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Volume 18, No.1, Fall 1996

CONTENTS

From the Editors

Book Reviews Global Feminism by Kathleen Mulligan-Hansel The Politics of Feminist Theory by Eleanor M. Miller The Voices and Lives of Latin American Women Writers by Carole Byrd Feminist Visions: SaltardDiving into Chicana Identity by Diane Soles and Shattering Stereotypes: SpiderwomanTheatre by Faye Flesia Archives New Avenues in Women's Studies Research: Using Public Records by Brenda L. Burk Feminist Publishing Computer Talk Compiled by Linda Shult New Reference Works in Women's Studies Reviewed by Phyllis Holman Weisbard Periodical Notes Compiled by Linda Shult Items of Note Compiled by Renee Beaudoin Books Recently Received FROMTHE EDITORS:

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Orders are arriving from people in self-esteem many countries. We welcome reactions from you to particular papers or reports about your own experiences with new technologies. A look at new magazines for young women, including Blue Jean, Hues, We're excited about another special issue, this one on girls and young New Moon, Teen Voices, and Real women, coming Winter 1997. Reviewers will look at the rash of new Girls books, periodicals, and video resources produced by and about young women. It's a lively generation of feminist and not-so-feminist young Somefilms by and about this people, and we hope you'll take a look at what our reviewers have to energetic age group suggest. plus all the regular columns: ++ P.H.W. and L.S. New Reference Works, Computer Talk, Periodical Notes, Items of Note; and more. Global Feminisms struggles, The Challenge of Local by Kathleen Mulligan-Hansel Feminisms permits Third World women to act as subjects of their own Amrita Basu, ed., THE CHALLENGE OF LOCAL FEMZNZSMS: WOMEN'S struggles in two very important ways. MOVEMENTS IN GLOBAL PERSPECTNE. Boulder: Westview, 1995. First, the book places the activities of 494p. pap., $19.50, ISBN 0-1833-2628-1. Third World women alongside those of women in the "developedn world. The Anne Winslow, ed., WOMEN, POLZTZCS, AND THE UNITED similarities of these struggles help to NATIONS. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995. 208p. $59.95, ISBN break down some of the eroticizing and 0-3 13-29522-0. victimizing notions of Third World women that permeate popular Western Angela Miles, INTEGRATIVE FEMZNZSMS: BUILDING GLOBAL VZ- representations. Additionally, placing SZONS 1960s - 1990s. New York: Routledge, 1995. 187p. $55.00, ISBN studies of First and Third World 0-415-90756-X; pap., $16.95, ISBN 0-415-90757-8. women's movements in the same volume addresses the way these categories have been reified. The essays in Basu's volume also provide a sense of the contextual differences Theemergence of a critical and activism from seventeen coun- between the ways various movements mass of women's associations and tries in various regions of the world. have organized. Secondly, many of feminist organizations in many parts Women, Politics and the United the case studies are written by indig- of the Third World has given rise to a Nations, edited by Anne Winslow, enous movement activist scholars. number of questions for scholars of explores women's activism at the Thus, this book does more than pay lip women's studies. These questions international level. Angela- Miles' service to the analytic and strategic address both the sociological and monograph, Integrative Feminisms sophistication of women activists theoretical dimensions of global evaluates the relationshius between worldwide. It not only describes feminist organizing: How do geo- Third World feminism and the women's activities in various parts of graphically specific organizations history of Western feminist theory. the world, but also brings women affect the nature of international Each of these books places Third activists and scholars into dialogue political and economic processes? World feminism and Third World with each other. How do women's strategies and women at the center of its approach, As a result of these two factors, modes of organizing vary according to in a broadly comparative framework. plus Basu's excellent introductory time and place? Are there unique essay and the general accessibility of dimensions to women's struggles in Basupsedited volume presents the writing, this book is especially various locations? How is women's material on women's activism in the attractive as an undergraduate text- studies affected by the emergence of Third World alongside discussion of book. Basu explains that the literature vocal and vibrant Third World women's movements in the U.S., on women's movements has failed to women's movements? Can Third Western Europe, and the former address the postcolonial world in much World feminists take part in the Soviet bloc. While the various depth; where Third World women's ongoing dialogues in women's studies essays approach the material in movements have been explored, they without transforming the terms of that different ways, some barely framing are framed as the product of modern- dialogue? Each of the books reviewed the data while others develop ization and development. In addition, here addresses some of these questions theoretical nuances, this book is an she addresses the contested use of the from a very different perspective. excellent survey of the rich and term "feminismn in postcolonial Amrita Basu's edited volume The varied sweep of international femi- contexts, as well as the political Challenge of Local Feminisms presents nism. In contrast to much of the contexts of women's activism, and the case studies of women's organizing literature on Third World women's origins and successes of various

Feminist Collections voLI8, no.1 Fall 1996 1 movements. While her essay is not possible, to articulate and redefine the essays pay close attention to the especially theoretical, a particularly terms of women's agendas. conflicts between Southern and nice section addresses the varying The best chapters are Jane Northern women, others gloss over relations of women's movements to Jaquette's "Losing the Battlewinning important points, as when Margaret notions of public and private and how the War: International Politics, Galey refers to efforts to eliminate these relationships frame women's Women's Issues and the 1980 Mid- "ancient and traditional practices" struggles. This book presents a Decade Conference, " Charlotte (sati, female circumcision, bride wealth of richly comparative data Patton's "Women and Power: the price) without even considering the which many scholars of women's Nairobi Conference," and Margaret risks of reinscribing imperialist activism should find illuminating. Snyder's "The Politics of Women and relations in this debate. In other Development." Each of these pieces chapters, the data consulted limits the analyzes how women from the North scope of the arguments made. and South disagreed over the terrain Arvome S. Fraser's discussion of the of women's struggles and how various Convention to End All Forms of dimensions of world politics created a Discrimination Against Women specific context within which (CEDAW) relies on UN documents to women's activism has taken place. demonstrate the transformative nature Jaquette, for example, details how the of this convention. Her essay focuses mid-decade women's conference was on the content of the convention, with affected by conflicting views of only a brief reference to the global Middle Eastern politics. While the variations in implementation and Western delegations tried to limit the compliance. An examination of how conference agenda to "women's the CEDAW has affected women's issues," Third World women, who struggles, or how women's move- dominated the preparatory commit- ments have been able to use the tees, sought to discuss economic CEDAW to strengthen their claims, inequality, colonialism, and racism. would provide a better point of Despite the contentious and politi- departure for analyzing the relation- cized nature of debates over these ship between the UN and women's issues, Jaquette argues this conference movements worldwide. Still, this gave "strong international legitimacy book generally provides an excellent to the international norm of legal illustration of how feminist organizing equality for women and elaborat[ed] a by women within the UN has trans- more effective and detailed women- formed UN politics. Anne winslow's volume is a in-development agenda" (p.57). In collection of very brief essays on the addition, Jaquette marks this confer- where the other books focus on history of women's activism in ence as an important point in the providing an important set of empiri- relation to the United Nations. Like coming of age of the women's cal observations, Miles' work focuses most edited volumes, this book varies movement, noting the leadership of on establishing a theoretical frarne- in quality: some of the essays are Third World women in forging an work within which global feminisms enormously thorough and address the agreement that could be passed. In its can be unified. Miles sets out by complex politics of Northern and best moments, this book provides a suggesting there are two strands of Southern women's approaches to valuable collection of data and feminism that define the history of international feminist activity; others important analytical insights on the feminist thinking: integrative femi- rely on UN documents to proclaim nature of relations between women's nism~,which resist or upset dichoto- successes that in practice have not organizations from various geographi- mous thinking and provide holistic transformed most women's condi- cal regions within the United Nations. alternatives to the status quo, and tions. Still, by the end of this book I At times, the analysis in other reductionist feminism, which reduce was surprisingly convinced that chapters seems superficial, particu- complexities to simple eitherlor women's organizations have made larly when recounting the chronology frameworks. Throughout the book, significant gains in changing the UN of events which comprise women's then, she traces how integrative agenda and have used the UN, where activities in the UN. While some feminisrns have emerged from

2 Feminist Collections vo1.18. no.1 Fall 1996 particular contexts, and how the heory. For example, Carol Gilligan's America is notably omitted), this integrative projects have been re- 'n A Different Voice is considered material is the strongest contribution articulated by reductionist feminists. ntegrative, alongside the work of of the book to the study of feminisms Advocates of these very different Uison Jaggar, Alice Walker, worldwide. modes of feminist thinking can be kdrienne Rich, and others. On the found within every sub-stratum of Ither side, Andrea Dworkin is consid- The study of global feminist feminist thought. :red reductionist, as are Judith Butler, organizing is in nascent stages. Linda Nicholson, Donna Haraway, While there is some literature on md Teresa de Lauretis. These women's movements in various ;cholarsl work deserves more compre- countries, and an extensive literature lensive discussion and should be taken on Latin American women's move- Where the other books focus on In their own terms. The classification ments, there have been few attempts providing an important set of ichema does little more than identify to examine these movements along- lvho Miles considers "good" and side one another, or to construct empirical observations, Miles' "bad" feminist thinkers. If her theoretical frameworks that make 3bjective is to identify a way of sense of the comparative dimensions work focuses on establishing a hinking about gender that is holistic, of women's activism. Each of these theoretical framework within non-dichotomous, and transformative, books contributes to this project in she could do so without categorizing important ways. While none of them which global feminism can be 111 of Western feminism. If the makes serious theoretical break- purpose is to trace the history of throughs, they do provide an impres- unified. Western feminism, our learning is sive and very useful collection of limited by a dichotomy that lumps data. I do not mean this as a back- together feminists from disparate handed compliment; part of the traditions and fails to explore the difficulty of addressing these issues Miles' purpose is to excavate contributions of scholars Miles theoretically is the lack of systematic useful dimensions of Fust World considers reductionist. If the purpose and comprehensive data available. feminisms as a point of departure for is to introduce a discussion of 'Two- The data presented in these volumes, thinking about 'Two-Thuds" World Mrds World" feminisms, the section addressing various dimensions of feminism. Unfortunately, much of of the book on the history of Western global feminisms, is an important the book fails to realize this promising feminist theory lacks focus. contribution to this study. vision. While the last hvo chapters Despite the discontinuities of the provide some much-needed discus- Fust half of the book, the second half [Kathleen Mulligan-Hansel is a Ph.D. sions of the intensity and variety of addresses international ferninisms in a candidate in Political Science at the women's organizing in the "Two- much more interesting way, by Universiv of Wsconsin-Madison. Thirds World," Miles' approach to discussing the similarities and differ- She is currently working on a disser- this material lacks the clarity and ences of various ferninisms and tation on the women's movement in insight to which she aspires. feminist organizations in the "Two- Tanzania.] In some sense, the lack of clarity Thirds World." In addition to a fairly in this book stems from the formula- comprehensive bibliography on global tion and uses of its framework, which feminism (the literature on Latin itself establishes a set of dichotomies placing a variety of scholars into categories that obscure their indi- vidual contributions to feminist

Feminist Collections voL18, no.] Fall 1996 3 The Politics of Feminist Theory

by Eleanor M. Miller he experience of the ethical subject of demure, the jouissance of the body" Teresa L. Ebert, LUDIC FEMINISM AND AFTER: POSTMODERNISM, p.19)? Utilizing the latter concept as DESIRE, AND LABOR IN LATE CAPITALISM. Ann Arbor: University of he basis of feminist theory, Ebert Michigan Press, 1996. 332p. index. $39 SO, ISBN 0-472-09576-5; pap., ugues, 'substitutes the personal $16.95, ISBN 0-472-06576-9. playful meditation) for the political historical explanation), and in so Sneja Gunew and Anna Yeatman, eds., FEMINISM AND THE POLITICS OF bing , .. .legitimates.. .a pragmatic DIFFERENCE. Boulder: Weswiew Press, 1993. 245p. index. ISBN O-8133- hralism that tolerates exploita- tion 2063-1; pap., $21.50, ISBN 0-8133-2062-3. IS one possible free choice" (pp. 16- 17). It shifts our attention from real Diana Leonard and Lisa Adkins, eds., SEX IN QUESTION: FRENCH naterial need to desire. MATERZALIST FEMINISM. London: Taylor & Francis, 1996. 209p. index. From Ebert's point of view, then, $75.00, ISBN 0-7484-0293-4; pap., $23.95, ISBN 0-7484-0294-2. 'erninist theory is the site of a social itruggle. On one side are the (bour- ;eois) adherents of that branch of ~ostmodemisrn(ludic) and its feminist Myreading of the works have an impact on the feminist :laborations who utilize textual and reviewed here and other recent works movement and the welfare of women. inguistic practice to challenge cultural in feminist theory make one thing Ebert indicts Lacanian-inspired .epresentations of differences, clear to me: feminist theorists are feminist theorists who see "theory as ~elievingthat this practice liberates frustrated and some are very angry. play and as a playful (vigilant) Nomen. (This includes people such as What is not clear is exactly what this reading of the play of immanent 3ayatri Spivak, Rigobexta Menchu, portends for the future direction of differences in the text/systemn @. 14). Donna Haraway, Jane Gallop, Judith feminist theory or, more importantly, Her wordplay is vitriolic; these are Butler, Diana Fuss, and Teresa de the feminist movement, for, as bell "play" or "make-believen feminists, Laurentis.) On the other side is hooks points out with regard to the she implies. Ebert's indictment is Feminism of the resistance (material- American scene: ".. .theories are broad; she includes all theory that 1st) post-modemist sort. This ap- important.. .absolutely essential for "addresses itself exclusively to ?roach fashions theory that is solidly envisioning and making a successful cultural politics, understanding grounded in the struggle between feminist movement, one that will cultural politics as the theater of :lasses, sexes, and races, locally and mobilize groups of people to trans- significations, resignification (Butler), globally, over the material basis of form this society. "' remetaphorization (Cornell), and life itself, access to economic power Proponents of feminism have redescription (Rorty)" @. 15). On the and resources. long been angry about oppression, contrary, she believes, "feminist Postmodemism, Ebert argues, has exploitation, discrimination, and theory.. .must be a politically transfor- arisen as the result of the inability of violence against women. The anger mative practice: one that disrupts the modernism to contain the contradic- here, however, I believe is attribut- specific conditions and features of tions of capitalism: on the one hand, able to something else. What is racist, patriarchal, and capitalist the promise of universal equality and, evident is that feminist theory is in oppression but also transforms the on the other, the reality of divisions crisis. Moreover, that crisis is, I systematic relations of exploitation of wealth, resources, and power by think, best explained by the fact that that produce local oppressions" race, sex, region, and class, legiti- the feminist movement is under siege, b.15). mated by ideologies such as the free that women are under siege, and that At the core of the controversy market, individualism, separate everyone who cares knows that the over theory, Ebert argues, is the spheres, etc. The role of stakes attached to "getting it wrongn relationship between theory, on the postmodernism is to mystify these are very high. one hand, and experience and contradictions, normalizing material selfiood, on the other. Is the concept inequality as "difference (discursive Inher book Ludic Feminism and of the sentient self that characterizes diversity) and legitimating difference After: Postmodernism, Desire and the work of many women of color a itself as not only the hallmark of a Labor in Late Capitalism, Teresa L. humanist moral selfhood, or is it to be developed civil society but also as an Ebert is emphatic that feminist theory the individualized, decontextualiied, integral element of the new human should, and, in fact, cannot help but atomized "postmodern celebration of ri&tsn (p. 150). Simultaneously, it

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- - discredits the very idea of equality as sented by the work of French writers feminist work to other audiences, but a remnant of the repressive Irigaray, Kristeva, and Cixous. I their characterizations of it - despite universalism of modernism. In the book's first chapter, the fact that the work of members of Ebert asks the perennial Marxist Adkins and Leonard advance an the Questions feministes collective question: "Cui bono? - Who ben- intriguing explanation of the fact that were often included - made it efits?" The most general answer, of although the work of individual appear that this new, sexy cultural course, is global capitalism. Specific members of the Questions feministes object descended from Psych et Po.) beneficiaries, however, include (QF) group is known, French radical For one thing, Adkins and Leonard bourgeois, academic feminists. Ebert materialist feminism as a distinctive explain, contends, for example, that by form of feminist analysis is virtually separating gender and sex from unknown in Europe, Canada, and the .. .the anglophone feminists economic practices, ludic feminists U.S. Despite the group's split over most likely to be engaged in legitimate their own class position lesbian separatism in the early 1980's, either promoting or critiqu- because they "would, for the most agreement remained about the central ing French writing are part, like to see some measure of QF concerns: the political/power much more interested in gender equality" but desire it only relationship between men and women, literary criticism and the "within the existing social relations" the appropriation of women's labor construction of subjec- (p.47). and bodies, and the nature of the tivities and psyches through grounding of women's consciousness language and texts, than in Myguess is that Ebert would in their material situation. Moreover, French theorists who em- find an audience for portions of her these feminists have been making for phasise the significance of critique among the French feminists twenty years what has come to be social relations and the who helped establish the journal seen as a major statement attributable economy in understanding Questions feministes with Shone de primarily to American feminists: "that the relations of the sexes Beauvoir. Sex in Question: French sex is a social, not a Natural, divi- and the construction of Materialist Feminism, edited by and sion, and that both gender and sex can individual consciousness. Diana Leonard and Lisa Adkins, is a only be understood in relation to @.8) collection of articles by five French heterosexuality" (p. l).Z feminist members of the QF group Adkins and Leonard offer Secondly, academics in the U.S. have and one Italian feminist close to the background on the history of French historically been loathe to consider group. The articles were chosen feminism that resulted in the exclu- materialist arguments seriously, because they relate to issues that have sion of radical materialist feminism as whereas they had already embraced received a great deal of attention in well as French socialist feminism. In psychoanalytic discourse and had Europe and North America in recent 1968 a well-organized and well- begun to produce voluminous elabora- years, those surrounding the social financed group, Psychanalyse et tions of the originators of construction and interconnectedness of Politique (Psych et Po), established postmodernism such as Derrida, gender, sex, and sexuality. The itself with a view of female difference Barthes, Baudrillard, and Lyotard. book's purpose is to advance feminist relying heavily on psychoanalysis and Finally, Delphy alleges that American theory and the feminist movement, Lacan. This brand of feminism feminists have adopted as French but also to account for and remedy a actively distanced itself from the feminism a package that allows them misperception on the part of feminist movement in France. to attribute to the French, "who carry anglophone feminists: that French When theorists outside of France, exotic prestige in anglophone intellec- feminist theory focuses primarily on particularly Marks and Courtivron in tual circles," the responsibility for the psychoanalytic and deconstructive their anthology New French Femi- rehabilitation and reintroduction of literary analysis and is best repre- nism, began to introduce French essentialism and essentialist episte- Miriam Greenwold

