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CONTENTS

From the Editors

Letter to the Editors

Book Reviews Judy Adene Transition in the Balkans and Eastern Europe: How Women are Faring Barbara Ryan Gender and Disability from Different Angles =en Stone Telling It as It Is: Women with Disabilities Speak Out

Feminist Visions Joanna Gurstelle Promoting Respect, Working for Change: Five Films on Sexual Harassment for Middle School Students Edie Thornton Out of the Margins: Four Lesbian Video Documentaries

World Wide Web Review Alexa Schriempf Women and Disability Websites

Phyllis Holman Weisbard The World Wide Web: A Primary Source for Women's History

Compiled by Linda Shdt Computer Talk

Feminist Publishing

Reviewed by Phyllis Holman New Reference Works in Women's Studies Weisbard and others

Compiled by Linda Shdt Periodical Notes

Compiled by Alicia Foster Items of Note

Books/AV Recently Received

Supplement: Index to Volume 21 Returning from the annual Such incidents as these, common (ADA) this summer is a good time American Library Association con- to most of us at some time or other for all of us to reflect about the ference in Chicap recently, Phyllis dunng our lives, make us at least progress that has and has not been found herself in a car accident that momentarily aware of how often we made in accornrnodatmg the needs of resulted in a ftactured ankle. She take our bodies and their functioning those who only want to be able to spent a few days at home before she for granted. We then go back to our live as fully as possible. We devote could even hobble into the office for usual routines and soon all but forget two book reviews in this issue to the &st time, and still needs a pillow how much we struggled with our work by add about women with disa- at'work to keep her swollen foot incapacity. Yet we are all, in fact, bilities, and a Web review examines propped up as much as possible. A "temporarily abled," as some disabil- Internet resources on the topic. As couple of years ago Linda was feed- ity activists remind us. If we live long you read through these articles, con- ing her cats at home on the usual enough, most of us will gradually sider those you know who fit one basement step location (keeps the lose some function or another that category or another of babdity, and dog away from the cats' food) when we have long depended on. Those just what it means to be temporarily she suddenly landed on the very who dady deal with various physical abled. If you know of someone with hard basement floor, complete with and mental capacities that differ from vision impairment who might be some s@cant bruises and a twisted what is seen as "normal'' have begun interested in Feminist Cofkctiom, wrist She had to write (quite illeg- to get the attention of the abled please mention to them that we offer ibly) with her left hand for several world over the last decade or so. The cassette tape subscriptions on a days before she could again begin to tenth anniversary of passage of The reduced-price basis (see ad on p.9). maneuvex more normally. Americans with Disabdities Act 0 L.S. and P.H.W.

June 12,2000 must surmount in order to produce narrative." Please note for future films and videos on women and their reference that all of Lucretia's Deac Ms. Zaeske: history. It is rare indeed for a re- speeches were her oqinal words viewer to take the time to make (moditled only shghtly, mostly by I would like to thank you for readers aware of the obstacles that omitting an "and" or "thee" here and reviewing my asAh Pad 'We the independent producer must there), and that much of the ddog Wen Amstcd Of Comsc!" and Lumtia overcome to get a hlm or video was based on remarks or comments Mott in the Wrnter 2000 volume of completed and out to the public. that Lucretia had made at some point Fcminut Colkctions. Most importantly, during her lifetime. I want to thank you for your intro- In your review of the Lumtio ductory comments noting the dif- Mott video you stated: "In thts Sincerely, ficulties that independent producers production, it is unclear exactly which words were uttered by Mott Elaine Prater Hodges, Producer and which were added to advance the EPH Productions P.O. Box 804904 Chicago, IL 60680

Feminist Collections (v.21, no.3, Spring 2000) TMNSITIONIN THE BALKANSAND EASTERN WOMENFARING?

Susan E. Pritchett Post, WOMEN IN MODERN ALBANZA FIRSTHAND ACCOUNTS OF CULTURE AND CONDITIONS FROM OVER 200 INTERVIEWS. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1998.302~.index. $45.00, ISBN O- 78640468-X.

I Sabrina P. Ramet, ed., GENDER POLITICS IN THE WESTERN BALKANS: WOMEN AND SOCIETY IN YUGOSLAVIA AND THE YUGOSLAV SUCCESSOR STATES. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.343~.index. $55.00, ISBN 0-271-01801-1; pap., $18.95, ISBN 0-271-01802-X.

Marilyn Rueschemeyer, ed., WOMEN IN THE POLITICS OF POSTCOMMUNIST EASTERN EUROPE (rev. and expanded ed.). Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998. 308p. bibl. index. $64.95, ISBN 0-7656-0295-4; pap., $25.95, ISBN 1-

Gordana cm~ovic,one of the interviews, documents, and opinion generation is women born in the' contributors to the collection edited by polls. middle of the century who helped to Sabrina Ramet, tells a story about her build a socialist nation and who students' disgust with scholars who Susan post's volume on women endured its hardships and oppression write about their "petty" problems in Albania is based on field work she as well as its rewards. Young contem- while the whole country is "on fire" conducted whrle living there from porary women are the third genera- (p.241). Her students would be 1994 until the spring of 1997, when tion. Like their grandmothers, they pleased with the authors of these three she and her husband and two children have grown up in a time of massive books, who have jumped into the fire were airlifted out as protest, violence, social change emerging in the late in central, eastern, and southeastern and war escalated. The book tells a 1970s and coming to political crisis in Europe to confront intellectual, soad, double story about the Albanian the 1980s and eventually war in the and physical challenges in order to women she interviewed at the same 1990s. Within each generation, Post seek an understandmg of the problems time it reports her own experience presents the stories of a range of and hopes of women in the region. living and working in Albania. women from resistance fighters to Each writer brings different strengths The text is engagmgly written with beauty queens. They live in the coun- to the task of uncovering the history life histories of over two hundred tryside and the city, practice varying and current events in the area. Post's women currently living in Albania r%ons, and represent the common ethnography is a rich collection of from n broad range of social situations. woman as well as the famous. Post interviews providing colorful and Each story is exciting, sometimes har- frames the interviews with her field moving life histories. Ramet's edted rowing, and always fascinating. The notes, describing the historical and collection presents a strong analytical book is organized into three genera- contemporary context in which the and conceptual framework for tions. The first includes interviews women's stories take place. thmkq about some of the issues and with older women who lived through The book is strong on description their connections to the international the first half of the twentieth century, and accessibhty. It is not as strong on project of understanding gender, fighting the fascists during the Second gender inequality, and feminism. World War and witnessing the transi- Rueschemeyer's edited collection tion to communism. The second offers a wealth of empirical data from

Feminist Collections (v.21, no.4. Summer 2000) Page 1 analysis. The work is dense with data between the lines, absorbing edghten- twentieth centmy in their struggle for but needs a more powerful conceptual ing lessons about our contradictory social justice, human dipty, equaltty, and theoretical framework to help the thoughts and feehgs about the people and the end to oppression. The reader understand why people live as we study. fourteen chapters that follow exam- they do and what it means for our ine the forging of feminist ideologies understandmg of abstract concepts Ramet's collection of edlted and practices in Yugoslavia, Slovenia, like social change, nationalism, gender, articles identifies the sources of fem- Serbia, Croatia, Kosovo, and Bosnia. the state, communism, feminism, and inist activity in the Western Balkans. The authors explore questions hke the connections among these. Post Following Ramat's introduction, the what did socialism achieve or not attempts to provide an analysis by essays begin with a chapter on the achieve adwhy, and where do wrapping the work around the ques- tradltiod organization of gender, women and gender fit into the hor- tion of the role that (r%ous) faith whlch is rooted in the past but per- rors of ethnic genocide and war. The has played in Albanian women's lives sists today in many South Slav com- work covers controversial issues hke - as a source of strength in the twentieth munities and families. These families the connection between nationalism I century. In every interview, she asked appear at &st glance to be rnale- and feminism, the surprisingly critical what the woman believes is the source dominated but upon more careful role of abortion as a political issue in of her "strength, the force, not only to investigation also reveal the s@- the transition, and the use of rape as survive, but also to live meaningful cant authority of older women. a tactic of war. The authors are par- and fulfilled lives with good- The next section examines ticularly good at pointing out the heartedness and optimism?' (p.271). women's organizations that challenged unique character of patriarchy and She Further probed, if they did not gender inequaltty throughout the twen- women's movements in the regon. mention spitituality, what role faith tieth century. These chapters trace They remind scholars how careful plays in their lives. Connection feminist activity through the First we need to be not to rely on a "one expressed through family, tradition, World War and the National Libera- size fits all" form of thnkmg. Con- faith, and especially hospitality seems tion Movement into Tito's Yugoslavia. cepts and principles that emerge to better reflect their source of The third segment explores the effects from the Western experience often strength and hope. of the transition from socialsm to do not fit that of other places and Besides the account of the history capitalism in the 1980s and 1990s times. Seemingly "obvious" factors and social environment of contempc- when the nation broke up. Ramet like definitions of gender oppression rary Albanian women, this text follows this history with a short col- and feminism are turned into ques- presents another story. The other tale lection of three pieces on literature tions when we look at them in the is about the author herself, an ethno- and rehg~on,which is the weakest part strikingly different circumstances of graphic "stranger in a strange land." of the book because it seems discon- the Western Balkans. The book provides an excellent nected from the well-integrated chap- The final chapter, an afterword by resource for ethnographers and ters in the rest of the text. Branka Magas, makes an espedy students about the encounter between The book has a strong conceptual valuable contribution in her reflections researcher and researched and the framework focusmg on the broad on the other authors' pieces. She takes impact of research on both. At times question of gender, gender inequahty, a critical view of their work, pointing the meaning of the explicit and and feminism within the context of out the contradictions among and implicit descriptions of the research war and interethnic tensions and wihthem and •’urther .opening up process and research context directly violence. The text opens with an essay the rich debates in this text. contradict each other. Post so by Ramet outlining the theoretical and honestly presents her obsenrations and structural framework of the book, MdynRueschemeyer's edited &dings that the reader can often read identifying the ideologies of liberalism, collection is organized around nation socialism, anarchism, and a range of rather than chronology and moves feminisms as the essential political away in part from the war-tom region resources of South Slav women in the of the south to include Russia, Poland, the Gennanys, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary, Romania, and

Feminist Collections (v.21, no.4, Summer 2000) Bulgaria as well as the former Yugo- slavia and Albania. The chapters in th~~collection are uniformly strong, well-written, and innovative. In particular they are well-grounded in empirical research. Rueschemeyer has written both the introductory essay and the conclusion. She identifies the organizmg theme as diversity, urging that we guard against "the tendency to see the later years of communist rule and 'the transition' as a single process with a few minor variations" (p.4). Each chapter highhghts the unique features of each nation's experience with communism and transition to capitaltsm. For example, the chapter on Russia identtfies the unique formation and success of a woman's party, "unprec- indeed appears that women, together edented in the worldwide history of with the lowest socioeconomic strata, women's movements" @. 16). The are among the losers in the recent articles on Yoland emphasize the transformations" b.286). Second, importance of the Catholic Church gender and gender relations have a and local organizing. In Romania an sometimes staaling salience in the insistence that women have the right unfolding politics of the transition. to be different from men and in particular to enhance their physical Vu& Ahtte is an Associate Pmjssor in the appearance with cosmetics and elegant Department ofsociohgy and an Adjunct in clothing has been an important factor. the Women's Studies Pmgram at the The challenge of udcation, political Universig ofNorth Camha at Charhtte. party building, and especially the use She .pent ayear in Pokmd teaching women's of quotas for women's participation in studies and cunducling reseanh on the parties have been central in Germany. women's movement there in 1995-96 ar a The intensification of domestic work Fulbn'ght scbohr.] for women in Hungary and agncultural work for women in Albania are key issues in the transitions in those countries. Ruescherneyer's book in particular, but all three texts in hct, makes a strong case about the diversity of experience. Each nation's situation and history is different, sometimes dramatically so when we contrast countries hke East Germany and Yugoslavia. Two central themes, however, run through all the work. First, as Rueschemeyer notes, "It

Feminist Collections (v.21, no.4, Summer 2000) Page 3 GENDERAND DISABILITYFROM D~FFERENTANGLES

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Carol Thomas, FEMALE FORMS: EXPERIENCING AND UNDERSTANDING DISABILTTY. Buckingham, England: Open University Press, 1999. 175p. bibl. index. $90.00, ISBN 0-335-19694-2; pap., $28.95, ISBN 0-335-19693-4.

Susan Griffin, WHAT HER BODY THOUGHT: AJOURNEY INTO THE SHADOWS. New York: HarperCollins, 1999. 328p. $24.00, ISBN 0-06-251435-0; pap., $14.00, ISBN 0-251436-9.

Victoria A. Brownworth and Susan Raffo, eds., RESTRICTED ACCESS: LESBIANS ON DISABILZTY. Seattle, WA: Seal Press, 1999. 296p. pap., $16.95, ISBN 1-58005-028-X

Thethree books under review disabled woman herself, and as a thus, more comprehensive than either. are on women and disability, but each sociologist, her interest is in examining In this bio-social definition, the approaches the subject in a drfferent women from a sociological perspec- interaction of biological and sod way. The first, Femak Fonns: Expenxpenenc-tive. She includes empirical evidence factors leads to a formulation pre- ing and Undersfanding Di~abiligby Carol gathered from her survey of sixty-eight mised on "impairment + soual Thomas, explores the meaning of respondents, including fourteen in- barriers" + "&ability." disability in research and theoretical depth intenriews. Although she does Thomas came to this conclusion understanding. Thomas begins by not daim that her research is a repre- through her own experience and those separating the terms impairment and sentative sample of disabled women, of her respondents by examining the disability, so often spoken of as she does note the wide range of ages lived experience of impairment, social though they were the same. Disabhty and impairments her sample depicts. barriers encountered, and gender. She is defined as the practice of social hhsing are leammg disabled and Black points out that men have dominated arrangements that exclude or disad- or minority/ethnic women. the disability movement in Britam, vantage people with impairments. She focuses on the disabhty evidenced by a macho-lrke style in Impairment is the lunitation individu- movement in Britain, where the soual both the political arena and analytical als experience because of physical or modelist view is most pronounced. In debate. Because the social world is mental capacities. Yet wen these this formulation the medical model of always gendered, a male-led movement apparently straightforward definitions disability built on the assumed rela- centered on structural barriers to are contested among disability activ- tionshp of "impairment" + "disabil- accessibility, particularly to work, has ists, medical sociologists, and policy ity" is replaced with "soual barriers" left out those related to domestic and makers + "disability." Thomas notes the fady domains. In other words, the This book is part of the Disability, importance of a soual construction sod&abhty movement is sexist. Human Rghts, and Society Series model that is liberating on the per- As a feminist, Thomas employs which supports a social model that sonal level, and that calls for policy "the personal is political" to describe classifies &ability as a form of oppres- changes to lift barriers to employment, women's experiences with the soual sion, a condition related not to an self-determination, and independent disability model and the disability "individual's inablties or limitations, living. Clearly she sees the soual movement She points out that level but rather a hostile and unadaptive model as an advance over the compet- and type of impairment are related to society" @.x). Thomas examines ing medical model, however, she is age. Because much impairment models of disability and offers critique concerned about this model's fatlure to emerges in later life and women as well as adjustments to them. As a incorporate impairment effects. She significantly outnumber men as they offers, instead, a social relational age, there is a gender imbalance in definition that integrates both and is, those affected over the age of seventy. When the focus is on women, socio- structural barriers are more pronounced and are widened to include

Feminist Collections (v.21, no.4, Summer 2000) interpersonal and cultural dunensions. Griftin's memoir details the con- Important truths are brought Poverty and internalized oppression tradictory pulls a person experiences forth in this memoir, although the are more pronounced. Beyond bar- when ill. One is revelation, a need to narrative flow is marred by the literary ri-as to "doing," the barriers to seek comfort, reassurance, help, and license Gnftin takes when she dudes '%eing" are examined. Identity politics care, but the other is concealment, the prose-like paragraphs under titles such and issues of drfference, such as gen- desire to pass, learned from rejection as Sky, Eyes, Water, Memory, Breath, der and class, are key to her critique of by those who are fit. Telling her story and Stars, which distract rather than previous disability models, both theo- is part of the process of recovery, add to the tehg of her story. retically and politically. since serious dlness also affects the Although this is an important mind and sense of self. There is, InRe~tn'cted Acm: h~bianron book for those interested in expanding powerfully, the fear that "I am not Di~abihyedited by Victoria A. Brown- their knowledge of dsabkty, it is slow going to make it" (p. 18). Surviving worth and Susan Raffe, twenty-three and heady repetitive. Most interested leads to a greater abdity to cherish Me, lesbian contributors talk about how readers will wdhngly skip the inmca- but the lingering fear of a recurrence sodstatus affects their experiences cies of defimtional discrepancies. The or perhaps another unexpected with various forms of disabiltty. What overall message of the book, though, is affliction remains. counts as disability (access and inclu- more than worthwhile. The trajectory of her illness is sion) and who is a lesbian were crucial chronicled, along with the reaction questions for the selection process for What~er BO& Thought A Joumg~ from family and friends. Griffin shows this text Beyond wheelchair accessi- into the shadow^ by Susan Griffin, is an how, unless one is in%ent, there are bdity, signing, and the use of Brde, autobiographical~accountof one no adequate supports for dady living the edtors also consider the use of woman's ordeal with chronic fatigue- from the government or charitable perfumes and other chemicals that immune dysfunction syndrome organizations. Because she was self- prohibit environments to those with (CFIDS). Griffin provides a thorough employed as a writer, she had no multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS). understanding of what the Thomas work-related resources to fall back on. Women who self-identdy as lesbian book only touches on - the lived Some friends abandoned her, others even though they have never had a experience. She adds a twist to her provided much-appreciated help, but sexual partner were included, but personal memoir by incorporating the she worried that her great need would transgendered and bisexual women story of Marie Duplessis, popularly eventually cause them to leave her,too. were not. known as Camille, a sought-after Sufferers of CFIDS live with the As in the Thomas book, the nineteenth-century courtesan who, doubt many cast upon the legitimacy editors lament the lack of women-of- when stricken with tuberculosis, died of their claims. The medical establish- color in their collection, but this book penniless and alone. ment has questioned the physiological does include mental disorders, a salient Camdle's Me, as told in the etiology of what some claim is a issue for the lesbian community O@ novel and play by Alexandre psychosomatic condition, much like because their sexual orientation has Dumas, is woven into Griffin's own the nineteenth-century classification of been medicahzed and labeled a mental story by calling attention to the similar "hysteria" in women. Such attitudes illness. Thus, lesbians tend to refuse experiences of poverty, class, and lead to feeltngs of humiliation and help for mental conditions. Carol social standing. Although partly unworthiness that are difficult to Anne Douglass describes being a recovered, Griffin offers a lucid control. Those afflicted become lesbian in a mental hospital, which account of falhg into debilitation, outsiders castigated by "rejection and supports these fears; however, Faith revealing the stark terror that an even ridicule for what your body Reidenbach discusses the importance independent woman encounters. Her continues to know" (p.96). Indeed, of drug treatment for her manic- reasoning for integrating these two Griftin reminds us that "the most depression. stories is that there is drama in disease, shameful secrets are almost always and the fear of economic failure is as about the body" (p.107). real today as it was in the past Both stories emphasize the salient point that poverty is often caused by illness.

Feminist Collections (v.21, no.4, Summer 2000) Page 5 The collection is varied, both in Wachsler found that having a disabhty chghis fady's support of his disabilities &cussed and quality of raises questions about self-identity. As decision an "out" for them in years of writing. A few do not examine how a femme with CFIDS and MCS, she care. lesbianism affects their condition, could no longer wear makeup or dub whereas others make that the center of clothes because of chemicals. The Thethree books in this review theL disability story. Joyce Peltzer butch is supposed to be the do-er - each contribute different aspects to writes that there is nothing different strong, independent, and self-sufficient the understanding of dsabiltty and about being a lesbian with a disability. - so Polly Carl, as a self-described gender. For historical and theoretical She describes disabled people who butch dyke, believes the weakness of interests, the Thomas book has much have feelings of discomfort around panic attacks make her pathetic. to offer. +derstandmg some of the those with disabdities different from Victoria A. Brownworth worries difficulties with CFIDS, particularly their own, and lesbians who have that discussion of a genetic basis for for single women, is the goal of prejudices and stereotypes sunilar to homosexuality may lead to selective Gdhn's intense study, and the edited other people. As a lesbian who uses abortion beyond sex-selection. volume by Brownworth and Raffe, crutches, she considers her struggles to Brownworth's piece is more polemic while often repetitive in stories have been no different than those of than thoughtful as she pits disability offering little depth, does present a other disabled persons. rights activists against feminists. variety of responses from lesbians Yet most writers do find a Statements regarding abortion are living with disabhties. difference. For instance, Deborah often wrong. For instance, she claims Peifer's blindness affected her ability individual states have added a spousal [Barbara Ryan ziDirector of Women5- to use "Gaydar," that spedradar of consent restriction, or that maintaining Studiej and Pmjjjor ofSocio/ogy at Widener visual signals that gays use to identlfy abortion legahty for women with Uniwsi4, Chestw, Pennsyhania. She rj other gays. Erin Lawrence describes economic privilege has been the author of two book onJemnrjm and the the reactions she received when she primary motivation for the abortion women's movement. Her latest work, an tested positive for HIV. Friends rights movement. She discounts the edited dume on identi4politics and the asked, "How did you get it?' with the assisted suiude case of ALS victim women 's movement, will be pubhhed in be underlying assumption that if she got it Thomas Youk because he did not 2000.1 from a man, she must not be a lesbian. want to be a burden to his famdy, Lizard Jones talks about the indoctri- nation for lesbians into the ''c~ltof self-sufficiency" and the belief that dependence is a personality flaw. She lived for many years with the pretense that she did not need assistance with her multiple sclerosis and considers this attitude to stand in the way of lesbians supporting each other. In contrast, Maura Kelly resents the infantihng and underestimation of her abilities because, as a disabled lesbian, independence is the defining component of her Me. Butch/fernrne roles can be affected by disability. Sharon

Feminist Collections (v.21,no.4, Summer 2000) by Kmen Stone

Eli Clare, EXILE AND PRIDE: DISABILITY, QUEERNESS, AND LIBERATION. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 1999. 147p. index. $40.00, ISBN 0-89608-606-2; pap., $14.00, ISBN 0-89608-605-4.

