Feminist Collections A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources

Volume 18, No.3, Spring 1997

CONTENTS

From the Editors Letters Book Reviews Carrots vs. Sticks: After "Welfare Reform," What Then? by Deborah Reilly Real Models: Self-Determination Among Girls and Women in Books for Children and Young Adults by Megan Schliesman Feminist Art as Critical Voice: New Books on Art and Aesthetics by Helen Klebesadel Women and Leadenhip Archives for Women's Studies Research by Valerie Browne Library Instruction in a Women's Studies Course by Barbara Weeg World Wide Web Reviews: Breast Cancer Websites by Anne Boyer Walking the Web: A Review of Websites on Women and Computer Technology by Julie M. Albright Computer Talk Compiled by Linda Shult Archives Wisconsin Bibliographies in Women's Studies Feminist Publishing New Reference Works in Women's Studies Reviewed by Phyllis Holrnan Weisbard and others Periodical Notes Compiled by Linda Shult Items of Note Compiled by Beth Harper Books Recently Received FROMTHE EDITORS:

Not to be alarmist, but all is not well in the world of libraries these days. Budgets continue to shrink, and even as libraries are expected to stay on top of the galloping array of new electronic gadgets and resources, there are decreasing dollars for buying those old-style print items (books and journals) that form the heart of our knowledge base. Full-text databases (such as Women 'R' and Contemporary Women's Issues, in both of which Feminist CoZZections is pleased to be included) are intriguing because they offer the ability to search through the text of articles, not just titles and subject headings; and, of course, the articles are right there, not three floors away or in another building. But few libraries have decided to jettison print subscriptions just because there are online versions. Why? For one thing, "full-text" doesn't actually mean "full" yet. Note our newest column Delivering graphics, advertisements, integrity of page layout, even color - all bp.14-16) featuring reviews of part of the print culture often studied by researchers - is not routine for these websites on particular topics of products. Whether back issues will be available and readable into the future is interest. For this second column, also far from certain, once technology has taken another giant leap and those older issues are stored in the archaic electronic media of the 1990s (remember reviewers look at web pages on the early NASA tapes that are now inaccessible?). breast cancer and on women and This means that for the time being libraries are trying to purchase both computer technology. print and online versions of periodicals, out of budgets that do not even keep up with the increases in subscription prices to print versions alone. This is truly an More reviews of groups of information revolution, and no one yet knows how libraries will fare. websites on women-focused topics Libraries have more experience with indexes, a centuries-old tradition will be mounted soon on Feminist in print and approaching twenty years online. While women's studies entered Collections'website (http:fl this arena only recently, here, too, there are two products to choose from: www.library.wisc.ednflibraried Women's Studies Ondisc and Women's Resources International. They ease the WomensStudies/fcmain.htm). way for researchers seeking citations to the periodical literature of the field (and more) sweyed by Women Studies Abstrac& Women's Studies Inder, and our own Feminist Periodicah. But how long will each of these new indexes last, given the intense competition in the electronic world? Where will future researchers find references to ecofeminism, to the problems of women in the former Soviet Union, to what welfare reform really means to single mothers' lives? Given the popular imagination's conclusion that the women's movement is pretty much over and done with, will anyone be able to accurately reconstruct NEXT ISSUE: A special focus what feminism was up to in the world of academia during the last part of the twentieth century? Reviews on: We do our own bit for keeping the flow of print information alive by Women in the US. West and tackling such subjects as welfare reform in one of this issue's reviews (and note Midwest. the optimism in another review of books for young women about strong female Videos on ecofeminism. protagonists). At the same time, we want you to know about all the interesting websites and ernail lists out there and we mount a good bit of information on our plus all the regular columns: own website (http://www.library.wisc.edu/librarieslWomensStudies/). So we're New Reference Works, Com- clearly excited by the possibilities of the Internet, CD-ROMs, and the like for puter Talk, Periodical Notes, enhancing our knowledge about the world and each other, but being library- Items of Note, and more. based, we also feel the tension between our role as guides to the knowledge available in both print and electronic worlds and our sense of wanting that knowledge to be more than transient, ephemeral, and accessible only by the well- connected. You'll probably want to stay at your terminal as you scan through "Computer Tak," but feel free to take the review on feminist art to read in the bathtub.

** P. H.W. and L.S. We are writing in response to Megan Scanlon's review EDITORS' REPLY: We regret that more recent issues of of Teen Voices in the Winter 1997 edition of Feminist Teen Voices were not part of Ms. Scanlon's review, as we Collections. have noted significant changes in a 1997 issue that recently We are pleased and gratified that Ms. Scanlon includes came to our office. Apparently a 1996 issue that we us in her list of six publications for teenage girls that carry a received never made it to the reviewer; we apologize for the "female-positive" message. However, in making her oversight and appreciate the publisher's comments. comparisons, she read recent issues of the other magazines, and chose to read four and five-year-old issues of ours. Ms. Scanlon criticizes Teen Voices for having writing that was "in no way impressive, with basic grammatical and struc- (via email) tural problems." We have heard this criticism before, and Good morning! must respond that ow mission is to provide a voice for all teenage girls, not just to publish only polished voices. Some I just looked at the review ["World Wide Web Review: of the submissions we receive come hmgirls who have not Funding Sources for Women" by Elizabeth Breed, v. 18, experienced quality educations, and who are often intimi- 110.2, Winter 1992, pp.14-151 and really liked it very much. dated by the printed word. Throughout the years we have As a student adviser for the Austrian Fulbright Commis- developed mentoring programs to help high-risk girls learn sion, the grant information is quite useful for me, even publishing skills. Our more recent issues reflect an increase though most of the grants aren't available for international in those skills, as we train girls working on the magazine to students. do some of the writing and to edit some of the submissions. There's only one little mistake I caught: SFU is not San Ms. Scanlon goes on to include us when she refers to Francisco University but Simon Fraser University. magazines that "do not treat a non-white female's accom- Thanks again for providing such terrific resources. plishments any different than they would a white female's. They rarely deal directly with the issue of multiculturalism, Elisabeth Binder that is not their mission or purpose. Lesbianism is generally Austrian American Educational passed over." Commission (Fulbright Commission) We are quite surprised by this blanket indictment. Not Wien, Austria only has multiculturalism always been a part of our mission, but in six years of publishing, all ow covers have been multicultural. Racial Harmony is a specific section in every issue of our magazine. In the issues Ms. Scanlon cites, we (via email) ran articles on interracial dating, ways to stop racism, and growing up as a lesbian. We challenge Ms. Scanlon to find Hi, my name is Lauren and I am the Internet Editor any other publication that has carried as much coverage of here at the American Association of University Women lesbian and gay issues as we have. (AAUW). I just read yow Winter issue and noticed both Again, we appreciate being acknowledged as one of the yow "Computer Talk" section and the article on Funding first magazines to provide teenage girls with a positive Resources for Women. AAUW has a website worth check- image. We hope your readers will not react too strongly to ing out: www.aauw.org. There you will see a button to our Ms. Scanlon's comments, and will read some of ow more Educational Foundation Fellowships and Grants program recent issues to see what we have to offer. which would have been an appropriate piece for your article. In any case, do check it out and let me know what you think Sincerely yours, and if you think it would be appropriate for a mention in Feminist Collections. [See "Computer Talk" in this issue.] Alison Amoroso, Publisher Thanks so much!

Lauren Crowley Internet Editor Carrots VS.Sticks: After "welfare services, home industries such as jewelry making, as well as drug Reform," What Then? dealing - flourish by necessity to supplement benefits. No one but the by Deborah Reilly I serious drug dealers gets rich. Congress has created an impos- sible situation, not only for Cora, but for all welfare recipients. Simulta- Mimi Abramovitz, UNDER ATTACK, FIGHTING BACK: WOMEN AND neous cutbacks in AFDC, Supplernen- WELFARE IN THE UNITED STATES. New York: Monthly Review Press, tal Security Income (SSI, commonly 1996. l6Op. index. $26.00, ISBN 0-85345-963-2; pap, $13.00, ISBN O- known as disability), and food stamps 85345-963-0. are leaving counties and localities little discretionary room to redirect benefits. Jill Duerr Berrick, FACES OF POVERTY: PORTRAITS OF WOMEN AND There are also indications that Section CHILDREN ON WELFARE. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 8 of the Housing Act of 1937 and 21 1p. index. $25.00, ISBN 0-19-509754-8. Medicaid will also be drastically curtailed in the coming year. Joel F. Handler. THE POVERTY OF WELFARE REFORM. New Haven, For Cora, with minimal education CT: Yale University Press, 1995. 177p. $25.00, ISBN 0-300-06480-2; pap., and equally minimal work history, the $12.00, ISBN 0-300-06481-0. way out of welfare is now defmed, but the way out of poverty has become more distant. Even a minimum-wage job would offer no sick leave, insur- ance, or vacations and probably only Thenews about welfare reform Take Cora, one of five women part-time, shifting hours. The math is is not news anymore, at least not to whose stories are interwoven with obvious to Cora and everyone else the women caught in its tentacled explanations and analysis in Berrick's familiar with welfare. Life will get contradictions or to veteran activists Faces. Cora is African-American, worse instead of better. and scholars who have marched, forty-one, a cocaine user, the mother lobbied, and organized since the of six children ages two to twenty- A lot of ink has been spilled sixties. Current 'reforms" - time six, most of whom have serious about the need for increased invest- limited, job oriented, and stigmatizing physical ailments. She lives in ments in child care under welfare - are, according to the authors of public housing in a high-crime reform. Cora's reactions to child these three books written on the cusp neighborhood. She has received care, which may be subsidized under of the 1996 federal law, reincarnations AFDC since her twenties. She is the welfare reform but will not be free, of themes going back not only American stereotype of a welfare seem commonsense when the social decades, but centuries. mother, though she represents less engineering aspects of chid care are The fact that public benefits have than one fifth of welfare recipients. discounted: 'Why not pay me? .... It been somewhat successful in keeping Cora's finances, like those of seem like they're gonna pay someone children and families from complete most welfare recipients, are mixed else to do the same thing that I been destitution has depended on a network public and private monies. That doin'. Babysittin' babies and takin' of benefit programs plus discretion on welfare does not put people near the care of kids" @. 136). She worries that the part of case workers, notes poverty line (and that the poverty no one will be willing or able to take Handler, professor of law at UCLA. line is itself at least $4,000 below her youngest children to their numer- When public opinion or Congressional what Americans tell pollsters they ous doctor appointments or to give action has decreed that one of these need for the bare essentials of life) is them the round-the-clock care needed programs be cut, alert social workers commonplace knowledge for Cora when their health problems erupt, as have shifted benefits from one and her neighbors. Legal and illegal they do several times a year, into program to another to maintain underground economies - barter. crises. marginal safety nets for people on a neighborly pawning of small assets, Cora spends her days taking care case-by-case basis. unreported baby-sitting and other of her children and her household and

2 Feminist Colleclions vol.18, no.3 Spring 1997 attending mandated JOBS (Job Oppor- Mimi Abramovitz, professor at AFDC families are large tunities and Basic Skills) program Hunter College's School of Social Families. Almost half the women training.- Meant to last several months Work, picks up the welfare story in receiving AFDC have only one chid. at worst, Cora's training has lasted for the nineteenth century but focuses on Another thirty percent have two more than three years with no job 1twentieth-century welfare beginning :hildren. Only ten percent have four realistically in sight. In effect since in the 1930s with the passage during 3r more children. 1990, JOBS differs, reports Handler, the Depression of the Social Security Women have more children from earlier welfare-work programs in Act, which created Aid to Dependent to get more welfare. It just doesn't emphasizing education and training. Children (later AFDC). In the 1950s, happen. The additional monies Yet Cora's experience may be more programs expanded to include public AFDC traditionally provided for an typical than not. housing, mental health, and disability; additional child have never come Handler reviews the Work in the 1960s they expanded further to close to covering the cost of raising Incentive Program (WIN) of 1967, include Medicare, Medicaid, food that chid. AFDC recipients actually WIN I1 of 1971, and the Program for stamps, and employment services. have a lower fertility rate than women Better Jobs and Income (PBJI), noting The "welfare staten of entitle- in the general population, Abramovitz that, while all programs combined a ment began to shrink, states states. mix of requirements and incentives, Abramovitz, in the mid-1970s as AFDC promotes singleparent none was significantly successful. A economic conditions worsened. households and teen pregnancies. California WIN project of the 1980s Assaults especially on AFDC have States with stringent welfare rules do came closest, yet "two-thirds of the been conditioned by negative stereo- not have fewer nonmarital pregnan- experimentals were not working at the types of women and welfare. When cies, and some states with low time of the third-year interview, and the American public believed that benefits have high nonmarital bi almost half never worked during the women's role was to stay home and rates. Five percent of single mothers entire three-year periodn (p.71). A take care of children, women who receiving AFDC in 1992 were teens. study of outcomes from training in the were employed were penalized by The number of women receiving Jobs Training Partnership Act of the AFDC. When the labor market AFDC who fist became mothers in 1980s found no important differences changed in the mid-1970s. creating a their teens has remained relatively in earnings for participants. Current need for lower-level service-sector stable over two decades (although that reforms, therefore, emphasize placing employees, women began to be number represents forty-two percent bodies in slots without investments in penalized for staying home. A 1986 of the AFDC caseload). educational programming. report of the National Alliance of Welfare is an African- Handler traces modem connec- Businesses concluded that "welfare American problem. Loaded with tions between work and welfare to the recipients represent an important racist implications, this myth merely 1349 Statute of Laborers in England, source of needed workersn (p.26). updates the 'lazy, shiftlessn image of which forbade the giving of alms to The more middle-class women Black Americans from earlier times. beggars in order to force them to find entered the labor market, the more Thirty-eight percent of AFDC jobs. The worthy, or deserving, poor women on welfare who stayed home recipients are Caucasian, seventeen - the seriously ill, the aged, and the with their children looked like percent Latina - only thirty-seven deformed - were identified over the spongers. The resulting mythology of percent are Black. years and received permission to beg, welfare is examined and forcefully Women stay on welfare a while those deemed capable of work debunked by all three authors. long time. This myth, too, has racist were either provided with work or Among the most persistent myths are: implications. Citing a study by David were imprisoned. Ellwood and Mary Jo Bane, the Miriam Greenwald authors note that half the women receiving AFDC leave it within two years. Less than twenty percent stay on AFDC for eight years or longer. Poverty can happen to anyone, concludes Berrick, whose other portraits are of more typical recipients - women caught temporarily in circumstances beyond their control, working but on the edge of welfare and possibly needing to return to it, going to school in order to create a sustainable future, and living with

Feminist CoUemmom voLl8, no.3 Spring 1997 3 mental health or other problems that proved themselves. States will have to will no$ be .able to create and main- exacerbate their needs. There is no pick up the pieces of welfare, he says, iain stqble families until we come to prototypical welfare recipient, Berrick but state fmes will be more con- with the dynamics of crime, demonstrates, and no one response to strained aud more expensive than 3nd we will not be able to deter crime welfare. federal programs. :ffectively if we continue to ware- Writing from different perspec- Handler believes "there are limits house offenders for ever-longer tives - class and labor for Handler. to how much harm society is willing to sentences apart from families and feminist and labor for Abramovitz, permit to poor mothers and their ~ommunities. and social work and storytelling for childrenn @. 147). However, in The third source of hope is Berrick - the authors nevertheless Wisconsin for example, where a discretion. Current reforms give overlap considerably in the informa- program more restrictive than the more decision-making authority to tion they provide and the conclusions federal law has been in effect in two states and counties, which, Handler they draw. The most important is that populous counties since March 1996, notes, have always been given poverty, not welfare, is the issue. homelessness among women and discretion to determine the most Problems are more complex and children has increased significantly. difficult or borderline cases. That nuanced than our sound-bite, quick- Berrick includes Wisconsin in an authority can result in the creation of fm world prefers. outline of state and federal reform either fair or unfair mechanisms. initiatives. She, too, writes favorably Fair policies result from accountabiil- whatare the solutions? Here about incentive experiments that ity by counties for the welfare of all the authors vary; their blueprints for expand training and education oppor- their citizens, without the ability to the future are not as persuasive as tunities (Washington), increase asset duck responsibility by blaming the their analyses of the past and present. allowances (New Jersey), and revise federal government. Abramovitz reviews women's orga- income disregards (Illinois). Her nizing and activism, warning that other ideas include expanding health Are these half-full, half-empty current welfare reforms, which turn coverage, providing safe and afford- kinds of arguments? Yes, of course. AFDC into state-administered block able child care, encouraging fathers in But few governmental decisions grants, will take us back to welfare bringing up their children, expanding involving large sums of the public structures that existed before Social the Earned Income Tax Credit, purse do not carry with them both Security. But saving AFDC is no making more efforts to prevent teen dangers and opportunities. The longer an option. Abramovitz pregnancy, making housing more inherent dangers of welfare devolu- recounts other ideas called for by affordable, and providing jobs that tion are monumental, especially in various groups to guarantee childcare, raise people's standards of living. the asserted, but not yet tested, loss healthcare, and housing assistance for These ideas appear on many laundry of entitlement and with it the poten- women who work, regardless of lists for solving poverty, but links to tial loss of constitutional due process. marital status, and to expand such political reality are seldom offered. The truth is that we do not know noncash benefits as the earned income what works. We can sit back and tax credit. Creation of permanent, Thebest hopes for solving- wait for our cities to burn, based on full-time jobs with benefits, elimina- poverty, or at least ameliorating its our now considerable experience of tion of sexism, caregiver allowances, worst effects, will, I believe, come what does not work. Or we can independent incomes for women, and from three sources. The first is field choose to fashion solutions for this an end to the legal basis of marriage practitioners. We need to listen person, this neighborhood, this are additional ideas that may be carefully to the observations and community and, in learning first-hand attractive on an academic level, but advice of case workers, public health the aggregate, contextual effects of are difficult to translate to the every- nurses, parole and probation officers, individual decisions in individual day lives of recipients and service police, and community leaders. We lives, create better decisions, lives, providers. need also to enable them to work and laws for greater numbers of Handler asserts that the draconian together and to provide them with individuals and families. The future, "sticksn that are key to current, resources to solve some problems on a however bleak. is not inevitable. welfare reforms - time-limits, localized level. The second source is sanctions, and family restrictions - recognition that crime and welfare are [Deborah Reilly is an attorney with will once again prove inadequate to two manifestations of the same the Neighborhood Law Project of the solving systemic economic problems. problem. Middle-class, two-parent University of Wisconsin-MadisonLuw He thinks "carrotsn - education and families need two incomes to survive School.] other incentives - are more effective economically; it is simplistic or worse, in getting people into jobs, but that then, to blame poverty on cultural or these are long-term ideas that have not individual or gender dysfunctions. Wc

