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CONTENTS

From the Editors ii

Book Reviews Ladies in Hats and Other Jewish Gender Surprises 1 by Ruth Abrams Who’s Afraid of Jewish ? 6 by Rebecca Ennen

Archives Four Centuries of Reproductive Health at the Sallie Bingham Center 11 by Laura Micham

E-Sources on Women and Gender 14

New Reference Works in Women’s Studies 18

Periodical Notes 27

Item of Note 30

Books Received 31

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April 2012

In the last few years, feminism Reproductive choice for women issue. Below is a snippet from just one has lost several leaders with Jewish — or, perhaps more accurately, the of the documents the Center holds; a backgrounds — including, notably, war over reproductive choice — is few others are shown on pages 12–13. , , much in the news these days. When Take particular note of the Rita Arditti, and — just last month rights are being eroded or threatened, “e-sources” described on pages 14–17. — . Their departures it’s good to have reliable sources of the If you use Google Chrome, try out — and the aging, retirements, and history of those rights. One notable the “Jailbreak the Patriarchy/Binary” deaths of numerous other Jewish resource is the reproductive-health extensions, and let us know your women who were prominent in Second archive at Duke University’s Sallie — and your students’ — reactions! Wave feminism — along with other Bingham Center for Women’s History And speaking of students, might you factors, seems to be accompanied and Culture. Laura Micham, women’s know some who would benefit from by a lessening of attention to Jewish studies librarian, gender and sexuality reading The Guy’s Guide to Feminism? women’s concerns within women’s history curator, and Merle Hoffman It’s reviewed by one of our students on studies. This is not due to a lack of Director of the Bingham Center, pages 19–20. publication, however, and anyone who introduces us to the collection in this teaches women’s studies and wants m P.H.W. & J.L. to apply a gender lens to the diverse Jewish community has several excellent new works to choose from. In this issue of Feminist Collections, we review four such books, two offering historical perspectives and two focusing on contemporary and gender patterns. For reviewers Ruth Abrams (“Ladies in Hats and Other Jewish Gender Surprises,” p. 1) and Rebecca Ennen (“Who’s Afraid of Jewish Patriarchy?,” p. 6), who are themselves steeped in contemporary Jewish life, the questions addressed are more than academic, whether they are couched in scholarly articles or asked in essays aimed at a more general audience. We invite our readers — Jewish and otherwise — to examine these thoughtful reviews and to ponder with our reviewers the role of Jewish women in postwar America, gendered patterns of work, education, and family in American Jewish life, and feminist understandings of the Jewish past, present and future.

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Ladies in Hats and Other Jewish Gender Surprises

by Ruth Abrams

Hasia Diner, Shira Kohn, & Rachel Kranson, eds., A Jewish Feminine Mystique? Jewish Women in Postwar America. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2010. 284p. index. pap., $25.95, ISBN 978- 0813547923.

Harriet Hartman & Moshe Hartman, Gender and American : PatterNs in Work, Education & Family in Contemporary Life. Lebanon, NH: Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, 2009. (HBI Series on Jewish Women.) 312p. appendix (statistical tables). notes. bibl. index. pap., $29.95, ISBN 978- 1584657569.

How does being Jewish affect problematic. This is particularly true trol respondents or people with Jewish American Jewish women’s experience of Gender and American Jews, which background) was lower, perhaps under of gender? Is that experience the same attempts to generalize about the role twenty percent. The NJPS undercount- as or different from other American of gender for Jews in the ed the number of Jews in the United women’s experience? How does gender as a whole. The problem is not, for the States, at least compared to other re- affect Jewish women’s commitment to most part, the questions the authors spected studies like the General Social and understanding of Jewishness? In ask of the data — they are, to a non- Survey. Some critics asserted that poli- two recent books, scholars attempt to sociologist, fascinating questions — it’s cymaking based on the NJPS would answer this question from two different the data set itself. As the Hartmans result in the Jewish community being methodological perspectives. acknowledge, the NJPS of 2000–2001 underserved with Jewish education and Gender and American Jews, a so- was the target of criticism for a variety other services.4 ciology text, asks interesting, gender- of reasons. The team that designed the survey inflected questions of the data from decided to give the long-form ques- the 2000–2001 National Jewish The Jewish Federations of North tionnaire only to people who identified Population Survey (NJPS) on issues America, then called the United Jewish as Jews on two out of three identity of education, professional life, salary, Communities or UJC, paid $6 million questions. Since there were 250 ques- beliefs, and affiliation. Authors Harriet for the study, twice what the study’s tions on the long form of the survey and Moshe Hartman reprise their work architects had projected, and had to and many of the random-digit-dialed on the 1990 NJPS in this book and delay release of the results when some (RDD) calls were placed during the broaden their examination of the data. of the data were lost because of storage workday, some critics believed the for- The history text, A Jewish Feminine problems.2 UJC commissioned Mark mat skewed the answers toward older Mystique? Jewish Women in Postwar Schulman, an outside consultant, to Jewish people. The reason there were America, is a collection of essays exam- write a report full of disclaimers about so many questions was that multiple ining the lives of Jewish women in the the technical problems of the study. funders paid for the survey, and dif- United States in the 1950s and 1960s The survey had a twenty-eight-percent ferent funders requested answers to and considering how they did and did response rate, which Shulman’s report help formulate policy relevant to their not conform to the cultural world de- termed “at the low end for public interests. scribed in Betty Friedan’s foundational policy and population studies.”3 Some feminist work, The Feminine Mystique.1 sociologists, including Leonard Saxe, The NJPS may have under- In both of the books under review estimated that the response rate for counted immigrant Jews, especially here, the definition of Jewishness is Jews (as opposed to non-Jewish con- those from the former Soviet Union.

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This too would have an impact on the use marriage data with occupation, Conservative or Reconstructionist), but answers to the questions the Hartmans education, and income to show Jewish do not belong to a synagogue (p. 132). were asking in their study about gen- attitudes toward — a Would that percentage have been high- der, Jewish education, and occupation. neat idea, but it would be more in- er if a larger number of low-income Furthermore, the NJPS may have had teresting if readers could be confident Jews had responded? trouble documenting Jewish class di- that the sample was representative. In versity. Some believe the The Hartmans also study undercounted the perform some nifty sta- Jewish poor by using the tistics tricks, like figur- Federal Poverty Thresh- ing out which denomi- old. That threshold — nations Jews are likely developed, coincidental- to join according to ly, by Jewish economist whether they are male Mollie Orshansky in the or female; married, postwar era — estimates widowed or divorced; the cost of living based and parents or non-par- on a nutritionally ad- ents (p. 155). It’s cer- equate diet. The cost of tainly significant that living in the cities where Jewish women are most the NJPS was conducted likely to be unaffiliated is considerably higher if they are childless, but than the threshold. it would be difficult to Although the Hart- determine the causal mans acknowledge many relationship — perhaps of these data problems it’s because Orthodox in their text — and Jewish men are most implicitly through their likely to marry. bibliography — they Knowing that the also call the NJPS Hartmans used a sam- “the largest survey of ple that may have been a national sample of skewed toward older American Jews ever people, I have doubts conducted” (p. 6). Since about the conclusions the Jewish Federations they draw about in- of North America chose terfaith marriage. For not to sponsor another example, in the NJPS nationwide survey in sample, more interfaith 2010, future sociologists marriages were remar- of gender in the Jewish riages (p. 237), and in- community will have to termarried Jews tended rely on local surveys of to have lower indices individual Jewish com- of Jewish identifica- munities.5 tion. But is this true another example, the Hartmans discuss of intermarried Jews from Generation It is frustrating that the Hartmans the question of denominational affili- X, whose responses may have been have applied such interesting ques- ation. They quote another sociologist’s undercounted? Are a higher percentage tions to what is now a decade-old data finding that twenty-two percent of the of younger Jews choosing interfaith set with serious reliability issues. They Jewish respondents identify with a Jew- partnerships for their first marriage? ish denomination (Orthodox, Reform, The authors declare, “It is not surpris- ing that intermarried Jews tend to be

Page 2 Feminist Collections (v. 33, no. 1, Winter 2012) Book Reviews less identified with Jewishness, in terms Could the Hartmans have deduced this plicate the picture of postwar Jewish of both religion and ethnicity.” In Still from the NJPS questionnaire if they women’s lives through the lens of Betty Jewish, A History of Women and Inter- had tried? In the end, their choices Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique — a marriage in America (New York Univ. about how to interrogate the data were book so powerful in its own time that Press, 2009), Keren McGinity inter- limited. historians and other keepers of cultural viewed intermarried Jewish women and memory have embraced its narra- found that they increased their Jewish The editors of A Jewish Femi- tive, which described women of the identification in interfaith marriages. Is nine Mystique? have set themselves an so-called Silent Generation retreating that a widespread phenomenon among easier task than that of the Hartmans. from the public to the private sector in Jewish women? Did the survey accu- Instead of trying to answer a set of the postwar period, leaving the revival rately count interfaith marriages if it gender questions definitively, Diner, of the to the Baby skewed toward older Jews? Kohn, and Kranson attempt to com- Boom generation. During the 1950s

Of course, this book does not attempt to capture the experiences of single Jews, nor does it acknowledge Jews in same-sex relationships who identify strongly with Jewishness or Judaism. The NJPS survey instrument, downloadable as a PDF on the www. jewishfederations.org website, contains a vague question about gender and re- lationships:

SEX WILL BE CODED BY COMPUTER FOR ALL OBVIOUS RELATION- SHIPS. ENTER IF PERSON IS MALE OR FEMALE; IF NOT EVIDENT FROM RE- LATIONSHIP, ASK: Is your (RELATIONSHIP) male or female?6

It’s not clear whether this question enabled the interviewers to count same-sex relationships, or instructed them to identify anyone with a female partner as male and vice versa! One Jewish journalist pointed out that the survey company, RoperASW, had a track record of using vague, misleading questions before it was commissioned to do the NJPS.7 People who work with GLBT Jews see this population increasing its Jewish identification and commitment. Is that an accurate assumption, and does it apply equally to Jewish women as to Jewish men?

Feminist Collections (v. 33, no. 1, Winter 2012) Page 3 Book Reviews and 1960s, when the societal ideal was Women’s participation in the Com- significant theme in a collection of es- the one-income family, many Jewish mission on the Status of Women; in says that mainly picks up on more mar- families moved from urban to subur- another, an even more formally dressed ginal Jewish experiences and cultural ban areas. In the narrative of Jewish group of Reconstructionist ladies is phenomena in order to trouble the life, the period is supposed to have apparently discussing their ability to overwhelming image of middle-class, been one of suburban assimilationism,8 lift the Torah scrolls and their right to highly educated Ashkenazi housewives. and to have been ended, again, by the educate their daughters to read from Baby Boomers, partly in response to the Torah. The Hadassah hat lady is Two of the most valuable chap- the Six-Day War of 1967 and partly to a cartoon from the cover of a 1953 ters of A Jewish Feminine Mystique? are the emerging Civil Rights movement. membership packet, encoded with about the postwar immigrant experi- The editors argue, however, that Jew- many political symbols. All of these ence: one on the interaction of German ish women were neither as politically images look demure and ladylike, but Jewish displaced persons and the class quiescent nor as assimilationist as these the narratives that accompany them issues involved in their interactions popular narratives suggest. make the case that their organizations with American Jewish social work- were consciously anti-assimilationist, ers, and the other on the migration of A Jewish Feminine Mystique? both part of broader political movements, Egyptian Jews in the 1950s and 1960s. begins and ends by discussing political- and, in the case of the Reconstruction- Most Jews in the United States are de- ly active Jewish women. The first two ist women, explicitly feminist. As early scended from Eastern European immi- chapters focus on individual activists: as 1945, Reconstructionist Jews began grants of the largest wave, from 1880 three anti-racist women who worked discussions of calling girls to the Torah to 1920, many of whom were poor or to end segregation in the Miami pub- for their bat mitzvah rites of passage working-class before their immigration. lic schools, and Lucy Davidowicz, a (p. 92). The German Jews who survived the well-known anti-communist. This is war and the Egyptian Jews who were a departure from covering only the This section of the book, signifi- displaced by the rise of Nasser were better-known leftist activists in north- cantly, is the only part to make claims wealthy people who had servants and ern cities. The left-wing activists and, about the overall normative experi- social position. The author of the chap- ironically, the neo-conservative were ence of Jewish women in the period, ter on Egyptian Jewish women relied all raised in Jewish socialist circles and rather than enumerating very specific on oral histories, bringing to the fore shaped by the Old Left. kinds of exceptions to that experience. experiences previously ignored even by The editors acknowledge that the Large numbers of Jewish women were historians of Sephardic Jews in America majority of active Jewish women in involved in the National Council of (pp. 140–141, n. 6). this period were more likely to work Jewish Women, which was part of a through politically liberal Jewish or- coalition of liberal groups that opposed The chapters on the image of ganizations. The three chapters on the McCarthyism and racial discrimina- Jewish women in popular culture in- National Council of Jewish Women, tion. Hadassah, the women’s Zion- clude one titled “The Bad Girls of Jew- Hadassah, and women’s involvement ist organization, had fewer than the ish Comedy,” referring to the precur- in the burgeoning Reconstruction- 300,000 members it claimed (and still sors to Joan Rivers who told blue jokes ist movement are the center of the claims today!), but the chapter author with childlike innocence. But these book. The photos of the ladies in their cites between 260,000 and 280,000 “transgressive, trickster-like figures” pumps, dresses, and lovely little hats Hadassah members during the postwar (p.155) are hardly representative of seem typical of the old narrative of period. If the Reconstructionist women Jewish women’s lives — except to the this era, the atmosphere one of proper were a relatively small group within extent that they sold Yiddish-inflected femininity. In the context of the activ- the broader Jewish community, Jewish “party albums” to Jewish families. Like ism described in the chapters, though, women in Reform and Conservative “Judy Holliday’s Urban Working-Girl the photos read differently: In one, synagogue sisterhoods were not. This Characters in 1950s Hollywood Film,” the impeccably turned-out ladies are isn’t a new idea in feminist scholarship the “bad girls” spoke to the working- meeting with President Kennedy as — that women’s organizations were up class and, to some degree, Yiddish- part of the National Council of Jewish to more than fundraising luncheons speaking origins of the majority of up- and cookbooks — but it does seem a wardly mobile Jews. Two other cultural chapters provide contemporary Jewish

