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CONTENTS

From the Editors ii

Book Reviews Disability Studies and Stories: Connections between Feminist Disability Theory and Lived Experiences 1 by Karen Keddy This Is Your Brain on Feminism: Evaluating the Claims of Neuroscience about Sex, Gender, and the Brain 5 by Alisa Von Hagel Mentoring Feminist Literary Critics 6 by Stephanie H. Wical Coverage, Content, Concepts: Textbooks for Introductory Courses in Women’s and Gender Studies 8 by Christie Launius and Holly Hassel Spanish Women’s Studies 17 by Melissa Guy Archival Activism: Feminist and Queer Documentation 18 by Virginia Corvid

Going MOOC: Massive Open Online Courses 19 by Phyllis Holman Weisbard

E-Sources on Women and Gender 23

New Reference Works in Women’s Studies 25

Periodical Notes 33

Items of Note 38

Books Recently Received 39

Subscription Form 41 From the Editors Dear Readers, Colleagues, and Friends, search and consequently for our office been a joy to distribute. Working with In Fall 1991 I wrote my first piece publications and services. women’s studies folks on all University for Feminist Collections, entitled “From It’s been a wonderful 22 years. of Wisconsin campuses on projects the New Librarian.” In it, I described I can say truthfully say I’ve loved all often quite afield from librarianship the feminist strands of my life by parts of the position. Each issue of expanded my knowledge of women’s means of Mary Catherine Bateson’s apt our publications, expertly crafted by issues in higher education. Serving on phrase, “composing a life.” I eagerly JoAnne Lehman, Linda Fain, Heather a variety of library committees on the looked ahead to the opportunities as Shimon, and their predecessors, has Madison campus kept me involved in Women’s Studies Librarian to weave confronting the challenge of constant those strands together with others from change that is the library and informa- my life’s composition. tion world. I gained a deep respect Over the subsequent years I did for the dedication of my librarian col- indeed draw from all of those strands, leagues — and many enduring friend- whether it was from my experience ships. running an elderly health project in If you haven’t guessed already, this approaching aspects of running our of- is leading up to the fact that I am retir- fice; my background in Jewish studies ing. I would like to visit my children in compiling an annotated bibliogra- and grandchild on the East Coast with phy on American Jewish women’s his- more frequency, audit courses, travel tory that found its way into two ency- to many places I’ve never been, and clopedias; my personal remembrances simply put my feet up and indulge in of the women’s liberation movement reading for pleasure. It also seems right when assisting students researching to offer someone else the opportunity the Second Wave; or using my newly- to have the best job in women’s studies minted Library degree to take on the librarianship — and, in my view, in implications of the digital revolution librarianship as a whole. for women’s studies teaching and re- With grandson Noam m Phyllis Holman Weisbard

June 2013. Now you know: Phyllis contribute to Feminist Collections as a with a copy of her just-published col- Holman Weisbard, beloved Women’s reviewer.) lection, Ariadne & Other Poems. One Studies Librarian for Wisconsin (and In other news, Heather Shimon — of these poems was read by Garrison for the Whole World, many of us our extremely talented office operations Keillor on the public radio show The would say), is retiring! We can’t say we associate, who doubles as editor of our Writer’s Almanac. Congratulations, haven’t seen this coming — for one quarterly table-of-contents publication Ingrid! thing, there’s that wonderful grandson! (Feminist Periodicals) — has managed In the midst of all this, our office For another and another and another, to develop still another identity: she has progressed further into the world there’s surely no one more deserving graduated a few weeks ago with a mas- of social media! Follow us on Face- of the freedom to travel more, audit ter’s degree from the UW–Madison’s book (www.facebook.com/womenst) courses, and read for pleasure from School of Library & Information Stud- and Twitter (@WisWSLibrarian) for now on than Phyllis, who has piloted ies. We’re proud of her and in awe, and ongoing updates and conversations this ship so very well and for so long. eager to see where her own librarian about feminist issues and resources. Surprised or not, of course, the crew is “ship” will sail. Finally, here’s the Winter–Spring in shock, and every day we realize more Heather’s predecessor here was 2013 issue of FC, with articles about ways we will miss her. But we wish her Ingrid Markhardt, better known in disability studies, massive open online smooth sailing and fabulous adventures the worlds of poetry and publishing as courses, and a lot more. Take special for many years to come. (I’m cross- Ingrid Swanberg. Ingrid completed her note of the review of introductory ing my fingers in hope that, maybe Ph.D. in comparative literature during women’s and gender studies textbooks, after a trip or two, Phyllis will agree to her years here. She stopped in recently which begins on page 8. m J.L.

Page ii Feminist Collections (v. 34, nos. 1–2, Winter–Spring 2013) Book Reviews Disability Studies and Stories: Connections between Feminist Disability Theory and Lived Experiences by Karen Keddy

Parin Dossa, RACIALIZED BODIES, DISABLING WORLDS: STORIED LIVES OF IMMIGRANT MUSLIM WOMEN. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. 176p. notes. bibl. index. pap., $24.95, ISBN 978-0802095510.

Sheryl Feinstein & Nicole C. D’Errico, TANZANIAN WOMEN IN THEIR OWN WORDS: STORIES OF DISABILITY AND ILLNESS. Marie Antonelli, illus. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. 128p. bibl. index. pap., $24.76, ISBN 978-0739140574.

Kim Q. Hall, ed., FEMINIST DISABILITY STUDIES. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. 336p. index. pap., $28.00, ISBN 978-0253223401.

The comprehensive studies and originally a special issue of The NWSA tiatives to work toward social justice. analyses reported in these three books Journal, should be required reading “What they have to say,” she writes, make obvious the reality that anti- in any course that deals with these is- “both in the way of experiential knowl- racist feminist studies and disability sues. The first two essays in the volume edge and subsequent reflection — em- studies have yet to truly intersect — we — “Integrating Disability, Transform- bedded in storytelling — is of value to are not quite there yet. In that continu- ing Feminist Theory,” by Rosemarie the larger society” (p. 5). ing reality, women who live with dis- Garland-Thomson, and Ellen Samuels’s Dossa intersperses interview ex- abilities face an array of particular chal- analysis of Judith Butler’s work on bod- cerpts throughout the volume and lenges. In Canada, for instance, strict ies — are particularly valuable. Tanza- explains, clarifies, theorizes, and con- immigration policies exclude applicants nian Women in Their Own Words: Sto- nects the points they raise to feminist who are disabled (in contrast, the U.S. ries of Disability and Illness is the most and disability studies literature. Dossa’s will only refuse those who would be accessible of the three books; it would participants are from two communities “harmful” to themselves or others). be appropriate for undergraduate and in Vancouver, British Columbia: South War also remains the greatest producer perhaps even high-school students. Asian Muslims from East Africa, and of disabilities. And cultural practices Iranian Muslims. The research question have a great impact on individuals liv- Parin Dossa exhibits rigorous that guided the research was, What is it ing with chronic illness or disability; scholarship and engages in critical like to have a racialized body in a dis- for example, Albinos continue to be discourse about a complex array of abling world? murdered in Tanzania because of the interconnected topics in both disability For the women in this study, the belief that their body parts have magic and feminist studies. Her Racialized starting point of their journeys is a powers. Bodies, Disabling Worlds, an appropri- Canadian immigration policy that Each of the three books under re- ate course text for an advanced disabil- excludes immigrants with disabilities. view here is a different type of resource ity studies class, also provides scholars The premise of this exclusion is that for those studying feminism and dis- and researchers with an extensive refer- persons with disabilities will not be ability. Parin Dossa’s Racialized Bodies, ence list of valuable literature in these able to meet the labor skills criterion of Disabling Worlds: Storied Lives of Im- fields. Dossa aligns herself with critical the immigration policy and thus will migrant Muslim Women, which offers anthropologists and feminists globally be a drain on the social services and the most scholarly analysis and inter- who recognize research participants as health care systems of Canada. Dossa pretation, would be particularly useful producers of context-specific knowl- provides a very good overview of dis- to graduate students with a compre- edge. She states that her research has ability studies and policies in Canada, hensive background in gender studies been inspired both by the violation of as well as the position that the United and some exposure to disability studies. human rights of individuals who are Nations takes on disability. Feminist Disability Studies, a volume disabled and by those individuals’ ini- revised and expanded from what was

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Dossa points out that in the West, strate that people on the margins of so- sion, tuberculosis, schizophrenia, spinal young, middle-class, white, and able- ciety remake their world to affirm their cord injuries, and albinism. In their bodied males constitute the ideal, and agency and to avoid being perceived as brief introduction, Sheryl Feinstein that much of this bias remains even in helpless victims” (p. 4). and Nicole D’Errico discuss the power dealing with disability: differences such “Methodology and Sociopolitical of reflection and the desire to make as gender, race, class, and age among Contexts” provides a comprehensive meaning of the women’s experiences. people with disabilities are subsumed overview of disability studies and poli- “It is our hope,” they write, “that these under the “master category” of dis- cies, explaining how problematic the stories move you as they moved us, ability. biomedical model was in the 1960s that they render you as an active par- and 1970s in its treat- ticipant in a dialogue with the world, ment of persons with with the women in our book, and with disabilities as helpless your own life” (p. xii). victims requiring care Each woman recounts her life sto- and protection. Dossa ry, starting in childhood, as it relates to explains that advocates the experiences she has had with medi- for persons with disabili- cal issues and subsequent discrimina- ties aligned themselves tion. For example, Paulina, who lives in the 1960s with the with polio, comes from the Maasai, Civil Rights Movement, who in the past had a tradition of mur- challenging the outdated dering anyone with a disability because pathological model and their migratory cattle-tending lifestyle embracing instead a para- took priority over caring for disabled digm that viewed disabled members of the community. Although individuals as citizens the killings have stopped, persons with with rights. disabilities are still considered a burden Although Racialized to their village, and discrimination Bodies has many quali- persists because it is grounded in the ties to recommend it, its supernatural. presentation of theory While exploring issues of chronic could stand to be seri- illness and disability, the authors si- ously edited. The dense multaneously explore poverty, cultural theory can be confusing identity, gender roles and responsibili- and difficult to follow, ties, cultural traditions and norms, ac- and the attempts made cess to health care, stigma and shame, to connect the theoreti- and religious beliefs. The women’s per- cal claims with the stories sonal stories are in the forefront, and of the women are not each chapter bears the name of one of always successful, or even the Tanzanian women, and includes a obvious. Chapter titles black-and-white pencil drawing of her Each chapter of the main text of based on theoretical themes instead of by illustrator Marie Antonelli. A short Racialized Bodies is dedicated to one on the lives of the study participants introduction to each chapter contex- of the four women Dossa interviewed seem to indicate a reductivist approach tualizes what the woman being inter- (Mehrun, Tamiza, Firouzeh, and Sara), that imposes a hierarchical structure on viewed is saying. Each personal story and the overarching theme of all four material that is actually more fluid and is followed by a short conclusion in has to do with the women’s lived ex- interconnected. which a few key points are highlighted. periences with disability, discrimina- After every chapter, the authors pose tory immigration policies and social Tanzanian Women in Their Own several discussion questions, meant to services, racism, Islamophobia, and Words is a compilation of the oral his- help readers contemplate what they sexism. Dossa’s aim is to interrogate tories of twenty women who live with would do in a similar situation, that structures of exclusion and oppression either their own or their children’s cover an array of topics related to the by invoking the words and worlds of chronic illnesses or disabilities in the story. The purpose of these questions racialized women who have disabilities. developing East African country of is for readers to think about how they Acknowledging the challenges faced by Tanzania. The conditions include HIV/ would write their own narratives and these women, she “seek[s] to demon- AIDS, cancer, polio, female circumci- about the “cultural context in which

Page 2 Feminist Collections (v. 34, nos. 1–2, Winter–Spring 2013) Book Reviews they would place their stories” (p. xii). ing the collection an interdisciplinary Disability,” by Ellen Samuels, discusses Discussion questions encourage an dialogue about identity, the body, and how Butler’s theory of the body and interactive rather than a passive rela- experience. Hall hopes these essays will gender performativity has been taken tionship between story and reader, so inspire readers to rethink the meanings up within feminist disability studies. that what is learned lives beyond the of disability and its relation to gender, Part II, “Refiguring Literature,” confines of the book and moves features two essays. Susannah away from the story and into Mintz discusses how Georgina the world we all share. These Kleege’s memoir Sight Unseen, questions are excellent teaching critiques the central position aids for the classroom, as they that vision occupies in Western challenge world views, biases and culture; and Elizabeth J. Don- stereotypes, and belief systems. aldson questions the distinctions Feinstein and D’Errico want made between “impairment” and their readers to be part of “the “disability” and discusses varied first political act,” a term they positions on the limitations of explain with a statement made the medical model of disability by James Orbinski, a Canadian in moving toward a more holistic writer, activist, and professor of and universal perspective on dis- medicine: ability . There are four essays in Speaking is the first politi- Part III, “Interrogating Fitness: cal act. It is the first act of Nation, Identity, and Citizen- liberty, and it always im- ship.” Nirmal Erevelles explores plicitly involves another. In the often-ignored intersection speaking, one recognizes between war, disability, women, “I am and I am not alone.” invisibility, and poverty in the (quoted on p. xi) third world. Jennifer C. James looks at the politics of rehabili- As the authors point out, tating the black body wounded “we lived and re-lived the wom- by war and the relationship of en’s lives with them” (p. xi). The this to the conceptualization of material unearthed by the story- the black body from the days telling method is complex and of slavery. James refers to the interconnected, but the book’s injured black body in Gwendo- simple and accessible format and lyn Brooks’s 1953 novel, Maud unique structure allow the read- Martha, for framing her analysis, ing of it to be more open-ended than race, class, sexuality, and nation in ways which was rarely depicted in African definitive. that “[move] towards a transformative American war literature. Cindy La- feminist disability and theory” (p. 10). Com contends that persons living with Feminist Disability Studies, edited The book’s thirteen essays are or- disabilities play a vital role in post- by Kim Q. Hall, originated in a special ganized into five major parts. Part I, colonial nation-building; and Sharon issue of The NWSA (National Wom- “Toward a Theoretical Framework for Lamp and W. Carol Cleigh discuss en’s Studies Association) Journal on Feminist Disability Studies,” begins how mainstream feminist organizations feminist disability studies in 2002. The with Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s have ignored the major debates about original authors had a chance to revise “Integrating Disability: Transforming disabled women’s rights to control their their articles and add postscripts for Feminist Theory.” Garland-Thomson, own bodies, as in the 2005 case of Terri this book’s chapters, joining with other a well-known and often-cited feminist Schindler Schiavo. contributors for this edition. The essays disability theorist whose work inaugu- In Part IV, “Sexual Agency and in this compilation, especially valuable rated the field, notes in her postscript Queer Feminist Futures,” Abby Wilk- for anyone interested in the connection that she is trying to advocate the fu- erson argues that neither feminist stud- between feminist studies and disability sion of feminist theory with disability ies nor disability studies has sufficiently studies, present different disciplinary theory into a new critical discourse of understood how the denial of sexual contributions to the field of feminist feminist disability theory. The other es- autonomy plays a key role in disabled disability studies. As Hall points out, say here, “Critical Divides: Judith But- people’s oppression; and Alison Kafer there are many areas of overlap, mak- ler’s Body Theory and the Question of critiques Marge Piercy’s classic text

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Part V, “Inclusions, lived experiences and the site-specific Exclusions, and Transfor- cultural contexts of those experiences. mations,” has three essays. In my opinion, an important omission In “Chronic Illness and in all three of the works is the issue of Educational Equity,” Kar- accessibility in the built environment en Elizabeth Jung calls for and the extent to which assistive de- post-secondary education vices are available and utilized. through which women The story-telling methodology in with disabilities are “even- the research for both Tanzanian Women tually able to participate in Their Own Wordsand Racialized in the production of a Bodies, Disabling Worlds generates keen body of knowledge that insights in the context of multiple the- reflects their own experi- oretical approaches and ways of think- ences, interests, and ways ing. However, there is a vast difference of knowing” (p. 265). in how the voices of the interviewed April Herndon argues in women are presented in each book. In “Disparate but Disabled: Tanzanian Women, the women’s voices Fat Embodiment and are dominant; in Racialized Bodies, the Disability Studies” that author’s voice and theoretical interpre- fatness should be included tations seem to dominate. Neverthe- as a disability. Herndon less, all three works are important con- points to many similari- tributions to feminist disability studies ties between deaf and/or scholarship, and will be invaluable in disabled persons and leading the way to more research and fat people: the way they theorizing without marginalization. are treated, the expecta- tions, the assumptions [Karen Keddy is an assistant professor in about personality traits the Department of Architecture at the as pathologies, and hav- College of Architecture and Urban Plan- about a feminist utopia, Woman on the ing one’s body read as a ning at Ball State University, in Muncie, Edge of Time, for not including women text about “slovenly behavior, inherent Indiana. She teaches cultural and social with disabilities, and analyzes the con- flaws, and abnormality — all narratives issues in architecture, marginalized users, troversial case of two deaf lesbians who associated with fat people and disabled universal design, social justice, methods wished to adopt a child who was also people in general” (p. 258). of socio-spatial analysis, and evidence- deaf, in order to highlight that assump- based design and research methods. Her tions about disability have not been All three of these books are im- current research explores the experiences examined in the feminist conceptual- portant texts on anti-racist feminism of a small group of amputees who were ization of the future in Piercy’s utopia. and disability studies, and all should be injured during the Halifax Explosion of included on any reading list for a grad- 1917 in Nova Scotia.] uate class on the topic. All three lean toward the social model as opposed to the medical model, and they all emphasize the importance of women’s

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This Is Your Brain on Feminism: Evaluating the Claims of Neuroscience about Sex, Gender, and the Brain

by Alisa Von Hagel

Robyn Bluhm, Anne Jaap Jacobson, & Heidi Lene Maibom, eds., NEUROFEMINISM: ISSUES AT THE INTERSECTION OF FEMINIST THEORY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. (New directions in philosophy and cognitive science.) 296p. bibl. index. $90.00, ISBN 978-0230296732.

