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ISSN: 0742-7441 © 2013 Regents of the University of Wisconsin System Feminist Collections A Quarterly of Women’s Studies Resources Volume 34, Numbers 3–4, Summer–Fall 2013 CONTENTS From the New Librarian ii From the Editors iv BOOK REVIEWS Nothing in Common: Girls Who Became Women Artists 1 by Alison Gates Stories as Animal Advocacy Tactics: A Messy and Complicated Business 4 by Dianna Hunter FEMINIST VISIONS Searching for Their Place: Negotiating Female Identity in a Changing India 8 by Elzbieta Beck, Heather Shimon, & Melissa A. Young Eye to Eye: Diane di Prima and the Poetry Deal 12 by Ingrid Swanberg E-Sources on Women & Gender 14 New Reference Works in Women’s Studies 19 Periodical Notes 26 Books Recently Received 29 Subscription Form 31 FROM THE NEW LIBRARIAN I was asked by longtime editor I was a voracious reader and loved spent eleven happy, fruitful years at the JoAnne Lehman to write a column books and libraries. Despite this, I had Carroll Library. I was serving as the In- for this issue of Feminist Collections, never thought of pursuing librarian- terim Associate Director and enjoying introducing myself as the new Gender ship as a career until I began working being Diversity Librarian — a position & Women’s Studies Librarian for the in the library at Carroll in 2003. After I had created with my former direc- University of Wisconsin System. As graduating from Carroll that year, I tor six years earlier — and I had many you know, my esteemed predecessor, immediately began pursuing my MLIS amazing partnerships with colleagues Phyllis Holman Weisbard, retired last at UW-Milwaukee, completing it in around the campus and community. summer after holding this position for 2006. twenty-two years. So of course I want- Two weeks later, though, a ed to oblige, but I hemmed and hawed But this story is about a pencil… Carroll alumna with whom I wasn’t for weeks about where to begin…until familiar contacted me on Facebook. it dawned on me to start at the begin- She encouraged me to apply for the ning. And that beginning for me was position of Gender & Women’s Stud- a pencil. ies Librarian, insisting that while it That’s right, a pencil: a purple would be a vast change from Carroll, one, to be exact, with a white eraser. I the position would be a perfect fit for received this pencil at the table of the Back in 2002 at the conference, me. I was so taken aback at this gesture UW System’s Women’s Studies Librar- after I nervously presented my humble that I had to apply. I was nervous and ian at the 27th Annual UW System student’s opinion, I was meandering thrilled when I received a request for a Women’s Studies Conference in 2002. around the tables and came upon one phone interview and then an in-person It was the first time I had presented at which I was given this purple pen- interview. at an academic conference. As an un- cil with the white eraser. I took the Because it had all unfolded so aus- dergraduate at Carroll College (albeit pencil and read the printing on the piciously, I decided to go through the a “non-traditional,” single-mothering side: “Visit the UW Women’s Studies interview process being as transparent one, with a full-time job and four- Librarian,” with the URL of the office’s as possible. I thought, “If they see the year-old son), I was there to provide a website. real me and think that I am a fit, then student’s perspective of embodiment it is meant to be!” So while I was un- and the use of visual imagery to teach Women’s Studies Librarian? I had certain whether or not it was the right gender. I was so excited and honored no idea there was such a thing! What thing to do, I shared with the search to be on the panel with three of my a fantastic job! To combine women’s committee the story of the purple pen- most respected Carroll professors, Drs. studies and books?? While still having cil and the message from the unknown Lori Duin Kelly, Kimberly Redding, no designs on librarianship, I walked student, both of which had made such and Barb King. away with that pencil and kept it for a big impact on me. many years. I went to that website, I was studying history and followed Phyllis’s posts on email lists of I cannot adequately express how women’s studies at Carroll at the time, which we were both a part, took notice ecstatic I was to be offered this posi- determined to finally finish my Bach- of the events we both attended, and tion. While it was difficult to leave elor’s degree. After Carroll, I planned read the publications of the Office of Carroll, a place full of people and to earn advanced degrees at UW– the Women’s Studies Librarian. experiences so important to my profes- Madison and become a professor of In 2013, I was shocked to see that sional, academic, and personal devel- history and/or women’s studies. Before after twenty-two years, Phyllis Holman opment, I knew I had to jump at the I could take that path, however, I was Weisbard was retiring. I must have opportunity for this, my dream job. It offered a full-time support staff posi- looked at the job description posted was serendipity. tion in Carroll’s Todd Wehr Memorial by the search committee for hiring And so, I began this amazing jour- Library. Like most librarians will say, her successor, but I didn’t seriously ney in October 2013, spending time consider applying. By this time I had with Phyllis during my first few weeks Page ii Feminist Collections (v. 34, nos. 3–4, Summer–Fall 2013) on the job. She is such a wealth of to that “unknown” alumna…who is sions of excitement and inspiration as knowledge and experience! I kept hear- also named Karla, and for whom, after she looked ahead to the challenges and ing from others how difficult it would I accepted the position, I bought a cup opportunities of this position. I must be for me to fill such big shoes…not of coffee as a small gesture of my enor- express gratitude to her for continuing a real confidence-builder! All kidding mous gratitude. I learned an amazing to share her time and wisdom with aside, though, everyone has been ex- lesson in believing in oneself from all me, for building this office and posi- tremely supportive and kind during of you. Thank you, also, to the staff of tion into the force for change that it this major life transition and for this, the General Library System at Madi- is, and for, as she aptly put it in her I will always be grateful — to my col- son and especially to the most amazing final column in the Winter–Spring leagues at Carroll, especially the library employees a librarian could work with: 2013 issue of FC, passing on to me staff and my mentor and former direc- JoAnne, Linda, Lachrista, Bess, Mel, “the opportunity to have the best job tor, Lelan McLemore; to Lori, Kimber- and Emily.