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women’s readings of Herman Wouk’s 3. Mark A. Schulman, National Jewish make the case that suburban Jews were Marjorie Morningstar and the cultural Population Survey 2000–2001 Study assimilating, although feminist and significance of Jennie Grossinger as a Review Memo, September 19, 2003. Hadassah member Trude Weiss-Ros- prototypical Jewish mother. marin doubted this characterization in 4. Leonard Saxe, Elizabeth Tighe, her contemporary review of the book The book ends with two chapters Benjamin Phillips, Charles Kadushin, in Jewish Social Studies, vol. 30, no. 2 on feminism in the 1960s and Jewish et. al., “Reconsidering the Size and (April 1968), pp. 118–121. women’s participation in it: one on the Characteristics of the American Jewish radical feminists of the Baby Boom Population: New Estimates of a Larger [Ruth Abrams is a freelance writer, an generation (including my personal and More Diverse Community,” Stein- editor, and an enthusiastic researcher. She favorite under-sung boomer feminist, hardt Social Research Institute, 2007. completed a B.A. at Oberlin College in Naomi Weisstein), and one on Betty 1988 and a Ph.D. at Brandeis Univer- Friedan herself. It’s hard to decide 5. Debra Nussbaum Cohen, “Critics sity in 1997. The subject of her disserta- whether these essays, which are excel- Say It Will Be Harder To Spot Trends tion was the role of Jewish women in Eu- lent, undercut or support the main with No National Jewish Survey,” The ropean feminism from 1880 to1920. She themes of the book. This is the advan- Forward, April 2, 2010. has wide-ranging experience as a Jewish tage a historical approach has over a educator, from teaching Judaic Studies at sociological one. If the reader doesn’t 6. Audits and Surveys Worldwide, Na- the University of Massachusetts at Am- find its thesis completely cohesive, the tional Jewish Population Survey, 2000– herst in the late 1990s to managing the essays still provide interesting archival 2001. October, 2002. Survey questions website at www.interfaithfamily.com.] research. This might be a good text to may be downloaded at http://www. assign for a course on Jewish life since jewishfederations.org/local_includes/ 1945, or on Jewish women’s history. downloads/1982.pdf The individual chapters are interesting, and the granularity of the essays works 7. Joshua Hammerman, “Tough Ques- in the book’s favor. The riotous diver- tions about the NJPS,” Jewish Week, sity of the Jewish community and the January 10, 2003. Hammerman cites multiplicity of definitions of Jewishness a 1992 study in which a confusing support the ideas in the text, rather survey question with double negatives than — as in the case of the NJPS re- made it appear that 20% of sults — casting doubt on the validity doubted the Holocaust had happened! of the book. 8. Marshall Sklare and Joseph Green- Notes blum’s study, Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier (New York: Basic 1. Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mys- Books, 1967), was one of the first to tique. New York: Norton, 1963.

2. Gary Rosenblatt, “Critics Question Value of Population Study,” New York Jewish Week, August 29, 2003.

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Who’s Afraid of Jewish Patriarchy?

by Rebecca Ennen

Elyse Goldstein, ed., NEW JEWISH FEMINISM: PROBING THE PAST, FORGING THE FUTURE. Fwd. by Anita Diamant. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2009. 439p. notes. glossary. $24.99, ISBN 978-1580233590.

Marion A. Kaplan & Deborah Dash Moore, eds., Gender and Jewish History. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2011. (Modern Jewish experience series.) 428p. bibl. index. pap., $27.95, ISBN 978-0253222633.

As a Jew, I locate my people’s Jewish cultures do overwhelmingly The collection is quite impressive roots, faith, and culture in history. As value learning, questions, and a good in its authorship, including pieces from a modern and a progressive, though, argument. Contemporary feminist well-known feminist theologians (Dr. I am alienated from the major, main- thought promotes and enlivens this Judith Plaskow), legendary religious stream narratives of the Jewish past. complexity, for which we should all scholars and teachers (Rabbi Haviva Surely we are neither the “pariah peo- be grateful and pleased. As superstar Ner-David, Ph.D.), and a smattering ple outside history” of classic European Jewish teacher and novelist Anita Dia- of high-profile leaders from the newly anti-Semitism, different from everyone mant writes in her introduction to New minted and prolific younger generation else, an anachronistic tribe, serving as a Jewish Feminism, “[o]nly in our time, of religious thinkers (Rabbi Jill Jacobs, cautionary example to Christians, nor thanks to the advent of a feminist Juda- Rabba Sara Hurwitz). Although the the “one chosen people” of Jewish tri- ism, which is to say an inclusive Juda- book intends to be comprehensive, umphalism, serving as moral exemplars ism, has it become possible to imagine with literally dozens of viewpoints and to the unenlightened goyim (non-Jews) the entire community — regardless of seven major topic areas, it addresses that make up the rest of humanity. age or sex or previous Jewish literacy quite specifically the influence and dy- Likewise, in feminist analyses of — as a nation of students and teach- namic life of Second-into-Third-Wave gender roles and power, Judaism is ers.” Today’s Jewish feminists are hard Western feminism across the broad cast in shockingly opposite terms. Jew- at work producing the texts by which mainstream of the American Jewish re- ish religion and community are seen this nation will learn to understand ligious spectrum and, to a lesser extent, as the home of the oldest, baddest, and redefine itself as we move forward among religiously inclined Israeli Jews. dangerous-est patriarchy out there. At as Jewish activists, academics, leaders, New Jewish Feminism is published the same time, many historical Jew- religious and spiritual practitioners, by the prolific Jewish Lights imprint, ish communities constructed gender clergy, parents, partners, and commu- creator of an absolutely encyclopedic and power quite differently than their nity members. catalog for seemingly every conceiv- Gentile contemporaries did, and today, able readership, save the high-church non-mainstream Jewish cultures prize New Jewish Feminism is a bulging academy and the entrenched ultra- and promote queer, deviant, or at least compendium of short, accessible essays Orthodox. Jewish Lights offers books non-Western-normative gender roles. by contemporary Jewish women — on bar/bat mitzvah planning, holiday These dichotomies are, of course, and one man — that aspires to cover guides, current events, mysticism, inaccurate in their details, as well as in Jewish feminism in action, from the congregational resources, spirituality, their assumptions that Jews are some- 1970s upswelling in women’s participa- travel, even science fiction and crafting, how homogeneous or characterizable. tion and political organizing for rights to name but a few topics. Likewise, this Two new books highlight the work of and roles within the various American book’s intended audience is the broad feminist thinkers and leaders to trans- and Israeli religious and secular orga- mainstream of the Jewish world — not form today’s Jewish landscape and of nized Jewish spheres, to the current scholars and probably not absolute feminist historians to understand the leaders of those struggles. The book beginners. Thus, it will be quite acces- European and American Jewish past in presents several versions of analyses of sible for undergraduate students or for wider angles and greater depth. women’s contemporary and evolving informal adult education groups, es- status quo across this range of spheres. pecially given each essay’s helpful end- notes and the comprehensive glossary.

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Students with less exposure to Judaism book’s most dense and scholarly; casual “Women and the Synagogue” or Jewish culture will benefit from or inexperienced readers may struggle. talks pragmatically about women as outside guidance, as the book assumes “Women, Ritual, and Torah” cata- leaders in synagogues and about the some familiarity with those spheres. logs the major Jewish feminist project changes feminists fought for and won of constructing, , and reno- in the most immediate public space of The book’s essays are quite man- vating Jewish rituals and texts. This American Judaism. This unit notably ageable in length, ranging from four to section’s high point is “The Pink Tallit,” includes the book’s sole essay by a man, twenty pages. Seven thematic Rabbi Joseph B. Meszler’s “Where sections contain four to seven Are the Jewish Men?,” which essays each. Each section begins candidly and systemically ana- with a brief introduction by edi- lyzes the phenomenon of “male tor Rabbi Elyse Goldstein, iden- flight” or absence from the liberal tifying key questions and issues synagogue scene and proposes that will surface in the following new models of male identity and essays and offering an informal Jewish engagement as opened up or homiletic drash (interpreta- by feminist critiques of Jewish tion/teaching) as a way into the patriarchy. subject. “” is the The partitioning of the sec- weakest section overall, although tions makes clear sense in some the essays themselves (notably the cases; in others, the rationale pieces on gender issues in liturgi- is more opaque. For example, cal modern Hebrew and on Israeli there is considerable overlap Orthodox women) are quite sol- between the issues addressed in id. Unfortunately, Israeli content “Women and the Synagogue” is quite out of place in a work and those in “Women and the chiefly driven by American Jewish Denominations,” given that concerns. For the North Ameri- most denominational practice can authors, Jews are an ethno- takes place in synagogues and religious minority, pluralism and that the vast majority of Ameri- multiculturalism are ever-present can synagogues affiliate with one challenges and often ideals, and of the formal denominations. individualism and free choice are As a set of essays, this volume faits accompli. The Israeli situa- invites browsing and selective tion is the opposite. There is an- reading, although it’s worth a other book in the Israel material cover-to-cover commitment for the ex- a fantastic and accessible essay by edi- here, and a good one, but New Jewish tensive tour you’ll . While no book tor Goldstein that analyzes traditional Feminism, even without these chapters, could cover every aspect of communal ritual garb by examining key personal would be hard-pressed to chronicle and personal life, the seven sections and communal questions of authentic- eveything touched by American Jewish here are a good start. ity, imitation, and invention through feminism. “Women and ” includes the lens of feminist postmodern an academic meta-analysis of feminist hermeneutics — without jargon! Also The book for the most part ethics and theology, by the Prometheus noteworthy is Rabbi Danya Rutten- holds back on identity politics until of Jewish , Judith berg’s proposal for feminist text analy- the essays in “Gender, Sexuality, and Plaskow, and an impassioned personal sis, wherein she argues for curiosity Age,” all of which are excellent and argument for Jewish Goddess theology rather than suspicion in the project of frankly refreshing, as each opens up from Rabbi Dr. Jill Hammer, a popular reading ancient and classical texts and the book’s focus beyond conventional teacher of just-left-of-mainstream Jew- discerning from them the “questions American Jewish settings and roles. ish spirituality in the Renewal move- about how best to live in relationship If the book is asking, “Whither Jew- ment. These chapters are among the to the Divine” (p. 65).

