FEMINIST COLLECTIONS a Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources

Volume 19, Nb. 4, Summer 1998

FEMINIST COLLECTIONS A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources

Women and the Social Imagination in Medieval Europe Book review by Catherine Peyroux Medieval Women and Texts Book review by Bonnie Duncan Working-class Activism Meets Feminist Scholarship: Is There Common Ground? Book review by Jan Levine Thal Our Bodies, Our Cells: Feminist Ethics and the New Reproductive Technology Book review by Laurie Zoloth-Dorfman Feminist Visions: The Lives of Women in Africa Jo Ellen Fair looks at some films on African women

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CONTENTS

From the Editors Book Reviews Women and the Social Imagination in Medieval Europe by Catherine Peyroux Medieval Women and Texts by Bonnie Duncan Working-class Activism Meets Feminist Scholarship: Is There Common Ground? by Jan Levine Thal Our Bodies, Our Cells: Feminist Ethics and the New Reproductive Technology by Laurie Zoloth-Dorfman Feminist Visions The Lives of Women in Africa by Jo Ellen Fair World Wide Web Reviews On the Trail: Reproductive Rights Legal History on the Web by Beth Fredrick Medieval Women Websites by Cynthia Ho Computer Talk Compiled by Linda Shult Feminist Publishing Congratulations and goodbyes New Reference Works in Women's Studies Reviewed by Phyllis Holman Weisbard and others Periodical Notes Compiled by Linda Shult Items of Note Compiled by Jennifer Kitchak Books Recently Received Supplement: Index to Volume 19 FROMTHE EDITORS:

The more things change. . . .

So goes the old saying, and how true it turns out to be sometimes. When The Modem Library (an imprint of Random House) recently produced its list of "the one hundred best twentieth-century novels in English," it was more of the same. Only eight women authors made the list. Sure, it was a marketing ploy by the publisher (fifty-nine of the books on the list are published by the Bertels- mann group of Germany, which recently bought Random House), and the list was compiled by an "unbiased" Modem Library editorial board (yeah, right, with one woman among the ten). Yet one has to wonder, in the 1990s, at how little progress we seem to have made, at least in the established literary world.

Going far back in time, as Jane Schulenberg writes in Forgetfir1 of Their Sex (reviewed this issue by Catherine Peyroux), we find that the early Middle Ages "seemed to encourage more fluid or flexible roles for the sexes" and that once the idea of saintliness changed, around 800, women became lauded more for their domestic virtues than their learning. At stake, Schulenberg argues, was the Church's "exercise [of] social control through the promotion of a new female image." In Bonnie Duncan's review of Women and the Book, edited by Jane H.M. Taylor and Lesley Smith, she details Kate Lowe's essay on women in the NEXT ISSUE: Benedictine Convent of Le Murate, in Florence, during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. For awhile, it seems, the nuns were able to gain some measure Book reviews on: of self-sufficiency through their scriptoria's publication of manuscripts. "Scribal activity for profit by nuns was later outlawed in the gloomy patriarchal years of Grassmots activism the Counter-Reformation," Lowe notes. "Instead, nuns were to revert to their Autobiogmphy as a genre long-standing passive role as recipients of charity rather than generators of Feminists in academe income." A look at conflicting cultures in Clearly, as Duncan notes, there were strong (though few) female voices all distance educhtion chsses through the medieval period, some of which are only now being brought to light for serious study. We also know there were many popular women authors during Web reviews on Third World the nineteenth century whose work was all but lost until its recovery during the women and on domestic violence "second wave" of the feminist movement, just over the past thirty years or so.

It's an ongoing struggle. Every time an "unbiased" list such as the Modern plus all the regular columns: Library's top one hundred tries to re-establish some type of hierarchy, largely New Reference Works, Com- ignoring the work of women and people of color, we have no choice but to puter Talk, Periodical Notes, protest. Sometimes it scarcely seems worth the effort. Yet the nuns of Le Murate Items of Note, and more. would tell us we must, especially because at this point in time we have the wherewithal1 to do so. As African American activist Florynce Kennedy once said in her book Color Me Flo, "What we don't understand about a liberation struggle is you never win it, any more than you 'win' clean dishes. As soon as you eat on them, the dishes are duty again." Carry on.

8 L.S. and P.H.W. Women and the Social Imagination in study of women in the religious life in Medieval Europe sarly medieval Europe that employs a marvelous variety of sources but centers by Catherine Peyroux on hagiography, the biographical writings about holy figures called simply the "lives" of the saints. The Barbara Hanawalt, 'OF GOOD AND ILL REPUTE': GENDER AND SOCIAL book consists of a set of interrelated CONTROL IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND. New York: Oxford University Press, essays, of which nearly half have been 1998. 208p. bibl. index. $39.95, ISBN, 0-19-510948-1; pap., $19.95, ISBN, O- previously published, on the conditions 19-5 10949-X. of women's sanctity between the sixth and twelfth centuries. Schulenberg is Jane Tibbetts Schulenberg, FORGETFUL OF THEIR SEX: FEMALE SANC- especially interested in the period TITY AND SOCIETY, CA. 500-1100. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, before 950 C.E., the of European 1998. 562p. bibl. index. $34.95, ISBN 0-226-74053-6; pap., $19.95, ISBN O- era history that produced societies charac- 226-74054-4. terized by small-scale political units and a decentralized church. Such factors encouraged the promotion of many local saints, of which a compara- Does society make the woman? temporally situated facet of human tively high proportion were noble- Among historians, the answer is am- behavior. But of course, because the women; the ratio of female to male biguous: society surely shapes the dimensions of gendered existence are saints was never remotely so high again person, but the socially transgressive so intricately implicated in the back- in the Middle Ages (see table on p.63). figure can hardly be explained by a ground of everyday life, it is a daunt- Schulenberg undertakes to explain this socially determinist theory. Yet his- ing task to recover the rules both phenomenon and to explore what can torians' desire hlly to understand the explicit and unwritten, boundaries be learned about the surrounding lives of people in the past necessarily both marked and invisible, that societies by examining the models of involves historical attention to the ordered relations between the sexes in behavior by which female sanctity was social context in which individuals the long-dead communities of me- measured. She finds that the early acted and events occurred. Even - or dieval Europe. Indeed, the task of Middle Ages "seemed to encourage perhaps especially - when the person recovery is arguably the more daunt- more fluid or flexible roles for the in question is as singular a case as was ing for medievalists, who work within sexes, a certain symmetry in male and Joan of Arc, historians are bound to an economy of comparative documen- female experience, and an atmosphere explore the surrounding terms on tary scarcity. So the topic of gender in which the distinctions of gender were which women lived their lives, if only remains a challenge for medievalists somewhat blurred" @.403), in a social in order to make sense of an excep- endeavoring to tease out an elusive environment in which aristocratic or tional woman's historically specific but powerfully pervasive reality of the royal family position played an over- transgressions (such as the preeminent gender system: the social imagination whelming part in the promotion of any anxieties raised for her captors by of women's and men's right - and person, male or female, to sainthood. Joan's insistence on wearing men's wrong - behavior. In these two As Schulenberg notes, saints are by clothes). Accordingly, the construc- volumes Jane Tibbetts Schulenberg defintion exceptional and often tivist account of gender, which under- and Barbara Hanawalt present the transgressive beings, but the ideals they stands a gendered identity to be both hits of their respective investigations embody extend across a society's hopes mutable over time and fkom society to into the horizons of expectation that and anxieties about the gender category society, has long been naturally con- defined the scope of women's experi- the saint represents. Thus when styles sonant with general historical practice; ence in medieval Europe. of sanctity changed for women - once after all, scholars interested in change praised for the holiness of their ascetic over time should be well able to absorb Schulenberg's Forgetficl of Thei~ trials or wide learning, but after 800 the notion that gender is yet another Sex is a long-awaited, monumental increasingly lauded for domestic virtues

FeministCollections voLI9,no.4 Summer 1998 1 such as weaving or housekeeping - surrounding their distant husbands' each case than to start with the work Schulenberg suggests that what was at fates, while 'folktale' or popular presented here. Both scholars frame stake was the church's "exercise [of] narratives evinced both male concerns their topics with due attention to the social control through the promotion of over the chastity of an unsupervised literature in which the articles inter- a new female image" (pp. 118-20). wife and, in an extraordinary version, vene, making many of the pieces mini- women's delight in outwitting male introductions to the issues they address. Social control is a preoccupation challenges to female chastity and Perhaps equally welcome is each of Barbara Hanawalt's Of Good and Ill business acumen (pp.88- 103). Stun- author's determination to compose Repute, but Hanawalt examines life on ningly, in this most stereotypically jargon-free prose; the refreshing the other end of the social spectrum, in class-bound and socially static society, lucidity of the writing guides the reader a period (the fourteenth and fifteenth Hanawalt finds evidence that gender gracefully through the often obscure centuries) when the richer documen- trumped class in the fictive space and technically difficult documents tary record, and especially the thicker created by the poem (p.99). In one from which the evidence is drawn, legal evidence, makes possible a more redaction, a carpenter's wife dupes making these essays a pleasure to read. reliable reconstruction of everyday life three suitors, one of them a lord, who Schulenberg and Hanawalt, both for ordinary women in rural and urban had propositioned her in her husband's historians for whom the question is not space. While women appear through- absence; she takes their money but whether but how society shapes the out this volume (which, like gives them nothing in return and woman, invite us to develop our own Schulenberg's book, is comprised of forces them to do the women's work of imaginations of gender systems at once separate essays, many published preparing flax. When the lord's wife temporally distant but now and again previously), feminist scholars are likely arrives, the two women mock the men familiar to our modem world. to be most directly engaged by chapters for having assumed female roles and five through eight. These sections the lady even tells the carpenter's wife deftly comb sources as disparate as to keep the money (p.100). It is a [Catherine Peyroux is an Assistant coroners' rolls and poetic narrative to fantasy narrative set in the very real Professor of Medieval History at Duke expose the contours of daily existence. world of cloth production and house- University. She is currently complet- Records of accidents suggest that in wifery. The research in this collection ing a book on gendered religious the village, women's space was takes the reader directly to the texture authority and dual-sex monasticism in typically confined to the home and the of the ordinary person's ordinary day, the early medieval West. Her research village' itself, where men's activities no small achievement for a society half interests include the christianization of normally included the fields and forest a millennium away from our own. Europe from Late Antiquity through (p.77). A comparison of the real and the Middle Ages, the history and fictive anxieties of separation that Specialists should welcome these historiography of medieval Ireland, faced urban artisans and their wives essay collections for the cumulative and the intersection of poverty and shows that women's real narratives interweaving of their arguments as leprosy- in the medieval Eurouean revolved around the problems of well as for the masses of hard data imagination.] managing the family business in the they contain. Students and interested absence of a spouse and the uncertainty generalists could hardly do better in

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2 Feminist Collections ~01.19,no.4 Summer 1998 Medieval Women and Texts The strength of this book, then, is ts focus upon women's giving voice to by Bonnie Duncan hernselves, providing a powerful ange of vocalities and dimensions for nd as women. What it provides to us Joan M. Ferrante, TO THE GLORY OF HER SEX: WOMEN'S ROLES IN .s readers, as women placed within THE COMPOSITION OF MEDIEVAL TEXTS. Bloomington: Indiana Univer- nu own time and with our own need sity Press, 1997. 295p. bibl. index. $39.95, ISBN 0-253-33254-0; pap., $19.95, a recurring one in every age) for ISBN 0-253-2 1108-5. extual authenticities, is a carefully easoned history of strong medieval Jane H. M. Taylor and Lesley Smith, eds., WOMEN AND THE BOOK: ASSESS- emale voices. By way of example, ING THE VISUAL EVIDENCE. (The British Library Studies in Medieval :onsider a bit of Ferrante's treatment Culture) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996.287~.bibl. index. $75.00, )f the countess of Dia, who ISBN 0-8020-4216-3; pap., $29.95, ISBN 0-8020-8069-3. can also suffer for love, but Monica Brzezinski Potkay and Regula Meyer Evitt, MINDZNG THE BODY: she sees no good reason to and WOMEN AND LITERATURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES, 800 -1500. (Twayne's prefers not to: A chantar m 'er Women and Literature Series) New York: TwayneMacmillan, 1997. 238p. bibl. de so q 'ieu no volria, rant me index. $28.95, ISBN 0-8057-8981-2. rancur de liu cui sui amia, "I have to sing about what I would rather not, I am so dis- tressed by him whose lover I Developed by contemporary mists upon a focus on relationality, am." She deserves and expects women about medieval women, these which continues to be developed joy in love, having all the three books have interest as a group. throughout the book. requisite qualities: . . . "my When I first became a medievalist, I Ferrante notes that, %hen medi- prestige and my rank, my found myself simultaneously searching sval men write theoretically about the beauty and more my true heart for voices in the literature that authen- female sex, they may condemn it or should avail." . . . She does ticated parts of myself: the poet drove relegate it to subordinate roles, but not worry about what is,fitting the medievalist, and the person when they - even the same men - deal for her, but tells him how he (whoever she wadis) drove the poet. with individual women, they treat them should behave. . . . As a woman in my fifties, I'm fmding as colleagues or even as superiors. The problem is in him; he those selves merging a bit more Whatever they may think of the idea of does not love as she does and smoothly, but only a bit, and it is for women [my emphasis] in such a she takes pleasure in conquer- that reason that I read the work of the position, they accept the fact" (pp.6-7). ing him in love, though he is scholars discussed below with excite- And what of the ideas women have of more valiant . . . . She expects ment and passion, and more than a themselves? him to treat their love with the little appreciation. "What is particularly striking in same respect she does, but she the letters and in texts commissioned implies that unless he does, Joan Ferrante has produced a by women," Ferrante notes, "is how she will not either. . . . he stunning book, at once impeccably much women, even those playing male owes her love, both because researched and written in smooth, roles in secular government or rising she is the most deserving and clean, well-reasoned prose that is a above sex in their religious lives, are because he made a commit- delight to read. The book is divided aware of themselves as women and ment to her. (p.194) into three sections: "Women in identify with powerfid or effective, not Correspondence," "Women in Collabo- oppressed women in history. . . . Such Strong women, strong voices. The ration," and "Women in Control." models are evoked by fiiends and kinds of voices I want my daughter to Perhaps the most useful is the section counselors not only fiom biblical and grow up knowing have always existed, on correspondence, not only because ancient history but also fiom contempo- must always exist. Literature we need this area of scholarship has too long rary history, sometimes fiom the to be reading and discussing not just been underrepresented, but because it women's own families" (p.7). in literature classes, but women's

Feminist Collections vo1.19, n0.4 Summer 1998 3 shelters. As always, Ferrante deserves eason enough to undertake this very The book also contains troubling our full attention and respect. With :arefully researched study. Lowe notes ;ender assumptions. When discussing time, we can only hope that our society hat he Old English text Elene, for will deserve hers. nstance, the authors suggest that "Like The gap between permis- Mary, Elene manifests spiritual truth. 1must admit to a particular sible self-sufficiency and a 3er task is always the maternal one of loathing for bound conference "pro- not-to-be-countenanced suc- Sevealing what before was secret and ceedings." Thus, I was delighted to cessful and skillful cash mknowable." Similarly, "Adornment is discover Women and the Book, a economy, not based on barter, ~aditionallythe province of women [in splendid work whose contributors have was crossed by the nuns of Le 30th cases, my emphasis], as we're produced strong articles that blend Murate in Florence in the late reminded when Elene appears as 'the well into a cohesive whole. The text, fifteenth and early sixteenth war-queen bedecked with gold"' arising from St. Hilda's Conference on centuries, with serious con- 3.38). In fact, royalty were expected to Women and the Book in the Middle sequences. Scribal activity for be so arrayed, as the spiritual and Ages (1993), includes strong graphics profit by nuns was later out- physical representatives of their lands, (9 color plates and 103 black-and- lawed in the gloomy patriar- and it was instead moments when white prints) that make the text clear chal years of the Counter- royalty deliberately divested themselves and exciting to follow. Reformation. Instead, nuns ~f such symbols - going barefootk "An image," the authors note, were to revert to their long- their undergarments, for example - "can never be a 'simple record' of the standing passive role as that were worthy of note. In readings of artist's world. We are too knowing recipients of charity rather this sort, the authors reify gender ever to use a term like cinha vkritk than generators of income. stereotypes (maternal=spiritual, on the without an edge of irony or self- (p.143) one hand, while woman = vanity, a regard. Images, too, are constructions, clothes horse, on the other) which whether conscious or not, of the artists IXs and the success of the printing certainly existed, but are unnecessary who make them, and in turn they may press moved Le Murate out of the here. be constructm [original emphasis] of publishing business. In spite of such frustrations, I did the worlds they profess to record. This Virtually all of the articles in this find myself caught up with the book. I dual role of image as construction and book are as carefully researched, enjoyed being reminded that a central as constructor must be particularly clearly written, and generously role of Germanic noblewomen women borne in mind when the images are of illustrated as Lowe's. Taylor and was 'peaceweaver.' The authors' argu- a largely disempowered group such as Smith are to be commended for its ment is at once powerful and taut when medieval women. . . ." The book integrity. they say that "combines visual evidence with the text it supports or illustrates," (pp.16- Minding the ~odyWomen and Grendel's mother is not the 17) centering on gender and mirror- Literature in the Middle Ages, 800 - antithesis of the other women ing. 1500 would seem to have been in the poem but an icon of Kate Lowe's "Women's Work at designed for inclusion in undergradu- their status - she is 'in the the Benedictine Convent of Le Murate ate and public libraries. To what likeness of a lady'. . .[which in Florence: Suora Battista Carducci's degree does it meet those needs? In suggests that] she is a likeness Roman Missal of 1509" examines the fact, general lack of focus becomes the in the sense of a symbolic work of a particular named nun (quite book's greatest disappointment. Far representation. For all of the rare at the time). Investigation into the too often and rather too predictably it human women are mothers handwritten text and named nun becomes yet another text discussing and, as peaceweavers [traded provided a glimpse into the scriptoria genderltextuality while drawing from in marriage to bind otherwise at Le Murate, which existed well into predictable materials in shallow detail, warring tribes together], exiles the sixteenth century. Before the at a time when educators are moving from their native lands. And unlocking of Suora Battista Carducci's away from general survey courses no one is more maternal or identity, no copyist at Le Murate could skimming the "full corpus," preferring outcast than Grendel's mother, be ascribed a name, and no manuscripi instead a tighter focus that produces who lives alone with her son could be ascribed a copyist" (p. 143) - greater depth and detail. in the boggy marshes outside civilization. (p.45)

4 Feminist Collections vo1.19, no.4 Summer 1998 Unfortunately, the author suggests epilogue - that "A remarkably un- into our own time, and as a result, high that "using women to peaceweave changing image of women appearing quality recovery and redefinition are to marginalizes them - and demonizes and reappearing in texts through the be greatly valued. them as well" (p.46). This pushes the eighteenth century and even beyond is argument too far, focusing on gender due partly to how powerfully that [Bonnie Duncan holds joint appoint- rather than the more general human image, created by men, worked to ments in English and Women 's Studies tragedy of those who fail to extend the control women" (p. 192) - too often at Millersville University, Millersville, weave of light and peace around the reinforces exactly the case the authors Pennsylvania. She is General Editor of gift-stool and mead cup to include a work to demolish. ReSoundings, a New Media periodical broader humanity, but instead choose in the humanities residing entirely on to walk (and swim) with those (of Overall, these books lay to rest the Web, and is presently Director of whatever gender) they exclude, and in far more demons than they raise, and the New Media Design Center for the SO doing, name, and thus create, do so with clean, crisp prose and PA. Virtual University and Millersville monsters and demons. careful scholarship. Renaissance1 DistancdDigital Education. ] Demons can be and are created in reformation propagandists handed us a both directions, and the authors' much curtailed arena for female perspective, as expressed in their aspirations that maintained itself well

Working-class Activism Meets Onebook that successfi11y seeks common ground is Class Matters: Feminist Scholarship: Is There 'Working-Class' Women 's Perspectives on Social Class, edited by Pat Mahony Common Ground? and Christine Zmroczek. The book includes sixteen essays by British women academics from working-class by Jan Levine Thal backgrounds who describe their own and sometimes others' personal Pat Mahoney and Christine Zmroczek, CLASS MATTERS: 'WORKING- histories as a means to theoee class/ CLASS' WOMEN'S PERSPECTIVES ON SOCLQL CLASS. London; Bristol, gender meanings. Characterized by PA: Taylor and Francis, 1997. 210p. bibl. index. ISBN 0-7484-0540-2; pap., ''confusion and ambivalence in $24.95, ISBN 0-7484-0541-0. locating themselves as 'working- class"' (p.3), several describe their Rosemary Hennessey and Chrys Ingraham, eds., MATERMLIST FEMINISM: A class circumstances as "fluid," noting READER IN CLASS, DIFFERENCE, AND WOMEN'S LIVES. New York: "sometimes overlapping, sometimes Routledge, 1997. 430p. bibl. $75.00, ISBN 0-415-91633-X; pap., $24.95, ISBN contradictory experiences" (Bogusia 0-415-91634-8. Temple, p.85). The intended audience for Class Elizabeth Higginbotham and Mary Romero, eds., WOMEN AND WORK: Matters seems to be other scholars - EXPLORING RACE, ETHNICITY, AND CLASS. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, particularly those who do not share the 1997. (Women and work, v.6) 269p. bibl. index. $55.00, ISBN 0-8039-5058-6; class experiences of its writers. Meg pap., $24.95, ISBN 0-8039-5059-4. Maguire writes: "For those who construct class in a relatively 'closed' manner, all women in the academy can only ever be middle-class. Those of us Toa feminist activist, feminist seemingly overdressed angels dancing who inhabit a more messy, sometimes scholarship often seems far afield from on obscure heads of the ivy-covered incoherent social world are at times the demands of daily life. Activists pins. Thus, it is gratifying to find work situated in a place with no border" who struggle to read scholarly work that attempts to straddle both town and (p.90). Val Walsh states baldly, "For purportedly written to support them gown. marginals in society, there is no value can be frustrated and bored by the in the stance of the critical onlooker"

