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WOMEN’S STUDIES LIBRARIAN NEW BOOKS ON WOMEN, GENDER, AND FEMINISM Numbers 54–55 Spring–Fall 2009 University of Wisconsin System NEW BOOKS ON WOMEN, GENDER, & FEMINISM Nos. 54–55, Spring–Fall 2009 CONTENTS Scope Statement .................. 1 Reference/ Bibliography . 37 Anthropology...................... 1 Religion/ Spirituality . 38 Art/ Architecture/ Photography . 2 Science/ Mathematics/ Technology . 42 Biography ........................ 4 Sexuality ........................ 42 Economics/ Business/ Work . 8 Sociology/ Social Issues . 43 Education ....................... 10 Sports & Recreation . 47 Film/ Theater..................... 11 Women’s Movement/ General Women's Studies . 48 Health/ Medicine/ Biology . 12 Periodicals ...................... 49 History.......................... 15 Indexes Humor.......................... 19 Authors, Editors, & Translators . 51 Language/ Linguistics . 20 Subjects....................... 63 Law ............................ 20 Citation Abbreviations . 83 Lesbian Studies .................. 22 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, & Queer Studies . 22 New Books on Women, Gender, & Feminism is published by Literature Phyllis Holman Weisbard, Women's Studies Librarian for the University of Wisconsin System, 430 Memorial Library, 728 Drama ........................ 23 State Street, Madison, WI 53706. Phone: (608) 263-5754. Fiction ........................ 24 Email: wiswsl @library.wisc.edu. Editor: Linda Fain. Compilers: Elzbieta Beck, Madelyn R. Homuth, JoAnne Lehman, Heather History & Criticism . 24 Shimon, Phyllis Holman Weisbard, Melissa A. Young. Graphics: Mixed Genres................... 28 Daniel Joe. ISSN 1941-7241. Publications of the Office of the Poetry ........................ 28 UW-System Women’s Studies Librarian are available free of charge to UW Women’s Studies Offices, UW Campus Women’s Centers, and UW Libraries. Subscription rates: Wisconsin Masculinity/Men’s Studies . 31 subscriptions: $10.00 (individuals affiliated with the UW System), $20.00 (organizations affiliated with the UW System), Media .......................... 33 $20.00 (individuals or non-profit women’s programs), $30.00 (institutions). Out-of-state subscriptions: $35.00 (individuals & women’s programs in the U.S.), $65.00 (institutions in the U.S.), Music/ Dance .................... 34 $50.00 (individuals & women's programs in Canada/Mexico), $80.00 (institutions in Canada/Mexico), $55.00 (individuals & Philosophy ...................... 34 women's programs elsewhere outside the U.S.), $85.00 (institutions elsewhere outside the U.S.) Subscriptions include Feminist Collections, Feminist Periodicals, and New Books on Politics/ Political Theory . 35 Women, Gender, & Feminism. Wisconsin subscriber amounts include state tax (except UW organizations amount). All Psychology/ Self-Help . 36 subscription rates include postage. Alternative Cataloging in Publication Data New books on women, gender, & feminism. Madison, WI: Women’s Studies Librarian, University of Wisconsin System. 2/year. Began publication 1979. Entries, arranged by subject, “include all bibliographic information readily available.” 1. Women—Bibliography—Periodicals. 2. Feminism—Bibliography—Periodicals. 3. Feminist literature— Bibliography—Periodicals. 4. Gender—Bibliography—Periodicals. I. University of Wisconsin System. Women’s Studies Librarian. II. Title: Books on women, gender, & feminism. Originated with Sanford Berman; modified in 2008. NEW BOOKS ON WOMEN, GENDER, & FEMINISM No. 54–55, Spring–Fall 2009 Scope: ANTHROPOLOGY A note to readers: In the Spring 2008 issue (No. 52), we began 1. ANCIENT BODIES, ANCIENT LIVES: SEX, GENDER, AND including selected titles in two new categories: “Masculinity/Men’s ARCHAEOLOGY. Joyce, Rosemary A. Thames & Hudson, Studies” and “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, & Queer 2009. 136p. ill. bibl. index. $29.95, ISBN 9780500051535; pap., Studies.” Accordingly, we changed the name of this bibliography from $17.95, ISBN 9780500287279. (BU 8-9/08, p.94) New Books on Women & Feminism to New Books on Women, Gender, & Feminism. 2. DOMESTIC GODDESSES: MATERNITY, GLOBALIZATION AND MIDDLE-CLASS IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA. This bibliography represents a selection of new books (generally fifty or Donner, Henrike. Ashgate, 2008. 192p. ill. bibl. index. $99.95, more pages long) and periodicals that have come to our attention ISBN 9780754649427. (Urban anthropology series.) primarily from reviews and publishers’ announcements and catalogs. For each title, we include all bibliographic information readily available to us. 3. GENDER IN CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE. Brettell, OCLC numbers are listed when we have consulted OCLC (WorldCat) for Caroline B. and Sargent, Carolyn F., eds. Pearson/Prentice entry verification. We scan book reviews in a variety of feminist and Hall, 2009. 