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ish feminism?,” these chapters answer, enlightenment of the “Fourth Wave,” a ture that is less about going home than “Look to queer Jews, Jews of color, and humanistic and redemptive marriage of about the yearning for home and its young women.” Several of these essays spirituality and social justice. construction in the heart and mind.. take on the nominal second-wave vs. For the contemporary practicing third-wave feminist challenges we now feminist who is “forging the future” as face, chronicling the struggles of their the book’s title would have us do, the authors to fully inherit and inhabit the If the book is asking, question is similarly open: Do we envi- gains of Jewish feminism while critiqu- “Whither Jewish feminism?,” sion redemption through a perfected ing earlier blind spots, dealing honestly these chapters answer, “Look society free of patriarchy and gender with failures, and making the road we to queer Jews, Jews of color, oppression? Or do we imagine an end- hope to travel down. and young women.” lessly evolving set of communal and “Women and the Denominations” personal concerns, new oppressions presents an assortment of pieces spe- to deconstruct and conquer, of which cifically looking at the major religious gender power is merely the present (if streams of Judaism, each with a “where Rosenzwieg’s concluding vision absolutely key) preoccupation? have we been/where are we going” of Jews at home in the world and en- New Jewish Feminism’s redemption framework of policy reportage, but gaged in transformational justice work narrative suffers from a lack of context. unsatisfying analysis. The standout here is appealing in itself, and even more so We wouldn’t just read the Egypt and is Rabbi Dr. Haviva Ner-David, whose in contrast to the histories presented desert wandering cycle of the Tanakh “Feminism and Halakhah [Jewish law]” earlier in the book. The book traf- (Hebrew Bible) to understand Jewish smoothly marshals the ideas of several fics in an ‘upward trending’ narrative exilic thought, nor only the Hebrew preeminent feminist halachists and of Jewish feminism in which the bad Bible itself. Likewise, this book’s lack philosophers of halacha — from Judith patriarchal past has transitioned to of historical viewpoints from before the Plaskow to Rachel Adler, to Tamar an improved present due to the hard 1950s and its authors’ preoccupations Ross and Rabbi Zalman Schachter- work of tough, smart, and brave Jewish with broad reportage rather than spe- Shalomi — to argue against the re- women, who now look with curiosity cific personal or communal experiences emergence of patriarchy and for a truly and renewed vigor toward a hazy yet leaves a sense that this movement arose redemptive Judaism. brighter future that we feminists will in general and affected “people” en together envision and create. So many masse rather than transforming partic- The final section of the book, essays outline three phases or stages ular lives and communities. The book’s “Leadership and Social Justice,” looks that one wonders whether this struc- strongest moments and essays reflect beyond conventional Jewish institu- ture was suggested or promoted by the the feminist dictum that the personal tions and at the roles and concerns of editor and publishers! be political. The book balances ambi- Jewish feminists at large in the world. This teleological narrative — that tion and comprehensiveness with ac- Several essays here merit mention. the Jewish past was the dark days, but cessibility, sometimes to its detriment, Shifra Bronznick’s “Jewish Women’s the light is around us and ahead — but often to uphold key analyses and Leadership for the Twenty-First Cen- echoes the founding Jewish narrative of productive directions for immediate tury” makes a straightforward case for the Exodus, whereby the Jewish people feminist activism and communal at- women’s leadership at the highest levels are freed (from Egypt/from patriar- tention. of society. Rabbi Jill Jacobs profiles chy) only to wander (in the desert/in Jewish women, including herself, in feminist struggles), but ultimately find However primed we are to tackle American social justice movements in redemption. What this last stage de- patriarchy in our lives and communi- her deft and concise “Bread, Roses, and mands is a challenge for us. A biblical ties, the sketchy treatment of those bad Chutzpah.” And Rosie Rosenzwieg’s scholar might see entering the land of old days — rendered in New Jewish essay on post-triumphalism, which in Israel as the closure of the Exodus saga Feminism as a more or less seamless the absence of any final words from and the redemptive end of the story, continuum from biblical patriarchs to the editor serves as the book’s inspir- but that was in its own way merely chauvinist medieval rabbis, to 1960s ing closure, awakens us to the new a stop on the journey. Thousands of synagogue men’s clubs — demands years of Jewish Diaspora created a cul- further investigation. For the purposes of the late-twentieth-century feminist

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century America. The Judaism and the prevailing questions book celebrates her and challenges of those periods. Essays scholarship and her include “How Does a Woman Write?,” activism, its many con- Shulamit S. Magnus’s discussion of tributors also sharing, early modern Jewish memoirist Pauline in the book’s dedication Wengeroff (1833–1916), and “Water and their own chapter into Blood,” Elisheva Carlebach’s fas- introductions, short and cinating piece on the tekufah, a once intensely moving tributes widely held but now extinct set of folk to Hyman’s influence customs based on a belief that water or in their lives as student, food left uncovered at certain calendar teacher, role model, points would turn to blood. champion, and friend. Women’s place in religion has changed and changed again, of course, In contrast to both before and after the feminist New Jewish Feminism, movement of the 1970s. In Part 2, which is addressed to “Gendered Dimensions of Religious a general audience and Change,” the essays broadly observe invites browsing, Gender women’s roles in religious culture, by and Jewish History col- analyzing eighteenth- and nineteenth- lects academic articles century views on women from then- employing feminist his- emerging Orthodox and Reform per- toriography. Three the- spectives, and discussing the gendered matic sections highlight aspects of leaving Jewish community key areas and strategies and Judaism through intermarriage of feminist scholarship. and/or conversion. Most fascinating While this text is intend- here is “Vernacular Kabbalah, Embodi- movements, that continuity was real ed for serious and dedi- ment, and Women,” in which Chava and demanded vociferous rejection. cated readers with a strong background Weissler traces the development of However, scholarly and academic treat- in the highly specialized language and popular, non-elite Jewish spirituality ments of those times reveal a far more dense style of academic writing, there out of esoteric textual material, in two complex history. is much to recommend it even to the vastly different settings (early modern relatively unlettered reader. Eastern and today’s Jewish Seeing the past differently, with In Gender and Jewish History, Renewal movement in America), and unique human stories intact and at the meticulous research and interpreta- observes the gendered and embodied center rather than framed as general tion of everyday lives and vernacular aspects of these ascendant, anti-hierar- narratives by leaders and monolithic culture foreground the feminist project chical, primarily female spiritualities. groups, is of course a primary project of re-reading women in history. Even of . Gender and Jewish better, the feminist historical methods The final section of Gender History complicates the conventional open up new understandings of the and Jewish History, “Jewish Politics in story of a more or less static European Jewish past, give contrast and detail to American Accents,” refocuses on the Jewish past and American Jewish pres- our oversimplified understanding of roles and experiences of twentieth- ent, especially with regard to the roles the bad old days of patriarchy, and, by century women in the Americas. Here and experiences of women. complicating our past, provoke richer the feminist history project is to under- Dr. , to whom Gen- possibilities for our future. stand better, perhaps even more truly, der and Jewish History is dedicated, Part 1 focuses on late medieval what it meant to be and become Jewish was a pioneer and preeminent feminist and early modern Jewish people and Americans. The authors examine the historian whose work focused on Jew- communities, examining women’s cul- lives of particular individuals, docu- ish women in the Enlightenment in ture and experiences as a gateway to a ment influential work by Jewish wom- Europe and in early- to mid-twentieth- more comprehensive understanding of en artists, track the development of

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Jewish women’s activism, and analyze bis discern meaning for new situations the role that gender played in urban (What is the blessing for a new car? Jewish women’s work to maintain Jew- How to solemnize same-sex marriages?) ish neighborhoods and then, later, in through reference to earlier thinkers, their families’ decisions to leave racially who clearly did not envision the situ- changing urban neighborhoods. ations they are called to comment on! The practice of Jewish history-making Reading these two books to- and history-reading are thus extremely gether presents much greater depth bound up with the present moment. than considering either alone. While New Jewish Feminism suffers from some The strongest endorsement for reductiveness in its understanding of these two books comes, in a sense, history and future, it does present an from their dialogue with each other. inspiring view of all that has been ac- In Gender and Jewish History, Chava complished toward women’s liberation Weissler’s article on embodied spiritu- in every aspect of American Jewish ality draws a key distinction between life. Gender and Jewish History con- “intellectual” and “vernacular” readings nects the historical moment we live in of texts and practices, where an intel- today to a richer and more complex lectual text, teaching, or practice exists Jewish past than the former book can in elite and esoteric form but is popu- really imagine. As a scholarly work, larized, transformed, and transmitted it prescribes no pragmatic steps for by folk practitioners, whose piety and institutional leadership or communal zeal drive them toward adopting and priorities, yet without these intricate adapting meaning to their contempo- analyses, we will see our past as a blank rary purposes. While Gender and Jewish glacier, monolithic and immobile, in History presents a sophisticated and contrast to today’s changing landscape erudite set of Jewish feminist analyses, of vexing issues. Without a lively his- New Jewish Feminism chronicles the tory, we are bound to see now as the Jewish feminist vernacular of the last most dynamic moment in Jewish time, thirty years, expanding to express elite which cuts us off from our past and as well as not-quite-accepted leaves us lonely with our seemingly proposals for new rituals and readings. novel concerns about gender identity, As students of history and practitioners power, and meaning. Of course, learn- of feminism, we need not only theory ing history without live practice can be and practice, but also the knowledge dry and dull for Jews, who are not only to draw on the richness of our people’s a network of ethno-religious groups past. and peoples, but in fact actual people, who wish (presumably) to live lives of [Rebecca Ennen is an activist and a meaning in consonance with our high- teacher. Originally from Cambridge, est values. Massachusetts, she has lived in New Jewish culture and religion today York, Philadelphia, Sri Lanka, Hong are famously presentist — focused on Kong, and Israel/Palestine. Now based a life well lived rather than an after- in Washington, D.C., Rebecca fights for life to be sought, and on actions over a more just and equal D.C. region with beliefs. The religious Jewish penchant Jews United for Justice, leads dialogues for understanding the present through with Jewish Dialogue Group, lives in the the framework of history cuts another Vulva House (not a joke), and keeps a direction, as when contemporary rab- sharp eye out against all oppressions.]

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Four Centuries of Reproductive Health at the Sallie Bingham Center by Laura Micham

The Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and These records are particularly valuable for research because Culture, part of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & they document not only the organizing and advocacy efforts Manuscript Library at Duke University, houses a unique of such groups, but also the organizations that oppose the and extensive collection of material — from several coun- likes of CARASA and the . To complement tries — documenting the history of abortion and reproduc- and contextualize these collections, we also hold an extensive tive health over four centuries. The material covers the full body of published material spanning the full political con- political spectrum of activity within the history of abortion tinuum associated with abortion. Perhaps the most unusual and reproductive health, from eighteenth-century legal and dimension of the Bingham Center’s approach to document- medical treatises and nineteenth- and twentieth-century ing the history of abortion and is our advice literature both supporting and vilifying abortion and commitment to preserving the papers of abortion providers midwifery care, to mid-twentieth-century activist material and their supporters as well as of the clinics and organiza- related to legalizing abortion in the U.S. and twenty-first- tions they create. These papers document the work of activ- century records of abortion-provider advocacy organizations. ists, healthcare workers, attorneys, and others involved in In addition to personal papers and organizational records, reproductive health. there are books, pamphlets, zines, newsletters, and other pe- riodicals, as well as ephemera such as brochures, fliers, post- ers, buttons, and t-shirts. One of the earliest items in the collection, a bill of cost prepared by Elizabeth Parry “in the time of her lying in of an Eligetimate [sic] child” in Massachusetts, ca. 1730, tells a detailed and striking story about a woman fighting for her rights and those of her infant in eighteenth-century New England. Parry’s expenses during childbirth and the weeks before and shortly after included charges for a midwife; food and board; sugar, bread, spices, oatmeal, and fruit; a “watch on fixed nights” and candles; the child’s linen and clothing; two cords of firewood; a firewood cutter; and two trips to Boston during the lying-in. The bill also included the cost of “time spent to go to authority to make complaint of Edward Dix the father of my above [said] child.” It was signed by Parry and witnessed by John Phillips, Joseph Lynde, Jonas Bond, and Edward Emerson. We don’t know whether Parry was reimbursed for these expenses, but the document is cer- tainly compelling.

To document the ongoing debate in the U.S. over access to abortion, the Bingham Center holds records associ- ated with activist organizations — such as CARASA (Com- mittee for Abortion Rights and Against Sterilization Abuse) and the Redstockings — focused all or in part on this topic. Merle Hoffman, activist, journalist, healthcare pioneer, directorship endower

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In 2000, the Bingham Center acquired its first col- become the bridge between theory and practice,” she said, lection of clinic records, those of Choices Women’s Medi- “that will catalyze future generations to joyfully go further cal Center in ; the records were within the and deeper in the continual battles for women’s equality.” extensive papers of clinic founder, journalist, activist, and Her gift will enable the Center to expand its activities and impact, bringing us closer to attaining our goal of building a premier research center for women’s history and culture.

The Bingham Center’s reproductive health collection has been used by undergraduate and graduate students, Duke faculty, and scholars from around the country. Bing- ham Center travel grant recipient Lori Brown, an associate professor in Syracuse University’s School of Architecture, is writing a book examining the relationships between space, abortion, and issues of access. About her experience using the Bingham Center’s collections, Professor Brown says,

My experience researching the abortion archives at the Bingham Center was highly productive for my current project examining the spaces of abor- tion clinics. Particularly interesting to me were

women’s healthcare pioneer Merle Hoffman. After abortion laws were liberalized in New York state in 1970, Hoffman founded Choices, which was one of the first ambulatory sur- gical centers for women and has become one of the largest and most comprehensive women’s medical facilities in the U.S. She is also the publisher and editor-in-chief of On the Issues Magazine, and her autobiography, Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room, was published in January 2012 by The .

