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T h e U n i v e r s i t y o f W i s c o n s i n S y s t e m Feminist Collections

A Quarterly of Women’s Studies Resources

W OMEN’ S S TUDIES

Volume 25, Number 2, Winter 2004 Published by Phyllis Holman Weisbard L IBRARIAN Women’s Studies Librarian Feminist Collections

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Volume 25, Number 2, Winter 2004

CONTENTS

From the Editor ii

Book Review: Briana Smith Watch Out! Alison Bechdel’s Comics 1 as Cultural Commentary

Feminist Visions: Helen Klebesadel Practicing Art: A Review of Three Videos 7

Elizabeth Breed Finding Funding for Women: Web and 11 Non-Web Resources

JoAnne Lehman E-Sources on Women & Gender 17

Mary Pfotenhauer, Jessica Poland, & New Reference Works in Women’s Studies 19 Phyllis Holman Weisbard

M.L. Fraser Rebel Song: Feminist Zines from the 23 (Southern) Third Wave

Stephanie Rytilahti Periodical Notes: Special Issues 27

Mary Pfotenhauer Items of Note 31

Books/AV Recently Received 33 FROM THE EDITOR

First, a tip of the hat to my co- FC of the special “women and gender” other volumes, for that matter — re- editor, Phyllis Holman Weisbard — editions of five non-women-focused viewed for the journal?” It took until women’s studies librarian for the Uni- periodicals. Her article is published on publication of the next book (Dykes versity of Wisconsin System and dis- pages 27–31. Stephanie has also been and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life- tinguished academic librarian at the working with both Phyllis and me on a Forms To Watch Out For), but we found University of Wisconsin–Madison — video series and zine display, respec- the ideal reviewer in Bri Smith, Uni- who is this year’s recipient of the Ca- tively, for the upcoming conference of versity of Wisconsin–Milwaukee reer Achievement Award given by the the National Women’s Studies Associa- graduate student, who was just a baby Women’s Studies Section of the Asso- tion. Happily, we don’t have to say back when Alison started creating this ciation of College and Research Librar- goodbye to her yet — she’s agreed to other world that is so uncannily like ies. Sponsored by Greenwood Publish- stay on as an office assistant through ours. I was thrilled the other day when ing Group, Inc., this honor is con- her final year of undergraduate work. Bechdel herself phoned to say we could ferred annually upon an academic li- use a panel from one of her new strips brarian who has made exceptional con- Recognize someone on the cover as a cover illustration. tributions to women’s studies of FC? Yes, that’s Mo, of Alison librarianship; it recognizes long-term Bechdel’s Dykes To Watch Out For, get- Finally, thanks to Liz Breed for a commitment to the profession. Librar- ting riled up by TV news coverage. new, completely updated guide to find- ians and women’s studies faculty Mo and friends have been document- ing funding sources for women and throughout the country nominated ing lesbian experience and interpreting women’s programs (pages 11–16), to Phyllis for the award, which she will American culture and politics through Helen Klebedsadel for a review of vid- accept during the American Library queer eyes since the early 1980s. Read eos on feminism and the arts (pages 7– Association’s conference in Orlando, “Watch Out! Alison Bechdel’s Comics 10), and to our intrepid zine reviewer, Florida, in June. as Cultural Commentary,” beginning Mhaire Fraser, for her take on the do- on page 1 of this issue. An ardent fan it-yourself publications of Southern

This spring our office has had of the Dykes books myself, I’ve been grrrls (pp.23–26). One or two of ten to twelve hours a week of terrific wanting to run a piece like this since I Fraser’s own zines will be on display at help from a women’s studies intern. first started editing FC, when I took the NWSA conference in Milwaukee. Stephanie Rytilahti is a triple major in home the then-just-published Post- Please stop by and see the zine table, as women’s studies, history, and Afro- Dykes To Watch Out For for a sneak well as the booth for the Office of the American studies. One of her projects preview. My partner said, “Why don’t Women’s Studies Librarian. here was to write an indepth review for you have this — along with all the ❍ J.L.

Page ii Feminist Collections (v.25, no.2, Winter 2004) BOOK REVIEW WATCH OUT! ALISON BECHDEL’S COMICS AS CULTURAL COMMENTARY by Briana Smith

Alison Bechdel, DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR. Ann Arbor, MI (originally in Ithaca, NY): Firebrand Books, 1986. 80p. pap., $9.95, ISBN 0-932379-17-6. Publisher’s website: http://www.firebrandbooks.com/

______, MORE DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR. Firebrand, 1988. 112p. pap., $14.95, ISBN 0-932379-45-1.

______, NEW, IMPROVED! DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR. Firebrand, 1990. 120p. pap., $14.95, ISBN 0-932379-79-6.

______, DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR: THE SEQUEL. Firebrand, 1992. 136p. pap., $14.95, ISBN 1-56341-008-7.

______, SPAWN OF DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR. Firebrand, 1993. 136p. pap., $14.95, ISBN 1-56341-039-7.

______, UNNATURAL DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR. Firebrand, 1995. 144p. pap., $14.95, ISBN 1-56341-067-2.

______, HOT, THROBBING DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR. Firebrand, 1997. 144p. pap., $14.95, ISBN 1-56341-086-9.

______, SPLIT-LEVEL DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR. Firebrand, 1998. 128p. pap., $14.95, 1-56341-102-4.

______, POST-DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR. Firebrand, 2000. 144p. pap., $14.95, 1-56341-122-9.

______, DYKES AND SUNDRY OTHER CARBON-BASED LIFE-FORMS TO WATCH OUT FOR. Los Angeles: Alyson Books, 2003. 164p. pap., $13.95, ISBN 1-55583-828-6. Publisher’s website: http://www.alyson.com

Alison Bechdel has been an inte- Alison Bechdel’s dykes seem real to three — run around topless with “the gral part of lesbian culture for twenty us because they are us. Black, Latina, boys.” Wearing a shirt among my bare- years. Since 1983, her iconographical Asian, white, disabled, trans, eco, con- chested playmates taught me that I was characters have simultaneously reflect- sumerist, feminist, academic, bisexual, different. Seventeen years later, I en- ed lesbian trends and passed on a lega- activist — they are as varied as we are. countered Bechdel’s dykes for the first cy of lesbian identification (complete Rarely has a cultural artifact so success- time when my girlfriend’s thirty-some- with such stereotypical signifiers as fully reflected the very culture that it thing, lesbian half-sister gave me The mullets, vegetarianism, and body hair). represents. Mo and friends are a gener- Indelible Alison Bechdel for Christmas.2 They are family — in more ways than ational link.1 They are lesbian pop cul- She was more shocked that I had never one. We see ourselves in Bechdel’s ev- ture; they are the queer sitcoms, soap heard of Dykes to Watch Out For than erydyke characters, and we hear op- operas, and news broadcasts missing that I hadn’t been to the Michigan posing viewpoints on issues facing from our televisions. Womyn’s Music Festival. I had secured both the queer community and the my tenure-track position in the lesbian rest of the world. The Dykes to Watch Back in 1983 when Bechdel’s community a year and a half earlier and Out For series encapsulates lesbian strip was first appearing, I was getting was building my Ani DiFranco collec- thought and culture so accurately that my first gender lesson from my grand- tion, growing out my body hair, cut- these books serve as much-needed his- mother, who informed me that I could ting my head hair, and subscribing to torical texts for the queer community. no longer — at the ripe young age of Girlfriends magazine. Having joined

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Dykes To Watch lesbian questions whether to wear mas- Out For, and cara or get another haircut, whether or reading through not to hold her girlfriend’s hand in each volume in public, and whether or not to continue order. The simi- her marginal existence. In the end she larities over time finds herself in therapy (pp.8–9). and the review of political As Mo and friends appear on the events are im- scene around 1987, Bechdel’s political pressive. views find a strong voice in the blun- It is shock- dering central character: “Here we are, ing to realize going about our little counter-culture how many lives[....] But out there in the real things in the world they’re bombing abortion lesbian commu- clinics...holding Nazi and KKK those who reclaimed the rainbow and nity have not changed. In that first col- rallies...trying to quarantine people wore it like a badge of honor, I was lection (Dykes To Watch Out For, pub- who might have AIDS!” (pp.36–37). molding myself into the dyke stereo- lished in 1986), lesbians were dealing More subtly, Bechdel criticizes the het- type of the new millennium. Like any with a public restroom issue (being eronormative institution of marriage. twenty-year-old, I’d assumed I knew it misidentified as men) that they still Before civil unions and domestic part- all, so I was ashamed to realize my ig- face today (pp.10-11). And twenty nerships are options, Toni and Clarice’s norance. I devoured The Indelible Ali- years ago, as now, dykes were falling in symbolic affirmation of their commit- son Bechdel, meeting Mo, Lois, Clarice, love in Women’s Studies classes and ment to one another is to open a joint Toni, Ginger, Sparrow, Jezanna, Harri- having children together (pp.28–29, checking account (pp.44–45). And et, and Sydney. I went on to learn, 61). Bechdel’s identification of the although Bechdel’s overall coverage of through the Dykes to Watch Out For “seven ages of lesbians” — the baby the AIDS crisis lacks comprehensive- collections and ongoing strips, the his- dyke, the student, the progressive yup- ness, she does convey in this volume tory I hadn’t been taught in school: pie, the first-wave political lesbian, the that AIDS is a concern for lesbians as that of contemporary lesbians. professional, the old-school dyke, and well as others, a reality that few ac- the tireless activist (pp.68–69) — still knowledge even today (pp.64–65). In 2003, Alison Bechdel pub- strikes a chord. Bechdel’s one and only lished Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon- “Straight People to Watch Out For” Bechdel’s political voice gathers Based Life-Forms to Watch Out For, her strip, though, illustrates how much one strength in New, Improved! Dykes To tenth collection in a twenty-year period particular issue has changed since the Watch Out For. Early in this volume, of producing the Dykes strip. It early 1980s — when “safe sex” meant housemates Lois, Sparrow, and Ginger stunned me to realize that Bechdel’s contraception, something only hetero- discuss the current (1988) events re- work had been in print nearly as long sexuals had to worry about (p.45). ported in their newspaper, The Daily as I had been alive. The uncovering and In More Dykes To Watch Out For, Distress (CISPES, guerillas in Nicara- recording of queer history is a recent Bechdel continues to discuss queer life, gua, CONTRA-AID). Each has a dif- phenomenon in academia and is invisi- but also starts using her pen to speak ferent view on the best action to take, ble in the mainstream media, but out on broader political issues. Early in and their arguing leads to inaction — Bechdel has been immortalizing queers the book, she places a strip about Bow- an excellent example of the ramifica- since 1983, integrating current events ers v. Hardwick directly across from one tions of in-group fighting (pp.12–13). into accurate portrayals of everyday on the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festi- A few strips later, Harriet and Mo de- lesbian life. I recommend beginning val (pp.6–7). The next strip, about one bate whether to fight for gay marriage with the first volume, titled simply lesbian’s internalized homophobia in (Harriet) or oppose the institution 1986, could have been written today: A (Mo) (pp.16–17). Mo’s friends worry when she begins questioning what years of being socially responsible,

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struggling for peace and justice, and black justice who will vote to abolish the birth of Toni and Clarice’s little worrying about the world have gotten civil rights, they give a tacit nod of ap- Raffi in the presence of the whole gang. her. How could any self-respecting les- proval to sexual harassment, and they’ll bian-feminist want to be “normal,” repeal Roe v. Wade in the bargain!” Je- Unnatural Dykes To Watch Out leading a “nice, middle-class life of de- zanna responds, “The senate decided For emphasizes the ironies of what is nial and obliviousness,” riddled with it’s better to look sexist by discounting considered natural and by whom. For consumerism? (pp.94–95). The topic Hill than racist by rejecting Thomas, example, in a 1994 strip, Mo is resis- of gay marriage appears again when so women took the fall. And black tant to allowing transgender and bisex- Clarice suggests to Toni that they get women are on the bottom of the pile, ual women writers into her reading se- married. Clarice argues that marriage as usual” (pp.96–97). ries. When she admits to Lois that she is a ritual, a means of getting public does not know what transgender recognition, while Toni claims it is Spawn of Dykes To Watch Out For means, Lois explains, “Instead of two about property transfer and the cre- brings to light issues that both Ameri- rigid genders, there’s an infinite sexual ation of state-approved nuclear families can society and the queer community continuum” (pp.52–53). Another ex- (pp.98–99). may overlook. After the Minnesota ample revolves around Toni’s fear of Court of Appeals finally rules (in De- coming out to her family although she The fourth collection, Dykes To cember 1991) that the lesbian partner has been with Clarice for over a decade Watch Out For: The Sequel, is just as of paralyzed Sharon Kowalski can be and even has a child with her. Toni poignant. Bechdel criticizes both the her legal guardian, Clarice says to Toni, points out that her parents could go to lesbian and heterosexual communities. “If we have a kid and you die, you court and sue for custody of their son In a 1990 strip, Lois explains: “Maybe think your folks are gonna sit back and Raffi, “like Sharon Bottoms’ mom.” we’ve grown enough as a community let a queer raise their grandchild with- Toni’s friend Gloria elaborates: “The that it’s safe now to speak out against out a fight? Do you realize that I’m Virginia Supreme Court has the nerve lesbian-feminist monoculture. After not going to have any legal relationship to give custody to the kid’s grandmoth- all, lesbians aren’t all androgynous, veg- to our kid? I can’t even adopt her un- er because he’d experience ‘social con- etarian radicals. Some of us like dress- less you give up your rights as mother demnation’ by living with his lesbian es and makeup! Some of us even voted because adoption laws allow for only parents. Talk about a fucking circular for Bush!” (pp.16–17). The bulk of one parent of each sex, thank you very argument!” Toni responds with, social criticism is aimed at the (first) much” (pp.12–13). Jezanna offers an “Yeah. And Florida just upheld a ban Gulf War, but sex also made national insightful explanation for female body against gays and lesbians adopting kids. news in the early 1990s. Bechdel’s issues: “Teaching women to hate their Not against convicted felons, or regis- Daily Distress headlines for 1991 in- bodies is a great way to distract us from tered child abusers, but against you clude “Welcome Home, Troops! Mili- going on patriarchy-smashing rampag- and me!” (pp.96–97). tary Hardware on Parade!,” “Teacher es” (p.18). And, Denies Lewd Conduct Charge,” and in a scene a lot “Fraternity Pleads Innocent in Rape like one that Case” (pp.78–79). Two women are would become repeatedly in the media spotlight: Gin- familiar eight ger claims that “Madonna’s done more years later in If for feminism and gay rights with one These Walls banned music video than the rest of us Could Talk 2, have accomplished in twenty years!” Clarice and Toni But the failure of Anita Hill’s sexual demonstrate the harassment claims against Clarence Th- humor in the omas results in a terrible setback insemination (pp.54–55). Lois cries, “The boys process (pp.40– won! They pit their biggest enemies, 41). The collec- the black community and the femi- tion ends with nists, against each other, they get a