4 Feminist Colleciions voLl8, na3 Spring 1997 Real Models: Self-Determination :lass to break out of the confines of her ;ender-proscribed role and assert her Among Girls and Women in Books for )wn identity, the protagonist of The Children and Young Adults Midwife's Apprentice is a girl whose iaily survival is so desperate that the {ery concept of identity, let alone self- by Megan Schliesman letermination, is unknown to her. Brat, as she is known when the Karen Cushman, THE MIDWIFE'S APPRENTICE. New York: Clarion, 1995. love1 first opens, has no other name, 122p. (Ages 10-14) 10 home, and no family. She sleeps in lung heaps and eats whatever scraps of Virginia Hamilton, HER STORIES: AFRICAN AMERICAN FOLKTALES, food she can find. Taken in by the FAIRY TALES AND TRU TALES. Ill. by Leo and Diane Dillon. New York: village midwife who is in need of an Blue Sky/ Scholastic, 1995. 112 p. (Ages 7-12) assistant, the girl is newly christened Beetle - because she reminds the Mavis Jukes, IT'S A GLRL THING: HOW TO STAY SAFE, HEALTHY AND midwife of a dung beetle. IN CHARGE. New York: Knopf, 1996. 133p. (Ages 9- 12) Jane Sharp, the midwife, is a stem md demanding woman; still, the Kyoko Mori, ONE BIRD. New York: Edge BooW Henry Holt, 1995. 252p. arrangement is one that slowly but (Age 12 and older) surely transforms Beetle. In a rough, cocoon-like state when the midwife Fit came upon her, Beetle's beauty and possibility were hidden to all including herself. Freed for the first Girls and women are featured in strength, individuality, and achieve- time in her conscious memory fiom hundreds and hundreds of titles ment. Such books provide children struggle for the most basic survival, published for young people today, and young adults with an ever- she begins to unfold. Her first sign of many of them outstanding books with widening perspective on the realities of emergence is the realization that she female protagonists or subjects. Yet in girls' and women's lives across deserves a name of her own, and she most, gender, while fundamental to centuries and across cultures, and serve decides on Alyce. "Alyce sounded character, is not fundamental to plot or as real models for their lives today. clean and friendly and smart. You theme. Comparatively few explore While the number of such books is could love someone named Alyce. She what it actually means to be a girl or a hardly overwhelming, it seems that looked back at the face in the water. woman, either in contemporary each publishing year brings at least a 'This then is me, Alyce.' It was right" cultures or in places and times few notable additions to this ever- (p.32). throughout history. growing body of literature that seeks to Alyce's relationship with Jane The irony is that the struggle for validate female experience and Sharp is difficult, as is her understand- self-determination is one of the celebrate female lives. Following are ing of her own humanity. Her ultimate greatest challenges children face. For four recent examples. moment of self-determination comes girls, the struggle is often complicated when she consciously chooses to by the realization that the truth they TheMidwife 'sApprentice is remain Jane Sharp's apprentice despite know or are discovering inside Karen Cushman's second novel fox the realization that she may sometimes themselves about who they are and young readers. This highly acclaimed fail in her attempts to help and heal. what they want to become is often at work (it won the 1996 Newbery Award In accepting this, Alyce comes fully odds with what mainstream culture is given by the American Library into her own. telling them they should be. Association for excellence in literature That is why books featuring girls for children) explores themes of self- Unlike Cushman's Alyce, whose and women engaged in the struggle for discovery and self-determination that struggles are not consciousl~linked to self-realization in the midst of pressure Cushman first examined in Catherine, her gender but who nevertheless grows to conform, or who have successfully Called Birdy (Clarion, 1994). Like into a role that exemplifies the strength emerged as strong, self-determined Cushman's first novel, The Midwife's of women in medieval times and the individuals, are invaluable. So, too, Apprentice is set in 13th-century transformation that comes with belief are those that directly address issues of England, but whereas Catherine in oneself, Megumi Shimizu, the female identity, ability, and accom- reveals the struggles of a strong-willed fifteen-yea-old protagonist of Kyoko plishment, or that exemplify female young woman of the privileged ruling Mori's One Bird, is openly battling the

Feminist CoUeaions voLl8, na3 Spring 1997 5 answers, answers that contradict the Christian beliefs her mother deeply Mavis Jukes validates the values, MeMfinds the convic- importance of girls and young women in yet another way: by providing them with a wealth of accurate, accessible infonnation about the changes taking place in their bodies, and also their lives, with the onset of puberty and adolescence. It 3 A Girl Thing is the conversation every girl wishes she could have with an adult woman: fiiendly, honest, and straightforward; sometimes funny, but always respectful. Jukes's engaging, fiiendly, informa- tional prose is interspersed with stories of her own puberty and adolescence. I survived, she seems to be telling young ,.,,a,An OGZN&# *i7.2 before they met. Young and readers. You will, too. vibrant. she lives in her It's A Girl Thing covers topics constraints against women in contem- parents' home, as divorced women ranging from Breasts and Bras (Chap- porary Japan. Set in 1975, One Bird traditionally do, but lives an indepen- ter 1) to Crushes, Kisses and Other begins with the departure of Megumi's dent life on her own terms. She helps Matters (Chapter 8) to AIDS (Chapter mother, who, in choosing to leave Megumi realize she can shape her life 11) to Birth Control and Unplanned Megumi's adulterous father, has given to fit her own truths and desires. Pregnancy (Chapter 12), to Staying up her right to see her daughter for the Safe (Chapter 13). At its core is the next seven years. Virginia Hamilton's Her Stories understanding that information is not It is not a legal decree that reveals truths of a different kind in only power, but also reassurance and, separates them, but a cultural one, fifteen tales from the A~XcanAmeri- ultimately, affmtion to young women based on tradition that says a mother can storytelling tradition that pay that their lives are worth caring about who chooses to leave her children will homage to the resiliency and creativity and for. not see them again until they are of black women. Hamilton's introduc- adults. For Megumi, this means seven tion describes how she imagines many welive in a world where girls years without the sound of her of the tales in Her Stories came to be: and young women still face pressure to mother's voice or the feel of her "the black slave woman ...made up her deny their own voices and curtain their mother's arms around her. It is a stories, some out of her own imagina- own dreams. Books for young people revelation all the more heartbreaking tion and others she'd heard told by that tell the truths of female experience for the situation that precipitated it: both men and women. These last she are not a solution in and of themselves, years of emotional coldness from would alter to fit her experience.... but they have the power to challenge Megumi's father that has left her stories of the female kind have a wide existing perspectives for some young mother unable to contemplate any creative range ..." (p.xiii). readers, and to radically confirm what other solution for her own survival. Divided into sections titled Her is already in the hearts and minds of "'I need to go away so I can see you Animal Tales, Her Fairy Tales, Her many others by assuring them "I am again someday,' she whispers .... 'If I Supernatural, Her Folkways and not alone." don't leave your father now,' she Legends, and Her True Tales, this continues, 'I can't bear to live long well-documented collection of folklore [Megan Schliesman is a librarian at enough to see you grow up" (p.8). and history comes alive in Virginia the Cooperative Children S Book Mori writes in wrenching, Hamilton's strong, supple storytelling Center (CCBC) of the School of beautiful prose as she describes voice. The female characters featured Education at the University of Wiscon- Megumi's resulting emotional isola- in Her Stones are sometimes magical sin-Madbon. The books she discusses tion. Living with her father and or mystical, sometimes strong and in this article appeared in CCBC paternal grandmother, both rigid and smart, sometimes stubborn or scared. Choices, an annual publication of distant individuals, in the emptiness Both real and imagined individuals, recommended boobfor children and created by her mother's departure, their power is in their very presence, young adults compiled and written by Megumi begins to question everyhug which affirms girls and women as both Kathleen T. Homing, Ginny Moore about her life, including the existence tellers and subjects of stories. The Kmse, and Megan Schliesman.] of God. As she arrives at her own message is clear: we matter.

6 Feminist Col&&ns vol.14 110.3 Sprinz 1997 Feminist Art as Crit ical Voice: uts. It is still difficult to find feminist cholarship on the arts that truly New Books On Art :ind Aesthetics epresents the perspective of practicing dsts, and good feminist criticism of :ontemporary art by women is all too by Helen R. Klebesadel are. Many contemporary feminist utists working in and out of the Natalie Harris Bluestone, ed., DOUBLE VISION: PERSPECTNES ON ~cademyhave been bringing their GENDER AND THE VISUAL ARTS. Cranbury, NJ: Farleigh Dickenson :ritical and creative voices to bear in University Press1 Associated University Presses, 1995. 159p. index. $49.50, he social and cultural dialogues that ISBN 0-8386-3540-7. ue defining our present and future. 4s a feminist and an artist teaching at Peggy Zeglin Brand and Carolyn Korsmeyer, eds., FEMINISMAND TRADI- m institution of higher learning, I TION I1V AESTHETICS. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University lave found it very dfl~cultto locate Press, 1995. 486p. bibl. index. $65.00, ISBN 0-271-01340-0; pap., $16.95, visual resources on women artists, ISBN 0-271-01341-9. ' particularly women artists of color. None of the texts I will be reviewing Diane Apostolos-Cappadom and Lucinda Ebersole, eds., WOMEN, CCREATN- includes color illustrations. Mosf ITY, AND THE ARTS: CRITICAL AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PERSPEC- however, do to some degree include the TWES. New York: Continuum, 1995. 240p. index. $18.95, ISBN 0-8264- critical and scholarly voices of the 0831-1. artists themselves. This in itself is a significant change from previous Jo Anna Isaak, FEMINISM AND CONTEMPORARYART: THE REVOLU- conventions that restricted interpreta- TIONARY POWER OF WOMEN'S LAUGHTER. New York: Routledge, 1996. tion of art to the historian or critic, 247p. ill. $65.00, ISBN 0-415-08014-2. disregarding the perspectives of artists in general. Only Apostolos- Cappadona and Ebersole use the inclusion of the artist's voice as an wehave experienced almost percent of the nation's art teaching organizing principle. thuty years of a fehstcultural faculty. Most art departments have revolution that has introduced change twenty percent or less representation Women, Creativity, and the in every aspect of our lives. Unfortu- by women in full-time permanent Arts: Critical and Autobiographical nately, for much of that time the positions. The end result has been Perspectives, editors Diane Apostolos- Women's (Liberation) Movement and slower acceptance of feminist critiques Cappadona and Lucinda Ebersole have the Women's Art Movement have in the visual arts and art history than produced an interdisciplinary anthol- maintained separate but parallel paths. in many other fields, and an ogy with essays by and about women in This is exemplified by the small underrepresentation of voices from the the arts that critique and debunk the numbers of artists and the only slightly arts in the Women's Studies Move- Western mythology of the artist as higher numbers of art historians ment. male and the creative process as male- represented in Women's Studies The field of art history as a whole defined. While the volume does not Programs around the country. There is grappling with questions raised by focus exclusively on the visual arts, its have been many reasons for this feminist perspectives about basic tenet examination of women and the separation, from disregard of the arts of the discipline. Increasingly scholan development of a productive creative in modem society in general and the and critics are applying an analysis to process will be useful to women artists academy in particular, to deep-seated the arts that includes gender as a and scholars. sexism in the field of art itself. critical category, and feminist analysis In the first section, nine Despite totaling half of all trained as an organizing principle. groundbreaking essays by women artists making up the academic Until recently it was necessary to psychologists, sociologists, 1item-y employment pool, women artists go to other fields to develop a feminist critics, and art historians and critics seldom make up more than thirty critique that could be applied to the examine the creative processes of

Feminist CoUeaions voL18, na3 Spring 1997 7 women and the limitations of tradi- considers them to be contributors. The authors share a commendable tional definitions of artists. The Isaak refutes the notion that there is a commitment to accessible language authors, who embody considerable specifically feminine way of creating and to the arguable position that creative and critical dimensions, art and resists generalizations as to objective logic is a genderless basic include such notables as bell hooks, what constitutes feminist art practice. tenet of art historical analysis. The Linda Nochlin, Patricia Meyer Spacks, She argues that feminism has influ- authors also share an understanding and Michelle Wallace. The second enced contemporary art most espe- that their positions as female art half of the book is made up of autobio- cially through a critical humor that historians have led to their examina- graphical writings by the artists contravenes assumptions about art, art tion of gender-based topics overlooked themselves. In this section are visual history, and the role of the artist. or ignored by their male colleagues. artists, dancers, poets, and writers such A wealth of black-and-white Beyond these shared concerns they as Georgia O'Keeffe, Audre Lorde, and illustrations introduce the reader to the embody a variety of feminist ideolo- Ursula K. LeGuin. The writings were work of a diverse number of contem- gies. Bluestone contends that all the chosen to, focus on the motivations of porary women artists. Isaak's various authors are concerned primarily with these artists to create works that essays contend that feminist artists an examination of the art works challenge the roles of both gender and through their art have acted to define themselves rather than the application art in culture. an authentic voice for women separate of theory. This exemplifies the editor's It is significant but not surprising from the patriarchy, to reclaim the position as a scholar resistant to the that the authors found it dficult to image of women as more than repre- more significant changes in the field of locate a wealth of writing by women sentative "other," and that they have art history called for by some feminist artists. Recognizing that "autobio- recognized and used pleasure as a and cultural critics. graphical reflection is a luxury" and critical concern in power relations. The fust of the volume's three "...especially for women artists, time is Isaak's essays traverse a rich sections examines overt and significant the greatest enemy: to deviate time and terrain of the uses of humor in the gender issues previously neglected in energy from one's 'work' to writing a contexts of personal narrative, sexual the analysis of the art paintings of reflexive text is an insurmountable identity, and theoretical play as a form Delacroix and Propemia de' Rossi. In burden" (p.1 1), the editors have of feminist resistance. Using the second section, art historians nonetheless created an important contemporay psychoanalytic theory to Christine Havice and Hennrietta volume continuing the investigation of analyze such artists as Cindy Sherman, Startup expand the reader's under- strategies women use to bring our Barbara Kruger, Mary Kelly, Lorna standing of the importance of women creative voices to the world. Useful Simpson, Hannah Wilke, and many as patrons of the arts, focusing on bibliographies on creative process and more, she argues convincingly that one illuminated manuscripts of the Middle women in the arts are included. of the most effective and liberating of Ages and turn-of-the-century architec- feminist art practices has been laugh- ture, respectively. The third section Theimpetus for JO ~nna~saak's ter in the face of oppression. centers on gendered messages in book Feminism and Contemporary painting and film. Linda Dittmar's Art: The Revolutionary Power of Double vision: Perspectives on essay on experimental film best Women 's Laughter grew out of a 1982 Gender and the Visual Arts brings articulates the use of art as a vehicle for exhibition she curated. In her early feminist art historical and critical the critical voices and perspectives of chapters, Isaak lays out a theoretic perspectives to the analysis of histori- women artists. framework that identifies laughter as a cal visual artworks and contemporary source of revolutionary power. She film. Editor Natalie Harris Bluestone Peggy Zeglin Brand and Carolyn goes on to examine various systems of has brought together essays that Korsmeyer in Feminism and Tradition representation that have been codified manifest some form of doubleness or in Aesthetics made it their goal to shed in traditional art history as well as the diversity. In particular she considers light on the relationship of feminism to way feminist art practices have worked this "double vision" to result from the various traditions in philosophies of art collectively to undermine them and position of the authors as both main- and theories of aesthetics. I turned to create a context for women's creative stream in their discipline by virtue of this book with a fair amount of and critical voices to be heard. their critical stances yet placed outside anticipation as a teacher who had all The book, like the exhibition, the dominant discourse by their status too often seen Philosophy of Art developed from Isaak's interactions as women. courses taught in a way that seemed of with the artists themselves, and she little value to visual art students,

8 Fernhiat CoNectionr voll8, 110.3 Spring 1997 particularly feminists. My interest was Focusing on concepts of the ~ossiblewhen new questions that further captured by the inclusion of "universal" and "transcendence" as dmowledge gender as a critical two scholars who are also practicing shared presumptions in these tradi- :ategory are applied. Significantly, artists: philosopher, graphic and tions, authors such as bell hooks nost, but not all, of the texts include conceptual artist Adrian Piper and consider what happens when the idea the critical and creative voices of the literary scholar and filmmaker Trinh of the universal subject is discarded in utists themselves as central to the T. Minh-ha. My expectations of the favor of "oppositional" readings of art lialogue. book were rewarded. based in a recognition of social, This interdisciplinary text looks at cultural, and other differences. Thearts have been and continue the existing frameworks that influence Authors examine traditions in analytic to be central to ow understanding of our understanding of perception, philosophy and their shared tendencies ~urworld and our place in it. In the beauty, art, and culture. It examines with modem feminism to critique creative and critical expressions of how scholarly writing in aesthetics and essentialism. women artists we confront worlds as philosophy influences and perpetuates Throughout the essays, existing defined by the women who live in those understandings. In particular the methodologies in traditional and new them. It is in the visual arts that editors have gathered writings that criticisms are scrutinized for opportu- concepts are developed and shared for consider where incIusion of feminist nities to apply feminist theoretical and which we have no established verbal or perspectives in aesthetic dialogues has conceptual concerns. These include written language. Visual language can caused a departure from tradition. critiques of hierarchical value systems cross barriers erected by texf and text The opening essays examine the that privilege "pure aesthetics" in favor can lead us into the art of women offen contradictory eighteenth-century of recognition of a multiplicity of whose experiences are different from aesthetic and artistic values that ow own. include the political and the It is important that we examine personal. the art of women past, presenf and Brand and Korsmeyer have future, for art can document a creative compiled a significant anthology and critical thinlcing process that both that looks at the challenge of critiques the present and imagines the feminist theory in the fields of future. Recognizing the arts and the traditional aesthetics and the Women's Art Movement as central to philosophy of art. Additionally the the critical dialogues of the Women's book calls for interdisciphary Studies Movement is tantamount to examination of issues raised in recognizing the importance of the feminist aesthetics as critical to Women's Studies Movement to the feminist scholarship as a whole. Women's Movement. We all move Artists and scholars who believe together or we move apart. The books that understanding how art works in reviewed here move us toward a shared the world furthers a feminist path. ' revolution will be pleased to find that this book brings feminist art [Helen R. Klebesadel is an Associate and aesthetics from the margins to Professor of Studio Art and a member the center of contemporary scholar- of the Gender Studies Program ship. Advisory Committee at Lawrence ~&t scholarship is changing University in Appleton, Wisconsin and aesthetic traditions, some of which the disciplines that study art and she is the Immediate Past National build on philosophical traditions aesthetics. As in other fields, there are President of the Women's Caucusfor tracing back to Plato. These writers a range of perspectives and degrees to Art. She is best known for her large avoid reductive generalizations in which critical cbange will be accepted. watercolors exploring feminist favor of analyzing contradictions and The texts discussed above share a concerns, which she exhibits nation- problems found in the canon itself with tendency to draw on interdisciplinary ally. See the Lawrence University Art regard to a gendered understanding of approaches to broaden the restrictions Dept. website at: hnp://www.lawrence. the nature of arf creativity, beauty, and of traditional criticism in their various edu/dept/art/index.html or more of the aesthetic experience. The fust part disciplines, be they art history, psy- Helen's work at : hnp:/hetdreams. of the book considers what remains chology, philosophy, aesthetics, or art com/re@try/WebesadeU ] from this tradition when gender bias is criticism. Each of the authors and revealed. editors begins to imagine what is

