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Volume 22, No. 1, Fall 2000

CONTENTS

From the Editors

Letter to the Editors

Book Reviews LpeAlice A Cutting Edge: Australian Feminist Writing in Review Kathleen MulLigan-Hansel Women in International Politics Rima Apple The Puzzle of Modern Motherhood

Feminist Visions Constructing the Mothering Experience: Videos on Motherhood Terry Brown Women and Economics on the Global Scene: A Review of Films

Maiianne Boere Treasures of the Women's Movement

Mefissa Alsgaard Digital Feminism: Reaching Women Through Web-Based Courses

Compiled by Linda Shdt Computer Talk

Ren'ewed by Phyfis Holman New Reference Works in Women's Studies Wa'sbard and others

Compiled by Linda Shdt Periodical Notes

Compiled byJennifer Kitchak Items of Note

Books Recently Received FROMTHE EDITORS

LdaShult, longtime coeditor religious folk on all sides. I may be I'm dehghted to join thk wonder- of this publication, said her official makmg history as the frst "out" ful staff of this office, in a job that is goodbyes in this space a year and a lesbian ever in my family, and I a bookworm's dream and feels partly half ago as she anticipated a new believe I'm one of just a few self- like play, and where I'm supposed to career as an elementary school acknowledged feminists in my peruse the Women's Review of Books, readmg specialist. As it turned out, generation of this huge group of Ms., and Publirher's Week4 on work that career move was not completed relatives, in which my first cousins time. It's wonderful to be putting my until this past fall, when she accepted alone number in the dozens. writing, ediung, and publishing a fulltime position with a nearby experience to use for something I school district. Fortunately for us, Yet I recognize some feminist believe in and to be exposed to so she continued to spend a few hours a roots even in this family's history. many incredible people and resourc- week moving the Fall 2000 issue of My Great-Great-Aunt Frances, for es every day. FC forward while the search for a instance, studied at the graduate level new coeditor was under way. I came in the late 1800s, when few women or wesend this "Fall" issue of on board in mid-November, and men in her relqgous coninunity even FC to press in January, as we in Linda formally ended her employ- went to college; she later held a Wisconsin dig out from record ment here on November 30th. I'm position of leadership in an African snowfall and prepare for the Spring grateful to her for staylug on until mission. And then there's my mother: semester. We'll be working hard to after I was hired, since that eased my she has always held very conserva- get our publication schedule back on transition. Even so, it's challenging to tive beliefs, but I've heard her admit track over the next months. Mean- try to fill her shoes! that when she and my father were while, the writing in this issue is I come to this job with back- preparing for their weddmg in 1941, certainly not limited to any season. ground in editing and publishing- she was bothered by one of the We hope you are nourished through mostly in academic settings, working traditional vows. "I didn't want to the winter by its articles on Austra- with subjects as diverse as law, 'obey,"' she says, "so we left that lian feminist writing, contemporary Chinese studies, and social science part out!" motherhood, women and economics, research-and personal interest in Perhaps these roots were already Web-based women's studies instruc- women's issues and women's studies. feeding my IS-year-old "Jesus Freak" tion, and more. Daughter of a hndamentalist Chris- self in the early 1970s, in the outrage tian ministy I'm also the descendant I felt at my gender-based exclusion 0 J.L. of many fervent and conservative from a "men's" prayer breakfast.

(ha emaio gram here at Berkeley in disability This program has a whole semester studies. We have asked the faculty of colloquium speakers on this topic. September 15,ZOOO coordinator for a list of books and journals they need for the program. Beth Sibley Thanks for another great issue of I'm sending her the reviews and Political Science/ Sociology/ Feminist Colhctibns. The book reviews websites you listed-the website on Women's Studies Selector and websites on disabdity studies are academic research in disabdity UC Berkeley Library very timely. We are starting a pro- studies looks especially promising.

Feminist Collections (v.22, no.1, Fall 2000) Diane Bell, NGARRINDJERI WURRUWARRIN: A WORLD TWAT IS, WAS, AND WILL BE. Melbourne: Spinifex, 1999. 688p. AUS$29.95/US$27.95, ISBN 1-875559-71-X.

CUa Bulbeck, mNGFEMINISM, THE IMPACT OF THE WOMENJSMOVEMENT ON THME GENERATIONS OF AUSTRALLQN WOMEN Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 303p. k45.00, ISBN 0521460425; pap., k15.95, ISBN 0521465966.

Chda Bulbeck, RE-ORIENTING WESTERN FEMINISMS: WOMENJS DIVERSITY IN A POSTCOLONLQL WORLD. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 282p. k40.00, ISBN 0521580307; pap., k14.95, ISBN 0521589754.

Barbara Caine, AUSTRALL4N FEMINISM: AN OXFOXFORD COMPANION Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1999. 607p. bib1 index. ill. k45.00, ISBN 0-19-553818-8.

Joan Evehe and Lorraine Hayden, eds. CARRYING THE BANNER: WOMEN, LEADERSHIP AND AC- TMSM IN AUST- Per& University of Western Australia Press, 1999. 237p. photogs. pap., $24.95, ISBN 1- 876268-30-1.

Jannifer Sabbioni, Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith, eds., INDIGENOUS AUSTRALLQN VOICES: A AER New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998. 310p. $50.00, ISBN 0-8135-2491-1; pap., $22.00, ISBN 0-8135-2496-2.

Thewriudong of Australian femi- August 29, 1998, it has achieved con- Ngamndjen' Wumwamn is an nists never ceases to be surprising troversial acclaim. A supporter of the exposition of the ethnocentrism of and challenging, both in its variety as applicant women, quoted in the the disciphe of anthropology, in well as its creativity. It is inevitable "Extracts" in Diane Bell's book, which frequent maschst research that the writing should gain eager writes, methods continue to d~stortAborig- attention when one so often meets inahty. Foremost though, Ngamndjm' up with young graduates and estab- If you take a see* of a gum Wumwamn tells stories of, and with, lished teachers from Austraha at tree, place it in good respectful indigenous women about "women's every international conference and soil and good waters of under- business" within a study of the Hind- gathering. Feminism in Australia has a standing and believe that it wdl marsh Bridge application to develop proud and lengthy hlstory and its grow, it will grow. It will grow housing on an island off the South published voices are well worth into a tall, healthy, strong gum- Australian coast. Diane Bell's lookmg out for. In this review I look tree, with roots that grow deep research was written over the three at only a handful of the books and it wdl withstand the winds years during which the Ngarrindjeri produced in the last several years. of disbelief and clmespect. applicants sought, for the second time, a declaration for protection of Since Diane Bell's Ngam.ndjen' Professor Diane Bell's Ngamndjen' an area including the waters between Wurrutyamn: A World That Is, Was, Wmwamn: A World That Is, War and Goolwa and Hindmarsh Island. and Will Be, was launched in Adelaide Will Be is a strong healthy gum-tree on August 27, 1998, and celebrated at with deep roots. the Writers Festival in Melbourne on

Feminist Collections (v.22, no. 1, Fall 2000) Page 1 Employing a postcolonial and post- foregrounds the orality and story- for academic achievements. Yet many structuralist approach to the complex telling traditions of Aboriginal cul- of these women are cited and dis- transmission of knowledges by the ture, "an epistemology in which cussed in the volume. The strength Ngautndjeri and white anthropolo- 'feelings' are central and they detd of the work is that it attempts to gists, Bell's book also exposes wider the 'respect system' which under- situate the diversity and depth of political and bureaucratic investments writes the authority of the elders" Australian feminisms with an inter- in the Hindmarsh Island affair and (p.36). For Bell, oral cultures open national context, constantly showing the resultant silencing of women's up spaces in which researchers may connections and influences, but with stories. Ngamndjen' Wwrawamn is an see how to better understand the less emphasis on how Australian indictment of the inadequacy of legal inadequacies of taxonomic and linear feminisms have developed differ- system and media processes to knowledge construction. She writes ently and distinctively. Perhaps this is appropriately deal with indigenous that "Ngarrindjeri, it seems, have why issues arising from Aboriginal epistemologes. Bell tells us that always tolerated, perhaps even and ethnic women's experiences and "...the stories which are nourishing delrghted in, ambiguity and shifting attitudes towards feminism are dealt this generation draw heavily on a emphases in story-telling" (p.37). with somewhat untemarkably. It hstGctive body of knowledge and Regardless of where one may sttikes this reader as curious that in practice which is more than the position one's standpoint on research the world's most multicultural coun- product of resistance to oppressive methodologes and the politics of try feminism is not dominated by the policies. It is grounded in oral tradi- their applications, Bell's book is a voices of difference. In the Compan- tions passed from generation to gen- solid and well-written contribution to ion they are accorded about 27 pages eration, albeit trahtions which have a range of complex debates about of the 49 essays which total 370 accommodated change, absorbed new indgousness, postcolonial identity, pages. The interpretive essays offer ideas, and thus survived" (p.14). and social research and activism. useful insights into Australian femi- The book clarifies just how hor- nism~,and for international readers, rific are the consequences of ignor- Astra~anFeminism: An O$rd the volume is an undoubted re- ing "culture-loss." It shows the Companion is fundamentally a refer- source, including all the topics one necessity for critical readings of his- ence book, with all the fascination of would need for a quick but carefully torical sources about colonial settle- a comprehensive, detailed OV~M~W informed OV~M~W.The essays on ment, alongside the need for more and the frustration of inevitable gaps "the body," "cyberfeminism," "rape," culturally sensitive approaches to and omissions, so characteristic of "interwar feminists and Aborgmal understanding Aborigmality. In the the encyclopedic approach. At more policy," "multicultural feminism," ' words of John Toohey, former High than six hundred pages, with lengthy "legal theory," "reproductive rights Court Judge and former Aborigmal cross-reference and further readmg and representation," and "trans- Land Commissioner Canberra Times, sections, it offers a wealth of essays national feminisms" exemplify the Bell's book is "a formidable collec- on aspects of Australian feminisms. development of an Australian tion .... It leaves the reader wondering Ehtorial decisions have influenced feminist voice. whether the outcome would have the content in controversial ways. Following the essays are lucidly been Uferent had the contents of The reader is advised that contribu- written, alphabetized entries accom- the book been known at the time of tors were chosen for their identifica- panied by witty cartoons, photographs the events it describes." The overall tion with feminism and their being of historic events and notable women, importance of Bell's book is more publicly known for feminist involve- and reproductions of campaign pos- than her deft and ongoing question- ments. Many academic feminists have ters. Three categories of entries are ing of the construction of masculinist not fared well, despite being located included: biographical, focusing on models of knowledge. Bell suggests inside universities and networking individual contributions to Australian an alternative research model that beyond, and the contributions of feminism, organizational entries out- many activists are fuaher obscured lining the contributions of specific by their not being deemed significant groups, and issue entries discussing topics that have been and are important to Australian feminists. The

Feminist Collections (v.22, no.1, Fall 2000) Chdla Bulbeck's Lting Femi- well as bonding with feminist nism: The Impact if the Women P Move- mothers emerge as often underrated ment on Three Generations if Austraban sites of political potentials, the lVomen pays attention to the impact of "demonstration effect" of second- feminism in ways that many readers wave feminism being that whde it is of Australian Feminism: An Ogord not represented by the myths cap- Companion might have hoped to find tured in popular anti-feminism, it is in that volume's many pages. Lving also not how daughters and sons Feminism explores the day-to-day prefer feminism to be in the new experiences of women who were not millennium. The sections "Feminism "at the helm" of Australian feminism in the Daughters" and "Mothering and who mostly do not claim to be the Sons: Men and Backlash" feminist, although they have clearly develop provocatively into the fol- benefited from feminism's achieve- lowing chapter where meanings gven ments. Elegantly analyzed interviews to "postfeminism" - as feminists deal with sixty women of three genera- (or don't deal) with their increasing tions explore questions such as "Has generational &vide - are dscussed Miriam Gnmd the world changed as much as femi- alongside the implications for a new nists like Anne Summers claim?' and millennium of the vexations of nego- entries are organized by editorial "Has the world been changed equally tiating "difference" and "equality." For imperatives that render such inconsis- for all women?' Interesting for non- Bulbeck the answer is not a Kantian tencies (or surprises) as a twenty-line Australian readers is the way Bulbeck "equal worth" humanism but a column on "radcal feminism" with no views figures such as Anne Summers renewed determination to expand pub- mention of the contributions of Aus- and Germaine Greer as historical lic opportunities for equity along-side tralian notables lrke Denise Thomp- markers of the extent to which femi- contesting normative "femininity." son and Renate Klein, whde "crime nism has entered public conscious- U&e Austrabn Feminism: An fiction" gets an eighty-lme entry ness, rather than their public status Ogord Companion, whose intentions focused entirely on Australian authorizing an Australian feminism's towards collectivity nevertheless take authors. coming of age, as in Ausfraban a surprising canonical and academi- Shortcomings aside, this is a Feminism: An Ogord Conpanion. cally respectable path, Bulbeck and splendid book to dip into and also a Bulbeck's achievement is her her respondents offer a refreshing volume to be used as the fust step in tightly written deployment of com- view of the impact of feminism on lengthier explorations. However, plex feminist theory to elucidate ordmary women's lives. Lving only a partial sense of the distinctive- areas in Austrahn women's lives Feminism provides an astute insight ness of Australian feminism emerges where feminist influences have argu- into the effects of feminism on many while reading the Conpanion, although ably been most sigmficant. Following women's lives in Austrh. it has an abundance of local detail. themes of numerous other collec- Perhaps the "fit" forced by the ency- tions in Australia, the U.S., and New Published the year after Lving clopedic form hinders a clearer por- Zealand, she examines issues arising Feminism, &-Orienting Western Feminism trayal of the character of Australian from "growing up as girls," educa- turns Bulbeck's attention to the tax- feminism. Perhaps it is also obscured tion, motherhood and relationships, onornizing in social theories, includ- by the amount of edtorial effort class, and the focus of feminist ing feminist theory and politics, that invested in noting international links, activism and theory. Bulbeck finishes produces such conceptual oddties as as if authorizing feminism in Austra- the dscussion of interviews by asses- "East/West" and "Third World/First lia. Certainly A~sfrabnFeminism: An sing "backlash" as indcative of femi- World." &-Orienting Western Feminism Ogord Conpanion is an impressive nism. having only partially achieved achievement and likely to require a its aims. Generational rebellion as sequel both soon and more inclusive of a wider range of contributors.

