that she has collected. While Masnik ReligionlBiblical Studies, United What would I wish for that isn't says she uses it to denote "controver- States, Israel, Other Countries, and here? Illustrations, first of all (there sial" material @. l), it is a good Literature, subdivided by genre), and are none). Also, there's no entry or reminder to users of any bibliography ends with an unannotated section of subject index term for National or secondary resource (including this books and articles from 1994-1995. Women's History WeeIdMonth, review!). I encowage people research- Since the subject and author indexes something I get calls about every ing Jewish women to use The Jewish cover the three chronological divisions, March. Nor is there mention of Woman and its predecessors and judge it may be easier for researchers to start Kathryn Clarenbach, a N.O.W. founder the selections, annotations, and from the index. This is also true for who presided at the International arrangement for themselves. Here are subject searches less tied to country Women's Year conference, or the Jane my thoughts anyway. than to topic. The Cantor arrangement Collective of abortion providers in pre works fairly well, although a topical
26 Ibnuhf Collrdbnr voLI7, nor. 3-4, Sprin~/Summer1996 breakdown ofthe United States section Now some nitpicking: Simone dreamin' was becoming a reality of in particular would be helpful in a Weil was not a convert to Judaism @. soup kitchens and unemployment lines future edition. I also think Canada 20) - in fact, she was born a Jew, and in the early '70s. Sex was easy, money could be treated better. There is no hghshe found her mysticaUspiritual was hard and =nice. California was entry for Canada in the subject index, home in Christianity, she was never packed with gays and lesbians sleeping although there are citations that could baptised. Our Women, Race, and everywhere and doing everything, just have been indexed that way. I would Ethnicify, cited as a resource @. 158), to survive. In a largely autobiographi- favor either a separate section for is a book-length bibliography with cal novel, Rogers recounts herjourney Can&, or renaming the United States numerous citations to material on from programming computers for the section "North America," and sub- lewish women; it is not, as listed, an defense industry to hawking jewelry on dividing by topic. In the Prehce. issue of Feminist Collections. the streets. A story of disturbing Masnik says that coverage of the arts All-in-all, an attractive, llseful relevance to the '90s" b.108). Annota- and sciences has been more selective bodr that lays the groundwork for a tions for nonfiction works are some- than the social sciences, history, more comprehensive bibliography on what longer - up to half a page. religion, and literature. It would be Jewish women. Gillon also quotes from published dto expand attention to these reviews. areas in a future edition also. The book is arranged alphabeti- Choosing what to include in a LESBIANS cally by title, with author and category "selective" bibliography is up to the indexes. I have a few niggling criti- compiler. I would have liked to see Margaret Gillon, ed., LESBL4NS IN cisms of the arrangement. Books with more selections of articles from PRINE A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF titles beginning with the initial article women's studies periodicals than 1,500 BOOKS WITH SYNOPSES. "A" are found under "A." Librarians Masnik made, and if sprsce was a Lrvine, CA: Bluestocking Books, 1995. won't know to look there. Almost all consideration, then fewer single-page 478p. index. pap., $19.50, ISBN 1- the b& categorized under "Ethnic articles on topics widely written about. 887237-13-5, (PO. Box 50998, Irvine, Lesbians" concern Jewish lesbians. Ideally, the more that can be included, CA 92619) Why not index by identity rather than the better for researchers. There is less this collective term? I also wish Gillon represented or available on Jewish If you are a librarian in any type of would have included year of publica- women outside the United States or library -academic, public, or high tion in the book entries. Still, the basic Israel, and this is an area where the school learning center - you do not bction of bringing together informa- women's studies periodicals could have need to read this review any further. tion on 1,500 lesbian books is fulfilled added contributions. For example, Just go immediately and order this nicely. Canadian Journal of Women and the book. Here for a modest $19.50 you Low devoted an entire issue (~3,110.2, can offer patrons a way to identify 1992) to responses from Jewish women novels, short story collections, poetry, LITERATURE and others to the anti-semitism of a drama, and young adult novels as well Camdian feminist leader, Clara Brett as a host of nonfiction works, all Barbara Fister, THIRD WORLD Martin. Deborah Fuller Hahn's featuring lesbians and lesbian themes,. WOMEN'S LITERQTURES: A analysis "Soviet Jewish Refugee It should go without saying that DICTIONARY AmGUIDE TO Women: Searching for Security," interested individual readers might MTERLQLS IN ENGLISH. Women and Therapy, no. 112 want to purchase Lesbians in Print Westport, CT:Greenwood Publishing (1992):79-87, would have added the also. Group, 1995.390~.index. $75.00. dimension of late-twentieth century The synopses are quite helpful in ISBN 0-3 13-28988-3. experiences and views on immigration. conveying the plot or content of each Though the "Religion" section has book and are entertaining, too. Gillon Readers and instructors of numerous citations to Na 'amat describes Lfling Belly 6 Gertrude women's literature alike will be Woman, an Orthodox publication less Stein with: "LiflingBelly is erotic. pleased with Third World Women k likely to be available in a university L~jtrngBelly is a fire. L~jhngBelly is a Literatu~s.They can consult it for collection, I saw only one citation from mythology. In Lifling Belly a rose is a biographical background on numerous Journal of Feminist Studies in Reli- rose is a rose is arouse..." b.191). She writers, with citations to translated gion, which often includes articles on says of Falling Thmugh the Cracks, a works and available critical studies in Jewish feminist theology and concerns. novel by Fritzie Rogers: "California English; a selective sample of indi- vidual titles that have their own entries with examples from writers Merle Press, 1995.410~.index. $39.95, (starred when mentioned in author Hodge and Zaynab Alkali, and she I ISBN 0-253-32872-1; pap. $19.95, entries); and thematic essays on quotes an interview with Hodge by ISBN 0-253-20963-3. literary concepts such as autobiography Kathleen M. Balutansly in Callaloo or bildungmman, common to all (v.12, Fall 1989). Finally, Fister The process of discovery and literatures, as well as subjects peculiar provides citations to twelve nwels (all recovery of "lost" women writers has to a literature within the Third World, of which also have separate entries) been going for over twenty-five years. as in the Sistren Theatre Collective and the Balutansky articles. Addi- Thousands of women's stories, nwels, Jamaica. tional concepts not treated in indi- poems, and plays, as well as diaries, The biographical entries are brief, vidual entries but mentioned in other letters, and memoirs have been but do seem to cover the salient entries are accessible through the published. Many now have several biographical facts relating to the subject index. editions available or have been setting or topics in the writers' work. Fister provides five useful appen- anthologized in more than one The reader learns that Russian- dices: a list of authors by region or collection. It is therefore surprising to Argentinian poet Alejandra Pizamik country, a chronological list of authors see that the category of early criticism committed suicide at age thirty-six and by century, resources for research by women has been almost completely that her work "explores the limits of (reference books, bibliographies, ignored until the appearance of this language and the nature of death" periodicals and publishers), antholo- volume. An extended note in the (p.241). South African Miriam Tiali gies, and general works of literary introduction considers other antholo- tried to study in different fields and criticism. The anthology section is gies of early criticism (only one such colleges, from medicine in Lesotho to