Feminist CoUedions wLl8, na3 Spring 1997 9 WOMENAND LEADERSHIPARCHIVES FOR WOMEN'SSTUDIES RESEARCH

by Valerie Browne

Established in 1994 at Loyola interrupted. Ann Ida Gannon, BVM, women's issues, particularly in higher University Chicago, the Women and was president of Mundelein during a education, President of University of Leadership Archives (WLA) collects time of great change within the San Diego. and makes available materials of Catholic Church. During her career Homemakers for the Equal Rights enduring value that advance original she served as chair of the Association Amendment, grassroots feminist research on women, their roles and of American Colleges, the first organization of mothers and homemak- contributions to society, with particular Catholic chair of the American ers which lobbied for passage of the emphasis on women as leaders. Council of Education, the fmt woman ERA. Collected are the records and papers of president of the Religious Education Carol Francis Jegen, BVM, theolo- women's organizations and women Association of the United States and gian and pioneering educator, human leaders in the areas of civic, educa- Canada, co-chair of ERA-Illinois, and rights activist, and supporter of the tional, religious, entertainment, and a member of the Illinois Commission United Farm Workers movement. business life, primarily in Chicago and on the Status of Women, the Theresians of the United States, the Midwest. President's Task Force on Women's Catholic organization of women in The WLA is a component of the Rights and Responsibilities, and a support of women, founded in 1961 for Gannon Centex for Women and number of corporate boards. all Christian women seeking to grow in Leadership, which was created to the dimensions of spirituality, educa- preserve and build on the strong, A sampling of the holdings of tion, community, vocation, and feminist traditions of the former the WLA that are ripe for research are ministry. Mundelein College, the last four-year the records and papers of the following Marjorie Tuite, O.P., tireless worker women's college in Illinois before its women and women's organizations: for social justice and champion of the affiliation with Loyola in 1991. Also oppressed who was deeply committed part of the Gannon Center are Loyola's Anne Carr, BVM, Ph.D., inkmation- to the needs and concerns of women Women's Studies Program, an Institute ally recognized theologian and edu- and children in the United States and for Women and Leadership, a cator whose professional life has been in Central America. Women's Network, and a Mundelein dedicated to feminist theology and the Marion Kennedy Volini, Chicago College heritage space. role of women. alderperson fiom a very diverse ward, Patricia (Patty) Caron Crowley, 1978-1987, during the administrations Atthe core of the WLA are the distinguished co-founder of Christian of Jane Byrne, Chicago's fust woman records of the former Mundelein Family Movement and human rights mayor, and Harold Washington, College and the papers of its distin- activist. Chicago's fmt African-American guished president (1957- 1975), Ann Deborah's Place, organization which mayor. Ida Gannon, BVM (1915). Founded operates shelters in Chicago to help Mollie Sheiman Lieber West, labor in Chicago in 1930 by the BVMs single, homeless women regain control union activist. (Sisters of Charity of the Blessed over their lives. Women-Church Convergence, Virgin Mary), Mundelein College Eleanor F. Dolan, Ph.D., documenter coalition of autonomous, progressive, educated women of many ethnic of the women's rights movement fiom Catholic-rooted women's groups and backgrounds who were the fmt in the 1950s-1980s, especially women in organizations, working for the recogni- their families to attend college, and higher education. tion, empowerment, and development pioneered in such areas as weekend Carolyn Farrell, BVM, fmt woman of women as Church. college, theological training for religious to be mayor of a city women, credit for lifetime experience, (Dubuque,Iowa) and President of TheWLA is located on the liberal studies, and contract degrees Mundelein College during &liation Lake Shore Campus of Loyola Univer- that were especially designed to meet with Loyola. sity Chicago in Room 3 15 of Cudahy the needs of working women and Alice Bourke Hayes, botanist, Library (telephone: 773-508-8837). women whose education had been educator, administrator, speaker on The Mundelein College Archives and

10 Feminist Collections voll8, no.3 Spring 1997 the papers of Ann Ida Gannon, BVM, http://www.luc.edu~orgs/gannon/ IL 60626; Telephone: (773) 508-8837; are located in Room 136 of the archived. To make an appointment, Email: [email protected]. Sullivan Center (telephone: 773-508- please call, write, or email: Women 8450). Eventually, both archives will and Leadership Archives, Loyola [Valerie Gerrard Browne is Archivist/ be united in one space within the University Chicago, Cudahy Library Direclor of !he Women and Leadership Gannon Center. Visit our web page at 315, 6525 N. Sheridan Rd., Chicago, Archives.]

by Barbara E. Weeg

Howdoes an instructional variety of academic institutions, my they contribute ideas, I write them on a librarian respond when the director of approach recognizes varying levels of flipchart, forming two lists that a new women's studies graduate library knowledge. As we explore each become the basis for discussing program asks her to help develop information source, I share the primary and secondary sources. This students' thesis-level library research techniques I hnd useful in identifying activity, designed to foster student skills? I decided to turn challenges additional sources. My instructional reflection and class participation, leads associated with library instruction and style is informed by the recognition into a similar exercise in which the women's studies discipline into that students' specific research students idenfify the disciplines of pedagogical opportunities. Instead of interests tend to be highly personal and scholars who might research women's providing a cursory, "one-shot" library deeply felt, stemming from their own friendships. We consider how the lecture, I collaborated with the experiences. socio-political context in which professor in incorporating library I meet with the seminar three women's studies scholarship is created, instruction throughout a semester-long times instead of presenting a single published, and accessed might affect research course. Guided by feminist session, as multiple sessions allow their information searches. Heads nod pedagogy, I designed instructional more time for broader exploration and as I observe that although research activities that reflect the interdiscipli- for student-centered instructional materials may include Take Back the nary characteristics of women's studies techniques balanced with an appropri- Night handbills or Clothesline Project and its treatment by publishers and ate instructional pace. The learning t-shirts, such grassroots ephemera or libraries. experiences are progressive and realia are rarely acquired by academic In conjunction with Professor strategically placed throughout the libraries. Moreover, much of the Martha Reineke here at the University semester to facilitate student assimila- pathbreaking scholarship (particularly of Northern Iowa, I offer a series of tion of each level of information. feminist, lesbian, or multicultural) has course-integrated instructional sessions been published by small presses and to master of arts students in Graduate 1 begin the first ninety-minute thus is less likely to be reviewed, Seminar in Women's Studies: Research library instruction session by sharing carried by distributors, and acquired by Methods. Feminist pedagogy encour- my women's studies interests and librarie~.~Many women's studies ages each participant to contribute her seminar participation goals. To build a periodicals are insufficiently indexed, own life experience to the available sense of community, I ask the students making it hard to get at the informa- store of knowledge,' with faculty and to share a few sentences about them- tion they carry.' Because of these students coming together in a commu- selves and their research interests. I challenges, the first type of library nity of learners. Our research-oriented then introduce the sample topic for the resource I discuss is the research guide, library experiences include guided semester: the role of friendship in explaining that such guides describe reflection, group discussion, talks, female adult development. Together resources that can lead researchers to demonstrations, and hands-on opportu- we identify the sources available inside the information they seek. I illustrate nities. Since the students have earned or outside the library that might this function with transparencies of diverse undergraduate degrees from a provide information on this topic. As Carter and Ritchie's Women 's Studies:

Femintr CoUeftions wLl8, na3 Spring 1997 I1 A Guide to Information Sources and describe this resource and note that including federal and state government Balay's Guide to Reference Boob. often scholars conduct research in documents, archival material, and I signal the importance of devel- several libraries. I remind students of newspapers. oping an information search strategy the interdisciplinary nature of by explaining topic statements. women's studies scholarship by Thelast session focuses on Together we identify the sample sharing one or two indexes from other information resources available beyond topic's major components and develop disciplines that might be appropriate the library. Since students are encour- word lists to express each component. for each student's topic. Next we aged to view themselves as acbve The Library of Congress Subject examine An Index to Women's Studies members of the women's studies Headings volumes introduce the idea Anthologies: Resenrch Across the research community, reasons for of controlled vocabulary and I explain Disciplines, 1980-1984 as an example contacting other scholars are consid- that this thesaurus will enable them to of a specialized index that provides ered. Print and electronic directories translate each concept into the terms more complete access to essays in for obtaining scholars' addresses, used in the library online catalog. As collections than is available in most phone numbers, and email addresses we explore terms, I note the challenges library catalogs. The session ends are shown. This session highlights inherent in the subject heading and after I explain the utility of topical Internet search strategies and re- call number systems for women's bibliographies and discuss Biblio- sources, including women's studies, studies ~cholars.~I observe that graphic Index. feminist, and lesbian discussion groups although the Library of Congress call and World Wide Web sites. We number system's dispersal of women's Thesecond ninety-minute consider the purposes and protocols of studies titles can make browsing library session is designed to reinforce electronic discussion groups and diff~cult,it does mean that such titles the importance of search tern selec- related safety issues. Various World are not segregated from other materi- tion, to teach the students about Wide Web resources are examined, al~.~Then it's on to the library online higher-level electronic index search notably directories or gateways, catalog system, with demonstrations of skills, to explain the purposes of organizational home pages, thematic its author, title, and subject search citation indexes, and to expose the sites, and electronic journals. The options. Students explore the online students to specialized reference sesslon concludes with a hands-on catalog independently by using the sources. I demonstrate electronic period when students explore the subject headings identified for the index searching in the PsycLIT and Internet while the course professor and sample topic. I help them discover the Humanities Index bibliographic I circulate to learn of their successes keyword option, using sig&cant or databases, with the sample search and to answer their questions. "natural language" words to scan the topic and terms generated by the Following each instruction session, title, content notes, and subject students. We explore using online students are required to use each type heading fields. The gateway feature of thesauri, narrowing and broadening of of infonnation source and to reflect on the online catalog - providing access search terms, combining search terms their information-seeking experiences. to other libraries' catalogs - is with Boolean logic, searching with Graded library-based assignments demonstrated. This prompts an descriptors versus free-text searching, involve the use of various search explanation of interlibrary loan service and limiting by year and publication techniques. Students research their and policies. type. I introduce the students to own topics, gaining confidence in their During the second half of this citation searching in Social Sciences ability to formulate research strategies meeting we examine printed indexes, Citation Index with relevant articles and to idene and evaluate informa- abstracts, and bibliographies as identified through Women Studies tion sources. resources providing access to periodi- Abstracts and discuss how tracing Students are also required to cal articles and other information who-is-citing-whom can overcome maintain a non-graded library la% sources. Students explore the purpose, some difficulties of subject searching. notebook throughout the semester in contents, and structure of Women Transparencies illustrate specialized which they note their research strate- Studies Abstracts with me by using the reference sources, including Women 's gies, evaluate the usefulness of each sample topic of women's friendships Studies Encyclopedia, A Feminist type of infonnation source, and record and independently by searching under Dictionary, Handbook of American their personal insights as they seek terms relevant to their particular Women 's History, and Statistical information. I modeled the library lab interests. Although the library does Handbook on Women in America. notebook after the journal and search not own Women's Studles Index, I Additional sources are mentioned log techniques Carol Kuhlthau used to

I2 Feminist Collections voI.18, na3 Spring 1997 investigate the thoughts, feelings, and NOTES 5 Mary M. Huston and Joe L. Will- actions of students as they searched a iams, "Researcher Response to the library for information needed to 1 See Ellen Broidy's "Bibliographic Politics of Information," Research complete research papem6 Instruction in Women's Studies: From Strategies, v.5,n0.2 (Spring 1987), the Grassroots to the Ivory Tower" in p.92. Arethese collaborative instruc- Conceptual Frameworks for Biblio- 6 For example, Carol Collier tional approaches and in-class and out- graphic Education: Theory into Kuhlthau, "Developing a Model of the of-class activities effective? Do Practice, ed. Mary Reichel and Mary Library Search Process: Cognitive and students develop more advanced Ann Ramey (Littleton, CO: Libraries Affective Aspects," RQ, v.28.no.2 library research skills? Although I Unlimited, 1987), pp.86-96, which (Winter 1988), p.234. have not researched these issues, the includes comments about feminist course professor has observed that my pedagogy and library instruction. [Barb Weeg is the Library Instruction contributions to the research methods 2 Susan E. Searing, "Institutions of Coordinator and a reference librarian class substantially enhance students' Memory: Libraries and Women's at the University of Northern lowa. In development as scholars and that the Work(s)," Michigan Quarterly Review, addition to earning a Master of Arts in knowledge I share is having a notable v.26, n0.1 (Winter 1987), pp.230-23 1. Library Science she earned a Master impact on student theses. Students' 3 Kristin H. Gerhard, Tmdi E. of Arts in Education (College Student notebook entries indicate their per- Jacobson, and Susan G. Williamson, Personnel Services).] sonal pride in the skills they are "Indexing Adequacy and Interdiscipli- building. And I learn from the nary Journals: The Case of Women's Barb Weeg's bibliography of course- students. As I review their notebooks, Studies," College & Research Librar- related resources is available at http:// I learn of useful research strategies and ies, v.54, no.2 (March 1993), pp.125- www.uni.edu/weeg/courseint.hfml resources that I can incorporate into 135. my library instruction. Their notebook 4 For critiques of Library of Congress reflections and the reference questions subject headings as sexist, out-of-date, they ask between sessions help me to and inadequate for identifying improve my instructional techniques. women's studies scholarship, see Linda It is exciting to participate in this Krikos, "BI Challenges in Women's collaborative process of helping Studies: The Gateway Answer," students link what they personally Research Strategies, v.13, no.2 (Spring know with what has been expressed 1995), pp.69, 72-73 and Searing, through women's studies scholarship pp.231-235. as they strive to articulate new knowl- edge.

In November 1996, the women of funding will keep the press secure in Box 40-4920, Brooklyn, NY 11240- KITCHEN TABLE: WOMEN OF its operations. Writers, publishers, 4920. COLOR PRESS celebrated fifteen journalists, academics, and funders of years of publishing. Now they have all ages, means, and etbnicities came POWER PUBLICATIONS special- completed their three-year collabora- together to achieve this remarkable izes in books on nursing and women's tion with Union Institute Center for feat. Thanks to their work, the Press issues in the health care field. The Women to raise $300,000 for the now has two paid staff, new computer Press has published four titles in 1995 ongoing work of the Press. A equipment, and has managed to keep and two in 1996. Contact editor grassroots, national houseparty all the Press' titles in print as well as Elizabeth Wallace at 56 McArthur campaign raised more than $30,000, scheduling three new works over the Ave., Staten Island, NY 10312. and an additional $260,000 in grant next two years. Their address is: P.O.

Feminist Collectio~ voL 18, na3 Sprin~1997 13 WORLDWIDE WEB REVIE ws:

Breast Cancer Websites by Ann Boyer

[Eds. note: This ongoing new feature in Feminist Collec- SELF--HELP SITES tions suggests and evaluates key websites on particular topics In this issue, Ann Boyer examines sites on breast Breast Cancer Information Clearinghouse cancer, then Julie Albright looks at web pages about URL: http://nysemet.orghcic/ women and computer technology] Maintained by New York State Education and Research Network As you might expect, a multitude of World Wide Web Last update: week of January 5,1997 sites deal with aspects of breast cancer. I've chosen sites that Reviewed: January 11,1997 exemplify various types of home pages. We begin with a look at a large comprehensive site (meta-site), an excellent This well-conceived large site provides information to starting point for fmding both patient-oriented and clini- breast cancer patients and their families, with a small cally-oriented materials. section geared to health professionals. NYSERNET is a nonprofit organization in New York State. Information is META-SITES provided by a partnership of fourteen organizations includ- ing the American Cancer Society, Columbia-Presbyterian OncoLmk Medical Center, the National Alliance of Breast Cancer URL: http://oncolink.upenn.edd Organizations, and a chapter of the Susan G. Komen Breast Maintained by University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center Cancer Foundation. A subject index and an internal search Last update: January 2, 1997 engine allow homing in on a topic. Links connect to cancer Reviewed: January 3,1997 listsews and gophers as well as to regional support groups. There are a Q&A section, information on conferences and OncoLink is sponsored by the University of Pennsylva- legislation, 800 numbers and hotlines. The designers nia Cancer Center, with the goal of educating health care include considerable background information on the site personnel, patients, and others. Although OncoLink is itself. This is one of the strongest of the many women's self- partly funded by a large drug company, it does not appear help pages. For a worthwhile, eclectic, medium-sized self- biased. Editors are M.D.s, backed by an editorial board of help page, visit also the Feminist Internet Gateway:Breast oncologists. The breast cancer section (http://oncolink. Cancer Resources (http://www. feminist.org/other/bc/ upenn.edddisease/breast/) has recent press reports on the bcinterl .html). oncogene BRCA1; journal citations from the national database CANCERLIT; material on psychosocial aspects of Breast Cancer Lighthouse the disease (personal accounts, art, poetry); book reviews; UNi http://commtechlab.mu.eddCTLProjects/ links to support organizations; information on the causes, breastcancerlighthouse/ screening, diagnosis and prevention of breast cancer (FDA Maintained by Communication Technology Labratory, MSU warnings, NCI Fact Sheets, text produced by OncoLink's Last update: not available team); and breast cancer therapies (slides, FDA updates, Reviewed: January 7, 1997 audits of clinical protocols, a bone marrow donor database, and clinical trial notifications). As large as it is, OncoLink This smallish site, sponsored by the Michigan State is well-designed and simple to navigate. Another high- University Cancer Center and its Communication Technol- quality meta-site is CancerNet (http://wwwicic.nci.nih. ogy Laboratory, is one of the more imaginative self-help gov:80/). Mounted by the National Cancer Institute and pages. Aimed at women diagnosed with breast cancer, it frequently updated, it offers a rich variety of government provides fairly detailed information about Ductal Carcinoma information sources, useful to both health professionals and lay users.

