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FROMTHEEDITORS ...... BOOK REVIEWS DYNAMICS OF THE CANADIAN WOMEN'S MOVEMENT ...... 1 by Eileen Manion. Challenging Times:The Women's Movement in Canadaand the United States ed. byConstance Backhouse and David F1aherty;And Still WeRise: Feminist Political Mobilizing in Contemporay Canada ed. byLinda Carty; Politics as ifwomen Mattered: A Political Analysis of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women by Jill Vickers et al.; and Faces of Feminism: Portraits of Women Across Canada by Pamela Harris.

"PAY ATTENTION TO THE RADICAL": CANADIAN WOMEN WRITING ...... 4 by Fran Davis. Kitchen Talk: Contemporay Women's Prose and Poety ed. by Edna Alford and Claire Harris; Mapping Our Selves: Canadian Women's Autobiography in English by Helen M. Buss; Canadian Women Writing Fiction ed. by Mickey Pearlman; and Sounding Differences: Conversations with Seventeen Canadian Women Writers by Janice Williamson.

UNDERSTANDING RACE AND ETHNICITY OF CANADIAN WOMEN ...... 6 by Vijay Agnew. Some Black Women: Profiles of Black Women in Canada by Rella Braithwaite and Tessa Bern-Ireland; The Finest Kind: Voices of Newfoundland and Labrador Women by Marian Frances White;and The Faraway Hills are Green: Voices of Irish Women in Canada by Sheelagh Conway.

VISION AND REVISION: RECENT LITERATURE ON WOMEN IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE ...... 9 by Rhonda Ambuehl. Female Criminality: The Stateof the Art ed. byConcettaC. Culliver;Unruly Women:ThePoliticsof Confinement & Resistanceby Karlene Faith; WomenAfter Prison byMary Eaton; andFrom 1nside:An Anthology of Writing by Incarcerated Women ed. by Deborah Stein. FEMINISTVISIONS ...... 11 WOMEN OFFENDERS AND THE LAW: THE CYCLE OF PUNISHMENT by Frances Kavenik.

Continued on next paTe WISCONSIN WOMEN IN WORLD WAR 11...... 14 by Michael Stevens. NEWS FROM UW-CENTERS ...... 15 by Jane Ewens. STATISTICAL PROFILE OF WISCONSIN WOMEN ...... 16 by Linda Shult. MORE GOPHERING AROUND IN WOMEN'S STUDIES ...... 17 by Phyllis Holman Weisbard. FEMINISTPUBLISHING ...... 23 Two new Canadian presses. ARCHIVES ...... 23 Collections on Hispanic women and on Virginia suffragist organizations. COMPUTERTALK ...... 23 Email discussion lists, databases, electronic publications, and more. I NEW REFERENCE WORKS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES...... 25 Resources on women's organizations, goddesses, Minnesota women's history, American and British women'spoetry to 1900, African American women writers, Spanishwomen writers, women in chemistry and physics, Welsh women, Canadian women's studies, gay and lesbian literature, nonstereotyped children's literature, the history of abortion, plus college guides for gay, lesbian, and women students. (Compiled by Phyllis Holman Weisbard.) PERIODICALNOTES ...... 35 W New and newly discovered periodicals on experimental poetry, gender andculture, women over forty, gay and lesbian literature, feminist geography, athletic lesbians, feminist research, travel, health, Australian lesbians, Malaysian women, Central and Eastern European women, lesbian/gay video, Republican women, nurses, lesbians of South Asian descent, single mothers, skiing, gender and the state, I women's cartoons, documentation of violence against women, transsexuals, European women's studies, French studies, self-discovery and expression, work, activism and resistance. I. W Special issues of periodicals on feminist erotica, women in the media, anthropology, Japanese women, Ii family violence, gender in the U.S., women in science, Samuel Johnson'work, medieval women. W Plus news of anniversary issues, changes in address and organization, and publications that have ceased. (Compiled by Linda Shult.) ITEMSOFNOTE ...... 41 Microfiche on Spanish women writers, a survey on violence against S/M lesbians, a bibliography on outdoor women, movies celebrating gays and lesbians, debates surrounding Irish American women, a \ health catalog, a bibliography on African American women's periodicals, a booklet on maternity care, a report on violence in mass media, a booklet on female genital mutilation, a menopause resource guide, a Canadian report on the status of women, a pamphlet on lesbian battering, a women-of-color resource database, a poster series on African American women, a radio station directory, and many more items. (Compiled by Renee Beaudoin.) ( BOOKS RECENTLY RECEIVED ...... 44

Feminist Collections is published by Phyllis Holman Weisbard, Acting UW System Women's Studies Librarian, 430 Memorial Library, 728 State Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53706. Phone: (608)263-5754. Ema~l:[email protected]: Phyllis Holman Weisbard, Linda Shult. Graplucs: Daniel L. Joe. ISSN 0742-7441. Subscriptions are $7.00 for individuals and $12.60 for organizations affiliated with the UW System; $13.25 for individuals and nonprofit women's programs in Wisconsin ($25.00 outside Wlsconsin); and $18.90 for libraries and other organizations in Wisconsin ($46.00 outside Wisconsin). Wlsconsin subsaiber amounts include state tax, except for UW organization amount. Subscribers outside the U.S., please add postage ($5 - surface; $15 - 1 air). T~ISfee covers most publications of the office, including Feminist Collectzons, Femintst Pmodiculs, and New Books on Women b Feminism. 01994 Regents of the University of Wisconsin System Feminist CoUecliom v.lJ.no3, Spring 1994 Wgc 1 FROM THE EDITORS

A SALUTE TO CANADIAN FEMINISTS Many other publishers and producers keep the movement alive and thriving despite recent cutbacks Our Canadian sisters have been hard at work in the level of government funding. on the "second wave" of feminism for at least as long as those of us in the U.S., and the movement has We pay tribute to the many tireless and been strong and vital, with far more government committed feminists of Canada with three reviews in support than we have managed here. Still, as Eileen this issue. In addition to Eileen Manion's Manion notes in her review of books on the exploration of the women's movement, there is a Canadian women's movement, "Americans usually look at the work of Canadianwomen writers by Fran assume that the only thing distinctive about Canada Davis, and Vijay Agnew critiques several books on is the climate, and that's cold and unpleasant." Canadian ethnic women. We invite you to delve into some of these riches, to pay attention to what our Because we regularly scan a vast amount of Canadian sisters are up to, and to recognize the literature on women and feminism, our office has commonality of our struggles. become keenly aware of the wealth of resources produced by Canadian scholars and activists. The second focus of this issue grapples with the Consistently high-quality journals such as Resources often-neglectedworldsof women in prison. Rhonda for Feminist Research and Canadian Woman Studies Ambuehl explores several new books on women's continue to explore all aspects of women's lives; prison experience, while Frances Kavenik critiques publishers such as Women's Press Canada and Press some recent videos on the topic. As Kavenik notes, Gang produce numbers of books by and about "Women in prison represent the failure of promises: women; and even within the National Film Board of of social and political justice, of educational and Canada, the Studio D staff produce and distribute an economic opportunities for women in this country astounding number of excellent films about women. and Canada!' We ignore their situation at peril to all of us.

P.H.W. and L.S.

BOOK REWEWS

DYNAMICS OF THE CANADIAN Jill Vickers, Pauline Rankin and Christine Appelle, WOMEN'S MOVEMENT POLITICS AS IF WOMEN MATTERED: A POLITICXL ANALYSIS OF THE NATIONAL by Eileen Manwn ACTION COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Constance Backhouse and David Flaherty, eds., Toronto Press, 1993. 347p. $50.00, ISBN 0-8020- CHALLENGING TIMES: THE WOMEN'S 5850-7; pap., $19.95, ISBN 0-0802-6757-3. MOVEMENT IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's Pamela Harris, FACES OF FEMINISM: PORTRAITS University Press, 1992. 368p. $49.95, ISBN 0-7735- OF WOMEN ACROSS CANADA. Toronto: 1992. 0910-0; pap., $19.95, ISBN 0-7735-0919-4. 174p. $48.00, ISBN 0-929005-37-6; pap., $34.19,0- 929005-36-8. Linda Carty, ed., AM) STILL WE RISE: FEMINIST POLITICAL MOBILIZING IN CONTEMPORARY Americans usually assume that the only thing CANADA. Toronto: Women's Press, 1993. 455p. distinctive about Canada is the climate, and that's $17.95, ISBN 0-88961-177-7. cold and unpleasant. If Canadianculture, politics, or social movements are different from those in Pam 2 Peminisl Collections v.15, no.3. S~rina1994

America, that can only mean they're pale imitations. feminine d'6ducation et d'action sociale, where they For scholars and academics - even, sad to say, participated in crucial discussions, such as on feminists - Canada may be a great place to spend women's education, and maintained networks of a skiing weekend, but who wants to study it? support. Although women lost some ground in the Canadians, however, are obsessedwith their southern secularization of Quebec institutions during the neighbors and are very clear-headed about how their Quiet Revolution, (e.g., male bureaucrats often culture and institutions differ from those in the U.S. replacednuns in positions of authority in schools and hospitals), Dumont maintains that the subsequent Challenging 7imes. product of a conference held upsurge of a new nationalism "stimulated and in 1989 at the University of Western Ontario by the nurtured" Quebec feminism: "Whether opponents or Centre for American Studies and the Centre for partisans of sovereignty, the women of Quebec knew Women's Studies and Feminist Research, is a good how to combine causes an4 in this way, shaped a place to observe this asymmetry and, for Americans, feminism different from that in the rest of Canada" to begin to catch up with what has been happening (p.89). in the women's movement in Canada. Aside from Catharine Mackinnon's "Feminist Approaches to More familiar to American feminists are Sexual Assault in Canada and the United States: A conflicts over race and ethnicity. Mariana Valverde Brief Retrospective," the only comparative work in in "Racism and Anti-Racism in Feminist Teaching the collection is by Canadians. Naomi Black's and Research" challenges feminists to recognize the "Ripples in the Second Wave: Comparing the whiteness of white feminism even in debates Contemporary Women's Movement in Canada and concerning common issues like those around the United States," for example, looks at the defeat sexuality. She takes a self-critical look at her own of the ERA in relation to Canadian feminists' writing and urges other feminists to do the same. struggle to include women's concerns in the Charter Arun Mukhejee in "A House Divided: Women of of Rights. Colour and American Feminist Theory" points out how much feminist theoretical work ignores the However, Canadian feminists hardly speak in writing of women of color, while Glenda Simms in one voice, for they don't all use the same language. "Beyond the White Veil" castigates Canadian Several articles, such as Micheline Dumont's "The feminists for their denial of racism. In her Origins of the Women's Movement in Quebec," and conclusion to the volume, Greta Nemiroff observes Micheline De She's 'The Perspective of Quebec that "the question of access to resources, and of the Feminists," point to the marginalization of Quebec compensatory relinquishing of resources from one women's history by English Canadians who assume belesguered group to another more beleaguered that women in Quebec were backward and group, is a very volatile one in the women's underdeveloped before the Quiet Revolution of the movement ..." (p.276). 1960's and enthralled by Quebec nationalism thereafter. (Duringthe Quiet Revolution, numerous. And Still We Rise attempts to respond to the dramatic changes took place in Quebec: the political challenges posed by women angry at their exclusion influence of the Catholic Church declined; average from the discourses of acceptable, academic family size decreased; a new, secular, social feminism: disabled women, welfare recipients, democratic nationalism emerged td replace the older, lesbians, working-class women, First Nations women, conservative, Catholic nationalism. The new women of color. Instead of "adding on" such groups nationalists hoped to encourage economic to a list of "women's issues," this collection independence for Quebec.) Dumont notes that the foregrounds their history and experience in a way history of Quebec feminism does not dovetail neatly that is both dynamic and refreshing. with that of feminism in English Canada; the growth and vitality of the women's movement in Quebec can Although I hate to carp at this effort to be truly be understood only through knowledge of what was inclusive of marginalized women's perspectives, any happening there from the 1940's to the 1960's: 'This woman living outside Ontario might feel ignored. era was not politically blank for women ... women's Aside from "The Women at the Well: African social and political involvement was Baptist Women Organize" by Sylvia Hamilton (which changing..."@. 77). Women organized themselves in describes the activism of Black women in Nova groups like the Cercles des FermiBres, the Union Scotia) and "'Under Military Occupation': Indigenous catholique des FermiBres, and the Association Women, State Violence and Community Resistance," Feminist Collections v.lS.no.3. Spring 1994 Page 3 by Donna Kahenrakwas Goodleaf (a fascinating of anti-statism found in American radical feminism, account of women's participation in the resistance at providing for NAC an "operational code" of "radical Oka to the town's attempt to extend a golf course liberalism," committing the organization to the onto Mohawk land) all of the particular stories are ordinary political process in the belief that the state from Ontario. Outstanding and worthwhile as these can take effective action to remedy injustice and accounts may be of women struggling for pay equity provide services women need. Although NAC has at Sudbury (Jennifer Keck and Daina Green. "Pay gone through conflicts and setbacks in its journey Equity for Non-Unionized Women: A Case Study"), toward becoming a truly pan-Canadian organization, homeworkers contending for fair treatment in it has "experienced a stunning success in persuading Toronto (Jan Borowy, Shelly Gordon, and Gayle Canadians that women's politics have a place on the Lebans, "Are These Clothes Clean? The Campaign public agenda" (p.291). for Fair Wages and Working Conditions for Homeworkers"), and Black women forming a In its own way, Faces of Feminism also tries to community support group in Windsor (Peggy represent the diversity of Canadian women. It Bristow, "The Hour-A-Day Study Club"), as a woman combines photographic portraits of women with brief living in Quebec, I couldn't help but wonder: what texts by each woman photographed. A few are well- about the rest of Canada? known, but Pamela Harris has avoided stars to focus on ordinary women - artists, farmers, teachers, These problems of overcoming geographical shelter organizers, carpenters, writers - in a variety distances, racial, class, linguistic, and other of settings - outdoors, with animals, indoors, in boundaries have plagued the National Action kitchens or work rooms. In her Afterword, Hams Committee on the Status of Women (NAC), the says that she wanted to remind her readers "of a umbrella group formed in 1972 to lobby for the central truth - that feminists are everywhere and implementation of the Royal Commission on the can be every woman" (p.172). Status of Women's recommendations. According to Jill Vickers, Pauline Rankin and Christine Appelle in Taken together, these four volumes provide a Politics If Women Mattered, this group has evolved good overview of what has been happening within by integrating older, liberal feminists with younger, the women's movement in Canada: the conflicts, the grassroots activists as well as successive 'baves of successes, and the failures. The next time there is a newly mobilized women" into a "parliament of conference on the women's movement in Canada women" (p.282). This body is capable of debating and the United States, Americans will have no not merely women's issues in a narrowly conceived excuse for not having done their homework. sense, but also policies, such as the constitution or the free trade agreement, that have an impact on [Eileen Manion teaches English and Women's Studies women's lives. Within its umbrella structure, NAC at Dawson College in Montreal.] has had both to "manage the conflict among the many ideological elements in the movement" (p.73) and to accommodate the demands of women who have been excluded or marginalized. NAC has been least successful with women from Quebec and First Nations women, who emphasize collective as well as individual rights; however, NAC has made more progress in including disabled women, immigrant women, and women of color.

Vickers, Rankin, and Appelle contend that women need to develop institutions like NAC, capable of enduring for several generations, to move women's struggles forward. They also emphasize the continuities with the past, seeing the origins of contemporary Canadian feminism in groups like the pacifist Voice of Women and the Waffle, the late 1960's left wing of the New Democratic Party. Such continuities, they argue, have diminished the impact Page 4 Feminist Collections v.15. no.3. SD~P1994

"PAY ATTENTION TO THE RADICAL": do not seem to suffer by being cropped for this CANADIAN WOMEN WRITING context. The editors have avoided the pitfall of stereotyping by interpreting the theme in the broadest possible way and by including some interesting role reversals such as the passage from Edna Alford and Claire Hams, eds., KITCHEN Jane Rule's Memory Board, where the male TALK: CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S PROSE AND character returns the hospitality of his sister and her POETRY. Red Deer, Alberta: Red Deer College lesbian lover by making dinner for them in their Press, 1992. 302p. US $15.95; Can. $18.95, ISBN O- kitchen. 88995-091. The faults of the volume arise from its Helen M. Buss, MAPPING OUR SELVES: organization, division according to some mysterious CANADL4N WOMEN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN formula into four sub-sections, each identifiedby the ENGLISH. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's title of one of the selections within it. These titles University Press, 1993. 237p. bibl. index. $39.95, neither inform nor challenge us. For instance, "Ma1 ISBN 0-7735-0975-5. de Cuisine" is an intriguing title for the poem by M. Travis Lane, but it in no way unifies the opening Mickey Pearlman, ed., MADL4N WOMEN section of heterogeneous texts. There is a serious WRlTING FICTION. Jackson: University Press of lack of scholarship here, so that individualitems gain Mississippi, 1993. 177p. index. $32.50, ISBN 0-8705- nothing but confusion by being grouped together. 636-X. This casual and unimaginative editing is particularly irritating to one who might look to such a collection Janice Williamson, SOUNDING DIFFERENCES: for a women's studies course. CONVERSATIONS WITH SEVENTEEN CANADIAN WOMEN WRITERS. Toronto: University of Toronto Helen Buss' more focused book limits itself to Press, 1993. 370p. $30.00, ISBN 0-8020-2762-8; autobiographical writing of Canadian women in her pap., $17.95, ISBN 0-8020-6808-1. book, Mapping Our Selves. In her introduction, she explores current theory on autobiography and In the concluding essay in Canadian Women expresses her dissatisfaction with the mirror Writing Fiction, Heather Zwicker writes, "It is metaphor for self-exploratory texts. She suggests her essential, I believe, on our way to the future, to pay own metaphor of "mapping," since the "making the attention to the radical" k.153). Playing upon the maps of self and world is different for people word "radical" as it relates to roots (the past) and growing up in different cultural and historical routedness (the future), as well upon the more moments" @.lo). Mapping is a better metaphor than common meanings of radical as innovative and mirroring because "it more closely figures what experimental, this remark frames what is best about language actually does, but at the same time does these four works on Canadian women writers. It is not lie to us in the way the mirror pretends to be the where the works fail to engage the radical that they thing that it reflects" (p.11). Further, historically disappoint the feminist reader. women have been "almost completely in charge of the earliest mappings a human child makes of the Edna Alford's foreword to Kitchen Talk says of self and the world, and almost completely excluded the book's focus: "Here was an opportunity to study from direct participation in the mire power-based the kitchen as a significant site, to gather a wide mappings of a culture" @. 11). range of work which would reflect the ... nurturing and survival, creativity and captivity common to so Buss then defines for us a reading process many women in this particular room" (p.12). Some which she calls "(m)otheringl @.25), a term in which ninety-seven selections all focus on what it has meant she tries to encode both the responsibilities and to be a women in this century, experience that often pleasures of reading. Her process dignifies the finds roots in the kitchen. Some are less interesting separatenessor "otherness" of the text, and allows for than others, but there are wonderful poems by such three different kinds of relationshipswith it. At some women as Susan Glickman, Bronwen Wallace, and points, the reader must "mother" or nurture the text, Mary Di Michele, and excerpts from novels such as helping it to speak through patience, tolerance, and The Edible Woman and Dancing in the Dark which imagination.Discovering and delighting in subjective Feminist Collectio~y)v.15, no.3, Spring 1994 Pap 5 parallels between oneself and the text allow the context, we begin to want a larger frame of reader to be "sister" to it. Finally, as the reader reference.Thus an essay on Marie Claire Blais which learns from the text, she becomes its "daughter." never takes the French-Canadian context into account, or essays on Alice Munro and Mavis Thus begins a radical, sensitive, and original Gallant which never problematize gender, do not approach to a broad range of autobiographies, seem to get to the heart of things. including not only the famous historical documents like Susanna Moodie's Roughing it in the Bush, but An exception here is the final essay on experimental texts like The Prowler by Kristjana "Canadian Women of Colour in the New World Gunnars and texts of no literary pretentions but Order." Essayist Heather Zwicker, herself a enormous social importance such as My First Thirty Canadian, brings to the study of Marlene Nourbese Years by Marge B. Clement. Each reading Philip, Joy Kogawa, and Beatrice Culleton an demonstrates both the mapping and the (m)othering informed perspective on the dynamics of race and of she has clarified for us, as she brings her background the complex ways in which race interactswith gender in sociological, psychological, and literary theory as in the construction of a fictional universe. Her well as her own personal experiences to bear. The comments on the writers are therefore both approach is particularly welcome as a re-reading of insightful and original, and this brief essay provides the works of women like Nellie McClung whose a significant contribution to Canadian scholarship. compromises with feminism and pacifism have been much attacked of late. Helen Buss brings new Janice Williamson's Sounding Differences is a intertextuality to the reading of McClung, showing truly important literary and historical document. It is how the two autobiographical texts need to be also a fascinating and exhilarating reading experience "mothered" by biographical material which McClung for anyone interested in how and why radically could neither have risked revealing nor, in some innovative feminists turn to writing and how they see cases, come to terms with herself as a turn-of-the- their work in relation to social change. This century white, middle-class daughter, married demanding book never descends to sensationalized woman, or mother to a son. In every case, Buss personal history, as it well might, given the inclusion enriches our appreciation and understanding of the of so many writers who have pioneered the writing writings she examines, calling attention to the on sexual abuse, nor does it simplify the complex wisdom, the sufferings, and the deep non- theoretical perspectives of leading figures of the stereotypical satisfactions of these women whose Canadian literary scene. The interviewer frames her writings do not follow the patriarchal plot lines of questions thoughtfully and includes her own personal women's lives. perspective just often enough to be interesting, not intrusive. Each interview is prefaced by a well- Canadian Women Writing Fiction is a highly chosen selection from the writer's work, and the problematic collection of essays on both well-known writers themselves seem to have been instrumental in writers such as Margaret Atwood and lesser-knowns making these selections as well as in editing the like Isobel Huggan. In identifying as a kind of interviews. Mentorships such as that of Nicole afterthought that the major overall concern of these Brossard for Elly Danica are traced in detail. The women is a search for their identity, American editor inspirationalqualitiesof lesbian relationshipsemerge Mickey Pearlman and her ten largely American with great clarity as joint texts of Daphne Marlatt critics rarely provide either sufficient Canadian and Betsy Warland are discussed by both writers. context or adequate feminist consciousness to show how these women are playing radicalvariations upon Canadian feminists will remember the two centuries of identity quests within the Canadian International Feminist Book Fair in Montreal where malestream tradition. Native writers asked white women to move over and leave Native material for Native writers. They will There was a time when we looked with interest also remember the public debate about racism at to the literary critic for his or her construction of the Women's Press in Toronto. These were significant philosophical world of an author. However, as we and painful moments in our evolution as feminists in begin to be more conscious of ways in which such Canada, and it is enormously moving and interesting readings are conditioned by the outlooks of the to read the follow-up thoughts of main players such critics themselves, not to mention the ways in which as Jeannette Armstrong, Lee Maracle, M. Nourbese the fiction arises out of a gendered social and literary Philip and Claire Harris. Janice Williamson provides Page 6 Feminist Collectiws v.15, no.3. Svrinn 1994 a reflective and respectful vehicle for these important forward with a radical and marginalized feminist considerations, and they add a great deal to this scholarship such as we see in these four books. The already significant book. work of these women is encouraging and inspiring, and we owe them a signifkant debt of gratitude. It hardly need be said that these are precarious times for feminist scholarship in Canada, and [Fmn Dmk teaches Engikh and Women's Studies at perhaps world-wide. Funding for research initiatives Vanier College in Montreal. She k ah0 engaged in shrinks every year; conservative backlash is defended collaborative research on feministpedagogy, gender fair on the grounds of academic freedom; dismantling of education, and gender and pemktence in the sciences. women's studies programs is defined as the Her educational articles, book reviews and poehy integration of gender into the overall curriculum. In appear regularly in Canadian periodic& and such a milieu, it takes particular courage to press anthologies.]