conveniently divided by region. It is anthology includes more than one secretarial school in South Africa. She not, however, comprehensive. One woman, and then only three), finding drew on her experiences as a clerk in Hundred Years Affer Tomorrow: similar fault with anthologies of early her novel Muriel at Mefropolitan Brazilian Women S Fictlon in the 20th women writers. The editors do not (1987). which was banned in her Century, edited and translated by speculate on why the women critics homeland. Darlene J. Sadlier (Indiana Universitv have been neglected, but focus instead Entries for individual titles Press, 1992); When New Flowers on what can be gleaned by reading provide basic information about theme, Bloomed: Short Stories by Women them. setting, plot, andlor style. The novel Writers Fmm Costa Rica and Panama, Although no "distinctly female Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedom (199 I), edited by Enrique Jaramillo Levi critical tradition" (p.xiii) is suggested, says Fister, is "a complex and (Latin American Literary Review and the women wrote from their own multifacted novel about recent Philip- Press, 1991); and Breaking the historical contexts as did their male pine history, making use of Silences: an Anthology of Zbentieth- counterparts, some differences are a...polyphonic narration .... This Century Poetry by Cuban Women, noted between the women and men fragmented and multivocal method translated and edited by Margaret critics. Some of selections by women lends itself to depicting a meal and Randall (Pulp Press, 1982). are had to be teased out of fictional post-modern, postcolonial Philippines" examples of missing titles.' dialogues, poems, or letters. Many (P.90). Fister is careful to title her work more women than men chose anonym- The entry for bildungmman is a Third World Women k Literaturns, in ity. Women wrote with a consciousness good example of Fister's treatment of a magnition of the diversity of cultures of their gender and assigned role, literary concept. She begins by represented. Her work will help bring which perhaps is what led many of defining the term as a novel about the wealth of women's experiences in them to question racial assumptions. education and moral upbringing - a Third World countries to English- They were also interested in how coming-of-age novel, which includes language readers. women were portrayed in novels ethical decisionmaking. She then compared to real life, and recognized points out the additional choice reading and writing as empowering educated Third World heroines must Folger Collective on Early Women acts. make: which culture to claim as their Critics [Virginia Walcott Beauchamp, The Anthology includes works by own, since Eurocolonid education is et al.], eds.. WOMEN CRITICS 166& forty-one critics. Entries are arranged at odds with their cultural identity. She I820 :AN ANTHOLOGY. chronologically by birth date, giving illustrates the importance of this issue Bloornington: Indiana University Madeleine de ScudCry, 1607-1701, the first slot, followed by Margaret to organize and classify the material. the 180 national U.S. organizations Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Her experience as a music librarian at profiled. They can learn of the origins 1623-1673. Aphra Behn, 16407-1689, Ithaca College and active mle in the and development of a group, its considered the first woman to support Women and Music Roundtable of the ~rganizationaland funding structure, herselfby writing, is the third entrant. Music Library Association certainly what policy issues concern if and what Most ofthe women included are from qualify her to do so. tactics it uses to address those issues. England, with a smattering from Ericson used a mixture of conven- To be included a group had to meet France (e.g., Gennaine de SWI and de tional organization that recognizes me or more of five criteria ("women" Scudkry), Germany (e.g., Sophie historical and geographic divisions; reference in the group's name; mainly Gunterman von LaRoche), and the format (reference books, scores, sound women members; explicitly serves United States (e.g., Rachel Mordecai recordings, media); and new subject women's interests; represents a Lazarus, Hannah Webster Forstex, and groupings, such as "Feminist Musical traditional women's role; or takes a ms.Wheatley). Aesthetics," "The Construction of position on one or more issues dis- Women Critics 1660-1820 should Gender in Western Art Music." tinctly of concern to women). I would be welcomed by literature instructors "Gender and Audience Reception ...," add a sixth: the group had to be willing and students. and "Psychological and Physiological to answer a prescribed set of questions Studies on Women and Gender Issues that runs to eighteen pages in the in Music." This approach seems bk's Appendix. Many of the ques- MUSIC sensible, and the subject index pro- tions are tough ones, too. ("How is vides other means of access for those ability rewarded in your organization's Margaret D. Ericson, WOMEN AND interested in topics like "Festivals," [national] office?" "For each of the MUSIC: A SELECTIVE ANNO- "Jazz," or "Black Musicians." A following federal laws, please indicate Z;ITED BLBLIOGR4PHY ON generous section on "Women, Gender, on the scale provided the law's WOMEN AND GENDER ISSUES IN and Music in Non-Western Cultural importance to your organization today" MUSIC, 1987-1992. New York: G.K. Contexts." subdivided by region, - the laws listed included SALT Hall, 1996.400~.index. $95.00. ISBN demonstrates the wide sweep Ericson Agreements, War Powers Act of 1973, 0-816185804. made to find material published in Roe v. Wade [a judicial decision, not a contexts outside the disciplines of "law"]. and thirty-five more. The Four hundred pages on issues of music or women's studies. She cites, qualifying and willing organizations women, gender, and music over a mere for example, an article in Cuhiers de were interviewed by Slavin andlor five ym?Yes, indeed, and this is Littkraturr? Orale in French with more than one hundred contributors to without dwelling on the music issue English abstract about cok, a women's the volume, who also reviewed recently raging across the women's funeral song of the Jodpeoples of publications by the groups and electronic lists - the fact that women Austronesia, and another from Asian writings about them in order to musicians are patently excluded from Folklorr? Studies about sohar, songs compose coherent essays. the Wenna Philharmonic Orchestra! sung by women in Uttar Pradesh There are many types of "women's Ericson has found plenty of topics to during the cycle of pregnancy and issues" groups in the book. Slavin cite and discuss about the "collective childbirth. The annotations range from counts eighty-four as "civic," such as musical activities of women in histori- a phrase to a paragraph. the Soroptimist International and cal and contemporary cultural Undoubtedly, musicologists, Zonta International, and thirty-one as contexts...[and] also the manner in folklorists, and historians of women's professionaV~~~~pational,including which gender. as a sociocultural history and culture will all find useful the American Library Association and construct, has been an influential information in Women and Music. the American Nurses' Association. factor in the formation and production Catholics for Free Choice, Church of musical culture, and thus also Women United, and the National influences a woman's role in and ORGANIZATIONS Council of Jewish Women are some of relation to that culture" (Preface, pix). the thirteen "church-related" groups. An operative word here is "collective"; Sarah Slavin, ed., U.S. WOMEN'S The Coalition of Labor Union Women no biographies or studies of individual INTEREST GROUPS: INSTITU- and the Communication Workers of women musicians have been included TIONAL PROFILES. Westport, CT: America are two of the eight union except those treated in monograph- Greenwmd, 1995.645~.index. groups in the book, and the W~sconsin length essay collections. According to $99.50, ISBN 0-313-25073-1. Women's Council represents state-level Ericson, the publications described in governmental agencies. The remainder Women and Music reflect both new Readers will probably use U.S. sample social, youth-serving, sororial, areas of inquiry and traditional Women k Interest Groups primarily as a sports, elderly, research, and political research, and she had to create a way source of descriptive information about interest groups. Slavin made a con-