5th ed. 600p. bibl. pap., $64.40, ISBN general periodicals. Those listed as sources for a title arrived earliest in 9780136061328. (First published in 1993; 4th ed. published in the production cycle for this issue, or provided us with help in 2005.) (LC) establishing subjects. The absence of a source note indicates that we obtained the information primarily from publishers, Books in Print, OCLC, 4. INCENSE ON A HOLY ALTAR: A STUDY OF WIDOWHOOD or other national catalog searching. The notation LC indicates that the IN ANCIENT INDIA. Adhya, Sarmishtha. Progressive (India), sole source of information was a Library of Congress (LC) record. 2007. 199p. bibl. index. $14.15, ISBN 9788180641190. (Thesis, University of Calcutta.) New Books on Women, Gender, & Feminism is published twice a year (Spring and Fall). Numbers 54–55 (Spring–Fall 2009) cover nonfiction, poetry, and dramatic works published primarily during 2008 and 2009, 5. MARGARET MEAD: THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN ICON. arranged in 32 broad categories. Novels and short story anthologies are Luthkehaus, Nancy C. Princeton University Press, 2008. 392p. not listed in New Books, with the following exceptions: rediscovered ill. bibl. index. $29.95, ISBN 9780691009414. (LJ 12/08, p.135; women writers; English translations; international anthologies; and PW 10/27/08, p.45) reissued classics in new academic editions. Each title is listed only once. However, since many books have multiple subjects, a detailed subject 6. MUSLIMS AND MATRIARCHS: CULTURAL RESILIENCE IN index appears at the end of the bibliography, along with an author index. INDONESIA THROUGH JIHAD AND COLONIALISM. Hadler, The subject index terms are created for New Books by the editor Jeffrey. Cornell University Press, 2008. 211p. ill. bibl. index. following the practices and sensibilities of A Woman’s Thesaurus, edited $39.95, ISBN 9780801446979. (LC) by Mary Ellen S. Capek (New York: Harper & Row, 1989, c.1987). Beginning with Issue 46, we designate country of publication for works 7. MYTHS OF MALE DOMINANCE: COLLECTED ARTICLES ON published outside the United States, Canada, or the United Kingdom. WOMEN CROSS-CULTURALLY. Leacock, Eleanor Burke. Haymarket, 2008. 360p. bibl. index. pap., $18.00, ISBN The “Periodicals” category includes descriptive annotations of first or 9781931859578. sample issues received. 8. ON CREATING A USABLE CULTURE: MARGARET MEAD New Books is NOT an accessions list. We cannot guarantee that books AND THE EMERGENCE OF AMERICAN listed here are held by the University of Wisconsin libraries. We hope COSMOPOLITANISM. Malloy, Maureen A. University of Hawaii that this bibliography will be used to strengthen library collections and Press, 2008. 200p. ill. bibl. index. $39.00, ISBN serve researchers and other interested readers in the U.S. and other 9780824831165. countries. We encourage researchers unable to obtain a book locally to take advantage of interlibrary loan services. Check your local public or 9. PERFORMING GRIEF: BRIDAL LAMENTS IN RURAL CHINA. academic library for details. McLaren, Anne E. University of Hawaii Press, 2008. 209p. bibl. index. $54.00, ISBN 9780824832322. The New Books staff welcomes your suggestions about format, arrangement, and content. 10. THE QUEENS OF ANCIENT EGYPT. REGINE DELL'ANTICO EGITTO. Pirelli, Rosanna. Random House; distr. Rizzoli, 2008. 271p. ill. index. $50.00, ISBN 9788854403345. (Translated from Italian.) 11. SOUTHERN UTE WOMEN: AUTONOMY AND ASSIMILATION ON THE RESERVATION, 1887-1934. Osburn, Katherine M. B. Bison/University of Nebraska Press, 2009. 2nd ed. 184p. ill. 2/ Anthropology/ Art... bibl. index. pap., $18.95, ISBN 9780803220386. (Dissertation, 24. THE BODY IN TIME: FIGURES OF FEMININITY IN LATE University of Denver. Originally published by the University of NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE. Garb, Tamar. University of New Mexico Press, 1998.) Washington Press, 2008. 89p. ill. bibl. index. pap., $24.95, ISBN 9780295987934. 12. STONES WITNESS. Randall, Margaret. University of Arizona Press, 2007. 176p. ill. bibl. pap., $25.00, ISBN 25. CHANGING IDENTITY: RECENT WORKS BY WOMEN 9780816526437. ARTISTS FROM VIETNAM. Taylor, Nora. International Arts and Artists, 2007. 96p. ill. pap., $20.00, ISBN 9780976710240. 13. THEIR OWN FRONTIER: WOMEN INTELLECTUALS RE- (Catalog accompanied a traveling exhibition.) VISIONING THE AMERICAN WEST. Leckie, Shirley A. and Parezo, Nancy J., eds. University of Nebraska Press, 2008. 26. CINEMA REMIXED & RELOADED: BLACK WOMEN ARTISTS 395p. ill. bibl. $27.95, ISBN 9780803229587. AND THE MOVING IMAGE SINCE 1970. Brownlee, Andrea Barnwell and Oliver, Valerie Cassel. Spelman College Museum 14. THERE WAS A WOMAN: LA LLORONA FROM FOLKLORE of Fine Art,