Feminist Collections vo1.18, no.1 Fall 1996 5 mologies into feminist debates, thus Theseven articles dig- UD doing that sorting, she hypothesizes, making them seem both worthy of this collection variously consider means that gender precedes sex rather consideration and avant garde (~.8).~ wifework, housework, emotional and than the rever~e.~Against Delphy's During the 1970's. Britain's symbolic work, and bodily practice - emphasis on the appropriation of the dominant mode of feminist theoretical such as sexual intercourse, child- work of wives, Claudette Guillaumin analysis was clearly Marxist feminist. bearing, and breast-feeding - as argues, in another article, that gender The version of materialism being forms of gendered production. These involves the bodily appropriation of advanced in Britain at the time works were specifically selected all women. Labor should be seen as understood the material completely in because they focused on the inter- embodied. She coins the term tenns of the contradiction between connectedness of sex, gender, and "sexage" to refer to the fact "that the capital and labor as it related to the sexuality and, for that reason, are not specific nature of women's oppression economic mode of production. completely representative of the is their reduction to the status of Gender was considered to be largely spectrum of work by French radical natural objects and the direct physical constituted via ideology. materialist feminists. In essence, the appropriation by men of their time, QF collective member Delphy selection is a strategic attempt to the products of their bodies, their challenged this form of materialism bring the writings of materialists into sexual obligation, and their responsi- because, she argued: "marriage the debates over difference and the bility to care for other members of the constitutes a specific economic social construction of sex, gender, group" (p.18). relation in which men and women are and sexuality now dominated by One other chapter I would like to located in different relations of cultural theorists. discuss in brief is "Our Costs and production; that women's labor is The characterization of the group Their Benefits," the final article of the commodified and appropriated presented above is an explication of volume, by Monique Plaza. Although through non-capiralist processes, and sorts of Chapter 1, Adkiis' and a translation of the original 1978 that the material determinants of Leonard's "Reconstructing French Questions feministes piece appeared in gender are constituted by the contra- Feminism: Commodification, Materi- Feminist Issues in 1981, it is newly dictions between the social categories alism and Sex." That chapter is translated here by Diana Leonard and 'men' and 'women'" (p. 10). Atkins followed by Monique Wittig's "The is especially useful in allowing us to and Leonard contend Delphy was Category of Sex," first published in see the difference between Fou- trashed, that Marxist feminism (with 1982 and fairly well-known. Wittig's cauldian conceptions of the body like an emphasis on the Marxist) was so short piece offers an overview of the those critiqued by Ebert and those powerful in Britain at the time that positions taken by French radical advanced by French radical materialist Delphy's analysis and, in fact, the materialist feminism. She argues that feminists. Ebert argues that "the thought of the whole collective were the division of society into two sexes materialism of the body in dismissed as problematic. does not cause the oppression of Foucault.. .is specifically designed to Brits Adkins and Leonard, women, but rather that the oppression oppose collective revolutionary praxis however, champion this theoretical results in the division. She highlights by substituting individual regimes of approach for its endeavor to move the centrality of heterosexuality for a purposeless pleasure.. ." (p.32). The beyond attempts, like Ebert's, "to definition of the sexes that sees body is thus the site of resistance and show that the capitalist economy is difference as natural and functional. true freedom for the subject. Plaza solely/mainly responsible for Wittig argues that sex itself is a references a specific attempt by women's oppression," and their broad political category that emerges from Foucault to disconnect violence from conceptualization of the nature and the appropriation of the work of one sexuality. In a discussion regarding etiology of the economic domain class, women, by another, men. proposed changes in the French @.I 1). The collective insists that the In "Rethinking Sex and Gender," criminal law governing rape, Foucault economic is organized through the a revision of a 1991 piece, sociologisl asserted that he was at a loss as to how exploitative relations between men Christine Delphy argues for the the law should be changed because, as and women and is therefore gendered; importance of questioning the link he saw it, sexuality should never be members meticulously scrutiniie between sex and gender, understand- punished. Although Plaza was other divisions of labor and are ing that it is the social division of initially inclined to agree with him in respectful of historical changes in labor that accounts for the sorting of theory, she proceeds to interrogate what constitutes labor and what men and women into unequal classes. Foucault's concept of sexuality via a material. The need for a naturalized marker for close reading of volume one of his The

6 Feminist Collections vol.18, no.1 Fall 1996 History of Sauality. She argues that cluded are meant to demonstrate the ously silenced minorities as they are society cannot punish violence while power of poststructuralism to sur- variously given voice. I am at one privileging sexuality without defend- mount this seeming dilemma and are with them and share their cause. On ing men's appropriation of women's organized in relation to considerations the other hand, I, the white, middle- bodies. Rape, she says, cannot be central to that task: claims of authen- class academic, am simultaneously separated from the ideology of tic minority voice; structures of coop- made "other," the enemy, herself the heterosexuality and social sexing that tation and legitimation with respect to suspect neocolonial generator of sees women's bodies as things that the cultural products of minorities; the inauthentic voices. The issue of my can be possessed. In that appropria- interconnectness of race and ethnicity; position becomes more problematic tionlpossession and only there rests and the problem of setting up non- when I try to think of how to engage the sexuality of rape. exclusive gendered and cultural in the most political thing I try to do - positions and subverting existing generate transforming, destabilizing Sneja Gunew and Anna paradigms. knowledge as a feminist scholar, Yeatrnan, the editors of the final book The conundrum incipient in this knowledge useful to a social move- to be considered, Feminism and the list of concerns is articulated in the ment of which I am part. The classic Politics of Difference, have assembled very first sentence of the first article, DuBoisian duality of minority self- the work of a multidisciplinary group "Feminism and the Politics of hood that is a theme in many of the of multiethnic authors who hope to Irreducible Differences: Multi- volume's contributions infects this advance a theoretical discourse culturalism/EthnicityIRace." Here sociologist as reader and leaves her directly opposed to those of Ebert and Gunew says: "Working for social paralyzed. How am I to proceed? the French radical materialist ferni- justice is not necessarily at odds with The second hint that the basic nists. Embracing the familiar a commitment to critical theory dilemma of feminist post-structural- poststructural feminist goal of "giving 'even' in its post-modem variants" ism is not resolved comes from a voice, " the volume convincingly (p. l)[emphasis mine]. This telling problem not uncommon in edited demonstrates how a space can be statement seems to suggest that volumes. Though the editors abstract created for the marginalized to be postmodern critical theory could, a fairly coherent theory of universal heard and how the hearing can indeed, be at odds with a commitment difference from their reading of the unsettle. The voices themselves are to social justice, an important obser- articles, the reader doesn't come away what will be most interesting to many, vation reinforcing the reader's sense with the same sense of theoretical for they have seldom been heard: the that the point of the volume is not so coherence. Diverse in disciplinary voices of minorities of Canada, much to convince critics that Gunew's approaches employed, methodologies, Australia, and New Zealand. statement is true, but, indeed, to and commitment to and understanding As representative of postmodern convince poststructuralists them- of poststructuralism itself, the articles approaches to difference, this volume selves. range from Midori Matsui's Lacanian could stand for all that Ebert sees as investigation into the erotically sub- flawed in postmodern theory. For versive nature of Japanese girls' their part, however, the theorists Embracing the familiar comics to Vicky Kirby's critique of included do not rail against feminist anthropology's creation of a feminist materialists. They assume the major poststructural feminist goal of and postmodern ethnography as theoretical shortcoming of materialist complicitous with "masculinism and, approaches is well-known, beyond "giving voice, " the volume indeed, imperialism" (p.30), and debating, beyond even naming: it convincingly demonstrates how Jagose's indictment of Anzaldua's relies on a logic of "binary opposi- Borderlands/La Frontera: The New tions that invariably absorbs alterity a space can be created for the Mestiza as a reinscription of binary into the hegemonic.. .. Such logic is oppositions. In addition to lacking homogenizing and universalist, built marginalized to be heard and coherence, then, the works are mostly on the principle of exclusion and the how the hearing can unsettle. inward-turning critiques of post- tyranny of the familiar" (p.xiii). modem efforts, attempts to root out Poststructuralist theory, on the transgressors in postmodern clothing. other hand, within which Gunew and As a result, the theoretically and Yeatman include deconstruction, The fact that the conundrum is politically local is, ironically, rarely postmodernism, and psychoanalysis, not resolved is evident in two ways, overcome as site of analysis despite provides theorists with the tools by the first perhaps more remarkable the international character of the which they may rescue difference than the second. On the one hand, the volume. Roxana Ng's "Sexism, while avoiding the paralysis of reader is clearly meant to identify Racism and Canadian Nationalism, " identity politics. The articles in- with and empathize with the previ- and Wendy Lamer's "Changing

Feminist Collections voLI8, no.1 Fall 1996 7 Contexts: Globalization, Migration, McKenna, psychologists of the / 5 Again see the work of Kessler and and Feminism in New zealid" are ethnomethodological- school of MC&IM referred to in note #2 the only two pieces where the sociology, derived such an insight theorizing of the politics of difference from their study of transsexuals [Eleanor M. Miller is an Associate is clearly related to the political published in 1978 as Gender: An Professor of Sociology at the Univer- practice of feminism as a social Ethnomethodological Approach sity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee whose movement both local and worldwide. (Chicago: University of Chicago current work is on Azoran immigrants These are the only pieces hinting that Press). to Lowell, Massachusetts, her birth- politics is about power and that place. She is the author of Street feminist theory needs to be, too. 3 Elaine Marks and Isabelle de Women (Philadelphia: Temple There is clearly much to be done. Courtivron, New French Feminism: University Press, 1986). which has An Anthology (Brighton: Harvester, recently been translated and published 1981). in Japan, coeditor of The Worth of NOTES Women's Work (Albany: SUM Press. 4 Christine Delphy, "The Invention 1988). and former president of 1 bell hooks, Feminist Theory from of French Feminism: An Essential Sociologists for Women in Society.] Margin to Center (Boston: South End Move," Yale French Studies, no.87, Press, 1984), p. 112. Special Issue: "Another Look, Another Woman: Retranslations of 2 There seems to be little recognition French Feminism," pp. 190-221 (as in feminist theory circles of the fact cited in Adkins and Leonard, p.8). that Suzanne Kessler and Wendy

The Voices and Lives of Latin American Women Writers by Carole Byrd

CUANTO CUESTA LA POBREZA DE LAS MUJERES: UNA Thecritical question we must PERSPECTNA DE AMERICA LATINA Y EL CARRIBEI THE HUMAN ask when contemplating new texts or COST OF WOMEN'S POVERTY: PERSPECTNES FROM LATIN AMERI- anthologies representing Latin CAN AND THE CARIBBEAN. Mexico City: UNIFEM (The United Nations American women's voices is whether Development Fund for Women), 1995. pap., $12.95. 161p. bibl. Write to the new women's collections - of essays, Corporacidn Industrial Grifica, S.A. de C.V., Cerro Tres Marias #354, Col. fiction, poetry, and scholarly argu- Campestre Churubusco, 04200, Mtxico, Distrito Federal, 544-7340, c/o ments - address the contemporary UNIFEM for purchasing information. absence of these voices in our tradi- tional canon. One of the most recent Margaret Randall, OUR VOICES, OUR LNES: STORIES OF WOMEN anthologies published for classroom FROM CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN. Monroe, Maine: instruction that attempts to avoid the Common Courage, 1995. 214p. photogs. index. $29.95, ISBN 1-56751-047- exclusivity of traditional collections is 7; pap., $12.95, ISBN 1-56751-046-9. David William Foster's Literatura Hispanoamericana (una antologfa) Gertrude M. Yeager, ed., CONFRONTING CHANGE, CHALLENGING (Garland, 1994). In order to remain TRADITION: WOMEN IN LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY. Wilmington, consistent with college reading lists Delaware: Scholarly Resources 1994. 242p. ISBN 0-8420-24794; pap., internationally, he discards very few $14.95, ISBN 0-8420-2480-8. canonical texts, instead eliminating all historical commentary to make space Marjorie Agosin, ed., A DREAM OF LIGHT AND SHADOW: PORTRAZTS for the voices of the subaltern. Yet, OF LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS. Albuquerque: University of with all the pages saved in this effort, New Mexico Press, 1995. 342p. bibl. $32.50, ISBN 0-8263-1633-6. Foster manages to incorporate only a

8 Feminist CoNections voLI8, no.] Fall 1996 number of indigenous texts, one ieed for more information about the I noventas" (one of the few articles Indian voice, a handful of writers :onditions in which women live, as lresented in both English and Span- representing African Hispanic well as diplomatically addressing the rh) establishes that the very transition America, and six women authors. pestion of mediation by presenting D democracy opens the space for new Despite Foster's dedicated persistence nost articles in both Spanish and liscourse representing the economi- in bibliographing the margin, his ?nglish. This is not a book that ally excluded, precisely women. In work on indigenism, gay and lesbian would be readily adopted for a :eneral, all of the articles establish writing, and documentary literature, it iterature class, or even a women's he tendency towards intensification of is surprising how easy it is, even for itudies class, because of the quantity vomen's poverty linked to the Latin this progressive anthologist, to almost )f statistical repetition that diverts lmerican debt crisis in 1980. All ignore women's writing. mention from analyzing "issues. " pestion how women's poverty is Reasons supporting the necessity The UNIFEM project includes essays neasured, given that women's lack of of reading women's writing from the ~utliningthe extent to which NGOs ccess to education and to the work- Third World are numerous. The on-g&ernmental Organizations) ,lace causes their experience of the present globally focused economic md some institutional organizations :onditions of poverty and deprivation reality admits that expansionism and lave helped to address the particularly o be more consuming than men's. industrialization have continued to severe poverty for women in rapidly 1s co-authors Guadalupe Espinosa, marginalize and impoverish women ndustrializing nations. Consistently u'ania Salles, and Rodolfo Tuirh and children particularly. Without he authors agree that local develop- )oint out in an introduction to this these voices, Third World alternatives nent projects should be supported ,esearch on poverty: to universal problems go unheard. In while continuously monitoring their Languages and Literatures, as a :ffects through a gendered lens. In an Gender inequalities mani- discipline, we are still reluctant to ittempt to examine how and why fest themselves in such include women as authors in the women live in such forms of acute diverse aspects as: the canon we study and the anthologies poverty by looking at the success rate sexual division of labour, we teach because we are, as Foster's ~f local projects, Naila Kabeer warns which concentrates women work demonstrates, plagued with the hat unless women begin to take part in their domestic environ- decision of which male voices, m collective, community action that is ment or segregates them in representing a History we have agreed mobilized into organizational power, occupations that replicate to teach, to leave out. Additionally, they will continue to be somewhat the domestic model in the we are unable to contend with the burdened by the gift of the community work place; the scarcity of forms of writing produced by women "project-trapn and are unlikely to opportunities for education (autobiography, diary, document, realize their full potential. Elisabeth and employment for journalism, testimony) and the themes Jelin's "Desafios sociales de 10s aiios women; access to unstable about which women write (domestic and badly paid jobs; the violence, domesticity and parenting, responsibility of the double female desire and sexuality, and or even the triple work day; rape). All of this, form and content, the prevalence of inferior challenges our notions of what is levels of health and well- literary, what is art. Notwithstanding being; limited participation the very real damage that translation in social and family does to the authority of a text, it is, in decision-making; limited fact, through "interpreters" that personal autonomy. (p.2 1) international dialogues, diplomatic or academic, must take place. Most Women's poverty is superimposed on critics would agree that the lack of a series of cultural, social, religious access to Latin American women's and institutional, gendered disadvan- expression, in any form, is a far tages in Latin America, deepening the greater problem than the act of effect that deprivation has on their mediation through translation itself. lives. Two case studies identifying the The collective project by cultural obstacles denying access to UNIFEM [United Nations Develop- women in Mexico are particularly ment Fund For Women], The Human noteworthy because of the attention Cost of Women's Poverty, like most paid to the simultaneous ideological documentary-type texts, speaks to the fight for autonomy played out in all