UNDERSTANDING RACE AND In Some Black Women, Braithwaite and Benn- ETHNICITY OF CANADIAN WOMEN Ireland want to fill a gap in Canadian history by documenting the achievementsof Black women. The I by fijay Agnew first part of their book contains half-page profiles of Black women who have made their mark within all- Rella Braithwaite and Tessa Benn-Ireland, SOME Black churches, volunteer organizations, women's BLACK WOMEN:PROFILESOF BLACK WOMENIN organizations, educational institutions, and CANADA. Toronto: Sister Vision, 1993. 119p. ill. communication media. These portrayals are bibl. pap., $19.95, ISBN 0920813844. reminiscent of "women's history," popular in the 1960's and 1970's, which sought to document and Marian Frances White, THE FINESTKIND: VOICES celebrate the achievements of women in science, OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR WOMEN. philosophy, literatureand the arts,politics, and social St. John's, Newfoundland: Creative Publishers, 1992. action. Such accounts gave the lie to those who l84p. ill. pap., $14.95, ISBN 1-895387-10-8. argued that women were inferior or that their work was limited to the home and family. But this Sheelagh Conway, THE FAR4WAY HILLS ARE method, later referred to as the "add and stir" GREEN: VOICES OF IRISH WOMEN IN CANADA. approach, proved inadequate to capture women's Toronto: Women's Press, 1992. 280p. pap., $18.95, experiences of race, class, and gender oppression. ISBN 0889611769. Braithwaite and Benn-Ireland tell us of many successful Black women, but give us no sense of how Feminist theories and practices in Canada, as race, class, and gender oppressed them or how they elsewhere, have been criticized for focusing all their overcame their lack of power. attention on the experience of middle-class white women. The authors of the books reviewed here The authors seem to lose their sense of seek to document the diverse experiencesof women direction and purpose in the second half of the book. belonging to other ethnic or racial groups. Studies A chapter on "Early Black Organizationsn includes like these can give us insight into how gender many that "are not solely women's organizations," but intersects with class, ethnicity, race, and other are "outstanding," or "should be celebrated," or "are economic, political, and social forces in the important to Black heritage" (p.72). In another oppression of women. When women speak in their chapter the authors give is half-page accounts of own voices, they symbolically overthrow the Black magazines and newspapers published in oppression of androcentric society and of privileged Canada. And there is a chapter of promotional women claiming authority to speak for them. material for Sister Vision Press, the publisher of this Listening to their voices enables us to see much book. "Quick Facts on Blacks, 1608-1990" provides more fully how women have been victimized and a chronology of events in Black history in Canada, how they have struggled to sunive. although very few entries refer specifically to women. Feminist Collections v.lS.no.3, Spring 1994 Pa@ 7

A chapter on "Bursaries and Awards in Names of pages covering such topics as conditions in Hong Outstanding Blacks" includes four awards in all, two Kong cultural and social alienation, homesickness, in the name of women. And "Black Landmarks, the generation gap, problems of those who do not Sites" offers a hodgepodge of geographicallandmarks speak the English language, and isolation. Patti was and cultural or social events. All manner of things born in China in 1944 and came to Canada via Hong are included-"Uncle Tom's Cabin," in Chatham, Kong in 1970. White notes that immigration laws Ontario; Black Theatre Canada, in Toronto; a then required that women marry right away in order street in Quebec City named after James E. Davis; to stay in the country, and that Patti married within and "Caribana," a street festival held every summer one month of her arrival (pp.6-8). But did Patti in various localities in Toronto. know the man before she arrived in Canada, or was she a mail-order bride? Patti still feels isolated In The Finest Kind: Vokes of Newfoundland and today, but is that because of the sixteen hours a day, Labrador Women, Marian Francis White, motivated seven days a week, that she works in her family's by a desire to "recognize and celebrate women's restaurant, or because of racism in white society in lives," records the experiences of women who, she St. John's, Newfoundland? says, "were doing much more than merely surviving" (p.vii). White includes two- to three-page portrayals Further, the structure of the book does not of a wide range of women-Chinese, Innuit, and enable us to gain much understanding of how life has those stereotypically referred to as "Canadian." changed for women in the last thirty years, say, Some are professional women, others have little consequent to the emergence and growth of the education; some are young, others old; and some are women's movement in Canada. White arranges the rich, others poor. They are drawn from different lives of the women in alphabetical order, not walks of life--"artists, writers, filmmakers, social chronologically. For example, the life of Agnes activists, crafts women, potters, midwives, singers," Marion Ayre, born in 1890, is followed by that of and women who are persecuted or abused. White, Suzanne Blake, born in 1964, and then that of Cassie like Braithwaiteand Benn-Ireland, wants to fill a gap Brown, born in 1919. The lives of Ayre and Brown in history, and she offers her book as a "tool to are recorded through the nostalgic reminiscences of measure and acknowledge our own achievements, as their daughters; Blake's story is based on an well as a record of our lives, in our own words." The interview with her. All three women came from portrayals are based on "personal interviews, letters, privileged, middle-class homes and followed careers telephone interviews, women writing their own as painter and botanist, sports broadcaster for CBC, words" @.viii) . and writer, respectively. The ethnicity of these women is not mentioned, although we are told that Geography adds to the diversity of women's Ayre would sometimes go to Scotland to visit her experiences, and regional studies can widen our father's relatives. The sketches of their lives provide understanding of women's oppression. The theme of no understanding of the significance of gender biases this book is women's lives in Newfoundland and in their lives. The accounts of Ayre and Brown Labrador, but not all of the women included in the indicate only that if you have merit, you can make book were born in the province or lived there for any it-and receive due recognition from family and length of time. I gained little understanding of society. Blake the broadcaster notes that she is women's lives in Labrador and Newfoundland, and sometimes called "dear" and has to wait longer than little insight into the lives of any particular group. men to get interviews with male athletes since she The problem lies in both what the book includes and can't go into their locker rooms-she is "not one of what it leaves out. White provides no context for the boys"-but she doesn't let these problems bother understanding these women, no information about her: "You just go out and do your job and prove the geography of the region, its history, economics, them wrong" (p.12). How did these women break or politics. She does not tell us why the through the initial barriers, and what can other achievements of these women are worthy of women learn from their experiences? celebration or how they overcame race, class, or gender oppression. In order to understand their The Faraway HilLF are Green: Voices of Irish struggles, one needs to know what they were Women in Canada strives to record the lives of struggling against and what, other than personal women who immigrated to Canada from Ireland. characteristics, enabled them to succeed. Take, for Describing herself as a "marginal" woman because example, the life of Patti Au, described in three she originally came from a small rural community in Paw 8 Feminist Collections v.15, no.3. Svrinn 1994

Ireland, author Sheelagh Conway writes that her The author is on firmer ground when she book is a place for "Irish women to tell their documents the life stories of her interviewees, immigration stories: stories of hopes, dreams, covering childhood, adolescence, work, marriage, disappointments, achievements and insights" (p.17). divorce, and so on. Nellie O'Donnell, for example, She wants to "make known the presence of Irish narrates how she came to Canada, mamed, had women in Canada by claiming the space for the children, divorced, and remarried. I sympathized women I interviewed to voice their own experiences with her hard life and lack of security, but I did not and perspectives" (p.19). Conway includes many get to see to what extent being Irish was significant Irish immigrant women--Catholic and Protestant, in her life, how being an immigrant added to her young and old, heterosexual and lesbian, rich and burdens, or how gender, class, and ethnicity poor. She taped the interviews but, rather than intersected in her life. Violet Moore describes her interrupt or ask questions, she "let the tape roll," love of dancing and how she eventually came out as hoping thereby "to let each story emerge with its own a lesbian. But I gained little understanding of the rhythm and resonance" (pp.26-27). The result is a difficulties of coming out or the obstacles women rather rambling collection of women's stories, with face who openly declare their sexual orientation. little selection or editing. Unfortunately, the authors reviewed here add Conway makes a valiant effort in the first two little analysis to our knowledge of women's chapters to cover Irish history since the 12th century, experiences. However, these writings do indicate the English persecution of Irish people since the 18th need to document the historiesof women in different century, local folklore, and patriarchy, among other regions of Canadawho came from different racial or topics. Not surprisingly, Conway's grasp of some of ethnic backgrounds. Their lives provide excellent this is tenuous. She makes sweeping statements that opportunities for research and writing, and I hope are not substantiated and without much discussion. many feminists will take up the challenge. For example, she writes about the impact of "Christian and English colonizationwonIrish women: [Ejay Agnew is a South Asian woman who is "Both colonizations conspired to the same end: the Associate Professor of Social Science at York subjugation of women. The Christian Church, from University. She has written extensively on South Asian the fifth century onwards, would obliterate ancient women and on racism in the women's movement in goddess paganism. It's [sic] patriarchal religious and Canada, and is the author of two books: Elite Women political colonization of Ireland would radicalh in Indian Politics (Ekas, 1979) and Immigrant change women's role, defining them according to Women from Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean: the doctrine of Augustine and others. The English Resisting Race, Class, and Gender Discrimination in were the second to colonize. As Christian Canada (Universiv of Toronto Press, forthcoming fall colonization merged with English colonization, 1994).] women would be more effectively subjugated under English common law" (pp. 44-45). Feminist Collections v.15. no.3. Sminn 1994 Pane 9

VISION AND REVISION: RECENT jobs with access to power - has increased women's LITERATURE ON WOMEN IN white-collar crime. Women have greater addiction CRIMINAL JUSTICE issues than men, and actively seek ways to supply our habits; women are often passively involved with criminal men who exploit the women for their own by Rhonda Ambuehl ends. Concetta C. Culliver, ed., FEMALE CRIMINALITY: Likewise, many theories examine how the THE STATE OF THE ART. New York: Garland. criminal justice system treats women differently, 1993. 549p. bibl. c.bS4.00, ISBN 0-8153-0484-6. either to our benefit or detriment: the system is more likely to look the other way in the case of Karlene Faith, UNRULY WOMEN: THE POLITICS female offenders (chivalry) or arrest and prosecute OF CONFINEMENT & RESISTANCE. Vancouver: us to get us back on track (paternalism); the system Press Gang, 1993. 337p. bibl. index. pap., $15.95, is angry at women who step out of traditional roles ISBN 0-88974-050-X. and prosecutes for a wider range of crimes, such as the victimless act of prostitution or, more recently, Mary Eaton, WOMEN AFTER PRISON. the use of legal or illegal drugs during pregnancy. Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1993. 168p. Some theories claim the courts treat women with bibl. index. $85.00, ISBN 0-335-19008-1; pap., children more leniently; others assert that single $32.50, ISBN 0-335-19007-3. mothers are more likely to go to prison because they are most likely to be living in poverty. Deborah Stein, ed. FROM INSIDE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF WRITING BY INCARCERATED Female Criminality: State of the Art, edited by WOMEN. Vo1.I. Minneapolis, MN: Deborah Stein, Concetta Culliver, collects many of these theories in 1991. (Honor Press, 232 W. Franklin Ave., #302, a volume of essays by sociologists, criminologists, Minneapolis, MN 55404) economists, political scientists, psychologists, and statisticians. Culliver's ove~ewbegins with an These days, crime looms large in the public eye. historical account of women's involvement in crime However, in spite of the focus on crime, lawbreakers and follows trends of and responses to female seem to have curiously generic faces and women who criminality to the present. While the ensuing essays commit crimes are practically invisible. Although are similarly grouped, they were collected rather than feminists have acknowledged the empowerment written for the volume, which as a result lacks a stemming from visibility, we continue to ignore coherent thesis. Relying largely on statistical women in our criminal justice system. Long gone analysis, the essays reflect problems of trying to are public stock, women are instead removed to make broad assumptions and predictions based on remote prisons far from scrutiny, and even further the small numbers of women who are arrested from mind. However, feminists should take notice (compared to the large numbers of their male because the threat of criminalizationoppressesus all. countemartsl An added frustration with conclusions Labeling women as criminal goes beyond rendering based on Gatistical methodology is the broad them invisible; it creates a class of women with few discretion of police in arresting, district attorneys in advocates, allowing intolerant attitudes to be expressed with seeming justification. charging, and judges in sentencing. Also to be considered are changes in legal trends, and the perceptions and prejudices of juries, as well as their Little has been published about crimes by tendency to return different verdicts for some women and until now, most writing has attempted to categories of offenders. demonstrate causal relationships between female criminality and social and economic circumstances. Contrary to the paucity of literature, theories about While some of the authors try to correct or the apparent rise in crimes by women are countless: address these problems, the book begs for analysis. It should provide a starting point for discussion, but women commit crimes because we are oppressed; perhaps its real failing from a feminist perspective is women's liberation has liberated female criminality. the way it distances the reader from women Women break the law because we are denied equal offenders, treating them as numbers, implying that opportunity and criminal activity levels the playing with the right formula women can somehow be field; the greater number of women working - and manipulated and rendered non-criminal. Page 10 Feminist Collections v.15. 110.3. Sprina 1994

Another 1993 book takes a radical, conclusions were misrepresented (see pp.60-68), a unapologetic look at crimes by women. Karlene statement which should have far-reaching Faith's Unruly Women: The Politics of Confinement implications for female criminal theory. and Resistance "examine[s] female transgression against social order and the ways by which women's Unruly Women concludes with a history of the crimes and punishments refract the ideological Santa Cruz Women'sPrison Project (SCWPP), which constructions of gender" (p.2). Like Culliver, she operated from 1972-76. Hundreds of scholars, begins with an historical overview, but targets the performers, and social activists spent weekends in the witch hunts of the 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th California Institution for Women offering university centuries in which innocent women were criminalized courses, artistic performances, and workshops to and executed. incarceratedwomen. The tale of SCWPP covers the reactions of the instructors, the guards, and the Faith examines and often challenges the institutional powers as well as the prisoners popular theories of female criminality. Although themselves. The demise of the project - which was many incarcerated people are poor and/or from popular among prisoners and successful from the minority groups, "most poor people and most 'people instructors' viewpoints - demonstrates the of colour' do not engage in crime, [therefore] neither entrenched power of prison authorities' resistance to poverty nor racial designation, alone or in providing education (equatedwith empowerment) to combination, can account for criminal behavior" incarcerated women. This chapter alone tells much (pp. 106-7). Likewise,"victimizationcannot be named about problems with contemporary penology. the 'cause of crime"' (p.108). Instead, Faith concludes "the feisty woman who attacks her abuser Another recent publication discusses resistance is no longer acting out of passive acquiescence to to criminal women's empowerment. Mary Eaton's powerlessness, but out of anger, survival instinct and Women After Prison examines the longterm effects of belief that the abuse isn't her own fault. A feminist prison on women. Relying on interviewswith thirty- analysis recalls the factors of agency and choice in four women in Great Britain, she discusses how examining the ways that girls and women survive, incarceratedwomen are both exiledfrom society and despite structural factors which define the then subdued during incarceration, a process in parameters of their choices" (p.108). which "the more the individual is subject to the scrutiny of the disciplinary regimes, the more Of special interest to those familiar with documentation is compiled, the further the individual traditional theories on women and crime is Faith's is removed from self-control and autonomy within interview with Freda Adler who, with her historical society" (p.16). This double whammy presents book Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female special challenges to women who are expected to Criminal (first published in 1975), has been credited take responsibility for their lives upon discharge from with the 1970's media hysteria theorizing that prison. women's liberation was causing an increase in female criminal activity. Significantly, Sisters in Crime is one Like Faith, Eaton recognizes autonomy in of the most frequently cited works on the causes of criminal activity. "In breaking the law women do female criminality in the literature. Yet in the exercise a choice, and appear to be active agents" interview with Faith, Adler asserts that her (p.81). As her chapter titles (such as "Taking Her Feminist Collectiom v.lS,ao3, Sprin5 1994 Page 11

Down: Making a Prisoner," "Knowing Her Place: owes it to her- or himself to read material written by Women's Responses to Prison," and "Getting Out - incarcerated women. Although the book lacks But Not Getting Away") reflect, Eaton theorizes that academic analysis, it reflects -the reality of the institutions act to break a woman's autonomy. As a experts: the women themselves. The following is an result, the female offender "has no place in which to excerpt of a poem by one of the book's contributors, define herself. She returns to society disorientedand Cindy Davis (p.21): disempowered.... With reception [into prison] began a process by which each woman was taken out and Can anyone hear me? taken down. Excluded from society, she was stripped Is anyone there of all her possessions, of her dignity, of her Is anyone listening identity.... Her new role was characterized by Does anyone care? ineffectiveness" (pp.55-6). Can anyone imagine Most of Eaton's interview subjects had these feelings inside of me remained out of prison for two years prior to Has anyone else felt it publication of the book. She credits these women's Can't anyone see me? success to their ability to "overcome both the established patterns that made them vulnerable to Her plea illustrates her feeling of powerlessness, prison, and to the debilitating effect of the pkon inconsistent with the public perception of a criminal sentence" (p.81 - emphasis added). In an era when bent on invasive acts toward others. there is so much talk about getting tough on criminals in order to address the apparent failures of Running the gamut from incarceratedwomen's the criminal justice system, perhaps we need to pleas for acknowledgement to attempts to reexamine our attitudes about the system's potential understand why women make choices that lead to to rehabilitate lawbreakers and adopt a program of incarceration, these recent works have expanded and empowerment rather than dehumanization. revised the body of literatureon women lawbreakers, a group we should no longer ignore if we have a From Inside: An Anthology of Writing by genuine interest in empowering women. Incarcerated Women, edited by Deborah Stein, "was inspired by [her] Creative Writing Workshops for [Rhonda Ambuehl recently lefr her job as resecvch incarcerated women. Female prisoners are a assktant for the Wsconsin State Assembly to move to population that we read and talk about but we rarely Pennsylvania. She has been a member ofthe Ewcutive talk with them because they're locked up" (p.1). A Committee of Wsconsin Women's Network's Task slim forty-two-page volume, From Inside is a Force on Women in the Criminal Justice System and collection of poems and short anecdotes from women has written and given presentations on the special needs who were experiencing incarceration. Anyone of incarcerated women.] interestedin women in the criminal justice system

