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I I I I Feminist Collections A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources i I Women's Studies Libr'arian i University of Wisconsin System 430 Memorial Library 728 State St. Madison, WI 53706 I Phone: 608-263-5754 1 1 Fax: 608-265-2754 i I Email: [email protected] I I Editors: Phyllis Holman Weisbard, Linda Shult Drawings: Miriam Greenwald Staff assistance from: Ingrid Markhardt, Renee Beaudoin, Beth Harper, Christina Stross u Subscriptions: $30 (individuals or nonprofit women's programs, outside Wisconsin); $55 (institutions, outside Wisconsin); $1 6 (Wisconsin individuals or nonprofit women's programs); $22.50 (Wisconsin institutions); $8.25 (UW individuals); $15 (UW organiza- tions). Wisconsin subscriber amounts include state tax, except for UW organization amount. Postage (for foreign subscribers only): surface mail (Canada: $13; all others: $1 5); air mail (Canada: $25; all others: $55). (Subscriptions cover most publications produced by this office, including Feminist Collections,Feminist Periodicals, and New Boob on Women & Feminism.) Numerous bibliographies and other informational files are available on the Women's Studies Librarian's World Wide Web site. The URL: http://www.library.wisc.edu~ibraries~WomensStudies/You'll find I information about the office, tables of contents and selected full-text articles from recent issues of Feminist Collectiens, many Cere Lists in Women's Studies on such topics as aging, feminist pedagogy, film studies, health, lesbian studies, mass media, and women of color in the US, a listing of Wisconsin Bibliegraphies in Women's Studies, including full text of a number ofthem, a catalog of films and videos in the UW System W~men'sStudies Audiovisual Collection, and links to other selected websites on women and gender as well as to search engines and general databases. Copyright 1996 Regents of the University of Wisconsin System Feminist Collections A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources 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: You may or may not have missed it, but our "From the Editors" column didn't make it into the last issue. Whether the error was ours or the printer's, the result was the same -- it wasn't there. While the column didn't carry anything earthshaking, it did mention the second CD-ROM product on which one of our office publications is included, and that we did want you to know about, plus another CD-ROM product available as of October 1. SoftLine's product WOMEN 'R 'will include full-text articles from Feminist Collections and some forty other women's periodicals from 1990 forward, including Belles Lettres, Sojourner, Women in Sport and Physical Activity, and New Moon for girls. Free-text searching and full Boolean searching are available, as are indexes by article type. Pre-publication subscribers can get the CD-ROM for the introductory price of $995 per year, with cumulative quarterly updates. Regular annual subscription is $1,495. SoftLine may be reached at 20 Summer St., Stamford, CT 0690 1 ; 800-524-7922 or 203-975-8292. CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S ISSUES is the name of a new RDS full-text database, due out October 1. Some 11,000 articles are part of the first release, which focuses on a wide range of "alternativepress titles, government reports, and hard-to-find newsletters" as well as pamphlets, proceedings, and personal narratives from sources around the world. Annual subscription prices begin at $600 for a stand-alone setup for public and academic libraries and organizations (with quarterly updates); there's a 40 percent discount for organizations in developing nations. Address of RDS is 2361 1 Chagrin Blvd., Suite 320, Beachwood, OH 44122-5540; phone: 800-3 13-2212; fax: 2 16-292-9621 ;ernail: customer_service @rdsinc.com. Another thing we mentioned in the missing Feminist Collections editorial page was the fact that nice feedback has come to us about the special issue (Winter 1996) on "Information Technology and Women's Studies: Reports from the Field." We're gratified that folks are finding it COMING UP: Special Issue on useful. Among the comments: "I couldn't be more thrilled. This is exactly the resource I need as I prepare to offer an htro to Women's Studies, and Girls and Young Women by distance ed, no less." "I'm starting a sabbatical, a project of which is to create a course on-line and using WWW, CD-ROM, and print for distance Reviews on: delivery .... Many thanks. This couldn't have appeared at a better time for Young women and smality me!" Another reader says she'll be "having my undergraduates in Ed Girls and young women of color Policy Studies... do some stuff on the Internet. That article in Feminist What happens to adolescent girls' Collections got me thinking about it." 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.