Feminist Collections ~01.18,no.1 Full 1996 9 women's lives in Latin America. injustice, through her interviews / tion of poverty in the Third World that Meryl James-Bryan's article, with women from a variety of )rings "women and Latin America" to "Poverty in the Caribbean," offers a ethnicities, orientations, and social he table of discussion in Women's brief but important linking between classes. Randall carefully steps out of Studies. In conversation with Cuban environmental degradation and the the line of fire by not creating a book women living in the blockade era of feminization of poverty, while Lena about one "women" from one "race" loverty, for example, Randall notes a Levinas in "Mujeres en el Universo and one "class." Early in her ;roup's feelings about the extent to de la Pobreza: El Caso Brasileiio" introduction, she identifies the which coalition building is necessary ["Women in the Universe of Poverty: abstract enemy to women's unity as for women living in abject poverty. The Brazilian Case"] offers the only the objectification process itself: Specifically, they discuss the lack of counter-argument to viewing "This is about women at the margin wailability of sanitary napkins, and women's poverty through a gendered and at center. What is margin and letail the process by which, after their lens, stating that this practice of center with regard to who we are, periods, they boil and reuse carefully hierarchiziing levels of misery can, in where we live, inside as well as suarded napkins to maintain hygiene. fact, "tener el efecto perverso de outside ourselves? And who suggests rhese kids of examples help students reafirmar papeles sexuales al intentar the label? Why even speak of labels? visualize the severity of, and also the proteger a Cste o aquel gmpo [have Because our living is so essentially lope living amidst, female poverty in the perverse effect of reaffhg about how we are viewed and how we Latin America. sexual roles by trying to protect this view who we are in the world" group or that]" @. 144). For the most b.35). Gertrude Yeagerls collection of part, The Human Cost of Women's Randall insists that class, race, historical perspectives, Confronting Poverty: Perspectives from bin and sexuality must be factored into Change, Challenging Tradition: America and the Caribbean is a useful the way we consider the lives of Women in Latin American History, book because of its concrete data on women, and astutely adds that like the other two books reviewed, is both the effect of poverty on women's culture, separate from all other brave in that none of the scholarly living conditions and opportunities in factors, also affects our living. She is essays is afraid to talk about the Latin America and the resourceful- looking for a way to unite experience essential constraints of the culture ness of communities collectively as she writes that hers is a story both being analyzed. The first eight working towards better living. It is commonplace and unique. articles define Latin American culture, useful because of the extent to which Whether immersing herself in the giving perspectives from inside and authors rework the mechanisms by political agenda of the lesbian out, asserting statements about the which we measure deprivation and movements in Cuba and Nicaragua, dominance of women as both a global empowerment in the context of discussing the conditions of living condition while at the same time gender asymmetries. biculturally in Belize, or reacting to linked to particular cultural traditions. the horrific stories of violence and The book opens with Evelyn P. whatthe UNIFEM project oppression carried out against women Stevens's interpretation of what has cannot do, and does not pretend to in Central America and Chile, she - often been perceived as the most do, is give the reader a feeling for the as narrator, interviewer, interpreter - resistant obstacle to the establishment anguish and hope experienced by becomes almost a character in her of feminism in Latin America, that is, women working to redress the gender book. Instead of assuming a "male" the conflict between culturally imbalance in the current development biographer's role in reproducing stereotyped roles for men and women, paradigm. Margaret Randall's testimonies as scientifically objective, reinforced by cultural beliefs in collection of "testimonies," Our she brings us the voice of her "wit- "machismo" and "marianismo. " Voices, Our Lives: Stories of Women nesses" and weaves her own reaction, Stevens redefines the "other face of from Central America and the her own acute awareness of the ways machismo" by linking "marianismo" Caribbean, removes the anthropologi- all women have been alienated not only to the cult of the virgin (the cal glare from the lens focused on through the text, in order to create a worshiping of female virginity so women and poverty. Randall, one of new form of literary journalism. Her expansively explored in Octavio Paz' the first to point out the extent to book challenges tradition by repre- Los hijos de la malinche) to the which women journalists, anthropolo- senting the voices of women not protection of paternity and patriarchy, gists, and literary critics have gradu- heard from before, and by presenting but also to a cult of female spirituality ally been reinventing the relationship these voices in an innovative literary- that insists on female moral superior- between "object" and "subject,"' journalistic form. ity. Her powerful last line suggesting cannot help but interweave her own Our Voices, Our Lives offers that Latin American women are not experiences as a mother, as an exile, student readers, in particular, graphic yet ready to relinquish their female as a woman who has also experienced examples of the statistical feminiza- chauvinism invites critique, but at the

10 Feminist Collections voL 18, no. 1 FEN 1996 same time indicates that this part of :ontemporary women authors, lot attempt to foster, in the words of the developing world may have ~articularlythose whose bulk of 4gosin, "unhealthy curiosity" into the historically cultivated more positive :restive production and general ives (or life-styles) of women, nor do ways of conceptualizing female recognition make them likely "objects hey make legendary the idea of domesticity. >f study" for any course - in En- strong women writing: the challenge "Concerning the Education of glish, Spanish, or Women's Studies - hey present to the reader is to see Women" by Teresa Gonzhlez de highlighting women writers. On the women writers as belonging to a Fanning is a curious but inspiring 3ther hand, this book could potentiallj valid, and vital, tradition within a article that reads like the progressive be overlooked precisely because the "feminine corpusn (p. 11). politics of Bello, Echevern'a, and :ollected articles present "literary Sarrniento in the Nineteenth Century xiticism" of women's writing through Romantic arguments for the education biography, a trend consistent in of nations to further a liberal future. teaching women as authors, but Without brushing over entirely Daphne Patai critiques the celebration harshly criticized in feminist peda- of Brazilian writer Jorge Amado's gogy for two specific reasons. First, the fact that informuiion about sexually liberated female characters to analyze writers solely through their the political and domestic (also represented in the popular films biographies often establishes a "Great from the "abertura" - the brief Men of History" way of looking at conditions in which a writer period of liberalism and political trends in writing. This practice also openness in the sixties - in Brazil in negates the value of all other writing works can help to contexrualize Gabriela and Dona Flor and her Two not authorized through an artificial his or her wriiing, focusing Husbands). Patai returns the privilege and rigid canon. In general, feminists of deciding sexual freedom and body do not support replacing the Hitorica only on women's biography autonomy to women, insisting that tradition with an Herstorical tradition Amado's sarcastic depiction of female in this way. What we do support is reinforces the notion that desire in his texts was calculated: the inclusion of as many voices as women 's writing is somehow "[Tlhere is nothing inevitable about possible in the discussion of what is the degradation of women by which art, with strong emphasis on avoiding not art, not noteworthy. Amado squeezes some laughter out of formalist tendencies that preclude his audience" (p.61). The second half certain writers based on class, gender. of the book contains articles like Isaac or race. Secondly, analyzing women, Holton's "Daily Life in Nineteenth specifically, as writers through their Two articles stand out as emblem- Century Columbia," that focus on the life stories devalues their creative atic of the value of the critique within absence of historical representations accomplishments. Without brushing the critique: Gwen Kirkpatrick's essay of women's issues, particularly during over entirely the fact that information on "Alfonsina Storni" and Elizabeth the years of struggle for independance about the political and domestic Horan's "Gabriela Mistral: Language and the formation of the various conditions in which a writer works is the Only Homeland." Kirkpatrick republics. A look at the Twentieth can help to contextualize his or her emphasizes the need to study extra- Century suffrage movement by writing, focusing only on women's literary materials - not just personal Francesca Miller helps to put Latin biography reinforces the notion that histories, but also journalistic and America's fight for women's right to women's writing is somehow not art, other professional writing - both to vote into a global context. Confront- not noteworthy. Agosin has contrib- return women to a lived history and ing Change, Challenging Tradition is uted numerous anthologies of Latin also to reexamine the kinds of writing a "text" that provides reliable back- American women's writing (most that we call literary. Horan traces ground for a variety of disciplines for notably These are Not Sweet Girls: the making of a saint, an icon, in studying women's issues, women's Poetry by Latin American Women Gabriela Mistral's biographies, while writing, and the conditions in which mtePine Press, 19941). as well as at the same time criticizing the con- women live in Latin America. collections of critical articles, to the temporary attempts to rewrite Mis- bulk of materials supporting women's tral's biography as the life of a Thelast book of this review, writing, actively pushing towards closeted lesbian. In either reading - Marjorie Agosin's A Dream of Light broadening the canon in many ways. Mistral as representative of "exem- and Shadow: Portraits of Latin In this collection, she cleverly plary" feminiity or representative of American Women Writers, is the one juxtaposes a series of women's "alternative" femininity - neither most likely to be selected for biographies to critique the practice of biographical tradition links her life coursework because it includes the making women's biography itself. story to the force of her work. More biographies or life stories of numerous The "portraits," as they are called, dc interesting, writes Horan, would be to:

Feminist Collections voLl8, no.1 Fall 1996 11 interrelate the diplomat and It is my contention that these four [Carole Byrd is an Assistant Professor this woman who witnessed texts represent a real change in of Spanish at the University of firsthand some extraordi- "tasten with respect to how we see Wiscomin-Oshkosh. She has pub- nary and important transi- women as literary and what we think lished articles focusing on women and tions in the intellectual is important, in print, about the literature and indigenous literature in history of Latin America, history of women's lives. The "text" Latin America. Her book, Elena and to correlate these with does matter greatly in deciding how Poniatowska and the Literary Collage, the woman who joked, to develop courses. If anthologies will be released this Fall.] drank scotch, and smoked continue to keep women out of the cigarettes endlessly, who selection, simultaneously, at least, NOTES raised from infancy an alternative readings are being pro- adopted child and pre- duced. Every text cannot solve the ' Margaret Randall, "Reclaiming scribed herbal cures to dilemmas presented by every disci- Voices: Notes on a New Practice in exceedingly cerebral men pline, but each one mentioned here Female Journalism, " Latin American and women of letters. does begin to chop away at one of the Perspectives v. 18 (Spring 1991), (P. 142) problems facing the teacher or scholar pp.103-113. who wants to bring the developing In fact, it is the eclecticism of world's women's perspective into a Mistral's interests and the variety of broader focus. places she lived in and absorbed that explain the enormous variety of style in Mistral. Biography, for all of the writers in A Dream of Light, is made useful to explain writing.

Part I - Saltara: Diving into Chicana Reality by Diane Soles

ADELANTE MUJERES! by Mary watching them on a hot summer Adelante Mujeres! is a docu- Ruthsdotter and the National afternoon, the image of a swimming mentary produced by the National Women's History Project. 1992. 30 pool with clear, cool water and a Women's History Project that sketches mins. VHS. diving board came to mind. It could key historical forces affecting Mexi- have been the heat, but then, I can-American women from the 1500s BREAXUNG PAN WITH SOL by thought, "That's exactly what these to the 1980s. I particularly like the Nancy de 10s Santos and the National videos are: a springboard, a jumping- extensive use of black-and-white Hispanic Media Coalition. 1993. 28 off point for analyzing and photographs of Chicanas in factories mins. VHS. problematking issues of identity, and fields, mutual aid associations and ethnicity, race, and gender." The civic groups, political activities, and two videos offer stylistically distinct with their families. Where else are Thebeginning of an article is introductions to the deep waters of there so many, positive and varied always the most difficult for me to Mexican-AmericanlChicana identity. images of Chicanas? The narrator write. Inevitably, I give up and write Like any good diving board, they cites more than a dozen Mexican- it last. This time, however, the make the water look inviting and American women who have made beginning came easily, inspired by refreshing, and make the dive look outstanding contributions to their the two videos in this review. After challenging but possible. communities and beyond, such as

I2 Feminist Collections vol.18, no.1 Fall 1996 Maria Betancour who, founded the city of San Antonio, Texas in the 1730s. and Jovita Idar, who organized Mexican-Americans around education and cultural identity in 191 1. By covering so much history, the authors had to sacrifice depth and merely mention many important issues, such as gender conflicts within the Mexi- can-American community. Nonethe- less, Adelante Mujeres! offers students a record of the accomplishments and achievements of Chicanas that is difficult to find elsewhere. The second video, Breaking Pan with Sol, written and directed by Nancy de 10s Santos and produced by the National Hispanic Media Coali- tion, portrays a day in the life of a fictional Chicana, Sol, who is cel- ebrating her 30th birthday. This occasion elicits moments of question- ing and conflict with her father, her Anglo friend, Jill, and her Chicano boyfriend, Beto. Embedded in these Courtesy ofthe Arizona Historical Society/Tucson (AHSU63.527) moments are such issues as how to relate to one's past - family, history, community - and how to handle the friendships and discrimination based lent, often contested waters of tensions arising from the insensitivity on the intersection of gender and Clhicana identity, pointing out the of even friendly members of the ethnicity. achievements, contributions, and dominant culture. Although a bit While neither of the videos offers mgoing struggles of Mexican- melodramatic, this narrative offers a solutions to ongoing conflicts, they do American women in an accessible and glimpse into the complexity and offer plenty material for further inviting style. Some viewers may richness of a Chicana's life. I found discussion, questioning, and research. decide to remain seated poolside, especially effective the use of Spanish The script for Adelante Mujeres! is while others will be inspired to plunge subtitles for the English dialogue. reproduced in a pamphlet accompany- in, seeking answers to the questions Both videos mix some English and ing the video and includes an interest- left unresolved. In this way, the two Spanish, thus underscoring their ing bibliography. In addition, I would videos are indeed like well-balanced simultaneous importance in bilingual suggest other books, such as Gloria springboards, propelling all who dare communities. Anzald~a'sBorderlands/La Frontera: to dive into deeper waters. The New Mestiza (San Francisco: Bythemselves, these videos Aunt Lute Books, 1987). Her work [Diane Soles is a Ph.D. candidate in cover too many topics to adequately presents a more in-depth, politicized, Sociology at the UW-Madison. She treat any one issue. Adelante and analytical look at Chicana has a Master's degree in Latin Mujeres!, for example, leaves unad- experience and identity, which fills in American Studies from the University dressed the question of who decides and complements the video's broad of Florida, and has conducted (and why) what is included in "his- historical survey. As for Breaking research on women's issues from tory" texts and what is left out; or Pan with Sol, I could imagine students Mexico to Chile.] why some Chicana women had to stan interviewing Chicana women of their own organizations withii the different ages about the areas of their Chicano rights movement - what lives that Sol struggled with: family1 were their demands, experiences, generational ties, work, discrimina- gains? Breaking Pan with Sol tion in its various guises, and gender touched, but did not resolve, some relations. questions of everyday life such as hou The videos provide a good to negotiate both cross-cultural introduction to the sometimes turbu-

Feminist Collections vol.18, no.] Fall 1996 I3 Part 2 - Shattering Stereotypes: Spiderwoman Theatre by Faye nesia

SUN, MOON & FEATHER. Bob sisters' recollections of birth, family the 'savagesn) singing "Indian Love Rosen and Jane Zipp; VHS; 30 mins.; parties, boat launchings, and scien- Call. " Clearly these sisters are not the 1989. Suggested audience: junior tific discoveries, but also about stereotypical "reservation Indians," high school through adult. ballyhooing and even elks on the but urban women who have struggled dole. Viewers meet the sisters' with the racism and sexism of a Sun, Moon di Feather is autobio- parents, their Aunt Liie, and their European culture that asks them to graphical, recounting the childhood Uncle Joe. In fact, Uncle Joe's home cast aside their background to become experiences of three Native American movies are included in the production "Arnerican. " Overall, this production (KunaIRappahannock) sisters growing along with some footage from the San by Spiderwoman Theatre covers both up in Brooklyn in the 1930's and Blas Islands, located off the coast of the serious and the whimsical power- 1940's. The sisters - Sun, Moon, Panama and the ancestral home of fully, one might even say outra- and Feather - are respectively Muriel their father. The sisters also recall geously. Miguel, Gloria Miguel, and Lisa their father's traveling 'snake oil Mayo. They are Spiderwoman show, " in which he and friends [Faye Flesia is Director of Library and Theatre, which began in New York dressed as inauthentic 'war chiefs," Media Services for UW Center- City in 1975 and is named after the dancing and whooping for the Waukesha County, Waukesha, Wiscon- Hopi goddess Spiderwoman. amusement (and money) of onlooking sin.] Storytelling is central in this avant whites. garde presentation, which is irrever- Throughout the film are many [Eds. Note: This video is part of the ent, witty, and nonlinear. The women mischievous clips, one of the most Women's Studies Audiovisual Collec- cleverly interweave song, color, and hilarious being the sisters' rendition tion housed at Karmann Library, UW- movement in their telling of childhood of Jeanette MacDonald (as the Platteville, and available to Wisconsin events. Their use of humor in blonde, blue-eyed heroine) and residents through Interlibrary Loan. presenting the serious as well as the Nelson Eddy (the man on the white Call or write us for a catalog of titles whimsical is effective and disarming. horse who rescues the heroine from available.] Not only do viewers learn about the

The ARCHIVE-CENTRE FOR point for a variety of women's tower ten years later, and has a large WOMEN'S HISTORY-BELGIUM, organizations. The address is collection on the "New Women's which started up in May 1995 in Middaglijnstraat 10, 1030 Brussels, Movement" beginning about 1971 as Brussels, hopes to establish a photo- Belgium. well as the 19th-century women's archive and to organize exhibitions movement and earlier history. Ad- centering on Belgian women's The FRAUENMEDIATURM (or dress: Bayenturm, 50678 Koln, historical position. An exhibit titled WomenMediaTower) is situated in Germany. "A Woman, A Ballot" has already Cologne's Bayen Tower, an ancient been shown this year. The archive is fortified tower that has served as a housed in the Amazone building, part landmark for the city for nearly 1,000 of the Amazone initiative, a project of years. Begun as 'The Feminist the Belgian minister for equal oppor- Archive and Documentation Centre" tunities that serves as a connecting in 1984, the archive moved to the

14 Feminist Collections vol.18, no.1 Fall 1996 by Brenda L. Burk

where can you find informa- chives. After the agencies' adrninis- )f facts gathered about individuals tion concerning women that docu- trative, legal, and fiscal needs for the hat can yield a wealth of information ments every aspect of their lives? In documents have expired, most records nhen aggregated. the archives of your state. Hidden are destroyed, with a small percent Because information is often among the many series of state public being transferred for long-term iidden among the vast amounts of records is information that indirectly preservation to a state archives. -ecords preserved in a state archives, documents the history of women, but When using public records, a ocating the records can take some it will take time and ingenuity to find researcher must deal with confidenti- xeative strategies. At the State the records you need. ality as defined by statutes within each Historical Society of Wisconsin, for In general, public records are state and by federal regulation. The zxample, access to public records documents produced in the normal right to access and the right to privacy ~eginswith a search of ArCat (Ar- course of activity by state govern- are carefully balanced by the govern- :hives Computer Catalog), the online ments, including records from all ment. Examples of restricted docu- :atalog of the Archives Division. The types of government agencies such as ments include personnel records, ~atalogcan be accessed through the the governor's office and departments health and medical records, correc- lnternet or through the Society of health, corrections, regulation, tional case files, and even income tax Archives' home page on the World education, and labor, to name a few. returns. In 1991, the state of Wiscon- Wide Web.' Searching under broad The documents may take the form of sin altered its open records law to subject heading helps locate informa- committee minutes, correspondence allow the State Archives to provide tion relating to a topic, since earlier and subject files, policy and proce- access to a confidential record cataloging practices for public records dure records, legislative and seventy-five years after its creation. did not follow the terminology used rulemaking records, statistical and After the seventy-five years have by catalogers and researchers today. special studies, and case files. These passed, the confidential record is An understanding of the functions and are all unpublished documents, not presumed open to public inspection roles of agencies in government and published governmental reports or unless the State Historical Society's the constituencies they served will publications, which are found in Board of Curators determines that the also assist in searching for records. libraries. Women's involvement in record should remain confidential. The reference archivist, a valuable state government - as employee, Many states have similar legislation person to ask about your research, has concerned citizen, or elected official governing the confidentiality of knowledge about how state govern- - is reflected in these records. Of records. ment operated throughout time and the vast amounts of government- will have ideas on which series to produced records, approximately five Howmight someone use public peruse to find invaluable information percent are preserved in state ar- records to further their research? on a topic. In many state archives, Since government the staff have produced guides and affects-most parts of pathfinders to help in accessing our lives, its records records. In Wisconsin, for a complete document the and comprehensive look at the changes and devel- resources available and strategies for opments of society finding information, consult the over a long time forthcoming revised and expanded period. Two aspects Women's History Resources at the of public records State Historical Society of Wisconsin, that make them by Mary Fiorenza and Michael invaluable are the Edrnonds, to be published in the Fall lengthy period of of 1996.l time covered and thr An example of using public tremendous quantity records for research is the study of