In the late 1800s, Dr. Edward of studying the brain, reiterating and tions of interpreting machine-made Clarke of Harvard Medical University reformulating age-old challenges to the images of the brain to draw conclu- advanced his profession’s theory on sex scientific method, as well as leveling sions regarding an individual’s mental difference: namely, that women’s dis- specific critiques at the limitations of state. On a more basic level, both tinct (and inferior) physiology required neuroscience. authors point to a question that recurs their exclusion from serious education- throughout the book — What are we al endeavors. The claim that educating The volume begins with an in- seeing when we see an image of the a woman would lead to an enlarged troduction from the editors, establish- brain? brain and shriveled uterus as well as a ing the underlying logic of the book — The volume also includes a num- “puny race” became the accepted wis- addressing the use and misuse of terms ber of essays that apply the aforemen- dom of the day, substantiated by claims such as sex, gender, and biology and tioned theoretical challenges to the of “scientific” evidence.1 explaining the varied meanings of these meaning and interpretation of neuro- Although the field of brain science terms in the scientific and feminist can- imaging in prominent psychological no longer assumes that women’s educa- ons. This introduction establishes the and cognitive studies. These chapters tion contributes to physical deteriora- context for each essay’s evaluation of illustrate the way many traditional be- tion, gender-based stereotypes remain this new science, providing a snapshot havioral studies reinforce assumptions deeply entrenched in studies of human of the issues most often addressed in about behaviors such as caregiving, em- physiology that seek to uncover the feminist critiques of scientific research. pathy, and altruism as gendered. As the basis for sex differences in behaviors, The essays that follow are diverse authors emphasize, the interpretation attitudes, and abilities. Feminist writ- in content and approach, yet a number of neuro-images remains deeply wed- ers have long focused a critical lens on of themes and commonalities emerge. ded to traditional gender stereotypes, the presumed objectivity and neutrality Many of the authors probe the tradi- evident upon close examination of of medical science, illuminating the tional understanding of scientific data these studies on behavior and cognitive assumptions and biases that pervade as objective and value-free, leading to science. Integrating a more complex the scientific method, its data, and further questions regarding the inter- assessment of gender and sexual prefer- its findings.2 While claims regarding pretation of these data to substantiate a ences into the study of the biological the physiological source of sex differ- correlation between brain structure and basis of sex difference further shows ences have changed, the underlying observable behavioral differences. The that our understanding of what we are stereotype — that women’s aptitude final set of essays in the volume initi- seeing in — and, more importantly, of for caregiving and nurturing behaviors ates work on a feminist philosophy of what we are unable to see in or extrapo- is rooted in and largely determined by science, including both theoretical and late from — these images is limited. biology — remains. This new volume methodological avenues to bridge the in Palgrave Macmillan’s New Directions gulf between feminist research and the The editors include a number in Philosophy and Cognitive Science se- life sciences. of essays that begin to integrate these ries is, according to its editors, “the first challenges to cognitive science with collection of essays to bring a critical For readers seeking a new femi- the existing foundation of a feminist feminist perspective to the recent brain nist challenge to the presumed objec- philosophy of science. This is a critical sciences” (p. 1). Its chapters offer a tivity of scientific data, the initial two move for the discipline in general as broad range of theoretical and method- essays delve into the deconstruction of well a valuable addition to this vol- ological challenges to these new ways mechanical objectivity and the implica- ume. These chapters introduce various

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avenues for theoretical and method- This collection of essays represents Notes ological development of this goal, a substantial addition to the literature highlighting feminist research methods on cognitive neuroscience, integrat- 1. Carroll Smith Rosenberg & Charles that may contribute to a contextualized ing substantial challenges to the sci- Rosenberg, “The Female Animal: Med- and meaningful way to “do” feminist entific discourse as well as providing ical and Biological Views of Women neuroscience. The importance of this an avenue for feminist research in the and Her Role in Nineteenth-Century objective is found in the concluding life sciences. This book would serve America,” Journal of American History, essay, with a disturbing portrait of pop as a valuable supplement to graduate v. 60, no. 2 (September 1973), p. 340. neuroscience and its perpetuation of coursework on feminist theory as well claims regarding biologically deter- as on the philosophy of science. With 2. Anne Fausto-Sterling, Sex/Gender: mined sex differences. Pop neurosci- its interdisciplinary approach, this Biology in a Social World, (New York, ence, drawing upon the science under volume offers a wide range of theoreti- NY: Routledge, 2012); Cordelia Fine, review in this volume, reinforces the cal and methodological perspectives, Delusions of Gender: How our Minds, most prosaic stereotypes of women’s coupled with very technical discussions Society and Neurosexism Create Differ- proclivity towards nurturing, caregiv- of the science in question (which may ence (New York, NY: W.W. Norton & ing and multi-tasking, overlooking render the text difficult for readers Co., 2010). the embedded sexism — found in the without a strong background in these workplace, the family structure, and fields of study). [Alisa Von Hagel is an assistant professor society — that shapes and influences Neurofeminism is a work that will of political science at the University of behavior. This concluding essay should be of great importance in helping Wisconsin–Superior. She teaches courses stimulate additional efforts to challenge feminist researchers continue to ask, in American government, women and the predominant scientific discourse “What exactly do we see when we see politics, and politics and the life sciences. and closely evaluate scientific discovery the brain?” Her research focuses on biomedical policy- of sex difference within the structure of making and ethics.] the brain.

Mentoring Feminist Literary Critics by Stephanie H. Wical

Sandra M. Gilbert, REREADING WOMEN: THIRTY YEARS OF EXPLORING OUR LITERARY TRADITIONS. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2011. 380p. bibl. $29.95, ISBN 978-0393067644.

This new volume by well-known shared, groundbreaking teaching along very much a part of Gilbert’s collection feminist scholar Sandra Gilbert ad- with a “re-reading” of what they ac- of essays. dresses the feminist literary practice complished together in their highly On the textual level, feminists of rereading, and does so on multiple experimental classes offers insight into looking through history for “grand- levels. On the autobiographical level, the challenges that face feminist schol- mothers” have often visited the works Gilbert recalls significant personal and ars. Much has changed in women’s and recorded histories of women professional events along the way of studies and feminist literary criticism like Christine de Pizan, but feminist her own highly influential career. As since the publications of Madwoman in critical inquiry has often been sparked part of the Gilbert-and-Gubar duo of the Attic, Shakespeare’s Sisters, No Man’s by thinking about motherhood in feminist scholars, co-authors, and co- Land, and The Norton Anthology of Lit- a self-reflexive way while the femi- teachers, Gilbert added much to the erature by Women, but Gilbert’s insights nist scholar /close reader is herself a landscape of contemporary feminist about her experiences will benefit fu- mother. Rereading Little Women, Jane literary criticism. Although she and ture generations of feminist scholars, as Eyre and Wuthering Heights with her Gubar are each accomplished schol- we can never have too many mentors. nine-year-old daughter compelled Gil- ars individually, reading about their Rereading her own lived experience is bert to team-teach with Susan Gubar:

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“Rereadings led to reinterpretations, that “my Emily Dickinson has always colleague about her professional and and my revisionary impulse became so inhabited a kitchen, though not per- personal-but-political challenges, strong that I was delighted when Susan haps a very ordinary one” (p. 198). this work also exposes the reader to Gubar, a colleague who was also revis- The publicly available private life of examples of feminist approaches to ing her ideas about these books, agreed Emily Dickinson and Dickinson’s self- reading. to team-teach a course in literature by conscious creation of a persona provide women with me” (p. 47). yet another text to be read closely. This The value of this collection of is a great example of star studies, with works can be found in its examples Like Sylvia Plath, Gilbert was Dickinson, the author, Dickinson, as of how to look at any text from a once a guest editor for Mademoiselle. a star. There is no limit to what can be feminist perspective. With the insight She describes the experience as an ini- counted as a “text” to be closely read. that “women writers have frequently tiation ritual: “The magazine offices In “‘Life’s Empty Pack’: Notes To- responded to sociocultural constric- were pastel, intricately feminine, full of ward a Literary Daughteronomy” Gil- tion by creating symbolic narratives clicking spiky heals. One could almost bert asks, “Apart from fictions like Silas that express their common feelings of believe that at midnight they mopped Marner and Summer, what evidence constriction, exclusion, dispossession” the floors with Chanel No. 5” (p. 115). have we that father-daughter incest is (p. 50), feminist scholars can look at There is something very lighthearted a culturally constructed paradigm of works anew for signs or symptoms of in Gilbert’s reflections on her own female desire?” (p. 264). The essay dis- oppression, for example, in dreams work experiences, yet one can also see cusses the exchange of women between of escape. In her analyses of texts by the serious effects of the pressure to men, as well as the significance of the women whose works can be called fem- conform to work expectations in her fact that Freud was well aware that inist, Gilbert observed that these great descriptions of peers responding to the daughters were not merely fantasizing authors asked, “[W]hat has caused the narrow constrictions of cultural expec- about their fathers, but often were en- cultural alienation — the silence, the tations. The personal is political, and gaged in unwanted sexual relationships marginality, the secondary status of this highly self-reflective collection of that caused their alleged neuroses. women?” (p. 51). These are questions essays abounds in examples of injustice that we still ask today. to Gilbert’s colleagues. Rereading Women presents a “Dare You See a Soul at the White diverse collection of writings over a [Stephanie H. Wical is the periodicals Heat? Thoughts on a ‘Little Home- thirty-year period that manages to and electronic resources librarian and an keeping Person,’” includes Gilbert’s touch upon many issues of concern, affiliate of the Women’s Studies Program own first poem about Emily Dicken- but unfortunately it is missing an at the University of Wisconsin–Eau son — “Emily’s Bread” (p. 199) — as index, which would have made it Claire. Her research interests include well as another one she wrote that highly useful as a reference source. usage analysis of electronic journals became an “invocation of transforma- Nevertheless, this work is highly and databases, camp humor, and cross- tion”: “The Emily Dickinson Black recommended for colleges and dressing in film and television. She enjoys Cake Walk” (p. 200). These poems, universities with women’s studies mentoring students who are conducting along with her close textual analysis of programs and graduate programs in research.] a Dickinson poem that “only pretends literary criticism. While its tone is to be about a blacksmith and a forge” sometimes very conversational, as if (p. 201), support Gilbert’s assertion a senior colleague is telling a junior

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Coverage, Content, Concepts: Textbooks for Introductory Courses in Women’s and Gender Studies by Christie Launius and Holly Hassel

Judy Root Aulette & Judith Wittner, GENDERED WORLDS, 2nd edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 544p. ISBN 978-0199774043. [Aulette & Wittner] C. Lesley Biggs, Susan Gingell, & Pamela J. Downe, eds., Gendered Intersections: An Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies, 2nd edition. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Fernwood, 2011. 512p. ISBN 978- 1552664131. [Biggs, Gingell, & Downe] Shawn Meghan Burn, Women Across Cultures: A Global Perspective, 3rd edition. Boston: McGraw- Hill, 2011. 400p. ISBN 978-0073512334. [Burn] Estelle Disch, Reconstructing Gender: A Multicultural Anthology, 5th edition. Boston: McGraw- Hill, 2009. 701p. ISBN 978-0073380063. [Disch] Abby Ferber et al., The Matrix Reader: Examining the Dynamics of Oppression and Privilege. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 672p. ISBN 978-0073404110. [Ferber et al.] Inderpal Grewal & Caren Kaplan, An Introduction to Women’s Studies: Gender in a Transnational World, 2nd edition. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2006. 576p. ISBN 978-0072887181. [Grewal & Kaplan] Hunter College Women’s Studies Collective, Women’s Realities, Women’s Choices: An Introduction to Women’s Studies, 3rd edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 496p. ISBN 978-0195150353. [Hunter College WSC] Suzanne Kelly, Gowri Parameswaran, & Nancy Schneidewind, Women: Images and Realities, a Multicultural Anthology, 5th edition. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2012. 688p. ISBN 978-0073512310. [Kelly, Parameswaran, & Schneidewind] Michael Kimmel, The Gendered Society, 4th edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 480p. ISBN 978- 0195399028. [Kimmel] Gwyn Kirk & Margo Okazawa-Rey, Women’s Lives: Multicultural Perspectives, 5th edition. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2010 704p. ISBN 978-0073512303. [Kirk & Okazawa-Rey] Judith Lorber & Lisa Jean Moore, Gendered Bodies: Feminist Perspectives, 2nd edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 272p. ISBN 978-0199732456. [Lorber & Moore] Paula S. Rothenberg, Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study, 8th edition. New York: Worth Publishers, 2010. 774p. ISBN 978-1429217880. [Rothenberg] Virginia Sapiro, Women in American Society: An Introduction to Women’s Studies, 5th edition. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2003.624p. ISBN 978-0767416399. [Sapiro] Susan Shaw & Janet Lee, Women’s Voices, Feminist Visions: Classic and Contemporary Readings, 5th edition. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2012. 768p. ISBN 978-0073512327. [Shaw & Lee, Voices/Visions] Susan Shaw & Janet Lee, Women Worldwide: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Women. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2011. 688p. ISBN 978-0073512297. [Shaw & Lee, Women Worldwide] Verta Taylor, Nancy Whittier, & Leila Rupp, Feminist Frontiers, 9th edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2012. 576p. ISBN 978-0078026621. [Taylor, Whittier, & Rupp]

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Martha E. Thompson & Michael Armato, Investigating Gender: Developing a Feminist Sociological Imagination. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2012. 368p. ISBN 978-0745651866. [Thompson & Armato] Jacquelyn White, Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Gender, 5th edition. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2011. 528p. ISBN 978-0078050305. [White]

At the 2010 annual Fall retreat but are perhaps in their final iteration. Clearly, WGS has become a core part of the University of Wisconsin System Still others from the list are no longer of the curriculum at many institutions Women’s Studies Consortium, a con- available. of higher education, and this is an versation began about how we teach unmitigated positive development in the introductory course or courses in The market for introductory the field. The resulting expansion of our field. The conversation partly cen- women’s and gender studies (WGS) the textbook market to serve these pro- tered on which texts work best in help- textbooks has expanded considerably grams, courses, and students is also, in ing students understand the core con- since 1994. Michele Tracy Berger and many ways, a positive development. cepts in women’s and gender studies. Cheryl Radeloff report that there are That discussion led, in turn, to an all- currently more than 700 WGS pro- In this review, we take stock of day workshop, in April 2011, at which grams in the U.S.,3 and a 2007 census the maturation and expansion of the thirty faculty members and academic by the National Opinion Research WGS field, focusing on what can be staff from across the System worked Center for the National Women’s gleaned from the existing textbooks to identify the threshold concepts1 criti- Studies Association reported that un- about the current state of the field’s cal to the field. At the workshop, we dergraduate WGS courses enrolled pedagogical and political values. We honed the list of threshold concepts nearly 89,000 students in 2005–2006.4 also do what reviews traditionally do: down to those that most represent our shared learning objectives and desired learning outcomes — essentially, ways of thinking, seeing, and doing in wom- en’s and gender studies. By the time we met again as a group in Fall 2011, the idea of collab- oratively authoring our own introduc- tory textbook began to emerge, and in the wake of that meeting, Phyllis Hol- man Weisbard and JoAnne Lehman suggested that a survey and review of the textbooks currently on the market would be of use to Feminist Collections (FC) readers. It had been seventeen years since FC had last published such a review — Terry Brown’s “Choos- ing our Words Carefully: A Review of Women’s Studies Textbooks,”2 so an update was certainly in order. We aim to offer that update here. Several of the texts Terry Brown reviewed in 1994 are still in print. Among those, some have been updated with new editions in the last three or four years, while others remain in print Miriam Greenwald

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that is, identify the strengths and weak- framework of the important concepts. First Lens: Instructional Priorities nesses of these texts, using our particu- (2) On a related note, we’ve found it In the broadest sense, these eigh- lar pedagogical and scholarly priorities helpful to have a pedagogical apparatus teen textbooks can be divided into as a framework. that gives both instructors and students two main types: those that are primar- Our list of eighteen titles includes some direction and groundwork for en- ily authored by one or two people many that are explicitly billed as “In- gaging with the concepts. (3) Next, we (Aulette & Wittner; Burn; Hunter troduction to Women’s and Gender value texts that are transparent and ex- College WSC; Kimmel; Sapiro; and Studies” textbooks, as well as other plicit about the research and evidence Thompson & Armato), and those that texts that might be used in an intro- upon which arguments and assertions have one or more editors and contain ductory course but are designed for are based. (4) We also look for texts a combination of original and previ- upper-division “Sociology of Gender” that provide these features while being ously published material. Within this courses. We have included both types, accessible and relevant to undergradu- second category, there is a lot of varia- not only because many “intro” instruc- ates. (5) Finally, we look for texts that tion. Some texts, as their titles suggest, tors use the sociology texts, but also provide some historical context. are primarily readers, with minimal because the sociology texts are among The second lens that informed framing material: Disch’s Reconstruct- the strongest in (1) introducing the our approach has to do with assessing ing Gender: A Multicultural Anthology, idea of a (feminist) sociological imagi- how thoroughly current textbooks have Ferber et al.’s The Matrix Reader, and nation, and (2) explicitly incorporating incorporated previous decades’ trends in Kelly, Parameswaran, & Schneide- and citing current research on women women’s studies scholarship, particularly wind’s Women: Images and Realities, A and gender. We have departed from an integrated treatment of intersec- Multicultural Anthology all fall into this Terry Brown’s approach in that we have tionality (overlapping social categories subcategory. not included other types of anthologies. of identity that interact to reflect We acknowledge that many instruc- interlocking systems of oppression at As instructors who regularly tors adopt such works for their intro the structural level), trends toward the teach the first-year, introductory courses, but we have chosen to focus globalization of the WGS curriculum women’s and gender studies course, we on works that are explicitly marketed and research base, and the valuing of a acknowledge a strong preference for as textbooks. theory-practice connection. edited collections with robust framing Our third and last lens in review- essays. For teachers like us, two of the We talked at length about the ing the texts is the national trajectory most effective books in this regard are best evaluative framework for review- of the field of teaching and learning Shaw & Lee’s Women’s Voices, Feminist ing the many textbooks that are avail- in women’s studies as well as in higher Visions and Kirk & Okazawa-Rey’s able to instructors for introductory education more broadly. That is, we Women’s Lives: Multicultural Perspec- WGS courses, and ultimately generated valued more highly those books that tives, both of which provide a rich a rubric. Our evaluative criteria can be identified key learning outcomes context for each set of readings. It is roughly grouped together into three and that moved away from content our experience that students being main “lenses.” First, we identified the coverage toward habits of mind. This introduced to the field of women’s and instructional priorities we have arrived trend is illustrated by the National gender studies need (and like!) some at as instructors with over a decade of Women Studies Association’s recent guidance that can help them shape experience teaching introductory WGS emphasis on integrative learning and their reading and understanding. The courses. Within this lens, we agreed assessment,5 as well as by Berger and introductory sections in these two on five principles: (1) first, what we Radeloff’s survey of women’s and gen- books serve a critical function in help- call a “critical apparatus” is important der studies graduates,6 both of which ing students (particularly first- and for giving first- and second-year stu- emphasize not just the content of a second-year students) absorb a “land- dents a framework for understanding WGS education, but also the skills that scape” of important ideas upon which thematically based material. By critical are implicitly and explicitly taught in they can deepen their thinking about apparatus, we mean a framing text or WGS programs. In surveying the cur- the topics discussed in more detail chapter that introduces students to key rent crop of textbooks, we were curious through selected readings. The critical terms and concepts within the field to see whether and to what extent the introduction before each selection of and continues to contextualize each teaching of skills was incorporated. readings introduces students to the im- new (usually) thematic unit within the portant ideas and concepts within that

