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Volume 32, Number 2, Spring 2011

CONTENTS

From the Editors ii

Book Reviews Critics on Caribbean Women Writers of Fiction 1 by Consuelo López Springfield Woman Defines Herself: (Re)Claiming Identity by Re-Visioning Theater and Revisiting History 6 by Autumn Shiley

Feminist Visions A Messiah for Women: Helping Girls Escape Abusive Marriage in India 11 by Madelyn Homuth, Heather Shimon, & Melissa A. Young

Oldies but Goodies: Archiving Web-Based Information 14 by Phyllis Holman Weisbard

E-Sources on Women and Gender 21

New Reference Works in Women’s Studies 22

Periodical Notes 35

Books Recently Received 36 From the Editors: A Bookstore of One’s Own

July 29, 2011. Last week I at- but imagined with vague longing. I which I bought there before I moved tended a reading and Q-and-A with would end up staying for nine years, to the West Coast. Over time I also got mystery author Sara Paretsky, at one until I moved on to what seemed like comfortable chatting with fellow shop- of the few remaining indie bookstores the even bigger world of Seattle, Wash- pers; it was definitely a cozy, commu- in Madison: Room of One’s Own, on ington. Then I would move in 1995 nity gathering place. In fact, one Sun- West Johnson Street. “Room,” as it’s to Madison, Wisconsin, where I’ve day a small crowd of us were waiting often called, has been a feminist fix- been happily settled ever since — and on the sidewalk for the store to open ture in town for thirty-six years, with where, in 2000, I lucked into the job (it was one of the few places in town a loyal and longstanding following of a feminist word-nerd’s dreams, edit- where one could get the Sunday New (and now an online storefront as well, ing Feminist Collections for the women’s York Times), and an acquaintance and at www.roomofonesown.com). Even studies librarian’s office at the Univer- I wistfully remarked to each other that so, last December, with sales down, sity of Wisconsin. the only thing lacking at Borders was a the owners wondered if they could café. “Wouldn’t it be wonderful,” one confidently renew their lease beyond A key feature of my world- of us said, “if you could drink coffee 2011. Fortunately, a successful “buy expanding experience, in that first in the same place where you browsed five more books this year” pledge drive decade of independent adulthood in books?” Then we both said, “Nah — has helped secure a more solid future the urban wilds (it seemed to me) of they’d never do it.” (Irony indeed.) for Room. But the co-owner who in- Ann Arbor, was the first independent troduced the reading celebrated that bookstore I grew to love: Borders. Yes, In Seattle in the early 1990s, I success cautiously. “If you buy books Borders! Not everyone realizes that the reveled in the abundance and variety here, we can be here,” she said simply. big-box behemoth that just announced of independent bookstores, from three- “Yes, they’re cheaper at Amazon.com,” its own extinction was once the antith- story Elliott Bay with its basement café she added, “but you can’t meet Sara esis of “chain store.” In recent years, (!) in Pioneer Square, to collectively Paretsky in person at Amazon.com.” the downtown Ann Arbor Borders has run Red and Black on Capitol Hill, I winced as Paretsky then took been known as “Store One” of hun- and I hung out in and shopped at the podium and — before she began dreds. Back in the early 1980s, though, them all. They didn’t have to have cof- reading her work — spoke passion- that store was Borders, and it was un- fee shops, since there was an espresso ately about the value of this store as like anything else around. stand on every corner in the city. I well as other independents, and the I grew up in some important ways even envisioned putting together a importance of supporting them to keep in that Borders. For nine years I spent bookstore-and-espresso tour for visiting them in our communities. I hadn’t an amazing amount of my meager in- friends and relatives. Borders, which been in the store for quite awhile, and come there (never regretting a penny I was dismayed to learn had become the last books I had bought were from of it). I was in awe of the staff, many of a national chain, opened a downtown Amazon.com — or from Borders. Of them otherwise-out-of-work ABDs in Seattle store during that time, but I course, Borders had just announced English literature who didn’t want to avoided it. that it would be folding, nationwide, leave town, and who seemed to know and liquidating all of its remaining every title in the store, or at least could One of the first things I knew stores. The big chain had failed. Ironic, figure out from very few clues exactly about Madison, Wisconsin, was that it I thought, remembering the very dif- what I needed and which shelf it was had bookstores to die for — including ferent face of Borders thirty years ago: on. It was there that I first encountered the magical and incomparable Canter- women’s studies, in the form of a small bury Books, long gone now, and the I moved to Ann Arbor, Michi- bookcase near the front of the store. I’d feminist Room of One’s Own, which gan, in the fall of 1980. I was a naïve, sidle up to that bookcase, afraid to be has lasted, although not without some scared, but excited twenty-three-year- seen scanning titles that included the anxious moments. Sadly, though, over old, a year out of college, hoping to lesbian novels I nevertheless was dying the past sixteen years I, like many of experience the big wide world and to read, and in the process discovered my peers, have gradually drifted away grow up in ways I couldn’t articulate the works of poet, novelist, and mem- (continued on p. 5) oirist May Sarton — almost all of

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Critics on Caribbean Women Writers of Fiction

by Consuelo López Springfield

Brinda Mehta, Notions of Identity, Diaspora, and Gender in Caribbean Women’s Writing. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 242p. notes. bibl. index. $85.00, ISBN 978-0230618817.

Florence Ramond Jurney, Representation of the Island in Caribbean Literature: Caribbean Women Redefine Their Homelands. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2009. 208p. $109.95, ISBN 978- 0773449091.

Chantal Kalisa, Violence in Francophone African and Caribbean Women’s Literature. Omaha, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. 236p. $45.00, ISBN 978-0803211025.

Keshia N. Abraham, ed., The Caribbean Woman Writer as Scholar: Creating, Imagining, Theorizing. Coconut Creek, FL: Caribbean Studies Press, 2009. 462p. pap., $40.00, ISBN 978-1584325659.

During the late 1950s, Carib- Like a Wing (1985)1 that women writ- en’s literary studies. Of the four books bean literature gained stature as literary ers of the Hispanic Caribbean gained a under review here — all of which presses in London and Paris responded small but vital international audience. analyze Caribbean women’s writing to waves of West Indian immigrants Rosario Ferré and Ana Lydia Vega chal- and scholarship through a global prism whose ethnic communities steadily lenged masculinist literary works in — some miss the mark of brilliance, changed the fabric of metropolitan short stories and novels in small Puerto but all offer important insight into the societies. Published in English, French, Rican presses in the 1970s and 1980s. fractured nature of a Caribbean iden- and local Creole dialects, Caribbean Guadalupe’s Maryse Condé published tity born out of many diasporas. literature questioned European intellec- Heremakhonon and other works in tual culture and its pursuant patterns the mid-1970s and 1980s, bringing Let’s start with one of the best of racial discrimination, all the while Francophone Caribbean women’s lives new critical perspectives on gender calling for a poetics embracing the lo- into the limelight. Since then, Carib- and transnationalism in Caribbean cal needs of developing nations. Few bean writers, struggling with concepts women’s literature. In its examination texts by women writers were published of belonging, have produced a body of of female Francophone writers, Brinda then, and even fewer received critical literature that asserts authentic national Mehta’s Notions of Identity, Diaspora, attention. Phyllis Allfrey’s The Orchid voices while, at the same time, embod- and Gender stands at the forefront of a House (1953), Sylvia Wynter’s The ies fluid identities tied to gender, race, new crop of publications about a litera- Tales of Hebron (1962), Louise Ben- and political and transnational posi- ture that is rooted in a long history of nett’s Jamaica Labrish (1966), and Jean tionality. If one were to compare Louis inter-regional, inter-hemispheric, and Rhys’s The Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) James’s seminal The Islands in Between: international migration. Five chapters brought feminist views of societies Essays on West Indian Literature (1968),2 and an introduction explore five major still suffering from a shared history which focused on male authors, with writers from Martinique and Guade- of colonialism, slavery, and political today’s publications, one would imme- loupe (French colonial departments) servitude. Concurrently, the works of diately notice that twenty-first-century as well as Haiti (by 1804, the Western Cuban feminist poet and translator literary criticism has come a long way hemisphere’s second independent na- Nancy Morejon saw publication in the in celebrating diverse women’s voices. tion): Maryse Condé, Gisèle Pineau, 1960s. But it wasn’t until an English Two thousand nine was a good Evelyn Trouillot, Laure Moutossamy, translation of Where the Island Sleeps publication year for Caribbean wom- and Edwidge Danticat. All but Danti-