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WOMEN OFFENDERS AND THE LAW: DOING TIME. 1991. 26 mins. Director: Lorna THE CYCLE OF PUNISHMENT Boschman. Distr.: G.I.V., 5505 Saint-Laurent, Bureau 4203, Montreal, Quebec H2T 1S6, Canada; by Frances ffivenik 514-271-5506; 800-323-4222, ext. 43. ~ental:$55 Can. Sale: $275 Can. SO SAD, SO SORRY, SO WHAT. 1988.27 mins. bh. Producerldirector: Jane Gillooly. Distr.: Fanlight WOMEN BEHIM) BARS. 1988. 46 mins. Productions, 47 Halifax St., Boston, MA 02130; 617- Pr~d~cer/Director:Candyce Martin. Disk-: Films, 524-0980; Fax: 617-524-8838. Rental: $50/day; Inco~orated,5547 N. Ravenswood, Chicago, IL $100hk. Sale: $125. 60640; 800-343-4312. Sale: $79. Pane 12 Feminist Collections v.15. no.3. S~rine1994

P4W: PRISON FOR WOMEN. 1982. 81 mins. acknowledges "I have to take responsibility.. . I was Directors: Janice Cole and Holly Dale. Distr.: a victim of myself." Ultimately, the film has no Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Center, 67A closure but a denouement which informs the viewer Portland St., Toronto, Ontario, M5V 2M9, Canada; that after the film was made JoAnne broke parole, 416-593-1808. Sale (includes public performance was imprisoned again, allowed her sister to adopt her rights): $650 (81 min. version); $495 (58 min. son, and disappeared. The film is forthright about version). Rental: $150 (81 min. version); $95 (58 JoAme's errors but also about her attempts to min. version). understand herself, to find what she calls "that serene feeling.... innerpeace." So Sad, So Sony is essentially LOCKED INILOCKED OUT. 1992. 27 mins. a poetic document. Director: Donna Preece. Distr: Kinetic, Inc., 255 Delaware Ave., Buffalo, NY 14202; 800-466-7631; Doing Tine by Lorna Boschman presents the Fax: 716-856-7838. Sale: $295. Rental: $99. work of Canadianartist Persimmon Blackbridge,who has constructed lifesized, three-dimensional DEFENDING OUR LmS. 1993. 41 mins. sculptures of four incarcerated women: Geri Producers/Directors: Margaret Lazarus, Renner Ferguson, Michelle Kanashire-Christensen, Lyn Wunderlich, and Stacey Kabat. Distr.: Cambridge MacDonald, Bea Walkus. Alongside each sculpture, Documentary Films, Inc., P.O. Box 385, Cambridge, written on the wall, is each woman's "text," a MA 02139; 617-354-3677; Fax: 617-492-7653. Sale: freeflowing narrative of her life inside and outside $150 + $9 shipping. Rental: $45 + $9 shipping. prison. What could have been a static "showing" is enlivened by the camera moving through the gallery, Women inmates are the fastest growing over the texts, offering full figure and closeup views segment of the prison population, yet the general of the sculptures, which appear to be leaning against public, along with corrections professionals and the walls while the audio shifts among the four politicians, has tended either to ignore their existence "subjects" speaking their own stories, or cuts to or treat them as less violent male prisoners, Blackbridge talking directly into the camera: "Am I therefore less worthy of attention and scarce your tour guide ripping off their pain for your resources. As a result, women's prisons are often aesthetic titillation? I don't want to be a tour guide. overcrowded, overregulated, sterile environments, I want to be a megaphone that Michelle's words with limited rehabilitation or job training programs come through so leu; you can hear it underwater in to combat their inmates' high recidivism rates. the mainstream." This is an unusual and ~rovocative Women's special needs, whether as mothers or as film; as Blackbridge suggests, it demoistrates the survivors of assault and abuse, are generally slighted way collaborative art can serve activist purposes. or trivialized. Each of the following films seeks to rectify the twin problems of public ignorance and What these two films do best is pique our neglect, to humanize its subject matter, and to call, curiosity about women offenders by showing how either explicitly or impkitly, for awareness, ordinary such people often are, how like us. The intervention, and policy change with regard to films remind us how thin the line sometimes is women offenders. between normal and criminal behavior, and how quickly that line becomes a wall. Two of the films deal almost exclusively with the personal, leaving the political unspoken and Two other films offer more distanced undefined. So Sad, So Sony, So What, produced and treatments of incarcerated women, using individual directed by Jane Gillooly, presents the story of inmates mainly to typify certain behaviors and to JoAnne Petrus, a twenty-eight-year-old recovering articulate a range of attitudes towards society and drug addict with AIDS, interviewed during a three- themselves. Women Behind Bars, produced and month period while she was in a pre-release center directed by Candyce Martin, is a slick, professional in Massachusetts. Merging a~diota~edconversations television documentary with excellent visual quality with still %wigorated by elaborate and editing. Originally an NBC News: Report on camera movement and sound effects, the film offers America, it is narrated by Maria Shriver on site at without commentary JoAnne's own attempto track the Dwight Correctional Center in Illinois, which her life from childhood to her involvement with the houses maximum to minimum security women. law. "It's hard to look at myself as a criminal," she Meant for general audiences, the film provides basic comments as she describes prison life, but later information on women offenders, whose numbers Feminist Collections v.15, 00.3. Spring 1994 Page 13 have tripled in the last decade. Scenes include an by June Callwood, is a Canadianfilm that informs us inmate's arrival, another's parole hearing, and an that the majority of women in prison are parents inmate being released, vowing "this time, I'm not (eighty percent of them sole caregivers of their coming back." Officials and inmates, interviewed children) and shows how the circle of punishment separately, are often in agreement. "There's no way includes the children as well as their mothers. The I can make another human being change," the camera shifts between testimony by experts - a warden says early in the film, an inmate later asks: criminologist, a lawyer, a child psychologist - and by "How can you rehabilitate grown people?" The film woman offenders and their children to demonstrate touches on issues such as "family" life in prison, how how the "fragile bonds of family" are affected. incarcerated women are trained only for low-paying Prison visitations are shown, with children "frisked" jobs, and how prison life fosters dependency because as they enter, crying when they leave. We are told docile women are easier to handle. Although not that only fifty percent of children in foster care can explicitly feminist, this film's coverage seems to ask ever visit incarcerated mothers, and are shown pertinent questions about how society's expectations women sending videotapes of themselves to their for women can backfire, and how women are children by means of a new, experimental program. punished in terms of those expectations. The film's mission is clear. Asserting that ninety percent of women are imprisoned for nonviolent In P4W: Prison for Women, filmmakers Janis offenses, it advocates community-based punishment Cole and Holly Dale take their camera into Canada's instead of prison, suggesting that the social costs of only federal penitentary for women. The style is the present system are too high to dismiss. cinema v6rit6, with good sound quality but inferior visual quality and color. The film has a freeflowing, Defending Our Lives, produced and directed by stream-of-consciousness narrative style in which Margaret Lazarus, Renner Wunderlich, and Stacey women inmates tell their own stories. Whether they Kabat, recently won the Academy Award for Best have been in "the system" for a decade or more or Live Action Short Subject. This is a harrowing film, only a few years, most resent their treatment by the not for the squeamish, about woman-battering and criminal justice system, and are wary about what its results. Three distinct sequences are intercut: a awaits them after they have served their time. We lecture to a small class by Sarah Buel, Assistant follow guards through the corridors and see women District Attorney for Suffolk County, Massachusetts; in their highly decorated and individualized cells, Meekah Scott facing a large audience and reading off doing laundry, dressing each others' hair, playing a list of women murder victims battered to death by with makeup, forming important loving relationships. spouses or significant others, with news footage We see older, longterm women counseling younger, inserts of wrapped bodies being wheeled or carried newer inmates on prison survival skills. On the out of buildings; interviews with four women in surface, the prison is clean, tidy, and relatively quiet, prison who, we eventually learn, killed their but inmates talk of the apathy that "crawls through batterers, intercut with happy wedding pictures or this place," the feeling that their lives are "wasting closeups of their scarred faces or bodies. Each of away in here," or the violence that simmers below the three sequencesis powerful in itself; cross-cutting the surface to erupt in suicides or stabbings. among them enhances the tension. Buel's lecture provides most of the "facts" - "there are 1200 Both these films offer a wide angle perspective battered women's shelters in this country . . . but on women offenders, with enough different stories there are 3800 animal shelters," "domestic violence is that they overwhelm the viewer, denying any single the number one cause of injury to women in profile of criminal behavior or background. We see America" - while Scott's witnessing offers another that life inside prison is a community with imposed kind of statistic (twenty women dead in eleven controls and sanctions but with some latitude for months). Both eventually reveal that they too were personal expression and individuality;what we don't battered women. The woman inmates tell their see is much effort being expended to make these stories in frank detail, including their attempts to get women fit for life outside the walls. police or courts to protect them: "If a stranger had been doing this to me, they would have helped me. The last two films are more narrowly focused, Just because it was my husband, they didn't." Buel powerful indictments of the criminal just& system's concurs, charging that the same justice system which treatment of women. Locked ZnlLocked Our, written has no time or resources to rescue battered women and directed by Donna Davey Preece and narrated has plenty of both to punish them after they kill. Page 14 Feminist Collections v.15. no.3. Sllrinn 1994

Scott concludes her litany of horror with a comment: "bury" the results of ineffective policies and "I could have been one of these statistics. But I safeguards. By and large, women in prison represent fought back." the failure of promises: of social and political justice, of educational and economic opportunities Any of these films can do much, inside the for women in this country and Canada. Along with classroom or in the community. to counter the their children and families, women offenders bear misperceptions and misapprehensions about women the burden of our disgrace. offenders, especially if accompanied by talkbacks or other commentaries. Academics or activists [Frances M. Kavenik is Associate Professor of English concerned with the feminization of poverty, and Diwctor of Women's Studies at W-Park.de. As substance abuse, battering, or child welfare might use director of the ACCESS Program, an &ended degree women offenders as a microcosm from which to program for adult students, she has been teaching in examine those social problems, and our tendency to Wuconsin women's pnkons since 1986.1

MSCONSIN WOMEN IN WORLD WAR II by Michael Stevens aid is available in the Society's Archives Reading Room, which summarizes the inte~ewsand A new oral history collection that recounts the identifies women by occupation, residence, age, varied experiences of Wisconsin women during religion, ethnicity, marital status, and wartime World War I1 and a new book based upon the activity. interviews are now available from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Women Remember The book, based on the interviews, provides an the Whr, 1941-1945, the second volume in the introduction to the collection and hints at the Society's Voices of the Wirconsin Past series, details richness of materials found in the oral histories. In events in the state's history through the words of both the book and the collection, women describe those who experiencedthat history as it unfolded and how they balanced traditional roles in the home with includes some of the highlights from the Wisconsin the new demands placed on them by the biggest Women in World War I1 collection at the Society. global conflict in history. The result is a rich mix of insights, incorporating the perspective of workers in Edited and annotated by State Historian factories, in offices, and on farms as well as those of Michael E. Stevens, Women Remember the War is wives and mothers who found their work in the part of the Society's commemoration of the fiftieth home. anniversaryof World War 11. The book contains the recollections of more than thirty Wisconsin women Women on the home front discussed daily as well as 42 wartime photographs that illustrate the problems, including child care, rationing, loneliness, diverse ways that women contributed to the war and conditions in the workplace. Enlistees told of effort. the resistance they encountered when women's military units were created and describe the The book represents a sampling from a larger conditions in which they worked. The collection and oral history collection about Wisconsin women in the book also contain interviews with women who World War 11. Since late 1991, the Society's Office served overseas with the American Red Cross or in of the State Historian has conducted interviewswith medical units. Wisconsin women - civilian and military - about their wartime efforts. As of early 1994, well over 100 Women from various parts of the state and interviews have been conducted and deposited in the with varied experiences were interviewed for the Society's Archives, where they are now open to project. For example, the collection contains researchers. Additional inte~ewswill be added interviews with a Polish-American crane operator through 1995. The collection is available in two who worked in a Milwaukee defense plant, an formats - either in the recorded oral interviews, African-American mother of five in Beloit, the wife which run over 200 hours playing time, or in more of a prisoner of war from Oshkosh, a schoolteacher than 5,000 pages of transcripts. A detailed finding from Brown County who enlisted in the WACs, an Feminiit CoUectioru v.lS.no.3. Sha1994 Pane 15

Oneida Indian woman who joined the WAVES, and soldier and he refused. So I told him, 'There's no several members of the All-American Girls Baseball Mason-Dixon line in the army. I'm giving you an League from Racine. order. You take this medicine to that man, or I'm going to write you up.' So he took it, and I went The story of Lucille LeBeau Rabideaw, one of and I watched him, and he gave the medicine. He the women interviewed, is illustrative. Born into the didn't make any more fuss about it because he knew Lakota tribe in South Dakota in 1914, Rabideaux I meant what I said." attended Indian schools before becoming a nurse in 1938. She moved to Hayward, Wisconsin, where she The amunt of Rabideaux's life is one of worked as a nurse for the Indian Service, and while numerous stories that would have been otherwise there, met Francis ("Chick") Rabideaw, a Red Cliff lost without the Wisconsin Women in World War I1 Chippewa from Bayfield. The couple married in Oral History project that is now available for 1941, shortly after he received his draft notice. In research. The Wisconsin Women in World War I1 June, 1943, Lucille Rabideaw enlisted as an army Oral History Collection can be used by researchers nurse with the Forty-fourth General Hospital Unit in the Archives Reading Room of the State and served in Australia, New Guinea, and the Historical Society of Wisconsin, which is open to the Philippines. public Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Saturdays 900 a.m. to 400 p.m. Women Remember During the interview, Rabideaw talked about the War is available for $7.95 at the State Historical her experiences as an army nurse, as a Native Museum on Madison's Capitol Square, at many retail American woman in the military, and how she felt outlets, and by mail order from the State Historical about her role as an officer who gave orders to Society. Mail order requests cost $11.74 (including enlisted men. She reported, "I only ran into one shipping and sales tax) and should be sent to [problem], when we had a hospital in Australia, and Publications Orders, State Historical Society of we had a black patient, and so I gave [a corpsman] Wisconsin, 816 State St.. Madison, WI 53706-1488. the medicine to give. It was on night duty, and I (608R64-6428) gave him pain medication to take to this black

NEWS FROM UW-CENTERS by Jane Ewens relatively homogeneous communities, Centers classrooms are diverse in important ways. There is It's finally spring in Wisconsin and a good time a mix of ages, occupations, and past academic to notice blossoms in unexpected places. In the list records. Most of these students have never heard of of University of Wisconsin institutions offering Women's Studies, but they are rarely unfamiliarwith Women's Studies majors, minors, and certificates, the its questions and concerns. There is a vitality University of Wisconsin Centers is described as generated by their first encounters with Women's offering "courses only." This description is not Studies that makes explicit the importance of inaccurate, but it is as incomplete as a "flowers only" introductory courses. In these small communities description of a fine perennial garden. where students and faculty are as likely to meet outside as inside the classsroom, the classroom The University of Wisconsin Centers consists of conversation sometimescontinues for years. It is not thirteen small, mostly rural campuses scattered unusual for alliances to form to confront community across the state. We offer the first two years of the problems; the research paper on sexism in schools University of Wisconsin liberal arts curriculum and becomes the foundation for change in school board a complex array of continuing education and policy. outreach programs. Each Centers campus is a heart of community activity, opening the possibility of a The organization of Women's Studies in the college education to a population that might Centers is uncomplicated; there is an overall otherwise find the obstacles insurmountable. Many Women's Studies Coordinator and on each campus of our students are first-generation college students there is a Women's Studies Contact Person. Faculty and a significant proportion are place-bound, raising who wish to cross list a course as Women's Studies families and/or tied to local employment. Located in must get the approval of their department and the Par& 16 Feminist Collections v.15. no3. Svrinn 1994

Centers Women's Studies Committee. The Centers Much of the credit for the blossoming of catalog cames eight courses cross-listed as Women's Women's Studies in the Centers goes to the Studies courses, but this list falls far short of University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies reflecting the depth of the cumculum. Thirty of our Consortium. The fact that we can focus on our current faculty have taught a Women's Studies teaching and not be penalized for this focus is in course; eighteen different courses have been offered large part due to the resources provided by this in the past two years. Some examples: Feminist Consortium. The Centers was the site for the first Philosophy, Policy; Female and Male: Psychology of phase of a National Sciences Foundation Gender; and Women in Crosscultural Perspective. Distinguished Visiting Professor Project; several Centers faculty have been funded by Consortium The core group of Centers faculty engaged in Outreach grants; Centers faculty and students are the work of Women's Studies has increased steadily constantly being served by the office of the in size, in the number of disciplines represented, and University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies in the scope of scholarship and community activities. Librarian. Because the Consortium fights many of Freed from the struggle to become legitimizedin the the battles, gets the grant proposals written, and then form of a department, Women's Studies has emerged recruits involvement across the University of organically, motivated by the desire of students, Wisconsin System, the Centers faculty have access to faculty, and other community members to understand projects that they would rarely have time to initiate more about their world. Because teaching is the themselves. primary focus in the Centers, we noticed early that it is impossible to teach well without addressing the We're all part of the whole, and are pleased omissions and distortions in our disciplines. The that the awakenings that begin on our Centers Women's Studies Pedagogy" named in scholarly campuses reach into many lives and communities articles becomes for us part of this effort to teach beyond our classrooms. well. Spared the luxury of teaching more than one Women's Studies course yearly, we pay close [Jane Ewens has coordinated Women's Studies for the attention to the content and process of introductory LJW Centers for the past several years. She teaches courses in more traditional disciplines. Psychology at UW Center-Waukesha and chairs the LJW Centers Psychology Depattment.]

STATISTICAL PROFILE OF WSCONSIN WOMEN

Wisconsin women are getting older. The Relative to the current interest in the situation median age of women in the state has risen over the of welfare recipientsin the state, statistics reveal that last few decadesfrom 28.2 yea'rsin 1970 to 33.9 years about 12 percent of Wisconsin women found in 1990. In 1987 nearly half of the women in themselves in poverty in 1990, up from 9.8 percent a Wisconsin were under 30; now the number has decade earlie; (and contrasted to 9.3 percent of declined to 43 percent of the state's women. males below the poverty line in 1990). The average number of single-parent families receiving Aid to These statistics come from the Profile of Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) in 1991- W~consin Women, a thirty-nine-page statistical 92 was 73,135. Unfortunately, the average monthly snapshot of women in the state released in March. benefit of $450 was unlikely to help these families Compiled by Barbara Burrell of the Wisconsin move out of poverty very quickly. For those women Survey Research Laboratory for the Wisconsin who were able to take part in the workforce (60 Women's Council and the University of Wisconsin percent of all working age women in 1990), a System Women'sStudiesConsortium Outreach,UW- significant gender gap remains in the mean annual Extension, the report aims to "bring together a earnings for fulltime, year-round jobs: in 1989 comprehensive set of summary statistics for public women's earnings averaged 60 percent those of men use" (Introduction), leaving to others the ($17,465 vs. $27,653 median income). interpretation needed for particular research or policy interests. Feminist Colledions v.15, no.3. Spring 1994 Pap 17

The good news is that Wisconsin women's inequality continues with salary levels (average salary education levels are increasing: 79 percent of all for female faculty was $41,346, for male faculty, Wisconsin women and 78 percent of Wisconsin men $50,311). were high school graduates in 1990; and the percentages of college graduates were also nearly In chapters covering demographics, educational equal (13 percent of women. 12 percent of men). attainment, women in the UW System, family Fewer young women were likely to drop out of high structure, employment, poverty, women and the school (girls were 41 percent of dropouts in 1990-91 justice system, health status, and women in public statistics), and more girls (67 percent of high school office, the statistics offer a range of perspectives on graduates) than boys (61 percent) planned on Wisconsin women. Data are compiled primarily attendingcollege. Disparity remainswithin the ranks from 1990 Census reports, the national SpecialEqual of K-12 faculty, however: 66 percent of fulltime Economic Opportunity data tape, and reports from equivalent teaching staff were women in 1990, but various Wisconsin agencies, but the Profile also only 23 percent of principals and 7 percent of district suggests many references and agencies that can offer administrators were women. more detailed information.

At the university level, women students made Copies of the report have been distributed to up 53 percent of all undergraduates, 56 percent of libraries throughout Wisconsin via the government masters and education specialists, and 40 percent of documents delivery- system.- Women's studies all Ph.D. candidates at UW institutions in 1992. programs on each campus have also received copies. Women comprised 19 percent of tenured faculty in For more information. contact the Wisconsin 1992. The percentage of women in all faculty ranks Women's Council, 16 N. Carroll St., Suite 720, has increased between 1989 and 1992, though Madison, WI 53702 (608-266-2219).