14 Feminisr Collections voL 18, na3 Spring 1997 in Situ and invasive cancer, along with interviews with a types, screening and risk, postmenopausal hormone replace- number of breast cancer survivors. The intent is to create an ment, genetic considerations, diagnosis and prognosis, intimate, friendly experience for the viewer. The lighthouse1 surgery, and adjunctive chemotherapy. A Breast Problem island motif is enhanced by voice audio, pictures, and Clinic has been added for lay viewers. The text offers links environmental sounds. The creators have made good use of to photomicrographs, full-text articles, National Cancer the web's multimedia capabilities. The resulting admixture Institute Recommendations, etc. It's a good example of of medical information with personal stories and aesthetics hypertext being used to enrich instruction, letting the viewer will appeal to some women, but not all. click to pictures, references, and background data, then back to the text.

ADVOCACY SITES SMALL, HIGHLY PERSONAL SITES National Breast Cancer Coalition URL: http://www.natlbcc.org/ My Experience with Breast Cancer (illustrated) by Maintained by Webmaster, Calibre Systems, Inc. Patricia Murray Last update: September 5, 1996 m. http://web.mit.eddpamurray/www/artbc.h~ Reviewed: January 7, 1997 Maintained by Patricia Murray Last updated: July 1996 This is a politically-oriented women's health advocacy Reviewed: January 13, 1997 group site; some such sites include medical information while others do not. The Washington-based Coalition Patricia Murray narrates her experiences with describes itself as a grassroots organization with a mission mastectomy and breast reconstruction, documenting it with to help eradicate breast cancer via action and political photos. This self-revelatory narrative is down-to-earth, well- advocacy. This small site outlines the Coalition's goals and organized, and written with warmth and a light touch. For a initiatives and solicits contributions and memberships. Its site that confronts cancer with humor, visit Cancer Comics style is vigorous and activist. - The Humor of the Tumor: http://oncolink.upenn.edd psychosocial/c-comics/. Yet another site worth visiting is Matuschka: http://www.itp.tsoa.nyu.edd--studentI CLINICALLY-ORIENTED SITE OF LIMITED pincusion/FORUMHTMLkushionl.html. Matuschka is a SCOPE model, photographer, breast cancer survivor and cancer activist. See her strong photographic self-portraits and Breast Tutorial thought-provoking explication. URL: http://www.biostat.wisc.eddsurgery/wolbergI breast.html While the aforementioned represent some of the major Maintained by William H. Wolberg, M.D. types of breast cancer websites, you will discover others in Last updated: January 6,1997 your web travels. New sites are constantly appearing, and Reviewed: January 11,1997 old ones frequently evolve..

Dr. Wolberg is a professor of Surgery and Human [Ann Boyer, M.A., MS., is a Reference Librarian at the Oncology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This Universig of Wisconsin-Madison Health Sciences Libraries. page was created for use by medical students and by She maintains the Women 's Health section of Health Web, a residents studying for board exams. It could serve as a collaboration among medical school librarians to offer chapter in a virtual medical textbook. The page reviews pointers to qualitative websites. The URL for the Women's current howledge about breast cancer and related topics: Health Page is: http://www.biostat.wisc.edu/chslib/hepp/ breast anatomy, physiology and examination, differential diagnosis and cancer

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Ferninkt Collections voLl8, na3 Spring 1997 I5 Walking the Web: A Review of Websites on Women and Computer Technology

by Julie M.Albright

As webmaster for a site related to Gender and Com- Webster's Network puter Technology (http://www.cpsr.org), I was interested in URL: http://lucien.berkeley.edu/women-in-it.hfml taking a walk on the Web to see what other sites have to DevelopedMaintained by: Jerome McDonough offer. Gregory Bateson once said that "the map is not the Last updated: Unknown territory"; on the Web, many sites claim to be territories, but Date of Review: 3/2/97 end up being only maps to other sites. By "map" I mean that the site serves mainly as a virtual roadmap, pointing to The Webster's Network resembles less a fold-out city other places on the Web where information on the topic of map and more one of those fat, glossy guidebooks that women and computing can be found. By "territory" I mean provide you with fascinating tidbits about points of interest a place offering actual content or information, more than and "must-sees" for the tourist visiting a new town. For the merely a sense of direction, perhaps by including archives of visitor to the Web, especially helpful are the "mini reviews" papers related to the topic, news clippings, and a clear of sites accompanying each link, which can help you to both position or "voice." focus your search and avoid many unintended wrong turns or dead ends. A few of the categories covered here are: The Ada Project Bibliographies, Women's Status in CS & IT, and Organiza- URC: http://www.cs.yale.edu/HTMLNALE/CSMyPlans/ tions for Women on the Web. There are also links to jobs tap/tap.html and funding sources that could be potentially useful. Developedhlaintained by: Elisabeth Freeman and Susanne Overall, the Webster's Network is one of the better sites out Hupfer, Yale University. there, if you are looking for a more detailed "map" to Last updated: 1/1/97 actually help you get your Web bearings in the area of Date of review: 1/14/1997 Women and Computer Technology.

The fust site, "The Ada Project," is a very slick WLTI - Women in Technology territory, containing much useful information for the URL: http://www.witi.com beginning student or more advanced researcher. Created in Developed/Maintained by: Carolyn Leighton 1994 at Yale University, the Ada Project (or "TAP) is now Last updated: 2/26/97 an official site of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Committee on the Status of Women in Computing. WITI has been intentionally set up as a territory site on The authors' mission is for the site to serve as a "clearing- the Web, even calling itself a "campus." A stroll on this house for information related to women and computing." To virtual campus makes WITI's activist mission clear: this end, the site contains a wide variety of topic areas, 6om increasing the number of women hired and promoted to a "media watch" with reviews and articles related to women information technology management and executive level and computing, to information on a project aimed at getting positions. Part of this mission includes "helping women to girls interested in technological careers, to conference and become more fmcially independent and technology- grant information. The site also contains several bibliogra- literate" and "encouraging young women to choose careers phies of academic work on women and technology, although in technology and science." To this end, the WITI site most of these papers are not hyperlinked. Overall, it is a contains frequently updated news reports on women and well-maintained and well-presented destination on the Web. technology, a networking area (similar to the one at TAP), and a virtual job fair. Overall, it is a well-presented site, although in some areas the links provided are only tangen- tially related to the topic. Many other excellent sites are worth mentioning, including the femina site (http://www.femina.com), which has a "Computers and Science" cluster offering an array of

16 Feminist Collections voLl8, na3 Spring 1997 connecting links on women and computer technology. Ellen topics such as women and computer technology, computer Spertus' site (http://www. www.ai.mit.edu/people/ellend science and education, and mentoring to help women and gender.htm) serves as a repository for many of her excellent girls get involved with computing and the Internet. papers and provides links to other seminal works in this I hope this review will provide a preliminary roadmap area, plus links to resources on women of color and comput- to begin your walk on the Web and interest you in visiting ing, an important and understudied area. Probably the most these and other sites along the way. comprehensive of these sites is that of the University of Wisconsin's Women's Studies Librarian's ofice (http:// [Julie Albright is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at www.library.wisc.ed~'braries/WomensStudied University of Southern California and is interested in the homemore.htm#bibliographies), which features a substantial social implications of computer technology. Her Web bibliography (Information Technology and Women's Lives) address is: http://www-scjusc.edu/-nlbright] of literally hundreds of books and articles pertaining to

66 Just a reminder that our website (http:/h.library/ DD-LL (Deaf Dykes - Lipreading Lesbians) is a discussion wisc.eduflibraries/WomensStudies/) offers electronic place for lesbians and bisexual women with simcant versions of all recent "Computer Talk" columns, plus hearing loss, to share stories, develop community, and numerous bibliographies and core lists of women's studies support each other. Because the list software has limita- resources, and links to hundreds of other sites. 66 tions, the owners are trying to keep the list small. Send a note explaining that you are a lesbian or bisexual woman and that you have a sigmficant hearing loss to: DD-LL- Note that final punctuation is sometimes left off sentences [email protected] in this section that liFt addresses, for purposes of clarity, FLING is a list intended for women in linguistics or related since 1iFtsen.s and Web addresses do not include a 'Vot" or - fields such as anthropology, communications, sociology, or period at the end. psychology. Send the message subscribef2ingfirstname

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18 Feminist Collections wLJ8, na3 Spring 1997 Irene Stuber's CAlT'S CLAWS and WOMEN OF such topics as: "Facing the Big Chill in Science," "Gender, ACHIEVEMENT AND HERSTORY have a new home, Race, and Class," "Comvuter Culture Deflects Women and along with other resources offered by this intrepid re- ~inorities,"and "~iverkyCounts: Recent Data on Women searcher. Both the newsletter and the 5,000-biography and Minorities." Address: http://www.edoc.com/nextwave/ women's history compilation have searchable archives. Address: http://www.imageworld.com/istuber.html The MARGE PIERCY HOMEPAGE is intended to "help Helen Fallon's DIRECTORY OF GENDER RELATED students writing papers, faculty doing research, people RESOURCES FOR ACADEMIC RESEARCH, compiled wanting to study with me in a workshop setting, and just as part of her M.A. thesis, is a series of links to websites on plain fans." Includes a schedule of readings and workshops. such topics as: electronic discussion lists, organizations, The writer's address: http://www.capecod.net/-tmpiercyl bibliographies, electronic texts, libraries worldwide, and The NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR FEMALE guides to creating homepages on the Internet. You can find EXECUTIVES now has a web page, titled "Women @ it at: http://www.&u.ie/sta~don/thesis.htm Work," complete with information on and selected pieces FEMINIST ECONOMICS has a web presence that includes from its Executive Female publication. Their address: http:// subscription information, calls for papers, and tables of www.nafe.com/ contents of some recent issues. Address: http://www. bucknell.edu/-jshackel/iaffe/jrinfo.html The (Australian) NATIONAL WOMEN'S JUSTICE COALITION launched its website on March 8, Interna- GIRL TECH is a technology company that produces tional Women's Day. The Coalition is a "lobbying and products geared to girls' interests. Their website features a networking organisation which aims to promote women's host of areas and ideas for girls to connect with, from equality before the law" and is made up of national and state "Chick Chat" where girls can communicate with each other organizations plus individual members. The website will to "Game Cafe" to "Invention" to "Tech Trips" linking to note relevant legislation, suggest action ideas, and offer other recommended sites. Find them at: http://www. information on where women can get legal assistance. girltech.com/ Address: http://www.ozemail.comau/-nwjc/ The HOMELESS WOMEN'S NETWORK, although The website of the NATIONAL WOMEN'S RESOURCE focused on the work of the YWCA of the Seattle, King, and CENTER (a cooperative project of a number of federal Snohomish County area of Washington state, offers a good programs related to women's alcohol, tobacco, and other mo&l for a listing of resources (including a newspaper, a drug abuse) is crammed with reports, papers, bibliographies, speakers' bureau, and information on domestic violence) links to associations and bulletin boards, plus other informa- related to homeless women and providers of services for tion about the Center's programs and services. You can find them. Address: http://www.speakeasy.orgihwnl them at: http:/h.nm.orgl The web page for the INTERNATIONAL CESAREAN NEW VICTORIA PUBLISHERS, producers of lesbian AWARENESS NETWORK offers links to information fiction and nonfiction, offers &scriptions of a number of about avoiding an unnecessary cesarean, the risks involved, 1997 titles on their website. While there's no online vaginal birth after cesarean, and more. Their address: ordering direct from the web page, an email connection is http://www.childbirth.orglsection/ICAN.hd available for those wanting a catalog or to place an order. Check them out at: http://www.opendoor.com/NewVic/ LADYSLIPPER MUSIC offers a wonddcatalog full of women's music selections. Browse their huge (more than The NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S WOMEN'S 1,500 titles) online listing by genrelcategory, title, or artist. STUDIES RESOURCE SECTION has a web page full of Those equipped with enough $$ and unlimited time may interesting items, grouped by such categories as Bibliogra- also listen to some samples. Address: http://www.jcmax. phies, Feminist theory, Biography, History, Literature, com/vendorsfladyslipper/ A link to Ladyslipper's page, plus Periodicals, Microform collections, and Internet resources. a few other suggested distributors, may be found on the Explore at: http://www.nypl.org/researchlcbdgrdl Early Music by Women Composers website: http:// resguides/women.html pages.nyu.edu/-whitwrth/MailOrder.html New York Times Magazine's SPECIAL ISSUE ON Science Magazine's Next Wave, an "electronic network for 'HEROINE WORSHIPn is represented on the magazine's the next generation of scientists," offers a web page on web page by a number of brief biographical articles, audio MAINTAINING DIVERSITY IN SCIENCE that includes and video clips, discussion fonun suggestions, and related

Feminist ColleeUeUonsvoL18, na3 Spring 1997 19 online encyclopedia articles. Among the icons (both mean- survivors. You can find them at: http://www.cs.utk.edu/ ings) with further info are Eleanor Roosevelf Marian -bartley/saInfoPage.html Anderson, Amelia Earhart, Twiggy (?), Margaret Thatcher, SISTERHOOD BOOKSTORE of Los Angeles has a and Helen Keller. Address:.http://www.nytimes.cod website with a large listing of books, an online order system, information on megastores' threat to independent booksell- %OBSERVATORY FOR WOMEN from Rouen, ers, and more. Their address: http://www2.sisterhood.com/ France, brings together representatives of many women- related organizations, from women heads of international The SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF corporations to associations for widows with children. Their WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH provides interesting website explains the mission, goals, and proposed actions in health facts along with many links to related health sites, a an effort to create '%balance between men and women in the listing of its publications, and information on key issues in different areas of society." Text is available in English, research. Find them at: http://www.womens-health.org/ French, or Spanish. Address: http://www.rci-info.fr/hw/ Kishau Smith's RESOURCES FOR WOMEN COMPUT- Vera Britto's TALKING ABOUT DEVELOPMENT ING PROFESSIONALS offers links to women-run website offers a series of interviews with some fifteen businesses and sites that serve "women in the computing "professionals, politicians, grassroots activists, and others" profession, women engineers, entrepreneurs and organiza- about what development is all about, how their work relates tions that provide resources to women." The address is in to the larger world, and covering such topics as health, geocities' complex of "neighborhoods," so if the full listing reproductive rights, educaction, foreign relations, citizen- doesn't work, try lopping off everythmg beyond ship and democracy, and the environment. The address: "SiliconValleyr' and weave your way to the site: http:// www.geocities.comlSiliconValley/ParW94171 THINKING OF ANAIS NIN website centers, of course, on Abstracts of presentations from the third annual the writer and diarist whose work included "avant-garde ROUNDTABLE ON WOMEN'S STUDIES AND THE novels of the French surrealistic style" and seven volumes of INTERNET, which took place at the University of Toronto diaries. Address of the (slow-loading) page, which links to Feb. 27, 1997, are available at the website of the Centre for memories by several people about their meeting Nin, a Women's Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for project to save Nin's home, and book information, is: http:// Studies in Education (OISE): http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/ www.dol.com/nin/ WSInternet97 The web page for WHERE: Women for Healthcare The Arthur and Elizabeth SCHLESINGER LIBRARY ON Education, Reform & Equity includes some "quick facts" THE HISTORY OF WOMEN IN AMERICA offers a about what to expect from various medical exams, a listing website with basic information about its holdings, how to of publications, and links to other women's health groups. visitlaccess the collections, a direct link to Hollis (Harvard's Address: http://www.med.codwhere/index.html online catalog), and links to related sites on women's history WMGS (Women's International News Gathering and archives. The address: http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles/ Service) offers audio of its various news programs and The SEXUAL ASSAULT INFORMATION PAGE interviews (users need a sound card, speakers, and software provides numerous links to resources, organized by topics such as Real Audio). Topics of a January newscast include such as acquaintance rape, dissociative disorder, men's "Turning the Tables on Sexual Harassers," "Women Lost resources, poetry, professional abuse, self defense, and Out in Nicaragua Elections" and "Indigenous Women