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wrapped in trauma, cultural Caribbean diasporas, Florence female authors, she Ramond Jurney’s Representation of the argues, dynamically Island in Caribbean Literature: Carib- resist the permuta- bean Women Redefine Their Homelands tions of collective flounders in its attempt to express the violence through the ambulatory nature of identity in global creative hybridization society. Unsophisticated in its prose of survival, birthing, and negligent in political and eco- and healing narra- nomic scholarship, it reduces complex tives. By signifying national, regional, and global histories the resilience of and their endemic ideological trajecto- spirituality and the ries to a weary soup rather than a rich cross-fertilization callaloo. of indigenous, Afri- can, European, and Jurney examines twelve writ- Indian culinary and ers of the Anglophone, Francophone, healing arts, they and Hispanic Caribbean who produce help reframe Carib- popular works in French and English: bean historicity “in Maryse Condé, Suzanne Dracius, terms of female rea- Gisèle Pineau, Marie-Célie Agnant, son and intellectual Rosario Ferré, Michelle Cliff, Jamaica thought” (p. 157). Kincaid, Cristina García, Edwidge Among several other Danticat, Velma Pollard, Diane Brand, Francophone writers and Julia Alvarez. After a vague intro- whose works merit duction by Mark Anders, Jurney moves close attention in this quickly from author to author, leaving book (Mehta’s third) a trail of dull, burdensome compari- are Myriam Chancy, sons. We are told that Haitian Marie- Dany Beibel-Gisler, Célie Agnant’s Le Livre d’ Emma and cat (a U.S. citizen embracing a Haitian and Ina Césaire. Her Puerto Rican Rosario Ferré’s House on identity) employ the Francophone strongest chapter, “The Voice of Sy- the Lagoon, both first-person narratives, Caribbean’s “mother tongue” of Creole corax: Diasporic Maternal Thought,” contain female scripts that challenge and French. gives a close textual analysis of Myriam official histories with gendered opposi- Chancy’s The Scorpion’s Claw, Ina Cés- tional narratives. Such commentary is From the start, Mehta posi- aire’s play Mémoires d’isles,and Condé’s not particularly insightful. Moreover, tions the Francophone Caribbean as La migration des coeurs. Here, she the racial and class differences that a fractured place where contemporary underscores the literary importance of abound in and define the Caribbean re- writers search for a sense of belonging claiming Caliban’s mother’s genealogy quire keen attention to the particulari- while confronting the yoke of histori- to redress violence against women. By ties of place and the changing nature of cal memories, replete with the pain of transforming images of witches and exile communities. In the discussion of physical displacement, bondage, and old women into positive images, Fran- literary production, critics should not racist, linguistic, and patriarchal op- cophone women writers reframe and undermine socioeconomic trajectories pression. Like several other critics, she recast the Caribbean’s historicity, dem- within historical currents; Jurney does belittles Créolité writers who exclude onstrate the power of narratives rooted this in her unquestioning acceptance of female voices and theorists, avoid Haiti in folk culture and women-centered Ferré’s depiction of historical dynam- in their rendering of historical verisi- belief systems, and create an enduring ics, and thus misses the ambiguous militude, and overlook the widescale feminist spiritual epistemology. characterizations of race that personify formation of an Indo-Caribbean dias- Whereas Brinda Mehta provides Ferré’s House on the Lagoon, a lackluster pora articulating a “dougla imaginary.” a complex and compelling reading of English-language novel far inferior to Within a multicultural environment feminist literary production in trans- Ferré’s innovative early work, which

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dine Bar, and Monique and South Asian peoples who were Ilboudo. She begins by transported to work on sugar estates. challenging Martinique’s Frantz Fanon, a psychia- Keshia N. Abraham’s edition of trist-soldier whose writing papers from the 2006 Caribbean Asso- within the Algerian war ciation of Women Writers and Scholars of liberation in the 1950s Conference, published as The Caribbe- exposed the debilitating an Woman as Scholar: Creating, Imagin- effects of the violence per- ing, Theorizing, is part of the Caribbe- petrated by the colonizer an/African Diaspora Series, which is a and the internalization of project of the Florida Africana Studies self-hatred about black- Consortium (FLASC). Organized into ness among the colonized. three sections, with a preface by Carole Fifty years later, Kalisa Boyce Davies, this dynamic resource returns to Fanon’s writing, offers several outstanding chapters on criticizing his omission of creative theorizing (what it means to gender in white/black dy- be a Caribbean writer and scholar) and namics. In a well-written one on the visual art of Hersza Bar- style accessible to readers, jon (featured artist at the conference, she describes violence in whose work is reproduced herein), es- women’s historical expe- says on West Indian and Francophone riences. Kalisa provides writers, and interviews with Sylvia succinct narrative over- Wynter and Erna Brodber, to whom views of themes related the conference paid tribute. The lone to violence, showing how women writ- pulsed with passion and wit. This time, ers redefine war in their Ferré sheds an intellectual residue of writing about political lightness, not only of racial pigmenta- violence to include sexual tion and its characteristic privilege, but violence, familial dispos- also — and more importantly — of a session and destruction, distancing from the changing demo- and starvation. She also graphics marking contemporary trans- shows how women can national Puerto Rican society. Jurney’s perpetuate violence that final chapter, a more carefully penned is rooted in patriarchal summation of earlier ideas enhanced practices, and she demon- by Eduard Glissant’s theoretical writ- strates the use of storytell- ing, addresses the works of Gisèle Pine- ing in resisting violence. au and Marie-Célie Agnant. It deserves Such views are hardly a better set of companion essays; with new to Francophone crit- an astute editor, Jurney might prove a ics; at the same time, her much finer critic. indifference to class and economic perspectives n Violence in Francophone Afri- I minimizes the efficacy of can and Caribbean Women’s Literature, her analysis. Moreover, Chantal Kalisa compares Caribbean her insistence on a black/ writers Michèle Lacrosil, Simone white binary fails to Schwartz-Bart, Gisèle Pineau, and capture the multiracial Edwidge Danticat with African writ- essence of Caribbean so- ers Ken Bugul, Calixthe Beyala Na- cieties that include Asian

Feminist Collections (v. 32, no. 2, Spring 2011) Page 3 Book Reviews essay from the Hispanic Caribbean is ative growth and scholarly achievement dian teachers and mentors who pushed about Puerto Rican women writers and that begins in her early years as a mem- her to achieve her highest potential. scholars. Missing is a bibliography at ber of a privileged community in Port Focusing on issues of audience and au- the end. au Prince, Haiti, and extends through thenticity, Chancy renders a powerful an uncomfortable adolescence as a pre- message. Her words are worth quoting Among the strongest essays cocious scholar displaced in Canada. at length, for she evokes the challenges in Abraham’s collection are Eliza- Hers is a personal history focused on of writing from an insider/outsider beth DeLoughrey’s study of perspective, one that, like ocean Sylvia Wynter and Metta waves, leaves sediment on many Sama’s plucky “Reading Zami shores and is affected by chang- Through a FemaleErotic Afro ing local environments: Punk Lens.” Sara Waisvisc interweaves various threads of I find that my task as academic discourse in “Fugitive a Caribbean writer is Rhythms: Re-Imaging Diaspor- to elucidate the roots ic Caribbean-Canadian Com- of my origin while munities in Dionne Brand’s simultaneously freeing What We All Long For” by myself from impositions tracing Brand’s mission to cre- from without as to what ate a politically conscious new those roots should or hybrid cultural community. might mean. Belonging Angelique V. Nixon’s “‘Relating truly to no country across Difference’: Caribbean or perhaps, to many, Feminism, bell hooks, and inspired by non-Canadian Michelle Cliff’s Radical Black scholars and writers as Subjectivity” acknowledges well as those from the feminist predecessors among Caribbean, I am left literary critics Carol Boyce Da- to wonder about these vies, Elaine Savory Fido, Audre things. But, properly Lorde, Lisa Paravisini-Gebert, Haitian, that is, an exile, Consuelo López Springfield, I can only conclude and Patricia Mohammed of the that I am left also to Caribbean, as well as bell hooks pursue my freedom over and Patricia Hill Collins of the nationalisms. My role as a U.S. Nixon delves deeply into Caribbean woman writer hooks’s theory of revolutionary is thus to open doors, praxis, which was influenced by Paolo “belonging”: socially, historically, aca- not to close them, to be Freire, while pointing to its limitations. demically, and artistically. In this inter- a crossroads, to be one She heralds an anti-capitalist sisterhood nal processing of multiple allegiances more wave in an ocean of that communicates cross-culturally. that she calls “syncretism” — belong- waves, recognizing that Tracing theories across national bound- ing to more than one minority group I am part of a whole. In aries that influence but do not restrict — Chancy revisits two strong literary this way, I am a citizen local authenticity, Nixon argues that influences: James Baldwin and Alice not of a country but of Michelle Cliff’s No Telephone to Heaven Walker. In doing so, she opens doors to the world. I find then, critiques capitalist supremacy patriar- understanding the multiple alienations that I am no longer chy within a radical Black subjectivity. of James Baldwin, whose body of work simply of the Caribbean Abraham includes Myriam helped her to comprehend the world or of Haiti, a woman Chancy’s keynote address from the around her and to create alternative or an exile, but, simply conference, which sets a high standard ones. The discovery of a female writer a writer, writing. (pp. for literary autobiography as Chancy of African descent in Alice Walker rich- 95–96) takes her audience on a journey of cre- ly inspired Chancy, as did the Cana-

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Rounding out the essays in this to marginal, are useful in understand- Notes volume, and complementing Chancy’s ing Caribbean feminism and the great brilliant address, is Brinda Mehta’s wealth of talent that abides in the Ca- 1. Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing, “The Voice of Sycorax,” which is the ribbean and its diasporan communities. trans. by Kathleen Weaver (San Fran- most dynamic chapter in Mehta’s No- Although the Hispanic Caribbean is, cisco: The Black Scholar Press, 1985). tions, Diaspora, and Gender (reviewed unfortunately, neglected, these works earlier in this article). Thus, Abraham provide valuable tools for comprehend- 2. Louis James, The Islands In Between: brings the best of literary criticism to ing Caribbean women’s history and Essays on West Indian Literature (Lon- the fore, demonstrating once again the cultural expression. Mehta’s Notions don: Oxford Univ. Press, 1968). vibrant contributions of a multicultural of Identity, Diaspora, and Gender and Caribbean to contemporary feminist Abraham’s edited conference papers are [Caribbean scholar Consuelo López scholarship. especially valuable for women’s studies Springfield is an assistant dean in the These four literary publications, scholarship. College of Letters and Sciences, Univer- ranging in significance from seminal sity of Wisconsin–Madison, where she teaches in Gender and Women’s Studies and Chican@ and Latin@ Studies.]