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The seventh collection, Hot, questions femme Sydney’s decision to ing, welfare-slashing, saber rattling Throbbing Dykes To Watch Out For, is wear a strap-on, Sydney says, “Can’t thug!” (p.51) packed with cultural events of the you see I’m disarticulating the episte- Sparrow herself is uncomfortable 1990s relevant to the queer communi- mological foundation of gender with her attraction to a man, even ty. In 1996, a strip titled though Stuart “seems to “Indecent Proposal” em- have a pattern of getting phasizes the effects that involved with women who Clinton’s telecommunica- turn out to be lesbians” tions bill could have. From (p.49). The Clinton-Lewin- cuss words to Raffi’s naked sky scandal had feminists bottom to Clarice and Toni questioning their mores. kissing, Bechdel shows how According to lesbian-femi- much of our daily lives nist Mo, “Feminists can’t could be considered “inde- win! If we criticize Clinton’s cent” (pp.32–33). Even behavior, we’re prudes. And with a Democrat as Presi- if we suggest his sex life is dent, Bechdel continues to his own business, we’re hyp- show her patriotism by ex- ocrites. It’s the same old ercising the right to criti- virgin/whore trap.” But as cize the state of our coun- Sydney points out, “The try. Lois describes Clinton as one who through deferral and deconstruction of more open discussion there is about thinks “we shouldn’t ask, tell, or say ‘I fixed sexual signifiers?” (p.138). sex, the more we move beyond the false do,’” referring both to the “Don’t Ask, polarity of women as either sexual prey, Don’t Tell” policy allowing gays to serve Split-Level Dykes To Watch Out or frail virgins in need of protection” in the military and to the 1996 anti- For largely questions what it means to (p.58). gay Defense of Marriage Act (p.46). be a lesbian in late-1990s America. Also, the bookstore chain “Bunns and The collection begins with the Ellen The title Post-Dykes To Watch Out Noodle” causes an insurmountable loss coming-out episode. Though many For reflects Bechdel’s familiarity with of profit for Madwimmin Books, where queers viewed Ellen Degeneres’s public academia and its movement toward employees’ health insurance deductibles declaration (broadcast on national net- philosophies of uncertainty (postfemi- go up to $1,000 (p.44). work television) as a victory, some nism, postmodernism, etc). More than Bechdel reproduces some actual shared Mo’s view: “Try to change any- ever, this collection of strips delves into national headlines in her fictional thing in this country and you end up identification and questions assump- newspapers, including these from getting packaged and sold back to tions about gender and sexuality. Spar- 1996: “Republicans Abandon Gay- yourself! Plus now every shmoe on the row now identifies as a bisexual lesbian, Bashing Strategy of ‘92 to Win Moder- street’s gonna think they know what telling her friends, “Sometimes people ate Voters”; “Speakers at Convention my life is like!” (p.10). A year after change. Identity is so much more Avoid Mention of Gay Issues”; “Kind- Ellen’s 1997 announcement, Sparrow complex and fluid than these rigid little er, Gentler G.O.P., or Merely a Clever begins dating a man. Lois’s and Gin- categories of straight, gay and bi can Ruse?” (p.63). Through the character- ger’s sentiments on the matter are not possibly reflect.” Yet after meeting ization of Mo’s new professor girlfriend, uncommon in the lesbian community: Lois’s gay transman friend Jerry, Spar- Sydney, Bechdel shares the thinking of “She’ll be showered with approval and row exclaims, “God, I just can’t under- queer theorists in academia with her appliances while we stay here fending stand that! Changing your body to readers (who may not encounter them off promisekeepers and ‘pro-family’ conform to a rigid, conventional gen- otherwise). For example, when Mo preverts [sic].... Sparrow seeing a guy is der identity is just more binary think- like Clinton turning out to be just an- ing! What was wrong with being a other hypocritical, family values spew- butch dyke?” Lois explains, “He doesn’t feel like a butch dyke. He feels like a gay man” (pp.58–59).

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When Lois attends the first in- returned it to me, commenting on how “Bush Has New Gravitas, Speaks 45 ternational drag king extravaganza in angry the characters seemed to be: “I Minutes with Hardly a Slip.” Mo re- Columbus, Ginger says, “One could do not understand why it matters if sponds to post-9/11 patriotism with, argue that drag is the ultimate critique you are gay or not. I see everybody the “Chanting ‘USA! USA!’ doesn’t exactly of gender stereotypes, and thus inher- same way. Why make it a big deal?” foster a nuanced understanding of in- ently feminist,” to which an exasperat- After pointing out that sarcasm is inte- ternational relations. And flag-waving ed Lois retorts, “Oh, put it in a term gral to all types of comic strips, I pon- intimidates people into not asking paper! Look, it’s just a way of express- dered our anger. As Bechdel shows, no questions. Everyone’s scared of being ing my masculine side. Maybe I am matter how comfortable and happy our called ‘unpatriotic.’...Being an Ameri- glorifying masculinity. Is that so terri- lives seem to be, there is still much can means having the freedom to ask ble?” (p.62). Later, Lois shares with work to be done. questions!” (p.86). On the invasion of Ginger her concerns about being at- Iraq, Mo tells us that “Bush is turning tracted to Jerry: “I’ve been really get- We can have children and move up the heat from detente to detonate. ting into this drag king stuff...and now to the suburbs, but that does not mean The defense budget has ballooned. I’m attracted to a transman! What’s the that our homophobic neighbors will let We’re involved in an indefinite war deal?! Am I a fag?” Ginger tells her: their children play with ours. Queer against an amorphous enemy. Now “Lois, you’re just you. Since when are and feminist thought is becoming more they’re marketing the invasion of Iraq you so hung up on terminology?” mainstream, at the cost of privately to us like it’s a new flavor of Pepsi. owned, queer/ You’d think we might learn something, feminist book- watching the Israelis and Palestinians stores going out retaliate themselves into oblivion. You of business. can’t end terrorism with brute force!” Bechdel’s Mad- (p.107). Later, Clarice chimes in with wimmin Books, her own political criticism: “[W]hat do long an integral I expect from an administration that part of the Dykes had Enron write its energy policy? To Watch Out And a president whose global warming For series, is plan asks corporations to cut back their closing. Owner greenhouse emissions voluntarily? Jezanna says, And a secretary of the interior who’s “When I opened itching to lay waste to Alaska for six this place 25 months’ worth of oil and a few jobs? I years ago, this dunno, Toni. You’d think after all these store was an years, I’d be used to it, it wouldn’t up- (p.113). When Lois confronts Jerry outpost in a hostile environment. The set me so much. But this planet could with her feelings, he points out, “I’ve future was uncharted. I had no idea be a #@*ing paradise, and we’re mak- been repairing this car of yours for ten what I was getting into, except that it ing it into a living hell” (p.109). years and you never gave me a second wasn’t going to make much money.” In look when I was Geraldine.” Lois re- response to Mo’s complaint — “Jeez, I Even Sparrow’s unplanned preg- sponds, “You were way too butch for thought we were gonna make the nancy does not escape Bush Adminis- me then, dude” (p.132). world safe for feminism” — Bechdel tration ramifications. Sparrow frets, With Dykes and Sundry Other Car- has Jezanna point out to readers, “We “This is why humanity’s doomed! bon-Based Life-Forms To Watch Out For, did. To be packaged and sold by global While good people are busy cleaning Bechdel is once again right on the media conglomerates” (p.129). puke off of ‘Goodnight Moon,’ Bush is mark. When my forty-something Bechdel’s 2001 headlines proclaim, yanking U.S. support for the interna- French co-worker remarked that she “Results of Media Vote Recount in tional criminal court! And John Ash- knew little about queer American cul- Florida? What Media Recount?” and ture, I let her borrow this book. She

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croft is praising the Lord and passing from being a out rifles!... I’m the one who’s preg- lesbian in 1983, nant. And I’m the one who’s going to but the struggle decide what to do about it” (pp.114– to learn our his- 115). At a time when Roe v. Wade ap- tory has been a pears in jeopardy and a partial-birth constant. We abortion ban whizzes through Con- look to previous gress, Bechdel reminds us that we do generations — still have a choice about what to do typically our with our bodies. When Lois says, parents — to “Sparrow, you knew you might get understand who knocked up when you started bounc- we are and ing Mr. Sensitive here. Time to pay the where we fit piper, babe,” Sparrow retorts, “Hey, it’s into this world. my body! And who the hell are you? Unfortunately, The pro-life wing of ‘Polyamorous Per- prior to the recent queer parenting Notes verts of America’? God! What are you boom, there were very few parents who people gonna do next, go down and could share their own experiences of 1. When a friend of mine came out to blockade Planned Parenthood?” being queer with their children. And her high school English teacher, for (p.117). American society has done its best to instance, the fifty-something lesbian erase us from history. Queer after gave her one Dykes collection after an- Last year (2003) was a big year queer from one generation to the next other to read. for queers in national politics. The Su- has had to encounter alienation, relying preme Court struck down the sodomy primarily on an inner conviction that 2. The Indelible Alison Bechdel: Confes- laws, Massachusetts became the fourth she is not alone. It is gut-wrenching to sions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes state to allow legal unions between imagine all that was lost in our im- To Watch Out For (also from Firebrand, same-sex partners, Ellen Degeneres be- posed silence. But Alison Bechdel has 1998). came a CBS talk show host, New York successfully recorded our history and City opened its first gay high school, contextualized our existence within [Briana (“Bri”) Smith is often (correctly) reportedly sixty percent of United American society. One day, when my mistaken for Rydher Johnson, emcee for States adoption agencies accepted gays’ children cannot understand why being the Miltown Kings. Bri also founded applications, the first openly gay bish- queer ever meant being different, I will Milwaukee’s Queer Puppeteers, and she is op was consecrated, and Queer Eye for use Dykes To Watch Out For to show completing her Master’s in English in her the Straight Guy popularized “metrosex- them. Thanks to Alison Bechdel, I will spare time. This fall Bri will begin the uality.” With each passing year, the be able to explain what lesbian life was history Ph.D. program at the University marginality of queer existence dimin- like throughout (nearly) my entire life- of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She has al- ishes. Being a lesbian now is different time. Make Alison Bechdel a dyke you ready started working on her dissertation: watch out for — if not for yourself, the biography of transsexual activist Lou then for the generations to come. Sullivan, an FTM gay man.]

Page 6 Feminist Collections (v.25, no.2, Winter 2004) FEMINIST VISIONS PRACTICING ART: A REVIEW OF THREE VIDEOS by Helen Klebesadel

NOT FOR SALE: FEMINISM AND ART IN THE USA DURING THE 1970s. 90 mins. b/w & color. 1998. By Laura Cottingham; music by Yoko Ono; ed. by Sally Sasso & Leslie Singer, Hawkeye Productions. Distr.: ARTEXT, Jerry Sobel, 361 Harvard St., #7, Cambridge, MA 02138; phone: (617) 661-1756; fax: (617) 661-1756; email: [email protected]; website: http://www.artextbooks.com/nfsindx.html. Sale (VHS): $500.00. Other formats also available. Inquire about discount for classroom copy.

NO COMPROMISE: LESSONS IN FEMINIST ART WITH JUDY CHICAGO. 54 mins. color. 2002. Prod.: Susanne Schwibs, WTIU (Indiana University Television), in cooperation with IU Instructional Support Services. Radio and Televi- sion Center, 1229 E. Seventh St., Bloomington, IN 47405; phone: (812) 855-5900; fax: (812) 855-0729; website: http:// www.wtiu.indiana.edu. Sale (purchase online at https://www.indiana.edu/%7Eradiotv/home_video.html): $19.95.

THE QUILTS OF GEE’S BEND. 28 mins. color. 2002. By Matt Arnett & Vanessa Vadim. Distr.: Tinwood Media, 980 Marietta St. NW, Atlanta, GA 30318; phone: (404) 607-7172; fax: (404) 607-7232; email: [email protected]; website: http://www.tinwoodmedia.com. Sale (VHS): $19.95.

There are many ways to approach ment in the United States (including first viewing of this film, unless it is put teaching feminist art issues in Women’s the fireless “bra burning” at the 1968 in the context of reclaiming a past that Studies. Two of the videos discussed in Miss America Pageant) is interspersed is largely invisible in much of art and this review are most appropriate for use throughout the film. women’s studies education. It helps in courses devoted to feminist issues in The ninety-minute video essay is a that the footage of artists, art, and the arts. The third, The Quilts of Gee’s bit long for easy classroom use, but the events is identified with inserted text. Bend, will work well in interdiscipli- wealth of vintage footage of significant nary courses that include art as just one feminist art and artists makes it worth The video’s length allows viewers of several themes. the effort to find ways to use this re- the time to experience the range of source appropriately. For those familiar time-based media, to hear the tone of It is clear that Not For Sale: Femi- with the early women’s art movement discussions and differences of opinion, nism and Art in the USA during the in the United States, the video is a and to investigate the diversity of back- 1970s, created by art critic and film goldmine of archival documentation of grounds, aesthetics, and goals of the editor Laura Cottingham, was a labor significant artists, as well as legendary participants. A relatively chronological of love. Cottingham teaches contem- artworks and events. Cottingham in- arrangement of the visual materials al- porary art issues at the Cooper Union cludes images unavailable in any other lows viewers to experience the evolving School of Art. Her video essay is a col- form, many of them drawn from the struggles, and the meaning of 1970s lage of primary sources including films, personal archives of the artists active in artistic feminism. As one of the early slides, and other documentation of the period. More than forty artists leaders of the movement, Judy Chicago 1970s feminist art. It features more contributed images and footage that appears several times, first as a young than a hundred artists, in all media, will be new to even the most knowl- teacher introducing her students to the focusing on video and performance art, edgeable viewer. possibilities of feminist change and lat- collaborative pieces, and feminist in- Students who are unfamiliar with er assertively admonishing women to stallations. Footage of activist protests, art in general or with the feminist art stop whining and get down to hard artists’ consciousness-raising groups, movement in particular may be con- panel discussions, and other documents fused and a little frustrated with the from the Women’s Liberation Move-

