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Volume 23, Number 4, Summer 2002 Published by Phyllis Holman Weisbard L IBRARIAN Women’s Studies Librarian Feminist Collections

A Quarterly of Women’s Studies Resources

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Volume 23, No. 4, Summer 2002

CONTENTS

From/To the Editors ii

Karen Rosneck Serial Publications of the Russian Women's Movement 1

M.L. Fraser Zine and Heard: Fringe Feminism and the 6 Zines of the Third Wave

Book Review Andrea M. Kolasinski History of Women’s Clothing and Accessories 11

World Wide Web Review Sheri Phillabaum Contemporary Women Playwrights 14

Compiled by JoAnne Lehman Computer Talk 18

Feminist Publishing: EdgeWork Books 22

Reviewed by Phyllis Holman Weisbard New Reference Works in Women’s Studies 23 and others

Compiled by JoAnne Lehman Periodical Notes 33

Compiled by Caroline Vantine Items of Note 36

Books and AV Recently Received 38

Supplement: Index to Volume 23 40 FROM THE EDITORS

Summer 2002. Already (writing Almost as soon as I began to talk, I Knowing of my love for lan- this in early Fall), summer seems so also pretended to speak other language, the office gave me the opportu- long ago! Back then, though, I redis- guages, imagining myself as a translator nity to spend part of this past summer covered the joys of riding a bicycle (a for famous foreign stars. When I was a in an internship with JoAnne Lehman, secondhand three-speed with big bas- teenager, the United States caught my one of the Feminist Collections editors, kets) and swimming in clear lakes. attention—I do not exactly know why, learning about editing and publishing Here at work I saw an issue of FC to but my mother swears it is because she and copyediting an article for this issue. press, got inspired about “zines” (see was reading about the founding of Even though I had read a substantial M.L. Fraser's article in this issue about America during her pregnancy with amount on editing and done some ex- these fringe-feminist productions), and me! Needless to say, when I entered ercises, working on an actual manu- thoroughly enjoyed supervising a sum- middle school, English became my fa- script was a challenge. Correcting and mer internship for a student assistant vorite subject—I read books in En- improving writing requires experience, who might be interested in an editing glish, watched American movies with and as a beginner in the field of edit- career. Caroline Vantine—whose own subtitles in French, etc. My next goal ing, I found that it took time to put editorial follows—has been a huge asset was to come and live in America. In into practice what I had learned in to many projects in our office for the high school, I spent two consecutive books. Still, it was an exciting experi- past year and a half, and it was reward- summers with a family outside Boston ence. I am back in classes now, enter- ing to introduce her to the complexities to improve my speaking skills. After ing my final semester. I know that I of manuscript copyediting and the graduating, I spent a year in St. Paul, will spend hours dissecting my own whole publication process for this jour- Minnesota, as an au pair, taking care of papers this fall! nal—and no small bonus that she can three boys. But I still wanted more, C.V. translate French and has an eagle eye and what I needed was to come here as for typos and spacing errors! a student. So, here I am, majoring in TO THE EDITORS J.L. English literature, not surprisingly, and graduating this December. Via our website feedback form: Just wanted to say that Barbara aving contributed to the edit- My interest in women’s studies H Walton's fine article [published in FC ing of this issue as part of an intern- developed during my time at this uni- v.20, no.2, and posted on the Web at ship, I now have the pleasure of briefly versity. I have taken classes on women www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/Wom- introducing myself to you. and health, women and social institu- ensStudies/fc/fcwebwal.htm] on online The first time I heard about tions, and women and literature. I single parent groups is missing a key women’s studies was when I arrived kept registering for more as I discov- resource, the Single Parent Resource here as a student at the University of ered that women’s voices and histories Center (www.singleparentusa.com), Wisconsin–Madison. Formerly, I had in this patriarchal society are unique. which offers the only how-to guide on naively believed that men and women While perspiring over my numerous starting Single Parent Groups, and is had the same status in society. I grew readings and papers, I still had to make also organizing Single Parents USA. up in Dijon, France, where both my ends meet. Fortunately, the supervisor Please consider adding them if at all parents worked full-time. But my at the Office of the Women’s Studies possible. mother was always the one to make Librarian called to offer me a student Take care and hope, important decisions for the family and position. I was thrilled at the idea of Edward J. Madara, M.S., Director, household, earn a better salary, and combining my interests—literature and American Self-Help Group Clear- discipline my older brother and me. women—with a job. I have been inghouse She also encouraged us to be ambitious working at the office for more than a year and a half, focusing primarily on and to bravely face barriers imposed by [Ed.'s note: We don't change already- compiling bibliographies of new books society. In other words, I was raised in published (in print) reviews, but we're a world where women were strong and on women and feminism. happy to let our readers know about this determined. resource.]

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In the years immediately follow- fomatsionnyi tsentr Nezavisimogo chiny Rossii), offering information ing the Russian Revolution in 1917, zhenskogo foruma). The Center has about conferences, organizations and an active women’s movement signifi- published a journal entitled The Her- Russian women’s history. Other cantly influenced the development of ald (Vestnik), as well as a weekly news prominent organizations include the governmental policies, but it was soon digest, The Information Leaflet (Infor- club “Preobrazhenie” (Transfigura- forced to take a back seat to other matsionyi listok), which is distributed tion), which has issued a literary jour- state concerns. In the late 1970s, by email and printed cumulatively as nal of the same name since 1993, and members of a small feminist dissident the monthly Little Herald (Vestnich- the Museum of Women’s Modern Art movement in Leningrad were obliged ka).4 The Consortium of Women’s (Muzei sovremennogo zhenskogo to emigrate. During the period of so- Non-Governmental Associations iskusstva). The first issue of the Muse- cial change in the late 1980s, a wom- (Konsortium zhenskikh um’s journal of feminist criticism, Idi- en’s movement again appeared, partic- nepravitel’stvennykh ob”edinenii) om, appeared as Number 26 of the ularly blossoming after the fall of the links more than 150 Russian organiza- American journal Heresies. Women in U.S.S.R. in 1991. By 1998, six hun- tions with partners in the U.S. and in Science and Education (Zhenshchiny dred of about two thousand nongov- other countries of the former Soviet v nauke i obrazovanii) provides select- ernmental women’s organizations had Union. A network of 36 organiza- ed Web-based articles of its newspaper registered with the Ministry of Justice. tions, the Association of Independent Mrs. Fortune (G-zha-Udacha); and While some members of this new Rus- Women’s Associations (Assosiatsiia FAL’TA—the Feminist Alternative sian women’s movement have em- nezavisimykh zhenskikh ob”edinenii), (Feministskaia al’ternativa)—the first braced Western feminism, others have emerged amid the excitement generat- organization to use the term “femi- developed a methodology termed ed by the United Nations Fourth nist” in its name, has issued Feminf “feminology,” which stresses the his- World Conference on Women in (Feminist Informational Journal). A torical development of women’s roles.1 Beijing in 1995. major center of academic feminism, Many of the organizations and centers the Moscow Center of Gender Studies issue newsletters and other periodicals. Variety has characterized Mos- (Moskovskii tsentr gendernykh issle- Described below are publications is- cow’s organizations. The Association dovanii) publishes research, maintains sued in the major cities of Moscow of Women Journalists (Assosiatsiia a library, and organizes conferences. and St. Petersburg, as well as publica- zhurnalistok) and the U.S. National tions from cities in other regions of Research Council jointly publish We/ Several of Moscow’s organiza- the country.2 We (We/Myi)—formerly You and We tions have developed comprehensive (Vy i Myi)—a journal partially trans- informational websites. The Women’s Central Region (including Moscow) lated into English, featuring articles Innovation East-West Fund (Zhenskii In 1998, nearly a third of the reg- on topics such as feminist theory, the innovatsionnyi fond Vostok-Zapad istered Russian women’s organizations Internet, and the women’s movement [ZIF]) created the Open Woman Line clustered in the Central Region, which in Russia and abroad. The Russian (OWL) (Otkrytaia zhenskaia liniia), a is also the hub for several important Women’s Movement (Dvizhenie website that includes an organizational networks situated mostly in Moscow.3 zhenshchin Rossii) publishes an infor- database and issues of ZIF’s Zhenshchi- Two discussion forums held in Dubna mational bulletin and the Web-based in 1991–92 played an important role newspaper Women of Russia (Zhensh- in creating the Information Center of the Independent Women’s Forum (In-

Feminist Collections (v.23, no.4, Summer 2002) Page 1 na plius (also available in English as gional Center for the Support of health. The Women’s Union (Soiuz Woman Plus), a journal offering news Women and Family “Girlfriend” zhenshchin Sankt-Peterburga i oblasti), about Russian women’s organizations (“Podruga”) provides a Web-based which addresses the needs of children, and articles on topics such as domestic Activity Report (Otchet o deiatel’nosti) elderly women, and single mothers, abuse and the war in Chechnia. OWL with information about local crisis has issued a publication entitled Lenin- also hosts issues of Genderland, pub- centers and its fight against domestic grad Woman (Leningradka). The Cy- lished by the Russian Summer Schools abuse. The Voronezh City Forum of ber-Femin-Club (Kiber-Femin-Klub), for Gender Studies (Rossiiskie letnie the Independent Women’s Democrat- a pioneering organization of media art- shkoly po gendernym issledovaniem); ic Initiative (Voronezhskii gorodskoi ists, hosts the Cyber-Feminist-Club We/Myi; The Little Herald; Feminf; forum Nezavisimoi zhenskoi Magazine, a Web-based publication in and The Information Leaflet (Informat- demokraticheskoi initsiativy) publish- English offering articles on Russian sionnyi listok) of the Women’s Con- es the informational newsletter The feminist historical figures, gender theo- gress of Kola Peninsula (Kongress Mermaid (Bereginia), with news from ry, and sexuality. Filled with humor- zhenshchin Kol’skogo poluostrova) in local and regional organizations. ous essays and poetry about women’s Murmansk, a newsletter with informa- daily lives, the Web-based literary tion about local politics, projects, Northwest Region (including journal The Serapion Sisters (Serapionki clubs, and publications. The Women’s St. Petersburg) sestry) amusingly recalls the Serapion Informational Network (Zhenskaia In the Northwest region, the lo- Brothers, a group of Soviet writers of informatsionnaia set’) hosts a website cation of more than a fifth of Russia’s the early 1920s. with an organizational database, the registered women’s organizations, St. Web-based newsletter About Us and Petersburg has become a major center Among other active organiza- Our Work (O nas i nashem dele), and of academic research. The St. Peters- tions in the Northwest region, the Rights of Women in Russia (Prava zhen- burg Center for Gender Issues (Peter- Novgorod Women’s Parliament shchin v Rossii), a journal that explores burgskii tsentr gendernykh problem) (Novgorodskii zhenskii parlament), a issues such as work, health, prostitu- has issued publications such as Wom- broadly based organization emphasing tion, domestic abuse, and human traf- en’s Circles (Posidelki), Women’s Read- social, economic, political, and cultural ficking. ing (Zhenskoe chtenie), and All Are Sis- rights, hosts the Web-based Women’s ters (Vse liudy sestry), the latter a bulle- Parliament (Zhenskii parlament), a The Central region also boasts tin featuring a wide variety of articles journal with articles exploring topics numerous organizations beyond Mos- on topics such as the women’s move- such as job discrimination and wom- cow. The Ivanovskii Gender Studies ment abroad, literary history, and job en’s relationship to technology. Focus- Center (Ivanovskii tsentr gendernykh discrimination. Gender Notebooks ing on women’s rights and violence issledovanii) in Ivanovo publishes a (Gendernye tetradi), a publication of against women, the Independent So- journal entitled Woman in Russian So- the Department of Family and Gen- cial Women’s Center (Nezavisimyi ciety (Zhenshchina v rossiiskom obsh- der Studies at the Institute of Sociolo- sotsial’nyi zhenskii tsentr) has issued chestve), which features articles on sub- gy of the Russian Academy of Scienc- The Pskov Woman (Pskovitianka), a jects such as feminology and the histo- es (Otdel sem’i i gendernykh issledo- newspaper of local news, organizations, ry of the women’s movement. Focus- vanii Instituta sotsiologii RAN, and initiatives, since 1997. Mariia: A ing on the needs of women and chil- Sankt-Peterburgskii filial), explores Literary Almanac (Mariia: literaturnyi dren, the Tarusa Women’s Organiza- issues of family and sexuality. Astarta, al’manakh), published by the Women’s tion (Tarusskaia organizatsiia zhensh- issued by St. Petersburg University Union (Soiuz zhenshchin Respubliki chin) has issued a publication of local since 1999, examines women’s history Karelii) in Petrozavodsk, features an news and projects entitled Tarusia’s worldwide through the Middle Ages. abundant mix of prose and poetry by World (Mir Tarusy). The Tula Re- A variety of other organizations local authors, as well as literary criti- have sprung up in St. Petersburg, of- cism. In Murmansk, the Kola Associa- ten focusing on family, children, and tion of Women-Jurists (Kol’skaia assotsiatsiia zhenshchin-iuristov) has issued an informational bulletin entitled

Page 2 Feminist Collections (v.23, no.4, Summer 2002) (Devochki prosiat’ vnimaniia!), a magazine written by girls for girls but also enjoyed by adults. (Special issues have included articles on contraception, sexual health and violence against women.) Focusing on rights education, joblessness, and small business development, the Women’s Rights’ Protection Center (Tsentr pravovoi zashchity zhenshchin) in Ufa also has published a bulletin of its activities. The Perm Center Against Violence and Human Trafficking (Permskii tsentr protiv nasiliia i torgovli liud’mi) hosts a Web-based newsletter in En- glish about its work confronting violence against women and trafficking of residents to European sweatshops. Another major network, the Ural Miriam Greenwald Women’s Association (Ural’skaia assosiatsiia zhenshchin) in Ekaterinburg The Herald (Vestnik). Union of Dagestan (Soiuz zhenshchin coordinates information dissemination Dagestana), has also served as editor of for twenty-four member organiza- Southern Region the Union’s wide-ranging journal tions. South of Moscow in the Southern Woman of Dagestan (Zhenshchina Dag- Region—the location of eleven per- estana). Siberia and the Far East cent of Russia’s registered women’s The women’s movement extends organizations—the Union of Don Volga and Ural Regions to Siberia and the Far East, the sites of Women (Soiuz “Zhenshchiny Dona”) About fifteen percent of Russian about fourteen percent and four per- in Novocherkassk provides a Web- women’s organizations have been lo- cent, respectively, of registered wom- based informational bulletin reflecting cated in the Volga and Ural regions. en’s organizations in Russia. The Altai the group’s focus on politics, women’s In Kazan’, the Women of Tatarstan Local Social Organization, “Siberian rights, elderly women, and youth. In (Zhenshchiny Tatarstana) unites thir- Perspective,” (“Sibirskaia perspektiva”) Rostov, the Afina Women’s Center teen member organizations and pub- in Barnaul tackles economic and eco- (Zhenskii tsentr “Afina”) hosts a Web- lishes a journal of the same name. In logical problems but also plans to based newsletter entitled Women’s Par- Naberezhnye Chelny, the center of publish brochures and newsletters. liament (Zhenskii parlament), warning Russia’s heavy truck manufacturing Another network, the Baikal’ Regional in an address to the reader that “you industry, women suffered high rates of Women’s Union, “Angara,” in Irkutsk won’t find culinary recipes here” (“vy unemployment during the economic reports on the activities of more than ne naidete zdes’ kulinarnykh retsep- downturns of the 1990s. The Femina thirty member organizations in its tov”)—instead, this newsletter pro- organization there has been especially monthly newspaper Angara. Of the vides articles about other organizations active, producing films, hosting six fourteen member organizations of the in the region, the women’s movement regional conferences and women’s vid- Union of Women’s Organizations of in other countries, domestic abuse, eo festivals, and publishing Women’s the Sakha Republic (Soiuz zhenskikh rights legislation, and war and human Notebook (Zhenskii bloknot)—a news- rights. In Makhachkala, poet Fazu letter—and Girls Ask for Attention! Alieva, the leader of the Women’s

Feminist Collections (v.23, no.4, Summer 2002) Page 3 organizatsii), one—the Women’s Ini- Island: An Artistic-Publicistic Radical Notes tiatives Center (Tsentr zhenskikh init- Feminist Journal (Ostrov: khu- siativ) at Iakutsk State University— dozhestvennyi publitsisticheskii 1. For more on the history of Russia’s has published the sociopolitical jour- radikal’no-feministicheskii zhurnal), women’s movements, see, for example, nal The Good Hostess (Dalbar Khotun), Organic Lady (Organicheskaia ledi), Norma Noonan & Carol Nechemias, and another—the Association of Hu- Sofa Safo, and Adelfe (“Sisters” in Encyclopedia of Russian Women’s Move- manitarian Initiatives (Assotsiatsiia Greek) all offer Web-based selections ments (Westport, CT.: Greenwood, gumanitarnykh initsiativ) in Iakutsk— of their contents—a mix of poetry, 2001). has published the newspaper Nathalie prose, translations, aphorisms, inter- (Natali). In the far Southeast, the views, and articles. 2. In order to provide a regional per- Methodological Consultative Center, As the Russian women’s move- spective, I have grouped organizations “Blue Bird” (“Siniaia Ptitsa”), in ment continues to evolve, reliance on within the country's present seven fed- Vladivostok offers a quarterly leaflet Western—especially American—fund- eral districts. with news about local women’s orga- ing sources has generated concern nizations, programs and projects. among Russian women who are seek- 3. Statistics concerning the regional ing their own solutions to problems. distribution of organizations appeared Specialty Publications In the absence of widespread Internet in N.I. Abubikirova et al., compilers, Specific groups of women, such access, the lack of funding for pub- Zhenskie nepravitel’stvennye organizatsii as soldiers’ mothers, lesbians, disabled lishing projects and even postage has Rossii i SNG ( Moskva: “Eslan,” women, and Jewish women, also have been resolved only partially by Web- 1998), p.18. published a rich variety of publica- based publications. At the same time, tions. Project Kesher, a network of the breakup of centralized state pub- 4. Web addresses for many organiza- more than 3,000 women in 110 com- lishing and distribution following the tions can be found in N.Sh. Babich et munities throughout the former Soviet fall of the Soviet Union has complicat- al., compilers, Internet—zhenshchi- Union, with offices in the U.S., Russia ed the efforts of Western scholars, stu- nam: katalog informatsionnykh resursov and Ukraine, supports Jewish revital- dents, and librarians who seek to ob- (Moscow: Informatsiia–XXI vek, ization projects and publishes an Infor- tain materials from these organiza- 2000). mation Leaflet (Informatsionnyi listok) tions. in Moscow. The lesbian journals The [Karen Rosneck is a writer and translator in the field of Slavic literature and also works as an acquisitions assistant at the University of Wisconsin’s Memorial Library.]