(continued from p. ii) from the downtown independents. I off of You-Know-What entirely. But also buy fewer books than I did in the I’m ready to recommit to the truly old days, as the mortgage payments independent bookstore, and especially Changing America One and shrinking storage space of middle to the fabulous feminist one down Step at a Time: Feminist age have turned me into more of a the street from my office (who needs Activism in Wisconsin library borrower. And when I shop for parking when you’re on foot? and books, well, um… I’ll have to confess there’s espresso on every block). I hope Learn about the 1960s and 1970s that I let myself be seduced not only it’s not too late. women’s movement with second- by the big stores with their discounts, This issue of Feminist Collections wave founder-feminist abundant free parking, and plentiful reviews books that Room of One’s Mary Ann Rossi café seating, but also by the one-click Own will gladly order for you if they at Björklunden Vid Sjön, ease and door-to-door delivery that is, are not stocked in the store — see Lawrence University’s well… You-Know-What.com. It was the four about Caribbean women Door County campus only right that I should wince upon writers, reviewed by Consuelo López my return to Room of One’s Own. Springfield; the four about women October 16–21,2011 I made a vow that night, though, defining themselves in theater, to return to Room more often from reviewed by Autumn Shiley; and the Björklunden Seminars now on, and to spend at least some sixteen reference works reviewed by P.O. Box 10 of my book dollars there; and to start librarians from all over. We also have a Baileys Harbor, WI 54202 myself off I purchased Paretsky’s latest group review of the independent film 920-839-2216 novel and got it signed. This is not Pink Saris, a look at how Web-based so noble of me — after all, Borders is information gets archived and can be http://www.lawrence.edu/dept/bjork/ about to be a non-option anyway; its found, and our regular columns about bjorkseminars/ major competitor is still in town with periodicals and “e-sources.” that parking, those discounts, and all that coffee; and I am not swearing m J.L.

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Woman Defines Herself: (Re)Claiming Identity by Re-Visioning Theater and Revisiting History

by Autumn Shiley

Sharon Friedman, ed., FEMINIST THEATRICAL REVISIONS OF CLASSIC WORKS: CRITICAL ESSAYS. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2009. 290p. bibl. index. pap., $45.00, ISBN 978-0786434251.

Lisa M. Anderson, BLACK FEMINISM IN CONTEMPORARY DRAMA. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2008. 152p. notes. bibl. index. $35.00, ISBN 978-0252032288.

Pürnur Uçar-Özbirinci, PLAYS BY WOMEN ABOUT WOMEN PLAY WRITERS: HOW WOMEN CREATE MYTHS ABOUT THEMSELVES. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2009. 288p. bibl. index. $109.95, ISBN 978-0773447080.

Milly S. Barranger, UNFRIENDLY WITNESSES: GENDER, THEATER, AND FILM IN THE MCCARTHY ERA. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008. 224p. notes. bibl. index. pap., $37.50, ISBN 978-0809328765.

Women have been the subjects audience from his characters so that The essays in Feminist Theatrical of theatrical works for centuries, from the characters might be considered in Revisions of Classic Works are master- Euripides’ Medea to Nora in Ibsen’s A a more critical and political context. fully edited by Sharon Friedman, who Doll House. Yet these characters until “In Brechtian terms,” writes editor points out the significance of the word recently have been subject almost en- Sharon Friedman in her introduction revision, or re-vision, meaning “to see tirely to a male perspective. The works to Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Clas- and see again.” To Friedman, “re- under review examine woman as she sic Works, “these distancing devices vision” represents more accurately than defines herself, her stories, and her make the familiar strange, drawing our “adapt” what the feminist productions history on the stage and on the stand. attention to ideology encoded in the examined in these essays really do. One of the authors quotes the state- plot, language, and structures of the How appropriate, then, for the words ment by Helene Cixous that dramatic or literary text as well as in “reclaim,” “reshape,” and “re-present” “[w]oman must write her self: must performance” (p. 2). Most of the con- to appear throughout the essays. And write about women and bring women tributors to Friedman’s collection men- what better place is there to explore the to writing.…Woman must put herself tion Brecht’s techniques as they analyze (re)visioning of female identity than into the text — as into the world and productions of feminist performance the stage? Performance is where the into history — by her own move- in the context of myth, race, and his- personal is made political and the pri- ment” (Pürnur Uçar-Özbirinci, Plays tory. The fourth text under review vate becomes public. by Women about Women Play Writers, p. examines historical accounts of women Friedman gives the reader a brief 99). These works all ask, in some way, in theater and film who came under introduction to the intermingling of where a woman’s voice is in theater, investigation during the McCarthy feminism and postmodern theater. and what the feminist story is. era. They were identified at the time During the 1960s, theater sought to The authors of first three texts as “unfriendly witnesses,” while their redefine itself in all of its relationships: under review in this essay discuss the- male counterparts “walked the corri- between audience and actor, between atrical productions that use various dors of power as cooperative or friendly playwright and director, and between techniques to “jar” the audience into witnesses” (p. xiv). Milly S. Barranger the times and the theory. The ideas of seeing anew. Most commonly noted by asks why: What happened that left so collective consciousness and individu- each is a technique called Verfremdung- many of these women silent, while the alism were beginning to be explored seffekt, often shortened to “V-effekt,” men interrogated went on to produce and questioned. Women theater artists meaning to make strange or to alienate. and publish drama and memoirs about began to work in groups as a collective, Brecht used the V-effekt to distance the their own experiences of the events? “in a response to the hierarchical and

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sions of Greek myth and effective in terms of detailed analysis, it therefore touch on uni- does offer a broad overview and foun- versal issues, which Julie dation for further study. Malnig calls “the play’s grand themes.” These In perhaps the most ambitious issues are everywhere in section, entitled “Nineteenth and Greek mythology: “war Twentieth Century Narratives and and peace, the nature Reflections: The Romance, the Novel, of justice, the transition and the Essay,” theatrical adaptations from barbarism to civili- of three different types of literature by zation and the excess of women are critiqued (Jane Eyre, The power” (p. 21). Maya E. Awakening, and A Room of One’s Own), Roth records the haunt- and one essay, by Lenora Champagne, ing images in Timberlake explores several very jarring feminist Wertenbaker’s The Love of theatrical revisions of Hawthorne’s the Nightingale, a re-vision novel The Scarlet Letter — by Phyllis of the myth of Philomela Nagy, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Naomi in which the issues of Wallace — in each of which Hester women’s sexuality and hu- Prynne’s “A” comes to symbolize some- man violation in the form thing different. In these re-visions the of rape and mutilation are “A” stands not only for “adultery,” confronted. The echo of but also for “America,” “abortion,” Philomela’s screams as she and “alienated.” In Parks’s play In the is dragged from the stage Blood, “‘A’ is the only letter the illiterate and raped is juxtaposed Hester has learned to write” (p. 181). with the silence that fol- The brief final section deals with lows when her rapist takes re-visions of the dramatic works of her tongue. Roth’s cri- Tennessee Williams and Henrik Ibsen. ‘competitive power structure’ of con- tique, as well as the quotations she ex- Both essays focus on the use of the ventional theater” (p. 4). cerpts from the script, make the reader “V-effect” as a mechanism to capture Friedman also comments on her experience the play in an immediate pieces of each story not yet considered., own choice to limit the focus of this and intimate way while remaining Appropriately, the collection ends work to Western theory and primar- critical of the issues presented: “The with an essay analyzing Mabou Mines ily to theater in the United States, play’s structure of language, sound and DollHouse, the re-vision of Ibsen’s A Canada, and Great Britain. With less questioning urges audiences not only Doll House, a play that scholars praise terrain to cover, the essays are focused, to listen, speak, and inquire, but more- as “a touchstone for women’s rights detailed, and in-depth in the “cross-fer- over to hear, offering in that practice movements in far-flung corners of the tilization that has occurred in feminist some hope for reconciliation, an anti- world” (p. 247). This anthology is ideal criticism and performance” (p. 9). The dote to violence, a process for building for a more advanced theater studies collection does not suffer from Fried- understanding across gender and cul- class or a more concentrated women’s man’s limited focus, as she does not tural differences, for moving through studies course. The essays have the claim to offer a global perspective. griefs and oppression” (p. 50). potential to promote critical discussion The essays in Section I, “Classical All but one of the essays in Sec- and incite curiosity, leading students to Theater and Myth,” consider Electra, tion II, entitled “Shakespeare and further research. Iphigenia, Philomela, Antigone, and Seventeenth Century Theatre,” focus the characters in Ovid’s The Meta- on more than one revision of a text. Feminist theater has made its way morphoses, and the re-visioning of Two of the four examine re-visions of into curricula, as has multicultural the- the identities and stories surrounding Phaedra. The effect is a potpourri of ater. Yet black feminism in drama has them. This section may be the most alternatives to the original. Although been ignored and rendered invisible coherent, as the essays deal with revi- the mechanism may not be the most to criticism and analysis. According to