Feminist Collections vo1.19, no.4 Summer 1998 5 (p. 168). Hearteningly, Walsh goes on rt :ference work for organizers. A as 'balancing out,' as unimpor- to clarify that she does not oppose nlixed bag of scholarly forms, Women tant. (p. 169) scholarly inquiry but favors activism. a nd Work addresses race, ethnicity, "My hybrid identity and liminal sund social class in the United States, Similarly, organizers who work sensibility provide a vantage point on e:xploring women's jobs and consider- {ith volunteers may find it useful to the world which provokes in me ixig the relationship between work, ead Mary Pardo's exploration of the political anguish and perseverance; CIommunity, and activism. lass basis of volunteer work among aesthetic and spiritual exhilaration; The volume opens with "An dexican American women in a poor laughter and hope (still)" (p. 168). Ekonomic Profile of Women in the :atholic community. She found that It is gratifying to find that many I. hited States," by Bkbara J. Robles, hey were not "volunteers" in the of the volume's contributors question utho closely considers economic raditional middle-class defmition, but the value of working-to-middle-class c onditions for various subsets of U.S. vere instead much-needed unpaid transformation. Diane Reay laments, u{omen, sadly concluding, "We cannot vorkers who had no choice but to "We are the tokenistic edge of elitist clairn equality in gender or ethnic1 ~articipateas free labor in their policies . . . . We stand for a triumph tacial economic well-being for women :hildren's school. of individualism over community, hn the United Sates as we approach the Sandra Morgen summarizes a proof that equal opportunities work." 2:Ist century. It appears we are not yet eries of painfully contradictory She adds, "It is not a comfortable place b~eyond the need for affmtive and locuments and interviews among a to be" (p.20). Similarly, Kim Clancy p~roactive policies for all female com- ~oupof working-class and profes- intones, "The denial of this language, r nunities" (p.25). Key to her analysis is iional women who cofounded a this body, this self, is one cost to the aI caution against common misuses of women's health clinic in the 1970s. working-class woman of entering the statistics about socioeconomic charac- Nhen the clinic failed, the women middle-class world. She becomes a t eristics. "It is essential," she writes, generally divided along class lines in Judas in the Garden of Gethsemene, '( 'that no one group be held up as 'the )laming one another for the demise. exchanging her class heritage for ten rnodel"' (p.24). vlorgen finds that poor communication pieces of silver" (p.49). The emphasis on practical lessons is well as structural power imbalances In the Anglo-Indian community of threads through most of the book. In a were key to the acrimony. She con- Shani D'Cruze's youth, her father I)owerful discussion of racism, Lynn :ludes that the lessons of that experi- "had come to Britain perceiving 7Weber and Elizabeth Higginbotham :nce are still meaningful in the 1990s. himself as a middle-class professional t;ort out the responses of two hundred citizen and found hostility, racism and 1women interviewees concerning their Feminist theorists and low-paid clerical work which would (:xperiences with workplace racial and activists may be more aware only buy damp, cold, crumbling rented 1gender biases. Both Black and White today of how class (and racial housing" (p.73). Yet her parents 1women thought they had been mis- and ethnic) differences and distinguished their own community 1treated because of gender. However, conflicts divide women and from that of Afro-Caribbeans, whom 1though many Black respondents undermine their political they disparaged. D'Cruze describes described experiencing racism, White organizational efficacy than this as "inept attempts to negotiate the tcoworkers tended not to validate those was commonplace in the competing discourses of class, race Iexperiences, or to explain them away. middle and late 1970s. . ' . . and family" (p.74). She and others in The lesson is clear that: However, until scholars, this volume acknowledge that such activists. and women at large- negotiation is crucial not only for the largest obstacle to achiev- more fully understand how theoretical clarity but to effect desired ing White women's support class works in our every day social change. Thus, the book's for Black people's struggles lives, we will undoubtedly audience may be their middle-class against racism is the pervasive continue to experience academic colleagues, but the writers belief in a 'color-blind' difficulties in forging cross- do not see theory as an end in itself. ideology and practice. It is a class relations and alliances in set of beliefs that minimizes our workplaces and our shared women and Work: Exploring the importance of race by not communities. (p. 15 1) Race, Ethnicity and Class, edited by seeing it or by recognizing Elizabeth Higginbotham and Mary race while denying power Ironically, these lessons are Romero, offers less personal work but differences among races and harder to find in Materialist Femi- could easily be considered a compan- thereby treating any observed nism: A Reader in Class, Dzference, ion volume to Class Matters and differences in stereotyped and Women S Lives, edited by Rose- shares some of its strengths as a negative attitudes or behaviors mary Hennessy and Chrys Ingraham.

6 Fcminlst Colldctions voLI9, no.4 Summer 1998 Miriam Greenwold

Granted, the purpose of the book is to scholars is fme and good, but for a tinual attacks upon our lives and our consider theory, not practice. It offers non-scholar, the discussions of post- advances. If the problem is that no-one three decades of selected essays, modernism are the least clearly rele- gets it because we're misled by post- beginning with Margaret Benston's vant to the day-to-day struggle of modernism, it is unfortunate that in 1969 piece, "The Political Economy of women's lives. It was Karl Marx who this case, at least, Marxism is no more Women's Liberation," and concluding said that the point is not to analyze the accessible than the theory it is criticiz- with current scholarship that specifi- world but to change it. ing. cally attacks the systemic basis of the The volume is not, however, oppression and exploitation of women. simply a polemic against post-modern- Scholars may not fmd it accept- The editors write, "If a shared ism. It also criticizes the ways in able to consider academic work on the commitment within feminism to the which Marxism itself has thus far basis of whether it is useful for improvement of women's lives exists, failed women. "Materialist analyses of activists. I wouldn't know. Surely, there is no shared agreement that women's condition, to the extent that though, any hope for progress depends feminism necessarily involves combat- they constitute an attempt to transform on finding ways to speak with one ting capitalism's class system" (p.9). marxism, constitute also a move another on neutral turf, and some Part of the non-agreement arises toward the construction of a marxist scholars seem to be searching for that from a misunderstanding of the value feminism," wrote Annette Kuhn and terrain. of the Marxist analysis, according to Ann Marie Wolpe in 1978.' In just the editors. The premises of Marxist such a materialist analysis, Rose M. [Jan Levine Thai has been the manag- feminism have been "persistently Brewer finds a "qualitative difference ing editor of The Journal of Human misread, distorted, or buried under the in the lives of African-American Resources since 1985. In the same weight of flourishing postmodern women through the simultaneity of period she has also been a radio cultural politics" (p.5). Carole Stabile oppression and resistance." (p.247) For interviewerfor WORT-. in Madison, blames postmodernism for a "depol- scholars, the tracing of the develop- Wisconsin, and has written for numer- iticization and apathy among academ- ment of this stream of feminist theory ous publications.] ics" (p.406), whom she fears are is no doubt valuable. For activists, its interested in "the political" and "the value is less apparent or perhaps NOTES social" as "an apologia for learning to simply less accessible. live with the status quo" (p.407). Marxism's criticism of capitalism 1. Feminism and Materialism (Lon- Urging politicization, passion, and is an essential and fundamental part of don: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978), L, opposition to the status quo upon understanding why women face con- pp.8-9. e.

Feminist Collections vo1.19, no.4 Summer 1998 7 -. Our Bodies, Our Cells: Feminist :xtraordinary power of reproductive research and therapy to careful, Ethics and the New Reproductive magisterial work toward a definitive theory to illuminate our response. Technology The fact that reproductive technology has developed so dramatically has by Laurie 2010th-Dorfman depended at least in part on the very women's movement that has produced such fine women's studies departments. As women postponed childrearing, Martine Rothblatt, UNZIPPED GENES: TTAglNG CHARGE OF BABY- fertility decreased and reproductive MAKING IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM. Philadelphia: Temple University choices were altered. Americans also Press, 1997. 201p. index. $49.95, ISBN 1-56639-522-4; pap., $18.95, ISBN 1- began to expect that choices, so 56639-554-2. important to a self-definition, would include positive as well as negative Laura Purdy, REPRODUCING PERSONS: ISSUES IN FEMINIST BIOETH- ones: hence the expectation was raised, ICS. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996. 257p. bibl. index. $45.00, ISBN O- far beyond the right of access to 8014-3243-X; pap., $17.95, ISBN 0-8014-8322-0. abortion, that the decision to have a child would translate into the fact of a Rosemarie Tong, FEMINIST APPROACHES TO BIOETHICS: THEORETI- perfect, healthy baby, an expectation CAL REFLECTIONS AND PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS. Boulder: Westview that would have been ludicrous in an Press, 1997. 280p. bibl. index. $69.00, ISBN 0-8133-1954-4; pap., $22.10, earlier era, or seen as a matter of faith, ISBN 0-8 133-1955-2. prayer and community. Astonishingly enough, medical science was eager to Valerie Hartouni, CULTURAL CONCEPTIONS: ON REPRODUCTIVE try, and the field of advanced reproduc- TECHNOLOGIES AND THE REMAKING OF LIFE. Minneapolis: University tive technology quickly expanded to of Minnesota Press, 1997. 175p. bibl. index. $39.95, ISBN 0-8166-2622-7; meet the rising expectations, and the pap., $16.95, ISBN 0-8166-2623-5. emerging marketplace that supported them. Susan Wolf, ed., FEMINISM & BIOETHICS: BEYOND REPRODUCTION. Now that the desire, the industry, New York: Oxford Press 1996. 398p. bibl. index. $55.00, ISBN 0-19-508568-X; and the technology are in place, the pap., $29.95, ISBN 0-19-509556-1. ethical questions begin to emerge. When we are making babies, what is it that we are doing? Who really has the Itwas the fust insight of the How times have changed. In the power to control this technology? Are women's movement - that personal latest rush of feminist scholarship, there limits to what medical science knowledge of a woman's life empowers what is at stake is control over the ought to strive for, and who should set the writer to understand and to write making of babies, and, as the technol- the limits? What conception of the from a truthful perspective, and that ogy has grown exponentially, how to female body are we constructing by the such a stance would at last enable slow the biological "clock" for hun- use of the parts of the body (cell-by- women to both describe and then dreds of women. What now draws our cell) to make new life? How far ought control the events in our lives that are scholarly attention is the goal, pur- we go in a search for motherhood - is central. Of all the events in a woman's pose, and meaning of this technology. the use of other women's bodies life, the complexities of reproduction Yet in this next generation of repro- permissible? Lurking just below the surely are key. The ability to know and ductive issues, how is feminist scholar- surface of such questions is the prob- control one's reproduction and sexual- ship responding? lem of what we meant when we spoke ity animated nearly all the early dis- Several collections and single- of freedom to choose. Ought it mean course in women's groups. Of course, authored texts have emerged that that women should be able to do what- in the early 1970s what we wanted to attempt to create a heretofore critically ever they want with their bodies and control was access to abortion, and absent feminist ethics of reproduction the fetuses they carry within them, what we collectively feared was the in particular, amidst a more general including act as surrogates, or sell their burden of too many children too early. feminist bioethics. These texts range eggs, or buy any aspect of the repro- We had big dreams to pursue. from rather panicked responses to the ductive cycle they need? Or are there

8 Feminist Collections vo1.19, no.4 Summer 1998 externally derived ethical standards lon-binary choices. Should genetic made everstarker by the hearing of and what might those be? Does having herapy and abortion be used to select :ontentious cases in courts of law. these standards in the hands of women gainst gender, or disabilities? If so, Here, where reproductive practices necessarily protect against abuses of what is implied about our relationship mter the legal discourse, we see how power? o the disabled? notions of property and contract then shape our understandings of who Nowwe never said it would be Itis in these ontological ques- ,'owns" embryos and babies born of easy, but such questions can seem ions that the work of feminist scholar surrogacy arrangements. For example, nearly intractable. For scholar ;aura Purdy is located. Purdy, who in the surrogacy cases that gave legal Rosemarie Tong, good ethics begins tddition to being a formidable scholar parameters to the discourse were with careful categorization of all the las been central in the practical decided on the basis of contract laws. available responses. Her book is xganization of feminist bioethicists, What was seen as critical was how the divided into two sections, one that >ffersa convincing argument about the money changed hands, what the deals describes both the "non-feminist" and ~roblemof constructing an idealogy of had been, and what had been spelled the range of feminist responses to :hoice in a society marked by such out in writing. For such confusions, the standard epistemological issues in lesperate choicelessness. All yeam- remedies suggested are better contracts philosophy and ethics: method, poli- ng, Purdy would remind us, including and tougher deals - the definition and tics, ontology, principlism,' virtue he yearning for children and the naming of the problem as a legal one theory, and duty. Here the reader will willingness to submit to any interven- directs us to legal solutions. Hartouni's find a thoroughgoing analysis of how ion, is culturally framed by a social insight is that even this primary feminist theories differ from theories mderstanding of what is "natural" and ordering or arrangement is freighted developed by men in the literature ippropriate for women. Purdy spends a and, not tangentially, based on a view (from Aristotle to contemporary bio- Full chapter of her work responding to of women that names them as "fetal ethicists) and from one another. Tong i classic theory in the bioethics containers." Like the very act of vision has explored how such stances as literature best articulated by legal itself (and here Hartouni uses the work essentialism, the ethics of care, and scholar John Robertson. Robertson's of Oliver Sacks to remind us of how socialist feminism can enhance our rights-based argument serves as the the ability to see is only in part phys- understanding of the maternal-child interlocutor for Purdy to examine how iological, and in part linguistic,) relationship, or of the problems of ?overly, limited life choices, and the claims are plausible if they make utility. The second section is devoted to marketplace itself can shape the logical sense within the terms of this the practical applications of the theory, purchase, sale, and use of the various legal discourse. Hence the claims of yet the issues addressed are all about pieces of the reproductive process, all surrogate mothers who change their reproductive events - abortion, of which rely on the compliant female minds and become attached to the baby conception, and genetic therapy. body as the only available location for they carry are seen as incomprehen- the technology itself and all of which sible, and then dismissable, since they Ifall this leaves one wondering make the ideal of "inalienable rights" violate a contract which "sees" a baby what other issues feminist bioethicists suspect. as merely a type of purchase, payable think about, one need look no further in advance, rendering the process and than Susan Wolf and her co-authors Valerie Hartouni, in her riveting- the meaning of pregnancy itself (Tong is among them in what is essen- and complex book on reproductive invisible. tially a reprise of the early chapters of technologies, deepens Purdy's critique. New reproductive technology will her book) in Feminism & Bioethics: The body, Hartouni tell us, has become only intensify the basic ethical chal- Beyond Reproduction. For the reader "open to the public," especially the lenges. Like most of the books noted, who wants an in-depth and nuanced interior space that is the womb, in Hartouni's ends with a chapter about view of the issues Tong addresses, this which the developing fetus is then seen that most captivating of technologies, book will provide a strong, serious as "housed." It is this visualization of human cloning. Cloning is the most beginning. Of particular interest is the body that allows us to see (to read) profound example, of course, of a Wolfs review of feminist discourse on the body as a social text, even when it discourse about the crossing of borders the issue of genetic counseling. Here appears to be the most natural or we had seen as natural and God-given, we see the problems of a mature femi- "objective" of objects. The social identities and relationships long nism engaged with the realpolitik of nature of reproductive technology is mediated by religion, culture, and

FeministCollcctions vo1.19,no.l Summer 1998 9 further than describing woject, and even the naming of the the genetic material as xoject as a discourse of illness and "the seeds of sex" :ure rather than a faith journey, a call terribly mis-handled br community, or a feminist challenge, by sinister forces; it s still not decided. These scholars proposes a solution ead us to the considerations of how called "inoco-seed- ;uch a discourse might be constructed ing," which would md might be ascendent. have (someone) banking all men's VOTES semen and performing a vasectomy on each, I. A set of ethical principles to be used and using the "seeds when considering bioethical cases, of sex" to then make ?reposed by Tom Beauchamp and babies. ("See how lames Childress in Principles of logical?," one can Biomedical Ethics (New York: Oxford almost hear the author University Press, 1979). cry.) Such a book might find a use in a 2. Leroy Walters and Julie Gage course about the Palmer, The Ethics of Human Gene workings of the popu- Therapy (New York: Oxford Press, lar imagination, but 1997). the serious reader who wants to know what [Laurie Zoloth-Dorfman is Associate issues in genetics will Professor of Social Ethics and Jewish confront feminist Philosophy and Chair of the Jewish family duties, and Hartouni clearly sees scholars in the next several years Studies Department at Sun Francisco it as one more social yearning to ~ughtto refer instead to Julie Gage State University. She is cofounder of control the whole disruptive act of Palmer and Leroy Walters' bookZon The Ethics Practice, a clinical ethics women's reproductive capacity. ethical issues in genetic intervention. consultation firm specializing in Palmer gives a clear and lucid account bioethics education, research, and case For such an excursion, for such a of how genetics works that will ground consultation.] "dangerous time," as Hartouni reminds any discussion of what moral meaning us, the reader needs a skilled guide. Yet we will need to make of it. such care and thinking are not inher- ently the case for feminists writing Inthe late l8OOs, Americans about reproductive ethics. One reads, headed out for the borders, for the for example, the work of Martine frontiers, full of certainty and armed Rothblatt with a sense of growing not only with police power, but with unease. Rothblatt is worried about the the ideology for mastery of the Human Genome Project and about environment and of the people they reproductive genetic interventions; in found there. It was a time of frontier fact she has given us "a manifesto" logic, a linguistic discourse, Hartouni about the "coming Holocaust of sex." might have observed, in which moral Now this reviewer does not approve of rightness had most to do with property using the historically specific term ownership and the means to protect it. Holocaust to describe anything that a Reproductive technology is in its writer thinks is very upsetting, but that cowboy years, during which much is is the least of the problems one en- justified by a logic of the manifest counters in this volume. Here one will destiny of medical science - a shootoul find a clear example of what feminist in which, once again, girls don't have ethicist Karen Lebacqz told her student the guns. The social order, however, ethicists never to do in graduate school that will be needed to organize the "you cannot simply tell me, oh golly project, the treatment of those persons it's awful!" Yet this book goes even whose bodies are the terrain of the

10 Feminist Collections vo1.19, 110.4 Summer 1998 The Lives of Women in Africa invites viewers to understand the complexity and richness of the lives by Jo Ellen Fair and experiences of the African women shown. While some of the videos are BECOMING A WOMAN IN OKRI&4. Dir.: Judith Gleason and Mereghetti more successful than others, the Tesser. 1990. 27 min. Filmakers Library, 124 E. 40th St., New York, NY 10016. intention of each is to allow African Telephone: 2 12-808-4980; email: [email protected] women to be subjects of their stories rather than objects of the viewer. That FEMMES A UX YEUX OUVERTS (Women With Open Eyes). Dir.: Anne-Laure intention is worlds apart from the kind Folly. 1994. 52 min. In French with English subtitles. California Newsreel, 149 of one-dimensional images that appear Ninth St.1420, San Francisco, CA 94 103. Telephone: 4 15-62 1-6196; email: in much of the U.S. media. In these contact@newsreel videos, viewers see and hear African women describing, explaining, FIRE EYES. Dir.: Soraya Mire. 1994. 60 min. Filmakers Library. agreeing, and disagreeing on issues such as family planning, female genital NYAMAKUTA (The One Who Receives). Dir.: Chris Sheppard. 1989. 32 min. cutting, polygyny, women's struggles Filmakers Library. for equality, and the tribulations of daily family life. The videos show how WARRIOR MARIYS. Dir.: Pratibha Parmar. 1993.54 min. Women Make Movies, certain systems of thought and practice 462 Broadway, Suite 500E, New York, NY 10013. Telephone: 212-925-0606. continue to restrict women politically, economically, and culturally. Yet the A WIFE AMONG WIVES. Dir.: David and Judith MacDougall. 1981.68 min. videos also demonstrate how women University of California, Berkeley, Extension Media Center, Berkeley, CA sometimes circumvent or co-opt 94704. Telephone: 5 10-642-0460. oppressive systems. At the most basic level, what is common to the videos is that the women who appear &e thinking and feeling people, rather Formany Americans, Africa in Rwanda, Africa and Africans than glamorous exotics or passive remains the "dark continent" of Joseph usually serve as little more than victims. Conrad's novel, Heart of Darkness. backdrop to the stories in which American understanding, or perhaps powerful Westerners (most often white, Femmes ow Yew Ouveru, really misunderstanding, of the diverse middle class, and male) are at the produced and directed by Togolese countries, peoples, and cultures in center. filmmaker Anne-Laure Folly, is the Africa is based on a long history of Long exoticized on the pages of most general of the six videos, demon- recounting explorer, traveler, and National Geographic or represented in strating how women whose eyes are missionary experiences in novels, news stories as helpless victims of one open can see their conditions and thus popular magazines, and travelogues. crisis or another, African women, take control of their lives. The docu- Today, old stereotypes persist of Africa particularly, are seldom depicted (or mentary, set in four West Africa as a remote and primitive place and of allowed to portray themselves) in countries - Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Africans as savage and alien peoples. contemporary U.S. media in all their and Senegal - portrays women of They have been refined and updated, fullness. As a consequence, many diverse backgrounds who address but still make their way into newspa- media consumers do not see, hear, or issues such as female genital cutting, pers, magazines, movies, and televi- learn much about the lives and views AIDS, women's entry into politics and sion. Whether discussing movies such of women in the many countries on the grassroots organizing, and economic