Miriam Greenwald

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Adelfe: http://www.gay.ru/lesbi/adelfe.htm [in Rus- Otchet o deiatel’nosti (Tula): http://klax.tula.ru/ sian] ~rcpwfpod/index.html#a [in Russian]

Cyber-Femin-Club Magazine: http:// Perm Center Against Violence & Trafficking News- www.tac.spb.ru/cfc/cfcengl/magazines.htm [in En- letter: http://www.no-violence.narod.ru/ glish] newsletter.html [in English]

Daidzhest (Moskovskii tsentr gendernykh issledova- Prava zhenshchin Rossii: http://www.womnet.ru/ nii): prava/index.htm [in Russian] http://www.gender.ru/russian/digest/index.shtml [in Russian] Serapionovy sestry: http://www.masmol.com/it/sisters/serapionki/sisters.htm [in Russian] Feminf: http://www.owl.ru/win/books/feminf/ index.htm [in Russian] Sofa Safo: http://www.gay.ru/lesbi/sofa.htm [in Russian] G-zha Udacha: http://mars.biophys.msu.ru/awse/ FORTUNE/FORT_E.htm [in Russian] We/Myi: http://www.neww.org/we_myi/vim/ vimintro.htm [in English]; http://www.owl.ru/win/ Genderland: http://www.owl.ru/win/genderland/ info/we_my/index [in Russian] index [in Russian] Vestnichka: http://www.owl.ru/win/infolist/ Informatsionnyi biulleteni (Novocherkassk): http:// index.htm [in Russian] home.novoch.ru/~donwomen/bulletens.htm [in Russian] Woman Plus: http://www.owl.ru/eng/womplus/ index.htm [in English]; http://www.owl.ru/win/ Informatsionnye listki (Murmansk): http:// womplus/index.htm [in Russian] www.owl.ru/win/info/murmansk/index.htm [in Russian] Zhenshchina v rossiiskom obshchestve (Ivanovo): http://www.ivanovo.ac.ru/win1251/jornal/jornal2/ O nas i nashem dele: http://www.womnet.ru/abou- index [in Russian] tus/index.htm; http://www.womnet.ru/aboutus/3- 4/index.htm [in Russian] Zhenshchiny Rossii: http://www.owl.ru/win/women/ wmr/magazine/index.htm [in Russian] Organicheskaia ledi: http://www.gay.ru/lesbi/ol/ index.htm [in Russian] Zhenskii parlament (Novgorod): http:// www.natm.ru/womenpar/gaz/fr01.htm [in Russian] Ostrov: http://www.gay.ru/lesbi/ostrov/index.htm [in Russian] Zhenskii parlament (Rostov): http:// www.afina.aaanet.ru/parl/index.htm [in Russian]

Feminist Collections (v.23, no.4, Summer 2002) Page 5 ZINE AND HEARD: FRINGE FEMINISM AND THE ZINES OF THE THIRD WAVE

by M. L. Fraser must be the personal voice remarking on the political; and (3) the subject matter must use pop Fringe culture has traditionally been domi- culture in some way to create a statement of nated by men in the forms of punk rock, identity. Often the zine has a tongue-in-cheek Straight-Edge, cyberpunk, and even—for a brief tone and a “cut-n-paste” format (in other words, but lamentable period—glam rock. Then came anyone can make a zine). the riot grrrl movement in the late 1980s and A true zine is serious about the issues, yet early 1990s, and the Third Wave of feminism be- also has a sense of humor and fun. It is a re- gan. Women started claiming the creation of cul- claiming of girlhood and an examination of what it ture through independent music, writing, art, and can mean to be female. In these zines the rage art activism, all with a distinctly feminist slant. and anger we feel as gendered individuals are al- This became labeled fringe feminism. lowed to mix with laughter and joy. The name The idea of fringe feminism is really almost does not come directly from “magazine,” as so self-explanatory. That is, a fringe feminist is a many people think, but by way of “fanzines,” feminist who resides on the fringe of culture. those mimeographed newsletters of 1920s sci-fi Women and girls who do not fall into any cat- culture, where like-minded folks avoided isolation egory of traditional feminism proclaim the ideals by distributing homespun publications about their of feminism through the use of nontraditional favorite authors and books. Many of today’s girl media and ideology. The idea that the point of zinesters remark that they have found their feminism is not what choices we as women make communities through publishing zines and are but rather the fact that we have choices seems happy not to be isolated in their thinking. to be the common ground of fringe feminists. This point is made time and again in their writing. Makers of the grrrl zines that stick around The versatility and diversity that women pos- for a long time, like BUST or Bitch or even sess comes out in fringe writing. One really Rockrgrl, are considered to be the big sisters of great zine (now vanished) called Pastie Face, the bedroom cut-n-paste zinester grrrls out written by a San Francisco sex worker, is a fan- there. We start this review series with these tastic introduction. The writer also happens to “glossies.” They are the easiest to find and give be a lesbian who studied astrophysics. Another a really good idea of what is out there. Also, in woman decries the title feminist not because she terms of time considerations, the glossies were is a Christian (which she is), but because other the way to go for this initial review. (One or two feminists tell her she cannot be both. She plays on-line versions of these glossies are also in- drums in a punk band called Awkward and is an cluded here). The glossies were easiest because acolyte on Sunday mornings. Both of these a kitchen-table zine is not always quite as timely women are what fringe feminism is about. as a larger, more established one. We all get I am often asked what a zine is. I usually busy, and things we do just because we want to take a deep breath and try to explain that a zine don’t always put food on the table. Zines often must meet three criteria to be exactly that: (1) get pushed aside for a week or two to get the The writings must be self-published; (2) the slant paycheck. In future reviews, we will bring in e- zines and bedroom cut-n-pastes. Voices come in all forms, and we will listen. We will even pay to hear them! (See below for more information on how to get your zine reviewed.)

Page 6 Feminist Collections (v.23, no.4, Summer 2002) ground girl world went from Riot Grrrl to Lilith Fair to Ladyfest to She Rocks and other women- based festivals. It is remarked upon that not enough feminist groundwork has been laid for this to be retained (p. 59). Also in this issue are an interview with Sandra Tsing Loh and a remark on the ethnic trend in book publishing. Bitch is one of my favorite reads, as I can open it at ran- dom and always find something interesting and cool that I did not know before but makes per- fect sense for the feminist world I try to live in. It is nice to know that it is not all in my head. Subscription info: 2765 16th Street, San Fran- cisco, California 94103; phone: (877) 21-bitch; Miriam Greenwald website: http://www.bitchmagazine.com

Unfortunately, zines often shut down due to BUST: For Women with Something to Get Off financial considerations. Many zinemakers Their Chests (Issue 19) refuse advertisers who they feel are subversive Debbie Stoller and Marcelle Karp started of or anathema to the zine’s political views. This this great zine a few years ago. When Marcelle can create a problem in the world of conglomera- left in Summer 2001, the publication almost went tion politics. As a dancer friend of mine says, under. Enter new co-publisher Laurie Henzel, and “the best way to support the arts is to buy a the Spring 2002 issue came out only a month ticket.” This means it is up to the rest of us to late. Nice job, ladies! Every issue features an continue the movement. Thus, I have included ubercool feminist in the main interview. This subscription information where appropriate. month: Lily Taylor. Past issues: Sandra Bern- hardt, John Cusack, Margaret Cho, and the riot grrrl to end all riot grrrls, Janeane Garafolo. GREAT ZINES YOU GOTTA GET This zine is a little harder-edged than the others. It is razor-sharp underground culture with Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture kitsch. Some of my friends find it difficult to (Issue 16) read, as it is more on the strident side, yet they This zine was originally an underground girl enjoy the articles on the Powerpuff Girls’ creator review of the rock scene in San Francisco. About and the cover person. One friend has to hide eight years ago it was taken over by riotgrrrls BUST from her children because she feels the Lisa and Andi in the City by the Bay, who turned sexual content is too much for her fourteen- it into a feminist commentary rag. Two of the year-old. She is referring to regular columns by coolest features in this zine are the “Bitch List,” Susie Bright, resident “sexpert,” and the infa- which is an internal review of other zines, new mous One-Handed Read. I personally like the books, and new music with a like-minded message; products and objets d’art running through the and “Where to Bitch,” which gives you a list of pages, all feminist-produced. Also covered are armchair activist sites and addresses. In Issue things like the female soldiers in Sri Lanka and 16, released in May 2002, a commentary titled the Bully Broad Boot Camp, which teaches women “When Feminism Goes Pop” remarks on what hap- how to play to win in office politics. All in all, pens when the edgy, ambitious, riot chick stuff BUST is the read for the more serious activist from 1992–1997 gets made over into commercial- ized “Girl Power.” It is an interesting challenge: how do we “keep it real” when the mainstream is so set on appropriating our culture? The under-

Feminist Collections (v.23, no.4, Summer 2002) Page 7 out there who wants a good chuckle while getting one will tell you that you are doing it wrong. In- a diet of awareness. Cool folks who advertise in stead there is a wryness about parenting that is BUST: Brain, Child Magazine, Toys in Babeland, somehow refreshing to the grrrl mom who re- Reproductive Rights. Published quarterly in members her fishnets and how to rock, even if it Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. Subscriptions was “back in the day.” The zine describes itself are $14.97 a year: BUST, P.O. Box 1016, Cooper as “better than a double prozac latte.” One of Station, New York, NY 10276; website: http:// the articles is a vignette by a single mom trying www.bust.com to get her degree at Stanford: she has to dumpster-dive to keep her kid fed—a tale she Fat!So? Because You Don’t Have To Apologize tells with edginess and self-deprecating wit—but for Your Size she tries to maintain hope by believing that The amazing Marilyn Wann out of San Fran- “[the] hegemonic system—the one that says that cisco started this great, funny, “flabulous” zine a poor people don’t deserve to eat, or have a roof few years ago. Wann, a self-described fat activ- over our heads—[will fall] apart.” Another piece ist, argues that people come in all sizes, shapes, available online gives a comprehensive history of and forms of beauty. She addresses gender dis- the origins of Mother’s Day, which was originally ability and body image as issues. Her Greatness designed to be a day of peace for all the mothers has shown us the Venus of Willendorf paper doll; who lost sons in war. The same woman who wrote Aunt Agony’s column, in which issues we all have, the Battle Hymn of the Republic, Julia Ward fat or not, are addressed in a funny smart fash- Howe, envisioned this day in 1870. Who knew? ion; and “Anatomy Lessons”—a series of photos Also included are a review of Ayun Halliday’s of various people’s body parts, including the glu- book The Big Rumpus and an interview with the teus maximus, the stomach, and the upper arm. author. (A friend of mine has said that The Big These photo series attempt to show varying de- Rumpus is the best thing written about mother- grees of the body beautiful. In short, the mes- hood since Anne Lamott’s Operating Instruc- sage of Fat!So? is about the body politic and actions.) Halliday, a mom herself, is also the writer ceptance of self. A subscription is $12.00 for and editor of the ultracool New York zine East four issues: Fat!So? P.O. Box 423464, San Fran- Village Inky. cisco, CA 94142; website: http://www.fatso.com The only downside to Hip Mama is that it Hip Mama (online edition reviewed) ventures into the saccharine every once in a This little lollipop is for moms. There are no while. Case in point: an interview with Steve new and creative snack ideas and no “parent Burns (of the children’s TV show Blue’s Clues) in trips.” No one will make you feel guilty, and no which Steve tries to be hip and cool and only ends up silly and kinda’ dum. But overall, Hip Mama is a little gem, as well as a lighthearted forum that shows why Parenting Magazine would be put to better use lining the bottom of your bird- cage. Worth the admission price of $15.00 a year: Hip Mama, P.O. Box 12525, Portland, OR 97212; website: http://www.hipmama.com

Rockrgrl (Issue 44) Here is the thing about Rockrgrl: it is the only writing out there that concentrates solely on Women Who Rock. The cover grrrl on Issue 44 is Johnette Napolitano of Concrete Blond; the issue features the Joey girl talking about the Miriam Greenwald breakup and reunion of the same. Lisa Loeb com-

Page 8 Feminist Collections (v.23, no.4, Summer 2002) Ladyfest Midwest. Whatta’ gal. http:// ments on her new album, and a touching memorial www.venuszine.com to Bianca Butthole of the Blowtorch Bettys is also featured. Most of the profiles of the What a Bummer rebel-chick musicians are written by themselves Zines that are now defunct so don’t expect to or by the editor, Carla DeSantis, and this is buy them at your local bookstore, but if you do pretty great—most music magazines give bios and find them somewhere...get them, get them, get outside commentary instead of letting the voice them: of the musician speak. In addition, there are re- Pagan’s Head views of musical equipment and an easily under- Ben Is Dead stood synopsis of the new feminist albums out. Hey There Barbie Girl The reviews are particularly good in that you ac- Slant tually get a sense of what the albums are like, in- Cupcake stead of the media hype that often character- Pastie Face izes music reviews. The “Bad Bad Ad” feature is a nod to the feminist agenda, pointing out the But Wait!! There’s More music industry’s androcentrism and telling us Send us your grrrl-oriented zines for review. where to protest the absence of gender-fair We are going to try to keep this zine review go- marketing. Issues are put out four times a year, ing. What this means is that we need your zines and a one-year subscription costs $15.00 to check out. If you know of any zines that you ($30.00 outside the U.S.): Rockrgrl, 7683 SE think are worth mentioning here, please send two 27th Street #317, Mercer Island, WA 98040- or three recent issues to JoAnne Lehman here at 2826; website: http://www.oz.net/~rockrgrl/ Feminist Collections. She will get them to me, and I will have a look-see. And...get this...we are Venus (online edition reviewed) willing to pay issue price (gasp! Yes! It is true. This is a zine in the old-fashioned, riot grrrl Email FC at [email protected] with de- sense of the word. It is devoted to underground tails about how much and where to send you the music culture, primarily of a feminist nature. money). The most recent issue has Tanya Donnelly on the We will also look at personal e-zines and cut- cover, an interview with Mary Timony (of Helium n-pastes, anything you got. Send ‘em in. We are as well as solo), and an exposé on animal activism. listening for what you have to say. Also featured are vegan cooking and reproductive rights. Previous issues interviewed Le Tigre (the current band of Kathleen Hanna, formerly of AND NOW...A FILM ABOUT ZINES Bikini Kill) and Tracy and the Plastics and gave a “shout-out” to Sharon Cheslow, one of the very GRRLYSHOW. 18 mins. color. 2000. Filmmaker: cool, kick-rear, punk feminists to come out of the Kara Herold. Distr.: Women Make Movies, 462 San Francisco riot scene. This zine does not for- Broadway, New York, NY 10013; phone: (212) get its roots while it stays on the cool side of 925-0606; fax: (212) 925-2052; email: hip. If you need an introduction to the folks who [email protected]; website: www.wmm.com Rental are the ones to know about, this is the zine for (VHS): $60.00. Sale (VHS): $195.00. Order #: you. The only downside is that sometimes the W01733. writing is a little raw and unpolished. This does add to the charm of a reader-submission zine, Kara Herold’s documentary offers an inter- though. Editor Amy Schroeder took this zine esting exploration of why riot grrrls produce from the cut-n-paste it was when she was a zines. Fringe feminism (described up at the freshman at Michigan State to the 24,000- reader mag/zine that is currently published in Chicago. And all this while helping organize

Feminist Collections (v.23, no.4, Summer 2002) Page 9 front of this article) is one of the messages of disappointing that many of the girls interviewed the film: a philosophy that is not always em- no longer have zines in the world. Their publica- braced by “traditional” versions of feminism, yet tions have fallen by the wayside, yet they are remains true to the idea that the point is that we still important in the history of girl zines. have a choice. Sometimes the creation of our However, the women portrayed are strong voice is the choice, as is often the case with the voices for getting heard and getting it done in a girls who make zines. “We make these zines for personal way. The stress is that this form of art us” (words spoken by Pagan Kennedy, maker of and culture is not for money; this idea is illus- the zine Pagan’s Head) is the primary attitude trated by a cartoon of a girl with coffee at 4:00 displayed in this film. Often what prompts the a.m., banging away at her computer. Debbie creation of a zine is that the mass marketing “ge- Stoller of BUST comments on the desire to pay niuses” who tell us about modern girls are saying writers and pay rent and the fear that economic things we can’t relate to. success may be impossible if zinemakers stay true to their grassroots feminist ideals. Feelings of alienation are portrayed as the catalyst for the production of subversive culture. American women are fighting a battle on two That is, many of the zinesters interviewed said fronts, and the one being fought here is in re- that they felt alone in the androcentric world. sponse to the dominant pop culture. The popular The assertion that “if I don’t write it down I am is presented as political, too. We don’t just want gonna punch someone out” (by the maker of Bam- to throw out “girly” things because feminists boo Girl) is a great example of this feeling. have seen them as subversive; we want to recycle Oddly enough, when the first issue of the zine is and reclaim those “female” things that are plea- finally produced, the revelation comes that oth- surable. Thus, “girl pleasure” and feminism don’t ers of a similar mindset are out there; that, in have to be seen as dissonant. And, honestly, cre- fact, there is a whole community of women who ating zines is just plain fun. Kara Herold does a feel the same way—who do not see women in the good job of reminding us of this. mainstream magazines who look like we do, unless we bear a strong resemblance to Barbie and Zines Mentioned in the Film Skipper. That feeling of community prompts the Now defunct: Pagan’s Head, Hey There Barbie next issue. Girl (which then became Plotz, which is still A really great part of this film is that grrrl around), Slant bands are featured as the background music, and Still here: Hues, Bitch, BUST, Plotz, Java grrrl comix are used as illustration throughout. Turtle, Bamboo Girl, Minx A 1950s documentary style, complete with sappy Who knows? McJob, Crap Hound, Maxi, Black acting by characters “Blanche” and “Eunice,” is Girl used effectively in the instructional portion, in which we’re told who the girls are, how to make a zine, and that the idea of voice is huge. [M.L. (“Mhaire”) Fraser is finishing her Ph.D. at the University of Southern California. She is a My only objection to this film is the as- longtime riot grrrl and publisher of the zine sumption that we all know what a zine is, as well Debutante Gone Wrong. She has helped put to- as what the riot culture is and where it came gether a number of feminist gatherings in which from. I would like to have seen a little more his- a “Zine Trade” was a key event in addition to art tory of “revolution girl style now,” not just have shows, poetry slams, and music venues. Her re- the words flashed across the screen. Also, it is search examines social identity and gender issues, with Third Wave feminist identity and pop culture as special interests.]

Page 10 Feminist Collections (v.23, no.4, Summer 2002) BOOK REVIEW HISTORY OF WOMEN’S CLOTHING AND ACCESSORIES

by Andrea M. Kolasinski

Valerie Steele, THE CORSET: A CULTURAL HISTORY. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. 199p. bibl. index. $39.95, ISBN 0-300-09071-4.