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Lisa M. Anderson in Black Feminism The issues examined by black is felt acutely by black women, even in Contemporary Drama, “that is not to feminist theater have been swept un- while it is ignored by black men” (p. say that there is not, or has not been, der the rug for much too long. When 21). She argues that racism has been black feminist theatre; it means only finally put on stage, they stand for us an excuse for oppression of the sexes: that black feminist writing about black not only to hear, but also to see, naked the man abused because of his race feminist theatre has been scarce” (p. in their honesty. They are women’s is- may in turn abuse a woman because of 1). Anderson takes on the challenge sues, but because of the context of race, her sex. Conflicts emerge when a black of explaining how black feminism is rather than becoming more specific, man abuses a black woman, because revealed in contemporary drama, do- they become more complex. the woman feels obligated not to make ing so with a solid foundation of ideas For example, Anderson exposes the truth public and further stain oth- and specifics through character, theme, the complexities of abortion and re- ers’ perceptions of her race. Anderson’s plot, and language. productive rights: “On the one hand, writing is clear and concise. Her ideas Anderson states more than once the choice by black women slaves to are practical and would enrich any class that she is in search of a “black femi- abort rather than bear children who on black feminism or feminist drama. nist aesthetic.” She draws on a range would become slaves, or who were the of black feminisms, “from the black result of their rape, was an important In Plays by Women About Women lesbian feminism of Audre Lorde and one. On the other hand, abortion has Play Writers: How Women Create Myths Barbara Smith to the womanism of at times been considered a practice About Themselves,Pürnur Uçar-Öz- Alice Walker. In drawing from these aimed at genocide” (p. 122). In Venus, birinci’s attempt at offering a broader diverse theories,” she says, she is “work- playwright Suzan-Lori Parks alludes view of myth-making — or, rather, ing toward a broad, rather than narrow, to abortions being used against her myth-breaking — although her selec- concept of a black feminist aesthetic” protagonist as a form of abuse. In tion of material is somewhat stunted, (p. 13). Blues for an Alabama Sky, playwright as she limits herself to playwrights of Pearl Cleage approaches Scottish, British, American, and Turk- reproductive rights from ish backgrounds. She states that her a social, economic, and aim is “polyphony,” but where are the racial context. In Come voices from the Far East and the en- Down Burning, play- tire Southern hemisphere? She does wright Kia Corthron has bring a plethora of historical, psycho- her characters debate over logical, and feminist theories to the whether or not abortion table, quoting Aristotle, Jung, Freud, is necessary in order to Nietzsche, Millett, and Cixous. Uçar- assure that other children Özbirinci is extremely well read in his- will survive the poverty tory and myth theory and is adept at that already devastates the making her reader question established family. Anderson does not ideas. She constructs a foundation for ignore each playwright’s her arguments, but some pieces of the ambivalence surrounding structure seem to be missing, making this issue. some of her assumptions less plausible. Through the play- A few parts of this book are well wrights Anderson also dis- reasoned and extremely insightful. For sects other issues, such as instance, in the first chapter, “Myth- domestic abuse, sexuality, making: Definitions and Meanings,” stereotype, and women’s Uçar-Özbirinci traces the development health. Because of the of language and emphasizes the im- context of race, each is- portance of “naming” experiences or sue becomes an amalgam: constructing stories and histories. Only “Racism cannot eclipse by “reclaiming the power to name” can sexism, because both exist women truly “influence the so-called simultaneously; that fact reality established by the patriarchy” (p. 23).

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Uçar-Özbirinci’s understand- (by Bryony Lavery), and Gilgamesh (by period,” she writes, “have been largely ing of the play Blood and Ice, by Liz Zeynep Avcı), — Uçar-Özbirinci con- ignored, dismissed, or lost to memory” Lochhead, about writer Mary Shelley, tinues to explore the issues of identity (p. xiii). Her effort is to bring this col- is artfully displayed in her analysis of and language to communicate experi- lective experience to light. the feminist issues brought forth in the ence: “In addition to the persistent text. Uçar-Özbirinci illustrates Shel- pattern of writing as an act of survival,” In Chapter 1, Barranger defines ley’s struggle between the identities she says, “all writers that have been McCarthyism as “a period of wide- not of virgin and whore, but rather of analyzed in this research emphasize spread political repression against the mother and monster. Throughout the the importance of self-awareness and threat of Communism in the United play, Shelley reads her own novel, Fran- self-reliance for all women” (p. 252). States, explaining that it “existed in its kenstein. It is not simply by writing her The most captivating reason for the- dictionary definition long before the story that she finds her identity; it is ater (rather than some other venue) to senator” (p. 1) and making clear that rather through reading it that she finds carry out this agenda is that “through in that period, simply to be perceived theatre, women who have as “left-leaning” was grounds for ques- been silenced for long tioning. She demonstrates the intel- enough can raise their lect and wit of the women who were voices” (p. 256). Might investigated, citing a humorous story theater be the final step about the questioning of Hallie Fla- toward self-realization? nagan, director of the Federal Theatre We must write; we must Project, in 1938. Flanagan’s questioner, read. We must enact. Joe Starnes, mentioned that she had referred to “Marlowesque madness” in While the first a magazine article. “‘You are quoting three texts discussed from this Marlowe,’ Starnes remarked. in this review focus on ‘Is he a Communist?’” Flanagan replied themes brought forward that Christopher Marlowe “was the in the theater through greatest dramatist in the period imme- production, Unfriendly diately preceding Shakespeare,” and it Witnesses: Gender, Theatre, became apparent that these men were and Film in the McCarthy no match for her (p. 5). To those who Era focuses on the lives of might ask why HUAC even bothered theater and film artists. with interrogating women at this time, Rather than reconsidering Barranger explains, “The women were female identity through needed to show the broad influence of the classics, myths, stories, Communism in American life — how and plays, Milly Bar- communists had infiltrated not only ranger revisits historical the stages and movie screens of Broad- accounts and transcripts way and Hollywood but the bedrooms from the investigations and kitchens of America” (p. 7). the House Committee on The bulk of Unfriendly Witnesses is self-realization: “Thus, their journey is Un-American Activities conducted of devoted to the seven celebrities whom an inward journey where they have to seven women who were on the “Hol- the press called “McCarthy’s Women” face their past to understand their own lywood Blacklist.” (The list comprised — Judy Holliday, Mady Christians, experiences” (p. 243). people in film who were suspected of Anne Revere, Kim Hunter, Margaret In her critiques of five other having Communist connections.) In Webster, Lillian Hellman, and Dorothy plays — Letters Home (by Rose Lei- her preface, Barranger compares this Parker. Barranger gives an in-depth man Goldemberg), Halide (by Bilgesu era in the United States to that of the history of each woman, noting family Erenus), The Love of the Nightingale Salem witch trials. “The political his- history and early career successes. This (by Timberlake Wertenbaker), Ophelia tories of creative women as victims of provides the reader with the contrast the witch-hunts during the McCarthy of each woman’s life after being black-

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mants, yet these women mative. Barranger has constructed a refused. Many were women’s history that deserves further barred from Hollywood scholarship. and their careers crum- bled. Some found solace The recorded history of women in New York working on until recent years has been a “his- the stage for significantly story.” Pürnur Uçar-Özbirinci delves less pay. All of these seven most deeply into this subject in Plays women, save one, are por- by Women, yet all four of these works trayed as survivors. That examine the male canon of history one, Mady Christians, was and myth and seek a female re-vision. perhaps the most tragic: Although each of the texts examined as her successful career has a different focus and approach to abruptly came to a halt feminist theater and performance, all when she was blacklisted, scrutinize and reconsider former, often Christians was unable to male, interpretations. Through that find work, and her health lens, they give women the option to deteriorated. She became create identity through self-revelation just another performer and personal experience in the context who, as Victor Navasky of an unremembered or unheard his- is quoted saying, “seemed tory. to die of the blacklist” (p. 48). [Autumn Shiley holds an M.F.A. in The book captures the drama from the University of Virginia. paranoia, oppression, fear She is an artistic associate with Side- and ignorance of the Mc- show Theatre Company in Chicago and listed and brings a tragic element to Carthy era, and Barranger a board member of Kathie Rasmussen the facts as they are presented. In each astutely compares those undertones Women’s Theatre in Madison. She con- woman’s case a chorus seems to ring to those that permeated a post-9/11 ducts workshops in creating and devising through Berranger’s writing: “She did America, pointing to patterns that may original works and has studied and per- not provide names” (p. 47). Their perhaps emerge in times of political formed internationally.] friends and colleagues became infor- turmoil. The text is relevant and infor-

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A Messiah for Women: Helping Girls Escape Abusive Marriage in India

by Madelyn Homuth, Heather Shimon, & Melissa A. Young

Pink Saris. 96 mins. Directed by Kim Longinotto, 2010. Hindi with English subtitles. Distributed by Women Make Movies, 462 Broadway, Suite 500WS (at Grand Street), New York, NY 10013; phone: (212) 925-0606; fax: (212) 925- 2052; website: http://www.wmm.com. DVD. Purchase: $350.00 for universities, colleges, & institutions, $89.00 for K-12, public libraries, & select groups; rental: $120.00.