Jenny Morns, ed., ENCOUNTERS WITH STRANGERS: FEMINISM & DISABILITY. London: The Women's Press; distr. Trafalgar Square, 1999. 240p. pap., $17.95, ISBN 0-7043-4400-9.

Michele Wates & Rowen Jade, eds. BIGGER THAN THE SKY: DISABLED WOMEN ONPARENTING. London: Women's Press; distr. Trafalgar Square, 1999. 256p. pap., $17.95, ISBN 0-7043-4545-5.

Howpleasurable it is to pick up remember, I have avoided A natural next step following a book that merely intrigues you certain questions. Would I Eli's book is Encounten with Strangers: because of its title and find that it is a have been a good runner if I Feminism and Drjabihy, edited by Jenny gem well beyond its cover. This rare didn't have CP? Could I have Moms. In thts British anthology phenomenon happened when I came been a surgeon or a pianist, a discussing the relationship - or more across Eli Clare's Exife and Pi&. Only dancer or gymnast? Tempting preasely, the lack of relationship - a maestro of a writer can adroitly questions that have no between &ability and feminist issues, weave together her own story plus answers. @.5) editor Moms says the following in the environmental, political, disability, and book's Introduction: lesbian issues into a cohesive whole, Her growing up in the Siskiyou coming out with such clarity that you mountain range of Oregon has pro- This book deals with many of find yourself idenafylng with many vided her with observations not only the key issues current in the pam and muttering, "But of course." as a lover of nature, but as a person debate between the disabled This thin volume is so thick with understanding of the conflicts between people's movement and fem- thought that you almost feel you have the logger and the spotted owl, dear- inism. It h&hghts the poor just devoured an oversized piece of cutting and salmon runs. Eli's inner quality of education disabled key lime pie - indeed a rich treat to perspective on environmental politics children receive; the experi- digest offers both a unique and dear intelli- ences of Black and Asian dis- Beginning with the metaphor of gence. It is worthwhile for all of us to abled women; the abuse nature, Eli Clare tells about her life read, because there is much to be experienced by disabled and its challenges through her attempt absorbed from thts acutely observant women and children; and to dimb Mount Adams in the north- insider. women's experiences of the eastern U.S. - undoubtedly a challenge Then Eli takes us down her path health and mental health because her cerebral palsy (CP) under- of growing awareness of urban values systems. @. 15) mines sure footing. Yet because she as she describes attending college in a weaves so much more into the fabric big city. Of course, thts leads the reader Unlike the singular voice of Eli's of this story, you soon find yourself as into Eli's evolution of awareness of book, in this anthology are not only a reader not only exposed to her other disability and sexuality and identity, the voices of its many writers, some of thoughts, but also idenafylng with her moving from exde to pride, from whom are not British, but also the them. TO wit, ~lisays, rape to sensuality, from brokenness to experiences of those individuals the a healing. If you can tolerate a hefty . various writers have chosen to I thought a lot coming down piece of key hepie, undoubtedly you Mount Adams. Thought about wdl find this a most satisfjmg read. bitterness. For as long as I can

Feminist Collections (v.21. no.4. Summer 2000) Page 7 intuview and embrace, many from Black people's lives and its women throughout the world. other parts of the world. Conse- harmful effects, but Black k.6) quently, you get a more worldly people are victimisers (sic) as perspective from disabled women, well as being victims of Divided into four sections - women who are not only fighting the oppression. (p.51) namely, Makmg Plans, Semng Out, ableism bias, but who are deahg with Along the Way, and Home - there is a fnninist persecution as well. Sadly, this Such searing truth is expressed logical progression of the singular persecution sometimes comes from throughout this wide-spanning anthol- theme presented in this anthology on feminists, partly because of their ogy covering feminism and disabhty. parenting. From Laura Hershey's refusal to recognize and acknowledge If you would like to explore the vast poem, "Fdty Goddess," to Ah the issues women with disabilities face. and probing range of experiences and Frieden's &l piece, Vigger than the Ironically, these are the very same feelings of disabled women, this would Sky" - after which the anthology has issues with which feminists themselves be a khly recommended beginning. been named - there are so many grapple. Thus, the apt title, Encounterr different points of view that this m'th Sfmngws. Another British anthology anthology moves well beyond the Yet if you think the double strike written by a number of recognized apparently hated ideology of parent- of being a woman with a disability - activists in the women's disabdity hood and disability and offers expan- or, as many repa, with multiple community worldwide, B&er than the sive views that surely will enlarge your disabilities - is a lot, consider the thud Sky, is on parenting. It is more than a understandmg that being a parent can i strike disabled women of color face in must-have, it's a must-read. Though be anyone's desire, regardless of addition, that of racism. Even wib the contributors range from lesbian to disability. I r their own cultural communities, the straight, adoptive to blood mama, Disabled or not, if you are merely needs of these disabled women are single to manied, and more, they all dunlung about becoming a parent, this downplayed. Here is how contributor write about the little beings in their outspoken anthology will stimulate Ayesha Vernon addresses that com- lives. And because every situation is your thLnktng. In this no-holds-barred plex bind in her piece titled "A different, th& stories equally vary. book, there are even pieces on why Stranger in Many Camps": About this, editors Wates and Jade say some women choose not to become in their Introduction: pregnant. On occasion, contributors My experience as a disabled suggest ways they can be "parent woman within the Black com- From the onset, we felt that figures" to children in need. Perhaps munity is very dmllengng for this anthology would tind its the blggest contribution this anthology some Black people. In the own shape. We hoped that it makes is af- the reality that past, I have been warned not would be possible to include women with disabilities want to be, to voice the disablism of the writing from women outside can be, and are parents. Black community for fear of of Britain but we certainly Every piece in this anthology wdl portraying Black people in a didn't envisage the breadth of touch you one way or another, con- bad hght and provokmg writing that has reached us flicts induded. Because together they racism. I think that far from from around the world. It has create such an impact, I could write a provolung racism, Black become a truly diverse col- book of quotes Gered from the people would do well to ack- lection. Largely through use of pages of this book alone. Of the work nowledge their own preju- the Internet and partly by our involved in puhg together this dices, for until you truly learn presence at the fist interna- complex and comprehensive anthol- to judge yourself, you cannot tional conference on the sub- ogy, the editors say, judge others. This is not to ject of Parenting and Disabil- deny the role of racism in ity, held in California in Octo- As disabled women ourselves ber 1997, we have enjoyed we have been aware of the dialogues with disabled temptation to avoid pieces in which the writer does not, or cannot, celebrate the situation

Feminist Collections (v.21, no.4, Summer 2000) that she finds herself in, for [Karen G. Stone fear of reinforcing the freguent3, wntes negative attitudes of those about disabi/ig who criticise (sic) the choices issues and bar we make for ourselves. . . . writen a book Speaking out about difficult Awake- to situations and complex Disability: emotions does create risks, Nohg but as editors of what we About Us beheve is a groundbreaking Without Us book, we wanted to "tell it as (Vokano Press, it really is"; to document 1997). You can where disabled women are reach her by today in the belief that the wnting to breadth of experience is kgib~mm important to the story as a or by viewing her - . . -. . . whole. (p.3) webstfe, wwul.nmk mm/ - kgsfone ] Yes, and groundbreaking indeed.

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SEXUAL HARASSIMENT: BUILDING AWARENESS ON CAMPUS. 20 mins. 1995. Distr.: Media Education Foundation, 26 Center Street, Northhampton, MA, 01060; phone: 413-586-4170; emad [email protected]; website: www.mediaed.org. Sale: $195.00.

SEXUAL HARASSMENT: IT'S HURTING PEOPLE. 20 mins. 1994. Dir.: Jack W. Hayhow, Jr. Distr.: National Middle School Association & Quality Work Environments, Inc., 2600 Corporate Exchange Dr., Suite 270, Columbus, OH, 43231; phone 614-895-4730; website: www.nmsa.org. Sale: $176.00.

WAR ZONE. 45 mins. Prod: FhFatale, Inc./Hank Lwine Film GmbH. Distr.: Media Education Foundation, 26 Center Street, Northhampton, MA 01060; phone 413-5848500; website: www.mediaed.org. Sale: $195.00.

SEXUAL HARASSIMENT: WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO HANDLE IT. 21 mins. 1996. Distr.: The Noodlehead Network, 107 Intervale Ave., Burlington, VT 05401; phone 802-862-8675, email: [email protected];website: www.noodlehead.com. Sale: $89.00.

SEXUAL HARASSIMENT: STOP IT NOW! 29 mins. 1997. Prod: Ragamuffin Films. Distr.: AGC/United Lcxmmg, 1560 Sherman Ave, Suite 100, Evanston, IL, 60201; phone: 1-800-323-9084; email: [email protected]~website: -.- mcgunited.com. Sale: $99.00

Trying to educate middle school that meets during- the school day to workers and collected comments from students about sexual harassment can discuss the issues that are deeply everyone to get varied viewpohts and seem like an overwhelming task - affecting young women but are rarely opinions of the hs. explamng something that can be discussed in the classroom. Topics extremely complicated and sensitive to include sex-role sociahation, eating Sexual Harassment: Building a group of people who are also very problems, medm awareness, sexual Awareness on Campus tells muckof complicated and sensitive. These five violence, and relationships. After its story in the title - it is directed videos attempt to put the complex previewing the videos in my office, I almost exclusively at college students. language and circumstance of sexual decided that not all of them would be The information provided is useful, harassment into lay terms, giving appropriate for middle and/or high includmg dehnitions of sexual harass- young people concrete examples of schoolers as an introduction to sexual ment and the legal precedents that what constitutes harassment and what harassment. I asked the group at shaped our understandmg of this issue, to do if they are experiencing it. I Verona Hrgh School in Verona, but most of the references would be took these videos to two different Wisconsin, to be the test group. The lost on younger women. Jean Kil- groups of middle and high school video I thought was most appropriate bourne, author of Killing Ur Sojb and women participating in the Girl Club for middle school students I also took StilKilling Ur Jojb, narrates the 6lm. program. Girl Club is a weekly group to the group at Marshal Middle She has a clear presentation style but is School in Marshall, Wisconsin. In too dry to catch the attention of most addition, I viewed them with my co- middle school students. The comments from the group members were mostly positive. One

Feminist Collections (v.21. no.4, Summer 2000) student noticed a dehtion of sexual be going along with the crowd or at her as she chases them up escalators harassment that hlt home with her possibly unaware that what he/she is or down the street. The hlm gives a when a young woman in the film doing is harassment. The examples of unique illustration of the fact that stated, "Anytime I feel ashamed of harassment shown are almost exdu- harassment is about power. When this being a woman, I know I am being sively focused on male towards female, power is taken away from the harass- harassed." All the group members fuaher alienating students who have ers through dlrect confrontation, most agreed that the language would be lost experienced female towards male or are left speechless. She also interviews on younger students, with numerous same-sex harassment. other women about their own view of references to professors, T.A.s, and Additionally, the viewing group harassmen&and notes that what one campus life. It would be appropriate noticed that in almost all the scenes person perceives as offensive, another to a college group, but its base in African-American students were the could hnd flattering. The hlm sends a definitions and lecture-type interviews aggressors. This reinforces the dan- message that harassment is not appre- may lose the interest of even some of gerous and offensive stereotype that ciated, nor should it be soually accep- the target audience. African-American males are more table. sexually aggressive and more likely to Unfortunately, this hlm is also not The film Sexual Harassment: harass. Finally, when vignettes are appropriate for middle school stu- It's Hurting People directly targets shown portraying students standing up dents, or even for most high school middle-school youth, but would not be to their harassers, the suggested settings. Almost everyone in the hlm an appropriate introduction for most response is, "Hey, stop that! This is an add&and it does not address the students. As one participant com- school has rules!" The student audi- kinds of harassment students most mented, 'The point of the video gets ence felt that this is not the type of often experience. In one segment of lost in the 'trying to be cool' aspect." response most students would fed the film we hear a recordmg of a Indeed, the producers of this film were comfortable giving. Nor was there woman's 91 1 call as someone is break- so determined to be hip and fast-paced information about steps to take in ing into her house and attacking her. that they ended up being condescend- filmg a complaint or other responses While the audio plays, the auhce ing and dated. The film begins with a someone could give. The video does sees fuzzy images of peaceful kgh- big-haired rocker (last seen in 1980's include a manual with information and borhoods. Because of the strong heavy metal videos) singing about activities to accompany the fh, but reactions that could surface, I would sexual harassment and the harm it can most teachers would lbse the dass not feel comfortable showing this film do to someone. This sent everyone in with the video's ope- song. to a group of women I &d not know. the room into hysterical laughter, and Although Sexual Hmasmmt: It's Hurting In the next scene, the filmmaker is that response persisted throughout the Peopk has good intentions, it misses tallung with a man on the street who film. the mark with judgmental language has been following various women all Male and female narrators host and depictions, and a dated viewpoint day and tells the lilmmaker that he the film and students act out vignettes of "coohess." hkes loo* at women. This left the demonstrating drfferent types of viewing group with the impression harassment. In almost every situation War Zone tackles sexual harass- that he was a stalker. As the voice- the female narrator refers to the ment from a unique perspective. A over continues, there is a bluy image harassers as "creeps" and "jerks," woman hlmmaker takes a l6mm of a naked man. This dehtely stating, "I would never go out with a camera on the streets of a large city shocked the high school girls, even guy like that!" This judgmental and cllrectly confronts her harassers on though I had told them in advance attitude gives the impression that only frlm Every man who makes a com- that it was in the film. War Zone could a certain type of person harasses, ment or gives her a look has to answer be appropriate for a college women's which is not the case. It also could for his behavior to the camera. Sev- studies class, in which there is ample alienate many viewers, who may see eral men become very agitated when time to process the film before and themselves in the vignettes. When a she approaches them and some even middle school student sexually run away, glancing over thek shoulders harasses another studen&he/she is not necessarily a bad person - he/she may

' Feminist Collections (v.21. no.4. Summer 2000) Page 11 after viewing it, but the message and harassment, but middle school images are too advanced for middle students would stdl get a great and high school students. deal of valuable information.

Sexual Harassment: What It Is Sexual Harassment: Stop and How To Handle It is an excel- It Now is a film targeting middle lent portrayal of how sexual harass- school youth, and it does an ment can occur in a school setting and excellent job of givmg dear appropriate ways of deahng with it definitions of harassment and The production company, NoodkHead suggesting what people can do Nehwrk, uses student input in every about it Students at this age are aspect of the hlm, including script- often struggling to figure out the writing, acting, and editing. The film's difference between harassment narrator provides definitions of and •’lirting. A strength of this harassment and dearly explains film is its dear distinction that options in confronting harassers. Four ''fliaing feels good, and harass- vrgnettes give examples of explicit ment feels bad." The actors use jokes, workplace harassment, and dear, relevant language to exph obsessive behavior. There is diversity harassment and its consequences. in the actors, in the language used, and The film has several youth in the types of pakings - same-sex, narrators, brief interviews with male-female, and female-male harass- students about harassment, and ment situations are portrayed in a shows three vignettes, demonstrating realistic fashion. Thls film also gives male-female, female-male, and same- students dear and viable options for sex harassment. A great deal of racial with the complexity of the topic and how to confront the harasser, indud- diversity is evident, and the situations facilitating an appropriate discussion. ing whom to turn to in school, what and solutions are realistic. The video Using a video that demonstrates u- kinds of language someone could use covers whom to talk to in school and ferent types of harassment, gives dear in a confrontation, and how to docu- how students can remain fnendly after definitions of what sexual harassment ment harassment The viewing group the harassment has been resolved. A is, and suggests concrete solutions is a agreed that the situations and re- nice feature of this film is that it good beginning toward creating dia- sponses were realistic and most stu- demonstrates the importance of logue. Videos such as these can be dents would be able to relate to the standmg up for other people and not useful tools within the framework of actors. Some of the situations may going along with a cruel joke. All of promoting respect, working for apply more to htgh school students the participants in the Marshall fiddle change, and maintaining a safe learning than middle school students, especially School group said everyone in their environment. the vignettes focusing on workplace school should see it because it shows dungs that happen in their school. Uoanna GursteIb is a Pmtion and Intervention S)en'&tfor the Cmtmfor Teaching students about sexual Pmwntion and Intervention, a Madrjon- harassment is a relatively new and based organikation that shes to mduce difficult task. Many educators struggle ahh/and ot&r drug abuse and other niky behaviors in Dane Coung, Wbmnsin. She aho adkes sedGirl Chbpups around )he MadiJon ma]

Feminist Collections (v.21, no.4, Summer 2000) STOLEN MOMENTS. 92 mins. 1997. Prod./Dir.: Margaret Wescott. Sale: $39.95; $150 (with public perfomance rights). First Run/Icarus Films, 32 Court St, Suite 2107, New York, NY 11201; 1-800-876-1710; website: http:// www. frif.com

HIDE AND SEEK 64 mins. 1996. Prod./Dir.: Su Friedrich. Rental: $90. Sale: $295 (+ $15 shippmg). Women Make Movies, 462 Broadway, 5' Floor, New York, NY 10013; 212-925-0606; email. [email protected]; website: http:// www.wmrn.com

JODIE: AN ICON. 24 mins. 1996. Prod./Dir.: Pratibha Parmar. Rental: $90. Sale: $250. (+ $15 shippmg). Women Make Movies, 462 Broadway, 5' Floor, New York, NY 10013; 212-925- 0606; [email protected]; website: http:// www.wmm.com

FRANKIE ANDJOCIE. 20 mins. 1994. Prod./Dk.: Jocelyn Taylor. Rental: $60. Sale: $200. Third World Newsreel, 545 8' Avenue, 10' Floor, New York, NY 10018; 212-947-9277; email: [email protected], website: http://www.twn.org

Nowhere has the attempt to genre in new and unconventional ways From here the film threads its way recover and examine lesbian history to give voice and shape to that which through famous lesbian bars in Berh and identity been more provocatively has historically remained unspoken and Amsterdam before and after addressed than in the films and videos and invisible. WWII; passing women in Europe of the 1990s. Through gay/lesbian from the 1700s to the present; Paris film festivals, university-sponsored k a canahentry into the salons and the influences of Gertrude projects, and the increasing market- growlesbian documentary genre, Stein, Natalie Barney, and other ability of independent hs,lesbian Margaret Wescott's 1997 Stokn lesbian ex-patriots in the 1920s; the hlmmakers have finally been able to Momem is the longest (at 92 minutes) Stonewall riots; lesbian art and music, piece together lesbian histories and and most accessible of the four works. indudmg the Midugan Women's pose complex questions about same- While it covers some of the same Music Festival, and recollections of sex desire. While new fictional films ground as Canada's1993 ForbilJden Low, first loves and erotic experience. such as Better Than Chomkate, Watmehn particularly in its discussion of the Interspersed with the contextual Woman, When Night rj Falling, and Go 1950s lesbian bar scene, Stokn Moments material are fictional re-creations of Fish have introduced art house and is both unique and ambitious in its the bars, songs, police raids, and riots video audiences to lesbian-themed attempts to discuss lesbianism in the that punctuate this telling of lesbian fictions, documentary filmmakers have West from Sappho to the present. It history. Writers Leslie Feinberg, been experimenting with ways to artic- begins by focusmg on the celebratory Audre Lorde, Judy Grahn, and Joan ulate knowledges that have routinely abandon of lesbian bkers at a New Nestle, among others, provide insights been gnored or erased. The four York City Gay Pride parade in the and charges to action for the next videos reviewed here each grapple 1990s and moves quickly to Amster- generation.