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topic (for example, “Women’s Work ties worldwide, for example — and are describing its methods, findings, and Inside and Outside the Home” and supported by excerpted readings within contribution to the field and briefly “Systems of Privilege and Inequality”), the field from a variety of global set- assessing the study in terms of what and highlights key terms using italics. tings. they call the five major components of Kirk & Okazawa-Rey, for example, Experienced WGS instructors a feminist sociological imagination. provide an analytical framework they will know that, for many students, Although we are clearly express- consistently use throughout the book, documenting the issues discussed in ing a preference for textbooks that in which each of the topics discussed is the course is essential to establishing incorporate evidence-based research, framed in “micro‑,” “meso‑,” “macro‑,” disciplinary credibility. We agreed that we also appreciate those that include and “global” levels; this is particularly successful textbooks refer directly and first-person narratives and/or liter- effective in helping students develop an explicitly to specific research studies ary selections. Kirk & Okazawa-Rey’s understanding of structural forms of and theory, as opposed to using vague Women’s Lives: Multicultural Perspectives oppression and privilege. phrases such as “research shows” or is a good example of a text that incor- “studies have proven.” Doing so mod- porates research but also includes first- Instructors looking for texts els for students the importance of sup- person narratives. Instructors looking with a robust embedded pedagogy fea- porting claims with evidence, and it overall for a more humanities-based ture will find this in Burn’s Women further reinforces the fact that WGS is approach will want to explore Kelly, across Cultures: A Global Perspective; in an established academic field. Because Parameswaran, & Schneidewind’s Thompson & Armato’s Investigating introductory WGS courses often ask Women: Images and Realities and Biggs, Gender; in both texts edited by Shaw students to think in ways that contra- Gingell, & Downe’s Gendered Intersec- & Lee; and in Kirk & Okazawa-Rey. dict their commonsense understand- tions. Both Shaw & Lee’s Voices/Visions and ings about gender, it is critical to dem- Thompson & Armato’s Investigating onstrate the evidence-based foundation Related to the use of citation Gender are exemplary in this regard, on which the field is built. Several text- and up-to-date research to ground the with the kind of “textbook-like” fea- books stand out to us in this regard, in- material, we also looked at a textbook’s tures that can provide structure to cluding Kirk & Okazawa-Rey, Aulette tone regarding controversial or unresolved an introductory course: epigraphs to & Winter, Kimmel, and Thompson & issues within feminist scholarship. That start chapters, “pull-out quote” boxes, Armato. Kimmel’s The Gendered Society is, we agreed that the best textbooks boldface sections and italicized key offers complete citations via footnotes contextualize feminist perspectives terms, and discussion questions at the and cites specific, notable research on whatever topic, issue, or theory end of each chapter. Each chapter also studies in the body of the text. The by explaining what that perspective includes suggested further readings, text has been updated with each edi- stands in contrast to. What are the and class periods can be structured by tion, although the majority of the cited debates, for example, about theories of chapter, each of which includes discus- studies date to the first edition. The gender role socialization? What argu- sion and writing questions at the end second edition of Aulette & Winter’s ments are made about reproductive as well as “learning activities” (which Gendered Worlds includes up-to-date control and public policy? Who says involve making connections between material, uses parenthetical citations, what, and why? Furthermore, multiple the course material and gender “out in and offers complete bibliographic cita- perspectives are presented, not just a the world”) that can also produce in- tions at the end of each chapter. Kirk singular or monolithic feminist (or teresting and engaged discussion. Shaw & Okazawa-Rey’s Women’s Lives, which anti-feminist) perspective, and room is & Lee’s Women Worldwide offers these is a strong textbook regardless of evalu- left for students to evaluate, consider, same features in a global-focused text. ative criteria, is also notable for its use and weigh these multiple perspectives. Women Worldwide differs from Shaw of documentation to support claims — For example, Aulette & Wittner’s & Lee’s U.S.-focused Voices/Visions in providing both parenthetical citations Gendered Worlds demonstrates this ap- that individual chapters are authored (using the “see also” model) and a com- proach in its discussion of sexual vio- or co-authored by various experts in plete list of references. Thompson & lence: For example, in their discussion the thematic areas — reproductive Armato provide the same, but go one of recent decline in rape statistics, they freedoms, global politics of the body, step further by including an inset “Re- ask, “Why has this decline occurred?” families in global context, and sexuali- search Example” in each chapter that and go on to say, “Some argue that…” summarizes a relevant research study,

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and “Other experts, however, believe an essay on AIDS prevention dating A final point that we believe is that…” (p. 270). White’s Taking Sides: from 1991. of importance to many instructors is Clashing Views in Gender falls into the degree to which particular texts this category as well. Although readers A second aspect of being up to provide historical context. None of these might initially approach White’s book date is a little trickier, though, even textbooks is primarily historical in na- with skepticism, given the way each for some texts that have been released ture, but some include more historical chapter title is formulated as a yes-or- in a new edition recently. This second content than others, and from a range no question (for example: “Can Social form of being up to date has to do with of perspectives. For example, Kirk & Policies Improve Gender Inequalities referring to recent cultural phenom- Okazawa-Rey’s Women’s Lives addresses in the Workplace?”), Taking Sides can ena and popular culture (e.g., social the historical aspects of U.S. feminist ultimately be useful in helping students networking, “hook-up” culture, etc.). movements in a section in Chapter 1 understand a variety of contemporary Thompson & Armato’s Investigating entitled “Feminist Legacies and Per- debates over sex/gender issues. Gender refers to the “Bechdel Test” in spectives.” Shaw & Lee’s Women’s Voic- its chapter on media; Taylor, Whittier, es, Feminist Visions has a similar brief Another quality we evaluated in & Rupp’s Feminist Frontiers has recent- section in its opening chapter, and also these textbooks is what we call acces- ly added an article about gestational intersperses some “classic readings” sibility and approachability: an admit- surrogacy; Shaw & Lee’s Women’s Voic- throughout the book, including pieces tedly amorphous criterion for evalu- es, Feminist Visions has articles about by Margaret Sanger, Pat Mainardi, and ation. Like most veteran instructors, “sexting” and the cult of virginity; and Emma Goldman. Kelly, Parameswaran, we are all too aware of some students’ White’s Taking Sides has a chapter on & Schneidewind’s Women: Images and tendency to dismiss the course material cyberbullying. Other texts were less Realities takes a slightly different ap- if they feel it violates their standards of current in this regard, such as Hunter proach, including both an overview of recency, relevance, and readability, and College WSC’s Women’s Realities, Wom- U.S. feminist movements and examples we had these student concerns in mind en’s Choices, which contains references of documents from the movement in as we reviewed each of these textbooks. nearly a decade old, including pop- its final chapter. Grewal & Kaplan’s Of course, we also have our own stan- cultural references to Madonna instead Introduction to Women’s Studies also dards of recency, relevancy, and read- of more contemporary figures like Lady distinguishes itself as a text that is not ability, which we also brought to bear Gaga. Another instance of this is the only globally focused but also ground- on our reviews. For our purposes, be- “email” feature in Biggs, Gingell, & ed in historical content; for example, it ing up to date has a couple of different Downe’s Gendered Intersections, which includes an excerpt from Vindication of dimensions. First, the best textbooks presents email messages on the page as the Rights of Women, a history of sexual provide up-to-date statistics (data from though they’ve been forwarded mul- surgery in America, and more “recent” the 2010 Census, for example) and cite tiple times and then printed out. The historical texts from global women’s recent research studies; for the most editors write, “In this book, we include movements. The text that seems the part, all of the textbooks that have a sample of the kind of gendered com- most “overall historical” is Sapiro’s been updated in the last two to three mentary that circulates electronically to Women in American Society, which not years have done a good job of this. A be read with levity and poignancy by only provides a historical overview of few that have not include Ferber et diverse Internet users” (p. 26). Given the achievements of the feminist move- al.’s Matrix Reader, which seems to use the significant growth in alternative ment overall, but also opens many sources from the early 2000s and some methods of electronic communica- chapters that focus on social issues with from the 1990s, with most statistics tion, such as various social media, that a historical overview of that particular about five years old. Feminist Frontiers, students choose over email, retaining issue (education, law and policy, etc). by Taylor, Whittier, & Rupp, also this format in the second edition seems feels a bit dated, with most readings at quite dated (particularly in light of the Two other texts use historical least a decade old. Finally, Grewal & editors’ note in the first edition that data and excerpts in interesting and Kaplan’s Introduction to Women’s Stud- “[a]s computers become increasingly purposeful ways. For example, Ferber ies differs in that most of its readings central to more people’s lives, we are et al.’s The Matrix Reader includes 200 do not provide statistical data on the developing new ways of communicat- years’ worth of Census data to trace the issues discussed, but some readings are ing, disseminating ideas and sharing evolution of American thinking about problematically dated — for example, humour” (p. 26). and the social construction of racial

Page 12 Feminist Collections (v. 34, nos. 1–2, Winter–Spring 2013) Book Reviews categories. In keeping with this institu- tional approach, it also offers an article outlining twelve major court cases contributing to the historical evalua- tion of cultural attitudes about race, class, and gender. Rothenberg’s Race, Class, and Gender makes similar use of historical government documents in a section entitled “How it Happened: Race and Gender Issues in U.S. Law,” a compelling historical overview that could be of powerful pedagogical value in helping students gain a context for the discussion of racism and sexism, for example.

Second Lens: Trends in the Field Critical to a successful introduc- tion to gender and women’s studies course is the concept of intersection- ality, or confluence of identities: the notion that overlapping categories of identity shape individual experience in ways that reflect macro-level systems of oppression and privilege. Several textbooks stood out to us in offering teachers and students an integrated ap- Miriam Greenwald proach to intersectionality. We distin- guished these from textbooks that, for that take as a given intersections of introduction to “do justice to the di- example, represented diverse perspec- race, class, and gender, and by a table versity of women’s lives in this country” tives but weren’t as effective at show- of contents organized around how and (Women’s Lives: Multicultural Perspec- ing relationships across those diverse where they intersect — in economics, tives, p. xviii). Hunter College WSC’s perspectives. discrimination in everyday life, social Women’s Realities, Women’s Choices is Three texts stood out to us as and cultural consequences, and history. the least effective in this regard, only exemplifying an integrated approach: Similarly, the general introduction of superficially correcting an approach Kirk & Okazawa-Rey’s Women’s Lives: Disch’s Reconstructing Gender opens in the first two editions that “the term Multicultural Perspectives; Estelle with the assertion, “No one is simply a ‘we’ was often used to describe all Disch’s Reconstructing Gender: A Multi- man or a woman. Each of us embod- women” (p. 12). The most recent edi- cultural Anthology, and Paula Rothen- ies intersecting statuses and identities, tion of Women’s Realities tries to correct berg’s Race, Class, and Gender are empowered and disempowered, includ- this somewhat essentialist approach, notable as introductory texts that very ing physical and demographic traits, but instructors who emphasize differ- intentionally approach the material chosen and unchosen” (p.1). Part I of ence and intersectionality will find this through an intersectional lens. Rothen- the reader is titled, “It’s Not Just About text a poor match for their pedagogical berg opens with the assertion that Race, Gender”; in addition, subsequent parts values. Class, and Gender is an “examination of (e.g., “Communication,” “Education,” the ways in which race, class, gender, and “Health and Illness”) each contain With WGS scholarship increas- and sexuality have been socially con- multiple readings that focus on gender ingly taking on global topics, many structed in the United States as differ- in relation to other categories of iden- instructors may want to incorporate ence,” and her promised focus is borne tity. Kirk & Okazawa-Rey similarly global content into their introduc- out by the wide selection of readings make good on the promise in their tory course or courses. They will find

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text choices across the spectrum, with “Women and Globalization,” which are sense of what has been done and what some books that are entirely focused welcome additions to an introductory could be done to solve those problems. on global women’s issues and others WGS textbook market that has focused Therefore, we want to highlight those that isolate global content in a spe- almost exclusively on U.S. issues. texts that incorporate a focus on activ- cific chapter. Kirk & Okazawa-Rey’s A similarly effective global-focused ism, within each chapter as well as, Women’s Lives: Multicultural Perspectives text is Shaw & Lee’s Women Worldwide: often, in a separate chapter focused is primarily U.S.-focused, but includes Transnational Perspectives on Women. specifically on activism and advocacy. a wide-ranging and dense chapter on Unlike Burn’s text, which is single- Again, as with their other strengths as “Living in a Globalized World.” Kelly, authored and largely a synthesis of texts, Kirk & Okazawa-Rey’s Women’s Parameswaran, & Schneidewind’s existing research, Women Worldwide Lives: Multicultural Perspectives and Women: Images and Realities has in includes separately authored chapters Shaw & Lee’s Women’s Voices, Feminist its newest edition added a section of focused on concepts and institutions, Visions do this particularly well. Kirk & readings under the heading “Nations, such as “Transnational Feminism,” Okazawa-Rey directly address the text’s Boundaries, and Belonging: Citizen- “World Media,” “Global Politics of focus on activism in their introduction: ship in Women’s Lives”; the editors the Body,” and “Families in Global “We see collective action for progres- note that they did this “[b]ecause of Context.” Each chapter includes repre- sive social change as a major goal of the importance of developing a trans- sentative texts from a variety of disci- scholarly work, and thus, in the face of national consciousness and awareness plinary perspectives and in a range of these economic and political trends, we of the effects of citizenship on women’s genres — journal articles, newspaper take a deliberately activist approach in lives” (p. v). A slightly different ap- articles, poems, reports — and nearly this book” (Women’s Lives: Multicultural proach is taken by Thompson & Arma- all are highly up to date. A wide range Perspectives, p. 17). Each of their twelve to in Investigating Gender; rather than of diverse ethnic, national, and racial chapters ends with “Finding Out More devoting a chapter to global issues, perspectives make up the book’s con- on the Web” and “Taking Action.” The they incorporate what they term a “re- tent, and the chapters vary in their final part of the book is entitled “Ac- lational global perspective” throughout presentation of intersectional perspec- tivism and Change,” and Chapter 12 the book. tives, with some integrating such per- (the only chapter in Part V) is entitled spectives fully into the chapter material “Creating Change: Theory, Vision, and Instructors looking for a textbook and others including a separate section Action.” In addition, each individual with a substantive global focus will find on how race, class, and gender are at chapter concludes with an overview of only a small handful of choices. Burn’s work within that issue (for example, feminist perspectives and activism. Women Across Cultures: A Global Per- reproductive technologies). Grewal & spective is a solid option in this regard. Kaplan’s Introduction to Women’s Stud- Similarly, Shaw & Lee embed Burn shapes the text around four key ies: Gender in a Transnational World was “Ideas for Activism” throughout each themes: gender inequality as a histori- perhaps the first of its kind, but it has chapter of Women’s Voices, Feminist Vi- cal and sociocultural phenomenon; not been updated since 2006, and a sions, linking the course material with activism and empowerment; multicul- scan of its bibliography shows that the specific strategies for addressing gen- tural and intersectional approaches; vast majority of the readings date from der injustice in small and large ways. and women’s rights as human rights. the 1990s. Instructors could use these embedded Within these four themes, she pro- activist strategies as ideas for weekly vides a balanced, academic approach, Another feature of effective learning activities or for larger final introducing students to some basic textbooks, we would argue, is integra- projects. Additionally, many chapters theoretical perspectives as she frames tion of feminist praxis, or blending of include “Activist Profiles,” inset boxes some of the key issues — reproductive academic knowledge with activism and that highlight past achievements in rights, women’s low status and power, advocacy. As most instructors know, feminist movement related to the chap- sexuality, work, etc. The global per- students can become overwhelmed ter content. For instructors who want spective means that Burn also includes and frustrated by critical analysis of students to make connections between chapters on “Women, Development, the status of women and the social what happens inside the classroom and and Environmental Sustainability” and construction of gender (or “here’s the what happens outside, Shaw & Lee’s problem”), without an accompanying approach would be attractive. While the focus of Thompson & Armato’s