Round Two: Last year, some of the staff of the Women’s tar Pradesh, and they have a hundred thousand members Studies Librarian’s Office got together to watch and review amongst a population of a few million, how do people find a film from the Wisconsin Film Festival. We enjoyed the Sampat? It’s unclear how that word-of-mouth transfer hap- process so much that we decided to do it again. This year, pened; how people knew to look for her or where to find we chose Pink Saris, a documentary about the Gulabi Gang her. (who identify themselves by wearing hot pink saris) from the Uttar Pradesh region of Northern India, a place of extreme Heather: I wondered if Sampat’s actions were influenced by poverty. The film focuses on the group’s leader, Sampat Pal, the cameras. a member of the Untouchable caste who broke free of her Madelyn: Her partner, Babuji, talked about that. He said husband’s abusive family and now works to help young girls that Sampat had changed by getting into activism, and that trapped in similar situations. We all found the film power- she played to the media because she wanted the attention of ful and moving, but some of us were left with questions the newspapers and cameras following her. about the Gulabi Gang and its leader’s dependability. Melissa: I was suspicious, but there’s definitely a genuine Heather : What were your general impressions of the film? quality there. Sampat is definitely passionate. Sometimes she Madelyn: I really liked it. I have a well-rounded background would become enraged at people and would forget the cam- regarding the Gulabi Gang, so this film was a nice represen- eras were there. tation of them, as opposed to just information about them. Madelyn: She’s actually less civilized and more violent in her I have seen the documentary that Al Jazeera English did everyday activities. The Gulabi Gang is famous for carrying on them, and it was more of a history rather than showing giant sticks and fighting back. them interacting. I appreciated the unaltered images in Pink Saris of what they do. Melissa: She even said if a man misbehaves, beat him. That surprised me. Heather: I wish the film would have had some background about the Gulabi Gang as an organization: where the money Madelyn: I saw a news clip of the Gulabi Gang hitting a came from, its structure and activities. man for beating his daughter-in-law; they clearly are not “tame.” Sampat was more words and less action in the film Melissa : I came into it without knowing much about the because she knew people were watching. But she is not a group, but I liked how complex and human Sampat Pal was. believer in non-violence. Seeing these girls come to her in the middle of the night — even though she couldn’t fix everything — made a huge Heather: This movie touched upon the status of women in impression on me. India, especially the very poor, and it was quite dishearten- ing. Madelyn: I wondered how people knew about Sampat. Even though the Gulabi Gang is a large organization in Ut-

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Madelyn: It portrayed the child marriages and the expecta- Madelyn: It is also hard for Sampat to effect real change tion that a woman will kill herself if she loses her husband. because she was once in a troubled situation too. So every girl who seeks her help reminds her of her own hardships, Heather: The women appeared to be hopeless and to have again and again. It must be hard for her not to do what she no options. wished someone would have done for her instead of what might be best for each girl in need. Madelyn: Sampat is their only option. No one has ever effectively challenged the status quo. There are female rep- Heather: She appears to want to create change on a systemic resentatives in Parliament, but they do not pass laws that level, but does not know how. That was heartbreaking for have teeth or that actually change the options women have. me to see. People still choose to have their daughters stay home while they send their sons to school, even though that might be Madelyn: Sampat’s comment, “If girls spoke up, the world disadvantageous or even against what the local authorities would change,” might be part of the answer. expect you to do. Girls do not have options. Melissa: But that puts a lot of pressure on girls, as though Heather: How did you feel about the men in the movie? the girls are to blame for not speaking up.

Melissa: They were very passive. Heather: Is this movie appropriate for a women’s studies classroom? Heather: They seemed scared of Sampat. Madelyn: Yes. Madelyn: She has a reputation for exacting revenge, and she has sent men to jail, so people tread lightly around her. Heather: Especially if you present background information on the Gulabi Gang. Heather: How did you feel about the police in the movie? Madelyn: And include their constitution, which sets out Madelyn: I feel like they were portrayed as ineffective, just their goals. It was created in partnership with their sister as they probably are. organization in France, which coordinates all of their funding. They also published a book, and its proceeds go to the Melissa: They asked Sampat to write a complaint, and I projects they work on. wondered if they ask everyone to do this — because most people can’t write. That’s a huge barrier for people. Heather: Who is a good audience for this movie?

Heather: Did you have any favorite scenes in this movie? Madelyn: It would be effective in everything from a survey class on India to undergraduate courses in women’s studies. Melissa: Yes! The scene where a troubled girl’s soon-to-be father-in-law threatens to have his god punish Sampat. She Melissa: Or a global cultures class. replies, “You and your Baron Babas go ahead and turn me to dust.” I thought that was absolutely hilarious, and it made Heather: Even thought I don’t think the movie gives enough me love her instantly. context, it is so moving and powerful that I would recommend showing it in a classroom. Madelyn: The most memorable scene for me was that same situation, where Sampat is negotiating the marriage, and the Melissa: And it will prompt discussion. But I don’t know if girl is crying because she does not want to get married. That it should have been called Pink Saris. is not the solution she wants, but to Sampat, that is the only option. Madelyn: It was more about Sampat than it was about the Gulabi Gang. Maybe it should have been called Messiah for Melissa: Then the girl looks straight at the camera and asks Women. the filmmakers to take her with them. That was hard to see, but necessary. Sampat is a mediator. She doesn’t have the Melissa: Yes, Sampat calls herself that in the movie, which power to make people do anything, which is the limit to her confused me because it made her more important than the resources. Gulabi Gang. Sampat is a complex woman with flaws.

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Madelyn: I was amazed that she gave her niece back to the Madelyn: That fear stood out to me when Sampat was ac- husband’s family. cusing one of the men of raping and beating his daughter- in-law. His response used the universal language of excuses Heather: That was upsetting to me as well. It was sad to for violence against women. He said, “It’s her fault” and hear her niece tell her problems to the filmmakers and then “She’s asking for it.” become silent and hide her face in her sari when the men appeared. You know she’s doomed. There’s no answer for Heather: Other excuses the in-laws gave for beating the girls her. were, “She’s not doing her work,” “She thinks she’s better than us,” and “She won’t cook for us.” Melissa: Sampat fought less for her niece, even though she said she would fight for her own family. It seemed as though Melissa: That is where the real power of this movie lies: in she fought less for her niece because she was susceptible to giving a voice to these girls and exposing their hardships. the pressure from her own family. Without this movie, these things remain unknown to the rest of the world. Heather: It’s a battle that Sampat is unable to fight. [Madelyn Homuth recently graduated from the University of Madelyn: I was also moved by the girl whose baby daughter Wisconsin–Madison and will attend Indiana University in the died because her in-laws refused to seek medical attention. fall to study library and information science. Melissa A. Young graduated from the UW–Madison in 2010 and is working on Heather: The in-laws looked scared when Sampat confront- her J.D. at the UW School of Law. Heather Shimon is the office ed them, as if they had been caught doing something they operations associate in the Women’s Studies Librarian’s Office knew was wrong. I couldn’t tell if they were afraid of Sam- and is pursuing a master’s degree in the UW–Madison’s School pat, the police, the cameras, or a combination of the three. of Library & Information Studies.]

Miriam Greenwald

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As more and more information gravitates to elec- what’s published online has been or is now being captured tronic-only format, historians must have queasy feelings in periodically. their stomachs that their successors will never be able to do research as they have. They are right. On the positive side, The Internet Archive research methods have been eased considerably by the avail- Perhaps the biggest Big Player is the Internet Archive ability of digital versions of so much print material from with its Wayback Machine (http://www.archive.org/web/ the past. But, perversely, the material that never had a print web.php), which “crawls” through millions of Internet sites equivalent — the “born digitals” — are most in danger of on a regular basis, saving the version it finds as of the crawl disappearing when the eager e-zinesters or earnest organiza- date. The Wayback Machine (using Alexa Internet software) tions that gave birth to them lose their interest, time, or has been doing this since 1996. The Wayback Machine ac- financial backing. Their Web domains lapse (and, in the case complishes two purposes: it lets users see how a particular of women-focused sites, seem most often to be purchased site has changed over its existence, and it preserves the site, by pornography purveyors); their efforts are lost to history. even if it is no longer on the active Web. The entry point for Librarians and archivists have realized this, too, but given the Wayback Machine is the URL of the website, blog, zine, the billions of Web pages, blogs, tweets, and other items that or whatever you have reason to know existed at some point have ever existed, preserving what’s been distributed online in the past, whether or not it still exists. You type in the is a Sisyphean undertaking. Even with several Big Players URL and the Wayback Machine presents you with a calen- now in the picture, it is likely that only a small fraction of dar of the crawl dates for that site. You then click on a date

Figure 1

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Figure 2 tian Women’s Legal As- sistance (CEWLA, http:// www.cewla.org/), which is archived as part of the Co- lumbia University Librar- ies’ Human Rights Web Archive. Thus far, CEWLA has been archived three times, in February, March, and June 2011. Many of the rest of the Catalog Metadata hits are also for women’s organizations being archived by the Hu- man Rights Web Archive. Another contributor is the IT History Society (http:// www.ithistory.org/), a “world-wide group of over 500 members working together to assist in and promote the documentation, preservation, cataloging, and researching of Infor- for which you’d like to see the site. If you’ve never used the mation Technology (IT) history,” which archives “Past No- Wayback Machine, give it a try by inserting any URL, past table Women of Computing and Mathematics.” Other sites or present, and see what results. Here’s an example using our retrieved through this search include the Alabama Women’s office website: Figure 1 shows the Wayback calendar of visits Hall of Fame, collected by the Alabama State Archives; the in early 1999, with a graph of visits over time, and Figure 2 Maquila Women’s Association Homepage and the Women’s reproduces how our homepage appeared in January 1999. Studies Institute Twitter Feed, both collected by the Uni- The Internet Archive also offers a subscription service versity of Texas, San Antonio; Virginia Press Women, Inc., called “Archive-It” (http://archive-it.org/), currently em- collected by the Library of Virginia; and Urban Outfitters ployed by some 160 partner institutions,1 through which Women’s Apparel (!), part of a Teen Consumerism Collec- partners can archive their own material. Virtually all of those tion from Miramonte High School. Trying out some other libraries, historical societies, schools, museums, and NGOs search methods on the Archive-It site, I found a Women’s have archived material on women. All this material becomes Ordination Web Archive from Marquette University; a col- part of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, but at this lection of the Radical Women/Freedom Socialist Party, from time one needs to know the URL in order to use the Way- the California Digital Library; “Ludology.org: women,” a back Machine to find it. The Archive-It site instead provides gaming blog collected by the Stanford Humanities Lab; and entrée by words and phrases or by institution. It is also pos- “Working Out Her Destiny: Women’s History in Virginia sible to search by collections within each institution. Putting 1600–2004,” an exhibit of historical images and documents, in “women” as a general search across all institutions is about collected by the Library of Virginia. as useful as Googling “women.” What does one do with, in this case, some ninety million hits? Well, there’s one way to Important E-Archiving Projects Wholly on Women bring the number down considerably to guaranteed “about- Some projects have from the outset been wholly de- ness.” Just above the Archive-It result is a link to “Catalog voted to women, and do not use Archive-It software. Metadata Results,” of which there are only about 200. These Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, are, in effect, the items mounted with “women” in their sub- has two of them2: ject description. At the top of the list is the Center for Egyp-