as Tanan, Congo, Ghost and the African continent. The six videos survival. By allowing women to talk 'i Darkness, or news about U.S. interven- reviewed here redress the invisibility about their experiences and by showing i tion in Somalia or lack of involvement of African women. Each of the videos how women live and work, Folly FeministCollections vo1.19,no.l Summer 1998 11 I makes a compelling argument that the r certain distance between subjects and Yest against the practice. Addition- continent's political and economic riewen. Ily, she interviews African men, some development hinges on the well-being A Wife Among Wives is the second ~fwhom support and others who of women. vork of a trilogy by Judith and David lppose cutting. What Fire Eyes does vZacDougal1 set among seminomadlc vell is to show that a diversity of Nyamokuta, Becoming a Woman rurkana herders in northwestern )pinion among women and men exists in Okn'ka, and A Wife Among Wives are (enya. Turkana society allows md that Africans themselves can and all more specialized videos, but each )olygyny, and this video explores what lave organized to halt the practice. looks at the interaction between rurkana women think about the dire makes two strong points: (1) practices of the past and present. ~ractice.What viewers may find olutions to female cutting are cultural Nyamakuta explores the life and work nteresting, and perhaps surprising md economic; and (2) solutions must of a traditional midwife in Zimbabwe. )ecause it contradicts Western conven- :ome from the societies in which the The midwife, Mai Mafuta, tells her ional thinking, is that women describe bractice is embedded. Combined with own story through translated voiceover. nany social advantages to polygyny. Temmes aux Yew Ouverts, this video Though the viewer can see that she is a Indeed, as the senior wife of one xovides a good starting point for skillful practitioner, she describes how [amily notes, she asked her husband to iiscussions about how African women her skills were inadequate to save the take another wife and helped him in or women generally) may work to life of her own daughter. A few years the search to ensure that the new wife :hange social practices that harm. after her daughter's death, she decides would be a goodworker. Fortunately, hem. to enroll in a program designed to train the video does not romanticize By contrast, Warrior Marks midwives in Western birthing tech- polygyny. It does treat the personal .ecreates the tired stereotype of niques. The video is at its best when it disadvantages of the practice, for 'Ahcan-woman-as-victim." For a allows Mafuta to comment on the clash :xample, instances when a girl is xoduction that calls itself feminist, of ideas about how birthing "ought" to promised to an old man. It also Warrior Marks is paternalistic. Repli- occur. She is grateful for the additional explores threats to this practice as :ating old "development" models, training, but remains skeptical of many young people ("who act like Western- Westerners have all the right answers tenets of Western medicine. As she ers," as one older man decries) begin lere. African anti-cutting activists are reminds viewers, "People die too in to assert their own decisions about mterviewed, but through a series of hospital." marriage. Because the MacDougalls voiceovers in which Alice Walker Set in the Niger Delta of Nigeria, were interested in allowing viewers to reiterates and then adds her own Becoming a Woman in Okrika explores see and hear the Turkana herders as thoughts on the topic, the message a corning-of-age rite called Zria. By much as possible, there are some long :oming across is that Westerners know passing through this rite - one which stretches where not much is said or best how to stop female genital cutting. involves the public display of painted done. In showing this video, it may be Moreover, by completely neglecting the bodies, the fattening of bodies, and the best to use segments rather than the cultural and economic reasons for the teaching of ''womanly" responsibilities whole. continuation of female genital cutting, - young women release their childhooc the video leaves viewers with a fantasies and in doing so prepare for Thelast two videos. Warrior caricature of African women as either marriage and childbearing. As the Marks and Fire Eyes, deal with the good or bad depending on how they video shows, in contemporary society, sensitive topic of female genital think about the practice. In the end, not all young women want to go cutting. Of the two, Fire Eyes is far Walker manages to put herself, rather through the rite. Some refuse because superior. Made by Somali filmmaker than the women she is ostensibly trying it is seen as too "traditional" and Soraya Mire, who underwent cutting to help, at center stage.' outdated. Others, who consider when she was thirteen years old, Fire themselves otherwise "modem," Eyes shows the complexity of the Each of the videos assumes a consent because it is "traditional" and practice. Mire interviews women who certain base of knowledge about the will give them respect in the commu- know the pain of the practice, yet countries, peoples, and cultures of nity. Though the video does a good job would have their daughters go through Ahca. Yet because many Americans' in explaining a complex rite, it it so they will be marriageable. She knowledge of Africa and Africans is primarily uses voiceover by the talks with African women who are based on popular media images, Western filmmakers, thereby projectin organizing efforts in Africa and in the providing a context for these videos is

12 Feminist Collections vol.19, 110.4 Summer 1998 imperative so that what is seen is not NOTES Cinema: An Annotated Bibliography" simply dismissed as "too different" to in With Open Eyes: Women and be meaningful to American viewers. 1. For a fuller critical review of Afiican Cinema, ed. Kenneth Harrow Explaining the cultural, economic, "Warrior Marks," see Stanlie M. (Atlanta: Rodopi, 1997), pp. 191-218. political, and historical reasons for James, "Wamor Marks," American how and why African women live as Historical Review, v. 102 (April 1997), [Jo Ellen Fair is an associate profes- they do would help viewers see the pp. 595-596. sor ofjournalism and mass communi- importance of certain practices, cations. She also is director of the discover similarities among peoples 2. For further information on films Afiican Studies Program at the and cultures, and fight long-held, and and videos about and/or by African University of Wisconsin-Madison.] certainly racist, stereotypes of peoples women, see Emilie Ngo-Nguidjol, in Afri~a.~ "Focusing on Women in African

On the Trail: Reproductive Rights Legal History on the Web

by Beth Fredrick

The extent to which major legal decisions affecting location of the court case, but the full sites are als; worth- reproductive rights are beginning to fade from public while.) consciousness is astonishing. Test it yourself. Ask anyone to name the decade in which the provision of contraceptive Women of the World methods to unmarried Americans became legal nationwide. URL: http://www.echonyc.com/-jmkm/wotw/ Few people - particularly those who came of age after the us.contraception.html 1972 Supreme Court decision in Eisenstadt v. Baird - can Developedmaintained by: Joshua M.K. Masur and the even guess. At a time when nine in ten women who are at Center for Reproductive Law and Policy risk of an unintended pregnancy say they use a contracep- Last updated: 8/23/95 tive method, such government involvement seems out of the Date of review: 3/15/98 realm of possibility. Test it on the World Wide Web and you will be similarly stymied, since a historical perspective is A temfic site, clearly put together for the 1995 United missing from many of the reproductive health sites where Nations World Conference on Women in Beijing and, one might most likely be expected. unfortunately, not updated since. Nonetheless it hints at the Nonetheless, as the constitutional notion of privacy is potential for a more complete website for the Center on being reinterpreted as a result of new technologies and Reproductive Law and Policy so that this valuable informa- electronically shared personal data, Eisenstadt v. Baird as tion could be updated and added to - a plan now in the well as the more landmark cases of Griswold v. Connecticut, works. In the meantime, the site is a quick and easy way to Doe v. Bolton, and Roe v. Wade are worth pursuing on the orient oneself to reproductive law and policy in the United Web. Interestingly enough, they can be found through a few States and to compare it with Brazil, China, Germany, sites that are remarkable and useful for other reasons as Nigeria, and India. The history is there, not only on well. (Note: in all cases, the URL is given for the exact contraception, but on sexually transmitted disease, abortion,

Feminist Collections ~01.19,110.4 Summer 1998 I3 violence, and a number of other topics. Without links Pro-life Activist's Encyclopedia (except to its webmaster), it is nonetheless an attractive site URL: http://www.all.org/plae/contents.htm worth visiting. I Developedhaintained by: Brian Clowes, Steve Frezza and the American Life League National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action Last updated: unknown (Copyright 1995) [Copyright 19981 League Date of review: 3/15/98 URL: http://www.naral.org/home.htrnl Developedmaintained by: The National Abortion and Finally, for an alternate and exhaustive history of the Reproductive Rights Action League maelstrom of issues surrounding reproductive rights, the Last Updated: 3/12/98 Pro-life Activist's Encyclopedia provides detailed informa- Date of review: 3/15/98 tion in 140 chapters on everythmg from Supreme Court decisions to "Sex Selection Abortions" to "The Media's Pro- In addition to a wealth of practical information for Sodomite Bias." Although the full-text presentation makes prochoice advocates, this easy-to-navigate site provides a one scroll-weary and the site is generally graphically straightforward introduction to reproductive rights history. uninteresting, quotes interspersed throughout and thorough, Under "Publications," then "NAR4L Factsheets" is a page linked footnotes provide additional appeal. Unlike the sites called "Supreme Court Decisions," where relevant cases are of the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy and the presented in clear, plain English, chronologically, facilitat- National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League ing a quick grasp of the issues under consideration in each, (both organizations with a clear prochoice agenda), the as well as the outcome. Encyclopedia site is much more opinionated in presenting the facts, and the information here seems not to be updated FindlawLaw Crawler regularly. Yet, as a comprehensive catalog of the debate on URL: http://www.findlaw.com~casecode/casecode/ reproductive health, it should not be missed. Developed/maintained by: Northern California Law Librar- ians Only twenty-five years have passed since Eisenstadt v. Last updated: 3/15/98 Baird changed Americans' lives. For all intents and Date of review: 3/15/98 purposes, however, government intrusion in an individual or couple's contraceptive decisions has become ancient history This site became an instant bookmark. An easily in this country. Nevertheless, for those searching for searchable site maintained by the Northern California Law guideposts on how the courts and we as a society once Libraries, it provides access for lawyer and non-lawyer alike worked to recognize and expand reproductive rights, these to the key details of Federal Circuit Court and Supreme cases and the websites that feature them are an invaluable Court cases (including the recently dismissed Clinton v. resource. Jones). Search for such terms as "abortion" or "contracep- tives" or a particular case. Though burdened by advertising, [Beth Fredrick is Director of Communications and Develop- the site does present each full-text decision with links to ment and Director for Program Operations with The Alan related cases and websites. Also available on the site are Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit organization conducting law review articles and links to state law information. reproductive health research, policy analysis, and public education (?tt@://www.agi-usa.org;).] Oyez, Oyez, Oyez-A U.S. Supreme Court Database URL: http://court.it-services.nwu.edu/oyez/cases/ Developedmaintained by: Jerry Goldman and Northwestern University Last updated: 3/14/97 Date of review: 6/6/97

A link from Findlaw to a project supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation enables one to hear digital recordings of the actual arguments in a case. Created by political scientist Jerry Goldman and colleagues, it is fascinating in its capacity to bring not-so-ancient history to life.

14 Feminist Collections vol.19, 110.4 Summer 1998 Medieval Women Websites by Cynthia Ho, Amelia Washburn, and Tim Gauthier

It might seem ironic that one of the first academic xganizes links in four categories: Individual Lives and subjects in the humanities whose practitioners showed a Works of Medieval Women; Women Rulers and Creators; keen interest in computers, multimedia, and the Web was 3eneral Resources; and Bibliographies. In part, the medieval studies. Actually, it is congruous, since the rite reflects the contents of Everhart's course by the same encyclopedic impulse and the interest in textual mutability name, but in a larger sense it indicates the important are both central medieval concerns. Now, the number general categories of web-knowledge concerning medieval of sites devoted to medieval studies in general, and to women. Within each of the groups, the links are selective medieval women in particular, is stunning. The majority of md scholarly. the sites do not necessarily provide information missing Innes-Parker's page also serves as a resource for a from a good library, but they nevertheless provide a needed course; whereas the Labyrinth page is one of the oldest, service to the general, interested public and to the academic Innes-Parker's is the most extensive. Although it is a full community. The study of medieval women has been a fully website with one of the largest funds of links to various legitimized academic subject for only the last ten years, so ~thersites, its straightforward design makes it easy to use. many libraries do not have the primary or secondary The headings under which material is listed are the follow- materials that have recently become available in abundance. ing: Education and Literacy, Woman as Image, Daily The following divisions I use to differentiate sites are not Life, Women Religious, Women and Power, and General discrete because many sites significantly overlap. Resources. Although notable information exists on the Web "Women Writers" is one example of Bonnie Duncan's concerning women in other cultures contemporary with the numerous projects connected with computers, pedagogy, European Middle Ages, the discussion below is limited to scholarship, and medieval literature. This well-organized European women. site has four primary categories: Secular Women Writers, Saints and Women in Religious Vocations, Materials GENERAL REFERENCE WEB SITES Concerning Women, and Secondary Hypertexts on general medieval topics. The approach of this site varies from the Medieval Women previous two, which provide only links; here, the first two URL: http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth~subjects/women/sections are organized around original essays or source womeahtml documents with extensive links to other sites. Although all Developedmaintained by: Martin Irvine, Deborah Everhart, the essays are by students at Millersville University, the Stefan Zirnmers work is well-documented, and links to hypertexts and other Copyright: 1997 sources are extensive. The last two sections offer a breadth of links and connections - its collection of links to electronic Women Writers of the Middle Ages texts, arranged by category, is especially large and helpful. URL: http://www.det.mun.ca/dcs/courses/ms3351lintro.html Maintained by: Catherine Innes-Parker TOPIC-SPECIFIC SITES Last updated: 1997 Hildegard of Bingen websites Women Writers of the Middle Ages URL:http://www.millersv.edu/-english/hom~ The Hildegard of Bingen Resource Page medfem1medfem.html URL: http://www.bison.corn/hildegard/index.html Developedmaintained by: Bonnie Duncan, English Depart- Maintained by: Bison Publishing ment, Millersville University Last updated: August 12, 1997 The Hildegard of Bingen Page URL: http://www.trinityvt.edu/hildegar&iohist.ht The Labyrinth at Georgetown was the first important Developed by: Bill Davis and comprehensive medieval website, highly promoted in . Maintained by: Trinity College of Vermont the early 1990's at academic meetings by its developers, Last updated: July 23, 1997 Martin Irvine and Deborah Everhart. The "Medieval Women" title page, linked through Labyrinth's main page,

Feminist Collections vo1.19, 110.4 Summer 1998 15 The Life and Works of Hildegard von Bingen. BIBLIOGRAPHIES URL: http://tweedledee.ucsb.edu/%7Ekris/music1 Hildegard.html Medieval Feminist Index: Scholarship on Women, Created by: Kristina Lerman Sexuality, and Gender Last updated: Feb. 12, 1998 JRL: http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/ nfimfihtml Numerous smaller sites dedicate themselves to one Ievelopedhnaintained by: Margaret Schaus. Numerous specific woman or topic. I take as an example the sites for ~therindividuals work on the Web pages, and an advisory Hildegard, which reflect three different agendas: the first is )oard consists of scholars from universities around the devotional, presenting the timelessness of Hildegard and her muntry. teaching; the second and third are academic, focusing on Last updated: rFeb.28, 19981 texts and biography, respectively. All three excellent sites illustrate the plethora of specific information that exists for Selected Sources in Women's History, 1400-1700 C.E. the study of individual medieval women. Most are easily LJRL: http:llwww.haverford.edu/library/4Bibsl accessed through the reference sites listed earlier. WomensHistoryl .html Maintained by: Margaret Schaus Experimental and developing Last updated: June 27, 1997 ? specific sites The Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship began The Matrix Site with the Medieval Feminist Newsletter, which has rapidly URL: http://matrix.divinity.yale.edu zxpanded into a number of projects including the online Developed by: Mary McLaughlin and other medievalists bibliography. A scholarly index covering more than three Maintained by: Katherine Gill and Lisa Bitel, eds., Marilyn hundred journals and essay collections dealing with gender Dunn, Managing ed., and Editorial Board and sexuality, this database includes some twenty-two hundred records with more than one hundred added each Sybils! An Interactive Exploration of Women in the Middle month. The years covered include 450 C.E. to 1500 C.E., Ages and Renaissance with regional listings dealing with Europe, North Africa, URL: http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/-mmedid and the Middle East. The index includes, and is expanding mw2.htm to add, publications in English, French, German, and Developedhnaintained by: McMaster Working Group on the Spanish, and the developers hope to include Italian in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, McMaster University future. This site is extremely useful for research purposes Last updated: September 1997 since the database can be searched by author, geographical location, subject, title, or other criteria. Schaus's "Selected As exciting as the offerings are on the Web now, Sources in Women's History" is an excellent, easy-to-use the next generation of medieval women's sites is moving in index site for finding printed material on medieval women. a new direction, proposing materials that cannot be found in The hyperlinked table of contents is divided into Biographi- a library collection. This relocates feminist study into a new cal Sources, Women's Writings, Women's Achievements in level of primary source investigation. Matrix is a develop- Various Fields, and Women's History. ing, refereed site specific to the resources for the study of women's religious communities 500-1 500. Eventually it This short review only surfs the surface; good luck will hold graphics, maps of abbeys (interior floor plans), searching for your chosen topic. architectural features of women's religious communities, in- depth profiles, collections of documents online, bibliographies, glossaries, and online articles. While the information [Cynthia Ho, Ph.D., is assistantprofessor of Literature and now available is slim, the projected impact of this project Language at Universio of North Carolina, Asheville, where when completed is immense. "Sybils!" is a program she teaches courses in European and Japanese women of developed for teaching about women of the Middle Ages the Middle Ages. Amelia Washbum and Tim Gauthier are using the collection at the McMaster University library members of her seminar.] related to these topics.

I6 Feminist Collections vo1.19, n0.4 Summer 1998 88 Remember that our website (http://www.library. 'Making Do: Women and Work," featuring interviews with wisc.edu/libraries/Women'sStudies/) includes electronic hree women from the 1930s), while others include many versions of all recent "Computer Talk" columns, plus iections on women. A search on "women" at the basic level many bibliographies, core lists of women's studies books, ,f the American Memory website brings up 2,460 items. and links to hundreds of other websites. 88 fiis is a must-see, at: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/amhome.html [SIS International's ASIAN AND PACIFIC WOMEN'S Note that final punctuation is often left ofsentences in this WEB SITES listing provides links to such groups as the section that list electronic addresses, for purposes of clarity, ribetan Women's Association, Engender (engaged in since Web addresses do not end with a "dot"or period. This mvironment and sustainable development issues), ARROW, listing is also clearly a very partial list of the numerous the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, and the websites of interest to women and women's studies teachers Philippine Women's University. The listing is at: http:// and researchers. www.sequel.net/-isis/links.html AUNT LUTE BOOKS, a "not-for-profit multicultural World Wide Websites women's press," has a new Web page that includes a book list with description and ordering information, selected The AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND DIVERSITY links, and submission guidelines. Check their site at: http:// PROJECT maintained by Carl Gutierrez-Jones at the www.best.com/-auntlute/index.htm University of California, Santa Barbara, includes substantial A summary of the BEIJING DECLARATION and information on California and its recent Proposition 209, PLATFORM FOR ACTION, adopted unanimously at the but also a good number of more general articles, documents, 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing, and a bibliography, all covering various sides of the issue. China, is available on the UN's Dept. of Public Information The address: http:/humanitas.ucsb.edu/aa.htrnl website. For each of the twelve "critical areas of concern" A disturbing but significant collection of resources on there are strategic objectives and specific actions to be taken AFGHAN WOMEN resides at a Mining Co. website. From by nations around the world. Website address: http:l/ the Revolutionary Association of Women in Afghanistan, www.undp.org/fwcw/plat.htm Amnesty International, Peace Magazine, and other sources BLACK LIVING is the home page of Black Women in the comes a picture of strong women battling a series of UK and is "about lifestyles, having fun and dealing with repressive regimes. Web address: http://women3rdworld. rniningco.com/msub30.htm issues that we all face." It includes features on education, health, fun, and money. Web address is: http://www. AFRICAN WOMEN'S RIGHTS is the focus of the Africa blackliving.com/ Policy Information Center's excellent home page on women. BRAVE GJRLS AND STRONG WOMEN BOOK- A plethora of documents available online and a number of STORE (in association with Arnazon.com Bookstore) offers key Internet links make this page a good information source a list of forty books, from smaller presses whose publica- on African women. Address: http://www.africapolicy.orgl tions can get overlooked, that portray strong girls and action/women.htrn women in action. The selected books are "chosen not only AGENDA, the ten-year-old South African feminist journal, for their positive messages, but also for their engaging, has a website that offers contents of the current issue, full- high-quality writing," according to the Web introduction. text of several current and past articles, subscription Check the site at: http://members.aol.com/brvgirls/ information, and a number of links to related groups. Check The BRIDGES FOR WOMEN SOCIETY of Victoria, their webpage at: http://www.oneworld.orglagenda/ British Columbia, Canada, offers a Web page describing its The Library of Congress's AMERICAN MEMORY resources for women with a history of abuse who are PROJECT is comprised of "multimedia collections of making to transition to job placement. A Survivor's Hand- digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving book includes a wealth of information (a good model for pictures, and text from the Library's Americana collec- other programs?), and there are connections to employment tions." Some collections are entirely on women (such as listings and other resources. Address: http://www.vw.com/ -careers/