Feminist CoUectionr ~01.17,nos.3-4, Spring/Summa 1996 29 . -. scious effort to be inclusive with permits in a single-volume reference were each of these women and what respect to ethnic organizations. Among work. A few suggestions for further did they accomplish? And for whom? these groups profiled are Las reading beyond the names of the In my work as an aide for the Hennanas (Catholic Hispanic women), organizations' publications would have Wisconsin Legislature, I never met as Mana (Latins), National Black held readers know where to turn brillant or productive a legislator as Women's Political Leadership Caucus, nek though in some cases there isn't Rep. Mary Lou Munts. Cox's book National Federation of Ah-American much else out there to point to. In any lists Rep. Munts as a Democrat Women, National Organization for event, bringing together comparative representing Madison and seming Native American Women, Organiza- information on 180 diverse women's consecutively from 19734984. It tion of Chinese American Women, and issues groups makes for a useful doesn't mention her successful bills on four Black sororities. compendium. divorce reform, marital properly According to a summary of the reform, groundwater, or mental health profiles in the introduction, the issues; nor does it note her role as the women's issues groups are concerned first woman to cochair the powerful with abortion, aging, children, Joint Finance Committee. Her story economics, education, free speech and Elizabth M. Cox, WOMEN STATE begs to be told, and I am sure there are press clauses of the FiAmendment, AND TERRITORLAL LEGISLA- other narratives as meaningful from health and safety, housing, iinerna- TORS 1885-1995: A STATE-BY- Wisconsin and other states. Cox has tional relations, minority women, and STATE ANALYSIS, WITH ROSTERS identified women sewing legislatures public office holding. As of the writing OF 6,000 WOMEN. Jefferson, NC: from our states and territories. It is up of the book, the most pressing issues McFarland, 1996. 248p. index. bibl. to others to tell their stories. related to health and safety. $48.50, ISBN 0-78644078-1. In addition to the readers who are [Reviewed by Margery Katz, Librarian simply interested in more information Elizabeth M. Cox has painstak- Consultantfor the State Historical about a particular organization, Slavin ingly gathered an abundance of Society of Wisconsin.] aims her book at political scientists information on American women who who examine group formation and have served as state and territorial maintenance and who might like to use legslators. This was no easy task. As RELIGION it as a basis to make comparisons a reference librarian researching Wnthe women's issues groups in similar questions, I know tracing Dale A. Johnson, WOMEN AND the United States and those in other women state legislators is a time- RELIGION IN BRITAIN AND countries, or between the women's consuming, difficult, and tricky IRELAND: AN ANNOTATED issues groups and groups coalescing prospect. Hats off to Elizabeth Cox for BIBLIOGMPHY FROM THE around other issues. This intended undertaking the research! REFORMATION TO 1993. Lanham, audience will be more familiar than the Women State and Territorial MD: Scarecrow Press, 1995. 288p. general reader with the terms and Legislators 1885-1995 provides an index. $37.50, ISBN 0-8108-3063-9. usages found in the introduction, such overall summary of women's earliest as "entrepreneurs" for the organiza- service in state legislatures and the Mayer I. Gruber, WOMEN IN THE tional leadership, "converting by- growth in their numbers. Then for BIBLICAL WORLD: A STUDY stander publics" or "exchange rela- each state and territory, Cox includes a GUIDE. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow tions." I suspect specialists would want brief history of women legislators and Press, 1995. 271p. index. $39.50, more in the way of composite data than lists the names of the women with the ISBN 0-8108-3069-8. is offered in the introduction, however, houses in which they served, their to actually use it in the ways Slavin places of residence, party affiliations, These two reference works are part suggests, and I think the general and legislative years served. Graphs of a series co-published by Scarecrow reader would have understood the and statistics augment and highlight and The American Theological Library summary better with less technical the information. Additionally, there Association (ATLA). The series began language. The essays themselves stay are an index of names, a bibliography, in the 1970's covering topics like The away from such terminology, although and appendices on topics ranging from Sermon on the Mount: A History of sometimes they adhere a bit too "First Women Legislators" Interpdation and Bibliography rigorously to the responses to the to party leaders and ethnic back- (1975) and Paul Ellich (1983). There questionnaire to let the spirits of the grounds of legislators. were no bibliographies specifically on organizations come through. A useful starting point, the book women until 1995, when three were The essays do sometimes reveal includes an impressive amount of raw announced (the third, Of Spirituality: tantalizing hints at what goes on data for which scholars of local and A Feminist Perspective, by Clare B. behind the scenes in the organizations. women's history can be grateful. What Fischer, has not yet arrived at our One yearns for more &tails than space is left are the rest of the stories. Who library).
30 Femirrut Colhcrionr voLI7, nos. 3-4, Spring/Summcr 1996 Women and Religion in Britain mmes to redress the "stubborn refusal phone directories and lists provided by and ldand is arranged by period, sub- of many otherwise competent biblical South Asian organizations. Such an divided by religion (e.g., Roman scholars to mgnize feminist scholar- index is useful to researchers doing Catholicism, Methodism, Quakers) ship as a legitimate branch of biblical surveys of the South Asian population. and topics (e.g., Reform, Philanthropy, research and women in the biblical and Witchcraft). Literary studies and world as a subject worthy of inquiry" studies on individual religious figures @.x). I like his reasoning. I hope that STATISTICS are subdivisions in each historical his credentials in Near Eastern Studies period. Citations come from journals of (Ph.D. Columbia University) and the Cynthia M.Taeuber, STATISTICAL religion, history, literature, the better- presence of this bibliography in a HANDBOOK ON WOMEN IN indexed women's studies journals recognized series on religion will help AMERICA. 2nd. ed. Phoenix: Oryx. (Signs and Feminist Studies), and lend legitimacy to feminist scholarship 1996. 354p. indexes. $54.50, ISBN 1- monographs. Annotations are short but published in the Journal of Feminist 573564M5-7. instructive. An entry for a biography, Studies in Religion and elsewhere. Ellice Hopkins by Rosa M.Barrett I've never met Cynthia Taeuber, (1907). identi6es Hopkins (1836-1904) but if our paths ever cross, she should as an "Anglican leader of the 'social SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN be prepared for a hug. The first edition purity' crusade," who "was a tireless of her compilation of statistics from advocate for a single standard of sexual Josephine C. Naidoo, RESEARCH ON US. government sources has saved me morality" @. 