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MORE GOPHERlNG AROUND IN WOMEN'S STUDIES .... by Phyllis Holman Wekbard mentioned above. In other cases, if you precede the host's address with "gopher," you will be admitted. If In the last issue of Feminkt Collections I neither of these methods works, you can use your described how to begin "gophering around" in gopher server's search capability to find the first part women's studies on the Internet, going into detail on of the gopher address (ex: "minerva" or "burrow" two sites: resources from the Universityof Wisconsin mentioned below), or, if you know the geographic Women's Studies Librarian's Office location of the gopher, you can start with "worldwide (wiscinfo.wisc.edu/Library Catalogs and gopher serversn or equivalent on your gopher menu, ServicedSelectedUW Madison LibrariesKJWSystem then travel through the geographic menus until you Women's Studies Librarian's Office) and from the arrive at the state or country hosting the gopher you University of Maryland's women's studies online wish to access. Here are some locations of possible collection (inforM.umd.edu/Educational interest: Resources/Women's Studies). For a description of additions and changes to these sites, see the ECOLOGY: "EcoGopher" at the University of accompanying side bar. Virgina contains citations to issues concerning women and the environment/ecofeminism (host: Women-related material is abundant on ecosys.drdr.Virginia.edu port 70). Also, EcoNet! gophers established for a variety of purposes, from from the Institute for Global Communications has an organizing sources of government information to entire "Women" menu, with information on the clustering discipline or interest-focused material to Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, presenting topical information for women students. 1995), a directory of women's organizations on the To access any of the sites described below, you can Association for Progressive Communications (APC) use one of several methods. Sometimes the gopher networks, and a listing of electronic conferences on host is "public" and admits off-campus users directly, women's issues available on IGC networks. This as do wiscinfo.wisc.edu and inforM.umd.edu, menu can also be accessed from the Pam 18 Feminist Collections v.15. no.3. Shn1994 inforM.urnd.edlJEducationa1 ResourcedWomen's csf.colorado.edu port.70. FEMISA appears on the Studiemther Gophers in Women's Studies host gopher as "FEMinist studies - ISA." The menu directory. offers choices for announcements, the archive (subdivided by month since the list began in April EDUCATION: Citations to the holdings of the 1993), Beijing-95 (concerning the international InternationalNetworks in Education (INET) Library women's conference planned for September 1995 in at Michigan State University include many titles China), and syllabi (including two not also listed in indexed under "Gender." The host is the University of Maryland Women's Studies burrow.cl.rnsu.edu port 70. Resources). A recent posting contained the ISA Feminist TheoryIGender Studies Newsletter in full- FORESTRY: Universityof MinnesotaForestry text. Library maintains a set of searchable bibliographies on aspects of forestry. A recent search of the "Social LAW: Case Western Reserve University Law Sciences in Forestry" segment yielded close to 150 School is constructing a collection of electronic bibliographic citations with "women" in the title. The resources on 'Women and the Law," which thus far host is minerva.forestry.umn.edu port 70. includes bibliographies, book reviews, directories of scholars, and information on women and GOVERNMENT INFORMATION: The international law as well as women and the law in Library of Congress has organized a large number of specific countries. Host is holmes.lawmvru.edu port government documents arranged by agency in a 70, or gopher geographically to Ohio. marvelous gopher at marvel.loc.gov. (login as "marvel.") Many documents include information on NUTRITION: The Illinois Cooperative women. For example, a report on women in prison Extension Service has short articles and newsletters can be found by following the pathway Government covering concerns of interest to women, including Information/Federal Information caregiving and the influence of nutrition on Resources/Information by AgencyExecutive menopause. Host ilces.ag.uiuc.edu port 70. BranchIJustice De~artmentmureau of Justice Statistics Documents/Women in Prison. STUDENT HANDBOOKS: Barnard College/Columbia University has mounted a For the latest information on breast cancer handbook with several chapters on women's health from the National Cancer Institute, begin with the issues, sexuality, and sexual harassment (host same pathway, but choose National Institutes of gopher.cccolumbia.eduport 70). An annotatedlist of Health as the agency under the Executive Branch feminist and lesbian periodicals is appended to the and select successively NIH GopherMealth and handbook. Clinical Information/CancerNET InformationPDQ Information for Patients [or, if you want more The University of Canberra has a Women's technical information: PDQ Treatment Information Handbook (1993) with sections covering women's for PhysiciansIJBreast Cancer. health issues, as well as safe sex practices, investment opportunities for women in Australia, and more International organizations including the (services.canberra.edu.au port 70). United Nations, the World Bank, and World Health Organization all have gophers with material relevant WOMEN AND COMPUTING to women in development. It should come as no surprise that one of the subjects treated extensively on the Internet is HISTORY: A list and description of women's "computing," and %omen and computing is so history manuscript collections housed in the Western amply represented that it deserves to be treated here Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of as a separate category. It is also of particular interest Missouri-St. Louis is available on umslvma.umsl.edu because many of the full-text articles mounted are port 70. available ONLY electronically. There are three main clusters of articles on women and INTERNATIONAL SI'LJJIIES:The archive of computers/information technology. One source is the messages- and associated files on FEMISA - the "Computing" directory at the Universityof Maryland feminism, gender, and international relations women's studies online collection (iforM. discussion list of the International Studies umd.edu/Educational ResourcesfWomen's Studies/ Association - is on the Communications for a Computing), which looks like this: Sustainable Future gopher, housed at Feminist Collections v.lS.no.3, Spring 1994 Page 19

Computing WHY ARE THERE SO FEW FEMALE COMPUTER SCIENTISTS?. Electronic FON~S/ WOMEN IN AI. Guides to the Internet/ WOMEN'S ACCESS TO ON-LINE WMST-U DISCUSSIONS ABOUT FXMWISM. Why So Few Women/ Women and computing. (includes related becoming a computer scientist. article on a study of gende... email and women's studies. celeb.women.conf.Jun94. gender issues online. encourag.women.cs mentoring for women. gender-swapping.ps online access to feminism. mentor.sum. women in computing. minority.ref.info. umich/ Lncluded here is a descriptive list of various women.science.prize. electronic discussion groups in women's studieshomen's issues; electronic resource guides Number 9, "The Electronic Salon: Feminism Meets offering further suggestions on useful Lnternet Infotech" leads to a series of papers presented as a resources; information from the women's studies 1992 conference. Notice that some of the listings in electronic discussion list WMST-L; and several full- University of Maryland's "Computing" appear to be text articles on women and computing. duplicated in CPSR's "Gender," and some are even listed more than once in the "Gender" listing itself. Another cluster of material is in a gender This is another illustration of the redundant directory of the Computer Professionals for &cia1 character of gopher, both an advantage and a -Responsibility Internet Library housed at disadvantage of the system. It is possible to find the gopher.cpsr.org, port 70 (easiest to locate by using a same resource using a variety of search strategies, gopher search protocol looking for "CPSR"). Its but it becomes annoying to see that new lists contain menu appears as follows: repeated information.

gender The third cluster of information on the topic can be found on the Ontario Institute for Studies in Becoming a Computer Scientist: a report by Education (OISE) gopher, host porpoise.oise.on.ca the ACM committee on th ... port 70. To reach this gopher, use a gopher search Cross-Gender Communication in Cyberspace. protocol looking for the term OISE or go through Gender Issues in Computer Networking. the geographic menus to Canada/Ontario and follow Gender Issues in Online Communications Soc.feminisrn info/ this pathway: Information Resources in Sperm/ Educationflnternet Resources for Use in THE ELECTRONIC JOURNAL ON Educationlhternet Resources for EducationJGender VIRTUAL CULTURE Issues. Remember, another way to get there is to use THE ELECTRONIC JOURNAL ON the pointer from the "Other Gophers in Women's VIRTUALCULTURE: Special Issue: Gender Studies" directory at University of Maryland's I... inforM.urnd.edu (pathway: ~ducational 'The Electronic Salon: Feminism meets ResourcesiWomen's Studies/Other Gophers in Infotech/ Page 20 Feminist Collections v.15, no.3. SDrinn 1994

Women's StudiesfOntario Institute for Studies in including Atlantis, Belles Lettres, Feminkt Studies, EducationtGender Issues Resources, OISE). Feminist Teacher, Lesbian Ethics, Sage, Signs, and However you have gotten there, now choose Gender even Broadsheet from New Zealand. Periodicals Issues in Technology. This directory is subdivided printed on newsprint, such as Off Our Backs and into Gender Issues in Computing, Design and Women's Review of Books, are thus far not included Technology, and Networking. Since OISE's interest in UNCOVER, nor are book reviews in any of the is in education, this is the best resource of the three periodicals. With those exceptions (and since there for listings on computer education for women and is as yet no inclusive online database for women's girls. Here are two of the menus: studiesffeminist periodical citations), UNCOVER is still an excellent tool for scanning recent issues of Gender Issues in Computing these periodicals, or for searching terms that occur in the actual article titles (UNCOVER adds no Gender and Computer Anxiety. subject headings to aid in searching). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. To reach CARWNCOVER you will need to Mentoring in Computer Science. Special Issues in Computing. know your computer terminal type (ex. 'M1OOn), and Subject: Gender Differences in Computer remember that if presentedwith CARL choices, you Terminology. want the UNCOVER database. If you do not have Subject: Women and Computer Science a CARL account, you can essentially press "enter" Education. through a series of system queries until you come to Technology and Gender. an opening UNCOVER screen, which offers Women and Computing. searching by author, word-in-article-title, or journal Women. Information Technology and name. Scholarship. I did a Word search for articles with "lesbian" Gender Issues in Design and Technology and "mothers" in their titles and found fourteen, listed in reverse chronological order (latest first). 1. Re: Gender Equity in Technology Edu. 2. Technical and vocational education for Here is how the first eight appear: women--The way ahead. In the Best Interests of the Chiid (THE ADVOCATE 01/25/94) Readers' Forum: Lesbians and Our Mothers (LESBIAN ETHICS. SUM 93) Turning now to a rather different way to use A Lesbian Mother's Nightmare (THE ADVOCATE 10/19/93) gopher to access information on the Internet, I'll Lott-Whitehead, Laur describe UNCOVER, a database consisting of (SMITH COLLEGE STUDIES IN periodical tables of contents. The Colorado SOCIAL W...06/01/93) Association of Research Libraries (CARL) is home The Family Lives of Lesbian Mothers to UNCOVER, which includes tables of contents of Sheppard, Annamay T. over 15,000journals, beginningwith late 1988 issues. (WOMEN'S RIGHTS LAW REPORTER Spr 92) CARWNCOVER offers a way for individuals (via Lesbian Mothers 11: Long Night's Journey Into credit card) or campuses (with paid accounts) to Day. order copies of articles. But since the database is Milbank, Jenni. accessible through gophering or telneting to (AUSTRALIAN GAY AND LESBIAN pac.carl.org, database.carl.org, or uncover.carl.org., LAW JO...SPR 92) Lesbian Mothers. Gay Fathers: Sameness and you can use it as well to simply locate citations to Different ... articles in journals held on your campus or available Pearlman, Sarah (JOURNAL OF FEMINIST through interlibrary loan. FAMILY THERAPY. 1992) Heterosexual MotherdLesbian Daughters: UNCOVER is an excellent source for citations Parallels an... from women's studies and feminist periodicals. Arnup, Katherine Currently, the tables of contents of about seventy (RESOURCES FOR FEMINIST percent of the journals represented in Feminist RESEARCH. ...FALL 91) Periodicals are also available in UNCOVER, 'We Are Family': Lesbiin Mothers in Canada. Feminiisl Collections v.15, no3. Spring 1994 Page 21

Notice that the search retrieved citations from a To use Veronica, find a beginning (or fairly broad selection of journals - gay, lesbian, feminist, high up) directory on a gopher server listing "Search social work, legal, U.S.-based, and from outside the gopherspace using Veronica" or equivalent. Choose U.S. This demonstrates another plus about this option, and you will be presented either with a UNCOVER. When you are in a hurry and are list of sites offering Veronica (choose any), or a looking for a few current citations rather than prompt askingyou to type in your search term(s). As needing a comprehensive search, UNCOVER an illustration, I asked Veronica to find materialwith provides entree to a wide range of journals without the terms "bibliography md women" in gopher hopping through the many online and offline hoops menus: women's studies searches would otherwise require (great for harried librarians, professors, and Words to search fo~:women and bibliography students). One of the items that turned up was a lengthy three- A complete citation is available for each item part "Reference Bibliography for Women's Studies," listed, including the page number on which the compiled by Cindy Tittle Moore. Since Veronica is article begins and any parts of the article or journal constructed only from menus, had I known about the titles that don't appear on the first screen. Because bibliography only by author, I would not have been UNCOVER indexes exclusively on the article and successful searching for "Tittle Moore," which occurs journal titles as they appear in the tables of contents only in the content of a file, but not in a menu. The and adds no subject headings, for greatest retrieval first page of the bibliography is clearly labelled with you need to be creative about term possibilities. For the name of the compiler, date of last update, and an example, "lesbian" and produces a introduction stating that the bibliography was different set of seven citations. and "lesbian parents" obtained from the newsmoup soc.feminism, a a third. This type of system ii no help in retrieving discussion list on Usenet moderated by Cindy Tittle articles with catchy titles that do not include Moore and others. commonly understood terms relating their subject matter, but it is very good at retrieving up-to-date Another item retrieved from my search for citations on topics captured by unique or explicit "women and bibliography," listed as terms or phrases in article titles. "women.world.politics.bibliography,"is a document entitled "Bibliography on Feminism and World Politics," with the note "based on Spike Peterson's VERONICA bibliography with supplementary materials supplied by Lev Gornick." There is no further information in If you want to see what might be lurking in the document itself as to when or where this gopherspace on a particular topic, you can also scan bibliographywascompiled.Retrievingundocumented across all gopher menus in a unified search using a citations on feminism and world politics may be just tool called "Veronica." I have saved a discussion of fine for some users. But if I use a bibliography in Veronica-based searching for last, because you will some way, I would like to be able to cite it more be more successful if you try some of the known fully. This illustrates another peculiarity of Veronica gopher sites first, becoming familiar with how they searching: it is generally difficult to tell where the are structured and observing some of the redundancy information came from, since a Veronica search and interconnectedness of gophers. With Veronica moves directly to the menu item containing the you do not need to know where a resource is search term, bypassing all earlier menus that might mounted in order to find it, but must be prepared have identified the source. Additional information for the epitome of redundancy, infoglut, 'Too-many- may be revealed by invoking a gopher command connections. Try-again-soon" messages, and displaying the host system and pathway where the mysterious document origin. ("Veronica" stands for document resides. (In a UNIX-based system, this Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to command is " = ", issued at the point in a menu Computerized Archives, but the name was really where the document in question is listed.) Using this chosen because this tool was developed subsequent command, I discovered that this bibliography resides to "Archie," a method of searching the Internet in a bibliography sub-directory of FEMISA on the archives by file name.) Veronica is bright enough to host csf.colorado.edu (see above under understand the Boolean operators and, or and not. INTERNATIONAL STUDIES...). Besides the problem of identifyiagthe source of Since the number of gopher-ers is now in the documents retrieved by a Veronica search, this millions, expect a high frequency of delays, system menu-based searching device is tem%le for finding lock-ups, and error messages, especially when using information on broad topics such as "women" or Veronica. "Too many connections. Try again soon" "womens studies [do not use the apostrophe in may sound encouraging, but that depends on your gopher]" or "gender." Such a search retrieves pages definition of "soon." and pages of entries, most of which are simply women's studies or gender course titles on campuses Despite these imperfections, gopher is a that have mounted their course catalogs. Other welcome addition to organizing Internet resources listings are for women's athletic events all over for easier access, and there is much in "gopherspace" gopherspace. Not only are these extraneous to a true that can be useful to women's studies faculty and subject search, but even if you were interested in students. Problems may lessen as resource creators looking up women's basketball games on several become more sophisticatedabout the implicationsof campuses, they would all be lumped together without sharing information beyond local campuses, as the regard to campus. Another tool has been developed technical systems improve, and as new tools develop. to help meen out some of this material; it searches And drag out those Archie comic bdks to stay on gopher directories only, rather than all final menu the cutting edge of developments. All Bets are on.... choices. Yes, you guessed it. "Jughead" resides as "Search gopher directories "on the same menu where youfind "Search gopherspace using Veronica ." Feminist Collections v.15, no3, Spring 1994 Page 23 FEMINIST PUBLISHING

A correction from a mention of Montreal Health minority women" (Herizons Spring 1994, p.16). The hssin the previous issue of Feminist Collections: chapbooks are: Coyote Columbus Cafe by Marie The description should have stated that the press' Annharte Baker; Darkness $ a Marshmallow by SlZl Handbook, originally published in 1968, has Diane Driedger, and Secret Conve~~ationsby Ceclie been updated for the 25th anniversary of the press. Briseboise Guillemot. Cost is $4 (GST and postage included). Other publications recently updated are Birth Control A new press in Calgary is GULLH3ZG BOOKS, a Handbook and a pamphlet titled Sexual Assault. For collective of five women who recently published the more information, contact Montreal Health Press at novel High Kamilan by Marie Jakober. The press' C.P. 1000, Station Place du Parc, Montrkal, QuBbec, name comes from Gullveig, a Norse mythological Canada H2W 2N1. seer and sorceress who was slain three times and three times rose from the dead. "We felt she was an A new Canadian publisher, MOONPRZNT PRESS, appropriate symbol for the resilience of women," say has recently produced its first three chapbooks of the publishers. Managing editor of the press is Gale Manitoba women's poetry. Diane Dreidger and P. Comin, a lesbian activist and organizer in Calgary. Cede Briseboise Guillemot, owners of Moonprint Address of the press is Box 66023, University of and two of the poets, say they "want to publish voices Calgary P.O., Calgary, AB T2N OEl, Canada (403- that haven't been heard - Aboriginal, disabled and 228-1170).

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THEARCHITZS OF THE NATIONAL NETWORKOF The records of the EQUAL SUFFRAGE LEAGUE OF HZSPAMC WOMEN have recently been acquired by WRGMZA and its successor THE WRGZNU the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS have recently been (CEMA) at the University of California, Santa processed by the Virginia State Library and Archives Barbara. Now part of that library's Special and are ready for use by historians and researchers. Collections, the archives contains information on OriginalIy given to the library in 1942, the collection Chicanasworking in education, politics, and the arts, of 25,000 items includes organizational records, with the ideal of comectinr!- professional- women with correspondence, clippings, buttons and postcards, one another and offering role models for young and other items having to do with the League's work Hispanic women. in winning the vote as well as in child labor reform. Address of the Archives is 11th St. at Capitol Square, Richmond, VA 23219.

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Secretary General, The History Network, The text of a Los Angeles Ties-sponsored email Historisches Seminar, UniversitPt Oldenburg, D- roundtable discussion about women and computers 26111 Oldenburg, Germany. To access electronically is available via the University of Maryland's inforM in ASCII format, use FTP protocol (check protocol database. You may telnet or gopher to at your location). Server is ftp.cit.cornell.edu (or INFORM.UMD.EDU (the directory pathway is 128.253.232.116). Use anonymous as the account "inforM/Educational"inforM/Educational_Resources/WomensStudRe~urces/WomensStud) and your logon, including n&e, as the password. or access via anonymous ftp to the same address, When you are connected, give the command: logging in as "anonymous" and using your email ~d/~ub/s~ecia~~~~~sflabi,- then enter get address as the password. Then use the commands: README and follow the instructions in the cd info& to get to the database;dir to get a list of README file. files; get [jilenome] to retrieve the file you want.