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work if they are serious about making first viewing introduces themes we will Dinner Party. The piece took five years real social change. address throughout the course, and the and the volunteer support of hundreds Several important performance art final viewing becomes a synopsis and of other artists to create. First present- pieces are shown in whole or in part. celebration of the semester’s work. ed at the San Francisco Museum of The footage of African American artist Modern Art in 1979, The Dinner Party Howardena Pindel slowly wrapping In No Compromise: Lessons in has been seen by more than a million and unwrapping herself in a white Feminist Art with Judy Chicago, viewers people at fifteen venues in six countries gauze bandage while recalling experi- have an opportunity to see what it on three continents. Ironically, the art ences of racism, in “Free, White, and would be like to be a fly on the wall in piece that Chicago created to “end the 21” is powerful whether or not one is an art studio where a mature Judy Chi- ongoing cycle of omission in which familiar with that whole piece. Martha cago is the instructor. Chicago had not women’s achievements are repeatedly Rosler’s “Semiotics of the Kitchen” uses taught in a regular classroom for twen- written out of the historic record and a the tools of the kitchen and humor to ty-five years when she went to Indiana cycle of repetition that results in gener- articulate the limits and frustrations of University as a visiting professor to co- ation after generation of women strug- female traditional roles. Faith Wild- teach the course “The Foundations of gling for insights and freedoms that are ing’s repetitive reflection on a woman’s Feminist Art.” too often quickly forgotten or erased life in “Waiting” is shown performed in again” was unable to find a permanent front of a rapt audience. home until just recently. After being in storage for most of the last twenty This video essay is a tribute to years, the installation will be housed in the energy and art of women artists the Brooklyn Museum of Art beginning and feminist members of the art world in 2004. Chicago has done a number of during a time of tremendous political large-scale installations since The Din- and cultural upheaval. It examines the ner Party, but none have achieved the anger, rage, and celebration in the art same level of support or controversy. of 1970s women artists as they set out There are videos available on many of to redefine the world. It also shows her projects through her foundation, how the activism of the era has curren- “Through the Flower.” cy today. Cottingham is to be ap- Chicago is notorious for being a plauded for her efforts to find and plain speaker with regard to women’s present vintage video and film of wom- responsibility for their own oppression. en artists working in the vanguard of As someone who has taught studio art the second-wave feminist movement. for years and is very interested in en- Articulating the intersection of couraging women artists to move be- cultural, political, and art activity, Not yond limits imposed upon them by so- For Sale is appropriate for use in col- ciety and themselves, I approached this lege-level courses on contemporary art, Judy Chicago is considered one of video anticipating a demonstrated the history of women artists or wom- the founding mothers of the women’s model of candid and useful criticism. en’s studies, performance art, documen- art movement. With Miriam Shapiro However, I wondered how Chicago’s tary film, American cultural studies, she founded the Feminist Art Program assertive style would work in the con- gender studies, political art, and many at California Institute of the Arts in text of a studio art class where the focus other topics. I have found it effective 1971. It was the first art program to was on moving other women’s art for- to show it at the beginning and again focus exclusively on the education of ward. at the end of courses focused on the women artists from a feminist perspec- American women’s art movement. The tive. Chicago is best known for her No Compromise documents Chi- significant feminist art installation, The cago’s work with a group of women students as they struggle with the artistic

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process from conception to public pre- their own work or that of their stu- trated books and a CD audio recording sentation. Chicago leads the students dents to new levels. It could also be of Gee’s Bend gospel music. on an exploration of the nature of artis- useful in courses examining the cultural The exhibition and books cele- tic expression, the character of feminist production and creative practice of brate the beautiful geometric abstrac- art, and the commitment needed to women. tion of the quilts and the quilters’ com- forge an independent artistic identity. mand of design. The curators argue The students range in age from early In the context of the other two that the quilters take a painterly ap- twenties to fifties. Each is there to fig- videos reviewed here, The Quilts of Gee’s proach to the traditional art form, us- ure out how to define a distinctive per- Bend becomes a portrait of the creative ing old worn-out clothes, remnants, sonal voice in her work. Filmmaker and resistance of women, through their art, cotton sheets, and feed sacks as their director Suzanne K. Schwibs narrates to the deadening effects of abject pov- palettes. Scholars less focused on in voiceovers. erty. This video was created to accom- Western fine art as defining all cultural This video shares an excellent ex- pany an exhibition, organized by the production would argue that the quilts ample of effective studio practice with Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, of reflect a polyrhythmic aesthetic remi- advanced students. Chicago listens to seventy quilts created from the 1920s niscent of traditional African fiber arts. each student, reflecting back what she to the 1990s by forty-six African Amer- However, my purpose here is not to hears them say and challenging them to critique the curatorial perspective of take themselves and their work serious- what is otherwise an excellent exhibi- ly. She “calls it like she sees it,” but she tion, but to look at the potential of this does the student artists the honor of video for classroom use. taking their goals for their work completely seriously herself. She points out The short documentary is filled when they are selling themselves short with the faces and voices of the women out of fear or lack of confidence. For and the music of the community of some of the artists, Chicago’s relentless- Gee’s Bend. It intersperses loving views ness is what they need to push through of the quilts by their makers with the their inhibitions and their tendencies women telling their own stories. There to mute their own messages. For some, is no narration. The women speak for the message of making a total commit- themselves, and they tell a tale of art- ment to their art means taking too making within the context of the most much attention away from other as- grinding poverty and racial oppression. pects of their lives. Their struggles and The quilters are from families that were concerns reveal why so many women tenant farmers on the former Pittway find it difficult to build successful ca- plantation. The fact that many of the reers in the arts. ican women from Gee’s Bend, Ala- residents of Gee’s Bend are named Pit- Judy Chicago emerges as an effec- bama. Gee’s Bend is an economically tway indicates that most of the people tive artist and teacher whose commit- and geographically isolated community who live there today are descendants of ment to women’s art, defined honestly where the women quilters developed a former slaves. Most grew up in log cab- through women’s experience, is com- distinctive visual vocabulary that was ins with walls covered with newspapers plete. By believing that art that articu- intertwined with their community and magazines to keep out wind and lates women’s experiences is important identity. The exhibition is currently cold. (There is at least one amazing and should not be mediated or ob- traveling around the country. (It was passage in the video, focused on cre- scured to be acceptable, Chicago chal- on exhibit at the Milwaukee Art Muse- ative process, in which one of the art- lenges and disrupts self-censorship that um from September 2003 through Jan- ists explains how the collaged patterns limits art-making. This video will be uary 2004.) The project associated with of the newspaper-covered walls inspired useful in studio practice, especially to the exhibition also includes two illus- some of her aesthetic decisions.) Quilt- women artists who are working to push

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making was handed down through at didn’t have no good material. We make blankets for warmth, a drive ex- least four generations as a necessity of just pieced out what we could find ists to create beauty and to give and life. Nothing was thrown away — no out of old clothes. I made what I receive pleasure. clothing, no food. “There were no ex- could make. It kept me warm. tras,” said one woman, “We were so All three of these videos would be poor, you couldn’t imagine it.” Loretta There is a gospel soundtrack of record- excellent additions to library collections Pittway says, ings of the women, who have been used by visual arts, art history, and singing and quilting together for de- women’s studies programs. Each pre- When I come home I’d do my cades. The video reveals the longstand- sents its own challenges for use, but all chores. I washed. I cleaned yard. I ing commitment of the women to the ultimately bring to the fore artists’ mopped. I cooked. I kept my kids making of quilts as a means of personal voices, art, and perspectives that are too cleaned. I fixed their clothes. I creative expression connected to a seldom heard or seen. ironed their clothes and then I strong sense of community identity. It would go to quilting and I would reveals how younger women learned [Helen Klebesadel is a visual artist and quilt then until about 2 or 3 not only the skill and aesthetics of the director of the University of Wisconsin o’clock in the night. I would get quilting at their mother’s knees, but System Women’s Studies Consortium. She tired but I had to do it. I had to do also how to enter a visual dialogue, first is a past president of the national Wom- it cause I had a family and I had to with their mothers and then with other en’s Caucus for Art and a current mem- keep them warm because nobody quilters in the community. The film ber of the board of directors for the Na- would give me any quilt and I makes clear that even in the context of tional Women’s Studies Association.] couldn’t buy no blankets. And we having to sew stained rags together to

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Searching for grants benefiting universities have sponsored programs of- such as foundations, or exclude anoth- women begins with a basic question: Is fices that facilitate the application and er, such as federal-based opportunities. funding being sought for an individual processing of grants — those usually — for instance, for a woman starting designated for academic institutions Caution: Advertisements for un- graduate studies in pharmacy or at- only in the funding literature — for claimed government grants for human tending a cultural preservation seminar individual faculty and researchers at services assistance are usually phony. in Italy — or for an organization — for those institutions. Most governmental aid is given to instance, for a group starting a literacy agencies, which in turn give to other program for immigrant women? The Looking for grants for women as governmental entities or to nonprofit answer determines the types of resourc- a population group is only one of many organizations for human services pro- es to use for the search, since grants strategies — albeit an important one grams. Personal, outright grants from generally are awarded either to individ- — that can be used in a funding the government to individuals for such uals or to organizations, and grant di- search. The ultimate goal is to fit the purposes as payment of medical bills, rectories, announcements, and requests grant seeker’s needs with the mission debt relief, or a new home are almost for proposals are targeted accordingly. and stated guidelines of the funder. A unheard of. Those willing to look for If funding from foundations is funder’s interests may include other those very rare, often eclectic personal- sought, it is helpful to know that most priorities such as geographic restric- assistance grants for individuals should U.S. foundations can give grants only tions, program area or field of study, check the publication Foundation to nonprofit organizations; their giving types of support given, recipient type Grants to Individuals for foundations activities are restricted by the Internal (for instance, religious-affiliated institu- that have special permission from the Revenue Service to only those organization, recreational center, tribal library) IRS to give to individuals. This work, tions with public charity status under or recipient characteristics (e.g., ethnic- published by the Foundation Center section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Reve- ity, profession, organizational affilia- (FC) in New York, is available in print nue Code. Thus, women should be tion, disability status, parent status). or online format, or both, at most of aware that they might not be eligible This means that women and their orga- the FC’s Cooperating Collections, for foundation grants unless they are nizations must look for grant resources which can be found in every state affiliated with an organization that has organized or indexed, for instance, by a throughout the U.S.; for a list of loca- this status, which includes organiza- funder’s geographic or recipient prefer- tions, see http://fdncenter.org/collections whose purposes are charitable, ences, or by type of support. tions/. Although the index to the lat- educational, scientific, religious, liter- est (2003) edition shows 203 funding ary, or cultural. There are also a variety of funder opportunities under the heading If a woman has institutional spon- types: corporate and private founda- “Women,” only 32 are not geographi- sorship — as in the case of a high tions, corporations, professional and cally restricted. A mere 53 entries are school teacher looking for a profession- special-interest organizations, societies, considered in the category of “General al development grant, whose school can unions, and institutions of higher Welfare” for women only, and only serve as the recipient of the grant on learning such as libraries and museums, three of those are not restricted geo- her behalf — she may be eligible for as well as federal, state, and local gov- graphically: the AAUW Legal Advoca- grants as a direct recipient as well as ernment sources. Directories may be cy Fund, the Steeplechase Fund (for through the sponsorship of a nonprofit all-inclusive in types of grant makers institution (in this example, the listed, or they might focus on one type, school). In this case, her funding options may increase exponentially. Most

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widows of steeplechase jockeys), and and advice. All of these can usually be dexing available by title, organization, the Alpha Omicron Pi Foundation (to found with a good Internet search. Fi- subject, tenability of grant, residency of help members of that association nally, Deborah Kluge’s Small, Women, applicant, and deadline. The directory through financial crises). Clearly, in & Minority-Owned Businesses at excludes programs that offer less than using this book for finding such aid as http://www.proposalwriter.com/ $500 per year, those open to residents debt relief, housing assistance, etc., a small.html#General has a number of in a very restricted geographic location, woman would want to expand her links to reliable and well-maintained and those administered by individual search to such categories as, for exam- business finance information. academic institutions solely for their ple, needy Protestants, families, persons own students. The next biennial edi- with disabilities, single parents, or other tion will cover the years 2005–2007 population groups into which she and is scheduled for release in early might fit. Looking for grants for women 2005. as a population group is only The Annual Register of Grant Sup- Foundation grants are generally one of many strategies that can port (Medford, NJ: Information Today, not available for financing a business; be used in a funding search. Inc.) includes a generous section listing neither foundations nor most other fellowships and grants for and focusing charitable organizations make grants to on women. This directory is compiled for-profit enterprises. Typically, govern- The best work in print about primarily for academic scholars and mental assistance for businesses is in grants for women as a population researchers, and it can be invaluable to the form of special loans, tax-reduced group is the Directory of Financial Aids institutional program staff looking for investments, or other investment infor Women 2003–2005 (El Dorado funding prospects. The grants listed centives. Many states’ official websites Hills, CA: Reference Service Press), are from every type of grant support provide information about business prepared biennially by Gail Ann agency, both federal and non-federal, start-up and expansion opportunities. Schlachter and R. David Weber. It is a and include every variety of education- Another place to start is with a state’s list of 1,600 scholarships, fellowships, related support. The Annual Register is Department of Commerce. The U.S. loans, grants, awards, and salaried in- generally not appropriate for individu- Small Business Administration (SBA) ternships designed primarily or exclu- als looking for academic project fund- at http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov also sively for women. It also lists funding ing at levels lower than graduate study. has offices throughout the country, opportunities for women’s organiza- with multiple locations in every state, tions. The content is also available via Corporate and private founda- as well as Small Business Develop- online subscription as a series of data- tions, as well as corporate giving pro- ment Centers (see http:// bases called RSP Funding. Find infor- grams, are major sources of funding for www.sba.gov/sbdc/), which have edu- mation about this publication at http:/ women’s organizations and programs. cational and advisory services. Women /www.rspfunding.com/products/rsp- Look for information about these should check the SBA’s Online Wom- books/woman.html, and more about sources in Foundation Center Coop- en’s Business Center at http:// Reference Service Press publications at erating Collections, the locations of www.sbaonline.sba.gov/financing/ http://www.rspfunding.com/. which (again) can be found at http:// special/women.html and its Women fdncenter.org/collections/. Access to Entrepreneurs site at http:// The Directory of Financial Aids these collections is free to the public. www.sbaonline.sba.gov/ for Women includes a variety of types of One of the holdings, the National starting_business/special/ support, more often education-related Guide to Funding for Women, lists foun- women.html. In addition, many if not than not: for example, tuition, re- dations with a significant five-year his- most states and larger communities search, travel, professional develop- tory of giving to programs benefiting have women’s business associations and ment, dissertation support, study women; but since the last print edition business networks that offer support abroad, and creative activities, among was published in 1999, one would be others. The funding opportunities are better served by searching FC’s data- grouped by type of program, with in- base, FC Search, or its Web-based equivalent, Foundation Directory Online Platinum, which is described