Feminist Collections vo1.19, 110.4 Summer 1998 17 The CENTER FOR WOMEN & RELIGION has a new women's issues, intended for women everywhere. To join website with information about its activities and staff as well he list, email the staff at [email protected] and as links to denominational sites, lesbian and gay religious o see the website, find the URL: http://members.spree.com/ websites, home pages for young feminists, and more. Try 'eminist/voices.html them at: http:Naquinas.gtu.edu/Centers/cwd ZAY AND LESBIAN HISTORY is a site full of informa- A CHICANA FEMINIST HOMEPAGE titled "Making ion, compiled and run by Paul Halsall. Divided into Face, Making Soul..." offers "one Chicana's efforts at iections that include the Ancient Mediterranean, Medival providing an introduction to Chicana and Chicano culture Norlds, Europe, North America, and Africa, Asia, Latin and issues in Chicana feminism through a collection of hencan, and Oceania, plus themes and bibliographies, the educational and cultural resources." There are defmitions, ;ite is quite content rich. Check it out at: http://pwh. chicanas chingonas ("really cool Chicanas" with photos and )ase.org brief biographies), amigas and allies, literatura, academica, 4 GAY AND LESBIAN STUDIES SYLLABUS available and more. Check the site at: http://chicanas.com/ w the Web includes a course outline. The address is: http:// The CHRTSTL4N SCIENCE MONITOR'S LANDMARKS ~.conterra.com/jsears/syl383d.htmOther introductory FOR WOMEN page includes a "timeline" that offers tidbits 3LBT syllabi are included at the Women's Studies site at from women's history beginning in 1848, the year of the University of Maryland: http://www.infom.umd.edu/EdRes/ convention in Seneca Falls. The first of a series of five ~opic/Diversity/Specific/Sexual~O~ien~ articles to appear in the paper (this one on equal pay) can be GENDER & SEXUALITY IN THE CLASSICAL found at the same URL. The address: http://csmonitor.com/ WORLD is the title of a course offered by Professor Laura durable/ 1998/07/17/~7~2.htm McClure at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that DOMESTIC GODDESSES (or Scribbling Women), includes a syllabus, a rather extensive bibliography, links to maintained by Kim Wells, is dedicated to six women writers related sites, and paper topic suggestions. You can visit the of "domestic fiction": Louisa May Alcott, Willa Cather, Kate site at: http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/classics/CLAS~351/ Chopin, Sarah Orne Jewett, Harriet Beecher-Stowe, and gender. html Edith Wharton. For each writer there is a fairly extensive GENDER INN offers a searchable database of some 5,000 biography, at least one paper of literary criticism, a bibliog- items on feminist theory, literary criticism, and gender raphy, and links to other websites of related interest. Web studies in the realm of English and American literature. address is: http://lonestar.texas.net/-kwells/dg 1.htm Gathered since 1987 at the English Dept. of the University THE EMANCIPATION OF WOMEN: 1860-1920, of Cologne, the database includes primarily monographs compiled by John Simkin, is a Spartacus Educational and essay collections, with occasional journal articles. Try a website with a bounty of information on British suffragists. search at: http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-faklenglisch Biographies with portraits, a database of primary source datenbankle-index. htm materials, a visual database, and a bibliography of relevant GIFTS OF SPEECH website offers the complete texts of books provide good study material for school projects or some seventy-five women leaders' speeches. A variety of background on the movement to gain women the vote. women is included, from Hillary Clinton to Margaret Address is: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.ukl Thatcher, Denise Levertov, Andrea Dworkin, and Elizabeth resource.htm Dole. The URL is: http://gos.sbc.edu/ EMILJA is the Baltic and North-West Russian Database for GIRLS NEED MODEMS!: CYBERCULTURE AND Women's Studies and Gender Research, searchable on the WOMEN'S EZINES is a master's paper by Krista Scott of World Wide Web. Located on the NKK (Nordic Institute for the Women's Studies program, York University. Scott's table Women's Studies and Gender Research) Web page, the of contents includes such intriguing chapter titles as address is: http://www.esst.uio.no/nikkdb/baltic/ernilja.html "Speaking Cyberian," "Women and Children First: Mythos EUROPEAN DATABASE: WOMEN IN DECISION- and Metaphor," and "Chicks, Flicks, Politicks." The entire MAKING is a searchable database on women in political text may be found at: http://www.netrover.com/-cdixod leadership in European Union nations. Searchers can look mrp.htm1 for name, type of participation, member state, or govem- The GLOBAL REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH FORUM mental institution. The basic Web page (available in English from Harvard University "aims to encourage the prolifera- or German) is: http://www .db-decision.de/ tion of critical, democratic discussions about reproductive FEMRVIST VOICES, the free Madison area news journal health, rights, and gender." Information-rich and nicely by and for women, has a website complete with a goodly designed, this site's multiple pages focus on HIVJAIDS, sample of its content, and also offers a new discussion list or sexually transmitted diseases, contraception, abortion,

18 Feminist Collections voL19, no.4 Summer 1998 family planning, and maternal health in addition to gender kw months. Site address is: http://www.mousy.com/mousy- and reproductive rights, and there's even a "teenzone." weeklylfg-fin-ales.html Address: http:Nwww.hsph.harvard.edu/organizations/ :f Disney's version of MULAN, the legendary Chinese healthnett woman Hua Mulan, has you wondering about the movie Among the HYPERTEXTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ;tory's authenticity, suggested resources are: 100 Celebrated VIRGINIA American Studies Program are several by Zhinese Women (http://www.span.com.au/1OOwomed women authors. Hamet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a S5.html); The Mulan FAQ Page (http:Nwww.geocities.coml Slave Girl (1861), Charlotte Lennox's Life of Harriot Stuart Hollywood~5082/mulanfaq.html);or The Ballad of Mulan (1750), Bessy Conway, Or, The Irish Girl in America (1861) ~http://www.chinapage.com/mulan.html) by Irish immigrant Mary Anne Sadlier, Harriet Beecher Ile MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION is an actual Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), and Harriet Wilson's museum whose interesting site carries information on a Our Nig (1857) are all available in full text on the following variety of topics, from early commercial tampons to men- website: http:Nxroads.virginia.edu/-HYPER/hypertex.html strual cups to humor. Check this one at: http:// INDIATIME WOMEN offers a "who's who" of Indian www.mum.orgl women in philosophy, politics, religion, film, and other Ile NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS areas, plus links to organizations, health and beauty ARCHIVE housed at Miami University in Ohio includes on information, women's issues, and basic statistics on Indian its website a directory of Native American women play- women. Address of the website: http://www.indiatime.com/ wrights, a bibliography of their work, a description of its womedwomen.htm programming, and related links. The homepage is at: http:// INSTRAW (International Research and Training Institute www.lib.muohio.edu/nawpal for the Advancement of Women) launched its Web page this NORTHERN FEMINIST UNIVERSITY (or Kvinne- year in celebration of International Women's Day and the universitetet Nord), based in northern Norway, was founded fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations' Commission on in 1991 to be a "centre of knowledge where women's the Status of Women. The website offers information on experience and knowledge is made visible, recognized, INSTRAW'S programs (which include training in economic further developed and documented." Activities include and political development, environment, and media and courses, conferences, the Femina Borealis network, and communications); publications, financial resources, and projects such as "twinning" for gender advocacy in South organization. The Web address is: http://www.un.orgl Africa. See their website at: http://www.kun.nl.no/ instrawl The OREGON MENOPAUSE NETWORK and its KIDS HELP PHONE website offers an 800 number that newsletter HEALTH FORUM FOR MZDLZFE WOMEN now young people can call for all sorts of information on eating share a website that offers basic infonnation about their disorders, drugs, birth control, sexual violence, and other work. Try it at: http://www.menonetwork.org/ . health-related questions. Forums are also available for discussion and the site itself carries limited print informa- PIMPS, TRICKS AND FEMINISTS is the title of Kelly tion. (In French or English.) Site address: http:// Holsopple's informed section of the Plenary at this kidshelp.syrnpatico.ca/ summer's National Women's Studies Association conference. The text is available on the website of the Coalition LATIN AMERICAN RESOURCES on women and gender Against Trafficking in Women: http://www.uri.edu/artsci/ studies is a LANICNniversity of Texas collection of useful wms/hughes/catwflrhnwsa.htm websites both general and by country. The address: http:// www.lanic.utexas.edu:80Aahegiodwomed The National Park Service's PLACES WHERE WOMEN MADE HISTORY takes Web travelers through 74 proper- MADGRRLS Web page carries information on the ties in New York and Massachusetts. There's the Susan B. Madgrrls fonun, "designed to meet the needs of women who Anthony House in New York, and Villa Lewaro, the home have mood swings, voices, fears and visions." For more of Madame C.J. Walker, America's first Black millionaire, description and information on how to subscribe, check the as well as the Massachusetts setting where Edith Wharton website at: http://members.aol.com/madgrrls/index.html wrote much of her work. Tour starts at: http://www.cr. MOUSY is an online magazine focused on young women nps.gov/crweb l/nr/travel/pwwmhl (and originally on tech and computer-oriented ones, hence The ROSA LUXEMBURG INSTITUTE is an interdisci- the name) that takes on all types of topics, from NPR's plinary women's studies institute intended for "engagement, smooth "alternative" line to Superfan Sisterhood to the research and praxis from a feminist perspective" such finales of TV series and organizing an online boycott. The fields as history and theory of science, genetic engineering, editors promise new content weekly and a new issue every development, ecology, global patriarchy, and networking.

Feminist Collections voL 19, n0.4 Summer 1998 19 The English website address is: http://iguwnext.tuwien. rH1R.D WAVE is a "member-driven, national nonprofit ac.at/-rli/Seiten/english/englwelc.htm xganization devoted to young feminist activism for social :hange," says the opening page of this website. Offering RUSSIAN FEMINIST RESOURCES is the ambitious itatistics, articles in its online newsletter, as well as links to project of Australian Elena Leonoff, who has gathered a i number of other informative pages, this project of wealth of Intemet material on Russian women, in English Ferninist.com seeks to reach and support young women just and Russian, from the arts to politics to academic resources learning how unequal the opportunities out there can be, (including syllabi) and health information. Check the low much violence there is, etc. Check out the Third Wave multiple Web pages starting at: http://www.geocities.com/ site at: http://www.feminist.com/3dwave.htm Athens/2533/russfem.html [nformationon the TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FAC- 'The SANS-PAPIERS A Woman Draws the First Lesson" - rORY FIRE in 19 11 in New York City is available on a is the English translation of an enlightening essay (origi- website put up by the Kheel Center at Cornell University. nally in French) by Madjiguene Cisse on the struggle of The site is intended to help students locate historical African women living as illegal immigrants in France as information on the tragedy in which 146 workers, mostly they build communities, battle colonialism and sexism, and young immigrant women, died. Photographs, political learn to deal with the political system to help their predica- :artoons, oral histories, background on sweatshops, links to at:http://www.bok.net/pajoY ment. An interesting read, related websites, and more comprise this excellent Web madjiguene2.en.html page. The address: http://www .ilr.comell.edu/trianglefue/ SELECTED SOURCES WOMEN, ENVIRONMENT, - UNITED LESBIANS OF AFRICAN HERITAGE AND DEVELOPMENT is a lengthy, annotated listing of (ULOAH), a sisterhood founded in Los Angeles in 1990, resources compiled by Marlene Roy of the International has a Web page with basic information about the organiza- Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg. Includes tion and its annual international SISTAHfest, an "On the books, reports, papers, and conference materials. Unfortu- Table" commentary section, and more. Check the site at: nately, not updated since Fall 1995. Site address: http:// http://members.aol.com/uloah/home.html iisdl .iisd.ca/ic/info/ss9509.htm VIOLENCE AND RESPONSES TO VIOLENCE is a SHATTER THE GLASS CEILING is a bi-weekly webzine section of Australian Michael Flood's massive Men's by Judi Lewis that carries regular columns: editorials, The Bibliography that includes an extensive listing of feminist Looking Glass, Current Events, Health & Medicine, writings on violence. Domestic violence, rape, sexual Business, 9-5 Life, H for H (Hubby for Hire or household harassment, child sexual assault, and anti-violence educa- fm-it tips), and Supermoms. Address: http://www. tion for men are among the topical groupings for the theglassceiling .com/shatter.htm resources listed. The URL: http://online.anu.edu.au/ SONGS COMPOSED BY AMERICAN AND BRITISH -e900392/mensbiblio/MensBiblioMenu.html WOMEN ca. 1890-1930 is a searchable Web page listing VOICES OF GIRLS IN SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, some 2,700 titles by 435 women composers. Compiler AND TECHNOLOGY is a project of the Appalachia Christopher Reynolds notes this era was the "zenith" of Educational Laboratory focusing on enhancing girls' women's song composition. Address is: http://musdra. ucdavis.edu/FMPro/women.html participation in science activities in particular schools and offering stories, articles, curriculum materials, and research TEACHER EDUCATION AND GENDER EQUITY by papers that have developed from the project. There's also a Jo Sanders is a new document from the ERIC Clearinghouse good page of related links to equity-oriented resources. on Teaching and Teacher Education that discusses the Website address is: http://www.ael.org/nsf/voices/ importance of equity training for those now in teacher WELFARE REFORM IMPACTS ON THE PUBLIC education programs. Address: http://www.ed.gov/databases/ ERIC-Digestsled408277.html HOUSING PROGRAM: A PRELIMINARY FORE- CAST is an online document from the U.S. Department of THEORIZING: FEMINISM AND POSTMODERNITY Housing and Urban Development that "projects the impacts offers an interview with Canadian feminist theorist Linda of welfare reform on tenant incomes and resulting rent Hutcheon by Kathleen O'Grady of Trinity College. (Re- revenues at eight public housing authorities (HAS) in four printed from Rampike.) Address: http://bailiwick.lib. states" (Exec. Summary). See the details at: http://www. uiowa.edu/wstudies/hutcheon.html huduser.org/publications/publicassist/welreform.html

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WISCONSIN WOMEN'S NETWORK is "a coalition annotated bibliography, and more are part of this multi-page uniting individuals and organizations from across the state historical collection. View it at: http://www.interlog.coml of Wisconsin who share a concern for equality and justice -mighty/ for women." The Network's new Web page describes the The WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT section of the United component organizations, gives action alerts on pending Nations' ESCAP (Economic and Social Commission for legislation, a calendar of upcoming events, and news from Asia and the Pacific) agency offers basic information on its the legislative task forces (on such areas as child care, ,'developing" website about women's programs, such as domestic violence, economic issues, and sex equity in literacy initiatives, technology transfer, sanitation work- education). Web address is: http://www.execpc.com/ shops, and the like. Site address is: http://unescap.org/wid/ wiwomenl index.htm WOMEN ABOARD, an organization providing "a network I%e WOMEN LAWYERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS for women boaters," carries on its Web space (shared with ANGELES (WLALA) appears to be an extremely active Watermark Publishing) some of the "Best Tips" from its group of professionals who seek to "promote the interests of newsletter over the years 1994-1997, such as making your women attorneys and judges, to further understanding of boat your home, maximizing limited storage space, living and support for the legal rights of all women, and to aboard in cold climates, and the like. Check the site at: http://www.c~isingguide.com/wmaboard.html promote equality and equal opportunity for all people. A bibliography (of mostly non-legal books) with lengthy WOMEN AND GIRLS LAST: FEMALES AND THE annotations is included. You can find their website at: http:/ INTERNET by Janet Morahan-Martin is available as part /wlala.org/Index.htm of the proceedings of the IRISS (Internet Research and The WOMEN'S ART LIBRARY of Britain has a website Information for Social Scientists) Conference 1998 held in with information on library hours, how to get things March 1998 in Bristol, UK. See Morahan-Martin's com- published in its journal MAKE, how to borrow one of the ments at: http://sosig.ac.uWirisslpaperslpaper55.htm 141,000 slides in the library, and answers to lots of related The WOMEN AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOP- questions. Check it out at http://web.ukonline.co.uW MENT (WID) PROGRAM at Michigan State University womensart.lib/home.html includes on its Web page a listing of the program's publications, a "Resource Guide" of links to websites from different The WOMEN'S BUSINESS CENTER is an interactive developing regions, and information on MSU programs. business website "dedicated to helping entrepreneurial Site address is: http://www.isp.msu.edulwid/ women" gain the "information and expertise they need to plan their economic independence through owning a A WOMEN & SOCIETY "TELEWEB" COURSE business of their own." Based on the vision of the Small SYLLABUS, offered by instructor Sonja Millbourn of Business Administration's Office of Women's Business Butler County Community College, includes an online Ownership, the website offers such detailed help as "Book- discussion group. Address is: http://www2.southwind.netl keeping and Accounting: From Start to Finish," "Success -smilbour/wsyll.html Stories," marketing tips, and much more. The main address is: http://www.onlinewbc.orgl WOMEN AND THE HOLOCAUST is a Web project that pays special attention to the struggles of women who were The WOMEN'S CYBRARY includes more than 1,000 mothers, resistance fighters, camp organizers, rescuers, links to women's writing online. Books, reviews, authors' survivors. Personal reflections, letters, tributes, articles, an pages, magazines, links to many other collections of links,

Feminist Collections vo1.19, no.4 Summer 1998 21 and more are available at: http:Nwww.womenbooks.com/ ZAPATISTA WOMEN/MUJERES ZAPATISTAS website cybrary.htm1 is in the process of building a resowce for information about the struggle of women in the Chiapas region of Mexico, WOMEN'S HEALTH INTERACTIVE includes three including full text of the book Chiapas, And the Women? by "health centers" on its Web page: for midlife, gynecologic, Rosa Rojas, a discussion fonun, the beginnings of a bibliog- and infertility concerns. Each offers a variety of information raphy, and links to related websites. The address: http:// related to the particular life stage. A "quality of life study" www.actlab.utexas.edu/-geneyelzapwomenl on perirnenopause/menopause conducted in conjunction with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School invites participation, as do several online discussion groups. The URL is: http://www.womens- Other Electronic Resources health.com/ Joan Korenrnan recently announced establishment of the The WOMEN'S PRESSES LIBRARY PROJECT works CENTER FOR WOMEN AND INFORMATION toward cooperation with libraries in increasing the visibility TECHNOLOGY at University of Maryland, Baltimore of small press titles in library collections. A list of presses, County, to "encourage women's and girls' involvement with the titles they produce, a search mechanism, and more are information technology, both as users and as IT profession- on the WPLP website at: http://www.litwomen.org/ als, and to encourage and support research concerning the wplp.htm1 relationship between gender and IT." Joan will relinquish WOMEN'S SPIRITUALITY IN THE ROMAN EM- her duties as director of UMBC's Women's Studies Program PIRE AND THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES is a cowse to become director of the new Center. Congratulations, offered by Dr. Nicola Denzey at Bowdoin College, whose Joan! syllabus is available on the Web. The cowse outline includes A European woman is gathering the names and addresses of wondehl graphics and many links to full-text primary women's groups around the world. As of last report Denise documents and other relevant websites. See it at: http:// Osted had 1,000 groups and hopes to reach 4,000. She www.bowdoin.edu/-ndenzey/syllabus-232.htrn wants to include "women's studies departments, women's The WOMEN'S VOTING GUIDE, a nonpartisan Web resowce centers, shelters, religious groups, magazines, rape project of the Women Leaders Online Fund, began with the crisis lines, political activism groups, health organizations, voting records of incumbent U.S. Senators, now includes the journals, professional assoications, women's bookstores and votes of the U.S. House of Representatives, and will follow publishers, feminist libraries, research groups, economic the positions of candidates for the 1998 general election in and racial justice groups, etc." Once compiled, she will both House and Senate races, providing women with "easy make the information available fiee to anyone. Send her access to specific and meaningful information on the email at: [email protected] positions of candidates." Keep an eye on this one at: http:// As part of a five-year project by the Finnish government womenvote.org/ toward the prevention of prostitution, Nordic researchers in WORKPLACE SOLUTIONS is a project of Wider areas such as gendered power, societal sexual contracts, Opportunities for Women intended to help unions and marginalization, stigmatization and control, and women's employers "Successfully Recruit and Retain Women in studies have developed an email network. Coordinator is Nontraditional Occupations." There's a resowce clearing- Marjut Jyrkinen, STAKES, and email contact is house, an online fonun, a self-assessment form, and even a ma [email protected] "success gallery" of companiedunions who have helped women move into higher-paying nontraditional jobs. Site Compiled by Linda Shult address is: http://www.WorkplaceSolutions.org/

22 Feminist Collections voll9, no.4 Summer I998 There's yet another publishing Women in Canada (Conway, 1992); community, and Nancy Bereano, anniversary to celebrate (slightly Fireworks (ed. Silvera, 1986); Double founding owner, publisher, and editor belatedly), following on the heels of Day, Double Bind: Women Garment of Firebrand Books. In establishing last issue's announcement of three Workers (Gannage, 1986); Bobbi Lee: the award, Allison explained, "My life feminist press birthdays. WOMEN'S Indian Rebel (Maracle, 1990); More as a writer has been made possible by PRESSICANADA has for twenty-five Than a Labour of Love: Three Genera- the feminist and alternative presses years now been putting into print a tions of Women 's Work in the Home and small bookstores." Her first work wide variety of work by women from (Luxton, 1983); Private Lives, Public was published in a small feminist diverse communities. The oldest and Policy: One Hundred Years of State magazine; her first reading in a small largest feminist publishing house in Intervention in the Family (Ursel, bookstore; her fist book of poetry Canada (founded in 1972), Women's 1992); and Iskwewak - kah 'ki yaw ni published by Long Haul Press, fiction Press early on published the first wahkomakanak: Neither Indian and essays by Firebrand. Canadian book on sexual violence as Princesses nor Easy Squaws (Acoosel well as, more recently, the first book on Red Sky Woman, 1995) Sadly, we hear contirmed by Mev the history of Black women in Canada Miller of the Women's Presses Library (No Burden to Carry by Margaret To help recognize the importance Project that the venerable KITCHEN Merrifield). Structural and goal of small presses, writer Dorothy TABLE WOMEN OF COLOR changes in the 1980s have led to more Allison, author of such bestsellers as PRESS is truly out of business. Few of diversity in staff and publications, Bastard Out of Carolina (Dutton, the press's groundbreaking books are emphasizing publishing by Black, First 1992) and Cavedweller (Dutton, still in print, though Barbara Smith is Nations, Asian and other authors of 1998), has recently established the trying to get Home Girls: A Black color. Among the press's more than ASTREA INDEPENDENT SPIRIT Feminist Anthology (ed. Smith) one hundred titles are these: Writing as AWARD, which carries a cash prize of republished by another press and Witness (Brant, 1994); The Faraway $5,000 each year. (Astraea National there's talk of Seventeen Syllables Hills Are Green: Voices of Irish Lesbian Action Foundation is a (Yamamoto) and Camp Notes grantmaking foundation that (Yamada) being picked up by a for twenty years has promoted university press. Among other Kitchen political and social justice.) Table titles are: Cuentos: Stories by The 1998 recipients are Carol Latinas (ed. Gomez, Moraga, and Seajay, founder and publisher Romo-Carmona); I Am Your Skter: of Feminist Bookstore News, Black Women Organizing Across a long-standing resource for Sexualities (Lorde); A Comrade k as the women's publishing Precious as a Rice Seedling (Aguilar); The Combahee River Collective Statement (Combahee River Collec- tive); and Healing Heart: Poems, 1973-1988 (Hull). The second and longest-running edition of Thk Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Moraga and Anzaldua) also came from Kitchen Table.