with questions of lesbian identity, dam and the more sober rituals of ' If it sounds Ute Stokn Moments is his tory, homophobic violence, chdd- lesbians commemorating homosexuals casting rather a wide historical net, it hood, erotic experience, and fady killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust. connections. While all are classified as documentaries, each stretches the

Feminist Collections (v.21.no.4. Summer 2000) Page 13 is; yet this ambitious approach sets the lesbian childhood? Is there such a understanding of ourselves. More hlm apatt from other documentaries thing? Or do individual lesbians importantly, it also considers the seekmg to recover a coherent lesbian attempt to fashion a gay narrative to limtations of seekmg a single story to past. By using a non-linear organ- shape and make sense of their child- tell the complicated tale of (homo)- ization, Wescott allows her film to hoods? To explore these questions, sexual development in a heterosexual ckde through important issues ke Friednch combines a fictional nar- world. However, the "talking heads" anti-lesbian violence, butch/femrne rative with interviews and still photos segments of the video, which are relations, job discrimination, and of little @s who presumably have apparently an attempt to make the shifang lesbian/feminist politics grown up to be lesbians. By far the issues current and to explain the against a background of historical most interesting aspect of Hi& and fiction's preoccupations, are dis- events. By refusing to focus solely on Seek is the fiction that traces several tracting and sometimes incoherent. the United States or Canada, Wescott key months in the life of Lou, a tom- Moreover, issues of race are intro- emphasizes the interconnectedness of boy (circa 1969) who is moving quite duced and then abandoned, as when lesbian experience and struggle in uncomfortably from childhood to an African American girl belts out a Western culture and articulates the adolescence. Clips from the suffo- stunningly good version of "Stop! In hlgh price paid by lesbians in situations cating "facts of life" hlms shown in the Name of Love" and then &sap- where being "out" often meant being public schools during the era provide pears for the rest of the video. That brutalized. Leslie Feinberg, whose Lou with a rudiment. understandmg said, Hi& and Seek is well-acted, smart, masculine dress and appearance make of "proper" gender roles; they also and provocative; its glimpses of child- her particularly vulnerable to homo- inform her that ltlung girls is simply a hood through Lou's eyes suggest that phobic violence, sums up her reaction stage that one passes through on the Friedrich is as ghed a storyteller than to the lesbian's still-fragde place in way to choosing the appropriate object she is a documentarian - and perhaps society by remarkmg, "I live Ue my of desire - a boy. Mesmerized by girls more so. hair is on fire." Yet Wescott's story is tick% each other during school only part tragedy; her interview sub- assemblies, the bare breasts depicted Chrldhood is revisited in Pratibha jects, both famous and unknown, are in a discovered Pbboy magazine, and Patmar's shoq playful Jodie: An Icon filled with joy and energy, offering her beautiful best fiiend, Lou is under- (24 minutes). Here Glm critics and multiple analyses of lesbian identity standably troubled by her constricted Jodie Foster fans attempt to describe that could appeal to a wide range of gender options. As Lou moves Foster's appeal to lesbian spectators. viewers. For this reason, Stoh through her first menstruation, slum- In the absence of concrete mforma- Moments is an excellent teachmg tool as ber parties, tree house confidences, tion about Foster's sdty,the sub- it does not assume knowledge of and several renditions of Supremes jects consider her tomboyish presen- lesbian history, nor does it sentimen- songs, her resistance to takq on the tation as a child actor and speculate on talize or exaggerate the moments it identity of a "girl" is carefully and how that "dyke-y" screen persona has depicts. Wescott's meandering style sensitively articulated. Intercut with enabled lesbian spectators to read the allows her subjects to offer insights on Lou's story are several interviews with adult Foster as sexually ambiguous. As a wide variety of topics and this in turn gay women who consider their own one critic points out, Foster's adult could prompt class discussion, creative chddhoods and struggle with the desire characters are not lesbian per se. Her assignments, and interpretative debate. to read their pasts as a coherent maps Academy Award winning roles, how- to their current lesbian identities. ever, are independent, unconventional SuFriedrich's Hi& and Seek (1996, By far the most challenging - and heroines such as Clarice Starhg (The 64 minutes) is another consideration to my mind, the most compelling - Sihn ofthe hbs) who lack a male of lesbian history, although this time video reviewed here, Hi& and Seek 3 companion and are therefore open for the backward glance is toward child- strengths outweigh its flaws. Theo- lesbian interpretation and fantasy. hood. What, Friedrich asks, is a retically ambitious, Friednch's Glm is a Unhke the videos discussed above, sophisticated contemplation of the Jodie: An Icon assumes a lesbian or power of narrative to shape our lesbian-fiiendly viewer and does not try to jusafy or defend homosexual practices. Instead, it introduces two

Feminist Collections (v.21, no.4, Summer 2000) important theoretical tenets in the out," and the tendency for hetero- to the phone conversation frame, study of lesbian spectatorshlp: one, sexual men to regard all women as person-ahes large questions and that lesbian viewers seek and construct potend sex partners. While it is renders them both accessible and alternate interpretations of mainstream unclear whether Franlue has learned moving. films such that, as one critic notes, anythmg by the time the two hang up, there are as many lesbian films as there Taylor has made her point: Aftican Dilogue, visibility, btory, per- are lesbian viewers; and two, that the American men and lesbians must cease sonal experience, pleasure - all four exchange of looks or gazes between regardmg one another as threats and of these videos thoughtfully examine women in mainstream films are bepa conversation about what it the relationships between sexual "iconic" moments that can be read as means to be on the marps of the identity and cultural context. The expressions of lesbian desire. W~thits dominant culture. wide variety of style and strategy in hlgh-energy, engapg style, Parmat's Undeniably, Franke andlocie is this brief sample suggests that there video is an entertaining look at how rough around the edges. The sound is are many ways to consider lesbian marginalized groups hnd pleasure in uneven and the transitions from inter- life that we have yet to see, and that popular art forms that generally views to phone conversation are there are, thankfully, lesbian exclude or ignore them. sometimes hard to follow. However, Glmmakers workmg to tell us their Taylor's questions address funda- stories. Theintersections of lesbian mental issues that have troubled identity, family, and race are at the Aftican American attempts at resis- [Edie Thornton is an arsistantprofessor of center of Jocelyn Taylor's short but tance for more than a century. For English at the Univetsig of Wisconsin- powerful Frankie and Jocie (1994,20 purposes of exploring how African Whitewateer. Her research and teahitg minutes). Taylor uses a telephone Americans can negotiate gender and interests inch& American women's se4 conversation between an Aftican sexual difference in order to focus on expression in pop&-art forms, from American lesbian and her heterosexual larger issues of living in a racist society, maga@es to television to@. Jhe is brother as the frame for her discussion Taylor's decision to use a brother/ cutrentij workng on a book about women's of how African American men and sister conversation is inspired. Her magazjnes and magaee jction in the African American lesbians do - or do strategy, from the extreme close-ups not - communicate. Covering a remarkable amount of material at a fast pace, Taylor inte~ewsseveral Aftican American lesbians about their relationships with their brothers. The women are filmed in extreme close-up, a tehque that urges immediate inti- macy; their comments are intercut with a voice-over of Jocie's phone conversation with Frankie, the representative "brother." Frankie's contradictory answers to Josie's questions outline the communication slips that prevent heterosexual male and lesbian dialogue in the African American community. Whlle Frankie is outraged at a story about anti-lesbian violence, for example, he also bemoans the "waste" of attractive women who turn out to be lesbians. The video addresses jealousy over girlfriends, parental reactions to lesbian "coming

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Because this is a newly emergent field, there is relatively *Women and Disability Resources little on the topic in comparison to other subject areas. URL: http://members. tripod.com/-Barbara-Robertson/ Seatchrng for the intersection of women and &ability on Women.html engines like Yahoo results in a disappointing list of random Developed/main&ed by: Barbara Robertson sites. I found more speafic and detailed sites by starting Last updated: September 28,1999 with disability sites in general and navigating within them Date of review February 17,2000 untd I reached a subsite on women and disability. What follows are specific sites on women and disabili&, which Another comprehensive site that might serve as a I've grouped into "meta" and '%basic" sites. useful starting point for someone just becoming acquainted with the field is Barbara Robertson's. Academic in orienta- Women and Disability Metasites: tion, it is an ongoing attempt to organize online resources for disability research in the humanities. The site on * Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA) Women and Disability is contained wihher larger project URL: http://www.wwda.org.au/ on disabhty studies in general. Her reason for providing a Developed/rnain&ed by: Carolyn Frohmader women and disabdity site is because looking "at habdity Last updated: February 6,2000 through the lens of a feminist, and at feminism Gom a Date of review: February 17,2000 habhty perspective enriches both feminism and disability studies with Gesh insights." She offers links to disabdity, This is an excellent site for women and disabihty infor- women and sexuahty, older women, Ahcan American mation. It begins with a general contents page, with many women, lesbians, and abuse of women with +abilities. links to Australian-relevant sites and resources. There are Though a very useful site, it is not quite as comprehensive two key links which will be of most use to those loolung for as WWDA's. For example, WWDA provides a link to women-specific sites on disability. One, "Issues Facing Robextson's site, but Robertson does not have a link back Women with Disabilities," contains a list of links to Web- to WWDA. published papers and articles on women and disability, on a variety of topics ranging from health to parenting, sexuality, *The DRM WebWatcher: Women with Disabilities legal issues, adso on. Each topic includes several articles URL: http://www.disabilityresources.org/WOMEN.html and additional recommended links to other Web resources Developed/maintained by: Disability Resources, inc. that explore that topic, as well as a bibliography of relevant Last updated: November 15,1999 books and articles. The second useful link is the "Lid to Date of review: February 17,2000 Other Sites" which pulls up "Internet Sites Dealing with Issues Fa+ Women With Disabilities" - a very extensive This is by far my favorite site for researchtng women list divided into several categories: lesbians with disabilities, and disabdity. It was developed and is maintained by indqipous women, older women, legal rights, violence, Disabihty Resources, which provides an enormous and technology, and books. These two globally oriented links hghly organized database of library resources, FAQ will take you all over the world. WWDA is an excellent, resources, regional information, parent and advocate comprehensive site that includes liaks to DAWN Canada information, and a 'WebWatcher" search page. Navigating and Queer Ladies, which are discussed below. through the WebWatcher page, one can arrive at the Women with Disabilities page, which offers an organized list of about ten sites on just this subject area, including DAWN Canada and Barbara Robertson's site.

Feminist Collections (v.21, no.4, Summer 2000) I hnd that I can reach all the websites on women and A wonderful site for information on books and disability by using a combination of the three metasites journal articles! Contains a list of syllabi used by profes- above. The DRM Webwatcher is the most strategic for sors teadung disability studies - with three syllabi researchtng because of its level of organization, so I specifically for women and disability and feminism. Also recommend it as the focal point for developmg an under- contains a bibliography of books on dsability in general, standmg of the topic, then using Robertson's and WWDA's organized into "general" and "literature." pages to supplement the research. *Disability and Literature, isa ability and'the Arts URL: http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/-pcaaca/syll/&s.htm1 Basic Sites (all of these sites can be found by using Developed and maintained by: Susan Koppelman the three metasites above) Last updated: ? Date of review April 3, 2000 A basic syllabus outhe of course content.

*(DAWN) DisAbled Women's Network Ontario * Disability-Research URL: http://www.dawn.tyenetcom/ URL: http://www.mdbase.ac.uk/lists/disab~h/ Developed/maintained by: Not Available Developed/maintained by: Madbase, University Computmg Last updated: August 19, 1997 Service, University of Newcastle Date of review: February 17,2000 Last updated: NA This site is specific to disability and women in Canada, Date of review: February 17,2000 and is oriented towards providmg women with disabilities Provides links to a search engine that researches the with a network of contacts and communication. Contains a email archives of several lists. Also provides subscription useful list of facts. info on lists that deal with dsability.

* Dykes, Disability and Stuff * Society for Disability Studies URL: http://tps.stdorg.wisc.edu/MGLRC/Groups/ URL: http://members.tripod.com/&sabilitystu&es/ DykesDisabilitiesStuff.html Developed/maintained by: Barbara Robertson, Debra Developed/maintained by: Outreach Sheets Last updated: January 2,2000 Last updated: May 31,1999 Date of review February 17,2000 Date of review: February 17,2000 Provides information on subscribing to the journal of The homepage for the Society for Disability Studies, this name. whch seeks to promote academic and intellectual interest in the emerging interd~sciplinaryfield of disability studies. *Disabled Peoples' International: Women's Committee Contains information on upcoming conferences, member- URL: http://www.dpi.org/women.html ship and subscription information to the society's journal. Developed/maintained by: Disabled Peoples' International Last updated: NA Date of review February 17,2000 News:

* Ctip Commentary: Laura Hershey's Weekly Web Academic: Column URL: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ *Disability Studies in the Humanities: Georgetown LauraHershey/ Humanities Index Developed/maintained by: Laura Hershey URL: http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/int/ Last updated: January 11, 2000 (weekly updates) ds-hum/index.html Developed/maintained by: Crossroads Webstaff Last updated: January, 2000 Date of review. February 17, 2000

Feminist Collections (v.21. no.4. Summer 2000) Page 17 Date of review: February 17, 2000 Random This site is not geared towards women and dsabhty - rather it is a weekly column on a disability topic in generaL -ah00 Sites URL: http://dir.yahoo.com/SocietytyanddCulture/Disabh- ties/ Health Developed/maintained by: Yahoo, Inc. Last updated: NA * National Women's Health Information Centec Date of review February 17,2000 Women with Disabilities URL http://www.4women.gov/wwd/index.htrn Developed/mahtained by: The National Women's Health Disability in General: Information Center Last updated: NA * Disability Information for Students and Professionals Date of review: February 17, 2000 URL: http://www.abilityinfo.com Developed/maintained by: Mike Peg Last updated: November 1999? Sexuality Date of review. February 17,2000

* QueerLadies: A List for Queer Women with Disabili- Offers a staaing point, though rather dated and spotty in ties of AU Ages coverage. URL http://www.gunp&l.com/lists/queezla&s/ Developed/maintained by: Jen Last updated: NA [Ahxa Scbrieqf i.a doctoral ~tudentin phihopby at the Uniywsity Date of review: February 17,2000 of Ongon and Managing Editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Phdosophy.] * Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Ttansgendered Disabled Veterans of America URL http://www.web&g.org/cgi-bin/ webring?ring=glbtveterans;list Developed/maintained by: Web-, Inc. and Yahoo!, Inc. Last updated: NA Date of revim. February 17,2000

Page 18 Feminist Collections (v.21. no.4, Summer 2000) project called Documenting the American South at In the '70s, the question for historians of women's University of North Carolina Chapel Hd You could history was 'Were are the Women?, What followed simply search the catalog for the subject "women" and was a torrent of articles, dissertations, monographs, the subject "Civil War" and you'd find the ind~vidual biographical dictionaries, guides to archival collections, diaries and other documents %tized by the UNC project and more focusing on the social fabric of women's lives - and any others elsewhere. In OCLC/Worldcat there are and restoring women of achievement to their qht. now over 200,000 such records, although accurately place in history. But people needed to visit libraries, hutmg to "computer files" to obtain these records will archives, or museums in order to actually encounter the not be operational und September 17, 2000. (Until then, raw material on which such research is based. Exposing regular keyword, subject, etc. searches will turn up undergraduates to primary source documents and rare records for Internet sites mixed in with those for books printed works was daunting, usually requiring assign- and other formats.) Thereafter, one can use the advanced ments involvmg the use of microforms, a medium that search screen, put in the keyword(s) or subject(s) search excites few students. Today, the situation is radically and choose computer files from the drop-down menu changmg. World Wide Web sites mounted by institutions under "document type." offer access to a selection of rare and primary sources, While many librarians think this is the way to go in with more bemg added all the time. However, several imposing some system of organking a selected subset of factors about the Web conspire to make the question material on the Web, such cataloging is not wrdely known 'Were are the Women?' relevant nevertheless. about and does not yet cover all sites or individual If you want to find books on a subject, the obvious @tized items that would be useful - and perhaps may place to smis your campus library's catalog, backed up never do so. For the foreseeable future, there are two by catalogs of other institutions and by unified catalogs other methods of finding material on the Web: search such as OCLC/WorldCat and RLIN, which represent the engine searching and using subject meta-pages. Using holdings of numerous institutions. But what about Web search engines is the main method most people websites? Would you think to look for them in library employ to find material on the Web. Yet anyone who has catalogs, too? Many libraries do now catalog websites, tried using search engines for "women" a~thingknows though representation of virtual items in their "collec- the unsuitability of many of the resultant hits. If you have tions" is much less systematic than it is for physical items. a more precise search, though, it is often quite satisfac- Nevertheless, it is important to try this standardized tory. For example, if a colleague says she came across the source of information to locate academically s@cant transcript of an interview with Jeannette Rankm "some- websites. Web-based library catalogs d hyperlirik the where on the Berkeley site," a search for "Jeannette Web address for a cataloged website, mewthat you Ranh Berkeley" d put the item from the Suffragists can click on the link from within the library catalog and Oral History Project, Bancroft Library, University of go dkectly to the site. Do a search as you would for print California, Berkeley, at or near the top of your retrieval items, but hut the retrieval to computerized records. list, which is also much shorter than it would be search- What's great about this is that you don't need to second- ing only for "Jeannette Radm." Ldcewise, if you want to guess where to find material - you can use the same sort of search you would for books on that subject For example, if you want to find women's dimes from the Civil War, you wouldn't need to know that there's a

Feminist CoUections (v.21. no.4, Summer 2000) Page 19 t resources the National Women's History Project Traditionally, archives were places mostly frequented for commemorating Women's History Month, a by persistent scholars and individuals on genealogical for the phrase "National Women's History quests, but no longer. The Web has brought archives out ' will easily get you to their site, particularly if you from under their cloak of obscurity. Archives have reahzed attention to searching conventions employed by many that the Web offers them the possibdtty of providmg of the search engines, such as putting phrases with scholars unparalleled access to diaries, letters, photographs, quotation marks. and other evidentiary material while at the same time raismg Searches for "women's history," though, are too their visibdtty to the general public through enjoyable Web broad to unearth speufic historical items as &sparate as exhibits. The Guiak is ideal for users who want to '%sit" Civil War diaries, oral histories of Hawaiian women various archlves and see what they have onhe about their pineapple workers, photographs of women in a variety of women-focused collections.' The only institutions induded work set-tings in Florida, electronic versions of classic are those that Jackson is aware of that have websites with works such as Jane Addams' Tweno Years at Hull Home information about collections from women's orgmzations and Mary Antin's The Ptvmised Land, or articles from or from or related to individual women. The arrangement is women's liberation periodicals of the late 1960s/early by state, sub-arranged alphabetically. Each repository merits 1970s - all of which are now available on the Web. a short desuiption, highhghting the relevant material in its Further, no amount of Web search enpe searchmg or collection. Archival Sites for Women's Studies @ttp:// even Web cataloging wdl reveal that excellent sod gwis2.cir~.~wu.edu/-~ankin/archms.h~maintained commentary can be found in the "American Ballroom by Mary Faith Pankin, Gelman Library, George Waslungton Companion" collection of dance manuals in tht Wrary University, as part of WSSLINKS (see below) is another of Congress' American Memory Project or in the-bcauty good resource for browsing by repository. It also employs a and hygiene advertisements from the 1920s onward in the geographical arrangement, by repon, sub-arranged by name Ad* Access Project of the John W. Hartman Center for of institution. Descdptions are shorter than in the Guiak, Sales, Advertising and Marketing History at Duke and users interested in Midwestern archives d need to University. These are best found by browsing subject know to look under "Northeast" on this site. meta-pages maintained by scholars, librar-ians, and dedicated aficionados who troll the 'Net constantly, WSSLinks, http://libraries.mit.edu/humanities/ pouncing on "the good stuff' and addmg hks to their WomensStudies/wscd.htnd, a collaborative project of the pages. Meta-pages perform their most uidcal service Women's Studies Section Collection Development Com- when they link to sites that are relevant and useful, but mittee of the Association of College and Research Libraries, not obvious from their title or overall focus. Meta-pages is a resource that should be bookmarked by everyone in are the virtual descendants of bibliographies intellgentb women's studies. Two sections of WSSLinks relate to gathered and organized in times past, before databases women's history: Archival Sites for Women's Studies, seemingly supplanted their function. The rest of this mentioned above, and Women's History Sites, URL: article will be devoted to discussing metasites for http: //libraryweb.utep.edu/acrlms/history.html, women's history and some of the primary source riches maintained by Rachel Murphree, University of Texas at El they include. Paso Library. Murphree has arranged her site by time period (ancient, medieval) or place (U.S., Canada, elsewhere) sub-arranged alphabetically. She has additional sections with information about women's history month activities, conferences, and A Guide to Uncovering Women's History in Archival speakers and performers. Collections, URL: http://www.lib.utsa.edu/Archives/~s.htm American Women's History: A Research Guide Maintained by Jill Jackson, archivist of Center for the Study URL: http://frank.mtsu.edu/-kmiddlet/history/ of Women and Gender & the Speual Collections and women.html Arthives Department, University of Texas-San Antonio Maintained by Ken Middleton, Todd Library, Middle Tennessee State University Middleton's bibliography nicely integrates pointers to