In the Fall of 2011, Hoffman made a pledge to endow the Sallie Bingham Center’s directorship, which now bears her name. She decided to do this as a way “to continue to support the visionary efforts by Duke University to honor and document the many courageous women who have fought their own ‘intimate wars’ in the long struggle for reproductive justice. I hope that the Bingham Center will

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clinic archives, including documentation of many and staff of varying viewpoints to join creators of collections legislative and anti-choice impediments to limit held by the Bingham Center in engaging these topics. The and prevent abortion access. Two examples include goals of the symposium were to historicize and contextual- what clinics would have to do to be able to remain ize the issue of abortion in order to facilitate the pursuit of open and functioning in the face of further restric- common ground and shared understandings; to increase the tive laws and how clinics engaged with local police library’s collections of published and unpublished materials to enforce FACE (the Freedom of Access to Clinic documenting abortion in order to better serve scholars and Entrances Act) protection. The sheer will and activists; and to improve our understanding of the respon- dedication demonstrated by these clinics, as docu- sibility of the academy to a social movement and to social mented through justice in general. This their archives, to inaugural symposium tirelessly protect laid the groundwork for their patients, as future symposia on a well as to negoti- wide range of topics, es- ate the many legal tablishing the Bingham obstacles, provided Center as an important rich source material source for the develop- and an even greater ment of desire to finish my and practice. project. The Bingham In addition to sup- Center’s holdings docu- porting research, the menting reproductive Bingham Center offers health and rights con- a very active schedule tinue to grow, as does of public programming, demand by researchers including a series of for this material. We symposia that started in welcome queries and 2003 with “Abortion: feedback about this Research, Ethics, and body of material as a Activism,” a three-day part of our ongoing academic conference process of fostering highlighting the power dialog on this thought- and relevance of primary provoking aspect of hu- source documentation man experience. to the history and future of abortion. Given the [Laura Micham is the Center’s commitment to Merle Hoffman Director acquiring and providing of the Sallie Bingham access to a wide range of Center for Women’s His- materials related to the tory and Culture, part of medical, social, legal, the David M. Rubenstein and political history of abortion, it was a natural place to Rare Book & Manuscript Library. She is also the curator of engage in multi-disciplinary dialogue regarding abortion and gender and sexuality history collections and the women’s studies issues associated with it. librarian for Duke University. In addition to organizing multi- Through a combination of plenary addresses and break- day symposia on a range of topics emerging from Bingham out sessions, the 2003 symposium addressed the relation- Center collections, Laura has also done projects and organized ship of the academy to social movements, the evolution of public programming around reproductive rights, the feminist medical ethics, the intersection of feminism and abortion art movement, desegregation of public schools in Georgia, the rights, international perspectives on access to abortion, and trajectory of feminist underground publishing and print culture other topics. It offered an opportunity for faculty, students, from the 1960s to the present, and the archivist as activist.]

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Our website (http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/) includes The FEMINIST THEORY ARCHIVES at Brown recent editions of this column and links to complete back University’s Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research issues of Feminist Collections, plus many bibliographies, a on Women, http://pembrokecenter.org/archives/ database of women-focused videos, and links to hundreds of FeministTheoryPapers.html, “is an exceptional archival other websites by topic. collection representing scholars who have transformed their Information about electronic journals and magazines, disciplines and the intellectual landscape of universities particularly those with numbered or dated issues posted on in the United States and internationally. This focused and a regular schedule, can be found in our “Periodical Notes” coherent manuscript collection is indispensable to historians, column. cultural critics, and theorists.” Among the 100+ scholars whose papers either are already in the collection or have been promised are Judith Butler, Zillah Eisenstein, Elaine Marks (1930–2001; former professor of women’s studies, ites of ll orts S A S French literature, and Jewish studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison), Joan W. Scott, Elaine Showalter, The Institute of Slavonic Studies (Freiburg, Germany) Inderpal Grewal, Rachel Bowlby, and Chela Sandoval. Many maintains an ELECTRONIC BIBLIOGRAPHY for of the collections are represented online only by “finding Russian Culture and . It is aids” at this time, but there are online exhibition galleries available in Russian, German, and English at http://www2. showcasing Elaine Marks and Naomi Schor (1943–2001; slavistik.uni-freiburg.de/slavlit/. had a “long and productive relationship” with Brown and the Pembroke Center), both of whose papers are currently ELEVATE DIFFERENCE, http://elevatedifference. available to researchers. com, which reviews everything from books to vibrators, does interviews, and promotes theater and other events, GRASSROOTS FEMINISM: BUILDING A describes itself as “a forum for thoughtful critique that aims TRANSNATIONAL FEMINIST COMMUNITY to embody the myriad — and sometimes conflicting — TOWARDS A PARTICIPATORY CULTURE viewpoints present in the struggle for political, social, and AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT at http://www. economic justice.” Formerly known as Feminist Review, the grassrootsfeminism.net/cms/ offers “transnational archives, site is run by an editorial collective. Among the currently resources, and communities” and seeks to “gain insight into reviewed items are Jacinta Bunnell’s latest coloring book, and to document the cultural spaces girls and young women Sometimes the Spoon Runs Away with Another Spoon; the create and the meaning they have,” rather than just looking film Put This on the {Map}: East King County, about the (in) at media produced for young women and girls. visibility of queer high-school youth on Seattle’s east side; and a sex-work-positive, one-woman show called Modern At age eighteen, Stacey Lannert killed the father who had Day Asian Sex Slavery: The Musical. raped her throughout her childhood and had then started in on her younger sister. She spent eighteen years in prison FAIRER SCIENCE, http://www.fairerscience.org/, “helps before her life sentence was commuted. She has since researchers and advocates for women in science, technology, published, with ghost-writer Kristen Kemp, a memoir called engineering and mathematics (STEM) communicate their Redemption, and she runs the website HEALING SISTERS findings in ways that allow the public — policy makers, (www.healingsisters.org) to connect with and help other educators and parents — to understand, evaluate, and use survivors of sexual abuse. these findings.” One of the site’s sections, “Unlearning Gender Stereotyping,” features a multimedia presentation For a mind-spinning and possibly consciousness-raising called “Why Don’t They Hear What I Say? Understanding experience, try out JAILBREAK THE PATRIARCHY, an Gender Ideologies,” with Kathryn Campbell-Kibler of Ohio application for Google Chrome that will swap gendered State University. words on any website you visit while the app is toggled “on.” Creator Danielle Sucher, who had no programming

Page 14 Feminist Collections (v. 33, no. 1, Winter 2012) E-Sources on Women & Gender experience before developing this extension in November accelerating the Organization’s goals on gender equality 2011, said the idea grew out of wondering what it would and the empowerment of women. The creation of UN be like if the genders of characters in ebooks could be Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, automatically switched. What she ultimately did was a bit bringing together resources and mandates for greater different — “I’m not much an ebook reader myself, so a impact.” The change took effect in January 2011. This Chrome extension feels much more useful to me” — but it should streamline some of those searches! See http://www. can be applied on every kind of website material, including, unwomen.org. (Editor’s note of amusement: I opened this she points out, HTML books in Project Gutenberg. link in Google Chrome, forgetting that I had “Jailbreak (Here’s a gender-swapped example from the 1901 Horatio Alger story “Young Captain Jack”: “As will be surmised from the scene just described, Jack Ruthven was a womanly, self- reliant girl, not easily intimidated by those who would browbeat her.”) Learn about the genderswapping e-experiment at http://www. daniellesucher.com/2011/11/ jailbreak-the-patriarchy-my- first-chrome-extension/, or just download the extension and see what it does! (To really get confused, go to Danielle Sucher’s page while you have “Jailbreak” running.) Also look for the spinoff that toggles gendered into gender-neutral language: JAILBREAK THE BINARY, by Marianna Kreidler. This one can give you a WebMD site, for example, that tries to answer the question, “Sex Drive: How Do People and People Compare?” Miriam Greenwald “Share these links, hire and promote these writers, and help close the byline gender gap.” Ann the Patriarchy” toggled ON (see above), and had a few Friedman’s Tumblr site, LADY JOURNOS! (http:// moments of consternation about the United Nations having ladyjournos.tumblr.com/), “highlights the work of felt the need to set up a special entity on men’s equality and journalists who happen to be women.” Recent links include empowerment.) one to a FrontPageAfrica story, by journalist Mae Azango, about female genital cutting in Liberia; and another to an The WOMEN’S INSTITUTE FOR FREEDOM OF THE essay by GOOD Magazine’s “Lifestyle” editor, Amanda Hess, PRESS (WIFP) now has an online listing of 2,500 (and on the real and often messy story of ethical consumerism. growing) “women’s print periodicals known to us,” at http:// www.wifp.org/PeriodicalList.html. What distinguishes this Unless you’ve looked in the last year or so for a publication listing from, say, WIFP’s Directory of Women’s Media, or our or website related to one of a number of United Nations own office’s quarterly Feminist Periodicals, is that in addition mandates or units on women or girls (DAW, INSTRAW, to current publications, it lists earlier periodicals that are OSAGI and UNIFEM, anyone?), you might have missed no longer publishing. It continues to be updated as more this: “In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly information becomes available. “While this listing will never created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for be complete,” says WIFP president and director Martha Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. In Allen, “we expect to make a version available in print form doing so, UN Member States took an historic step in for libraries and for the historical record.”

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U.K.-based WOMEN’S VIEWS ON NEWS, run by a AM A GIRL: THE STATE OF THE WORLD’S GIRLS, volunteer collective (“a group of women journalists with but with a special focus each year. PDFs of reports from differing levels of journalistic experience from different 2007 through 2011 can be downloaded from http://plan- parts of the world including the UK, US, Egypt, Norway international.org/girls/resources/publications.php. and Ireland”) at www.womensviewsonnews.org, calls itself Special themes so far have included “In the Shadow of War” “the women’s daily online news and current affairs service, (2008), “Girls in the Global Economy” (2009), “Digital operating on a ‘not for profit’ basis. The site provides up and Urban Frontiers” (2010), and “So, What about Boys?” to date news on all the major national and international (2011). stories of the day, in much the same way as any newspaper or online news service, but the stories we feature here are The Minnesota Indian Women’s Sexual Assault Coalition always about women. It also includes feature articles and (MIWSAC) and Research & Education opinion pieces from time to time, but the focus is on news.” teamed up to interview 105 prostituted Minnesota Native women about the realities of their lives, past and present, and their most urgent needs. The research project and its results are described in a 72-page report, GARDEN OF TRUTH: THE PROSTITUTION AND TRAFFICKING OF NATIVE WOMEN IN MINNESOTA, by , Nicole Matthews, Sarah Deer, Guadalupe Lopez, Christine Stark, and Eileen Hudon, produced in 2011 at the William Mitchell College of Law and available as a PDF at the MIWSAC website: http://miwsac.org/images/stories/ garden%20of%20truth%20final%20project%20web.pdf

The Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen) at Michigan State University has a working paper series called GENDERED PERSPECTIVES ON INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT that is free online at http://gencen. isp.msu.edu/publications/papers.htm. The most recent papers in the series are Why Bother with the State? Transnational Activism, Local Activism, and Lessons for a Women Workers’ Movement in Mexico, by Rachel K. Brickner (21p., 2010); Prolonging Suffering: Domestic Violence, Political Economy, and the State in Northern Vietnam, by Lynn Kwiatkowski (29p., 2011); and Body and Emotions in the Making of Latin American , by Verónica Perera (21p., 2012). Miriam Greenwald

“Although girls are approximately half the youth population E-Documents in developing countries, they contribute less than their potential to the economy. The objective of this paper is PLAN, “one of the oldest and largest children’s development to quantify the opportunity cost of girls’ exclusion from organisations in the world,” is engaged in a campaign productive employment with the hope that stark figures will “to fight gender inequality, promote girls’ rights and lift lead policymakers to reconsider the current underinvestment millions of girls out of poverty.” In the years leading up to in girls.” That’s from the summary for Jad Chabaan & 2015 (“the target year for the Millennium Development Wendy Cunningham’s MEASURING THE ECONOMIC Goals”), Plan is publishing a series of annual reports on the GAIN OF INVESTING IN GIRLS: THE GIRL EFFECT inequities between boys and girls, each titled BECAUSE I DIVIDEND, World Bank, 2011. Policy Research Working

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Paper no. WPS 5753. Find the 38-page PDF (2.66 mb), interventions for which there is substantial evidence of as well as an uncorrected OCR text version (for slow success: from prevention, treatment, care and support to connections) at http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/ strengthening the enabling environment for policies and en/2011/08/14752718/measuring-economic-gain- programming. What Works also highlights a number of gaps investing-girls-girl-effect-dividend. in programming that remain.”