Feminist Collections (v.22, no.1, Fall 2000) Page 3 was stimulated by Bulbeck's experi- colonization never proceeds employment, parenting and, by con- ence of Hester Eisenstein's visit to smoothly from tradition to modern- sequence, women's social status and Griffith University and her ''looking ization, but in many instances pro- human rights, are examined through beyond Anglo feminisms," as well as vokes tradition into contradictory an analysis of the Universal Declara- by Bulbeck's time teaching and modernist effects which compound tion of Human Rtghts. Bulbeck writing in Chma. Building upon post- the speufic social status of women argues the colonizing effect of the colonial writers, Bulbeck examines and differentiation within women's Universal Declaration of Human the mythology of there being a dis- social positioning. For example, Rights is that it is oriented towards tinguishable East and West. She women in India's colonial history white, western male interests and its analyzes Said's lack of attention to were inscribed by both Victorian use would force many women to gender and Spivak's preoccupations British ideals of gender purity and choose between citizenshp rights, with class, and melds with these a domesticity and hgher-caste Hindu which are insufficientlv defrned to focus on cultural hybridity. Cultural notions about women's spitituahty. capture the complexity of women's hybridity borrows from both early The result, accordmg to Bulbeck, is lives, and their kmshp and cornmu- postcolonial attempts to examine the that western feminism's liberatory nity identities and responsibilities. relationships of historical colonial message has been largely unheeded Re-Orienting Western Feminism dispossession and the dynamic of by Indian women, and yet "more offers a complex examination of the emergent indgenization (of settler women are tenured at Delhi Univer- implications of ideas held to be cultures) alongside the resistance of sity than at Harvard." central to feminism, habits of theoriz- indgenous peoples. Thus when Bul- Bulbeck is centrally concerned ing, and some of the ways Anglo beck examines differences between with the sameness/difference debate, feminisms remain complicit in feminist perspectives with modern- whch in Australia owes much to the colonizing practices. Together with ist clams on rationalist individualism insightful analysis by Carol Bacchi in Living Feminism, it is a thought- and universalism, her approach nec- her Same Dzffeerence: Feminism and Sexual provokmg contribution froin a essarily critiques common prejudices Dzffeerence.' Bulbeck's point is that the distinctive theorist and practitioner. about individualism of Westerners and effect of cultural hybridity intersect- the myth of Asian collectivism. Bul- ing across the colonial structuring of Theeighties and nineties saw a beck's view is that "race-based oppres- class and gender positions individuals burgeoning of feminist publications sion has supplanted class-based differently, or even similarly but recounting particular aspects of oppression as the critique of univer- within different understandings of women's lives or offering individual sal sisterhood" and in this she cap- common issues. While in itself this life herstories. Their effect was to tures the distinctive concerns of femi- is an unremarkable view, applied to help redress a paucity of information, nism in both Australia and New feminist approaches on issues like especially about women silenced by Zealand. clitoridectomy, surrogacy, and eugen- marpality of various kjnds. Cawying ics, it is fascinating and challenges the Banner, edited by Joan Eveline and Redolent of her detailed residual universalism. With such an Lorraine Hayden, is a book in thls analysis in Living Feminism of the analysis, "western" feminists exarnin- genre, with the added dimension that ironic effects of feminist achieve- ing the "Third World" are forced to detds of the lives of many of the ments for everyday Australian deal with the lack of attention to West Australian women featured women, and reflecting Spivak's deft class dynamics in, for example, would not be ordinarily and easily analysis of the shifting faces of Nawal el Sadaawi's criticisms of accessible. In this book I was able to postcolonialism, Bulbeck discusses lower-class women as uninformed, or catch up on detds about many of the how women in India, Chma, and the racist assumptions embedded in notable public feminists I had Japan are differently affected by population policies and development watched on television or read about colonization. Her contention is that programs to monitor mothering. in newspapers through the years I Assumptions about women's access spent in Australia, but many of them to legal processes, paid and unpaid were unfamiliar. There is an irony in the extent to whch even public women who acheve inspiring heights

Feminist Collections (v.22, no.1, Fall 2000) of leadership, public service, and displacement, rural living, and pov- cultures, it is necessary reading qualifications remain comparatively erty, and as with all anthologies, this alongside non-Aboriginal feminist unknown beyond their local commu- collection is uneven. In some sec- writing that also fails to adequately nities. So it is with the majority of the tions there are more excerpts of address ethnicity. twenty-two depicted, yet most of already published work than original them have led campagns for educa- essays, and in other sections the Inall, this brief foray into sev- tion, health access and services, collection juxtaposes a number of eral years of publishmg by Australian minority rights, peace, the environ- different genres or several short authors impresses me with the depth ment, and human nghts. The book pieces by the same writer. Yet the and breadth of scholarship and celebrates the& leadership and activ- world views and the expression of artistry, and I have only managed a ism and suggests more subtly the the contributors are compelling. The selective look - coming away from gendered structuring of citizenship in e&tors tell us that the contributions this exercise aware of several dozen which leadership dynamics in public are mostly from "people living in more books that I could have life remain masculinized. indgenous communities who have reviewed. The distinctive feature of little contact with the outside world .... Australian feminist wriang is its lack 2hgenous Austra/ian VoimA Some emanate from urban-based, of cultural cringe,- its self-confidence Reaakr returns us to some of the westem-educated, and globally and international vision. The latter themes with which I began this mobile artists and writers who are sometimes detracts from sufficient review: self-determination, links rethinkmg the relationships between attention to local controversies, as in between traditional culture and con- traditional cultures, contemporary Austraban Feminism: An O$od Com- temporary life in an emerging post- life, and their connection to the panion, but even so, the productivity coloniality and indgenous identity. Dreaming." It is an exploration of of Australian feminism lies in its &ver- Jennifer Sabbioni, Kay Schaffer, "the dreaming" that organizes the text, sity and its bullding upon and "talk- and Sidonie Smith have edited an in the sense that individual and kin- ing back" to the debates occupying impressive collection of the poetry, ship relationships to the origin stories those in feminism's northern locales. artwork, and prose of t.-six con- of "dreamtime" inform both a resis- temporary Aboriginal and Tones tance to the genocidal heritage of [Lynne C Ahis a Senior kcturn in Strait Islander writers and artists. Australian colonization as well as a Sociohgy and Women's Studies at Massy Many of the twenty-four writers and unique focus for indgenous identity. Unimity and will soon be starting a new twelve artists contributing to the Clearly the recounting of Aborig- position as Pmfessor of Gendw Studies wifh book have not been published pre- inal lives remains a significant project Kad Unimsity, an onhe i%dary viously. Indignous AustmLan Voices: A in a country where collections such institution based in the U.S. and New Reaakr begins with a preface which as this one must still, from their out- ZeaM Lynne recent4 coedited Feminist usefully introduces key historical set, explain, "It is a common assump- Thought in Aotearoa/New Zealand: events and concepts, outlines con- tion that all the inwnous people of Connections and Differences (iviith temporary issues in Aboriginal lives, Australia constitute one group, the Rosemary Du Pbssis; Ogod Unimty and also includes maps, chronolo- Aborigines. However, we do not Press, 1998) and Queer in New gies, and bibliographies. The collec- think of ourselves as 'Aboriginal' but Zealand (iviith Lynne Star;. Dunmore tion is divided into nine sections, rather identify ourselves within our Press, 2001). Sbe is mrnnf4 working on a which ambitiously span "politics and own communities." Snll, Indgenous book about feminist genh theory, citip- land rights"; "the dreaming and con- AustmLan Voices: A Re& is not a ship, and nationalism.] nection"; "family dialogues"; "station tentative or apologetic collection: it is life"; "urban life and dislocation"; bold, confident, and eloquent in its Notes "hardships and resilience"; "commu- &splay of diversity and the harshness nities"; "encounters with the law"; of indigenous Australian history, and 1. Carol Bacchr, Same Dtffeence: and "hidden histories." Such titles while it does not explicitly address Feminism and Sexual Dtffeence (Sydney: suggest an all-inclusive recounting of gender dynamics or the applicability Allen & Unwin, 1990). Aborigmal lives in Australia, across of feminist thrnlung to Aboripal the trajectories of social and ethnic

Feminist Collections (v.22,no.1, Fall 2000) by Kathleen Mtrlligan-Hansel

Marjorie Agosin, ed., A MAP OF HOPE: WOMEN'S WRITING ON HUMAN RIGHTS - AN INTERNA- TIONAL LITERARYANTHOLOGY. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999. 371p. $49.00, ISBN O- 8135-2625-6; pap., $18.00, ISBN 0-8135-2626-4.

Vivienne Jabri and Eleanor O'Goman, eds., WOMEN, CULTURE, AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1999. 211p. bibl. index. $49.95, ISBN 1-55587-701-X.

Mary K. Meyer and Elisabeth Priigl, GENDER POLITICS IN GLOBAL GOVERNANCE. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999. 315p. bibl. index. $69.00, ISBN 0-8476-9160-8; pap., $26.95, ISBN 0-8476-9161-6.

Nira Yuval-Davis and Pnina Werbner, WOMEN, CITIZENSHIP AND DIFFERENCE. London: Zed Books, 1999. 271p. index. $65.00, ISBN 1-85649-645-7; pap., $22.50, ISBN 1-85649-646-5.

Despite the capable efforts of studies have produced a startlmg arguing for a rethinking of the mas- many feminist scholars, the relatlon- array of literature pointing to the culine subjectivity which has been ship between international relations impact of international affairs on the taken as the foundation of'interna- and feminist scholarship remains character of women's experiences in tional politics. Nira Yuval-Davis and uneasy and it is not difficult to see various localiues. These innovations Pnina Werbner provide a more why. International relations has his- in scholarship have been accompa- focused approach, interrogating and torically concerned itself with inter- nied by new developments in inter- reframing notions of citizenship action between states. The difficulty national affairs. With the decline of through a varied collection of inter- of talking about gender in this body the Cold War, new political actors estmg case studies. Marjorie Agosin's of scholarship is twofold. Not only have emerged. Non-governmental edited volume presents short stories, are women largely absent from the organizations have taken on greater essays, poems, and excerpts of state agencies which are at the core importance in defining problems and longer works exploring women's of international relations, but the constructing solutions. Not only experiences of the uglier side of emphasls on state interactions have women's organizations become international politics - war, imprison- abstracts agency to the point that strong participants in international ment, exile. Finally, Mary K. Meyer even individual men do not appear in politics, but the politics surrounding and Elisabeth Priigel's edited volume sharp focus. Efforts to move women's issues in international fora Gender Politics in Global Governance beyond the salient observation that have become more apparent. These historicizes women's influence and women are invisible in international developmerits provide feminist participation in United Nations activ- relations have been confounded by scholars with new tools, new theo- ities. The scope and appeal of these the difficulty of discussing gender in ries, and new evidence to articulate books varies widely. Gender Politics in such an abstract context. women's centrality to international Global Governance offers the best com- Developments in scholarship relations. bination of data and theory and the and in the field have eroded some of The four books reviewed here broadest accessibdity, while Women, these barriers to discussing women contribute, in very different ways, to Ctrlture and International Relations is and international politics. Recently, this ongoing project. Women, Ctrlttrre, likely to capture the attention only of women's studies and postcolonial and International Relations lodges its specialized scholars of international critique of international relations in a relations theory. Taken together, highly theoretical and abstract niche, these ,books point to an exciting future for feminist perspectives on international politics.

Page 6 Feminist Collections (v.22, no.l, Fall 2000) Though much of the work in scholarship. The authors comment Conference," and Jutta Joachun's Meyer and Priigl's edited volume on the slgntficance (and alleged "Shaping the Human Rghts Agenda: takes the UN as its starting point, the insipficance) of UN conventions The Case of Violence Against authors explain that the term global and declarations, the difficulty of Women." Both of these essays governance implies a more complex initiating discussions on women in provide riveting discussions of how approach to women's participation in international affairs at the same time women's organizations were able to international politics than has previ- that women's studies scholarship has transform existing UN language and ously been employed. Subsequent deconstructed "woman," and the agenda to address women's concerns. chapters evidence this concern with problems of empowering women in In general, this book provides "women's roles in the United the international arena when liberal exciting new evidence and interesting Nations and other intergovernmental concepts continue to dominate its theoretical perspectives that would organizations but also with the vocabulary. make a wonderful contribution to any political processes that engage With few exceptions, the international relations course. For IR nongovernmental organizations supporting chapters are equally specialists, thts book is a must-read. (NGOs) and agents as well as with strong. I found the fmt section a bit norms and rules that emerge from anticlimactic - the essays establish A Mop of Hope offers a wonder- global economic practices" (p.4). the vigorous activities of a few ful teaching tool for undergraduate This book offers sometlung for women and the sustained absence of courses in women's studies and inter- everyone. The first section histor- most women from international national relations. Marjorie Agosin's icizes women's participation in the politics. This ground has been introduction juxtaposes the affma- UN with a set of essays focusing on covered else-where and though the tion of women's and guls' ights in the development of an international authors make good arguments, their recent international conferences with women's movement. In the second impact is limited by the absence of a the failure of nation-states to imple- section, authors focus on the activi- stronger conclusion that rmght ment fully the Universal Declaration ties and strategies of particular sharpen the theoretical point. The of Human Rghts. Interestingly, women's groups in international second and third sections make more Agosin affirms the universality of politics. The third section concerns obvious the lmk between evidence human rights (a controversial per- the construction of rules and norms and theory. My favorite chapters spective), suggesting that the prob- which frame the activities of govern- included Amy J. Higer's excellent lem is "governments that see human mental and non-governmental discussion of population policy in rights as secondary to economic and organizations. Part of the strength of "International Women's Activism and national security" @.xiv). The this book is the wonderful introduc- the 1994 Cairo Population tory essay, which addresses thorny and complicated issues in feminist

Feminist Collections (v.22,no.1, Fall 2000) Page 7 material in this book makes concrete engage with the question of political circumstances; chapters on the diversity of women's experiences how the theories we draw women with disabilities, women's of international affairs and the prob- upon - from postcolonial experiences of Afghan politics, lem of trylng to fit women's experi- discourses, Foucauldian women in the post-Yugoslav con- ences into existing theory and prac- genealogy, the ethic of care to flicts, and women of color in Britain tice. The book includes an entire Habennasian thought and and the U.S. chart the processes that section on domestic and political Rortian pragmatism - contrib- construct inclusions and exclusions violence, implicitly commenting on ute to the incorporation of in definitions of citizenship. The the untenable division of interna- difference within a discourse result is a set of essays that animate a tional and domestic spheres. that seeks to transform very pointed theoretical inquq. The Women's empowerment, the book practices of exclusion. The collection of substantive essays is suggests, requires rethinking this book is therefore theoretical too uneven to argue for a broad division. The diversity of authors is in orientation and focuses on audience. In one notable instance, commendable, though teachers may constructs of culture, the Birgit Remmepslacher's "Right-Wing find frustrating the failure to con- ontologies of "self' and 'Feminism': A Challenge to Feminism textuahe each entry. As a result, "other," gendered position- as an Emancipatory Movement," the use of some entries may require ality, and difference. (p.2) connection to discussions of citizen- more extensive research, but the ship is not made explicit enough. classroom dividends are undoubtedly Whde the chapters are almost com- Similarly, Elaine Unterhalter's title worth the effort. pletely abstracted from women or ("Citizenship, Difference and their experiences, this strategy is not Education: Reflections Inspired by The final two volumes attract without merit. As the concluding the South African Transition") only a very speciahed audience. chapter notes, books on women and promises a comment on the South Jabri and O'Gorman's book takes a international relations are easily African transition, but does little hghly theoretical and abstract ghettoized. Rather than publish such more than mention South African approach to women's relationship to a volume, these authors attempt to politics in the course of the essay. international politics. The authors describe and theorize the margm- note the difficulty of tahg about alization of women from international The study of women in women's experience in a discipline relations theory at its very core: in international politics is at a very dominated by the positivist language the language, concepts, and assump- exciting stage. The attention devoted of liberalism, realism, and structural- tions that are taken as the foundation to the 1995 Beijing conference has ism, finding a solution in the most of the discipline. Unfortunately, the created momentum for thi interna- abstract of the postpositivist school result is a book with very hted tional women's movement's efforts of international relations. Though accessibility. The authors appear to to bring greater attention to women's the introductory essay makes the be in dialogue with each other, but empowerment. As these books requisite references to the heteroge- the broader community they en- demonstrate, the theoretical gains neity of women's voices and experi- deavor to speak to may not be enabled by the visible impact of hs ences, for the most part these equipped to understand the message. conference are substantial. The authors fail to take those diverse diverse approaches to international experiences as the starting point of Emen, Citizpsh$ and Dfirence relations scholarship employed by their work. Jabri and O'Gorman combines a refreshing theoretical the authors reviewed here testify to justify this approach: perspective with a set of interesting the maturation and development of chapters theorizing women's exclu- the feminist perspective. Rather than pretending to sions from different kinds of imag- include "other" voices, we ined communities. In this book, the [Kathleen Mulligan-Hansel completed her emphasis on subjectivity is grounded Ph. D. in polittcal snence at UW-Madison in very concrete historical and in 1777 and has been teachzng political srience and women? studies courses at UW- Madison.]