Feminist Collections (v.21, no.4, Summer 2000) reference resources in print and on the Internet, an up language (SGML or XML). As a result, there are no important ploy in an era when students increasingly think search capabilities for these beyond the simple "find" and that ewrythng is on the 'Net. He also provides descriptions "find again'' commands within an Intemet browser. Twenty and links to major digital collections of relevance to Yemat HuII Home, by Jane Addams, Mary Antin's The women's history. Pmmi~edLand, and Catharine Beecher's "Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, with Reference to the Duty of American A Celebration of Women Writers Females" are examples from among the hundreds of URL: http://dqytal.library.upenn.edu/women/ historically relevant texts input in this way that can be Maintained on the site of the Digital Library Project, Van accessed from this site. Myrta Lockett Avary's A Vi'ginia Pelt Library at the University of Pennsylvania, by Mary Girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865: Being a Record ofthe Actual Mark Ockerbloom E+ences ofthe Wife ofa Cogederate Oficer is one that is This is the location to find links to free dqqtized accessible both in HTML and in SGML. editions of published works by women throughout history. Genres include novels, poems, letters, biographies, travel H-Women books, relqgous commentaries, histories, economic and URL: http://www2.h-net.rnsu.edu/-women/ scientific works. There are also links to biographical and Maintained at Michigan State University by H-Women bibliographical information about the writers and websites Editors devoted to them. Essentially, A Celebration of Women H-Women is &st and foremost an electronic discus- Writets is a massive index to works by women dqytized in sion group for historians to discuss women's history. numerous projects scanning or transcribing works in the Messages posted to the list are arranged by discussion public domain. These include Project Gutenberg (http:/j thread, and resource information is compiled into subject promo.net/pg/), the Makrng of America (University of bibliographies. The site also has conference announce- Michigan: http: / /moa.urndl.umich.edu/), Documenting the ments, syllabi, book reviews and links to other women's American South (University of North Carolina: http:// history sites. Though dehtely the best place to find metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/), the University of Virginia's opinions of historians, the other mega-sites mentioned Electronic Text Center (http://[email protected]/) and above are better as pointers to dqytal collections of pnmary projects it has spawned such as Hypertext Projects of sources. Amedcan Studies students (http://[email protected]/ -HYPER/hypertex.html), etc., and efforts by individual Women's History Resources volunteers stimulated to create an online version of a URL: http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/ favorite older work. Since it is drfficult to keep up with all WomensStudies/hist.htrn the separate projects underway, it is a major convenience to Maintained by Phyllis Holman Weisbard, University of have the works by women pointed to from this site.2While Wisconsin System large university libraries will have print versions of all or This section of our office's website can also be used as most of the texts dqytized in these projects, they are a boon a metasite, particularly for links to oral history projects with to smaller colleges, offering access to rare mated not excerpts or transcripts onltne, descriptions of women- before available in their libraries. focused mated within the major ongoing dqytal projects Though browsable by author, century, and country, A in the United States, and links to other sites of interest to Celebration of Women Writers does not have a dedicated academics. mechanism for searchmg directly for a particular title. It is . . . possible, however, to accomplish this by using the search Visiting two or more of the meta-pages above ftom feature of a companion site, the Online Books Page, edited time to time will keep you abreast of most happenings in by John Mark Ockerbloom at http://dqytaLlibrary.upenn. the dqytization of primary source material relevant to edu/books/search.html, which includes the texts linked women's history. Below are examples of several of the from A Celebration of Women Writers. Searching within important collections pointed to from the meta-pages: the full texts of the works is dependent on the project that did the dqytizing. Some of the %tized versions have been input in plain text or HTML, rather than a structured rnark-

Feminist Collections (v.21, no.4, Summer 2000) Page 21 search capabihties of 'Votes for Women" and other online col-lections, which make it possible to jump duectly to instances where a person, place, or concept is American Memory Historical Collections, Library of mentioned. Congress 'Votes for Women" has a small companion pictonal URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html exhibit, "Votes for Women Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920" Skeptical about the *tal collections?Just look at this from the Prints and Photographs Division, that sports one. I guarantee that only the severest Luddite will portraits of suffrage leaders and a few photographs from remain one. Numerous divisions of the Library of suffrage parades and pro and anti-suffrage cartoons and Congress are contributing to multimedia Americana col- photographs. The pictures are familiar ones often repro- lections of *tized documents, photographs, recorded duced in textbooks - in fact the Library dehberately sound, moving pictures, and text. The result is in some mounted those that are most frequently requested for ways better than an in-person visit to LC with its welter of photoduplication. Scholars would want more, and perhaps buildmgs, divisions, readmg rooms, and rules for use. A in time the Library will add to this exhlbit. good example is 'Votes for Women: Selections From the Suffrage, however, is only one of the many topics in National American Woman Suffrage Association Collec- American women's history that can be examined in the tion, 1848-1921." It consists of 167 books, pamphlets and American Memory Project. "Mhg Do: Women and other artifacts documenting the role of the NAWSA and Work" offers excerpts from interviews with three women its predecessor organizations (the National Woman Suf- among the interviewees in the Federal Writers Project, frage Association WSA] led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1936-1940; first person narratives by women participants and Susan B. Anthony, and the American Woman Suf- can be retrieved in the "California's Early Years" collection, frage Association [AWSA], led by Lucy Stone, Henry and there are over two hundred shots of women at work in Blackwell, and Julia Ward Howe) in the long road to suf- munitions factories and on the farm in a large 1930s set Gage. Most of the material is from the Library of Con- from the Farm Security Adrmnistration/Office of War gress' own collections, but not all. Other repositories, Information. Both "Women Pioneers" and "Women's including the New York Public Library and the Arthur History" groupings bring together items from throughout and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, American Memory's named collections. Keyword searches consented to have their relevant holdings scanned in as across all American Memory Project collections turn up well While this cooperative procedure has been followed many more items in such collections as "African American in the past in the assemblrng of large microform sets, Perspectives" pamphlets, "Quilts and Qu~ltmakingin even well-indexed sets cannot compete with the fulltext America, 1978-1996," and among the more than two hundred dance manuals in the aforementioned "American Ballroom Companion" collection.

Feminist Collections (v.21, no.4, Summer 2000) Early Canada Online ten of the Cross: or, Woman's Mission by Daniel C. Eddy), URL: http://www.canadiana.org/ one from 1866 detailing the work of women in the Civd If your interest runs to Canadiana, try Early Canada War (Women of the War; Their Heroism and Se~samzce,by Online (JZCO), a full-text online collection of more than Frank Moore), and biographical sketches of proment three thousand books and pamphlets in English and women of the time, such as Florence Nightingale, Lyha French documenting Canadian history to the late nine- Maria Child, and Emma Whd(Eminent Women ofthe Age teenth century. On the English site, a whopping 686 Being Natmtiw~of the Lues and Deed of the Most Pdnent documents resulted from a subject search for "women." Women of the Present Generation, by James Parton, Horace The collection is a good resource for women's travel Greeley, T. W. Higgmson, et aL, 1868). The Ladies writing (for example, To Klbndih By Sea, by Geraldine Repository, 1841-1 876, and Vanity Fair, 1860-62, are two of Bonner, 1897) or for reading how an anthropologist (Otis the eleven journals in the Michgan collection that are of Mason) regarded women's roles and Native American relevance for women's history. These volumes include culture in 1895 (Women? Share in Pn'mtiw Cultm). It images of engravings and cartoons. could also be used to examine writings on women's suffrage in Canada, perhaps with an eye toward comparing National Archives and Records Administration them to those from the United States, such as are in the (NARA) Archival Information Locator (NAIL) NAWSA collection. Each page can be rotated, which is URL: http://www.nara.gov/nara/nail.html especially nice for illustrations, and the collection is NAIL is a prototype database of 124,000 digital copies searchable throughout the full texts. of the most popular manuscripts, photographs, maps, drawings and other documents in the National Archives. Making of America Included is a ready-made unit for schools on 'Woman University of Miclvgan portion, URL: http://moa.umdl. Suffrage and the 19th Amendment," but many more items umich.edu/ on women are retrieved through keyword searches. "Girls" Comell University portion, URL: http://cdLlibrary.comell. turned up 1,512 hits, of which 272 are photographs. A use- edu/moa/index. html ful exercise for a course on gender and race in American This project offers dtgitized versions of primary history would be deconstructing the revealing scenes of sources in American social history from the antebellum per- Native American girls at Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding iod through the early twentieth century found in the collec- schools, including one where they are playing, of all things, tions of the two collaborating institutions. Users view croquet! ('Girls playing uoquet" [NRE-75-PI(PH0)-71, images of the actual pages of the nineteenth-century books or of young AGican American women given training to be and journals scanned from the collections. Many of the domestics: "Colored girls attending WPA household items also had Optical Character Recognition (OCR) workers training center (serving a tea given for the Phoenix applied to the scanned texts, plus SGML encoding of the Recreation Dept.)" ca. 1936 [NLR-PHOCO-A-5251(107)]. ensuing textual information. For these items, full-text More fun is "Two girls fishg at Short Creek" [NRCA- searching is possible. Users can also choose to "view as 142-INF001-10836A1, 1940. text" to increase the readability (and to see where the OCR program has misread characters). At the present Ad*Access time, the two collections must be searched separately, but URL: http://scriptoriurn.lib.duke.edu:80/dynaweb/ there are plans to integrate them. adaccess/@Generic-Collectionview The ComelI collection includes twenty-two J. Walter Thompson Company Competitive Advertise- journals (and 267 books). A search on the term "women" ments Collection of the John W. Hartrnan Center for Sales, yields some fascinating articles, such as 'Women's Views Advertising and Marketing History, Rare Books, Manu- of Divorce," an 1890 piece by Rose Terry Cooke in The script, and Sped Collections Library, Duke University North Ammian Renew that allowed no grounds for divorce One of the questions I get every semester comes other than infidelity, and "Rum Creeters is Women," by from students in a communications course who need to J. W. De Forest, a tale of love and betrayal across the examine gendered messages in advertisements from the Civil War divide, published in Hatper? New Month4 Maga@ne in 1867. The University of Michgan portion indudes an 1855 book about women missionaries (Dad-

Feminist Collections (v.21, no.4, Summer 2000) Page 23 "ys "ys before the modem women's movement raised the riage in the South, University of Pennsylvania Law consciousness of advertisers. This sped collection from Lbrary, anti-miscegenation documents; Library Company Duke is an excellent resource for them, especially the of Philadelphia, miscegenation; Princeton University Beauty and Hygiene section, which includes ads from the Libraries, polygamy and the Church of Jesus Chnst of 1920s through the 1950s for cosmetics, soap, and femi- Latter-Day Saints; and the University of Leeds contrib- nine hygiene products. uted the British sources. (In order to access, click on the connect button.)

Suffragists Oral History Project URL: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu:2020/dynaweb/teiproj/ oh/suffragists/ Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library, University Adrican American Women Writers of the 19" Century of Caltfornia at Berkeley URL: http://digital.nypl.org/ schomburg/writers_aa19/ In the early 1970s, the Regional Oral History Office Digital Schomburg Collection, New York Public Library conducted interviews with suffrag~stleaders Alice Paul, Some of the historical works in this collection are The Sara Bard Field, Burnita Shelton Matthews, Helen Valeska Work oftk Afm-American Woman, a 1908 encomium by N.F. Bary, Jeannette Rankin, Mabel Vernon, Rebecca Hourwich Mosell, Home~punhe mine^ and Other Women of Distinction, by Reyher, and five rank-and-file suffragists. In the 1990s, the Hallie Q. Brown (1926), and several more biographies and transcripts were encoded using the Text Encodmg Initiative autobiographies. (TEI) gutdelmes for SGML. The result are fully searchable versions of the interviews. Five College Archives Digital Access Project URL: http://dio. fivecolleges.edu/ Women in Journalism Created and maintained by Amherst, Hampshire, Mount URL: http: //npc.press.org/wpforal/ohhome.ht Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massa- Washington Press Club Foundation, Washmgton, DC chusetts A major resource and inspiration for women consider- This effort focuses on the history of women's educa- ing careers in journalism, the Women in Journalism tion at the participating institutions. Included are oral his- Project interviewed almost sixty women who, according to tories, records from student organizations, personal papers the site, "have made s@cant contributions to society of women faculty, and more. Other colleges may want to through careers in journalism since the 1920s." Most but organize simtlar projects, perhaps in commemoration of a not all the interviews have transcripts onlme. swcant anniversary of the adrmttance of women students.

Marriage, Women and the Law: A Digital Collection URL: http://www.rlg.org/demo/scarlet.html Sponsored by the Research Lbraries Group, this demonstration project focuses on family law and domestic Emma Goldman Papers Project site relations in the nineteenth century, primarily in the United URL: http:// sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/ States, with some material from the United Kmgdom. The Besides offering selections from the printed guide to New York Public Library contributed material on social the sixty-nine-reel microfilm collection of Goldman papers conventions and the status of women; New York Univer- assembled by the Project, the site has excerpts of texts and sity Law Library supplied documents on the Comstock photographs from a traveling exhibit on her life. laws; Harvard University Law Library gave accounts of trials; Noah Carolina State Aichives had material on mar- Jewish Women's Archive URL: http://www.jwa.org/ The "Women of Valor" series on the site exhibits the lives and accomplishments of selected Noah American

Feminist Collections (v.21. no.4, Summer 2000) Jewish women. Three have been chosen for the project available on the Internet. As the quantity and quahty each year since 1998. The 2000 Women of Valor are escalate, the need for tools designed to lead potential users Congresswoman and activist Bella Abzug, anthropologist to them - whether by means of tradtional cataloging or Barbara Myerhoff, and Canadian Olympic medalist Bobbie other techniques tailored to a webbed environment - d Rosenfeld. The site has audio and 6lm clips, photographs, become more critical. Let's hope that the onhe community and text recoves this fact and rises to the occasion. If not, the Internet will be a decidedly frustrating place for histofians Triangle Shittwaist Factory Fire and students, in large measure no better off than they were URL: http://www.iL.comell.~u/manglefire/ in the pre-Internet days when pnmary source mated was Presented by the Kheel Cen- for Labor-Management buried in archives. Documentation and Archives at Cornell University in cooperation with the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE!) Notes The famous sweatshop fire on March 25, 1911, Ued 146 workers, primatily young iumigmnt women who 1. Readers wishng to locate the personal papers of an jumped to their deaths in desperate attempts to get out of individual woman or the records of a women's organization the burning buildmg, while spectators helplessly watched in should try the index to Women? Hirtory Soms, a Guide to horror. The exhibit indudes photographs, newspaper Arcbites and Manwmpt ColIkctions in the United States, edited by accounts, political cartoons decrying the conditions, and Andrea I-Iin* et al. (2 v., Bowker, 1979), and the Na- audio clips from oral histodes with witnesses and survivors. tional Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC), published by the Library of Congress in print volumes. Hawaii Women's Heritage Project through 1993, and online for cataloging records created URL: http://www.soc.hawaiiedu/hwhp/ since 1986187 at http://lcweb.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/nucmc. Presented by the Women's Studies Program of the Univer- html The commercial database ArchitesUSA indexes sity of Hawai'i at Manoa; aeated by faculty and students NUCMC (1959-present) and NIDS (National Inventory of The Program has mounted several separate multimedia Documentary Sources in the United States, a microfiche set projects that other Women's Studies Programs might like to of fin* aids). (Fin* aids are detailed descriptions of emulate with features on their local history and issues. collections of personal papers or orgamzational records. An 'Women and Work in Hawai'i Into the Marketplace" inventory at the box or folder level is generally included.) uses a laundry line throughout to symbolize the "fluid ArchiwsUSA also links to repositories with homepages and exchange of women's work betwetn the home and the to some fin* aids. Several archival hnding aids %&a- labor market." Other parts indude a site about the hula tion projects are wed from http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/ and about Chinese women in Hawaii arnher/browse.html. For a look at some relevant onlme hndmg aids, try the Harvard Online Archival Search Motherhood, Social Service, and Political Information System (OASIS) at http://oasis.harvard.edu Reform: Political Culture and Imagery of American and select the Schlesmger Library on the History of Women Woman SufEeage in America. Linked from the resultant page are over thiay URL: http://www.nrnwh.org/ aids mounted in both SGML and HTML versions. Featured on the website of the National Museum of Women's History, proposed for Washmgtoq DC 2. For links to collections of %tized historical texts, see The exhibit examines the political imagery and artifacts http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/archives.html of the suffrage movement Visitors can also listen to a #history, maintained by John Mark Ockerbloom on The suffrage song. Online Books Page.

The sites described above are but some of the ever- growing number of primary resources for women's history

Feminist Collections (v.21. no.4, Summer 2000) Page 25 Remember that our website (http://www. BLACK WOMEN IN PUBLISHING, boasting of "20 fibrary.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/ includes years of nurturing publishmg careers," has a website fill electronic versions of all recent "Computer Talk" of articles on a career in publishing, an FAQ section, columns, plus many bibliographies, core lists of suggested online magazines, a "Writers' Showcase" women's studies books, and links to hundreds of featuring the origmal work of BWIP members, related other websites by topic. links, membership information, and more. Website address: http://www.bwip.org/ BREAST CANCER TREATMENT GUIDELINES FOR PATIENTS comes from the National Comprehen- sive Cancer Network and the American Cancer Society. The AFRICAN WOMEN'S DATABASE includes Information on types of breast cancer, the breast cancer some 20,000 citations to books, government documents, workup including types of biopsies, kinds of treatment and articles, theses and dissertations. Compiled by Davis available, "decision trees" according to stages, and more Bullwinkle of the Institute for Economic Advancement can be found here. Web address is: http://www.nccn. Research Lbrary at the University of Arkansas, Little org/patient_guidelines/breast-cancer/breast/Pagel .htm Rock, the bibliography may be found at: http://www. The CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEXUAL afticabib.org/womendb.htrnl Another women-related ASSAULT CENTERS offers both English and French database by the same compiler is WOMEN TRAVEL ERS, EXPLORERS AND MISSIONARIES TO versions of its website. Information on the association's current campagns, hks to issues and debates on the AFRICA: 1763-1999 at: http://www.africabib.org/book/ title.htm topic, connections to rape crisis centers and transition housing across the country, news of a December, 2000, The AFRICAN WOMEN'S MEDIA CENTER, part nationwide forum, and more can be found on the website: of the International Women's Media Foundation's effort http://www.casac.ca/ to strengthen the role of women in media, was started in 1997 to "provide African women journalists the training, COUNT-ME-IN for Women's Economic Indepen- resources and tools they need to compete equally with dence is "a new organization that makes small business their male colleagues." Program do, resources, and a loans and gves training scholarships to women." It was "talk back" section are available at: http://www.awrnc. co-founded by the woman who created Take Our com/ Daughters to Work Day. Website address: http://www. count-me-in.org/ BEFORE AND AFTER TANF: THE ECONOMIC WELL-BEING OF WOMEN LEAVING WEL CYBERJANES AND CYBERJITTERS MYTHS FARE by Maria Can& et al. is a study from UW- AND REALITIES OF GENDER DIFFERENCES Madison's Institute for Research on Poverty that finds AND THE NET by Phyllis Holman Weisbard is the those who left the Wlsconsin welfare system increased title of a paper given at the Spring 2000 Wlsconsin their incomes but lost much in benefits, so that overall Association of Academic Lbrarians Conference. For Web income is less than when on welfare. Web address: http:/ access, use: http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/ /www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp/pubs/sr77.pdf WomensStudies/Talks/waaltalk.htm BLACK SINGLE MOMS website seems to be pnmanly THE DAILY EXPRESS' REPORTING OF SUF- an entry point for joining the mading list (see Emd Lists FRAGETTE CRIME 1913 by Sadie Cltfford is part of in this column). Web address: http://www. the Sheffield Online Papers in Soual Research. Clifford blacksinglemoms.com/ notes that as violence escalated in 1913 following the defeat of a women's suffrage bill, the paper's coverage began dlstmgulshing between the law-abidmg "suffragist" and the criminal "suffragette." Web address: http://