Feminist Collections vo1.I 9, no.4 Summer 1998 23 BIOGRAPHY iquino of the Philippines). The largest ;cholarship has moved beyond the "add :ategories in the subject index (re- women and stir" level of history, works THE GROLIER LIBRARY OF )eated in each volume) are performing For children should go beyond the well- WOMEN'S BIOGWHY. Danbury, uts and writing, with good representa- mown entertainers, sports figures, and CT: Grolier Educational, 1998. 10v. ion under art, education, medicine, iovelists, and incorporate womenwho bibliogs. ill. indexes. $3 19.00, ISBN O- nusic, science, social reform, and lave been changing the face of aca- 7172-9124-3. ;port as well. Each entry is about one kmic fields for over a generation. )age long, including a black-and- Should school libraries acquire The children's reference shelf of white photograph. There are also The Grolier Library of Women 's women's history and biography is wenty two-page thematic essays Biographies? Sure, it will demonstrate getting bigger. Joining such works as hroughout the set on topics such as that many women have led interesting the one-volume Scholastic Encyclope- 'education and women" and "suffrage md productive lives. Could it have dia of Women in the United States, by br women." been better? Yes, and perhaps a second Sheila Keenan (1996) and Herstory: Two criticisms: First, the defii- :dition can address the criticisms. Women who Changed the World,by ion of a good reference work is two- raised in the paragraph above. Ruth Ashby and Deborah Gore Ohm 'old. It should provide accurate (Viking 1995), and the multivolume nfonnation and point to further Young Oxford History of Women in the ;ources. The Grolier Library of FILM United States (1995) [in particular its Women's Biographies does alright with volume 11 : "Biographical Supple- he first criterion, but misses on the Amy Unterburger, ed., WOMEN ment"], The Grolier Library of ;econd. Not once does it refer eager FILMMAKERS AND THEIR FILMS. Women 's Biography offers middle- young readers to any biographies Detroit: St. James, 1998. 573p. ill. school readers a place to look up many written for children about many of the indexes. $1 10.00, ISBN 1-55862-357- historical and contemporary figures - women in the set. A quick check of 4. some 1,850 to be exact. Books in Print yields almost three Entries are arranged alphabeti- hundred biographical works on women Film enthusiasts will be surprised cally, which makes for interesting for children, and libraries hold to find entries for Bonnie and Clyde, juxtapositions for the child tempted to numerous others that are no longer in directed by Arthur Penn, and Martin read sequentially. Oprah Winfrey is print. Ow library catalog lists eleven Scorsese's Raging Bull in a book on preceded by the Duchess of Windsor books for children about Sojourner women filmmakers, but that is because and followed by Jeanette Winterson, a Truth and twenty-two on Harriet we (I'm one) are unfortunately much British novelist born in 1959 whose Tubman, but their entries in the set list less aware of film editors, screen- autobiographical first novel Oranges none. Second, how long will it be writers, and other crucial behind-the- are Not the Only Fruit drew on before the contributions of contempo- scenes filmmakers than we are of Winterson's "eccentric upbringing and rary women's studies scholars are directors. The critical acclaim for these her family's horrified reacton to her deemed worthy of inclusion with the two films was due in part to the superb lesbianism" (p. 1O9), skater Katerina likes of Meg Ryan and Michelle editing of Dede Allen for the former Witt, and eighteenth-century Irish Pfeiffer? A few sneak through, like and Thelma Schoonmaker for the actress Peg Woffigton. Coverage Angela Davis, for her association with latter. One of the strengths of Women begins in ancient times (Cleopatra), is the Black Panthers, but where are Filmmakers is that it analyzes the current into 1997 (revelation about the essayist bell hooks, historian Gerda editing of such films so readers can Jewish origin of Secretary of State Lerner, legal scholar Catharine gain an appreciation of their women Madeline Albright's family; death of MacKinnon, literary scholars Sandra editors. In Bonnie and Clyde, the Princess Diana), and there are several Gilbert and Susan Gubar, thlnker on characters are loners, cut off from better-known women from outside issues of science and gender Evelyn society and sometimes from each other. North America and Europe (Chinese Fox Keller, and Feminist Press of the Allen supports this by showing the two author Ding Ling and politician Jiang City University of New York publisher main characters in brief, disjointed Qing; Imelda Marcos and Corazon Florence Howe? Just as feminist shots, often alone. Violent deaths are

24 Feminist Collections vol.19, no.4 Summer 1998 marked by fast, disconnected shots Gwendolyn Audrey Foster and "The Prairie, Pippi Longstocking, Anne of lasting only a few frames. According to Status of Contemporary Women Green Gables, Madeleine, Eloise,or the contributor Audrey F.Kupferberg, Filmmakers," by Katrien Jacobs, a Nancy Drew series. Heroines of these "Allen's manner of editing the violent chronology, a selected list of distribu- books are mentioned repeatedly by the robberies and shoot-outs was so tors of films by women filmmakers, successful women contacted by Cooper- effective that it became the basic md four useful indexes (nationality, Mullin and Coye whose replies are cinematic language of future crime ~ccupation,awards, and film title). I included throughout Once Upon a films" (p.42). The energy in alternat- would have liked to see a somewhat Heroine. If you wanted a book with a ing shots of two boxers in Raging Bull, longer general bibliographylfilm- female protagonist, there wasn't much says contributor Rob Edelman, is ography on women and filmmaking else before the 1970s. There were the derived "not only from the physical than the eleven items at the end of Cherry Arnes nurse books (actually movements of the actors but the Foster's essay. It might have included mentioned by Christine Todd Whitman) manner in which the contrasting pieces Foster's own documentary on the and others like them that took their of film are edited" (p.344). subject, Women Who Made the Movies heroines from student days through Women Filmmakers has more than (Gwendolyn Foster Dixon and romance and marriage, but not much 190 entries on women directors, pro- Wheeler Dixon, Nebraska Educational else. The situation is radically different ducers, editors, writers, animators, and Television, 1991) and Ally Acker's today, with scores of really good others as well as about 60 entries for series of Reel Women Videos (10 children's books appearing each year important films. Each biographical tapes,1991-1993). among the thousands published. What entry includes a brief biography, a One film I was surprised not to will girls raised in the 1990s name as complete filmography, a selected find in Women Filmmakers is Thelma their favorites twenty years from now? bibliography of works by and about the and Louise, written by Callie Khouri. Probably these same "classics" will be entrant, and an essay by one of the Perhaps Khouri needs more credits to on the list, along with others reflecting many film critics, professors, and qualify, but the impact of the film on the diversity of girls' lives - the Coop- freelancers who contributes to this feminist film history cannot be erative Children's Book Center of the excellent guide to women and film- denied. University of Wisconsin-Madison says making. Entries are two to four pages This is a wonderhl addition to that "naming a book as a classic is long, many with photographs. Included the reference works available on dependent as much on one's back- are writers Betty Comden and Anita women and filmmaking to date, ground as what someone may have read Loos, animators Joy Batchelor and which include Anuette Kuhn's Women to you when you were young.:" These Lotte Reiniger, directors Diane Kurys, in Film: An International Guide will be joined by a whole raft of newer Agnes Varda, Alice Guy, and Barbara (Fawcett, 1990) and Gwendolyn books that girls are drawn to because Hammer, several women like Barbra Foster's Women Film Directors: An friends pass them on as "must reads" or Streisand and Jodie Foster who appear International Bio-Critical Dictionary adults suggest them. in two or more categories, and many (Greenwood, 1995). Once Upon a Heroine is the newest others. Entries for films include resource among several that guide production information, cast and crew, parents, teachers, librarians, and young a selected bibliography of works about GIRLS' BOOKS readers to books that champion strong, the film, and an essay. They were independent, spunky girls. Other guides chosen to represent "the wide range of Alison Cooper-Mullin and Jennifer reviewed of late in Feminist Collections interests within North American and Marmaduke Coye, ONCE UPON A are Gender Positive! A Teachers' and European film scholarship and HEROI1YE: 450 BOOKS FOR Librarians' Guide to Nonstereotyped criticism" (Editor's note, p.vii). In GIRLS TO LOW. Chicago: Contem- Children's Literature, K-8, by Patricia essence, that limited the book to porary Books, 1998.349~.index. L. Roberts, et al. (McFarland, 1993), commercial and to a lesser extent pap., $16.-95, ISBN 0-8092-3020-8. Great Books for Girls: More Than 600 independent filmmaking in North Books to Inspire Today's Girls and America, Europe, Australia, and New If someone asked you to name Tomorrow's Women,by Kathleen Odean Zealand. your favorite book from childhood, (Ballantine 1997), and Let's Hear It for In addition to the entries, there are what would it be? If you are a middle- the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers introductory essays on "The Evolution aged or older woman, you'll probably 2-14, by Erica Bauermeister and Holly of the Woman Filmmaker," by say Little Women, Little House on the Smith (Penguin, 1997). All the guides

Feminist Collections vo1.19, no.4 Summer 1998 25 are useful. Some books will appear in 3ducational Equity Act (1974), des- informative and often entertaining all or most of them, others are unique. :ribes that legislation herself. pide for all readers. What sets Once Upon a Heroine apart Mankiller also discusses the Iroquois are the reminiscences from business- Zonfederacy, while Navarro covers women, athletes, performers, writers, 'international feminism," and Smith MATHEMATICS and activists, often set in sidebars )oth "Black feminism" and "Black alongside Cooper-Mullin and Coye's esbians." Clharlene Morrow and Teri Perl, eds., description of the book they recall. The editors strive to tell an inclu- VOTABLE WOMEN IN MA TH- Once Upon a Heroine is divided iive story in all entries. Thus, an entry EM TICS: A BIOGRAPHICAL by age group and includes an index of hat might be "image of women" in DICTIONARY. Westport, CI':Green- titles, authors, and contributors as well mother book is here "images of wood, 1998. 302p. ill. index. $49.95, as a subject index. The authors also women," and contributor Lois W. [SBN 0-3 13-29131-4. solicit suggestions for future editions. 3anner includes images of women of rarious ethnicities, ages, and sexual "What a pity you're a girl; you're )references in addition to the virgin1 so good at mathematics, and it seems HISTORY whore dichotomy. She also covers the you won't be able to use it." How many ist tory of the popularity of tanning for potential mathematicians have been Wilma Mankiller, et al., THE well-off white women. While it maxi- discouraged by statements like that? READER'S COMPANION TO US. nized the distinction between them We'll never know, but we can learn WOMEN'S HISTORY. Boston: md pallid factory workers, it also may from Notable Women in Mathematics Houghton Mifflin, 1998. 696p. ill., lave resulted from the popularity of about women like Gilah Vanderhoek index. $45.00, ISBN 0-395-67 173-9. Black singer Josephine Baker and Leder, who upon hearing the above ~therBlack entertainers during the from a high school teacher redoubled If you wanted someone to write an 1920s. her determination to pursue a degree in entry on the history of "misogyny," In addition to topics specifically mathematics in college. She is one of wouldn't it be great to have Andrea Jn women, The Reader's Companion fifty-nine women whose significant Dworkin do it? Who better than Evelyn 'o US.Women 's Histoly has many contributions to mathematics have Torton Beck could you find to define mtries that would be part of any garnered them a place in Greenwood "Jewish lesbianism," or Barbara Haber general American history ("Puritan- Press' newest Notable Women... book. to write on "cooking," Carol Seajay on ~sm,""Labor Unions," "Civil Rights Greenwood has several types of bio- "feminist presses, publications, and Movement," etc.), but addressing the graphical reference works on women, bookstores," or Sara Evans on the relationship of women to these topics. variously subtitled "bio-bibliographical "Vietnam era." The editors of The A disappointment is that there are sourcebook," "bio-critical sourcebook," Reader's Companion to US. Women 's no biographical entries at all. Since and "biographical dictionary." The bio- Histoly have snagged them all, plus there are more than six hundred pages bibliographical and bio-critical works, made their own substantial contribu- to the text already, presumably entries including L.S Grinstein and P.J. tions to this spirited, emphatically about individuals would have pushed Campbell's Women of Mathematics multicultural work. Editor Gloria this to a two-volume work. One can (1987), are aimed at the academic Steinem analyzes talk shows, defines find references to individuals through community and provide a critical womanism (with Diana L. Hayes), and the index, but that does not guarantee assessment of each woman's body of traces the history of the term "Ms." basic facts about their lives. Another work. The biographical dictionaries of back to 1767. Steinem and coeditors weakness as a reference tool is that Notables have general readers in mind, Wilma Mankiller and Marysa Navarro only some of the entries provide describing early influences, career begin a long section on "Feminism and bibliographic citations. Even though pathway, and other interests, yet also Feminisms" by reviewing the history of the intended audience is clearly attempt to describe the field of study the meaning of "feminism" for differ- general readers, it would have been the subject is known for and her place ent ethnic groups and eras. Editors nice to let them know somewhere in it. Barbara Smith and Gwendolyn Mink (inaddition to the page of illustration This is an especially daunting task, enlarge the topic by introducing the credits) that women's history sources say editors Morrow and Perl, in concept of "Feminisms," which is are preserved in libraries and archives. mathematics - a discipline where many followed by no less than seventeen There could have been an entry for the professors claim they "cannot transmit separate entries on feminist flavors principal repositories or a more any idea of their research, even to from American Indian to working- general entry on historical preserva- undergraduates who have already class. Mink has six other contributions, tion. Despite these negatives, the work begun to study more advanced math- while her mother, Congresswoman as a whole is a positive, women- ematics" (Introduction, p.viii) - and Patsy Mink, author of the Women's affigreference tool that will be an they are to be commended for trying.

26 Feminist Collections v01.19, no.4 Summer 1998 Some essays succeed spectacularly. Mathematics to show them that women :onsequent thousands of women poets Louise Roslansky Grosslein, for exam- :an spend their days entranced by the low publishing, inclusion itself, in ple, uses a wonderful extended visual- :legance and challenge of higher ;uch a bibliography as this, in fact, ization patterned on Flatland2 of a nathematics and have family lives as :omtitutes "critical attention." little girl fishing from a dock over a well. High school girls today still need Some of the more prominent lake to explain the work of Alicia mcouragement from individuals, but miters selected are better known for Boole Stott on dimensions. Elsewhere, 5ey also have this excellent collection heir work in genres other than poetry. the explanations leave the nonmathe- ~f biographies to inspire them to pursue ;or example, in view of the many matician still confused. Morrow and mathematical careers. :ontemporary women poets not Per1 suggest that readers seek out ncluded, it is difficult to justify the people with greater mathematical nclusion of Janet Frame, who is well- training or consult reference works if cnown for her novels but has only one terms are unclear or undefined. I mblished volume of poetry (1967). doubt, however, that someone who Pamela L. Shelton, ed., CONTEMPO- 3n the other hand, Margaret Atwood, does not understand a sentence like the UARY WOMEN POETS. Detroit, MI.: who may also be better known as a following could get much further using St. James Press, 1998. 400p. bibl. lovelist, yet has continuously pro- those strategies: "Her [Cora Sadosky's] index. $90, ISBN 1-55862-356-6 iuced books of poetry (24) since 196 1, research over the last twenty years has [Contemporary writers series). :learly warrants inclusion. Some centered on developing, in collabora- 'significant" poets writing in other tion with Mischa Cotlar, an abstract It is always risky to assemble the languages have also been chosen for extension theory for operators that "contemporary" when it comes to mclusion in this collection when their commute with evolutions in scattering literary criticism and history, where 'works are of current academic structures" (p.207). Most readers will, hindsight is all. The primary virtue of mterest" (xiii), but, again, the criteria I'm sure, be satisfied to read Charlene this compilation is in the fullness of the for such is left vague. Qulte aside Morrow and Lynn Benander's addi- annotations on the poets included From the selection of these foreign tional explanation that this is impor- (giving biographical data, bibliogra- language poets, not every English- tant because "such operators model phies, poet's commentary, and critical speaking nation is even represented many transformations occurring in commentary) rather than the selection (for exam-ple, there are no entrants several engineering fie1ds..." and that itself, which might be more appropri- From South Africa). Above all, the the control system of the space shuttle ately titled "Most Prominent Living . . absence of a clear and defmitive is one application of the theory. ." than "Contemporary Women Poets," editorial statement renders the term The notables range from Hypatia as the editor is quick to announce in "contemporary" highly problematic. of Alexandria (c. 360-4 15) and four the first sentence of her "Editor's While no major contemporary women women born in the eighteenth century Note." Even so, we are not given the poets have been left out, and many to Andrea Bertozzi, a tenured professor criteria for selection, beyond the listing "new" poets are presented here, a at Duke University who is only 33. The of advisors and contributors, or considerable number of lesser-known I i vast majority have been employed at intended scope, beyond ". . . nearly 250 but important emerg-ing poets are not i academic and research institutions in of the most prominent women poets included. Most of the advisors to the the United States, though many were currently writindand or publishing in collection have experience as consult- I born elsewhere. The essays -by the English language today." Why 250 ing poetry editors andlor academic mathematicians, teachers, and other and not 50 or 350? The editor also literary critics (i.e., Rita Dove, contributors - are five to seven pages gestures to the inclusion of "several Marjorie Perloff, Judith Rodrigues, long, and each includes a black-and- important new women poets just Anthony Thwaite, Diane Wakoski), white photograph. The entries on gaining widespread critical attention" yet the contributors are overwhelm- contemporary women are largely based (xiii), but does not let on what the ingly educators - professors of on interviews, often spiced with quo- criteria for "critical attention" is. Why English, mainly - with a fair scat- tations from the biographees. In addi- Vicki Feaver, Lisa Jamot, Honor Moore tering of poets and writers, but very tion to supplying biographical infor- and not Alta, Mary Crow, Cheme few editors of poetry publications, and mation and a toe-dip into the math- Moraga, Chrystos, Anne Carson? these few are mostly men. The ematical work, each essay lists selected Given the great difficulty of gaining women poets left out of this collection works by and about the biographee. any critical attention for poetry in may simply be better known to readers Many of the women recall par- today's mainstream culture, a difficulty of the literary and feminist small and ticular individuals who noticed their compounded by' the current prolifera- independent presses than to main- ability and mentored them. There were tion of alternative presses training stream academics. Thus the cornpre- no books like Notable Women in primary attention on women and by the hensiveness of this compilation might

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have been substantially improved with have been double-checked (I found a ture at the University of Wisconsin- the addition of advisors and consult- minor error, listing my press as located Madison. A new book ofpoetry, Poems ants who are women editors and/or in Oshkosh). in the Dream Time, is in progress.] publishers fdygrounded in the Contemporary Women Poets is, to small literary and/or feminist presses, my knowledge, the only such reference such as Glenna Luschei (Cafk Solo), book in print giving full biographical STATISTICS Marion K. Stocking (The Beloit Poetry and bibliographic data. On the other Journal), Hilda Raz (Prairie Schoo- end of the scale is A Directory of United Nations. Economic and Social ner), Judith Johnson (13th Moon), American Poets and Fiction Writers Commission for Asia and the Pacific. Elana Dykewomon (Sinister Wisdom), (New York: Poets & Writers), updated Statistical Profiles series. Reviewed: Sue Ann Martinson (Sing, Heavenly and published every two years, which WOMEN IN CHINA: A PROFILE Muse), or many others. compiles the names and a brief listing (92p., Statistical Profiles, no. 10, ST/ These misgivings aside, the of publications of some 7,200 contem- ESCAPl1763, UN Pub. Sales no. entries for the poets listed are very porary writers - but not much else E97.11.F. 17, ISBN 92-1-1 19754-6, complete and quite readable. Both (although it does list periodical publi- $19.95), WOMEN IN FIJI: A COUN- Elizabeth M. Mills and Diane Wakoski cations). While there are a good many TRY PROFILE (64p., Statistical have written forewords to the edition. substantial studies covering major Profiles, no. 11, ST/ESCAP/1764, UN There is a nationality index, a book women poets of the twentieth century Pub. Sales no. E97.II.F.18, $15.00, title index, and an annotated listing of up to the present, like Jean Gould's ISBN 92-1-1 19755-4), New York: advisors and contributors. Full indi- Modern American Women Poets (New 1997. vidual entries may include nationality, York: Dodd, Mead, 1984), and numer- date of birth, education, family infor- ous bibliographies and works on Any researcher trying to get accu- mation, career information, awards, women poets of other time periods, rate, current statistics on the situation literary agent and address (including places, and themes, there's really of women in countries in the develop- email and website addresses), as well nothing comparable to this collection. ing world will confirm how difficult a as listings of publications, bibliogra- Contemporary Women Poets will un- process it has been to obtain such phies, manuscript collection holdings, doubtedly serve as a valuable research figures. She may have had to settle for and critical studies (though not every tool for both students and the general data from the mid- 1980s and/or gross entry supplies all this information). It public now and in years to come. estimates from international organiza- would have been good had significant tions removed from the reality of the journal publications been listed as [Ingrid Swanberg has edited and numbers. Add a desire for comparable well, as these signal much about a published the poetry journal indicators from two or more countries poet's background and milieu. A per- ABRAXAS in Madison, Wisconsin and the researcher has no doubt begun haps feminist touch is the inclusion of since 1981, and is the editor and to daydream about the advantages of personal statements by the entrants. founder of a poetry book series qualitative studies. The situation im- The critical commentaries accompany- publishing under the imprint Ghost proved greatly with the appearance of ing each entry are informative and, Pony Press. Her poetry has appeared The World's Women from the United thankfully, tend to focus on the poetry. in various small press publications Nations (1991, second ed., 1995). Data Apparently, the bibliographies were since 1967. She is currently complet- were merged from numerous sources provided by the poets, and may not ing the Ph.D. in Comparative Litera- and presented in tabular form, offering