Feminist CoUections (v.22, no.1, Fall 2000) Patrice DeQuinzio, "Mothers and Mothering: An Essay Review" in THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF MOTHER- HOOD: FEMINISMJ INDNIDUALISMJ AND THE PROBLEM OF MOTHERING. New York: Routledge, 1999. 275p. bibl. index. $70.00, ISBN 0-415-91022-6; pap., $19.99, ISBN 0-415-91023-4.

Juha E. Hanigsberg and Sara Ruddick, eds., MOTHER TROUBLES: RETHINK7NG CONTEMPORARY MATERNAL DILEMMAS. Boston: Beacon Press, 1999. 363p. bibl. pap., $26.00, ISBN 0-8070-6787-3.

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, MOTHER NATURE A HISTORY OF MOTHERS, INFANT, AND NATURAL SELECTION. New York: Pantheon Books, 1999. 723p. bibl. index. $35.00, ISBN 0-679-44265-0.

Linda L. Layne, ed., TR4NSFOMTmMOTHERHOOD: ON GNING AND GETTNG A CON- SUMER CULTURE. New York: New York University Press, 1999. 222p. bibl. index. $55.00, ISBN 0-8147-5154-7; pap., $18.50, ISBN 0-8147-5155-5.

Typically I begin my history of structured monographs. The hetero- tance of the relationship of feminism motherhood class asking students to geneity of these books marks the and individualism in understanding define "motherhood." They fre- critical importance of the topic. the development of feminist analyses quently volunteer: nurturer, teacher, of mothering. The author then turns friend, warmth, caring,- even role- In ~h InpasibiLo ~ot/whood, to political phdosopher Jean Bethke model. As their responses indicate, philosopher Patrice DiQuinzio dis- Elshtain, showing how her analysis and as these books under review sects "the dilemma of ddference" - generates a relatively conservative substantiate, motherhood is a soual the tension between individuahsm form of feminist politics, and contin- role that is fluid, flexible, and hlghly and "essential motherhood." She ues through the writings of Simone varied and that depends on both the argues, on the one hand, that "ferni- de Beauvoir, Sara Ruddick, Julia indvidual's characteristics (i.e., class, nist theory must deny or disavow Kristeva, Nancy Chodorow, race, social position, finances, women's difference, and dfferences Adrienne Rich, and Patricia W personahty) and the needs and among women" in order to demand Collins. DiQuinzio determines that characteristics of the larger society. equity and mobhe women as a feminist psychoanalytic approaches At any given time, one individual can, group. On the other hand, the con- risk the recuperation of "essential and usually does, embody a multi- cept of difference is also important in motherhood." Instead, she argues, we plicity of these aspects. order "to analyze the specificity of must return to mothering experiences The books reviewed here take as women's situations and experiences to appreciate the complexity, ambiva- their starting point the centrality of and to theorize differences among lence, and contradctions in mother- motherhood to modem society and women" @.xv). She grapples with ing. Yet theorizing in terms of women's lives. Beyond that they this irreconcilable problem in a experience can also be dangerous, as dffer markedly. Transfornative Motber- carefully nuanced analysis of feminist she finds dfficulties in the works of hood and Mother Ttvwbh examine writings. both Rich and Collins, speufically particular examples of nontraditional DiQuinzio beps with the early their naturalizing of maternal hetero- motherhood roles; The ImpossibiLg of twentieth-century debate between sexuality. In this densely written Motherhood and Mother Natwm present feminists Charlotte Perkins Gilman broader sweeps. Two are edted and Ellen Key, indcating the impor- books, exhibiting the value and problems of this genre; two are well-

Feminist Collections (v.22, no.1. Fall 2000) Page 9 study, DiQuinzio does not resolve does not necessarily enslave Tmubhs focuses on "bad mothers" in the dilemma of difference; rather she mothers. (p.494, stress in the today's society who become involved concludes that feminist theory must original) with the legal system, such as drug- be prepared for ongoing mediation using pregnant women, abusive with its contradictions. Such speculative leaps of sociobio- mothers, adopting mothers, divorcing logcal and evolutionary analysis are mothers, and the like. The authors Wesee a very different likely to startle the reader. In many are careful not to demonize such approach to motherhood in Sarah sections of the book, Hrdy skips mothers, considering instead moth- Blaffer Hrdy's beauafully written from a close description of primate ers' responsibility for protecting their exegesis on modem motherhood, social behavior, such as monogamy chddren. The editors and their con- Mother Nature, which weaves together among the titi monkeys, to human tributors draw prdyfrom legal evidence drawn from evolutionary behavior. Though such leaps may be theory and rehgious studies, some biology, anthropology, psychology, confusing, you should read this book from personal experience, makmg for literature, and even contemporary for ~rdy's-sheer breadth of scholar- an interesting but somewhat uneven politics and her own life. The motive ship, her gripping descriptions of volume. Two examples will demon- force underlymg her analysis is a animal behavior, the elegance of her strate the breadth of analysis in this concern for contemporary mother- writing, and her passion for science rich and remarkable book. hood, and a fear that our advantages and her warnings. Dorothy Roberts, a law profes- - such as bitth control and sor, writes eloquently of the social women's education and athletics - and legal duties imposed upon are hstorically unique and could be mothers of abused chddren, in swept away. "Mothers Who Fail to Protect their Through studies of birds to Children." The courts hold mothers scenarios of the Pleistocene era, liable for the health and welfare of Hrdy notes the constancy over he their children, with little consider- of the dilemmas mothers confront. ation for the battering situations in Most particularly she uses telling which many of these women live. material from primatology. For The author believes we must take example, in discussing John into account the woman's particular Bowlby's attachment theory, a political environment, which often psychological construct she revises includes male violence, racism, and with the addition of sociobiology, poverty. Yet, she admits, she felt she comments: compelled to carefully reexamine her stand on mothers' moral responsibil- Female primates have always ity when an admired feminist scholar been dual-career mothers, idenufied with the child and upheld forced to compromise between the mother's responsibdity. Her maternal and infant needs.It is chapter lays out clearly the steps of precisely for this reason that her reanalysis, convincingly demon- primate mothers, including strating her conclusion that "protect- human foragers, have always ing children depends far more on shared care of offspring with addressing social inequities by iden- others-when it war fem'bk. ti& with mothers than on pro- Acknowledging infant needs Going from the more general to nounung mothers' @?' (p.47). the more particular, the two edited In "Always Connect: Toward books under review concentrate on Parental Ethics of Divorce," Hilde non-normative motherhood. Mother Lindemann Nelson, an ethicist, takes as her starting point the call from both the Right and the Left for

Page 10 Feminist Collections (v.22,no.l, Fall 2000) restrictions on divorce as a method While I applaud the promotion of reproductive encounters should for keeping young children out of open adoption, I find "gifting" an implicitly deny a range of responses poverty. Nelson moves away from a interesting concept, but of little from women in those very situations. discussion of economic conse- utility. As many recent open adop- quences to stress the critical impor- tions have shown, the problems of Taken together, these books tance of safeguarding children's incorporating birth parents as well as make very clear that motherhood is a intimate relationships. llus leads her adoptive parents into the family unit sgnificant aspect of contemporary to parental obligations and responsi- go well beyond "gifting." life, an aspect that deserves and bdities and consideration of children Linda Layne studies pregnancy benefits from a variety of analyses as moral agents. Though the chapter loss through the lens of "grfting" as and perspectives. Some readers may is engrossing, it is not clear why it is well. Using published material and be more interested in the philosophi- included in Mother Trowbkr. This interviews with members of three cal studies of DiQuinzio, others the reader could see implicit connections pregnancy loss support groups, she biological viewpoint of Hrdy, sull between such a philosophical anal- concludes that these parents find others the anthropological standpoint ysis and, say, moral motherhood, but solace in the concept of "gifting." of Tranrfomatiw Motherhood, and yet it would have been more useful for For example, they report the loss was others the legal and reltgious exami- the author herself to clarifj such connected with valuable changes in nations of Mother Trowbkr. Neverthe- connections. their lives, changes often described less, each book provides a crucial as "gifts." and useful piece to the puzzle of Zan@mative Motherhood is an I was extremely uncomfortable modem American motherhood. integrated volume; it uses the anthro- reading Tranrfomative Motherhood. pological concept of "gifting7' to After considerable discussion with [&ma Appk iz Proferror in the School of discuss reproductive lives that do not colleagues who like myself have Human Ecology and the Women's Stwdier conform to cultural norms, like faced similar situations related to Program, Univerri~of Wircunrin- surrogacy, adoption, and pregnancy motherhood, I finally identified Madiron.] loss. The authors see children as several reasons for my discomfort. In vital elements in a commodification the book, some of the women attain of social relationships. Two examples motherhood through their own again indicate the range of issues agency, through adoption or foster- analyzed in the volume. ing; some have their mothering Since the early twentieth century experiences thrust upon them, by in the United States, closed adoption giving birth to a child with disabdities procedures (in which birth parents or miscarrying. Despite the fascinat- and adoptive parents remain anony- ing use of quotations from adoptive mous) have dominated. Judith S. mothers, surrogate mothers, and the Modell argues for open adoption in like, I find the collapse of these very which birth parents and adoptive different roles into a single analysis parents all participate in the child's very awkward. Moreover, throughout prenatal and postnatal life. Open the book there is an "emotiod adoption resulted from a confluence dormity," to use the insightful of several social changes, most sig- phrase of historian Leslie Reagan, an nifkantly the sense that there was a expectation that women with the "shortage" of babies in the "market." experiences analyzed here have a Thus, the concept of "gifting" dis- sknrlar outlook. It is interesting that a tances adoptive parents from a situa- volume demandmg society recognize tion they describe with distaste - a a wide variety of nonconventional baby market. Moreover, "gifting" transforms the birth mother from passive victim into wdhg participant.

Feminist Collections (v.22. no.1, Fall 2000) Page 11 CONSTRUCT~NGTHE MOTHER~NG EXPERIENCE: VIDEOSON MOTHERHOOD

Ly Vahze Mannis

AND BABY lMAKES TWO: SliVGLE MOTHERHOOD. 29 rnins. 1998. Fdms for the Humanities and Sciences, P.O. Box 2053, Princeton, NJ 08543-2053; phone: 609-275-1400; email: [email protected]; website: www.films.com. Sale: $89.95.

MOMS: A CELEBRATION OF REAL MOTHERS 56 8s.1999. Prod./& Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker. Acorn Media Publishing, Inc., 801 Roeder Rd., Suite 700, Silver Spring, MD 20910; phone: 800-474-2277; em& info@acornme&a.com; website: www.acornrne&a.com. Sale: $19.95.

MOTUER LOVE. 58 8s.1996. Prod.: Christine Fugate and Eren McGinnis, 1996. Filmakers Library, 124 East 40thSt., New York, NY 10016; phone: 212-808-4980; emd: [email protected]; website: www.fhakers.com. Rental: $75.00. Sale: $295.00.

THE MINISKIRTED DZ7VAMO: A MOTHER DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIP. 55 rnins. 1996. Prod./dir.: Rivka Hartman. Filmakers Library, 124 East 40th St., New York, NY 10016; phone: 212-808-4980; email: [email protected]; website: www.fdmakers.com. Rental: $75.00. Sale: $350.00.

These four films demonstrate Women of different races, basses, room. A divorced lawyer mother, the conflicted meanings of mother- and generations speak, and economic sharing custody with a former hus- hood in society and through time. and educational bfferences are band, is shown in her office and in a The most satisfjang of the videos are displayed, yet the emphasis is not on courtroom. A fmancially marginal a celebration of motherhood. A- differences, but on what is shared. mother and her daughters prepare though appreciative of discordant Filmed over a two-year period in the herin their cramped kitchen and discourses, each emphasizes underly- small southern town of Pikesville, later bow their heads as the father ing common themes experienced by Kentucky, Mother Love has a strong says grace. women. The fourth, a briefer work, regional flavor. Laden with southern While situations dlffer, all is a stereotypic expression of con- mores, muslc, and God, the talk is express deep love for their daughters cern about the growing numbers of about the mother/daughter relation- and tell of their fears for them as single mothers. Stated as a social ship: struggles, expectations, loyal- they grow up and test themselves in problem seelung a remedy, the ties, fears, and joys. As the women the world. They describe efforts to emphasis is on the importance of speak from their own settings, we shield the younger generation from fathers rather than the unique learn about their contexts from what unwanted aspects of the culture and experience of motherhood. we see as well as the words we hear talk about their desire for closeness. and the sharp twang of their southern Daughters leaving home tell of their Mother Love and Moms are med- drawls. A former welfare mother is restiveness and need to push away, leys of the mothering experience. given keys to her new home built by to test themselves in the world - Habitat for Humanity. An affluent become their own persons. A mother speaks from her lavish living touching moment is a symbolic scene of a mother watching her daughter walk down the path in a wedding