Page 26 Feminist Collections (v.21, no.4, Summer 2000) GENDER MATTERS is the title of the GenderReach website from the U.S. Agency for International Develop- The DEAD SOCIOLOGISTS INDEX includes lots of ment. The site "describes the agency's gender strategy information on two women: H&t Martineau and Jane and its many critical gender projects" as it attempts to Addams. Martineau's section, for example, offers a integrate gender concerns into development projects. http://www.genderreach.com/ lengthy autobiographical memoir, summaries of her ideas Internet address is: on topics such as women's rights, marriage, and women's The HISTORIC COSTUME STUDY COLLEC- education, plus a full-text version of her major book, TION website from Ursuline College shows off a small Son'@ in America. Web address for the Index: http:// sample of the three thousand items in the collection. www.runet.edu/-Iridener/DSS/INDEX.HTML Women's fashions from the 1950s to the 1970s offer a The DINUR CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN glimpse into the past. See the dresses, evening wear, JEWISH HISTORY - WOMEN'S STUDIES Web' ensembles, and casual/hostess outfits at http://www. page includes links to a multitude of resources grouped ursuline.edu/acadaff/fashion/collection.htm accordmg to pedod (Biblical, Medieval, etc.), type HULDA is a substantial website on feminist theology, (bibliographies, archives), and also including academic put together by Rebecca Unsoeld, a Protestant theologmn programs and electronic forums and journals. Web from Germany, who offers the website in both German address: http://jewishhistory.hujiac.il/Internetresources/ and English. It includes links to announcements of new women's-studies. htrn conferences and workshops, mahg lists and websites on DOES THE AVAILABILITY OF CHILDCARE feminist theology (indudmg Jewish feminism), resources INFLUENCE THE EMPLOYMENT OF MOTH- from and for gay/lesbian Christians, bibliographies, and ERS? FINDINGS FROM WESTERN GERMANY much more. Web address: http: //www.dike.de/hulda/ is a worktng paper by Karsten Hank and Michaela english.html Kreyenfeld from the Max Planck Institute for Demo- The INTERNET WOMEN'S HISTORY graphic Research. Result. are not encouraging, but SOURCEBOOK "attempts to present online documents Germany is clearly ahead of the U.S. Go to the Institute's and secondary discussions which reflect the various ways publications website: http://www.demogr.mpg.de/ of looktng at the history of women with broadly detined Papers/PapersPres.htm, then select the paper. historical periods and areas." A wealth of material and ENGENDERING DEVELOPMENT: ENHANC- links from the Sourcebook collections by Paul Halsall ING DEVELOPMENT THROUGH ATTENTION offers plenty to keep the scholar interested. Web address: TO GENDER is a World Bank report from May of this http://www.fordharn.edu/halsall/women/ year that suggests a global strategy for implementing womensbook.html gender equity. Check the details at: http://www. JOB MOBILITY IN 1990s BRITAIN: DOES GEN- worldbank.org/gender/prr/draft.html DER MATTER? is a working paper from the Institute GENDER AND COMPUTING: TOOLBOX OR for Social and Economic Research that examines gender TOYSTORE? Gender Differences and Sindiarities differences in the effects of job changes both within the among Ch~ldren,Youth, and College Students Concerning same frrm and between firms. Website address: http:// Computer Attitudes and Use by Tracy Luchetta was www.irc.essex.ac.uk/pubs/workpaps/wp99-26.htrn presented at the Spring 2000 Wkconsin Association of LIVING FOR TOMORROW, a project of NIKK Academic Librarians Conference. Web address: http:// (Nordic Institute for Women's Studles and Gender www.uwgb.edu/luchettt/waaltalk.htm Research), is an AIDS/HIV-related program focusmg on GENDER DIFFERENCES IN PAY, a paper by "youth, sexual health and the cultural landscapes of Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn of the School gender and sexuality in Nordic / Baltic/ N.W. Russian of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, times of transition." A short summary, publications examines the gender pay gap in the U.S. It is available in PDF from the Russell Sage Foundation website: http:// www.russellsage.org/publications/working_papers.htm

Feminist Collections (v.21,no.4, Summer 2000) Page 27 related to the project, and the full project description are including a conference report, plus related links, orp- all available on the website: http://www.nikk.uio.no/ zations working on the topic, and more. Web address: Instituttet/Verksamhet/LfT/LfE.html http://www.icmpd.org/women/ MERGE is a feminist kine out of Chicago, and although REALISTIC CHILD SUPPORT POLICIES FOR the latest issue as we accessed the site was November/ LOW INCOME FATHERS by Vicki Turetsky "identi- December 1999, there are plenty of interesting articles fies strategies states can use to tailor thek standard chdd from previous issues avadable, plus some interesting support practices to fathers with a limited ability to pay," "sexist makeovers," links to other 'zines, and tidbits on emphasizing small, regular payments, as "child support is women achievers. Their address: http://merge. about more than just money." The document is available simplenet.com/ at: http://www.dasp.org/pubs/childenforce/kellogg.htm The NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR WOMEN IN REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH OUTLOOK website is HIGHER EDUCATION began as a national telecon- geared to reproductive health program managers and ference March 27-29, 2000 for faculty, staff, and students. decision-makers in developing countries. Topics include The website is planned as a way to continue the dialogue, family planning, gender and sexual health, cervical indudrng action plans around the US., listservs on cancer, HN/AIDS, infertility, and more. Site address: caucus topics, sdesof the conference itself, and http://www.rho.org more. Web address: http://wwwl .umn.edu/women/ The SELF DEFENSE NOW homepage includes wihe/ home.html information on domestic violence and self defense, a The NATIONAL WOMEN'S COUNCIL OF IRE- downloadable self-defense course, some humorous LAND "aims to provide an online resource for all stories, a feedback section for your comments, and lrnks individuals interested in the advancement of women's to other related sites. Web address: http://www. rights in Ireland." When we visited the site, a fairly selfdefensenow.com/index.htm extensive guide on the euro currency was available, SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN ARMED CONFLICT: A among other dungs. Site address: http://www.nwa.ie/ BIBLIOGRAPHY by Allyson A. Gould offers a lengthy main2htm listing of documents, including treaties from the United NETNOIR WOMEN'S PAGE now includes much Nations, various NGO reports, and scholarly analyses, more on women than when we &st announced it, centered on the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda but including sections on Money Matters, Career Coach, and covering other areas as well. Web address: http://www. book reviews. The women's section can be found at: suffok.edu/law/~hrhlp/docs/biblio5.html http:/ /netnoir.com/women/ SHE INK, "The Career Magazine for the 21st Century The PICgER ENGINEERING PROGRAM (an Woman," has a Web presence with a current feature undergraduate program at Smith College) sees engineering story, information on "hot jobs ...cool careers," links to as "the bridge that connects the basic sciences to the related sites having to do with women in business, and humanities." In trying to interest more women in the will soon have archived issues available. Website address: field, this site offers the program's philosophy, a sample http://www.sheink.com/ course of study, links to some engineering sites and A SOUTHEAST ASIA WOMEN'S STUDIES position announcements, and frequently asked questions. BIBLIOGRAPHY from the Southeast Asia Resources Web address: http://www.science.smith.edu/depart- area of the University of Cahfornia, Berkeley, library ments/Engin/ offers pages on the area in general or any of ten nations. The RAPE IS A WAR CRIME website from The In addition to books and articles, there are also online International Centre for Migration Policy Development resources. Website: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ (ICMPD) carries a substantial number of documents, SSEAL/SoutheastAsia/seatabl.htrnl A SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN'S STUDIES BIBLIOGRAPHY may be found at: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/ SouthAsia/sawomen.html

Feminist Collections (v.21. no.4, Summer 2000) SUBVERSIVE SECRETARIES website has a list of period. To find it on the Web, go to: http://www.iisg.nl/ secretarial survival tips, the story of one woman's -wornhist/vivahome.html experience as a secretary, a list of books about the job, WELFARE COLLEGE STUDENTS: MEASURING and a plea for submissions. Web address is: http:// THE IMPACT OF WELFARE REFORM by Thomas subversivesecretaries.com/ Karier finds that programs intent on moving welfare TECH-SAVVY: EDUCATING GIRIS IN THE recipients directly to employment have "discourage[d] the NEW COMPUTER AGE (2000) is the result of a achievement of economic independence through the survey of some nine hundred teachers, focus groups pursuit of @her education." Full text of this paper from including seventy gltls, reviews of existing research, and the Jerome Levy Economics Institute is available at: the viewpoints of leading educators and entrepreneurs. http://www.levy.org/docs/pn/OO-3.html AAUW From (American Association of University The WHITE HOUSE OFFICE FOR WOMEN'S Women), the report's Executive Summary as well as a INITIATIVES AND OUTREACH offers Presidend substantial description are available on the organization's proclamations related to women, luzks to other federal http://aauw.org/2000/techsawy.html website: programs on women's issues, information on the Violence TEN MINUTE ACTMST is the new fast-action- Against Women Act, the First Lady's weekly column, and oriented portion of of NARAL's (National Abortion the like. Web address: http://www.whitehouse.gov/ Rghts Action League) website. Opportunities to send a women/ message to Congress, examine legislators' voting records, WIDOWS OF WAR Living Memonal is a moving collec- join the Choice Action Network, send information to a tion of the stories of widows all over the world - from all friend, are there. Web address is: http://www.naral.org/ Viemam to Tibet to Angola and Kosovo - whose spouses actnow/activist html have died due to war or armed violence of some sort. Web TRENDS IN EDUCATIONAL EQUITY OF address: http://www.wanvidows.org/ GIW & WOMEN reports on forty-four indicators to examine how males and females have access to the same WIFE: WOMEN'S INSTITUTE FOR FINANCIAL educational opportunities. From the National Center for EDUCATION is the work of two financial advisors who Education Statistics and available in PDF. Web address: offer a mynad of articles on financtal plannmg, taxes, credit http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid= cards, health insurance, and lots more, including a bulletin 2000030 board and many links and resources. You can find WIFE at: http://wife.org/ VIVA: BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WOMEN'S HISTORY IN HISTORICAL AND WOMEN'S STUDIES JOURNALS is a huge listing of articles published from 1975-2000. The bibliography is searchable by keyword, or may be examined by year of publication or by historical

Feminist Collections (v.21, no.4, Summer 2000) Page 29 Ihe WOMEN IN POLITICS BIBLIOGRAPHIC / DATABASE from the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) ! indudes some 650 titles of recent books and articles and is (Behw is a very small sunping $new email discu~sionbsts, just some searchable by author, title, subject keyword, or by geo- that haw come to our attention omthe htfeu, months. For a much graphic area, type of document, or publishmg organization. mon coqhte listin& ty Joan Konnman 3 Webpage at: by:// Search the database from. http://www.ipu.org/bdf-e/ tvww.umbc.eedu/ wmst/fom.htm3 BDfsearchmp BLACK SINGLE MOMS is intended to '%ring together WOMEN IN TRANSITION is a 1999 report from Black Single Moms and providers of products and services UNICEF's regional monitoring project on "the relationship created to provide famdy, parental, safety, and entrepre- between women's rights and welfare and the democratiza- neurial business development assistance" to subscribers. To tion and market-oriented transformation of Central and subscribe, send a blank message to BlkYngMoms-subsm'be Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union." Full text is @egro~ps.com available in pdf at: http://www.unicef-icdc.org/monee/ pubs.htm BOL: INTERACTIVE FORUM FOR GENDER ISSUES IN SOUTH ASIA is intended for moderated WOMEN-LAND-SPIRIT is a 'Western Canada-based discussion by individuals at all levels on gender issues - to creative arts and recording project celebrating include research projects, conferences and workshops, Women-Land-Spitit with Carolyn McDade and her judicial decisions, resources of all types, activism alerts, and music." There is a "conversations" page plus plans for the like. To subscribe, send the message subsm'be bolwith vatious gatherings. You can find them at: http:// the subject line blank to [email protected] www.gis.net/%7Esurtsey/womenlandsplit/~ DEVELOPMENT-GENDER is for researchers, aca- THE WOMEN'S UNIT is part of the Cabinet of the demics, and practitioners in the field of development UK's government that "works to ensure that women's interested in discussion of gender issues. It is part of the voices inform policies and decisions and to communicate Gender, Research and Training unit of the School of these back to women in a way that is meaningful to them." Development Studies, University of East Anglia, UK To Actonfor Women is a regular newsletter intended as a subscribe, send the message JOIN DEVELOPMENT- communication link about the Unit's activities. The Web GENDER yom$rstname yourhtname to address is: http://www.womens-unitgov.uk/ mai/bas@mailbase. ac. uk WOMEN'SWIRE is a new Web magazine from the IWTC WOMEN'S GLOBALNET provides bi-weekly womenswire site, the premiere issue having been launched information on women's activities around the world. Focus March 8,2000, International Women's Day. A wealth of recently has been on the five-year review of the Beijing articles on the recent UN review of the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action. To subscribe, contact the International Women's Conference were on the site at the time we Women's Tribune Centre at: [email protected] reviewed it. The address: http://www.womenswire.org/ LESBI-HEALTH, for discussion of lesbian, bisexual, and The WORLD WIDE WEB VIRTUAL LIBRARY transgendered women's health, is part of a larger health WOMEN'S HISTORY website, maintained by the promotion project funded by Status of Women Canada and International Institute of Social History in the Netherlands, Health Canada. To join, send email to omer-ksbi- offers a multitude of links to reference resources, organiza- hea/[email protected] with the message subsmmbeand your tions and discussion lists, not to mention chronological, email address. For more information email Celeste geographwal, and topical resources in women's history. Dig Wincapaw at: [email protected] into the wealth at: http://www.iisg.nl/-womh~st/ vivalink. html QUEERNET offers a good selection of lists that are women-oriented or women-only, among them: lazeeza (queer Arab lesbians and their allies); a& (African American, Laaand Hispanic women); fem2fem (femrnes and other femrnes); hedingdykes (lesbian survivors of

Feminist Collections (v.21, no.4, Summer 2000) relationship abuse, emotional or physical); lesbian-health (including mental health); soberdykes; young-lesbians; and more. See the QueerNet website at: http:// RADICAL SCATTERS: EMILY DICKINSON'S www.queemetorg/ FRAGMENTS AND RELATED TEXTS, 1870-1886 is SISTERS NET is a women-only forum for Muslim an electronic archive of Dickinson's fragmentary texts, women interested in talking about issues that might be some only a brief phase, available via site license from awkward in the presence of men. Subscribe by filling out University of Michtgan Press. Cost for institutional license the application at Sisters Net website (http://www.rnsa- is currently $95.00. Website address for further information: natLorg/SISTERS/) or by writing to: sisters- http://www.press.umich.edu/titles/00280.html [email protected]. ca STEIN-L is an unrnoderated list for discussion of issues 0 Compiled by Linda Shult and topics related to Stein's work. To subscribe, send a message to htpro-.eh with nodqin the subject line; in the message should be subsmmbcSkin-Lyon$r~tnme yo~rkutnme

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Feminist Collections (v.21, no.4, Summer 2000) Page 31 GREYCORE PRESS plans to offer both fiction and Gender 8 Race ed. by Heloise Brown et al. The address for nonfiction, accordmg to founder/president Joan Schweig- the press: Centre for Women's Stuhes, University of York, hardt, herself the author of three books published by York YO10 5DD, UK; ernail. rawneme@yellowpolka. Permanent Press during the 1990s. The press's first book demon.co.uk, website: http: / /www.york.ac.uk/inst/cws/ was The Jemt keeper^ by debut author Juhe Mars. Another gsp/rawnerve.htrn work of fiction and two nonfiction books are also scheduled for this year. Address: 2646 New Prospect Rd., Pine WISH PUBLISHING, the project of Holly Kondras, will Bush, NY 12566; phone: 914-744-5081; website: www. center on women's sports and health issues, with five titles greycore.com in the offing for thls calendar year. They also plan to "high- \I hght new role models for pls +rough a series of inspira- Roz Warren's LAUGH LINES PRESS recently closed its tional biographies." One of the press's first books will be doors. Warren, who had published for most of the past Mom3 Hun4 Book ofBackyard Ganef by Pete Cava (October decade, said massive book returns followed by loss of the 2000). Contact Kondras at P.O. Box 10337, Terre Haute, distributor were responsible for the need to shut down. IN 47801; phone: 812-478-3529; website: http://www. Laugh Lines has published a number of works by women wishpublishmg.com cartoonists and humorists, some of whom are now nation- ally synhcated.

NAIAD PRESS publishers Barbara Grier and Donna McBride have finally taken something of a rest from their more-than-fullhe work on Naiad, turning most of the press's worhgs over to Bella Press (announced in FCv.21, no.1, Fall 1999) and Kelly Smith (who had just completed a year "interning" at Naiad). Grier and McBride will continue to produce four books thls year and promote Naiad's backlist, but meanwhile Bella d pick up other Naiad authors, publish six books itself thls year, and is geadng up for greater production. Bella is located in Ferndale, Michi- gan: 175 W. Nine Mde Rd., Ferndale, MI 48220.

RAW NERVE BOORS, a recent British academic feminist press start-up, is hoping to publish ehted collections, short monographs, and experimental pieces. The publisher's first book is White/ Women: Ctiticaf Perspecttives on

Page 32 Feminist Collections (v.21, no.4. Summer 2000) comes a country-by-country swey of tions, and a three-page samphg of key indicators concerning the condi- websites. Doris Weatherford, WOMEN'S tion of women, indudmg life expect- The lagruappe in Women's Ahanac ALMANAC 2000. Phoenix: Oryx ancy, fdtyrate, labor force partici- 2000 is its state-by-state histories. Press, 2000.370p. ill. index. $65.00, pation, maternity leave benefits, and Weatherford's introduction says they ISBN 1-57356-341-2. something receiving intense scrutiny may be unique to this almanac, and I by policy makers involved with devel- agree. Local history is receiq quite a 0.K I admit it. I do judge books opment ihteracy rate. The informa- bit of attention from historians, and by their covers, and this one is tops. tion in this section, from 1997, is these essays lqhhght interestmg and Quotations by and about women form culled from the CIA Worki Foctkok, important women and events within an open 'bornan" symbol ( ? ) in the United Nations, the World Bank, each state's history. While many d micro-graphic fashion sunounding the and the World Health Organization be aware that the history of Utah title and author, all the color of egg- Recognizing the interest among the women is intermined with the history plan4 set agamst a white background. most likely readership - Americans - and beliefs of the Mormons, fewer d The design is simple, striking, and for more detailed statistics, a compan- know that Utah's women were the first woman-centered. Kudos to the ion section provides more specific to cast ballots (in municipal elections). uncredited designer, whoever s/he is. tables concerning women in the Ursuline nuns protected women The content is also appropciate. An United States. ?he next two sections arriving from France to marry the almanac by dehaition is a miscellany, consist of profiles of historical and Frenchmen who colonized New and it is quite up to the compiler to contemporary notables: Americans Orleans. South Carolina's &a Lucas decide what categories and content to and women from elsewhere. Two Pinckney ran three plantations as a include. Almanacs generally contain timelmes repeat this pattern, offering teenager and conducted botanical both statistical charts for the aggregate s@cant events in U.S. women's experiments that made her the nation's plus attention to individuals, espeually hlstory from 1492 through 1999, and first .gficulturalist Native American award winners and leaders, sections women in world history dating from women are also mentioned in many of devoted to events of the past year or paintings of around 5700 B.C.E. at the state articles. In seventeenth- so, a book of days (what happened on Catal Hiiyuk (present-day Turkey) century Rhode Island, for example, this day of the month), thematic depicting women giving birth or breast women led the Sogonate Wampanoags chronologies going back further, and feeding. Women notables are also and Pocassets. I-hgh school students directories of resources. Then there's listed in tables noting women political will find this section useful for an usually somethtng unexpected that leaders, where once again there are investigation of women's history in takes the form of quirky listings or 'tvorld" and United States sections. their own or a neighboring state. I presentation of information in a novel The book-of-days section is here wish Weatherford had included a few way. The Women's A~MOC2000 is true called a "calendar of historical anniver- bibliographic references to enhance to fonn, opening with news events saries," providmg two to seven slgd- the usefulness, however, and urge her (political activity, breakthroughs in icant dates per month. The resources to do so in a subsequent edition. A science, court rulings, and demo- section indudes a subject-arranged news release accompanying our review graphic trends) and issues on the con- bibliography, a directory of U.S.-based copy calls the Women's Almanac a "new temporary scene (abortion rights, child educational/professional, health, polit- custody, encouraging the inclusion of ical, and religious women's organiza- women in clinical trials, women's rights as human rights, etc.). Next