Kim Ashburn et al., MOVING BEYOND GENDER AS WOMEN ON THE FRONT LINES OF HEALTH USUAL: “How the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for CARE is the title of Save the Children’s STATE OF THE AIDS Relief, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis WORLD’S MOTHERS 2010 report, a 52-page document, and Malaria, and the World Bank’s Africa Multi-Country accessible at http://www.savethechildren.org/site/ AIDS Program are addressing women’s vulnerabilities c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6153061/k.A0BD/Publications. in the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Mozambique, Uganda, htm, that focuses “on the critical shortage of health and Zambia.” Center for Global Development, 2009. workers to save the lives of mothers, newborn babies and 94p. http://www.policyarchive.org/handle/10207/ young children.” Also available here are reports from 2011, bitstreams/19751.pdf CHAMPIONS FOR CHILDREN (“on why investments in maternal and child health care in developing countries are Find the United Nation’s latest (2011–2012) edition of good for America”), and previous years. its PROGRESS OF THE WORLD’S WOMEN report, themed In Pursuit of Justice, at http://progress. m Compiled by JoAnne Lehman unwomen.org/pdfs/EN-Report-Progress.pdf. The 166-page PDF is available in English, Spanish, French, Arabic, and Russian; its executive summary is also in Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, Khmer, and Indonesian; and the report can be purchased as an e-book (ISBN 978-1936291335) from Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, or Apple’s iBookstore. Previous editions of the “Progress” series, including 2002’s Women, War, Peace: The Independent Experts’ Assessment on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Women and Women’s Role in Peace-Building, are also archived at http://www.unwomen. org/resources/progress-of-the-worlds-women/.

“Women now make up half of those living with HIV infection... Numerous international political declarations have recognized women’s and girls’ specific risks and needs and have committed to act to address them… However, the funding and implementation of evidence-based programs for women and girls continue to lag.” What Works for Women and Girls: Evidence for HIV/ AIDS Interventions is both a website (http://www. whatworksforwomen.org/) and a 539-page report (PDF at http://www.whatworksforwomen.org/pages/download) that aims “to provide the evidence necessary to inform country-level programming. What Works is a comprehensive review, spanning 2,000 articles and reports with data from more than 90 countries, that has uncovered a number of Miriam Greenwald

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Gender & Law Virginia Military Institute’s Single-Sex Literature Policy Unconstitutional”). Each of Noël Merino, ed., GENDER. Farm- these chapters provides not only the Hugh Stevens, ed., THE ington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press, majority (or plurality) and dissenting CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO 2010. (Issues on Trial.) 240p. index. opinions for the case, but also argu- GAY AND LESBIAN WRITING. $39.70, ISBN 978-0737749489. ments and commentary on both sides New York: Cambridge University Press, of the issue from attorneys, professors, 2011. 246p. bibl. index. $75.00, ISBN Reviewed by Chimene Tucker and other writers. The fourth chapter, 978- 0521888448; pap., $29.99, ISBN “Gender-Based Discrimination Toward 978- 0521716574. Gender. The law. Does each affect Transsexuals Is Sex Discrimination,” the other? Indeed, there are direct con- looks at the 2004 decision of the U.S. Reviewed by Michelle Martinez nections as well as significant indirect Court of Appeals for the Sixth District influences between them, even if some in Smith v. Salem, Ohio, et al. One This is a wonderful contribution constitutional scholars — Robert A. writer in this chapter, attorney Paul to GLBTQ studies. The book begins Goldwin, for instance — would argue Gugel, claims that the appeals court’s with a chronology of events that differently: “Strictly speaking,” Gold- finding in Smith went too far, while are important in gay and lesbian win wrote in an entry titled “Gender attorney Melinda Chow argues the history: from instances of gay desire Rights,” in the 2000 edition of the opposite: that the court was right to in mythology of unknown dates to Encyclopedia of the American Constitu- expand the legal understanding of sex landmark publications and such court tion, “there can be no distinct class of discrimination to include transgen- trials as Oscar Wilde’s. This is an gender rights under the Constitution, dered individuals. interesting timeline. but only the same rights for all persons, This volume in the Issues on Trial The introduction initially or all citizens, regardless of sex. The series is an excellent introductory re- presents examples of same-sex love Constitution secures rights only of in- source. It includes suggestions for that are debatable among religious dividuals, not of groups, and makes no further research, a list of organizations and GLBTQ scholars, such as the distinction between men and women.”1 to contact (for example, the American friendships between Ruth and Naomi This Gender volume in Greenhaven Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Lamb- and between David and Jonathan Press’s Issues on Trial series, however, da Legal, and the Leadership Confer- in Judeo-Christian scriptures. examines some of the complex connec- ence on Civil Rights (LCCR)), and an Unfortunately, Stevens does not tions between gender and the law that index to the volume. acknowledge the debates about play out in real life — and in real court whether or not the relationships cases. Note of such “couples” are really Three of the four chapters in Gen- representations of same-sex love. That der examine a U.S. Supreme Court 1. 2nd edition, ed. by Leonard W. Levy omission may lead readers to believe decision about a gender issue: the 1981 & Kenneth L. Karst. Detroit, MI: the rest of the book will be biased in its case of Rostker v. Goldberg (“Upholding Macmillan Reference USA (part of the scholarship and lack acknowledgement Selective Service Registration for Males Virtual Reference Library), vol. 3, of any contention around the topics Only”); the 1989 case of Price Water- p.1185. represented. However, this is not the house v. Hopkins (“Employment Deci- case. sions Influenced by Gender Stereotypes [Chimene Tucker is the communication The essays in the first part of Are Discriminatory”); and the 1996 and journalism librarian at the Univer- the book focus on repression and United States v. Virginia case (“Finding sity of Southern California.] legitimation, examining suppressed and banned books as well as the authors and printers taken to trial;

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Freud’s influence on same-sex studies; Part 3 focuses on literary 2011. 208p. bibl. pap., $16.00, ISBN the term “closet” (including its use, traditions, looking at how such authors 978-1580053624. its precursors, and what metaphors from the past as Sappho and Oscar are likely to replace it in the future); Wilde influence current literature; Reviewed by Kelsey Wallner and the transgression of literature and how friendships between notable gay its use of erotic turns of phrases and and lesbian authors influenced their With fresh wit and hilarity, The ideas that act subversively in what at individual writing; and a survey of Guy’s Guide to Feminism clarifies what first glance appear to be “safe” poems same-sex desire in poetry. This section it means to be a feminist and assures or books. This section also examines ends with a discussion of queer writers men that their role in advancing the the use of the word “queer” and in New York, their influences on one feminist movement and women’s its social etymology. The extensive another, and the influences of the city rights is just as important as women’s. bibliographies at the end of this section and the group on each of them, not all Even though aimed particularly at are as priceless as the essays themselves, of whom were actually gay. heterosexual males, this little book will which are well-written and thoroughly The book finishes with a selection be beneficial to anyone who might ask, researched. of further reading suggestions “Why should I call myself a feminist?” Throughout the book, recurring that range from ground-breaking The text’s casual style makes its content references are made to Foucault, literature and studies in the 1970s to as unintimidating as it is accessible. Freud, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and contemporary studies and surveys that It seamlessly links masculinity to other highly influential sociologists, contribute to today’s queer studies. The feminism, with entries on the military, psychologists, writers, etc., who book has a thorough index. on being “macho,” on “Love” or “Why contributed to or initiated studies From Gertrude Stein to Henry We Know that Feminists Love Men” of same-sex partnerships. It is not James and Oscar Wilde, to Sarah (for skeptical guys), on the mistaken necessary, however, for readers to be Waters, Carol Duffy, and Samuel R. notion that feminists are “male- intimately acquainted with GLBTQ Delany, authors contemporary and bashers” (p. 93), and many other studies or the work of any of these past are discussed in this text, which myth-busters, The Guy’s Guide aims to famous people, because the contexts will be exceptionally useful to GBLTQ convince readers that men have much are so thoroughly explained. survey classes as well as to readers who to gain by seeing the world through a Part 2 focuses on affiliations, or have never thought about queer theory feminist lens. identities within the broad grouping and know little about GBLTQ studies. Michael Kaufman and Michael of “GLBTQ”. Globalization is an This resource is well-suited to gender Kimmel highlight nearly eighty important theme here: the homoerotics studies. different subjects relevant to of travel are examined, particularly The Cambridge Companion to masculinity and feminism. The the travel of ideas regarding same-sex Gay and Lesbian Writing achieves one- to four-page entries, organized desire and the culture of travel among its goal of introducing “the range of alphabetically, give introductory homosexual groups who gather in debates that inform studies of works by information on topics ranging from particular parts of the world, leaving lesbian and gay writers and of literary the (non)-reality of bra-burning to behind their cultures to adopt or adapt representations of same-sex desire and the perils of . Informative others. Race is another affiliation queer identities” (back cover). quizzes, surprising statistics, comical within GLBTQ identity; movies dialogues, and references to popular such as Six Degrees of Separation are [Michelle Martinez is the librarian culture ensure that readers will not discussed regarding their connotations for literature at Sam Houston State get bored with either the content or of racial and other types of “otherness.” University.] layout of the book. Some foundational Richard Canning discusses the lack of information on the feminist movement AIDS literature, particularly during is noted, with a short historical outline the AIDS crisis until a five-year period Men & Feminism of women’s rights and a creative of cultural activity in the 1990s description of “Catching the 3 Waves blossomed with plays, movies, and Michael Kaufman & Michael of Feminism” (p. 169). Readers will books. Finally, transgender affiliation is Kimmel, THE GUY’S GUIDE TO surely enjoy the “Feminism” entry, explored, with Heather Love discussing FEMINISM. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press, the politics behind the term.

Feminist Collections (v. 33, no. 1, Winter 2012) Page 19 New Reference Works in which Kaufman and Kimmel ask, Military Women This volume joins two other “Do you believe women should have bibliographies that deal with women in the right to vote?,” and then warn, Judith Bellafaire, WOMEN IN THE the U.S. military. Still useful, although “Then you better lie down...you’ve UNITED STATES MILITARY: AN its coverage stops seventeen years ago, probably caught feminism” (p. 45). ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. is Vicki Friedl’s Women in the United Equally as witty is the introductory New York: Routledge, 2011. States Military, 1901–1995: A Research jingle in the “No” entry: “’No sounds (Routledge research guides to Guide and Annotated Bibliography sweet. / Simple to tweet. / Often American military studies.) 152p. (Greenwood, 1996.) The more recent misunderstood / Unlike it should” (p. bibl. index. $150.00, ISBN 978- African Americans in Defense of the 108). Kaufman and Kimmel know 0415801461. Nation: A Bibliography, by James when to get serious, however, when Controvich (Scarecrow, 2011), offers discussing topics such as honor killings, Reviewed by Susan Bennett White useful material on African Americans, female genital cutting, and rape, noting both women and men, in the military. that all of these issues are not only In a tightly structured work where Both books are narrowly focused on internationally prevalent, but actually pithy annotations are set within richly direct service in and for the various — contrary to what some might think detailed essays, each defining a time military branches. — insidiously woven into our own period and circumstance surrounding A special strength of Bellafaire’s culture as well. women in the U.S. military, Judith work, on the other hand, is the broad There is an entry on gender, but Bellafaire has created a credible interpretation of military. Women the book lacks any mention of intersex contribution to the burgeoning engaged in various conflicts of the individuals, and I was surprised at literature on women in military life. United States are well represented, the absence of an entry discussing She begins by observing, “Throughout without the scope being limited just our culture’s emphasis on virginity. this nation’s history, the extent of to those who were officially members The book would also benefit from women’s military participation has of the armed forces. Also included are an index, although it does contain been directly tied to society’s ideas powerful biographies documenting an extensive bibliography. Overall, I of women’s place. [However,] the the lives of notable women engaged highly recommend The Guy’s Guide to changing definition of women’s proper in support of military conflicts. For Feminism — especially for young-adult roles has frequently, but not always, example, the chapter covering the and older males, as well as anyone been affected by the national need for American Civil War includes many who thinks we live in a “post-feminist” their services” (p. 1). accounts of women serving as spies society. Within each of the twelve or nurses for either the Union or Michael Kaufman, Ph.D., is an chapters, which are arranged the Confederacy. Here are several educator, author, and public speaker; chronologically by war or other biographies of Harriet Tubman, he is also a co-founder of the White conflict, separate sections deal with probably best remembered today for Ribbon Campaign (WRC), the world’s individual formats. Books and journal her work in guiding enslaved African largest movement of men trying to articles are almost always included, Americans to freedom through the end . (Note but there is a rich diversity beyond Underground Railroad. Annotations that the WRC also has its own entry in those, including archival collections, here also note that Tubman was this guide.) Michael Kimmel, Ph.D., the Arlington National Cemetery an active commander of troops in is a professor of sociology at SUNY website, government reports, memoirs the Civil War, and led military — Stony Brook and a leading sociology and biographies, official histories, oral especially naval — raids on plantations, researcher; he is also the author of histories, periodicals devoted to women freeing some 700 slaves in one Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys in the military, theses, and unpublished campaign deep within Confederate Become Men and Manhood in America: conference papers. Most book listings territory. A Cultural History. include annotations, while entries for Such breadth makes this title other types of materials usually do not, especially useful for all reference [Kelsey Wallner is a student assistant in except for considerable detail provided collections, since annotations can guide our office and is studying gender and for some especially significant items in a library to acquire further materials women’s studies and Spanish at the UW– each chapter. and also identify items for interlibrary Madison.] loan when the library does not hold the