20 Feminist Collections voLl8, na3 Spring 1997 Oppose Mining in Philippines." Address: http:// The website for WOMEN OF THE WORLD carries www.wings.org/audio.html information on reproductive freedom in a number of countries, including Brazil, China, Germany, India, Nigeria, WHOA (Women Halting Online Abuse) has opened a and the U.S. Topics range from abortion and sterilization to website for educating Internet participants about online HIVIAIDS and motherhood. Address: http://www. harassment, monitoring of "safe" and "unsafe" websites, echonyc.com/-jmlan/wotw/toc.html providing resources for preventing harassment, and support- ing victims of online abuse via the WHOA network. The WOMEN'S HEALTH PAGE, maintained by librar- Address: http://whoa.femail.com/ ians in the University of Wisconsin Madison Health A WOMAN'S SPIRIT: THE GLOBAL WOMAN'S Sciences Library, is a segment of Health Web, a collabora- BOOKSTORE AND MARKETPLACE is open for tive effort among health science libraries to point to Internet business, operated by former social worker-turned-techie sites of value to the health science community. Topics on the Mary Pietrowski. An online inventory of 300,000 books, Women's Health Page include breast cancer, osteoporosis, customer reviews, author interviews, and other links await lesbian health, and domestic violence. Find them at: you at: http://www.womanspirit.com/ WOMANIST THEORY AND RESEARCH is a twice- The WOMEN'S LAND ARMY is an exhibition of photos/ yearly, "interdisciplinary, intercultural, international journal posters from the World War I1 effort by the Emergency Farm on women of color." Its website includes tables of contents Labor Service to recruit women to help out in fields with for previous issues plus submission and subscription wee,thinning, and harvesting crops of all kinds across information, announcement of upcoming events and the U.S. Address: http://159.121.28.251/osuwla.html publications, and links to other relevant sites. Their address: For links to many sites on WOMEN'S STUDIES IN EUROPE, check this URL: http://wwworg.uio.no/www- WOMENAND PERFORMANCE offers what seems to be other/nikWEnglishlEuropa.html mosttall of its special issue, "Sexuality and Cyberspace," on WOMENWATCH is the combined website for three United its website. You'll also fhd links to many other resources on Nations organizations devoted to women's issues: the its "Feminist Yellow Pages of Cyberspace." Look for this Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW), the site at: http://www.echonyc.com/-women1 United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), The WOMEN ARTISTS ARCHIVE web page at Sonoma and the International Research and Training Institute for the College's Salazar Library features information on more than Advancement of Women (MSTRAW). This "gateway to UN 1,000 artists fkom the medieval period through the twentieth information and data on women worldwide," officially century. While not much actual artwork is visible on the launched on International Women's Day (March 8), will Web, the collection itself includes thousands of slides, plus also keep tabs on follow-up to the Fourth World Conference books, periodicals, and upright files. Address is: on Women held in 1995. Address: http://www.un.org/ http:/ilibweb.sonoma.edu/speciaYwaa/ womenwatch/ WOMEN COMPOSERS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF Though listed once before,.it seems worthwhile to remind INTERNET RESOURCES provides links to key sites readers of WWWOMEN, which calls itself "the premier having to do with women in music, includmg journals, search directory for women online" and largely lives up to email lists, discographies, informational sites (such as that title. Offering both a keyword search upfkont as well as Women of the Blues), and information on performing an alphabetical listing of categories, this site could save you groups. Address: http://www.geocities. com/Heartland/ time in locating what you're searching for. Address: 7282/women.html http://www.wwwomen.com/ WOMEN IN PUBLISHING is a "networking, training and YOOHOO! LESBIANS! is a resource page chock full of mutual suppod' effort headquartered in London but with liito sites of interest to lesbians and women in general. chapters and members throughout the world. See their list Grouped under topics from Art & Literature to Cyberspaces of courses, awards, international contacts, and more at: to Media to Recreation to Youth Resources, this Web page is worth visiting if for nothing more than its clean org&- tion. Located at: http://www.sappho.com/yoohoo/

Feminist Colle&'ons voLl8, no.3 Sprfng 1997 21 ELECTRONIC JOURNALS INTERNET RESOURCES ON WOMEN: USZNG ELEC- TRONIC MEDLA IN CURRICULUM TRANSFORMA- TION is a brand new Internet manual by Joan Korenman [Lbtings in this section are actual onlinepublications; (of WMST-L fame and Director of Women's Studies at the some periodical titles in the general World Wide Web University of Mqland, Baltimore County). Intended both section offer only sample articles, tables of conten& or for Internet novices just learning about email, discussion basic information such as subscription prices. fonuns, and the Web, and for Internet experts and others seeking information about electronic resources related to Please note ahthat our oflce's web page is a collecting Women's Studies and transforming the traditional curricu- point for womenlfocused sites, particularly magazines, lum, the guide includes a wealth of information. Additions newsletters, and journals with web presences comisting of and changes are posted to the manual's frequently updated more than an advertisement. To date, more than a hundred website. Cost of the book is $20 to individuals, $30 to publications have links from this section of our site: http:// institutions. For information contact the National Center www.library.wisc. eddibranes/WomensStudies/mags. htm] for Curriculum Transformation Resources on Women, LLT 3 17, Towson State University, 8000 York Rd., Baltimore, ADVANCZNG WOMEN ZN LEADERSHIP describes itself MD 2 1252. Phone: 410-830-3944 (email: as "the first on-line professional, refereed journal for women [email protected]). in leadership." Authors from all professional fields are invited to submit manuscripts that "report, synthesize, LET'S TALK ABOUT ME offers a CD-ROM that's a review, or analyze scholarly inquj. that focuses on combination "diary, personal planner, and address book" women's issues." Web address: http://www.advancing. (publicity), with quizzes, horoscopes, and more. Their web women.com/awl.html page is: http://www.aboutme.com The NATIONAL WOMEN'S JUSTICE COALITION For those interested in THIRD WAVE FEMINISM, here's JOURNAL published its 61~tonline issue in March, 1997, an email address you can contact. Write to the organization to help members of the Coalition and others "keep women's at: [email protected] (or see their embryo web page, http:// justice issues firmly on the agenda" in Australia. The issue www.feminist.com/3Wave.htm). offers tracking of important legislation (family law reform, WINE: WOMEN'S INFORMATION NETWORK anti-Teoh legislation, and support for maternity leave) as EUROPE is a network for women's documentation centers, well as news of women's legal centers and the oppobty archives, and libraries that specialize in information to get copies of bills online. Address: http://www.ozemail. services in Europe. The organization strives to coordinate cornad-nwjc/nlvln 1.html program development, represent the expertise of women and women's studies in Europe, organize seminars, meetings, and conferences, and participate in various projects. You OTHER ELECTRONIC RESOURCES may contact them at: [email protected] or [email protected] A new guide called GAY & LESBIAN ONLINE by Jeff The most recent version of WOMEN'S RESOURCES Dawson helps locate resources on the Internet for cooking, INTERNATIONAL, the CD-ROM database that includes gardening, travel, movies, and other topics of interest to New Books on Women & Feminism and other useful data- gays and lesbians. (Peachpit Press, 2414 Sixth St., Berkeley, bases in women's studies, now also carries European CA 94710; 800-283-9444). Women from the Renaissance to Yesterday: A Bibliogra- GIRL TECH (see their website noted in that section) is a phy by Judith P. Zimmerman that contains more than new company put together by parent Janese Swanson, whose 10,000 records. A new Women's Studies Database daughter Jackie helped invent a voice-recording toy later Thesaurus is part of the package. Contact the National marketed by the license-holder primarily to boys. The five Information Services Corporation (NISC) at Wyman women employees of Girl Tech create technology-based Towers, 3100 St. Paul St., Baltimore, MD 21218; email: products geared to girls age six to twelve. The Hasbro toy [email protected] company (carriers of "Scrabble" and "Monopoly") have signed a contract agreeing to market Girl Tech's products in ** L.S. a girl-friendly way. Check toy shelves this spring.

22 Feminist Colkiiorrr wLZ8, na3 Spring 1997 The HEARTLAND LESBIAN FEMINIST ARCHIVE is in Oxford, Ohio. The intention is to "act as a link between located in Spring Valley, Wisconsin. To schedule a visit, the playwrights and anyone who wants to contact them for call 715-698-2609 or write W3419 850 Ave., Spring Valley, performance rights." To that end, the Library will maintain WI 54767. a directory of the playwrights, to eventually be published both in print and on an Internet website. For information, The NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS contact William A. Wortman, King Library, Miami Univer- ARCHIVE, founded in 1996, is housed in the Walter sity, Oxford, OH 45056; phone: 513-529-3936; email: Havighurst Special Collections Library at Miami University [email protected]

A newditle has been added to our listing of topical "International Politics," by May M. Jafari bibliograp6es: GENDER AND CREATIVE WRITING, a "Language," by Betty Day, rev. by Rachel Murphree ten-page bibliography by Susan Hubbard, Assistant Profes- "Law and Legal Studies," by Megan Adam sor of English, University of Central Florida, Orlando, and "Lesbian Studies," by Joan Ariel Gail Stygall, Associate Professor of English, University of "Literature in England & the U.S.," by Ruth Wallach, rev. Washington, Seattle. Noting that "little empirical research by Deborah LaFond and Marjorie Pryse on gender and creative writing actually exists," the compil- "Management," by Bernice Lacks ers include "a wide range of critical texts that have implica- "Mass Media," by Ruth Dickstein and Melissa Duhaime tions for @3 study of gender's influences on the teaching "Mental Health," by Kimberley D. Robles and practice of creative writing." "Music," by Leslie Bennett "Philosophy," by Sara Brownmiller The updated 1997 set of CORE LISTS IN WOMEN'S "Politics," by May M. Jafari STUDIES is now up on our website, with a few new titles "Reference Works," by Joan Ariel included. As a reminder of the wealth of material available, "Religion," by Argent Sue Gibson here's a listing of the subjects covered by this set, which has "Science," by Jeannie P. Miller been compiled by the Women's Studies Section of the "Sexual Abuse," by Mila Sue Association of College and Research Libraries under "Sociology," by Sara Brownmiller general editors Judith Hudson and Rachel Murphree. "Sports," by Jeannie P. Miller "U.S. Women's History," by Jessica Grimm "Aging," by Nancy Seale Osborne "Women of Color," by Bernice Redfern "Anthropology," by Kimberley D. Robles "Arts in England & the US," by Ruth Wallach, rev. by Each of the bibliographies listed above and other titles in Judith Hudson the series "Wisconsin Bibliographies in Women's Studies" "Education," by Cindy Faries is available on our ofice's website (http://www.library. "Family," by Laura Galvan-Estrada, rev. by Judith Hudson wisc.eduflibrarieslWomensStudies/)but single print copies "Feminist Movements in the U.S.," by Kathy Kerns of each are also available on reauest for those without Web "Feminist Pedagogy," by Lori Goetsch access. Our address is: ~om~sStudies Librarian, 430 "Feminist Theory," by Beth Sibley Memorial Library, 728 State St., Madison, WI 53706; "Film Studies," by Ellen Broidy mil: [email protected]. "Health," by Linda Krikos "International History," by Pat Doherty and Ruth Dickstein, rev. by Nancy Seale Osborne

Feminist CoUeeh'ons wLl8, na3 Spring 1997 23 In November 1996, the women of KITCHEN TABLE: computer equipment, and has managed to keep all the WOMEN OF COLOR PRESS celebrated fifteen years of Press' titles in print as well as scheduling three new works publishing. Now they have completed their three-year over the next two years. Their address is: P.O. Box 40- collaboration with Union Institute Center for Women to 4920, Brooklyn, NY 11240-4920. raise $300,000 for the ongoing work of the Press. A grassroots, national houseparty campaign raised more than POWER PUBLICATIONS specializes in books on nursing $30,000, and an additional $260,000 in grant funding will and women's issues in the health care field. The Press has keep the press secure in its operations. Writers, publishers, published four titles in 1995 and two in 1996. Contact journalists, academics, and funders of all ages, means, and editor Elizabeth Wallace at 56 McArthur Ave., Staten ethnicities came together to achieve this remarkable feat. Island, NY 103 12. Thanks to their work, the Press now has two paid staff, new

BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARIES citations concerning the National Women's Trade Union League in the Organizations category of the Social reform Elizabeth M. Cox, WOMEN IN MODERN AMERICAN section of the Movement/advocacy division. Where appro- POLITICS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY, 190&1995. Washington, priate, sections are divided regionally and by state. This DC: Congressional Quarterly, 1997. 414p. index. $129.00, feature lets readers easily look up the history of the suffrage ISBN 1-56802-133-X. movement or research on political activities by women in a particular state. Citations to material on recent officeholders A new book-length bibliography on women and politics is a bit scantier, no doubt due to the fact that newspaper has been overdue for some time. There hasn't been one articles are excluded from the bibliography. There is only since Barbara J. Nelson compiled American Women and one listing each for former Kansas Senator Nancy Politics: A Selected Bibliography and Research Guide Kassebaurn and former Colorado Congresswoman Pat (Garland, 1984), and much has been published in the Schroeder, for example, while former New York Congress- intervening thirteen years. Elizabeth Cox bears this out, woman Shirley Chisholm has sixteen. stating in her Preface that one-third of her nearly six Citations come from books, articles, dissertations, and thousand entries are for material written in the last fifteen reports. There are many listings for essays within antholo- years. gies, an area still poorly represented in online databases. The book is arranged by broad topics, which include Even though Cox apparently did not consult one of the movement/advocacy, mass behavior/participation and indexes to women's studies periodicals (or at least she voting, running for office, public institutions, public policy, doesn't say she did in the Preface where she nicely spells attitudedopinions, political theory, and reference. Cox out her sources), she does an adequate job of representing breaks down these general areas several levels, in outline material from women's studies journals. fashion, such that one can hd,for example, 2 cluster of The rather steep price is a bit of a surprise. It would be

24 Feminist Colhctlons voLl8, na3 Spring 1997 more justified if the citations were annotated. Some of them This is a good one-volume dictionary that will be most beg for at least a few words. An article entitled "Introduc- d home in public and high school libraries where the book tion" in American Woman 1987-88 (citation #4752) doesn't tself can serve as an authority, and the lack of source tell anyone enough to know whether it is worth chasing :itations will not be a significant factor. down. A 1997 bibliography also seems remiss without citing any websites. But for those libraries that can afford it, Women in Modem American Politics is a well-organized rennifer Scanlon and Shaaron Cosner, AMERICAN resource on print-based information. VOMEN HISTORZANS, Z 700s-1990s: A BIOGRAPHI- L'AL DICTIONARY. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996. !69p. bibl. index. $75.00, ISBN 0-313-29664-2 Melanie Parry, ed., LAROUSSE DICTIONARY OF WOMEN. New York: Larousse Kingfisher Chambers, 1996. "Maybe we're a little better off with a few -but just a 741p. $40.00, ISBN 07523-0015-6. Tew, mind you -people like her arounu is how a co-worker :haracterized architectural historian Mary Carolyn Pitts, What should one expect from a book with Jacqueline me of two hundred historians in this biographical resoke Kemedy Onassis, Whoopi Goldberg, Mother Theresa, and 'p.117). Pitts is a fighter for historic preservation who once Elizabeth I of England pictured on the cover? A popular, iucceeded in getting an entire town (Cape May, New Jersey) multicultural mix of historical and contemporary women is ieclared a National Historic Landmark. Many of the other the likely answer, and that's what the Larousse Dictionary 3iographees are also known for their tenacity and determi- delivers, and a bit more. lation. Deborah Norris Logan (1761-1839) got up at Librarians familiar with other Larousse products laybreak each day before starting her household chores to (Larousse Biographical Dictionary, Lurousse Dictionary of :opy correspondence between William Penn and her Writers, and the Lurousse Dictionary of Scientist.) will feel lusband's grandfather, James Logan, so that she could turn right at home. In fact, almost twolthirds of the women have Sern over to the American Philosophical Society. Arizona prior entries in other Larousse publications, although the historian Sharlot Hall (1870-1942) surmounted a childhood editor states that those entries have been revised and spinal injury and a father who discouraged her from updated. About 1,200 of the 3,000 entries are new to attending school. Larousse. These are all people who should be, and at this A large number of "firsts" and seminal works are point often are in biographical dictionaries and encyclope- mentioned in this book. Marion Lena Starkey was fmt to dias. The pursuits of the women run the gamut from artists use unpublished verbatim transcripts of documents on to social reformers, novelists, and golfers; and coverage is witchcraft in Salem for her The Devil in Marsachusettr international. (1949). Mary Louise Booth wrote the fmt comprehensive The entries are short, but revealing. Readers learn that history of New York City (1859), and in 1976 Mary Frances medical researcher Katherine Sanford grew up in Wellesley, Berry became the fust Black woman chancellor of a major Massachusetts, received a Ph.D. from Brown University, research university (University of Maryland). Linda then spent her entire career at the National Cancer Institute. Nochlin's 1971 article "Why Have There Been No Great Her contribution to science is succinctly described: "Her Women Artists?" started the field of feminist art history, cloning of a mammalian cell - the isolation of a single cell while Joan Kelly's "Did Women Have a Renaissance?" in order that it could propagate itself, producing a colony of (1977) and Paula Hyman's The Jewish Woman in America identical cells - has become a vital tool for the detailed (with Charlotte Baum and Sonya Michel, 1976) were pathological study of cancer-causing mechanisms" (p.581). groundbreaking in their fields of historical scholarship. At the head of each entrv is an even shorter summation of Scanlon and Cosner achieve a good mix of historical the woman's life, as in "French hostess who presided over and contemporary women from a variety of backgrounds one of Paris's most brilliant salons" (someone whose name and fields, including archivists, popular writers, public is actually longer than the summation, Julie Jeanne historians, and women trained and working in academic Eltanore de Lespinasse, also known as Claire Franqoise de history departments. The ovenvhelming majority of entrants Lespinasse); or "American singer and actress who has are involved in US. History. About one-fourth are historians followed her mother's star-studded footsteps" (Liza May of women's history (U.S. and non-U.S.) Minnelli). No sources are given for the information pro- Most entries are between one and two pages long. Each vided. presents the facts of the woman's life, from birthplace and There are two appendices: a women's chronology of key parents' names and occupations, through education, jobs, events and achievements and short sections of uithv- - remarks awards, service to the history profession, family life, and by women about women and by men about women. An hobbies. Her most important publications are mentioned in index by career or endeavor would have added to the value the essay, and full bibliographic citations for all book of the Dictionary. publications are listed at the end along with sources of

Feminist CoUeftrftronsvoL18, ma3 Spring 1997 25 such a source generally includes a questionnaire completed railed against lynchings and discrimination against African for the dictionary. Americans in her own Memphis Free Speech and in others' Many interesting commonalities emerge from the papers. Connie Chung, Cokie Roberts, Jessica Savitch, and biographies. Most women had encouragement from parents Barbara Walters have all made their mark in broadcast and families. Many attended women's colleges. Some are journalism. Dorothy Mae Kilgallen started as a print saddled with last names derived from deceased or divorced journalist, but is best remembered as a panelist on the fust husbands (Painter, Nochlin). Despite the research on television show "What's My Line?" in the 1950s and 1960s. the importance of mentors, few mention professional role Herta Herzog, who was active with the Office of Radio models as crucial to their careers, although some report that Research Project at Princeton, was one of the fust to mentoring their students is a significant part of what they conduct research on audiences. Current communications do. Perhaps for the contemporary historians, the lack of scholars represented include Dean of the Amenberg School discussion of mentors is an artifact of the questionnaire (not for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania included in the text). There are also diverse experiences Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Margaret L. McLaughlin, an recounted, which add interest to the work as a whole, from expert on persuasion and how people account for communi- Jill Ker Conway's childhood on an Australian sheep station cation failures. Rebecca Boring Rubin and Judee K. to Puerto Rican Virginia Sanchez Korrol's education in an Burgoon are two scholars who offen collaborate with their Irish Catholic school in the South Bronx. spouses in the same field. There is no critical analysis of their work beyond Each essay follows the same path from background comments such as "high profile as a national speaker..." information through education, career development (mentor (Evelyn Hu-Dehart), or "analytically sophisticated, densely if appropriate) or marriage and career, major contributions footnoted, and informed by the passion that comes from and achievements and critical evaluation of those contribu- writing about issues that are as urgent now as they were tions and achievements, to integration of personal and sixty years ago..." (quoting Ruth Crocker on Linda professional life. A selected bibliography of works by and Gordon's Pitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the about the biographee completes the entry. The essays are Origins of Welfare, 1994). Occasionally there's a biblio- written by scholars in the history of journalism, mass and graphic citation to an appraisal of work. More of these interpersonal communication. Many contributors inter- would have enhanced the usefihess of the dictionarv. viewed their subjects and relied extensively on answers they Nevertheless, it is an inspiring collection of personal and provided. Since they asked about mentors, they were often professional histories. told about them. Most interviewed are happy with their work and lives. As Ellen Goodman put it, "One of the most interesting ways to lead life is as a journalist; it's an Nancy Signorielli, ed., WOMEN ZN COMMUNICATIONS: examined life.... I love what I do. I think - and hope - that A BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCEBOOK. Westport, CT: I've made an impact doing it. I can't imagine a more Greenwood, 1996. 501p. index. $79.50, ISBN 0-313-29164- interesting way to lead life" (p.160). 0.