Funinist Collections (v.21. no.4. Summer 2000) Page 33 " and I would Timothy Fast and Cathy Carroll Fast's d factories. Women's education is 2002 edition she Women? Ath ofthe United Sbte~(rev. touched on in maps locating colleges es what she's done ed. New York: Facts on File, 1995), admitting women in 1891, and of hos and now this HrjtoricalAth. None pi& that same year mining female k would be a &hly provides the picky level of political doctors (only six in the country). k candidate for an electrokc boundaries or physical feature detail Two pages of "map acknowl- publisher beloved by Bee enthusiasts - this edgements" list (by map) sources used the events year's contest, for example, asked the (whenever the infomation came from ad statistical sections more frequently two islands separated by the Strait of other than the Census Bureau or the mn biennially. The availability of Bonifacio (A: Corsica and Sark) Department of Labor), which should ' - seemingly instant data on the Web has and what physical feature is described satis@ those nee- to go beyond upped the ante for publishers of print by the terms Agulhas and Kuroshio what's provided. The atlas itself will reference works. (A: ocean currents). Yet all the atlases certainly suffice for the high schoolers use colorful maps, pie charts, and and college students for whom the other graphics to enhance discussions book was intended. Now, National of topics that matter to women's lives Geographic Society, how about some and history. interpretive essay questions on Sandra Opdycke, THE ROUT- The approach of the Historical women's historical geography next LEDGE HISTORICAL ATLAS OF Ath of Women is chronological and year, OK? WOMEN LN AMERICA. New inclusive, not only of women in dif- Yo& Routledge, 2000. 144p. bibl. ferent places, but also beyond the index (Routledge atlases in American generic middle-class European white history). $60.00, ISBN 0-414-92132-5; woman. The first map in the book pap. $17.95, ISBN 0-415-92138-4. shows the on@ locations of Native Catherine Clinton and Christine American nations and accompanies a Lunar- THE COLUMBLA This May the National Geo- description of life for Native American GUIDE TO AMERICAN graphic Society (U.S.) held its twelfth women before the cowof Europe- WOMEN RV THE NINE- National Geography Bee, where, as in ans. A later map chm their uproot- TEENTH CENTURY New York: most prior years a/l finalists were ing, and the text captures the upheaval Columbia University Press, 1999. boys. The New York TimcJ and other in their lives. Departing from "tradi- 331p. index. $40.00, ISBN 0-231- newspapers duly reported this fact and tional" atlases, the Historical AthoJ 10920-2. used it as an occasion to discuss a Women uses maps to intense the study by two Pennsylvania State pro- understanding of individual women's Not long ago the influence of fessors commissioned by the Society deeds and predicaments - midwife seminal works of women's history was to determine why gxls do not do as Mattha Ballard's stalwart crossing and brought home to me in an amusing well as boys in the Bee. The research- recrossing a river dunng storms to but telling way. A student emailed for ers found gender differences in levels make her rounds in November and help in researchug the "cult of true of spatial skills used in atlas and map December, 1793; a Maryland slave womanhood.'' How, she wondered, reading and in how much geography is woman's repeated sale and separation did women join dm cult? Was its liked as a subject Perhaps girls would from her children; Eleanor Roosevelt's existence kept secret from men? be more drawn to the subject if they energy and dedication in visiting Apparently Barbara Welter's term' for picked up one of the fine atlases on duung 1936-37 all the places dotted on the internalized values of nineteenth- nvmm that are available - Joni Seager's a map of the country. There are also century domesticity and femininity had The Skate of Women in the WorkiAth schematics of tenements and of so entered the vocabulary of history (2* ed., London: Pengum, 1997), buildmgs that comprised the Hull books and courses that a student could House settlement, urban and rural presume it to have been an actual settlement patterns, and dismbution of organized group. Conmbutions like Welter's are included in the historio- graphical essay that opens The Columba

Feminist Collections (v.21, no.4. Summer 2000) Guide to AmmMmnWomen in the Nine- of African American women and cases of nineteenth-century women teenth Century. Subsequent chapters European women of various ethnic- who passed as men (She EmChewed summarize the history of women in ities makes important points about the Tobacco, by Liz Stevens & Estelle the century by focus& on different particularity of women's experiences. Freedman, 1983, on those who did so themes, from life in post-Revolution- I do, however, have a few prob- duxing Gold Rush era, is a fine docu- ary America (itself an overview of the lems with the Guide. First, there are mentary example, but the authors themes to be taken up in the following some areas that seem to be over- didn't even list The Balkad ofLittk Jo, a chapters), through economy/house- looked. One topic lacking is material feature film on the topic, directed by holds/labor, educationlreform, the culture; the closest is "dress reform." Maggie Greenwald and released in church and the law, natives and immi- There are no index terms for ''mated 1994). grants, the Civil War and Reconstruc- culture," "clothing," or "quilts," and I am also bothered by the orgaa- tion, commerce and culture, sexuality/ no listing in the bibliography for works zation of the Gut&. The hlstorio- reproduction/gender roles, and suf- such as Hemts And Hand: The Influence graphic chapter is a great lead-off frage, and culminating in an epilogue of Women BQilts on American Society / (though rather hght on works pub- describing women's changq experi- concept by Pat Ferrero ; essay by lished in the 1990s) in giving credit to ences over the century. Elaine Hedges (San Francisco: Qudt various historians for their work in PartTwo of the GdisanA to Z Digest Press, c1987) or Mahng the mowthe historiography forward, presentation of entries for individuals, Amefican Home: Middl-chs Women 6 but neither the thematic chapters nor organizations, court cases, movements, Domestic Maknal Culturn) 1840-1940, the A to Z entries provide any refer- and other topics of sqptficance to edited by Madyn Ferris Motz and Pat ences. In my mind it would have been women dwing the time period. The Browne (Bowhg Green, Ohio: more helpful to integrate the biblio- entries are about a page long and carry Bowhg Green State University graphic suggestions at the end of the no references. Part Three provides a Popular Press, ~1988).Within the thematic and encyclopedic entries, "concise chronology," and "Re- bibliography there is a welcome cate- rather than in a separate section of the sources" constitute Part Four, an gory of hlms, but it lists only feature book. annotated bibliography subdivided hlms, ignoring the numerous docu- In spite of these drawbacks, the into "topics," as well as reference mentaries that are certainly as useful to Columbia Guide offers college students works, general works, biographies, and an academic audience. Some that important information and pdance in various forms of personal writings. could have been listed are: on suffrage studying nineteenth-century American Other sections of Part Four list jour- (One Woman, One Vote, produced by women's history. nals, atchivll resources, a few CD- Educational Film Center and distrib- ROMs, and several websites uted by Public Broadcasting System, There is much to admire in this 1995), biographical looks at important Bella Vivante, ed., WOMEN'S work The thematic chapters are figures (lda B. Welk A Parsion for Justice, ROLES IN ANCIENT CMLIZA- excellent discussions of- historical produced by WhGreaves Produc- TIONS: A REFERENCE GUIDE issues relevant to women's lives. The tions, Inc. and presented by WGBH/ Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999. ill. encyclopadta-style entries in Part Two Boston, WNET/New York, and index. $59.95, ISBN 0-33-301 27-1. offer easy lookup of names and terms KCET/Los Angeles, 1989; htia students will encounter in studying Mott, by Elaine Prater Hodges, 1985; Literary, linguistic, and archaeo- women's history, indudmg activist /hcnh3 Victonk The victoria woodhull logical remains of twelve civilnations Julia Ward Howe, Go& 3 bdy5 Book Story, by Victoria Weston, 1995; Rebel (China, India, Japan, Mesopotamia, the magazine, and Temperance Movement Heank The Grimk Sirten, by Betsy Levant, Egypt, West Africa, Greece, (though no entries, alas, for "cult of Newman, 1995), the history of non- Rome, Mesoamerica, The Andes, and true womanhood," "domesticity," or Anglo women (Adehnte, Mujm~,by North America) are plumbed by "separate spheres"). The topical divi- Mary Ruthsdotter, National Women's scholars of those regions for hmts and sions and hlgh degree of selectivity in History Project, 1992, on the history the bibliography will help people new of Mexican American women), and to the held select important books and articles for their readmg. The coverage

Feminist Collections (v.21. no.4. Summer 2000) Page 35 ceaaL?ties about what roles women roles open to them than their lifelong played. Throughout, the perspective is legal dominion by men seemed to woman-centered, which is to say that permit. Elite women may have mostly the activities described are asslgned the been confined to home and chrld- value women of the time and place rearing, but women of the lower Timothy F. Murphy, ed., READER'S would have given them, and the sod classes and slaves made clothmg, did GUIDE TO JXSBIAN AND GAY patterns are analyzed with a feminist agricultural work, and conducted small STUDIES. Chicago: Fitzroy Dear- lens. At times the essays break stereo- business and tradmg ventures. Some born, 2000.720p. index. $125.00, types about cultures. While many con- women in the wealthy classes, despite ISBN 1-57958-142-0. sider the ancient Near East, in particu- hawmale guard.tans in name, acted lar as represented in the Hebrew Bible, on their own economically and polit- I've b&n waiting for the Enybpe- to be undgly pabiarchal, Mayer ically, and composed literature. West ahOJLesbian and GqHistoties and Gruber's chapter concludes with a African history reviewed by Tolagbe CuItwres (2 vols. edited by Bonnie series of statements that reveal a much Ogunleye includes numerous women Zimmerman and George Haggerty, more nuanced situation: soldiers and warrior queens. announced last year from Garland), so Each essay begins with a timeline as to review it (particularly Zimmer- . . .(I) the education and nur- and map of the region. Some of the man's volume on lesbians) alongside turing of children were tasks timelines bhhght women-related the Reader? Guide, but the Garland that mothers shared with events, as for example the ascension to volumes have not arrived, and the fathers and with outside help, power of Mayan women rulers in Reader's Guide with its cheery grey-and- both slave and free, of both Palenque, in Andrea Stone's conmbu- shockmg-pink cover has been beckon- sexes; (2) gids and women along tion on Mesoamerica, and editor ing for a couple of months, so here with boys and men cultivated Vivante's dates for women writers in goes. fields, vineyards, and orchards ancient Greece. Others present tradi- The purpose of this book is to and raised animals for produc- tional periodicity (e.g., the dynasties of gvlude readers to scholatly literature in tion of daqproducts, meat, Egypt), which are critical touchstones gay and lesbian studies. Each entry, wool, and hides; (3) women for understanding the chronology. The therefore, is an annotated biblio- bought, sold, inherited, and essays cover roles within the family, graphc tour, generally in chronological bequeathed real estate, male and work, politics, intellectual life, and order, of major works (primarily f&e slaves, and movable rehgion, and include the roles of god- books) from the secondary literature goods; (4) slaveowners could desses in the cultures. In each article on the topic at hand. Even though the themselves be captured by relevant terms are defined, and the field is and the smcture of victorious armies; consequently, topics are covered with rather remark- book-length treatment rather severe, todafs phcess could be to- able and uniform clanty for such a momds sexual playmate of a comprehensive and sweeping anthol- victorious lung, (5) women were ogy. Perhaps that is because salient employed outside the home as information is actually conveyed in the midwives, wetnurses, bakers, text; footnoted excursions seem to be cooks, and in the cosmetic kept to a minimum These articles are industry." (pp.148-9) excellent introductions to the place of women in the cultures covered. Likewise, Judith Hallett shows that at Cross-cultural access to themes least some Roman women had more such as public roles, chrldrearing, and healrng is available through the subject index.

Feminist Collections (v.21, no.4, Summer 2000) there are some 470 enmes on individu- will find more have arrived at the level individuals such as Mae C. Jemison, als (Audre Lorde, Sharon Kowalski) of separate enmes. whose career with NASA began in the arts (Art Female Homoerotic 1987. This lack of dehtion of scope Themes, Broadway Musicals), ethics/ detracts from an otherwise well- philosophy (Outing, Lesbian Ethics conceived volume. and Philosophy), theory (Queer To create the narrative sketches Theory, Queer Studies), r+on (var- for this volume, Warren rehed heavily ious Western r+ons, Native Ameri- Wini Warren, BLACK WOMEN on information from primary source can Spitituality), history (by place, plus SCIENTISTS IN THE UNITED mated such as curricula vitae, per- one that discusses twenty works of STATES. Bloommgton: Indiana sonal papers or accounts, publications, oral history), language/literature Universitypress, 1999. 366p $35.00, interviews, and records from various (Gertrude Stein, Literary Representa- ISBN 0-253-33603-1. schools or other institutions. Where tions of Gays and Lesbians), law/ possible, Warren herself conducted politics (Hate Speech Codes, Hawaii Black women, underrepresented interviews with the subjects and/or Same Sex Marriage Liugation), health by both gender and race in scientific their colleagues and family members. (numerous aspects of AIDS, Breast careers, have received meager coverage She acknowledges the lack of primary Cancer and Lesbians), media (Repre- in scientific biography. This trend is source material available for some sentations of Lesbians and Gays in the changing and a volume specifically individuals, nowthat "there qht Media as a whole and in specifically in covering Black female scientists is an be material available on a woman television), psychology (Gender Iden- excellent addition to the genre. Wini scientist's civil rights activities, yet not tity, Closet), social sciences (Clothmg: Warren's Bhk Women Scientirts in the a scrap of information on her science. Lesbian, Sports: Female), and several United States offers biographical Or there might be material available other areas.. sketches of 104 Black women in the on Black male scientists, but little on Despite the greater amount of sciences, providing background on their female counterparts, even those material that has been written on gay their lives, hghhghting their scientific working at the same school and males than on lesbians, it appears that contributions, and discussing the department" @.xiv). Several entries are the editor and his advisory board med various obstades they faced. starred, indicating an individual whom very hard to balance lesbian and gay The enmes cover practitioners in the author found inttiguing and chose male topics, whether by includtng par- a variety of fields indud.tng "anatomy, to include despite a serious lack of allel enmes, such as Mystery and anthropology, astronautics and space information. The entries therefore vary Detective Fiction: Gay Male and Mys- science, biochemistry, biology, botany, greatly in length. An entry on a prom- tery and Detective Fiction: Lesbian, by chemistry, geology, marine biology, inent figure, such as chemist Gloria being- inclusive of both lesbians and mathematics, medicine, nutrition, Long Anderson or cell physiologist gays, as in Violence Against Lesbians pharmacology, physics, psychology, and university president Jewel and Gay Men; or by offering a large and zoology" @.xi$. Most subjects Plurnmer Cobb, spans ten to twelve number of enmes specific to lesbian hold doctoral or medical degrees or pages; a starred entry, such as the one studies, such as Lesbian Culture, Iden- have made significant contributions for lab technician Eunice L. Jones, tity. Lesbian, and Boston Marriages. through research or education. Others "'the only woman employed in the Many other topics (Daughters of are included as pioneers. Buffalo, New York, water liltration Bilitis, Lesbian Herstory Archives, Although the introduction in&- plant,"' @. 147) may be as short as a Lesbian Avengers, lesbian mothers) cates the initial project goal "was to quarter of a page. The volume includes for which the editors found insuffi- idenafy Black women scientists in the a few photographs and is well-indexed. cient mated to warrant separate United States dunng the period For some individuals, lists of selected en& can still be traced using the between 1900 and 1960" @.xi), publications are provided, which are extensive subject index. Given the Warren's criteria for inclusion has number of dissertations now appearing shifted and the final criteria is never on lesbian topics - some of which will stated. She includes, for example, surely turn into books - it is likely that a second edition of the Rcader's Guide

Feminist Collections (v.21,no.4, Summer 2000) Page 37 more complete than those found in more prominent figures. Notab& [Barbar4 KopMcConneii author ofthe other biographical dictionaries. Women Scientists (Pamela Proffitt, ed.; =view above, irrjfonner Head ofthe Kleene The genesis of this project as a Gale, 19991, a recent reference source, Mathematics Library, Uniwrsty of history dissertation has imbued this includes 31 African Americans among WisconJin-Marlion.] tool with some distinctive characteris- the 485 women profiled; only 22 are tics. The volume benefits greatly from duplicated in Warren's book For sub- reliance on pnmary sources and use of jects included in both volumes, the quotations, weaving the subjects' own lengths of the entries are similar, but words into their biographies. Warren's the entries differ in which details are V.P. Argos and Tatiana Sholow, entries are usually more complete and included. Similarly, other biographies comps., SEXUAL HARASSMENT: take more of an interest in describing of Black women contain entries on ANALYSBS AND BIBLIOGRA- the subject's science than correspond- women in science, but only overlap PHY. Commack, NY. Nova Science, ing entries from other biographical with Warren's volume on the more 1999. 180p. index. $49.00, ISBN 1- dictionaries. Endnotes are extensive, prominent figures. Examples include: 56072-71 1-X. giving many added bits of interesting African American Women: A BiographicaL minutiae for the general reader as well Dictionary (Dorothy C. Salem, ed.; This volume's title promises a as a great deal of useful citation infor- Garland, 1993); fact^ on F& Enychpe- bibliography and analysis of sexual mation for the serious researcher. The dia ofBkk Women in America (Darlene harassment literature, but only delivers citations are supplemented by an Chk Hine, ed.; Facts on File, 1997); the bibliography. Just to be sure I extensive bibliography. and Notab& Bbk Amnican Women didn't misunderstand, I checked out Unfortunately, some sttff aca- (Jessie Carney Smith, ed.; Gale the publisher's website, and sure demic conventions remain as well. Research, 1992). Sources on Black enough, it advertises four "analyses Instead of aidmg her readers by incor- American biography also include some designed to help shed hght on" the porating the publications lists into the of the more prominent •’$yes. Exam- topic of sexual harassment that were individual entries, Warren banishes ples include: Who 3 Who Among Afkan apparently abandoned on the way to them to an appendix. She sometimes Americans (12&ed.; Gale Research, the press. relegates basic infonnation to the con- 1999) and Afiican Amm'can Bioflhies: The 165-page bibliography is fines of an endnote or hides it deep in Pmjks of558 Cilmnt Men and Women divided into seven topics, four of the text. For example, two awards (by Walter L. Hawkins; Mdiarland, which address sexual harassment in earned by Sylvia Trimble Bozeman 1992). Warren's text offers some the workplace, the military, education, @p.16- 19) are considered important unique coverage of lesser- known and the health care held. The remain- enough to lead off the entry, yet the Black women scientists, the benefit of ing sections cover laws and legislation reader must follow the endnote to find additional primary research beyond the on sexual harassment, the psychologi- the dates of these awards as well as contents of other titles, and closer cal effects of harassment, and sexual Bozeman's year of bd.Though these attention to her subjects' scientific harassment in general. References are lapses are not likely to hinder academ- endeavors. mostly to journal articles, books, ics, more casual readers who do not This volume would be very useful includmg fiction where sexual harass- follow the endnotes may not derive to a researcher or teacher and is acces- ment is a theme, and some videos. the full value of Warren's research. sible to a general reader. It is modestly The "General', section contains Users loolang for a quick reference priced and would be a good addition quite a few sources on h.tghly publi- tool may be disappointed. to any public, h.tgh school, or college cized accusations of sexual harass- There are several biographical library collection. It would be espe- ment, such as the incidents involving dictionaries that include Black women cdyimportant in any specialized Clarence Thomas and Anita Paula scientists. Each has a unique list of diversity collection or other collection Jones and Bill Clinton, and who could subjects, with some overlap of the with an interest in Blacks, women, or forget Senator Bob Packwood. The the history of science. section on "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace" contains several reports to Congress and the President. Under "Sexual Harassment in the Mhtay"

Page 38 Feminist Collections (v.21, no.4. Summer 2000) you will frnd references to the Td- whether the source wdl be of use. A Hopefully the publishers wdl improve hook scandal of 1991, a report on the few entries, however, are so bare or this volume in a second edltion. As Virginia Military Institute's (VMI) marginal (such as an article in Norwe- written, however, hsvolume is of sexual harassment policies following gian) that their indusion is question- limited usefulness. the admission of female cadets, and able. studies on stress and women in the Unfortunately, the subject index [The above tit& wanviewed by Jennifer Persian Gulf War. The "Law and lacks professionalism and is difficult to Kitchak, who is a tbird-year stu&nt at the Legislation" section contains refer- use. Topics are listed in strange places Unitwig of Wisconsin Law School and aho ences to Title VII and analysis of and with inconsistencies. For in- a student arsislant at the Ofiice ofthe Supreme Court decisions relating to stance, Monica Lewrnsky is listed Women's Studes Jibraran.] harassment. One article referenced in under "M," Bill Chon under ''I"' for "Sexual Harassment in Education" president, and Anita Hill is hted under Notes calls for regulation of consensual "A" and "H" with inconsistent pages sexual relationships between students listed under each. The indexer failed 1. "The Cult of True Womanhood, and university faculty, and another to include cross-referencing, which 1820-1860," American Quarter4 v. 19, blasts the trend of "zero tolerance" would have been helpful. no.2 (1966): 151-174. policies. All in all this volume was a Most entries include an annota- disappointment. Without the analyti- 0 Most of hscolumn written tion or table of contents for the book cal essays, of even an introduction, the by Phyllis Holrnan Weisbard, or article referenced. In general, these bibliography lacked context, and the except as noted annotations are helpful in detemhing subject index was of little help.

Speaking Out: Women, Poverty, and Public Policy

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This 265-page collection of papers fiom the conference Speaking Out: Women, Poverty, and Public Policy, the twenty-third annual conference of the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Consortium, offers a variety of viewpoints on the topic of "welfare reform." The authors provide historical perspectives and policy critiques, examine how welfare reform is being worked out in other U.S. states, and report on what the idea of welfare means in other countries. Some studies offer resources and strategies for teaching about poverty in the classroom, while others discuss the experience of welfare recipients, and some analyze literary explorations of poverty. Several scholars speak fiom the viewpoint of having themselves been poor andfor on welfare at some point.