169). The issue of SOUTH ASUN WOMEN IN countless hours of work trying to ordination of women in the Church of CANADA: SELECTED ANNO- figure out which unit of the federal England is divided into time periods TATED BLBLIOCR4PHY WTH bureaucracy collects the particular type and pro and con arguments. I found SURNAME INDEX, 1972-1992. of information a researcher asks about few citations concerning non-Western Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wad - and, of course, the actual answer to religions practiced by women immi- Laurier Printing Services, 1994. lllp. the researcher's question is often right grants to Britain and Ireland. By the index. ISBN 0-921821-22-0. there in the book anyway. The second time the author is ready to tackle a edition is able to make full use of the second edition, there should be many Josephine Naidoo is professor of 1990 census, which updates several more studies of these women to be multicultural research in the Psychol- tables considerably. The Bureau of the cited. ogy Department of WadLaurier Census continues to issue "Current The Gruber book is actually the University. Her research guide covers a Population Reportsn on a variety of first of two proposed volumes on period during which the South Asian subjects between the decennial counts, women in the Biblical World. This population of Canada rose dramati- but as Taeuber pointed out in her volume covers "Women in the World of cally. Naidoo gathered citations that preface to the first edition, data on Hebrew Scripture" with almost 3,000 describe the plight of immigrant races other than White or Black, and citations in English, German, French, women in transition; their struggles to detailed analyses on other topics await and Hebrew. A second volume will adapt to Canadian society; immi- cover women in the Apocrypha and gration's effect on their family New Testament. The introduction to structures, child-rearing the volume at hand includes a list of practices, and rela-tionships 111 women named in theHebrew with their husbands; and their Bible, with chapters and verses where health status. Most of the they are cited. Besides citations to citations come from Canadian women and womanhood in the Hebrew sources, including research Bible, the book surveys general works reports, books, dis-sertations, on women in antiquity, and women in and articles. Each entty has a ancient Egypt and among other paragraph-long annotation societies ofthe ancient Near East. and several "key-words," Gruber says he compiled the Study hinting perhaps that a future Guide to bring together relevant version might include a material from Assyriology, keyword index (the items are Ugaritology, and history of medicine, arranged alphabetically by from popular as well as academic author, and there is no subject journals. As he says, "With respect to index this time). the subject at hand neither type of There is, however, a novel journal has a mowpoly on either index of 3,600 South Asian wisdom or foolishness" @.xi). He also surnames culled from tele- the ten-year collections. Many agencies to the indexer Diodato) - a a bibliography of reference publica- such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics practice I'd like to see all publishers tions and resourca. All items cited are issue new figures frequently. For adopt. held in the Royal Tropical Institute material from tbose sources, research- Even if your library has an ("KIT")Library, and the KIT shelf ers can either use the figures provided extensive government documents numbers are given. Publishers may be by lkuber or use her citation informa- collection, the Statistical Handbook on disconcerted by a statement that tion for that series to find more current Women in America is so handy when readers should "state this shelf-mark information from the latest issue in a you need just the right number to number in your photocopy request" government documents collection. One clinch an argument on a women's issue (p.7), implying that KIT will copy any simple improvement in this regard in that it should be acquired by all. of the references, including whole the second edition is that citations books. U.S. copyright law precludes appear just below the tables, rather such a practice here. than in a separate section in the back WOMEN AND DEVELOP- ofthebook. MENT ' For a comprehensive bibliography of Besides updating previous tables, anthologies of women's literature in this revision has some interesting Maria de Bruyn, ed., ADVANCING translation through 1991, see "Women additions. While the first edition WOMEN'S STATUS: WOMEN AND and World Literature" by Carolyn covered birth rates to women by age. MEN TOGETHER? CRITICAL Kruse, Wsconsin Bibliographies in education, and marital status. Taeuber REMEWS AND A SELECTED Women k Studies, no.6 1. This bibliog- now includes data from the Alan ANNOTATED BLBLIOGRAPHY. raphy is accessible on the Internet at Guttmacher Institute to cover the Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute, the URL: gopher:// intent of the mothers (intended, 1995.200p. indexes. ISBN 906832- gopher.silo.adp.wisc.edd70/11/ mished, and unwanted are the 630-9. .uwlibs.womenstudies/.bibs/.littrans. categories). The percent of intended Single free print copies are also births rises with education and income. This is a useful resource that available upon request from the OBice Still in time for use in the welfare might be missed in the United States of the Women's Studies Librarian, 430 reform debates are a set of tables on because it is compiled and published in Memorial Library, 728 State St., public assistance, including "Mean Amsterdam. It combines cogent review Madison, WI 53706. Age at First Birth Among Mothers, By essays with annotated bibliographies Current AFDC Status and Current on women's status and rights, educa- RH. M (with contriblltions Age. Summer 1993" (AFDC mothers tion and training, economic parity, and from Margery Katz and were younger when they had their first sexuaVreproductive health in develop- child) and "AFDC Mothers Compared ing countries, all identified as critical, W~thNon-AFDC Mothers, Summer interrelated themes by the United 1993" (most striking is the difference Nations Fourth World Conference on in educational attainment, with 43.5 Women. An introductory essay by the percent of the AFDC moms having no editor explains the gendered nature of high school diploma compared to only these issues through examples of 14.5 percent of those not on AFDC). gendex-based norms and values in Another new table of possible note to societies. "Motherhood" as validation unmamed heterosexuals looking for of a woman's status and rights is one mates is the "Ratio of Unmarried Men such norm, points out de Bruyn; while Per 100 Unmarried Women, by "most societies also value 'fatherhood' Metropolitan Areas: 1990." (Ranked male status is not mainly dependent on 355th is the retirement community of producing and caring for children" Sarasota, Florida, where there are only (p. 12). Programs will not succeed in 65.57 men for every 100 women, advancing women's status without an compared to first ranked Jacksonville, understanding of the underlying role of North Carolina, where the presence of gender in the social order. The rest of a military base must be what tips the the essays analyze each theme and cite ratio to 223.64 men for 100 women.) the published literature from research The second edition also includes a reports, UN documents, books and glossary of concepts (ex: "Net worth" articles. Most of the material is in is the sum of the market value of assets English. minus liabilities, secured or unse- The book also has subject, cured). The subject index gives credit geographical, and author indexes, plus New and Newly Discovered class, and Eunily in Korea; and of Japanese women's participation in local governments; plus "country reports" Periodicals hmIndia and Taiwan.
50/50 1995- . Ed.-inchief: Wendy Jill Yo*. 6M.7 $24 + ASL4N WOMEN 1995- . Ed.: Jeong Shin Han. l/yr. ISSN $3 shipping (U.S., six issues); $32 + $4 shipping (Canada); 1225-925X. Sookmyung Women's University, 53-12 $48 + $5 shipping (elsewhere). Single copy: $3.95; $4.95 Chungpadong 2 ka, Youngsan-ku, Seoul, 140-742, Korea. (Canada). 2336 Market St., #20, San Francisco. CA 941 14. (Issue examined: v. 1,1995) Email: [email protected]. (Issues examined: Premiere Another substantial new journal on Asian women is Issue; No.2; No.3, 1995) this English title from the publishers of The Journal of The title of this slick, full-of-photography magazine Asiun Women, which has been published in Korean since was chosen to indicate equal coverage of lesbian and gay 1960. Begun to promote research on women's issues across issues. Lesbian-related features in the three samples we a variety of cultures to benefit both academics and activist received focus on the Indigo girls, glamour photographer women, the journal also promises to 'provide easier access Sunny Bak, artist Luise J. Harrison, comedian Marga for Western scholars" to research on Asian women that has Gomez, female cigar smokers, writer Sarah Schulman, the largely thus far been produced only in Asian languages. Legacy Fund for financial support of lesbian organizations Topics in this issue include women in ancient China, and causes, food columns, and much more. Japanese women in politics, recent gender inequality trends in the U.S. workforce, Canadian feminism under ARROWS FOR CHANGE 1995-. 