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(hereafter EWAW), whose bulk alone (471 pages, 3,435 entries) is a tribute both to long-standing Jacqueline K Barrett, editor, and Jane A. Malonis, women's organizations and to those that have associate editor. ENCYCLOPEDLQ OF WOMEhT emerged since the World Conference of the ASSOCIATIONS W0RLDWIDE:A GUIDE TO OVER International Women's Year in 1975. If there is a 3,000 NATIONAL AND MULTINATIONAL country unrepresented, I couldn't find one. Even the NONPROFIT WOMEWS AND WOMEN-RELATED tiny islands of Sao Tome and Principe off the West ORGANIUTIONS CONCERNED WITH ALL African coast have an organization listed SUBJECT AREAS OF ACTMTY WITH INTEREST (Organisation des femmes de Sao Tome et Principe), TO WOMEN. Detroit: Gale Research, 1993. 471p. and one can hope the ethnic differences that have indexes. $80.00, ISBN 1-873477-25-2. precipitated such horror in Rwanda can be bridged by the five women's groups there. What a thrill it must be to participate in an international women's conference, basking in the EWAW is geographically-correct, with a section warmth of women's activism, even when it turns to on "C.I.S. and the Baltic States" listing many heat. A touch of that warmth radiates from organizations founded since the break-up of the Encyclopedia of Women's Associations Worldwide Soviet Union to assist women entering a market economy, such as Business Woman-C.I.S. (founded Page 26 Feminist Collections v.lS.no3, Spring 1994 in 1992) and Centre for Business Activity of Women recorded under each country, but no unified listing Under Conditions of Unemployment (started in explains the inter-relationships.Such an entry would 1991). Health and social services have also expanded, be especially welcome to librarians trying to sort out including the All-Russian Charity Foundation of the which of ISIS many publications is published where. Institute of Noble Virgins, which conducts I hope that a subsequent edition of this otherwise educational programs and "seeks to assist excellent resource will at least provide subject access underprivileged and orphaned girls and young to regional and international organizations. women in Russia" (p.148) and StorlcNest (1992), which "provides support to women during the last Other categories that would profit from month of pregnancy" (p.152). Many feminist groups enhanced access in a future edition are women's have sprung up, such as the Independent Association colleges and universities and women's libraries. Also, of Women Initiative ("NOZHI") and the Free as electronic capabilities become more widespread Association of Feministic Organizations, both among organizations outside universities and founded in 1992, and BeautyWill Save the World [!I governmental bodies, provision of electronic mail dating from 1990, which is described as a "national addresseswould facilitatecommunication among the feminist organization; promotes the interests of women's organizations using the directory. women in Russia" (p.148). Regardless of the need for these enhancements, EWAW is something no women's organization with The book is arranged by region (Africa, global interests should be without. AsiaIPacific, Caribbean, CentraVSouth America, C.I.S. and the Baltic States, Europe, Middle East, and North America), sub-arranged by country, and Deborah Brecher and Jill Lippitt, THE WOMEN'S indexed by the name of the organization and by INFORMATION EXCHANGE NATIONAL activity (family planning, feminism, domestic DIRECTORY. New York: Avon Books, 1994. 338p. violence, arts, etc.). As in other Gale directories, index. pap.. $10.00, ISBN 0-380-77570-0. such as the Encyclopedia of Associations, each entry contains addresses, phoneffax numbers, contact This paperback directory is produced by person, brief description of the activities and aims of Women's Information Exchange, the nonprofit the organization, its publications and conferences. feminist group maintaining the National Women's Mailing List (NWML), a voluntary compilation of A map of the region introduces each section. over 70,000 individuals and 12,000 women's groups The regional arrangement and map reinforce a in the United States. The directory is a source of statement made in the Foreword, that groups have organizations, goods, and sem'ces available often set up regional networks "to discuss training, specifically for women, selected from the computerization, and new technologies and strategies organizationallistings of the NWML.The names and for change" @.xi). Unfortunately, EWAW makes no addresses are also obtainable on labels in zip code further effort to draw out regional organizations - order, ready for mailing. While not quite "the only they are simply listed under the country in which nationwide directory" announced on the cover they happen to be headquartered. For instance, the (Women's Information Directory edited by Shawn European Group for Feminist Research and Brennan, Gale Research, 1993 is another, more Information or Groupe de Recherche et comprehensive such undertaking, as are the set of d'Information Feministe (GRIF) and its women's directories compiled by the National Council for studies project GRIF Avec la Commission Research on Women: A Directory of National Europeane (GRACE) are listed under Belgium; the Women's Organizations and A Directory of Women's Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices Media), this directory is better at covering grassroots Affecting the Health of Women and Children is and local organizations and can't be beat for the found only under Ethiopia; the Caribbean price. Examples include Sisters Homelands on Earth Association for Feminist Research and Action in Tunon, Lesbian Visionaries in Dallas, and (CAFRA) is listed under Trinidad and Tobago, and Womyn on the Water sailboat charter company in the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Key West. Network under Chile. Nor is there a subject index category for "regional" or "multinational" to bring The attention to local groups sterns from the such organizations together. International compilers' desire to create a practical, inclusive organizationssuffer the same fate. ISIS has offices in resource guide to local organizations "addressing Chile, the Philippines, and Switzerland, dutifully issues of national importance or that could serve as Feminist Cdldmm v.15, w3. Spring 1994 Page 27 models for other groups in terms of service delivery Myen Imel have done a mammoth service for those or orientation issues" (px). Some simply seem who wish to explore this realm by creating a large unique: Blazing Star Herbal School in Shelburne format, eyepleasing goddess name dictionary. Their Falls, Massachusetts, teaches women "how to use purpose is to show that "goddesses were not just herbs for medicinal use" and holds an annual herbal wives, sisters, mothers, or fertility deities, but conference (p.101). The Gum Catalogue from supreme deities themselves," and to help return Carlsbad, California, offers books, cassettes, and "feminine sacredness to an honored place in the videos on eating disorders and self-esteem issues archives of humanity" (pm). (p.105). Fuetza Unido is an organization of women of color displaced from their jobs when Levi Strauss The book is arranged by culturaVgeographic and Company moved from Texas to Costa Rica region, from Africa (excluding Egypt, which is a (p.295). separate section) to Western Europe, including The Himalayas, the Indian Subcontinent, and Oceania, The range of topics is evident from the but excluding Japan. Each entry follows the same categories used to organize the listings: arts and format, with name, name translation and variants, media, booksellers, displaced homemakers services, region, people, attniutes, description, and sometimes education services, famiiyIchild/youth services, a story (highlighted with a "story ikon"), cross- funding resources, global feminisdpeace, health, cultural equivalent deities, and abbreviated land trusts, legal services, lesbian and gay bibliographic citations. Full source citations appear organizations,pe~odica~presses,publishm,wo~enin a lengthy (twelve pages, Qublecolumned) of color organizations,- professional and business bibliography, and access to the goddesses is also associations, sports groups, religious organizations, provided by name and attribute indexes. research centers, science and technolopnr associations. special interest groups, groups focussiig on violen& The stories provide a good sense of the role of against women, women's centers, women's history, each goddess. Here are some examples: rights, and work services. If you already know the name of an organization but need to learn more Luonnatar, Fio-Ugric Creator of Life (literally about it, the name index is the quickest way to find daughter of nature): A duck flew over the sea where it. Under "Education," the sub-section for women's Luomatar had been floatingfor seven centuries. The studies programs lists many, but certainly not all the duck built a nest on Luomatar's knee and laid eggs. academic programs in the country. The University of When she moved suddenly, the eggs were thrown Wisconsin is curiously representedby only two of the into the abyss. From the eggs the Earth and the thirteen programs oifour-year campuses(Green ~ayheavenswere formed. The yolks became the sun and and Madison). The hWSA Dhctory of Women's the whites the moon, and fragments formed the stars Studies ~~, Women's centers,. and Women's and clouds. Luomatar finished the creation by Research Centers (1990) is a better source for this forming the topography of the land [Archeological idonnation. Institute 1916-19321 (p.54).

Women's centers and other organizations will FIrst Woman, creator of life in Queensland: First find fie Women's Information Ejrchange National Woman was made from a box tree. To make her soft Directory a handy resource for referrals. and supple, the moon rubbed her with yams and mud [Farmer 19781 (p.429).

GODDESSES Tewa Corn Mother from the southwest Unitedstates is an agricultural deity A young boy was searching Martha Ann and Dorothy Myers Imel, GODDESS& for food. He heard a voice calling to him from the IN WORLDhfYTHOLOGY.Santa Barbara, CA: ABC- rafters of a house, telling him to take her and place CLIO, 1993.655~.index. $65.00, ISBN 0-87436-715- her in a basket of corn meal. He takes the corn to PU 8. the people who have had nqthing but grears to eat [Leach 19721. See doCOlP Mother (p.391). Good Goddess! Can there really be 9,500 goddesses, nymphs, demons, and deified women In using GoddsPa in World AfyWiqp for recoverable from the archaeological, mythological, scholarly purposes, it will be important to check tha and religious record? Martha Ann and Dorothy sources cited. Most of the entries contain only one Page 28 Feminist Collections v.15. no.3. S~rin~1994 source for the information. In the Near East section, Their 'Constant Effort to Brighten Lives'...."; and for example, I was a bit surprised by the inclusion of Night Flying Womm:An Ojibway Narrative. regular Hebrew words that I don't think of as deities. "MetZ' and "Adamah", both terms for earth, are Based on holdings of the Society, libraries of cases in point. I am aware of a Biblical story, for the University of Minnesota and numerous other example, in which the earth opens up and swallows libraries in the state, and database searching, the offenders. But as I read the story, the principal actor bibliography describes nonfiction books, articles, was the patriarchal God, not a female deity. For pamphlets, and dissertations, primarily in English, both Aretz and Adamah, the only source listed is focusing on women's lives in Minnesota in the "Durdin-Robertson 1975." I will need to consult this nineteenth and twentieth centuries (from an earlier source to probe further, because I would like to see period for American Indian women). Unpublished if the author makes any distinction between a deity letters, diaries, and handwritten or typescript and a personification as a literary device. The source manuscripts are not included. also aroused my suspicion because the spelling "areti- rather than "ereti betrays an unfamiliarity Blatti considered carefully how to organize the with the Hebrew language, which requires the "a" material. Rather than use the traditional form only when a word occurs as the last element of arrangement found in Minnesota history a sentence. I was also troubled by the entry for bibliographies - organized around settlement "Lilith." The story quoted is Judith Plaskow's feminist patterns, the relationship between Indians and interpretive version, of which I am very fond, and Europeans, and cultural geography - she chose to although Ann and Imel cite Plaskow, they do so in a construct categories threadingthrough women's lives. string of citations, without acknowledging they have After opening with descriptions of surveys and used her version in the quotation. The other texts reference works, the book turns to personal identity cited would have far different takes on the Lilith matters, including cultura~ethnic/grou~affiliation story. (with listinm for African Americans, American indians frok four different tribal groups, Asian- Despitethese questions, as a guide to published Pacific Americans [chiefly Hmong], European source material on goddesses, Goddesses in World Americans, Hispanics, and lesbians) and biographies Mythology stands alone for its breadth of coverage. and autobiographies. Before moving to the more formal public sphere of organizations and clubs, Blatti covers a variety of topics within social life and HISTORY customs that straddle the privatelpublic dichotomy. The next sections cover local and regional studies Jo Blatti, WOMEN'S HISTORY IN MINNESOTA: A and women's contributions to religion, the arts, and SURVEY OF PUBLISHED SOURCES AND education - "the collective creative life" of their DISSERTATIONS. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical communities @.xi). Finally come the topics of Society Press, 1993. 100p. index. pap., $14.95, ISBN economics/employment and lawlgovernment, often 0-87351-291-X. perceived as quintessentially public, yet as much interwoven with identity, marital status, and other This bibliographic project received initial social conditions influencing women's lives. funding from the Minnesota State Legislature in 1989 and further support from the Minnesota Both its funding and its crafting make Women's Historical Society. The Society wanted in particular Hktoty in Minnesota a model resource for studying to make accessible recent historiography that the experiencesof women in a particular geographic emphasizes the diversity of women's experiences, area. their participation in economic and civic affairs, and "complex views of domestic arrangements" @. ix). Project director Jo Blatti carried out the missionvery LITERATURE successfully. Examples of the varied 844 references she found on the history of women in Minnesota and Gwenn Davis and Beverly A. Joyce, POETRY BY adjacent regions are Woman of the Boundaty Waters: WOMEN TO 1900: A BIBLZOGR4PHY OF Canoeing, Guiding, Mushingand Surviving: Little Bird AMERICAN AND BRITISH WRITERS. New York: That Was Caught: A Stoty of the Early Years of Jane Mansell, 1991. 340p. indexes. ISBN 0-7201-2016-0. DeBow Gibbs; "The Guild of Catholic Women and (Bibliographiesof Writings by American and British Feminist Collections v.15. no.3. Sdnn 1994 Pas 29

Women to 1900, v.2); Toronto, Ontario: University genres. A strength of the series is that many index of Toronto Press, 1991. $100.00, ISBN 0-8020-5966- terms are repeated in each volume for ease of X. locating thematic elements across genres of drama, poetry, and personal writings. There is no title or Though not quite a "new book," since it was first line index. published in 1991, Poerry by Women ro 1900 just arrived in our library in March of this year and Poetry by Women to 1900 is pure bibliography; warrants discussion. It is the second volume of a none of the poems themselves are included or series that began with Personal Writings by Women ro quoted. Though the volume will be put to good use 1900 (1988). since joined by Drama by Women ro checking bibliographic information and is not 1900 (1992), all compiled by Davis and Joyce, intended to be "read," I found myself wishing the respectively Professor of English/Women's Studies compilers had illustrated their work with some of the and LibrarianProfessor of Bibliography at the actual words of these women. It would make the University of Oklahoma. Each of these titles experienceof encountering so many lost poets all the contributes to the series aim: to demonstrate that richer. women published a considerable number of books in the major literary genres before the twentieth century. J.R. de J. (James Robert de Jager) Jackson, ROMANTIC POETRY BY WOMEN: A The poetry volume lists over 6,000 books, BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1770-1835. New York: Oxford arranged alphabetically by poet, from Sappho to University Press, 1993. 484p. indexes. $75.00, ISBN 1900. In their introduction, the authors note the 0-19-811239-4. exponential growth of publication by women from the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth. Jackson's work builds on Ann& of Engfbh Only two percent of the entries date from before Verse 1770-1835: A Preliminary Survey of Volumes 1750, while nearly forty-five percent were published Published (1985). Where the Ann& listed some 450 from 1875-1900 (pix). Since the book excludes women, Jackson was able to double the number poetry published in periodicals, the actual output through extensive digging. He visited many libraries must have been higher. The authors also point out in the United Kingdom and the United States and that women employed all genres of poetry - epics, personally examined all books in Romantic Poetry by ballads, sonnets, masques, satires, and epistles - Women, unless otherwise noted in the text. depending on which modes were generally popular during their era. Thematically, women chose Like Davis and Joyce (see above), Jackson religious poetry above all others, and in the provides bibliographic entries for poems published in nineteenth century set into verse their interests in books, but not in journals, and does not quote from abolition and temperance as well as domestic matters the poems themselves. Realizing that few readers and flower image%. would know anything about these women, he does, however, give readers more than the bare-bonesbirth With the evidence provided by the 6,000 and death data. (Where he could find no entries, the authors are able to contradict some information, says Jackson, the curious will have to assumptions about women poets. Most did NOT use start a search for biographical data from scratch.) male pseudonyms (only five percent used Here is a sampling of biographical entries that pseudonyms at all, includingWALady"). Most women caught my eye: poets were NOT unknown in their lifetimes. Many DID actually publish and sell their verses. Gordon, Jamima (c. 1806-18) Her book was published after her death at the age of Each entry covers alternative forms of the 12 from 'water in the head.'The introduction dwells poet's name, husband's name, nationality, birth and on her good nature and poetry (p.136). death dates when known, pseudonyms, book titles, and publication information. The alternative forms Prescott, Rachel and pseudonyms are cross-referenced. An appendix Shoberl identifies her as 'the friend of Dr. (John lists the writers chronologically by century, and a Boniot) de Mainauduc'. He was a notorious quack subject index guides access to particular themes and and she apparently acted as an assistant at his Page 30 Feminist Collections v.15. no.3. Spring 1994 lectures on mesmerism and was his literary executor Although the original research was to have a when he died in 1797 (GM, Shoberl) (p.262). [GM cut-off date of 1988, the editor at Greenwood wisely =Gentleman's Magazine] encouraged Jordan to extendcoverage through 1991, and he obliged by adding supplementary entries and Jackson includes an index by title along with sections. Both the pre- and post-1988 material may two others that are less frequently made available: be accessed through the author index. publisher and place of publication. An appendix displays the number of first editions and total The Guide seems particularly strong in listings number of editions published each year. An of literary activity and criticism that have appeared interesting second appendix describes nine works in books and journals devoted to American literature written by men who used female pseudonyms (American Poetry Review, Engiish Journal, Partisan (generally for satirical reasons), including one Review) or African American literature and studies "Harriet Air-Brain" and "A Whore of Quality." (Black Scholar, Negro History Bulletin, Callaloo: A Black South Journal of Arts and Letters). However, This is a bibliography of quality that will be except for many listings from Essence, some from appreciated by English and women's studies scholars Sage, and an occasional Signs or MS article, there and librarians. seems to be no coverage of the contributions of African American women to feminist and lesbian periodicals. Jennifer Jordan's "Feminist Fantasies: Casper LeRoy Jordan, A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching GUIDE TO AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN God," in Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature v.7, WRITERS. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1993. 387p., no.1 (Spring 1988), pp. 105-117), Sinister Wudom's index. $65.00, ISBN 0-313-27633-1. feature on Black lesbian writing in issue no. 21; and Carole Boyce Davies' "Righting Afro-American Toni Morrison receives the Noble Prize in Women's Literary History," in NWSA Journal v.1, literature, Rita Dove is poet laureate, and Maya no.2 (Winter 1988/89), pp. 284-289 are among those Angelou's poem inaugurates the aspirations of the not listed. A fully comprehensive guide would want Clinton administration. Several universities now to include such feminist/lesbian sources. devote whole courses to the creativity of African Nevertheless, A Bibliographical Guide to African- American women writers' and many more American Women Writers handles well what it does incorporate works by African American women in cover, and will surely be of great use to instructors, American literature courses. Scholarship on African researchers, librarians, and readers of African American women writers is likewise on the rise. The American women's writings. University of Wisconsin-Madison's online catalog, for example, lists twelve studies on Morrison, all published since 1987, five on Zora Neale Hurston, Linda Gould Levine, Ellen Engelson Marson and and four on Alice Walker. These women writers are Gloria Feiman Waldman. SPANISH WOMEN finally getting some of the recognition their powerful WRITERS: A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHICX SOURCE writing deserves. BOOK. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1993. 596p. indexes. $95.00, ISBN 0-313-26823-1. With this interest has come a need for a comprehensive listing of publications by and about A creative tension exists among bibliographers African American women'swritings. RetiredAtlanta- between comprehensive compilers and selective Fulton Public Library Deputy Director Casper scrutinizers. The former help us grasp the breadth of LeRoy Jordan has filled this gap well with A a field, organizing the entire output of an individual, Bibliographical Guide to African-American Women school of thought, or topic. Readers are left to make Wrirers. The Guide lists material from 900 poets, their own choices on which citations to pursue, novelists, short story writers and playwrights whose confident that the laborious construction of the work has appeared in books, anthologies, and universe of such material has been performed for periodicals. Jordan has also discovered critical them by the compilers. The selective approach, on studies on many of these authors in monographs, the other hand, evaluates that universe according to dissertations, and journal articles. Anthologies and various criteria such as significance and balanced general works are separately listed. representation of the field as a whole. More depth and context are provided for the items included. This Feminist Collections v.15, no3. Spring 1994 Page 31 approach, too, is useful, particularly to newcomers to general topic of Spanish women writers is also a field who welcome the evaluation of experts. A provided, along with a list of authors arranged by field offering both types of bibliography is fortunate, date of birth, and a listing by author of works not only because different types of users will find available in English translation. Scanning the their needs addressed, but because the presence of translation list, I noted that an anthology of Spanish such books signals the maturity of the field itself. women's writings has yet to appear in English (with the notable exception of On Our Own Behalf: The study of Spanish women's literature is now Women's Tales From Catalonia, edited by Kathleen in that happy state, with the arrival of Spanish McNerney (University of Nebraska, 1988). Such a Women Writers, a source book with extended essays work would seem to be the next step in opening up on fifty writers, complementing Women Writers of the creativity of Spanish women writers to a wider Spain: An Annotated Bio-Bibliographical Guide, audience. edited by Carolyn L. Galerstein (Greenwood, 1986), which covered 468 authors. Many of the fifty-two contributors to Spanish Women Writers,including two WOMEN IN SCIENCE of the editors, also contributed to Women Writers of Spain. In their biographical descriptions, several of Louise S. Grinstein, Rose K. Rose, and Miriam H. the essayists mention their affiliationwith Feministas Rafailovich, eds. WOMEN IN CHEMSTRY AN.D Unidas, a coalition of feminists in Spanish, Spanish PHYSICS: A BIOBIBLIOGRAPHIC SOURCEBOOK American, Luso-Brazilian,Afro-LatinAmerican, and Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993. 736p. index. United States Hispanic Studies that is an allied $99.50, ISBN 0-313-27382-0. organization of the Modern Language Association. This affiliation is significant because feminist Pre-publication announcement of this book concerns are a major feature of Spanish Women came to us just as we were finishing The History of Wrirers, both in discussions of gender issues in the Women and Science, Health, and Technology: A lives of the writers and in considerations of feminist Bibliographic Guide to the Projesswns and the literary criticism. Disciplines, 2nd. ed. We were able to include it as a reference resource under "Chemistry" and "Physics," The eender issues are summarized in the but not to list each of the women covered in the sub- introductioi, "View From A Tightrope: Six Centuries sections for studies of individual chemists and of Spanish Women Writers," aptly descriptiveboth of physicists. We had found biographical material on the complex task of choosingwhich writers to include the better-known scientists covered in Women in and of the choices many of the writers themselves Chemistry and Physics, such as Lise Meitner, Ellen made as women poets, novelists, and playwrights. Swallow Richards, Rosalyn Yalow, and the Curies. Among the fifty are representatives of each century But most of the seventy-five women in the source (from Leonor Mpex de C6rdova, born in the late book have not been the subject of full biographical fourteenth century, to Paloma Pedrero, born in studies and are therefore not represented in our The 1957), various regions in Spain (including Catalan History of Women and Science. The original essays in writers Carme Riera and Montserrat Roig), and Women in Chemivand Physics are a very welcome differing socio-economic backgrounds (the addition to the literature. (Grinstein and Paul J. aristocratic background of Josefa Amar y Borb6n Campbell performed a similar service for contrasting with the working-class Teresa Phies). mathematics in their 1987 work Women of Some of the writers used male pseudonyms (ex: Mathematics: A Bwbibliographic Sourcebook, also Maria Martinez Sierra wrote under her husband's published by Greenwood.) name, Gregorio Martinez Sierra); many were radical activists (Amar y BorMn, Martinez Sierra, Phies, The essays are authored by scientists and haMaria Moix, and many more). All were affected historians of science well-positioned to assess these by Spain'sparticular brand of patriarchalconstraints. women's contributions. In some cases the authors knew and worked directly with the women and offer The essays are arranged alphabetically by personal insights into what they were like. Each essay author. Each discusses the author's life and literary follows the same pattern: biography, work, themes and surveys literary criticism of her work. A bibliography. While the citations about the women bibliography of works by and about the author are few, the listings of their scientific papers are completes each entry. A selective bibliography on the impressive, some stretching to many pages. Page 32 Feminist Collections v.15. no.3. Spring 1994