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Feminist Collections (v.21, no.4, Summer 2000) Page 39 NEWAND NEWLYDISCOVERED publication is intended to offer students a "forum to speak out on contemporary social issues and explore the diversity PERIOD~CAL s of their lives" (statement of purpose). Staff members meet weekly to put the journal together. Included in the sample EVOLVING WOMAN 1994?- . Ed./Publ.: Jill Dutton issues we received are poetry, prose, artwork, photographs, Musick. 12/yr. $24.00. 9320 Haskins, Lenexa, KS 66215; essays. Most pieces are quite brief but full of feelrng and ernail: [email protected]; website: http://www. thought. thirdwave.net/-evolving (Issue examined: v.6, no.5, January 2000) JOFAJOURNAL1998?- . ~d.;Esther D. Kustanowitz.. 4/ With twenty pages of newsprint, this monthly has as its yr. Membership: $36; $18 (students, seniors). Jewish goal "honoring the journey of self-discovery" for women in Orthodox Feminist Alliance, 459 Columbus Ave., Suite 329, the Kansas City area, but much of the content is more New York, NY 10024; emaik [email protected]; website: http:/ general. The issue we reviewed, focused on "wealth, wit & /www.jofa.org (Issues examined: v.1, nos.2, 3,4; v.2, no.1) wisdom," includes pieces on "Lmng Awake," "The Sixth The four seven-page issues we examined discuss such Sense: Is Communication with the Spirit World Possible!", issues as "Modesty and the Modern Jewish Woman," money management, and using intuition, plus a "Treasure 'Women in Leadership Positions," 'Women and the Ful- Mapping" exercise intended to help map indwidual goals. fillment of Positive Time-Bound Commandments," "Tesh- There are also an astrological guide and classified ads from uva Towards Our Mothers, Sisters, Spouses and Daugh- the area. ters," the choices surrounding wed-, and "Can Women Touch the Torah?" Brief newsnotes and book blurbs are FEMINIST THEORY 2000- . Eds.: Gabriele Griffin, also included. Rosemary Hemessy, Stevi Jackson, Sasha Roseneil. 3/yr. L110/$176 (full rate - includes electronic access); &32/$51 JOURNAL OF SOUTHASIA WOMEN STLTDIES (reduced indiv. rate). Student rate available from publisher. 1995- . Ed.:Eruica Ganilli Subscription: $90 (indiv., for lSSN 1464-7001. Sage Publications, Ltd., P.O. Box 5096, lifetime WWW access to the online journal and a print copy Thousand Oaks, CA 91359; email subscription@sagepub. of the 1995-1997 collected issues); $1 50 (inst., yearly fee for co.uk; website: http://www.sagepub.co.uk.(Issue exam- same access and print copy). Access to single online issue: ined: v. 1, no. 1, April 2000) $10. (See online subscription information at: www.asiatica. "Although there are scores of feminist journals and org/asiatica/subscribe.asp) For guest account, email many which are theoretical," says the inaugural editorial, [email protected] "none is truly representative of the full range of feminist Contents of v.5, no. 2, December 25, 1999 issue: "A theonzing" (p.5), which this journal hopes to be. Four Women's New Year" (Enrica Garzfi); 'Two Wives for a articles (on Bourdieu and feminism; excursions across Perfect Life: Nag'mati and Padmavati in Jayasi's PadmAvat cultures, "protesting like a girl," and "Using gender to undo as Symbols of the Integration of Bhoga and Yoga" (Giorgo gender") are followed by an "Interchange" forum (thee Manetti). Contents of v.5, no.1, August 26,1999 issue: pieces) on what counts as feminist theory, plus several "Gender Equity Restricted: Indian Demopphic Transition essay-type book reviews. Delayed" (William M. Alexander); "Eurogamy as Racism Among South Asian Women: A Consequence of Euro- FOCUS: ON WOMEN, ONDNERSITY 1994- . Ed. Western Domination" @odd E. Hall). Abstracts of these (most recent issue): Dorothy J. Hoffman. Approx. 2/yr. and back issues are available without subscription. Women's Studies Program, SUNY at Stony Brook, Old Chemistry Buildmg, Rm 105, Stony Brook, NY.1 1794- MA'YANJOURNEY 1997- . Ed.: Tamara Cohen. 3/yr. 3456. (Issues examined: v.2, no.1, Spring/Summer 1995; The Jewish Women's Project, 15 West 65h St., New York, v.4, no.2, Fall-Winter 1997; v.6, no.1, Winter 2000) NY 10023-6694; email: [email protected]; website: http:// Produced by the students of women's studies, this www.mayan.org (Issue examined: Spring 2000) The sample issue of this s&sh journal is focused on "Confronting Tradition, Embracing Torah." Included are

Feminist CoUecdons (v.21,no.4. Summer 2000) thoughts on studying Torah from several women, a reflec- A combination of scholarly articles and creative wrinng tion from a mother about the Torah she will give to her make up the 124 pages of this new journal. Among the daughter, the story of a "changemaker" woman rabbi and contributions: "Imagining Lesbian Cltizenshp: A Kiss & teacher, new Torah blessings, plus news of the Ma'yan Tell Affair" (B.J. Wray); "Thc roman^ in Britain and the organization, its programs, and related items of interest. Effect of Male/Male Sexual Iconography at London's Issues are also available on the website. National Theatre" (Piet Defraeye); "Parody of the Gay Games: Gender Performativity in Spoa" (Debra Shogan NINETEENTH-CENTURY EEMLNISMS 1999- . and Judy Davidson). Future issues will include book Eds.: Joanna Devereux, Lorraine DiCicco. 2/yr. $12 Cdn/ reviews. US (indiv.); $15 Can/US (inst.). ISSN 1481-840X. Joanna Devereux, Dept of Modem Languages, King's College, THE WASH RAG 1992- . Approx. 4/yr. Women Against University of Western Ontario, 266 Epworth Ave., London, Sexual Harassment, P.O. Box 164, Canton, SD 57013-0164; Ontario, Canada N6A 2M3; email: [email protected]; email: [email protected]; website: http://members.mpod. website: www.odyssey.on.ca/-ncf/ (Issue examined via corn/-WASHRAG/index.htrnl (Issue examined: v.8, no.2, website: v. 1, no. 1, Fall/Wmter 1999) May 2000) "Devoted to issues of gender, culture, and writing by This newsletter's eight pages feature brief articles on and about women from anywhere in the Empire, Britain, abuse of women inmates, sexual abuse in the dtary,Jessie Canada, and the United States in the nineteenth century Ventura's comments about the Tailhook scandal, and (1785-1918)," says an announcement for this new journal. related statistics on the dangers of an intimate relationshp Pamal contents of this debut issue: "Feminism, Format, vs. the dangers a pilot faces, use of taxpayer money to and Emily Faithfull's Victorian Press Publications" @aria defend federal managers and supervisors agamst sexual H. Frawley); "Nostalgia, Apostrophe, Wuthffing Heights:The harassment charges, and more. Issues are also avadable on Queer Destiny of Heterosexuality" (Bonnie Burns); "Kate the WASH website. Chopin and Magazine Publication: Human Birth and Per- iodical Issue at the End of the Nineteenth Century" WOMAN SPEAK 1995?- . Ed.: R Lynn Sweeting. 1/yr. (&hchael Lund). P.O. Box N-1318, Nassau, N.P., The Bahamas. (Issue examined: v.4, 1998-1999) SKIRT! MAGAZINE 1994- . Ed.: Nikki Hardin. 12/yr. Subtitled "Contemporary Women Writers and Artists $24.00. Single copy: $3.00. 455-1/2 Kmg St, Charleston, of The Bahamas and the Caribbean," this nicely produced SC 29403; email: skia@worldnetattnet, website: http:// jodcarries a sigdicant amount of poetry, but also, as www.skirtmag.com (Issue examined: March 1999) the editor describes it, "writtng. . .to resist government Although it's a bit tough to find the content among the policy that threatens our human dqpty. . .to uncover, name ads, there are some pieces of interest in this local-gone- and disempower the negative forces at work in their com- broader newsprint publication of fifty-two pages. Most are munities. . .to reconstruct our fragmented histories as one-page reflections or meditations, one entitled 'Time women. . .to inspire and speak for a 'new' women's move- Out," on our grown-up need for the respite and quiet of ment in The Bahamas. . ." (p.12). time-outs, another, "Are There Oreos in Hell?", about loving the foods that aren't good for us. "Murder in Tobac- WOMANPLUS 1996- . 4/yr. Subscription: "Small annual coland" tells of some wild early days in the Reynolds subscription fee." Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre & tobacco fady of Wmston-Salem; "Why I Write Women's Network, 288 Herbert Chitepo Ave., P.O. Box 2192, History" recalls the writer's search for her Jewish roots in Harare, Zunbabwe; email: [email protected]; website: the former Czechoslovakia. http://www.zwrcn.org.zw/womansplus.ht[sic] (Issue examined via Contemporary Women's Issues database: TORQUERE 1999- . Ed.: John L. Plews. l/yr. $4OCdn. December 1999) (indiv.); $20Cdn. (students); $75Cdn. (inst). Canadian This newsletter of the Zimbabwe Women's Resource Lesbian and Gay Studies Association, 354-1 755 Robson St., Centre & Network hopes to "assist women to reach their Vancouver BC, Canada V6G-2B7, Canada; email: nvgray@ ualberta.ca; website: http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/-torquere (Issue examined: v.1, 1999)

Feminist Collections (v.21. no.4. Summer 2000) Page 41 fdl potential" (Vision Statement). Partial contents of ths Group, 88 Post Road West, P.O. Box 5007, Westport, CT sample issue: 'Women in the Shadow of Politics" (on 06881 ; website: http://www.eee-joumaI.com/ women's participation in governments of eght Afncan Partial contents: "Too Strong for a Woman' - The Five nations); "Seen but not Heard" (discusses participation of Words that Created Title IX" (Bernice Sandier); 'The Field women in Zimbabwe's 35 political parties); "'Pull Her of Gender Equity in Education: Creating and Sustaining an Down' Syndrome" (on why women often don't vote for Institutional Base for Cultural Transformation Work" women candidates); "South Afnca '99 elections" (dscusses (Kathy Scales Bryan); '%uila Resihence in a Gendered South Africa's women's movement and politics); "Personal Journey: A Study of Women's Paths to Science Teahg" Profile: Namakau Katngu" (on the chair of SADC Women (Marilyn J. Taylor, Leslie Swetnarn); "The Role of Gender Miners). Several featured pieces from v.4, no. 1 (1 999) in Young Children's Teasing and Bullying Behavior" appear on the website. (Nancy Gropper, Merle ~roschl);"Gender and Language in Four Secondary, ESL Classrooms" (Paula Wolfe); 'Three Decades of Educational Progress (and Continuing Barriers) for Women and Girls" (Paula M. Neming); and "Gender Equity: SdKnocking at the Classroom Door" (David CONTEMPORARY VERSE 2 v.22, n0.4, Spring 2000: Sadker). "edge/wise: Canadian Women's Writing at Century's End." Ed. collective. Subscription: $23.98 (indlv.); $25.68 (inst.). INTERNATION.]OURNAL OF REFUGEE LAW Outside Canada add $4.00. Single copy: $7.00. ISSN 0831- SpedIssue, Autumn 1997: "UNHCR Symposium on 9502. P.O. Box 3062, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 4E5, Gender-Based Persecution." Guest eds.: Juhe Bissland, Canada. Karin Landgren. Subscription: k41 (indiv., UK & Europe/ This twenty-fifth anniversary issue of Conteqraty Vwse $76 elsewhere); k97 (inst, UK & Europe/$l80 elsewhere). 2 features the work of better-known as well as lesser-known Single copy (indiv.):k12 UK & Europe/$22 elsewhere. writers, incluw Kristjana Gunnars, Joy Kogawa, Smaro ISSN 0953-8186. Journals Subscriptions Dept., Oxford Kamboureh, Keith Louise Fulton, Patricia Young, Lee University Press, Great Clarendon St, Oxford OX2 6DP, Marade, Joanne Arnott, Lakshrm Gdl, Sarah Klassen, Betsy UK. Warland, Elizabeth Brewster, and Di Brand4 plus front This 250-page special issue includes proceedmgs of the and back cover (and inside) visual art by Diana Thorney- Symposium held in Geneva February 22-23,1996, with croft. opening statements, country presentations, a section on gender-related refugee dauns ("Gender-Related Persecu- DIG.DESIRE #5: Then." Ed.: j.a. LoveGrove. Wayward tion: An Analysis of Recent Trends" from UNHCR's Armadillo Press, #2-95 Tyndall Ave., Toronto, ON M6K Division of International Protection, "Legal Aspects of 2G1, Canada; email [email protected] Women as a Particular Social Group" by Jane Connors, Poetry, prose, inte~ews,and graphics are included in "Gender-Based Persecution: New Zealand Jurisprudence" this unpaged, hand-sewn special issue. "I Want to Be a by Rodger Haines, and "Inte~ewingFemale Asylum Porn Star" says Nina Hartley in her interview by Vanessa T. Seekers" by Gill Hinshelwood), suggested gutdelines for Higgs; "Shame Shadows" is a longer poetry piece by Louise deahg with women refugees and asylum-seekers who fear Bak, in 'Women Left to Their Own Devices" the propri- gender-related persecution, plus various addenda. etress of a store for "celebrating women's sexuahty" talks about her business. INTERNATION.]OURNAL OF WATER RE- SOURCES DEVELOPMENT v.14, no.4, December EQUZTY & EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATIONv.33, 1998: 'Women and Water." Ed.: Asit K. Biswas. Subscrip- no.1, April 2000: "Special Issue on Gender Equity in tion: $94/k52 (indiv.); $498/k284 (inst.). ISSN 0790-0627. Education: In Memory of Myra Sadker." Guest ed.: David Carfax/Taylor & Francis Group, 11 &w Fetter Lane, Sadker. Subscription: $40 (indv.); $85 (inst.) $105 (inst. London EC4P 4EE, United Kmgdom; website: http:// outside US.). ISSN 1066-5684. Greenwood Publishing www.tandf.co.uk/journals/ (Also available online via Catchword.) Pamal contents: "Contribution of Women to the Planning and Management of Water Resources in Latin America" (Ceulia Tortajada);

Feminist Collections (v.21, no.4, Summer 2000) "Housewives, Urban Protest and Water Policy in Utrecht, The Netherlands; em;ul: [email protected]; Monterrey, Mexico" (Vivienne Bennett); 'The Role of website: http://women-www.uia.ac.be/women/wise Women in Water Resources Management The Tanzania Case" (Benedict P. Michael); "Integrated Water Manage- ment by Urban Poor Women: A Nigerian Slum Expen- ace" (Bolu Enabor et d.); and "Conservation and Manage- ment of Watershed Regon by Nepalese Women leading to ON TNE ISSUES v.1 (Fall 1983)-v. 26 (Spring 1993); v.2, Enhancement of Water Potential" (Pushpa Lata Shrestha; no. 3 (Summer 1993)-v.8, no.1 (Winter 1999). Publ./Ed.-in- Vaid ya) . Chief. Merle Hoffman. ISSN 0895-6014. Merle Hoffman Enterprises, Ltd., 29-28 41" Ave., 12'" Fl., Long Island City, NY 11101-3303. (No response to correspondence or emad)

LESBIAN NEWS is celebrating twenty-five years as "the longest running national lesbian publication." Serving primatily the Los Angeles area, the publication also reaches out to a national audience and offers a website with teaser SIGNS is changmg academic editors and moving the articles and other news and information. Ed.-in-chief. editorial offices from the University of Washington to Claudia Piras. P.O. Box 55, Torrance, CA 90507; email: University of California, Los Angeles. New editors and [email protected]; website: http://www.lesbianNews. address: Sandra Harding and Kathryn Norberg, SIGNS com/ Jod,UCLA, 1400H Public Policy Building, Box 953122, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7122; email: [email protected]. TRANSFORMATIONS, with its hrst issue of the new millennium (v.11, no.1, Spring 2000), also celebrates ten years of publishmg. Current editors Kathleen Fowler and Constance Crawford are passing the baton to Elizabeth L. Paul and Juda Bennet of The College of New Jersey. This "Resource for Curriculum Transformation and Scholarship" is part of The New Jersey Project, with editorial address: Women's and Gender Studies Program, The College of New Jersey, 2000 Pennington Road, P.O. Box 7718, Ewing, NJ 08628-0718; email: [email protected]; website: http://ttansformations.tcnj.edu/

WlSCONSLN WOMEN'S LAW JOURNAL'S v.15, no.1, Spring 2000 issue inaugurates the fifteenth year for this journal edited by law students at the University of Wisconsin's Law School. Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson of the Wisconsin Supreme Court pens an opening message as she did for the journal's &st issue. Address: 975 Bascom Mall, University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, WI 53706.

WISE WOMEN'S NEWS also welcomes the new ndenmum with its tenth anniversary year, (v. 10, no. 1, 2000). Editor is Tobe Levin. Address for WISE (Women International Studies Europe) membership information: WISE International Secretariat, Heidelberglaan 2,3584 CS

Funinist Collections (v.21, no.4, Summer 2000) Page 43 A briefkg entitled FROM SOCIAL MOVEMENTS TO SOCIAL CAUSES: GRADING STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING CONDITIONS FOR WOMEN GAR- MENT WORKERS analyzes the effect of globalization on women garment workers and the garment industry. For further information contact The Noah-South Institute, 200-55 Murray Street, Ottawa, ON KIN 5M3;telephone: 613-241-3535; fax: 613-241-7435; ednsi@nsi-insxa; website: www.nsi-ins.ca.

The WORKING PAPER SERIES OF THE WORLD BANK provides free online papers including Gender and bequali~,Income, and Growth: Are Good Times Goodfor Women?, Are Women Rea& the 'Fairer" Sex? Comrption and Women in Gomment, and Towad a Feminist Poliiics? The Indian Women3 Movement in Hi~toricalPerpctive, among others. Website: http://www. worldbank.org/gender/prr.

The Wrnter 2000 issue of On Caqbus With Women (v.29, n.2) includes a centerfold time line WE'VE COME A LONG WAY.. . THE CENTURY FOR WOMEN IN Mi'GncnnuId HIGHER EDUCATION: 1900-2000. This time line covers everydung from the opening of Simmons College as New from William S. Hein & Co., Inc. is the qhteen- the first technical college for women in 1902 to First Lady volume series, A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF Hdary Rodharn Clinton's announcement of plans to run THE LEGAL ASPECTS OF ABORTION IN THE for U.S. Senate. On Caqw With Women is published by the UNITED STATES, compiled by Roy Mersky. This full- Association of American Colleges and Universities, 1818 R text collection of abortion cases such as Webster v. Repro- Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009; telephone: 202-387- ductive Health Services, Roe v. Wade, Planned Parenthood 3760; fax: 202-265-9532; website: www.aacu-edu.org. v. Casey, Colautti v. Franklin, and Griswold v. Connecticut, is recommended to legal researchers. Contact WhS. WEDGE: WOMEN'S EDUCATION IN THE GLO- Hein & Co., Inc., 1285 Main Street, Buffalo, New York BAL ECON-OMY: A WORKBOOK OF ACTMTIES, 14209; telephone: 800-828-7571; fax: 716-883-8100; email: GAMES, SKITS, AND STRATEGIES FOR ACTIV- heincite@ wsheinxom; website: www.wshein. com. ISTS, ORGANIZERS, REBELS, AND HELL RAIS- ERS explores the impact of globalization on women. It Montreal Health Press's 2000 edition of STD HAND- covers issues such as sex traffickmg, the environment, BOOR: SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES welfare, and home-lessness. Available from the Women of promotes awareness of STDs, provides prevention and Color Resource Center, 2288 Fulton Street, Suite 103, treatment infor-mation, and lscusses sodand polit-ical Berkeley, CA 94704-1 449; telephone: 51 0-848-9272; fax: issues related to STDs. Up-to-date treatment information 510-548-3474; d [email protected]. org; on the Web at for genital warts and STD websites are included in thls www.coloredgirls. org. edition. SEXUAL ASSAULT, 2000 edition helps women deal with sexual assault personally, socially, legally, and melcally along with providmg new information on emer- gency contraception and date rape drugs. Both publications are avadable in English and French. Single copies cost $5.00, and bulk rates are available. Write to Montreal

Feminist Collections (v.21, no.4, Summer 2000) Health Press, Inc., P.O. Box 1000, Station Place du Parc, the value and validity of indcators of women's empower- Montrkal (Qukbec), Canada H2W 2N1; telephone: 51 4-282- ment and the importance of measurements of power to 1171; fax: 514-282-0262; emd [email protected]; gender issues. GENDER IN THE WORLD BANK'S website: http://www.worldsfinest. com/mhp. POVERTY ASSESSMENTS: SIX CASE STUDIES FROM SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA (Paper Order DP 99) An online survey of nine hundred teachers and research on by Ann Whitehead and Matthew Lockwood discusses the seventy-plus girls by the American Association of Univer- extent to which gender was taken into account in the sity Women Educational Foundation's two-year Commis- assessments of Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia, the sion on Technology, Gender, and Teacher Education methods used to collect information, and the need to resulted in TECH-SAVVY: EDUCATING GIRLS IN realize women's unique experiences of poverty. Cost for THE NEW COMPUTER AGE. The report argues that each paper is $5.00 for readers in the North, $2.50 for girls' reservations about computers are not due to fear, but readers in the South. Contact Sylvie Brenninkmeyer-Liy to unsatisfactory teaching methods, and provides recom- UNRISD, Palais des Nations, 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland; mendations for increasing computer science literacy. Cost telephone: (41 22) 917-3011; fax: (41 22) 917-0650; d is $1 2.95 from AAW, 11 11 Sixteenth St, NW, Washmg- liu@unrisd. org website: http://www.untisd.org. ton, DC 20036; telephone: 800-326-AAW, email: info@ aauw.org website: www.aauw.org. VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS and WOMEN AND POVERTY are two fact sheets pub- From the Hadassah Research Institute on Jewish Women lished by the Canadian Research Institute for the Advance- comes Number 4 in their Workmg Paper Series. THE ment of Women (CRIAW) for the World March of Women STATUS OF JEWISH WOMEN'S STUDIES IN THE 2000. Both use many statistics to raise awareness of the UNITED STATES AND CANADA: A SURVEY OF severity of the problems of violence and poverty for UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE COURSES AS OF women and society and make suggestions on how readers 1999 by Tobin Belzer et al. reports the number, type, and can help reduce these two problems and/or support location of Jewish Women's Studies courses as well as women dealtng with them. Avadable from CRZAW, 408- students' opinions of the classes and personal comments 151 Slater Street, Ottawa, KIP 5H3, Canada; telephone: from twelve Jewish Women's Studies professors. For 613-563-0681; fax: 61 3-563-0682; email. info@criaw- details, contact HRIJW, Brandeis University -mailstop 079, icrecca; on the Web at www.criaw-icref.ca. Waltham, MA 02254-91 10; telephone: 781-736-2064; email: [email protected]; on the Web at www.brandeis.edu/ 0 Compiled by Alicia Foster hrijw. Ws. Note: A correction to the previous issue's "Items" The Institute for Democracy Studies, a nonprofit research column is needed - compiler for that column was also and educational center, recently released ANTIFEMI- Alicia Foster. NIST ORGANIZATIONS: INSTITUTIONALIZING THE BACKLASH (March 2000), a thrrty-six-page briefing paper by Lee Cokorino, pro-filing heanttfeminist women's groups. Cost is $15.00 from IDS, 177 East 87fhStreet, Suite 501, New York, NY 10128; telephone: 212-423-9237; fax: 212-423-9352; emak info@ institutef~rdemocracy~org; website: www.institutefordemmcy.org.