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Investigating Gender is primarily on knowledge and experience, theory and readings about institutionalizing social research rather than activism, this text activism in women’s studies and other change; and Lorber & Moore include does include two kinds of inset activist courses.”7 Berger and Radeloff outline classroom exercises. What we were profiles in each chapter: these are called in significant detail how these skills looking for, however, were pedagogical “The Power of One” and “The Power translate into occupational and intel- features that made these learning out- of Many,” and focus on individuals and lectual activities after graduation.8 comes explicit to students. organizations respectively. Of the eighteen textbooks, two In our estimation, few, if any, of stand out as explicitly adopting a Third Lens: Concepts, Outcomes, and the textbooks we examined explicitly skills-focused approach. White’s Ta k- Coverage reflect this trend in the field. As noted ing Sides focuses on argument analysis, One gap in the current array of earlier, quite a few include a robust and its preface states that book’s goal available textbooks can be seen through embedded pedagogical apparatus — is to “help you develop an ideological our third lens. A growing trend in learning activities, discussion and writ- tool chest that will enable you to intel- many disciplines is to shift from a ing questions, tools for reflection — ligently and responsibly navigate the “coverage” model (in which a survey and others are accompanied by online challenging gender landscape” (p. vi). or introductory course introduces resources for instructors and students Taking Sides opens by introducing the students to as many of the themes and to assess learning. However, quite a bit idea that knowledge is socially con- subtopics of note within a discipline of this material is geared toward mea- structed, provides tools for argument as can be covered in fifteen weeks), to suring student command of content analysis, and invites students to “re- an approach that privileges “ways of rather than the ability to “think like” a main open to considering and recon- thinking” and learning outcomes that feminist scholar. For example, Sapiro’s sidering beliefs and knowledge in ways could more accurately be understood Women in American Society includes that you never imagined” (p. xxxiii). as skills — ways of seeing and doing discussion questions that focus primar- The other text that stands out here in women’s studies that reflect the core ily on helping students self-assess their is Thompson & Armato’s Investigating competencies students develop after understanding of the chapter content Gender. In their introduction, the au- completing a course, a minor, or a ma- (e.g., “What is the history of home- thors make explicit that their goal is to jor in women’s and gender studies. We making, and how is it related to sex/ guide students through the acquisition see this trend toward skills and ways gender systems?” and “Explain what of a feminist sociological imagination, of thinking manifested in both the the right-of-way in communication is. which entails not just content knowl- scholarly literature and in the national How does it relate to gender?”). Shaw edge, but skills and habits of mind: disciplinary trends as represented by & Lee’s Women’s Voices, Feminist Vi- NWSA. sions offers a test bank in its instructor’s Although we view knowledge Berger and Radeloff’s Transform- manual, with both multiple-choice acquisition as an important ing Scholarship: Why Women’s and and true-false questions focusing on part of a feminist sociological Gender Studies Students Are Changing content. imagination, we have written Themselves and the World illustrates Many of the textbooks provide this textbook to go beyond this trend. Intended partly as a guide pedagogical material that seems in- knowledge acquisition alone for WGS students and majors, it in- tended to move students beyond and to provide you with the cludes a chapter titled “Discovering understanding content to applying inspiration, tools, and skills and Claiming Your Internal Strengths theoretical or epistemological lenses. To necessary to become a critical and Internal Skills,” which outlines an give just a few examples, Kirk & Oka- feminist sociological thinker array of “ways of thinking” that char- zawa-Rey include questions for reflec- and, ultimately, to investigate acterize the learning students do in our tion at the end of each chapter; both gender on your own. (Investi- courses. Some are as general as “think- texts by Shaw & Lee include “Learning gating Gender, p. 8) ing critically,” while others are more Activities” that ask students to conduct field-specific, including “developing field research by connecting the chap- Thompson & Armato also intro- critical reading and analytic skills on ter content to the world around them; duce and define Cynthia Enloe’s con- the variety of theoretical perspectives Ferber et al. includes similar activities cept of feminist curiosity in their intro- on sex/gender, race/ethnicity, social inviting students to, for example, as- duction. Although this text is explicitly class, and sexuality” and “connecting sess their workplaces in the context of disciplinary, and therefore not a perfect

Feminist Collections (v. 34, nos. 1–2, Winter–Spring 2013) Page 15 Book Reviews fit for introductory WGS courses, it Notes provides an inspirational and aspira- tional model for instructors who want 1. A threshold concept is a core disciplin- tions of Higher Education” NORC to explicitly incorporate skills-based ary concept that is both troublesome Project 6433.01.62, December 26, learning outcomes into their courses. and transformative. Jan Meyer & Ray 2007, presented to the National On the whole, however, WGS Land, “Threshold Concepts and Trou- Women’s Studies Association; online at textbooks have not necessarily kept blesome Knowledge: Linkages to Ways http://082511c.membershipsoftware. pace with the trend toward focusing of Thinking and Practising within the org/files/NWSA_CensusonWSProgs. on discipline-specific skills, learning Disciplines,” in Enhancing Teaching- outcomes, and competencies instead Learning Environments in Undergradu- 5. See Amy Levin’s “Questions of dense content coverage. Some are ate Courses (Occasional Report 4, ETL for a New Century: Women’s more successful than others in ar- Project, May 2003), http://www.etl. Studies and Integrative Learn- ticulating not just what the current tla.ed.ac.uk/publications.html. A ing: A Report to the National debates are about issues in the field of threshold concept is integrative; when Women’s Studies Association,” at women’s and gender studies, but also students cross the threshold and grasp a http://www.nwsa.org/content. how conceptual frameworks that reflect concept, “the hidden interrelatedness” asp?pl=17&sl=79&contentid=79. a “feminist sociological imagination” or of other concepts within that discipline a “feminist epistemological stance”9 are becomes apparent. Glynis Cousin, “An 6. See note 3 above. defining features of the field as much as Introduction to Threshold Concepts,” the content of a course or program is. Planet no. 17 (December 2006), pp. 7. Berger & Radeloff, p. 163. 4–5, http://neillthew.typepad.com/ Reviewing the many options files/threshold-concepts-1.pdf. 8. Similarly, Amy Levin’s report to the that instructors have for introducing National Women’s Studies Association, students to the basics of women’s and 2. Terry Brown, “Choosing Our Words “Questions for a New Century: Wom- gender studies provides us with several Carefully: A Review of Women’s Stud- en’s Studies and Integrative Learning,” insights. First, there is a textbook for ies Textbooks,” Feminist Collections v. cited in note 5 above, focuses on as- nearly every instructor’s pedagogi- 16, no. 1, Fall 1994, pp. 2-5 (archived sessment practices in the field and the cal priorities. Although no one text at http://minds.wisconsin.edu/bit- development of learning outcomes and perfectly matches all our instructional stream/handle/1793/22076/brown_ assessment strategies for measuring stu- priorities, many do come close to re- rev.html?sequence=2). dent learning. flecting a variety of critical aspects — a textbook-type introductory apparatus, 3. Michelle Tracy Berger & Cheryl 9. Sara Crawley, et al., “Introduction: intersectional approaches, historical Radeloff, Transforming Scholarship: Feminist Pedagogies in Action: Teach- content, and integrated feminist praxis Why Women’s and Gender Studies Stu- ing Beyond Disciplines,” Feminist — that are important to us. Second, dents Are Changing Themselves and the Teacher, v. 19, no. 1 (2008), pp. 1–12. some textbooks are weaker enough in World (New York: Routledge, 2011). areas of critical importance — for ex- [Christie Launius is the director of the ample, visible research, up-to-date and 4. Michael Reynolds, Shobha Shagle, women’s and gender studies program at relevant examples — that they would & Lekha Venkataraman, National UW–Oshkosh. Holly Hassel chairs the not, in our estimation, have credibility Opinion Research Center (NORC), UW Colleges women’s studies program with students. Finally, the current text- University of Chicago, “A National and is a professor of English at UW– book array is not necessarily keeping Census of Women’s and Gender Marathon County.] pace with trends in higher education. Studies Programs in U.S. Institu- As more and more academic fields reframe their disciplinary knowledge in terms of both content and skills or outcomes, the ways that we introduce students to our fields should reflect that shift in priorities.

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Spanish Women’s Studies by Melissa Guy

Xon de Ros & Geraldine Hazbun, eds., A COMPANION TO SPANISH WOMEN’S STUDIES. Rochester, NY: Tamesis, 2011. 430p. illus. bib., index. $115.00, ISBN 978-1855662247.

As the editors of this volume women authors of the Siglo de Oro, or note, much work has been done since Spanish Golden Age. Beth Miller published Women in His- The second half of the book covers panic Literature: Icons and Fallen Idols a range of topics, including eighteenth- (1978) and challenged her Hispanist century female translators of foreign colleagues to pursue women’s studies. texts, fashion and material culture in The solid introduction to A Companion the nineteenth century, and the femi- to Spanish Women’s Studies places this nist essays of Pardo Bazán and other anthology in the context of that earlier writers. The final chapters focus on the scholarship. Readers unfamiliar with growth of opportunities for women the history of women’s studies will ap- during the Second Republic, Catalan preciate the concise summary of the women’s writing, analysis of autobio- field and of Hispanic women’s studies graphical narratives, and women as within it. represented in and as creators of Span- The book’s twenty-one chapters ish cinema. are organized chronologically from the This volume is not a reference Middle Ages to the present, and are work. It is a text-heavy anthology divided into two parts: Part I covers the geared toward graduate students and medieval and early modern periods; experts in the field, although each Part II, the eighteenth to the twenty- chapter can stand alone and would be first centuries. suitable for undergraduates. The edi- The editors admit that compre- tors are lecturers in Spanish literature hensive coverage is impossible, so they at the University of Oxford. The vari- chose to focus on “literary criticism,… ous contributing authors are specialists historical analysis, sociological investi- in Spanish studies from Spain, Britain, gation, and interdisciplinary explora- the United States, and Mexico. tion” (p. 4), while allowing the con- A Companion to Spanish Women’s tributing authors to write on the topics Studies should be recognized for what it of their choice. Each chapter addresses is: a survey of literary and cultural pro- feminist theory in some way “while duction by and about women. Histori- discussing either the work of women or ans will recognize that this companion the representation of women” (p. 4). to women’s studies includes minimal Individual chapters in the me- material from their field. Of special dieval section focus on the role of interest are the bibliographies and the women in lyrical poetry, the depiction suggestions for further reading at the of women in medieval Spanish hagiog- end of each chapter. Overall, it is a wel- raphy, and representations of women come addition to the field of women’s as characters in exemplary tales. Addi- and Iberian studies. tional chapters present analyses of the writings of Leonor López de Córdoba, [Melissa Guy is the subject specialist for Costanza de Castilla, Teresa de Carta- Latin American and Iberian studies at gena, and Isabel de Villena, as well as Arizona State University in Tempe.]

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Archival Activism: Feminist and Queer Documentation by Virginia Corvid

Lyz Bly & Kelly Wooten, eds., MAKE YOUR OWN HISTORY: DOCUMENTING FEMINIST AND QUEER ACTIVISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY. Los Angeles, CA: Litwin Books, 2012. (Gender and sexuality in information studies.) 196p. illus. index. pap., $30.00, ISBN 978-1936117130.

This second offering in the Lit- contribution that offers snapshots of tion management services to individuals, win Books series on gender and sexual- the current work and concerns of par- scholars, and small businesses. She resides ity in information studies is a lively ticipant practitioners in the field. in Seattle, WA, where she enjoys reading collage of current work related to docu- feminist zines at the Zine Archive and mentation, feminism, and queer theo- [Virginia Corvid is the founder of Stellar Publishing Project.] ry. The title operates in two ways, both Jay Archiving, which provides informa- encouraging activists to make history by changing the world and endorsing archivists’ activism of documenting the historically under-documented. In this realm, the traditional boundaries between the creators, archivists, and researchers of records are collapsed. Instead, a new paradigm of the par- ticipant practitioner prevails, in which all parties apprehend how the archive deploys power, and all act from hybrid positions to work for positive social change that in some way involves the historical record. This can mean, for example, an innovative conception of a Black Feminist archive that operates as living memory in the community, or an examination of how progressive ar- chival values of accessibility and open- ness can conflict with privacy concerns related to LGBT collections. The anthology is divided into four sections: “Zines and Riot Grrrl,” “LGBT Archives,” “Electronic Re- cords,” and “The Second Wave.” Throughout, focus divides fairly evenly among contributions from people pri- marily in the records creator, archivist, or scholar role; hence, the collection will be useful to archivists and to femi- nist or queer theorists alike. Indeed, as this work demonstrates, these positions are not mutually exclusive. Although library and information studies has a rich history of feminist activism (as demonstrated by Feminist Collections itself), few publications are available on the topic of feminism and archives. Make Your Own History is a welcome

Page 18 Feminist Collections (v. 34, nos. 1–2, Winter–Spring 2013) Going MOOC: Massive Open Online Courses by Phyllis Holman Weisbard

What was the most important new higher education social sciences. Another edX development that may be good concept of the last year? My vote is for MOOC, an acro- news for non-traditional students, including women, is a nym for Massive Open Online Courses. I’ve been following pilot project with the City of Boston to make Harvard and MOOC developments since 2012 in expectation of describ- MIT online courses available through edX at Boston com- ing for Feminist Collections readers what MOOCs are all munity centers, high schools, and libraries with Internet about — and, of course, any gender/women’s studies angle. connections. For a while I held off, because the big three — Coursera, edX, and Udacity — were mostly offering free technical On to Coursera, the MOOC with the most partner courses open to thousands of participants around the globe institutions (33), course offerings (211), and students (2.1 and sporting other features that make these courses doable, million and counting — in fact, there’s a real-time counter including peer “grading” and certificates, but not traditional on the site at https://www.coursera.org/, if you really want course credit upon completion. But the landscape is evolv- an up-to-the-minute number). The University of Wiscon- ing so rapidly, with additional players (including University sin–Madison joined in February 2013, planning to develop of Wisconsin–La Crosse and University of Wisconsin–Madi- four pilot MOOCs (none in gender/women’s studies). Two son) and related new models (including some with fees and Coursera courses which started in early 2013 are in our some with course credit) that it seems worthwhile to assess realm: “Women and the Civil Rights Movement,” taught by the scene at the present time.1 University of Maryland Associate Professor of History and Let me dispense first with Udacity (https://www. Women’s Studies Elsa Barkely Brown; and “Contraception: udacity.com/), which debuted with and continues to offer Choices, Culture and Consequences,” offered by Jerusalem “artificial intelligence” and other computer science courses, Makonnen, an Associate Clinical Professor in the School and edX, which debuted primarily with science and technol- of Nursing, University of California San Francisco. Brown’s ogy courses, although that may be changing. As the Udacity course description is worth quoting, because it gives a good blog tells it, three roboticists started Udacity to “reinvent sense of how MOOCs run. This course consists of lecture education for the 21st century by bridging the gap between videos, each eight to twelve minutes long, plus real-world skills, relevant education, and employment.” To date, Udacity has not announced any movement into the a series of video discussions, including an analyti- humanities or social sciences. cal overview of the week’s topics and themes and edX (https://www.edx.org/) was founded as a not- shorter case studies of specific activists, organiza- for-profit enterprise by Harvard and MIT, and has since tions, events. I will also offer video discussions of been joined by Berkeley, the University of Texas System, the major readings. There will be weekly quizzes Wellesley, and Georgetown. Any time you see a website with and throughout the course students will be asked to nameofschoolX, you are in edX territory. Courses are housed write short essays offering insights into the reading. on edX’s open source online learning platform, which, ac- After a student has submitted an essay, the student cording to the edX FAQ, includes “self-paced learning, will be given access to the essays written by several online discussion groups, wiki-based collaborative learning,” fellow students and be asked to read and com- student assessment, and “online laboratories and other in- ment on those. The course will include an optional teractive learning tools.” Using data from the courses, edX online forum where students may raise questions universities are also researching how students learn and how about the historical material and engage the con- both online and on-campus learning can be transformed temporary implications of our discussions of citi- by technology. The University of Texas System includes six zenship, rights, and political organizing. The forum health institutions, which may give rise to health courses will be monitored and in some cases I will reply in that will be of use to the gender/women’s studies commu- the forum or post a supplementary video clip for nity. Neither Georgetown nor Wellesley has yet to announce the class based on issues raised in the forum.2 its edX courses to start in Fall 2013, but with Wellesley in particular representing a liberal arts institution that educates If more instructors and institutions want to develop women, one hopes that it will at least experiment with an women/gender-focused MOOCs, assessment of how the interactive discussion-based course in the humanities or discussions and forum work out in this course will be criti-

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cal, particularly if there are hundreds or perhaps thousands course site click on an Amazon link for a recommended of students. text and purchase it. Coursera pays university partners 6 to 15 percent of revenues, according to a reading of several Some unanticipated problems have arisen with contracts between Coursera and its partners. MOOCs. Who would have predicted that students would cheat in a free, non-credit environment? Both Udacity and What about credit? Students are beginning to have edX have addressed this by contracting with Pearson VUE, the option of receiving actual college credit. Antioch Uni- available in 110 countries, to proctor final exams. Students versity in Los Angeles awards credit for completion of sitting for proctored exams pay a fee to Pearson, and, in Coursera’s “Modern and Contemporary American Poetry” the case of edX, will be awarded a different certificate from and “Greek and Roman Mythology”; the University of those who take them under the pre-existing honor code Washington offers a fee-based credit option for some Cours- arrangement. Going a slightly different route, Coursera is era courses. Colorado State University’s Global Campus will partnering with online proctoring companies that use Web- award transfer credits for Udacity computer science courses, cams, keystroke biometrics, and other means to monitor if the students pay for the proctored test, and some Euro- test-taker identity remotely. Students who want a verified pean universities offer credit already. In November 2012, the certificate from Coursera will need to signal, early in the American Council on Education (ACE) announced plans course, that they intend to be on the “Signature Track,” and to evaluate selected Coursera courses for college credit, and they will need to pay for to research other aspects of this verification up front, MOOCs; this venture will possibly between $30 and be funded by the Bill & $100. Another issue was Melinda Gates Foundation. short-lived: the Minnesota In February, ACE approved Office of Higher Education five such courses. Although announced that universi- accepting the credits is up to ties offering Coursera-based individual institutions, ACE courses needed to register endorsement is a recognized with the state (based on a standard, and it is likely that consumer protection law), most schools will approve to which Coursera respond- the credits. ed by cautioning Minneso- While the Big Three tans not to take any of its have captured most of courses — but in the face the limelight, they are far of widespread clamour, the from the only MOOCs state office hastily rescinded or MOOC-related things its pronouncement. around. Dwarfing the size of the three of them put to- How free is free? gether is iTunes U, Apple’s Besides student payment app for lectures, courses, for exam proctoring or conference proceedings, identity verification, money and other academic mate- changes hands in other rial from high schools and ways. Students may pay colleges around the world, for tutoring and for fee- grouped in “collections.” But based advanced courses. the iTunes U items are a go- Companies may purchase to place more for free aca- customized courses that are demic podcasts and videos based on the free content than for full-blown courses, and get access to course Miriam Greenwald at least thus far with respect results for their existing to gender/women’s studies. staff or potential recruits. Items pertaining to women Colleges that wish to use entire courses from MOOC or gender abound, but to date they are individual lectures providers pay licensing fees. Textbook publishers and others or interviews rather than true courses. Examples: “What can pay to have ads appear on course sites. Coursera receives Defines Sexuality?”3 from the Open University; “Women’s a payment from Amazon when students on a Coursera Empowerment,” Lecture 10 in the course “Case Studies