Page 12 Fcminist Collections (v.22, no.1, Fall 2000) gown. In the distance the younger her mother. Dora was a high- difficult she was. Most say they woman is metamorphosed into a powered career woman, pathologist, would not have wanted to be her small cud. I was reminded how and social activist. The story ex- daughter, that she was a perfecuonist hard it is to look at a daughter with- poses the impact of three generations - impossible to please, with stan- out recalling her in much earlier of women on one another. Rivka's dards no one could live up to. years. Daughters seem to sense this early years were spent with her Demanding, impatient, imperious, she and it makes them pull away, but also grandparents, Bubba and Zaide, as was also loved by her husband, brings tears to their eyes. primary caretakers. Her mother was admired by colleagues. Her own Moms is a melange of interviews beautiful and scary, Rivka says; her family had no idea how depressed of mothers and daughters across the Bubba was warm and loving. Her she was - how miserable, vulnerable, race, class, and age spectrum. mother was modern, a scientist and and ultimately fragde. They c&mly Opening with young mothers recall- social activist. Her Bubba was did not expect her suicide. At the ing their deliveries, ending with steeped in ancient traditions, rituals, close we see Rivka visiting the grave- elderly women who have seen their and superstitions she had brought side of her mother and grandmother. children die, this film gwes a sense from the "old country." Rivka grows Mother Love and Moms will be of the extremes of the mothering up between these two with the push useful to stimulate a group discus- experience. A mother shows chaotic and pull of old ways and modem sion of issues surroundmg mothering. aspects of brinpg up a retarded ideas. Miniskirted Dynamo is a complex and child. An affluent mother of five A driven social reformer, Dora artistic work but also useful to children runs a regimented house- could relate to other people's pain, launch a sophisticated discussion. hold. Strict, proud, she speaks to us fight for other people's needs and 'There is a certain truth about works from her elegant kitchen dressed in a against injustice to other people's of art that makes the representations crisp whlte blouse with an armful of children. Yet her daughter's main they contain not just depiction but gold bracelets. Another mother, indictment of this mother was her valid expression of human experi- tears in her voice, has lost custody of emotional neglect of her own. ence."' Hartman's fikn is an example her son and deeply regrets the earlier Rivka's anger at her mother's neglect of how the most pardcukr story can drinking, drug use, and divorce that emerged early and remains with her. take on universal truth in its telling. have resulted in limited involvement There are interviews of famdy, in her child's life. friends, colleagues, and footage of And BaMakes Two: Sbgk The mothers don't always sound old family movies, collages of old Motherhood is less about single wise; they sound ordmary. They tell photographs, cuttings from newspa- mothers than about the absence of how they punished transgressions, pers. Dramatizations punctuate the fathers and the harsh realities of the dealt with sex, coped with a,child's narrative. Dora's hlgh-heeled foot- statistics the video makers select. It move out, and how they miss chil- steps march in and out of the house emphasizes negative aspects of the dren once they are grown and gone. - hurrying, hurrymg through her life. long-standmg phenomenon of As mothers sing farmliar songs A family dinner with Rivka's voice- expanding numbers of single-mother recalled from their children's early over describes her mother's nutri- households, with no viable sugges- days, viewers are invited to recall tiona: demands and becomes a tions for modifymg this cultural sea their own experiences. Music shower of raw liver falling onto the change and a very real effort to heightens the mood of nostalgia. table until the screen is covered with continue to stigmatize single mothers. The fikn closes with Bdhe Holiday raw chicken livers. Flashes of Selected statistics of the past sinpg, "I Can't Give You Anydung humorous excess are a counterpoint twenty years are delivered: the But Love, Baby." to a darker story. For example, Rivka growth in the number of single has a period when she suffers from mothers; the expansion of never- Compared to Mother Love and anorexia. married motherhood; the numbers of Moms, The Miniskirted Dynamo is more We sense Dora's humanity and complex and the rewards are greater. social conscience. We also hear how Rivka Hartman, Australian play- wright/frlmmaker, tells the story of

Feminist Collections (v.22, no.1, Fall 2000) "married male - female - children" type family, it necessarily treats all other family types as seriously flawed.

Motherin, is a dynamic area for video presentation. As the foregoing discussion suggests, materials can be children born to single mothers; the The emphasis throughout is on uneven and require some planning large percentage of time children are the loss to children and to the for use in classroom discussion. I likely to spend in single-parent community when children grow up believe And BaLy Makes Two is homes, ninety percent of whch are fatherless. The film is weak in its flawed by a negative presentation female-headed. Negative aspects of solutions for dealing with the ddem- marked by a pessimism that hinders growing up in a single-mother house- mas: "covenant marriage" and efforts constructive treatment. It oversimpli- hold include increased incidence of to make divorce more difficult - fies a complex subject and perpetu- violence, poverty, poor school per- make people stay together; insist that ates trite ideas. Mother Love and Moms formance, and likelihood that the all divorcing couples develop "co- are useful, sensitive, and creative cycle will be repeated in the next parenting plans"; promote informa- vehcles for classroom discussion. generation. This farmliar litany of tion about the "costs" of deviation The Miniskirted Dynamo, in my view woes has dominated the political and from the two-parent family that the best of this selection, has the public policy discourse for decades. admittedly stigmatizes certain groups. greatest depth. It has potentd for a Scholars' suggestions of what I do not think ths video is sophisticated examination of mother- may account for these family trends helpful. I expect it could launch a ing - a universal yet unique area of is lunited: a changing culture with the polarized classroom discussion. It htunan experience. emphasis on individuation and per- provides no positive considerations. sonal satisfaction; continued high It takes a stereotypic response to the Notes incidence of divorce in diminishing last several decades of family trends roles of fathers in a chrld's life; the - then labels the changes "problems" 1. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot and earlier role of welfare in ritualizing for whch it provides no viable Jessica Hoffman Davis, The Art and absent fatherhood in the Black com- solutions except to extol the "tradi- S~ienceof Portraiture (San Francisco: munity. A voice-over uses inflarnma- tional family." It assumes that Jossey-Bass, 1997), p.80. tory commentary - e.g. "deadbeat" families of the past were somehow dads who refuse to pay child support less problematical, though scholars 2. Judith Stacey, In the Name ofthe are balanced with mean and angry dispute this.' It gwes an appearance Fami4 (Boston: Beacon Press, 1996). moms who make involvement with of even-handedness but by the father difficult. problemadzing famdy structures that [Valerie Mannis received her bw and do not conform to the traditional 1'h.D. degrees fmm the Universig of Wircansin-Madison She is cumnth stuujing pubiic poiiy issues, diverse famiiies, and mothering.]

Page 14 Feminist Collections (v.22, no.1, Fall 2000) WOMENAND ECONOM~CSON THE GLOBALSCENE:

by Teny Brown

LA PETITE KfZ'NDEUSEDE SOLEIL. 45 mins. 1999. Director: Djibril Diop Mambety. Rental: Inquire. Sale: $195.00. California Newsreel, 149 Ninth St., San Francisco, CA 94103; phone: 415-621-61 96; email: [email protected]; website: www.newsreel.org (Subject: Allegory of global economics)

WO'S COUNTING: ~L~ WMGON SEX LIES AND GLOBAL ECONOMICS 94 mins. 1995. Dir.: Terre Nash. Rental: $75.00 (52-min. version); $90.00 (94-min. version). Sale: $250.00 (shorter); $295.00 (longer). Bullfrog Films, P.O. Box 149, Oley, PA 19547; phone: 800-543-3764; email: [email protected]; website: www.bullfrogfhs.com (Subject: Global economics and gender)

DAUGHTERS OF LXCHEL: UAYA THREAD OF CNANGE. 29 mins. c1993. Dirs.: Kathryn Lipke Vigesaa and John McKay. Rental: $50.00. Sale: $195.00. University of California Extension, Center for Media and Independent Learning, 2000 Center St., Fourth Fl., Berkeley, CA 94704; phone: 510-642-0460; email. [email protected]; website: www-cmil.unex.berkeley.edu/media/ (Subject: Maya women change ancient weaving practices to meet new economic demands)

WOMEN OF Ch?ANGE. 54 54s. 1999. Dir.: Joan Prowse. Rental: $75.00. Sale: $295.00. FlLnakers Library, 124 East 40" St., New York, NY 10016; phone: 212-808-4980; email: [email protected]; website: www.filmakers.com (Subject: Feminist activists in Canada and Mexico)

WORMNG SISTER 27 mins. c1998. Dir.: Jennifer Stephens. Sale: $175.00. UC Extension (See Daughters above.) (Subject: Chinese girl leaves farm and family to work in city factory)

BEHIND THE SMILE. 46 mins. 1998. Dir.: Alan Handel Productions. Rental: $75.00. Sale: $295.00. Filmakers Library (see Women of Change above). (Subject: Women factory workers in Thailand)

MODERN HEROES, MODERN SLAKfZ'S 45 mins. 1999. Dir.: Multimonde. Rental: $65.00. Sale: $295.00. Fiknakers Library (see Women of Change above). (Subject: Overseas contract workers from the Philippines)

SISTERS AND DAUGHTERS BETRAFED. 28 mins. 1996. Prod.: Chela Blitt. Rental: $50.00. Sale: $150.00. UC Extension (see Daughtws above). (Subject: Sex trafficking)

PERFORMING THE BORDER. 42 mins. 1999. Dir.: Ursula Biemann. Rental: $60.00. Sale: $250.00. Women Make Movies, 462 Broadway, Suite 500, New York, NY 10013; phone: 212-925-0606; email: [email protected]; website: www.wrnm.com (Subject: U.S. industry on border with Mexico)

"&ail Buy the Sohil" sings a Litt.4 Girl Who SOBthe Sun) (1999), a Dakar, Senegal. The newspaper boys little girl, holding herself up on young paraplegic girl named Sali in this boys-only occupation intirni- crutches as she hawks her papers by Laam drags her legs on crutches as the lvghway while cars speed by. In she sells newspapers in the streets of Djibnl Diop Mambety's moving short fh,La Petite Ven&use de Sokil (The

Feminist Collections (v.22. no.1, Fall 2000) date and threaten her, throwing her worthy. It has nothing to do with 'apital less than an hour, many of these to the ground. "Those newspaper or material gain" (emphasis added). documentaries focus on the world's sellers are savages," a man says after most oppressed, Third World women watching them attack someone in a With brilliant juxtapositions of and children caught in the gears of a wheelchair. The marketplace is text and images, 1Vho's Counting? grinding global market. ruthless; the able-boded compete exposes the perverse logc of and succeed through intimidation and macroeconomic theories that cannot Daughters of IxcheL Mqa Thread threats. Sali Laam's story is allegori- account for the value of anythtng that of Change (1993) explores how cal: we can see her as a symbol of a does not generate revenue, including modem forces of globalization have developing country's struggle to women's unpaid work, peace, and forced Guatemalan Maya women to compete in a global marketplace and environmental preservation. Yet alter ancient weaving practices to as a story of the women whose these economic formulas count war, accommodate the tastes of interna- bodies are broken under the crushing pollution, and the sexual trafficking tional tourists. The video exposes the weight of global economics. As the in children and women's bodes as ddemma the Mayan weavers face, headlme of her newspaper an- "valuable" insofar as they generate poised between protecting' the nounces the devaluation of the revenue. Waring attacks the short- integrity of their weaving and suc- Senegalese currency, one of the sighted approach of the United cumbing to commercial necessity. "I deleterious consequences of a global Nations, the IMF, and World Bank have to change in order to sell," says economy for a developing country, n for their insistence on measuring the one weaver, so she alters the colors is dfficult to read La Petite Vendeuse wealth of a country by its Gross of her threads to weave potholders, outside the context of globalization. Domestic Product. "GDP is utterly placemats, and backpacks attractive The vicious economic competi- unrelated to the well-being of a to tourists. The video succeeds in tion that Mambety dramatizes in his community. It tells you nothing about presenting a problem that .nearly narrative film L? Petite Vendeuse de levels of poverty. It tells you nothing every developing nation confronts in Soled is documented in a number of about the dstribution of poverty. It drawing the line between self- excellent videos available for use in tells you nothtng about primary preservation and exploitation. the classroom. A documentary one health care, educational standards, Designed to celebrate the might start with is Terre Nash's environmental cleanhness, and folks activism of women working across Who's Counting?: Man'tZ,n Waring on have realized that this unidimensional borders, Women ofChange (1999) has a Sex, Lies and Ghbal Economics (1995), economic fabrication just doesn't less compkated, more straightfor- which serves as a primer on gender bear any relation to their lives." ward message than most of the and global economics. The film Who? Counting? (which comes videos reviewed here. It is the story focuses on Marilyn Waring, a with an "action gulde," to stimulate of two activists, Josephine Gray in ," feminist economist and former discussions of the film beyond the Toronto and Bertha Lujan in Mexico Minister of Parliament in New classroom in the living rooms, City, who work together to improve Zealand, who lpcidly explains churches, and community centers) is condtions in a Canadan-owned complicated theories of macroeco- an excellent example of why the factory in Mexico where labor nomics as she reveals the lie at the documentary genre has served as an condtions have worsened under heart of global economics: "Econom- important tool for feminism in NAFTA. Through cross-border ics has pretensions of being con- motivating political resistance and alliances between activists, ironically cerned with notions of value," she instigating social change. There are made necessary and possible by says. "The word value is defined now scores of feminist documenta- NAFTA, Mexican women travel to from the Latin valere. It's a beautiful ries available from several sources - Canada for a course on activism, word. It means to be strong or to be Filrnakers Library and Women Make while a former GM factory worker - Movies, among the best. Designed a Canadian expert on union organiz- for use in the classroom and running ing - is sent to Mexico to train activists there. One of the effects of globalization, the video implies, is

Page lG Feminist Collections (v.22, no.1, Fall 2000) that the trajectory of local activism must move outward toward a global target. Solutions to local problems must be sought in an international arena, as globalization increases the cross-border communication among workers who have a common cause. As activist documentaries with a cause, Daughters ojIxchel and Women 4 Change both employ documentary techniques that undermine their backs. Perhaps the most shocking World Bank. The video ends with a claims to objective truth, particularly moment of the video is the brutal critique of globalization in general: with use of the didactic narrator. response of a Canadian diplomat who "Globalization will increase difficul- Worhng Sister (1 998), however, advises foreign investors in ties for countries. Why? Because foregoes the intrusive narrator to let Thailand's economy: "Go back to the only those countries which are host the subject speak for herself. Seven- farm, if you have a problem. Some- to such large multinational corpora- teen-year-old Xu Li Li is a da gong mei one has to pay the price of economic tions are going to profit from it. But or "working sister," one of the growth." countries like the Philippines, and to dons of young Chinese pls who some degree Canada, are countries leave their homes, farms, and schools k Modern Hem, MohSkaves that will be controlled more by to travel over a thousand miles to (1999) tells us, four to six Filipino foreign corporations and foreign eam money for their families by women a day are returned home from countries. We're going to have more working in city factories. The video the Middle East and Southeast Asia unemployment as our companies allows us to see Xu Li Li's ddemma in m~ns.They are Overseas Contract close because they can't compete. for ourselves - how she gains Workers (OCWs) who for all intents More and more people will be emotional and financial independence and purposes relinquish their basic unemployed. More and more will go by leaving her family at the same human nghts when they leave their abroad." time that she misses them desper- country to work abroad. Because the ately. money they send back to the Philip- &ten and Daqhters Betrqed Tbe pines is the largest contribution to TraIcking of Women and Girlr and the heWorking Sister, Behind the the country's wealth, the government Fighr to End It (1 996) documents the Smile: The Human cost of ThaibndS hesitates to insist on reforms that trafficking in women's labor across Prow9 (1998) documents the might jeopardne the financial success national borders. We are told that migration of girls from the country to of the arrangement. Like all of the hundreds of thousands of pls and the city, where they work as "con- fhs reviewed here, Modern Heroes, women are forced into prostitution in scripts" in texule factories. In this Modem Sbws moves us with its Africa, Latin America, Asia, and case, fades from poor regons of images and interviews of the women Eastern Europe, often with the tacit Northern Thailand send their themselves, women who have fled approval of their governments. This daughters to Bangkok to "work hard abusive employers and now wait, short video focuses on sexual and bring honor to their parents." As penniless, in a shelter in the Fhpino trafficking from three countries - good Buddhist daughters, they accept embassy in the United Arab Emir- Thailand, Nepal, and the Philippines their fate in this life and make merit ates. The OCW, the fhshows us, - and the efforts of various interna- for the next by working in the has helped bdd "the gleaming tional feminist groups to end the factories. Their working conditions modem cities of the Middle East and practice. Interviews with prostitutes are "like living in hell," says one pl. Asia," while she helps her country As the documentary states, the pls pay off its debt to the IMF and are hke water buffalo carrying the Thai economic miracle on their