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- a basis for comparisons, although :xamining marriage, fertility, and Pacific will be useful aids to policy footnotes still showed variation in date ~therfamily matters, gender differ- makers, area studies, and women's and sometimes defintion of the item :nces in a host of labor-force measures, studies researchers. being counted. With respect to cur- md the political participation of rency, the U.N. Statistics Division is women using various indicators. While providing an excellent service by Aese categories provide a structure, as THIRD WORLD updating the statistical tables in The me would expect, the two books on World's Women on the Web at http:// vastly different countries have different Nelly P. Stromquist, ed., and Karen www.un.org/Depts/unsdl :mphases. Fiji, population 77 1,104, is Monkman, asst. ed., WOMEN IN gender.intr0.ht.m. n parliamentary democracy with two THE THIRD WORLD: AN ENCY- The World's Women and the web- main ethnic groups: indigenous Fijians CLOPEDLQ OF CONTEMPORARY site statistics are at the regional or and Indians who are descendants of ISSUES. New York: Garland, 1998. country level only. They are not de- indentured laborers. Tables throughout 683p. annot. bibl. index. $135.00, signed to provide information on pro- reflect differential rates for Fijians and ISBN 0-8 153-0150-2. vincial, ethnic, rurallurban variation, [ndians. The People's Republic of or other factors significant within a China is the most populous country in An overarching desire of the particular country. Yet that degree of the world, estimated at 1.16 billion editor and contributors to this timely specificity is critical for understanding [1993), including a dominant Han encyclopedia is to provide the intellec- actual conditions for women and group and 55 minorities, spread over tual wherewithal for women in indus- assessing progress in raising their 22 provinces, 5 autonomous regions, trialized countries to make the "jour- economic and social standing. In 1994, and 3 municipalities. Many tables in ney to solidarity" with women in the the United Nations Secretariat initiated Women in China present information at Third World. In order to accomplish a project on improving statistics on the provincial level or offer rurallurban this goal, Women in the Third World women in the region covered by the distinctions. The volume discusses at goes quite beyond what would be ex- Economic and Social Commission for some length the reported differences in pected in an encyclopedia on this sub- Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). With official sex ratio at birth, which varies ject, such as a variety of statistics on funding assistance from the Govern- from 92.5 males for every 100 females demographics, health, violence against ment of the Netherlands, the project born in urban Qinghai province to a women, etc., or essays on particular commissioned experts from nineteen high of 136.2 in urban Hainan. countries. Women in the Third World countries in the region to prepare Even though China and Fiji are adds essays on many topics only now detailed country profiles on gender opposites in many ways, it is interest- emerging as women's issues; such as factors in the family, at work, and in ing that some aspects of the status of the gender consequences of ecological public life. The first two country pro- women are similar. Males outnumber deterioration and the critical role edu- files, on China and Fiji, are reviewed females in the overall population of cating women plays in the develop- here. Others in the series are Bangla- both countries (97 females for every ment of countries. This is also overtly desh, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, 100 males in Fiji, 94 females for every a feminist work. One of the first arti- Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, 100 males in China). Formal labor cles is "Feminist Epistemology and Republic of Korea, Sri Lanka, Thai- force figures signficantly undercount Research Methods," by Margaret land, and several island nations. working Chinese women and Fijians Sutton, and throughout the book, con- Each country profile follows the because most women are employed in tributors keep the relationship between same pattern. An introduction briefly the informal sector. Few women have gender and power in the forefront, summarizes the history of the status of been elected to the Fijian parliament, make connections across disciplines, women in that state, followed by high- and in China, the percentage of female countries, classes, and races, and cite lights of findings in the profile. The members of the Central Commitee of feminist research. next section describes general condi- the Chinese Communist party is only There are other differences from tions in the country, starting with its 6.3 percent (1992), and the proportion more traditional encyclopedias, too. geographical setting, and discussing its female representatives in the National One is simply length of entries. Con- government, economy, demographics, People's Congress hovers around 2 1 tributors were allowed thuty pages, and social infrastructure. The rest of percent (1993). double-spaced, for topical entries each volume profiles women's lives, These profiles of the status of (twenty for the geographic entries), beginning with population data, then women in countries of Asia and the and this gives them leeway to address

Feminist Collections vo1.19, no.4 Summer 1998 29 distinctions among countries or nterested in the establishment of information could be quite out-of- regions in more than a superficial way lemocratic processes in Muslim date before the need arises. However, and to develop several sub-topics. Gale ountries work with local Muslim while some of the facts and resource Summerfeld and Nahid Aslanbeigui's vomen's organizations to shape information will need updating, there's essay on "The Impact of Structural ,culturally appropriate strategies" and so much good advice about managing Adjustment and Economic Reform on imd U.S.-based nongovernmental each crisis and pointers to well- Women," for example, opens with rganizations that have experience established organizations that I think common components of economic vith refugee women. This essay also Solutions will be a useful guide well reform, whether mandated by the llustrates another feature that sets into the future. The section on being International Monetary Fund and Vomen in the Third World apart from fired, for example, covers legal rights World Bank or due to a decision to ,ther encyclopedias. Wali and many of and steps to be taken to negotiate move from a centrally-controlled he other contributors are not simply severance pay, maintain health insur- economy to one that is market-based. lescriptive of the current situation. ance, and decide whether to take ac- Reform elements include reduction in rhey offer advice to policy makers for crued payment from the pension fund government spending, privatization of uture actions. as a lump sum or to leave it invested state firms,more emphasis on eco- With the increasing emphasis in and receive it as an annuity after retire- nomic efficiency, and trade liberaliza- vomen's studies programs on global ment. Psychologically, it is good to tion (p.332). Next Summerfeld and women's issues, this book can provide have something to reach for, too, Aslanbeigui turn to examples of m excellent resource for students should a crisis develop, rather than different restructuring policies in Latin :xploring any of the topics covered. have to face browsing libraries and America, Africa, and Asia. These set 3ach article includes bibliographic bookstores in an emergency. Hartman the stage for understanding the impact .eferences for further research. Those, also suggests that many sections of the of restructuring on women in different ,111s an annotated bibliography of book can be used for prevention. What regions. In Latin America (especially general work at the end of the book, about the "who?My fear here is that Mexico) many women joined the will be invaluable to academic libraries someone experiencing any one of the workforce in maquiladoras (export :hecking how well they cover Third crises covered would want more infor- factories). Although the numbers in Norld women in their collections. mation on that particular problem than maquiladoras have fallen since the fiat about the advice for policy can be provided in a general handbook. mid-1980s, women remain in the labor nakers? Will any ever see this book? That concern was allayed in large force, yet continue all their household :f not directly, at least the ideas em- measure by the author's wise statement tasks, too, since the Mexican family lodied in it can be a resource to acti- that crises rarely come singly. The loss structure remains virtually unchanged. lists in dealing with funding and of an infant could lead to depression, a In the sub-Sahara, where women had a ;overnmental agencies, and perhaps in stroke to a need for home health care, long history in subsistance agriculture hat way, the book can influence etc., and sometimes more than one and trading, the reforms have pushed women's lives in Third World coun- unrelated bad thing strikes at the same them into low-paying, informal-sector tries. time. So, unless you are the type of work. In China, city women have person who wants a raft of advice found some new opportunities to work manuals on hand for dealing with in businesses andlor be self-employed. WOMEN'S ISSUES divorce, a gay teenager, facing an Regardless of region, women are unexpected pregnancy, being stalked, working longer and harder, and Lauren Hartman, SOLUTIONS: THE and picking a nursing home, it would underlying traditional forms of WOMAN'S CRISIS HANDBOOK. be useful to be prepared in a general discrimination seem to be exacerbated. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.670p. way with this sensible guide. After The article on "Refugee and bibl. index. pap., $25.00, ISBN 0-395- absorbing what Hartman writes on a Displaced Women," by Sima Wali, is 70739-0. subject and contacting the relevant another example of depth of coverage. organizations she describes in a She discusses forced migrations in the My first questions, looking at the hundred-page resource directory, one 1990s affecting millions of people variety of crises covered in this book - could then look for further information (eighty percent of whom are women from being fired to dealing with a if needed. and children), gender-based persecu- disabled child, domestic violence, or a The Resource Directory section tions, the role of the media, and the life-threatening illness - are who itself makes Solutions a useful addition special problems of the status of should buy this book, and when? Let's to library collections. Muslim women in their societies (often start with "when." While it would be overlooked by Western relief agencies). more expedient to have such a volume Wali recommends that Western donors on hand should a crisis develop, its

30 Feminist Collections vo1.19, no.4 Summer 1998 WOMEN'S STUDIES culture (beauty pageants) to "high" tddition to the traditional "General culture (literature) to sociology (dual- ndex" at the rear of the book. A Eleanor B. Amico, ed., Reader's career families). This book is aptly engthy "Booklist Index" arranged by Guide to Women's Studies. Chicago: named a "reader's guide," for each wthorleditor lists books discussed in the Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997. $125, ISBN 1- essaylentry is prefaced with a bibliog- mays, enabling the reader to find 884964-77-X.732~. raphy of titles, including publisher and isc cuss ions of a particular text. Much date of publication. These bibliogra- onger than the "General Index," this The academic field of women's phies are not extensive (from three to ~ooklistprovides a unique access point studies is relatively young, having its fourteen items) but do identify the .o the material. Finally, a 'Wotes on genesis in the late 1960s. It is there- major books (no articles) published on 2ontributors" section provides details fore timely - these thirty years on - for each topic. Of course there is much ibout the essayists, including their a comprehensive reader's guide to this variation in the amount of literature :urrent position, major works (if applic- interdisciplinary and burgeoning field generated from topic to topic. Broad able), and the essays for which they are to appear. The Reader's Guide to topics such as "Feminism" or "Litera- .esponsible. This reviewer would have Women 's Studies is a solid one-volume ture" have been subdivided into finer referred the "General Index" be the reference work designed to reflect the distinctions and are represented by Final appendix, for ease of use, but this book literature generated thus far in multiple essays. The limits to this type IS a mere quibble. women's studies. It is a large book - of reference book are hard to establish, Priced at $125.00, this reference physically as well as intellectually - but the editorial decision to make this book likely won't be purchased by the and one capable of handling inquiries a benchmark of the book literature :asual reader, but will be affordable for from novices and sophisticated published in English is a good one, library and research collections. researchers alike. Being entirely bringing focus to such an ambitious Because it is comprised of topical as unfamiliar with Julian of Norwich, for project. The emphasis is on text as well as biographical information, example, I found in the essay about her there are no photographs nor illustra- smaller collections will get double a general idea of who she was and tions. service from it - but it is somewhat what she wrote, concise summaries of As with any reference book, the limited as a biographical research tool major academic works about her life design for accessibility of information in terms of coverage. It is an excellent and work, plus plenty of material to is of primary importance and this book record of the published book literature pursue should I wish to learn more. I is very user-friendly. A two-column in the field thus far. then read the essay on "Dual Career alphabetical list of entries is included Families" - a topic much more familiar in the front matter of the book, fol- [Susan Barribeau is a Reference to me - which updated my knowledge, lowed by a thematic list of entries Librarian at Memorial Library, Univer- i broadened it by including more arranged into broad categories so a sig of Wisconsin-Madison.She particu- international comparisons, and reader may easily identify related larly likes to write reference reviews for included discussions of problems that topics of interest. Essays appear in Feminist Collections.] have a stubborn per-sistence in the straightforward alphabetical order. third decade of women's studies. This Such a text-heavy work runs the risk of WRITERS work will be of particular use for a being hard on the eyes, but the typeface researcher needing a quick summary of is well-sized and spaced and the essays George Soule, FOUR BRITISH the major titles published over the last are arranged in double columns. Help- WOMEN NOVELISTS: ANITA thirty years on a wide range of topics, fully, last names of the authors of BROOKNER, MARGARET events, and people - and how the books discussed in each essay are DRABBLE, IRIS MURDOCH, authors of these books responded to capitalized, making them easy to pick BARBARA PYM: AN ANNOTATED one another's work. The contributors out of the text. Some use is made of AND CRITICAL SECONDARY place the books within a continuum cross-referencing, particularly with BIBLIOGRAPHY. Lanham, MD: and do an excellent job of explaining "see also" references following an Scarecrow Press, 1998. 520p. $62.00, their importance. essay, but these could have been em- ISBN 0-8 108-3505-3. Nearly two hundred contributors/ ployed more liberally. It is certainly experts were enlisted to compose browseable and the reader will move These four popular contemporary signed essays on more than five hun- from topic to related topic with ease. women writers offer critics much to dred subjects ranging from "mass" There are several appendices in ponder. Critics probe their settiugs

Feminist Collections vo1.19, no.4 Summer 1998 31 (urban and rural), humor (in Drabble Book-length reference works exist quotations from the women and and Pym), cooking motif (common to for three of the four writers (all except excerpts from significant documents. Brookner and Pym), philosophical Brookner): Joan Garrett Packer on The subject index extends the useful- influences (particularly in Murdoch), Drabble (Garland, 1988), John ness of the tirneline by making it class issues, relationship to feminism, Fletcher and Cheryl Bove on Murdoch possible to look up individuals and and especially their female protago- (Garland, 1994), and Dale Salwak on topics. nists. Soule has done a worthy job of Pym (G.K. Hall 1991), but Four collecting and describing this criti- British Women Novelists will be a good cism. purchase for public libraries that might Sylvia Glickman and Martha Furman The section for each author begins not acquire a bibliography on a single Schleifer, WOMEN COMPOSERS: with general or thematic works of author. Academic libraries will also MUSIC THROUGH THE AGES. New criticism, followed by studies on want it for the coverage of Brookner York: G.K. Hall. Each volume: individual novels. The novels are in and because the citations extend $100.00. order of publication, while the critical through 1996. studies are arranged alphabetically. Volumes three through five of this Other bibliographies are then listed, careful resource of performance scores along with a paragraph summarizing BRIEFLY NOTED cover women composers born in the the writer's work in other genres. eighteenth century. Volume three offers Arrangement of the novels in publica- Irene M. Franck and David M. examples of keyboard music by twenty- tion order helps readers understand Brownstone, THE WILSON CHRO- two women composers, including how critics have viewed the progres- NOLOGY OF WOMEN'S ACHIEVE- Maria Teresa Agnesi and Maria sion of the author's themes, where they MENTS: A RECORD OF WOMEN'S Szymanowska. Volume four has vocal see shifts in emphasis, and how HISTORY FROM ANCIENT TIMES music by twenty-three musicians, such they've judged the quality of each TO THE PRESENT. New York: H.W. as Madame Louis and Margaret Essex. novel or group of novels. Perhaps for Wilson, 1998. 507p. bibl. index. The fifth volume concentrates on general works, as well as older novels $55.00, ISBN 0-8242- instrumental ensemble pieces by that have received criticism over a long 0936-2. Arnelie-Jule Candeille, Maria time period, a sub-arrangement of the Szymanowska, and Maddalena critical studies by date would have If you missed the authors' Lombardini Sirmen. Each volume been more useful than one by critic's Women's World: A Timeline of Women includes biographical essays on each a last name. in History (Harperperennial, 1995) the composers, including a list of her Soule's annotations are long upon which this edition is based, and works. enough to get a good sense of the are in need of a factual march through critic's main contentions, and he women's achievements, pick up this 1. Kathleen T. Homing, Ginny Moore frequently offers his own reasoned updated and lightly revised edition. Kruse, and Megan Schliesman, CCBC evaluation of the critical works. He The new edition adds information for Choices I995 (Madison: Cooperative cites books, essays in anthologies, and 1994, 1995, and 1996, plus a "Select Children's Book Center, 1996), p.9. periodical articles, but not disserta- Bibliography." Like the other available Each year the CCBC publishes tions, most book reviews, or other chronologies of women's history Choices, with recommended children's short pieces. He makes exceptions for (including The Women 's Chronology, titles of all sorts. To order the latest reviews in The New York Times Book by James Trager, and the Chronology edhon, Choices 1997, send $6.00 Review, The New York Review of of Women 's History, by Kirstin Olsen, ($3.00 for Wisconsin residents) to Books, London Review of Books, The both issued in 1994), however, it is Friends of the CCBC, P.O. Box 5288, Times Literary Supplement, and impossible to tell which source pro- Madison, WI 53706. Indicate that your occasionally other publications. vided the information for individual check is for Choices 1997. For further Unfortunately, The Women 's Review of statements in the tirneline. At 507 information, see the CCBC website: Books and Belles Lettres do not seem pages compared to the earlier 654, this http://www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/ to be among them. One hopes that if edition is more compact, having a Soule does a new edition, or takes on removed the occasional illustrations 2. Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland. 6th ed. other women authors (he hints at this and using a smaller font, and it follows (Princeton: Princeton University Press, in the Introduction, saying he regrets the same arrangement as the prior 1991). having no room to include such writers work. Within each year, the entries are as Muriel Spark, Angela Carter, A.S. divided into categories: politicsAaw/ Reviewed by Phyllis Holman Byatt, and Fay Weldon), that he will war, religionJeducation/everydaylife, Weisbard except as noted add reviews from these feminist science/technology/medicine,and arts/ sources. literature. Occasional sidebars add

32 Feminist Collections vol. 19, no.4 Summer 1998 New and Newly Discovered :om (Issues examined: v. 1, no. 1, March-April 1998; v. 1, 10.2, June 1998) Periodicals What began in October 1996 as a magazine for the 2olorado lesbian community has gone national in a big way, ACTMST EPIZINE: A MAGAZINE OF PROFEMINIST :omplete with national advertisers. Among the topics ACTMSM 1996- . Eds.: Editorial committee. Approx. 41 :overed in the magazine's first two issues: the cons of legal yr. $17 (sliding scale to $10). Overseas add $7 postage. niuriage; the Lesbian Health Advocacy Movement; stories Sexual Exploitation Project, 1811 NE 39th Ave., Portland, %omthe "Love Makes a Family" photo exhibit; gay, lesbian, OR 972 12; email: straton@science1 .sb2.pdx.edu (Issue md bisexual youth; an interview with comedienne Kate examined: v.1, no.3) 2linton; transsexual lovers; the National Center for Lesbian An outgrowth, apparently, of the Activist Men's Jour- Rights and its executive director Kate Kendell. nal, this somewhat irregular magazine focuses on men's profeminist activism, 4th such -articles as: "Because They DREMGIRL 1997- . Ed.: Frances 0. Dowell. 41yr. $10. Can" (on why men batter and rape); "How to Form a Men Single copy: $3. ISSN 1097-3508. P.O. Box 639, Carrboro, Against Rape Group" (Jack Straton); "Back to the Garden" W 275 10. (Issue examined: v. 1,110.3, Summer 1998) (David S. Shaw); "Tupac Shakur and Black Masculinity" Subtitled "The Arts Magazine for Girls," and with the (Vernon McClean); "Homosexuality and the Bible" (reprint zoal of providing "info on art-related matters for girls... 11 by Walter Wink listing behaviors either prohibited by the to 15," this quarterly carries a number of interesting pieces, Bible that are now viewed as fine, or encouraged by the including an interview with author Sarah Dessen, "The Art Bible that are now seen as unacceptable); and a protest ~f Thrift," tips on what to find in the library, "Alt.Country" statement on the film The People vs. Larry Flint. Dn country-punk music, "Printmaking Made Easy," "Grow Your Own Book Group this Summer," and in the "First AFRICAN JOURNAL OF REPRODUCTNE HEALTH Person: Artists Talk about Their Art" section, actor Diana 1997- . Eds.: Friday E. Okonofua, Rachel C. Snow. 2Iyr. Slickman. A clean layout, book and music reviews, and $15 (indiv. - Africa); $30 (indiv. - outside Africa); $20 (inst. ~ccasionalpoems enhance the issue. - Africa); $50 (inst. - outside Africa). Add N 100 (local) or $5 (international) postage. Single copy: $25. Editorial ERRATA 1997- . Ed.: S. Lynette Bondarchuk. Cdn$9. Office, Dept. of Population & International Health, Harvard [SSN 1206-9302. Edmonton Small Press Association, P.O. School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA Box 75086, Ritchie Postal Outlet, Edmonton, Alberta, T6E 02 115 or No. 4 Alofoje Avenue, Off Uwasota Street, Benin 6K1, Canada. (Issue examined: No. 1, August 1997) City, Edo State, Nigeria; website: www.hsph.harvard.edu/ Subtitled "Contemporary Visual and Literary Art," this ajrh (Issue examined: v. 1, no. 1, March 1997) compendium of 150 pages of cartoons, commentary, short Because "as many as ten percent of African women of fiction, "news and views," as well as ads, creates a potpourri reproductive age continue to die needlessly from pregnancy- intended to "increase the awareness of contemporary comic related complications," (p.5), The Women's Health and Art by Women in Canada,... to put young, starving, contem- Action Research Center (WHARC) began this journal as a porary comic artists to work, doing work that they love to "pan-African and international fonun for health scientists to do, ... to break gender barriers," and more. The title is taken document and disseminate their findings on reproductive from Mary Daly's Intergalactic Wickedary of the English problems in sub-Saharan Africa" (pp.3-4). Among the Language, which gives the meaning of "errata" as "1 : topics in this 114-page innaugural issue are unsafe abortion, DefiantDeviant women 2: the works of such women...." HIVIAIDS prevention, urbanization, traditional fertility practices, sex workers and barriers to condom use. HEA W GIRL PRESS 1997?- . Ed.: Kerry Daniels. $5 Cdn. orders + postage; $6 U.S. orders + postage. #823-77 CIRCLES 1998- . Ed./Publisher: Kit McChesney. 61yr. Huntley St., Toronto, ON, M4Y 2P3, Canada; email: $24.95 (U.S.); $34.95 (Canada, Mexico); $50 (elsewhere). [email protected] (Issues examined: No. 1; No.2) Single copy: $4.95 (US.); $5.95 (Canada). 1705 Fourteenth This Toronto-based fanzine is "dedicated to all women, St., Suite 326, Boulder, CO 80302-6321; email: circles@ but specifically sets out to celebrate, explore and unite fat circlesmagazine.com; website: http://www.circlesmagazine. women of all ethno-racial backgrounds and sexualities"

Feminist Collections voLI9, no.4 Summer 1998 33 (p.44, No.2). The first issue, in 8-112 x 1 1-inch format, )fa social worker due, perhaps, to abuse by her husband; a offers 22-pages of cartoon art, articles (such as "What )hot0 exhibition on the role of Indian women in the history Roseanne Gave Us"), poetry, and an edtorial. In 5 x 8 )f the country; International Fortnight Against Violence on format, the second issue includes media reviews, more art Women; work against alcohol and trafficking in women and (and a truly bright cover!), recipes, and such articles as :hildren; a seminar on crimes against women; questioning "Heavy Guys: The Big Fat Double Standard." )f women's dress by school authorities; and much more.