Page 20 Feminist Collections (v. 34, nos. 1–2, Winter–Spring 2013) Going MOOC in Primary Health Care,” from Johns Hopkins University; tions in a video. Harvey Mudd College teamed with Piazza, speakers at “Driving Change, Shaping Lives: Gender in the commercial wiki-style question-and-answer software, to Developing World,” sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute, offer the pilot. No reports assessing the project from the Harvard University; “Simone de Beauvoir Today,” at Duke perspective of participants has as yet been published, nor has University; and “Women’s Studies 101,” labeled as a two- WitsOn said whether it repeat the experiment. hour “crash course” for Eastern Tennessee State University History Harvest is a project that may develop into a faculty and staff. MOOC; let’s call it a pre-MOOC at this point. Starting in 2010, students and faculty at James Madison University and Of more utility for someone looking for actual gen- the University of Nebraska have held community events der/women’s studies courses online is the international where community folks bring artifacts and stories, which OpenCourseWare Consortium at http://www.ocwconsor- the students document and digitize. The organizers hope to tium.org/. This Hewlett Foundation-funded project indexes expand this to a MOOC-like online course with students open-access courses sponsored by member institutions and running History Harvests in their local areas and also collab- hosted on their sites. MIT is by far the main provider of orating online with students from other regions. This strikes the 300+ gender/women’s studies courses listed, including me as a great idea for a women’s history effort. “Gender and Representation of Asian Women,” “Medieval Women Writers,” “Feminist Theory,” “Psychology of Gen- Another company to jump into the MOOC fray is In- der,” “Gender, Power, and International Relations,” and structure, a course management system (more recently such scores of others. The University of Notre Dame, the Univer- products have been dubbed “learning management systems”) sity of Cape Town, and the Open University also turn up in vendor, whose Canvas software competes with Blackboard searches for “women” or “gender” as keywords in the course and Desire2Learn. In December 2012, Instructure launched titles and descriptions. Neither iTunes U nor OpenCourse- the Canvas Network, a directory of free open online courses Ware offers discussions, peer grading, or the camaraderie of run by Canvas customers, including Brown University, the taking a course along with others. University of Central Florida, and several others. Encourag- Besides OpenCourseWare, several new ventures might ing for Feminist Collections readers to note is that this new help students find MOOCs by subject, including Course- venture already sports one gender-related course among its Buffet (http://www.coursebuffet.com), Class Central initial twenty: “Gender Through Comic Books” (https:// (http://www.class-central.com), Knollop (http://www. www.canvas.net/courses/gender-through-comic-books), knollop.com) and CourseTalk (http://coursetalk.org), all taught by Christina Blanch, a doctoral candidate and ad- reviewed by Alisha Azevedo in the Chronicle of Higher Edu- junct professor at Ball State University. Blackboard itself cation.4 Searching these for “gender” or “women’s studies” created Coursesites.com as software for MOOCs and used repeatedly turned up the two Coursera courses mentioned it to offer one course in Fall 2012: “Designing an Exemplary above and the MIT and other OpenCourseWare offerings. Course.” The course is still available as a self-paced experi- CourseBuffet is the only one of these indexes that added ence. something else: three courses from Saylor.org, including Desire2Learn is in the MOOC picture as well. In “Feminist Politics,” “Gender and Sexuality,” and “Medieval November 2012, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Women Writers.” “Feminist Politics” is the only one of the awarded the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse a $50,000 three that lists a person responsible for the course: Amy grant to develop an algebra MOOC using the Desire2Learn Gangl is listed as “course designer,” and the course lectures platform. Learning Management System companies may are all available through iTunes and YouTube. “Gender and have an advantage in the long run over upstarts using new Sexuality” links to lectures from a variety of speakers, also platforms in MOOC creation, as instructors on client cam- available on iTunes or YouTube, but “Medieval Women puses are already familiar with their product and may even Writers,” seems to be in revision (“This course is currently have courses ready to “go MOOC.” being improved through our peer review process”) and cur- In January 2013, Udacity and San Jose State University rently lists two unlinked lectures. announced a pilot hybrid plan in which SJSU professors will WitsOn (Women in Technology Sharing Online, create the videos to be used in remedial and introductory https://piazza.com/witson) is a novel MOOC-like project math courses mounted by Udacity, with Udacity supplying that tapped the power of the Internet to make connections online mentors. Students will pay $150 tuition per course, between female STEM students and prominent women in much less than for other SJSU courses, will also have in- STEM fields in academe, government, and industry who class sessions with professors, and will receive credit upon served as mentors during a six-week pilot in Fall 2012. The completion. mentors answered questions submitted online by students from the participating universities (Harvey Mudd College, Hard on the heels of the Udacity/SJSU announce- Cornell, California Institute of Technology, Princeton, etc.), ment, the Dallas-based company Academic Partnerships and each week one lead mentor answered some of the ques- (AP) debuted MOOC2DEGREE (http://www.mooc2de-

Feminist Collections (v. 34, nos. 1–2, Winter–Spring 2013) Page 21 Going MOOC gree.com/), in collaboration with several of AP’s public Notes university partners, for introductory online courses at no charge. It’s a recruitment strategy, according to Michael Tan- 1. For this article, I have drawn on the websites of the com- ner, vice-president for academic affairs of the Association panies and university partners, the American Council on of Public and Land-Grant Universities, as quoted by Tamar Education website, and coverage in The Chronicle of Higher Lewin in The New York Times. Says Tanner: “[G]ive them a Education, Inside Higher Ed, The New York Times, and other free sample, and maybe they’ll find they have an appetite for news accounts. Full citations are available upon request. If it”5 (and pay for subsequent courses.) There is no list yet of you’d like to keep up with MOOC developments generally, MOOC2DEGREE courses available online (the Academic try “What You Need to Know about MOOCs,” a Chronicle Partners site links to individual campus participants, with of Higher Education page in the form of a timeline, with each requiring separate registration to receive more informa- new items added regularly: http://chronicle.com/article/ tion), nor have CourseBuffet or any of the other MOOC What-You-Need-to-Know-About-MOOCs/133475/, ac- indexing sites picked these up; but according to news cover- cessed February 19, 2013. The effects of MOOCs on actual age, for starters, the courses are mostly professional-oriented, teaching and learning are only beginning to be felt and are for potential nursing, education, and business students. beyond my scope in this article. Two more upstarts to mention: Semester Online (http://semesteronline.org/) and Udemy (https://www. 2. https://www.coursera.org/course/womencivilrights udemy.com/). Semester Online is a consortium of ten universities (including the University of North Carolina, 3. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/course/what-defines- Brandeis, and Northwestern) whose courses are the opposite sexuality/id495059065?ign-mpt=uo%3D2 of MOOCs. Where MOOCs are massive, these are small; where MOOCs rarely offer credit, Semester Online does, 4. “New Guides Aim to Become the YELP for MOOCs,” and where MOOCs are free, Semester Online comes with December 4, 2013, https://chronicle.com/blogs/ hefty tuition bills. The target audience for Semester Online, wiredcampus/new-guides-aim-to-become-the-yelp-for- which will debut in Fall 2013, is both on-campus students moocs/41183, accessed January 24, 2013. and distance learners. Exactly what distinguishes this venture from the type of online courses already available for years at 5. Tamar Lewin, “Public Universities to Offer Free Online numerous institutions is unclear. Classes for Credit,” New York Times, January 23, 2013, If Semester Online is the opposite of MOOCs, Udemy http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/23/education/public- is the opposite of academic courses from scholars, offer- universities-to-offer-free-online-classes-for-credit.html?_ ing practical and avocational classes — although Udemy r=0, accessed January 24, 2013. instructors may be “experts” in their fields. What first drew me to Udemy was an offering called “The Feminist Startup: [Phyllis Holman Weisbard is the women’s studies librarian for Single Founder Startup Kit For Women.” For twenty-five the University of Wisconsin and co-editor of Feminist Collec- dollars, D. Sapp, identified as the founder of “matriarc,” a tions.] DIY social PR platform, provides one and a half hours of content. But if your interests run more to pole dancing or “how to impress women with magic tricks,” you can find those on Udemy as well. MOOCs, pre-MOOCs, MOOC-like entities, and The Wisconsin Women’s Studies MOOC opposites all bear exploring by everyone who works Librarian is on Facebook — in higher education, as well as by those who want to tap the Internet for self-improvement and enlightenment. www.facebook.com/womenst — and Twitter, too! — @ WisWSLibrarian. Follow us there to get updates and be part of ongoing conversations about feminist issues and resources.

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Our website (http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/) includes The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History is recent editions of this column and links to complete back “a grassroots organization that transforms spaces into issues of Feminist Collections, plus many bibliographies, a temporary installations dedicated to celebrating the rich, database of women-focused videos, and links to hundreds of long, and largely unknown histories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, other websites by topic. and transgender people. We believe that our community Information about electronic journals and magazines, — and especially our youth — deserve to know our particularly those with numbered or dated issues posted on history. If you don’t know you have a past, how can you a regular schedule, can be found in our “Periodical Notes” believe you have a future? In an intellectual climate where column. even the Smithsonian can be forced to bow to the will of homophobia and remove the work of seminal queer artist David Wojnarowicz, we must create alternative venues for our art and history. By utilizing temporarily empty and/or Sites to See public spaces, the pop-up format turns economic reality to our favor and expands our reach beyond a single location, If you hadn’t heard about BREAST CANCER ACTION, while the online presence serves as the connecting thread the “national, feminist grassroots education and advocacy between physical installations.” Read the call for proposals organization working to end the breast cancer epidemic,” for the next pop-up, “Homoeconomics: LGBTQ Histories before the spring of 2013, you probably have by now. of the Brooklyn Waterfront,” at http://bit.ly/121s9uR or BCAction, unlike some organizations, refuses to “take http://www.queermuseum.com/homoeconomics_cfp/. money from anyone who profits from or contributes to the breast cancer epidemic,” and is “the only national breast The QUEER ZINE ARCHIVE PROJECT (QZAP, www. cancer organization named as a plaintiff” in the Supreme qzap.org) is an absolutely DIY (do-it-yourself) endeavor, Court case (Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad now approaching its tenth anniversary, organized and Genetics) about the patenting of human genes, in which hosted entirely by volunteers. QZAP’s physical location oral arguments were heard on April 15, 2013. And on May in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, houses 1200-some physical 10, 2013, well-known women’s health advocate Barbara copies of zines, almost 500 of which have been scanned Brenner, who was BCAction’s first full-time executive and are downloadable from the current archive gallery at director, passed away. BCAction’s “takes” on gene patenting, http://bit.ly/16UKHyx or http://qzap.org/v5/index. screening, treatment, the environment, corporate profits, php?option=com_gallery2&Itemid=28. QZAP is, and social inequities as they relate to breast cancer are however, “on the cusp of launching a new digital archive, well worth reading at http://bit.ly/188xDVW or http:// completely revamping the current web site and making bcaction.org/our-take-on-breast-cancer/. it much more amazing. The new site has much improved search, faceted browsing, and allows us to create digital FLYOVER FEMINISM (“east, west, all the rest”) aims exhibits, so we’ll be able to highlight and present queer zines to amplify feminist voices that are not from the U.S. in totally different ways.” True to its DIY commitment, coasts or major cities — that is, “feminists/womanists/ QZAP is running its own fundraising campaign to raise activists outside major media centers whose issues are given money for the digital archive, physical storage space, and insufficient coverage and attention by the mainstream office supplies; it’s called a “Frick-starter.” Donations can media outlets, and whose voices are frequently left out of take the form of gift cards, “well-concealed cash,” in-kind the national dialogue. We believe that a space elevating the gifts of items from the collective’s wish list, and even PayPal visibility of online and offline feminism across the country transactions. is important because such activism has traditionally been viewed skeptically by coastal and metropolitan activists.” The Wisconsin Women’s Council “conducts The activists currently facilitating the project hail from such research and hosts programs on public policy issues affecting “flyover” states as Pennsylvania, Texas, Indiana, and Iowa, as women and girls in our state.” Monthly FAST FACTS well as from New Zealand, India, and the U.K. Meet them from the Council draw on Census Bureau data to report at http://flyoverfeminism.com.

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Christianne Corbett & Catherine Hill, Graduating to a Pay Gap: The Earnings of Women and Men One Year after College Graduation. Washington, D.C.: AAUW, 2012. 64pp. ISBN: 978- 1879922433. Full report (PDF), summary, print-copy ordering, and information about the research at http:// bit.ly/11f0DbP or http://www.aauw.org/research/ graduating-to-a-pay-gap/.

The Institute for Development Studies produced two working papers about “strategies of feminist bureaucrats” in 2012: Ines Smyth & Laura Turquet, STRATEGIES OF FEMINIST BUREAUCRATS: PERSPECTIVES FROM INTERNATIONAL NGOS, IDS Working Paper No. 396, at http://bit.ly/10OzHcY or http://www.ids. ac.uk/idspublication/strategies-of-feminist-bureaucrats- perspectives-from-international-ngos; and Joanne Sandler & Aruna Rao, Strategies of Feminist Bureaucrats: United Nations Experiences, IDS Working Paper No. 397, at http://bit.ly/197ECxi or http://www.ids.ac.uk/idspublication/strategies-of- feminist-bureaucrats-united-nations-experiences.

Cecilia Tacoli, URBANIZATION, GENDER AND URBAN POVERTY: PAID WORK AND UNPAID CAREWORK IN THE CITY. Urbanization and Emerging Population Issues Working Paper 7, International Institute for Environment and Development, United Nations Miriam Greenwald Population Fund, 2012. Find under “Population and Development Publications” at http://bit.ly/Zgai1A or on Wisconsin women’s social and economic status. The http://www.unfpa.org/public/home/publications/pubs_ April 2013 fact sheet at http://womenscouncil.wi.gov/ is pd. about Wisconsin’s gender wage gap; the topic for March was “Single Mother Households & Poverty.” Julie Ham, WHAT’S THE COST OF A RUMOUR? A GUIDE TO SORTING OUT THE MYTHS AND THE FACTS ABOUT SPORTING EVENTS AND Downloadable Documents TRAFFICKING. Bangkok: Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW), 2011. 75pp. PDF at http://bit. Ricardo Hausmann, Laura D. Tyson, & Saadia Zahidi, ly/16QGzyY or http://www.gaatw.org/publications/ The Global Gender Gap Report 2012 . World WhatstheCostofaRumour.11.15.2011.pdf. Economic Forum, 2012. 381pp. ISBN 978-9295044784. http://bit.ly/10pQ0hC http://www3.weforum. PDF at or m Compiled by JoAnne Lehman org/docs/WEF_GenderGap_Report_2012.pdf.

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African Women For example, the introduction makes a to married couples with collaborative number of compelling and important business ventures, but the two end- Toyin Falola & Nana Akua Ampon- points about doing any type of histori- notes for the section direct us to a sah, WOMEN’S ROLES IN SUB- cal research, and, in particular, wom- single field study, conducted in 1956– SAHARAN AFRICA. Santa Barbara, en’s history research in Africa. The pre- 1957 and published in 1963 (pp. CA: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, 2012. colonial period is a particular challenge 46–47). If, indeed, “unquestionably, (Women’s roles through history.) due to the lack of written sources; and change is perhaps the most character- 249p. bibl. index. $58.00, ISBN 978- although European travelers did record istic feature in the history of modern 0313385445. some observations, their writings main- Africa,” (p. 51), then perhaps equating ly focused on interactions with the rul- “contemporary” with the late 1950s is Reviewed by Rachel Bicicchi ing class and saw everything through a bit of a stretch. Finally, the text is ac- a very Eurocentric, gendered lens: companied by a number of wonderful Greenwood has taken a somewhat women were princesses and queens, pictures, many from Falola’s personal peculiar approach to organizing the mothers, concubines, and slaves. Oral collection. However, they seem to be Women’s Roles through History series. accounts and the anthropological re- scattered throughout the text some- Several volumes on North America and cord tell us that these are incomplete what haphazardly. For example, the Europe are organized by both location pictures, but, unfortunately, what we aforementioned section on Burundi is and time period, while the rest of the do know about the roles of ordinary accompanied by a photo of a family world is separated only by geography, women in the pre-colonial period is eating a meal in Senegal. In the religion with only one volume per region ex- fairly generic (pp.1–2). Another fine chapter, the section on Christianity fea- pected to cover women’s roles through- example is Chapter 3, which points out tures a photo of a woman in “Islamic out recorded history. The result, in the the paradoxical nature religion can play attire,” while the section covering Islam case of Women’s Roles in Sub-Saharan in women’s lives, both as a source of contains no pictures. Africa, is a book that is trying to cover reverence and equality and as a source Nitpicking aside, the book re- quite a bit of ground. For the most of subordination and oppression (pp. ceived a “recommended” review from part, it succeeds. 67, 70–71, 84–91). Choice, and it will be most useful in The book consists of an introduc- The authors do their best to avoid high school and undergraduate collec- tion and seven chapters, organized over-generalizations and essentialism, tions, particularly those that already around the themes of courtship and but given a wide-ranging topic to cover have the previous volumes in the Wom- marriage, family, religion, work, the in limited space, this book does have en’s Roles in History series. arts and literature, government, and some limitations. Generalizations do education. A chronology, glossary, bib- creep in from time to time, particu- [Rachel Bicicchi is an assistant professor, liography, and index are also included, larly in the chapter introductions (in educational technology coordinator, & of which the chronology and glossary fact, the authors discuss this danger research/instruction librarian at Millikin will be of particular help to many at the opening of Chapter 1 [p. 13]). University in Decatur, Illinois. She is also Western readers, who may be unfamil- The depth of research seems somewhat the collection liaison librarian for com- iar with African history. uneven as well. The chapter on reli- munication, English/literature, gender At its best, the book is a highly gion stands out as exemplary (perhaps studies, leisure reading, mathematics, and readable, well-structured introduction unsurprisingly, it contained the largest physics and astronomy.] to both the history of women in Africa number of endnotes). On the other and some of the challenges faced by hand, in the chapter on women and modern historians in “doing history.” families, one section looks at “contem- porary” roles in Burundi with regard