Fcminist CoUcctions (v.22,no.1, Fall 2000) Page 17 and activists detail how women and girls and women leaving their homes constructed place that gets reconsti- girls are lured not just from the in the country to work in the city tuted and reproduced by the crossing country to the city, but from their (e.g. Working Sister and Behind the of people. Because without the own countries to foreign countries. Smile) - and transnational - pls and crossing, there is no border, right? The video shows how the efforts of women leaving their homeland to It's just an imaginary line, or it's just a the World Bank and IMF to encour- work in foreign countries (e.g., river, or it's a wall. So you need a age development have left some Modem Heroes, Modem Slaves and Sisters crossing of bodes to produce a families landless and in debt. They and Daughters Betrqeed). The effect of space of the nation state." We are have no choice but to send their that movement on the girl or woman given lyrical musings by an unnamed daughters into the city as prostitutes. is often devastating: her identity, her narrator who tells us, "The border is In Thailand, which is marketed as a rights, and, too often, her life a metaphor for the artificial division sexual paradise, a three-billion-dollar evaporate under the sgn of "com- between the productive and the international tourism industry brings modtty." In all these films, the reproductive, between the machine in far more revenue than any export, border is a sigmficant, if unexarnined, and the organic body, between the including rice and textiles. The video entity. natural and the collective body, shows how national feminist pro- between the sexual and economic, grams such as EMPOWER in &fhming the Border (1999) takes between concepts of masculinity and Thailand have helped protect women as its subject the border itself. femininity." Theory and practice in prostitution, whde international Directed by Ursula Biemann, this converge in this compelling docu- activist groups such as Asia Watch video analyzes both the literal and mentary, which gives us a theory have tried to prevent the traffickmg figurative meanings of hfrontera or through which we can interpret the in women. "the border" in an age of globaha- reahties of women's lives as they are tion, in this instance, by focusing on represented. the border where El Paso, Texas, meets Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Where Yet perhaps the most compel- there once was nothmg, there are ling genre remains the narrative Glm, now maquiladoras, or foregn-owned which invites us to see ourselves as factories with an infrastructure built "the other," somethmg a docurnen- to support the transnationals - whites tary cannot do. At the end of - who own the maquiladoras, whde Mambety's La Petite Vendeuse de Sohi( workers create shacks out of the Sili Laam's crutches have been stolen plants' waste, pallets on which by the newspaper boys. Her friend materials are stored. Pefoonning the asks her, "What shall we do?'Her Border is a video essay, not a docu- answer is simple yet inspiring, 'We mentary; a thoughtful voiceover continue." He lifts her onto his back explores the subject of the border as and carries her into the sun as the if it were as much a phdosophical film whites out. These docdentaries - - question as a political question, an record the indefatigable efforts of Miriam Gnenwr approach that preserves the complex- women to survive - women who These documentaries dustrate ity of the problem. The video carry the burdens of their families one of the consequences of a global beautifully weaves the voices of (and their coun~es)at great risk, all economy, the migration of women activists, intellectuals, and workers. the whde saying, "We continue." whose labor has become a comrnod- We are treated to the highly intellec- ity. This rmgration is both national - tual dfs of Berta Jotar: "There is [Terry Bmwn is Professor ofEngLsh and nohg natural about [the border]," Assistant Dean of Ad and Sciences at the she tells us. "In fact, it's a highly Universio of Wisconsin-River Falh where she teaches women's Lteratum and+.]

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History lands, providing information on the The catalogue offers access In 1935 Dutch feminists Rosa position of women and women's women's studies literature and books Manus, Johanna Naber, and studies. Many women visit the IIAV about the position and hlstory of Willemijn Posthumus-van der Goot in its church quarters, but more and women in the Netherlands and from founded the International Archlves more users find the IIAV on the dfferent European nations, but also for the Women's Movement (IAV) in Internet, search in the ohecata- from the United States and many Amsterdam. They wanted to preserve logue, or ask questions via emad. other countries. The visitor wdl hnd the cultural heritage of women and literature mainly in Dutch and information about the women's Databases and Women's English, but also in German, French, movement because after women in Thesaurus and several other languages. the Netherlands got the right to vote On the homepage (www.iiav.nl), in 1919, interest in the women's visitors can find the databases of the TheIIAV has a nice collection movement seemed to decline. The IIAV: Catalogue, Archlves, Mapping of historical and often unique books start of the library was made by a gift the World, and Database Research from the sixteenth to the nineteenth from Rosa Manus: three hundred Women's Studes. Access to this site centuries. The oldest book in the books from Aletta Jacobs, the fast and use of the databases are free. IIAV dates from 1578.' In this female doctor in the Netherlands. The IIAV collects information on the translation from German, the writer In 1940 the library of the IAV, position of women and women's tells about "the good and bad still housed in the International studies, and in both its indexing and qualities of women." The blggest part Institute of Social History, was acquisition, emphasizes literature on of the collection consists, of course, cleared out by the Germans. After the position of Black, want, and of contemporary titles. Focd points the war, only a small part of the refugee women. The catalogue of the in the collection are women's studies collection was found again, until in IIAV offers the real-life and virtual and Black women's studies, literature 1992 a part of it was rediscovered in visitor more than 70,000 titles of on migrant and refugee women, and Moscow. The IIAV is still trying to books, reports, and articles. The the position and history of women in get these books, photos, and files IIAV has subscriptions to more than the Netherlands. The collection is back, but the rest of the material is six hundred periodicals. About fifty truly international in scope. Titles on now available on microfilm. In 1947, percent of the periodicals collection the position of women in countries the IAV was reopened. Starting in the is in Dutch - we subscribe to all all over the world can be found, as seventies, the IAV grew enormously Dutch women's (studies) magazines. can all important women's studies as a result of the second feminist The other half consists of foreign theory titles, but there are also movement. In 1988 the IAV merged language women's (studies) periodi- Madonna's book Sex, the Who's Who with the Information and Documen- cals - all important British and of Women, Notabk Bhck AmeriEan tation Centre (IDC) of the Dutch American women's studies perid- Women, Women in the Antarctic, Women's Council and the periodical cals, but also, for instance, the ]onma/ Women@Intemet, and the Lesbian Film LOVER Gterature Review of the of Asian Women's Stndies, Men and Gnide. Women's Movement), becoming the Marnrhities, Feminist Theory, Amtrabn IIAV. Women's Studies, and ]ouma/ of Bhck Searching in the databases Studies. The articles in these journals The catalogue can be searched The International Information- are not indexed by subject in the with Boolean operators, free text centre and Archives for the Women's catalogue, but on cd-roms, which are Movement (IIAV), housed in a searchable only at the IN. former church, is now the national center of expertise in the Nether-

Feminist Collections (v.22, no.1, Fall 2000) searching, or searching on, among Positive experience with use of Archives other things, author, title, or pub- the women's thesaurus fueled the Not just books and articles in the lisher. The catalogue is indexed by plan to have a standardized European IIAV catalogue are indexed with the subject with the help of a special Women's Indexing system. An women's thesaurus, but also archival indexing system: the Dutch Women 5 international team of women's studies records of women's organizations Thesaunrs, a standarized list of about librarians and information specialists and personal papers of individual 2200 semantically and generically developed a basic English-language women who have played an irnpor- related terms, constructed as a European Women's Thesaurus, tant role in the women's movement professional tool for indexers and which the IIAV now uses as well. or in Dutch society. The collection users of the library. Other women's The catalogues of the ILAV can contains 360 archives dating from libraries and documentation centres therefore also be searched with 1870 to the present, and reflects the in the Netherlands and in Belgium English terms. In the future, the history and character of the Dutch also use the Dutch Women's The- European Thesaurus will also be women's movement. Since the saurus, which has been constantly translated into French, Spanish, women's movement has always been evaluated and updated since its origin German, and Greek. With the help of an international one as well, the in 1992. a multilingual women's thesaurus, we archives also contain letters and will start to establish a virtual documents from women of other Oneof the main characteristics women's library. Women's libraries in countries. The IIAV has, for in- of the thesaurus is the so-called "-w Europe specializing in processing stance, documents from the Interna- principle" (pronounced "minus w information on gender equality and tional Conference on Women's principle"). This means that we women's studies will cooperate in History: and a photo album and assume all keywords refer to women. linking their websites and those of letters from American suffragist If a publication is about men, -w (not archives. The groundwork for the Carrie Chapman Catt, who corre- "woman") is added. In Dutch, for sponded with Dutch example, there is a specif% suffix to feminists. The collec- indicate female and male occupation of unpublished tions. In general, we have chosen the egodocuments (personal male word because the female word papers) is an interesting often sounds like a form of disquali- gathering of diaries, fication. In the thesaurus, a dentist, memoirs, and letters. In the general term, indicates a female addition to our own dentist. A dentist -w is a male collection, the catalogue dentist. The -w suffur is also used also contains an inven- with other terms. A general term like tory of women's "ehc minorities" refers to the archives belonging to position of women, so when a other libraries and document deals with men, -w is organizations in the added. This contradicts the main- Netherlands. stream practice, where the generic term equals the male term. At the The picture IIAV, a library with literature mainly department of the IIAV about women, we are used to this is another of ow principle (which is always good for a Miriam Greenwki treasures, with 6000 laugh when explained to colleagues), posters and more than and it works out very well. creation of the virtual library is the 15,000 photographs, slides, postcards, availabilty of a multilingual indexulg and banners. Part of this material is system. older, but the IIAV also has extensive visual materials from the start of the second feminist movement. Most

Page 20 Feminist Collections (v.22, no.1, Fall 2000) Dutch posters have been photo- information on each center includes Notes graphed and reproduced as slides. mailing address, website address, and This year the IIAV started digitinng description of the collection and 1. Der Vmuwen Lof Ende Lastennge: part of the picture collection, services. Begnjpende Alle de Goethtyt, Deucht Ende begrnnulg with photos from 1890- The database can be searched by Weerdiihyt der Goeder: Ende Wedemm 1950: beautiful photos from the name, country, subject, type of Alle de Quaethtyt Gebrec en Valrchtytr der women's movement, the struggle for organization, and other keywords. Quoder Vmuwen; Ouergheset in the right to vote, and the peace The (English-language) European Duytsch deur J.L.M. van Hapert/ Jan movement. Women's Thesaurus is used for van Marconville. (Antwerpen: Frank indexing. On an ongoing basis, van Rauelenghien, 1578). This is a International Activities Mapping the World aims to be a very old form of Dutch, of course, In 1998 the IIAV organized the website providing access to women's meaning somehg like: On the Good Know How Conference on the information centers in all countries and Bad Qualities of Women: Understond- World of Women's Information. The and all communities. It is the basis on ing the Goodness and Dignio of the Good Conference was attended by 300 men which the Knowledge Sharing Women; and olro the Badness, Faults and and women, representing 83 coun- Program, the IIAV's follow-up to the Meanness of Bad Women, translated by tries and 7 continents. The Know Know How Conference, is based. J.L.M. Hapert. How Conference mission was to Part of this program is the European improve the accessibility and avail- WomenAction 2000 Network, an 2. The International Conference on ability of women's information information and communication Women's History was held March services around the world, at the network hosted by the IIAV for 23-27, 1986, in Amsterdam. More local and global levels. One of the advocates of women's rights in than seven hundred participants exciting outcomes of the Conference Europe, North America, and Israel. discussed the state of the art in is the Mapping the World Database women's history. In 1989 some of the (www.iiav.nl/mapping-the-world/ If the founders of the IIAV lectures were published in a book, index.html), a database of women's could visit the library again, what Cumnt Issues in Women's History, ed. information services available would Rosa, Willemijn, and Johanna Arina Angerman et al. (Routledge, throughout the world. At present, say when they saw the international 1989). there are approximately 250 records, center that has grown out of the little representing 100 countries. The library they started? [Marianne Boere is the Academic Documentahst and Pmject Leader for the Eumpean Women 's Thesaums.]

Feminist CoUcctions (v.22, no.1, Fall 2000) and added discussion forums and room discussions. I try to ensure that chat room sessions. The next my rehance on technology does not "I wanted to let you know semester I started addmg hyperlinks impede the success of those who are that I enjoyed the Online to articles, e-texts, and reference uncomfortable with the technology. discussion because it took sites as additional resources. By the In my entire3 online courses, away twenty-five pairs of Spring 1999 Semester, I had every- students have a set schedule of eyes watching as I stutter out thtng except lectures notes online for readings, two lectures (withtn which my point while trying not to four separate courses. I was holding are hyperbks to outside reference lose track of the argument." chat room dtscussion periods, and materials for further clarification) per- (excerpted student's re- using a forum dtscussion extensively. week, and dtscussion topics for each sponse to the first Chat In both my online and live week. Each assignment must be Class) courses, the syllabi are now online. completed withtn the assigned week The readings are mostly available as unless there are unusual circum- "This is my first class in e-texts, but I order hard copies for stances. My lecture nates are tran- almost fourteen years. I am the students who prefer to have a scribed from the same notes I use for recently dtvorced, raising my bound copy of the readings. There live sections of the class - approxi- daughter, and working. Do are two separate options for dtscus- mately one hour and fifteen minutes you have any pointers to sion - the discussion forum and the when presented in class. After help me succeed?'(ex- chat room. The forum is not depen- completing the assigned reading for - cerpted introduction emd dent upon time; students can sit each day, students proceed to the from student in Online down whenever it is convenient and lecture. To receive full credtt for Section) post their replies and queries. The class participation, students must also second option, chat, is in real time. attend chat discussions and post to Online courses and Web- We have two to four sign-up times the forum at least twice weekly, just enhanced live courses work they and students select the time most as they would attend and dtscuss in a reach people who need to be convenient for them. Then we all twice-weekly class. I read their reached. Both types of courses offer sign on and "chat" together. Online $stings daily and reply periodically. students numerous benefits, includ- resources - databases, articles, and For the remainder of their grade,

, -. ing flexibkty, increased access to the relevant online "exhibits" - are students have tradttional essays and material several within these two linked to assignments and to the exams. Their essays are submitted particular groups of students - both syllabi themselves. Student papers electronically, and exams require nontradttional and traditional students are submitted as attachments to either attendance on campus or - are my target audience for online emails; I then insert the comments administration by an approved and Web-enhanced live courses. and grade into the text (in a different proctor. Lastly, if they ieed to speak color of type using the khhght with me directly, students may email, In1998 when I began shifting to function of Word software) and mail call, or come to office hours. Due to evening classes, I also began making them back. I keep copies on file in distance and time factors, I have both use of the Internet as a complement case I should need them. Students in traditional office hours in my actual to my live class meetings. In January live courses can opt to submit their office and online office hours in our of 1998, I posted the syllabi online essays in hard copy or to not partici- chat room. pate as fully in the forum or chat if they compensate for that in class- Inboth entkely online and Web-enhanced live courses, the students' responses to the assign-

Feminist Collections (v.22, no.1, Fall 2000) ments are rcmarkably sdar. T?-pi- the statements of others. I spoke to have imagined. By the second week cally, I find the same replies to the sevcral of these students, who simply of class, several students had begun discussion prompts and the same suggested that they were "more email and chat contact with their level of dedication in comparable comfortable" onhne that in the classmates without any direction members of both groups. However, classroom. \Y'hen pressed, they stated from me. By the thud week, twenty- two significant differences do exist further that they had more time to one out of twenty-five enrolled between the two formats of the compose their replies, and even to students were actively participating in course. The first results from the rephrase them before posting. The the discussions. Of those twenty- higher number of nontraditional majority of the women in my classes one, six were exceeding the required students in the online courses, began to thrive in these virtual postings per week on the forum. including mothers and women who spaces. By rnid-semester, in many They were all women. To contrast work fulltime. These nontraditional cases, I have seen these students thls, I have a live section of the same students often possess real-world transition to speakmg out in the course, with the same syllabus and experiences and a greater drive for physical classroom as well as our resources, but in class meetings, the academic success, whlch regularly virtual class space. discussion requires much more leads to more in-depth discussions. proddmg on my part. In an average The second notable difference is the It was my interest in this pattern class meeting, there are three stu- number of female students who among my female students and a dents who speak without my direct- speak frequently and assertively. natural increase of my use of Web ing the question to them. Two of This phenomenon occurs almost components that led me to offer the these are male. Two women in the instantly in the ohecourses, whde first Women and Gender Studies class do participate actively in the it takes until at least mid-semester for online course on our campus, a class discussion, but only by using the even a close facsimile to be present in the development of and a basic online forum and not by speakmg in in the live classroom. Female introduction to Women's Fiction. I the actual class. students enrolled in a live section had some reservations about an By week eight in the Women's tend to opt to participate more fully entirely online course. I like seeing Fiction course, of the enrolled in the online discussion than in the my students fact-to-face; I was students, seventeen of the twentysix classroom discussion. intimidated by the amount of effort are still actively participating, and five students are still regularly exceeding the requirements. All five are women. In the live section of the same class, one of the women speaks regularly, five of the enrolled men speak dady, and four to six women speak in the course when prompted by direct questions or eye contact.