Jane Farrell-Beck & Colleen Gau, UPLIFT: THE BRA IN AMERICA. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. 243p. bibl. index. $35.00, ISBN 0-8122-3643-2; pap., $19.95, ISBN 0-8122-1835-3.

Gayle V. Fischer, PANTALOONS AND POWER: A NINETEENTH-CENTURY DRESS REFORM IN THE UNITED STATES. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 2001. 320p. bibl. index. pap., $24.00, ISBN 0-87338-6825.

Nancy E. Rexford, WOMEN’S SHOES IN AMERICA, 1795–1930. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 2000. 393p. bibl. index. $60.00, ISBN 0-87338-656-6.

Clothing is our second skin. It than just oppress women; some women’s reproductive systems can be either a barrier to or a means of women even stepped out of traditional (pp.71–76). But they also report that communication with the outside nineteenth-century roles to become among modern “tight-lacers” who world. It also speaks volumes about designers and entrepreneurs in the cor- wear the garment for only limited pe- culture, religion, gender, social class, set business (p.2). riods of time, there is no permanent political standing, and personal taste. damage to the ribs or organs: once a Numerous garments in Western cul- Doctors, women’s rights activ- corset is removed, the body expands ture carry deeply embedded meanings ists, and dress-reformers of the nine- back into place (p.72). having to do with power, beauty, and teenth century railed against the even sexuality. The four works re- corset’s confining, unhealthy, and “The corset as fetish” is another viewed here examine the corset, the “unnatural” shape. Many blamed the theme laced through the book. Steele bra, women’s shoes, and pants—or, garment for a veritable encyclopedia notes the corset’s role as a form of sa- more precisely, pantaloons—all of of ailments, from breast cancer to ugly domasochism and bondage in contem- which are excellent examples of children (p.67). Steele and cardiolo- porary “fetish clubs,” pointing to the “charged” clothing. gist Lynn Kutsche reviewed more re- nineteenth-century roots of such prac- Costume historian Valerie Steele, cent health studies, including one con- tices. Most nineteenth-century in The Corset, examines one of the ducted in 1998 by Colleen Gau, in women and men, she says, did not most highly stigmatized articles of which test subjects had worn corsets consider the corset a sexual object, but dress in Western culture and attempts while engaging in physical activity and rather a modest garment worn by to break through the many myths sur- the only ailment that had been found “straight-laced” women. Yet several rounding the wearing of this garment. was shortness of breath—a result that magazines of the time did reflect the One of those myths is that women seems understandable (pp.69–70). corset’s ambiguous image. Some let- who wore corsets were “victims” of Steele and Kutsche do suggest that ters to the editors of such periodicals capitalistic and patriarchal fashion. such a breathing impairment could described tight-lacing in terms of Steele argues that although that may have aggravated a condition like tu- “submission,” “bondage,” and “disci- have been so for some women, berculosis, and that longterm corset- pline,” words that, Steele argues, indi- “adornment and self-fashioning long wearing would also, ultimately, have cate sexual fantasies that border on preceded the rise of capitalism, and weakened women’s backs and might applied to men as well as women” even have caused damage to some (p.2). Historically, corsets did more

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fetishistic or sadomasochistic tenden- the desire for sophisticated fashion bras now—after the feminist back- cies—while other letters and some ad- and the need for high levels of comfort lash—because the industry began to vertisements praised the garment for were increasing. The many women design more comfortable, less obvious its “ease” and “freedom” (pp.91–92). who went to work as “Rosies,” doing ones (p.143). Compared to the au- Steele’s comprehensive work is industrial war work in the factories, thors’ efforts to illustrate their claims many things at once, from a fine ex- needed bras with “more sizes, better about previous eras, however, the de- ample of historical and contemporary cut and shape, more support, and dif- tail supporting the discussion of more research to a reflection about a gar- ferent materials” (p.89). Manufactur- recent times seems to fall short. ment as a source of inspiration to ers were forced to simplify their de- painters and sculptors. Dispelling signs, one result of which was the Women’s Shoes in America, myths and stereotypes, the author “Torpedo” bust silhouette, identified 1795–1930, a substantial volume challenges readers to consider just why by its harsh geometric-cone cups and written and illustrated by Nancy E. and how the corset might make its named after a wartime weapon Rexford, covers all aspects of wearing, next appearance in fashion history. (p.103). making, selling, dating, and identify- The book’s rich photographs, paint- During the two years after the ing shoes. Part I offers a history of the ings, and illustrations enhance the war, the bra, like other articles of evolution of women’s shoes in text. The Corset will appeal to re- dress, exploded with color and pattern America and analyzes the changes that searcher and curious reader alike. (p.116). Embroidery, appliqué, and occurred in manufacturing processes, decorative netting were added to the use, and design; Part II details how In the evolution of undergar- popular shape. The “New Look” in shoe design has changed throughout ments, the brassiere picked up where women’s fashion supported a more time. Finally, several appendices pro- the corset left off. In Uplift: The Bra hourglass figure. Bra manufacturers vide information on the manufacture in America, authors Jane Farrell-Beck supplied long-line bras, or bustiers; of shoe parts. and Colleen Gau write an effective foam rubber inserts and inflatable bras Rexford skillfully explains how economic, social, and design-develop- became available to enhance the look the Industrial Revolution affected the ment history of the bra, augmenting (p.121); and strapless bras were engi- shoe industry in terms of style. Origi- their text with patent illustrations and neered with innovative wire and latex nally, distinctive shoes were made to advertisements from different stages of to be worn with the new décolleté order in small workshops. Regional history to show the bra’s evolution dresses. differences, however, began to disap- from a modest cotton corset cover to Chapters 7 and 8—the final chap- pear in the 1850s and 1860s with the the flaunted Miracle Bra®. Chapters ters of Uplift—deal with the social advent of factory-made, “ready-to- arranged roughly by decade tell of the backlash of the 1960s and 1970s wear” shoes (p.18). The industry split corset’s demise, industry folly and for- against the bra, then seen as a symbol into specialization: lasts (used in tune, and fashionable silhouette. of the oppression of women, and with molding shoes to a fashionable silhou- In two of the most interesting the strong link forged between the ette) and patterns for cutting leather chapters, cleverly titled “Dutiful Bras- foundation-garment and fashion in- were no longer produced “in house” sieres” and “Boom and Busts,” Farrell- dustries. Unfortunately, these are the (p.22). This trend began to reverse in Beck and Gau discuss World War II weakest sections of the book. Al- the early decades of the twentieth cen- and the post-war period, explaining though Farrell-Beck and Gau assert tury, as hemlines began to rise and the the impact that the war had on the that their work is a history of the bra call for novelty rang loud and clear design of women’s undergarments. with “an examination of most of the from the public—so strongly, in fact, The times were difficult for bra manu- aspects of technology and taste that that the industry developed six style facturers, because many materials shaped present-day brassieres” (p.xiii), “seasons” for the year, and individual (rubber and elastic, for instance) were it is really the earlier parts—Chapters companies jealously protected their in short supply at the same time that 1–6—that give such detailed reasons newest design concepts from competi- behind changes in form and technol- tors (p.27). ogy. Most women continue to wear Rexford also argues that women’s footwear has been strongly related to—even symbolic of—the gender

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role expectations and social class dis- abandoning it. author believes, was symbolic in an- tinctions of the times (pp.46, 116). Fischer accurately reports the other, similar way. The costume The “beautiful,” “feminine” image of wearing of pantaloons, or “Turkish closely resembled a style young chil- the Victorian era, for instance, in- trousers,” by famous women of the dren would wear, again showing the cluded not only a slender waist and early women’s rights movement. She leader to be asserting his power over delicate hands, but also tiny feet. Like dispels the myth, however, that these women as a symbolic “father” the uncomfortable corset, the notori- “bloomers” were developed by Amelia (p.68). Fischer uses this type of solid ously tight-fitting, thin-soled nine- Bloomer, explaining that it was actu- argument throughout her book, find- teenth-century shoe kept the upper- or ally the press that created that connec- ing complex psychological (as well as middle-class woman “in her place in- tion when it described the clothing political and religious) reasons behind side the home” (p.58). worn by Bloomer, Elizabeth Miller, the wearing of the pantaloon. Unfortunately, Rexford’s analyti- and Elizabeth Cady Stanton on an cal tone begins to fall apart in Chap- outing through Seneca Falls, New Each of these four books makes a ters 4–6, which look at types of foot- York in 1851 (p.79). The author also great contribution to the study of wear. More descriptive in nature, provides a convincing explanation, clothing as an element of culture and these chapters would be more effective using personal letters and newspaper as an important piece of women’s his- in Part II of the book. articles that reveal the public’s violent tory. Women’s Shoes in America would Part II and the appendices supple- reaction, for why these reformers appeal to a collector of antique shoes ment the information in Part I of the eventually abandoned their costume. or a textile historian working in a mu- book. “Dating Women’s Shoes,” a There was an interesting twist to seum setting. Uplift and Pantaloons non-analytical guide to the details of the power struggle: Fischer argues that and Power would be wonderful addi- footwear, will be useful to shoe collec- early utopianists, such as the Strangite tions to courses on either the history tors. The appendices and the conve- Mormons, used this type of dress re- of fashion or women’s history. The nient glossary (for those not familiar form to control rather than liberate Corset would attract the widest audi- with shoe terms) explain parts of the women. She looks deeply into the ence with its accessible information shoe-manufacturing process; and a origin of forced costume on the and strong visual format. Overall, the partial list of shoe manufacturers women colony members of Beaver Is- authors of each volume have added to might aid collectors in dating foot- land, Wisconsin, in the mid-nine- the study of dress and women by tak- wear. Women’s Shoes In America is a teenth century, both analyzing the ing a fresh look at everyday garments. strong reference book for the antique garment visually and addressing the shoe collector or costume historian. personal motives of “King” Jesse [Andrea Kolasinski is currently a doc- Strang, the leader of this Mormon toral student studying American-Victo- Gayle V. Fischer’s Pantaloons group. The need to impose the wear- rian women’s fancywork at the Univer- and Power tells the cultural history of ing of short skirts and pantalettes (a sity of Wisconsin–Madison, where she the short-lived pantaloon trend. type of pantaloon with a straighter received her M.S. in Textiles and Cloth- Fischer writes that “no other [nine- leg), Fischer argues, was Strang’s last ing. Her B.S. in Textile Design is from teenth-century] dress reform so power struggle (p.72). She states, the Philadelphia College of Textiles and shocked the American public” (p.4)— “That Strang had to put a law in place Science. Kolasinski has presented a paper no surprise there, for we all know that suggests that his influence was not as at the 19th Annual Ars Textrina Textile the phrase “wearing the pants in the strong or widespread as he wanted and Conference, has curated a show of Jane family” is about power. The author that he found it necessary to institu- Schulenburg’s embroidery, and has been covers all aspects of this power tionalize his authority” (p.70). He featured in FiberArts and Shuttle, struggle, from the meanings of the used the dress to gain greater control. Spindle, & Dyepot magazines for her garment in certain utopian communi- The type of dress Strang chose, the own artwork.] ties to the statements that seemed to be made when women’s rights advocates wore it. She examines both the designs of the costume and individual women’s motives for wearing and

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Websites with information on women playwrights The Playwrights Lab “provides a forum for early and tend to fall into either of two main categories: support re- mid-career women playwrights to develop their work.” Se- sources for writers or basic information about the work of lected playwrights join for a period of three years, during particular individuals. My search revealed no indepth, which time they meet periodically to read and respond to fulltext critical literary analyses of playwrights and their each others’ writing and take part in other developmental works, but the Web does offer some excellent bibliogra- opportunities. Application information for Playwrights phies of print sources, an opportunity to find basic infor- Lab is provided. mation about the major female voices in theater today, The “First Look” Reading Series provides a venue for and, for the aspiring playwright, some networking and pro- rehearsed staged readings of fifteen to twenty selected duction opportunities. The following reviewed sites are scripts each year. Performed by professional actors and di- grouped under three general headings: theaters, general in- rectors, these readings allow both beginning and established formation and support, and individual playwrights. playwrights to develop their scripts in a “professional but informal environment” in front of an audience. For selected scripts, the Women’s Project will undertake a work- THEATERS in-progress performance to prepare a piece for possible main-stage production. Women’s Project and Productions (WPP) The WPP website is kept up-to-date and includes in- URL: http://www.womensproject.org/ formation about current and past productions, as well as Developed/maintained by: Syntechs NY (hosted by information about submitting scripts and applying for in- HostPro) ternship opportunities. Visitors to the site may also order Last updated: Unknown any of several anthologies of plays by WPP participants. Reviewed: May 16, 2002; revisited: August 30, 2002 The site is thorough and generally easy to navigate, although many of the links require plug-ins or Acrobat A New York Off-Broadway theater “dedicated to put- Reader, and some simply don’t work at all. ting women playwrights center stage since 1978,” WPP is a development venue for women playwrights, including New Georges board member and well-known Pulitzer Prize–winning URL: http://www.newgeorges.org/ playwright Wendy Wasserstein, who offers a glowing en- Maintained by: Unknown dorsement of the theater, its mission, and its artistic direc- Last updated: Unknown tor, Julia Stiles. Other recognizable names involved in this Reviewed: May 17, 2002; revisited: August 30, 2002 theater include Maria Irene Fornes and Joyce Carol Oates. WPP is not for neophyte artists. This is a support en- New Georges is “a non-profit theater company that tity primarily concerned with already well-established play- produces and develops imaginative new works by women wrights; the women whose work it produces usually have at & supports the creative efforts of emerging women theater least a master’s degrees in playwriting and several produc- artists.” Physically located in New York City, it was tions to their credit before working with WPP. For quali- founded in the early 1990s by a group of women actors fied women, the project provides several venues for devel- concerned about a lack of solid women’s roles in contem- opment of new works: porary theater. In contrast to Women’s Project and Pro- ductions, New Georges is interested in developing work by new artists whose work strikes a chord with the New

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Georges staff. web pages linked to this one, and list their credentials, their The website provides basic information about the or- plays (with synopses), and any upcoming productions on ganization, its mission, and its current projects and is kept the site. There is an online membership form. up-to-date. For female playwrights who wish to have their Some of the information on the site, particularly about work considered for development and production, there is conferences and “news,” is quite outdated, and a number of also submission information. (On the site’s “Frequently the links seem to be broken. The production information Asked Questions” page, the company clarifies what it for members’ plays is kept up-to-date, however, so anyone means by “production”: “Generally speaking, we’re not a interested in seeing staged productions of the work of de- venue or presenting organization, we are a play develop- veloping women writers for the theater can find an exten- ment and producing organization…. [W]e don’t have our sive list of such offerings, mostly in the United States and own theater…so we’re not really in the business of present- Canada. ing ‘finished’ shows…. If you’re interested in developing a For pedagogical purposes, developing playwrights piece, that’s another story.”) might be interested in clicking on “Cocktail Napkin Plays,”where they’ll find several Portland playwrights’ creative responses to a heuristic writing exercise. GENERAL INFORMATION AND SUPPORT Native American Women Playwrights Archive (NAWPA) International Centre for Women Playwrights Inc. URL: http://staff.lib.muohio.edu/nawpa/ URL: http://www.cadvision.com/sdempsey/ Maintained by: Unknown icwphmpg.htm Last updated: April 20, 2000 Developed/maintained by: Sandra Dempsey Reviewed: May 16, 2002; revisited: August 30, 2002 Last updated: Unknown Reviewed: May 16, 2002; revisited: August 16, 2002 NAWPA is a “collection of original materials by Na- tive women playwrights of the Americas” that seeks “to This Portland, Oregon–based center, which aims to identify playwrights, collect and preserve their work, try to “support women playwrights around the world,” is a mem- make it widely known, and encourage performances and bership organization that welcomes not only playwrights continued creativity.” Works in the archive are listed on but all who support the Centre’s goals. Its website seems to the website and can be viewed or read in Miami (Ohio) serve primarily as a publicity venue for member artists, who University’s library—they are not published on the website, can donate scripts and other production materials to the although in some cases there are synopses or reviews avail- Centre’s archive at Ohio State University, have their own able online.

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On NAWPA’s website, a “Directory of Native Ameri- ing fulltext online. Suzan-Lori Parks’s page on this site fea- can Women Playwrights” gives information (with email tures a link to a “Women’s E-news” interview with Parks, addresses and Web links if available, as well as lists of who in April of this year won the Pulitzer Prize for her play works) about seventeen playwrights who have at least one Topdog/Underdog (now on Broadway at the Ambassador play housed in the archive; almost fifty others whose works Theater). Parks is the first African American woman to are not at Miami are listed—some with links—under “Ad- win the prize for drama. ditional Names.” There is a listing of theater companies that perform The site also includes the transcript of a roundtable African American and multicultural theater, such as discussion among Native American women playwrights California’s African American Shakespeare Company and that occurred just before a 1999 conference entitled “Cel- North Carolina’s National Black Theater Festival; and, for ebrating Native Women Playwrights” at Miami University. playwrights and theater professionals, the site owner main- Participants discussed various topics including their back- tains a current list of submission calls and job openings. grounds, literary and social philosophies, and writing tech- Finally, the site offers access to an e-group, a “forum niques. The transcript could provide valuable insight to for the exchange of ideas among African American female someone studying the contemporary writing of women of playwrights” that is also open to other female African color. American theater professionals. There are also links from the home page to other sites—not necessarily women-focused—dealing with Na- Women in Theatre tive American literature. URL: http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Alley/5379/ Maintained by: Unknown Women of Color, Women of Words Last updated: Unknown URL: http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~cybers/home.html Reviewed: May 17, 2002; revisited: August 16, 2002 Maintained by: Angela E. Weaver, Fine and Performing Arts Reference Liaison This site appears to offer some excellent, if not indepth Librarian at George Mason University or entirely up-to-date, information about women play- Last updated: 2002 wrights and other theater professionals, both historical Reviewed: May 16, 2002; revisited: August 16, 2002 (“women who made a difference...when theatre was an all male profession”—including Susanna Centlivre and Susan By far the best, most comprehensive, and meticulously Glaspell) and contemporary (“women of our day (and our maintained Web resource covered in this review, this is not so distant past) who ‘push the envelope’”—including “dedicated to African American women who have gifted, Caryl Churchhill, Irene Fornes, Emily Mann, Megan shaken up, and disturbed the theatre world with their pow- Terry, Beth Henley, and Adrienne Kennedy). There are erful words.” Suite101.com’s Playwright’s Page has named also lists of women’s theater groups (including four consid- this one of the five best websites devoted to playwrights. ered to be the pioneers), a bibliography of resources on the- Under “Writers” (click the “W” on the simulated key- ater in general, and links to other websites on women and board to the right of the screen) is an alphabetical list of theater. nineteen African American women playwrights, including Separate pages about individual playwrights/profes- Rita Dove, Whoopi Goldberg, Lorraine Hansberry, and sionals offer brief biographies; quotations from critics, in- Ntozake Shange. You can click on any name to access bio- terviewers, and biographers; playlists; and bibliographies of graphical information and links to that writer’s plays; re- print resources about the women. For most of these pages, search centers that offer information about the playwright; however, no author or compiler is named—one can only critical and biographical resources; and other sites of inter- assume that these essays were written by the creator of the est. Extensive information about these women’s plays, in- website (who also is not named, although an email address cluding publication histories, synopses, and even some full is given); and many of the links from these pages to other texts of plays, is available. The site also includes a bibliogra- sites do not work. There is also no indication of when this phy of critical resources, including dissertations, but noth- website was last updated.