Feminist Cotlections voLI8, n0.1, Fall 1996 I5 women and their influence in the ment of Labor, Industry, and Human archives and discover a world of workplace, for which there are Relations' subject files contain history that can add a new dimension numerous sources of information. correspondence, petitions, and to your research. Agencies dealing with labor would meeting information on the debate have records on female employment, about how many hours women should [Brenda L. Burk is a Public Records pay scales, and training programs work. Regulation and licensing Archivist at the State Historical offered and even how the training records show an increase in and Society of Wsconsin. She has her programs were developed to incorpo- regulation of day care facilities due to master's degree from the School of rate women in the workforce. In the expanding number of women Library and Information Studies, Wisconsin, we have a complete set of working outside the home, while University of Wisconsin-Madison.] state employee roster cards spanning health department records document 1913-1970. A researcher could, for the rise of child care training and NOTES example, compare the job titles and changes in the field. Records from pay of women and men employed by Public Welfare trace the amount of 1 The URL for the web page is http:/ the state in a given year, document aid received, the increaseldecrease in /www.wi~c.edu/shs-archives the differences in career patterns over aid, and information on who receives several years, or trace the advance- aid. 2 For more information on Women's ment of women in the workforce over The examples above represent History Resources at the State the entire sixty-year period. Labor only a sampling of the primary source Historical Society of Wisconsin, subject files and various statistical material to be discovered in a state contact the Publications Office of the records and studies indicate the archives. There's much more to be State Historical Society of Wisconisn influence women have had on work- found in archived public documents by mail at 816 State St., Madison, WI ing hours, conditions, and pay. For than one brief introduction can even 53706 or by telephone at 608-264- instance, Wisconsin's former Depart- suggest. Contact and visit your state 6161.

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I8 Feminist Collections vol.18, no.1 FoN 1996 the Internet Underground Music [n MAIDEN VOYAGES you'll find is P.O. Box 9246, Portland, OR Archive, plus a number of other journal excerpts from traveling 97207. Web address: http:llwww pieces. Address is: http:llwww women, listings of tour companies .teleport.com/community/nonprofit/ .virago-net. com/brillo/contents. htm and women-owned accommodations, sister-spiritlmagazine.html a reading list, and more. Available ENGENDER is a magazine for VISIBILITIES, an online magazine quarterly both in print and electroni- women in small business, hoping to for lesbians, is the electronic rebirth cally, subscriptions are $20 (U.S.) "promote understanding of the of the journal published in the U.S. and $25 (elsewhere). Address: condition of women in the work- between 1986 and 1991. Available http: llmaiden-voyages. corn/ place." Among the articles in the first free and published in "updates" rather issue are those on women entrepre- The first issue of the online magazine than issues, the publication includes neurs dealing with the double standard QUILT focuses on "Women Against feature articles, a number of book in financing and a nurse who's turned Violence," specifically memorializing reviews, cartoons, poetry, news, to the practice of acupuncture; regular the massacre of fourteen women travel information, conference columns include money planning, engineering students by a man in announcements, and more. Edited by small business statistics, readers' Montreal, Canada in December 1989. Susan Chasin, with cartoons from feedback, wellness tips, resources, Edited by Ingrid Hein, the issue Alison Bechdel and Paige Braddock. and more. Address: http:llwww includes articles and poetry by five Address: http:/lwww.qworld.orgNisi/ .cadvision.com/ffaplengenderl contributors. Address: http:ll visib-home.htm1 alcor.concordia.ca1 ig-heinl GENDER, PUCE AND CULTURE: - WOMAN MOTORIST is a "free Issue1 .html A JOURNAL OF FEMINIST GEOG automotive, car and motor sports RAPHY offers each issue in both print ROCKRGRL., a print publication (see resource" on the Internet, edited by and fee-based searchable online "Periodical Notes" this issue) for Sandra Kinsler. The premiere issue versions. For subscription informa- "women in the music business," offers tips on auto insurance, a road tion, the address is: http://www offers a Web page with sample rally report, a book review, news .catchword.co.uk (then look for articles, subscription information, from the American Automobile Information for Libraries, Information contents of back issues, and some- Association, safety and maintenance for Librarians, List of Scholarly thing about the magazine and its tips, racing schedules, and more. Journals). editor, Carla De Santis. Web address: Address: http:ll www .womanmotorist http://www.indieweb.com/rockrgrll .corn/ gURL offers a 'ziny collection of index.html information including an interview WOMEN'S WEB carries features (on with children's author Judy Blume, SPIRZTED WOMAN is published six Maya Angelou in the July 1996 issue), "A Love-Hate Look at Beauty times per year both electronically and career news and advice, tips for Culture, " "Comics and Animations," in print by SisterSpirit, a women's communication in the workplace, and more. Editors Esther Drill and spirituality group based in Portland, artslleisure notes, and commentary on Rebecca Odes force readers to skip Oregon. Contents of back issues are such issues as the top cities for around to lots of screens in getting at 1 available online as well. Print address working mothers, illiteracy and infant the material, but it's a lively look at girl culture. Address: http:llwww I .itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/ - gURL HOT GOS is an Australian magazine resulting from a "vision to create a difference," "an alternative to the usual gloss, hype and stereotypes" in other women's magazines. Most issues seem to be largely online, but print subscriptions are also available for AUS$20 from P.O. Box 161, Northbridge, WA 6865 Australia. Web address: http:l/www .iiiet.net.au/ - hotgosl I

Ferninbt Collections voLl8, na1, Fa11 1996 19 mortality, and the Battered Woman ATLANTIS, a journal published by studies programs in India, literacy Syndrome, plus more. Address is: the Institute for the Study of Women, programs, materials on gender bias in http://www .wornenswebmagazine Mount Saint Vincent University, distance education, a radio-based .corn/ Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, has a workshop on literacy in Tonga, AIDS home page featuring its table of education materials, and more. ** For more electronic sites related to contents and excerpts from the Address: http://www.col.org/ zines or other publications, try introduction to the current issue. wid.htm1 Women's E-zines and Publications Address: http://www.msvu.ca/ The ELECTRA PAGES: ONLINE at http://www .zoom.com/personal/ atlantis/ DIRECTORY OF THE WOMENS' staci/ezines.htm or Women Online's AWARE (Arming Women Against MOVEMENT lists some WWWomen page listing under Rape and Endangerment) offers a 7,500 U.S. feminist organizations, Resources/Magazines at http://www website for those interested in searchable by type of group as well as .wwwomen.com/ or our office's web women's self-defense. With a focus geographic location or subject or a page at http://www/library .wisc.edu/ libraries~WomensStudies/mags.htm on "preventing violence through combination. The listing is a project education and training," the site of the Women's Information Ex- includes a self-defense quiz, questions changeINationa1 Women's Mailing WORLD WIDE WEB and answers, an archive of articles, List. Address: http://electrapages and information on how to get their SITES newsletter. Address: http://www EMILY'S LIST has a Web page that .aware.org/ The ARCHlVES FOR RESEARCH serves as an "interactive guiden to ON WOMEN AND GENDER at the Support for BA'ITERED WOMEN is "pro-choice women running for University of Texas at San Antonio available from a variety of sources, as office. " The acronym stands for offers a Web page on its collections, gleaned from the Web by "Early Money Is Like Yeast" because with background information, finding Women 'space magazine. Among the "it makes dough rise"; the organiza- aids, and links to other archives sites are Cybergrrls' Web page at: tion provides profiles of viable women related to women's history. Address: http://www .cybergrrl.com/dv.html candidates for office throughout the http://www.utsa.edu/Library/Ar- and the Family Violence Prevention U.S. Address: http://www.emilyslist chives/collex.htm Fund at: http://www.igc.apc.org/ .org/home. htm fundl ARIADNE's Newsletter No.20 (May The EQUAL RIGHTS HISTORY 1996) includes an annotated list (in BITCH, the online counterpart to the PROJECT is developing a database German) of new acquisitions of the print zine published by Lisa Jervis, on the 545 women and men who Austrian National Library related to is the "constantly evolving community founded the Equal Rights Party in women's studies. Address: http:// space where feminists, Internet May, 1872. Directed by Timothy www.onb.ac.at/00n120.htm gluttons, media addicts and thoughtful Messer-Kruse of the University of folks in general can talk about Toledo, the project asks interested The ARTEMIS GUIDE TO women, pop culture, advertising and "Internauts" to unearth information WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAMS just about anythiig else." Address: on one of the founders who lived in in the U.S. provides links to the http://www .bitchrnag.com/ their geographic area and contribute course offerings of and other informa- their research to the data-base. The CANADIAN RESEARCH tion about more than 128 programs. Address: http://www .utoledo .edu/ INSTl'IWTE FOR TEE ADVANCE- Seems to be updated regularly. www/erp/ Address: http://www.users MENT OF WOMEN (CRIAW) site .interport.net/ - katerl offers information on its publications The FAWCETT LIBRARY is a (newsletters, working papers, etc.), national research library for women's ASSYRIAN AMERICAN WOMEN research grants, databases, confer- history in the UK, with some 60,000 have a Web presence with the title ences, and more. Web address is: books and pamphlets, 700 periodical Shamiram in Cyberspace, featuring a http://www.worldlink.ca/ - criawl titles, archives, and extensive newspa- page on the Assyrian woman of the welcome. htm#start per clippings. Its Web page offers year, plans for a conference on basic information about the library's The COMMONWEALTH OF Assyrian women, a report on a function, hours, staff, and charges, LEARNING Women in Development workshop held at the 1995 World plus reading lists (on such topics as project is a Canadian program Conference on Women in Beijing, and British women's suffrage, women and working on broader access to educa- other information on Assyrian- media, peace movements, and tion for women. The Web site American women. Address: http:// prostitution), information on special includes a directory of women's www .nineveh.com/woman.htm collections, and connection to a

20 Feminist Collectiens wLl8, ne.1 Fall 1996 computer system in which much of home," "work," "cafe life" ,ZLITH: The Independent Jewish the library's collections can be found. literature, art, fashion and beauty, Vomen's Magazine has a very basic Address: http://www.lgu.ac.uk/phil/ ravel, etc.), and "teenspace. " Veb page with "22 Good Reasons to fawcett.htm 'hough it's relatively slow due to lots iubscribe to Lilith, " some general lf graphics and some links aren't xplanatory and subscription informa- FIGHTING WOMAN NEWS has ~articularlyrelated to women, there's ion, and some review quotations. been a print publication since 1975. n abundance of information here. iddress: http://www .cybergrrl.com/ Their Web page offers highlights of iddress: http://www.herspace.com/ nfo/lilith/index.html current and past issues in full-text, announcements, subscription informa- 'he IIAV (International Informa- MATRICES, subtitled "a lesbian and tion, links to martial arts sites and iecentrum en Archief voor de esbian feminist research and network other women's organizations, and lrouwenbeweging or International ~ewsletter,"offers on its Web page more. Address: hap:// www nformation Centre and Archives for he contents and sample articles from .cybrsports.com/fwn/index.html he Women's Movement) Web page ecent issues. Address: http:// ncludes descriptions of its collec- www.1esbian.orglmatriceslindex.htm FRENCH FEMINIST THEORY is ions, hours, email address, and other The United States Information the topic of one of the Women's nformation. IIAV is a "national Studies pages at the University of Igency's MEDIA GUIDEBOOK nformation service in the Netherlands FOR WOMEN is "intended primarily Iowa. Existing entries in this develop- )n the position of women and or women who have not had experi- ing webpage include Helene Cixous, women's studies" and a center for Julia Kristeva, and Rosi Braidotti. :nce in working with the media." It nternational exchange among several ~ffersadvice on media strategy, press Address: http://www.arcade.uiowa Zuropean women's networks. Web .edu/gw/wstudies/frenchfem.html .eleases, interviews, iddress: http://www.iiav.nl/ Aectronic media, perss conferences, The findings of the GLASS CEIL- [SIS PLUS is a Netscape version of speeches, and presentations. Web ING COMMISSION, created as part he Isis page that includes listings address: http://www.igc.apc.org/usia/ of the Civil Rights Act of 1991 to ,with online links to web pages or ~sdocs/mediaguide.htm investigate problems faced by women iocuments) of a variety of resources and minorities in moving into upper The Web page for the print publica- In black women: films and videos, tion MZDLZFE WOMAN, "an manageme* in the United States, are ;tories and images of important black & mdependent, international newsletter available the Cornell University women, performing arts information, Web server in several computer providing in-depth information on the literature by black women writers, challenges and opportunities of formats. Address: http://www.ilr ~rganizationsand conferences to note, .cornell.edu/library/e-archive1 menopause and midlife, " offers and more. Address: http:llwww subscription information, themes GlassCeilingI .netdiva.com/ourstory.html covered by back issues, a sample Active for ten years now, the GUER- I'he Web site for JOURNAL OF newsletter article, and a "Basics of RILLA GIRLS is a group of artists SACRED FEMININE WISDOM Menopause" page. Address: art and professionals who take public supplies introductory material about http: //users. a01 .com/mdlfwoman/ action (wearing gorilla masks), print the print publication (begun Winter info.htm posters, and do whatever they can to 1995), contents for Issue 1, highlights The NATIONAL FOUNDATION "expose sexism and racism in the art of Issue 2 (which includes a CD of 20 world and the culture at large." Web FOR WOMEN BUSINESS OWN- songs), plus ordering information. ERS has put up a Web page that address: http://www .voyagerco.com/ Address: http: //www .jlwisdom.com/ gg/gg.hd includes statistics, research reports, index.htm announcements about an ongoing Tricia Segal's GUIDE TO The LESBIAN HISTORY monograph series, and other business WOMEN'S HEALTH ISSUES PROJECT hopes to create an "online information for women business provides Lnternet sites (gopher, Web, record of lesbian history," help get owners. Web address: http://bbai and email) for information on health archives and collections onto the .onramp.net:80/nfwbo/ topics under the general headings: Web, encourage oral histories of emotional health, physical health, am The NATIONAL WOMEN'S lesbians of color, donation of original HISTORY PROJECT Web page sexual health. Address: http://asa papers, and related objectives. Amon, .ugl.lib.umich.edulchdocsl carries lots of information the links are some for relevant womenhealth/womens~health.html about getting women's history into the bibliographies, archives and oral public eye. There are ideas for history collections, articles and community groups and organizations, HERSPACE offers a host of links or interviews. Address: http://www- teachers, parents, workplaces, a a variety of topics (some broader in lib.usc.edu/ retter/main.html their selection than others) such as - sample of the many costumed per-

Feminist Collections voLI8, nal, Fall 1996 21 formers of women's history (write "an installation showing the life, the based in New York), the online them for complete list), an introduc- times, and the inspired work of the monthly newsletter WHAM! Alerr, tion to the staff, and how to order extraordinary creative genuis, information pages on selected topics their 48-page catalog. Address: http:/l Sappho," who was born around 640 such as welfare reform, and other www.nwhp.org/ B.C.E. in the Aegean. The group resources to assist in direct action. seeks help putting together the Address: http://www.echonyc .cord The NATIONAL LESBIAN PO- traveling exhibit. Address: http:// wham/wham.html LITICAL ACTION COMMITI'EE - www.lesbian.org/sappho-project1 of Alberta, Canada, pledges to give The quarterly zine THE WOMAN sapphohome .html its money to "candidates, male or REBEL, edited by Diane Glass, female, Democratic, Independent, The SCUM MANIFESTO written by carries excerpts from its print version or Republican, who meet our criteria Valerie Solanas in 1967, published in as well as subscription information, a and have earned our contributions by 1968, when she also shot and place for readers to "rant and rave," actively supporting lesbian issues. " wounded Andy Warhol, is a radical and links to other publications and Address: http://www.lesbian.org/ anti-male diatribe. Address: http:// web sites. Web address: http:// www nlpac/ www.filmzone.com/warhol/Scum/ .mindspring.com/ - wrebel/index.html scum.cgi NEW VICTORIA PUBLISHERS' WOMEN COME TO THE FRONT: Web page carries blurbs on its newest SPINIFEX PRESS, an Australian Journalists, Photographers, and publications as well as a complete feminist publisher, lists its new and Broadcasters is the title of one of the backlist of its fiction (primarily backlist books, distributors (Inland/ Library of Congress' exhibitions mysteries), short fiction, poetry, and Login in the U.S.), provides an email available on the Web. Content "herstory," plus links to online order form and related links on its includes brief biographies and some of bookstores and information for Web page. Address: http:/lwww the work of eight women who covered ordering books. Address: http:// .peg.apc.org/ - spinifex/ the war plus a lengthy list of accred- www.opendoor.com/NewVic/ welcome. html ited women correspondents during World War 11. Address: http:// PLEIADES NETWORKS offers a TECHBABES is for those who use lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/ number of discussion forums as part "technology with creativity and wcfOOO 1 .html of its Web page. Among the topics: style." It includes a 'zine section with Coffee House, Money Matters, Picket links and resources. Address: http:l/ THE WOMEN INVENTORS Fences (home and garden), Culinary www.techbabes.com/ PROJECT carries a catalog of Comer, Cyberwomen, Girl Talk, resources, including books, workshop The VICTORIAN WOMEN WRIT- Locker Room, Heart Beat (health and manuals, and videos, plus information ERS PROJECT at Indiana UniversitJ medicine), and Artistic Flair. Select on a number of Canadian women offers the work of fourteen British the main website at: http://www inventors. Online address is: http:// women writers of the 19th century. .pleiades-net.com/ then choose the www .ics.bc.ca/wiplprehome.html Carefully encoded according to Text "Our Voices" button. Encoding Initiative (TEI) guidelines, The WEEA (Women's Educational The PRESIDENT'S INTER- the website includes the writing Equity Act) online site is titled AGENCY COUNCIL ON WOMEN (mostly poetry) of Louisa Bevington, EQUITY ONLINE and features back- has been set up to implement the Ada Cambridge, Maud Keary, Helen ground articles to download, online Beijing Platform for Action in the Taylor, and others, complete with discussion groups, a catalog of WEEA U.S. The agency is seeking input in illustrations from their original publi- publications, and more. Address: the form of comments, suggestions, cations. Address: http:// www.indiani http://www .edc.org/CEEC/WEEA/ and news of successful local actions. .edu/ letrs/vwwpl - WOMEN'S HEALTH HOTLINE Web page address: http://www mM!(WOMEN'S HEALTH .whitehouse.gov/WHIEOP/Womenl produces regular "issues" on topics ACTION AND MOBILIZATION) is related to women and their health IACWhtmlIIACWhome-plain. html a "direct action group committed to care. The most recent at this point is The SAPPHO PROJECT is "an demanding, securing and defending Summer 1996, "dedicated to the organized, non-profit group of highly absolute reproductive freedom and 3,800 women competing in the 1996 qualified artists and administrators" quality health care for all women." It Summer Oylympic Games," focuses who have put together a design for Web site includes a calendar of event: on exercise as it relates to health

