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A Current Listing of Contents WOMEN'S STUDIES LIBRARIAN EMINIST ERIODIC S A CURRENT LISTING OF CONTENTS VOLUME 18, NUMBER 4 WINTER 1999 Published by Phyllis Holman Weisbard Women's Studies Librarian University ofWisconsin System 430 Memorial Library /728 State Street Madison, Wisconsin 53706 (608) 263-5754 EMINIST ERIODIC S A CURRENT LISTING OF CONTENTS Volume 18,Number4 Winter 1999 Periodical literature is the cutting edge of women's scholarship, feministtheory, and much of women's cuiture, FeministPeriodicals: A Current Listing ofContents is published by the Office of the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian on a quarterly basis with the intent of increasing public awareness of feminist periodicals. It is our hope that Feminist Periodicals will serve several purposes: to keep the reader abreast of current topics in feminist literature; to increase readers' familiarity with a wide spectrum of feminist periodicals; and to provide the requisite bibliographic information should areader wish to subscribe toajournal or to obtain a particular article at her library or through interlibrary loan. (Users will need to be aware of the limitations of the new copyright law with regard to photocopying of copyrighted materials.) Tableo! contents pages from current issues of major feminist journals are reproduced in each issue of Feminist Periodicals, preceded by a comprehensive annotated listing of all journals we have selected. As publication schedules vary enormously, not every periodical will have table of contents pages reproduced in each issue of FP. The annotated listing provides the following information on each journal: 1. Year of first publication. 2. Frequency of publication. 3. 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