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INDIVIDUAL PLAYWRIGHTS Last updated: August 16, 2002 Reviewed: May 17, 2002; revisited: August 21, 2002 Suzan-Lori Parks URL: http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/drama/ This is basically an advertising site for Ensler’s Vagina parks.htm Monologues, a popular play currently running in New York Maintained by: Unknown and featuring a rotating cast of nearly a hundred actors, Last updated: Unknown mostly popular television and movie performers. Despite Reviewed: May 17, 2002; revisited: August 16, 2002 its commercial purpose, the site boasts a very thorough set of links, including one to www.vday.org, the site for The best starting place for information about Suzan- Ensler’s closely related (and not commercial) “V-Day” Lori Parks, the first African American woman to win the movement, described as “an organized response against vio- Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this page is from Bedford/St. lence toward women” and “a fierce, wild, unstoppable Martins Press’s “Lit Links.” It includes a short biography, a movement and community.” The “Press” link leads to sev- link to Parks’s page on the “Women of Color, Women of eral reviews of and commentaries on Ensler and her work; Words” site, and a 1999 Village Voice story about the especially interesting is an article from the Boston Globe en- writer. (Another link, to a 1997 article in the Philadelphia titled “The Men Who Dared are Pleased,” which discusses City Paper, is defunct.) some men’s reactions to a performance of the play.

Paula Vogel Conclusion URL: http://www.brown.edu/Administration/ A review of websites relevant to contemporary female George_Street_ Journal/vol22/22GSJ27a.html playwrights reveals that for the works of these writers, print Maintained by: Brown University sources are likely to be the most valuable source of indepth Last updated: April 24, 1998 critical examination. Nevertheless, a search of the Web pro- Reviewed: May 17, 2002 vides an overview of the field, its current authors, venues, and resources, thus constituting an excellent starting point Paula Vogel won the Pulitzer Prize for her play How I for the beginner with an interest in this topic, whether Learned to Drive. This article by Linda P. Mahdesian for from the perspective of the artist, the playgoer, or the stu- Brown University’s George Street Journal tells about Vogel’s dent of literature. past career and future plans.

Eve Ensler [Dr. Sheri Phillabaum is an award-winning playwright and a URL: http://www.vaginamonologues.com/ professor of English at Texas A&M University–Corpus Maintained by: Unknown Christi.]

Miriam Greenwald

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Remember that our website (http://www. friends. I’m also jaded and a cynical bitch, but sometimes a library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/) includes grrl will win my heart. I’m a freakin’ sports fanatic and root electronic versions of all recent “Computer Talk” col- for the looser Chicago Cubs ‘cause I like [W]rigley field umns, plus many bibliographies, core lists of women’s where they play. I've actually been out for a very long time, studies books, and links to hundreds of other websites by but my folks still don’t get it.” topic. Information about electronic journals and maga- Toronto-based EDUCATION WIFE ASSAULT, which zines, particularly those with numbered or dated issues maintains an extensive website at http:// posted on a regular schedule, can be found in our “Peri- www.womanabuseprevention.com/html/index.htm, is not odical Notes” column. just for “wives” or even just for women; its “Same-Sex Abuse” page discusses abuse in gay male as well as lesbian relationships, and other pages cover child and elder abuse. WORLD WIDE WEBSITES The organization is very involved in education and referral, has developed a partnership with young women in immi- Filmmaker Laurie Kahn-Leavitt and Harvard University’s grant and refugee communities, and offers many publica- Film Study Center have created an interactive website tions, including a “Crisis Resource Kit.” about how to “do” history that will fascinate and educate the general adult public as well as students at many levels. FEAS2T stands for Feminist Education, Action, Spiritual- The aptly named DOHISTORY site, at http:// ity, Support, & Theaology (defined as “the study of www.dohistory.org/, uses the book A MIDWIFE’S TALE, theology in a feminine aspect”), a “Center Without Walls” Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s history of the eighteenth-century that was “birthed out of the Women’s Spirituality and Eco- Maine midwife Martha Ballard, and Kahn-Leavitt’s Feminist movements.” Currently, the Center is offering subsequent PBS documentary/drama with the same title as colloquia and classes in Long Beach, California, with the a case study for demonstrating the experience of discover- goal of establishing a degree-granting program in Feminist ing history through primary sources—including old diaries, Spirituality. Website: http://www.spiritualfeast.com public records, and even graveyards. But there’s much more here: timelines showing what was going on elsewhere GROOVY ANNIE’S, at http://www.groovyannies.com, in the young United States while Martha was writing in her offers news, discussion forums, and links, as well as a text- diary about local births, weather, rape, and politics; what only version that provides clearer information about some was being published in the late 1700s about the practice of things than does the graphics version—for instance, about midwifery; excerpts from the book and clips from the PBS the site’s purpose: “to gather information of interest to film; information about designing a research project and Canadian lesbians, or people interested in what was going making a historical film; bibliographies on everything from in the lesbian community in Canada.” Among the site’s eighteenth-century medicine to sexuality in early America. current news items is one about efforts to legalize same-sex marriage in the Maritime provinces. DYKEDIVA.COM (located, not surprisingly, at http:// www.dykediva.com) advertises itself as “the alternative INTERACTIVE THEATRE.ORG: USING DRAMA TO lesbian site” and offers advice, rants, a sex column, lists of EDUCATE ON SEXUAL ASSAULT, at http:// things happening in the Chicago area, and lots of links, www.interactivetheatre.org, is the creation of Aaron some of which lead to instructions for building your own Propes, who as a high-school student “was prone to many website. The “Diva” who runs the site says this about of the myths that go unchallenged with teenage males.” As herself: “...full of contradictions. I especially like playing a Syracuse University undergrad, Propes got involved with drums, mountain biking, and just hanging out with feminism and rape-prevention theater; after graduating with a women’s studies minor, he started an educational interactive troupe in St. Paul called (like the Syracuse one after which it was modeled) “every 5 minutes,” a reference to a Ntozake Shange poem that describes the frequency of

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rape. The website offers lots of information for others interested in starting similar ventures; existing theater groups can also be listed here.

Phyllis Holman Weisbard, Women’s Studies Librarian for the University of Wisconsin System, recently announced Miriam Greenwald the launch of an INTERAC- TIVE WEB-BASED TUTORIAL that uses sample topics You may not have been born yet when feminists protested related to INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S ISSUES to the MISS AMERICA PAGEANT in Atlantic City in 1968 teach students in any area of study how to evaluate websites and 1969. But you can learn about these pivotal women’s for content and point of view. Weisbard and graduate liberation actions and get a visual idea of what it must have student Pamela O’Donnell wrote this tutorial (called been like to participate in the second protest by visiting a “Evaluating Web Search Results” and accessible at http:// new photo exhibit on Jo Freeman’s website: http:// www.library.wisc.edu/projects/ggfws/iwitutorials/ www.jofreeman.com/photos/MissAm1969.html searchengines/iwssearchengines.htm) and two others—all designed to teach skills related to using electronic resources Visit the first virtual Australian women’s museum—the effectively—with funding from the University of Wiscon- NATIONAL PIONEER WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME, sin System’s Institute for Global Studies, and are working based in Alice Springs—at http:// on a fourth (called “Using a Metasite”). www.pioneerwomen.com.au/welcome.htm. Actually, you can’t see the three current exhibits themselves online; as the KATHLEEN TRIGIANI—who for several years has home page states, “for the real thing you must travel to offered up feminist criticisms of John Gray’s “Men Are Central Australia.” But you can read about the history and From Mars” world view on her website, Out of the Cave: purpose of the museum, see a videotaped interview with its Exploring Gray’s Anatomy—has devoted her current founder (Molly Clark of Old Andado Station), and locate “letters” page to post–September 11 reflections: http:// other women’s museums in countries all over the world— web2.iadfw.net/ktrig246/out_of_cave/letters.html In including Senegal, Mali, Vietnam, and Italy. particular, she offers links to “stimulating and sometimes challenging articles which explore the connections between THE PHILIPPINE MIGRATION TRAIL is a project of terrorism and the global Mars & Venus mentality.” the InterPress Service (IPS—“the world's leading provider Trigiani is meanwhile working on a new essay entitled of information on global issues...backed by a network of Transforming Our Mars & Venus Society, which should journalists in more than 100 countries”) that has as its goal appear on her site when it is completed. to “give a human face to migration, an issue too often viewed and discussed in media as a solely labour matter.” MEDIAWATCH YOUTH, daughter of the Canadian With funding from the Ford Foundation, IPS kicked off organization MediaWatch, describes itself as “a national, this project in 2000 with a seminar in Bangkok at which non-profit, feminist organization that seeks to transform East Asian journalists and resource people looked at the the media environment from one in which girls and complex situation—particularly the health needs, and women are either invisible or portrayed through a stereo- particularly the experiences of women—of Filipino(a) type, to one in which girls and women are realistically migrants who leave home to work in other “host” coun- portrayed and equitably represented in all their physical, tries. Personal stories and many other documents from the racial, religious, economical and cultural diversities.” The project are available on the website http://www.ips.org/ website at http://www.mediawatchyouth.ca/index.php migration/index.html offers some nice features for the youthful visitor, such as a pop-up dictionary of such terms as sexism, media environment, and gender inequality.

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There seem to be more and more resources out there for The Center for Strategic Initiatives of Women (CSIW), young feminist mothers. Especially (but not exclusively) which has a website at http://www.csiw.org, has teamed up for moms in the Philadelphia area is with women’s organizations in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, PHILLYMAMA.COM, whose site at http:// Somalia, Somaliland, and Sudan to form a network called www.phillymama.com/index.html offers essays, book and STRATEGIC INITIATIVES IN THE HORN OF movie reviews, and discussion boards, as well as resources AFRICA (SIHA). As explained on the network’s Web of interest to those who actually live in the area, e.g., school page at http://www.csiw.org/SIHAsitanaly.htm, “SIHA closings and weather reports. The current featured essay in (which means ‘Outcry’ in Arabic) is a pioneering effort to the “MamaSays” column, by Lizbeth A. Finn-Arnold, mobilize the region's women’s organizations, [which] have dissects the experience of losing the “coolness” one used to been excluded from public and community influence and possess, at least in the eyes of nieces, nephews, and friends’ leadership, to become full participants in peace-building, children, when one becomes a parent herself. and regional, national, and local development.”

“This is truly a pro-choice site, and not an anti-choice site WOMEN WHO DARED is a program, an event, and an in disguise. It is written from a perspective that strongly in-progress Web exhibit by the JEWISH WOMEN’S supports a woman’s right to safe, legal and accessible ARCHIVE, at http://www.jwa.org/exhibits/wwdared/ abortion.” The writer of PRO-CHOICE CONNEC- new_home/wwdHome.html, that started in 2000 “as a TION thus boldly introduces her site at http:// Purim feast...that celebrated 20th-century Jewish women www.prochoiceconnection.com The straightforwardness who have carried on the legacy of Queen Esther's heroism continues with a short, clear list of menu choices— and activism.” The online exhibit currently features “Abortion Information,” “Post-Abortion Support,” and biographies, photos, and quotations of such daring women “Birth Control Information” (this one still under construc- as Ruth Abrams (first woman to serve on the Massachusetts tion)—that lead to essays, bibliographies, and links to Supreme Judicial Court), Hannah Jukovsky (high school organizations in Canada and the U.S. (e.g., Planned student who organized a boycott of the Massachusetts Parenthood, Childbirth by Choice, and the Feminist Comprehensive Assessment System), Rebecca Young Majority Foundation). (prisoners’ rights lawyer), and others in the Boston area; women in the Baltimore area are to be added next. The site we announced in this column in Summer 1999 as CyberGrrlz (“the e-zine for girls with brains and a sense of humor”) changed its name in 2001 to PURPLE ONLINE PUBLICATIONS PYJAMAS—“an online community for girls (and smarter guys).” Pages include “Aunt Musey” (advice column Asha S. Kanwar & Margaret Taplin, eds., BRAVE NEW hosted by a 26-year-old art student), “Coming of Age” WOMEN OF ASIA: HOW DISTANCE EDUCATION (edited by a 14-year-old), “Ask a Guy” (girls’ questions CHANGED THEIR LIVES (Vancouver, BC: The Com- answered “from a male perspective” by a teenage boy, a 20- monwealth of Learning, 2001). 82p. ISBN 1-895369-79- something, and a middle-aged dad), “Got Faith?” (“to 7. Downloadable in PDF format from http:// discuss religion, spirituality and faith in general, from www.col.org/resources/publications/BraveNew.pdf taboos, fears, and common misconceptions, to how your beliefs relate to your life, teaching each other about Coumba Mar Gadio, EXPLORING THE GENDER differences and similarities along the way”), and “School IMPACT OF THE WORLD LINKS PROGRAM: SUM- Girl” (“to share studying tips and to discuss issues that MARY OF THE FINDINGS OF AN INDEPENDENT affect girls in school,” hosted by a 17-year-old girl in STUDY CONDUCTED IN FOUR AFRICAN COUN- Montana). Find this community at http:// TRIES (November 2001). Examining a program in which www.purplepjs.com/index.html computer labs are provided for boys and girls in Senegal, Mauritania, Uganda, and Ghana, consultant Gadio found that girls in some of the locations have more difficulty

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actually getting to use the computers than boys do, but http://www.niwl.se/wwh/program.asp (click on the links that they are more likely than the boys to use computer for each day of the program; then look for the little text- resources for academic pursuits. In both HTML and PDF page icon next to the titles of many sessions). The keynote format at: http://www.world-links.org/english/html/ session from Day One, “Globalization, Public Policy and genderstudy.html the Gendered Division of Labour,” given by Jean L. Pyle, is abstracted at http://www2.niwl.se/wwh/wwhsearch/ GENDER-SENSITIVE HOME AND COMMUNITY detail.asp?ID=501 CARE AND CAREGIVING RESEARCH: A SYNTHESIS PAPER (a final report commissioned by the Women’s PARTISAN IMBALANCE IN NEWS SOURCES is Health Bureau, Health Canada, with co-funding from the examined by Ina Howard in “Power Sources: On Party, Home and Continuing Care Unit, Health Care Director- Gender, Race and Class, TV News Looks to the Most ate, Health Canada, and the Status of Women Canada): Powerful Groups,” Extra! (May/June 2002): http:// the executive summary is at http://www.cewh-cesf.ca/en/ www.fair.org/extra/0205/power_sources.html resources/gshaccacr/synthesis.html; from there, the full 88-page report is downloadable in PDF format. WORKING MOTHERS WORK LONGER HOURS, reports the AFL-CIO in summarizing its 2002 Ask a An 80-page guide to FRENCH LAWS REGARDING Working Woman Survey. The full report and the executive THE INTERNET is downloadable in PDF format, in summary (in PDF format), a press release, a video featuring French, from France’s Ministry of Justice at http:// Linda Chavez-Thompson discussing the survey, and more www.justice.gouv.fr/publicat/Infraviaint.pdf The primary are available at http://www.aflcio.org/news/2002/ focus of the guide is on the “cybercriminality” of child 0507_wwsurvey.htm pornography. Compiled by JoAnne Lehman, Abstracts of lectures given at the THIRD INTERNA- with special thanks to all who forward TIONAL CONGRESS ON WOMEN, WORK, AND information about new online resources HEALTH (Stockholm, June 2–5, 2002) are available at

Miriam Greenwald

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New women’s press EDGEWORK BOOKS, founded EdgeWork began like this: a room full of writ- in Berkeley by a group of already well-published writers ers—women, most in their ‘50s. Some had written that includes Kim Chernin, Gail Sher, and Renate best-sellers, some were poets. Most of them were Stendhal, has brought out its “first round” of titles. The therapists, or teachers of some kind. And all of press’s commitment to the work of women extends all the them, once they started comparing notes, were way to its choice of typesetting fonts—all typefaces used in worried about the shape and direction of the pub- these nine casebound books that make up the first round, lishing industry. More and more, the really hot for example, were designed by women: books were being turned down as “brilliant but too literary,” “too feminist,” “too unusual” to Kim Chernin, THE GIRL WHO WENT AND SAW compete for market share. If this was happening to AND CAME BACK (novel) them, at the peak of successful careers, what was M. Jacqui Alexander, Lisa Albrecht, Sharon Day, & happening to the voices of emerging women writ- Mab Segrest, eds., SING, WHISPER, SHOUT, PRAY! ers? Who was encouraging, publishing, distribut- FEMINIST VISIONS FOR A JUST WORLD (essay an- ing, and marketing their best work? thology) EdgeWork Books began when this room full Margot Duxler, SEDUCTION: A PORTRAIT OF of women said “We’ve got to have viable alterna- ANAIS NIN (literary analysis of diary) tives to the New York publishing machine,” and Tobey Hiller, CHARLIE’S EXIT (novel) one of them responded “Well, if not us, then Susanne Pari, THE FORTUNE CATCHER (novel) who?” Margaret Randall, WHERE THEY LEFT YOU FOR So that’s us. We’re trying to be the press we’ve DEAD/ HALFWAY HOME (poetry) been waiting for. We want to be part of the decen- Gail Sher, MOON OF THE SWAYING BUDS (po- tralization and democratization of the publishing etry/prose “spiritual autobiography”) industry—the structures that support it, the Renate Stendhal, LOVE’S LEARNING PLACE: people who run it, and the work it produces. We TRUTH AS APHRODISIAC IN WOMEN’S LONG- publish well-written books with fresh artistic vi- TERM RELATIONSHIPS (psychology); and THE sion and, through this web site, we offer an online GRASSHOPPER’S SECRET: A MAGICAL TALE home, our village, for writers both new and estab- (children’s story) lished to meet, experiment and grow. But something else has happened along the “EdgeWork is a form of sustainable publishing,” says way. As we gathered allies, we found not just writ- writer and founder Kim Chernin. “As an independent ers, but film-makers, playwrights, musicians, publishing group, we can sustain our books in print with- painters, cartoonists all facing the same challenges. out commercial pressure; as a group of writers working to- We became a group of women of many ages and gether we can sustain one another and our distinctive vi- with a striking cultural and racial diversity. sions. Sustainable publishing is linked to all other move- EdgeWork Books turned out to be the heart of ments of care and concern for precious resources. Isn’t the something larger—a multimedia women’s arts female voice exactly that?” producer and distributor called EdgeWork Cre- EdgeWork’s goals go far beyond publishing books. Its ative Arts. website at http://www.edgework.com offers help and community to writers, readers, and other creative folks. The Contact EdgeWork at 8623 Middle Fork Road, Boul- group tells its own story on a page titled “How We Came der, CO 80302; order titles on EdgeWork’s website About”: (www.edgework.com) or through Cypress House, 155 Cy- press Street, Fort Bragg, CA 95437; phone: (800) 773- 7782; website: www.cypress.house.com