22 Feminist Collections vol. 1% no. I Fall I996 risks. Address: http:llwww.soft- Directory" from Virtual Sisterhood $149; format is MS-DOS; ISBN: design.com/softinfolwomens-health with links to some 7,000 Internet- 92- 1-161375-2. For information, .html connected women's groups from contact: United Nations Publications, around the world. Address: http:ll United Nations, Rrn. DC2-853, New The WOMEN'S MEDICAL www .littleblue.com/vsisterldirl York, NY 10017. HEALTH PAGE, put together by a medical student for "physicians, [Eds. Note: We erroneously suggested women, medical health workers" and in our last issue that Joan Korenman, others interested in women's health, OTHER ELECTRONIC keeper of the WMST-L list and guru carries summaries of articles on RESOURCES of Internet resources for women, was women's health topics such as osteo- associated with the University of porosis treatment, aspirin and cancer, Maryland at College Park - she is, RU486, and HIVIAIDS and women. WOMEN'S INDICATORS AND instead, attached to the University of A special section contains citations STATISTICS DATABASE is an updated CD-ROM version (Version 3) Maryland Baltimore County. Regrets, and abstracts to articles on abortion. of a print compilation of information Joan!] Though not updated since February 1996 when we checked, there's some on women from some 200 countries good information here. Address: around the world. Produced by the United Nations Department for http:Ilwww .best.coml%7Esirloul L.S. wrnhp. html Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistical Division WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS & (UNSTAT), the CD makes manipula- ELECTRONIC COMMUNICA- tion of the data possible in ways not TIONS is a searchable "Global available in print versions. Cost is

ABORTION AND ANTI- produced by thirty-nine separate In some cases, they may be the best or ABORTION groups from the well-known Opera- only sources of information on a tion Rescue to the lesser-known topic. Dallas A. Blanchard, THE ANTI- Seamless Garment Network. (The Besides the section with citations ABORTION MOVEMENT: REFER- organizations would not send preview directly related to movement organi- ENCES AND RESOURCES. New copies, by the way. He had to pur- zations, the book has chapters on anti- York: G.K. Hall, 1996. 378p. $26.95, chase the items.) In addition, he abortion support and service organiza- ISBN 0-8057-3872-X; pap., ISBN 0- searched for information about the tions, such as the Arthur S. De Moss 8057-3871-1. groups in print and nonprint sources Foundation; political activities and and is to be commended for bringing events; tactics employed; recruitment This is a very important book, together information about news and training procedures; relationships perhaps especially to pro-choicers broadcasts, documentaries, and elec- with other organizations; anti-abortion who may not be aware of the vast tronic discussion groups along with rhetoric; the media; religious basis of number of organizatons in the anti- traditional print sources. Since com- the movement; and a variety of anti- abortion movement, their publica- panies like Journal Graphics and abortion issues. An appendix lists tions, financial supporters, or coali- online services lie Nexis offer major publications and organizations tion efforts. Sociologistlanthropologist transcripts of CNN and National of the movement, including youth Blanchard sought and in many cases Public Radio broadcasts, these organizations and sexual assault and obtained material - books, newslet- resources should be included in pregnancy support groups. ters, audiotapes, and videos - reference guides to topical material.

Feminist Collections voLI8, no.1, Fa111996 23 The anti-abortion movement The nonprint selections now Costa points out that this video shows no sign of diminishing its include an Internet section. If Costa's leglected to include contraception efforts. It is good to have a compre- research skills are as good as they mdlor abstinence as a way of avoid- hensive resource available to learn seem to be, it appears the pro-choice ing repeated abortions. Life and more about it. side has been busier turning out Choice Afrer Roe v. Wade (1992, videos than have the anti-abortionists iistr. by PBS Video), a segment of in the last five years. New pro-choice the series "That Delicate Balance 11: Marie Costa, ABORTION: A REF- videos include Back Alley Detroit 3ur Constitution," is the only new ERENCE HANDBOOK. Santa (1992, distr. by Filmakers Library): video Costa found that attempts to Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2nd ed., "a vivid picture of what it was like in provide an unpolarized examination of 1996. 3359. index. $39.50, ISBN O- the decades before abortion was the issues. 87436-827-8. legal" (p.295); From Danger to Dignity: The Fight for Safe Abortion This is an expanded, updated (1995, distr. by Concentric Media): AGRICULTURE edition of the original published in "a comprehensive and in-depth look 1991. Costa aims to provide access to at the struggle to legalize abortion" Marie Marnan and Thelma H. Tate, "the available information, as well as (p.297); Leona's Sister Gerri (1995, WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE: A the full spectrum of thought, on abor- distr. by New Day Films): "In GUIDE TO RESEARCH. New York: tion" and says that her book "does not addition to making a poignant case for Garland, 1996. 298p. index. $46.00, attempt to promulgate any view, ex- abortion rights and against domestic [SBN 0-8153-1354-3. cept the view that all voices should be violence, the film raises provocative heard and listened to" (Preface, questions about the conversion of a Two Rutgers University refer- p.xvi). This is a reasonable approach private tragedy into a public symbol" ence librarians, representing the for a reference work on such a (pp.299-300); Living Forward, agriculture focus of Cook College and charged issue, and makes it particu- Looking Backward (1993, distr. by he Douglass Women's College, larly suitable to public and school Cinema Guild): " .. .six women tell zombined their expertise and interest libraries. their stories about being unwillingly to compile an annotated bibliography The basic structure is the same as pregnant in the years before abortion on women and agriculture. Their that in the first edition. First, there's a was legal" (p.301); Motherless: A citations are culled from numerous chronology of viewpoints, laws, and Legacy of Loss from Illegal Abortions sources, including research library actions, from brief descriptions of (1993, distr. by Filmakers Library): catalogs, agriculture databases such as how abortion was regarded from "...four Philadelphians tell what it Agricola and CAB, women-focused classical Greece through the Eigh- was like to lose a mother as a result of indexes such as Women Studies teenth Century, to a more detailed an illegal abortion.. " (p.302); Stand Abstracts and Studies on Women approach for the Nineteenth and Up for Choice (1993, distr. by Abstracts, and general purpose Twentieth Centuries (through 1995). Cinema Guild): "This three-part databases in the social sciences and Next come biographical sketches of series is intended primarily as a history. Where Maman and Tate people associated with the abortion training tool for teaching pro-choice found a pre-existing bibliographic debate in the United States; the activists how to defend abortion work covering a portion of the subject current status of state abortion laws as clinics and patients from antiabortion to be satisfactory, they did not of January 1995; descriptions of violence" (p.311); and When Abortion duplicate (ex.: Spanish-language landmark court cases from Griswold Was Illegal: Untold Stories (1992, material was already traced in v. Connecticut (1965) through Madsen distr. by Bullfrog Films): "...skillfully Women, Agriculture, and Rural v. Women's Health Center (1994); weaves together old photographs, Development in Latin America, by U.S. abortion statistics from the engravings, news clippings, and Jacqueline A. Ashby, 1985). Centers for Disease Control and the recent interviews to present a poignant The book begins with descrip- Alan Guttmacher Institute and figures account of the physical, emotional, tions of historical studies on women in for abortion rates in other countries and legal consequences of illegal agriculture, then moves to women's (also from the Guttmacher Institute); abortion in the United States prior to role in agricultural economic develop- descriptions of abortion techniques 1973" (p.312). No Easy Way Out ment by region. The third section and complications; and an overview (1992, distr. by American Portrait covers sexual division of labor in of embryonic and fetal development. Films International) portrays a agriculture, followed by citations to These sections are followed by a teenager who makes successive decision-making on the farm, directory of organizations and choices in two pregnancies to abort women's role in agricultural policy annotated bibliographies of print and (the decision haunts her thereafter) implementation, and women's nonprint resources. and to give up a baby for adoption. education in agriculture. Dissertations

24 Feminist Colleciions vol.18, 110.1 Fa11 1996 nnotations are welcome, if a bit too and Master's Theses are described in ;ity Press, 1996. 159. author index. ifrequent. For example: "Thorough a separate chapter. The compilers 679.95, ISBN 0-7190-4652- 1. .eatment, sensitive to gender, of a went beyond the usual English- ~emeincreasingly stressed in social language bibliography and included a Women's history is the robust istoryn (p.52) is what Ann Hughes chapter on material in French. They ield it is today due to the persever- {rites in the early modem section also provided helpful complete biblio- mce of early feminist historians like bout Consumer Behaviour and graphic information on a selected list 3erda Lemer. That this partially- [aterial Culture in Britain 1600- of journals that frequently publish innotated bibliography covering 1,5M 760,by L. Weatherill (1988). and articles about women in agriculture. years of British women's history can bout "Socialism and Scandal in Wisconsin readers may be be squeezed into one volume is more 900," by C. Collette (History interested in the work of Eugene A. indicative of the cryptic (continental) Vorkshop Journal v.23 [1987]: 102- Wikening and others in the 1950s and bibliographic practices employed by 1 I), we learn from June Hannam 1960s, described by Maman and Tate the compilers than the output of the hat it "Examines labour movement in their section on decision-making on Field. Authors are identified by sur- ttitudes to the relationship between the farm. Wikening and hi associates name and initials; most journal names )era Montefiore and George Belt, a found in 1958 that the greater the are abbreviated, and book citations abour organiser" @. 113). degree of commercialization of the leave out publishers as well as place This should be a useful resource farm enterprise, the less the farm and of publication for British imprints. or the intended audience. home decisions were made jointly by The guide is also meant to be selec- husbands and wives. Another study tive, with citations chosen for their (1969) suggested that wives viewed usefulness to the general college DICTIONARIES labor-saving equipment as more of an population and their instructors. improvement than did husbands. The The book opens with a section met K. Boles and Diane Long series of studies seems to have ended covering general surveys, followed by louveler, with the assistance of in 1969, when the modem women's historical methodology. The remain- Cebecca Bardwell, HISTORICAL movement was dawning. Yet a check ing three sections are divided chrono- DICTIONARY OF FEMINISM. of the University of Wisconsin logically: medieval (ca. 500- 1500). anham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1996. Libraries Catalog reveals that early modem (ca. 1500-1800), and l29p. bibl. (Historical dictionaries of Willcening was still writing on the modem (1800 to the present). The .eligions, philosophies, and move- subject as late as 1981 in a University three sections use the same outline, nents, no.6) $49.50. ISBN 0-8108- of Wisconsin publication probably not examining general works and views 3042-6. Also published as FROM indexed in the resources used by the on women in that period, then turning rHE GODDESS TO THE GLASS compilers. I'm curious whether ten to themes: women and family (with CEILING: A DICTIONARY OF years of the women's movement made many subdivisions), legal status, FEMINISM, Lanham, MD: Madison any impact on farm wives. health, sexuality, work (subdivided), Books, 1996. pap., $19.95, ISBN 1- Women in Agriculture is useful travelers, emigrants, empire, politics 56833-072-3. because it brings together citations (including feminism and protest from a variety of sources and provides movements), welfarelsocial policy, Librarians alert! This is the same sufficient information in each annota- prostitution, crime, witchcraft, book, published in the same place, tion that researchers can decide religion, education, the arts, biogra- issued the same year! Our library got whether the source is something they phy, and women as historians. Cross- caught and bought both. These books should examine in full. references are crucial, because many are identical except for one insignifi- citations could logically have been cant change: the hardcover is part of a placed in more than one section, and series, and the series editor wrote a BRITISH WOMEN there is no overall subject index to short foreword; his comments are provide added access points. instead incorporated into the Preface June Hannam, Ann Hughes, and Citations come from a wide in the paperback edition. That's ALL Pauline Stafford, comps., BRITISH range of English-language publica- the difference. This deceptive practice WOMEN'S HISTORY: A BIBLIO- tions, including numerous joumals in should not be condoned. No where in GRAPHICAL GUIDE. Manchester women's studies and history, and either book is there mention, even in and New York: Manchester Univer- chapters in anthologies. The brief tiny letters, that the book was also

Feminist Collections voI.18, nal, Fa11 1996 25 issued under the other title. That is stockings, & Crones: A Woman's Kaplan (American Psychiatric Press, the routine practice, for example, Companion to Words & Ideas (bearing 1996). includes essays for practitio- when a book crosses the Atlantic and the note "previously published as A ners concerning the treatment and is published by a different publisher Feminist Dictionaryn). prevention of child abuse, elder there. Boles and Hoeveler actually offer maltreatment, and domestic violence That said, I will try to calm more than a dictionary. There are also in general. The Office of Educational down and examine the contents of the a twenty-one-page introductory essay Research and Improvement of the book. The project of writing the by Hoeveler reviewing the history of U.S. Department of Education issued dictionary was a collaborative one, feminism, a chronology, and a Partnerships Against Violence: A with contributions from faculty in subject-arranged bibliography that Resource Guide (1994) as part of a many disciplines. Although the entries stretches over one-hundred pages. coalition of federal agencies sponsor- are unsigned, the breadth of coverage This book is definitely worth acquir- ing PAVNET, a virtual library of suggests that many individuals sub- ing, though one copy is sufficient! resources about successful anti- mitted concepts, people, and organi- violence programs, sources of zations from their fields for inclusion. funding, and up-to-date research to There are entries, for example, for DOMESTIC VIOLENCE assist state and local officials (http:/1 Chinese feminist Jiu Jin, the 1992 www.pavnet.org/). But the general Canadian court case Regina v. Butler Margi Laird McCue, DOMESTIC public needs to be informed about that crirninalized pornography, and VIOLENCE: A REFERENCE domestic violence issues, too, and the concepts "biological clock" and HANDBOOK. Santa Barbara, CA: that's the niche nicely occupied by "Attitudes Towards Women Scale." ABC-CLIO, 1995. 273p. index. Domestic Violence: A Rqerence The definitions range from a few (Contemporary world issues) $39.50, Handbook. sentences to half a page. The Dictio- ISBN 0-87436-762-X. The Handbook spells out the nary of Feminist Theory, by Maggie meaning of domestic violence in the Humrn (2nd ed., Ohio State Univer- Numerous guides have appeared first chapter, both through formal sity Press, 1995) is a better choice for recently to assist clinicians, lawyers, definitions and through personal definitions of theoretical concepts teachers, and clergy in identifying and stories told to Magi Laird McCue as because the theorists mentioned are treating family violence. Nancy she worked on the book. Her explana- linked to citations in Humrn's bibliog- Kilgore's 1993 Sourcebook for tions of the causes of domestic raphy, making it easier to pursue Working With Battered Women: A violence (as understood by four matters further. Boles and Hoeveler Comprehensive Manual Specifically different theoretical approaches - are better on individuals (they include Designed for Counselors, Ministers, sociological, systems theory, psycho- birth and death dates) and interna- Social Workers, Educators and logical, and feminist) are useful in tional coverage. If you are looking for Support Group Leaders Who Want to understanding where these approaches a quotation to illustrate a concept, A Improve the Content, Relevance, and overlap and where they part company: Feminist Dictionary, by Cheris Participation of Discussion for Abused Kramarae and Paula Treichler Women in Group or Individual While social learning (Pandora, 1985) is the best match. Senings (Volcano Press) is precisely theory is inconsistent with You might find it under its Routledge that type. Family Violence: A Clinical views of psychiatrists who 1992 reprint name, Amazons, Blue- and Legal Guide, edited by Sandra J. emphasize the pathological