Ofcourse, I have to acknowl- edge the natural objection to ohe As I was gradually moving that seemed necessary to insure that courses - are they to replace tradi- toward more online resources and it would be as informative as a live tional physical class offerings? How discussion, what struck me was that class, and honestly, I was a little do we make them "as good as" the in forum and chat room discussions, daunted by typing and hyperlinking live courses? Also, as several of my I heard the voices of students who an entire semester of lectures before colleagues have worried, '%%'hat does had never voluntarily spoken in the semester even began. thls mean for me?" Simply stated, it class. In both formats, the discussion The whole process has been was led primarily by the women. more successful than I could ever Further, the female students also began to question and disagree with

Ikninist Collections (v.22, no. 1, Fall 2000) is my belief that these types of the tuition - she simply hoped that assertively than in a live section of classes are another alternative; they her efforts would convince me to let the same course. Being able to access should not replace the live meeting her add the course late. class materials on a flexible schedule classes, but offer another option. The traditional students are no lets them work their education in They can be done in such a way as to less remarkable. Just this past week I around the edges of busy real-world represent a close facsirmle of live received a letter from a young lives. These are the women I think classes, and most importantly, can woman in my class who missed about when I ask myself why I teach help nontraditional students like several weeks of participation these courses. Stacie, Trina, Greta, and Claire. because she is manic-depressive and Stacie is a divorced mother of a needed hospitalization. Another [Mehsa Alsgaard is a Lecturer in English teenaged daughter. This is her first young woman has moved out of state at North Carolina State Universi& as well college class after almost two to stay with her family because she's as afiliated faculg with the NCSU decades out of school. Trina is a pregnant, but still wants to finish her Women and Gender Studies Program. She critical care nurse in her forties who degree. is cumnth one of two members of the works amazing numbers of hours, but English D~artmentwho ofer entire4 still gets her classwork done - These women are the most digital courses. Melissa's main page for all promptly and efficiently. A career important reason I believe in the of her mursewebs is available at by:// marine in the midst of a divorce, necessity, of Web-based courses. wwd.ncsu. edu/ -malsgaa] Claire is carrying twenty-one hours. The virtual space seems to offer a Greta moved to New York this comfort zone enabhng them to semester to be with her partner, but flourish and often speak more is stdl pursuing her degree. She participated in the course for the first three-plus weeks without being enrolled because she couldn't pay

Page 24 Feminist Collections (v.22,no.1, Fall 2000) C1 Remember that our website (http://www. A COMMUNITY CHECKLIST: IMPORTANT library. mkc.edu/libran'es/WomensStudes/) includes STEPS TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN electronic versions of aU recent "Computer Talk" is a Web page from the U.S. Violence Against Women columns, plus many bibliographies, core lists of Office with suggestions on how specific groups can help women's studies books, and links to hundreds of protect women and work toward ending violence against other websites by topic. women. Among the community groups targetted are religious groups, health care professionals, law enforcement, sports organizations, and colleges and universities. The website address: http:// www.ojp.usdoj.gov/vawo/speeches/cheklist.htm AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS: PORTRAYALS AND COUNTER PORTRAYALS FABULA MAGAZINE has an online presence that examines the work of three African American women includes their current issue (features, plus regular writers of the 19th century: Harriet Jacobs, Frances E. \V. sections on Music, Books, Film, Bodies), an archlve of Harper, and Pauline Hopkins. The author's interest is past issues, contact info, and other tidbits. Website "the way these three authors were trying to refute or address is: http://www. fabulamag.com/ redefine the roles black women had been cast to play in 19th century literature." Website may be found at: http:// FEMINISM/ WOMEN IN PHILOSOPHY website www.stud.hum.ku.dk/rikkebj/afro.htm (in cooperation with amazon.com) "integrates text resources with the best online resources in Feminist THE AMERIG4NJOURNAL OF PUBLIC Theory and Women's Studies." Both website links and HEALTH, v.90, no.9 (September 2000) includes a listing listings of available books by or about nineteen feminist of a host of websites related to women's health. For authors/women in philosophy are provided. Web those with access to such databases as Academic Search, address: http://www.erraticirnpact.com/ - feminism/ ProQuest Research Library, Social Sciences Index/ Abstracts, and the like, which include articles from AJPH FEMINIST HERITAGE GREETING CARDS are a in full text, accessing the listing through the database new project of W'omenspace Association. The group's rmght be very useful because the links will be live. website offers e-cards in ten categones including Artists, Among the many websites listed: Domestic Violence Events, Herstory, Organizations, and Symbols. See and/ Hotlines & Resources (http://www.feminist.org/911/ or send a card at: http://www.womenspace.ca/cards/ crisis.httd), United Nations Gender and AIDS Links (http://unaidsapict.inet.co.th/gend.htm), and OBGYN EL GENERO EN HISTORLQ by Anne Perotin- Net Resources for Women (http://www.obgp.net/ Dumon of Santiago, Chile, is an electronic book in women/women.asp) Spanish offering an "overview of the development of gender approaches over the last quarter cenw' as well The CANADIAN SOCIAL RESEARCH LINKS Web as forty scholarly works, a bibliography, syllabi, and other page on women includes more than 200 websltes of tools for development of gender hstory courses. Web interest to researchers, teachers, activists, and others. A address: http://www.hist.puc.cl/historia/genero.httd wealth of information on women's poverty, health care, political participation, statistics, development, domestic violence, and more is available through this privately maintained site. Address: http:// www.canadiansocialresearch.net/women.htm

kminist Collections (v.22, no.1, Fall 2000) GIRLS PIPELINE TO POWER is a political WELFARE IN WISCONSIN: A BIBLIOGRAPHY education/development tool to help girls get involved m OF SOURCES is a searchable online product of the the political process. The website includes success Center for Urban Initiatives and Research at the stories of girls "flexing their political muscle," resources University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Each entry includes for getting involved, a bulletin board for discussion, and a an abstract, and the bibliography is updated regularly. multitude of related links. Web address is: http:// Website may be found at: http://www.uwm.edu/cgi-bin/ www.girlspipehne.org/ Dept/CUIR/~elfare/index.~l

HISTORY OF RAPE: A BIBLIOGRAPHY by Stefan WOMEN AND FILM IN EUROPE, website of the Blaschke is an extensive collection of citations to print Working Group of the European Coordination of Film and electronic articles, books, and other sources. Among Festivals E.E.I.G., offers links and emd connection to a the section titles are Ancient History, Greek History, variety of feminist film festivals across Europe and Medieval History, Early Modem Times, and 19th and beyond, plus ltnks to libraries, distributors, production 20th Centuries. The website may be found at: http:// companies, and sources of financial support' for women www.crosswinds.net/-blaschke/horb/horb.htrnl filmmakers. Web address: http:// www.womenfhet.org/index.htm HIV POSITIVE: WOMEN AND CHILDREN is a section of the HIV Positive website with links to The WOMEN IN BIOLOGY INTERNET information specifically for women and th+ children, LAUNCH PAGE divides its listing of ltnks into the including updates from the Centers for Disease Control, categories History, Organizations, Career, Chilly -Climate, discussion on prenatal HIV testing, pediatric AIDS, HIV Education, Written Word, and Miscellaneous. Sub- and teens, and more. The website is found at: http:// groupings under each category further organize the links www.hivpositive.com/ f-Women/ WoChildMenu. html (for example, Education includes: General education issues, Leaky pipeline, Ph.D. and post-docs, and (1NTER)DISCIPLINING CHINESE WOMEN by Encouraging girls and young women in science). Website Patricia &end is an online bibliography available from address: http://pingu.sallc.edu/ -forsburg/bio.html our office website. Subtitled "An Introduction to the English Language Literature on Women's Studies in WOMEN'S CAUCUS FOR GENDER JUSTICE Chma," the extensively annotated resource lists some grew out of concern for a voice for women's human forty articles and lists some key dates in the history of rights in the establishment of the International Criminal women's studies in Chma. Website address: http:// Court at the United Nations. Links to ICC documents, www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/bibliogs/ related developments on women's human nghts around chinaws.html the world, a resource kit, and more are available on the website: http://www.iccwomen.org/ NETGUIDE'S WOMEN'S GUIDE is a collection of tidbits and Web links on topics such as art and culture, WOMEN'S ISSUES links on the University of Wales business and money, family and community, and "tech & Swansea Department of German "external links" Web net." On the business side of thtngs, but some interesting page are divided into a host of Web addresses for Austria, links. Web address: http://xww.netguide.com/Women Germany, Switzerland, rest of Europe and North America, women writers projects, and search engines and PROJECT 10, founded by Dr. Virgmia Uribe for a Los directories focused on women. Most are not in English. Angeles hlgh school, is "dedicated to providing on-site Web address: http://wwwswan.ac.uk/german/links/ educational support services to gay, lesbian, bisexual, women.htm transgender and questioning youth." On the website are a brief history of the program, a model program, a model WOMEN'S E-NEWS, a project of the National staff workshop, tips for administrators, and other Organization for Women's Legal Defense and Education resources. Website is at: http://www.projectlO.org/ Fund, carries "What news looks fie when women matter." The goal is to provide a "professional news

Page 26 Feminist Collections (v.22, no.1, Fall 2000) service" to women, the media, policymakers, and anyone interested in a different take on current events. Subscription is free. Web address: http:// [Bclow is a tiny sampling ojneu, email disi.ussion hts. on4 those www.womensenews.org/ that have come .pe~$djt to our attention over the lust feu, month. For a much more complete hi fin& tv Joan Korenman i Webpage WOMEN'S VOICES 2000 is a national poll by Center at: htp/ /wwu,.um&: edu/ u,mst/fOrums.html for Policy Alternatives and Lifetime Television that lists "10 Key Points to Understand about Women in the 2000 A FEMINIST CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING list is Elections." Among the concerns of women: "Equal pay up and running, with the idea of using "the internet for an and benefits and juggling fady and work are critical ongoing feminist consciousness raising project that takes concerns for all groups of women." See the key points of on the politics of gender and identity." To subscribe, go the entire report, starting at: http://www.stateaction.org/ to the website http://www.egroups.com/group/FemCR. cpa/pressroom/archives/prcomplete.cfm?ID~131 A new GENDER AND RELIGION email list is now The WORLDWIDE ORGANIZATION OF available through the Gender and Religion Research WOMEN'S STUDIES (WOWS), based in Utrecht, the Centre in the Department of the Study of Religions, Netherlands, exists to promote and encourage School of Oriental and African Studies, University of development of women's studies programs, networking, London. To subscribe, send the message join gender-rehgion exchange of teaching materials, and collaboration and journame to jiscmai/@iscmaii!ai;uk. List owner is Sian exchange among faculty and other practitioners in the Hawthorne at University of London. field. Website address is: http://www.fss.uu.nl/wows A NEW ZEALAND FEMINISM list (formerly ws- YOUTH RESOURCE website is a project of [email protected], which was closed down due to severe Advocates for Youth that offers resources to lesbian, gay, cutbacks in Massey's \Vomen7s Studies program) has been bisexual, and transgender young people, including started up "to continue the exchange of information suggested email lists, a library of onlule resources, links about, by and for feminists and their supporters in to local youth groups across the US. and around the Aotearoa and beyond." To subscribe, send a message world, info on HN and sexually transmitted diseases, requesting subscription to ndeminism-subs~ribe@~mups.iam plus more. Web address: http:// or go to the website: http://www.egroups.com/group/ www.youthresource.com/ Another site with links for nz feminism young LGBT people is: http://www.debtaylor.corn/deb/ stuff/education.htrnl 0 Compiled by Linda Shult

1:erninist Collections (v.22, no.1, 17all2000) updated, and, due to its substantially Now where was I. . .?Jazz; larger physical format (don't drop it Jewett, Sarah Ore; Jewish Women. Angela M. Howard and Frances M. on your foot), the sheer number of See also Friedan, Betty. Hrnm-m-m. Kavenik, eds., UANDBOOK OF words has risen by fifty percent. A2MERIC4N WOMEN'S HIS- Women's history research of the last [Michael Edmondr, Libranan at the State TORY 2"d ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: decade is well-reflected in contribu- Historical Socieg of Wisconsin Lbray, Sage Publications, 2000. 724p. index. tions by ninety-three new authors, Madison, wrote the above review.] $50.00, ISBN 082407445. many of them young scholars whose work has broken ground that was The most hfficdt part of largely uncultivated ten years ago. reviewing this book is putting it down Some new entries are due to recent long enough to write. One can't read events ("Persian Gulf War"), new it straight through, of course, so one theoretical directions ("Pornogra- hps in here, browses there, follows a phy''), or attempts to synthesize cross-reference or two* or three - subjects for a wider audience Carole Levin et al., EL+'XAORDI- every page opening to some new ("Women Writers"), while others fill NARY WOMEN OF THE enticement - until one feels more obvious-gaps in the first ehtion MEDIEVXL AND RENMS- like a butterfly moving from blossom ("Sacagawea," "Anne Sexton"). The SANCE WORLD: A BIO- to blossom than a steely-eyed critic lists of fundamental secondary GwHIC4L DICTIONARY weighing assets and liabilities. If you sources, basic reference tools, and Westport, Greenwood, 2000. must have nothmg but the facts, collections of documents with which 327p. bibl. index. $65.00, ISBN O- however, ths new ehtion of the the new Introduction concludes d 313-30659-1. classic handbook contains 922 entries be especially useful for many by more than 300 authors, dozens of teachers and librarians. When Carole Levin began photographs, and literally thousands Any institution where American teachmg European women's history of bibliographical citations. The history is seriously studied should twenty years ago, her first- day shortest articles are about half the have this resource. Small libraries exercise was to have students come length of ths review and the longest that can have only a handful of up with names of famous European more than 1,700 words, with the reference sources in women's history women of the medieval and Renais- average falling just under 500. should make it a top priority. Faculty sance periods. Her students were This is far more than a re-issue needing to check a fact, students often hard-pressed to come up with of the first (1990) ehtion. It has searching for paper topics, librarians aq, but thanks to the restoration twenty percent more entries, for seekmg standard scholarly sources work of numerous dedicated schol- example, and older ones have been on obscure topics, and curious lay- ars, several women have become expanded, their bibliographies readers lookmg for serendipitous much more widely known and connections wdl all find it not just studied, most notably Julian of useful but pleasurable. Nonvich, Christine de Pizan, and Hildegard of Bingen. In fact, historian Levin and her five coauthors from the disciplines of History and