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at http://fconline.fdncenter.org. As Community of Science and others kee, WI: Marquette University Raynor of its Fall 2003 update, FC Search in- (described later in this article), or are Library), are available in online format cluded 753 foundations supporting fee-based extra services attached to on- as well as in print (at http:// women’s programs, 463 supporting line subscriptions of journals, as in the www.mcf.org/mcf/grant/index.html women’s centers and services, 9 sup- case of the “New Grant and Research and http://www.wifoundations.org, porting women’s studies programs, and Competitions” section of the Chronicle respectively). 30 supporting girls’ clubs. of Higher Education (http:// In researching new grant pros- chronicle.merit.edu/free/grants/). Fewer than ten percent of the pects, it is useful to find records of For subscription-free and less edu- more than 74,000 foundations listed grants previously awarded. An annual cation-focused foundation funding by the FC have websites. Once a po- December publication, also by the news, the FC offers the online Philan- tential funding organization’s name is Foundation Center, entitled Grants for thropy News Digest (PND), which in- known (e.g., through FC Search), an- Women and Girls, lists foundation cludes PND News: Women at http:// other way to get information, particu- grants of $10,000 or more received by fdncenter.org/pnd/news/ larly about the smaller or midsize local organizations for women for education, cat_women.jhtml, a site that all fund- foundations, is to look up their tax re- career guidance vocational training, ing program officers in charge of wom- turns. Guidestar, a national database equal rights, rape prevention, shelter en’s programs should bookmark. It also of U.S. charitable organizations (http:/ programs, abortion rights, athletics, includes an “Archives” search box plus /www.guidestar.org), offers access to arts programs, and more. Depending a “Recent News” section of all news the returns (IRS Forms 990 or 990- on the year of publication, it usually categories. For requests for proposals EZ) filed by tax-exempt organizations includes records of approximately (RFPs) for women’s programs, consult with annual income of more than 750,000 grants awarded by 750–800 the FC’s RFP Bulletin at http:// $25,000 — and these returns have in- of the largest 1,000 foundations. fdncenter.org/pnd/rfp/ formation, for example, about grants Grants for Women and Girls is not part cat_women.jhtml. The Chronicle of that those foundations have awarded. of the core collection at every FC Co- Philanthropy also has an online, topical- The Foundation Center has a 990 PF operating Collection, but FC Search ly arranged list of RFPs, at http:// search site at http://lnp.fdncenter.org/ will also contain this information in the philanthropy.com/deadlines/, that finder_990.html. The FC’s site also “Grants” section of the database, which includes both “Women” and “Women offers an essay, Demystifying the 990 PF in the current update includes 7,374 and Girls” as categories. (at http://fdncenter.org/learn/demys- grants for women’s and/or girls’ pro- tify/index.html), on the value of these grams. Anyone eager to try out the Locally produced, state-specific forms and what to look for when ac- database to look more closely online at foundation directories can be useful for cessing them. It is well worth reading. its features can check the online tutori- finding smaller, more local foundations Women looking for funding for als listed at the FC’s Virtual Class- that support women’s programs. State lesbian-centered programs and projects room site (http://fdncenter.org/learn/ and Local Funding Directories, an alpha- might find useful the directory Funders classroom/index.jhtml). Publication betical listing by state, is available at of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Programs: information for this database, which is http://fdncenter.org/learn/topical/ A Directory for Grantseekers, published available in CD and online format, is at sl_dir.html. Often these directories in New York by Funders for Lesbian FC’s Marketplace site (http:// are indexed by areas of giving and in- and Gay Issues and available both in fdncenter.org/marketplace). clude women as a subject term, recipi- print and online. For more informa- ent group, or program area. Local dition, see http://www.lgbtfunders.org/ For funding news updates, grant rectories can sometimes supplement if lgbtfunders/pubsprog.htm. announcements and information on not augment information found in FC The Women’s Funding Network, grant-making trends for women’s pro- Search. Some, such as Guide to Min- which has a website at http:// grams, there are numerous online sub- nesota Grantmakers (Minneapolis, MN: www.wfnet.org/, promotes leadership scription services, particularly in the Minnesota Council on Foundations) area of academic funding. These are and Foundations in Wisconsin (Milwau- often available as part of a subscription to a funding database such as the

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and effective philanthropic practices der “Restrictions.” IRIS also has a sep- more on Greenwood’s publications, see among women’s funders, including arate “Opportunities for Women” sec- http://www.greenwood.com/). women as philanthropists and donors. tion under “Deadlines.” SPIN (pro- It includes within its membership nine- duced by InfoEd; see http:// For locating support in the area ty-six foundations that support women www.infoed.org) includes “Women” as of women’s health, particularly for and girls. This organization, along a searchable field among “Applicant women from underrepresented popula- with the similar, Washington-based Types.” RSP Funding (from Reference tion groups, a visit to the free online group Women & Philanthropy Service Press — which also publishes database of the OMB’s Office of Mi- (http://www.womenphil.org/) and the the Directory of Financial Aids for Wom- nority Health might be in order New York-based Funders for Lesbian en), includes a gender-search function. (http://www.omhrc.gov/omh/q- and Gay Issues described in the last (RSP Funding is really a series of sepa- funding11.htm). This site can be paragraph, exist to serve their grant- rate databases available as separate sub- searched for “Women” or “Women’s making memberships. However, scriptions depending on academic level; Health,” and the results then combined funders’ organizations such as these for more information, see http:// with such “Format” choices as “Schol- have additional resources available to www.rspfunding.com/products/rsp- arship,” “Fellowship,” “Foundation,” grant seekers in the form of information db/cdrom.html). Faculty and re- “Grant,” “Internship,” and others. It on funding trends, specific funders searchers who do not find these re- lists opportunities from non-federal among their membership, proposal sources offered by their college or uni- and federal sources alike, for individual writing, funding announcements, versity’s library system should also women grant seekers as well as organi- funding directories, time-saving com- check with their institution’s office of zations involved with women’s issues mon application forms shared among sponsored research, since that is often and programs. Those programs in- multiple foundations, and other re- the campus unit that will make use of clude, for instance, combating violent sources. such a database. crimes against women on campuses, GrantSelect (http:// drug abuse prevention, community Many resources are available for www.grantselect.com/) is another da- planning, and public policy issues af- finding grant-making organizations tabase that is not limited to founda- fecting women. Funding sponsors rep- other than foundations. There are dations; this online, subscription-based resented include the Ms. Foundation, tabases for finding every kind of spon- service also lists grants to nonprofit or- the Chicago Foundation for Women, soring agency, particularly for educa- ganizations both inside and outside the and the Pembroke Center for Teaching tion-related projects and programs. academic setting. GrantSelect current- and Research on Women. Also see The better ones are available by sub- ly lists a total 521 funding opportuni- http://www.omhrc.gov/omhrc/ scription only, although they might be ties for programs related to women. funding.htm for funding announce- accessible to women in academic envi- Because it also lists grants for both in- ments and links to related resources. ronments. These databases usually al- dividuals and organizations, GrantSe- GrantsNet, available at http:// low a user to search grants for women lect can be a valuable tool, despite not www.grantsnet.org, is another sub- as a recipient group and/or as a pro- having as many search options as many scription-free, Web-based funding da- gram support category. For example, other funding databases. Its content is tabase geared toward programs in the the Community of Science database from the following published titles health and biomedical sciences as well (see http://www.cos.com/) includes from Greenwood Publishing Group as the sciences in general. GrantsNet is non-science programs areas and offers a (formerly Oryx Press): Directory of Bio- sponsored by the Howard Hughes “Requirements” search field for isolat- medical and Health Care Grants, Direc- Medical Institute and the American ing grants for women — as does Illi- tory of Grants in the Humanities, Direc- Association for the Advancement of nois Researcher Information Service tory of Research Grants, Funding Sources Science. One can access either the (IRIS) (http://door.library.uiuc.edu/ for Community and Economic Develop- “Graduate and Post-Graduate” or the iris), with “Women” as an option un- ment, and Funding Sources for K-12 “Undergraduate” section and search for Schools and Adult Basic Education. (For “Women.” The database includes both individual and institutional funding opportunities.

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Although the Internet should not delving several layers down to find in- The website of the Association for be the primary informational resource formation beyond that in the initial Women in Science (AWIS) (http:// used for researching funding opportu- “Grants and Scholarships” category. A www.awis.org) is another excellent nities, Grants for Individuals: Women case in point is the page for “Funding checkpoint for women in the sciences, at http://www.lib.msu.edu/harris23/ Sources for Science Programs” (http:// not just for finding out about the asso- grants/3women.htm is an especially www.ncrw.org/resources/ ciation’s own grant programs, but also good website. Maintained by Jon Har- Fund_sci_Resources.htm), which for the listings on the Non-AWIS Re- rison, librarian in charge of the Fund- leads to “General Funding Sources,” sources page at http://www.awis.org/ ing Center (a Foundation Center Co- “Funding for K–12 Education Pro- resource/nonawis.html. In addition, operating Collection) at Michigan grams,” “Funding for Undergraduate women in psychology might want to State University Libraries, this site in- Programs,” “Funding for Graduate Ed- take a look at the American Psycho- cludes links to specific grant makers as ucation,” and “Funding for Professional logical Association’s Directory of Select- well as to websites listing funding op- Development.” ed Scholarships, Fellowships, and Other

Miriam Greenw ald portunities for women, many of which Some organizations deserve indi- Financial Aid Opportunities for Women are mentioned elsewhere in this essay. vidual mention for their consistent and Ethnic Minorities in Psychology and Harrison’s listing of books on grants for dedication to women’s professional and Related Fields, available in PDF format women is more comprehensive than scholarly development through fellow- on the APA’s website (http:// selective, but I would recommend only ship, grant, and awards programs. The www.apa.org/students/ one of them for individual women (the American Association of University funding.html). others may be too dated): Directory of Women (AAUW) is one of these; for Financial Aids for Women, by Gail Ann information about the AAUW’s pro- Women looking for funding for Schlachter and R. David Weber, de- grams, including international fellow- international programs could find the scribed in detail earlier. Harrison’s site ships, see http://www.aauw.org/fga/ Soros Foundation’s Open Society In- also includes opportunities for women index.cfm. National federations simi- stitute a helpful sponsor. One can fitting into GLBT, Minority, and Non- lar to the AAUW in other countries are search the foundation’s Grants, Schol- Traditional categories. The last is espe- listed on the National Fellowships site arships, and Fellowships: Research cially worth a look, since many re-entry of the International Federation of website (http://www.soros.org/grants/ students looking for funding are wom- University Women (IFUW) at http:// research) for grants awarded by “Issue” en. www.ifuw.org/intfell.htm. IFUW (specify “Women”) and “Region.” On itself is another excellent source of the Resource Links page (http:// Women scholars should know graduate-level funding, so be sure also www.soros.org/resources/links), one about the National Council for Re- to check its main site at http:// search on Women (NCRW) and its www.ifuw.org/. “Resources: Links” at http:// www.ncrw.org/resources/. It’s worth

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can also find information about non- long list of names of funding organiza- This essay has attempted to high- Soros grants (again by selecting “Wom- tions under the category “Women,” light a careful selection of resources, en” as an issue and picking a region). although brief summaries of those or- available in a variety of formats, that African women looking for educa- ganizations’ fellowship programs are provide useful information about tion-related program funding should included. One result that reliably pops grants for women and women’s pro- check the 2002–2003 Resource Guide: up on the first page of a Google search grams. To sum up, a search for funding A Selected List of Fellowships, Scholar- for “grants for women” is is most likely to be successful if the ships, Grants and Other Training Oppor- FundsnetServices.com’s Women: seeker first identifies the intended re- tunities for African Women Students/ Grants and Resources at http:// cipient as an individual or an organiza- Scholars. This excellent directory from www.fundsnetservices.com/ tion and targets the search accordingly. the staff of the Institute for Education women.htm. This is a slightly anno- Second, searching for websites is not of Women in Africa and the Diaspora tated listing, not just an index, of links enough. A variety of other resources (IEWAD) can be accessed at http:// primarily to foundation grantmakers — books, databases, announcements, www.kubatana.net. Go to “Archive,” that allegedly give to women’s programs and newsletters in appropriate fields — then select “Women” (not “Funding”) and projects (and most do). However, should be consulted. Finally, a flexible from the “Sector” drop-down menu, information on the site tends not to be approach should be taken, keeping in and look for the title of the guide, documented well. Also, some of the mind that “Women” as a population which is dated 12/16/02. Despite the entities linked to are for-profit dot-com group or program area is just one vari- compilation date, much of the infor- business enterprises or costly grant able to take into account. mation might still be useful. search services, a few which either do not have funding information or lack [Elizabeth Breed is Librarian for the Other Web-based listings of funding information specific to wom- Grants Information Center — a Foun- funding opportunities for women stu- en’s concerns. With these cautions in dation Center Cooperating Library — at dents, faculty, and researchers abound. mind, the site might have some use, the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Cornell University’s Graduate School but, like many similar Web resources, it Memorial Library. See the Center’s web- Fellowship Database, at http:// can be time-consuming to search due site at http://grants.library.wisc.edu/] cuinfo.cornell.edu/Student/GRFN/, to lack of annotations and careful is typical of many of these, offering a maintenance.

TIP The website of the Women’s Studies Librarian’s Office has a page of links to resources on Women’s Philanthropy and Funding:

http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/philanth.htm

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Our website (http://www. library.wisc.edu/libraries/ viting Jesus, do you have Him do the miracles before or after WomensStudies/) includes all recent issues of this column dinner?”), organizations (“BITCH: Bringing Integrity To (formerly called “Computer Talk”), plus many bibliogra- Christian Homemakers”), and slogans (“Love the sinner, phies, core lists of women’s studies books, and links to hate their clothes!”). hundreds of other websites by topic. Information about electronic journals and maga- Emily Duffy’s BRA BALL is just one — albeit a huge one, zines, particularly those with numbered or dated issues and perhaps the most well known — of this California posted on a regular schedule, can be found in our “Peri- artist’s fascinating works that addresses women’s issues in odical Notes” column. complex ways. Completed in November 2003, the Bra Ball consists of more than 18,000 bras hooked together and wrapped into a spherical sculpture weighing over 1,800 WEBSITES pounds. “Using bras as an art medium…is a way of disrupt- ing some of the longstanding taboos surrounding them,” writes Duffy. “It reconciles the narrow stereotypes of virgin The AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY and whore and fills in the true definitions of women that are WOMEN (AAUW), active for more than a hundred years in missing in between.” Learn all about this project as well as promoting equity for women and girls, especially in the Duffy’s other provocative works at http://www.braball.com/ realm of education, has opened an online museum at http:// www.aauw.org/museum. Among the “memories and Isis International-Manila recently launched a website called memorabilia” depicted in several historical timelines are such COLLECTIVE JOURNEYS, at http:// nuggets as these: a survey in 1885 discredited the belief that www.collectivejourneys.org/, to document and celebrate higher education was bad for a woman’s health; members “women’s contributions in information and communication were advocating for women’s pay equity as early as 1913; and work and the women’s movement in the last three decades.” in 1935, the AAUW supported making it legal for doctors Currently online is information about women’s organizations to discuss birth control with their patients. in twenty-five countries, the majority in Asia, the Pacific, and Africa; as well as specific efforts, such as “Jagori: The BEHIND THE MASK (BTM), with an online presence at Railway Campaign,” which works for safe train travel for http://www.mask.org.za/, is a nongovernmental organiza- women in India, and the Boston Women’s Health Collective, tion (NGO), registered in South Africa, that works to “em- well-known for its many editions of the book Our Bodies, power and support lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered Ourselves. people in Africa — politically, culturally, socially and economically, by the gathering of information.” One of the site’s “Teen talking circles” are at the core of the DAUGHTERS most informative features is a country-by-country listing for SISTERS PROJECT, which aims to create safe spaces all of Africa that reports the legal status of homosexuality in “where young people can seek and express their truth, be in each country, along with news concerning LGBT citizens touch with their innate wisdom, and practice skills that fos- and other demographic information. A whole section of ter nurturing, sustainable relationships; a circle where young BTM’s site is specifically for lesbians. women and men become empowered in their own lives and the world they live in.” The project, based in Washington Keep your sense of humor firmly in place if you decide to State, maintains an informational website (including an- visit the scathingly sarcastic site of BETTY BOWERS, nouncements of upcoming training workshops for people AMERICA’S BEST CHRISTIAN, at http:// who want to form teen talking circles of their own) at http:/ www.bettybowers.com/. “Mrs.” Bowers lampoons (or /www.daughters-sisters.org/ maybe harpoons) everything right-wing, sexist, elitist, anti- gay, anti-reproductive-choice, and fundamentalist, in faux The World Health Organization’s DEPARTMENT OF news headlines (“A Baptist, Of Course, Once Again Wins GENDER AND WOMEN’S HEALTH has a website at the ‘Mrs. Christian’ Pageant”), advice columns (“When in- http://www.who.int/gender/en/ that offers, among other