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ARTISTS AND subject as well. tions of the art itself, as noted above. PERFORMERS The authors’ note in the visual arts The performing arts volume takes book explains that they were seeking to a similarly selective, rather than com- Carol Kort & Liz Sonneborn, A TO Z represent artists from a variety of me- prehensive, approach, attempting OF AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE diums, and “to focus on artists who broad coverage of categories that in- VISUAL ARTS. New York: Facts on spanned America’s rich and varied his- clude actress, choreographer, comic, File, 2002. 258p. bibl. index. $44.00, tory, from colonial times to the dancer, musician, singer, performance ISBN 0-8160-4397-3. present, and who represented a pano- artist, and talk show host. The balance Liz Sonneborn, A TO Z OF ply of geographic, cultural and socio- among these areas, however, is not as AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE PER- economic backgrounds” (p. ix). The well kept as in the visual arts volume, FORMING ARTS. New York: Facts lists of entries at the end of the book— with the majority of entries focused on on File, 2002. 264p. bibl. index. by medium, artistic style, and year of popular singers and film actresses. $44.00, ISBN 0-8160-4398-1. birth—show that the authors were suc- Classical music performers are notably cessful in providing a broad spectrum absent. The profiles are, again, very These two titles in the Facts on of American artists. Although not as readable and substantial in length, and File Library of American History series comprehensive as the two-volume Dic- the inclusion of a recommended re- provide generally good, basic bio- tionary of Women Artists (Chicago: corded or videotaped performance is a graphical information on American Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997; nice touch. Given that there are not women in the arts, one dedicated to edited by Delia Gaze), which is inter- comparable biographical dictionaries performing arts and the other to visual national in scope and lists exhibitions of women entertainers across the per- arts. Each offers a similar format, with and publications, the low price and forming arts, this title might fill a entries that give the artist’s name, her focus on American artists might make niche in the reference collection, but birth name, dates of birth and death, this a better choice for reference collec- the focus on popular performing arts and the talents for which she was fa- tions in smaller libraries. North Ameri- should be taken into account. mous (e.g., muralist, painter, singer, can Women Artists of the Twentieth Cen- These two titles are recommended actress). The length of the biographi- tury (New York: Garland, 1995; edited for libraries looking for inexpensive cal profile varies, but is quite substan- by Jules Heller & Nancy G. Heller) is biographical dictionaries of women in tial (often two pages or more) com- similar in price, but has 1500 entries the arts where selective coverage is ap- pared to other biographical dictionar- (despite being limited just to contem- propriate. ies. Black and white photographs of porary artists), compared to A to Z’s many (not all) of the artists are in- offering of 130 artists. The substantial [Carrie Kruse, who wrote the above re- cluded; however, the visual arts book length and readability of the bio- view, is a public services librarian at the does not contain any illustrations of graphical profiles in A to Z, however, University of Wisconsin–Madison.] the works of art themselves. All entries offer a nice introduction to each artist, include a bibliography for further and the bibliographies are thoughtfully reading and, in the case of the per- selected and include information for forming artists, recommended re- finding some articles online. The ma- corded or videotaped performances. jor drawback is the absence of illustra- Each book concludes with a substantial list of source materials on the general

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land development, publishing, food, front of the other, shut my eyes, and BUSINESSWOMEN cosmetics, toys, and venture capital- step off the ledge. The surprise was ism. A to Z has good representation of that I landed on my feet.” Victoria Sherrow, A TO Z OF businesswomen from different time Ever wonder what sort of brew AMERICAN WOMEN BUSINESS periods and ethnic/racial backgrounds makes up Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable LEADERS & ENTREPRENEURS. as well. One way the book demon- Compound? You can use A to Z of New York: Facts on File, 2002. 252p. strates its currency is by including sev- American Women Business Leaders & ill. bibl. index. $44.00, ISBN 0-8160- eral software and e-commerce entre- Entrepreneurs to answer questions of 4556-9. preneurs, such as Autodesk president that type, too (Pinkham’s entry says and chief executive officer Carol Bartz the compound consists of unicorn Biographical dictionaries of and Lucent Technologies chief finan- root, fenugreek, black cohosh, other women writers, scientists, and artists cial officer Deborah C. Hopkins. The herbs and roots, and about 18% alco- now abound, but there are surprisingly entry for Martha Stewart is up-to-date hol). How did pizza become so popu- few surveying notable American busi- through the implications of K-Mart’s lar in our culture? Yes, you could nesswomen of all backgrounds, en- bankruptcy filing, in January 2002, for search the Web for “pizza history” and deavors, and time periods. Judith A. sales of Stewart’s K-Mart kitchen line, come up with the facts about the baker Leavitt’s American Women Managers but does not include the flap over her from Naples who prepared a pie for and Administrators (Greenwood) did sale of ImClose stock on December King Umberto I and Queen so, including leaders in education and 26, 2001, a day before the Food and Margherita in 1889, but Rose Totino’s government as well, but only for the Drug Administration rejected the role in making this dish a staple of twentieth century through the early company’s application for its cancer American homes is skipped over in 1980s (publication date 1985), and drug, Erbitux. (Stewart’s angle on that most online sources, unless you know many achievements of women in busi- story did not surface until June 2002.) to search for her by name. ness have occurred since then. Histori- Entries average about two double- A to Z of American Women Business cal Encyclopedia of American Women columned pages; many include a pho- Leaders & Entrepreneurs is recom- Entrepreneurs, 1776 to the Present, by tograph. Sherrow ends each entry with mended for high school, public, and Jeannette M. Oppedisano (Green- several suggestions for further reading college libraries. wood, 2000), overlaps in coverage that include books, print articles, and somewhat with A to Z of American material accessible on the Web. She Women Business Leaders & Entrepre- describes each woman’s life, paying CATHOLIC WOMEN neurs, but uses a much wider defini- particular attention to her rise in busi- WRITERS tion of entrepreneur, such that many ness and subsequent communal and of the women profiled were not in philanthropic activities. Thirty-nine of Mary R. Reichardt, CATHOLIC business at all. For anyone interested the women are indexed under “philan- WOMEN WRITERS: A BIO-BIB- specifically in up-to-date biographies thropy” in the subject index. An ac- LIOGRAPHICAL SOURCEBOOK. of businesswomen, A to Z is the best complished writer, Sherrow uses anec- Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002. choice. dotes and quotations to enliven the 424p. bibl. index. $104.95, ISBN 0- There are profiles of 135 women sketches. She quotes Knox Gelatin co- 313-31147-1. in the volume, from modeling-school founder Rose Markward Knox as say- founder Caroline Leonetti Ahmanson ing, “Every woman, if forced to, can For over a thousand years women to Cuban-born advertising executive do more than she ever thought she have been “writing in the Catholic tra- Tere Zubizarreta. An entries-by-field could.” Katharine Meyer Graham, dition.” Author Mary Reichardt pre- listing shows that Sherrow has selected when she took over as publisher of the fers this phrase to “Catholic writers” women associated with activities as Washington Post without any manage- because it emphasizes the content of diverse as ranching, interior design, rial experience, certainly proved Knox’s the writings rather than the religion of point. As Graham put it in her auto- the writers. Focusing on writers whose biography, quoted by Sherrow, “What works were “informed in a substantial I essentially did was to put one foot in and meaningful way by the structures, traditions, history, spirituality, and/or

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culture of Catholicism” (Preface) al- Besides writing on mysticism and UNITED STATES. 3rd ed. Washing- lows Reichardt to include non-Catho- spirituality, many authors in Catholic ton, DC: Jacobs Institute of Women’s lics Willa Cather, Christina Rossetti, Women Writers come to passionate de- Health; and Menlo Park, CA: The Dorothy Sayers, and Kathleen Norris, fense of womankind. Christine de Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation; as well as converts Edith Stein, Clare Pizan’s Book of the City of Ladies is a 2001. 219p. charts, graphs, index. Booth Luce, Dorothy Day, and others case in point. As contributor Virginia $33.95, ISBN 0-9702285-1-1. Indi- among the sixty-four authors covered Brackett describes it, de Pizan (1365– vidual copies (package code #6004) in the volume. All genres of writing are ca.1430) sounds remarkably modern. available from the Kaiser Family Foun- represented, from children’s literature Woman’s intellect is no less than dation Publication Request Line (1- through fiction, poetry, and essays. man’s—it’s the narrowminded barriers 800-656-4533) or on the Internet at The medieval writers featured here to their education that cause women to http://www.kff.org/content/2001/ lived all over Europe; both North and be seemingly less intellectual. The Book 6004/Final%20Data%20Book.pdf or South America were home to authors includes a staunch defense of learned http://199.231.141.95/Resources/ of the modern period. The earliest women. Like de Pizan, Sor Juana Inés Data%20Bookpdf.pdf writer discussed is Hrotsvit of de la Cruz also champions a woman’s Gandersheim (ca.935–975), a Saxon right to learning, including studying Two health bombshells dropped canoness who wrote legends and dra- theology. In the twentieth century, on the American public in the same mas, often with virginity as a theme fiction writers explored the tension week this July. The first was “What if and the clash between good and evil as between traditional Catholic morality, It’s All Been a Big Fat Lie?,” by Gary a plot element. (Look for her in li- based on adherence to Church author- Taubes in the New York Times Maga- brary catalogs as Hrotsvitha.) Annie ity, and the individual search for faith. zine (Sunday, July 7, 2002), which Dillard, Sandra Cisneros, Julia Alverez, Each essay (signed by the con- questioned whether any scientific evi- and Mary Gordon are some of the tributor) follows the same pattern: dence exists for the commonly ac- contemporary writers in the book. In brief biography, major themes, and cepted professional view that dietary between are many mystics and authors survey of criticism, ending with a bib- fats rather than carbohydrates are to of spiritual works, many of whom, liography of works by and about the blame for the dramatic rise in obesity such as Hildegard of Bingen, writer. The thematic and critical sec- in the United States in the last two de- Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, tions focus on topics related to Ca- cades. This was not Taubes’s first big and Julian of Norwich, have received tholicism and Catholic sensibilities. article on the subject—he’d also pub- extensive attention in recent years, Most contributors are faculty members lished “The Soft Science of Dietary with excerpts from their writings in- in departments of English or Ro- Fat” over a year earlier in Science cluded in anthologies and textbooks; mance languages. (v.291, no.5513, March 30, 2001, while others, such as Angela of Foligno Though Reichardt provides a use- pp.2536–45), but publication in the and Marie de l’Incarnation, have been ful introduction that surveys the writ- Times caused a bigger buzz. This is of the subjects of recent critical scholar- ers roughly chronologically and the- immediate concern to women. Ac- ship though their names are not as well matically, appendixes listing the au- cording to a study cited in The Women’s known. Natalie Zemon Davis exam- thors chronologically and by country Health Data Book (p.134), the preva- ined the life of Marie de l’Incarnation of origin would have added to the vol- lence of obesity among American in Women on the Margins: Three Seven- ume from a reference perspective. This women increased from 12.2% in 1991 teenth-Century Lives (Harvard Univer- is a minor point, however, about an to 18.1% just seven years later. What sity Press, 1995), and a new collection otherwise excellent, one-of-a-kind ref- proportions of the food groups should of writing by medieval women mystics erence work. women consume to stay healthy and includes work by Angela of Foligno fend off obesity? Women are well (Medieval Women Mystics: Gertrude the aware of dietary recommendations, Great, Angela of Foligno, Birgitta of HEALTH STATISTICS Sweden, Julian of Norwich: Selected Spiritual Writings, introduced and ed- Dawn Misra, ed., THE WOMEN’S ited by Elizabeth Ruth Obbard; New HEALTH DATA BOOK: A PROFILE City Press, 2002). OF WOMEN’S HEALTH IN THE

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says the Data Book, based on the erage, the Data Book uses an “esti- sources (frequently cited national stud- 1994–96 U.S. Department of Agricul- mated 6 million” for the number of ies are described in a separate section), ture Continuing Survey of Food In- HRT users in the United States, but making it more convenient than sifting takes by Individuals, using the very readers of the Data Book also learn that through a myriad of academic articles, example “to choose a diet low in satu- this figure is ten years old. There are government agency publications and rated fat” (p.133). likely to be many more women shaken websites, and other places. Three days after the publication of up by the news and asking their physi- The Data Book has eight chapters, “Big Fat Lie” came the second bomb- cians what they should do. the first of which introduces a topic shell: the an- new to this (third) edition: the impact nouncement of of social and economic factors on a halt in the fed- women’s health. Age, race/ethnicity, eral study of the status of women, class, family, and longterm use of household components are discussed estrogen-proges- in this chapter. These factors are also tin combination recognized throughout the book along- hormone re- side elements from the traditional bio- placement medical model of health, which em- therapy (HRT) phasizes prevention, detection, and because five treatment of disease and individual years of data responsibility for behaviors that affect found a 41% health. Subsequent chapters focus on increase to users perinatal and reproductive health, infor risk of fections, chronic conditions, mental stroke, along health, health behaviors, and violence with 29% for against women. The last chapter re- heart attack, turns to societal influences, this time 22% for cardio- focusing on access, utilization, and vascular disease, quality of health care issues. and 26% for Miriam Greenwald The Preface laments that there has breast cancer. been no nationally representative Before the study began, only the asso- These two examples demonstrate prevalence study of mental health/ill- ciation with elevated risk of developing how difficult it is to keep up with vital ness initiated in more than twenty breast cancer was known, and most health information. A resource like years. The mental health chapter medical researchers thought HRT the Data Book has an even greater points out an even bigger gap in infor- would prove to be beneficial with re- problem, first because it has to have a mation, since one of the two existing gard to the other conditions. The cut-off point before publication (the studies excluded adults over age fifty- Data Book takes a cautious stance on Web edition is also a fixed document), four. With a growing elderly popula- the benefits of HRT beyond alleviating so it can never be as current as the lat- tion, it is vital for policy planners to annoying menopausal symptoms. est newscast. Furthermore, the Data have an accurate sense of the numbers “[HRT]...may reduce the risk of Book isn’t just a compendium of statis- of older people with mood disorders, C[oronary] H[heart] D[isease]... There tics. It analyzes as well, and that takes depression, and other illnesses. The may also be risks...such as increased time. That’s one reason it’s a valuable Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance, a rates of endometrial and breast can- resource, however, for students; writ- 1999 survey conducted by the Centers cers” (pp.136–37). Like the press covers; and health care providers, advo- for Disease Control and Prevention, cates, and policy makers. Another is provided data about a problem at the that it draws from a large number of other end of the age spectrum: adoles- cent bulimia. The Data Book includes a chart by gender and race/ethnicity of

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adolescents who reported vomiting or Goodwin): Suffrage, World War, and sionally an author is named, but most using laxatives to lose weight in the Modern Times, 1900–Present. of the entries are unsigned. Some ar- prior thirty days. This reviewer ticles include one or two suggestions learned that purging is reported by This encyclopedia is a digest of for further reading, but most do not. young men as well as young women, American women’s history as it is cur- Boldface type within articles indicates although in lesser proportions. rently perceived. Each of these three other articles on the topic (such as a Some highlights from the book: volumes presents several versions of the boldface “American Revolution” in the •Number One cause of death and time frame it covers. A chronology article on “Lesbians”). However, in disability among American women: and a series of short overview essays following these leads the reader will cardiovascular disease. introduce each volume. The essays ad- not necessarily find additional infor- •Among women, Blacks and His- dress currently timely issues in the mation on the original subject. panics have the highest rate of HIV/ study of women’s history, such as Yet this set succeeds at what ap- AIDS, with Asian/Pacific Islanders the “Gender Ideology in the Revolutionary pears to be its purpose: to bring a con- lowest. Era,” “Domesticity and Ideology of temporary view of American women’s •Teenage motherhood rates de- Separate Spheres,” “Violence Against history to a middle-school-and-older clined through the 1990s. Women,” and “Women and the Labor audience. It can serve as a starting •Almost twenty percent of Ameri- Force.” These are followed by short point for thinking about History Day can women have no health insurance. articles, some biographical (Rebecca projects and help students find a be- •Reported number of cases of Nurse, Abigail Adams, Mary Cassatt, ginning or a useful fact for reports and chlamydia rose from 1995 to 1999; Kate Chopin, Judy Garland, Ruth term papers about ethnic studies, so- this is explained in large measure by Bader Ginsburg), some broadly or nar- cial issues, and other contemporary expanded screening programs, use of rowly subject-based (Equal Rights classroom topics. more sensitive tests, and changes in Amendment, Adolescence, Native In its presentation, style, and read- reporting system. American Family Life, Health, World’s ing level, this encyclopedia is aimed at •Homicide is the leading cause of Columbian Exposition of 1893, Sci- those who are just beginning to study occupational injury death for women. ence, Slavery, Literacy). These articles American women’s history, and it may The Women’s Health Data Book is make up most of each volume. Con- even serve college undergraduates as an excellent resource—buy it or book- cluding each volume is a set of short well who are seeking a beginning mark the Web version—and keep your excerpts from contemporary docu- place. However, undergraduate librar- eyes and ears open for health an- ments, such as Our Bodies, Ourselves, ies with limited budgets should prefer nouncements that may require a shift The Lowell Offering (1840s), and An the one-volume Handbook of American in interpretation of information pre- Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson Women’s History (Sage Publications, 2d sented. (1637). Annotations in the margins ed., 2002, edited by Angela M. provide information about older words Howard and Frances M. Kavenik), and concepts. These documents are which offers a more sophisticated and HISTORY followed by a selected bibliography of scholarly view of a similar terrain. one or two pages. The brief Preface in Joyce Appleby, general ed., ENCY- Volume 1 does little to bring these vol- [Barbara Walden, who wrote the above CLOPEDIA OF WOMEN IN umes together, indicate the intended review, is the European History and His- AMERICAN HISTORY. Armonk, audience, or provide a unifying vision tory Outreach Librarian at the Univer- NY: Sharpe Reference, 2002. 3 vols., for the contents. sity of Wisconsin–Madison.] 800p. ill. $299.00, ISBN 0-7656- Articles are brief and superficial, 8038-6. Vol. 1 (ed. by Joyce Appleby): often just a quarter of a column. Occa- Colonization, Revolution, and the New Nation (1585–1820). Vol. 2 (ed. by Eileen K. Cheng): Civil War, Western Expansion, and Industrialization (1820–1900). Vol. 3 (ed. by Joanne L.