Feminist Collectioris (v.22, no.1, Fall 2000) English have chosen not to include bibliographic citations for everyone, American women through reading these three in their biographcal and the entries are signed by one of their own words need only consult dctionary since information about the five co-authors. Extraordinay the "Testimonials" section to find them is readily avadable elsewhere. 1Vomen af the Medievul and Renaissance autobiographies, memoirs, and other Their goal is to shed light on seventy World, though not an essential life stories. The final three pages in unsung women who deserve more acquisition, would enhance collec- the bibliography list important attention and to stimulate further tions in large libraries. internet resources available to research on their lives and the lives anyone with internet access. of other such women. One can The Native American Woman will understand the logic of this decision, be especially useful to people who and yet excluding such major figures have little or no access to the many from a biographical work on extraor- databases and other sources dinary women of the period may Nordquist used -- and even those '. . lessen the book's usefulness from a Joan Nordquist, THE NATW who have many or all of them library reference standpoint. AMERICAN WOMAN: SOCL4L, available on their campus will find Be that as it may, there are many ECONOMIC AND POLITIC4.L the compilation a timesaver. interesting figutes represented. I was ASPECTS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY taken with Anne Halkett, a seven- Santa Cruz, CA: Reference and teenth-century British royalist who Research Services, 1999. 67p. helped rescue James, Duke of York, (Contemporary social issues: a from house arrest in 1648. She had bibliographic series, no.56). $20.00, Joseph W. Slade, PORNOGRA- several romances, children, and ISBN 1-892068-10-9. adventures, all recounted in her PHY IN AMERICQ: A REFER- ENCE NANDBOOK Santa dary, first published in 1701. Even The general public may not have Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000. 349p. more amazing is the story of Raziya, absorbed much about Ralph Nader's index. $65.00, ISBN 1-57607-085-9. an actual Muslim sultan in northern vice-presidential running mate Inda. She was chosen as heir by her Winona LaDuke during the campaign, The term "pornography" is father over her brothers because he but users of The Native American poised somewhere between two thought her the most able of his Woman will find citations to several slippery concepts, the erotic and the descendants. When she took over for articles she's written and interviews obscene, says telecommunications him in 1236 she dressed as a man and she granted before she ran for high professor Slade. When somethmg rode into battle on an elephant. office. These are included in the once considered obscene "becomes Unfortunately, it seems that having a "Political Activity," "Social and so widespread that taboos against it female ruler was too much for the Economic Condtions," and "Vio- weaken, it moves first into the subjects; after four years she was lence Against Women and Children" category of the pornographic, and overthtown, imprisoned, and killed. sections of The Native American then of the erotic" (p.4). Perhaps Political intrigue and rule is only one Waman, three of sixteen divisions in presciently foreshadowing the of the endeavors in which the the bibliography. Researchers passionate kiss A1 Gore gave Tipper women profded in the dictionary interested in cross-cultural compari- at the Democratic Convention, he engaged. The Appendix by Title, sons of the meaning of gender will goes on to state "From the domain of Occupation, or Main Area of Interest find the section "Gender Roles" reveals many artists, patrons, poets, helpful, and all readers who want to and rebous activists as well. understand the experiences of Native Each entry runs from three to five pages, sometimes with a portrait of the individual. There are also

1:crninisr Collections (v.22, no.1, Fall 2000) the erotic, the representation (a love stimulated by romances? At public kiss, for example) can pass least he credits his sources in his into the realm of the common place." ove~ewof the various feminist Linda Zierdt-Warshaw, Alan Wmkler, Slade has his work cut out for him in viewpoints, the history of laws and Leonard Bernstein, AMERI- trying to define and explain such an concerning pornography, the criminal C4N WOMEN IN ~C~OL ever-changing target. It helps that aspects of the subject, and various OGE AN ENCYCLOPEDL4. he's an excellent writer. Wimess his genres of erotic and pornographic Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000. comment in the Preface: " ... as the material, all found in the first two 384p. bibl. index. $75.00, ISBN 1- new millennium dnfts in on a sea of chapters, with a total of 444 foot- 57607-072-7. messages, I am conscious that the notes. Oddly, the section on "Re- controversies once spawned by search on Pornography" in chapter This summer I visited the pornography seem to be losing their one has none. His main point in hs National Women's Hall of Fame in force. The Infomation Era has section is that neither of two national Seneca Falls, New York. While it domesticated sexual representation as commissions on pornography was lives somewhat in the shadow of its it has almost every other kind of able to prove a causal relationship better known sister, the Women's expression" (p.xiii); or his invoking between pornography and antisocial Rights National Historical Park, and what he dubs "Slade's Law:" behavior ("Reports to the contrary, its exhibits don't have the national 'Whenever one person invents a including compendia assembled by park's flash, the NWHF is a great technology, another person will conservatives and radical feminists, place to ponder the contributions of invent a sexual use for it" (p.9). are a species of folklore..." b.311). women to all aspects of American Slade claims dispassion, but sides He does list several areas for which life. Biographes of the inductees are with the anti-censorship/free speech research is inconclusive, includmg c- arrayed on the walls in the order in camp over those who worry about the possible harm to children from whch they were selected from the the evils of pornography. Anti-porn inappropriate exposure and to founding of the NWHF in 1969. I feminists may be unhappy that such a individuals performing in porno- was struck by how few women in handbook exists at all, and even graphic me&. science, health or technology were moderates may disagree with his Whether or not one agrees with inducted during the first two decades analogy in a section on "The Ferni- Slade's characterizations, it is pos- of the NWHF, but the '90s saw nist Critique." There he paraphrases sible to put the Handbook to good many more joining the ranks, with Ann Garry's view that even though use. An annotated bibliography of names that do not come to mind as pornography may humhate women, sigmficant books, articles, and videos; ready as those of the early honorees that is not its purpose, which is to a descriptive directory of organiza- (Clara Barton, Amelia ~arh&,and arouse the audience. From this Slade tions; a chronology that beps with Margaret Sanger among them). No concludes, '"That distinction explains Native American ceramics and doubt increased attention to attxacting why males do not experience porn as petroglyphs with explicit illustrations; women to scientific and technologi- humiliating to women, any more than biographical sketches of figures from cal careers plus the many he women experience romances and Anthony Comstock to Annie reference works and websites soap operas as pornographic" (p.25). Sprinkle; summaries of major court describing the accomplishments of Does he really believe that the decisions; and a glossary constitute women scientists and inventors have sexual arousal of men through hard- the bulk of the book. If all that is brought- information about them to a core (or even soft!) porn is equiva- insufficient, watch for Slade's three- wider audience and led to more of lent to the yearnings in women for volume Pornography and Sed them being nominated for inclusion Repre~entation:A Reference Guide due in the Hall of Fame. Amen'can Women out soon from Greenwood. in Techno&, the newest reference work on the topic, includes entries

Feminist Collections (v.22, no.1, Fall 2000) for most of the honorees and has a (Centennial Exposition) and other Natalie Soldat, Women in Leadership table in the Appendur fully listing concepts crucial to understandmg the Project, Edlth Cowan University, 'Women's Hall of Fame Inductees contexts for the indlvidual and Pearson Street, Churchlands, Perth, Who Work in Science/Technology." collective achievements (patent, Western Australia, AUSTRALIA, NWHF recipients in American invention/inventors). 6018). Women in Technology include astro- Entries range from a paragraph nauts Sally Ride, Mae Jernison, and for Sarah E. Goode, the first African The subtitle states most of what Shannon Lucid; physicists Chien- American woman granted a US. needs to be said about this bibliogra- Shiung Wu and Shirley Ann Jackson; patent (in 1885, for a foldmg cabinet phy, except to mention that the same and biologst Nettie Maria Stevens, bed) and about whom little else is citations are arranged alphabetically who demonstrated that gender is known, to three pages and a photo- and again chronol&dly (through determined by the sex chromosome graph for Grace Murray Hopper, the 1989 only) for ease in studymg the contributed by the father. While the person most credited with develop- historiography of the subject. In scient$c value of Steven's discovery is ing COBOL computer language. addition, there are listings of articles unquestionable, readers might ask Purists take note: American Women in published in seven West Australian why she merits inclusion in a book Technohgy says she developed it, but journals, arranged by journal and about technofogy! The short answer is othet tefetence works gve a mote date, and a separate listing of disset- that her discovery had great irnplica- nuanced picture and include proto- tations and theses. The bibliography tions for the technology of animal developments upon which she based is a companion to a video, Herstoties - breedmg. A longer one, justifjmg the her work. The references cited at the Our Hisioty: A Celebration of Western inclusion of numerous women in end of each enuy mainly consist of AustraLan Women S Achiewments (Aust. medicine, pharmacology, space other biographical reference books $50.00) on the occasion of the exploration, and agriculture as well as and many web-based articles and centenary of woman suffrage in those whose actions advanced sites. Western Australia. For a more indusuy, commerce, and the house- general bibliography on women in hold, is given in the introduction. Australia, see S'cttllm: A BibLogropLy The authors decided to include of Women in A~troba,1945 to the women whose contributions "clearly Pnsent, by Gisela Kaplan (Broadway, required an application of scientific New South Wales: Women's Redress Penelope Hetherington; Helen ideas and principles and that in many Press, 1995) with citations through Merrick, ed., HERSTORIES - cases resulted in great individual and 1991. OUR HISTORE A BIBLIOGRA- societal benefits" (Introduction, pi). PUY OF RESOURCES ON Besides the biographies of individu- #?t%STERNAUSTRQLLQN als, there are also thematic entries on Kim Holston, STARLEE 54 WOMEN'S HISTORE BOOKS, fields (Agriculture, Architecture, FAMOUS AND NOT SO FA- ARTICLES AND DISSERTA- Astronomy), agencies (Atomic MOUS LEADI1VG LADIES OF TIONS ON THE HISTORY OF Energy Commission, National THE SIXTIES. Jefferson, NC: BESTERN AUSTltLQLJAN Aeronautics and Space Adrmnistra- McFarland, 2000. 299p index. WOMEN AND CHILDREN tion, National Science Foundation), $20.00, ISBN 0-7864-0935-5. FROM 1900 TO 1998. Churchlands, organizations (Institute of Electrical Perth, Western Australta: Edith and Electronics Engineers, American Having just admired Awe Cowan University, Women in Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Dickinson's performance as an Leadership, 1998. 49p. Aust $8.00, Air-ConditioGg Engineers), areas of ISBN 0-7298-0432-1. (Available c/o endeavor (genetic engineering, radioknmunoassay, railroads, comput- ers/computer technology), events

Feminist Collections (v.22, no.1, Fall 2000) Page 31 elderly alcoholic who lives in her car not the only starlet of the 1960s with The citations gathered and in Pay It Fonvard, I immediately an active career today. Fans of Diana arranged in this bibliography wdl be turned to the entry for her hoping for Wswitty introductions to episodes useful both for academic research a tour through her career and life of Myste~and occasional perfor- and personal interest in issues since her starlet days. Instead I found mances on Masterpiece Theatre may not confronting gay and lesbian families. a biography that ended in 1969 and a know that she was James Bond's love Topics covered include parenthood, filmography and list of television interest in On Her Mqeszj's Secret relationships between gays and credits whose last date was 1986. My Service (1969). If they thought to look lesbians and their parents, domestic disappointment would have been her up in Starlet, they would still only partnerships and marriages, and tempered had I first read the note on read a narrative about her career violence within gay and lesbian the verso of the title page: "The through 1973 or see a listing of her families. In addition to the sections present work is a reprint of the films and television appearances listing books and articles on these library bound edition of Starlet ... through 1986. Because it is so out- matters, Nordquist also provides a first published in 1988. McFarland of-date, this book is not recom- listing of handbooks and gudes, such Classics is an imprint of McFarland mended. as A Legal Gtlihfor Lesbian and Gay & Company ... who also published Colrples, and helpful websites. the oealedition." But I would still have been disappointed. Why reissue Joan Nordquist, GAY AND LES- 0 Reviews by Phyllis Holrnan such a book without any updating? It BUN FAMILIES: A BIBUOG- Weisbard, except as noted is true that many of the women faded WHYSanta Cruz, CA: Reference from view by the 1970s or 1980s, but and Research Services, 2000. 68p. it would still be interesting to read (Contemporary social issues: a what they did with their lives subse- bibliographic series, no.57). $20.00, quently -- and Angie Dickinson is ISBN 1-892068-12-5.

A new title is available in our ongoing series of Wisconsin Bibliographies in Women's Studies: (INTER)DISCIPLINING CHINESE WOMEN: AN INT'RO- DUCTION TO THE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE LITERATURE ON WOMEN'S STUDIES IN CHINA, by Patricia Arend, who is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern University. The bibliography's forty citations are extensively annotated, and Arend has provided an introduction and, as a reference, a time line of "Important Dates in the History of the Women's Studies Movement in China." Unlike our older bibliographies, (INT'ER)DISCIPLINING CHINESE WOMEN is not avadable in print but only online at: http://www.library.wisc.edu/ libraries/WomensStudies/bibliogs/chinaws.httd (NOTE: The bibliographies have all been placed within a subdirectory, so should your website have a link to any of the bibliographies, please make sure the link includes the Web subdirectory /bibliogs/)