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Chemistry Elizabeth Brown, author of the book. Crime A great feature of this publication is Jeannette E. Brown, AFRICAN that many of the entries include at least Reviewed by Susan Bennett White AMERICAN WOMEN CHEMISTS. one photograph. New York: Oxford University Press, A few special features will make Judith A. Warner, WOMEN AND 2012. 264p. bibl. index. $35.00, ISBN this work extremely valuable to stu- CRIME: A REFERENCE HAND- 978-0199742882. dents and researchers. Chapter 2, for BOOK. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC- instance, suggests other books that CLIO, 2012. (Contemporary world is- Reviewed by Laura Wilson include historical background infor- sues series.) 339p. index. illus. $68.00, mation on African American women ISBN 978-1598844238; e-book, ISBN The countless contributions chemists. At the end of the book there 978-1598844245. that African American women have are extensive notes from the author, made to society have, unfortunately, a list of publications by the women Women and Crime is the true remained widely unexposed or un- featured in the volume, a historical reference handbook promised in the derexposed. Through its coverage of timeline that covers 1852–2009, and title, both in the thorough and un- African American women chemists a bibliography organized into subjects flinching coverage of its subject and from the mid-1800s to just before such as “Women Chemists,” “African in the breadth of materials included. the start of the Civil Rights Era, this American Women Scientists,” and It begins with three chapter-length es- unique resource shines light on some “Educators’ Resources.” I found the says that create a context for the heavy of these important and impressive chapter entitled “Next Steps” pleasantly factual content of the remainder of contributions that have been largely surprising: it offers advice to young the volume. Each essay is supported ignored in other works. Author Jean- people who are interested in working by frequent in-text citations to a thor- nette E. Brown, African American in the field of chemistry, including in- ough list of references at chapter’s end. chemist herself, states that while her formation about professional organiza- Chapter 4 then provides a ten-page book does not offer a comprehensive tions, sororities, scholarships, suggested chronology, listing events that detail biographical coverage of the contribu- books, and more. the historical intersections of women tions of African American women to This text serves as an excellent and crime while Chapter 5 is twenty- the field of chemistry, this is the “first introduction to individual African seven pages of biographies of fifty-one work to gather information about Af- American women chemists. The index- individuals. Here are found many rican American women chemists into ing is done very well and is useful for women judged criminals by the society one publication” (p.3). This fact alone navigating the various themes that this of their time, plus a few who are no- highlights how important and useful topic spans. At $39.00, this book is table in the criminal justice system for this book can be to all reference collec- an inexpensive addition to any collec- other reasons. These include Supreme tions. tion, and will prove to be a very useful Court Justices Sandra Day O’Connor The volume is organized into resource for students and researchers of and Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg, as chapters by subject, including “Early women’s studies, gender studies, and well as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Pioneers,” “Chemical Educators,” “In- history. Rodham Clinton for her work as an dustry and Government Jobs,” “From advocate for women and against sex Academia to the Board Room,” and [Laura Wilson is a reference and instruc- trafficking. “Chemical Engineers.” Biographical tion librarian and liaison to the ethnic Chapter 6 is both useful and pro- information, including personal and and gender studies department at West- vocative, first listing statistical sources professional details, is provided for field State University.] on crimes committed by women and each individual. There are also entire against women. It includes a warning, chapters for a few women, such as however, that incidents that are unre- Marie Maynard Daly, the first Afri- ported and so not included in official can American woman who received counts are a significant “dark figure of a Ph.D. in chemistry, and Jeannette crime” (p.189) that make overall statis- tics incomplete at best. Then a lengthy

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— ten-page — section on women and sence within both narrative and statisti- sources — useful to have in one place; the law lists specific legislation defin- cal accounts. However, this is otherwise a highly selective bibliography of 125 ing both social norms and criminal a balanced and thorough account of items; a thorough index for both vol- behavior particular to women, followed American women and crime, and is umes with some 1550 entries; and, by sixteen pages of both narrative and highly recommended for both research finally, a listing of credentials for the statistical content on women’s rates of and popular collections where there is 81 individuals who have contributed to victimization in the U.S., then twelve interest in the topic. this encyclopedia. pages detailing sex trafficking, and a Not only is this a highly useful final single page dealing with female Vickie Jensen, ed., Women Crimi- a resource in criminology, especially genital circumcision in the U.S. nals: an Encyclopedia of since women and crime are not well Chapter 7 is a forty-six-page an- People and Issues. Santa documented elsewhere, but it also notated directory of organizations and Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2012. 2 offers remarkable value in feminist government agencies, while Chapter 8 vols. 752 p. illus. $189.00, ISBN studies, since it explores the intersec- presents a twenty-one-page, thorough 978-0313337130; e-book, ISBN 978- tion of women with the law and other and thoughtful annotated bibliography 0313068263. societal norms at notable points, and of print and nonprint sources, includ- covers a time period stretching back ing the often-overlooked category of This highly inclusive resource over the last several hundred years. documentary films. The concluding for the study of feminist criminology Solid scholarship in the opening essays sections are a six-page glossary and opens a thorough survey of the field pairs with accessible language in the an eighteen-page (double-columned) with twelve lengthy essays that make biographies, and the appendices make index. up the entire first volume of this two- available in one place various statistics Material included here is largely volume set. These essays analyze the that are otherwise scattered across limited to events and themes in the core topics of women and crime and numerous sources. Relatively inexpen- U.S. There is overall a strong emphasis women in the criminal justice system, sive, and available in both print and on race, including details on the lives gathering together a broad-based schol- electronic formats, this title is highly of enslaved African women in this arly perspective that is otherwise scat- recommended for large public libraries country. Included are detailed accounts tered or largely lacking in the criminol- and for general reference collections in of how women of color fared in the ogy literature. academic libraries, as well as for any criminal justice system of the time be- The second volume offers a diverse academic libraries that support crimi- ing referenced. The ways in which al- group of resources for understanding nology or women’s studies programs. It cohol and drug abuse relate to charges the field. First are 135 biographical is a welcome and solid reference work and punishment for crimes of the day essays, usually of some two pages in in a field that would be well served by are also thoroughly covered. Prostitu- length, describing the lives of a re- further documentation. tion is included as an activity that is markable list of women. Some of these most often seen as criminal, with notes women are “criminals” in terms widely [Susan Bennett White, who wrote both as to whether it was illegal at the time accepted today in most of Western cul- of the above reviews, is the sociology li- and in the place being covered, and ture — including, for example, Beverly brarian at Princeton University Library, even whether prohibitions against pros- Allitt, a female serial murderer, and Ma where she provides materials and research titution were enforced by the police. Barker, head of a family enterprise of support for the study of women and gen- One heavily feminist theme found kidnapping and robbery. A number of der in many disciplines. She has been a throughout is the ways in which others are associated with prostitution, senior research librarian at Princeton for women were and are often judged and and still others are found here whose more than twenty-five years.] punished more harshly than men, and rather unlikely inclusion can only be even unjustly blamed for men’s illegal explained by some degree of notori- activities. However, one curious and ety — they include Marie Antoinette, disappointing gap is the lack of cover- Josephine Baker, Margaret Sanger, and age of lesbian and transgender women, Gloria Steinem. This volume also in- about whom there is a near total ab- cludes appendices with some 56 pages of statistics and reports from diverse

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Health

Eleanor Hinton Hoytt & Hilary Beard, HEALTH FIRST! THE BLACK WOMAN’S WELLNESS GUIDE. New York: SmileyBooks, 2012. (A Black Women’s Health Imperative project.) 400p. index. pap., $27.95, ISBN 978-1401936952; e-book, ISBN 978-1401936969.

Reviewed by Gabrielle M. Toth

In the United States in 2010, the mortality rate for Black women was 33 percent higher than the rate for white women. Eleanor Hinton Hoytt and Hilary Beard assert that structural racism, cultural conditioning, environ- mental factors, and personal choices have contributed to this harrowing statistic. Hoytt, president and CEO of Black Women’s Health Imperative, and award-winning health journalist Beard aim to change that by giving African American women and girls the tools they need to put themselves and their health first, in Health First! The Black Woman’s Wellness Guide. This book strives to empower Black women to care for themselves by taking a life-cycle approach to wellness and by highlighting how typical life decisions and the social and cultural factors that Miriam Greenwald shape those decisions have consequenc- es for their health. woman’s account of how she faced a Health First! provides plenty of Health First! opens with an over- health risk by making choices to man- facts and figures from experts and re- view of a woman’s lifecycle. Part I, age her condition. Next is a discus- searchers, federal government data, and titled “Your Journey through Life’s sion of the health risk, followed by the first release of a 2007 Harris survey Stages,” examines unique issues that preventative, diagnostic and treatment on the Health Attitudes and Behav- Black women face as adolescents, as measures, all presented in an accessible ior of Black Women (commissioned young adults, as midlife adults, and format with clear headings like “What by the Imperative). It also provides as mature adults. Part II, “Beating the does heart disease look like?” and excerpts from African-American well- Odds,” educates readers about the top “How do I know if I have HPV?” Each ness writers and insights from Black ten health risks Black women face. section concludes with a list of resourc- women themselves. Charts and graphs Each health risk — Cancer, Depres- es. Part III, “Self-Care is Imperative,” throughout depict statistical data in a sion, Diabetes, Heart Disease, HIV/ examines what it means to be healthy reader-friendly fashion; tables house AIDS, Kidney Disease, Obesity, STDs, in mind, body, and spirit. This section information like recommended health Stroke, Violence — has its own sec- closes with a chapter on charting one’s screenings in a useful package. End- tion, and each section opens with a own path to wellness.

Page 28 Feminist Collections (v. 34, nos. 1–2, Winter–Spring 2013) New Reference Works notes, a cumulative resource list, and engendered in the male-dominated man’s 1979 Gender in Advertisements, a ample indexing round out the book. ownership and workforce of the media. seminal work examining gender repre- African American women from ad- A helpful reader’s guide at the begin- sentation in advertising.1 Likewise, in- olescents to elders would benefit from ning of the volume categorizes the clusion of the journals Gender & Soci- Health FIRST! There is encouragement entries as biographies, concepts and ety and Media, Culture, & Society to the throughout for intergenerational dia- theories, discrimination and media ef- Resource Guide would be warranted, logue, so parents and caregivers should fects, internet and new media, media given the work’s topic. Notwithstand- feel confident in sharing this informa- industry, media modes, media portray- ing these limitations, I would recom- tion with their teenagers. Although als and representations, and policy and mend this encyclopedia for addition Health FIRST! does not provide com- advocacy. to reference collections serving com- prehensive coverage of women’s health A feminist/critical perspective munications, women’s/gender/sexuality — providing only limited coverage permeates this work and is reflected in studies, and sociology disciplines, as of prenatal health and pregnancy, for the entries on noted feminist theorists/ it offers an accessible introduction to example — it is thorough and offers activists (e.g., Susan Bordo, bell hooks, gender in media studies. important information on neglected Jean Kilbourne, Gloria Steinem, Kath- topics like reproductive coercion. It leen Hanna) and various concepts, the- Note also provides the most recent coverage ories, and media critique perspectives of African American women’s health; (e.g., for “male gaze,” there are seven 1. Erving Goffman, Gender Advertise- previous titles on the subject are at least entries on different feminist theoretical ments (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Uni- a dozen years old and appear to cover a perspectives, and multiple entries on versity Press, 1979). more narrow age spectrum. beauty and body image and gender and Health First! is an excellent re- femininity). The work also branches [Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh is the librar- source for African American women out, however, to cover other relevant ian for sociology, anthropology, and ger- and for those who care for and about theoretical perspectives and concepts ontology at Georgia State University.] them and their health. for examining gender in media (dis- course analysis, queer theory, semiot- [Gabrielle M. Toth is an associate pro- ics), and does not ignore constructions Scottish Women’s fessor, reference and instruction librar- of masculinity and LGBTQ representa- riting ian, and coordinator of the government tions in media. Likewise, it is inclusive W information collection at Chicago State in terms of what “media” are examined, Glenda Norquay, ed., THE EDIN- University.] from more traditional modes (e.g., BURGH COMPANION TO SCOT- print news and magazines, radio, tele- TISH WOMEN’S WRITING. Ed- vision, and film) to “internet and new inburgh, U.K.: Edinburgh University edia media” (e.g., social networking, virtual M Press, 2012. (Edinburgh companions reality worlds). to Scottish literature. Distributed by Mary Kosut, ed., THE ENCYCLO- The entries themselves are acces- Columbia University Press.) 240p. PEDIA OF GENDER IN MEDIA. sible and well-written, with further bibl. index. pap., $35.00, ISBN 978- Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2012. readings suggested for each topic and 0748644322. 528p. bibl. gloss. index. $125.00, cross-referencing to other relevant en- ISBN 978-1412990790. (Reviewed: tries. A resource guide at the end lists Reviewed by Susan Wood ebrary version [ProQuest], ISBN 978- 75 books, 46 journals, and 34 Internet 1412990806.) resources for further perusal, and the Edited and with an introduction appendix lists websites with editorial by Dr. Glenda Norquay, whose re- Reviewed by Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh commentary regarding their relevance search interests include Robert Louis for research on gender in media. Stevenson and Scottish and British In its 150 entries, this encyclope- Generally, the work is compre- women’s suffrage writing, The Edin- dia not only examines the social con- hensive and thorough. However, an burgh Companion to Scottish Women’s struction of gender via the media and omission of particular note is the lack Writing provides readers with an acces- its influential theorists, but also consid- of a dedicated entry (or any mention in sible introduction to approximately five ers the power dynamics and structure the resource guide) about Erving Goff-

Feminist Collections (v. 34, nos. 1–2, Winter–Spring 2013) Page 29 New Reference Works hundred years of Gaelic and English “Margaret Oliphant and the Periodical sive,” incorporating “racial and gender language women’s writing in Scotland, Press.” inferiority, forced labor, sexual and across literary genres. This companion concludes with reproductive exploitation” as well as Norquay’s introduction usefully a generous list of titles for further establishing “stereotypes about black situates this volume within the exist- reading, divided into three sections: women that persist”(p. xiii). ing body of scholarly work on Scot- general, pre-1800, and post-1800. Berry is an associate professor of tish women’s writing, elaborating on It is an important addition to the history at the University of Texas at intellectual approaches to the Scottish study of Scottish literature and Scot- Austin; she wrote Swing the Sickle for canon, to gender and writing, and to tish sociocultural traditions, as well the Harvest is Ripe: Gender and Slavery individual writers. Norquay discusses as to the broader realm of scholarship in Antebellum Georgia (2007), as well the utility of studying women writers on women’s writing generally. Taken as articles in the Journal of Women’s His- as a group, asking, “Do we need an- as a whole, it offers a scholarly (yet tory and the Journal of African Ameri- other study of Scottish women’s writ- manageable) analysis of the breadth can History. Senior editor Deleso A. ing?...[I]s there still a value in literary of women’s writing in Scotland and is Alford is an associate professor of law segregation?” (pp. 1–2). She goes on to suitable for students as well as scholars. at Florida A & M University’s College clarify the approach taken in this vol- Norquay’s introduction is particularly of Law; she has published articles on ume: “Rather than recovering women useful in framing the collection, pro- women of color and critical race femi- from the margins, this volume takes viding a useful and succinct discussion nism in several law journals. The 111 the opportunity to look at their writing of models and approaches to the study entries in the encyclopedia were writ- as a means of reconfiguring our under- of women’s writing. ten by 78 contributors, most of whom standing of Scottish literature” (p. 2). are faculty members at colleges and Fifteen chapters, produced by [Susan Wood is a librarian at the Uni- universities in the U.S. such notable literary scholars as Carol versity of Memphis.] Enslaved Women in America is Anderson, Sarah M. Dunnigan, Pam aimed at a range of readers, from high Perkins, and Florence S. Boos, present school to college students as well as this broad scope of writing by genre, Slavery the general public. Using the lens of theme, and chronological develop- gender, contributors examine diverse ment. Many of the chapters focus Daina Ramey Berry & Deleso A. Al- aspects of enslaved women’s lives in on the intersectionality of language, ford, eds., ENSLAVED WOMEN IN the U.S. from the sixteenth century culture, nation, landscape, gender, and AMERICA: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA. through 1865. Entries are arranged class. Throughout the volume, readers Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press, alphabetically, and a list of the entries will find biographical and historical 2012. 381p. bibl. index. $89.00, ISBN organized by topic is also provided for details, as well as literary and feminist 978-0313349089; e-book, ISBN 978- ease of access. Biographical sketches criticism. 0313349096. of nineteen bondwomen are included, Thematic and genre divisions such as Harriet Jacobs, Sojourner include spiritual writing, domestic fic- Reviewed by Vanette Schwartz Truth, Celia, and Margaret Garner. tion, Gaelic poetry and song, the bal- The encyclopedia contains entries on lad tradition, the supernatural, genre “I look upon slavery as the worst everyday aspects of life from work, fiction, private writing, periodical evil that ever was. My life has been marriage, families, and living quar- literature, interwar period literature, taken from me in measure by it” (p. ters to food, clothing, and medicine. twentieth-century poetry, and contem- xix). This statement by a fugitive bond- Pregnancy, childbirth, and wet nursing porary fiction. While most of the chap- woman in 1856 reflects the nature of are included along with abortion and ters provide information on a number women’s existence under slave owners. infanticide. Forms of resistance are of individual writers and their works In Enslaved Women in America, which included, such as runaways, truancy, within the genre and period in ques- focuses on the range of gendered expe- and the Underground Railroad. The tion, two chapters focus on individuals: riences in the lives of women and girls brutality of slave life is also covered, Florence S. Boos’s “Janet Hamilton: in the United States, editor-in-chief with entries on branding, punishment, Working-class Memoirist and Com- Daina Ramey Berry ably characterizes medical experimentation, and racial mentator” and Helen Sutherland’s slavery for women as “doubly oppres- and sexual violence. Especially help-