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information, concise explanations of what the WHO and in an intergenerational feminist profile in Feminist Collections other international organizations mean when they talk about v.23, no.1 [Fall 2001].) the difference between sex and gender, the impact of sex and gender on health, and the often-used term “gender The WOMEN’S PHILANTHROPY INSTITUTE, which mainstreaming.” A number of draft papers, gender-and- in January 2004 became a program of the Center on Philan- health information sheets, and other publications are also thropy at Indiana University, maintains a website at http:// available at the site. www.women-philanthropy.org/. The Institute is not a funding organization, but rather exists to “help women gain “What would happen if everyone in the world understood confidence in their capabilities as financial donors and to the concept and experience of work though women’s eyes?” inspire women to fulfill their philanthropic potential.” This is the question that the MINNESOTA WOMEN & WORK ORAL HISTORY COLLECTION seeks to answer. ONLINE PUBLICATIONS A Metropolitan State University faculty member started the collection in 1999 as part of a course entitled “Women and Asha S. Kanwar & Margaret Taplin, BRAVE NEW Work in Contemporary Society.” Students recorded the his- WOMEN OF ASIA: HOW DISTANCE EDUCATION tories of diverse women in the community, and many of the CHANGED THEIR LIVES. Vancouver, BC, Canada: transcripts are available on the collection’s website, http:// Commonwealth of Learning, 2001. ISBN 1-895369-79-7. www.mnwomenwork.org/. The site also features a timeline 82p. Download from http://www.col.org/resources/publi- of women and work from 1858 to 1910 and a section on cations/BraveNew.pdf how to do oral history, complete with techniques and sample questions. Women’s Health Bureau, EXPLORING CONCEPTS OF GENDER AND HEALTH: A NEW GUIDE FOR THE Women who are now in their early childbearing years might IMPLEMENTATION OF GENDER-BASED ANALYSIS not realize it, but their own mothers may not have enjoyed FOR HEALTH RESEARCH AND POLICY. Health the convenience and privacy of home pregnancy testing: the Canada, July 2003. 69p. Read online or download PDF first commercially available kits for home use were advertised from http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/english/women/ in 1978. In ancient Egypt, women urinated on barley and exploringconcepts.htm wheat to determine whether they would bear a child. Learn the fascinating history of pregnancy testing at A THIN Pierrette Bouchard, Isabelle Boily, & Marie-Claude Proulx, BLUE LINE, a National Institutes of Health website at SCHOOL SUCCESS BY GENDER: A CATALYST FOR http://www.history.nih.gov/exhibits/thinblueline/. (Note MASCULINIST DISCOURSE. Status of Women Canada, of interest: The Web presentation was written by Sarah A. March 2003. ISBN 0-662-33402-7. 143p. In HTML and Leavitt, Ph.D., who, along with her mother, Dr. Judith PDF at http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/pubs/0662882857/ Walzer Leavitt of the University of Wisconsin, was featured index_e.html ❍ Compiled by JoAnne Lehman

WOMEN’S STUDIES CORE BOOKS DATABASE http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/ACRLWSS

Updated annually, this project of the American Library Association’s Women’s Studies Section (formerly titled Core Lists in Women’s Studies) is now a searchable database. As were the Core Lists, the Women’s Studies Core Books Database is meant to help collection development librarians and teaching faculty select appropriate books for research and teaching. Subject categories in the database correspond to the “topics” of the former lists; new subject categories added in 2004 are Disabilities, Girls and Girlhood, and Theatre and Dance.

Another useful database, WAVE: Women’s AudioVisuals in English, mounted at the same location (http:// digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WAVE), can be searched jointly with the Women’s Studies Core Books Database.

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Reviewed by Mary Pfotenhauer, Jessica Poland, and Phyllis Holman Weisbard

JEWISH WOMEN activities, education, family life, legal Mizrahi was about to be married, her status, public power, and religious par- father demanded that she be allowed to Emily Taitz, Sondra Henry, & Cheryl ticipation. The thematic discussions are continue her studies. “He made my Tallan, THE JPS GUIDE TO JEW- also important because they set the ac- husband swear that he would not make ISH WOMEN: 600 B.C.E. –1900 complishments of individual women me perform [household] work, and he C.E. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication against the background of restrictions (her husband) did as he (her father) Society, 2003. 354p. illus. bibl. index. imposed on women within traditional had commanded him” (p.176). A side- pap., $25.00, ISBN 0-8276-0752-0. Jewish society. As the authors point out bar relates the high regard in which the in their introduction, “[w]hatever their Jews of Kurdistan held Tannit (a rarely “I would urge Jewish women to activities or accomplishments, all wom- used feminine form of the honorific for take up the study of Jewish en in traditional Jewish communities Mishnah scholars of the first and sec- history...and begin to take back their functioned within a world of Jewish ond centuries, and applied sometimes heroines,” Gerda Lerner told a reporter law and custom, and their lives can thereafter) Mizrahi. According to the for the Jewish Bulletin of Northern Cali- only be understood and appreciated sidebar, her name was still used by Kur- fornia in an interview about Lerner’s within that framework” (p.xiii). dish Jews as a charm in the 1950s, and essay collection Why History Matters: The volume contains black-and- they had many stories about her. One Life and Thought (Oxford University white reproductions of manuscript il- is, “Asenath...was a very wise woman Press, 1997). The JPS Guide offers lustrations, paintings, portraits, tomb- and learned in the Torah. She learned those who would like to do just that — stone inscriptions, and many fascinat- the wisdom of the Kabbala [Jewish along with everyone else interested in ing stories. A depiction in the “New mysticism] and had a great reputation Jewish women’s history — an excellent World” chapter shows a bare-breasted in (performing of) miracles and won- tool for exploring a rich sampling of Doña Francisca de Carvajal appearing ders. After she gave birth to one son individual Jewish women from ancient before the Inquisition in Mexico in the and one daughter she prayed to God times to the beginning of the twentieth sixteenth century, charged with Judaiz- that she should stop menstruating in century and learning what historians ing. (As “New Christians,” converted order that she could work at learning, have unearthed about them. The Guide Jews were subject to the control of the holiness, and purification. And God does more than that, however. First, it Inquisition in Mexico, just as they had granted her request” (p.176). groups and situates Jewish women in a been in Spain). The text relates how The chapter on the early modern particular time and place, using catego- she and her family were arrested, tor- period, 1492–1750, entitled “Europe- ries and divisions appropriate to Jewish tured into confessing, and burned at an Jewry Moves East,” includes inter- history for chapters such as “Christian the stake. The actual words of her esting information about the economic Europe to 1492,” “Lands of Islam, forced confession have survived and are activities performed by Jewish women 1492–1750,” and “During and After included in a sidebar. Meanwhile, dur- in central and eastern Europe, nicely the Haskalah [Jewish Enlightenment], ing that same century, another Jewish illustrated by a figure of a sixteenth- 1750–1900.” Second, because readers woman in Mosul, Kurdistan (now Iraq) century Jewish working woman from may not be conversant with Jewish his- was able to receive a full Jewish educa- Worms, Germany, whose cloak has a tory, each chapter is introduced by an tion and become head of a religious rouelle attached (a large circle that Jews overview outlining the significant school. She was Asenath Barazani had to put on their clothes). Many themes and events of that era and lo- Mizrahi, and several of her letters are women conducted business, some just cale. Third, the authors recognize that extant. Her father, who had no sons, in their homes or in the marketplace in women’s history is more than the recov- taught her instead. According to one of their town, and others traveling far ery of the names of individual women, her letters quoted in the Guide, when so each chapter has a topical section organized around six themes: economic

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afield. One scholar cited estimated that clopedia of Jewish women being edited great works” view, and contain little or about twenty-five percent of the Jewish by Paula Hyman and Dalia Ofer no mention of women in music. For money lenders in late medieval German (forthcoming from Shalvi Publishing) example, of the 12,191 musicians listed were women. Some had trades or pro- that is likely to be a more thorough in the 2001 edition of The New Grove fessions. Archival records from fif- treatment; nevertheless, the JPS Guide Dictionary of Music and Musicians, less teenth- and sixteenth-century Germany is now and will continue to be a handy than five percent are women. make note of Jewish women doctors, reference for high schools, adult study Like most texts on women in mu- and others who practiced something groups, public libraries, and under- sic, From Convent to Concert Hall aims more akin to herbalism and midwifery graduate collections. to educate the reader about a number are noted elsewhere. By the sixteenth of women composers in hopes that and seventeenth centuries, some Jewish Note both their names and their works women worked in family printing busi- might become mainstream. The ulti- nesses; a few of them became promi- 1. Natalie Weinstein, “Patriarchy Took mate goal, as Glickman says in the In- nent printers in their own right. Other Toll on Women and Jews, Scholar troduction, is for the works of women records list Jewish women in these Says,” Jewish Bulletin of Northern Cali- to be “printed and performed without trades: cheese makers, goose herders, fornia v.101, no.23 (June 6, 1997), reference to gender” (p.6). barmaids, washerwomen, veil makers, p.38, accessed in GenderWatch data- This book stands out among other weavers, embroiderers, milliners, and base. recent texts on women in music for seamstresses (p.149). Some Jewish several reasons. The New Grove Dictio- women were in domestic service, too. [Phyllis Holman Weisbard wrote the nary of Women Composers (ed. by Julie There are few other reference above review.] Ann Sadie & Rhian Samuel, W.W. works specifically on Jewish women. Norton, 1994), for example, is an ex- Two excellent works are devoted entire- cellent and thorough source of infor- ly to American Jewish women (Jewish MUSIC mation, but its layout (listings are al- Women in America: An Historical Ency- phabetical) and sheer size (more than clopedia and Jewish American Women Sylvia Glickman & Martha Furman 400 entries) prevent it from being any Writers: A Bio-Bibliography), and nu- Schleifer, eds., FROM CONVENT TO kind of recreational read. From Con- merous bibliographies exist, including CONCERT HALL: A GUIDE TO vent to Concert Hall, however, is written Women and Judaism, by Inger Maire WOMEN COMPOSERS. Westport, as a text for a “Women in Music 101” Ruud (Garland, 1988); The Jewish CT: Greenwood Press, 2003. 403p. ill. course, or simply for the general reader. Woman, 1900–1985, by Aviva Cantor bibl. index. $75.00, ISBN From Convent to Concert Hall has and Ora Hamelsdorf (2nd ed., Biblio 1573564117. more than 150 entries for women com- Press, 1987; supplemented by Ann S. posers and songwriters of the Western Masnik et al., 1996); and several com- Despite the fact that, until the music tradition from the ninth century piled for the Hadassah-Brandeis Insti- twentieth century, women were denied to the present. Chapter 1 is an intro- tute and available online at http:// musical education equal to that of duction by co-editor Sylvia Glickman. www.brandeis.edu/hirjw/ men, scholars have now identified more In addition to outlining the following publications.html. None of the exist- than 6,000 women composers since the five chapters, she also describes some ing works has the breadth of the JPS ninth century. During the twentieth factors and climate needed for an artist Guide. Its forty-five pages of endnotes century, and especially within the last to produce and be accepted in society, and twenty-one-page bibliography quarter, books have begun to be writ- things often denied women throughout themselves are valuable, both when cit- ten that focus solely on women musi- history. These factors include access to ing scholarly articles and the original cians and composers, although such education and financial stability, as well source-texts on which the biographical books are nearly always written by as time to create, which was difficult and thematic information in the vol- women. Unfortunately, while the situ- for housewives with several children. ume is based. There is a historical ency- ation is improving, most music history The rest of the chapters are artextbooks still project the “great man/ ranged chronologically from the Mid- dle Ages through the twentieth century. Each chapter begins by outlining sig-