Page 32 Feminist Collections (v.22, no.1, Fall 2000) NEWAND NEWLYDISCOVERED "Intended for more than the academic audience" (ad), this new quarterly includes both peer-reviewed research articles and sections in a "more popular and nonacademic style." Among topics in the premiere issue: developing a GENUS 1999- . Ed.: Lena Olson. 4/yr. (English version bisexual identity amid a monosexual culture, the stories of published free ~nce/~ear.)Swedish Secretariat for a number of bisexuals from San Francisco in the 1960s Gender Research, Goteborgs Universitet, Box 200, SE and 1970s (by Andrea Sharon Dworkin), issues of bisexu- 405 31 Goteborg, Sweden; email: ~ekretariat@genus.~u.se; ality in sex therapy, media visibility for bisexuality, and a website: www.genus.gu.se (Issue examined: No.1, 2000) three-way partnership going on ten years. The annual English version of this journal on Swedsh gender research includes a selection of articles THE JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S STUDIES 1996- . from the four Swedish issues. Among the topics in the Ed.: Bharati Ray. 2/yr. Rs. 150.00/$20.00 (indiv.); Rs. first English issue: how fear limits women's movement at 250.00/$35.00 (inst.). K.P. Bagchi & Co., 286 B.B. Gang& qht, differences between the lives of gays and lesbians Street, Calcutta-700 012, India. (Issue examined: v.2, no.1, from 1950-1980, male love of machines, a challenge to April-September 1997) mascuhe theology, myths about gender and language, "Envisaged as a forum for analysis and debate on the and two Swedish databases for gender research. A news cutting edge of the dynamic and developing disciphe of section and special report on distribution of funding for Women's Studies" (contents, pi), this journal from the women academics are other highhghts. Women's Studies Research Centre at Calcutta University offers a variety of articles and book reviews. Some of the THE NARRINGTON LESBUN FICTION topics: historical research on women's education in QUARTERLY2000- . Ed.: Judith P. Stelboum. $28 France; second-generation Indo-Canahn women; (indiv.); $48 (inst.); $60 (hbrary). ISSN 1522-8894. reflections on the empowerment of women; prostitution Haworth Press, 10 Alice St., Binghamton, NY 13904-1580; in Thadand; and Indian women protecting the environ- em&. [email protected]; website: http:// ment. A workshop report, an extensive interview with a www.HaworthPress.com (Issue examined: v.1, no.1, 2000) member of the National Council of the Communist Party, As part of "one of the most under-represented and four book reviews complete the 184-page sample minorities in the world," the editor hopes this quarterly publication. will provide "a voice for lesbian fiction, poetry, essays, drama, and art," welcoming "the opportunity to present KOVALEVSK;QL4 FUND NEWSLETTER 1986- . controversial views, explore multicultural venues, Ed.: Neal Koblitz. l/yr. No charge. Dr. Ann Hibner encourage debate" (p.2). Among the writers in the Koblitz, Director, Kovalevskaia Fund, 6547 171h Ave. inaugural issue are Sarah Schulman, Chfystos, Leslia N.E., Seattle, WA 98115; email: [email protected] (Issue Newman, Gerry Gomez Pearlberg, and Ruthann Robson. examined: v.15, no.1, July 2000) Paintings by Lorraine Inzalaco and photographs by The eight-page sample we received tracks the work Happy/L.A. Hyder are included. of the Kovalevskaia Fund, which ''aims to encourage women in science and technology in developing coun- JOURNAL OF BISEXUALITY 2001- . Ed.: Fritz tries" (p.l). In this issue are: articles on prizes awarded in Klein, MD. 4/yr. $36.00 (indiv.); $65 (inst.); $95 (hbraries). Vietnam and Peru, an autobiographical essay by an early ISSN 1529-9716. Harrington Park Press, 10 Alice St., Fund recipient from Colombia who is now a professor in Binghamton, NY 13904-1580; email: the U.S., a listing of Internet websites on women and [email protected]; website: http:// science, plus brief letters and notes. www.HaworthPress.com (Issue examined: v.1, no.1, 2001) LATINA MAGAZINE 1996- . Ed.-in-chief: Sylvia PSYCHOLOGY, EVOLUTION & GENDER 1999- . Martinez. 12/yr. $14.97 (US.); $29.97 (outside U.S.). Ed.: Paula Nicolson. 3/yr. $72/&44 (indiv.); $288/&174 Single copy: $2.50. Latina Magazine, 1500 Broadway, (inst.). ISSN 1461-6661. Taylor & Francis Group, Suite 600, New York, NY 10036; email [email protected]; Routledge, Inc., 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY website: http://www.latina.com/new/magazine/books/ 10001; website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/ (Issue OO/oct/index.htrnl (Issue contents examined onlme: information examined online: v.2, no.1, Apd 2000) October 2000) Partial contents of the sample issue: "Same-sex Feature topics in this lively monthly include a fady Preference in Infancy" (Louisa J. Shirley, Anne of tae kwon do titleholders, Puerto Rican singer Campbell); "Depression as a Counter for Women Against Chayanne, Laura Galindo Black on her years growing up, Men who Renege on the Sex Contract" (Wade C. the modem "guy" look for Latinos, and answers about MacKey, Ronald S. Irnmerman); special feature on the the Presidend candidates. Departments cover fashion glass ceiling, including "Glass Ceilings in Evolutionary and beauty, popular culture, travel food, health notes, Psychology" (John J.D. Turner); "Position Statement on parenting, advice, career and money news, and there's a Gender Relations and Gender Differences" (Angie shopping guide. Amcles are written in English and Burns); and "Bamers to Women's Success: Are they translated into Spanish. Natural or Man-made?' (Paula Nicolson).

SISTERS IN CRIME NEWSLETTER 19???. Ed.: MERIDIANS 2000- . Ed.: Kum-Kum Bhavnani. 2/yr. Sunnye Tiedemann. 4/yr. $35 (membership). Beth $30 (indlv.); $85 (inst.); $20 (students). Outside U.S. add Wasson, Sisters in Crime Executive Secretary, P.O. Box $10 (surface) or $30 (air marl). Wesleyan University Press, 442124, Lawrence, KS 66044-8933; emaik 110 Mr. Vernon St., Middletown, CT 06459; emaik [email protected]; website: [email protected]; website: www.smith.edu/meridlans www.sistersincrime.org/ (Issue examined: v.11, no.4, (Issue information examined onlme: Fall 2000) December 1999) This new interdisciplinary journal, a joint project of This quarterly newsletter caters to writers in the the Women's Studies Program at Smith College and mystery field, seeking to "combat dlscrirnination..., Wesleyan University, is intended as a forum for work by educate publishers and the general public ..., raise the and about women of color in the U.S. and internationally. level of awareness of their contributions to the field, and Topics of the first issue include local and transnational promote the professional advancement of women who feminist alliances (Sonia Alvarez); the impact of global write mysteries" (p.2). Within fifteen pages, the sample networks on local movements in Indla (Amrita Basu); issue offers announcement of new publications by Dominican beauty culture and identity (Ginetta members, traveling tips, chapter news, thoughts on Candelario); and teaching and theorizing women of color publicity and public relations, ideas on forensic scenes in the university (Rachel Lee). There are also interviews from a coroner, and more. with Ama Ata Aidoo, Maryse Condi, Nawal El Saadawi, and others; poetry, reviews, and a memoir by Meena Alexander.

Feminist Collections (v.22, no.1. Fall 2000) TODAY'S CHRISTIAN WOMAN 1978- . Ed.: Jane Partial contents, October issue: "A History of Johnson Struck. 6/yr. $17.95; outside US., $32.95. Single Women and Feminist Perspectives in Community Psy- copy: $3.95. ISSN 0163-1799. P.O. Box 37060, Boone, IA chology" (Meg A. Bond, Anne hfulvey); "The Impact of 50037-0060. (Issue examined: v.22, no.5, September/ Welfare Reform on Men's Violence against Women" October 2000) (Stephanie Riger, Maqann Krieglstein); "Self-determina- This substantial (136 pages) publication includes a tion and Empowerment: A Feminist Standpoint Analysis great variety of information and inspiration for its Chris- of Talk about Disability" Ooey Sprague, Jeanne Hayes); tian readers, from "I Chose Mastectomy" and "Guarding and "Where the Girls (and Women) Are" (Corrine Your Child" (from an occult-fdled popular culture) to Bertram et al.). In the December issue: ''Fewst Ap- "When a Date Turns to Rape," "The Power of Forgive- proaches to Social Science: Epistemological and method- ness," "The Real Reason Men Don't Ask for Directions," ological Tenets" (Rebecca Campbell, Sharon M. Wasco); "Girlfriend's Guide to Credit," and an interview with "Speahg for Ourselves: Fermnist Methods and Comrnu- soccer star Michelle Akers about her struggle with nity Psychology" @sa Cosgrove, Maureen C. McHugh); Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. There are plenty of ads to "Feminist and Community Psychology Ethics in Research wade through, but many tidbits tucked in between the with Homeless Women" (Edy K. Parads); and "Sub- longer articles as well. verting Culture: Promoting HIV/AIDS Prevention Among Puerto Rican and Dominican Women" (Blanca WOMEN'S PHILANTHROPY INSTITUTE Ortiz-Torres et al.). NEWS 1997- . Ed.: Kristin Jackson. 4/yr. $50.00; outside U.S., $55.00. ISSN 1522-144X. Women's Philanthtopy CYBERPSYCHOLOGY & BEIiA MOR v.3, no.5, Institute, 6314 Odana Rd., Suite 1, Madson, WI 53719; October 2000: "Women and the Internet." Guest ed.: emd [email protected]; website: http:// Janet Morahan-Martin. Subscription: $89 (indv., print or www.women-philanthropy.org (Issues examined: No- online); $135 (indv. outside U.S.); $165 (inst., print or vember, 1999; February 2000, May 2000) online); $212 (outside U.S.). ISSN 1094-9313. Mary Ann The newsletter lqhlights particular philanthropic Liebert, Inc., website: http://www.liebertpub.com/CPB/ trends, such as giving by women of color, philanthropy default1.asp toward environmental concerns, political giving, and Partial contents: "Women and the Internet: Promise philanthropy by successful businesswomen. There are and Penls" (Janet Morahan-Martin); 'The Personal and also tips on how to develop a giving plan, book and Web the Political: Women Using the Internet" (W. Harcourt); reviews, notice of particular gifts and the projects/ "Online Activism for Women's Rights" (lo Sutton and concerns to which they go, a calendar of Institute Scarlet Pollock); "Women, Women, Everywhere: Loohg presentations, and other tips, profiles, and resources. for a Link" (Joan Korenman); "Victimization Online: The Downside of Seehg Human Services for Women on the Internet" (J. Finn and M. Banach); "Computer Mediated Communication: Gender and Group Composl~on"(V. Savicki and M. Kelley); "Mistresses of Their Domain: How Female Entrepreneurs in Cyberporn Are Initiating a AMERIC4N JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY Gender Power Shift" (K. Podlas). PSYCHOLOGYv.28, no.5, October 2000 and v.28, no.6, December 2000: "Feminist Theory, Research, and L'HISTOIRE no.245, July-August 2000: "Les Femmes: 5 Methodology." Guest eds.: Meg A. Bond, Jean Hill, Anne 000 ans Pour l'CgalitC/ Women: 5,000 Years for Equal- Mulvey, Marion Terenzio. Subscription: $1 16 (indv., print ity." Ed.-in-chief: ValCrie Hannin. Subscription: 338 F; or online); $136 (indv., outside US.); $540 (inst., print or 413 F (outside France). 57 Rue de Seine, 75006 Paris online); $630 (inst., outside U.S.). ISSN 0091-0562. CEDEX 06; website: www.histoire.presse.fr Kluwer Academic Publishers, Customer Service Depart- Partial contents: "La vkritable histoire des geishas/ ment, P.O. Box 358, Accord Station, Hingham, MA [The Tme Stor of Geishas]" (Pierre-Franqois Souyri); 02018-0358; email: [email protected]; website: http:// "SuicidOe, soru&re,infanticide: trois femmes devant leurs issue concludes with a listing of resource organizations juges/ [Suicide, Witch, CChi-klk Three Women in the Dock]" and suggestions for further readmg. (Joel Comette); "Guerre des sexes et lutte des classes/ [The Battk of the Sexes and Chs Stmgk]" Wchelle Perrot); 'Tvladarne ou Mademoiselle?/ [Mrs. or Missq" (Yanick Ripa); "La fin des bastions/ [The End ofthe Bastions]" (Florence Rochefort); and 'Du kolkhoze au goulag: Ctre STORYLElTERS ceases with publication of its femme en URSS/ emthe Colkctive Fann to the Gulag: October 2000 issue. Having published women's stories Evetyahy LzLife of Soviet Women]" (Nicolas Werth). since 1993, editor Kittu Riddle has decided to close the periodical partly because "there are many more stories of, THE PUBLIC EYE v.9, no.1, Spring 2000: "Reproduc- by and about women to be found in newspapers, maga- ing Patriarchy." Eds.: Judith Glaubman, Surina Khan. zines and in other media forms." The publication's Subscription: $29.00 (indiv./nonprofits); $39.00 (inst.); $19 address: Dot6 Foundation, 121 West Woodlawn, San (students/low-income). 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I Page 36 Feminist Collections (v.22, no.1, Fall 2000) The NATIONAL WOMEN'S HEALTH INFOR- Science, Health and Women," contains a variety of texts MATION CENTER, sponsored by the U.S. Depart- and resources from nineteenth- and early twentieth- ment of Health and Human Services Office on Women's century materials in the field (twenty-three reels). Title Health, provides information on health-related topics of three, 'Women and World War I," explores more than interest to women. With the goal of providing fast, 175 rare titles on women during wartime (thuty-one reliable, and accessible health information, the Center reels). For information on these or other related titles, provides two services: a toll-free telephone number to telephone Primary Source Microfilm at 800-444-0799. For speak with a health information specialist and a compre- international orders, emad [email protected]. hensive website with no ads or commercials. Telephone information specialists speak both English and Spanish, The World Health Organization (WHO) has published and are available 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. EST, Monday through the WHO REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH LIBRARY. Friday (excluding federal holidays) at 800-994-WOMAN Available on computer diskette, the library contains a (9662), and TDD at 888-220-5446. Information specialists database on reproductive health, a bibliography, and will order materials from federal agencies and private- information on fifty-five agencies supporting projects in sector organizations upon request, and will refer callers this area. Request a free copy of the English version by to other resources if necessary. The searchable website at email to [email protected]. Request the free Spanish http://www.4woman.gov serves as a gateway to federal version from Harolodo Capurro by fax at (598-2) 487- agencies and private sector organizations, provides access 2593, or by ernail to [email protected]. to thousands of full-text publications and factsheets, hghlights federal legislative activities, and has the CHOICE ACTION KITS from the National Abortion answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) on over and Reproductive Qhts Action League (NARAL) 150 topics. Foundation for Reproductive Freedom & Choice are new resources available for $3 each (ask about bulk dis- New Moon Publishing and the White House Project counts). Two luts are offered currently: "A Step-by-step Education Fund are jointly distributing WELCOME TO Guide to Expanding Health Insurance Coverage for THE WHITE HOUSE, MS. PRESIDENT!, an eight- Contraceptives," and "A Step-by-step Guide: Acheving page curriculum "deslgned to bolster the leadership Comprehensive Sexuhty Education in Your aspirations of girls." It appears as a special section in the Community's Schools." A thud kit addressing the "decep- September/October issue of New Moon: The Magaene for tive practices of Crisis Pregnancy Centers" should be Girlr and Their Dreams. A discount price is available for available soon. Each lut provides tools to help local orders of ten or more single copies. To order the special activists and students develop and implement grassroots issue or to subscribe, call New Moon Publishing at 800- organizing campaigns. To order Choice Action Kits, call 381-4743 or visit http://www.newmoon.org. For more toll-free 877-YOU-DECIDE or visit http:// information on the White House Project Education Fund, www.naral.org. visit http://www.womensleadershpfund.org. For more on the White House Project, visit http:// According to the US. Department of Labor, women www.thewhitehouseproject.org. earned approximately seventy-seven percent as much as men did in 1999. HIGHLIGHTS OF WOMEN'S Primary Source Microfilm has recently made avdable EARNINGS IN 1999, U.S. Department of Labor ARCHIVAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MATERIALS Statistics Report #943, published in May 2000, has all the FOR RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES, three details in chart and table form. The report is available on microfilm titles based on the company's Histo9 oj IVomen the web at http://stats.bls.gov.pdf/cpswom99.pdf. For a collection from Smith College's Sopha Smith Collection, hard copy, ask your local librarian for Bureau of Labor the Schlesinger Library, and other sources. Title one, Statistics (BLS) Publications. "The Social and Cultural Construction of Girls," is a unique resource on the cultural hstory of girls and young 0 Compiled by Jennifer Kitchak women (seventeen reels). Title two, "The History of

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