In contrast to American Women Historians, the essays CHRONOLOGY in Women in Communications include critical evaluations of each person's work, as well as biographical information. Lynne Brakeman, ed., CHRONOLOGY OF WOMEN This means, however, that there was space to give only WORLDWIDE: PEOPLE, PLACES AND EVENTS THAT forty-eight women full treatment (ranging from four to SHAPED WOMEN'S HISTORY. Detroit: Gale Research, fifteen pages), with brief descriptions of twenty-nine other 1997. 605p. indexes. $44.95, ISBN 0-7876-0154-3. current communications scholars. Since there were few women active in the formative years of the discipline of This makes the fifth entry into the field of chronologies communications - itself a young field - the editors are able of women's history appearing since 1994, with a sixth due to do justice both to the pioneers and to contemporary out soon. One is part of a series of timetables (The Time- women in communications. tables of Women 's History by Karen Greenspan, from Simon What today is known as communications began as print & Schuster), and two are by authors of chronologies in other journalism and publishing, then added broadcastkg and the fields (Irene Franck and David Brownstone wrote Timelines scholarly study of mass and interpersonal communication. of War before they tackled Women S World: A Timeline of Early journalists in the book include Mary Clemmer Ames, Women in History, 1995, both for HarperCollins; and James a nineteenth-century columnist for the New York Zndepen- Trager assembled The People's Chronology in 1992, then dent, and Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, founder and editor of The Women S Chronology in 1994, both published by Holt.) Godey S Ladies Book from 1827-1877. Dorothy Dix Karen Olsen had compiled Remember the Ludies: A originated the advice column in 1917, while Ida Minerva Woman's Book of Days in 1988 before turning out a full

26 Fcmhisl Cdlectl'ons wLl8, na3 Spring 1997 chronology for Greenwood in 1994 (Chronology of Women 's scholarship to task. The latter volume included a hundred- History). This sally from Gale Research is the first to be page annotated bibliography, which was reprinted separately compiled from a team of over thirty contributors, most by a women's press under the title He SaidBhe Said connected to universities. However, the entries are unsigned, [Pittsburgh: KNOW, Inc.). By comparison, the fmt edition muting the presumed advantage of having experts contrib- ~f MaldFemale Language - with its twenty-page, ute accurate and significant events. unannotated bibliography - made only a small splash. The book begins in 3500 B.C.E., with two chapters on The second edition of MaldFemale Language is part the ancient world, followed by three each for early and later revision, part reprint. Fifteen chapters range widely over medieval times, through 1799. Two chapters cover the fmt such subjects as forms of address, infant language develop forty years of the nineteenth century. Thereafter, each ment, pronunciation, gendered pronouns, nonverbal chapter is devoted to a single decade. Many black-and-white :ommunication, authorship, and the prospects for an photographs appear throughout. Thirty-eight pages of androgynous language. Except for the deletion of illustra- historical documents are appended, beginning with excerpts tive cartoons and the addition of a few paragraphs at the from letters of Abigail and John Adams (1776) through close of each chapter, the original text is reprinted verbatim Ronald Reagan's Proclamation of March as Women's to "give a sense of history" @.xiv). A new introduction History Month on March 16, 1987. People looking for contrasts recent feminist research with continuing sexism in events to associate with each day of the year will find the ordinary usage. Although some of Key's examples are dated Index By Day and Month just right, and fact-checkers can and her style is sometimes disjointed, the basic concepts are use the subject index without needing to know what year still relevant. something happened. Also featured are a section on myths The bibliography (pp. 181-307) is greatly expanded and legends, a timeline of general history, and a personal fiom the 1975 edition. Included are books, journal articles, name index. Lacking are references for the entries and a newspaper stories, book reviews, dissertations, and at least general bibliography. one videotape. See and see also references link co-authors. This chronology seems a good choice for libraries that English-language works predominate, with a smattering of have yet to purchase any women's history chronologies. The writings in other western languages. Nearly a thousaad new entries are somewhat longer and therefore more detailed entries have been added. Unfortunately, no changes have than those in the other chronologies (except for the thematic been made to accommodate the growth. The arrangement essays in Greenspan's work). Thuty-plus heads are probably remains alphabetical by author. Since the citations span a better than one or two, although, in truth, in the absence of broad range of themes in linguistics and related fields, a signed entries, there's insufficient information to strongly topical index or subject arrangement is sorely needed, but favor this chronology over others available. Since Brake- the book's index covers only the textual chapters. As in the man, Greenspan, Olsen, Trager, and FranckBrownstone original bibliography, the absence of annotations is a ohchoose different facts, having more than one chronol- drawback. ogy is not really a source of duplication. There's no neces- As a reference work, MaldFemale Language is well sity to purchase five, however. intentioned but poorly executed. I would not recommend it, were it not for the fact that bibliographic coverage of gender studies in language has been woellly sparse since 1975. LANGUAGE The present book is the only one-stop printed guide to writings on sex differences in language through the early Mary Ritchie Key, MALELFEMALE LANGUAGE, Wrlh a 1990s. Key has cast her net broadly, making an effort to Comprehensive Bibliography. 2nd ed. Lanham, MD: select references from multiple perspectives. Although Scarecrow Press, 1996. 324p. index. $36.00, ISBN 0-8108- hardly "comprehensive," as the title states, MaldFemale 3083-3. Language does point to readings not cited in other standard indexes. While most readers will find the MLA Interna- The year 1975 was a watershed in feminist linguistics. tional Bibliography more thorough, more focused, and Robin Lakoff s Language and Woman 's Place (New York: (especially in its electronic versions) easier to use, special- Harper & Row) interpreted emerging theories for a general ists may fmd it worthwhile to scan Key's list as well. audience, while Language and Sex: Difference and Domi- nance, edited by Barrie Thome and Nancy Henley (Rowley, [Susan E. Searing is Deputy Director of the General MA: Newbury House), took mainstream sociolinguistic Library System at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.]

Feminist CoUedions wLl8, na3 Spring 1997 27 LAW This work is highly recommended, both as a chronicle of the quest for social justice in the twentieth century and as WOMEN IN LAW: A BZO-BZBLZOGRAPHZCAL a collection of biographies of women achievers in the field SOURCEBOOK, edited by Rebecca Mae Salokar and Mary of law. L. Volcansek. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. [Janet Monk is a Government Publications Librarian at the Reference books are generally not meant to be read State Historical Society Library of Wisconsin.] from cover to cover, but this one stands up as an entertain- ing book of short stories about women achievers in addition to being a useful reference tool on women in the legal field. LESBIAN STUDIES Forty-three women who have improved twentieth-century society (for both genders) through the law are profiled in National Museum & Archive of Lesbian and Gay History, short articles, most between five and ten pages. THE LESBZANALMANAC. New York: Berkley Books, The editors' introduction explains the nomination 1996. 534p. index. pap., $16.95, ISBN 0-425-15301-0. process used by a panel of experts for selection. Most of those included are from North America, but there are This book's subtitle, "the most comprehensive reference several from the British Isles, Europe, Africa, Israel, Japan, source of its kind," should certainly fit, as it is also thefirst and the Philippines. Familiar names - such as Ruth Bader to be devoted entirely to lesbians. No matter. It is a very Ginsburg and Barbara Jordan - appear here, but so do many thorough resource of facts, figures, biographical sketches, lesser-known ones, such as Canadian bio-ethicist Margaret directory information, movie listings, travel advice, and Somerville, an expert on the legal rights of AIDS patients. more. The book opens with a chronology of North American While many female "firsts" are mentioned, there is an effort Lesbian and Gay History, also found in the companion Gay to document other areas in which those women excelled. Almanac issued simultaneously by the same publisher. For example, Florence Allen, the first women to serve on Those who have wondered when the first lesbian magazine the United States Court of Appeals, was also an activist in appeared will find the answer in the chronology (Vice Versa, the woman's suffrage movement. by Lisa Ben, 1947) and more details in the media section. Criticisms as well as successes are mentioned. The The next chapters list notable lesbians, offer quotable Janet Reno article, for example, notes that she has been remarks by lesbians, and provide a glossary of lesbian slang accused of being "slow to hue minorities" (p.251) and of and symbols. Had the Almanac been available last year, I not being "vigorous enough in prosecuting incidents of could have quickly answered a reference question about the police brutality against African Americans" (p.252). Each labrys from the defintion provided ("Double-sided axe used profile concludes with notes and references for further as a symbol of lesbian power and self-sufficiency, particu- reading. larly in jewelry. In ancient, matriarchal societies, the labrys One useful feature is the book's Appendix, grouping the was used as both a weapon and a harvesting tool. The women into three categories: "Practicing Attorneys and Greeks often pictured it in their art as the weapon of choice Judges," "Educators and Scholars," and "Political Office- of the Amazons" - p.85). holders and Activists." Names are then listed in chrono- The Almanac provides a variety of statistics about logical order, along with each woman's nationality. A lesbians, mostly from survey information collected by selected bibliography is included, along with an extensive Overlooked Opinions, Inc., a Chicago market and opinion index of names, organizations, subjects, and court cases. research fm specializing in the gay/lesbian/bisexual There is also a short section about the editors and (both market. The Almanac points to some limitations to the female and male) contributors. study, but the figures from a 1992 survey are interesting

28 Feminist Colleciions voLl8, na3 Spring 1997 nonetheless: 52 percent of lesbians live with a partner and me for "let[ting] the entries suggest a multiplicity of have a median household income of $36,072. While 45 )ossibilities" because "feminism is an idea best spoken of in percent live in urban areas, some 33 percent of those he plural, as feminism, while the related term 'feminist' is surveyed make their homes in the suburbs. iotly contested" (p.vii). While I certainly agree that I like the cleverly-written film/video/television chapter. 'eminism and feminist are best thought of as multiply- The categories listed for lesbian images in movies are a :ontexted, it took considerable time with the index to find running indictment of Hollywood's negative stereotyping: he fifteen or so entries that directly describe feminism or "schoolgirls," "prison and reformatory girls," "vampires," 'eminists. Given the nature of encyclopedias - one gener- "lesbians who recruit," "lesbians who die by the end of the 11ly doesn't read them cover to cover - locator entries for movie," "lesbians who just need to meet the right man," hese terms, either in the main list or index, would be "lesbians who don't know they are lesbians," "killer dykes," ielpful, particularly for readers not yet familiar with the and "...positive (or bearable) lesbian characters." ield as a whole. There are also chapters on just about everythmg else in I found troublesome a certain slippage in the use of life: health, law, literature, activism, arts, business, politics, enns designating the various "waves" of feminism. Both education, religion, sports, sexuality, and the military. Most Maggie Humm's The Dictionary of Feminist Theory (1995) present profiles of individuals associated with the area, md Boles and Hoeveler's Historical Dictionary of Femi- factual lists and short feature articles, bibliographies, and ?ism (1996), for example, list entries for first, second, and names and addresses of relevant organizations and busi- hird wave feminism, identifying the 1960s as the beginning nesses. An AIDS primer is also included, and the book ends 3oint of "Second Wave Feminism." Thus, it was perplexing with a national directory of lesbian and gay organizations .o find "Anglo American feminist criticism" characterized and resources. is "developing in the 1960s under the influence of the third The Almanac provides an inexpensive gathering point wave of the American feminist movement" (p.16) and "First of lesbian information that should find its way into public Wave Fermnists" described as "those feminist critics who and college libraries and personal collections. were at work in the years preceding the early 1980s" :p.163), yet no specific entry addressing whether this terminology is itself a contested site. LITERARY THEORY Overall, the Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory would make a good addition to any reference collection. Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace, ed., ENCYCLOPEDL4 OF FEMINIST LITERARY THEORY. New York: Garland, [Eileen R. Ewing is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of 1997. 44%. index. $75.00, ISBN 0-8153-0824-8. English and Project Assistant in the Biology Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison.] Wondering what Cyborg feminism is? how feminist literary theory intersects with Renaissance studies? how Lesbian studies developed? about the significance of the MAGAZINES "Gaze"? One place to begin answering these questions is the Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory (1997), edited Kathleen L. Endres and Therese L. Lueck, eds., WOMEN'S by Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace. Designed to fill a niche PERIODICALS IN THE UNITED STATES: SOCL4L between handbooks of literature and dictionaries of feminist AND POLITICAL ISSUES. Westport: CT: Greenwood terms, the range of topics covered in this single volume is Press, 1996. 52%. bibl. index. $1 10.00, ISBN 313-28632-9. impressive. From Elizabeth Abel to Nellie McKay, Trinh T. Min-ha to Bonnie Zimmennan, the work of writers and This is Endres and Lueck's second compilation of critics who have shaped the field of feminist literary theory histories and descriptions of women's periodicals. Their in the United States and Great Britain since the 1970s is First surveyed women's consumer-oriented magazines'; this represented in entries on individuals, overviews of theoreti- one covers the activist press. As such, it will be of more use cal concepts, and bibliographic references. than its predecessor to social historians of nineteenth- and The 370-plus signed entries, set in a 2-column format, twentieth-century women's movements. The compilers range in length from 1 to 5 columns. Each concludes with a begin by offering some collective facts about the seventy-six selected bibliography (current through 1994). Although the leading publications selected for inclusion. Their average anticipated audience of "students, scholars, and the general life-span was 19.9 years, skewed a bit by a few financially public" (p.vii) will find much valuable information here, stable, long-lived organizational publications, such as The some entries will be most accessible to readers already well- Union Signal of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, versed in the theoretical discourses. The index is excellent. still going strong after 112 years. The publications have had Two terms readers will not find in either the main list an average circulation of 12,230. Aside from the organiza- of entries or the index are "feminism" and "feminist." The tional periodicals, most have had rough times financially, editor's preface explains this omission by stating a prefer- hampered by editors with little or no business background

Feminist Colleclions voLl8, na3 Spring 1997 29 and content that made advertisers wary. Their longevity and MILITARY WOMEN achievements have been due to the editors' unwavering faith that their words could help change American society. Friedl, Vicki L., WOMEN M THE UNITED STATES From an initial list of five hundred titles suggested by a MILITARY, 1901-1995: A RESEARCH GUIDE AND search of reference works, specialized histories, and ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. Westport, Connecticut: interviews with experts in the field, the compilers selected a Greenwood Press, 1996. 25 1p. index. $69.50, ISBN 0-3 13- culturally diverse group of publications from all parts of the 29657-X, ISSN 0899-0166. United States, from both centuries, and including current periodicals as well as those that have ceased. There may be A salute to compiler Vicki L. Friedl is in order for this some grumbles about titles not included - I would have fmt significant bibliography on women in the U.S. military. liked to see Women: A Journal of Liberation (1969-1983) Friedl, a former ROTC scholar and active-duty Army and a bigger nitch for activism in the academy, which officer, continues to serve her country by producing this Women 's Studies Newsletter/Quarterly (1 98 1-present) could research guide and annotated bibliography. Greenwood have filled nicely - but as the compilers say, this is a work Press deserves an honorable mention for publishing yet in progress. Omitted titles do not deiract from the useful another useful and reliable reference work. This particular information amassed about those included. guide is part of the publisher's series on military studies. Nineteenth-century periodicals in the book include The bibliography fills an unspeakable gap in military Susan B. Anthony's The Revolution, an anti-suffrage science, and more importantly, in women's studies. It's publication, Remonstrance, Amelia Bloomer's The Lily, hard to fmd a more traditionally male-dominated institution which advocated temperance and dress reform, and The than the military. Friedl now gives us the opportunity to Wisconsin Citizen. Early Second Wave feminism is repre- fmd a myriad of sources about, and hear the voices of, sented by No More Fun and Games and Notes From the women of this century who have served in our armed forces First Year. Ongoing activist publications include ofour and military academies. The guide also includes informa- back and Sojourner. Sinister Wisdom, though reported as tion on official policies, laws, and attitudes governing the ceasing in 1994, happily continues, more irregularly. experiences of women in the military. Daughters of Sarah, Lilith, and WomanSpirit are three that Friedl provides research strategies; historical summa- come to grips with Christian, Jewish, and general feminist ries; annotations on a variety of pertinent materials; and spiritual quests, respectively. numerous appendixes and indexes including Chronology of Each essay follows the same format. The contributor Women's Service and Military World Wide Web pages. As provides several pages of description, including the a research tool, it is the fust resource I would recommend publication's mission, leaders, and special issues or articles for studying women in the United States military. of note. A bibliography of material about the publication Nurses, Family and Pregnancy Issues, Sex Issues, and follows, along with a summarized publication history, Women in Combat are titles of some of the key topical including title changes, dates of publication, and circulation chapters. Each branch of the military has an individual figures. In some cases, contributors were hard-pressed to chapter, too. This structuie facilitates research for the find a complete run of the publication anywhere, even in scholar, the woman wondering whether to enter the military, libraries whose catalogs claimed full holdings! or the informal reader. One disappointment from this vantage point: I was The annotations themselves provide a gbseinto the surprised to see no recognition of the role played by Femi- variety of women's experiences in the military. Meet nist Periodicals: A Current Listing of Contents for the past WAAC recruiter Betty Beyers Redmann, who cavorted with sixteen years in alerting the women's activist community, celebrities during her tour of duty at Hollywood and Vine scholars, and especially the editors of the periodicals @.93 or annotation 439). Imagine the horror of AM themselves to the contents of each other's publications. Franklin as she witnessed piles of dead bodies and nursed Lastly, one plea for the publisher: please do readers a the political prisoners liberated at Dachau @.42 or 182). favor and provide a table of contents. Although the arrange- Think about the feelings of WAVE recruits as they listened ment of this book and others like it is alphabetical, it is still to indoctrination lectures on homosexuality during the annoying to have to page through the text or the index to McCarthy years @.I52 or 676). Or meet Carol Barkalow, a see if a particular title is included. company commander who was a member of the fist class of women admitted to West Point. Compiler Vicki L. Friedl provides an arsenal of infor- mation to scholars and others interested in learning about women, the military, and our society.