3&. AshPacific Mulroney's government, and feminine muteness and Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW),2nd blindness in Korean literature. Floor, Block F, Anjung Felda, 54000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Email: [email protected] (Issues examined: BALANCE 1994-. Ed.: Ferrel Christensen. 4/yr. $10 v.1, no.1, April 1995 - v.1, no.3, December 1995) (U.S.); $12.50 (Canada). Single copy: $2.80 (U.S.); $3.50 Following the International Conference on Population (Canada). #366,9768 - 170 Street, Edmonton, Alberta and Development in Cairo in 1995, Amwsfor Change was Canada T5T 5L4. (Issue examined: v. 1, no. 1, Fall 1994) begun to monitor 'changes in policies and programmes Subtitled "The Inclusive Wsion of Gender Equality," related to women's health and reproductive health" and to the 44-page premiere issue opens with an editorial introduc- provide practical information. Topics in the first three tion that states "feminism has paradoxically become a major issues include family planning in rural Chinese communes source of sexist intolerance and injustice in today's society." and the Philippines, national women's health policy in Included are articles on preferential hiring policies as Australia, and violence against women. Each issue also harmN to women, on divorce laws' unfairness to offers a country-bycountry evaluation of progress on the noncustodial parents and some attempts at refom in Cairo Program of Action and a listing of resources from the Canada, and "positive enforcement of child support" laws. documentation Centre. An interview considers "the current high level of injustice toward accused men," and there's also a review of Who ASL4N JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S STUDIES 1995-. Ed.: Stole Feminism? Cho Hyoung. l/yr. Sl2Ivolume + $5 postage outside Korea. ISSN 1225-9276 55. Asian Center for Women's Studies, BLUE JEANMAGAZINE 1996- . Ed.: Bernadette Korean Women's Institute, Ewha Womans University, Seoul Serrano. 6/yr. $29. Single copy: $5.95 P.O. Box 90856, 120-750, Republic of Korea. (Issue examined: v.l,1995) Rochester, NY 14609. (Issue examined: v.1, no.1, March/ Published by the brand-new Asian Center for Women's April 1996) Studies of the 109-ym-old Ewha Womaos University, the Actively seeking submissions of artwork, poetry, staff of this new journal hope it will be 'the first contribu- photography, fiction, and nonfiction from teenage girls, this tion to the ongoing discussion in developing theories of magazine "For Teen Girls Who Dare" offers profiles of women's studies in Asian contexts" and serve "to diffuse 'interesting and exciting teen girls in action." A hockey widely the outcomes of feminist scholarship, research and player, a race car driver, top chess players, and founders of practice." Among the articles in the inaugural issue are the I Am corporation appear in this issue; regular columns studies of all-women police stations in India; of gender, cover such areas as music, movie, and book critiques, health issues (on teen depression this issue), ecology, and a LATINA STYLE 1995- . Ed.: Anna Maria Arias. 43.r. $20 "College Corner." (10 issues). Single copy: $2.50. 955 L'Enfant Plaza, North, S.W., Suite 4000, Washington, DC 20024. (Issue examined: GENDER & PSYCHOANALYSIS 1996- . Ed.-in-chief: v.1, no.3 Fall 1995) James W. Barron. 43.r. $37.50 (indiv.); $47.50 (foreign "A National Magazine for the Contemporary Hispanic indiv., + $24 postage); $70 (inst.); $72 (foreign inst. + $24 Woman" is the subtitle of this slick publication. Wlthin its postage). International Universities Press, Inc., 59 Boston 48 pages, the sample issue carries stories of 11 important, Post Road, P.O. Box 1524, Madison, CT 06443-1524. activist Latinas "past, present, and future"; Latina actions to (Issue examined: v. 1, no. 1, January 1996) prevent violence against women; the organization "100 "While psychoanalytically informed," says the Intro- Hispanic Women," which helps Latinas with educational duction in explaining the founding of this journal, 3ve needs and weer opportunities; and adoption of Hispanic represent different disciplines, theoretical perspectives and children. Departments cover Touring, Su Wda, Money ideologies, and are committed to full, open exploration of Talks, a pediatric doctor's advice, Reviews, Career Moves, the complexities of gender." A lengthy introductory essay and more. and comments by Associate Editors are followed by: "In Defense of Gender Ambiguity" (Jessica Benjamin); "Gender and Sexual Orientation in the Age of Postmodernism: The Plight of Perplexed Children" (Stephen A. Mitchell); "Body-Smarts: An Adolescent Girl Thinking, Talking, and Mattering" (Carla Massey), plus several commentaries.
LerStorLQ: SOUTHAFRICAN WOMEN'S JOURNAL 1995- . Ed.: Sandra Braude. 33.r. R30.00 (South Afkica); $15 (U.S., surface mail); f 10.00 (elsewhere, surface mail). Single copy: R10.95 + R1.10 postage. ISSN 1024-5057. P.O. Box 813, Houghton, 2041, South Africa. (Issue examined: v.1. no.3. December 1995) Several pieces about the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, short stories, poetry, and an inteniew make up this 5-314 by 4-114-inch literary publication. Founded with the ideal of offering "a forum where the multi-faceted voice of South African women can be heard, in all its variety and richness," the journal hopes to fulfill the "need in the country for a literary journal dealing with women's issues" (letter from editor).
THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S STUDIES 1994-. Editorial board. Single copy: $20. Dr. Grace C. OEorma, Dept. of Education, University of LESBIAN PRIDE NEWSLETTER 1996-. Ed.: Mel Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria. (Issue examined: v.1, no. 1, September 1994) White. 123.r. $20 (Canada, $25). Single copy: $2 W~thinthe 160 pages of this new journal are 16 articles, (Canada, $3) postpaid. Makaw Press, P.O. Box 18561, most on education, including: "Gender Differences in Denver. CO 802 18. (Issues examined: v. 1, no. 1, January 1996 v.1, no.3, March 1996) Educational Participation and Performance in Science, - Technology and Mathematics: A Nigerian Perspective" The lavender-paper, 6-page issues of this newsletter promise "Good News and Positive Reminders By, For and weA. Madubuam); "W~dowhoodPractices in Nigeria: A About Lesbians." Each issue includes affirmations for Case Study of MkpCommunity" (Uche Azikiwe); "Women's Employment and Family Stability: A Survey on lesbians, suggestions for lesbian reminders (as a note in a Goodwill-bound shirt that says "donated by a lesbian"), a Working Mothers in Lagos" (Veronica I. Okeke); and "Role commentary by the editor, and newsy tidbits. Conflicts Among Female Teachers in Primary Schools" (Oby Nwafor).
34 Feminist CoNrefions voL17, nor. 3-4, Spring/Summer 1996 MAGISTRA 1995-. Eds.: Judith Sutera, OSB, Deborah During the Vietnam War"; (Elisa Herren); and "Studying b.2/yr. $20 (mdiv.); $30 (inst. and outside US). ISSN Race, Class, and Gender in Feminism: How Oppression 1079-7572. Dr. Deborah kss, De Kalb College Social Hierarchies Silence Discourse" (Yolanda Rarnos). Sciences, 2101 Womack Rd., Dunwoody, GA 30338. (Issue examined: v.1. no.1. Summer 1995) RESISTER 1996- . Ed.: Evelyn McDo~ell.2/yr. Single Calling i&lf "tbe daughter of vox Benedictina," a copy: $3. P.O. Box 1479, New York, NY 10276-1479. journal that recently ceased after ten years of publication, (Issue examined: v. l., no., 1, Winter 1996) this "Journal of Women's Spirituality in History" includes From a contributor to Village Voice, Rolling Stone, and original articles as well as translations "by or about women Ms. comes this magazine "borrowing willy-nilly the best and their spirituality, hmany period of history and any aspects of both mainstream and marginal publishing while faith tradition" (flier). Among the articles in this issue: respecting none of their conventions..., a scholarly arts and "Feminidng the Rule of Benedict in Medieval England" literary journal for the masses, a Wneof the mainstreamn (Frank Henderson); "The Androgywus Mysticism of Julian (editorial). Short fiction, poetry, artwork, a critique of pop of Norwichn (Roger Corks); "The Nun of Watton" (trans. culture, a "punk's-eye view" of music of the early decades by Jo Ann McNamara); and "Anglo-Saxon Monastic this century, a "wedding manifesto," and much more fill the Women" (Robert Schoenbechler). 48 pages of the premiere issue.