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(1) Blogs: Capturing Women’s Voices (http://nrs.har- the older newsletters are no longer on the Foundation’s web- vard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL.WAX:2222628) consists of a site. Aletta has them. Issues of See It, Tell It, Change It! hap- sample of about twenty blogs selected by the library that “il- pen to be retrievable as well through the Wayback Machine, luminate the lives of African-American and Latina women, but one can’t rely on the Machine to have all back issues of lesbians, and women grappling with health and reproductive everything, and it is spotty for newsletters from organiza- issues, and typically reflect their engagement with politics, tions. Sometimes the Web crawler didn’t burrow far enough their personal lives and philosophies, and their work lives.” into the website to find them (e.g., the newsletter from Currently there are links to periodic archived versions of AWID [Association for Women’s Rights in Development]); thirteen of these blogs, including A Chronic Dose: A Chronic in other cases, the newsletters were locked behind “members Illness Blog, Latina Liz, and SistersTalk: A Lesbian Blog with only” walls. Some were never posted on websites because Liberal Tendencies. SistersTalk may be of interest to Wiscon- they were only sent through email (e.g., Pink Link, a Dutch sin readers in particular, as it was written by a woman in gay and lesbian publication). It’s also much faster to find the Beloit, WI.3 back issues in the Aletta collection than it is to poke around (2) In the case of SL Sites: Archived Websites from through the old versions of an organization’s website using Schlesinger Library Collections (http://nrs.harvard.edu/ the Wayback Machine. urn-3:RAD.SCHL:3922990), Harvard is archiving web- Figure 3 shows the Aletta catalog record for another sites related to the paper collections housed at Schlesinger, online newsletter, WLUML: Women Living Under Muslim including the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective (Our Laws. Note that each archived issue is separately linked to its Bodies, Ourselves), Judy Chicago, and Holly Near. Some Web archiving projects are not de- signed to do periodic captures of sites, yet fulfill a vital preservation role nonetheless. Such projects capture issues of online periodicals at time of issuance. If you’ve ever needed back issues of a web-based magazine or newsletter and found only very current issues on the website (or worse, that the magazine has ceased and no issues were available), you will appreciate such preservation efforts. Located in Amsterdam, Aletta, Institute for Women’s History (formerly the International Archives for the Women’s Movement), is home to one such project, which preserves digital periodicals (http://www.aletta.nu/aletta/eng/collections/tijdschrift_digitaal). Aletta staff create or save PDFs of hundreds of women’s e-magazines and newsletters published online or received by the library through email. Each issue saved is linked from the Aletta catalog record for the title (along with a link to the publication’s homepage, if one exists) and is accessible to any user of the catalog. This collection is especially valuable for organizational newsletters — classic ephemeral “grey literature” on the border between library Figure 3 and archival material — which are primary sources for studying the organizations themselves as well as file on the Aletta server, and that Aletta also provides a link activist interests during a particular period. to the original, organizational home for the newsletter. See It, Tell It, Change It!, a newsletter from the Third Wave Foundation in the mid-2000s, is one such title that LOCKSS and Portico has come and gone online. The organization continues to Another byproduct of the availability of electronic ver- exist, but communicates more recently through a blog, and sions of periodicals (and, increasingly, books) — and of the

Page 16 Feminist Collections (v. 32, no. 2, Spring 2011) Archiving Web-Based Information high cost of storing print materials — is that libraries have of the Global LOCKSS Network. Women-focused titles in become less afraid to discard their print runs. At this point LOCKSS include Camera Obscura, Meridians, Journal of In- most still keep a “last copy,” perhaps stored offsite and in ternational Women’s Studies, Journal of Women’s History, Gen- collaboration with other institutions, but many now ques- der Issues, Gender, Place & Culture, Women in Management tion whether it is necessary even to do that. Maybe one print Review, WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, Violence Against run per region of the U.S. or per other country should suf- Women, Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women’s Studies and fice “for old time’s sake,” if there’s a trusted cover-to-cover Gender, Journal of Mideast Women’s Studies, and Feminism & electronic version available. Enter projects that ensure that Psychology.5 trusted e-copies are stored in perpetuity and attention is paid The nonprofit Portico (http://www.portico.org/ to format migration, as needed, with advances in technology digital-preservation/), launched in 2002 by JSTOR with a (anyone try to use a floppy disc lately?). grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, has a some- LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), the related what different model. Instead of a network that links copies project CLOCKSS,4 and Portico are initiatives to assure mounted on library servers, Portico houses all e-copies itself permanence somewhere of electronic versions of periodi- and licenses its files to libraries. It is only invoked when a cals and more. LOCKSS (http://lockss.stanford.edu/) is “trigger” event occurs, such when a publisher ceases pub- an international nonprofit alliance of libraries using digital lishing a title or goes out of business entirely. Portico cur- preservation open-source software developed at Stanford rently has 129 publishers, over 12,000 e-journal titles, some University. With permission from publishers, LOCKSS 103,000 e-books, and 46 databases.6 Journal of Women and member libraries sign up for titles for which they are willing Minorities in Science, Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health, to take archiving responsibility; but rather than have the files Women’s Health Issues, Women’s Studies International Forum, reside on just one server, the archived content is replicated Journal of Women & Aging, Journal of Women, Politics, & across the network of LOCKSS members and is accessible Policy, Gender & History, and Gender & Language are all Por- to libraries subscribing to the particular title. To date, 7,100 tico journal titles in women’s studies. Defining Gender and e-journal titles from approximately 470 publishers are part Women in the National Archives are two databases preserved by Portico.

Figure 4 National E-Archiving Activities Several countries, including the U.K., Australia, and Canada, have invested in Web archiving at the national level. The UK Web Archive (http://www.webarchive.org. uk/ukwa/), provided by the British Library in partnership with several other libraries in Britain, has been capturing websites since 2004. Its aim is to preserve sites that “publish research, that reflect the diversity of lives, interests and activities throughout the UK, and demonstrate web innovation. This includes “grey literature” sites: those that carry briefings, reports, policy statements, and other ephemeral but significant forms of information.7 It is not necessary to know URLs in order to search the UK

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Web Archive, as it supports text searching of the site title or Australia’s effort is called PANDORA, an acronym for URL. Of more interest to women’s studies is the fact that Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resourc- this archive has pulled together significant items into special es of Australia (http://pandora.nla.gov.au/). It was started collections, including one for “women’s issues”8 that is main- in 1996 by the National Library of Australia and has grown tained in collaboration with the Women’s Library, London to include nine collaborating Australian libraries and cultur- Metropolitan University. There are currently more than 300 al organizations. Like the UK project, PANDORA is selec- websites from women’s organizations and campaigns, as well tive, collecting “materials that document the cultural, social, as research reports, women-focused government publications political life and activities of the Australian community and and statistics, blogs, and e-zines. Diverse examples include intellectual and expressive activities of Australians.”9 the Bedford Centre for the History of Women (eleven cap- There are several ways to search PANDORA material; I tures since April 2006), a blog called Domestic Sluttery (three recommend using the advanced search at http://trove.nla. captures since July 2010), the Older Feminist Network gov.au/website?q&adv=y, where you can search by subject, (seven captures since June 2006), and the governmental title or keyword. The subject “feminism” has six results: The Women’s National Commission (eleven captures since Oc- Dawn Chorus: Fresh Australian Feminism Daily (archived in tober 2005). Each entry has a link to what was the live site July 2009 and again in August 2010), Outskirts: Feminism at the time of first capture, and most of these remain active Along the Edge (23 issues of this periodical archived since at this time. The real value, though, for archival purposes, 1996), and the National Foundation for Australian Women is preservation of what was — documentation of both how (annual captures since 2005), all visible in Figure 5; plus the site evolved over time and, if the live site disappears, its Women’s Rights Action Australia (annual captures from existence in the first place. An example is the blog Riot Grrl 2004), the blog Zero at the Bone (captured once in Novem- in the UK, which appears to have stopped being updated as ber 2009), and the website of an Australian Broadcasting of 2007 (see Figure 4). Company journalist named Virginia Haussegger (annual