THE MUDPOMLL SIGNATURE: WOMEN IN VAFERE: SOUTHERN AFRICAN FEMmIST RE WEW MUSIC 1995- . Ed.: Pamela J. Blevins. 4/y. $28 (but 1995?- . Ed.: Ruth Meena. 2/y. Z$100 (Zimbabwe); currently not accepting subscriptions). ISSN 1083-5954. JS$35 (Africa); US$40 (elsewhere). ISSN 1024-9451. 5333 N. 26th St., Arlington, VA 22207; email: kshaffer@ Safere, Gender Division, P.O. Box MP 11 1, Mount Pleasant, erols.com (Issue examined: v.l,no.4, Spring, Summer 1996) -hare, Zimbabwe. (Issues examined: v.2, no.1, 1996; v.2, Named for the U.S.'s first "violin virtuoso of interna- 10.2, 1997) tional standing" (publicity), this publication carries news of Each sample issue has a special focus, the first on a host of classical women composers and performers. Past 'Sexuality, Identity and Change," the second on "Feminist issues have included features on English musicologist Discourses in Southern Africa." There are articles, reports, Marion Scott, composer/conductor Ruth Gipps, pianist md book reviews in each, and in addition the Sexuality Julianne McLean, singer Maria Garcia Malibran, composer ssue includes poetry, "reflections," and debates. Topics in Elinor Remick Warren, the experiences of Black women in he issues include Winnie Mandela and "Black Woman" as orchestras, Jeanette Thurber (founder of the National Con- Signifier; women in the commercial farming sector of servatory of Music); Jenny Lind; folk music collector Jennie Zimbabwe; a pan-African women's seminar, gender as an Devlin, composer/harpsichordist Jacquet de la Guerre; and unportant development issue in Southern Africa; and the many more musicians. Though temporarily not accepting African Gender Institute at the University of Cape Town. fur the^ subscriptions, the magazine nonetheless is seeking support, as its original funder quite suddenly withdrew WOMAN 1996- . Ed./Publ.: Elizabeth Scott. 4/y. $12.84 support "on the grounds that a magazine about women in :indiv., Canada); $21 (U.S.); $24 (elsewhere, surface); $30 music is 'a waste of time"' (letter). :elsewhere, air). Single copy: $3.95. ISSN1205-9935.422 Parliament St., P.O. Box 825 10, Toronto, ON M5A 3A0, NmM:A JOURNAL OF JEWTSH WOMEN'S STUD- Canada; email: [email protected]; website: http://www. IES & GENDER ISSUES 1998- . Ed.: Deborah Greniman. web.net/-woman (Issues examined: Spring 1998; Summer 2/y. $25 (indiv.); $20 (student); $45 (inst.) (includes 1998) surface mail anywhere). ISSN 0793-8934. International There are lots of ads to help pay for the forty sharp Research Institute on Jewish Women, Brandeis University, pages of each newsprint-size Canadian Women's Quarterly Lown 300A, mailstop 079, Waltham, MA 02254-91 10; Newsmagazine, printed on nice paper, but also plenty of email: [email protected] (Issue examined: No. 1, 575811 informational articles. An interview with Gloria Steinem, 1998) some Web pointers, and items on women entrepreneurs, Within its 168 pages, this first issue focuses on the adoption, treating infertility, kegel exercises, franchising, theme "Women and the Land of Israel" in commemoration farmwomen, eating disorders, and more are complemented of the 100th anniversary of the first Zionist Congress. Par- by book and film reviews and columns on humor and tial contents: "A Tale of Three Rachels, or The Cultural women's history. Herstory of a Symbol" (Susan Sered); "Patriarchy, the Land of Israel and the Legal Position of Jewish Women in Rab- binic Literature" (Tal Ilan); "The Double or Multiple Image of the New Hebrew Woman" (Margalit Shilo); "Irma 'Rama' Special Issues of Periodicals Lindheim: An Independent American Zionist Woman" (Shulamit Reinhan); plus an article and.review on "Women HISTORY & MEMORY v.8, no.2, Fall/Winter 1996: in the Rabbinate" and a separate book review. "Hannah Arendt and Eichmann in Jerusalem." Ed.: Gulie Ne'eman Arad. Subscriptioris: $20 (indiv.); $30 (inst.). NEWS FROM MMTREE 1997- . Ed.: Sanhita Resource Surface postage outside U.S.: $7. ISSN 0935-560X. Journals Center. 2/y. SANHITA, 89B Raja Basanta Roy Road, Manager, Indiana University Press, 601 North Morton St., Calcutta-700 029, India. (Issue examined: March 8, 1998) Bloomington, IN 47404. Maitree, a coalition of women's groups and activists in Contents: "The Ambivalences of German-Jewish West Bengal, publishes this newsletter in the interests of Identity: Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem" (Richard Wolin); "making this platform [of groups] into an organized force" "Identity, Perspective and Narrative in Hannah Arendt's and introducing Maitree to activists beyond West Bengal. Eichmann in Jerusalem" (Seyla Benhabib); "Eichmann, Reports in the eight-page sample newsletter note the death Arendt and Freud in Jerusalem: On the Evils of Narcissism

34 Feminist Collections vol.19, no.4 Summer 1998 and the Pleasures of Thoughtlessness" (JosB Brunner); North Am.); $23 (indiv., elsewhere); $45 (inst., North Am.); "Between Eichmann and Kant: Thinking on Evil after $47.50 (inst., elsewhere). ISSN 0149-0508. Blackwell Arendt" (Adi Ophir); and "When Actor and Spectator Meet Publishers, 350 Main St., Malden, MA 02148. in the Courtroom: Reflections on Hannah Arendt's Concept Lead article: "Metaphors of Control Toward a Lan- of Judgment" (Leora Y. Bilsky). page of Peace: Recent Self-Defining Rhetorical Constructs of Helen Caldicott" (Margaret Cavin, Katherine Hale, Barry LABOUR HISTORY REWE W v.63, no.1, 1998: "Gender Cavin); Commentaries: "What Is an Effective Language of and Work." Guest eds.: Pamela Sharpe, Hamet Bradley. Peace?" (April Gordon); "Moving Beyond the Metaphors of Subscriptions: •’ 17.50 (indiv., UK&EU); •’22 (indiv., Conflict Toward a True(er) Peace" (Cynthia A. Brincat); "In overseas); $40 (indiv., North Am.); •’35 (inst., UK&EU); Search of Counterhegemonic Discourses of Peace" (Simona •’38.50 (inst., overseas), $70 (inst., North Am.). Single Sharoni); and "Demystifpg Helen Caldicott - The Austra- copy: •’ 12.95. ISSN 0961-5652. Journals Dept., Edinburgh lian Experience" (Ralph Sumrny, Hilary Neil). University Press, 22 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LF, UK. SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN PRESENTS Special Issue, v.9, From a series of seminars at Bristol University 1996- no.2, Summer 1998: "Women's Health." Subscriptions: 1997: '"To Bridle the Falsehood of Unconscionable Work- $19.80 ($23.80 outside U.S.). Single copy: $4.95 + $2 men, and For Her Own Satisfaction': What the Jacobean postagehandling (outside U.S. add $5 postagehandling). Housewife Needed to Know about .Men's Work, and Why" ISSN 1048-0943. Scientific American, Dept. SAQ, 415 (Michael Roberts); "Female-headed Households in Early Madison Ave., New York, NY 10017-1 111. Industrial Britain: The Vanguard of the Proletariat?'(Jane Partial contents of this quarterly (which is separate Humphreys); "The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor: from the Scientific American monthly publication): for Women Editors in the French Cinema of the 1930s" (Sih women in their 20s: "Dying to Be Thm," "Help for Victims Reynolds); and "'They Didn't Want Women Back in that of Rape," "What Women Need to Know about Sexually Job"': The Second World War and the Construction of Transmitted Diseases"; for those in their 30s and 40s: "Why Gendered Work Histories" (Penny Summerfield). Are So Many Women Depressed," "The Female Orgasm," "The Ethics of Assisted Reproduction," "Get Moving: How NEW YORK LA W SCHOOL JOURNAL OF HUMAN Much Exercise is Enough?" for the 50s and 60s: "Bad Day RIGHTS v.14, Part 1: "Symposium 1997: Finding a Path to at the Office?', "Menopause and the Brain," "Fat Chances"; Gender Equality: Legal and Policy Issues Raised by All- and for the 70s and up: "Why Women Live Longer than Female Public Education." Single issue: $10.00. Journal of Men," "At More Risk for Alzheimer's?", and "Having a Human Rights, Coordinator of Co-Curricular Programs, Ball: Tips on Enjoying a Long and Healthy Life." Another New York Law School, 57 Worth St., New York, NY 10013. section offers questions and answers on migraine headaches, Panel One: "East Harlem Girls School"; Panel Two: infertility, osteoporosis, urinary incontinence, and more. "Constitutional, Statutory, and Policy Issues Raised by All- Female Public Education"; Panel Three: "Educational and SOCIOLOGICAL SPECTRUM v. 18, no.3,1998: "Women Social Scientific Perspectives on All-Female Education." and Power: Arenas of Change." Guest ed.: Jackie Eller. Articles: "Of Two Minds: Single-Sex Education, Coeduca- Subscriptions: US$83/•’5O (indiv.); US$195/•’118 (inst.). tion, and the Search for Gender Equity in K-12 Public ISSN 0273-2173. 1900 Frost Rd., Suite 101, Bristol, PA Schooling" (Patricia B. Campbell & Ellen Wahl); "The 19007. House That Ruth Built: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Following the introduction are these articles: "Women Gender and Justice" (Carol Pressman); plus a note by Jason and Power in Sociology: SWS as an Arena of Change" M. Bernheimer: "Single-Sex Public Education: Separate But (Kathryn M. Feltey, Beth Rushing); "The Rhetoric of Equal Is Not Equal at The Young Women's Leadership Domination and its Strategic Use by Homeless Mothers" School in New York City." (Cynthia J. Bogard); "Victim FeminismNictim Activism" (Dawn McCaffrey); "Unions' Empowerment of Working- PEACE & CHANGE v.22, no.3, July 1997: "Forum: Class Women: A Case Study" (Barbara Thomas Coventry, Gender, Rhetoric, and Peace Discourse." Exec. eds.: Scott L. Marietta Momssey); "Low-Income Women and Community Bills, Sudarshan Kapoor. Subscriptions: $59.50 (indiv., Power" (Judith N. DeSena); and "Women at the Intersection North Am.); $68 (indiv., elsewhere); $157 (inst., North of Business and Government: Are They in Places of Am.); $165 (inst., elsewhere). Single copy: $21 (indiv., Power?'(Denise Benoit Scott).

Feminist Collections vol.19, no.4 Summer 1998 35 also "do not want to forsake our ties to the community that Anniversaries creates the knowledge base from which we publish" (p.9). For information, contact RFRIDRF at Ontario Institute for AGENDA: EMPOWERING WOMEN FOR GENDER Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 252 Bloor St. EQUITY is embarking on its second decade of publishing in West, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1V6, Canada; email: South Africa. Editor is Lou Haysom and the most recent [email protected]; website: http:// issue is No.37, focusing on " New Men?'Address: P.O. www.oise.utoronto.ca/rfr Box 18983, Dalbridge 4014, South Africa; website: http:// www.meworld.org/agendal

RFR/ZRF (RESOURCES FOR FEMINIST RESEARCH/ Publications Ceased DOCUMENTATION SUR LA RECHERCHE FEMmSTE) is celebrating twenty-five years of publishing BAD ATTITUDE 1992-1997. Eds.: Collective. 12 1 Railton by changing its format to a more traditional scholarly size Rd., London SE24 OLR, UK. (Info from ofour backs, June with v.26, nos.1-2, 1998. This will mean fewer articles per 1998, p.7) issue, but the editors plan to "continue to demonstrate the high quality of feminist research generated in Canada" and Compiled by Linda Shult

ADWSER, TEACHER, ROLE MODEL, FRTEND: ON Best Practices workshop sponsored by the Committee on BEING A MENTOR TO STUDENTS IN SCIENCE AND Institutional Cooperation Women in Science and Engineer- ENGINEERING discusses what mentoring is, how career ing Initiative, and the National Science Foundation. The advising works, and gives advice for improving the quality focus of the workshop: improving the status of women in of mentoring experiences. Although developed for women science, engineering, and mathematics through institutional in science and engineering, the guide applies to all change. While many of the papers in this guidebook are mentoring situations. Produced by the Committee on geared toward science teachers, some techniques apply to Science, Engineering, and Public Policy and published by other disciplines. Available for $20.00 + $5.00 shipping the National Academy Press, it is available for $9.95 by from the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, Suite calling: 800-624-6242. 1705,302 East John Street, Champaign, IL 61820. Phone: 2 17-333-8475; fax: 217-244-7127. Also available from the ASL4N PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN IN HIGHER same address is the forthcoming guidebook from the 1998 EDUCATION: CLAIMING WSIBILITY AND VOICE, a Best Practices workshop on Undergraduate Research and new monograph by Shirley Hune from the American Living-Learning Programs. The 1997 and forthcoming Association of Colleges & Universities, assesses the 1998 guides will be available on the Web at http://ntx2. progress of Asian Pacific American women as students, cso.uiuc.edu/wise/wiseintr.html faculty, staff, and administrators in the realm of higher education. The study examines stereotypes, cultural notions THE COMMONWEALTH FUND SURVEY OF THE about leadership, and the complex diversity of the Asian HEALTH OFADOLESCENT GIRLS, a survey of over six Pacific American population in the U.S. To order, contact thousand girls, reveals much of significance about abuse the AAC&U Publications Desk at 800-297-3775; ernail: and violence, mental health, risk behaviors, and access to [email protected] health care among these young women. Some of the findings: one in five high school girls reported physical or BEST PRACTICES GUIDEBOOK: THE CLASSROOM is sexual abuse and one in four girls reported lack of access to an 89-page guidebook containing papers presented at a 1997 necessary health care. For a copy of the survey results,

36 Feminist Collections vol.19, 110.4 Summer 1998 contact The Commonwealth Fund, One East 75th Street, contact Laura Wittman, project coordinator, at 4 14-376- New York, NY 10021. Phone: 212-535-0400; fax: 212-606- 1427, or Anne Statham, statewide coordinator, at 414-595- 3500. Find the Commonwealth Fund on the Web at http:// 334 1. www.cmwf.org GENDER AND THE LAW: AN INTRODUCTORY DLARIES IN ENGLISH BY WOMEN IN CANADA, 1753- HANDBOOK FOR LAW STUDENTS, fiom the National 1995: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY by Kathryn Association of Women and the Law, is a collection of short Carter is a new resource for learning about women's articles introducing feminist legal thought, strategies for experiences in Canada. The bibliography draws on archival equalizing legal education for women, and analysis of the research and provides new information on how to find impact of legal education on women fiom diverse back- hundreds of unpublished diaries in Canadian museums, grounds in Canada. Copies are available fkom NAWL repositories and archives. Send $8.00 per copy + $2.00 Charitable Trust for Research and Education, 604- 1 shipping and handling for up to 3 copies to: CRIAW, 408- Nicholas Street, Ottawa, Ontario, KIN 7B7, Canada. 15 1 Slater Street, Ottawa, Ontario KIP 5H3 or fax your Phone: 613-24 1-7570; fax: 613-241-4657. order to 613-563-0682. The African Books Collective, Ltd. presents WOMEN IN IN OUR OmWORDS: MOTHERS' PERSPECTIVES PUBLISHING AND THE BOOK TRQDE IN AFRICA: ON WELFARE REFORM ( 1997) and IN OUR Om ANANNOTATED DLUECTORY. Designed as a network- WORDS: MOTHERS' NEEDS FOR SUCCESSFUL ing tool, the directory includes 145 entries with details WELFARE REFORM ( 1998) are projects of the Women about women publishers in Afiica, women in senior and Poverty Public Education Initiative of Wisconsin, management positions in Afiican publishing, women in funded by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Center for retail book trade and distribution, and Afiican women's Community Change and sponsored by the University of organizations with publishing programs. Annotations Wisconsin System Women's Studies Outreach Program. contain brief profiles and full contact details. $25.00 + The first survey (of 740 women in poverty), made before the shipping ($4 surface/$8 air) for customers outside Afiica. July 1997 implementation of "Wisconsin Works" (W-2) Free to publishers, librarians, booksellers, and writers welfare reform, found that these current and former AFDC within Africa. Order fiom: Afiican Books Collective Ltd., recipient. and lower-wage earners needed family-supporting The Jam Factory, 27 Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 lHU, jobs, child care, and education in order to work themselves United Kingdom. Phone: +44(0) 1865-726686; fax: +44(0) out of poverty. The second report examined the original 1865-793298 or +44(0) 1993-709265; email: circumstances of the women's poverty, the barriers they [email protected] faced, and includes policy recommendations for how W-2 might be modified to actually help women become self- Compiled by Jennifer Kitchak sufficient. For more information about the project or report,

Feminist Collections voL19, no.4 Summer 1998 37 THE GENDER AND PSYCHOLOGY DEPRIVATIONAND POWER: THE FROM THE ROYAL TO THE REPUBLI- READER Clinchy, Blythe McVicker & Julie EMERGENCE OFANOREXU NER- CANBODY: lNCORPORA TINC THE K. Noretn, eds. New York University Press, VOSAIN NlNETEENTH-CENTURY POLITICAL lNSE VENTEENTH AND 1998. FRENCHLITERATURE. McEachern, EIGHTEENTZ+CENTURY FRANCE. APPLES FROM THE DESER T: SE- Patricia A. Greenwood Press, 1998. Melzer, Sara E. & Norberg, Kathryn, eds. LECTED STORIES. Liebrecht, Savyon. The DON'TEXPLAIN. Gomez, Jewelle. University of CaliforniaF'ress, 1998. Feminist Press at the City University of New Firebrand, 1998. GA YSIGNATURES: GAYAND LESBIAN York, 1998. ECOLOGICAL POLITICS: ECO-FEMI- THEORY, FICTIONAND FILM IN AT HOME KITHPORNOGRAPHY: VISTS AND THE GREENS. GGaard, Greta. FRPNCE, 1945-1995. Heathcote, Owen, et WOMEN,SEX, AND EVERYDAY LIFE. remple, 1998. al., eds. Berg, 1998. Juffer, Jane. New York University Press, ENDLESS LOVE. Shapiro, Lisa Naiad, GENDER VOICES & CHOICES: REDE- 1998. 1998. FINING WOMEN IN CONTEMPORAR Y BAD MOON RISING. Johnson, Barbara THEE VERLASTING ROCK: A NO WL. AFRICAN FICTION. Chukukere, Gloria. Naiad, 1998. Feng Zong-Pu; trans. by Aimee Lykes. Lynne Fourth Dimension; distr. African Books BATTERED WOMEN'S JUSTICE: THE Rienner, 1998. Collective, 1995. MOVEMENTFOR CLEMENCYAND FALLENFROM GRACE. Welch, Pat. GENDERED AGENTS: WOMEN AND THE P0LZTZC;r OFSELF-DEFENSE. Naiad, 1998. INSTITLITZONAL KNOWLEDGE. Gagne, Patricia Twayne, 1998. THE FAMILY TRACK: KEEPING YOUR Mariniello, Silvestra & Bove, Paul A., eds. BEA UTYBITES BEAST: A WAKENlNG FACULTIES KHILE YOUMENTOR, Duke University Press, 1998. THE WARRIOR WITHIN WOMENAND NURTURE, TEACH, AND SERVE. Coiner, THE GENDERED TERRAIN OFDISAS- GIRLS. Snortland, Ellen. Trilogy, 1998. Constance & George, DianaHume, eds. TER: THROUGH WOMEN'S EYES. BODIES OF MODERNITY: FIGURE AND University of Illinois Press, 1998. Enarson, Elaine & Morrow, Betty Hearn, eds. FLESHlNFlN-DESIECLE FRANCE. FEMINISMAND THE FEMALE BODY: Greenwood Press, 1998. Gab, Tamar. Thames and Hudson, 1998. LIBERA TING THE AMAZON WITH- GENERA TIONS: A AEMICFEMI- BUSYBODIES,MEDDLERS, AND IN.Castelnuovo, Shirley & Guthrie, Sharon R. NISTSINDIALOGUE. Looser, Devoney & SNOOPS: THE FEMALE HERO IN Lynne Rienner, 1998. Kaplan, E. Ann, eds. University of Minnesota CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S MYSTER- FEMINLYT SCIENCE EDUCATION. Press, 1997. IES. Dilley, Kimberly J. Greenwood Press, Barton, Angela Calabrese. Teachers College, THE GROLIER LIBRAR Y OF WOMEN'S 1998. 1998. BIOGRAPHIES. Isaacs, Alan & Martin, CAMOUFLAGE LYN'T ONL Y FOR FEMINIST TEACHING IN THEORY & Elizabeth, eds. Grolier, 1998. COMBAT: GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND PRACTICE. Ropers-Huilman, Becky. HAVANA SPLIT. Bevin, Teresa. Arte WOMEN lN THE MILITARY. Herbert, Teachers College, 1998. Publico, 1998. Melissa S. New York University Press, 1998. FEMINIST THERAPYAS A POLITICAL HEROIC DESIRE: LESBIAN IDENTITY CONTEMPORARY AFRICANAMERI- ACT. Hill, Marcia. Haworth, 1998. AND CULTURAL SPACE. Munt, Sally R. CAN FEMALE PLA YWRIGHTS: AN THE FLESHENYELOPE. Luzzaro, Susan. New York University Press, 1998. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. Williams, West End; distr. University ofNew Mexico HISTORICAL NIGHTMARES AND Dana A. Greenwood Press, 1998. Press, 1998. IMAGINATWE VIOLENCE INAMERI- CONTEMPORARY WOMENPOETS. FOR THE LOVE OFPLEASURE: CAN WOMENS WRITINGS. Gottfried, Shelton, Pamela L., ed. St. James, 1998. WOMEN, MOYIES, AND CULTURE IN Amy S. Greenwood Publishing, 1998. CONVERSATIONS WlTHTHE WORLD: TURN-OF-THE-CENTUR Y CHICAGO. HONG KONG FEDERATION OF AMERICAN WOMEN POElS AND Rabinovitz, Lauren. Rutgers University Press, WOMENS CENTERS, ANNUAL REPORT THEIR WORK. Davidson, Phebe. Trilogy 1998. 1996-199 7. Hong Kong Federation of Books, 1998. FORGETFUL OF THEIR SEX: FEMALE Women's Centers, 1998? (Address: S 8-9, Lai CURRENT CONCEPTSlN TRANS- SANCTITYAND SOCIETY, C4.500-1100. Kwai House, 3/F, Lai Kok Estate, Kowloon, GENDER IDENmY. Denny, Dallas, ed. Schulenburg, Jane Tibbetts. University of Hong Kong) Garland, 1998. Chicago Press, 1998. INSER VICE AND SER YITUDE: FOR- DEADLY WOMEN: THE WOMAN FOUR BRITISH WOMENNOVELISTS: EIGN FEMALE DOMESTIC WORKERS MYSTERY READER'SlNDISPENSABLE ANITA BROOKNER, MGARET AND THE MALA YSZAN "MODERNITY COMPANION. Grape, Jan, et al., eds. DRABBLE, IRIS MURDOCH, BARBARA PROJECT."Chin, Christine B.N. Columbia Carroll & Graf, 1998. PYM: AN ANNOTATED AND CRITICAL University Press, 1998. DEAR EDITOR AND FRIENDS: LET- SECONDARYBIBLIOGR4PHY. Soule, INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS: TERS FROM RURAL WOMEN OF THE George. Scarecrow, 1998. WITCHCRAFTIN EARL YMODERN NORTH- WEST, 1900-1 920. Lewis, Norah FREEDOM TO DIFFER: THE SHAPING ENGLAND. Sharpe, James. University of L., ed. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1998. OF THE GA YANDLESBZAN STRUGGLE Pennsylvania Press, 1996. (Address: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L FOR CIVIL RIGHTS. Miller, Diane Helene. INTO A NEW WORLD: YOUNG 3C5.) New York University Press, 1998. WOMEN'SSEXUAL AND REPRODUC- TIVE LIES. The Alan Guttmacher Institute.