NEWSLETTER: NATIONAL NETWORK FOR WOMEN SISTER NAMIBL4 1989- . Eds.: Editorial group. 6/yr. IN PRISON 19911- . Pacific Oaks Center for Children of NS30 (Namibia); USS15 (elsewhere in Africa); NS15 Incarcerated Parents (CCIP), National Network for Women (studentslunemployed); USS30 (US.). Single copy: NS2. in Prison, 714 West California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91105. P.O. Box 40092, Windhoek, Namibia. (Issues examined: v.7, (Issue examined: v.5, Winter 1995-96) nos. 1-4. MarchJApril - SeptemberlOctober 1995) Within seven pages, this newsletter announces an "Committed to the elimination of gender oppression, upcoming national Roundtable and a manual for grandpar- racism, homophobia and other issues that oppress and ent caregivers of prisoners' children, inn oduces a new divide women," this magazine intends to "challenge member of the national board, discusses iiealth issues in structures, myths and stereotypes" about women (p.2, each Indiana's women's prisons and the outcomes of several legal issue). With some articles also in Afrikaans or Oshiwambo, cases related to prisoners, and features a commentary article the sample issues cover topics such as pornography, protests about visiting restrictions. about rape laws, teenage pregnancy, rights of domestic workers, abortion, condoms and safer sex, and understand- OUT & ABOUT 19921-. Ed.: Billy Kolber. 10/yr. $49; ing homosexuality. $59 (CanadalMexico); $69 (elsewhere). Single copy: $4.95. ISSN 1066-7776. 8 W. 19th St, Suite 401, New York, NY SO TO SPEAK 19911- . Ed.: Anne Marie Yerks. 2/yr.? 10011. (Issue examined: v.5, no. 1, JanuaryIFebnmy 1996) $10. Single copy: $5. George Mason University, 4400 In its neatly organized, no-ad, non-splashy sixteen University Drive, SUB 1, Room 254A, FairEur, VA 22030- pages, this publication aims to provide "essential informa- 4444. (Issue examined: v.4, no.2, FalLlWinter 1995-96) tion for gay & lesbian travelers" (subtitle). The sample This "Feminist Journal of Language and Art," appar- issue features travel in Costa Rica and Fort Lauderdale, with ently the work of students at George Mason University, brief overall descriptions of each area and some of the local includes essays, fiction, poetry, and reviews. The 64 pages highlights, how to find your way around gay night life, of the sample issue are nicely laid out in seven- by ten-inch suggested guidebooks, and a sampling of accommodations. pages complete with photos and other graphics, even a Seems much more gay than lesbian oriented, but offers some comic. Their Web address si: http:llosfl.gmu.edd-ayerW good travel information. sts.html
PARTS OF SPEECH: A JOURNAL OF GENDER WAHINI 1995-. Ed.: Elizabeth A. Glazner. 4/yr. $11.50 STUDIES 1993-. Editorial board. Box 2080, msar (U.S. and Mexico); $20.95 (elswhere). Single copy: $2.95. College, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601. (Issues examined: 5520 East Second St., Suite K, Long Beach, CA 90803. Spring 1993; Spring 1994) Email: [email protected] (Issues examined: v.1, no. 1, Representing "a forum outside the classroom in which August 1995, v.2, no.1, 1996) to present and exchange our ideas" (Spring 1993 issue, p.1). This new "watersport &beach culture magazine for eleven papers with a variety of styles and topics fill the 78 women" offers splashy (ahem!) pages picturing the pages of the Spring 1994 spiral-bound, 8-112 x 11-inch "sheroes" of surfing (mostly board surfing, but also publication. Among the titles: "Responding to Oppressive windsurfing, with promises about sailing, diving, kayaking, V~olence:Theory and Practice" (Meg Stone); "See What canoeing, and more). One piece compares brands of Dick Can Do...( And What Jane Can't): Sex-Role Stereotyp- women's wetsuits in detail, another offers websites for ing in Children's Literature" (Sally McBride); "Motherhood weather checking, a longer article evaluates swimsuits, as Means of Anti-War Protest: Women Strike for Peace another discusses DOM~Olson's film Surfer Girls.
Feminist Collections voLl7, nos.3-4, Spring/Summa 1996 35 WIG: WOMEN IN GENERAL. 19957 Ed.: Kathleen WOOLF STUDIES ANNUAL 1995- . Ed.: Mark Hussey. Gasperhi. 44T. $14.95. Single copy: $3.95 ($4.95 I@. ISSN 1080-93 17. $59.50, ISBN 0-944473-20-2; pap., Canada). P.O. Box 158, Heber City, UT 84032. Email: $24.50, ISBN 0-944473-21-1. Pace University Press, One [email protected] (Issues examined: v. 1, no.2; v.1, no.3) Pace Plaza, New York, NY 10038. (Issue examined: v. 1, Wddly creative and very splashy (if hard to read for 1995) those of us past forty), this colorful publication seems Birthed to represent "the breadth and eclecticism in geared to the "F' Generation (term used in an article on critical approaches to Woolf" that have developed over the 'zines). Lots of snowboarding blurbs (and ads), plus articles last twenty years, this 165-page premiere issue includes on such topics as race car drivers, hair, tree-squatting eight articles and four reviews. Among the titles: "Viginia protesters, mountain biking women filmmakers, dng. Woolf's Daily Drama of the Body" (Teresa Fulker); "A Feast There are mawelous photos, as in "Women Around the of Words in Mrs. Dalloway" (Molly Hof€); and "A Previ- World," poetry, reviews, and a powerful visual experience. ously Unpublished Letter from Vinia Woolfto St. John Hutchinson" (with commentary by Deirdre Gunnison). WILLA 1992-. Eds.: Jo Gillikin, Fran Holman Johnson. $10; $15 (outside U.S.). Irene Myles, PO. Box 224, Ruston, WORLD: WOMEN ORGANIZED TO RESPOND TO LA 712734224. (Issue examined: v.1, Fall 1992) LIEETHRE4TENING DISEASES 1991- . Ed.: Rebecca Published by the Women in Literature and Life Assem- Denison. 124T. $20-$50 (indiv.); $50-$100 (i. and bly of the National Council of Teachers of English, this nonprofits); SO-$20 (low-income and prisoners). Single periodical was founded "to sustain focus on the crucial copy: $1. P.O. Box 11535, Oakland, CA 94611. (Issues issues regarding the status and image of women and girls in examined: no.2, June 1,1991 and various issues through every educational setting" (p.3). and named Mlla in honor no.56, December 1995) of "the latest woman author to be canonized." The sample Originally "A Northern California Newsletter By, For issue includes several reminiscences about NCTE events, an and About Women Facing HIV Disease," this monthly has inte~ewwith the then-Presidentelect of NCTE, several since expanded its reach. Beginning each issue with an literary pieces, poetry, and an article on teaching. autobiographical story of an infected woman, the newsletter offers facts (worldwide, "an estimated 3,000 women become WOMEN INASL4. Eds.: Anne Cullen, Louise Edwards. infected and 500 die of AIDS every day"), encouragement, 33.r. $15 (waged); $7.50 (unwaged). Anne Cullen, Asian resources, discussion of treatment options, political action, and International Studies. Griflith University, Nathan, Qld national and international calendar of events, and the 41 11. Australia (Issue examined: November 1995) constant reminder, "You are not alone." According to correspondence hmthe editors, this newsletter "provides an interdisciplinaq forum for academ- ics, students and members of the public interested in recent research and news on women in Asia." The eleven-page sample issue includes a guest columnist's comments on Special Issues of Periodicals women of privilege at the Beijing conference, a postgraduate's research description, a book review, a BRL4RPATCHv.25, no.2, March 1996: "Women & Work." graduate women's studies program outline, and various Ed.: George Manz. Subscriptions: $24.6 1 (indiv.); $35.3 1 conference