Page 20 Feminist Collections (v. 33, no. 1, Winter 2012) New Reference Works cited material in its own collections. tion”; “Environment”; “Government/ and an appendix containing the Beijing Women in the United States Military is Law and Justice”; “Health: Mental and Declaration and Platform for Action a solid reference work, useful in itself Physical”; “Media/Popular Culture”; from the United Nations 1995 Fourth as a historical survey, and is highly “Religion”; “Science and Technology”; World Conference on Women. Finally, recommended for both research and “Sports and Recreation”; “Sexualities”; two online supplements will be pub- general collections. “War and Conflict”; and “Women’s lished in 2012 and 2014, adding 500 Lives.” Within these categories are a more entries to the work. [Susan Bennett White is the sociology range of entry types; for example, the I would recommend this online librarian at Princeton University 110 “Health” entries include “Abor- encyclopedia for reference collections Library, where she provides materials tion, Access to,” “Body Image,” “Chas- geared primarily toward undergraduate and research support for the programs tity Pledges,” “Female Genital Surgery, students, as it is a wonderful jumping- in gender studies. She has been a senior Geographical Distribution,” “HIV/ off point for their exploration of the research librarian at Princeton for more AIDS: Africa,” and “Signal Biography: diverse opportunities and challenges than twenty-five years.] Suleman, Nadia ‘Octomom.’” Entries facing women in today’s world. range from 450 to 3,500 words. More than 400 contributors, all women’s and [Amanda Swygart-Hobaugh is the librar- Modern Women gender studies scholars, have written ian for sociology, anthropology, and ger- concise, thorough, and readable syn- ontology at Georgia State University.] Mary Zeiss Stange & Carol K. Oyster, opses that should be readily accessible eds., & Jane Sloan, multimedia ed., to the proposed audience of “simply THE MULTIMEDIA ENCYCLO- casual readers look­ing for some reliable Sex Work PEDIA OF WOMEN IN TODAY’S information on a particular subject,­ WORLD. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, or students or scholars commencing Melissa Hope Ditmore, 2011. bibl. index. glossary. Electronic, research for some specific project” (p. PROSTITUTION AND SEX WORK. $650.00, e-ISBN 978-1412976862. viii). Each entry includes a “Further Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood/ABC- (Hardcover, The Encyclopedia of Women Readings” section, with typically four CLIO, 2011. (Historical guides to in Today’s World, 4 vols., $495.00, but up to ten suggested books, articles, controversial issues in America.) 201p. ISBN 978-1412976855.) and Web resources. append. bibl. index. $55.00, ISBN The online version’s browsability 978-0313362897. Reviewed by Amanda Swygart-Hobaugh is significantly enhanced by the hyper- linked cross-references in each entry. Reviewed by Jeanne Armstrong With entries that run the gamut Ninety-nine video clips — browsable from entertainer Lady Gaga to Egyp- in the “Multimedia Library” but also Author Melissa Hope Ditmore tian women’s rights activist Engy embedded in applicable entries — and also wrote the two-volume Encyclopedia Ayman Ghozlan, from female action hundreds of photo images enhance of Prostitution and Sex Work, which, heroes to drag kings, and from interna- the reader’s experience. Multimedia although it deals with the same tional abortion laws to the Campaign editor Jane Sloan is to be commended overall topic as this shorter historical for in Africa, this for the variety of clips she selected: guide, differs from it in a number of extensive reference work lives up to from news to Lady Gaga performance respects. The encyclopedia’s coverage its title, offering a whirlwind journey snippets, they aptly supplement the is international, while the historical around the globe for a sweeping glance text. Other added features include a guide concentrates on prostitution and at women in today’s world. chronology that marks milestones in sex work in America. The encyclopedia The online version of this ency- the achievement of legal, political, and has multiple entries arranged in clopedia is accessible and easily navi- reproductive rights for women around alphabetical order, while the historical gable. The editors organized the ap- the world as well as individual women’s guide is organized into nine topical proximately 1,000 entries into fifteen successes in politics, athletics, litera- chapters: “Venues”; “Personnel”; browsable Reader’s Guide categories: ture, and the entertainment industry; a “Legal Frameworks”; “Morality, “Activism in Theory and Practice”; resource guide of recommended books, Money, and Prostitution Prior to “Arts”; “Business, Commerce, and academic journals, and Web resources; the Criminalization of Prostitution”; Economics”; “Countries”; “Educa- a glossary; a hyperlinked subject index; “Red Light, Green Light”; “The

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Wild West”; “Immigration Law Chapter 3, “Legal Frameworks,” the U.S., which includes texts, audio and State Legislation of Morality examines the ways sex work is and video resources, organization to ‘Protect’ Women”; “Twenty- regulated — for example, through websites, blogs, research reports, and first-Century Campaigns and Laws decriminalization, legalization, and some Google books. There is also a against Trafficking in Persons”; and prohibition. Chapter 4, “Morality, timeline that runs from 1722, when “From Prostitutes to Sex Workers: Money, and Prostitution Prior to The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the A Movement for Rights.” As the the Criminalization of Prostitution,” Famous Moll Flanders was published, to titles indicate, this shorter guide is gives a historical overview of brothels, 2009, when Rhode Island criminalized organized chronologically, beginning public responses, criminalization, indoor prostitution. with a discussion of prostitution before and punishment. The chapter on There are several errors in the criminalization, then describing the red-light districts discusses historical book: a sentence on page 65 reads, purpose of red-light districts, and trends in the practice of prostitution for example, “This was not allowed culminating with twenty-first-century — for example, the creation of these all prostitutes before the court and campaigns and laws and the sex- districts in order to segregate areas of may have been based on the woman’s workers’ rights movement. prostitution from “respectable” family record of dependability for paying off This guide has much U.S.- neighborhoods — and describes the her outstanding debts,” which suggests specific historical information that Storyville district of New Orleans an omitted word or two. Despite such is not included in the two-volume and prostitution locales near military minor errors, though, the Prostitution encyclopedia. Both resources have bases. The chapter on the Wild West and Sex Work historical guide could appendices providing historical considers the role of race and ethnicity be a useful supplement to the earlier accounts, documents by sex workers, in the treatment of prostitutes in encyclopedia. and legal documents, but the frontier areas of the U.S. Chapter 7 documents themselves differ. The addresses efforts to regulate or restrict [Jeanne Armstrong is a professor at encyclopedia also has a section on prostitution through the passage Western Washington University and is the poems and lyrics that is not included of immigration laws and morality librarian liaison for several departments in the historical guide. legislation, e.g., the Mann Act. and programs, including Women In her introduction, Ditmore Chapter 8 gives an overview of recent Studies.] explains the historical guide’s campaigns and laws against “trafficking organization: the first two chapters in persons,” and summarizes feminist discuss the places “in which debates about the relative benefit or Sexual Violence prostitution has historically occurred harm (to sex workers) of trying to in the United States and the people abolish or reform sex work. Michele A. Paludi & Florence L. involved, not limited to prostitutes, The final chapter of the guide Denmark, eds., VICTIMS OF sex workers and their patrons” but describes activism among sex workers, SEXUAL ASSAULT and abuse: also including ancillary personnel such from the 1942 Honolulu hookers’ RESOURCES AND RESPONSES as managers and others (p. xxvi); the strike to the work of contemporary FOR INDIVIDUALS AND rest cover issues with chronological groups such as PONY (Prostitutes FAMILIES. Santa Barbara, CA: boundaries, such as legislation. of New York) and COYOTE (Call Praeger/ABC-CLIO, 2010. 719p. Chapter 1, “Venues,” discusses the Off Your Old Tired Ethics). Some 2 vols. index. $124.95, ISBN 978- street, “cribs” (rooms that prostitutes recent activist projects have focused 0313379703; e-book, ISBN 978- could rent), theaters, dancehalls, on combating HIV/AIDS, founding 0313379710 (see www.abc-clio.com). brothels, call-girl agencies, and the the St. James Infirmary (which offers Internet. (Online options may increase health services to sex workers in San Reviewed by Amanda C. Youngbar personal security for sex workers and Francisco), and establishing the Sex allow their patrons to remain invisible.) Workers Project (at the Urban Justice Sexual violence remains a Chapter 2, “Personnel,” covers clients, Center in New York City). persistent problem, despite the great management (madams and pimps), The guide has — in addition to progress feminists have made in and “support staff” (such as security, appendices, a bibliography of print shattering the silence that surrounds it. drivers, receptionists, advertisers, sources, and an index — a listing of Michele Paludi and Florence Denmark, attorneys, and bondsmen). online resources about prostitution in both of whom have written extensively

Page 22 Feminist Collections (v. 33, no. 1, Winter 2012) New Reference Works on the psychology of women, speak and intervene in instances of sexual total populations (whether female or out in these volumes on behalf of those violence; it is also a place to begin male)! It is not that 60.4 percent of who have been victims of sexual assault research, especially on contemporary all females have been raped before and abuse. topics. The index, for example, they reach the age of 18, but that 60.4 The two volumes — the first includes entries for Web 2.0 social percent of those females who have been subtitled Incidence and Psychological media, such as Facebook, YouTube, raped were raped before the age of 18.4 Dimensions and the second, Cultural, and Twitter, as well as for texting. Perhaps many readers would easily spot Community, Educational and Advocacy Specific court cases, books, and this error, but a student or a novice Responses — address the diversity of programs are also mentioned. In a field might not. Furthermore, the origin experiences that could qualify as sexual of study that takes praxis seriously, and currency of the supposed fact is assault and abuse. The Introduction these examples are apt. Each chapter obscured. I don’t believe this error is provides an overview of the topic and ends with a bibliography; these vary in representative of the work as a whole, provides the context for considering length from six entries to eleven pages. but it does evoke skepticism in me as a the many varieties of sexual violence At the end of Volume I, an appendix reader. under one broad heading. This is lists websites for organizations Academic collections with important, because the term sexual worldwide that deal with sexual assault strengths in women’s studies or assault is defined differently depending and abuse, and a few of the chapters interpersonal violence scholarship, on who constructs the meaning and have individual appendices. as well as elementary and secondary the context. Sometimes it is narrowly Many of the chapters provide school administrators and counselors as penetrative rape1; others, as any statistics — a notable and useful who need to address bullying, type of forced sexual act.2 Some of feature as research in the social harassment, and child sex abuse, would the topics included are bullying and sciences becomes more data-driven. benefit most from Victims of Sexual cyberbullying, harassment at work and One statistic jumped out at me in Assault and Abuse. In an academic on the street, incest, intimate-partner Volume 2, Chapter 8, “Community setting, electronic access may be violence, assaults against pregnant Interventions for Adolescent Victims preferable to lending a print copy, as women, and violence in pornography. of Violence,” where author Roseanne students are likely to use just individual Harassment, bullying, and child Flores states, “According to a ‘Facts chapters rather than the entire work. sexual abuse receive the heaviest at a Glance’ sheet produced by the coverage. Adolescents and children CDC (2009), 60.4 percent of females Notes receive the most attention, but there is and 69.2 percent of males have been information about women, men, boys, raped before they reach the age of 1. Patricia A. Frazier, “Rape,” in and the LGBT community as well. The 18; 25.5 percent of females and 41 Encyclopedia of Human Relationships, international community is mentioned, percent of males have been raped by ed. Harry T. Reis & Susan Sprecher but the geographic focus is the United the age of 12” (p. 170). A CDC Fact (Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, States. Sheet from 2009, Understanding Teen 2009). Retrieved from http:// Each chapter addresses a different Dating Violence, is cited as the source, www.sage-ereference.com/view/ topic (although some, e.g., harassment, but the figures reported may be found humanrelationships/n430.xml. are covered in multiple chapters), and on another CDC Fact Sheet from provides background information as 2008, Sexual Violence. (Furthermore, 2. Rebecca M. Bolen, “Sexual Abuse,” well as in-depth discussion. Victims the Sexual Violence Fact Sheet is not in Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence, of Sexual Assault and Abuse does not the original source. In a footnote, the ed. Claire M. Renzetti & Jeffrey L. have the breadth or simplicity of an CDC cites a 2007 article, “Prevalence Edleson (Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, encyclopedia, however; nor is it a how- and Characteristics of Sexual Violence 2008). Retrieved from http://www. to guide explaining best practices for Victimization Among U.S. Adults, sage-ereference.com/view/violence/ responding to individual instances 2001–2003,” by Basile, Chen, Black, n467.xml. of sexual violence, or a toolkit for and Saltzman,3 as the source.) From preparing an advocacy campaign. the 2008 Fact Sheet, I learned that 3. Kathleen Basile et al., “Prevalence While not as comprehensive as a the percentages cited represent rape and Characteristics of Sexual Violence handbook or sourcebook, this work victims who are raped within those Victimization Among U.S. Adults, may motivate readers to advocate age ranges — not the percentages of 2001–2003,” Violence and Victims, v. 22, no. 4 (2007), pp. 437–448.