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nificant events of the era, women’s HISTORY clude Eleanor Roosevelt, Hillary place in society, and the important mu- Rodham Clinton, Betty Friedan, and sical movements of that time. These Harriet Sigerman, THE COLUMBIA Naomi Wolf; but what stands out most introductions are particularly helpful DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF is the number of contributors who will since — unlike in most biographical AMERICAN WOMEN SINCE 1941. not be familiar to many readers. Siger- dictionaries that simply list women New York: Columbia University Press, man provides a veritable cross-section composers — the reader can easily see 2003. 692p. bibl. index. $75.00, of “ordinary” voices from a variety of the broad musical trends of a specific ISBN 0-23111698-5. ethnic, geographical, socioeconomic, century and how they changed and religious backgrounds. The range throughout history. At the end of each As a former women’s studies major, of the hundred-plus documents ex- chapter is a timeline (with important I have certain ideas about what consti- tends from legislation and speeches to events in history/politics, science/edu- tutes a comprehensive overview of first-person accounts, representing per- cation, arts/literature and music), bibli- American women. Given this, I was sonal as well as political aspects of ography, discography, and selected horrified to glance through this book’s American women’s history. modern editions of scores. Three ap- table of contents and realize that Gloria Each of the six chapters tackles a pendices are also included at the end of Steinem was not included in a book of decade, chronicling the trends and the book: a chronological list of women essays concerning twentieth-century changes that have affected cultural and composers, a geographical list of wom- American women’s history. And I can political norms, all the while highlight- en composers, and a suggested syllabus only classify my second response as being four major themes: the changing for a fifteen-week semester. wildered horror at seeing Dan Quayle’s concept of gender, the political impli- From Convent to Concert Hall pre- infamous “Murphy Brown” speech on cations of personal issues, the power of sumes no previous knowledge of music the decline of family values included. female coalitions given the diverse ex- or music history, and it includes a glos- What kind of women’s studies resource periences of women, and the influence sary. The approachable writing styles is this? of gender on individual choices regard- of the chapters and the inclusion of Certainly not your Second Wave ing work and family. Several-page in- illustrations and photos of the compos- grandmother’s — but, thankfully, not troductions provide a contextual his- ers make this text easy to read, whether your grandfather’s, either! Sigerman’s torical setting for each chapter, and for an introductory course or simply book takes on the very daunting task of headnotes do the same for each docu- for individual enjoyment. Although it supplying documentary source materi- ment. These are all well-written by contains far fewer artists than many als of and about American women for Sigerman, an independent scholar with biographical dictionaries or encyclope- the past six decades. Recognizing the a Ph.D. in American history from the dias on women in music, it still reaches astounding rate of social and economic University of Massachusetts–Amherst. far beyond just famous composers like change that women in this country The volume closes with a solid in- von Bingem, Wieck, Schumann, and have undergone, Sigerman attempts to dex and a “Further Reading” list that Zwilich to introduce the reader to a provide a balanced view of standing, includes primary and secondary works, number of women composers and progress, and backlash by including broken up by decade as well as by is- songwriters. contributions from a variety of sources. sues pertinent to twentieth-century And do I ever mean balanced: Readers American women. Websites that in- [Mary Pfotenhauer, who wrote the above will find items like Pope John Paul II’s clude archival and bibliographic re- review, is currently finishing her fourth “Apostolic Letter on Women” and Jerry sources are also listed, and although the year at the University of Wisconsin– Falwell’s “Good Husbands are Good sites look credible, that list is pretty Madison as a music history major. She Leaders.” After that initial shock wears small. And although each document’s also works as a student assistant for the off, however, we’re left with a resource source is detailed following the entry’s Office of the Women’s Studies Librarian.] that is feminist in purpose but realist in headnote, a bibliography of all the doc- historical coverage. Some of the more recognizable speakers and essayists in-

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uments might be helpful for browsing. democracy, emancipation, and equality tive by examining female representa- Otherwise, this work has many uses as in attempts to illustrate the transforma- tion in political parties or religion. part of an academic or public library or tion of Western history and politics. Though the articles look imposing, as a resource to be perused by high Three subject areas dictate historical with double-columned pages and small school or college students. setting as well as theme: “On the text, the subheadings within each piece Threshold of Modernity: Are Women make for easy reading and even a fair Christine Faure, POLITICAL AND Capable of Governing?”; “The Age of amount of browsing. For instance, HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF Revolutions”; and “Struggles for De- “Feminism in the 1970s” could take up WOMEN. New York: Routledge Tay- mocracy.” Faure indicates that the an entire book, but by discussing the lor & Francis Group, 2003. 550p. bibl. work presents a multidisciplinary syn- origins of the movement in one sec- index. $150.00, ISBN 1-57958-237-0. thesis, although most of the contribu- tion, followed by overviews of all major tors are established historians. Western countries as well as segments Women’s participation in political For the most part, article topics are on counter-movements and conceptual history is often overlooked because of exciting and out of the ordinary. Some analyses, the article becomes much easi- our assumed tie to the private as op- illustrate female participation in histor- er to navigate. posed to the public sphere. Our histo- ical events of the patriarchy, such as the Bibliographies follow each article ry lies in “birth, eating, work, love, Greek revolution’s “Friendly Brother- and are often organized by content childbearing, and death,” as Faure hood,” Nazi Germany, and the Enlight- type (source, reference work, etc.) One writes in the introduction to the Politi- enment. Others take a larger perspec- supplemental bibliography, listing re- cal and Historical Encyclo- sources of “Women and pedia of Women (p.xiv), the Revolutions of 1848 and often the political in Europe,” is incorporat- changes that mark time ed in the “Age of Revolu- are not included in those tions” section of the book. records. Therefore the The book’s only index is need for a work such as of proper names; one of this is evident, in order to events would be a worthy “make visible to bound- addition. aries that limit the politi- This resource would best cal condition of women” be used in academic or (p.xvi). An English trans- public libraries. With lation of Encyclopedie broad but not compre- Politique et Historique des hensive coverage, it pro- Femmes, this resource ad- vides a good starting point dresses the political con- for substantial discussion dition of women from on topics not usually in- Salic Law to the modern cluded in history books. day, focusing specifically on European and North [Jessica Poland, reviewer of American regions. Con- the two volumes above, is a sisting of forty scholarly radical librarian who works articles (about 12,000 at Haverford College.] words apiece), the work provides an authoritative account of women’s activism worldwide, dealing with areas such as voting, Miriam Greenwald

Page 22 Feminist Collections (v.25, no.2, Winter 2004) REBEL SONG: FEMINIST ZINES FROM THE (SOUTHERN) THIRD WAVE

by M. L. Fraser

On a visit home last summer, I went in search “Hmm,” I thought, and I left my name and address of, and found, lots of other Southern women writ- for Cindy, the woman who writes Doris. She was ing, writing, writing. I found enough to dedicate a kind enough to send me a copy of the twenty-first whole column to these rebel grrrls, who range from issue, also called the “G, H, I” issue. a thirteen-year-old to a woman in her fifties. Their The bookstore people were right. This is one of voices are clear and true, and they read well. In the smartest, most unfettered, unpretentious zines I California, when I speak of the South, I notice that have ever read. It pulls at your inner grrrl with re- feminism is not expected from the Southerner. I marks that are the essence of true. Some examples: knew it was there, but then, I am a Rebel with a “Girl gangs redefined rape and suddenly everything yell. So I’d like to raise up the songs of my sisters, counted. All the shit that happened to me count- the daughters of the South, in this review. Listen. ed,” and “I can’t remember most of the stories I have been told, because if I remembered I would Brazen Hussy: no.7 (October 2002) have to kill myself, but the knowledge and terror is Ahhh. The misspent youth of punk girls every- in me.” I half fell in love with this girl with her where — cigarettes, booze, and trips to landfills in powerful, honest pain, and then I realized, “But I Fargo. This zine is diary-like in its reprints of letters know her; I am her.” As are we all. Doris is a per- and photos of friends in bars. One of its best lines is sonal zine that speaks to the political condition of the statement made in regard to the writer’s con- being female. It is a wonderful set of writings and frontation of her rapist: “Sometimes men do not observations that will allow you to re-examine your completely understand that it is rape until we tell own world. I especially loved the observations of them.” Caroline makes no excuses, nor does she val- “growing up girl,” hating other girls for buying into idate the rapist’s position; she just explains to him the devalued feminine, and eventually embracing and to us what happened for her and how she han- the woman. Must get. dled it. It is quite the grownup thing to do and Doris (c/o Cindy), P.O. Box 1734, Asheville, NC quite the communication; she includes the actual 28802. $1.50 or $1.00 plus two stamps. Some issues email that she sent to her “acquaintance” about it. of Number 20 are still left as well. Of course, there is some “residual icky” (how could there not be?), but the explanation and the piece Escape Philosophy: no.3, no.5 (Summer 2003) are handled well. Also worth checking out are the Stefania Shea writes with the voice and vision strong pen cartoons, which resemble woodcuts in and heartbreak that we all remember from our thir- their primitiveness. Very cool. But otherwise, it’s teen-year-old selves. Her heart is anguished in the O.K. to miss this one, as the angst-filled diary is way that only the hearts of early teens can be. She what we all wrote “back then.” If you want to remi- is still new to the idea of her voice being good nisce, then get this. enough, so she falls into the trap of asking for oth- Caroline Paquita, P.O. Box 13105, Gainesville, FL ers’ submissions, and she uses poems from dead 32604. $1 plus 2 stamps. writers to bolster her zine. The parts that are her own work are charming and very much something Doris: no.21 (Summer 2003) we want to see more of. This girl and her vision of In Asheville I asked around at indie bookstores for cool zines, and the title Doris kept popping up.

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this world excite me. A new feminism shining info is available in lots of other places. A good through the adolescence is apparent here and guidebook, but not necessary. should be watched. Get this zine, if only to encour- La Femme Collective, 5700 N. Tammy Tr., #722, age her to keep going. Sarasota FL 34243. $1. Stefania Shea, P.O. Box 2135, Leicaster, NC 28748. Email: [email protected]. No price. Negrita: nos.2 (no date) & 3 (Summer 2003) Number 2: Gloria is a punk zinetress living in Flat Tire: no.5, November 2002 (The Feel Good Is- Florida and writing about color (not race, although sue) she calls it this) and competition between girls. She Nothing much here, in this personal zine filled also draws a great cartoon about gender in which with well-written, if uninteresting, accounts of how she had to cut off her head to avoid the “dudesters” this thirty-one-year-old military brat grew up. who say nothing but “dude” and cannot seem to al- There’s one interesting story about Brad and Ryan, low Gloria to say anything. It’s funny stuff if you’re her punk cronies from way back, but other than a girl; it may cause a bit of chagrin if you’re not. that, it’s kind of a snore. I am not sure why this is Also included are the dangers of hitchhiking as a called the “Feel Good” issue, unless it was therapeu- female (duh), and a few remarks about resistance in tic for the author — in which case, power to her. She the punk world. I am not sure how old this thing is, is still broke and punk and has “working class and although it has nothing truly new to say, it is teeth.” I hope she finds her way. Ignore this one. not a bad little book and should be picked up by any Flat Tire, c/o End of the Line, 610 E. Wright St., who may not have heard the message before now, Pensacola, FL 32501. Email: or given to someone who hasn’t. The cartoon stories [email protected]. $1 per issue. are the best part (all the boys are drawn the same way — hmm…). The Language of No: Taking Back Our Bodies: Number 3: This is much better, although it still no date smacks of “girl growing up in her twenties.” “Stoop- As with so many zines of this type, this one by id Things White People Say” seems to be a regular Kim and Michelle (Webster? University of South feature; I am not quite sure why, unless it is to pro- Florida?) was originally done as a school project. vide a forum for the eye-rolling that Glo seems to They turned their little book into a primer about need to do, but there’s nothing very original in this women’s bodies. Menstruation, pregnancy, herbal column. This volume has great accounts of road forms of contraception and wound applications, as trips and character sketches of people met along the well as rape statistics, etc., are here. It is informa- way. An ongoing monologue about why and how tive, and it’s a good way to get the word out if re- Gloria and “Jeb” broke up is a bit bore-me-later. Not sources are limited or education inaccessible. It is so terrible, though. This is a great example of how true feminism at the grassroots level (although the to start an ongoing zine. point gets made in the beginning pages that grass- Gloria, P.O. Box 1661, Pensacola, FL 32591. $1 or roots feminism should not be confused with any- donation. thing else grassroots, and that patriarchy does exist in the underground/alternative scene. This may be Rocket Queen: nos.1 & 2 (no dates) an arguable point and I am not sure where they An exotic dancer in a small town in North Caro- wanted to go with it, but I think the idea may have lina felt compelled to write this because “most of teeth). The zine’s hope is to spread female knowl- what is written about sex workers either mystifies edge and wisdom. Always a good idea. This is a or demonizes sex work.” Number 1 talks about why good zine to get for handy referrals if this type of dancers dance and the kind of men who watch information is still new or you need to get it to them. It also has a mini-discourse addressing the someone quickly. Otherwise, don’t. Most of the “pornography is bad” vs. “this work is noble and sex- positive” debate that often arises in feminist circles.

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Janet used the zine not only to inform others but servations on how their life experiences are so var- also to get straight on how she as a feminist felt ied and yet so similar. It makes me want to go about making this kind of money for this kind of walking with them in their companionable silences. work. She thought one issue would get it all out, And I know finally what my mother has tried to tell and then she found enough to say to create another. me over the years, that the power of touch is never Number 2 is the tale of New Orleans. In the first more absent than when your child moves away issue, Janet had speculated that a dancer could from you and into herself. I am so glad this woman make her way anywhere on the globe just by danc- is writing, and I want a subscription for myself. You ing in the clubs. So, her world tour begins in the Big should too. Easy. She thinks and speaks and gives the straight- The Visible Woman, 406 N. Mendenhall St., up about the sex industry. She does not glamorize Greensboro, NC 27401. Email: it, she does not lie, and she argues that exploitation [email protected]. $1. is never pretty, whether it is the unsuspecting woman who is being taken advantage of or the fat drunk- A Zillion Stories of Near Love: vols. 1 & 2 (no en guy who has to spend money to get attention dates) from women. It is sometimes harsh, sometimes sad, Sydney Xannn writes of lost and almost love, and mostly honest. I wish I knew Janet and was her and does it well, in vignettes ranging from a few friend, although she warns that she marginalizes lines to two pages. Some are really funny, like the her friendships with women because it is her trade. one about the big kiss-off Mary Magdalene gives to Fair enough. Jesus (whom she calls Snowballz). Some are about This is a great zine. I hope she keeps writing it. things we all do, like going by the place where “we” It is very much like the now-defunct Pastie Face out used to live and feeling sad; others, about things we of San Francisco, allowing us to see the real women would like to have seen: the emotionally distant who dance and why they do it. Feminism is about husband finally appreciating the wife who left him choices, and sometimes the choices of feminists are after the kids were married. And some are finely not expected. Sometimes feminists argue that sex wrought intricate stories in which we relate to the for money is not a choice. But sometimes it is. Jan- main character, whether male or female. My only et does a great job of explaining her feminism, and criticism of this volume is that it is primarily het- how she struggles every day with her self-aware- erosexual, with little possibility for deviance, even ness, just like all of us do. Read and learn. Get this though stories of love are not this restrictive. zine. In Volume 2, Sydney begins with a relationship Janet, P.O. Box 64, Asheville, NC 28802. $1.50 between two women, one gay and one straight — per issue. intimates who have never slept together. I knew exactly what she meant when she said that being The Visible Woman: no date truly loved is the hardest thing there is. We return What a jewel this is. Get, get, get, get. A wom- to these characters at a couple of points in the zine. an in her fifties talks about her life as a slowly re- They are almost the whole of the zine in their poi- ceding woman through childbirth, marriage, and gnancy. And yet, this volume is filled with longer even aging. Well-written and poignant, it remarks stories, more fleshed out, but somehow sharper in upon the aging female in our society—not the old their insights. One story begins with the great line, woman, but the middle-aged and almost invisible. “When Pandora learned to speak, she said very sim- She writes with conviction and peace about the re- ply, ‘I want a divorce.’” This zine is a gotta-get if lationship she has developed with her body, how it you like fiction and the craft of the short story. is strong and capable and hers. The wonderful This writer is a must-watch for future Pulitzers and sketches and drawings of the female form and self- the like. portraits that dot the zine reinforce this. A section Sydney Xannn, P.O. Box 72023, New Orleans, LA on the walks she takes on a regular basis with two 70172-2023. Email: [email protected]. other woman her age is fabulous, especially the ob-

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Quick disclaimer: Sometimes the zines I pick up [M.L. (“Mhaire”) Fraser is finishing her first book, have no dates on them. I try to keep current, but originally written as a reader for her students in some of the ones I get may not even provide ad- California. She loves the lifestyle California affords dresses or contact info, and the way zines operate and, while she loves the South, she plans to remain can make it difficult to verify the information I do in the land of sunshine collecting freckles and eat- have. If you get your request back in the mail, the ing fresh fruit. Along with her new home state, aca- zinestress has probably moved or is no longer writ- demics, grrrls, and knitting are her passions — oh, ing her zine. Don’t let that dissuade you — there and this column. Send her zines, lots of them.] are plenty of other grrrl writers who need support!