I liked something unusual I found in the learn, for example, that in 1847 a Welsh woman bibliography for Katharine Burr Blodgett, a scientist resident of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, married an English at General Electric who created a nonreflecting glass man although neither could speak the other's and performed many other experiments on film language [!] and that Welsh women in nineteenth- technology. Bibliographies usually list citations in century Ohio knitted as they walked to church. which a subject i mentioned. In contrast, contributors K. Thomas Finley and Patricia J. Siegel Holt provides the library location where she list a 1953 Science article entitled "Seventy-five Years examined each entry. Since she also gives of Research in General Electric," by C.G. Suits, in classificationnumbers, researchers in Minnesota and order to make the point that this article is "notable Wisconsin will frequently be able to go from her for its failure to mention Blodgett" (p.71). It's a citation right to the shelf in their library. A classic example of how women have been omitted periodicalindex demonstratesboth how scattered the from the record. information is on Welsh women and which journals have good coverage of the topic. The $99.00 price will discourage high school libraries from purchasing the book, although the Researchers and librarians should appreciate biographies and discussions of the scientificwork are the methodology, arrangement, and care that this well written and would othenvise be accessible to descendant of Welsh and Irish immigrants brought to young women considering careers in science. All what was obviously a labor of love. academic libraries should buy it, and perhaps some of the larger public libraries will be able to do so as well. WOMEN'S STUDIES - CANADA

CANADIAN WOMEN'S STUDIESIFEMINIST WELSH WOMEN RESEARCH, by the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women. Ottawa: Canadian Constance Wall Holt, WELSH WOMEN: AN Studies and Special Projects Directorate (Available ANNOTATED BIBLIOGWHY OF WOMEN IN from the Minister of Supply and Services Canada), WALES AND WOMEN OF WELSH DESCENT IN 1993.46~.English; 50p. French. ISBN 0-662-60010-4. AMERICA. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1993. (Canadian studies resources guides, second series). 834p. indexes. $69.50, ISBN 0-8108-2610-0. This resource guide to women's studies in Welsh women need rescuing from the "slag Canada is a collaborative effort between the heaps of history," says bibliographer Constance Wall Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Holt in her Preface. That's where they've been Women (CRIAW), a national non-governmental buried by the combined forces of British imperialism, organization, and the federal Women's Program, the American immigration policy, and library cataloging "primary federal mechanism for financial support to practices - all of which subsume "Welsh" under women's and other voluntary organizations working "English." Patriarchal Welsh men forgot to tell the to improve the economic, social and legal situation stories of their women folk, too. So how did Holt of women" (Preface). The Guide summarizes the manage to find 2,179 citations? Often through page- "dramaticsuccess story" that characterizestwenty-five by-page reading of books, articles, speeches, diaries, years of developments in women's studieslfeminist dissertations, pamphlets, and manuscripts identified research in Canada; identifies key Canadian as potentially relevant in Welsh, English, and U.S. publications; points to other resource guides, finding libraries. aids, and journals; covers major microform, audiovisual and computer-based sources; and lists The book is arranged in broad subject areas federal, provincial, and territorial councils on the including religion, biography, history, and status of women plus a selection of women's music/theater/dance, covering English-language organizations. sources. A separate chapter is devoted to Welsh- language material. Occasional works of fiction and The CRIAW staff used a thematic rather than juvenile literature are listed when they include discipline-by-discipline approach to show the substantive material on Welsh women. The development of feminist research. "Rendering annotations are well written and detailed. Readers visible," for example, discusses recovery of Canadian Feminist Collections v.15.no.3. Spring 1994 Pap 33 women's history and recognition of their role in the women are included, from Gertrude Stein, Amy work force. "Struggling with difference and Lowell, Charlotte Mew, and Colette, all born in the differences" summarizes the interests of feminist 1870's, to Cherrie Moraga, Leslea Newman, Pat research in the intersections of gender with racism, Califia, Paula Martinac, Jeanette Winterson, and class, language, ethnicity, heterosexism, etc. in both Sarah Schulman, all born in the 1950's. Women of Anglophonic and Francophonic Canada. 'I%e color are well represented (Moraga, Ann Allen annotated section of key Canadian works lists about Shockley, Barbara Smith, Gloria Anzaldda, Paula 175 titles, including several major articles and Gunn Allen, Jewelle Gomeq and others). governmental reports as well as monographs and a few works of fiction. This section, as well as one on As Barbara Grier writes, Gay & Lesbiun resource guides and journals, should be very useful Literature will "feed thousands of dissertations" and to librarians in assessing the strength of their "spawn future volumes" (pmii). collections in this area. "Computer-based sources" mentioned are the CRIAW Bank of Researchers, a database of feminist researchers useful for Patricia L. Roberts, Nancy L. Cecil, and Sharon networking and employment searches, and Making a Alexander,GENDER POSITM%IATE4CHERSAMl World of Difference: A Data Base of Women LIBR4RL4NS9 GUIDE TO NONSTEREOTWED Specializing in Global Issues. The latter profiles a CHILDREN'S LITERATURE K-8. Jefferson City, NC: cross-section of Canadian women who work on McFarland, 1993.192~.index. $24.95, ISBN 0-89950- peace, environment, development, and related 816-2. economic and social justice issues. Organizations listed are either national or QuBbec-based, Here's a book to turn to when you are looking representing a sampling of what the CRIAW staff for children's books featuring active, dominant, and say are "thousands of women's organizations in capable women in a variety of qupations and Canada working at the local, provincial, territorial, settingqwhere the contributions of females to society national and international levels" (p.42). are valued as much as those of males. Over two hundred works of historical, fanciful and contemporary realistic fiction, folk literature, and BRIEFLY NOTED biographies are described, both picture books and multi-chapter volumes for grades four through eight. Sharon Malinowski, ed. GAY AND LESBL4N In addition to summaries of the plots and themes of LITERATURE. Detroit: St. James Press, 1994.488~. the books, there are target activitiesfor teachers and index. $85.00, ISBN 1-55862-174-1. Includes librarians (and, I would add, enterprising parents "Introduction to Gay Male Literature," by Wayne R. who want to make full use of teachable moments). Dynes and "Introduction to Lesbian Literature," by Barbara G. Grier. Gender Positive! is a selective rather than comprehensive resource. The section on biographies This is an excellent bio-bibliographical guide to for grades 4-6, for example, includes only one or two literature by gay and lesbian novelists, poets, short women (and some men) from each of the wide story writers, dramatists, journalists, editors, and ranging interests and careers represented, although writers of nonfiction whose work has gay or lesbian more biographiesexist. Jane Goodall's autobiography thematic content. Each entry contains biographical information, a comprehensive list of writings by the author, writings about the author, and a signed critical essay "commissioned from a diverse group of scholars, librarians, and free-lance writers" who discuss the gay and lesbian content of the work (pp.viii-ix).

Many indexes are also provided: name, nationality, gender, general subject (such as "Corning out," "Eroticism," and "Religiodspirituality"),genre, and awards. Twelve writers are indexed under "Children's literature" (seven women). Eighty-four Page 34 Feminist CollecIions v.15. 110.3, Spring 1994 and books about astronaut Sally Ride and nurse Jan-Mitchell Sherrill and Craig A. Hardesty, THE Sister Elizabeth Kenny represent careers in science GAY, LESBIAN, AND BISEXUAL STUDENTS' and health. Biographies of artist Mary Cassatt and GUIDE TO COLLEGES, UNIVERSITIES, AND middle-schooler Samantha Smith, who brought a GRADUATE SCHOOLS. New York: New York message of peace from American children to the University Press, 1994.279~.index. $45.00, ISBN O- leaders of the USSR, are two more covered. The 8147-7984-0; pap., $14.95, ISBN 0-8147-7985-9. works included in Gender Positive! primarily date from the 1960s through 1991, with some exceptional One in six college students may be lesbian, gay, works published earlier. or bisexual, according to the American Psychological Association - as quoted by the authors of this first survey of lesbigay life on American campuses (p.6). Rubin, Eva R. THE ABORTION CONTROERSY: A Perhaps there could be even more, were some not DOCUMENlXRYHISTORY:PRIU4RYDOCUMENTS dropping out or transferring due to harassment and IN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CONTEMPORARY lack of administrative recognition of their needs. A ISSUES. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994. significant percentageof the 1.464 respondents to the 312p. index. $45.00, ISBN 0-313-28476-8. questionnaire sent to 600 colleges and universities &th lesbian, bisexual, and gay &dent groups report One of the best ways to teach history and such negative experiences. This book hopes to "wake critical thinking skills is to use primary source up" wllege and university administrators to the documents. Let students confront the legislative perceptions current and former students have of proposals, court decisions, and expert testimony of their own campus climates. The authors have not physicians, professors, and advocates in order to independently evaluated the schools themselves. understand the issues surrounding a major issue. That is what the first title in a new series from Almost 200 schools are covered in entries one Greenwood on "Primary documents in American to two pages long. Wisconsin readers will be history and contemporary issues" sets out to disappointed that the only state campus represented accomplish concerning abortion. It does so rather is the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where well. students report domophobia to be a serious It is difficult to evaluate this statement. however. or The arrangement of the documents is by five those made at the other schools profiled, since the historical eras, from "pre-1960" to "1980- ". Each authors provide no numbers for respondents from section and document is introduced and briefly each school, nor breakdown among lesbian, gay, and explained. Following the documents are a selection bisexual students. For this reason, the Guide of citations for further information. In the section resembles conversations one might have with a few "Abortion Reform Movement (1960-1972)". readers students - perhaps friends of friends - more than will find statements from the National Organization it does a standard college guide. for Women, individual reformers, and a retelling of the impact of the thalidomide scare ("Sherri An interesting appendix, however, combines Finkbine's story"). Excerpts from abortion cases are statistics from all the respondents. We learn that 39 available in Part 111, including the majority opinion percent of the respondents are female, 81 percent of by Justice Blackmun plus Justices White and whom are openly lesbian or bisexual. Fifty percent of Rehnquist's dissent in Roe K Wade, and the less- the females compared to 64 percent of the males cited companion case Doe K Bolton (Justice were self-acknowledged before wllege. Forty-eight Douglas' concurring opinion concerned with the percent of the males and females report having been doctor-patient relationship). Both the recent verbally abused, 33 percent have suffered Freedom of Choice Bill (1992) and the Human Life harassment, and 11 percent have received hate mail. Bill (1981) are covered in Part V. Twenty-six percent have attempted suicide at least once and 33.4 percent transferred because of coming The book makes good use of simple graphical out/harassment issues prior to coming out. Despite techniques, such as setting off headings and criticisms of their own campuses, 75 percent of document titles with boldface and lines. The typeface respondents recommend their schools to other gays, is also pleasant. Intrepid high schools as well as lesbians, and bisexuals, believing more lesbigay colleges will find this volume useful in teaching students would help sensitize their campuses (37 about abortion. percent), that their campuses are supportive (35 Feminist Collections v.15.1103. Sming 1994 Par& 35 percent), or that their campus is no worse than any This book would be a good gift for young women other (28 percent). embarking on their college experience. I just wish there were something explicit to help them learn the important role feminism and women's studies have Carol Weinberg, THE COMPLETE HANDBOOK had in bringing these issues to the foreground both FOR COLLEGE WOMEN. New York: New York on campuses and in society at large. University Press, 1994. 383p. index. pap., $15.95, ISBN 0-8147-9267-7. P.H.W.

Is it fair to criticize this handbook for not NOTES including anything on feminism or women's studies (at least the subject index is silent on these subjects)? ' Both the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the There are plenty of sensible and sensitive discussions University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee have courses in here on sexuality, sexual harassment, sexual African American women's literature. An Internet orientation, violence against women, respecting search turned up course listings at the University of diversity, how to be constructively assertive - all California at Santa Cruz and Rutgers University and issues profoundly important to feminists. Each topic a syllabus for such a course at the University of includes personal statements in the manner of Our Alabama. A syllabus for teaching women writers of Bodies, Ourselves and helpful suggestions on the Harlem Renaissance was published in Ferninkt additional resources, labelled "Educating Yourself." Teacher v.5,n0.2 (Fall 1990): 32-33.

PERIODICAL NOTES

NEW AND NEWLY DISCOVERED gender, Black transvestism in film, and the feminist PERIODICALS theory of Irigaray.

BLACK BRW 1992- . Eds.: Sianne Ngi, Jessica ENCORE 1992- . Ed.: Joyce Cupps. 619. $20, $30 Lowenthal. 2/yr. $10. Single copy: $5. 46 Preston (Canada); $40 (overseas). Single copy: $5 in U.S., St., #2, Providence, RI 02906. (Issue examined: $6.50 elsewhere. 604 Pringle Ave. #91, Galt, CA No.3, 1993) 95632. (Issue examined: v.1, no.6, Within the seventy-six pages of this biannual SeptemberIOctober 1993) are poems by nine women, plus the work of artist Though Encore, like the recently departed Akiko Ichikawa. Calling itself a "journal of Broomstick, is having some financial womes, its experimental poetry by women" (Small Magazine editor strives to keep it going with a variety of Review 1/94, p.20). the 5 x 7-lR-inch publication is articles, reviews, poetry, and artwork fitting into its distributed by SPD and Segue. mission, "Celebrating the Return of the Crone." Largely by and for women over forty, the sample CRITICAL MATRIX 1985- . Eds.: Janet Gray, Sally issue includes work on such topics as the Salem Mills. 2/yr. $15 (indiv.); $28 (inst.); $12 (student). witch trials, the language of dreams, the inner child, Single copy: $8. Program in Women's the grandmother archetype, coping with loneliness in Studiesffrinceton University, 113 Dickinson Hall, later years, a labor action, and the transitions of the Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544. (Issues middle years. examined: v.7, 110.2, 1993; v.8, no.1, 1994) New in Feminist Periodicals, this "Princeton EVERGREEN CHROMCLES 1986- . Eds: Greta Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture" is edited Gaard, M. Kiesow Moore, Mark Reschke. 219. $15 by graduate students and fills its 150 pages with (indiv.); $20 (inst.); $18 (outside U.S.). Single copy: cross-disciplinary contributions. Among the article $7.95. ISSN 1043-3333. P.O. BOX 8939, topics in the sample issues are Riot Grrrls and rock, Minneapolis, MN 55408-0939. (Issue examined: v.9, hip-hop culture, Murphy Brown's son, "the no.1, Winter/Spring 1994) configuration of a TwentySomething Generation," Soon to change from "A Journal of Gay and women's portrayal in Chaucer, Shakespeare and Lesbian Literature" to the broader realm of "A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Arts and Culture," this Page 36 Feminist Collections v.lS.no.3. Spring 1994 biannual carries poetry, prose, and artwork related to JOURNAL 'N FOOTNOTES 1992?- . Ed.: Shirley J. its theme, plus book reviews. About half the Giesking. 4/yr. $29 (with membership); $19 contributors are women. Among the articles in the (newsletter only). Wander Women, 136 North sample issue: an inte~ewbetween Judith Katz and Grand Ave., #237, West Covina, CA 91791. (Issues Bame Jean Borich, each talking about her work as examined: v.3, no.2, January 1994; v.3, no.3, April a writer. 1994) Published by Wander Women, a "travel GENDER, PLACE AND CULTURE 1994 -. Eds.: Liz network" for women over 40, this quarterly cames Bondi, Mona Domosh. 2/yr. $46 (indiv.); $119 trip descriptions, tips on health, safety, where to eat (inst.). Single copy: $65.50. ISSN 0966-369X. and stay, articles on traveling solo or with Carfax Publishing, P.O. Box 2025, Dunnellon, FL companions. In each issue (11-15 pages) are 34430-2025. (Issue examined: v.1, no.1, 1994) member profiles, news of planned trips, and a Subtitled "A Journal of Feminist Geography," bulletin board for connecting with other travelers. this biannual publication hopes to "provide a focal point" for the work on gender and geography now JOURNAL OF WOMEnrS HEALTH 1992- . Ed.-in- scattered across disciplines. Among the articles in chief: Anne Colston Wentz, M.D. 6/yr. $65 (indiv.); the first issue: "Geography and the Construction of $120 (inst.); $150 (outside U.S.). ISSN 1059-7115. Difference" (Geraldine Pratt & Susan Hanson); Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., 1651 Third Ave., New York, "Communities, Work and Public/Private Sphere NY 10130-0060. (Issue examined: v.2, no.4, Winter Models" (Beth Moore Milroy & Susan Wismer); and 1993) "Woman as Utopia: Against Relations of From the Society for the Advancement of Representation" (Dagmar Reichert). A good Women's Health Research comes this glossy number of book reviews are part of the issue. quarterly, recently turned bi-monthly. While the focus is clinically oriented articles, reviews and case GIRLJOCK 1991?- . Ed.: Roxxie. 4&r. $12. Single reports are given consideration. In the sample issue copy: $5.00; back issues: $6. P.O. Box 882723, San are topics such as "Dietary Animal Fat Intake, Francisco, CA 94188-2723. (Issue examined: No.11, Calcium Intake, and Bone Fractures in Women 50 1993) Years and Older" (Grace Wyshak); "The Use of A full-of-fun magazine for athletic lesbians and Hypnosis in Labor and Delivery: A Preliminary their friends, the forty-one-page sample issue covers Study" (Pamela J. Letts, M.D., et al.); and "Early women's professional basketball, rock climbing Intervention for HIV Infection in a Gynecologic (indoors and out), and beach volleyball, plus news Setting" (Jean Anderson, M.D.). tidbits about women's soccer, flag football, husky women's basketball, and the Gay Games. Reviews of LESBMA 1992- . Ed.: Sheril Berkovitch. ll/yr. books, music, and films, plus cartoons, hokey ads, AUS$40 (surface mail); AUS$52 (airmail). P.O. Box and a general sense of humor make this an 334, Fitzroy, Vic 3065, Australia. (Issue examined: interesting and unique publication. No.23, March 1994) "Melbourne's only lesbian publication," says an 1Q:ISSUES QUARTERLY 1994- . Ed.: Marina ad in this eighteen-page publication from Australia. Budhos. 4&r. $35. ISSN 1072-1762. National While a calendar, entertainment section, and Council for Research on Women, 530 Broadway, business listings are of primarily local interest, news 10th Floor, New York, NY 10012. (Issue examined: of neo-Nazi action, a brief piece on "dyke gardening," v.1, no.1, 1994) plus book, video, and concert reviews make this an From the coalition of seventy-five women's interesting monthly to know about. research and policy centers across the U.S. comes this summary of research and programs on women, NETWORK NOTES 1993- . 3&. Price: inquire. a "popular-format quarterly," according to the ISSN 0128-763. Information Clearinghouse on announcement letter, "aimed at a wide readership." Women in Development, Women's Affairs Division, With the goal of offering "readable, succinct Ministry of National Unity and Social Development, overviews of information that affects the lives of 2nd Floor, Wisma LPPKN, Jalan Raja Laut, 50562 women and girls" (inside cover), the sixteen-page first Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Issue examined:v.l, no.2, issue focuses on teen sexual harassment, with an December 1993) overview of the issues, some action suggestions, The eighty-two pages of this bilingual (Bahasa policy implications, statistics, and resources. Malaysia and English) publication include articles on Feminist Collections v.15.1103, Spring 1994 Pagc 37 women's organizations in Sabah and on Women's (128-page) journal includes such articles as Day 1993 celebrations and exhibits, plus news of the "Healthcare Refom. How 'The System' Works Pusat Sumber organization (including activities, Against Nurses" (Suzanne Gordon); "Pay Scales: Do library collections, database services, etc.), the Nurses Measure Up?" (Lisa Beth Pulitzer), and National Network, conferences, and other items of "Verbal Abuse of Nurses" (Jean Ann Seago). interest to women in development in Malaysia. Departments look at legislative news, financial advice, nurse entrepreneurs,privacy issues, and many ONE EYE OPEN 1993- . Ed.: Deborah E. Dubois. more areas. 4lyr. $32 (includes air mail to the U.S.). Single copy: $5.50 + $2.50 air mail. Deborah E. Dubois, SAMIYONI 1993- . Eds.: Collective. 2fyr. $19.95 C/O Pragma Mail, Vi5zenskB 3, 110 00 Prague 1, (indiv.); $29.99 (inst.). Single copy: $3. P.O. Box Czech Republic. (Issues examined: v.1, 110.1, Winter 891, Station P, Toronto, Ontario M5S 222, Canada. 1993; v.l,no.2, Summer 1993) (Issue examined: v.1, no.1, March 1993) A "multilingual literary and political thought A tastefully done journal for lesbians of South journal addressing issues particularly relevant to Asian descent, this biannualincludespoetry, personal women in Central and Eastern Europe" (editor's stories, short prose, and artwork within its thirty- correspondence), this quarterly includes essays, eight pages. Begun by neesha dosanjh [sic] because poetry, short fiction, book reviews, and artwork. The she could find few resources for South Asian publication is currently being distributed in ten lesbians, the journal is planned as "a forum countries. Most contributions in the sample issues for... South Asian Dykes to communicate with each are from Poland, the Czech Republic, and the U.S. other" and "break down bamers and isolation amongst ourselves" (p.2). OUT IN VIDEO 1992?- . Ed.: N.A. Diaman. 4lyr. $10. ISSN 1056-103X. Persona Press, Box 14022. SINGLEMOTHER 1991- . Ed.: Andrea L. Engber. San Francisco, CA 94114. (Issue examined: No.8, 6lyr. $12.80 (membership) or more. Single copy: 1993) $1.95. National Organization of Single Mothers, This four-page listing gives brief synopses of Inc., P.O. Box 68, Midland, NC 28107-0068. (Issue recent lesbianlgay video releases plus several examined: No.7, JulyIAugust 1992) lengthier reviews and a film festival calendar. The Twelve pages of advice in this sample issue sample issue notes several Hollywood AIDS movies cover multiple topics, from What to Say About Dad" plus a book about how lesbians and gays are to child support enforcement to support groups to portrayed in films. how to cool off before blowing up at your child. Resources, brief tips, questions and answers, and a PARADIGM 2000 1993- . Co-publishers: Nina May, reader forum are other features. Holly Coors, Edwina Rogers. 4/yr. $25. 205 3rd St. SE. Washington, DC 20003. (Issue examined: v.2, SKIING FOR WOMEN 1993?- . Ed.: Dana White. 110.1, Winter 1994) llyr. Siecopy: $2.95. P.O. Box 1512, Riverton, NJ Promoting "a new standard of leadership for 08077-7112. Times Mirror Magazines, 2 Park Ave., the next century," this glossy publication of a New York, NY 10016. (Issue examined: Winter Republican-oriented political action committee 1994) carries articles on many political questions, including If you can get past the slickness, fashion, health care (The Trojan Horse of Nationalized glamour, and ads, there are some articlesof potential Health Care") and women's progress (The Women's interest to women skiers: on instruction (women's ski Revolution is Just Beginning"). The new paradigm clinics, overcoming fear, specific strengthening proposes to surpass "the stereotyped excuses used by exercises), equipment, and "special topics" such as "a the feminists for non-achievement" (p.2). herstory of skiing" and how women are overcoming sexism in World Cup ski racing. REVOLUTION 1991?- . Ed.-inchieE Joan Swirsky. 4/yr. $24.95 (indiv.); $44.95 (inst.); $29.95 (Canada). SOCIAL POLITICS 1994- . Eds.: Barbara M. Single copy: $8. ISSN 1059-0927. A.D. Von Hobson, Sonya Michel. Ann Shola Orloff. 3lyr. $22 Publishers, 56 McArthur Ave., Staten Island, NY (indiv.); $40 (inst.). Single copy: $8. ISSN 1072- 10312. (Issue examined: v.3, no.3, Fall 1993) 4745. University of Illinois Press, 1325 S. Oak St., Subtitled "The Journal of Nurse Champaign, IL 61820. (Issue examined: v.1, 110.1, Empowerment," the sample issue of this substantial Spring 1994) Page 38 Feminist Collections v.15. no3. Spring 1994