Page 30 Feminist Collections (v. 34, nos. 1–2, Winter–Spring 2013) New Reference Works ful for students are Jenifer L. Barclay’s Theory between theory and agency. Section III, entries on historiography and gender “Bridging the Local and the Global: conventions. Susan Archer Mann, Doing Femi- Feminist Discourses on Colonialism, The entries are concise, engag- nist Theory: From Moder- Imperialism, and Globalization,” fo- ing, and well-written, with both cross nity to Postmodernity. cuses on theory applications — or, to references and suggested readings New York: Oxford University Press, put it another way, on how feminist given for each topic. Excerpts from 2012. 496p. bibl.index. pap., $52.95, theories have addressed specific top- bondwomen’s accounts are high- ISBN 978-0199858101. ics over historical time. For example, lighted along with photographs and Mann introduces the political perspec- illustrations from newspapers, tracts, Reviewed by Beatrice Calvert tive of ecofeminism and shows how pamphlets, and books. Supplementary the concept began to develop in the materials, including a chronology of “Just as textile workers weave yarn nineteenth century within that era’s major events, statistics on the popula- and thread to create fabrics, feminist “radical feminism” and was later given tion of enslaved women, an extensive theorists weave concepts and ideas to its present-day definition by Marxist bibliography, and a detailed index are better understand the gendered fabric and anarchist feminists. Despite the appended. of social life” (p. xvi), writes Susan Ar- division of the text into three sections, The lens of gender gives Enslaved cher Mann in the introduction to this concepts and ideas recur and are woven Women in America a unique focus com- textbook. Mann posits that construct- throughout. Finally, to ensure critical pared to other recent works. Slavery ing feminist theory is not only a social reflection on and analysis of the theo- in the United States: A Social, Political, practice, but also a form of labor and a ries, Mann includes a section of criti- and Historical Encyclopedia (2007) is a political means to effect social change cisms at the end of each chapter. These more general source on slavery; World for women in a myriad of social loca- debating points also give students a of a Slave: Encyclopedia of the Material tions. Doing Feminist Theory examines unique perspective on the theory cov- Life of Slaves in the United States (2011) the paradigm shifts from modernity to ered in the chapter and its role in the deals with the everyday aspects of postmodernity and deconstructs these postmodern “turn.” slave life, but is not specific to women; two strains of social thought to illu- Section I of the volume presents and Women and Slavery in America: A minate both the conflicts they caused liberal feminism, radical feminism, Documentary History (2011) is a valu- within feminism and the growth they Marxist, socialist, and anarchist femi- able collection of excerpted memoirs, inspired within and between the First nism, and intersectionality theories. In letters, and legislation. and Third Waves of the feminist move- each chapter, insert boxes supplement This encyclopedia is a necessity in ment. the text with primary sources such as academic libraries and will be highly The book is organized into three poems, literary excerpts, and excerpts useful for high school and public sections to better aid both students from historical essays by feminists libraries as well. The editors have pro- and teachers in their study of the shift- whose voices play an illustrative role in duced a source that will undoubtedly ing paradigms. Section I, “Modern combining theory with political action. become a definitive reference work Feminist Thought,” is historical, cov- Section I also discusses the importance on women in slavery. Highly recom- ering feminist thought from the late of the First and Second Waves and the mended. eighteenth century to the present day. much-overlooked feminist work done Section II, “Feminist Thought After between those waves. [Vanette Schwartz is the social sciences Taking the Postmodern Turn,” high- Section II delves into postmod- librarian and women and gender studies lights the diversity and multiplicity of ernism, poststructuralism, queer and liaison at Illinois State University.] feminist political perspectives that have transgender theories, and Third Wave characterized U.S. feminist thought. feminisms. The “postmodern turn” is a This aspect of Mann’s analysis is crucial complex intersection of race, class, and in that it emphasizes the connection gender that Mann explains lucidly and thoroughly. The insert boxes here also serve as supplemental lessons about

Feminist Collections (v. 34, nos. 1–2, Winter–Spring 2013) Page 31 New Reference Works putting theory into practice. (Full dis- Women & Men terials, and specific points to cover in closure: I am the author of the short slide displays. Each exercise begins with history of zines and Third Wave femi- Audrey Nelson & Claire Damken a statement of goals and objectives, nism that appears in Box 7.3: “Don’t Brown, The Gender Commu- and ends with a “debrief” section sum- You Know, We Are Talking about a nication Handbook: Con- marizing the points being conveyed. Revolution? Sounds Like a (Zine)” [pp. quering Conversational Chapters sum up with action steps for 272–273].) The younger generation Collisions Between Men both men and women to improve their of feminists will be intrigued by the and Women. San Francisco, CA: communication with the other gender. thought-provoking criticism sections at Pfeiffer, an imprint of Wiley, 2012. Three final chapters lay out detailed the ends of these chapters. 327p. pap., $52.00, ISBN 978- plans for sessions of differing lengths: The book’s final section covers the 1118128794. one hour, a half day, or a full day of emergence of new frameworks focusing training. on transnational and postcolonial femi- Reviewed by Nancy Nyland The authors, with doctorates in nisms in a more global context. their field, have extensive training and Students in upper-level and gradu- This train-the-trainer guidebook teaching experience, and co-authored ate gender studies courses will find this lays out a detailed road map for con- the 2009 book Code Switching: How text to be an invaluable tool for “do- ducting group training about the dif- to Talk So Men Will Listen. While this ing” feminist theory and negotiating its ferent communication styles of women handbook is written in accessible lan- ever-shifting paradigms. and men in corporate workplace guage, the ideas presented are backed culture. Although it will probably be up with five pages of references to re- [Beatrice Calvert is the women’s and most useful for trainers who are already search-based sources. These include au- gender studies librarian in the Nadine somewhat knowledgeable, the very thors who first brought the differences Vorhoff Library, Seltzer-Gerard Read- clear writing style and organization in gender communication to public ing Room, Newcomb College Institute at makes it accessible to new trainers at attention, such as Carol Gilligan of In Tulane University, New Orleans, Loui- any level. a Different Voice and Deborah Tan- siana.] The manual divides this large field nen of You Just Don’t Understand. The into eight chapters, each of which ad- time span of the references, beginning dresses an aspect of gender communi- in 1975, reflects the relative newness cation. Topics covered include “nature of the entire field of study, which only versus nurture” in shaping methods of developed as women began to enter the communication, differences in ways workforce in large numbers. of listening as well as talking, unspo- The Gender Communication ken messages, differences in handling Handbook will be most useful for conflict, and differences in the use of graduate business programs and train- electronic communication. Exercises ing for human resources practitioners. to illustrate the points are outlined in detail, with accompanying handouts, [Nancy Nyland is a librarian at the Ger- suggested useful tools and relevant ma- mantown Campus of Montgomery Col- lege in Montgomery County, Maryland.]

PUSSY RIOT: A PUNK PRAYER, slated to air on HBO on June 10, 2013, is a documentary about the controversial protest/performance tactics of a feminist punk band in Russia — and the subsequent court trial and imprisonment of three of the group’s members. Feminist Collections may eventually be seeking a reviewer to write about this film as a women’s studies resource. Let us know if you watched it and are interested!

Page 32 Feminist Collections (v. 34, nos. 1–2, Winter–Spring 2013) Periodical Notes [Note: See our online quarterly, Feminist Periodicals: A Cur- “[T]he first philosophical journal that marries the rich rent Listing of Contents, to find out what’s being published traditions and conceptual resources of continental philoso- in more than 150 women-related journals: http://womenst. phy and feminist theory. While the field of feminist phi- library.wisc.edu/publications/feminist-periodicals.html.] losophy generally has committed itself to resuscitating and transforming the traditional imagery and representation of women (and maternity and femininity), the field of “conti- nental feminism” more specifically has provided the resourc- Newly Noted es for reconceptualizing the historical legacy of European philosophy and the figures of the feminine and sexual dif- PALIMPSEST: A JOURNAL ON WOMEN, GENDER, ference that have been cultivated therein. The journal aims AND THE BLACK INTERNATIONAL. 2012– . Senior to explore and excavate this feminine figure throughout the editors: T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting & Tiffany Ruby history of philosophy, and to include articles that consider Patterson-Myers. Managing editors: Annette Joseph-Gabriel the relation of the feminine to nature, the body, language, & Tara F. Williams. Publisher: SUNY Press, in partnership and subjectivity, perhaps most especially work that consid- with Vanderbilt University’s African American and Diaspora ers the ways in which the figure of the feminine maintains Studies Program. Frequency: 2/yr. ISSN: 2165-1604 (print), but also quite possibly undermines the schisms between and 2165-1612 (online). Subscriptions through SUNY Journals. among these central elements of human reality. 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Partial contents of v. 2, no. 1 (2012): “Whiteness and “[T]he goal of Palimpsest is to engender further explo- the General Will: Diversity Work as Willful Work,” by Sarah rations of the Black International as a liberation narrative; Ahmed; “On the Need for a New Ethos of White Antira- and Black Internationalism as an insurgent consciousness cism,” by Shannon Sullivan; “Normalization and the Welfare formed over and against retrogressive practices embodied in State,” by Ladelle McWhorter; “‘I would rather be a cyborg slavery, colonialism, imperialism, and globalization, from than a goddess’: Becoming Intersectional in Assemblage the early modern period to the present.” Theory,” by Jasbir K. Puar; plus “reflections” and book re- Partial contents of v. 1, no. 1 (2012), “Liberation Across views. 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Feminist Collections (v. 34, nos. 1–2, Winter–Spring 2013) Page 33 Periodical Notes ering water worldwide; in developing countries women walk L. Jarrett, Ezella Mcpherson, & Ozge Sensoy Bahar; up to 5km each way and expend up to half their calories on “Womanism, Spirituality, and Self-Health Management water fetching. Providing water access and sanitation means Behaviors of African American Older Women,” by Idethia that women can stay in school longer and are healthier and Shevon Harvey, LaShaune Johnson, & Corliss Heath; lose fewer days from sickness in the family. Governments, “Latina Sexuality: De(re)constructing Gender and Cultural foreign aid agencies and non-governmental organizations Expectations in Midlife,” by Yvette G. Flores; “Health, are increasingly paying more attention to the importance of Disability, Psychological Well-Being and Depressive women’s access to water and sanitation.” Symptoms Among Older African American Women,” by Contents of current issue (v. 2, no. 1, March 2013): Ann W. Nguyen et al. “Transforming Women’s Water Burdens into Opportuni- ties,” by Gemma Bulos; “Does the European Union ‘Walk the Walk’ or Just ‘Talk the Talk’ of Gender Equality in Water pecial ssues of eriodicals Development Projects in the Lower Mekong Region?” by S I P Annick Masselot & Robert Brears; “Gender Mainstreaming: ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PO- Who Wins? Gender and Irrigated Urban Vegetable Produc- LITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE v. 639, no. 1 (January tion in West Africa,” by P. Dreschel, L. Hope, & O. Cofie; 2012): Special issue: “Gender and Race Inequality in Man- “Gender, Disaster, and Resilience: Assessing Women’s Water agement: Critical Issues, New Evidence.” Issue editor: Matt and Sanitation Needs in Leogane, Haiti Before and After L. Huffman. Publisher: SAGE. ISSN: 0002-7162. Available the 2010 Earthquake,” by Mimi Sheller et al.; “Assessing the electronically to licensed users through SAGE Journals. Role of Women in Microfinance for Water Supply and Sani- Partial contents: “Minority Vulnerability in Privileged tation Services,” by Abigail Waldorf; “Beyond Distance and Occupations: Why Do African American Financial Advisers Time: Gender and the Burden of Water Collection in Rural Earn Less than Whites in a Large Financial Services Firm?” Uganda,” by Richard B. Asaba et al. by William T. Bielby; “Managing Ambivalent Prejudices: Smart-but-Cold and Warm-but-Dumb Stereotypes,” WOMEN, GENDER, AND FAMILIES OF COLOR. by Susan T. Fiske; “Power, Influence, and Diversity in 2013– . http://womengenderandfamilies.ku.edu/. Editor: Organizations,” by Jeffrey W. Lucas & Amy R. Baxter; Jennifer Hamer. Managing editor: Bobbi Rahder. Assistant “Diversity within Reach: Recruitment versus Hiring in Elite editor: Ishwanzya Rivers. Sponsored by the University of Firms,” by Lauren A. Rivera; “Developmental Practices, Kansas, housed within its Department of American Studies. Organizational Culture, and Minority Representation Publisher: University of Illinois Press, http://www.press. in Organizational Leadership: The Case of Partners in uillinois.edu/wordpress/?p=10024. Frequency: 2/yr. ISSN: Large U.S. Law Firms,” by Fiona M. Kay and Elizabeth 2326-0939 (print), 2326-0947 (online). H. Gorman; “If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You the “[A] new multidisciplinary journal that centers the Boss? Explaining the Persistent Vertical Gender Gap study of Black, Latino/a, Indigenous, and Asian American in Management,” by Heather A. Haveman & Lauren women, gender, and families. Within this framework, the S. Beresford; “Women’s Mobility into Upper-Tier journal encourages theoretical and empirical research from Occupations: Do Determinants and Timing Differ by history, the social and behavioral sciences, and humani- Race?” by George Wilson; “Money, Benefits, and Power: A ties including comparative and transnational research, and Test of the Glass Ceiling and Glass Escalator Hypotheses,” analyses of domestic social, political, economic, and cultural by Ryan A. Smith; “Do Female Top Managers Help Women policies and practices within the United States.” to Advance? A Panel Study Using EEO-1 Records,” by Fidan “[R]eplaces and expands the mission of Black Women, Ana Kurtulus & Donald Tomaskovic-Devey; “Minorities Gender, and Families (University of Illinois Press 2006- in Management: Effects on Income Inequality, Working 2012).” Conditions, and Subordinate Career Prospects among Men,” Partial contents of v. 1, no. 1 (“scheduled for release by David Maume; “Female Leaders, Organizational Power, in Spring 2013”): “Constructing Syphilis and Black and Sex Segregation,” by Kevin Stainback & Soyoung Motherhood: Maternal Healthcare for Women of African Kwon; “Checking the Pulse of Diversity among Health Descent in New York’s Columbus Hill, 1915–1930,” by Care Professionals: An Analysis of West Coast Hospitals,” Tanya Hart; “‘He’s Still a Child Right Now, So He Has by Sheryl L. Skaggs & Julie A. Kmec; “The Gender Gap in a Long Way to Go to Try to Keep his Health Up There’: Executive Compensation: The Role of Female Directors and Caregiver Strategies to Promote the Nutritional Health Chief Executive Officers,” by Taekjin Shin. of Low-income, African American Children,” by Robin

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ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES v. 35, no. 5 (2012): Pinheiro; “Sport as a Cultural Model: Italian Women’s Soc- Special issue: “Gender, Migration, and the Media: Politics cer over the Past Ten Years,” by Ivana Matteucci; “Epilogue: of Representation in a Mediated World.” Issue editor: Myria Heritage, Progression, Regression and Advance!” by J.A. Georgiou. Publisher: Routledge. ISSN: 0141-9870 (print), Mangan. 1466-4356 (online). Available electronically to licensed users through Taylor & Francis Online. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT RE- Partial contents: “Access denied: the anatomy of silence, VIEWS v. 14, no. 2 (June 2012): Special issue: “New Direc- immobilization and the gendered migrant,” by Katharine tions in Gender, Diversity and Organization Theorizing.” Sarikakis; “Getting integration right? Media transnational- Issue editors: Carol Woodhams, Jamie L. Callahan, & Bev- ism and domopolitics in Ireland,” by Gavan Titley; “Intersec- erly Dawn Metcalfe. Publisher: Blackwell. ISSN: 1468-2370 tionality and mediated cultural production in a globalized (online). Available electronically to licensed users through post-colonial world,” by Isabelle Rigoni; “Migrant African Wiley Online Library. women: tales of agency and belonging,” by Olga Guedes Partial contents: “Kanter Revisited: Gender, Power and Bailey; “Watching soap opera in the diaspora: cultural prox- (In)Visibility,” by Patricia Lewis & Ruth Simpson; “Disabil- imity or critical proximity?” by Myria Georgiou; “Online ity as Constructed Difference: A Literature Review and Re- mediations in transnational spaces: cosmopolitan (re)forma- search Agenda for Management and Organization Studies,” tions of belonging and identity in the Turkish diaspora,” by by Jannine Williams & Sharon Mavin; “An Emic Approach Miyase Christensen; “Identities in-between: the impact of to Intersectional Study of Diversity at Work: A Bourdieuan satellite broadcasting on Greek Orthodox minority (Rum Framing,” by Ahu Tatli & Mustafa F. Özbilgin; “Gender Polites) women’s perception of their identities in Turkey,” by Mainstreaming and Employment in the European Union: A Asli Tunç & Ariana Ferentinou; “Do Turkish women in the Review and Analysis of Theoretical and Policy Literatures,” diaspora build social capital? Evidence from the Low coun- by Iris Rittenhofer & Caroline Gatrell. tries,” by Christine Ogan & Leen d’Haenens. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF METHODOLOGY v. 13, no. 3 (2010): Special issue on SPORT v. 29, no. 2 (March 2012): Special issue: “Sport feminism and quantitative methods. Issue editors: Christina and the Emancipation of European Women: The Struggle Hughes & Rachel Lara Cohen. Publisher: Routledge. ISSN: for Self-Fulfillment.” Issue editor: Gigliola Gori. Publisher: 1364-5579 (print), 1464-5300 (online). Available electroni- Routledge. ISSN: 0952-3367 (print), 1743-9035 (online). cally to licensed users through EBSCOHost. [Also published Available electronically to licensed users through Taylor & as book: Christina Hughes, ed., Feminism Counts: Quanti- Francis Online. tative Methods and Researching Gender (Routledge, 2012), Partial contents: “Prologue: Atalanta as Symbol of Eu- ISBN 978-0415592062.] ropean Sportswomen,” by Gigliola Gori; “Emancipation Partial contents: “Doing feminist-demography,” by Through Sports: Doctors and the Rise of the Female Body Jill R. Williams; “Identifying dissonant and complemen- in Finland c.1900–1920,” by Anssi Halmesvirta; “Projec- tary data on women through the triangulation of histori- tion of Male Fantasies: The Creation of ‘Scientific’ Female cal sources,” by Lotta Vikström; “Quantitative methods Gymnastics,” by Hans Bonde; “The ‘Floating Baroness’ and and gender inequalities,” by Jacqueline Scott; “Measuring the ‘Queen of the Skis,’” by Annette R. Hofmann; “The equalities: data and indicators in Britain,” by Sylvia Walby Development of the Female Scouting Movement: Evidence & Jo Armstrong; “Feminist epistemology and the poli- of Female Emancipation in Italy,” by Roberta Vescovi; tics of method: surveying same sex domestic violence,” by “From Women’s Exclusion to Gender Institution: A Brief Marianne Hestera, Catherine Donovan, & Eldin Fahmy; History of the Sexual Categorisation Process within Sport,” “Counting woman abuse: a cautionary tale of two surveys,” by Sylvain Ferez; “Women in Weapon Land: The Rise of by Diane Crocker. International Women’s Fencing,” by Thierry Terret & Cécile Ottogalli-Mazzacavallo; “The Sports Woman as a Cultural IRANIAN STUDIES v. 45, no. 4 (July 2012): Special Challenge: Swedish Popular Press Coverage of the Olympic section: “Rethinking Gender in Contemporary Iranian Art Games during the 1950s and 1960s,” by Helena Tolvhed; and Cinema.” Guest editors: Negar Mottahedeh & Sara “Breaking Down the Sex Barrier: The Emancipation of Fe- Saljoughi. Publisher: Routledge. ISSN: 0021-0862 (print), male Modern Pentathlon in West Germany (1967–1981),” 1475-4819 (online). Available electronically to licensed users by Sandra Heck; “Women’s Sport in Portugal from 1974 through Taylor & Francis Online and EBSCOHost. (the ‘Carnation Revolution’) to 2000,” by Maria Claudia