THIS MUST BE ZINE! EXPLORE THE WORLD OF FEMINIST DO-IT-YOURSELF PUBLISHING

An entire exhibit table at the 2004 NWSA Conference has been set side for a special display of homemade, alternative publications — zines — with a feminist edge or outlook. We’ll have copies of zines that women and grrrls are still making the old-fashioned way — on paper, with typed or handwritten text, drawings, and cut-and-paste images — as well as information about electronic “webzines.” Stop by to get inspired, look at samples, and find out how to subscribe to dozens of periodicals by women who Do It Themselves!

Page 26 Feminist Collections (v.25, no.2, Winter 2004) PERIODICAL NOTES: SPECIAL ISSUES Reviewed by Stephanie Rytilahti

BRIARPATCH: A PROGRESSIVE CANADIAN NEWS- This issue provides readers with an introspective look at MAGAZINE v.32, no. 2, March 2003: “The Regina contemporary issues facing women and, at the same time, Monologues: A Candid Look at Society’s Impact on Wom- encourages women to re-evaluate prevailing cultural assump- en’s Sexual Expression”; and v.33, no.2, March 2004: “Voices tions and attitudes. It concludes with a synopsis of the work of the Sisters.” Ed.: Debra Brin. ISSN: 0703-8968. Single being produced by female vocalists and a cursory glance at issue: to Canadian address, Can$5.00 including shipping; to volunteerism and the work of female activists. Finally, the U.S. address, US$5.00 plus $2.00 shipping. Subscription: choice to intersperse articles with poetry and quotes from 10/yr.; to Canadian address, Can$24.61 (individuals), women adds a touch of creativity and stresses the all-inclu- Can$35.31 (institutions); to U.S. address, US$24.61 (indi- sive nature of this collectively produced newsmagazine. viduals), US$35.31 (institutions). Huston House, 2138 Briarpatch does a special issue on women every March. McIntyre St., Regina, SK, S4P 2R7, Canada; phone: (306) The 2004 woman-focused issue, entitled “Voices of the Sis- 525-2949; email: [email protected]; website: http:/ ters,” features the perspectives of First Nations women and /www.briarpatchmagazine.com women of color. As it celebrates the diversity of Canada’s population, it also pays close attention to the barriers that Partial contents, March 2003: “Sometimes, It’s Hard to restrict the freedoms of underrepresented populations. The Be a Woman” (Sally Elliott); “Getting Paid for It” (Jean Hill- reader is given the opportunity to engage with the lived reali- abold); “The Vagina Monologues” (Jenn Ruddy); “Hate ties of a variety of women: a Northern Ontario Cree woman Rape” (Denise MacDonald); “African Women Against Muti- suffering from new welfare policies, black women of Carib- lation” (CUSO); “When Love Hurts” (Sue Gillies-Bradley & bean ancestry and the isolation they face, Muslim women Tammy L. Wagner); “Engendering Dichotomies” (Chelsea experiencing the ignorance of others about Islam, women Looysen); “Save Sex or Safe Sex?” (Jessica Hanna). refugees from war-torn countries, and many others. This Partial contents, March 2004: “Walk a Mile in My issue offers rare insights into a diverse array of topics and sets Moccasins” (Betty Munshaw); “Wounded by Welfare Cuts” out to correct the stereotypes that preclude stronger bonds of (Kuya Minogue); “Isolation Among Black Women of Carib- sisterhood and mutual respect. bean Ancestry” (Judy White); “The True Name of Her Con- dition” (post-traumatic stress disorder among immigrant NORWEGIAN JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHY v.57, no.3, women; Judy White); “When Cultures Differ” (M. Nausha- September 2003: “Feminist Geographies.” Eds.: Mary Ed- ba Habib); “Preservation and Sharing of Traditional Ways” wards, Bernard Etzelmuller, & Michael Jones. ISSN: 0029- (Darlene Rose Okemaysim). 1951. Single issue: US$20.00. Subscription: 4/yr., $135.00 (institutions), $80.00 (individuals). Taylor & Francis AS, Operating since 1973, this Canadian-based publication Attn: Sandra Osorio, P.O. Box 2562, Solli, No-020 Oslo, identifies as an “independent alternative newsmagazine com- Norway; email: [email protected]; fax: +47 22 12 98 mitted to building a socialist democratic society.” As I pe- 90; website: http://www.tandf.no/ngeog Also available on- rused the 2003 special issue on female sexuality, I was im- line to licensed users through Ingenta and MetaPress. pressed with the publication’s ability to weave a diverse array of issues into one underlying topic. The volunteers and staff Partial contents: “Feminist Geographies” (NinaGunner- who contribute to the magazine included articles on media ud Berg & Ragnhild Lund); “Landscapes of Gaze and Prac- and cultural expectations of perfection, single mothers en- tice” (Gunhild Setten); “Masculinity and Rurality at Play in gaging in sex work, the sexual abuse of civilian women in Stories about Hunting” (Linda Marie Bye); “Multiple Voices, times of war, female genital mutilation, and sexuality during Multiple Realities: Female Industrial Workers Health in Sri childbearing years. There’s even an article contesting the Lanka” (Chamila T. Attanapola); “Playing Gender in Public binaries that limit female sexual orientation and gender ex- and Community Spaces” (Kari Arnesen & Anne Sophie Lae- pression and ways to reconfigure the meaning of feminism.

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gran); “Embodying Craftswomen’s Workspace and Well-Be- of gender is viewed through the lens of Norway’s youth. The ing in Orissa, India” (Jyotirmayee Acharya). concept of place is linked to the shopping malls and organized activities that allow for the development of gender The Norwegian Journal of Geography describes itself as a identity. publication dedicated to encompassing physical and human All of these articles are sensitive to the role of the re- geography. In September of 2003 it chose to focus on the searcher as a participant-observer and attempt to minimize issue of gender in geographical research and the need for the distance between the subject and the researcher. Overall, feminist-oriented geography. This special issue, appropriate- they brilliantly meld physical and human geography and ly entitled “Feminist Geographies,” utilizes qualitative re- provide readers with a unique feminist perspective. search methods, such as interviews, life history, focus group Two other articles add depth to this issue by providing an discussions, and participant observation to uncover the role international spin. Since 1990, the Muslim population in gender plays in the production and dissemination of knowl- Sri Lanka has faced displacement and constant upheaval; edge. Chamila Attanapola’s essay investigates how these women “Feminist Geographies” inserts gender analysis into areas navigate through this process of resettlement; interviews and of geography in an inventive and intellectually engaging direct observations allow women industrial workers to share fashion. The use of the male gaze in landscape depictions is the health and living conditions they experience. And Jy- investigated, and the contributors critique the dualisms that otirmayee Acharya explores self-employment and unorga- align only feminine characteristics with nature. This con- nized production among craftswomen in Orissa, India, as cept is tied to the Renaissance era and its use of landscape well as the social and institutional pressures that impede paintings to depict man’s control over nature. This theme of these women’s work. control continues as the act of hunting and its role in gender “Feminist Geographies” is a challenging but engaging identity is examined through the first-hand accounts of male collection of articles for any reader interested in looking for hunters from Mid-Norway. Finally, the performative nature new arenas for gender analysis or simply a more interesting approach to geographical research.

JOURNAL OF HUMANISTIC COUNSELING, EDUCA- TION, AND DEVELOPMENT v.40, no.1, 2001: Special section (pp.5–81): “Symposium: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues in Counseling.” Ed.: Dr. Mark B. Scholl. ISSN: 0735-6846. Single issue: $21.00. Subscription: 2/ yr.; included in membership in Counseling Association for Humanistic Education and Development (C-AHEAD); for nonmembers, $42.00 (individual), $50.00 (institution). ACA Subscriptions, P.O. Box 2513, Birmingham, Alabama 35201-2513; phone: (800) 633-4931; website: http:// www.counseling.org Also available online to licensed users through Academic Search Elite and Wilson Education Full Text.

Contents of symposium section: “Protecting and Coun- seling Gay and Lesbian Students” (Connie J. Callahan); “Working with the Bisexual Client: How Far Have We Pro- gressed?” (B. Grant Hayes); “Latin American Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients: Implications for Counseling” (Jennifer B. Sager, Elizabeth A. Schlimmer, & James A. Hellmann); “Counseling and Advocacy with Transgendered and Gender- Variant Persons in Schools and Families” (Stuart F. Chen- Hayes); “Teaching ‘Outside the Box’: Incorporating Queer Theory in Counselor Education” (Lynne Carroll & Paula J.

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Gilroy); “Adapting the Ethnocultural Assessment to Gay and discussion of the “symbolic identity technique,” which draws Lesbian Clients: The Sexual Orientation Enculturation As- on the ideas of Carl Jung for utilizing symbols to attain psy- sessment” (Connie R. Matthews & Kathleen J. Bieschke); chic growth. The contributors artfully draw upon these in- “Gender-Related Attributions and the Gay or Lesbian Label” novative and genuine techniques for those in counseling po- (Robert W. Mitchell, Billy R. Phipps, & Delight Voignier). sitions. This entire issue addresses many topics that are vital for The unique barriers facing America’s LGBT youth are assisting and reaching out to LGBT youth, and provides often overlooked or consciously avoided by educators. An hope for those who are dedicated to reversing the discrimi- Iowa study (reported by Connie S. Callahan in the lead arti- nation and abuse that still dominate America’s classrooms. cle of this issue of JHCEAD) found that high school students hear an average of twenty-five anti-gay remarks per day, and JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES v.57, no.2, 2001: “Lis- instructors neglect to address these comments ninety-seven tening to the Voices of Poor Women.” Publ.: Society for the percent of the time. This social ostracism and outright con- Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI). Eds.: Bernice tempt for non-heterosexual students can result in suicide, Lott & Heather E. Bullock. ISSN: 0022-4537. Single is- depression, and increased drop-out rates. In 2001, the Jour- sue: request price quote online at http:// nal of Humanistic Counseling, Education, and Development www.blackwellpublishing.com/cservices/single.asp?site=1 chose to address these issues directly by providing carefully or contact Journal Customer Services. Subscription: 4/yr.; planned and sensitive suggestions for counselors working included in SPSSI membership; for non-members in U.S., with LGBT youth. Although the journal targets the work $74.00 (individuals), $20.00 (students). Journal Customer undertaken by counseling professionals, this special sympo- Services (U.S.), Blackwell Publishing, 350 Main St., sium section is an incredibly useful tool for all educators, Malden, MA 02148; phone: (800) 835-6770; email: parents, and other individuals who are genuinely interested [email protected]; website: http:// in the concerns of this group. www.blackwellpublishing.com Also available online to li- What distinguishes these contributions is their ability to censed users through Ingenta and Blackwell-Synergy. adeptly address the complexity and diversity of LGBT youth. They carefully demarcate the different challenges fac- Partial contents: “Who Are the Poor?” (Bernice Lott & ing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students. These Heather E. Bullock); “Media Images of the Poor” (Heather separations are complemented by an in-depth examination E. Bullock, Karen Fraser Wyche, & Wendy R. Williams); of the cultural barriers that can exacerbate the challenges fac- “Low-Income Parents and the Public Schools” (Bernice ing Latin American and other distinct ethnic or religious Lott); “Welfare Mothers’ Reflection on Personal Responsibil- groups. These articles provide information that counselors ity” (Jacquelin W. Scarbough); “Low-Income Women Speak and other role models need as they attempt to understand out About Housing: A High Stakes Game of Musical the worldview of LGBT youth; they also challenges the in- Chairs” (Joan H. Rollins, Renee N. Saris, & Ingrid ternal biases and values that can undermine the effectiveness Johnston-Robledo); “Experiences of Women on Public Assis- of counseling methods. Finally, this special section provides tance” (Guerda Nicolas & Vardi JeanBaptiste); “How Can a series of advocacy ideas for those in support positions and You Pull Yourself up by Your Bootstraps, if You Don’t Have delineates counseling methods that have been successfully Bootstraps? Work-Appropriate Clothing for Poor Women” undertaken by other professionals. (Diane M. Turner-Bowker); “Poverty, Welfare, and Patriar- Religious humanism is rooted in the works of eminent chy: How Macro-Level Changes in Social Policy can Help figures such as Erasmus and Sir Thomas Moore and is based Low-Income Women” (Joy K. Rice). on three basic precepts: honest and serious scholarship, the Seventeen percent of the nation’s children live in pover- idea that all human beings are important, and the practice of ty, report the editors of this special issue of the Journal of So- religious teaching. This issue of the Journal also discusses cial Issues, as do nearly twenty-eight percent of female-head- the integration of those two components into counseling ed households (Lott & Bullock, p.192). These gross eco- methods. In emphasizing humanistic approaches to counsel- nomic discrepancies, which reflect on the distribution of ing, special attention is paid to patterns and meanings in wealth and income in the United States, drastically affect the one’s life, and methods are mapped out for engaging in this lives of women in the U.S. “Listening to the Voices of Poor discovery process. Humanism is further incorporated into Women,” a collection of articles by members of the Task an exploration of art therapy as a form of healing, and into a Force on Women and Poverty, debunks stereotypes that