Figure 5

Page 18 Feminist Collections (v. 32, no. 2, Spring 2011) Archiving Web-Based Information captures since 2010). A title search for “feminism” raises the of Toronto; the archiving seems to be a bit behind), and number of results to 185 (12,678 page versions captured), numerous publications from Status of Women Canada. Ex- while a keyword search for that concept ups the number to amples of e-books include Mother’s Voices: What Women Say about 800 sites (more than 200,000 page versions captured.) About Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Early Motherhood (Public The Electronic Collection from Library and Archives Health Agency of Canada, 2009) and Reality Check: How Canada (LAC, at http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/ Rape Mythology in the Legal System Undermines the Equal- electroniccollection/index-e.html) is not doing a period ity Rights of Women Who are Sexual Assault Survivors (by crawl for Canadian sites, blogs, and tweets. Instead it con- Kathryn Penwill, Action Ontarienne Contre la Violence sists of Canadian e-books and e-periodicals collected and Faite Aux Femmes, 2002). Books and periodicals published archived once. It also includes everything in the Web do- in Canada must be deposited with LAC according to the main of the Federal Government of Canada (http://www. Library and Archives of Canada Act, which was extended collectionscanada.gc.ca/webarchives/index-e.html). LAC’s to online publications in 2007; thus, this is a rich, ongoing general mandate is “preserving the documentary heritage of source for Web archiving. Canada for the benefit of present and future generations.”10 Web archiving projects differ in size (Wayback Machine See Figure 6. compared to the Schlesinger Blogs collection), location Archived e-periodicals on women include Women’Space (global compared to exclusively national efforts), and pur- (several issues of this magazine on women and the Internet, pose (crawling and preserving “born digital” websites vs. until it ceased in 2000), the Health Newsletter of the Native “dark storage” of academic journals). But all share a desire Women’s Association of Canada (two issues and a supple- for a goodly segment of e-productivity to be available for ment, 2009 and 2010), Women in Judaism (eight issues, future generations. To date, quite a bit of material on wom- 1997–2007 — this journal is still publishing at University en has been preserved, but mostly by-the-by rather than by

Figure 6

Feminist Collections (v. 32, no. 2, Spring 2011) Page 19 Archiving Web-Based Information design. Women’s studies scholars and their librarian and ar- 9. http://pandora.nla.gov.au/overview.html, accessed July chivist allies may want to be more proactive and recommend 26, 2011. publications and sites that should be preserved. 10. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/ Notes electroniccollection/index-e.html, accessed July 26, 2011. The simple “Search All” box on the homepage for Library 1. The Wisconsin Historical Society and the Stem Cell and Archives Canada (http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/ Research Archives Project at University of Wisconsin– index-e.html) can be used to find all editions held by LAC. Madison are the two current partners in Wisconsin. Most E-collection items are labeled [electronic resource]. Put title of the partners are U.S.-based. For a full list of partners, see phrases in quotation marks. http://www.archive-it.org/public/partners.html, accessed July 26, 2011. [Phyllis Holman Weisbard is the women’s studies librarian for the University of Wisconsin System and the co-editor of 2. Both Schlesinger projects use WAX: Web Archive Feminist Collections.] Collection Service, a system developed at Harvard. The components of WAX include the Heritrix Web crawler, the Internet Archive’s Wayback index and rendering tool, the Nutchwax indexing tool, and a scheduling tool called Quartz. See http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/systems/wax/.

3. Now a Twitter feed at sistertalk.net/blog; no longer crawled by the Schlesinger Project.

4. CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS, at http://www. clockss.org/clockss/Home, accessed July 26, 2011) has aspects of both LOCKSS and Portico. As with LOCKSS, the copies are stored decentralized on library servers. Like Portico, CLOCKSS is a “dark” archive, only tapped when trigger events occur.

5. http://lockss.stanford.edu/lockss/Publishers_and_ Titles, accessed July 26, 2011.

6. http://www.portico.org/digital-preservation/the- archive-content-access/archive-facts-figures/, accessed July 26, 2011.

7. http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/info/about, accessed July 26, 2011.

8. http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/ collection/98537/page/1/source/collection, accessed July 26, 2011.

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Our website (http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/) includes Maria Shriver et al., THE SHRIVER REPORT: A recent editions of this column and links to complete back WOMAN’S NATION CHANGES EVERYTHING. issues of Feminist Collections, plus many bibliographies, a Washington, DC: Center for American Progress, 2009. database of women-focused videos, and links to hundreds of 439p. Download PDF at http://www.americanprogress. other websites by topic. org/issues/2009/10/pdf/awn/a_womans_nation.pdf Information about electronic journals and magazines, particularly those with numbered or dated issues posted on Cassandra Balchin, TOWARDS A FUTURE WITHOUT a regular schedule, can be found in our “Periodical Notes” FUNDAMENTALISMS: ANALYZING RELIGIOUS column. FUNDAMENTALIST STRATEGIES AND FEMINIST RESPONSES. Toronto, Ontario: Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), 2010. 115p. Download PDF from “Women Living Under Muslim Laws” website: E-Museum http://www.wluml.org/node/6839 Girl Museum is “dedicated to researching the unique Garrine P. Laney, VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT: experience of growing up female, and documenting HISTORY AND FEDERAL FUNDING. Washington, DC: this through telling stories and exhibiting historic and Congressional Research Service, 2010. “CRS Report for contemporary images and material culture related to Congress.” 20p. Download PDF at http://assets.opencrs. this experience,” according to founder and “head girl” com/rpts/RL30871_20100226.pdf Ashley E. Remer (writing in Girlhood Studies v. 3, no. 2, Winter 2010, p. 140). Current online exhibitions at http://girlmuseum.org include “Across Time & Space: Multicultural Representations of Girlhood,” “Girl Saints,” History Website “Hina Matsuri: Celebrating Girls’ Day in Japan,” “Girl for Sale…a collaborative exhibition about girl trafficking that WOMEN IN SCOTTISH HISTORY, easy to find at interrogates and responds to the issues through poetry, http://www.womeninscottishhistory.org, offers databases art and education,” and “31 Heroines of March,” which of documents, historical works, and biographies related to includes a virtual quilt. the history of women in Scotland, as well as a database of researchers in this field.

E-Publications Online Community/Forum David Cortright & Sarah Smiles Persinger, AFGHAN WOMEN SPEAK: ENHANCING SECURITY AND RH REALITY CHECK: Reproductive & Sexual Health HUMAN RIGHTS IN AFGHANISTAN. Notre Dame, IN: and Justice News, Analysis & Commentary serves Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of “individuals and organizations committed to advancing Notre Dame, 2010. 34p. Download PDF at http://www. sexual and reproductive health and rights” at http://www. nd.edu/~jfallon2/WomenAfghanistanReport.pdf rhrealitycheck.org. Topics include abortion, contraception, faith and ideology, maternity and birthing, race and class, GLOBAL REPORT ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN sexuality, and violence; there’s an activism section and an IN THE NEWS MEDIA. Washington, DC: International archive, and you can follow the community on FaceBook, Women’s Media Foundation, 2011. 396p. ISBN 978- Twitter, and YouTube. 0615452708. Download PDF at http://iwmf.org/pdfs/ IWMF-Global-Report.pdf m Compiled by JoAnne Lehman

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Asian Gender Equity at the involvement of nongovernmen- surprisingly, then, it does not provide tal organizations in advancing women, the sort of basic, broad overview of the Mustafa F. Özbilgin & Jawad Syed, as well as at the patriarchal, religious, field that one might expect in a refer- eds., MANAGING GENDER DIVER- and social implications of gender di- ence work. A few of the chapters, how- SITY IN ASIA: A RESEARCH COM- versity in the larger employment infra- ever — for instance, “Diversity and PANION. Northampton, MA: Edward structure. Inequality Among Women in Employ- Elgar Publishing, 2010. 296p. index. The editors have recruited scholars ment in the Arab Middle East Region: $165.00, ISBN 978-1847206442. from Asia, Europe, and North America A New Research Agenda” — have as authors of this work, providing ex- broader scope than others. Reviewed by Erin Fields cellent representation of global scholar- Managing Gender Diversity in Asia: ship in the field. The research presented A Research Companion is thoroughly Gender diversity in contemporary addresses the “intersectionality of researched, as indicated by the huge Asia, according to editors Özbilgin gender, ethnicity, disability and other number of citations for each chapter, and Syed, has not been extensively salient categories” (p. 2) that affect and the table of contents and index researched and written about. Most employment, thus offering a holistic should make the volume quite navi- studies of gender equality in the re- understanding of the inequities facing gable. Although the necessarily nar- gion, they say, have been “conducted many women in Asian societies. This row focus of each specialized chapter in the realm of social policy or from a focus on intersectionality also allows may make it difficult to envision this religio-political paradigm” (p. 1). This room for assessing the scholarship from book in the same category as a typical edited collection of reports, in contrast, the standpoint of a variety of social sci- reference work, this text is the most attempts to distinguish itself from ence methodologies. comprehensive one available right now other scholarship by looking at issues Diverse methodological tools for about gender diversity in Asia in the of “heterogeneity of norms, beliefs and analyzing gender equity are represented field of management and organization. cultures, of gender equality” (p. 1) in here. A few of the scholars (e.g., Burke, the larger context of Asia — rather Koyuncu, and Fikensbaum) use explor- [Erin Fields is the women’s and gender than primarily the Middle East — and atory surveys to examine gender dif- studies librarian at the University of from a management and organizational ferences as they relate to quality of life British Columbia.] perspective. and employment in the manufacturing Each of the fourteen chapters sector of Turkey, while some others provides insight into a geographic area (e.g., Jamali and Abdallah) perform a British Women Artists (e.g., Malaysia, the Arab Middle East, content analysis of secondary literature Pakistan, Japan) and gives specific ex- as it relates to “diversity rhetoric” trans- Sara Gray, THE DICTIONARY amples of structural or organizational lating into action in Lebanese manage- OF BRITISH WOMEN ARTISTS. inequities that keep women from being ment. The variety of approaches is an Cambridge, U.K.: Lutterworth Press, empowered to develop financial stabil- excellent demonstration of the different 2009. 295p. pap., $62.50, ISBN 978- ity through employment. Some reports ways researchers and students can ap- 0718830847. address the larger legal infrastructure proach the question of diversity and and its implications for gender equity equal opportunity in their own schol- Reviewed by Nina Clements in employment — for example, “Japa- arly work, and it encourages interdisci- nese Equal Employment Opportunity plinary scholarship. Women artists have a long history Law: Implications for Diversity Man- This volume is an edited collection of receiving little or no acclaim during agement in Japan” — while others look of separate contributions from highly their lifetimes, and their work often specialized scholars and researchers; not languishes in the margins, out of sight.