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Articles in special section: “Troubling Naturalism: Shi- Leaders: A Study of the Female Confectioners Union,” by rana Shahbazi’s The Curve,” by Adair Rounthwaite; “Seeing, Cathy Brigden. Iranian Style: Women and Collective Vision in Abbas Kiar- ostami’s Shirin,” by Sara Saljoughi; “Restaging Time: Pho- SOCIAL SCIENCE HISTORY v. 36, no. 2 (Summer tography, Performance and Anachronism in Shadi Ghad- 2012): Special section: “Gender Ratios and International irian’s Qajar Series,” by Melissa Heer; “The Unveiled Apple: Migration.” Section editor: Katharine M. Donato. Pub- Ethnicity, Gender, and the Limits of Inter-discursive Inter- lisher: Duke University Press. ISSN: 0145-5532 (print), pretation of Iranian Contemporary Art,” by Foad Torshizi. 1527-8034 (online). Available electronically to licensed users through Project MUSE and Duke University Press Journals JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES v. 48, no. 1 Online. (2012): Special section: “Marriage, Gender Relations and Partial contents: “Transitions in Gender Ratios among Social Change.” Section editor: Cecile Jackson. Publisher: International Migrants, 1820–1930,” by Donna Gabaccia Routledge. ISSN: 0022-0388 (print), 1743-9140 (online). & Elizabeth Zanoni; “Gender and the ‘Laws of Migration’: Available electronically to licensed users through Taylor & A Reconsideration of Nineteenth-Century Patterns,” by J. Francis Online. Trent Alexander & Annemarie Steidl; “‘Money Is Not Ev- Partial contents: “Visiting Marriages and Remote Par- erything and That’s the Bottom Line’: Family Ties in Trans- enting: Changing Strategies of Rural–Urban Migrants to atlantic Elite Migrations,” by Johanna Leinonen; “Commen- Hanoi, Vietnam,” by Catherine Locke, Nguyen Thi Ngan tary: Gender and Migration: Searching for Answers to Basic Hoa & Nguyen Thi Thanh Tam; “Breadwinners and Home- Questions,” by José C. Moya. makers: Migration and Changing Conjugal Expectations in Rural Bangladesh,” by Nitya Rao; “Conjugality as Social WEST EUROPEAN POLITICS v. 35, no. 2 (2012): Sym- Change: A Zimbabwean Case,” by Cecile Jackson; “Con- posium: “Gender Parity and Quotas in European Politics.” jugality, Subjectivity, Desire and Gender-based Violence in Symposium editor: Jocelyne Praud. Publisher: Routledge. Tajikistan,” by Colette Harris; “The Changing Relationships ISSN: 0140-2382 (print), 1743-9655 (online). Available of Co-wives Over Time in Rural Southern Uganda,” by Ja- electronically to licensed users through Taylor & Francis net Seeley. Online. Partial contents: “Double-Speak: The European Union JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS v. 54, no. and Gender Parity,” by Heather MacRae; “Portugal’s Quota- 2 (April 2012): Symposium: “Women, Work and Collec- Parity Law: An Analysis of its Adoption,” by Michael Baum tivism.” Symposium editors: Rae Cooper & Jane Parker. & Ana Espírito-Santo; “Parity in France: A ‘Dual Track’ Publisher: SAGE. ISSN: 0022-1856 (print), 1472-9296 Solution to Women’s Under-Representation,” by Rainbow (online). Available electronically to licensed users through Murray; “From Laggard to Leader: Explaining the Belgian SAGE Journals. Gender Quotas and Parity Clause,” by Petra Meier; “Gender Partial contents: “Tracking Pay Equity: The Impact of Parity and Quotas in Italy: A Convoluted Reform Process,” Regulatory Change on the Dissemination and Sustainability by Elisabetta Palici di Suni; “Institutionalising Gender of Equal Remuneration Decisions,” by Julie Connolly, Tricia Equality in Spain: From Party Quotas to Electoral Gender Rooney, & Gillian Whitehouse; “The Gender Gap in Union Quotas,” by Tània Verge. Leadership in Australia: A Qualitative Study,” by Rae Coo- per; “Gendering the Bricks and Mortar: Building an Oppor- WORK, ORGANISATION, LABOUR & GLOBALISA- tunity Structure for Equality Bargaining,” by Sue William- TION v. 6, no. 1: Thematic issue: “The reproduction of son; “New Australian Working Time Minimum Standards: difference: gender and the global division of labour.” Editor: Reproducing the Same Old Gendered Architecture?” by Sara Ursula Huws. Publisher: Analytica Publications Ltd. ISSN: Charlesworth & Alexandra Heron; “The Role of ‘Voice’ in 1745-641X (print), 1745-6428 (online). Available online Matters of ‘Choice’: Flexible Work Outcomes for Women by subscription; see http://analytica.metapress.com/con- in the New Zealand Public Services,” by Noelle Donnelly, tent/121034/offerings. Sarah B. Proctor-Thomson, & Geoff Plimmer; “Collective “The new global division of labour is bringing about Regulation of Wages and Conditions in Aged Care: Beyond huge changes in who does what work, how, when and Labour Law,” by Sarah Kaine; “Contemporary Collective where. But this dynamic new landscape is shaped by some Regulation and Working Women in New Zealand,” by Jane very old forces. The gender division of labour in the home Parker et al.; “Tracing and Placing Women Trade Union still, directly or indirectly, plays a dominant role in deter-

Page 36 Feminist Collections (v. 34, nos. 1–2, Winter–Spring 2013) Periodical Notes mining the very different experiences of women and men Andrade, & Anne Marie Fontaine; “Unpaid work, capital in this new global labour market, although it faces mul- and coercion,” by Norene Pupo & Ann Duffy; “Domestic tiple new contradictions and stresses in a context of rising work in France and Italy: comparative case studies on the female employment and mass migration: clashes between contemporary diffusion of informal employment,” by Elisa- traditional and modern values; shifting boundaries between betta Pernigotti; “The feminised service sector: from micro work that is paid and unpaid, formal and informal; and a to macro analysis,” by Babs Grossman; “Trading on gender: situation where the time pressures on one group of women the perversity of Asian labour exports as an economic de- may only be resolved through the ‘grey’ labour of others, velopment strategy,” by Stuart Rosewarne; “‘Even though I often migrants. Drawing on research in Asia, Africa, Europe work, I am not a whore’: women working in Zanzibar,” by and America, this issue explores and analyses some of these Thembi Mutch; “Is a widening gender wage gap necessar- dilemmas and describes how women are addressing them ily caused by a glass ceiling? a case study from Uganda,” by in their daily lives, in the process raising new questions for Irene van Staveren; “Gender, globalisation and empower- future research.” ment: a study of women who work in Sri Lanka’s Export Partial contents: “The interplay of gender, work and Processing Zones,” by Peter Hancock, Sharon Middleton, family in Portuguese families,” by Marisa Matias, Cláudia & Jamie Moore. m Compiled by JoAnne Lehman

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Ingrid Swanberg (Markhardt), a former staff member of our office, has published a collection of poetry, ARIADNE & OTHER POEMS, with Bottom Dog Press in Huron, Ohio. The book has already received high praise, including this from Jim Cohn of the Museum of American Poetics:

Ingrid Swanberg has served American Poesy with her inimitable Ghost Pony Press and her near sin- gle-handed resuscitation of the proto-Beat Midwest poet d.a.levy. In Ariadne & Other Poems, she has created a body of poetry that invites contemplation of Ariadnean mazes and labyrinths, and through these, our own contemporary reparations. With an economy that mirrors the greatest spirit-minded poets of the World Poetics Timeline, her language has a pure lyrical radiance, a rare revolutionary emptiness. This poet went “trailing the shadows of the horses / thrown by the light below” and with each turn was led back to the earth. I thought hu- manity had lost the ability to locate the world in the way she does. I thought such precision of femi- nine laser word energy had gone extinct. Left the planet. Vivid heart, let me tell you, this is a work of beatitude.

The Washington, D.C.-based WOMEN’S INSTITUTE We seek to democratize the communications FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS has published the 2013 media by expanding freedom of the press (which print version of its DIRECTORY OF WOMEN’S MEDIA includes its modern day electronic forms) to en- (ISBN 0-930470-33-8/ISSN 1040-1156), which includes able all people; rich and poor, male and female, only media “owned and operated primarily by, for and about to have the equal opportunity to speak directly to women.” The comprehensive directory lists print periodicals, the whole public about their own issues and con- cerns. Access to the public constitutes political internet periodicals, publishers, media organizations, power and in a democracy it must be equal. Free- news services, radio groups, film and video groups, music dom of the press is a citizen right of democracy, groups and websites, theater/art groups and websites, media it should not be a right based on wealth. websites, media-related directories, and even bookstores, email lists, and media bloggers. For ordering information, WIFP encourages projects that move us toward see http://wifp.org/pub%20order.html. A continually these democratic communication goals. It is updated online version of the directory is free to access at a place where new ideas about making com- http://wifp.org/DWM/ContentsDWM.html. munication more democratic are encouraged, WIFP’s statement of purpose (included at http://wifp. examined, researched and published. WIFP sees org/pcabout%20us.html) seems both timely and timeless: a unique role for women as the majority in de- mocracy: to build a communication system that permits everyone to be heard equally.

Page 38 Feminist Collections (v. 34, nos. 1–2, Winter–Spring 2013) Books Recently Received AGAINST VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: THE CASE EARLY MODERN WOMEN’S WRITING AND THE FOR GENDER AS A PROTECTED CLASS. Fields, Rona RHETORIC OF MODESTY. Pender, Patricia. Palgrave M. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Macmillan, 2012. AMERICA’S WOMEN IN THE REVOLUTIONARY EMPOWERMENT AND INTERCONNECTIVITY: ERA 1760-1790: A HISTORY THROUGH TOWARD A FEMINIST HISTORY OF UTILITARIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY. Grundset, Eric G., et al. National PHILOSOPHY. Gardner, Catherine Villanueva. Society Daughters of the American Revolution, 2011. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013. BALLOTS, BABIES, AND BANNERS OF PEACE: THE FEMALE FIGURE IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN JEWISH WOMEN’S ACTIVISM, 1890- HISTORICAL FICTION. Cooper, Katherine and Short, 1940. Klapper, Melissa R. New York University Press, 2013. Emma, eds. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. BEYOND NATURE’S HOUSEKEEPERS: AMERICAN FINDING THE WOMAN WHO DIDN’T EXIST: THE WOMEN IN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY. Unger, CURIOUS LIFE OF GISELE D’ESTOC. Hawthorne, Nancy C. Oxford University Press, 2012. Melanie C. University of Nebraska Press, 2013. BRITISH AND IRISH WOMEN WRITERS AND THE FRAMING FAT: COMPETING CONSTRUCTIONS IN WOMEN’S MOVEMENT: SIX LITERARY VOICES OF CONTEMPORARY CULTURE. Kwan, Samantha and THEIR TIMES. Franks, Jill. McFarland, 2013. Graves, Jennifer. Rutgers University Press, 2013. CALLED TO SERVE: A HISTORY OF NUNS IN GENDER AND LITERACY: A HANDBOOK FOR AMERICA. McGuinness, Margaret. New York University EDUCATORS AND PARENTS. Krasny, Karen A. Praeger/ Press, 2013. ABC-CLIO, 2013. CARING DEMOCRACY: MARKETS, EQUALITY, AND GENDER AND POWER RELATIONS IN NIGERIA. JUSTICE. Tronto, Joan C. New York University Press, Ako-Nai, Ronke Iyabowale, ed. Lexington, 2013. 2013. A GOOD NIGHT OUT FOR THE GIRLS: POPULAR COMING TO LIFE: PHILOSOPHIES OF FEMINISMS IN CONTEMPORARY THEATRE AND PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH, AND MOTHERING. PERFORMANCE. Aston, Elaine and Harris, Geraldine. Adams, Sarah LaChance and Lundquist, Caroline R, eds. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Fordham University Press, 2013. HEALTH AND SOCIAL ISSUES OF NATIVE CONTAGIOUS REPRESENTATION: WOMEN’S AMERICAN WOMEN. Joe, Jennie R. and Gachupin, POLITICAL REPRESENTATION IN DEMOCRACIES Francine C, eds. Praeger/ABC-CLIO, 2012. AROUND THE WORLD. Thames, Frank C. and HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF WOMEN IN THE Williams, Margaret S. New York University Press, 2013. MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA. Talhami, CYBERPUNK WOMEN, FEMINISM AND SCIENCE Ghada. Scarecrow, 2013. FICTION: A CRITICAL STUDY. Lavigne, Carlen. ISABEL ALLENDE: A LITERARY COMPANION. McFarland, 2013. Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. McFarland, 2013. THE DANCING GODDESSES: FOLKLORE, THE LIVES OF MARGARET FULLER: A ARCHAEOLOGY, AND THE ORIGINS OF BIOGRAPHY. Matteson, John. Norton, 2013. EUROPEAN DANCE. Barber, Elizabeth Wayland. Norton, 2013. LYNDA BARRY: GIRLHOOD THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS. Kirtley, Susan E. University Press of DICKENS AND THE DESPISED MOTHER: Mississippi, 2012. A CRITICAL READING OF THREE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVELS. Preston, Shale. MAKING ‘POSTMODERN’ MOTHERS: PREGNANT McFarland, 2013. EMBODIMENT, BABY BUMPS AND BODY IMAGE. Nash, Meredith. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. DISCOURSES OF AGEING IN FICTION AND FEMINISM: THE INVISIBLE WOMAN. King, Jeannette. MAKING WOMEN’S HISTORIES: BEYOND Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES. Nadell, Pamela S. and Haulman, Kate, eds. New York University Press, 2013.

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MEANDERINGS ON THE MAKING OF A WE WERE THE ALL-AMERICAN GIRLS: DIASPORIC HYBRID IDENTITY. Gray, Dulce Maria. INTERVIEWS WITH PLAYERS OF THE AAGPBL, University Press of America, 2013. 1943-1954. Sargent, Jim. McFarland, 2013. MYTHS AND FAIRY TALES IN CONTEMPORARY WHOOPI GOLDBERG ON STAGE AND SCREEN. WOMEN’S FICTION: FROM ATWOOD TO Brevard, Lisa Pertillar. McFarland, 2013. MORRISON. Wilson, Sharon Rose. Palgrave Macmillan, WOMEN AND GENDER IN CONTEMPORARY 2008. CHINESE SOCIETIES: BEYOND HAN PATRIARCHY. OUR PICTURES, OUR WORDS: A VISUAL JOURNEY Du, Shanshan and Chen, Ya-chen, eds. Lexington, 2011. THROUGH THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT. Murthy, WOMEN AND POWER: EDUCATION, RELIGION Laxmi and Dasgupta, Rajashri. Zubaan/Kali for Women, AND IDENTITY. Mejiuni, Olutoyin. University Press, 2011. 2012. PROOF OF GUILT: BARBARA GRAHAM AND THE WOMEN AND SECOND LIFE: ESSAYS ON VIRTUAL POLITICS OF EXECUTING WOMEN IN AMERICA. IDENTITY, WORK AND PLAY. Baldwin, Dianna and Cairns, Kathleen A. University of Nebraska Press, 2013. Achterberg, Julie, eds. McFarland, 2013. THE QUEEN OF SHEBA: LEGEND, LITERATURE WOMEN AND THE VISUAL ARTS IN ITALY AND LORE. Coulter-Harris, Deborah M. McFarland, c.1400-1650: LUSURY AND LEISURE, DUTY AND 2013. DEVOTION: A SOURCEBOOK. Tinagli, Paola and REBELS AT THE BAR: THE FASCINATING, Rogers, Mary. Manchester University Press, 2012. FORGOTTEN STORIES OF AMERICA’S FIRST WOMEN, HEALTH AND THE STATE IN THE WOMEN LAWYERS. Norgren, Jill. New York University MIDDLE EAST: THE POLITICS AND CULTURE OF Press, 2013. CHILDBIRTH IN JORDAN. Maffi, Irene. I.B. Tauris, ROMANTIC HELLENISM AND WOMEN WRITERS. 2013. Comet, Noah. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. WOMEN IN LEBANON: LIVING SEXUAL MINORITIES IN SPORTS: PREJUDICE AT WITH CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM, AND PLAY. Sartore-Baldwin, Melanie L, ed. Lynne Rienner, MULTICULTURALISM. Thomas, Marie-Claude. Palgrave 2013. Macmillan, 2013. TAMING PASSION FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD: WOMEN OF LETTERS, MANUSCRIPT POLICING SEX IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC. Kann, CIRCULATION, AND PRINT AFTERLIVES IN THE Mark E. New York University Press, 2013. EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: ELIZABETH ROWE, TELL IT LIKE IT IS: WOMEN IN THE NATIONAL CATHARINE COCKBURN, AND ELIZABETH WELFARE RIGHTS MOVEMENT. Triece, Mary E. CARTER. Bigold, Melanie. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. University of South Carolina Press, 2013. WOMEN’S ECONOMIC THOUGHT IN THE TRANSNATIONAL FEMINISM IN THE UNITED EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Kuiper, Edith, ed. Routledge, STATES: KNOWLEDGE, ETHICS, AND POWER. 2012. Fernandes, Leela. New York University Press, 2013. WOMEN’S VOICES ON AMERICAN STAGES IN THE TRUE BLOOD: INVESTIGATING VAMPIRES AND EARLY TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: SARAH RUHL SOUTHERN GOTHIC. Cherry, Brigid, ed. I.B. Tauris, AND HER CONTEMPORARIES. Durham, Leslie Atkins. 2012. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. TURNING THE PAGES OF AMERICAN GIRLHOOD: WOMEN’S WRITING AND MUSLIM SOCIETIES: THE EVOLUTION OF GIRLS’ SERIES FICTION, THE SEARCH FOR DIALOGUE, 1920-PRESENT. 1865-1930. Hamilton-Honey, Emily. McFarland, 2013. Gemie, Sharif. University of Wales Press; distr. University of Chicago Press, 2012. THE UNDEAD AND THEOLOGY. Paffenroth, Kim and Morehead, John W, eds. Pickwick/Wipf and Stock, 2012.

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