Miriam Greenwalrl

26 Feminist Collections voLl8, no.1 Fa11 1996 or deviant aspects of vio- he abortion handbook, there's no tates, some 51.2 percent of the lent families, social :overage of electronic databases or ~opulationoverall, and they live learning theory regarding nternet resources on the subject. A onger, 6.6 more years (1991 data). the reasons why men abuse econd edition should not neglect :ewer women die in traffic accidents is partially consistent with hese increasingly important ways to - only about one-fourth of all EU feminist theory regarding )btain information. raffic victims are women - or the learning behavior of :ornmit suicide (less than one-third). batterers. Feminists do not lousehold size is on the decrease and agree with those social EUROPEAN UNION - ionmarital unions are on the upswing. learning theorists who, STATISTICS Khen couples marry, they do so at a from a psychological ater age than in the 1960s, but the perspective, hold that !hopean Commission, WOMEN Ige gap between them has remained at women learn their victim 4ND MEN IN THE EUROPEAN !.5 years. Sometimes there is great behavior either through UNION: A STATISTICAL POR- ~arietyamong the member countries. victimization as children or rRAIT. Luxembourg: Office for :or example, while more than 90 by witnessing their moth- 3fficial Publications of the European )ercent of three-year-olds in Belgium, ers' beatings. Sociologists Zommunities, 1995. 206p. ECU 12 01 jrance, and Italy attend preschools, and feminists agree that 116.00, ISBN 92-826-9619-7. {ery few do in Greece, Ireland, social structure is the prime Distributed in the U.S. by UNIPUB, axembourg, or the Netherlands. cause of domestic violence, 161 1-F Assembly Drive, Lanham, 3nly 71 women obtain higher educa- but feminists strongly MD 20706. ion in Germany for every 100 men, disagree with sociologsts whereas in Portugal college-educated who espouse the family Sprinkled throughout this com- women predominate (151 to 100). The systems theory, believing pilation of gender-related statistics on liscrepancy between women and men that this is a form of victim lemographics, households, family m labor force participation is more blaming and that battered life, education, work and political han 30 percentage points in Ireland, women become caught in a participation in Europe are results Sreece, Italy, and Spain; in the U.K. pattern of behavior with From Eurobarometer opinion polls. IS about 20 points and in the Scandi- their abusive partners in The data reveal some areas where navian countries in the European Free order to survive. Feminists women and men hold divergent view: Trade Association (also tracked in believe that battered and others where there are no gender some of the statistics), the gap is women are not responsible differences. Women in the EU coun- small. Women are lopsidedly repre- for their battering, that tries (as of the end of 1994: Germany sented in the fields of education (65.4 men choose to batter France, Italy, Belgium, the Nether- percent), health care (71.8 percent), because they have been lands, Luxembourg, United Kingdom and domestic services (90.4 percent), socialized to believe they Ireland, Denmark, Greece, Spain, am but account for fewer than one-third are entitled to superior Portugal), for example, exhibit the workers in industry. In 1994, only rights and that society's greater appreciation of the family, 13.6 percent of members of national institutions have tradition- while for men work comes first. For parliaments were women. ally supported men's sense all ages, leisure activities and politics The "detailed analysis of the of entitlement. @. 14) are more important to men, whereas facts and phenomena emerging from religion rates higher for women @.5) these figures will be a task for the Like other books in ABC-CLIO's Both sexes believe that governments sociologists, " states the Introduction "Contemporary World Issues" series, can help family life most by con- @.3). At least researchers and policy- including Abortion: A RtIference structing more housing for families makers interested in the EU countries Handbook reviewed above, Domestic and by improving economic prospect have this excellent tool at their dis- Violence contains a chronology of (p.96). One result must have been a posal, offering "harmonized data" significant events in the history of shocker for EU planners: only 21.9 among the countries, making com- responses to the problem; biographi- percent of the women and 22.4 parisons possible both within the EU cal sketches of people associated with percent of the men SUN~Y~reported and with countries outside its bound- domestic violence issues; a section of being in sympathy with the aims of aries. facts, statistics, and legal issues; European Union b.203). listings of national and state organiza. What does the statistical portrait tions; and annotated bibliographies ot look like? There are more women print and nonprint resources. Unlike than men in each of the member

Feminist Collections voLl8, naI, Fall 1996 27 FEMINIST THEORY: women. They all recognize that benefits and risks so that women can WOMEN OF COLOR women's bodies are more than breasts make informed decisions about the and reproductive tracts and that products they buy and the procedures Joan Nordquist, WOMEN OF women can take some responsibility they choose to undergon (Preface). COLOR: FEMINIST THEORY: A for their health care. The writing is crisp, matter-of- BIBLIOGRAPHY. Santa Cruz, CA: Where they differ is in presenta- fact, consistent in tone, and non- Reference and Research Services, tion and style. The Women's Complete preachy. "Pregnancy is usually not a 1995. 75p. $15.00, ISBN 0-937855- Healthbook (Delacorte, 1995), The good time to take up skiing or 79-0 (Social theory: a bibliographic PDR Family Guide to Women's skydiving.. ."(p.239) is about as close series, 40; ISSN 0887-3577, $551 Health and Prescription Drugs to humor as the book gets. An year). (Medical Economics, 1994), and Appendix arranged in the same order OB, OS are all arranged thematically. as the entries directs readers to This bibliography provides a The Harvard Guide takes instead an additional books written for the convenient way to find citations to the encyclopedic, alphabetical approach general public, addresses of organiza- different perspectives on feminist for its three-hundred entries. This tions, videos, and Internet lists and theory emerging from African style lends itself particularly well to sites. My preference for resource American, Latina, Asian American, explanations of terms or procedures. coverage is with OB, OS because it and Native American writers. Literary The entry for "biopsy," for example, includes citations to the medical criticism from these groups is covered begins with a definition ("A biopsy is periodical literature. separately. Nordquist also includes the removal of a sample of living The Harvard Guide is a good sections listing literary anthologies tissue for examination under a micro- addition to the reference resources on from each of the groups because of scope. There are many different types women's health, suitable for all the close tie between theory and of biopsy, and they vary considerably libraries, including high schools, literature from the standpoint of in complexity, technique, and amount women's centers, and personal women of color. and type of pain and anesthesia collections. involved" [p.77]). Next, four types of biopsies (skin, needle, surgical, and HEALTH punch) are covered in short para- HISTORY graphs, followed by explanations of Karen J. Carlson, Stephanie A. how the tissue obtained is examined Mary Ellen Snodgrass, ed., CEL- Eisenstat, and Terra Ziporyn, THE and why biopsies are performed. The EBRATING WOMEN'S HISTORY: HARVARD GUIDE TO WOMEN'S entry then moves to more detailed A WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH HEALTH. Cambridge, MA: Harvard discussion, with illustrations, of four RESOURCE BOOK. New York: Gale University Press, 1996. 717p. index. biopsies performed only in women Research, 1996. 517p. index. $44.95, $39.95, ISBN 0-674-36771-5; pap., (cervical, endometrial, vulvar, and ISBN 0-7876-0605-7. $24.95, ISBN 0-674-36769-3. breast), including the techniques used in each. The three-page entry ends Around January or February, do It's important for each woman to with a list of related entries. On the you start worrying about who to have on hand an up-to-date, well- other hand, someone interested in feature in your exhibit case, or what written guide to healthful living, birth control methods would need to to have your class, club, or depart- illnesses, and other health concerns. look in several entries - "birth ment do for Women's History Month For many women Our Bodies, control," "hormonal contraception," this year? Here's a resource so full of Ourselves has been that trusted friend "natural birth control methods," "oral ideas that you'll never run out. It for years, each new edition replacing contraceptives, " "spermicides, " comes from the National Women's its predecessor on the shelf - or "tubal ligation," and more in order to History Project, the group that perhaps joining the 1971 version that read all there is on the subject in the originated the first celebrations of carries too many memories to be Guide, whereas they would have an National Women's History Week as chucked. OB, OS was unmistakably easier time with the other books. local activities in Northern California written by nonspecialists fiercely The Guide has some unexpected and went on to champion a full month committed to learning about their entries, such as "cosmetic safety" and on a national scale. The NWHP bodies and sharing the knowledge "hair care," included because the continues to serve as a clearinghouse with other women. Today, there are authors see the health of women as for curricular materials and as a many other fine books to consult, "inextricably linked with their teacher training service. While the including some like The Harvard appearance." In such entries they aim NWHP emphasis is on K-12, some of Guide, written by medically-trained for an "honest look at potential the materials offered through their

28 Feminist Collections vol. 18, no.] Fall 1996 mail-order catalog - and some of the graphic series, 40; ISSN 0887- buy Women's Words, too? Well, yes, three-hundred activities described in 3569,$55lyear). because you must be either a large the Resource Book - are appropriate Library that buys most such material, for or adaptable to the college level. In Latinas, Nordquist includes or you are, like Biggs, a person Any age group might like to citations from Latina publications fascinated with quotation books. What arrange a program of folk songs that along with those from alternative is remarkable is that despite all the celebrate women by name, for publishers, activist organizations, generations when women were example. The Resource Book suggests multicultural sources, and the litera- "silenced," they managed to say and several songs to choose from as well ture of the social sciences. She covers write a great deal that is pithy, as song books with lyrics, including works on Latinas in general and pulls humorous, gracious, catty, or wise, Here's to the Women: 100 Songs For out Mexican Americans and Puerto and these books complement rather and About Women, by Hilda Werner Ricans for separate treatment, as well than overlap. Furthermore, what and Elizabeth Freilicher (Feminist as a section for immigrant and librarian could resist a book whose Press, 1995). and offers alternative undocumented women and one for editor (Biggs is Dean of Library and applications to intensify the historical Cuban/Dominican/Columbian/ Information Services as well as connections. The activity described Brazilian women. This last mentioned Professor of English at Trenton State for "Women in the Harlem Renais- section seems an odd grouping. College, New Jersey) thought to sance" lends itself to a high school or Perhaps there were not enough include this quotation from Catherine college seminar, a library display, or publications to warrant separate Drinker Bowen: a teacher education research model sections for each country, yet enough for written or oral presentation. for Nordquist to wish to call attention In early days, I tried not to Several topics and sources are to those countries. I would have give librarians any trouble, suggested, and the instructions say preferred a general index by country which was where I made my "Combine research efforts into a of origin (she doesn't usually provide primary mistake. Librarians multi-phase project including notes, or need an index due to the logical, like to be given trouble; interviews, drawings, tape readings, detailed structure of her bibliogra- they exist for it, they are videotaped skits, biography, and a phies). This would have allowed geared to it. For the location map of significant sites in Harlem" access by country in the other sections of a mislaid volume, an (p.312). A "Sports Puzzlern may be of the bibliography as well, which uncatalogued item, your successful in a school newspaper, and include employment, education, good librarian has a ferret's a project of interviewing women in health and medical care, AIDS, nose. Give her a scent and the community may have the most lesbians, violence against women, she jumps the leash, her eye impact long term. etc. Citations in Lutinas are to bright with battle. (p.217) Each activity contains agelgrade English-language material only. level information; sets out a proce- Women's Words is the only one dure; approximates the budget needs of the women's quotations books that (using dollar symbols); lists books, QUOTATIONS offers the editor's contextual com- articles, and nonprint sources; and ments for many of the quotations. For offers additional applications. Mary Biggs, ed., WOMEN'S example, Biggs annotates the quota- I hope this resource finds its way WORDS: THE COLUMBIA BOOK tion '...it is the greatest of all into school libraries and campus OF QUOTATIONS BY WOMEN. mistakes to begin life with the women's centers. It belongs in all of New York: Columbia University expectation that it is going to be easy, them. Press, 1996. 501p. author index. or with the wish to have it so," by $24.95. ISBN 0-23 1-07986-9. Lucy Larcom with the information: "Larwm was forced to become a mill LATINAS If you already own The Beacon worker at age 11 after her father died, Book of Quotations By Women leaving a destitute widow and eight Joan Nordquist, LATINAS IN THE (Rosalie Maggio, 1992), The New young childrenn (p.217). Anyone who UNITED STATES: SOCIAL, Quotable Woman (Elaine Partnow, likes browsing quotation collections ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL 1992), and Feminist Quotations: will appreciate a bit of context. ASPECTS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. Voices of Rebels, R@onners, and There are over three thousand Sam Cruz, CA: Reference and Visionaries (Carol McPhee and AM quotations in Women's Words, Research Services, 1995. 80p. FitzGerald, 1979) - to name three of arranged in over six hundred subjects $15.00, ISBN 0-937855-78-2 (Con- the most similar available collections ranging from baseball and beauty temporary social issues: a biblio- of quotations by women - should yo1 contests to welding and values of women. Most of the selections are the book, as do women clergy in the Women's Movement: Dynamics of from nineteenth- and twentieth- another. A chapter on cross-cultural Change in Social Movement Ideology, century American or British women. expression includes spirituality among and Activism; Routledge, 1992), Ryan Several quotations come from contem- Native American, Asian, and African thought writing an annotated bibliog- porary women who have not made women, and in relation to Hinduism, raphy would be relatively easy. their way into other quotation collec- Buddhism, Islam, and Judaism as well Anyone who has ever tried to do so tions. These include Ruth Behar on as primal culture. The last section is a could have told her what she eventu- immigration ("I have a huge need for directory of periodicals, publishers, ally learned: It's not. Whatever isn't financial security; the emigrant in me and centers that are likely resources at hand can theoretically be borrowed has a fear of ending up homeless and for readers interested in feminist for examination - but libraries don't in the guttern [p. 184]), and Patricia spirituality. lend reference books, so she needed to Williams on Hillary Rodham Clinton If Fischer prepares a new edition, visit many places to examine the ("Hillary Clinton's great sin was that I hope she will consider at least materials listed in her resource she left the nicely wallpapered partially annotating the selections. It section. Writing concise yet informa- domestic sphere with a slam of the would be helpful to know something tive entries is an art, and coming up door, took up public life on her own, more in particular about the novels with an organizational structure is leaving big feminist footprints all over and works of poetry listed in the seldom straightforward. Choosing the place, and without so much as an creative expression section. what not to include is as important as apologyn [p.65]). selecting what's put in. I am pleased to report that Ryan overcame all WOMEN'S MOVEMENT obstacles and wrote an excellent RELIGION reference work that should be ac- Barbara Ryan, THE WOMEN'S quired by all libraries and women's Claire Benedicks Fischer, OF SPZRI- MOVEMENT: REFERENCE AND studies programs with in-house TUALZTY: A FEMINIST PERSPEC- RESOURCES. New York: G.K. Hall, collections. TNE. Lanham, MD: American 1996. 339p. indexes. $45.00, ISBN O- The two initial chapters cover Theological Library Association and 8161-7254-4. what would be expected in such a Scarecrow Press, 1995. 279p. author work: First and Second Wave femi- index. $49.50, ISBN 0-8108-3006-X. Having already written a mono- nism, respectively. Each chapter is graph of the subject (Feminism and subdivided by thematic topics central By titling her work Of Spiritual- to that era of feminism. For example, ity, Fischer hopes to convey that the Miriam Greenwald philanthropy and reform characterized topic is, for her, open and inclusive. First Wave feminism, and It is not confined to the realm of reproductive freedom religion, nor are spiritual voices found issues the Second. Next, only in the West. True to her expan- Ryan adds a biographical sive viewpoint, the bibliography lists chapter on women material connected with spirituality in activists, again a useful, such topics as feminist psychology, logical grouping and women's autobiographies, mother- placement. But her next hood, lesbian thought, environmental chapter is more novel, concerns, peace efforts, and a variety demonstrating her deep of creative expressions. knowledge of the subject. Following an introduction laying This chapter tackles out the scope of the book, Fischer feminist discourse. begins the bibliography with sections Separate subsections cover more closely tied to formal religion. three concepts often Her first chapter covers feminist lumped together or used theology [or thealogy as feminists interchangeably. Ryan prefer], scriptural study, and histori- distinguishes feminist cal analyses; and the second lists thought (world view with works by or about spiritual women of gender at the center) from ancient and medieval times (such as theory, or more properly Hildegard of Bingen) and the modem theories of feminism, and period (Simone Weil, etc.). The in turn from methodology Goddess figures in a later chapter of ("the ways research has

30 Feminist Collections vol.18, no.1 Fall 1996 left out women and how to change ontinue the tradition of devoting RacelEthinicity and Work" contains that practice" [p. 1081). 'This chapter host half the bi-annual American ;ome unusual categories beyond those also has sections on social movement Yoman to a topical theme. The :xpected for African Americans, theories, identity politics, emainder of the volume provides a Latinas, and other women of color. multiculturalism, and, due to the :hronological review of events of Appalachian women, Greek women, volume of material, a separate section ignificance to American women (this md women in the Civil Rights for Black feminism. rear's covers July 1993-March 1995), Movement each have separate Chapter Five takes up additional I statistical portrait of American :hapters. The section "Gender-Based issues for the contemporary women's women, distilled from federal sources, Division of Labor in the U.S." movement such as the intersection of md biographical sketches of women includes reviews of occupational sex- race, class and gender, and attitudes n the 104th Congress. The 1994-95 typing and perceived prestige of towards sex and pornography. heme was "Health," undoubtedly the occupations. Various theoretical Chapter six (which librarians will )erfect topic to choose in 1993 or so, approaches to analyzing women and appreciate most) describes library when the editors (Costello and Anne. work draw from such disparate fields collections, archives, catalogs, and '. Stone) must have been anticipating as geography, the psychology of museums, as well as reference he arrival of national health insur- women's adult development, and materials and bibliographies. me. For 1996-97, when the overhall work in economics on human capital Women's studies faculty will find the )f the welfare system is bent on theory. Numerous occupations receive sections here on funding sources, iumping millions of welfare mothers chapter attention. Sad to say, this is primary source documents (speeches, nto the job market, the prescient not true for librarianship, which has letters, etc.), anthologies, and texts ditors have selected "Work" as the no chapter, no listing in the subject useful for courses and projects, too. heme. Indeed, two of the six compre- index, and may only be represented in There's a good mix of books and iensive essays in the volume deal the book as a whole by the phrase articles in each chapter - never too with welfare and with parents in the "library reference and retrieval" in much to be overwhelming - defi- workforce. Katherine McFate writes Rosalie A. Cohen's "Women in the nitely something that will help In "Struggling to survive: Welfare, Service Occupation Sector." Cohen undergraduates identify important Work, and Lone Mothers," and Ellen calls libraries one of the places where works. And if you don't see some- Salinsky and James T. Bond cover "women have .. . pioneered and thiig obvious from Ryan's section 'Work and Family: The Experiences activated the separation of information headings, try one of the three indexes ~f Mothers and Fathers in the U.S. services (fourth-sector products) from (author, title, subject) at the end of Labor Force." Other essays survey interpersonal services and the integra- the book. trends in workforce participation by tion of these new products into women, and address affirmative traditional service arenas" (p. 146). action, unemployment insurance, Computer technology and in WORK pensions, and retirement issues. Each particular computer language is the essay includes abundant charts and topic of an essay by Margaret Anne Cynthia Costello and Barbara Kivimae graphs. Bly in a section on factors influencing Krirngold, eds., THE AMERICAN After digesting the statistics and career and occupational choice. She WOMAN 1996-97: WHERE WE descriptions provided in The America1 reaches some surprising conclusions STAND: WOMEN AND WORK. New Woman 1996-97, turn to Women and from her survey of research in the York: W.W. Norton, 1996. 408p. Work for the next level of analysis. area: "No major difference between index. $30.00, ISBN 0-393-03929-3. Dubeck and Borman have assembled the sexes has been found in their collection of 150 original articles that attitude toward computers.. .. No Paula J. Dubeck and Kathryn Borman, review seminal research by sociolo- difference was found in the amount of eds., WOMEN AND WORK: A gists, economists, and others on use" (p.236). These statements seem HANDBOOK. New York: Garland, numerous aspects of women and at odds with other reports I've read, 1996. 550p. index. ISBN 0-8240- work. Each two- to four-page article which suggest that a gender gap does 7647-8. summarizes the current state of exist, although it is narrowing. research on the topic and offers A fifth of the book covers cross- These two excellent reference bibliographic suggestions for further cultural and international studies. It is works provide complementary depth. Besides labor force participa- difficult to make comparisons across information on all aspects of women tion, many other topics are addressed nations because the statistics collected and work. Costello and Kriigold The section "Intersection of Gender, are not always counting the same