announcements and other reports. (inst. and unions). Single copy: $3. ISSN 0703-8968. Huston House, 2138 McIntyre St., Regina, Saskatchewan, WOMEN'SPACE 1995-. Eds.: Scarlet Pollock, Jo Sutton. S4P 2R7, Canada. (Issue examined) 4/jT. Can.Sl5; U.S.Sl4; S 19 (elsewhere). RR#1, Scotsburn, Partial contents: "Women in Trades" on why women Nova Scotia, BOK 1RO Canada; Email: aren't yet seen as equals on some job sites; "Pay Equity"; "A [email protected] (Issue examined: v. 1, no.4, April/ Very Hard Life," on women's work on (and of€)the farm; May 1996) "On the Home Front," on organizations seeking to end the Chock full of information on how to use Internet isolation of women working at home; "The Perfect Solu- resources as well as how women are using email, gopher, tion? on the problems of women working for themselves; and the Web, this twenty-three-page issue includes Internet and "Breaking Stereotypes," on the cultural work of Latinas sites for battered women, people with disabilities, feminist incanada. bookstores, women in the former Yugoslavia, and health care resources. There are also troubleshooting tips, book CANADL4N JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES reviews, and an article on activists online. 1995 special issue: "Evaluating Experiences: Doing Development with Women." Guest eds.: Brigitte I,.&, Caroline Andrew. Subscriptions: $50 (indiv.) $55 (indiv., U.S.); $60 (indiv.. elsewhere); $60 (inst.); $65 (inst., U.S.); $70 (inst., elsewhere). Airmail: $25 (U.S.IMexico); $45 (elsewhere). University of Ottawa, 550 Cumberland, Rm. Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior" (Thelma j. Shim); "The English contents: "Restructured WorldslRestructured Creation of Education by Hispanic Women" (Heidi Debates: Globalization, Development and Gender" (Patricia Howarth); "Welfare Policies and Racial Stereotypes: The Co~ellyet al.); "Accompanying the Process: Principles for Structural Construction of a Model Minority" (Mary E. International Development Practice" (Maureen G. Wilson, Kelsey); Media Discourse and the Feminization of Poverty" Elizabeth Whitmore); "Evaluating Experie~ces:CIDA's (Carmen L. Manning-Miller); "Race, Gender, and the Women in Development Policy, 1984-94" (Rajani E. Status-Quo: Asian and African American Relations in a Alexander); "Integrating Gender Into Environmental HoUywood Film" (Clarence Spigner); plus "Selected Education in Africa" (Eva M. Rathgeber); "Resistance Readings on Race, Class, and Gender" (comp. by Alberto L. Against Seclusion: Women, Work, and Patriarchy in Pulido and Jennifer L. Pierce). Bangladeshn (Habiba Zaman); and "NGOs, Feminist Politics and Neo-Liberal Latin American State Formations: INDONIBLA CIRCLE no.67, November 1995: "Gender Some Lessons From Chile" (kronica Schild). and the Sexes in the Indonesian Archipelago." Eds.: Laura Summers and William D. Wilder. Subscriptions: $281615 COBBLESTONE: THE HISTORY MAGAZINE FOR indiv.); $381622 (inst.); $14168 (students). Single copy: YOUNG PEOPLE, v.15, no.6 (June 1994): special issue on Inquire. ISSN 0306-2848. Journals Subscriptions Dept., women inventors. Subscription: $22.95 (plus $8 outside Oxford University Press, Walton Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, U.S.; Canadians add 7% GST). Single c3py: please request. UK. (Issue examined) ISSN 0199-5197. 7 School St., Peterborough, NH 03458. Partial contents: "Gendered Possession and Communi- (Issue examined) cation Among the Rejang of Sumatra" (Enid Nelson); The issue provides interesting stone j of inventions by "Transgressing Boundaries: The Changing Division of women, including Margaret E. Knight (' A Lady in a Labour in the Balinese Weaving Industry" (Ayami Machine Shop"); Rose O'Neill and Kew iedolls; Hedy Nakatani); "Rethinking the Mother's Brother: Gendered Lamarr, a movie star inventor, and Nobe I Prize winner Aspects of Kinship and Marriage among the Northern Lio, Gertrude Elion. Women inventors during World War I is Indonesia" (Signe Howell); "More on Madness: The Case of another category, and a piece on Mary K ies notes she Malay Divorce'?" (William D. Wilder); and "Of Houses, received the first U.S. patent given to a ~voman. Hearths, and Granaries: Some Aspects of Gender Among the Temanambondro of South-east Madagascar" (Philip CUPA JOURNAL v.46, no.3, Fall 1995 interrelationship of Thomas). work and family. Issue ed.: Kathy Hagedorn. Subscription: $40 (members); $75 (nonmembers). Single issue: $20. JOURNAL OF GAY & LESBL4N SOCL4L STUDIES v.3, ISSN 1046-9508. College and University Perso~el no.1, 1995: "Lesbian Social Services: Research Issues." Association, 1233 20th St. NW,Suite 301, Washington, DC Guest ed.: Carol T. Tully. Subscriptions: $32.40 (indiv.); 20036-1250. (Issue examined) $43.20 (inst.); $60 (library). ISSN 1053-8720. Haworth Partial contents: "Managing the Overlap of Work and Press, 10 Alice St., Binghamton, NY 13904-1580. Familv: A Shared Res~onsibilitv"(Rhonda Benedict and Contents: "In Sickness and in Health: Forty Years of Corlisi A. Taylor); "1Aes in ~stablishin~an Infanfloddler Research on Lesbians" (Carol T. Tully); "Potential Use of Day Care Center" (Sheila J. Curran); "Helping Employees Single-System Designs for Evaluating Affirmative Psycho- Manage the Stress of Working in Higher Education: A therapy with Lesbian Women and Gay Menn (Ann E. Challenge to Human Resource Managers" (David C. Mum) MacEachron); "Studymg Partner Abuse in Lesbian Rela- "Elder Care Comes of Age" (Mary D. Herndon); "Telework tionships: A Case for the Feminist Participatory Research is Coming... Ready or Not!" (Richard D. Meade); and Model" (Claire M. Rellzetti); "Methodological Issues in "College and University Summer Camps: Creative Alterna- Research on Older Lesbians" (Sharon Jacobson); "Research tives to Day Care" (Matthew F. Wever). in Lesbian Communities: Ethical Dilemmas" (Natalie Jane Woodman et al.); and "Fusion and Conflict Resolution in EXPLORATIONS IN ETHNIC STUDIES v. 17, no.1 Lesbian Relationships" (Vickie Causby et al.). (January 1994): ''Race, Class and Gender." Ed.: Miguel A. Carranza. Membership: $45 (indiv.); $65 (inst.). ISSN LUSITANIA #6 (1994): "Vulvamorphia." Ed.: Martim 0736-904X. National Association for Ethnic Studies, Dept. Avillez. Subscriptions: $17. ISBN 1-882791-02-9. 104- of English, Box 870302, Arizona State University, Tempe, 108 Reade St., New York, NY 10013. Email: AZ 85287-0302. Email: [email protected] (Issuc [email protected]. (Issue examined) examined) Feminist Collections vol.17, no1.3-4, Spring/Summer 1996 37 "Vulvamorphia is not about voyeurism," says the back tions, 2455 Teller Rd., Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. (Issue cover. "Nor is it specifically about female genitalia or examined) 'askew' iconic references to female genitala." Images of Partial contents: "Feminine Fortresses: Woman- female genitalia certainly appear in the 163-plus pages of Centered Prisons? (Kelly Hannah-Moffat); "Profiling this French~English"Journal of Reflection and Oceanogra- Women Prisoners: Findings from National Surveys and a phy," but articles such as "Shaved Heads and Marked California Sample" (Barbara Owen and Barbara Bloom); Bodies: Representations from Cultures of Trauma" (Kristine "Gender Issues in the New Generation Jail" Patrick G. Stiles), "bginal Architecture" (Terri Kapsalis), and "The Jackson and Cindy A. Steams); "Child Custody Issues of 'M' Word" (on menopause, by Maureen Connor) also offer Women Prisoners" (Denise Johnston); and "A Prison intriguing viewpoints, and there's much artwork plus some Superintendent's Perspective on Women in Prison" (Elaine fiction. Lord).