Subtitled "International Studies in Gender. WISE WOMEN'S NEWS 19901- . 4&r. •’19 State, and Society," this journal is published by (membership in WISE). ISSN 1380-0701. Women's University of Illinois Press in cooperation with the InternationalStudiesEurope,Heidelberglaan2,3584 Swedish Council for Social Research and CS-Utrecht, The Netherlands. (Issues examined: encourages submissions in any language. Among the No.2 and No.3, 1992; No.2 and No.3, 1993; No.2, articles in the premiere issue: "'Dependency' 1994) Demystified: Inscriptions of Power in a Keyword of This newsletter of the European women's the Welfare State" (Nancy Fraser and Linda studies association, which was founded in 1990, Gordon); "Back to the Fifties: Gender and Welfare includes reports from various countries on women's in Unified Germany" (Ilona Ostner); "Citizenship, organizing activities, resource listings, conference Work, and Welfare: The Dilemma for Australian announcements and news (a "bulletin board" Women" (Bettina Cass). section), plus occasional brief features.

STRIP CLUB 1993- . Eds.: Collective. Irregular. WOWSWAY lW- . Ed.: Lynn Bijili Marlow. Single copy: $3.95. Women's Cartoon Collective, 4&r. $12. Single copy: $3. P.O. Box 1%14, Box 9896, Te Aro, Wellington, New Zealand. (Issue Boulder, CO 80308-2614. (Issue examined: v.l.no.4, examined: No.1, September 1993) Spring 1994) Four New Zealand women pooled their energy "Dedicated to establish a sacred space for self- to gather cartoons from all over New Zealand for discovery and self-expression," and "particularly this new venture. A wide range of styles and topics interested in offering previously unpublished writers - from Des Cartes to biological clocks to chaos an opportunity to share their work" @.2), this theory - appear in the thirty-two page premiere quarterly is also embarking on a project to empower issue. Another issue is planned for September 1994. women in prison by sharing their writing with its readers. poetry, interviews, personal writings, and TR4NSFORMATION 1986- . 6&r. $7.50 (low articles are included. income) to $100 (with membership). Women's Project, 2224 Main St., Little Rock, AR 72206. WOMENINFRENCHSTUDIES 1993-. Ed.: Colette (Issues examined: v.9, 110.2, MarcWApril 1994; v.9, Hall. l&r. $15 (membership). Women in French, 110.3, MayIJune 1994) Barbara Haw, Treasurer, 8286 Eastdale Dr., The Women's Project and its publication strive Cincinnati, OH 45255. (Issue examined: No.1, July "to work for all women and against all forms of 1993) discrimination and oppression," which includes Gathered from papers presented at the first two "racism, classism, ageism, anti-Semitism, sessions of Women in French as part of the Modem heterosexism and homophobia" (p.11, MayIJune Language Association (MLA), this 5-112 x 8-1/2 1994). The MarcWApril issue includes the "Women's annual publication carries both English and French Watchcare ~etworkLog," documenting violence contributions. Topics include Marguerite against women as well as the activities of the Yourcenar's dramatic voice, minimalism in Sarraute, religious Right and organized hate groups. Duras, and Redonnet, and the theater of Vera Feyder. TRANSSISTERS 1993- . Ed.: Davina Anne Gabriel. 4&r. $12; $16 (Canada). Single copy: $3. Back WOMEN'S HEALTH NOW 1993- . Ed.: Malorye issue: $4. Skyclad Publishing Co.,4004 Troost Ave., Allison. 6/yr. $18. Troy Publishing, 233 Harvard Kansas City, MO 64110. (Issue examined: No.3, Street Suite 101, Brookline, MA 02146. (Issue Winter 1994) examined: v.1, no.4, ApriVMay 1993) Among the articles in the sample issue (35 Emphasizing women's place in taking care of pages) of "The Journal of Transsexual Feminism" our own health, this six-page, foldout newsletter are: "The Importance of Outspokenness" (Davina includes "Health News Highlights" and a "Bulletin Anne Gabriel); "Transphobia: Where Separatism Board" section in addition to several substantive Joins Patriarchy" (Janis Walworth); "Twenty-one articles, one on RU-486, another on fighting sexually Things You Don't Say to a Transsexual" (Riki Anne transmitted diseases. Wilchins); and "Surgical Roulette" (Margaret Deirdre O'Hartigan). Feminist Collectians v.15. 1103.S~rin~ 1994 Wxe 39

WOMEN'S WORK 1992- . Fd: Andrea Damm. 6&. on author Helen Benedict); "Employment Equity" $12 (outside U.S., add $5). Single copy: $2. 606 (Kei Ebata); "Solidarity for Somew(Lea Hilstrom on Avenue A, Snohomish, WA 98290. (Issues enlightening male union members); and other topics examine&v.3,no.5/6, November~December1993;v.3, such as workplace psychology, publishing, crimeflaw no.7/8, JanuagdFebruary 1994) coverage, famous firsts, field work, women "Dedicated to the exploration of the traditional politicians, and more. and modem definitions and expressions of 'women's work,'" this bi-monthly covers both local and broader CRITIQUE OF ANTHROPOLOGY v.13, no.4, issues and events. One of the tbirty-one page sample December 1993: "Special issue on Women Writing issues includesdiscussions about bulimia, self-defense Culture." Editorial board. $40 (mdiv.); $110 (inst.). through martial arts and through gun ownership, not ISSN 030S275X. Sage Publications, Ltd., P.O. Box working due to disability, and working in male- 5096, Newbury Park, CA 91359. (Issue examined) dominated occupations. Book reviews, poetry, short Following Ruth Behar's introduction, "Women fiction, and news fill the remaining pages. Writing Culture: Another Telling of the Story of American Anthropology," among other articles are: WOMENSTRUGGLE! 1993- . Ed.: Janet Contursi. "EUa Cara Deloria and Mourning Dove: Writing for 4&. $10 (indiv.); $15 (inst.). P.O. Box 54115, Cultures, Writing Against the Grain" (Janet L. Finn); Minneapolis, MN 55454. (Issue examined:v.l, no.3, "Multiple Mediationsin Zora Heale Hurston's Mules Winter 1993-94) und Men" (Graciela Hernlndez); and "Worlds of "A Newsjournal of Women's Activism and Consequences: Feminist Ethnography as Social Resistance across Cultures," proclaims the subtitle of Action" (Deborah A. Gordon). this newsprint publication. In the nineteen pages of the sample issue are interviews with a Filipina THE JAPANCHRISTL4NREflEWv.59,1993:special organizer and an Israeli activist, a report on the section: "Women, Japanese Religions, and Society." Korean women's movement, a discussion on Ed.: Cheryl M. Allam. $24 (outside Japan). ISSN population control, plus news on women's activities 0918-516X. Kyo Bun Kwan, 4-5-1 Ginza, Chiio-ku, in India, Ireland, Italy, Zimbabwe, andother nations. Tokyo 104, Japan. (Issue examined) Contents: "Women's Jiriiw and Christian Feminism in Japan" (Minato Akikok"Women and SPECIAL ISSUES OF PERIODICALS Sexism in Japanese Buddhism" (Ogoshi Aiko); 'Women and Sexism in Shinto" (Okano Haruko); TR% AMERIW VOICE No.33, 1994: "Feminist "Metaphors of the Divine" (Horiguchi Ikiko); The Erotica." Ed.: Frederick Smock. $15. Single copy: Story of Tamar: A Feminist Interpretation of $5. ISSN 0884-4356. 332 W. Broadway #1215, Genesis 38" (Morimura Nobuko); and "Okinawan Louisville, KY 40202. (Issue examined) Shamanism and Charismatic Christianity" (Ikegami This special issue includes poetry, prose pieces, Yoshirnasa). and a photography section ("Women of a Certain Age") on the erotic theme. Among the many writers: JOURNAL OF COMPARQTWE FAMILY STUDIES Mary Ann McFadden, Debra Weinstein, Ursula v.25, no.1, Spring 1994: "Family Violence." Guest LeGuin, Lee Fams, Olga Broumas and T Begley, ed.: Richard J. Gelles. $40 (indiv.); $55 (inst.). and Natasha Saje. ISSN 0047-2328. Dept. of Sociology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive, NW, Calgary, CAJBULLETZNNo.54, January 1994: "Women in the Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada. (Issue examined) Media." Ed.: Nancy Westaway. $60 (membership); Partial contents: "Wife Beating and $30 (income below $25,000); $20 (student). Canadian Modernization: The Case of Papua New Guinea" Association of Journalists, St. Patrick's Building, (Rebecca Morley); "Out-of-Town Brides: Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, International Mamage and Wife Abuse Among Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada. (Issue examined) Chinese Immigrants" (KO-lin Chin); "Dowry-related This special editionof the W Bulletin (soon to Violence: A Content Analysis of News in Selected merge into a new publication, Media) was produced Newspapers" (B. Devi Prasad); "Group Work with by Red River Community College journalism African American Men Who Batter: Toward More students. Contents include: "Virgin or Vamp? Ethnically Sensitive Practice (Oliver J. Williams). Revealing Sex Crime Stereotypes" (Dean Pritchard Page 40 Feminist Collections v.15.no.3. Spring 1994

PROTEUS v.10, no.2, Fall 1993: "Gender in SPECULUM v.68, no.2. 1993: "Studying Medieval America." Ed.: Angelo Costanzo. $10. Single copy: Women: Sex, Gender, Feminism." Guest ed.: Nancy $5. ISSN 0889-6348. Office of University F. Partner. $55 (indiv. contributing membership in Publications and Public Information. Old Main 302, Medieval Academy); $45 (indiv. active membership); Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA 17257. $20 (student or retired member); ' $70 (inst.). (Issue examined) Outside U.S.: inquire. ISSN 0038-7134. (Issue Among the articles in this special issue: 'We examined) AU Have a Stake In It" (Nikki Giovanni); 'Thelma Contents: "Medievalism and Feminism" (Judith and Louise Go to Iowa: A Love Story" (Nancy M. Bennett); "Patron or Matron? A Capetian Bride Welch); "Gender Bias As Academic Fashion: and a Vade Mecum for Her Mamage Bed" Liberation's Sexist Legacy" (Robert Johnson); (Madeline H. Caviness); "Regardless of Sex: Men, "African-American Women's Educational Women, and Power in Early Northern Europew Achievement and Intimate Relationships" (Sue (Carol J. Clover); "Genders, Bodies, Borders: Hammons-Bryner); "Native American Women Technologiesof the Visible" (Kathleen Biddick); "No Artists: Claiming Identity" (Ann Nash); and "Games Sex, No Gender" (Nancy F. Partner);'When Women for Girls: Girl Land Reconstructed" (Michael Aren't Enough" (Allen J. Frantzen). Delahoyde and Susan C. Despenich).

SCIENCE v.263, March 11,1994: "Women in Science ANNIVERSARY ISSUES '94: Comparisons Across Cultures." Ed.-in-chief: Daniel E. Koshland. Jr. $92 (membership and CONSCIENCE: A NEWSJOURNAL OF PROCHOICE subscription); $215 (inst.). Foreign (inquire). ISSN CATHOLIC OPINION has published a 20th- 0036-8075. P.O. Box 2033, Marion, OH 43305-2033. anniversary commemorative issue including a (Issue examined) selection of articles from earlier issues. Contact Following an overview by Marcia Barinaga, Catholics for a Free Choice, 1436 U St. NW, articles cover women in science in Italy ("Warm Washington, DC 20009-3997. (Women's Health Climate for Women on the Mediterranean" by Faye Journal 3/93, p.30) Ham), Sweden ("Leveling the Playing Field in Stockholm" by Peter Aldhous), Turkey ("A SAGE: A SCHOLARLY JOURNAL ON BLACK Prominent Role on a Stage Set by History" by WOMEN is celebrating ten years of publishing with Patricia Kahn), the Philippines ("Fighting Patriarchy a special non-thematic issue. Editor is Patricia Bell- in Growing Numbers" by Marites D. Vitug), plus Scott. Address is P.O. Box 42741, Atlanta, GA Germany and India. Two policy forums look at 30311-0741. women in science in Europe and at increasing participation of women in physics. TRANSITIONS SOUTH CENTRAL REYIEW v.9, no.4, Winter 1992: "Johnson and Gender." Guest Ed.: Charles H. SCARLET WOMAN, subtitled "Socialist Feminist Hinnant. $20 (full professors, with membership);$l5 Magazine," has re-organized its publishing collective, (associate and assistant professors); $10 (instructors, which is "committed to continuing Scarlet Woman's graduate students, etc.). $25 (inst.). South Central 16-year history," according to an ad in Azutrdian Modern Language Association, Department of Feminkt Studies. Address is c/o 193 Smith St., English, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia 3065. 77843-4227. (Issue examined) Partial contents: 'The Myth of Johnson's WOMAN AND EARTH (mentioned in "Periodical Misogyny: Some Addenda" (Donald Greene); Notes" v.14, 110.2, Winter 1993) has new addresses, "Samuel Johnson and Elizabeth Carter: Pudding, one in Russia, one in the U.S.: c/o Olga Epictetus, and the Accomplished Woman" (Claudia Vinogradova, ulitsa Sadovaya 73-12, St. Petersburg Thomas); "Hester Piozzi, Italy, and the Johnsonian 90068, Russia; 70 Terry Rd., Hartford, CT06105. Aether" (John A. Dussinger); and "Negotiating the Past, Examining Ourselves: Johnson, Women, and Gender in the Classroom" (Catherine N. Parke). Feminist Collections v.15. 1103.s~IinI7 1994 Paffi 41

CEASED PUBLICATION HOTWIRE: JOURNAL OF WOMEN3 MUSIC AND CULTURE will cease with its September 1994 issue. FEMINIST BROADCAST QUARTERLY (mentioned Empty Closet Enterprises will continue to publish in v. 14, 110.2, Winter 1993 FC), ceased publication the annual Women's Music Plus. Editor of Hotwire: with v.2, no.4, Spring 1994. Editor: Mimi Yahn. Toni Armstrong. Address: 5210 N. Wayne, Chicago, Address: P.O. Box 19946, Portland, OR 97280. IL 60640. (Information from publisher) (MSRRT Newsletter May 1994). L.S. ITEMS OF NOTE

As a correction for our last issue, Volume 15, The 54561 Corporation, P.O. Box 20071, Tampa, FL Number 2 in "Items of Note," the CENTER FOR 33622-0071. Phone: (800) 445-7134. RESEARCH ON WOMEN WORKING PAPERS FALLIWINTERl99311994 CATALOG is not available A DOZEN LIPS, a collection of debates on current through the Center for Research on Women at issues and controversies by Irish women writers, Memphis State University. It can be obtained at the thinkers, and activists, is a new pamphlet in the LIP Publications Department, Wellesley College Center Pamphlet series from Attic Press. Some topics for Research on Women. Wellesley College, include: "Pornography: The New Terrorism"; "The Wellesley, MA 02181-8259. Fate of Socialism in the 1990s"; and "Ancient Wars: Sex and Sexuality". The cost is f 16.99, and the U.S. SPANISH WOMEN WRITERS, 1500-1900, is a distributor is Inland. Contact Inland, 140 Commerce comprehensive microfiche set. Edited by Maria del St., East Haven, CT 06512. Carmen Simon Palmer, with a printed catalog and index, this collection of works is drawn from the vast The new WOMEWS HEALTHAMERE4 CATALOG holdings of the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid. Part offers recent women's health information and 1 includes 16th-18th centuries, while Part 2 covers products. Published by Women's Health America, the 19th century. The price is •’5,800 for Inc.. the catalog includes books, videos, safety approximately 2,000 fiche. Send orders to products, tee-shirts, and more. For a complimentary Chadwyck-Healey, Inc., 1101 King St., Alexandria, copy, write to Women's Health America, P.O. Box VA 22314. Phone: (800) 752-0515. 9690, Madison, WI 53715.