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HISTORY AND CULTURE The guide focuses specifically on scholarship that puts “issues of diver- how to use the Library of Congress sity in race, class, and gender relation- Sheridan Harvey et al., eds., AMERI- collections, and is therefore organized ships at the heart of all questions un- CAN WOMEN: A LIBRARY OF by the Library’s major reading rooms: der inquiry” (p. xxiii). The selection of CONGRESS GUIDE FOR THE General Collections, Serial and Gov- examples of collection materials indi- STUDY OF WOMEN’S HISTORY ernment Publications, Law Library of cates that the editors also made an ef- AND CULTURE IN THE UNITED Congress, Rare Book and Special Col- fort to reflect the diversity of women’s STATES. Washington, DC: Library of lections, Manuscripts, Prints and Pho- experiences. There is also a chapter Congress, 2001. 420p. bibl. index. tographs, Geography and Maps, Mu- with specific information on using the $35.00, ISBN 0-8444-1048-9. sic, Recorded Sound, Moving Image, Library of Congress in general, includ- American Folklife Center, and Area ing how to register for a reader identi- How do you find useful primary Studies. Each section opens with an fication card, how subject headings source material—including sound re- introduction to that reading room, an and call numbers work, and how to cordings, maps, manuscripts, letters, overview of using the broad collection use the catalog. It is emphasized and photographs—when researching area, and information about selected throughout that the complexity of the topics in American women’s history? collections within. Insets with search- multiple collections and formats of The Library of Congress’s unparalleled ing tips, bibliographies, pathfinders, materials require the user to employ collection is one place to start, and this and sample Library of Congress sub- multiple research strategies. Research- guide is designed to help researchers ject headings provide additional help ers are also encouraged to ask for help navigate the Library’s varied collections for the researcher. Often the items in from the Library of Congress staff. and gain a sense of the vast possibilities the bibliography are materials that can This work includes five essays on spe- of the materials held within, offering be found in local public or university cific women’s history topics that are insights into understanding the stories libraries, adding value to this guide for the result of research using resources of women’s lives. This is the fourth those who are not necessarily planning from the Library of Congress. They such guide published by the Library of to do research in the Library of Con- are intended as demonstrations of the Congress, following Keys to the Encoun- gress itself. end product of the research process ter (the Age of Discovery), The African- The introduction by Susan Ware is suggested by the guide, and are also American Mosaic (Black History and a thoughtful overview of American informative and interesting pieces for Culture) and Many Nations (Native women’s history, paying special atten- the casual reader or browser to enjoy. Peoples of the United States). tion to concerns of contemporary

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The table of contents includes all if only to enjoy a glimpse of the ex- Planned Parenthood Federation of the chapter subheadings, making it traordinary materials held by the Li- America from 1978 to 1992 and who easy, for example, to go directly to the brary of Congress. continues to consult and lecture on section on “Married Women’s Property reproductive rights; Dr. Antonia Laws” within the Law Library of Con- [Carrie Kruse, who wrote the above re- Coello Novello, former Surgeon Gen- gress chapter. All sections are substan- view, is a public services librarian at the eral of the United States; and breast tially footnoted, and a lengthy index University of Wisconsin–Madison.] surgeon Susan Love; but the majority provides additional access to areas of of biographees flourished in the nine- interest. The book is filled with repro- teenth or the first half of the twentieth ductions of examples of the materials MIDWIVES, NURSES, AND century. you could find: photographs, adver- PHYSICIANS The entries are arranged alpha- tisements, manuscripts, engravings, betically, some with photographs. cartoons, letters, etc. Browsing the Laurie Scrivener & J. Suzanne Barnes, Each contains a biographical sketch pages just to see these gems is a worth- with contributions by Cecilia M. summarizing the pertinent facts about while endeavor. Each example in- Brown & Dana Tuley-Williams, A the woman’s life and health-care-re- cludes not only the classification infor- BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF lated activities. The major achieve- mation for the item, but also a sub- WOMEN HEALERS: MIDWIVES, ments for notable women are de- stantial summary of how that item fit NURSES, AND PHYSICIANS. scribed in the biographical sketches, into history and why it might be sig- Westport, Ct: Oryx, 2002. 341p. ill. followed by a paragraph noting “se- nificant today. These examples also index. $74.95, ISBN 1-57356-219-X. lected additional achievements.” Bib- show the wealth of possibilities for do- liographic references complete the en- ing research using materials you might It’s refreshing to receive a bio- tries. Most entries are one to two not have thought to consider. Case in graphical dictionary that recognizes the pages long, with those for research point: if you were not sure how the contributions to health care of women physician Florence Sabin and birth geography collection might aid your midwives and nurses as well as physi- control advocate and nurse Margaret research in the history of women’s cians. A Biographical Dictionary of Sanger a bit longer. One appendix lists ownership of property, a taxation map Women Healers includes 43 midwives, the women by occupation, and a sec- from Hawaii in the 1930s would tell 82 nurses, and 113 physicians, all of ond chronicles “Notable Events Re- you that a daughter inherited property whom practiced in the United States lated to Women Healers.” equally with her male siblings. or Canada. The authors use a broad The authors were interested in Any women’s studies researcher definition, inclusive of women who better representation of modern-day embarking on a trip to the Library of were trained informally and those who midwives, whom they tried to find via Congress would find this book indis- attended school and received certifica- Internet discussion groups, but most of pensable. And even though most li- tion or a degree in their profession, as the practicing midwives nominated braries are serving users doing local well as women who started out in these “could not or would not” supply bio- research, this book is still highly rec- fields but who went into teaching, ad- graphical information (Preface). Per- ommended for the number of finding ministration or, like Emma Goldman, haps formally enlisting a midwifery aids referred to that are available in are better known for other endeavors. organization or the periodical Mid- most libraries; the introduction it pro- In selecting women for inclusion, the wifery Today would have been more vides to the research process; and the authors preferred those who provided successful. vast array of types of resources one care for women or who advocated for a For physicians, nurses, and mid- should consider finding, regardless of place for women in these professions. wives in earlier eras, the authors relied location. Finally, the abundance of There’s an occasional contemporary primarily on existing reference works fascinating examples of materials pro- figure profiled, such as Faye Wattleton, vided throughout the publication are a trained nurse who headed the reason enough to purchase this work,

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and monographs, along with searches struct “gender” on individual psychol- Handbook has twenty-seven chapters of the periodical literature of medicine, ogy. The influence of socially con- arranged in five thematic sections: His- nursing, women’s studies, and history. structed categories is also a constant torical, Theoretical, and Methodologi- Perhaps that strategy explains the presence in the Handbook of the Psy- cal Issues; Developmental Issues; Social omission of three outstanding physi- chology of Women and Gender, along Roles and Social Systems; Gender and cians and advocates: Helen Caldicott, with an emphasis on explaining the Physical and Mental Health; and Insti- a tireless advocate for nuclear disarma- various theories that exist to under- tutions, Gender, and Power. The Ency- ment and women’s rights; the recently stand the same phenomena. And even clopedia takes a straightforward alpha- deceased pediatrician and reproductive though Unger states in her Preface that betical approach and includes many health activist Helen Rodriguez-Trias; “there is no consensus in the field more essays on more specific topics and Adriane Fugh-Berman, who chairs about the extent of differences between than does the Handbook: for example, the National Women’s Health Net- the sexes, or, even, whether or not this “anger,” “body image concerns,” and work and edits Alternative Therapies in is a useful question to ask,” she uses “media violence.” The Handbook will Women’s Health. They have yet to be- this more as an example that different work best for readers interested in top- come the subjects of academic articles, theoretical approaches exist than as a ics with a broader sweep or grouped although news articles and websites way to disregard the topic. Indeed, the together, e.g., following developmental cover all three, and two of them could chapter “Gender Similarities and Dif- issues from gestation through old age. be interviewed. This reviewer hopes ferences as Feminist Contradictions,” On the other hand, someone inter- that the authors will do a second edi- by Meredith M. Kimball, confronts ested in psychological issues of sub- tion in the future, adding more con- this directly, concluding that similari- stance abuse, rape, or lesbian relation- temporary figures. ties and differences exist on and across ships will have an easier time using the A Biographical Dictionary of many levels (“individual, interpersonal, Encyclopedia, since there are essays de- Women Healers is recommended for institutional, discursive, and sym- voted to each topic, though they are all medical libraries, undergraduate col- bolic”) in complex interactions. Both covered in the Handbook as well, acces- lections, and large public libraries. the Handbook and the Encyclopedia sible through its subject index. Some exhibit the influence of feminist re- of the essays in the Encyclopedia do not search and feminist sensibilities, with turn up in the Handbook, either as PSYCHOLOGY Unger explicitly giving her contribu- chapters or in the subject index. These tors license to include their own ac- include “women in the military,” “tor- Rhoda K. Unger, ed., HANDBOOK knowledged viewpoints, which often ture,” and “recovered memories.” OF THE PSYCHOLOGY OF resulted in “feminist” appearing in the There are a few topics covered at the WOMEN AND GENDER. New York: essay titles. Both works are primarily essay level in both works, including John Wiley & Sons, 2001. 556p. bibl. aimed at students (the Handbook says motherhood, power, sexual harass- index. $75.00, ISBN 0-471-33332-8. graduate students) and faculty, particu- ment, feminist therapy, and, interest- lar those in allied disciplines to psy- ingly, men/masculinity. The field of the psychology of chology. To reach this audience of Another difference is that the women and gender is fortunate to have nonspecialists, both are careful to de- Handbook uses the customary in-text two new superb reference works syn- fine terms (more overtly in the Encyclo- citation style of author(s), year, with thesizing recent research. In the last pedia, which starts each essay with a the full references provided for the en- issue of Feminist Collections, we re- glossary), and even though there are tire book in a massive 102-page bibli- viewed the two-volume Encyclopedia of numerous contributors, both editors ography, whereas the Encyclopedia Women and Gender, edited by Judith have done an excellent job of keeping mentions numerous scholars and their Worell (Academic Press, 2001), which the writing readable. research, but only offers the full cita- highlights sex differences and similari- Although the works are therefore tions for a short list at the end of each ties and the effect of the societal con- similar in scope and audience, they chapter. Faculty and graduate students differ in structure, which will work to will therefore find their additional the advantage of different readers. The reading more facilitated by the Hand- book; undergraduates will probably prefer reading about research without

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needing to look further and won’t be in these volumes. BRIEFLY NOTED hampered by the lack of full citations The two-volume set is the work of in the Encyclopedia. a lone compiler and writer (Helen Daniel Bubbeo, THE WOMEN OF Because the topics handled so well Rappaport), and the short biographies, WARNER BROTHERS: THE LIVES by the two works impinge on and which are uniform in style and length, AND CAREERS OF 15 LEADING overlap significantly with so many are aimed at general readers. Each LADIES, WITH FILMOGRAPHIES fields, academic libraries will want to woman’s importance, background, life, FOR EACH. Jefferson, NC: purchase both. and ongoing legacy are summarized in McFarland, 2002. 262p. photogs. bibl. entries ranging in length from one col- index. $35.00, ISBN 0-7864-1137-6. umn to a page or more, and a selected SOCIAL REFORMERS list of books for further reading com- Following on the spurs of leading pletes each article. The writing is in- ladies in Westerns assessed by Michael Helen Rappaport, ENCYCLOPEDIA teresting and clear, and in some cases G. Fitzgerald and Boyd Magers in two OF WOMEN SOCIAL REFORM- the author’s viewpoint comes through books also published by McFarland ERS. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, distinctly. Rappaport does not include (see the last issue of Feminist Collec- 2001. 2 vols., 888p. $185.00, ISBN the original research, indepth treat- tions, v.23, no.3, Spring 2002) come 1-57607-101-4 (e-book: $205.00, ment, and extensive notes on archival biographies of fifteen screen stars more ISBN 1-57607-581-8). and other research resources that can at home in high heels. Included in this be found in such major reference collection are Bette Davis, Olivia de Included in these two volumes are works as Women Building Chicago, Havilland, Joan Blondell, and Jane short biographies of approximately 1790–1990 (Indiana University Press, Wyman, along with some who never 400 women from Europe, North 2001), which includes some overlap- achieved their fame, such as Andrea America, Africa, Asia, and Latin ping biographies. King, Joan Leslie, and Nancy America who were active during the This compilation will be a useful Coleman. The essays—based on pub- period from the French Revolution to addition to high school, academic, and lished interviews, the author’s inter- the 1970s, along with a few contempo- public libraries, especially those that views with women still alive who con- rary women. The United Kingdom may not have extensive women’s his- sented to speak with him, and his con- and the United States provide the larg- tory reference collections. Although versations with people who knew them est portion of the women selected for some of the reformers found here may in their Hollywood days—are flavored inclusion. The women included were, be found in a variety of biographical with quotations from the women. for the most part, active in peaceful sources, those from Asia, Africa, Latin This book will appeal to fans of classic lobbying and reform. America, and the Middle East are less films of the 1930s and 1940s, and the With the exception of a short and available to the average reader. This filmographies will be useful for film presumably timely article on “Afghan encyclopedia’s wide geographical range studies. Social Reformers,” this encyclopedia and its English-language treatment of includes no collective or subject-spe- women for whom other biography [Phyllis Holman Weisbard, who wrote cific articles. Nevertheless, the list of may be mainly available in foreign lan- the above reviews except as otherwise “Women Social Reformers by Cause” guages make it especially valuable for noted, is the Women’s Studies Librarian serves as a useful guide to the causes general and smaller collections. It is a for the University of Wisconsin System and interests of the women social re- useful contribution to the burgeoning and co-editor of Feminist Collections.] formers included here: abolition of world of reference materials dealing slavery and prostitution; suffrage and with women’s biographies. anti-suffrage; equal rights and anti– equal rights; emancipation; labor; di- [Barbara Walden, who wrote the above vorce and marriage rights; peace; po- review, is the European History and His- litical, religious, and prison reform; tory Outreach Librarian at the Univer- reproductive rights and sexual free- sity of Wisconsin–Madison.]\ dom; social welfare; and drug and alcohol abuse are only some of the categories of social reform encompassed

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The Office of the Women’s Studies Librarian, Univer- www.library.wisc.edu/projects/ggfws/iwitutorials/ sity of Wisconsin System, announces an interactive web- genderwatch/iwsgenderwatch.htm and “Finding Articles based tutorial that uses topics related to international from CONTEMPORARY WOMEN’S ISSUES Within women’s issues as examples in teaching students how to LEXIS-NEXIS” is at http://www.library.wisc.edu/ evaluate the results of Internet searches. The tutorial takes projects/ggfws/iwitutorials/lexisnexis/iwslexisnexis.htm an easily remembered “Who? What? When? Why? How?” (Note: If your campus library has a direct subscription to approach. “Evaluating Web Search Results,” now accessible CONTEMPORARY WOMEN’S ISSUES database, do not at http://www.library.wisc.edu/projects/ggfws/iwitutorials/ use this tutorial; not all articles from CWI are in LEXIS- searchengines/iwssearchengines.htm, can be used to teach NEXIS.) website evaluation in any course. Our forthcoming tutorial The home page for all four tutorials, which were on “Using A Metasite” (available in a few months) can also funded by a grant from the University of Wisconsin be used in a variety of contexts. System’s Institute for Global Studies, can be found at http:/ Two other tutorials that teach skills related to effective /www.library.wisc.edu/projects/ggfws/iwitutorials/ use of electronic resources and feature examples from inter- iwiindex.htm, which is also linked from our office’s home national women’s issues are online already, although they page at http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/ may be tweaked further before they are considered com- WomensStudies/ Pamela O’Donnell and Phyllis Holman plete. These two are likely to be of interest primarily to stu- Weisbard are the authors of the tutorials; the University of dents in women’s studies. They use databases that may be Wisconsin System Board of Regents holds the copyright. available on your campus; if so, you are welcome to use Feedback is welcome; send comments to them: “Using GENDERWATCH” is located at http:// [email protected] or [email protected]

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NEW AND NEWLY DISCOVERED An online publication of the Estonian Women’s Stud- PERIODICALS ies and Resource Centre at Tallinn Pedagogical University, established in 1997 as the first women’s resource center in Estonia, ENUT News has been issued by the center since BAD JENS: IRANIAN FEMINIST NEWSLETTER 1999. The newsletter has offered short articles on the 1999?– . Ed.: Mahsa Shekarloo. Frequency of publica- organization’s history and growth, emerging women’s stud- tion: flexible. Free: online only. Website: http:// ies programs around the country, and women’s role in Es- www.badjens.com/ (Issues examined: Third (1 August tonian politics and transition to democracy. Special issues 2000); Fourth (21 November 2000); Fifth (25 May 2002)) have focused on men’s studies and on conference proceed- ings such as those from the Estonian Women in Politics “Bad Jens is a feminist online magazine mainly address- Conference, held in Tallinn in February 1999. In addition ing readers outside Iran,” writes Mahsa Shekarloo, who has to this newsletter, the center issues a journal in Estonian lived both in Tehran and in the U.S., in the fifth edition. and conducts seminars, conferences, and outreach pro- “It is hoped to be a step towards improving links between grams. — Reviewed by Karen Rosneck activists/academics inside and outside the country. [Since] intellectual and cultural exchanges between Iran and its IDENTITIES: JOURNAL FOR POLITICS, GENDER neighbors are few and far between—especially regarding AND CULTURE 2001– . Eds.-in-chief: Katerina women’s activities—we’re particularly eager to reach read- Kolozova, arko Trajanoski. 2/yr. Subscription: $10.00/ ers in the Middle East.” yr. for individuals in Macedonia ($15.00/yr. institutions); The magazine’s mission: “to smash the myths, interro- in other countries, $20.00/yr. for individuals ($40.00/yr. gate the stereotypes, and dismantle the barriers.” institutions). Identities, Partizanski odredi 63, 1000 Skopje, About the title: “Bad” means “bad,” and “jens” means Macedonia; email: [email protected]; website: “gender, nature, or type.” The two terms usually appear as www.identities.org.mk (website developed in Macromedia one word—“badjens”—meaning “disreputable or sly.” Flash; may require plug-in for viewing). (Issue contents Each edition contains interviews (there’s one in the examined online: v.1, no.1, Summer 2001; v.1, no.2, Win- fourth edition with Shahla Lahiji, publisher and reformist ter 2002) intellectual imprisoned for attending the Berlin Confer- ence; in the fifth, one with women workers in Iranian fac- Arranged in three parts—Politics/Identity; Gender/ tories) and articles (e.g., “Orientalism—An Experimental Sexuality/Identity; and Culture/Identity—the journal’s of- Approach”; “Afghan Refugees in Iran”; and “Of Numbers ferings have explored a wide array of topics, including war, Greater Than Nineteen,” about prostitution and the mur- violence, cultural conflict, masculinity, literature, theater, der of nineteen women in the city of Mashad). The latest and feminist theory. A separate review section, to be of- edition also includes news, announcements, and a list of fered also in Macedonian and Albanian after the publica- recent books about or by Iranian women. tion of the second issue, includes a worldwide selection of recently published books and periodicals. The journal ap- ENUT NEWS 1999– 2–3/yr. Free: online only. Eesti pears bilingually in Macedonian and English or other Naisuurimus-ja Teabekeskus (Estonian Women’s Studies worldwide language. Articles in the Winter 2002 issue in- and Resource Centre), Narva mnt 25-410, 10120, Tallinn, clude Katerina Kolozova, “Imagining the Face of the ‘Real’: Estonia; email: [email protected]; website: http:// www.enut.tpu.ee/inglise/index.htm (English); http:// www.enut.tpu.ee/index.htm (Estonian) (Issues examined: 1/1999, 2/1999, 2/2000, 1/2001)