METAPHLOSOPHYv.27, nos.1-2, JanuaryIApril 1996: RADICAL HISTORY REMEW no.64, Winter 1996: "Contributions and Controversy in Feminist Philosophy." section on "Teaching Gender in American History." Issue Guest eds.: Kathleen Wallace and Majorie Cantor Miller. coord.: Robin D.G. Kelley et al. Subscriptions: $27 (indiv., Subscriptions: $66 (indiv., North Am.); •’42 (indiv., UW U.S.); f21 (indiv., elsewhere); $56 (inst., U.S.); f39 (inst. Europe); •’52 (indiv., elsewhere); $186 (inst., North Am.); elsewhere); $22 (students, U.S.); f 19 (students, elsewhere). f90 (inst., UWEurope); f 111 (inst., elsewhere). Single ISSN 0163-6545. Cambridge University Press, Journals copy: Inquire. ISSN 0026-1068. Journals Subscriptions Dept., 40 West 20th St., New York, NY 10011-4211. (Issue Dept., Marston Book Services, P.O. Box 87, Oxford OX2 examined) ODT, UK. (Issue examined) Contents: Introduction (Karen Sotiropoulos, Kevin Partial contents: "The Feminist as Other" (Susan Murphy); "Historical Reflections on Teaching Women's Bordo); "Decentering Women" (Rebecca Kukla); "From History" (Ellen Carol DuBois); "The World of Suzie Wong Husserl to de Beauvoir" (Debra B. Bergoffen); "The and M. Butterfly: Race and Gender in Asian America" Heideggerian Bias toward Death" (Leslie MacAvoy); (Yukiko Hanawa); "History of Manhood in America" (Bruce "Essence Against Identity" (Teresa Brennan); "Arf Politics Dorsey); "Gender and Cultural History" (Lisa Duggan); and and Knowledge" (Amy Mullin); and "Some Reflections . "Teaching the U.S. Women's History Survey at a Catholic Concerning &&st Pedago~(Erin McKenna); plus r University" (Gail Bederman). / "Roundtable on Feminism and Philosoohv in the Mid- 1990s: Taking Stock" with 10 comme1;ta;ors. REHABILITATION DIGEST v.26, no.2, October 1995: I "Women With Disabilities: Survivors of Abuse." Ed.: MICROFORM REMEWv.24, no.3, Summer 1995: section Heather Stonehouse. Subscriptions: $21 (Canada); $24 on "Reviews of Women's Studies Microform Collections, Past and Present." Ed.-in-Chief: Wendy Thomas. Subscrip- tions: DM 248.00. K.G. Saur, Reed Reference Publishing, 121 Chanlon Rd., New Providence, NJ 07974. ISSN 0002- 1 6530. (Section examined) This thirteen-page section includes a bibliography of women's studies collections reviewed in the magazine's- previous issues, plus reviews of several new collections, such as "Quaker Women's Tracts," "Records of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, 1895-1992," and several series from the Women's Studies Manuscript Collections from the Schlesinger Library" (on suffrage, national politics, and sexuality and reproductive rights).
THE PRISON JOURNAL v.75, no.2, June 1995: "Women I in Priions and Jails." Guest eds.: Barbara Bloom, Russ Immarigeon, and Barbara Owen. Subscriptions: $44 (indiv.); $85 (inst.). Single copy: $13 (indiv.); $22 (inst.) + $8 postage outside U.S. ISSN 0032-8555. Sage Publica-
38 Feminist Cohdwns voL17, nos. 3-4, Spring/Summer 1996 (outside Canada). ISSN 0048-713. Easter SealslMarch of Dimes National Council, 45 Sheppard Avenue East, Suite Transitions 80 1, Toronto, Ontario M2N 5W9, Canada. (Issue exam- ined) CONNWONS has ceased its quarterly issues pending a Partial contents: "Women and Abuse: No Blood, It new publisher or "the means to resume publication." In a Doesn't Count" (Susan Buchanan); "A House Defiant: Ten letter dated January, the staff offers hope of being able to Yem of Confronting Violence and Abuse Against Women Etart publishing again. P.O. Box 14431, Berkeley, CA Who Have Disabilities" (Judith O'Leary); "There is a 94712. Choice: College Course Teaches Personal Safety and Self- Protection" (Marie Redand Raylene Manolescu); DENEUVE, a lesbian periodical announced in FC v. 13, "Success Stories: from the Canada Pension Plan's National n0.2 (Wiiter 1992), has been forced to change its name. ClDcational Rehabilitation Project"; and "Through Other Sued by French film actress Catherine Denewe for trade- Eyes: A Vision for Client Services" (Gian Kearney). mark in6ingemenf the publication, which boasts a reader- ship estimated at 200,000, has been renamed CURVE to SYNTHESIS: UWMI)FOLICY IN HIGHER EDUCA- avoid litigation costs. FRS Enterprises, 2336 Market St., TIONv.6, no.4, Spring 1995: "Sexual Orientation." Ed.: U15, San Francisco, CA 94114. Gary Pavela. Subscriptions: $64.50. ISSN 1042-0169. College Administration Publications, 830-D Fairview Road, LAX4 l?EMINIST QUARTERLY has just sent notice of a P.O. Box 15898, Asheville, NC 28813-0898. (Issue exam- temporary halt in publication. They plan to resume publish- ined) ing soon. 35 Scout Delgado St., Roxas District, Quezon An editorial piece discusses "Gay Rights, Human City, Philippines. Rights"; Evan Wolfson of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund talks about key policy issues for gay and NORA: NORDIC JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S STUDIET lesbian Americans, including domestic partnership; a case has moved. Formerly -published in Oslo, Norway, the study about campus harassment of lesbians and gays is periodical's new address is: Institute of Women's Studies, presented, with commentary on the questions raised; and h Akademi University, FIN-20500 Abo, Finland. both an article and an extended excerpt from a legal analysis examine the definition of domestic partnership. WOMEN'S HEALTH JOURNAL, formerly published by ISIS International, is now an independent publication of the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network, Casillo 50610, Santiago 1, Santiago, Chile. (The Spauish- Anniversary Issues language version is titled Revista Mujer Salud.)
AmLU:JOURNAL OF WOMENAND SOCUL WORK has reached its tenth year of publication. Ed.-in-chief: Carol H. Meyer. Sage Publications, 2455 Teller Rd., Ceased Publication Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. HYSTERLi no. 1, Spring 1993 - no.7, FW~nter1994. HERIZONS celebrates five years of publishing with its Ed.: Deborah Werksman. Box 8581 Brewster Station, Spring 19% issue (v. 10, n0.2). Ed.: Penni Mitchell. P.O. Bridgeport, CT 06605. (Information via phone from Box 128, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3C 2G1, Canada . publisher, which is now producing books on humor.)
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