A women's S/M and leather organization, Female SPECL4L PERIODICAL ISSUES ABOUT AFRIC4N Trouble in Philadelphia, has published Y70LENCE WOMEN, 1972-1991, is a fifty-two page bibliography AGAINST SIM WOMEN WITHIN THE LESBIAN compiled by Diane M. Duesterhoeft, designed as a COMMUNITY. This survey report focuses on acts of starting point for research in this subject. Citations harassment,intimidation,discrimination,andphysical give a brief description of the issue, contents, and assault, and includes over 500 participants. To inclusive page numbers of articles. For reprints obtain a copy, write to Jed Keres, FT Survey, P.O. contact Diane M. Duesterhoeft, Academic Library, Box 30145, Philadelphia, PA, 19103. St. Mary's University, 1 Camino, Santa Maria, San Antonio, TX 78228-8608. Jan Brown is the author of the bibliography WOMEN OUTDOORS, which includes books mainly by women A booklet titled FAMILY-CENTERED MYTERNITY authors and focusing on adventure travel, nature CARE by Celeste Phillips can be ordered from study, and wilderness and country living. The International Childbirth Education Association, Inc. bibliography is available for $4.50 from Women (ICEA). This resource gives useful guidelines for Outdoors, Inc., 55 TaIbot Ave., Medford, MA 02155. establishing or enhancing care programs. For U.S. orders send $1.75 (includes shipping and handling) to MOVIES FOR THE 'FAMILY: CELEBRATING GAY ICE& P.O. Box 20048, Minneapolis, MN 55420. & LESBM PRIDE, ROMANCE, & LAUGHTER contains over 800 titles from international and GENDER AND VIOLENCE M THE MASS MEDIA is domestic film festival listings. This MC Film Festival a report that focuses on recent Canadian sources and Home Video Catalogue is available for $5.00 from on the electronic mass media. Contact: National Page 42 Feminist Collections v.15, nos. Spring 1994

Clearinghouse on Family Violence, Family Violence for the set, with a forty-eight page teacher's guide. Prevention Division, Health Canada, Ottawa, For more information, contact Bread and Roses Ontario, KIA 1B5 Canada. Phone: (800)267-1291. Cultural Project, 330 W. 42nd St., 15th floor, New York, NY 10036. Phone: (212) 631-4565. Recently published by the Body Image Task Force is FACTS ABOUT FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION, A DIRECTORY OF FEMINISTILESBL4N & a 12-page booklet by'Kathryn Woods and Meghan GAYIFOLK RADIO lists over 200 radio stations that Clouse that includes a list of resources. A suggested feature women's music and/or lesbian and gay music donation is $3.00-$5.00; write to Body Image Task as part of their programming. Cost is $6.00 from Force, P.O. Box 934, Santa Cruz, CA 95061-0934. Tsunami Records, P.O. Box 42282, Tucson, AZ 85733-2282. WELLWOMAN3 MENOPAUSE RESOURCE GUIDE 1994, created by Alia Moore, includes book reviews, The CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN at additional reading, suggestions, organizations, Memphis State University has three new research periodicals/newsletters, clinics/specialists, research papers: "Time Traveling and Border Crossing: Notes centers, and AN. To order, send $4.95 (+ $1.00 on White Identity Development," by Becky shipping and handling) to Wellwoman. 916 NE 65th Thompson ($8.00); "Reflections on Ethics in St., Suite A 606, Seattle, WA 98115. Phone: (206) Research: Zhe Death of White Sociology Twenty 363-1948. Years Later," by Becky Thompson ($6.00); and "Female Slave Participation in the Market Urban Recently released from the CANADLAN ADVISORY Economy," by Midori Takagi ($6.00). Contact: COUNCIL ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN are two Center for Research on Women, Memphis State new publications: "Sharing Our Experience," a University. Memphis. TN 38152. Phone: (901) 678- collection of letters by Aboriginal and racial minority 2770. women on their lives in Canada; and "&panding Our Horizons," which signifies the 20th anniversary K. Lynn Stoner has edited A GUIDE TO THE of the Council and reviews the work of the WOMEN'S MOVEMENTIN CUBA, 1898-1958: THE organization. Both are available for no charge in STONER COLLECIlON ON CUBAN FEMINISM. French or English from The Council, Distribution Stoner filmed documents on the women's movement Centre, Box 1540, Station B, Ottawa, Ontario, KIP in Cuba at various Cuban archival sites, and her 5R5 Canada. Phone: (613) 992-4976; fax: (613) 992- guide describes the contents of the thirteen reels of 1715. microfilm. The 44-page guide, which includes author and subject indexes, can be obtained through A pamphlet, CONFRONTING LESBIAN Scholarly Resources. 104 Greenhill Ave., BATTERING, serves to increase understanding of Wilmington, DE 19805-1897. lesbian battering and gives suggestions for those concerned. Contact: London Battered Women's THE FLESH TRADE: THE TRAFFICKING OF Advocacy Centre, 69 Wellington St., London, ON WOMENAND CHILDRENIN PAKISTANrevealsthe N6B 2K4. Phone: (519) 432-2204. nature and extent of the tragic victimization of Bangladeshi women and children in Pakistan. WOMEN OF COLOR RESOURCE CENTER is Photographs and documents are included in the 58- developing a library and a nationally accessible page report, available from Lawyers for Human database on social, economic, and political issues Rights and Legal Aid (LHRLA), 702 Mohammadi that affect women of color, and also offers a House, I. I. Chundrigar Rd., Karachi 74200, speaker's bureau. For more information, write to Pakistan. Linda Burnham or Miriam Louie, Women of Color Resource Center, 2288 Fulton St., Suite 103, NETWORK OF EAST-WEST WOMEN connects Berkeley, CA 94704. women from Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and North America. This four-year-old Produced by Bread and Roses Cultural Project, organization supports the local projects of Central WOMEN OF HOPE: AFRICAN-AMERICANS WHO and Eastern European women. For information, MADE A DIFFERENCE is a series of twelve posters contact Sonia Jaffe Robbins, Dept. of Journalism, showing Airican-American women who have had a New York University, 10 Washington Place, New profound impact on American life. Cost is $60.00 York, NY 10003. Feminist Collections v.lS.no.3, Spring 1994 Page 43

More than 120 women in higher education offer Dr. Linda Geller-Schwartz is the author of FOUR advice in the GUIDE TO THE UNIYERSE OF DECADES OF WOMEN IN THE WORKPLACE, WOMEN IN HIGHER EDUCATION. It is available which provides an overview of the issues affecting for $6.00 from Women in Higher Education, 1934 women in employment from the 1950's to present. Monroe St., Madison, WI 53711. Phone: (608) 251- Contact: The Women's Bureau, Ottawa, Ontario, 3232. KIA OK9 Canada.

TWO guides to support the work of more than five THE C4NADL4N WOMENS BUDGET analyzes hundred public and privateorganizations throughout federal expenditures for national defense and for the European Community have been published by social programs and proposes an alternative budget the IRIS NETWORK OF TRAINING PROJECTS FOR responsive to the needs of women. It is available for WOMEN. "Training the Trainers" provides $15.00 from WILPF Ottawa, P.O. Box 4781, Stn E., knowledge on gender-specific role expe&ations; Ottawa, Ontario, KlS 5H9 Canada. Phone: (613) "Creating Partnerships" gives a model for 253-6395. transnational partnerships. Both are free of charge from IRIS OfficeJCREW, 21 Rue de la Tourelle, B- From the Wellesley College Center for Research on 1040 Brussels, Belgium. Women, PATHWAYS FOR WOMEN IN THE SCIENCES PART I documents the Center's WOMEN WELCOME WOMEN is an association that longitudinal study on what attracts Wellesley College connects women internationally through personal women to science and mathematics and keeps them visits while members are on holiday. For an annual there. This report analyzes data from nearly 600 fee, which WWW allows each member to determine, students. Written by Paula Rayman and Belle Brett, participants receive a bi-annual newsletter and Part I is available for $20.00 from the Publication membership list. Contact: W c/o Frances Department, Wellesley College Center for Research Alexander, "Grants," 8a, Chestnut Ave., High on Women, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02181-

Wycombe, Buckinghamshire HPll lDJ, UK. , 8259. Phone: (617) 283-2510.

Released from the Canadian Book Marketing WOMEN'SARMY CORPS: A COMMEMORATIONOF Centre,the WOMENSSTUDIES CATALOGUE, 1993 WORLD WAR 2 SERWCE is a 28-page illustrated lists new Canadian titles by, for, and about women booklet from the United States Government Printing from publishers of all types. It is free to educators, Office. Cost is $1.50; the Stock Number is 008-029- librarians, bookstores, and students by writing to the 00263-9. (SuDoc No. D 114.2:W 84). Contact: Canadian Book Marketing Centre, 2 Gloucester St., Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Suite 301, Toronto, Ontario, M4Y 1L5 Canada. Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. Phone: (416) 413-4930; fax: (416) 413-4920. Page 44 Feminist Collections v.15, no3, Spring 1994 BOOKS RECENTLY RECEIWD

THE ABORTION CONTROVERSY: A THE CREATION OF FEMZNIST CONSCIOUSNESS: DOCUMENTARY HISTORY. Rubin, Eva R., ed FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO EIGHTEEN- Greenwood, 1994. SEVENTY. Lemer, Gerda. Oxford University Press, AMAZONSTORYBONES. Frye, Ellen. Spinsters Ink, 1994. 1994. (Address: P.O. Box 300170, Minneapolis, MN, DAGGER: ON BUTCH WOMEN. Burana, Linda, et 55403-5170.) al., eds. Cleis, 1994. AND STILL WE RISE: FEMINZST POLITICAL DIRECTORY OF PERIODICALS OF ZNTEREST TO MOBILIZING IN CONTEMPORARY CANADA. Carty, FEMINISTS, LESBL4NS AND GAY MEN. Tsunami Linda. Women's Press, 1993. Records. Tsunami Records, 1994. AMVOTATED GENDER TRAINING BIBLIOG- DYKE IDEAS: PROCESS, POLITICS, DAILY LIFE. MHY:VOLUME I. Antwi-Nsiah, Cherub & Cloud, Trebilcot, Joyce. State University of New York Kathleen. University of Illinois Office of Women in Press, 1994. International Development, 1994. (Address: EARLY WORK: 1970-1979. Smith, Patti. Norton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 320 1994. International Studies Bldg., 910 S. Fifth St., ECOFEMINISM. Mies, Maria & Shiva, Vandana. Champaign, IL 61820) Zed books, 1993. THE ART OF LOVE: LOVE POEMS AND EDITED OUT. Haddock, Lisa. Naiad, 1994. PAINTINGS. Camber Porter, Melinda. Writers and ENCYCLOPEDU OF WOMEWS ASSOCUTIONS Readers, 1993. WORLDWIDE. Barrett, Jacqueline K., ed. Gale THE BEACON BOOK OF QUOTATIONS BY Research, 1993. WOMEN. Maggio, Rosalie. Beacon, 1994. ENGENDERING CHINA: WOMEN, CULTURE,AND THE BLUE HOUSE: THE WORLD OF FRIDA THE STATE. Gilmartin, Christina K., et al., eds. -0. Billeter, Erika. University of Washington Harvard University Press, 1994. Press, 1993. FAMILY BASED SERVICES: A BRIDGING THE SILENCE: NONVERBAL SOLUTION-FOCUSED APPROACH. Berg, Insoo MODALITIES IN THE TREATMENT OF ADULT Kim. Norton, 1994. SURWORS OF CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE. FEMINIST THEORY AND THE STUDY OF Simonds, Susan L. Norton, 1994. FOLKLORE. Hollis, Susan Tower, et al., eds. BRINGING ETHICS ALIVE: FEMINIST ETHICS IN University of Illinois Press, 1994. PSYCHOTHERQPYPRACTICE. Gartrell, Nanette K., FIRZTVG THE HEATHER: THE LIFE AND TIMES ed. Harrington Park, 1994. OF NELLIE McCLUNG. Hallett, Mary & Davis, CANADUN WOMEN'S STUDIESIFEMINIST Marilyn. Fifth House, 1994. RESEARCH. Canadian Research Institute for the FLASHPOZNT. Forrest, Katherine V. Naiad, 1994. Advancement of Women. Canadian Research GENDER WARIGENDERPEACE: THE QUEST FOR Institute for the Advancement of Women, 1993. LOVE AND JUSTICE BETWEEN MEN AND (Address: 408-151 Slater St., Ottawa, Ontario, KIP WOMEN. Kipnis, Aaron & Herron, Elizabeth. 5H3, Canada.) Morrow, 1994. THE CANDY WWDOR'S BOY AND OTHER GODDESSES IN WORLD MYTHOLOGY. Ann, STORIES. de la Garza, Beatriz. Arte Publico, 1994. Martha & he4 Dorothy Myers. ABC-CLIO, 1993. CERTAIN SMILES. Tell, Dorothy. Naiad, 1994. IMAGERY FOR GETTING WELL: CLINICAL CHANGING THE EDUUTIONAL LANDSCAPE: APPLICATIONS OF BEHAWOR4L MEDICINE. PHILOSOPHY, WOMEN, AND CURRICULUM. Brigham, Deirdre Davis. Norton, 1994. Martin, Jane Roland. Routledge, 1994. IMAGES OF FAITH: SPIRITUALITYOF WOMENIN A COMMUNITY SECRET: FOR THE FILIPINA IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. Gallares, Judette A. AN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP. Agtuca, Jacqueline Claretian Publications, 1991; Orbis, 1992. (Address: R. in collaboration with the Asian Women's Shelter. Claretian Publications, U.P.P.O. BOX 4, Diliman, Asian Women's Shelter, 1992; Seal, 1994. Quezon City 1101 Philippines.) THE COMPLETE HANDBOOK FOR COLLEGE INA TIME OF WOLENCE:POEMS. Boland, Eavan. W0MEN:MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR COLLEGE Norton, 1994. EXPERIENCE. Weinberg, Carol. New York THE ZNTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF WOMEWS University Press, 1994. STUDIES. Brown, Loulou, et al., eds. Harvester CRAZY WOMAN. Horsley, Kate. Ivy, 1992. Wheatsheaf, 1993. (Address: Campus 400, Maylands Feminist Collections v.15. na3. Surina 1994 Pam 45

Ave., Heme1 Hempstead, Hertfordshire. HP2 7EZ. OVERCOMING MATH ANXIETY. Tobias, Sheila. England) Norton, 1978; repr., 1993. INTIMACY AND SOLITUDE: BALANCING PALESTINIAN WOMEN: IDENTITY AND CLOSENESS AND INDEPENDENCE. Dowrick, EXPERIENCE. Augustin, Ebba, ed. Zed, 1993. Stephanie. Norton, 1994. PARADOXES OF GEhllER Lorber, Judith. Yale IUTHLEEN O'DONALD. Hayes, Penny. Naiad, University Press, 1994. 1994. THE POLITICS OF CRUELTY: AN ESSAY ON THE THE LESSONS. McAUester, Melanie. Spinsters Ink, LITERATURE OF POLITICAL. IMPRISOhWENT. 1994. (Address: P.O. Box 300170; Minneapolis, Millet, Kate. Norton, 1994. Minnesota 55403-5170.) THE POLITICS OF PREGNANCY: POLICY LIST OF DESCRIPTIONS ON THE THEME OF DILEMMAS IN THE MATERNAL-FETAL WOMEN. Isis International, 1994. RELATIONSHIP. Merrick, Janna C. & Blank, Robert LIVING WITH CONTRADICTIONS: H., eds. Harrington Park, 1993. CONTROVERSIES IN FEMINIST SOCL4L ETHICS. POSTMODERN REVISIONINGS OF THE Jaggar, Alison M.. ed. Westview, 1994. POLITICAL. Yeatman, Anna. Routledge, 1994. THE LONGINGS OF WOMEN. Piercy, Marge. POWERIGENDER: SOCL4L RELATIONS IN Fawcett Columbine, 1994. THEORY AND PRACTICE. Radtke, H. Lorraine & THE LOST BATTALION: CONTROVERSY AND Stam, Henderikus J., eds. Sage, 1994. CXSUALITIES IN THE BATTLE OF HUE. Krohn, THE POWER TO CHANGE: WOMEN IN THE Charles A. Praeger Trade, 1993. THIRD WORLD REDEFINE THEIR A UAN'S BOOK OF THE SPIRIT: DAILY ENVIRONMENT. Women's Feature Service. Kali for MEDITATIONS FOR A MINDFUL LIFE. Alexander, Women, 1992, repr. Zed, 1993. Bill. Avon, 1994. PRIESTESS, MOTHER, SACRED SISTER: MARBLE SKIN. Drakulic, Slavenka; trans. by Greg RELIGIONS DOMINATED BY WOMEN. Sered, Mosse. Editions Robert Laffont, S.A., 1991; Norton, Susan Starr. Oxford University Press, 1994. 1994. PROSTITUTION: AN INTERNATIONAL H;4NP THE ME IN THE MIRROR. Panzarino, Connie. BOOK ON TRENDS, PROBLEMS, Ah'D POLICIES. Seal, 1994. Davis, Nanette, J., ed. Greenwood, 1993. MEN! QUOTATIONS ABOUT MEN, BY WOMEN. RADIC4LS OF THE WORST SORT: LABORING Wylie, Betty Jane, ed. Key Porter, 1993. WOMEN IN LAWRENCE, IU~SSACHUSETIS, MEN WHO CONTROL WOMEN'S HEALTH: THE 1860-1912. Cameron, Ardis. University of Illinois MISEDUCA TION OF OBSTETRICIAN- Press, 1993. GYNECOLOGISTS. Scully, Diana. Teachers College, RECLAIMING THE PAST: LANDMARKS OF 1994. WOMEN'S HISTORY. Miller, Page Putnam, ed. THE MIDDLEGROUND: THE AMERICAN PUBLIC Indiana University Press, 1992. AND THEABORTIONDEBATE. Sitaraman, Bhavani. SHARKDL4LOGUES. Davenport, Kiana. Atheneum, Garland, 1994. 1994. MINNIE'S SACRIFICE; SOWING AND REAPING; A SIMPLE THEORY OF THE SELF. Mann, David TWAND TRIUMPH: THREE REDISCOVERED W. Norton, 1994. NOVELS BY FRANCES E.W. HARPER. Harper, SINGLE WOMEN: ON THE MARGINS? Gordon, Frances E.W.; ed. by Frances Smith Foster. Beacon, Tuula. New York University Press, 1994. 1994. SKIN: TALKING ABOUT S CLASS & MOTHER- WORK: WOMEN, CHILD WELFARE,AND LITERATURE. Allison, Dorothy. Firebrand, 1994. THE STATE, 1890-1930. Ladd-Taylor, Molly. SMOKEY 0. Cohen, Celia. Naiad, 1994. University of Illinois Press, 1994. STAYING HOME. Nonas, Elisabeth. Naiad, 1994. A MURIEL RUKEYSER READER. Levi, Jan Heller, STAYING THE DISTANCE. McMahon, Franci. ed. Norton, 1994. Firebrand, 1994. MYAMERICANHISTORY: LESBL4NAND GAYLIFE SWEET CHERRY WE:A NOVEL OF SUSPENSE. DURING THE REAGANBUSH YEARS. Schulman, Schmidt, Carol. Naiad, 1994. Sarah. Routledge, 1994. THINGS I SHOULD tL4VE SAID TO MY FATHER: NORMAL SEX. Smukler, Linda. Firebrand, 1994. POIGNANT, FUNNY AND UhFORGETTABLE OUR VISION AND VALUES: WOMEN SHAPING REMEMBRANCES FROM MEMORABLE SONS. THE 21ST CENTCIRY. Hutner, Frances C., ed. Powell, Joanna, wmp. Avon, 1994. Praeger, 1994. THIS IS MYBODY. Song, Terry. West End, 1994. Page 46 Feminist Collections v.15. no.3. Spring 1994

THE TRANSSEXUAL EMPIRE: THE ENGOF WITNESSING SLAVERY: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SHE-MALE. Raymond, Janice G. Beawn, ANTE-BELLUM SLAVE NARRATNES. Foster, 1979; Teachers College Press, 1994. Frances Smith. Greenwood, 1979; University of UNCOYERINGS 1992: VOLUME 13 OF THE Wisconsin Press, 1994. RESEARCH PAPERS OF THE AMERIC4N QUILT WOMEN AND HEALTHY AGIh'G: LmG STUDY GROUP. Horton, Laurel, ed. American PRODUCTNELY IN SPITE OF IT ALL. Gamer, J. Quilt Study Group, 1993. (Address: 660 Mission St., Dianne & Young, Alice A., eds. Haworth, 1993. Suite 400, San Francisco, CA 94105) WOMEN COMPOSERS: THE LOST TRADITION UNEQUAL SISTERS: A MULTICULTURALREADER FOUND. Jezic, Diane Peawck. 2nd ed. prep. by IN U.S. WOMEN'S HISTORY. Ruiz, Vicki L. & Elizabeth Wood. Feminist Press, 1994. DuBous, Ellen Carol, eds. rev.ed. Routledge, 1994. WOMEN IN BASEBALL: THE FORGOTTEN UNITED STATES GOVERNMENTDOCUMENTS ON HISTORY. Berlage, Gai Ingharn. Praeger, 1994. WOMEN, 1800-1990: A COMPREHENSNE WOMEN IN CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. Huls, Mary Ellen. Greenwood, BIOBIBLIOGRAPHIC SOURCEBOOK. Grinstein, 1993. Louise S., et al., eds. Greenwood, 1993. VISIBLE WOMEN: NEW ESSAYS ON AMERICAN WOMEN, MEDL4 AND SPORT: CHALLENGING ACTMSM. Hewitt, Nancy A, & Lesbock, Suzanne, GENDER VALUES. Creedon, Pamela J., ed. Sage, eds. University of Illinois Press, 1993. 1994. VOICE LESSONS: ON BECOMING A (WOMAN) THE WOMEN'S AWAKENNG Ih' EGYPT: WRITER. Mairs, Nancy. Beawn, 1994. CULTURE, SOCIETY, AND THE PRESS. Baron, VOYAGE IN THE DARK. Rhys, Jean. Norton, 1994. Beth. Yale University Press, 1994. WAIT A MINUTE, YOU C4N HAVE IT ALL: THE THE WOMEN'S INFORMATION EXCWGE WORKING WIFE'S GUIDE TO STRESS-FREE NATIONAL DIRECTORY. Brecher, Deborah & LMNG. Fader, Shirley Sloan. Avon, 1993. Lippitt, Jill. Avon, 1994. WEDNESDAY NIGHTS. Grae, Camarin. Naiad WOMEN, THE EARTH, THE DMNE. Rae, Eleanor. Press, 1994. Orbis, 1994. WELLWOWS MENOPAUSE RESOURCE GUIDE WOMEN, THEENVIRONMENTAND SUSTAINABLE 1994. Moore, Alia. WellWoman, 1993. (Address: DEVELOPMENT: TOWARDS A THEORETIU 916 N.E. 65th St., Suite A606, Seattle, WA 98115.) SYNTHESIS. Braidotti, Rosi, et al. Zed, 1994. WHAT EVERY WOMAN NEEDS TO KNO WBEFORE WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES: FOUND VOICES. (AND AFTER) SHE GETS INYOLVED WITH MEN Willmuth, Mary & Holwmb, Lillian, eds. AND MONEY. Forer, Lois G. Rawson, 1993. Harrington Park, 1993. WHENHELPINGSTARTS TO HURT:A NEWLOOK THE WORD OF A WOMAN: FEMIh'IST AT BURNOUT AMONG PSYCHOTHERAPISTS. DISPATCHES. Morgan, Robin. 2nd ed. Norton, Grosch, William N. & Olsen, David C. Norton, 1994. 1994.

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