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pathologize the poor and blame them for not living up to 21218-4319; phone: (410) 516-6900; fax: (410) 516-6968; the ideals of an American meritocracy system. Media images website: http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/ and televised news coverage are scrutinized for presenting modernism_modernity/ Available online to licensed users American society as classless or entirely middle-class, a prac- through Project MUSE (http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ tice that renders the poor invisible in comedies such as modernism-modernity/). Friends or Ally McBeal, while pejorative stereotypes of wel- Partial contents: “The Follies of War: Cross-Dressing fare mothers continue to pervade mainstream conceptions of and Popular Theatre on the British Front Lines, 1914– the poverty and reform. 1918” (David A. Boxwell); “The Cult of the Clitoris: Anato- This issue addresses the structural and attitudinal chang- my of a National Scandal” (Joddie Medd); “Kiss Me, Hardy: es that are necessary for reversing America’s current econom- Intimacy, Gender, and Gesture in First World War Trench ic stratification. One piece examines American values and Literature” (Santanu Das); “A Peculiar Power and Rotten- ideologies regarding poverty through a survey conducted ness: Annihilating Desire in James Hanley’s The German with 229 Midwestern university students. The results reflect Prisoner” (Ann Rice); “Authenticity and Art in Trauma Nar- a strong tendency to blame the poor for their situation and ratives of World War I” (Margaret Higonnet); “Mary Bor- to categorize them as “uneducated, unmotivated, and lazy.” den’s Forbidden Zone: Women’s Writing from No-Man’s- Yet, as other contributors address the lived realities of wom- Land” (Ariela Freedman); “Mrs. Dalloway’s Postwar Elegy: en who live in poverty, it becomes readily apparent that Women, War, and the Art of Mourning” (Christine Froula). nothing is farther from the truth. Twelve Rhode Island women share their experiences with homelessness, and others In 1918 the London Tabloid revealed the weakening fis- describe the lack of work programs, the shame and sadness, sures of a war-torn social system as a headline announced the and uprooted familial relations they experience on a daily presence of “The Effeminate Soldier/Deserter who Loves to basis. Other contributions highlight the cyclical nature of Wear Women’s Dresses” (Boxwell, p.2). As the contributors poverty by examining the limited options women have for to this special issue of Modernism/Modernity point out, obtaining work appropriate clothing, the stigma they face World War I weakened the hegemonic practices of gender when meeting with their children’s educators, and the low conformity, and transgressive male behaviors and identities wages that make welfare a viable alternative to paying for became increasingly pervasive. The homoeroticism that child care and working for minimum wage. emerged within the trenches was commonly excused or over- Barbara Ehrenreich, in her much-lauded Nickel and looked because it was veiled within the heterosexual frame- Dimed, examined the day-to-day hardships of women who work of war. This thematic issue on gender and World War barely scrape by. This issue of the Journal of Social Issues also I highlights the controversies that forced a moral, sexual, and addresses the seriousness behind economic survival and pro- gender panic; “social drama queens”; the trials surrounding vides concrete examples of the macro-level changes that need controversial theatrical performances; the “tender salutes” to be implemented. It echoes Ehrenreich’s work by rejecting that took place in the trenches; and the wellspring of emo- solutions to poverty that call for increased personal responsi- tions that can be gleaned from an Irish proletariat prospec- bility and limit public policy initiatives. These articles offer tive. Contributors cogently capture the eclectic mix of soci- a carefully researched and astute observation of the real chal- etal circumstances that forged new levels of male intimacy lenges facing women in poverty. This special issue is a highly and forced many to reconceptualize the meanings of mascu- valuable resource for anyone interested in improving the linity. physical, social, and economic conditions of women and This sophisticated analysis of repressed desire and Brit- children. ain’s charged cultural atmosphere is complemented by a series of articles on the trauma experienced by female nurses MODERNISM/MODERNITY v.9, no.1, January 2002: and orderlies. This shift proposes a re-envisioning of World “Men, Women and World War I.” Eds.: Robert von Hall- War I traumas, focusing on the memoirs of Vera Brittain and berg, Cassandra Laity, & Lawrence Rainey. Publ.: Johns Mary Borden and on Virginia Wolf’s war elegy, Mrs. Dallo- Hopkins University Press; official journal of the Modernist way. These pieces reject traditional demarcations between Studies Association. ISSN: online, 1080-6601; print, 1071- fiction and truth and place a new emphasis upon the impor- 6068. Single issue: $12.00 (individuals); $35.00 (institu- tance of female articulations of wartime experience. tions). Subscription: 4/yr.; many options. Johns Hopkins This issue of Modernism and Modernity provides the University Press, 2715 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD reader with a cutting-edge perspective on two oft-forgotten

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pieces of history: gender non-conformity and female civil- introspection on wartime climates, societal tensions, and the ians. The contributors cogently lay out a series of complex anomalies that arose. analyses and challenge readers to re-evaluate conventional understandings of wartime. “Men, Women and World War [Stephanie Rytilahti is a student at the University of Wisconsin– I” not only is an ideal tool for the reader looking to increase Madison, where she is pursuing a B.A. in history, women’s stud- his or her understanding of gender studies, but also provides ies, and Afro-American studies. She was the women’s studies new insights and perspectives for the seasoned veteran of sex- intern for the Office of the Women’s Studies Librarian during uality and gender studies. The issue also includes a series of the Spring 2004 semester.] book reviews that open pathways for further research and

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Published in 2003 in a tiny hard-cover edition, DOWNER The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars has WOMEN, 1851–2001: CELEBRATING THE 150TH AN- published the proceedings of two conferences held in 2002: NIVERSARY OF THE CHARTER OF MILWAUKEE At the first, WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN THEORY AND NORMAL INSTITITUE AND HIGH SCHOOL celebrates PRACTICE: EMPLOYMENT, VIOLENCE AND POV- women who had important roles in the early development of ERTY, scholars and activists discussed issues relating to gen- what is now called the Downer College of Lawrence Univer- der equality; among the prominent themes was the need to sity. Written and illustrated by two sisters, both alumni and “deal simultaneously with race, ethnicity, and gender.” The the daughters of an alumnus, the book includes brief biogra- second conference, WOMEN IMMIGRANTS IN THE phies, “freely adapted” from Grace Norton Kieckhefer’s His- UNITED STATES, focused on the increasing number of tory of Milwaukee-Downer College 1851–1951, of early facul- women immigrants to the U.S. and attempted to find solu- ty and presidents — as well as benefactor and lawyer Justice tions to pressing problems related to population growth, Jason Downer, after whom the college is named — accompa- health care, domestic violence, and housing and employment nied by painted portraits. For more information on obtain- discrimination. For free copies of the published proceedings, ing this thirty-page book (ISBN 0974599603), contact Sea contact the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, 1300 King Publications, 8017 N. Santa Monica, Milwaukee, WI Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. 20004-3027; 53217; phone: (414) 352-0211. The biographies and por- phone: (202) 691-4000; fax: (202) 691-4001; email: traits are also viewable online at http://www.lawrence.edu/ [email protected]. To download PDF versions or read alumni/m-d/index.htm summaries, visit http://www.wilsoncenter.org/ (select “Publications” from the homepage; then, under “Program The Jewish Women’s Archive (JWA) celebrates 350 YEARS and Project Publications,” select “United States Studies Pub- OF JEWISH WOMEN IN AMERICA. A twenty-page lications”). pamphlet with this title lays out a historical timeline that begins in 1654, with the arrival in New York of twenty-three Adam Matthew Publications announces DEFINING GEN- Jewish refugees (mostly women and children) from Brazil, DER, 1450–1910: FIVE CENTURIES OF ADVICE LIT- and continues up to the present with descriptions of events, ERATURE ONLINE, an online project that began in 2003 authors and influential books, Jewish organizations, politi- to provide students and researchers with access to “images of cians, and other famous individuals such as Ethel Rosenberg. original documents and rare printed works” from the late The booklet also offers information about several of JWA’s medieval period to the beginning of World War I. Intended anniversary programs and resources, including a poster ex- for university network systems, the collection, which is slated hibit, a research fellowship project, a school curriculum for completion by 2007, has five main sections: Conduct guide, book and film discussion groups, and a speakers’ bu- and Politeness (currently available), Domesticity and the reau. For more detailed information, including fact sheets, Family, Consumption and Leisure, Education and Sensibili- contact information, and opportunities to get involved, visit ty, and The Body. Contact Adam Matthew Publications http://www.jwa.org/350th or contact JWA at P.O. Box Ltd., Pelham House, London Road, Marlborough, Wiltshire 470627, Brookline, MA 02447; phone: (617) 232-2258.

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SN8 2AA, ENGLAND; phone: +44 (1672) 511921; fax: As part of a large-scale effort to “develop gender awareness +44 (1672) 511663; email: [email protected]. For more among economists and economic planners,” the African detailed information or to request a free one-month trial, Women’s Development and Communication Network visit the Adam Matthew Publications website at http:// (FEMNET) has released three new publications. GENDER www.adam-matthew-publications.co.uk (Select “Online MAINSTREAMING IN MACROECONOMIC POLICIES Publications” from the homepage, then “DEFINING GEN- AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY IN KENYA DER, 1450–1910, ONLINE”). and THE PROCESS OF INTEGRATING GENDER IN THE PRS PROCESS IN KENYA AND THE CHAL- In celebration of the tenth issue of its journal, the Associa- LENGES ENCOUNTERED BY THE GENDER LOBBY tion for Research on Mothering (ARM) has created a poster GROUPS are about Kenya’s failure to effectively address and published a new book. The ARM POSTER features gender issues in the “poverty reduction strategy paper” that the covers of the first ten issues of the Journal of the Associa- it prepared in its effort to qualify for debt relief from the tion for Research on Mothering and is available for $20 (in- World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. INTE- cluding packaging and shipping). CONSTRUCTING/RE- GRATING GENDER ASPECTS IN THE MACROECO- CONSTRUCTING MOTHERHOOD: MOTHERING AS NOMIC FRAMEWORK AND BUDGET IN KENYA: IDEOLOGY AND EXPERIENCE reprints a selection of KEY CONCEPTS AND FACTS is a set of fact sheets (“ad- articles published in previous journal issues and is available vocacy packages”) about the challenges of gender main- for $25 (including shipping). The poster and book can be streaming in developing economic policy in Kenya. For ordered together for the discounted price of $40. Contact more information, contact FEMNET, off Westlands Road, the ARM at 726 Atkinson, York University, 4700 Keele St., PO Box 54562, Nairobi, Kenya; phone: +254-020- Toronto, ONT M3J IP3, CANADA; phone: (416) 736- 3741301/20; fax: +254-020-3742927; email: 2100, ext. 60266; email: [email protected]; website: http:// [email protected]; website: www.femnet.or.ke www.yorku.ca/crm (Select “ANNIVERSARY BOOK AND POSTER” to find an order form). Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) has released several new publications: RELATIONAL AGGRESSION AND ACCESS DENIED: U.S. RESTRICTIONS ON INTER- BULLYING: IT’S MORE THAN JUST A GIRL THING NATIONAL FAMILY PLANNING: THE GLOBAL GAG (2003), by Nancy Mullin-Rindler, M.Ed., Paper No. 408, RULE IMPACT PROJECT is a collaborative research un- $10.00; PATTERNS OF FAMILY (2003), by Hilda Maria dertaking of Population Action International in conjunction Gaspar Pereira, Paper No. 411, $10.00; RELATIONAL with Ipas, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, En- REFERENCES: A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RE- genderHealth, and Pathfinder International. The project SEARCH, THEORY AND APPLICATIONS, (rev. ed. was developed to assess the worldwide impact of the Bush 2003), by Linda M. Hartling, Ph.D., et al., Report No. 7, administration’s reinstatement, in January 2001, of the Mex- $12.00; and THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO MENTAL ico City Policy — more commonly known as the Global HEALTH FOR WOMEN (2003), edited by Lauren Slater, Gag Policy — which places restrictions on overseas funding Ed.D., et al., Paperback Book No. 20, $24.95. Also, the for family planning services in an effort to reduce the inci- Stone Center’s Jean Baker Miller Training Institute has re- dence of abortion. Research efforts focused specifically on cently developed a home- study continuing education pro- the policy’s impact on the incidence of HIV/AIDS, the avail- gram for psychologists that can be used in conjunction with ability of contraceptive supplies, and injuries and deaths re- the book WOMEN’S GROWTH IN CONNECTION: sulting from unsafe abortion practices. The project’s website WRITINGS FROM THE STONE CENTER (Guilford at http://www.globalgagrule.org includes detailed summa- Press, 1991). The home-study package with a copy of the ries of research methods, which included indepth interviews book (HS#1b) is available for $99.00; the home-study pack- and visits to clinics, youth centers, and outreach programs in et alone (HS#1a) can be purchased for $80.00. To order any Kenya, Ethiopia, Zambia, and Romania; summaries of im- of the above WCW resources, contact the Publications De- portant findings; and a downloadable seven-minute video partment, Wellesley Centers for Women, 106 Central Street, that examines the effects of the policy in Zambia. For more Wellesley, MA 02481; phone: (781) 283-2510; website: information, email [email protected] http://www.wcwonline.org ❍ Compiled by Melissa Gotlieb

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2004 DIRECTORY OF WOMEN’S MEDIA. Allen, Martha Leslie. Women’s INTIMATE KISSES: THE POETRY OF SEXUAL PLEASURE. Maltz, Institute for Freedom of the Press, 2004. Wendy. New World Library, 2004. 2004 WISCONSIN WOMAN BUSINESS AND RESOURCE DIRECTO- LANDING ZONES. Micus, Edward. New Rivers, 2003. RY. Wisconsin Woman. O’Gara, 2004. LATINA: LESBIAN WRITERS AND ARTISTS. Costa, Maria Dolores. ACCESS DENIED: U.S. RESTRICTIONS ON INTERNATIONAL FAMI- Haworth, 2003. LY PLANNING (video). Population Action International, 2003. MARIA CHABOT – GEORGIA O’KEEFFE: CORRESPONDENCE, AGED BY CULTURE. Gullette, Margaret Morganroth. University of Chica- 1941–1949. Lynes, Barbara Buhler, and Paden, Ann. University of New Mexi- go Press, 2004. co, 2003. AMBIGUOUS IMAGES: GENDER AND ROCK ART. Hays-Gilpin, Kelley THE MONTANA FRONTIER: ONE WOMAN’S WEST. Litz, Joyce. Uni- A. Alta Mira, 2004. versity of New Mexico Press, 2004. ARCHAEOLOGY OF MOTHERING: AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN MID- ONE DEGREE OF SEPARATION. Kallmaker, Karin. Bella, 2003. WIFE’S TALE. Wilkie, Laurie A. Routledge, 2003. “OUT HERE AT THE FRONT”: THE WORLD WAR I LETTERS OF BEHIND THE G-STRING: AN EXPLORATION OF THE STRIPPER’S NORA SALTONSTALL. Graham, Judith S. Northeastern University Press, IMAGE, HER PERSON AND HER MEANING. Scott, David A. McFar- 2004. land, 2004. OUT OF THE IVORY TOWER: FEMINIST RESEARCH FOR SOCIAL BIRACIAL WOMEN IN THERAPY: BETWEEN THE ROCK OF GEN- CHANGE. Martinez, Andrea, and Stuart, Meryn. Sumach Press, 2003. DER AND THE HARD PLACE OF RACE. Gillem, Angela R., and Thomp- QUEER IDEAS: THE DAVID R. KESSLER LECTURES IN LESBIAN son, Cathy A. Haworth, 2004. AND GAY STUDIES. Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, CUNY. Feminist BLACK PROFESSIONAL WOMEN IN RECENT AMERICAN FICTION. Press at the City University of New York, 2004. Marshall, Carmen Rose. McFarland, 2004. SEXUALITIES: IDENTITIES, BEHAVIORS, AND SOCIETY. Kimmel, BREAKING OUT OF THE PINK-COLLAR GHETTO: POLICY SOLU- Michael S., and Plante, Rebecca F. 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