[Margely E. .Kat. is a Libraly Consultant with the State Historical Sociew of Wisconsin.]

30 Feminist Collections wL18, na3 Spring 1997 Victoria Sherrow, WOMEN AND THE MILZTARY: AN Women and the Military: An Encyclopedia will be ENCYCLOPEDIA. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1996. mtter for public libraries and high schools with their 381p. bibl. index. $60.00, ISBN 0-87436-812-X. xemium on ready information and citations to commonly held books and magazines, whereas the excellent scholarly A good complement to the research guide above, this research guide Women in the United States Military should encyclopedia offers about four hundred entries on all aspects >e acquired by academic libraries at all levels. of women's service in American military life. While that relationship did not become official until the Army Nurse Corps was founded in 1901, women had served in support QUOTATION BOOKS roles since colonial times by boycotting products made by the enemy, making clothing for soldiers, taking over family Rosalie Maggio, THE NEWBEACON BOOK OF QUOTA- farms and shops while the men went off to service, or TIONS BY WOMEN. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996. 844p. serving as camp followers who cooked, sewed, laundered, indexes. $35.00, ISBN 0-8070-6782-2. carried water, and tended the sick and wounded. Some women spied on enemy movements and a few snuck into Jettison The Beacon Book of Quotations By Women combat dressed as men. (1992), and replace it with its far bigger successor. The New The Encyclopedia's introduction reviews this history up book packs in 16,000 quotations by 2,600 women, compared through the all-volunteer army of the 1990s with the to a mere 5,000 remarks in the fust. greatest number of women in its history (eleven percent of One new section I hope Maggio will expand further those on active duty and thirteen percent of those in the some day is "Misquotations." Your closet may sport a T- reserves as of the Gulf War in 1991). The essay ends with shirt with a variant of "If I can't dance I don't want to be in gender-related questions facing the United States military in your revolution," attributed to Emma Goldman, but you'll the mid-1990s: "Should women and men serve in the never find it in her papers or published works, says her military on terms that are completely gender neutral, so that biographer, Alix Kates Shulman. Actually, Shulman had they face the same risks? Will women, like men, ever be recommended to an anarchist group making Goldman T- obliged to register with the selective service?... What shirts in 1973 a passage in Goldman's Living My Life where standards can be used to choose the right people for the she describes being accused of fkivolity at a dance. The right jobs, regardless of gender?" (pxxii). There's no group simply embellished, adding "revolution." recognition in this section that another question needs to be Maggio is one of the few quotation book compilers who asked as well; namely, can the military keep women safe provides a subject index as well as arrangment by subject. from sexual harassment and assaults? The Encyclopedia This is temific, because it is quite maddening to second- does not sidestep this issue entirely, however, since it guess a compiler on where she would place a quotation. I includes entries for sexual harassment and the Tailhook tried finding "The master's'tools will never dismantle the scandal. master's house" under "Tools" and "House," without Besides coverage of individual military women, such as success, then was stumped on distilling the underlying pilot and director of the Civil Air Patrol Ruth Nichols and thematic concept. Fortunately, Maggio's subject index traces Army nurse Hattie Rilla Brantley (one of sixty-seven Army the full quotation from "Master's ..." to the section headed nurses taken prisoner on Corregidor when the Japanese "Social Change." I knew this statement was by Audre captured the island during World War II), there are entries Lorde, and could have used the name index, but plodding for individual war correspondents and photographers, through 48 pagelitem number citations to Lorde distributed including Sonia Tomara, identified as one of the top throughout the book had no appeal. Adding catchwords to journalists reporting from Europe (for the New York Herald the citations in a name index would be a real time saver. Tribune) during World War II. Other entries cover events, Better still would be an online version of the entire book. laws, branches of the armed services, court cases, wars, and Type in "house" and "tools" and out would tumble the operations. A till-page photograph of a female Marine quotation and attribution. dressed for combat during Operation Desert Shield is one of Quotation books have been popular for centuries, the illustrations sprinkledth;oughout the book. fulfilling the needs of public speaken, private raconteurs, Entries vary from a paragraph to two pages. Each ends and word lovers. However, when it comes to the needs of with cross-references and citations to books and occasional formal writers, they fall short. It isn't sufficient to know that magazine or newspaper accounts. A fourteen-page bibliog- Marcelene Cox wrote that "obstinacy in children is like a raphy of books, articles, and speeches plus a subject index kite; it is kept up just as long as we pull against it" in conclude the work.

Feminist Collections voI.18, 110.3 Spring 1997 31 Ladies Home Journal (1945). Which issue? Which page? professors of religion from throughout the world, including What was the title of the article? George Eliot may have Elisabeth Schiissler Fiorenza, Rosemarv Radford Ruether, written "Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according Phyllis Trible, and susannah~eschel.The entries are to any program our fear has sketched out," somewhere in clearly written and well-edited. "Systems of domination," The Mill on the Floss, but who wants to look through almost writes Sheila D. Collins, "make those in the dominant rank six hundred pages to fmd where? Quotations from trans- the measure of all aesthetic beauty, moral rectitude, intelli- lated works can be even more problematic, as various gence, and technical skill, while stunting or destroying the translators may have used different words. If you need to human potential of the subordinate group" (p.72). "Shame chase the page in a translated book, pay close attention to arises in the loss of pride and honor that occurs as the 'real' the year of publication provided by Maggio so that you use does not live up to the cultural 'ideal,"' states Lyn M. the right translation. Full citations in an electronic edition Bechtel (p.259). These are sentences that non-theorists and would make this the defdtive reference work of quotations non-theologians can easily understand, and they are typical by women. of the book. Each entry ends with a few brief citations, with fuller information in the bibliography for the book as a whole. RELIGION This book will be of use to persons in religious studies, women's studies, and with general interests in feminist Letty M. Russell and J. Shannon Clarkson, eds., DICTIO- theology. NARY OF FEMINIST THEOLOGIES. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1996. 351p. bibl. $39.00, ISBN 0-664-22058-4. WRITERS

A more accurate title for this book would perhaps have Anne Ulry Colrnan, DICTIONARY OF NIiYETEENTH- been a dictionary of Christian feminist theologies, since CENTURY IRISH WOMEN POETS. Galway: Kemy's those are the dominant theologies covered, and Christianity Bookshop, 1996.254~. is the presumed referrant for all entries with the exception of those that define a non-Christian religion or a term Over four hundred poets are included in this work, whoUy within one of those traditions. Such exceptions which will be appealing to specialists in English and Irish include entries for Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism, literature. AU women in the book were born in Ireland Islam, Han (central concept of Korean shamanism), and Bat between 1800-1899, wrote some if not all their poems in Mitzvah. Atiican American Womanist and Hispanic English, and emigrated no farther than elsewhere in the women's liberation Mujerista voices are heard. There is no British Isles, if at all. "Poems" are here defmed as anything entry entitled "Judaism," but Judith Plaskow's contribution, written in verse form, including hymns, translations, and "Feminist theologies, Jewish" covers the salient themes in original verse. Jewish feminist work. The editors mention in the Preface Quite a variety of output is represented among the their struggles with settling on a title that would describe poets, from a single published poem to Mary Sweetman's 58 "all the work being done by women in the study of religion volumes and a staggering 158 volumes of prose and poetry today," but it is off-putting to non-Christians to read from Katharine Tynan. The Introduction explains that "Ecofeminism also invites us to rethink our Christian Tynan also edited the 1902-03 edition of The Cabinet of tradition" ("Ecofeminism," by Ivone Gebara, p.77), or that Irish Literature (v.4), originally published in 1880. Her "... during the twentieth century, 'ecumenism' has referred edition included seventy-one women writers from the to a movement toward cooperation among and between seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. The Introduc- Christian churches - Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, tion also covers familial relations and literary friendships Protestant, and, since Vatican 11, Roman Catholic - on among the poets. matters of witness and service and the search for justice and Each entry includes basic data, name variants, and peace" ("Ecumenism," by Melanie A. May, p.78). Neither biographical information. In some cases what is known is entry gives the slightest indication that non-Christian minimal, as in "Miss Whately appears to have been the theologies have considered ecofeminism or engaged in daughter of.... She married .... Her sister... was a successll ecumenical activities. prose writer @.236)." Most of the biographies are about one With that gaping caveat, the Dictionary is a major page long. Citations at the end of the entries list all books by resource for understanding what is animating the interests the poets, anthologies and journals in which their work of feminist theologians. The contributors, most of whom are appears, and where additional biographical information may women, are a roll call of prominent theologians and be found. Colman does not attempt to cite every individual

32 Feminist CoNections volJ8, no.3 Spring 1997 poem for authors whose work appeared frequently in journals. Instead she summarizes with statements like "Over Sexual Personae delights in... bizarre f@ poems appeared in both the English and Irish lan- juxtaposition. The Beach Boys falsetto guages in Zke Irish Monthly August 1891 - June 1930" (for choir in an otherwise heterosexual anthem Alice Furlong, p.89). This narrows the places to look, but "California Girls" reminds Paglia of Lord leaves some browsing to the reader wishing to locate all her Byron's sexual ambiguities.... She anoints poems. This Dictiona~yoffers no citations to literary Tina Turner as "Shakespeare's 'tawny' criticism, which perhaps can be taken up by Colman or Cleopatra in all her moods." Her compari- another compiler in the future. sons are consistently thought-provoking and wonderfully jarring. Yet for others they make Sexual Personae the intellec- Pamela Kester-Shelton, ed., FEMINIST WTERS. tual equivalent of a highway accident - Detroit: St. James Press, 1996. 64 1p. index. $130.00, ISBN parts scattered randomly, the Beach Boys 1-55862-217-9. strewn together with Lord Byron, Tina Turner colliding with Cleopatra - its There are a goodly number of biographical reference wildness is so horrifying that you can't works on women writers, particularly of the United States help but look (p.373). (American Women Writers From Colonial Times to the Present, 4 v. 1978-81, ed. by Lina Mainiero, and 1994 Almost three hundred writers are treated in full in supplement by Carol Hurd Green and Mary Grimley Mason; Feminist Writers, with an appendix of "additional feminist and Modern American Women Writers, ed. by Elaine writers not covered in this volume." Contemporary literary Showalter, Scribner's, 1991), Britain (Encyclopedia of writers include Ama Ata Aidoo, Dorothy Allison, Nawal Brifish Women Writers, ed. by Paul Schlueter and June allSadaawi, Marilyn French, Sue Grafton, Jamaica Kincaid, Schlueter, 1988), and Continental Europe (Encyclopedia of Maxine Hong Kingston, Margaret Drabble, Margaret Continental Women Writers, ed. by Katharina M. Wilson, 2 Atwood, Ursula Le Guin, Grace Paley, and Wendy v., 1991). Frank N. Magill compiled biographical essays on Wasserstein. Anzia Yezierska, Louisa May Alcott, Fannie 135 Great Women Writers from throughout the world Hmt, Kate Chopin, George Sand, and Vera Brittain are (1994). Wider-ranging "companion"-style handbooks some of the writers from earlier periods, while Barbara covering themes as well as biography also exist for Ameri- Ehrenreich, Susan Faludi, Margaret Sanger, and Christabel can women's writing (Oxford Companion to Women's Pankhmt represent activist non-fiction writers. Nine Writing in the United States, ed. by Cathy N. Davidson and advisors are credited with making the selections, but it is Linda Wagner-Martin) and feminist writing (Feminist W~cultto determine why Molly Ivins only makes the Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers From appendix and Ellen Goodman and Vivian Gornick are the Middle Ages to the Present, ed. by Virginia Blain, et al, absent entirely, or why equivocal feminist Katie Roiphe is in 1990). Could there be a nitch left for the present volume? the appendix but her authorlmother (Up the Sandbox!, Anne My view is a resounding yes. Roiphe) isn't there at all. On the other hand, it is grabfylng Firstly, this is a collection on feminist writem. Not all to know that all the feminist writers can't be contained in women writers surveyed in the biographical reference books one six hundred-plus-page book! above write from the perspective elusively defmed by Feminist Writers includes three indexes (nationality, Hortense Spiller in the Foreword as connected to "the subject/genre, and title) and two useful bibliographies on historic movement of women ... the official name of feminist writers and writing. It is highly recommended for something we will never exhaustively gauge: the longings all academic libraries and personal collections of literary

and aspirations of communities of women, since time scholars. * immemorial, towards fully human status and recognition" (p.vii). And feminist writers need not be women (Feminist Writers includes Frederick Douglas, John Stuart Mill, and David Mann and Susan Garland Mann, with Camille John Neal.) Even when the authors surveyed have been Gamier, WOMEN PLAYWWGHTS IN ENGLAND, induded in other volumes, the biographical sketches here IRELAND, AND SCOTLAND, 1660-1823. Bloornington: focus on feminist attachments in the lives of the writers and Indiana University Press, 1996. 417p. $57.50, ISBN 0-253- feminist themes in the writing. Secondly, although Ameri- 33087-4. can writers predominate, the scope is international, covering writen elsewhere whose works have been translated into Non-specialists in theater may wonder about the time English. Thirdly, the level of writing is excellent. Here's span covered in this bio-bibliography and dictionary, but contributor Pamela Haag on Camille Paglia:

Feminist Colleclions vol.18, no.3 Spring 1997 33 need look no further than the fust page of the Preface for an in one continuous alphabetical order. The compilers note explanation. When theaters were reestablished in England where the plays can be found, many of which are in a in 1660, women were allowed on stage for the fust time. microform set fiom Readex,2 available in many university Wishing to cover the Restoration, Eighteenth Century, and libraries in the United States as well as the United King- Romantic eras, the compilers used an end date of 1823 dom. Plots are provided for the plays and biographical because that was the last year manuscripts were licensed for information for the playwrights. Entries vary in length from performance by the Lord Chamberlain. a paragraph to a page. Appendices offer a checklist of The Introduction provides a brief history of playwriting playwrights and their plays in alphabetical order and a and performance during the time period and covers aspects chronological list of the plays. of particular significance for women playwrights. Among Women Playwrights in England, Ireland, and Scotland, women's motivations for writing were Aphra Behn's: she 1660-1823 will mainly appeal to theater historians and ''wrote for bread." Others wanted to instruct young people scholars of women's literature, but general readers will find through drama, and some wrote "closet dramas" meant only the synopses of plays and information on these early women to be read, not staged. Women labored under a variety of playwrights of interest. prejudices. Their work was often disparaged, and unlike novelists who had only to convince one publisher in order to ** P. H.W. (except where noted) see their work in print, playwrights needed to deal with theater managers, actors, and others associated with NOTES productions before reaching their audience. Despite the impediments, Mann and Mann found some 600 plays 1. Greenwood, 1995; reviewed in Feminist Collections written by 160 women, or almost 20 percent of the drama v.17, no.1 (Fall 1995), p.26. produced during the time period. 2. Three Centuries of English and American Plays, 1500- Entries in the book are a mixture of authors and plays 1800.

New and Newly Discovered Canada, and even a few in Australia, with contact phone Periodicals numbers for all performers and many locations. FRESH AND TASTY MAGAZINE: WOMEN'S [Correction:In our previous issue, v. 18, 110.2,Winter 1992, SNOWBOARDING 1996- . Publishers: Bethany Stevens, we noted The Open Door as a New Periodical, but the Melissa Longfellow. 4/yr. $12 (U.S.); $18 (Canada); $28 editor recently wrote to tell us that the newsletter was (elsewhere). Single copy: $3.95 (U.S.); $4.95 (Canada); orignallypublishedfrom 1983 to 1987 as a newsletter for •’2.50 (U.K.). 100 Spring St., Cambridge, MA 02141. rural lesbians by a group in Usk, BC. The new version was Website: http://www.fieshandtasty.com (Issue examined: "reborn" in 1992 under current publisher Judith Quinlan.] v.2, no.3, Feb. 1997) In eighty pages filled with full-color (and many full- AMCCALENDAR AND NEWS 1994- . 6/~.?$30 page) photos of women snowboarding, this magazine also (calendar); $45 (includes membership). P.O. Box 5817, offers profiles of boarders, equipment tips, avalanche Eugene, OR 97405. Email: [email protected] (Issue information, and possible boarding locations. There are lots examined: v.3,no.5, November/December 1996. of ads, too, but fantastic photos of terrain where few women This calendar from the Association of Women's Music (or men) have gone before. and Culture offers eleven pages of music news and brief articles ("What It's Like to be a Female Drummer" by GENDER EPERTISE 1996- . 4/yr. $16. Mt. Elmore Marcia Gallas; "Artists and Agencies: Two Sides of the Institute, P.O. Box 241, Montpelier, VT 05601. Email: Picture" by Cynthia Dunitz) plus listings (by artist and by [email protected] (Issues examined: v.1, nos. 1-4, date) of performers' schedules all across the U.S. and 1996-97)