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4. Centers for Disease Control and “honest,” and “sew” are just a few of especially Catholic, context” (p. 284); Prevention, “Sexual Violence: Facts at a the terms covered in this dictionary. “as a mark of seniority, experience or Glance” (2008). Retrieved from http:// Some entries are the expected household command” (p. 284); and www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/pdf/ paragraph (or less) in length, but as the destructiveness of “passionate sv-datasheet-a.pdf. many span several pages. The detail maternal love” (p. 288). and scholarship are remarkable, as is The volume ends with a 41- [Amanda C. Youngbar is Library Findlay’s ability to provide in-depth page bibliography listing books, Associate for Learning Commons at insight into more obscure subjects. book chapters, and articles, and has Towson University and is pursuing One example is the thorough one- an excellent index. Shakespearian her M.L.I.S. through the University of page entry about the word “lap”: scholars, students, and fans will find Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She has a B.A. in It begins with a 1615 definition, this a strong addition to their personal women, gender & sexuality studies and from a chapter of Helkiah Crooke’s libraries, although the price may be an M.A. in liberal studies.] Mikrokosmographia, and explains that prohibitive. The dictionary is also “lap” was used “as a general term for recommended for academic library the female genitals” (p. 230). Findlay collections; it will be useful to literature Shakespearean Women then examines Shakespeare’s use of the and theatre majors at upper-division- word: “In Shakespeare, women’s laps undergraduate and graduate levels. Alison Findlay, WOMEN IN follow this definition as an entrance SHAKESPEARE: A DICTIONARY. to the womb, the site of male sexual [Stacy Russo is the electronic services London, UK: Continuum, 2010. desire and the point of return to one’s librarian at Santa Ana College in Santa 564p. bibl. index. $275.00, ISBN 978- maternal origins. As the object of male Ana, California.] 0826458896. desire, the lap is a target” (p. 230). Examples are then supplied from lines Reviewed by Stacy Russo in Antony and Cleopatra; Henry the Young Women’s Series Fourth; Much Ado About Nothing; and High-quality scholarly writing Kind Richard the Second. Bethany Bezdecheck, offering feminist interpretations of An example of a lengthier entry RELATIONSHIPS: 21ST-CENTURY Shakespeare and women is certainly is Findlay’s study of “mother.” In ROLES. New York, NY: Rosen not in short supply. For just one nearly eleven pages, she dissects the Publishing, 2010. (A Young Woman’s example, Dympna Callephan’s Feminist word’s meaning in a multitude of Guide to Contemporary Issues.) 112p. Companion to Shakespeare was a plays, discussing the significance of the $31.95, ISBN 978-1435835405. CHOICE Outstanding Academic “absent mother’s influence” on such Title in 2001. Typically, the works characters as Exeter in King Henry Reviewed by Nancy Nyland published have been collections of the Fifth, Sebastian in Twelfth Night, essays or individual scholarly texts. Cassius and Brutus in Julius Caesar, Rosen Publishing’s Young Alison Findlay’s Women in Shakespeare: and King Lear. Findlay believes Lear Woman’s Guide series addresses A Dictionary is different. First, it is an provides “the most striking example issues facing women at all of life’s excellent reference on major and minor of a return of repressed maternal stages: stereotyping, reproductive women characters in Shakespeare. influence” (p. 281). She later asserts, rights, violence, the workplace, and Second, it is an equally strong resource “For many male characters, the mother relationships. Like the first four titles, for research into gender roles in represents an image of absolute security the fifth book in the series is written Shakespeare’s plays and poetry. and fulfillment” (p. 283), presenting for young women in high school, ages Findlay is currently professor this notion of “absolute security” fourteen to seventeen. of Renaissance drama at England’s through the characters of the Duke of Beginning with a review of the Lancaster University. She has published Suffolk and Edward IV. This is only the common characteristics of healthy extensively, both in books and in beginning of her analysis, which goes relationships, the author leads readers scholarly journals, on women in drama on to discuss various representations of to think about the many types of of the period. the mother figure as “political guidance relationships, including those with “Ring,” “nun,” “moon,” “city- and protection” (p. 284); as a signifier blood relatives and stepfamilies and wife,” “wedding,” “housewife,” of “maternal authority in a religious, with friends, not only with romantic partners. Useful suggestions help

Page 24 Feminist Collections (v. 33, no. 1, Winter 2012) New Reference Works young women to both improve their a girl to be her own best friend, grade reading level. I can envision relationships with family, and better treat herself as her most important portions of the book being used as a maintain positive relationships with relationship, and be true to her own supplemental text for teen readers in peers. identity. junior-high or high-school health and None of the very real difficulties An attempt to appear current by wellness courses. It may also be useful with different types of relationships discussing relationships among famous to adults who need more information are glossed over: the age difference personalities will shorten the useful about violence against women and girls between parents and children, how lifespan of the book. Mentioning but read at a lower level than can be some relationships form out of a desire Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and other found in books targeted to adults. for popularity, and how others may currently famous celebrities may Numerous photographs help to be derailed by peer pressure. The fact make the book more attractive to draw in readers of varied abilities. that relationships can and do end its intended audience in the year of Some of the illustrative matter is eye- is addressed honestly, mitigated by publication, but some of the names catching — for instance, a photograph suggestions for avoiding relationship- mentioned may be unrecognizable to of a rally to increase public awareness ending disagreements. a high school student picking up the of domestic violence (pp. 20-21). Chapter 4, “Boy Talk,” consists book in five or ten years. A woman stands on the steps of of twenty pages on how to navigate A helpful glossary, suggestions for the Capitol building in Frankfort, the treacherous currents of romantic further reading, a bibliography, and a Kentucky, with her back toward the relationships. The many potential “For More Information” section point camera. She is wearing a shirt that difficulties are included, such as the interested reader toward additional reads “Victims of Domestic Violence differing communication styles resources. The eye-catching design, Come from All Walks of Life,” and she between the genders; dating for easily readable text, and pictures make is surrounded by hundreds of pairs of the wrong reasons; progressing too the book attractive to the intended age empty women’s shoes. While photos quickly to a physical relationship; group. The binding glue of the review such as this one are well-placed and being pressured to have sex; how and copy leaked onto two of the pages, engaging, valuable page space is also where to get help if you find yourself sticking them together, so libraries may taken up by large stock photographs of in an abusive relationship; breakups, want to carefully check the quality varying impact. and moving on from a breakup. For of the printing and binding before The text is brief to the point of example: putting their copy on the shelf. providing only a minimal overview of the issues at stake, which include A healthy romantic [Nancy Nyland is a librarian at the domestic violence, sexual violence, relationship should be more Germantown Campus of Montgomery dating violence, and, in a timely about caring and compassion College in Montgomery County, examination, violence against women than sexual activity. If a Maryland.] in the military and civilians in combat boyfriend is pressuring you zones. Unfortunately, there are also to do things you aren’t yet omissions that make the already brief comfortable with, don’t allow Linda Bickerstaff, VIOLENCE treatment of issues in this book even yourself to give in. A guy AGAINST WOMEN: PUBLIC more limited in scope. The violence will be more likely to respect HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS. against women discussed in this book you if he sees that you value New York: Rosen Publishing, is solely that perpetrated by men. your body enough to move at 2010. (A Young Woman’s Guide The book makes no mention of the your own pace. If he tells you to Contemporary Issues). 112p. fact that women can be mistreated by differently, it’s more than safe bibl. index. $33.25, ISBN 978- female partners, and young women to assume that he isn’t right 1435835399. who find themselves in abusive same- for you. (p. 72) sex relationships will find little support Reviewed by Laura Rancani here. There is also no mention made The final chapter covers a of violence that lesbian or bisexual relationship that a young woman may This is one volume of a series women, or people who identify as not have consciously attended to: her that aims to pair high-interest subject transgender, may encounter as a result relationship with herself. It encourages matter with text written at an eighth- of homophobia.

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The text is also occasionally marred empowering those who have suffered Other titles in the series include by language that may be perceived as abuse is provided. This list includes Expectations for Women, Relationships, judgmental in tone. In a chapter on organizations that target young people, Reproductive Rights, and Women in sexual violence, a list of vulnerability such as SAFER (Students Active for the Workplace. Having only examined factors includes “being sexually Ending Rape) and the National Teen a single volume, I cannot comment promiscuous (undiscriminating or Dating Abuse Helpline (p.93). on the strengths of the entire series. I loose)” (p.56). Although the author Rosen Publishing even suggest, however, that Violence Against clarifies in the next sentence that acknowledges the impermanence Women: Public Health and Human she means to say that “women and of Web-based resources (p.97) by Rights is minimally useful as a women’s girls who have many sexual partners, collecting additional links to resources studies resource. It might best be especially those who practice unsafe that may be of interest on a site hosted consulted as a classroom supplement sex, are very vulnerable to sexual by the publisher. At the time this book within the context of larger discussions abuse,” use of the word “loose” in what was reviewed, however, four of the about gender violence and as a claims to be a contemporary guide eleven links in that list were no longer complement to more comprehensive reads as a value judgment, and a dated functional. The site includes a form for texts. one at that. reporting broken links; perhaps this The book’s back matter, which issue will be resolved promptly. [Laura Rancani received her M.L.I.S. takes up twenty-one pages of this brief Teens writing reports or from the Graduate School of Library volume (pp. 91–112), is a particular assembling presentations will also find and Information Science (GSLIS) at strength. The glossary provides helpful a lengthy bibliography of sources in the University of Illinois, Urbana- definitions of frequently used terms the back matter, although the lack of Champaign. She serves as a teaching for struggling readers, and it strives for parenthetical references within the assistant for a graduate course in inclusivity: for example, a feminist is text may make it difficult to locate cataloging for school libraries at GSLIS “a person, either a man or a woman, the specific articles or resources and provides cataloging support for the who supports legal, economic, and referenced in a given chapter. Had the university library, where she processes social equality between the sexes” organizational choice been made to children’s and young adult materials for (p.91). A list of contact information divide the bibliographical references the Center for Children’s Books and the for nonprofit organizations dedicated by the chapter in which they appear, Education and Social Science Library. to educating the public about this bibliography would better support She holds a B.A. in English, with a violence toward women and girls and efficient research in the classroom. minor in women’s and gender studies, from the College of New Jersey.]