Feminist Collections voL18, nal, Fall1996 31 period. Nevertheless, one article uses work on the projkct and publish their United Nations figures available results in a separate volume. Linda Schmittroth, ed. and comp., through WISTAT (Women's Indica- STATISTICAL RECORD OF tors and Statistics), which contains They chose to present the WOMEN WORLDWIDE, 2nd ed. employment data for 103 countries for timeline as two parallel tracks: a year- Detroit: Gale Research, 1995. index. 1980, to demonstrate the worldwide by-year chronology of "textsn for the $89.50, ISBN 0-8103-8872-3. gender inequality in labor-force publications and happenings directly participation. Other essays in this connected to women's writings, The second edition of this section tackle women's work in alongside "contexts," events in statistical reference work is now out. Australia, France, East Germany, general social, political, and cultural As in the first edition, Schrnittroth Japan, India, Israel, China, Sweden, history as well as significant medical brings together data from a variety of New Zealand, Mexico, Singapore, and legal developments important to places. In addition to standard Nigeria, and Nicaragua, and survey women's lives that same year. governmental sources, there are economic development in Africa and "Writing" is broadly defined in both tabular presentations of information Latin America. books, encompassing newspaper from periodical articles, company Remaining sections of Women columns, advice books, cookbooks, reports, organizational newsletters, and Work cover legal factors affecting and all forms of belles lenres. The and more. According to the Preface, women's work, work experiences and juxtapositions are entertaining, though the coverage is about sixty percent the organizational context of work, drawing any actual connections or U.S., forty percent international. This and worklfarnily issues. influences is left entirely to the makes for a sprightly, eclectic reader. The year 1896 saw the collection of data, beyond what is publication of Mormon poet and expected in statistical resources. You WRITERS journalist Emmeline B. Well's can find, for example, that money Musings and Memories, while on the ranks first among gift preferences of Cynthia J. Davis and Kathryn West, same page (155) we learn that both women and men in the United WOMEN WRITERS IN THE Johnson and Johnson produced the States (pp.12-13), or that it costs UNITED STATES: A TIMELZNE first commerical disposable sanitary about $16 to make and market OF LITERARY, CULTURAL, AND pads, called Lister's Towels. In 1930 Norplant, which sells for about $365 SOCZAL. HISTORY. New York: Mildred Wirt Benson (pseudonym (pp.95-96; table presenting figures in Oxford University Press, 1996. 488p. Carolyn Keene) wrote the first Nancy a New York Times article). The 1993 bibl. index, $45.00, ISBN 0-19- Drew book, while Mother Jones Catholic Almanac was the source of 509053-5. (Mary Harris), "renowned labor the fact that fewer than 16,000 of the organizer and agitator who helped 164,661 teachers in U.S. Catholic The content-rich Oxford Com- found both the Social Democratic schools in 1992 were Sisters @.584), panion to Women's Writing in the Party and the Industrial Workers of and a composite of U.S. Air Force United States by Cathy N. Davidson the World," celebrated her one Technical Reports served as the basis and Linda Wagner-Martin (1995) was hundredth birthday (p.239). for the chart showing that when male the mother - or at least the womb - Uses of such a book? Browsing and female pilot candidates are that gave birth to this literary- and speculating on the historical matched according to their level of historical timeline. Davis and West climate in which women's words were pre-Undergraduate Pilot Training were research assistants to Davidson written, fact-checking (though the (UPT) performance composite, both and Wagner-Martin charged with format limits the amount of actual sexes perform equally well in training compiling a brief chronology for the information provided for each nugget to become pilots (p.598). Oxford Companion. They accom- to at most a compound sentence) and Sources cited have full biblio- plished that task, but found so much a great source of inspiration for high graphic entries in an appendix, and more than could be contained in an school poster projects for history and there's a detailed subject index, too. addendum to an encyclopedic com- American literature classes. ** P.H.W.

32 Feminist Collections vol.18, no.1 Fall 1996 New and Newly- Discovered Intended for "women of the hobby," this publication on the reenacting of the U.S. Civil War scenes offers articles Periodicals m such topics as the roles of African-American women in Civil War reenacting, Victorian jewelry and hairstyles, COMMUNIQUE 1996- . Publications coordinator: Forming a reenactment group, use of fans, mourning Jennifer Hurnke. 4/yr. Isis-WICCI, P.O. Box 4934, practices, and children's Civil War-era activities and dress. Kampala, Uganda. (Issue examined: v. 1, no. 1, May- l'here's also a listing of independent "ladies' groups" August 1996) around the U.S., a bibliography of books on women and the Because its Women's World publication is produced Civil War, a one-page gallery of children's photos from the only twice a year, this new publication from Isis-WICCE is period, and a product index to help readers locate items meant to fill gaps in the information flow about the mentioned in advertisements throughout. Women's International Cross-Cultural Exchange (WICCE) program headquartered in Kampala. The seven-page first LESBMN SHORT FICTION 1996- . Ed.: Jinx Beers. issue discusses post-Beijing developments and explains $36 (4 issues). Single copy: $9.95. ISSN 1087-7169. some of WICCE's activities. 6507 Franrivers Ave., West Hills, CA 91307. (Issue examined: Premiere Issue, Spring 1996) DARK MOON SISTERS 1995- . 41yr. $16. Single copy: With its contents of 'twenty-one stories from ten states $5. P.O. Box 43 172, Oakland, CA 94624-0172. (Issue and three countries" @.viii), this 158-page first issue offers examined: no. 1) a variety of genres from mystery to romance, humor, and This "quarterly digest publication of Lesbian and erotica. Writers range from "fust time authors, to those Bisexual women vampires stories ...is published on the who have published several short stories and articles, to Solstice and Equinoxn (publ. letter). The magazine uses a authors who have an established novel seriesn @.vii), and 5-114 x 8-112-inch format with unusual typefaces, offering brief biographies provide contexts for their work. some poetry and drawings as well as stories within its fifty pages. Content is sexually explicit and editors look for NATIVE WOMEN IN THE ARTS: IN A VAST DREAM- multicultural and multiracial material with strong women ING 1995- . Ed.: Beth Brant. llyr. $7. 141 Bathurst St., characters. Suite 101, Toronto, Ontario M5V 2R2 Canada. (Issue examined: No. 1, 1995) JOURNAL OF GENDER, CULTURE, AND HUTH This fust issue gathers the work of forty-six Aboriginal 1996- . Ed.: Richard M. Eisler. $35 (indiv.); $41 (indiv. women in a collection of short stories, poetry, excerpts of outside U.S.); $1 10 (inst.); $130 (inst. outside U.S.). ISSN plays, biographies, songs, and visual art work. Nicely 1087-3201. Plenum Publishing, Journal Subscriber Sew. produced, the issue includes the work of both well-known Dept., 233 Spring St., New York, NY 10013. (Issue and emerging artists, with brief biographical sketches examined: v. 1, no. 1, March 1996) identifying the tribal affiliation and background of each. Noting that researchers doing 'exciting work on the impact of gender and cultural factors in health are publish- ROCKRGRL 1995- . Ed.: Carla DeSantis. 61yr. $24; $15 ing their work in disparate outletsn (p.1) in a variety of (email subscription). 7683 SE 27th St., #317, Mercer disciplines or for particular ethnic groups, the editor hopes Island, WA 98040-4280. (Issue examined: no. 10, July1 to consolidate such research and develop "an integrative August 1996)) approachn in this journal. Among the topics in this fust "Information and inspiration for women in the music issue: therapist attitudes toward gender roles; the relation of business," says this magazine's subtitle. Among the gender to pain perception; gender and cardiovascular information to be found: notes on the song group Fluffy; a reactivity in Black adolescents; and cross-national differ- profile of the Bush Tetras after their reincarnation as a ences in disease rates. group; an online concert; and several other girl groups around the continent. THE LADY REENACTOR 1994- . Ed. : Rick Keating . 11 yr. $9.95 + $2 shipping (U.S.); $3.50 shipping (else- where). ISSN 1076-2221. Patrick Publishing, P.O. Box 1864, Varna, IL 61375-1864. (Issue examined: v.1, 1994)

Feminist Collections voLl8, nal Fa11 1996 33 TRIALOGUE 1995- . Ed.: Mita Gupta. 2lyr. Single to do domestic fundraising in Africa. A list of resources and copy: $3. AWID membership: $45 (professional); $20 a piece on using electronic networks complete the issue. (student); $75 (library); $10 (individuals from and living in WOMEN LEGISLATORS IN ACTION 1996- . 4lyr. $50 less developed countries). Association for Women in (U.S.); $75 (elsewhere). Empowerment of Women Development, 1511 K Street, NW, Suite 825, Washington, Programme, Parliamentarians for Global Action, 2 11 East DC 20005. (Issue examined: v. 1, no. 1, Winter 1995) 43rd Street, Suite 1604, New York, NY 10017. (Issue The eight oversized pages (1 1 x 17 inches) of this examined: v. 1, no. 1, May 13, 1996) biannual newsletter are intended to reflect the "perspectives Intended as a "global forum, where action taken at the of academics, policy makers, and practitioners who make domestic level on gender issues is shared by legislators up AWID's 'trialogue'" @. 1). Theme of this issue is around the world," this nine-page publication focuses on structural adjustment, including, in addition to the three "enacting the legislation that will translate the Platform for regular "voices," a "voice from the South" on Zimbabwe Action [from the 1995 Beijing World Conference on and nearby African nations, plus comments by each Women] into effective national policies" (p. 1). Included are contributor on the work of the other authors and a listing of brief reports on an international meeting and the actions recent relevant resources. taken in various countries represented.

WOMANSWORD 1996- . Ed.: Janice H. McElroy. 12Iyr. WOMEN'S HEALTH: RESEARCH ON GENDER, $25. 3140-B Tilghman St., #263, Allentown, PA 18104. BEHAVIOR, AND POLICY 1995- . Ed.: Tracey A. (Issue examined: v. 1, 110.5, May 1996) Revenson. 4lyr. U.S. and Canada: $35 (indiv.); $95 Intended to offer "timely news and views about what is (inst.); elsewhere: $60 (indiv.); $120 (inst.). ISSN 1077- happening on a wide spectrum of issues in the federal 2928. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 365 Broadway, government, in businesses, on campuses, in states and Hillsdale, NJ 07642. (Issue examined: v. 1, no. 1, Spring communities" (Web page), with particular focus on imple- 1995) mentation of the Platform for Action developed at the The vision of the editor for this journal are that it be Beijing World Conference for Women (from Web page at "broad yet deep," and "draw bridges between the disci- http://www .ferninist.com/wword.htm), the four-page plines," presenting "top-tier research and scholarship" @. 1) sample issue includes Bella Abzug's article on the "Con- as well as theoretical and methodological articles and policy tract With Women," a listing of U.S. government and U.N. analyses. Topics in the premiere issue include a paradigm contactsladdresses, highlights from the U.N. Commission for women and health; risk, screening behavior, and breast on the Status of Women's fortieth session, plus brief news cancer; postpartum depression in disadvantaged women; summaries. and gender as a factor in patientldoctor communications.

WOMEN ALIVE 199?- . Editorial team. 4lyr. $12. 1566 Bumside Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90019. (Issue examined: Spring 1996) Special Issues of Periodicals "A publication by and for women living with HIVI AIDS," declares the subtitle, and a statement continues that BEYOND LAW/ MAS ALL4 DEL DERECHO v.3, no.8: the organization and publication are "the means we have "Gender and Law 1993"; and v.4, no. 11: "Women's Rights created to help us connect with each other, bring others like and Human Rights. " Ed. : Mara Bird. Subscription: $15 us out of isolation, and take charge of our lives, our care, (Colombia); US$40 (Latin AmericalCaribbean); US$60 and our destiny" (p.2). Articles discuss the hope of (elsewhere). Single copy: $5 (US $20). ISSN 0121-5183. protease treatment, one doctor's approach to treating HIV Instituto Latinoamericano de Servicios Legales Alternativos via prevention of opportunistic infection, a single mother's (ILSA), P.O. Box A.A. 077844, Calle 38 No. 16-45, dealing with HIV, herbal treatments for night sweats, drug Santaft de Bogoti, D.C., Colombia. (Issues examined) use and HIV, and more; a localized listing of resources The first special issue of this journal of "stories of law concludes the issue. and social change from Latin America and around the world" carries such article titles as: "Legal Education and WOMEN AND LAW IN SOUTHERN AFRICA RE- Legal Services in Zimbabwe: A Focus on Women, Law and SEARCH PROJECT 1989?- . 4lyr. P.O. Box UA 171, Culture" (Amy S. Tsanga); "Reproductive and Sexual Union Avenue, Harare, Zimbabwe. (Issue examined: v.8. Rights as Human Rights" (Maria Ladi Lmdoiio E.) and no.1, March 1996) "Women's Legal Rights in Poland in the Process of This issue of the project's twelve-page newsletter Transformation" (Malgorzatoa Fuszara). seems centered on follow-up related to the Platform for The second special issue includes: "On a Mandatory Action adopted at last year's Beijing World Conference on Quota-System for Political Parties in Argentina" (Marcela Women. Reports of various WLSA meetings and work- V. Rodriguez); "Women's Rights and the International shops help to disperse information, including notes on how Context: Some Reflections on the Post-Communist States"

34 Feminist Collections voll& no.] Fall 1996 (Maxine Molyneux); and "Economic Liberalization, the NAFTA, and Human Rights: Illustrations from Canada, Mexico and Chile" (John Dent). Each issue also offers reviews, essays, and a "bulletin board" section of news items.

GRAMMA: JOURNAL OF THEORY AND CRITICISM v. 1, 1993: "The Gender of Reading." Eds.: Yiorgos Kalogeras, Ruth Parkin-Gounelas. E. Douka-Kabitoglou, Dept. of English, School of Philosophy, Aristotle Univer- sity, 54006 Thessaloniki, Greece. (Issue examined) English articles (about half the issue): "'This Crea- ture': Discourse on Women and Discourse by Women in the Middle Ages" (Win Boklund-Lagopoulou); "Hester's Ungathered Hair: Hawthorne and 19th Century Women's Fiction" (Adrianne Kalfopoulou); "Clarissa Dalloway's Women in Post-Communist Russia Body: Transformations of Christian Concepts of Femininity FA,,dl, 5.. Bnrgn and Maternity in Virginia Woolf s Mrs. Dalloway" (Katerina K. Kitsi-Mitakou); "Reading with the Author's Sex: A Comparison of Two Seventeenth-Century Texts" (Tina Krontiris); and "The Other Side of the Looking Glass: Women's Fantasy Writing and Woolf s Orlando" The Need for Human Services Integration" (Andrea K. (Ruth Parkin-Gounelas). Blanch et al.); and "Home Making and Community Build- ing: Notes on Empowerment and Place" (Priscilla Ridgway INTERFACE: BRADFORD STUDIES IN LANGUAGE, et al.). CULTURE & SOCIETY no. 1, Spring 1995: "Women in Post-Communist Russia." Ed.: Sue Bridger. Single copy: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, & HUMAN VALUES v .20, $12. ISSN 0261-0353. Anne Croasdell, Dept. of Modem no.3, Summer 1995: "Feminist and Constructivist Perspec- Languages, University of Bradford, Bradford BD7 lDP, tives on New Technology." Guest ed.: Steve Woolgar. UK. (Issue examined) Subscriptions: $144 (inst.); $57 (indiv.). Add $8 outside This premiere issue of Interface offers two sections of the U.S. Single copy: $37 (inst.); $16 (indiv.). ISSN interdisciplinary research: the fust covers "Unemployment, 0162-2439. Sage Publications, 2455 Teller Rd., Thousand Privati[z]ation and Survival," the second considers "Private Oaks, CA 91320. Life and Public Policy. " Beginning from the premise that Contents: "On Some Failures of Nerve in

"women have been hit -proportionately - hard both by falling Constructivist and Feminist Analyses of Technology" (Keith living standards and by unemployment" during Russia's Grint, Steve Woolgar); "Feminism and Ecology: Realism - early transition toward democratic reform (p.v), the articles and Rhetoric in the Discourses of Nature" (Kate Soper); examine such topics as protective work legislation, attitudes "Feminism and Constructivism: Do Artifacts Have Gen- and concerns of Russian wopen academics, rural women, der?" (Anne-Jorunn Berg, Merete Lie); "The Ethics of sexual violence, and ownership of reproduction. Hybrid Subjects: Feminist Constructivism According to Donna Haraway" (Baukje Wins); and "Shifting Sexes, THE JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH ADMINISTRA- Moving Stories: FeministlConstructivist Dialogues" (Stefan TION v.21, no.4, Fall 1994: "Women's Mental Health Hirschauer , Annemarie Mol). Services." Issue ed.: Andrea K. Blanch. Subscription: $53 (indiv. nonmember); $95 (inst.); add $8 (surface mail), $16 THIRD WORLD LEGAL STUDIES - 1994-95: "Women's (air mail) outside U.S. ISSN 0092-8623. Sage Publica- Rights and Traditional Law: A Conflict. " Ed.-in-Chief: tions, 2455 Teller Rd., Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. (Issue Samuel 0. Gyandoh, Jr.; Guest ed.: Penelope E. Andrews. examined) Subscription: US$20 (Europe, North America, Japan, Following an introduction by the issue editor and Australia); US$7 (elsewhere); US$7 (students). ISSN Cynthia Feiden-Warsh are eight articles, among them: 0895-5018. School of Law, Valparaiso University, "Gender Differences in the Use of Outpatient Mental Valparaiso, IN 46383. Health Services" (Anne Rhodes and Paula Goering); Partial contents: "Feminist Critiques of International "Independent Community Living Among Women With Law and Their Critics" (Hilary Charlesworth); "Female Severe Mental Illness" (Judith A. Cook); "On Being Genital Surgeries and Multicultural Feminism" (Isabelle R. Invisible in the Mental Health System" (Ann Jennings); Gunning); "Islamic Law and the Issue of Male and Female "Parents With Severe Mental Illness and Their Children: Circumcision" (SWA. Aldeeb Abu-Sahlieh); "Palestinian

Feminist Collections voLl8, nal Fall 1996 35 Women: Beyond the Basic Law" (Adrien K. Wing, Shobhana R. Kasturi); "Women, Custom and State Law in Anniversaries Papua New Guinea" (Jean G. Zorn); and "The Women, Law and Development Movement and the Struggle for ATLANTIS is a women's studies journal currently celebrat- Customary Law Reform in Africa" (Takyiwaah Manuh). ing twenty years of existence and thriving all the while. Address: Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3M 276, Canada.