34 Feminist Collections voLl8, na3 Spring 1997 This slim quarterly offers clear, concise information ]ages. The first issue includes lengthy pieces on artist Dana "for schools, teachers, and guidance" personnel on how to 3oussard and on a SuperfUnd site near Missoula; all issues prevent and deal with sexual harassment. Lead articles kature nicely reproduced artwork and photos complement- include: "Handling Harassment in Today's Classroom," ng an attractive layout. "Quality Baseline Data: A Prevention Tool," "Best Practice Policies," and "Supporting Sexually Harassed Students." RISR JOURNAL OF FEMINIST STUDIES 1996- . There are several case studies, legal updates, a checklist of 3ds.: Members of the editorial board. 21yr. E15. ISSN 1393- unwelcome behaviors, thoughts on fighting harassment 306X. ISBN 1-85918-115-5. Single copy: Inquire. Cork outside the classroom, and more. Jniversity Press, University College, Cork, Ireland. (Issue zxamined: v.1, no.1, March 1996) GODDESSING REGENERATED 1992- . Ed.: Willow The launch of two feminist scholarly journals from LaMonte. For 5 issues: $15-25lE9-13 sliding scale; $25 ueland within the last few years is surely cause for celebra- (outside U.S.). Single copy: $4/E2.50. P.O. Box 73, Sliema, ion. This journal comes from Cork University with its Malta, or P.O. Box 269, Valrico, FL 33595. Email: >remiereissue including articles on such topics as the rise [email protected] (Issues examined: No.4, >f paternal rights, the Women's Movement in Ireland 1970- AuWinter 1995-96; No.5, Summer's EncVAutumu 1995, feminist pedagogy, colonial legacies for Irish women, 1996) md gender in poet Medbh McGuckian's poetry. There's also This "American-originated newspaper, edited hmthe utwork by Irish women, reviews, and listings of confer- Island of Malta" offers an "international, multi-cultural :nces, women's studies courses in Ireland, and recent MA focus of Goddess expression, news, reviews, interviews, theses. resources" (publisher's flier), and more. Listings of and reports on festivals and goddess tours, articles on particular JOURNAL OF CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME 1995- goddess sites of interesf poetry, and musings also fill the Eds.: Nancy G. Klimas, M.D., Roberto Patarca, M.D. 41 thirty-five-page sample issues yr. $36 indiv. (U.S.), $46.80 (Canada), $50.40 (elsewhere); of the publication, which is named for the concept of $60 inst. (US.), $78 (Canada), $84 (elsewhere); $125 Goddess "not only being a noun, but also...a verb" (p.2, libraries (U.S.), $162.50 (Canada), $175 (elsewhere). ISSN AutumdWinter 1995-96). 1057-3321. Haworth Medical Press, 10 Alice St., Bingharnton, NY 13904-1580. (Issue examined: v.2,no.4, INTER-AFRICAN COMMITTEE ON TRADITIONAL 1996) PRACTICES AFFECTING THE HEALTH OF WOMEN Although this frustrating disease with unknown AND CHILDREN; NEWSLETTER 1984?- . Inter-African etiology affects both women and men, women seem to have Committee, 147, rue de Lausanne, CH-1202 Geneva, the majority of cases. The seventy-four-page sample issue Switzerland. Ernail: [email protected] (Issue examined: offers mostly clinical language but articles include interest- No.19, June 1996) ing perspectives on antecedent infections, risk factors, Published by a "network of affiliates in 26 African and correlation with immune reactions, and the disease'5 3 European countries" (back cover) and sponsored by the neuroendocrinology. government of the Netherlands, this short newsletter offers a variety of news items on educational campaigns and JOURNAL OF LESBLANSTUDIES 1997- . Ed.: Esther programs to eliminate the practice of female genital mutila- D. Rothblum. 4Iyr. $28 (indiv.); $48 (inst.); $75 (libraries). tion (FGM) throughout Africa. Traditional circumcisors are Haworth Press, 10 Alice St., Binghamton, NY 13904-1590. sometimes trained as birth attendants to provide them with (Also published as monographs Classics in Lesbian Studies replacement income, and local groups take active roles in I and II.) (Issues examined: v.1, 110.1, 1997; v.l,no.2, 1997) educating and in preventing mutilation. "The only professional journal devoted exclusively to the lesbian experience" (according to the publisher) focuses INTERMOUNTAIN WOMAN 1996- . Ed.: Jeannine its first two issues solely on "Lesbian Classics," organized Nixon Laskowski. 61yr. $20; US$30 (Canada). Single according to categories of identity, history and literature, copy: $3.95. Otherwise Productions, P.O. Box 7487, physical and social sciences, and lesbian politics. Included Missoula, MT 59807. Email: [email protected]; are a number of articles reprinted from Haworth's Journal website: http://www.marsweb.com~imwornan(Issues of Homosexuality and other periodicals, as well as pieces by examined: v. 1, no. 1, JuneIJuly 1996 through v.l,no.4, Lillian Faderman, Catharine R. Stimpson, Sarah Lucia December 1996/January 1997) Hoagland, and others. Issues average 140- 150 pages. "Based on the belief that women have issues and concern not always addressed by the mainstream media, MATRIARCH'S WAY 1996-. Ed.: Shirley Oliveira. 4/yr.? and a writing voice not often enough published in it" (p.2, $30 ($36 outside U.S.). Single copy: $8.50 ($14.50 outside Dec. 1996JJan. 1997), this magazine offers nonfiction as U.S.). ISSN 1086-572 1. 3395 Nostrand Ave., Suite 2-J, well as fiction, poetry, and essays by women, particularly Brooklyn, NY 11229-4053. (Issue examined: Premier issue, welcoming new writers. Issues range from sixty to seventy Spring 1996)

Feminist Collections voL18, no.3 Spring 1997 35 With the subtitle "Journal of Female Supremacy," this UCG WOMEN'S STUDIES CENTRE RE WEW 1993?- . journal's vision is to "restore woman, the Matriarch, origin Eds: Alan Hayes et al. llyr. •’8 + •’2 postage (Europe), of the human species, to her throne of dominion over the •’3.50postage (outside Europe). ISSN 1393-3612; ISBN O- family and society." Some pieces in the 181-page fmt issue 9519466-3-3. Women's Studies Centre, University College, are reprints of material found elsewhere; article titles Galway, Ireland; email: [email protected] (Issue examined: v.4, include "Danger and the Saving Power" (Carla Ferstman 1996) and J.C. Smith), "The Mythology of Masculinity'' (Jenny The fmt of two feminist scholarly journals to have birth West), and "Why a Witch Cannot Be a Christian" in Ireland, the sample issue of the Review offers 184 pages (Rhiannon), and there are also book reviews and poetry. of articles covering "the political" (women's networks and politics, feminism and nationalism, and the Ulster Women's NONTR.IDITI0NAL NEWS 1996?- . Ed.: Mark E. Smith. Unionist Council); citizenship (employment in Norway and 4/yr. $6 (indiv.); $10 (inst.); $2 (single moms and shelters). Ireland, rural women's lives, prostitution and human ISSN 1089-8468. Foundation for Role Equity Education, rights); "Beijing and After" (challenges to peace in Ireland, P.O. Box 2549, San Diego, CA 92112-2549. (Issue exam- women in the Travellers ethnic group); and "Different ined: v.2,no.3, Winter 1996-97) Voices," which looks at the "moral voice," dance work, and Within its four pages, this quarterly newsletter, part of singer Kate Wolf. an organization "dedicated to eliminating sex-based discrimination through education" (p.2), uses the unusual WOMEN OF NOTE QUARTERLY 1993- . Eds.: Barbara practice of having masculine pronouns always refer to Harbach, Jonathan Yordy. $20 (indiv.); $25 (inst.); outside women. A single article, apparently by the editor (a woman U.S., add $8. Single copy: $6. Email: yordy@vivacepress. named Mark), discusses "Sex Ed in the Preschool," prima- com; Website: http://www.vivacepress.com (Issues exam- rily referring to use of sex-based pronouns in developing ined: v.4, nos.1-4, 1996) sex-based identities and discrimination. A combination of scholarly articles on women compos- ers, reviews of CDs, interviews, news, and even a film ONIX WOMAN 1994?- . Ed.: Ola R. Jackson. 4/yr. $10 review are the regular fare of this quarterly, but one issue is (5 issues). Single copy: $1.50. Jackson Publishing and devoted entirely to a thirty-four-page (small-print) "Com- Communications, 2031 Fairlawn St., Pittsburgh, PA 15221. pact Discography: Women Composers on CD." Classical Email: [email protected] (Issue examined: v.4, music seems the favorite topic, but at least one article no.1, Winter 1997) discusses women jazz performers: "Pushing Beyond Piano Designed as "the business, professional and personal and Vocals." development publication for women of color" (subtitle), this magazine has a counterpart on the Web (http:/1 www.onyxwoman.com) as noted in our previous issue's "Computer Talk" column. Articles in the sample issue cover genital mutilation in Sudan, networking on the Web, Special Issues of Periodicals legal aid advice, and hot job tips, plus profiles on the lives and work of successful African-American women: the BEYOW LA WMASALLA DEL DERECHO v.5, no.14, president of the National Council of Negro Women, a [1995]: "Women and Work in a Globalized Economy." transplant surgeon, a banker, and more. Guest ed.: Gladys Acosta. $35 (indiv., U.S. & Latin America); $45 (inst., U.S. & Latin America); $40 (indiv., SOWREIGNTY FOR WOMEN 1996-. Ed.: Jamie Webb. elsewhere); $45 (inst., everywhere). Single copy: $5. ISSN 6/yr. $18. Single copy: $3. P.O. Box 259, Brice, OH 0122-2260. ILSA, P.O. Box A.A. 077844, Santafi de 43109. (Issue examined: v.2, no.4, Dec./Jan. 1996-97) BogotA D.C. Colombia. Email: [email protected] (Issue Though rather locally focused on the Columbus, Ohio, examined) area, the forty-seven-page sample issue includes humor, As part of its commitment to produce a "women's" information, fiction, poetry, reviews, and news. A coming- issue every year, this Colombian journal includes: "What is out story, the rosters for the American Basketball (women's) Feminist Economics?" (Martha MacDonald); "Industrial League teams, a piece on retirement planning, and one on Competitiveness and Gender Equity: Two Incompatible AIDS are mixed with "Confessions of a Drag Queen" and Objectives?" (Luz Gabriela Arango); "Forms of Labor reports on various gaytlesbian events. Contracting in the Colombian Export Flower Industry: The Rise of 'Temporary Services' Companies" (Cruz Emilia Rangel et al.); "Prostitution, Marginality and Empower-

36 Feminist Collections voLl8, 110.3 Spring 1997 ment: Caribbean Women in the Sex Trade" (Kamala GRAMMA: JOURNAL OF THEORY AND CRITICISM Kempadoo); and "Women and Poverty in Trinidad and v.4,1996: "The Erotic in Women's Poetry." Eds.: E. Douka Tobago" (Rhoda Reddock). Kabitoglou, Litsa Trayiannoudi. Dept. of English, Faculty ~f Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 540 06 CALLALOO v.19, no.2, Spring 1996: "Emerging Women llessaloniki, Greece. (Issue examined) Writers." Ed.: Charles H. Rowell. Subscriptions: $32 Partial contents: "Denying Eros: Reading Women's (indiv.); $65 (inst.); Canada and Mexico, add $7; outside Poetry of the Mid-twentieth Century" (Sabine Coelsch- North America, add $17 air. Single copy: Inquire. Johns Foisner); "Taking Patriarchy out of Poetry: Eroticism and Hopkins University Press, Journals Publishing Division, Subversion in Gertrude Stein's Llfirng Belly" (Nicola 2715 North Charles St., Baltimore, MD 2 12 18-4319. (Issue Rehling); "The Maternal, the Lesbian, and the Political: examined) Explorations of the Erotic in Audre Lorde's Poetry" (M. Partial contents: "From Diva Studies" (drama) (Eliza- Pilar Shchez Calle); "Eros at the Temple Stream: Eroticism beth Alexander); "The Daughters' Arrival: The Earliest in the Poetry of Denise Levertov (JosC Rodriguez Herrera); Black Women's Writing Community" (Katherine Clay and "Sound of Silence: A Reading of Elizabeth Barret Bassard); "Portfolio" (paintings) (Ellen Gallagher); ''Toni Browning's Sonnet XXXVIII" (Tatjana Juki ). Cade Bambara: Free to Be Anywhere in the Universe" (Farah Jasmine Griffin); poems (Allison Joseph, also JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY TREAT- interviewed by Kendra Hamilton); "Enter, The Tribe of MENT v.6, nos.lR, 1996: "Chemical Dependency: Women Woman" (Opal J. Moore); from The Pagoda (fiction) at Risk." Eds.: Brenda L. Underhill, Dana G. Finnegan. (Patricia Powell); poetry (Sharan Strange); and "Back Talk: Subscriptions: $40 (indiv.); $75 (inst.); $175 (library). Also Recoding the Body" (Beryl J. Wright). published as the monograph Chemical Dependency: Women at RM.) (Issue examined) COLLEGE LITERATURE v.24, no.1, February 1997: Partial contents of this issue (also published as a book): "Queer Utilities: Textual Studies, Theory, Pedagogy, "Elements of Effectve Services for Women in Recovery" Praxis." Guest eds.: Donald E. Hall, Gamy Leonard, Jean (Laurie Drabble); "What Difference Does Culture Make? Walton. Subscriptions: $24 (indiv.); $48 (inst.). Outside Providing Treatment to Women Different from You" U.S.: add $5 ($10 airmail). ISSN 0093-3139. 210-21 1 (Camella H. Woll); "Chemically Dependent Lesbians and Philips Hall, West Chester University, West Chester, PA Bisexual Women: Recovery from Many Traumas" (Dana G. 19383. (Issue examined) Finnegan, Emily B. McNally); "Women and Alcohol Partial contents: "Fishing the Girls: Lesbians in New Recovery: Risks, Reality and Responses" (J.D. Benson et Queer Cinema" (Maria Pramaggiore); "Women on Top, al.); and "Women's Marijuana Problems: An Overview" Boys on the Side, But Some of Us are Brave: Blackness, (Susan Chacin). Lesbianism, and the Visible" (Ann Pellegrini); "Under the Mosquito Net: Space and Sexuality in Red Azalea" (Wendy VOICES MITALLAN AMERICANA v.7, no.2, Fall 1996: Somerson); "The White Heterosexual Couple: On Masculin- "ItaliadAmerican Women Authors." Guest ed.: Edvige ity, Sadism and Racialized Lesbian Desire" (Selena Giunta. $20 (indiv.); $25 (inst.); $15 (studentkenior Whang); and "Home, Homo, Hybrid: Translating Gender" citizen); $30 (airmail outside U.S.). ISSN 1048-292X. (Geeta Patel). (Issue examined) Among the poetry, fiction, memoirs, and reviews are CONCILIUM No. 1, 1996: "Feminist Theology in Different seven critical articles, including these: "Muter Dolorosa No Contexts." Eds.: Elisabeth Schiissler Fiorenza, M. Shawn More? Mothers and Writers in the ItaliadAmerican Literary Copeland. Subscriptions: $60 (indiv.); $75 (inst.). ISBN O- Tradition" (Mary Jo Born); "Ella Price's Journal: The 88344-888-2. Orbis Books, BOX302, Maryknoll, NY 10545- Subvlmersion of Ethnic and Sexual Identity" (Mary Frances 0302. (Issue examined) Pipino); "Mysticism and the Household Saints of Everyday Under the heading "Different Geographical Sites of Life" (Aaron Baker, Juliann Vitullo); "Overlooking and Struggle" are articles on Latin America (Maria Jos6 F. Looking Over Ida Lupino" (Ellen Nerenberg); "Femanda Rosado Nunes), Australia (Elaine Wainwright), Africa Pivano: Italian Americanista, Reluctant Feminist" (Blossom (Teresia M. Hinga), and more. In "Different Religious Sites Kirschenbaum) and "In the Kingdom of Persephone" of Struggle" are pieces on Muslim (Ghazala Anwar), (Maria Rosa Cubufelli). Buddhist (Chatsumam Kabilsingh), Jewish (Adele Redmtz), and Roman Catholic religions (Jacqueline Field- Bibb) plus others. "Different Theoretical Sites" includes South Asian feminist theory (Gabriele Dietrich), sexual difference and theology in Italy (Elizabeth E. Green), decencylindecency in feminist theology (Marcella Althaus- Reid), and several others.

Feminist Collections vol.18, no.3 Sprln~1997 37 poetry, and book reviews. Editor is Maureen T. Reddy. Anniversaries Address: Dept. of English, Rhode Island College, Provi-

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Feminist Colledions vo1.lU. 110.3 Spring 1997 41 TO THE PRESENT. Heron, Liz & PERFORMANCE ANXIETIES: STAG THE THIRD EYE: RACE, CINEMA, Williams, Val, eds. Duke University ING PSYCHOANALYSIS, STAGING AND ETHNOGRAPHIC SPECTACLE. Press, 1996. RACE. Pellegrini, Ann. Routledge, Rony, Fatimah Tobing. Duke University AN INTRICATE WEAVE: WOMEN 1997. E'ress, 1996. WRITE ABOUT GIRLS AND GIRL- THE PLANNED PARENTHOOD THE TRANSMUTATION NOTEBOOKS: HOOD. Miller, Marlene, ed. Iris WOMEN'S HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA. POEMS IN THE VOICES OF CHARLES Editions, 1997. Planned Parenthood. Crown, 1996. & EMMA DARWIN. Becker, Anne. THE JOURNEY HOME: JEWISH PRESENT TENSE: WRITING AND ART Forest Woods Media hoductions. 1996. WOMEN AND THE AMERICAN BY YOUNG WOMEN. Reaman, Micki, et UNCOMMON COMMON WOMEN: CENTURY. Antler, Joyce. Free Press, al.. eds. Calyx. 1996. ORDINARY WVES OF THE WEST. 1997. PROOFREADING THE HISTORIES: Butler, Anne M. & Siporin, OM. Utah JUDAISM SINCE GENDER Peskowitz, POEMS. Mitchell, Nora. 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Lundie, Catherine A., ed. University of A WOMAN READS THE WSPELOF (Address: P.O. Box 1, Galesburg, IL Massachusetts Press. 1996. LURE. Dornisch, Loretta. Liturgical 61402) ROSA LUXEMBURG AND EMMA hess, 1996. MARY SHELLEY REVISITED. Smith, WLDMAN: A BIBWOGRAPHY. WOMANSPIRIT MOVING TOWARD Johanna M. Twayne, 1996. Nordquist, Joan, wmp. Reference and PEACE AND JUSTICE: WAR RESIST- MARY WIWNSFREEMAN READER Research Services, 1996. ERS LEAGUE I997 PEACE CALEN- Reichardt, Mary R., ed. University of SAVING FACES: PHOTOGRAPHIC DAR. Baron, Virginia, ed. War Resisters Nebraska Press, 1997. PORTRAITS AND MUSINGS. League. 1997. MAY FOURTH WOMEN WRITERS: Rosemont, Jane. Woman-in-the-Moon, WOMEN AND SEXUALITY IN CHINA: MEMOIRS. Ng, Janet & Wickeri, Janice, 1996. FEMALE SEXUALITY AND GENDER eds. Renditions Paperback; Cheng & SECRETS OF CHRIST. Dauw, Dean. SINCE 1949. Evans, Harriet. Con- Tsui Co., distr. 199? Fort Dearborn, 1997. tinuum, 1997. MEETING MAGDALENE. 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