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New and Newly Noted PHILOSOPHIA: A JOURNAL OF CONTINENTAL FEMINISM. 2011– . Editors: Elaine P. Miller & Emily Zakin. Publisher: SUNY Press. ISSN: 2155-0891. 2/yr. HerStoria Magazine. 2009– . Editor: Claire Subscriptions: individuals, $50.00; institutions, $100.00; Jones. Publisher: Jones5 Publishing Limited, PO Box 261, electronic subscriptions also available. Wallasey, CH27 9EA, UK; website: www.herstoria.com. “[T]he first philosophical journal that marries the rich ISSN: 1759-1449. 4/yr. Magazine is priced per issue; total traditions and conceptual resources of continental philoso- depends on country of destination (recent issue mailed to phy and feminist theory.” U.S., for example, would be £6.99). Partial contents of vol. 2, no. 1 (2012): “Whiteness and It isn’t clear whether this UK-based magazine of wom- the General Will: Diversity Work as Willful Work,” by Sara en’s history, which seems to have launched with a splash and Ahmed; “On the Need for a New Ethos of White Anti-Rac- even sold out a couple of issues, is still being published. Is- ism,” by Shannon Sullivan; “Normalization and The Welfare sues previewed on the website end with Summer 2011 (one State,” by Ladelle McWhorter; “Where the ‘They’ Lies: of the sold-out editions). There’s also free online-only con- Feminist Reflection on Pedagogical Innovation,” by Andrea tent on the site’s “Discover Women’s History Web” pages, Janae Sholtz; “How I Learned to Keep Worrying and Love but again, it’s not clear when this section was last added to; Teaching the Canon,” by Andrew Dilts. it’s a bit sparse, although you can learn about a few historical women and events from various centuries there. VOICE MALE MAGAZINE “chronicles the social transfor- Partial contents of Issue 8 (Spring 2011): “The Society mation of masculinity.” No, it’s not a “Hey, what about our Portrait Painter, Virtue and Vice, and Venice’s Working- rights?” tract. “Voice Male honors both men’s and women’s Class Women,” by Lyrica Taylor; “A Female Dylan Thomas?” contributions to promoting gender equality,” says a state- by Angela V. John; “Women and Cake: A History,” by Nico- ment on the website. “It draws inspiration from the world- la Humble; “Walking with Women’s Suffrage in Kensington changing acts of social transformation women have long & Chelsea,” by Jill Liddington & Tara Morton. advanced with allies among a growing legion of activist men advocating for a new expression of what it means to be a Well, this one has started and stopped already, but at least man.” they’re clear about it. (What is it with these UK-based Publisher: Alliance for Changing Men, Family Diver- magazines that started in 2009?) “Welcome to the home sity Projects, 33 Gray Street, Amherst, MA 01002. 4/yr. of Filament, the world’s only women’s magazine of Subscriptions: individuals, $28.00 for 4 issues, $45.00 for http:// photography of men for and by women, smart articles, saucy 8 issues (institutions, $40.00 and $55.00). Website: voicemalemagazine.org fiction, and no fashion, diets or celebrity gossip. Yep, it’s . Advisory board members include actually that awesome,” proclaims the magazine’s website, Eve Ensler, Michael Kimmel, and Shira Tarrant. but right up front the editor also announces that “[a]ll good It’s been around for awhile — starting as a newsletter things must come to an end”: for “entirely personal” reasons of the Men’s Resource Center for Change (Massachusetts) — even though the publication was flourishing and growing in the 1990s — but I saw Voice Male for the first time at the — the last issue was published in 2011. It must have been most recent NWSA gathering; the Fall 2011 issue was in- popular — even the back issues are all sold out now. You cluded in the conference packet. (It took me a long time to can still get a sense of what this periodical “for women who get the pun in the title; you?) like hot men and intelligent thought” was, though, and even The Spring 2012 edition has the theme “Breaking the read some articles and fiction and view some photographs, Silence of Sex Abuse” and includes the articles “Redefining at http://www.filamentmagazine.com/. Manhood After Penn State,” by editor (and psychotherapist) Rob Okun; “Speaking Out About Staying Silent,” by Donna Jensen; “‘I Wish I Had Done More’” (a reflection beginning with the words of the late Penn State head coach, Joe Pater- no), by Joe Ehrman; and “Why Are Some Men Still Afraid of Feminism?” by Michael Kaufmann.

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Special Issues London, by Cambridge Journals. ISSN: 0305-7410 (print), 1468-2648 (online). Available online to licensed users via appalachian journal: a regional studies Cambridge University Press Current Complete and Pro- review v. 37, nos. 3–4 (Spr.–Sum. 2010): Special Issue: Quest ABI/INFORM Complete. “Women in Appalachia.” Issue ed.: Bruce E. Stewart. Pub- Partial contents of special issue: “Creating a Socialist lisher: Appalachian State University, Boone, NC; website: Feminist Cultural Front: Women of China (1949–1966),” http://appjournal.appstate.edu/. ISSN: 0090-3779. by Wang Zheng; “Embodied Activisms: The Case of the Partial contents of special issue: “An Appalachian Od- Mu Guiying Brigade,” by Kimberley Ens Manning; “From yssey: An Interview with Patricia D. Beaver,” by Bruce E. the Heyang Model to the Shaanxi Model: Action Research Stewart; “On Stage and In Class: Women Artists in Mid- on Women’s Participation in Village Governance,” by Gao 19th-Century Wheeling,” by Barbara J. Howe; “The Appa- Xiaoxian; “Bridging Divides and Breaking Homes: Young lachian ‘Granny’: Testing the Boundaries of Female Power in Women’s Lifecycle Labour Mobility as a Family Managerial Late-19th-Century Appalachian Georgia,” by Mary Ella En- Strategy,” by Shannon May; “Family Strategies: Fluidities of gel; “The Maternalist Politics of Road Construction at Pine Gender, Community and Mobility in Rural West China,” by Mountain Settlement School, 1900–1935,” by Deborah L. Ellen R. Judd; “Income, Work Preferences and Gender Roles Blackwell; “Restoring the Woman Reformer: Helen Hastie among Parents of Infants in Urban China: A Mixed Method Dingman and ‘Mountain Work,’ 1916–1950,” by Penny Study from Nanjing,” by Sung won Kim et al.; “Intergenera- Messinger; “At Home on the Mountain: Appalachia in Lil- tional Transmission of Family Property and Family Manage- lian Smith’s Life and Work,” by Robert C. Poister; “Moving ment in Urban China,” by Danning Wang; “The Gender of Forward: Gender and Globalization in/of Appalachian Stud- Communication: Changing Expectations of Mothers and ies,” by Mary K. Anglin. Daughters in Urban China,” by Harriet Evans.

Canadian Journal of Administrative INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PUBLIC THEOL- Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences OGY v. 4, no. 1 (2010): Special Issue: “Hearing the Other: de l’Administration v. 27, no. 3 (Sep. 2010): Feminist Theology and Ethics.” Issue ed.: Esther McIntosh. Special Issue: “Gender and Diversity at Work II: Making Publisher: Brill. ISSN: 1872-5171 (print), 1569-7320 (on- Sense of Twenty-First-Century Workplace Initiatives.” Issue line). eds.: Albert J. Mills, Jean Helms Mills, & Gloria E. Miller. Partial contents of special issue: “Feminist Theology: Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. ISSN: 1936-4490. Where Is It Going?” by Rosemary Radford Reuther; “You Available online to licensed users via Wiley Online Library, Have to Say You Cannot Speak: Feminist Reflections upon EBSCOhost Business Source Complete, and ProQuest ABI/ Public Theology,” by Heather Walton; “Justice as Reconcilia- INFORM Complete. tory Praxis: A Decolonial Mujerista Move,” by Ada María Partial contents of special issue: “The Portrayal of Wom- Isasi-Díaz; “Catholicism, Choice and Consciousness: A en in Canadian Corporate Annual Reports,” by Merridee L. Feminist Theological Perspective on Abortion,” by Tina Bujaki & Bruce J. McConomy; “A comparison of the Leg- Beattie; “The Janus-Face of New Reproductive Technolo- islated Employment Equity program, Federal Contractors gies: Escaping the Polarized Debate,” by Heather Widdows; Program, and Financial Post 500 Firms,” by Eddy S.W. Ng “Simone Weil: Resistance and Writing,” by Ann Loades. & Ronald J. Burke; “Discretionary Power of Project Manag- ers in Knowledge-Intensive Firms and Gender Issues,” by JOURNAL OF ADDICTIVE DISEASES v. 29, no. 2 Stéphanie Chasserio & Marie-Josée Legault; “What Does (2010): Special Issue: “Women, Children and Addiction.” Diversity Management Mean for the Gender Equality Proj- Issue ed.: Loretta P. Finnegan. Publisher: Taylor & Francis, ect in the United Kingdom? Views and Experiences of Or- for the American Osteopathic Academy of Addiction ganizational ‘Actors,’” by Gill Kirton & Anne-Marie Greene; Medicine. ISSN: 1055-0887 (print), 1545-0848 (online). “Applying the Lens of Intersectionality to UK Equal Oppor- Partial contents of special issue: “Women and Drug tunities and Diversity Policies,” by Barbara Bagilhole. Addiction: A Historical Perspective,” by Stephen R. Kan- dall; “Women and Addiction: The Importance of Gender CHINA QUARTERLY v. 204 (2010): Special Issue: “Gen- Issues in Substance Abuse Research,” by Ellen Tuchman; der in Flux: Agency and Its Limits in Contemporary China.” “Substance Use and Women’s Health,” by Abigail Kay et al.; Issue eds.: Harriet Evans & Julia C. Strauss. Published for “Ethical Issues and Addiction,” by Binta Lambert, Melissa the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of Scheiner, & Deborah Campbell; “Addiction in Pregnancy,”

Page 28 Feminist Collections (v. 33, no. 1, Winter 2012) Periodical Notes by Joan Keegan et al.; “Human Immunodeficiency Virus tive Study of Lives and Loss in Burkina Faso after ‘Near- Risk Behavior Among Female Substance Abusers,” by Susan Miss’ Obstetric Complications,” by Katerini Tagmatarchi E. Ramsey, Kathryn M. Bell, & Patricia A. Engler; “Punish- Storeng et al.; “Loss in Childbearing among Gambia’s ing Pregnant Drug-Using Women: Defying Law, Medicine, Kanyalengs: Using a Stratified Reproduction Framework and Common Sense,” by Jeanne Flavin & Lynn M. Paltrow; to Expand the Scope of Sexual and Reproductive Health,” “Children of Addicted Women,” by Barry M. Lester & by Carolyn A. Hough; “‘These Are Not Good Things for Linda L. Lagasse. Other People to Know’: How Rural Tanzanian Women’s Experiences of Pregnancy Loss and Early Neonatal Death SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE v. 71, no.10 (Nov. May Impact Survey Data Quality,” by Rachel A. Haws et 2010): Part Special Issue: “Joining-Up Thinking: Loss in al.; “Marginal Matters: Pregnancy Loss as a Social Event,” by Childbearing from Inter-Disciplinary Perspectives.” Is- Erica van der Sijpt; “Health Seeking Behaviour of Childless sue eds.: Bregje de Kok, Julia Hussein & Patricia Jeffery. Women in Bangladesh: An Ethnographic Exploration,” by Publisher: Elsevier. ISSN: 0277-9536. Available online to Papreen Nahar; “Linking Two Opposites of Pregnancy Loss: licensed users via Science Direct. Induced Abortion and Infertility in Yoruba Society, Nigeria,” Partial contents of special section: “Only When the by Winny Koster. Boat Has Started Sinking: A Maternal Death in Rural North India,” by Patricia Jeffery & Roger Jeffery; “Confront- UCLA Law Review v. 57, no. 5 (June 2010): Sympo- ing Maternal Mortality, Controlling Birth in Nepal: The sium Issue: “Sexuality and Gender Law: Assessing the Field, Gendered Politics of Receiving Biomedical Care At Birth,” Envisioning the Future.” Issue ed.: Nan D. Hunter. Pub- by Jan Brunson; “A lost cause? Extending Verbal Autopsy lisher: UCLA School of Law. ISSN: 0041-5650. Available to Investigate Biomedical and Socio-Cultural Causes of online to licensed users via Hein Online. Maternal Death in Burkina Faso and Indonesia,” by Lucia Partial contents of section: “Elusive Coalitions: Recon- D’Ambruoso et al.; “Assessing and Understanding Quality sidering the Politics of Gender and Sexuality,” by Kathryn of Care in a Labour Ward: A Pilot Study Combining Clini- Abrams; “The Sex Discount,” by Kim Shayo Buchanan; cal and Social Science Perspectives in Gondar, Ethiopia,” by “What Feminists Have to Lose in Same-Sex Marriage Litiga- Emma Pitchforth et al.; “Beyond Body Counts: A Qualita- tion,” by Mary Anne Case; “Lawyering for Marriage Equal- ity,” by Scott L. Cummings & Douglas NeJaime; “Sexual and Gender Variation in American Public Law: From Malig- nant to Benign to Productive,” by William N. Eskridge, Jr.; “Sticky Intuitions and the Future of Sexual Orientation Dis- crimination,” by Suzanne B. Goldberg; “The Dissident Citi- zen,” by Sonia K. Katyal; “Raping Like a State,” by Teemu Ruskola; “The Gay Tipping Point,” by Kenji Yoshino.

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The Washington, D.C.-based WOMEN’S INSTITUTE researched and published. WIFP sees a unique role FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS has published the 2012 for women as the majority in democracy: to build a print version of its DIRECTORY OF WOMEN’S MEDIA communication system that permits everyone to be (ISBN 0-930470-31-1/ISSN 1040-1156), which includes heard equally. only media “owned and operated primarily by, for and about women.” The comprehensive directory lists print periodicals, internet periodicals, publishers, media organizations, news services, radio groups, film and video groups, music groups and websites, theater/art groups and websites, media web- sites, media-related directories, and even bookstores, email lists, and media bloggers. For ordering information, see http://wifp.org/pub%20order.html. A continually updated online version of the directory is free to access at http://wifp. org/DWM/ContentsDWM.html. WIFP’s statement of purpose (included at http://wifp. org/pcabout%20us.html) seems both timely and timeless:

We seek to democratize the communications media by expanding freedom of the press (which includes its modern day electronic forms) to enable all people; rich and poor, male and female, to have the equal opportunity to speak directly to the whole public about their own issues and concerns. Access to the public constitutes political power and in a democracy it must be equal. Freedom of the press is a citizen right of democracy, it should not be a right based on wealth.

WIFP encourages projects that move us toward these democratic communication goals. It is a place where new ideas about making communication more democratic are encouraged, examined,

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