Transitions A WZS WIGAZZNE (from the Association for Women in Science) celebrates the organization's twenty-fifth anniver- BELLES LETTRES has put out an emergency call for sary with a special issue that includes greetings from 1 funds to help publish its latest issue. Funding cutbacks have President Clinton, reflections by past AWIS presidents, a caused a $10,000 shortfall and the publication has missed its calendar commemorating important events in the first deadline in eleven years. Donations are welcome to: organization's history, a retrospective book review, and Janet Mullaney, Editor, 2208 Spinnaker Ct., Reston, VA more. Address: 1200 New York Ave., NW, Suite 650, 1 2209 1. Washington, DC 20005.

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36 Feminist Collections voLl8. nal Fa11 1996 The Center of Concern has developed a workshop series, FOURTH WORLD CONFERENCE ON WOMEN, WOMEN CONNECTING BEYOND BEIJING, to provide SEPTEMBER 5-6, 1995, CHINA, a twenty-nine-page a link between the United Nations Fourth World Conference document, was published by the Executive Office of the on Women and local women's groups. The packets include President. The Superintendent of Documents number: materials for group discussion, activities, and ways to PREX 1.2:H 55. (Her remarks to the NGO Forum are also develop action plans. The price is $15 for the facilitator's on the World Wide Web at http:Ilwomen.usia.gov/usia/ packet, and $3 for each participant's workbook. Materials hrcngo.htm) Contact your local government document are also available in Spanish. For more information, depository library to read these reports. contact the Center, 3700 13th St. NE, Washington, DC 20017. Phone: 202-635-2757; fax: 202-832-9494. WOMEN AND TOBACCO: AN INVENTORY OF RE- SOURCES AND INITZATNES lists the work Canadians Some recent publications from the INSTITUTE FOR are doing on issues related to women and tobacco use, TEACHING AND RESEARCH ON WOMEN include including resources and topics currently being researched. "Race, Gender, and Class: An Overview and Guide to The inventory is available from: Canadian Council on Teaching," by Jean Belkhir ($12); "The Politics of Power: Smoking and Health, 1000-170 Laurier Ave. W, Ottawa, Gender Equity in Sport," by Margaret Faulkner ($6); and Ontario, KIP 5V5 Canada. Fax: 613-567-2730. "Assessment of Multicultural Education in Women's Studies: A Research Report," by Beth Vanfossen ($6). A new bibliography, TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT GEN- Checks or money orders should be payable to TSU- DER EQUITY, lists resources that deal with gender equity ITROW; send to: ITROW, Towson State University, and girls' education. To request a copy, contact: Heather- Towson, MD 21204-7097. Jane Robertson or Bernie Froes-German, Canadian Teach- ers' Federation, 110 Argyle Ave., Ottawa, Ontario K2P THIRD WORLD WOMEN: DYNAMIC PROTEST IN 1B4 Canada. Phone: 613-232- 1505; fax: 613-232-1886. BEIJING is the title of a collection of posters from the Web address: http:llwww.ctf-fce.ca Fourth World Conference on Women. The forty posters along with annotations and background on the Conference A new research guide for women's history sources is and the issues raised, sexism, health care, education, FLORIDA STATE ARCHZVES: COLLECTIONS PER- racism, and more, are available for exhibit or presentation. TAINING TO WOMEN'S HISTORY AND WOMEN'S Contact: Speak Out!, P.O. Box 99096, Emeryville, CA ISSUES. Request a free copy from: Florida Department of 94662. Phone: 5 10-601-0182. State, Bureau of Archives & Records Management, Mail Station 9A, Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250. Or email a Two new government documents have been published. request to Krista Kordt at: [email protected]. fl.us WORKING WOMEN COUNT!: A REPORT TO THE NATION is a forty-four-page document published in 1994 CORRECTION: Mention in last issue's "Items of Note" of by the United States Department of Labor, Women's Latin American Women: Compared Figures listed FOCAL Bureau. The Superintendent of Documents number is L as contact for the report. Requests should go instead to 36.102: W 8919. The Executive Summary of this document Susana Levy, FLACSO-Chile, Leopoldo Urmtia 1950, is available on the Women's Bureau's website, http:ll Casilla 3212 Central de Casillas, Santiago, Chile. Phone: bubba.dol.govldollwb/ REMARKS BY FIRST LADY (01 1)(56-2) 225-9938; email: flacsoQlauca.usach.cl HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON: UNITED NATIONS ** R.B.

Ferninkt Collections voll8, nal Fall 1996 37 ABORTING LAW: AN EXPLORA- BLACK AND WHITE SAT DOWN CORPORATE VICTIMIZATION OF TION OF THE POLITICS OF TOGETHER: THE REMINIS- WOMEN. Szockyj, Elizabeth & Fox, MOTHERHOOD AND MEDICINE. CENCES OF AN NAACP James G., eds. Northeastern Univer- Kellough, Gail. University of Toronto FOUNDER. Ovington, Mary White. sity Press, 1996. Press, 1996. Feminist Press, 1995. DEATH AT LAVENDER BAY. ABORTION. Costa, Marie. ABC- BLACK WOMEN IN AMERICA: AN Douglas, Lauren Wright. Naiad CLIO, 1996. HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDZA. Press, 1996. ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST Hine, Darlene Clark, et al., eds. THE DIFFERENT DEBATE: WOMEN PAINTERS: AN ANNO- Carlson, 1993; Indiana University FEMINIST JURISPRUDENCE. TATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. Puniello, Press, 1996. Goldstein, Leslie Friedman, ed. Francoise S. & Rusak, Halina R. BURNING LIGHTS. Chagall, Bella; Rowman, 1992. Scarecrow, 1996. ill. by Marc Chagall. Schocken DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: A REFER- ACCIDENTAL ACTIVIST: A Books, 1946; repr. Biblio Press, 1996. ENCE HANDBOOK. McCue, Margi PERSONAL AND POLITICAL CATHOLIC GIRL.HOOD NARRA- Laird. ABC-CLIO, 1995. MEMOIR. Gingrich, Candace with TNES: THE CHURCH AND SELF- EARTHCARE: WOMEN AND THE Chris Bull. Scribner, 1996. DENIAL. Evasdaughter, Elizabeth N. ENVIRONMENT. Merchant, AGATHA; SAVANNAH BAY: 2 Northeastern University Press, 1996. Carolyn. Routledge, 1996. PLAYS. Duras, Marguerite. Post- CHANGING WOMAN: A HISTORY ELEANOR RATHBONE. Alberti, Apollo, 1992. OF RACIAL ETHNIC WOMEN IN Johanna. Sage, 1996. ALL THE RAGE: REASSERTING MODERN AMERICA. Anderson, FAMILIES. Tax, Meredith. Feminist RADICAL LESBZAN FEMINISM. Karen. Oxford University Press, Press, 1996. Harne, Lynne & Miller, Elaine, eds. 1996. FEMINISM AND RELIGION: AN Teachers College Press, 1996. CHRISTINE DELPHY. Jackson, INTRODUCTION. Gross, Rita M. ALLEGORIES OF TRANSGRES- Stevi. Sage, 1996. Beacon, 1996. SION AND TRANSFORMATION: CLOTEL OR THE PRESIDENT'S FEMINISMS AND PEDAGOGIES EXPERIMENTAL FICTION BY DAUGHTER. Brown, William Wells. OF EVERYDAY LIFE. Luke, WOMEN WRITING UNDER DIC- Cashin, Joan E. 1996. Carmen, ed. State University of New TATORSHIP. Tierney-Tello, Mary CONFESSIONS FROM THE CU- York Press, 1996. Beth. State University of New York BICLE: WOMEN TALK ABOUT FEMINIST THEORY: WOMEN OF Press, 1996. SURVNING IN TODAY'S WORK COLOR: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. AMERICAN FEMINIST PLAY- FORCE. Edmiston, Alexandra. Nordquist, Joan, comp. Reference WRIGHTS: A CRITICAL HISTORY. Publishing Prose, 1996. (Address: 15 and Research Services, 1995. Burke, Sally. Twayne, 1996. Malvern Ave., Toronto, Ontario M4E FOLLY. Brady, Maureen. Feminist AMONG THE WHITE MOON 3E2, Canada) Press, 1994. FACES: AN ASLAN-AMERICAN CONNECTING THE DOTS: PO- FOR REAL: THE UNCENSORED MEMOIR OF HOMELANDS. Lirn, EMS. Kumin, Maxine. Norton, 1996. TRUTH ABOUT AMERICA'S Shirley Geok-Lin. Feminist Press; THE CONSUMPTION OF CUL TEENAGERS. Pratt, Jane & Pryor, disu. Consortium, 1996. TURE 1600-1800: IMAGE, OBJECT, Kelli. Hyperion, 1995. BETWEEN VOICE AND SILENCE: TEXT. Brewer, John & Benningham, FORBIDDEN FIRES. Anderson, WOMEN AND GIRLS, RACE AND Ann. Routledge, 1995. Margaret C.; ed. by Mathilda Hills. RELATIONSHIP. Taylor, Jill CONTENTED AMONG STRANG Naiad, 1996. McLean, et al. Harvard University ERS: RURAL GERMAN-SPEAKING FROM THE GODDESS TO THE Press, 1995. WOMEN AND THEIR FAMILIES GLASS CEILING: A DICTIONARY BEYOND THE WHITENESS OF IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY OF FEMINISM. Boles, Janet K. & WHITENESS: MEMOIR OF A MIDWEST. Pickle, Linda Schelbitzki. Hoeveler, Diane Long, with the WHITE MOTHER OF BLACK University of Illinois Press, 1996. assistance of Rebecca Bardwell. SONS. Lazarre, Jane. Duke Univer- CONTRIBUTIONS OF AFRICAN Madison Books, 1996. sity Press, 1996. AMERICANS TO SCIENCE: GENDER ARTICULATED: LAN- BIOPOLITICS: A FEMINIST AND DIVERSITY IN THE SCIENCE GUAGE AND THE SOCIALLY ECOLOGICAL READER ON CURRICULUM. Thielen, Beliida, et CONSTRUCTED SELF. Hall, Kira & BIOTECHNOLOGY. Shiva, Vandana al. University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Bucholtz, Mary, eds. Routledge, & Moser, Ingunn, eds. Zed, 1995. 1996. 1996.

38 Feminist Collections voLl8. no.1 Fall 1996 GENDER RELATIONS IN PUBLIC LESBIAN SUBJECTS: A FEMINIST PARIS, WHEN IT'S NAKED. AND PRIVATE: NEW RESEARCH STUDIES READER. Vicinus, 4dnan, Etel. Post-Apollo, 1993. PERSPECTIVES. Morris, Lydia & Martha. Indiana University Press, 4 PLACE CALLED HOME: Lyon, E. Stina, eds. St. Martin's, 1996. TWENTY WRITING WOMEN 1996. LET THEM EAT KETCHUP! THE REMEMBER. Pearlman, Mickey, ed. GENDER SHOCK: EXPLODING POLITICS OF POVERTY AND St. Martin's, 1996. THE MYTHS OF MALE & FE- INEQUALITY. Collins, Sheila. PLAYS BY WOMEN: AN INTERNA- MALE. Burke, Phyllis. Doubleday, Monthly Review Press, 1996. TIONAL ANTHOLOGY, BOOK 1996. LIBERATING CONSCIENCE: THREE. Kourilsky, Francoise, ed. GOING ALL THE WAY: TEENAGE FEMINIST EXPLORATIONS IN UBU Repertory Theater Publications, GIRLS' TALES OF SEX, RO- CATHOLIC MORAL THEOLOGY. 1996. MANCE & PREGNANCY. Thomp- Patrick, Anne E. Continuum, 1996. POSTMORTEM: THE O.J. son, Sharon. Hill and Wang, 1995. THE LONELY OTHER: A WOMAN SIMPSON CASE. Abramson, Jeffrey, GOOD-BYE, PICCADILLY: BRIT- WATCHING AMERICA. George, :d. Basic, 1996. ISH WAR BRIDES IN AMERICA. Diana Hume. University of Illinois RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER: Virden, Jenel. University of Illinois Press, 1996. COMMON BONDS, DIFFERENT Press, 1996. THE LYNCHING OF LANGUAGE: VOICES. Chow, Esther Ngan-Ling, et THE HARVARD GUIDE TO GENDER, POLITICS, AND POWER d., eds. Sage, 1996. WOMEN'S HEALTH. Carlson, IN THE HILL-THOMAS HEAR- RUSSIA WOMEN CULTURE. Karen J., et al. Harvard University INGS. Ragan, Sandra L., et al., eds. Goscilo, Helena & Holmgren, Beth, Press, 1996. University of Illinois Press, 1996. :ds. Indiana University Press, 1996. HATREDS: RACIALIZED AND MALEIFEMALE LANGUAGE: SACRIFICIAL LOGICS: FEMINIST SEXUALIZED CONFLICTS IN THE WITH A COMPREHENSIVE THEORY AND THE CRITIQUE OF 21ST CENTURY. Eisenstein, Zillah. BIBLIOGRAPHY. Key, Mary IDENTITY. Weir, Allison. Routledge, 1996. Ritchie. Scarecrow, 1996. Routledge, 1996. HEART OF FIRE. Simmonds, Diana. MAMA'S GIRL. Chambers, SARAH'S PSALM: A NOVEL. Ladd, Naiad, 1996. Veronica. Riverhead, 1996. Florence. Scribner, 1996. HYBRID: BISEXUALS, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT: SCHOOL TALK: GENDER AND MULTIRACIALS, AND OTHER WRITER. Jump, Harriet Devine. ADOLESCENT CULTURE. Eder, MISFITS UNDER AMERICAN Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994. Donna with Catherine Colleen Evans LAW. Colker, Ruth. New York MEMORIES: MY LIFE AS AN & Stephen Parker. Rutgers University University Press, 1996. INTERNATIONAL LEADER IN Press, 1995. HYPATIA 'S DAUGHTERS: FIF- HEALTH, SUFFRAGE, AND SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING TEEN HUNDRED YEARS OF PEACE. Jacobs, Aletta; ed. by Harriet INDICATORS 1996. National Science WOMEN PHILOSOPHERS. Feinberg; trans. by Annie Wright. Board. U.S. Government Printing McAlister, Linda Lopez, ed. Indiana Feminist Press, 1996. Office, 1996. University Press, 1996. THE MER-CHILD: A LEGEND SEX IN QUESTION: FRENCH INARTICULATE LONGINGS: TBE FOR CHILDREN AND OTHER MATERMLIST FEMINISM. LADIES' HOME JOURNAL, ADULTS. Morgan, Robin. Feminist Leonard, Diana & Adkins, Lisa, eds. GENDER, AND THE PROMISES Press, 1991. Taylor & Francis, 1996. OF CONSUMER CULTURE. MODERN WOMEN WRITERS. SEX, SENSIBILITY AND THE Scanloon, Jennifer. Routledge, 1996. Robinson, Lillian S., comp. & ed. GENDERED BODY. Holland, Janet INSCRIBING THE DAILY: CRITI- Continuum, 1996. & Adkis, Lisa, eds. St. Martin's, CAL ESSAYS ON WOMEN'S NOT MUCH FUN: THE LOST 1996. DIARIES. Bunkers, Suzanne L. & POEMS OF DOROTHY PARKER. SEXISM AND THE WAR SYSTEM. Huff, Cynthia A., eds. University of Parker, Dorothy; intro. & ed. by Reardon, Betty A. Syracuse Univer- Massachusetts Press, 1996. Stuart Y. Siverstein. Scribner, 1996. sity Press, 1996. INTO THE FOREST. Hegland, Jean. NOW AND THEN. Hayes, Penny. SEXUAL CULTURES: COMMUNI- Calyx, 1996. Naiad, 1996. TIES, VALUES AND INTIMACY. LATINAS IN THE UNITED OF CITIES & WOMEN: LETTERS Weeks, Jeffrey & Holland, Janet, eds. STATES: SOCIAL., ECONOMIC TO FA WWAZ. Adnan, Etel. Post- St. Martin's, 1996. AND POLITICAL ASPECTS: A Apollo, 1993. SEXUAL HARASSMENT ON BIBLIOGRAPHY. Nordquist, Joan, PAPER FISH. De Rosa, Tina. CAMPUS: A GUIDE FOR ADMIN- ed. Reference and Research Services, Feminist Press, 1996. ISTRATORS, FACULTY, AND 1995. PAPER WINGS. Swick, Marly. STUDENTS. Sandler, Bernice R. & HarperCollins, 1996.

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