38 Feminist Collections voLl9, no.4 Summer 1998 TheInstitute, 1998. (Address: 120 Wall St., Stanley, Sandra Kumarnoto, ed. University of VENTURES INTO CHILDLAND: New York, NY 10005) Illinois Press, 1998. I VICTORIANS,FMRY TALES, AND A JANE A USTENENCYCLOPEDIA. 49VER THE LINE. Richardson, Tracey. FEMININITY. Knoepflmacher, U.C. Poplawski, Paul. Greenwood Press, 1998. 1'Jaiad, 1998. Vniversity of Chicago Press, 1998. JULL-I'SSONG. O'Leary, Ann. Naiad, 1998. 1PIONEERING: POEMS FROM THE WETEARTHAND DREAMS: A NARRA- KALEIDOSCOPE NOTES: A PER- 4CONSTRUCTIONSITE. Eisenberg, Susan. TIVE OF GRIEF AND RECO WRY. FORMATIVE ETHNOGRAPHYABOUT ILR; Cornell University Press, 1998. Lazarre, Jane. Duke University Press, 1998. WOMEN'S MUSIC AND ORGANIZA- ArHE PROSTITUTION OF WOMENAND WOMEN COMPOSERS:MUSIC TIONAL CULTURE Jones, Stacy Holman. 4ZRLS. Flowers, R. Bani. McFarland, 1998. THROUGH THE AGES, VOL. 5: COM- AltaMira; distr. Sage, 1998. 12UEEN VICTORLASSECRETS. Munich, POSERSBORN 170&1799, LARGE AND LESBIANS INACADEMIA: DEGREES 14drienne. Columbia University Press, 1998. SMALL INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLES. OF FREEDOM. Mintz, Beth & Rothblum, 42UINTESSENCE.. .REALIZING THE Glickman, Sylvia & Schleifer, Martha Furman, Esther D., eds. Routledge, 1998. I 4RCHAIC FUTURE: A RADICAL ds. G.K. Hall, 1998. LIKE OUR SISTERS BEFORE US: 1ELEMENTAL FEMINISTMANIFESTO. WOMEN FILMMAKERS & THEIR WOMEN OF WISCONSIN LABOR. Ilaly, Mary. Beacon, 1998. FILMS. Unterburger, Amy L., ed. St. James, Jarnakaya. Wisconsin Labor History Society, rHE REASONABLE WOMAN:A GUIDE 1998. 1998. (Address: 6333 W. Blue Mound Road, r0 INTELLECTUAL SUR WAL.McElroy, WOMEN IN CHINA: A COUNTRY Milwaukee, WI 532 13) 1Wendy. Prometheus, 1998. PROFILE. United Nations Economic and LOOKING WHITEPEOPLE IN THE EYE: AUESEARCHPARlNERSHIPS: A FEMI- Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. GENDER, RACE, AND CULTURE IN I VISTAPPROACH TO COMMUNITIES United Nations, 1997. COURTROOMS AND CLASSROOMS. ,4ND UNIVERSITIES WORKING WOMEN IN FIJI: A COUNTRY PROFILE. Razack, Sherene H. University of Toronto rOGETHER. Cottrell, Barbara, ed. CRIAWI UnitedNationsEconomic and Social Press, 1998. I[CREF, 1996. Commission for Asia and the Pacific. United MARGARET CHASE SMITH: MODEL 1RIVER QUAY. McClellan, Janet. Naiad, Nations, 1997. PUBLICSER VANT.Vallin, Marlene Boyd. 1998. WOMENIN THE ANTARCTIC. Rothblum, Greenwood Press, 1998. SAPPHO GOES TO LA WSCHOOL. Esther D., et al., eds. Haworth, 1998. THE MILWAUKEE AREA WOMEN'S IRobson, Ruthann. ColumbiaUniversityPress, WOMEN IN THE THIRD WORLD: AN RESOURCE DIRECTORY, TENTH 1998. ENCYCLOPEDZA OF CONTEMPORARY EDITION 1998. The Center for Women's SHARING HER WORD: FEMINIST ISSUES. Stromquist, Nelly P.. ed. Garland, Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION IN 1998. 1998. (Address: Mitchell Hall 121, P.O. Box ICONTEXT. Fiorenza, Elisabeth Schussler. WOMEN PLANTATION WORKERS: 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201) IBeacon, 1998. INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCES. Jain, LAS MUJERES ESTADOUNIDENSES Y SILKSTALKINGS: MORE WOMEN Shobita & Reddock, Rhoda New York LA TINOAMERICANAS. Johnson, Carlos A. WRITE OFMURDER. Nichols, Victoria & University Press, 1998. Coleccion El Rimense-Neoyorquino, 1997. Thompson, Susan. Scarecrow, 1998. WOMEN, POWER, AND KIN,SHIP MULBERRYAND PEACH. Nieh, Hualing. SIMONE DE BEAUWOR: A CRITICAL POLITICS: FEMALE POWER INPMT- Beacon, 1988; Feminist Press at the City READER. Fallaize, Elizabeth, ed. Routledge, WAR PHILIPPINES. Roces, Mina. Praegerl University ofNew York, 1998.2nd ed. 1998. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998. THE NAKED EYE. Ennis, Catherine. Naiad, THESMOKING MIRROR. Quinonez, WOMEN~SSPORTANDSPE~ACLE: 1998. Naomi Helena West End; distr. University of GENDERED TELE YISION CO YERQGE NONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT New Mexico Press, 1998. AND THE OLYMPIC GAMES. Daddario, FOR WOMEN TOOL KIT. 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Feminist Collections voLI9, no.4 Summer 1998 39 "Affhhg Lesbian Identity and Experience :air, Jo Ellen, "Feminist Visions: The Lives Hatcher, Roberta, 'Wew Locations of African [book review]," by Suzanne Grifith, of Women in Africa," vol. 19, no.4, Women's Writing [book review]," vol. 19, vol. 19, n0.2, Winter 1998, pp. 12-14. Summer 1998,pp.ll-13. no.l,Fall 1997, pp.9-11. "Babies, Bathwater, and Bisexuality mok 'Feminist Archives," by Linda Shult, vol. 19, Ho, Cynthia, "World Wide Web Reviews: review]," by Deb Hoskins, vol. 19, no.2, no.3, Spring 1998,p.17. Medieval Women Websites," vol. 19, no.4, Winter 1998, pp.9-11. 'Feminist Publishing," by Linda Shult, Summer 1998, pp. 15-16. Balutamky, Kathleen, "Framing Solange and vo1.19,no.3, Spring 1998,pp.16-17, Hoskins, Deb, "Babies, Bathwater, and Other Cariibean Women [book re-view]," vol. 19, no.4, Summer 1998, p.23. Bisexuality [book review]," vol. 19, no.2, vol. 19, n0.3, Spring 1998, pp. 1-3. 'Feminist Visions: 'Discovering Women' Winter 1998, pp.9-11. Banibeau, Susan, [one title in] 'Wew Series Focuses on Women Scientists," by "Items of Note," by Christina Stross, vol. 19, Reference Works in Women's Studies," Carolyn Shaffer, vol. 19, no. 1, Fall 1997, no.1, Fall 1997, pp.44-47; vol. 19, no.2, vo1.19,no.4, Summer 1998,pp.29-30. pp.12-13. Winter 1998,pp.46-48; vo1.19, no.3, BamiSusan, 'World Wide Web 'Feminist Visions: The Lives of Women in Spring 1998, pp.32-33. Reviews: The Elusive Quality of Web AfXca," by Jo Ellen Fair, vol. 19, no.4, "Items of Note," by Jennifer Kitchak, vol. 19, Quality," vol. 19, no. 1, Fall 1997, pp. 17- Summer 1998, pp.11-13. no.4, Summer 1998, pp.36-37. 18. 'Feminist Visions: Women Filmmakers: Kang, Hongjin, "A Woman's Position in "Between East and West: Chinese Women in Bookends of Innovative Filmmaking," by Gender Relations in Post-Mao China: An Transition [book review]," by Hongjun Carole Gerster, vol. 19, no.2, Winter 1998, Alternative Perspective [book review]," Sqvo1.19,no.l, Fall 1997,pp.3-5. pp.27-29. vo1.19,no.l,Fall1998,p.6. Binder, Elisabeth, "Getting Around Online: 'Framing Solange and Other Caribbean Kitchak, Jennifer, "Items ofNote," vol. 19, How, Where, Why? [book review]," Women [book review]," by Kathleen no.4, Summer 1998, pp.36-37. vol.19,no.l,Fall1997,pp.19-21. Balutansky, vol. 19, no.3, Spring 1998, Lauber, Peg, "A Celebration of Feminist "Bisexual Identities and Theories [book pp.1-3. Publishing," vol. 19, no.3, Spring 1998, review]," by Joanne Oud, vo1.19, no.2, Fredrick, Beth, 'World Wide Web Reviews: pp.9-10. Winter 1998, pp.8-9. On the Trail: Reproductive Rights Legal Lobes, Carol, "The Socio-Cultural Com- "Caribbean Women: An Alternative History on the Web," vol. 19,no.4, plexities of Alcohol: The Gender Dimen- Perspective [book review]," by FloritaZ. Summer 1998, pp.13-14. sion [book review]," vo1.19, no.3, Spring Louisde~alave,vo1.19, no.3, Spring "From Biography to Film to Religion: A 1998, p.8. 1998, pp.3-5. Roundup ofNew GLB Reference Books Malave, Florita Z. Louis de, "Caribbean Carlacio, Jami, "Resisting and Negotiating: [book review]," by Jacquelyn Marie, Women: An Alternative Perspective [book Gender Roles and Rules in Patriarchy vo1.19, no.2, Winter 1998,pp.21-23. review]," vol. 19, no.3, Spring 1998, pp.3- [book review]," vo1.19, no.2, Winter "From the Editors," by Phyllis Holman 5. 1998, pp.3-4. Weisbard and Linda Shult, vol. 19, no. 1, Maloney, Thomas P., [one title in] 'Wew "Celebrating, Deconstructing, Historicizing Fall 1997, p.ii [distance education]; Reference Works in Women's Studies," and Theorizing Transgenderism and the ~01.19,n0.2, Winter 1998, p.ii [gender vo1.19, no. 1, Fall 1997, p.32. Transgendered [book review]," by Eleanor and gender roles]; ~01.19,no.3, Spring Marie, Jacquelyn, "From Biography to Film M. Miller, vol. 19, no.2, Winter 1998, 1998, p.ii [good news for feminists]; to Religion: A Roundup of New GLB pp. 17-20. vo1.19, no.4, Summer 1998, p.ii [themore Reference Books [book review]," vol. 19, "A Celebration of Feminist Publishing," by things change...]. no.2, Winter 1998, pp.21-23. Peg Lauber, vol. 19, no.3, Spring 1998, ''The Gendered Bodies of Cyberspace [book "Medieval Women and Texts [book review]," pp.9-10. review]," by Diana Saco, vol. 19, no. 1, by Bonnie Duncan, vol. 19, no.4, Summer "Computer Talk," by Linda Shult, vol. 19, Fall 1997, pp.21-24. 1998, pp.3-5. no.1, Fall 1997, pp.25-30; vol. 19, no.2, Gerster, Carole, "Feminist Visions: Women "Men, Women, and the Construction of Winter 1998, pp.29-32; vo1.19, no.3, Filmmakers: Bookends of Innovative Nationhood [book review]," by Ivette Spring 1998, pp.18-21; vo1.19,no.4, Filmmaking," vol. 19, no.2, Winter 1998, ValdCs, vol. 19, no.2, Winter 1998,pp.4-7. Summer 1998, pp. 17-22. pp.27-29. Meyer, Ellen Winson, [three titles in] 'Wew '?)eveloping a Women-Sensitive Perspective "Getting Around Online: How, Where, Why? Reference Works in Women's Studies," on Alcohol [book review]," by Judie [book review]," by Elisabeth Binder, vo1.19, no.2, Winter 1998, pp.34-35. Pfeifer, vol. 19, no.3, Spring 1998, pp.6-7. vo1.19,no.l,Fall1997,pp.19-21. Miller, Eleanor M., "Celebrating, Decon- Dickstein, Ruth, [one title in] 'Wew Green, Jamison, "Transgender: From the strutting, Historicizing and Theorizing Reference Works in Women's Studies," Personal to the Political [book review]," Transgenderismand the Transgendered vol. 19, no.2, Winter 1998, pp. 37-38. vo1.19,no.2, Winter 1998,pp.14-16. [bookreview],"vo1.19, no.2, Winter 1998, Duncan, Bonnie, "Medieval Women and Greenblatt, Ellen, "World Wide Web Re pp. 17-20. Texts [book review]," vol. 19, no.4, views: Lesbian Resources on the Web," Naughton, Amy, "World Wide Web Re-views: Summer 1998, pp.3-5. vol. 19, no.2, Winter 1998,pp.24-25. Webs of Transgender Resources," vol. 19, Ewing, Eileen, [two titles in] "New Refer- Griffith,Suzanne, "Affuming Lesbian no.2, Winter 1998, pp.26-27. ence Works in Women's Studies," vol. 19, Identity and Experience [book review]," no. 1, Fall 1997, pp.36-37. vol.19,no.2, Winter 1998,pp.12-14.

40 Feminist Collections vo1.19, no.4 Summer 1998 "New Locations of African Women's Writing ihaffer, Carolyn, [one title in] "New 'Women and Gender in Africanist Research: [book review]," by Roberta Hatcher, Reference Works in Women's Studies," A New Wave? [book review]," by Susan vol. 19, no. 1, Fall 1997, pp.9- 11. vo1.19, no.l, Fall 1997, pp.33-34. O'Brien, vol. 19, no. 1, Fall 1997, pp.7-9. "New Reference Works in Women's ihult, Linda, "Computer Talk," vol. 19, no. 1, 'Women and the Social Imagination in Studies," by Phyllis Holman Weisbard, Fall 1997, pp.25-30; vol. l9,no.2, Winter Medieval Europe [book review]," by vol. 19, no. 1, Fall 1997, pp.30-39; vol. 19, 1998, pp.29-32; vol. 19, no.3, Spring Catherine Peyroux, vol. 19, no.4, Summer no.2, Winter 1998, pp.33-42; vol. 19, no.3, 1998, pp. 18-21; vol. 19, no.4, Summer 1998, pp. 1-2. Spring 1998, pp.22-28; vol. 19, no.4, 1998, pp. 17-22. Women's Paradoxical Status in Contempo- Summer 1998, pp.24-32. jhult, Linda, "Periodical Notes," vol. 19, rary China [book review]," by Judy O'Brien, Susan, "Women and Gender in no. 1, Fall 1997, pp.40-43; vol. 19, no.2, Polumbaum, vol. 19, no. 1, Fall 1997, pp. l- Aficanist Research: A New Wave? [book Winter 1998, pp.43-45; vol. 19, no.3, 3. review]," vol. 19, no. 1, Fall 1997, pp.7-9. Spring 1998, pp.28-32; vol. 19, no.4, 'Working-class Activism Meets Feminist Oud, Joanne, "Bisexual Identities and Summer 1998, pp.33-36. Scholarship: Is There Common Ground? Theories [book review]," vol. 19, no.2, 'The Socio-Cultural Complexities of Alcohol: [book review]," by Jan Levine Thal, Winter 1998, pp.8-9. The Gender Dimension [book review]," vol. 19, no.4, Summer 1998, pp.5-7. "Our Bodies, Our Cells: Feminist Ethics and by Carol Lobes, vol. 19, no.3, Spring 'World Wide Web Reviews: Lesbian the New Reproductive Technology [book 1998, p.8. Resources on the Web," by Ellen review]," by Laurie Zoloth-Dorfman, 'Something's Missing in the Curriculum!: Greenblatt, vol. 19, no.2, Winter 1998, vol. 19, no.4, Summer 1998, pp.8- 10. Some Ideas for Transforming It," vol. 19, pp.24-25. "Periodical Notes," by Linda Shult, vol. 19, no.3, Spring 1998,pp.ll-12. World Wide Web Reviews: Medieval no. 1, Fall 1997, pp.40-43; vol. 19, no.2, jtross, Christina, "Items of Note," vol. 19, Women Websites," by Cynthia Ho, vol. 19, Winter 1998, pp.43-45; vo1.19, no.3, no. 1, Fall 1997, pp.44-47; vol. 19, no.2, no.4, Summer 1998, pp. 15-16. Spring 1998, pp.28-32; vol. 19,no.4, Winter 1998, pp.46-48; vol. 19, no.3, "World Wide Web Reviews: On the Trail: Summer 1998,pp.33-36. Spring 1998, pp.32-33. ReproductiveRights Legal History on the Peyroux, Catherine, "Women and the Social Su, Hongjun, 'Between East and West: Web," by BethFredrick, vol. I9, no.4, Imagination in Medieval Europe [book Chinese Women in Transition [book Summer 1998, pp.13-14. review]," vol. 19, no.4, Summer 1998, review]," vol. 19, no. 1, Fall 1997, pp.3-5. "World Wide Web Reviews: The Elusive pp. 1-2. 'Surviving and Coping: Women Living With Quality of Web Quality," by Susan Pfeifer, Judie, "Developing a Women-Sen- Drugs [book review]," by Carey Barribeau, vol. 19, no. I, Fall 1997, pp. 17- sitive Perspective on Alcohol [book re- Tradewell, vol. 19, no.3, Spring 1998, 18. view]," vol.19, no.3, Spring 1998, pp.6-7. pp.5-6. 'World Wide Web Reviews: Webs of "Plain Talk About Gender [book review]," by 'Teaching, Learning, and Distance Education TransgenderResources," by Amy Merry Wiesner-Hanks, vol. 19, no.2, in Women's Studies," by Margaret Rozga, Naughton, vol. 19, no.2, Winter 1998, Winter 1998, pp. 1-2. vo1.19,no.l, Fall 1997,pp.14-16. pp.26-27. Polizzi, Allessandria, "World Wide Web Thal, Jan Levine, "Working-class Activism 'World Wide Web Reviews: Websites on Reviews: Women's Poetry Websites," Meets Feminist Scholarship: Is There Women and Human Rights," by Liz vo1.19, no.3, Spring 1998, pp.14-15. Common Ground? [book review]," vol. Reiner, vol. 19, no.3, Spring 1998, pp. 13- Polumbaum, Judy, "Women's Paradoxical 19, no.4, Summer 1998, pp.5-7. 14. Status in Contemporary China [book Tradewell, Carey, "Surviving and Coping: 'World Wide Web Reviews: Women's Poetry review]," vol. 19, no. 1, Fall 1997, pp. 1-3. Women Living With Drugs wokre- Websites," by Allwandria Polizzi, vol. 19, Reiner, Liz, "World Wide Web Reviews: view]," vol. 19, n0.3, Spring 1998, pp.5-6. no.3, Spring 1998,pp. 14-15. 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Fall 1997, pp.30-39; vol. 19, no.2, Winter Rozga, Margaret, '"Teaching, Learning, and 1998,pp.33-42; vo1.19, n0.3, Spring Distance Education in Women's Studies," 1998, pp.22-28; vol. 19, no.4, Summer vol.19, no.l,Falll997,pp.14-16. 1998, pp.24-32. Saco, Diana, Gendered Bodies of Wiesner-Hanks, Merry, "Plain Talk About Cyberspace [book review]," vol. 19, no. 1, Gender [book review]," vol. 19, no.2, Fall 1997, pp.21-24. Winter 1998, pp. 1-2. Schmidt, Willa, [one title in] "New Reference "A Woman's Position in Gender Relations in Works in Women's Studies," vol. 19, n0.3, Post-Mao China: An Alternative Perspeo Spring 1997, pp.27-28. tive [bookreview]," by Hongjin Kang, Shaffer, Carolyn, 'Feminist Visions: vol. 19, no. 1, Fall 1998,p.6. 'Discovering Women' Series Focuses on Women Scientists," vol. 19, no. 1, Fall 1997,p~.12-13.

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