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Some Considerations about War and Violence”; Jasna SPECIAL ISSUES OF PERIODICALS Koteska, “The Sexual Strategy of the Son in Kafka: Terror- ism and Exile”; Elizabeth Grosz, “Lesbian Fetishism?”; JOURNAL OF DRUG ISSUES v.30, no.4, Fall 2000: Immanuel Wallerstein, “Cultures in Conflict?: Who are “Substance Use, Abuse, and Treatment: Feminist Perspec- WE? Who are the Others?” — Reviewed by Karen Rosneck tives.” Guest ed.: Kathy G. Padgett; journal ed.: Bruce Bullington. ISSN: 022-0426. Subscription: 4/yr., $95.00 SPARKS 2002– . Ed.: Carol Singer. 4/yr. Subscription: individuals in the U.S. ($120.00 institutions); $105.00 in- $35.00/yr. for individuals in the U.S.; $45.00 in Mexico or dividuals elsewhere ($130.00 institutions); inquire about Canada; $55.00 in other countries (students subtract availability of single back issues. School of Criminology $10.00 from all rates; institutions add $10.00). P.O. Box and Criminal Justice, Florida State University, P.O. Box 900138, San Diego, CA 92190-0138; phone: (619) 281- 66696, Tallahassee, FL 32313; phone: (850) 644-7368 or 6250; fax: (619) 281-6279; toll-free (877) 823-0015; email: [email protected]; email: [email protected]; website: http://www2.criminology.fsu.edu/~jdi/ website: www.sparksmagazine.com (Issue examined: v.1, no.1, Jul/Aug/Sep 2002) Contents: “Editor’s Introduction: In Other Words” (Kathy G. Padgett); “Surviving Violence: Pregnancy and Billed as “a forum for the creative and intellectual ex- Drug Use” (Paloma Sales & Sheigla Murphy); “The Role pression of women,” this new magazine aims to publish of Alcohol in Male Partners’ Assaults on Wives” (Holly fiction, poetry, photography and other illustrations, re- Johnson); “Questioning Sex: Drug-Using Women and views, essays, and social commentary. The first issue (22 Heterosexual Relations” (Nina Mulia); “Crack and Prosti- pages) features an article about researcher/folksinger Gerri tution: Gender, Myths, and Experiences” (Patricia G. Gribi and her touring performance called “A Musical Erickson, Jennifer Butters, Patti Mcgillicuddy, & Ase Romp Through Women’s History”; two short stories and Hallgren); “Prostitution, Drug Use, and Coping with Psy- eleven poems; brief reviews of books, music, and websites; chological Distress” (Amy M. Young, Carol Boyd, & Amy and a calendar of women-related festivals and conferences. Hubbell); “Drug-Using Women’s Communication with

Miriam Greenwald

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Social Supporters about HIV/AIDS Issues” (Gregory P. “Reporting on War, Listening to Women” (Ratih Falkin & Sheila M. Strauss); “Gender Differences in How Hardjono); “Storming the Citadel of Hard News Cover- Intimate Partners Influence Drug Treatment Motivation” age” (Ammu Joseph); “Media Don’t Portray the Realities (Kara S. Riehman, Yih-Ing Hser, & Michelle Zeller); of Women’s Lives” (Sakuntala Narasimhan); “Bringing “Women and Drug Treatment Experiences: A Genera- Women’s Stories to a Reluctant Mainstream Press” tional Comparison of Mothers and Daughters” (Claire E. (Angana Parekh); “In Pakistan, Journalists Maintain Sterk, Kirk W. Elifson, & Katherine Theall); “I Didn’t Women’s Lesser Status” (Massoud Ansari); “‘Visual Know: Discoveries and Identity Transformation of Women Voices’: Photos from China”; “The Varied Pace of Addicts in Treatment” (Phyllis L. Baker); “Client Gender Women’s Progress” (Bettina Peters); “Women Bring a Cer- and the Implementation of Jail-Based Therapeutic Com- tain Look and Feeling to News” (Veronica Lopez); “Be- munity Programs” (Jeffrey A. Bouffard & Faye S. tween the Rhetoric of Equality and the Harsh Reality” Taxman); “Revisiting the Need for Feminism and (Blanca Rosales); “Machismo Is Only One Obstacle Afrocentric Theory When Treating African-American Fe- Women Journalists Face” (María Cristina Caballero); male Substance Abusers” (Amelia Roberts, Mary S. Jack- “Breaking Down Barriers in the Arab Media” (Naomi son, Iris Carlton-Laney); “The War on Drugs and the In- Sakr); “Moving Coverage Beyond a Woman’s Veil” carceration of Mothers” (Stephanie Bush-Baskette). (Naghemeh Sohrabi). Contents of “Women and Journalism: A United States NIEMAN REPORTS v.55, no.4, Winter 2001: Special sec- Perspective” (v.56, no.1, Spring 2002): “A Pioneering Gen- tion, “Women and Journalism: International Perspectives”; eration Marked the Path for Women Journalists” (Christy v.56, no.1, Spring 2002: Special section, “Women and C. Bulkeley); “The Value of Women Journalists” (Susan E. Journalism: A United States Perspective.” Ed.: Melissa Reed); “‘The Girls in the Van’” (Beth J. Harpaz); “Women Ludtke. Subscription: 4/yr., $20.00 in the U.S. ($35.00 Journalists See Progress, But Not Nearly Enough” (Jodi for 2 yrs.); $30.00 elsewhere ($55.00 for 2 yrs.). Single Enda); Redefining the ‘Private Lives’ of Public Officials” copies: $5.00 plus postage for print; these and other recent (Florence George Graves); “An Internet News Service Re- issues free online at http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports News and Views of Women” (Rita Henley Jensen); ports/contents.html Nieman Foundation at Harvard Uni- “Women Journalists Spurred Coverage of Children and versity, One Francis Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138; phone: Families” (Jane Daugherty). (617) 495-2237.

Contents of “Women and Journalism: International CEASING PUBLICATION Perspectives” (v.55, no.4, Winter 2001): “Reporting on Gender in Journalism” (Margaret Gallagher); LOLAPRESS—“the international feminist magazine edited “Worldwoman Stretches Its Reach to Several Continents” by an editorial group living in three continents” and pub- (Lesley Riddoch); “In Nigerian Newspapers, Women Are lished three times a year since 1994—has announced that Seen, Not Heard” (Christine Anyanwu); “An Absence of due to discontinuance of funding, publication of the jour- Women” (Pippa Green); “Community Radio Provides nal will be suspended with electronic issue no.3 (2002) and Women a Way To Have Their Voices Heard” (L. Muthoni print issue no.18 (November 2002). Find out more by Wanyeki); “Changing the Way Women’s Lives Are Por- reading the editorial in the (“most likely”) final electronic trayed” (Lettie Longwe); “‘Who Makes the News?’” issue at http://www.lolapress.org/elec3/edit_e.htm (Teresita Hermano & Anna Turley); “In Poland, Women Run the Largest News Organization” (Peggy Simpson); Compiled by JoAnne Lehman except as otherwise noted

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The International Information Centre and Archives for the publications: MAKING SAFE ABORTION ACCESSI- Women’s Movement (IIAV) recently published MAPPING BLE: A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR ADVOCATES; A THE WORLD: QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE, a forty- GUIDE TO PROVIDING ABORTION CARE; FILLING page booklet in both English and French. This guide helps THE GAP: INTRODUCING INNOVATIVE SECOND- users search for and find information about women by us- TRIMESTER ABORTION SERVICES IN VIETNAM ing the MAPPING THE WORLD OF WOMEN’S IN- (available only in hard copy); A HANDBOOK FOR AD- FORMATION SERVICES DATABASE, which lists more VOCACY IN THE AFRICAN HUMAN RIGHTS SYS- than 350 such services all over the world. For more infor- TEM: ADVANCING REPRODUCTIVE AND SEXUAL mation, contact IIAV, Obiplein 4, 1094 RB Amsterdam, HEALTH; PREVENTING UNSAFE ABORTION: A The Netherlands; email: [email protected] The reference guide CALL TO ACTION FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS; and the database itself are available online at: http:// and BUILDING WOMEN’S ACCESS TO ABORTION www.iiav.nl/mapping-the-world SERVICES IN CASES OF RAPE (in Spanish). The reports (except for the one on Vietnam) are available online in .pdf BE SMART, BE SAFE...DON’T BECOME A VICTIM format at http://ipas.org/NewPublications.htm (click on OF THE TRADE IN PEOPLE is a 2001 brochure by the the chosen report). For hard copies (free of charge), email U.S. Department of State Bureau for International Narcot- [email protected]; phone: (919) 960-5705. ics and Law Enforcement Affairs. It explains what trafficking is, who the victims usually are, and how women consid- The Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women ering traveling and working internationally can protect (ARROW) published WOMEN’S HEALTH NEEDS themselves from this crime. The brochure can be viewed AND RIGHTS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: A BEIJING online at: http://www.state.gov/g/inl/rls/fs/2001/jan/ MONITORING REPORT in 2001. The thirty-nine-page 4229.htm report focuses on women’s health and rights, as well as health policies and programs, in Southeast Asia and exam- The Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) recently pub- ines the effects of those policies on the community. To ob- lished a negative review of five major Women’s Studies tain a print copy, send $10.00 plus $3.00 postage (in U.S. textbooks. LYING IN A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN: HOW funds) to ARROW, Ground Floor, Block G, Anjung Fel- WOMEN’S STUDIES TEXTBOOKS MISEDUCATE da, Jalan Maktab, 54000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; email: STUDENTS, by Christine Stolba, claims that Women’s [email protected] Studies textbooks misinterpret and/or ignore facts and “encourage students to embrace aggrievement, not knowl- Thomson-Gale presents the first installment of SERIES edge.” For further information, contact the IWF at P.O. FIVE: GAY ACTIVISM IN BRITAIN FROM 1958: THE Box 3058, Arlington, VA 22203; phone: (800) 224-6000. HALL-CARPENTER ARCHIVES FROM THE LON- The 33-page report is also available online in PDF format DON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS in the Gay Rights at http://www.iwf.org/pubs/specialreports.shtml (click on Movement microfilm collection. PART 1:THE ALBANY the chosen report). TRUST consists of more than 90 reels of primary source materials, including newsletters, journals, and pamphlets, Ipas, “a global nongovernmental organization that has that document the history of the Albany Trust, a compan- worked for nearly three decades to increase women’s ability ion organization to the Homosexual Law Reform Society to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights and to re- that “became a pioneering counselling organization for gay duce abortion-related deaths and injuries,” has several new men, lesbians, and other sexual minorities” and “also en- gaged in legal, educational and social campaigning.” Part 2 of Series Five, entitled “The Campaign for Homosexual Equality,” is forthcoming, as is Series Six: Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance Archives, 1972–1994. To order, or for

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information about the four previous series in the Gay Rights and gender affect women’s lives.” It gives clear examples of Movement collection, contact Gale, 12 Lunar Drive, the deep impact that racism has on women, from their in- Woodbridge, CT 06525-2398; phone: (800) 444-0799; come to their self-esteem, and suggests resources and ways email: [email protected]; website: http://www.gale.com/psm to take action. The full fact sheet can be viewed at http:// www.criaw-icref.ca/racegender.htm For further informa- In an informational folder entitled EMERGENCY CON- tion, write to CRIAW, 151 Slater St., Suite 408, Ottawa, TRACEPTION: ENSURING WOMEN’S RIGHT TO ON K1P 5H3, Canada; phone: (613) 563-0681; email: HEALTH, the Latin American & Caribbean Women’s [email protected] Health Network (LACWHN) promotes the right of all women to have access to emergency contraception (EC)—a Ireland’s EQUALITY AUTHORITY has published several term that refers to “methods that can prevent pregnancy reports, as well as a database of research publications, on when used by women within a few hours or a few days fol- issues such as equality in enterprises, politics, and society, lowing unprotected intercourse.” The report, which ap- as well as equality for older people, women, and the LGB proaches the need for EC as a health and human rights is- (lesbian, gay, and bisexual) community. For more details sue, includes an extensive section describing current de- on these publications, some of which can be downloaded in bates over EC in Chile. LACWHN intends to add new .pdf or .rtf format, contact the Equality Authority, Clon- information sheets to the folder over the course of the next mel Street, Dublin 2, Ireland; email: [email protected]; year. For further information, write to LACWHN, Casilla website: http://www.equality.ie 50610, Santiago 1, Chile; email: [email protected]; website: http://www.reddesalud.web.cl/ingles.html The WOMEN’S HOLOCAUST MEMOIRS COLLEC- TION at the University of Michigan includes forty-three A twelve-page fact sheet from the Canadian Research Insti- books of memoirs, history, and analysis. To view the list of tute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW) (Institut books, visit the library’s website at http:// Canadien de Recherches sur les Femmes, or ICREF), mirlyn.web.lib.umich.edu (click on “guest signon,” then WOMEN’S EXPERIENCE OF RACISM: HOW RACE on “UM Library Catalog;” select “keyword” and type AND GENDER INTERACT is meant to “serve as a basic “Frances and Kathryn Brandt”). introduction for people with no knowledge of how race In 2001, Adam Matthew Publications published a “listing and guide to the microfilm collection” to accompany the project ADVICE LITERATURE IN AMERICA, PART 1: THE SCHLESINGER COLLECTION OF ETIQUETTE AND ADVICE BOOKS FROM THE ARTHUR AND ELIZABETH SCHLESINGER LIBRARY ON THE HIS- TORY OF WOMEN IN AMERICA, RADCLIFFE INSTI- TUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY, HARVARD UNIVER- SITY. The 112-page guide can be obtained from Adam Matthew Publications Ltd., 8 Oxford St., Marlborough, Wiltshire SN8 1AP, England; phone: (01672) 511921; fax: (01672) 511663; email: [email protected] The brief contents of the reels in the collection are also listed online at http://www.adam-matthew-publications.co.uk/ collect/p502.htm Miriam Greenwald Compiled by Caroline Vantine

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A TO Z OF AMERICAN WOMEN BUSINESS LEADERS & FOR A “CHRISTIAN AMERICA”: A HISTORY OF THE ENTREPRENEURS. Sherrow, Victoria. Facts on File, 2002. RELIGIOUS RIGHT. Brown, Ruth Murray. Prometheus, 2002. A TO Z OF AMERICAN WOMEN IN SPORTS. Edelson, Paula. GENDER: A SOCIOLOGICAL READER. Jackson, Stevi and Facts on File, 2002. Scott, Sue, eds. Routledge, 2002. A TO Z OF WOMEN IN WORLD HISTORY. Kuhlman, Erika. GENDER AND MODERN IRISH DRAMA. Harris, Susan Facts On File, 2002. Cannon. Indiana University Press, 2002. ALL THINGS ALTERED: WOMEN IN THE WAKE OF THE GENDER AND PTSD. Kimerling, Rachel and others, eds. CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION. Culpepper, Mayrilyn Guilford, 2002. M. McFarland & Company, 2002. HISTORICAL AND MULTICULTURAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE ART OF ACQUIRING: A PORTRAIT OF ETTA & WOMEN’S REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS IN THE UNITED CLARIBEL CONE. Gabriel, Mary. Bancroft, 2002. STATES. Baer, Judith A., ed. Greenwood, 2002. BEHIND GLASS: A BIOGRAPHY OF DOROTHY TIFFANY IMMORTAL SUMMER: A VICTORIAN WOMAN’S TRAVELS BURLINGHAM. Burlingham, Michael John. Other Press, IN THE SOUTHWEST. Cook, Mary J. Straw, ed. Museum of 2002.2nd ed. New Mexico, 2002. A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF WOMEN HEALERS: ISABEL ALLENDE: LIFE AND SPIRITS. Zapata, Celia Correas, MIDWIVES, NURSES, AND PHYSICIANS. Scrivener, Laurie, trans. by Margaret Sayers Peden. Arte Público, 2002. and others. Oryx, 2002. JAPANESE WOMEN FICTION WRITERS: THEIR CULTURE BORN TO BELONGING: WRITINGS ON SPIRIT AND AND SOCIETY, 1890’S TO 1990’S: ENGLISH LANGUAGE JUSTICE. Segrest, Mab. Rutgers University Press, 2002. SOURCES. Fairbanks, Carol. Scarecrow, 2002. BOSS LADIES, WATCH OUT! ESSAYS ON WOMEN, SEX LEAVE THE DISHES IN THE SINK: ADVENTURES OF AN AND WRITING. Castle, Terry. Routledge, 2002. ACTIVIST IN CONSERVATIVE UTAH. Thorne, Alison Comish. BUT ENOUGH ABOUT ME: WHY WE READ OTHER Utah State University Press, 2002. PEOPLE’S LIVES. Miller, Nancy K. Columbia University Press, A LITTLE HISTORY OF MY FOREST LIFE: AN INDIAN- 2002. WHITE AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Morrison, Eliza. Ladyslipper, 2002. CHILDREN, HOME AND SCHOOL: REGULATION, AU- LOVE’S LEARNING PLACE: TRUTH AS APHRODISIAC IN TONOMY OR CONNECTION? Edwards, Rosalind, ed. WOMEN’S LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIPS. Stendhal, Renate. Routledge, 2002. Edge Work Books, 2002. A COMPANION TO AMERICAN WOMEN’S HISTORY. THE MAKING OF THE MODERN IRANIAN WOMAN: Hewitt, Nancy A., ed. Blackwell, 2002. GENDER, STATE POLICY, AND POPULAR CULTURE, 1865- THE COMPLETE IDIOT’S GUIDE TO WOMEN’S HISTORY. 1946. Amin, Camron Michael. University Press of Florida, 2002. Weiss, Sonia, with Lorna Biddle Rinear, M.A. Alpha Books, 2002. MEDIA DEMOCRACY: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE. A DONOR INSEMINATION GUIDE: WRITTEN BY AND Beizer, Julia, et al., eds. Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press, FOR LESBIAN WOMEN. Mohler, Marie and Frazer, Lacy. 2002. Harrington Park Press, 2002. MELYMBROSIA. Woolf, Virginia. Ed. and Intro. by Louise EMMA: A PLAY IN TWO ACTS ABOUT EMMA GOLDMAN, DeSalvo. Cleis, 2002. AMERICAN ANARCHIST. Zinn, Howard. South End, 2002. MERRY WIVES AND OTHERS: A HISTORY OF DOMESTIC ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ABORTION IN THE UNITED STATES. HUMOR WRITING. Fritzer, Penelope, and Bland, Bartholomew. Palmer, Louis J., ed. McFarland & Company, Inc., 2002. McFarland & Company, 2002. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN’S HEALTH ISSUES. Gay, MIDRASHIC WOMEN: FORMATIONS OF THE FEMININE Kathlyn. Greenwood, 2002. IN RABBINIC LITERATURE. Baskin, Judith R. University Press ETEL ADNAN: CRITICAL ESSAYS ON THE ARAB-AMERI- of New England, 2002. CAN WRITER AND ARTIST. Majaj, Lisa Suhair and Amireh, THE MILK OF ALMONDS: ITALIAN AMERICAN WOMEN Amal, eds. McFarland & Company, Inc., 2002. WRITERS ON FOOD AND CULTURE. DeSalvo, Louise and FEMALE, JEWISH, EDUCATED: THE LIVES OF CENTRAL Giunta, Edvige, eds. Feminist, 2002. EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY WOMEN. Freidenreich, Harriet Pass. MOON OF THE SWAYING BUDS. Sher, Gail. Edgework, 2002. Indiana University Press, 2002. THE NATURE OF HOME. Knopp, Lisa. University of Nebraska FEMINIST ENGAGEMENTS: READING, RESISTING, AND Press, 2002. REVISIONING MALE THEORISTS IN EDUCATION AND THE NEW LEGAL STATUS OF WOMEN IN TURKEY. CULTURAL STUDIES. Weiler, Kathleen, ed. Routledge, 2001. Women for Women’s Human Rights. Women for Women’s Human FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE: AN INTRODUCTION TO HER Rights, 2002. LIFE AND FAMILY. McDonald, Lynn, ed. Wilfrid Laurier NO MORE SEPARATE SPHERES. Davidson, Cathy N., and University Press, 2002. Hatcher, Jessamyn, eds. Duke University Press, 2002. OUTSKIRTS: WOMEN WRITING FROM SMALL PLACES. Schultz, Emily, ed. Sumach, 2002.