Discussion papers from the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) include the following titles: THE CONDITIONS AND CONSE QUENCES OF CHOICE: REFLECTIONS ON THE MEASUREMENT OF WOMEN'S EMPOWER- MENT (Paper Order DP 108) by Naila Kabeer analyzes

Feminist Collections (v.21,no.4. Summer 2000) Page 45 AMERICAN WOMEN IN TECHNOLOGY: ANENCYCLO- FROM SUFFRAGE TO THE SENATE: AN ENCYCLOPE- PEDIA Zierdt-Wmhaw, Linda, et al., eds. ABC-CLIO, 2000. DIA OFAMERICAN WOMEN IN POLITICS. Schenken, ARSENIC UNDER THE ELMS: MURDER IN VICTORIAN Suzanne O'Dea. ABC-CLIO, 1999. NEW HAVEN. McConnell, Virginia A. Praeger, 1999. GENDER AND AMERICAN POLITICS: WOMEN, MEN, BE GOOD, SWEET MAID: THE TRIALS OF DOROTHY AND THE POLITICAL PROCESS. Tolleson-Rinehart,Sue & JOUDRIE. Andrews, Audrey. Wilfred Laurier University Press, Josephson, Jyl J., eds. M.E. Sharpe, 2000. 1999. THE GLOBAL CONSTRU(3TION OF GENDER Prugl, BLACK CANDLE: POEMS ABOUT WOMEN FROM INDIA, Elisabeth. Columbia University Press, 1999. PAKISTAN, AND BANGLADESH. Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee. GLOBAL CRITICAL RACE EE?MINISM:AN INTERNA- Calyx, 2000. TIONAL READER. Wing, Adrien katherine, ed. New York BODIES OF THOUGHT: EMBODIMENT, IDENTITYAND University Press, 2000. MODERNITY. Burkitt, Ian. Sage, 1999. GOING TO THE TOP: A ROAD MAP FOR SUCCESS FROM CAN WE WEAR OUR PEARLS AND STILL BE FEMI- AMERICA'S LEADING WOMEN EXECUTIVES. Gallagher, NISTS?: MEMOIRS OF A CAMPUS STRUGGLE. Mandle, Joan Carol & Golant, Susan K. Viking Penguin, 2000. D. University of Missouri Press, 2000. HABERMAS, IWSTEVA, AND CITIZENSHIP. McAfee, CHINESE AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE THE 1850S. Ndlle. Cornell University Press, 2000. Yin, Xiao-huang. University of Illinois Press, 2000. THE HEROINE IN WESTERN LlTERATURE: THE THE COLUMBIA GUIDE TO AMERICAN WOMEN IN ARCHETYPE AND HER REEMERGENCE IN MODERN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Clinton, Catherine & PROSE. Powers, Meredith A. McFarland, 2000. Lunatdmi, Christine A. Columbia University Press, 2000. IDEOLOGIES OF BREAST CANCER: FEMINIST PER- DEFERRALS OF DOMAIN; CONTEMPORARY WOMEN SPECTIVES. Potts, Laura K., ed. St. Martin's ,2000. NOVELISTS AND THE STATE. Brownley, Martine Watson. St. THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF TROBADORA Mutin's, 2000. BEATRICE AS CHRONICLBD BY HER MINSTREL DISPOSABLE DOMESTICS: IMMIGRANT WOMEN LAURA: A NOVEL IN THIRTEEN BOOKS AND SEVEN WORKERS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY. Chang, Grace. INTERMEZZOS. Morgner, Irmtraud, trans. by Jeanette Clausen. South End, 2000. University of Nebraska Press, 2000. DOING TIME: 25 YEARS OF PRISON WRTTING. Chevigny, LIFE-WRITINGS BY BRITISH WOMEN, 1660-1815 Barros, Bell Gale, ed. Arcade, 1999. Carolyn A. & Smith, Johanna M., eds. Northeastern University Press, EMBRACING SPACE: SPATIAL METAPHORS IN FEMI- 2000. NIST DISCOURSE. Shands, Kerstin W. Greenwood Press, 1999. LINE DRAWlNGS: DEFINING WOMEN THROUGH ENGENDERlNG THE STATE: FAMILY, WOW WEL- FEMINIST PRACTICE. Heyes, Cressida J. Cornell University FARE IN CANADA Christie, Nancy. University of Toronto Press, Press, 2000. 2000. LNING BETWEEN DANGER & LOVE: THE LIMITS OF THE ESSENTIALS OF CONTRACEPTIVE TECHNOLOGY. CHOICE. Jones, Kathleen B. Rutgers, 2000. Hatcher, Robert A., et al., eds. Population Information Program LOVE AND INTIMATE RELATIONSH1PS:JOURNEYS OF Center for Communication Programs, 1998. THE HEART. Brown, Norman M., et al. Taylor & Francis, 2000. PEMUE UCIRCUMCISION"INAFRICX CULTURE, MAKTNG DO: WOMEN, FAMlLY AND HOME IN CONTROVERSY, AND CHANGE. Shell-Duncan, Bettina & MONTREAL DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION. Hemlund, Ylva, eds. Lynne Rienner, 2000. Baillargeon, Denyse; trans. by Yvonne Klein. Wilfrid Laurier EEMINISM, IDENTImAND DIFFERENCE. Hekman, Susan. University Press, 1999. Frank Cass, 1999. MARGARET ATWOOD REVISITED. Stein, Karen. Twayne, FEMINIST LITERARY THEORY: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. 1999. Nordquisb Joan, comp. Reference and Research Services, 1998. MISTRESS OF UDOLPHO: THE LIFE OFANN EEMINISTS DOING DEVELOPMENT: A PRACTICAL RADCLIFFE. Norton, Rictor. Leicester University Press, 1999. CRITIQUE. Porter, Marilyn & Judd, Ellen., eds. Zed, 1999. MODERN GIRLS, SHINING STARS, THE SXIES OF THE FOREIGN WOMAN IN BRITISH LITERATURE: TOKYO: 5JAPANESE WOMEN. Bimbaum, Phyllis. Columbia EXOTICS, ALIENS, AND OUTSIDERS. Button, Marilyn & University Press, 2000. Reed, Toni, eds. Greenwood Press, 1999. MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS IN THE TWENTIETH THE FOUNDATION DIRECTORY PART 2. Lunn, Melissa, ed. CENTURY: A LITERARYANTHOLOGY. Ingman, Heather, ed. The Foundation Center, 2000. & introd. Columbia University Press, 2000. MOTHERS OF THE NATION: WOMEN'S POLITICAL WRITING IN ENGLAND, 1780-1830. Mellor, Anne K Indiana University Press, 2000.

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Feminist Collections (v.21, no.4, Summer 2000) Page 47 Anderson, Kate, [one title in] "New Reference Works in Women's "Feminist Visions: Promoting Respect, Working for Changes: Five Studies," voL21, no.1, Fall 1999, pp.36-37. Films on Sexual Harassment for Middle School Students [video "Archives," by Linda Shult, vo1.21, no.2, Wmter 2000, p.21. review]," by Joanna GursteUe, vo1.21, no.4, Summer 2000, pp.10- Arnold, Barbara J., [one title in] "New Reference Works in Women's 12; "Out of the Margins: Four Lesbian Video Documentaries Studies," vo1.21, no.1, Fall 1999, pp.37-38. [video review]," vo1.21, no.4, Summer 2000, pp.13-15. Aulette, Julie, "Transition in the Balkans and Eastern Europe: How "Feminist Vions: Stories of the Struggle for Women's Suffrage Women are Faring [book review]," vo1.21, no.4, Summer 2000, [video review]," by Susan Zaeske, vo1.21, no.2, Wmter 2000, pp.1-3. pp.l-4, "Constructing and Deconstructing the Body: A Review "Australian Feminist Academic Journals: Still Here, Most of the Time of Recent Body Image Videos [video review]," by Nita Mary [reprint]," by Margaret Henderson, vo1.21, no.2, Wmter 2000, McKinley, vo1.21, no.2, Wmter 2000, pp.5-7; 'Videos for pp.11-13. Teaching about Contemporary Feminism [video review]," by "Black Feminisms: From Theory to Activism [book review]," by Sharon Stoneback, vo1.21, no.2, Wmter 2000, pp.8-10. Adrienne Dkson, vo1.21, no.3, Spring 2000, pp.2-4. Fiss, Jenny, "Feminist Visions: Learning about Date Rape [video Boyer, Ann, 'World Wide Web Revieup. A Look at Women's Health review]," vo1.21, no.3, Spring 2000, pp.1416. on Alternative Medicine Websites," vo1.21, no.3, Spring 2000, Foster, Alicia, "Items of Note," vo1.21, no.3, Spring 2000, p.40, vo1.21, pp.17-19. no.4, Summer 2000, pp.44-45. Brauckrnann, Carolina, and Helga Dickel, trans. by Claudia Lupri, "From the Editors," by Linda Shult and Phyllis Holman Weisbard, 'World Wde Web Review: Women and Women's Topics on the vo1.21, no.1, Fall 1999, p.& vo1.21, no.2, Winter 2000, p.ii, Intemet- What's the Situation in Germany Today? An Anno- [anniversaries]; vo1.21, no.3, Spring 2000, pi, [e-books]; v.21, tated Selection of Women's Informational Sources," vo1.21, no.1, no.4, Summer 2000, p.ii [disabilities]. Fall 1999, pp.21-24. "Gender and Disability from Different Angles [book review]," by "Chicanas in the U.S.: Multiple Identities book review]," by Dionne Barbara Ryan, vo1.21, nd.4, Summer 2000, pp.46. Espinoza, voL21, no.1, Fall 1999, pp.6-8. "Gendered Subjects: Law, Property, and Political Protest in Contem- "Computer Tak," by Linda Shult, vo1.21, no.1, Fall 1999, pp.25-29; porary India [book review]," by Kalpana Misra, vo1.21, no.3, vo1.21, no.2, Wmter 2000, pp.15-21; vo1.21, no.3, Spring 2000, Spring 2000, pp.5-8. pp.20-26; vo1.21, no.4, Summer 2000, pp.26-30. "Gendering War book review]," by Fraucine D'Amico, vo1.21, no.1, D'Amico, Francine, "Gendering War [book review]," vol.21, no.1, Fall Fall 1999, pp.3-5. 1999, pp.3-5. GursteUe, Joanna, "Feminist Visions: Promoting Respect, Working for Dickel, Helga, and Carolina Brauckmann, trans. by Claudia Lupri, Change: Five Films on Sexual Harassment for Middle School 'World Wde Web Review: Women and Women's Topics on the Students [video review]," vo1.21, no.4, Summer 2000, pp.10-12. Intemet- What's the Situation in Germany Today? An Anno- Hayes, Wayne, [one title in] "New Reference Works in Women's tated Selection of Women's Informational Sources," vo1.21, no.1, Studies," vo1.21, no.1, Fall 1999, pp.3435. Fall 1999, pp.21-24. Henderson, Margaret, "Australian Feminist Academic Journals: Still Dkson, Adrienne, "Black Feminisms: From Theory to Activism [book Here, Most of the Time [reprint]," voL21, no.2, Wmter 2000, review]," voL21, no.3, Spring 2000, pp.2-4. pp.11-13. Espinoza, Dionne, "Chicanas in the U.S.: Multiple Identities [book Hoskins, Deb, "Feminist Visions: Gender, Race, and Class Issues on review]," vd.21, no.1, Fall 1999, pp.6-8. Film [video review]," vo1.21, no.1, Fall 1999, pp.13-16." ''Feminism and Iiteracy for Women: Politics and Resources," by Mev "Items of Note," by Jennifer Kitchak, vo1.21, no.1, Fall 1999, pp.41- Miller, vol. 21, no.1, Fall 1999, pp.17-20. 42; vo1.21, no.2, Wmter 2000, pp.38-39; by Alicia Foster, vo1.21, "Feminist Publishing," by Linda Shult, vo1.21, no.2, Wmter 2000, p.14;- no.3, Spring 2000, p.40; vo1.21, no.4, Summer 2000, pp.44-45. vo1.21, no.3, Spring 2000, p.26; vo1.21, no.4, Summer 2000, Kimball, Melanie, [one title in] "New Reference Works in Women's pp.31-32. Studies," vo1.21, no.2, Wmter 2000, pp.26-28. "Feminist Visions: Gender, Race, and Class Issues on Film [video Kitchak, Jennifer, "Items of Note," vo1.21, no.1, Fall 1999, pp.41-42; review]," by Deb Hoskins, vo1.21, no.1, Fall 1999, pp.13-16." vo1.21, no.2, Wmter 2000, pp.38-39. "Feminist Visions: Locating Hope [video review]," by Darshan Kitchak, Jennifer, [one title in] "New Reference Works in Women's Pemsek, vo1.21, no.3, Spring 2000, pp.9-11; 'Young, Female, and Studies," vo1.21, no.3, Spring 2000, p.32; [one title in] "New in Danger Violence in Relationships [video review]," by Cathy Reference Works in Women's Studies," vo1.21, no.4, Summer Seasholes, vo1.21, no.3, Spring 2000, pp.12-14; "Learning about 2000, pp.38-39. Date Rape [video review]," by Jenny Fiss, vo1.21, no.3, Spring Kcuse, Carrie, [two titles in] "New Reference Works in Women's 2000, pp.1416. Studies," vo1.21, no.1, Fall 1999, pp.30-31.

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Feminist Collections (v.21, no.4, Summer 2000) in] "New Reference Works in Women's Studies," vo1.21, no.4, "Voices on War and Peace [book review]," by Sheila Tobias, vo1.21, Summer 2000, pp.37-38. no.1, Fall 1999, pp.1-2 McKinley, Nita Mary, "Feminist Visions: Constructing and Walden, Barbara, [one title in] "New Reference Works in Women's Deconstructing the Body: A Review of Recent Body Image Studies: Greek and Roman Women," vo1.21, no.3, Spring 2000, Videos [video review]," vo1.21, no.2, Wmter 2000, pp.5-7. pp.29-30. Miller, Mev, "Feminism and Literacy for Women: Politics and Weisbard, Phyllis Holman, [one tide in] "New Reference Works in Resources," vo1.21, no.1, Fall 1999, pp.17-20. Women's Studies," vol.21, no.1, Fall 1999, pp.31-33; vo1.21, no.2, Misra, Kalpana, "Gendered Subjects: Law, Property, and Political Wmter 2000, pp.22-32; vo1.21, no.3, Spring 2000, pp.27-36; Protest in Contemporary India [book review]," vo1.21, no.3, vol.21, no.4, Summer 2000, pp.33-37. Sp~g2000, pp.5-8. Weisbaxd, Phyllis Holman, "The World Wide Web: A Primary Source "New Reference Works in Women's Studies," by Phyllis Holman for Women's History," vo1.21, no.4, Summer 2000, pp.19-25.. Weisbard, vo1.21, no.1, Fall 1999, pp.31-33; vo1.21, no.2, Wmter "The World Wde Web: A Primary Source for Women's History," by 2000, pp.22-26,28-32; vo1.21, no.3, Spring 2000, pp.27-36; vo1.21, Phyllis Holman Weisbard, vo1.21, no.4, Summer 2000, pp.19-25. 110.4, Summer 2000, pp.33-37. 'World Wide Web Review: A Look at Women's Health on Alternative "Periodical Notes," by Linda Shult, vol.21, no.1, Fall 1999, pp.39-41; Medicine Websites," by Ann Boyer, voL21, no.3, Spring 2000, vo1.21, no.2, Wmter 2000, pp.33-37; vo1.21, no.3, Spring 2000, pp.17-19. pp.37-39; vo1.21, no.4, Summer 2000, pp.40-43. "World Wde Web Review: Women and Disability Websites," by Perusek, Darshan. "Feminist Visions: Locating Hope [video review]," Alexa Schriempf, vo1.21,no.4, Summer 2000, pp.16-18. vo1.21,no.3, Spring 2000, pp.9-11. "World Wide Web Revieur. Women and Women's Topics on the Ryan, Barbara, "Gender and Disability from Different Angles [book Internet - What's the Situation in Germany Today? An Anno- review]," vo1.21, no.4, Summer 2000, pp.4-6. tated Selection of Women's Informational Sources," by Carolina Sandoz, Joli, 'Takmg Sportswomen Seriously: Seven Novels for Brauckmann and Helga Dickel, trans. by Claudia Lupri, vo1.21, Adults [book review]," vo1.21, no.1, Fall 1999, pp.9-12. no.1, Fall 1999, pp.21-24; Schmidt, W& [one title in] "New Reference Works in Women's Zaeske, Susan, "Feminist Visions: Stories of the Struggle for Women's Studies," voL21, no.1, Fall 1999, pp.35-36. Suffrage [video review]," voL21, no.2, Wmter 2000, pp.l-4. Schriempf, Alexa, "World Wide Web Revieur. Women and Disability Websites," voL21, no.4, Summer 2000, pp.16-18. Searing, Sue, [three titles in] "New Reference Works in Women's Studies," vo1.21, no.1, Fall 1999, pp.33-34,35. Seasholes, Cathy, "Feminist Visions: Young, Female, and in Danger Violence in Relationships [video review]," vo1.21, no.3, Spring 2000, pp.12-14. Shulq Linda, "Computer Talk," vol.21, no.1, Fall 1999, pp.25-29; voL21, no.2, Wmter 2000, pp.15-21; vo1.21, no.3, Spring 2000, pp.20-26; vo1.21, no.4, Summer 2000, pp.26-30. Shulq Linda, "Periodical Notes," vol.21, no.1, Fall 1999, pp.39-41; vo1.21, no.2, Wmter 2000, pp.33-37; vo1.21,no.3, Spring 2000, pp.37-39; vo1.21, no.4, Summer 2000, pp.40-43. Stone, Karen, "Telling It as It Is: Women with Disabilities Speak Out [book review]," voL21, no.4, summer 2000, pp.7-9. Stoneback, Sharon, "Feminist Visions: Videos for Teaching about Contemporary Feminism [video reviewl," vo1.21.no.2, Wmter 2000, pp.8-10. "Taking Sportswomen Seriously: Seven Novels for Adulis [book review]," by Joli Sandoz, vo1.21, no.1, Fall 1999, pp.9-12. "Telling It as It Is: Women with Disabilities Speak Out [book review]," by Karen Stone, vo1.21.no.4, Summer 2000, pp.7-9. Thornton, Edie, "Feminist Visions: Out of the Margins: Four Lesbian Video Documentaries [video review]," vol. 21, no.4, Summer . 2000, pp. 13-1 5. Tobi, Sheila, "Voices on War and Peace [book review]," vo1.21, no.1, Fall 1999, pp.1-2. "Transition in the Balkans and Eastern Europe: How Women are Faring [book review]," by Judy Aulette, vo1.21, no.4, Summer 2000, pp.1-3.

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