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THE PRESIDENT’S CABINET: GENDER, POWER, AND TRANSFORMATION. Anzaldúa, Gloria E and Keating, REPRESENTATION. Borrelli, Mary Anne. Lynne Rienner, 2002. AnaLouise, eds. Routledge, 2002. RACE AND RESISTANCE: AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE TRAUMA TRAILS: RECREATING SONG LINES: THE 21ST CENTURY. Boyd, Herb, ed. South End, 2002. TRANSGENERATIONAL EFFECTS OF TRAUMA IN INDIG- RAISE THE FLOOR: WAGES AND POLICIES THAT WORK ENOUS AUSTRALIA . Atkinson, Judy. Spinifex, 2002. FOR ALL OF US. Sklar, Holly, and others. Ms. Foundation for UP: A NOVEL. Jones, Lisa . Sticky, 2002. Women, 2001. VIETNAM: THE LOGIC OF WITHDRAWAL. Zinn, Howard. RETHINKING MENTAL HEALTH AND DISORDER: South End, 2002. FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES. Ballou, Mary and Brown, Laura S, THE VOICE OF HARRIET TAYLOR MILL. Jacobs, Jo Ellen. eds. Guilford, 2002. University of Indiana Press, 2002. RHETORICAL THEORY BY WOMEN BEFORE 1900. WHEN A FLOWER IS REBORN: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A Donawerth, Jane, ed. Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. MAPUCHE FEMINIST. Paillalef, Rosa Isolde Reuque. Ed. and RIGHT-WING WOMEN: FROM CONSERVATIVES TO Trans. by Florencia Mallon. Duke University Press, 2002. EXTREMISTS AROUND THE WORLD. Bacchetta, Paola and WHERE THEY LEFT YOU FOR DEAD. Randall, Margaret. Power, Margaret, eds. Routledge, 2002. EdgeWork Books, 2002. A ROUTLEDGE LITERARY SOURCEBOOK ON MARY WOMEN OF THE HOMEFRONT: WORLD WAR II RECOL- WOLLSTONECRAFT’S A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS LECTIONS OF 55 AMERICANS. Parker, Pauline E., ed. OF WOMAN. Cracium, Adriana, ed. Routledge, 2002. McFarland & Company, 2002. RUSSIAN WOMEN, 1698-1917: EXPERIENCE AND EXPRES- WOMEN’S ACTIVISM AND GLOBALIZATION: LINKING SION: AN ANTHOLOGY OF SOURCES. Bisha, Robin and LOCAL STRUGGLES AND TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS. others, comps. University of Indiana Press, 2002. Naples, Nancy A., and Desai, Manisha, eds. Routledge, 2002. SEEING WITH THEIR HEARTS: CHICAGO WOMEN AND WOMEN’S ALMANAC 2002. Weatherford, Doris. Oryx, 2002. THE VISION OF THE GOOD CITY 1871-1933. Flanagan, WOMEN’S BEST FRIENDSHIPS: BEYOND BETTY, Maureen A. Princeton University Press, 2002. VERONICA, THELMA, AND LOUISE. Rind, Patricia. Haworth, SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES. 2002. Hawthorne, Susan and Winter, Bronwyn, eds. Spinifex, 2002. WOMEN’S ENCOUNTERS WITH THE MENTAL HEALTH SHINING EYES, CRUEL FORTUNE: THE LIVES AND LOVES ESTABLISHMENT: ESCAPING THE YELLOW WALLPAPER. OF ITALIAN RENAISSANCE WOMEN POETS. Jaffe, Irma B. Clift, Elayne, ed. Haworth, 2002. and Colombardo, Gernando. Fordham University Press, 2002. WOMEN’S STORIES OF DIVORCE AT CHILDBIRTH: TAKING THEIR PLACE: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF WHEN THE BABY ROCKS THE CRADLE. Hoge, Hilary. WOMEN AND JOURNALISM, 2nd ed. Beasley, Maurine H., and Haworth/Haworth Clinical Practice, 2002. Gibbons, Sheila J. Strata, 2003. TEACHING FEMINIST ACTIVISM: STRATEGIES FROM VIDEO THE FIELD. Naples, Nancy A. and Bojar, Karen, eds. Routledge, IF WOMEN RULED THE WORLD: A WASHINGTON DINNER 2002. PARTY, Karz, Richard producer. PBS, 2002 THIS BRIDGE WE CALL HOME: RADICAL VISIONS FOR

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“Allies for Freedom: Non-Black Women in the Movement” Green, Shannon L., “Playing Against Stereotypes: Videos on [book review], by Stephen D. Grubman-Black, vol.23, Women in Popular Music” [video review], vol.23, no.2, no.3, Spring 2002, pp.10–11. Winter 2002, pp.10–13. Barnes, Sherri, “World Wide Web Review: African American/ Greene, Christina, “Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Black/ Womanist Feminism on the Web,” vol.23, no.1, Introduction” [essay intro. to special section], vol.23, no.3, Fall 2001, pp.28–31. Spring 2002, pp.4–6. “Biographies of Frances Freeborn Pauley and Fannie Lou Grossholtz, Jean, “Feminism, Women Workers, and Hamer” [book review], by Kalí Tal, vol.23, no.3, Spring Globalization: Films and Books,” vol.23, no.2, Winter 2002, pp.12–14. 2002, pp.14–16. Blessing, Carol, “World Wide Web Review: Women in the Grubman-Black, Stephen D., “Allies for Freedom: Non-Black Christian Tradition,” vol.23, no.1, Fall 2001, pp.37–40. Women in the Movement” [book review], vol.23, no.3, “Breast Cancer from Many Perspectives” [book review], by June Spring 2002, pp.10–11. L. DeWeese, vol.23, no.1, Fall 2001, pp.4–6. “History of Women’s Clothing and Accessories” [book review], “A Celebration of Intergenerational Mentoring and ‘Mother- by Andrea M. Kolasinski, vol.23, no.4, Summer 2002, ing’” [seven personal essays], by Gladyce Nahbenayash, pp.11–13. Melissa Aimee Pope, Judith Walzer Leavitt, Sarah A. “Items of Note,” by Teresa Fernandez, vol.23, no.2, Winter Leavitt, Barbara Brown James, Stanlie James, & Reagan 2002, pp.39–41; by Caroline Vantine, vol.23, no.3, Spring E.J. Jackson, vol.23, no.1, Fall 2001, pp.11–27. 2002, pp.38–39; vol.23, no.4, Summer 2002, pp.36–37. “Computer Talk,” by JoAnne Lehman, vol.23, no.1, Fall 2001, Jackson, Reagan E.J., [essay in] “A Celebration of pp.41–44; vol.23, no.2, Winter 2002, pp.17–22; vol.23, Intergenerational Mentoring and ‘Mothering,’” vol.23, no.3, Spring 2002, pp.25–28; vol.23, no.4, Summer 2002, no.1, Fall 2001, pp.26–27. pp.18–21. James, Stanlie, [essay in] “A Celebration of Intergenerational DeWeese, June L., “Breast Cancer from Many Perspectives” Mentoring and ‘Mothering,’” vol.23, no.1, Fall 2001, [book review], vol.23, no.1, Fall 2001, pp.4–6. pp.24–26. “The Domestic Is Global: Household Workers Around the James, Barbara Brown, [essay in] “A Celebration of World” [book review], by Carol Mitchell, vol.23, no.2, Intergenerational Mentoring and ‘Mothering,’” vol.23, Winter 2002, pp.1–4. no.1, Fall 2001, pp.22–23. “Domestic Violence Texts: A Review of Teaching Resources” Kavenik, Frances M., “Shifting Shapes: Films on Body Changes [book review], by Karen E. Muench, vol.23, no.2, Winter and Aging for the Women’s Studies Classroom” [video 2002, pp.5–9. review], vol.23, no.1, Fall 2001, pp.7–10. “Feminism, Women Workers, and Globalization: Films and Kolasinski, Andrea M., “History of Women’s Clothing and Books,” by Jean Grossholtz, vol.23, no.2, Winter 2002, Accessories” [book review], vol.23, no.4, Summer 2002, pp.14–16. pp.11–13. “Feminism and Sex Work: A Review of Four Films” [video Kruse, Carrie, [three titles in] “New Reference Works in review], by Catherine M. Orr, vol.23, no.3, Spring 2002, Women’s Studies,” vol.23, no.4, Summer 2002, pp.23, 28– pp.15–18. 29. “Feminist Publishing: EdgeWork Books,” vol.23, no.4, Summer Leavitt, Sarah A., [essay in] “A Celebration of Intergenerational 2002, p.22. Mentoring and ‘Mothering,’” vol.23, no.1, Fall 2001, Fernandez, Teresa, “Items of Note,” vol.23, no.2, Winter 2002, pp.20–21. pp.39–41. Leavitt, Judith Walzer, [essay in] “A Celebration of Fernandez, Teresa, [one title in] “New Reference Works in Intergenerational Mentoring and ‘Mothering,’” vol.23, Women’s Studies,” vol.23, no.1, Fall 2001, p.47. no.1, Fall 2001, pp.18–20. Fraser, M.L., “Zine and Heard: Fringe Feminism and the Zines Lehman, JoAnne, “Computer Talk,” vol.23, no.1, Fall 2001, of the Third Wave,” vol.23, no.4, Summer 2002, pp.6–10. pp.41–44; vol.23, no.2, Winter 2002, pp.17–22; vol.23, “From the Editors,” by JoAnne Lehman, vol.23, no.1, Fall no.3, Spring 2002, pp.25–28; vol.23, no.4, Summer 2002, 2001, p.ii [aging, mothering]; by JoAnne Lehman & pp.18–21. Phyllis Holman Weisbard, vol.23, no.2, Winter 2002, p.ii Lehman, JoAnne, “Periodical Notes,” vol.23, no.1, Fall 2001, [process of soliciting articles]; vol. 23, no.3, Spring 2002, pp.56–57; vol.23, no.2, Winter 2002, pp.36–38; vol.23, p.ii [NWSA, civil rights section]; by JoAnne Lehman & no.3, Spring 2002, pp.36–37; vol.23, no.4, Summer 2002, Caroline Vantine, vol.23, no.4, Summer 2002, p.ii pp.33–35. [editorial internship].

Page 40 Feminist Collections (v.23, no.4, Summer 2002) Levin, Tobe, “World Wide Web Review: Internet-Based “Sisterhood of Courage: Women in the Movement” [book Resources on Female Genital Mutilation,” vol.23, no.3, review], by Deborah Louis, vol.23, no.3, Spring 2002, Spring 2002, pp.19–24. pp.6–9. Louis, Deborah, “Sisterhood of Courage: Women in the Sullivan, Kathryn, “World Wide Web Review: Women Artists Movement” [book review], vol.23, no.3, Spring 2002, on the Internet,” vol.23, no.1, Fall 2001, pp.35–37. pp.6–9. Tal, Kalí, “Biographies of Frances Freeborn Pauley and Fannie McConnell, Barbarly Korper, [one title in] “New Reference Lou Hamer” [book review], vol.23, no.3, Spring 2002, Works in Women’s Studies,” vol.23, no.1, Fall 2001, p.55; pp.12–14. [one title in] vol.23, no.2, Winter 2002, pp.33–34. Vantine, Caroline, [one title in] “New Reference Works in Meirowitz, Sara N.S., “Young Feminists’ Tales” [book review], Women’s Studies,” vol.23, no.1, Fall 2001, p.49. vol.23, no.3, Spring 2002, pp.1–3. Vantine, Caroline, “Items of Note,” vol.23, no.3, Spring 2002, Mitchell, Carol, “The Domestic Is Global: Household Workers pp.38–39; vol.23, no.4, Summer 2002, pp.36–37. Around the World” [book review], vol.23, no.2, Winter Walden, Barbara, [two titles in] “New Reference Works in 2002, pp.1–4. Women’s Studies,” vol.23, no.4, Summer 2002, pp.27, 31. Nahbenayash, Gladyce, [essay in] “A Celebration of Walstrom, Mary K., “World Wide Web Review: Eating Intergenerational Mentoring and ‘Mothering,’” vol.23, Disorder Resources on the Internet,” vol.23, no.1, Fall no.1, Fall 2001, pp.12–14. 2001, pp.31–35. “New Reference Works in Women’s Studies,” by Phyllis Waxman, Barbara, “Revising Our Cultural Stereotypes of Holman Weisbard & others, vol.23, no.1, Fall 2001, Elderly Women and Old Age” [book review], vol.23, no.1, pp.45–55; vol.23, no.2, Winter 2002, pp.23–35; vol.23, Fall 2001, pp.1–4. no.3, Spring 2002, pp.29–35; vol.23, no.4, Summer 2002, Weisbard, Phyllis Holman, “New Reference Works in Women’s pp.23–32. Studies,” vol.23, no.1, Fall 2001, pp.45–55; vol.23, no.2, Orr, Catherine M., “Feminism and Sex Work: A Review of Winter 2002, pp.23–35; vol.23, no.3, Spring 2002, Four Films” [video review], vol.23, no.3, Spring 2002, pp.29–35; vol.23, no.4, Summer 2002, pp.23–32. pp.15–18. “Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Introduction” [essay “Periodical Notes,” by JoAnne Lehman & others, vol.23, no.1, intro. to special section], by Christina Greene, vol.23, Fall 2001, pp.56–57; vol.23, no.2, Winter 2002, pp.36– no.3, Spring 2002, pp.4–6. 38; vol.23, no.3, Spring 2002, pp.36–37; vol.23, no.4, “World Wide Web Review: Contemporary Women Play- Summer 2002, pp.33–35. wrights,” by Sheri Phillabaum, vol.23, no.4, Summer Phillabaum, Sheri, “World Wide Web Review: Contemporary 2002, pp.14–17. Women Playwrights,” vol.23, no.4, Summer 2002, pp.14– “World Wide Web Review: Women Artists on the Internet,” by 17. Kathryn Sullivan, vol.23, no.1, Fall 2001, pp.35–37. “Playing Against Stereotypes: Videos on Women in Popular “World Wide Web Review: Women in the Christian Tradition,” Music” [video review], by Shannon L. Green, vol.23, no.2, by Carol Blessing, vol.23, no.1, Fall 2001, pp.37–40. Winter 2002, pp.10–13. “World Wide Web Review: Eating Disorder Resources on the Pope, Melissa Aimee, [essay in] “A Celebration of Internet,” by Mary K. Walstrom, vol.23, no.1, Fall 2001, Intergenerational Mentoring and ‘Mothering,’” vol.23, pp.31–35. no.1, Fall 2001, pp.15–17. “World Wide Web Review: Internet-Based Resources on “Revising Our Cultural Stereotypes of Elderly Women and Old Female Genital Mutilation,” by Tobe Levin, vol.23, no.3, Age” [book review], by Barbara Waxman, vol.23, no.1, Spring 2002, pp.19–24. Fall 2001, pp.1–4. “World Wide Web Review: African American/ Black/ Rosneck, Karen, [one title in] “Periodical Notes,” vol.23, no.1, Womanist Feminism on the Web,” by Sherri Barnes, vol. Fall 2001, p.56; [two titles in] vol.23, no.4, Summer 23, no.1, Fall 2001, pp.28–31. 2002, pp.33–34. “Young Feminists’ Tales” [book review], by Sara N.S. Rosneck, Karen, “Serial Publications of the Russian Women’s Meirowitz, vol.23, no.3, Spring 2002, pp.1–3. Movement,” vol.23, no.4, Summer 2002, pp.1–5. “Zine and Heard: Fringe Feminism and the Zines of the Third “Serial Publications of the Russian Women’s Movement,” by Wave,” by M.L. Fraser, vol.23, no.4, Summer 2002, pp.6– Karen Rosneck, vol.23, no.4, Summer 2002, pp.1–5. 10. “Shifting Shapes: Films on Body Changes and Aging for the Women’s Studies Classroom” [video review], by Frances M. Kavenik, vol.23, no.1, Fall 2001, pp.7–10.

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