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Sara Gray’s Dictionary of British Women and that is partly Gray’s intent. erty, always somewhat overshadowed Artists attempts to move some of these The annotations are not totally by her famous father” (p. 18). artists away from the margins and into neutral, which is not necessarily a flaw Despite these critiques, which have the awareness of current students and but something to be aware of. “Adams, more to do with structure and edito- scholars — no easy feat in just 295 Mrs.,” for instance, is described as rial decisions than with scholarship, pages. “evidently a painter of note who has all this book succeeds in the process of In a brief historiographical discus- but vanished after almost 200 years of recovering these artists from the mar- sion of prior studies of women artists, neglect” (p. 10). The book also omits gins. Although other works focus on Gray makes a compelling case for the some significant artists, such as Dora women artists or on British artists, not need for this work. She makes no claim Carrington. Perhaps she was not in- many recent studies aim specifically to of comprehensiveness in her own study cluded because her work is now so well do both. “Every one of the artists of- but, instead, “offer[s] here as wide a known, although other well-known fered here deserves a more detailed and cross-section as possible of individuals artists from the period, such as Vanessa comprehensive study devoted solely active over four centuries in order to Bell, are included. to them,” Gray writes in the introduc- reveal the steady, general, and consis- The book would be easier to use if tion. “[I]n an ideal world there would tent contribution made to British art a few different editorial decisions had be no need to offer a separate volume by women” (p. 6). Artists still alive been made. More cross-references, for detailing the work of women only. But and working are not included in the one thing, would allow readers to make centuries of neglect has made this es- entries describing 600 “of the most ac- better connections between artists. For sential” (p. 7). Perhaps this volume will complished — though not necessarily example, Dorothy Adamson’s entry inspire more scholarship to rectify this the best known — artists … who have reports that she “[t]rained at Bushey, neglect. left sufficient evidence of their activi- under Lucy Kemp-Welch” (p. 10), but ties and achievements for researchers there is no indication that Lucy Kemp- [Nina Clements is the humanities li- to examine” (p. 6). Much of this evi- Welch has her own entry, on pages brarian at Kenyon College in Gambier, dence comes from their participation 157–158. Also, the organizations or Ohio.] in women’s associations of artists, many movements in which the artists partici- of which held regular meetings and pated do not have entries of their own; exhibitions. the goal of the volume is to focus on Health The volume’s organization is individual artists rather than on col- straightforward: entries are arranged al- lectives, but such entries would have Karen Bellenir, ed., CANCER phabetically by artists’ last names. The been helpful. Furthermore, the volume SOURCEBOOK FOR WOMEN, 4th entries are without ornament and range is not indexed, so it is not easy to find edition. Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics from a few lines to a few columns. artists who belonged to particular Press, 2010. (Health reference series.) When possible, they include biographi- groups or attended particular schools, 698p. glossary. index. $95.00, ISBN cal information such as birth and death which also makes it difficult to connect 978-0780811393. dates, artistic medium, place of origin, artists. and family; they also list memberships While there are several black-and- Reviewed by Ann Marie Smeraldi in societies, along with the titles of white examples of the artists’ work major works as well as published repro- throughout the book, there are none in Historically, women have been un- ductions — for instance, “works repro- color, which would more completely derrepresented in medical research and duced in The Studio,” in Dorothy Ad- resurrect the art, much of which has clinical trials. The study of disease and amson’s entry (pp. 10–11). Entries also rarely been reproduced. Surprisingly, the development of therapeutic treat- occasionally include mentions of artists there is an illustration of at least one ments have focused predominantly on in contemporary publications, such as painting by a man: Anna Alma-Tade- white male subjects, forcing women to in this note in Marion Adnams’s entry: ma, by her father (p. 18). It’s strange adhere to medical protocols that fail to “The subject of an illustrated article that this was included in place of an consider their unique needs. Similarly, in The Studio …” (p. 12). Armed with example of her own work, given that this information, it is relatively easy “she died in relative obscurity and pov- for scholars and students to find more information in contemporary sources,

Feminist Collections (v. 32, no. 2, Spring 2011) Page 23 New Reference Works many health handbooks, in an effort to This work presents a holistic over- Dora Kohen, ed., OXFORD TEXT- be all-inclusive, offer only brief chap- view of cancer in women by including BOOK OF WOMEN AND MENTAL ters addressing women’s concerns. The relevant information about psycho- HEALTH. New York: Oxford Uni- Cancer Sourcebook for Women breaks logical and emotional effects as well versity Press, 2010. (Oxford textbooks this tradition by focusing on “gyne- as physical. Part VI summarizes the in psychiatry.) 352p. index. $139.50, cological cancers and other cancers of physical side effects that can result both ISBN 978-0199214365. special concern to women” (p. xiii). from the natural progression of the dis- This easy-to-read handbook from ease and from its treatment, and prac- Reviewed by Janet S. Fore the Omnigraphics Health Reference se- tical strategies for coping with these ries offers basic information on breast, physical symptoms are offered. The Editor Dora Kohen, who died be- cervical, endometrial, ovarian, uterine, final section begins with supportive fore this volume was published, and to vaginal, and vulvar cancers and gesta- information to help patients increase whom it is dedicated, aimed to increase tional tumors, in a condensed format. wellbeing and maintain life quality; understanding of the gender impact of The book begins with a review of can- tips for dealing with mental health is- mental health services and move public cer and cancer risk factors, but quickly sues such as depression and anger are policy toward more effective and indi- focuses its attention on gender-specific given. Topics of special concern to fe- vidualized mental health care and treat- cancer risks, such as human papillo- male cancer survivors, such as sexuality, ment. The Oxford Textbook of Women mavirus (HPV) and hormonal medica- fertility, and pregnancy after cancer, are and Mental Health addresses a wide tions. Gynecological conditions that also discussed. range of issues and psychiatric condi- are not associated with cancer are also This volume’s readability and or- tions that affect the mental health and briefly discussed, in an effort to dispel ganizational scheme make the content well-being of women. The contribu- any misconceptions that these condi- highly accessible. The table of contents tors make the case that mental health tions are indicative of cancer. Through- provides a detailed outline, and the must be viewed more broadly than out the book, a question-and-answer glossary, index, and layout enhance the just as diseases and treatment, and that format successfully anticipates readers’ book’s usability. There is also a direc- although women’s and men’s mental concerns. Part IV includes a review tory of information sources and sup- health are interconnected, some aspects of cancers responsible for the highest port groups. The brevity of the entries of women’s lives affect their mental number of deaths among females; the tends to leave the reader wanting more, health uniquely. John Cox’s foreword information in this section is much but overall this work provides an infor- sets this tone, calling on readers to con- briefer and more general than that in mative introduction, especially for the sider the social, cultural, relational, and the others. newly diagnosed, to a difficult topic. personal aspects of women’s mental The Cancer Sourcebook for Women Intended for the layperson, this book is health. presents useful information on diag- recommended for public libraries; aca- The scholarly chapters are uni- nosis and treatment. Readers will find demic libraries that include consumer formly brief: eight to twelve pages helpful suggestions for being proactive health information in their collections each, with two to four pages of refer- and working with their health care may also wish to purchase it. ences. The scope is wide-ranging and providers during treatment. The book includes theory, case history, and is written with the assumption that the [Ann Marie Smeraldi is the first-year- public policy. An index at the end audience has no prior knowledge of experience and women’s studies librarian provides subject keyword access. Much the subject matter; medical terms and at Cleveland State University.] of the epidemiological data is cited tests are clearly explained, and concise from United Nations or World Health descriptions are provided for surgical Organization sources, giving the book procedures commonly used to treat an international direction. However, of gynecological cancers. Treatment op- the fifty-six authors, forty-two are from tions from chemotherapy and radiation the U.K., and most of the legislative to biological and alternative therapies and public-health policy information are discussed. reflects the British authors’ experience.

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Readers in the U.S. should not be put Ellen Kuhlmann & Ellen An- Themes that recur across the off by the British context, however, nandale, eds., The Palgrave healthcare spectrum include the dis- since the issues and discussions bridge Handbook of Gender and tinction between socially constructed national boundaries. Healthcare. New York: Pal- gender and biological sex and the limi- Part I, “Fundamental Aspects: grave Macmillan, 2010. 512p. index. tations of the binary male/female view; Women and Mental Health,” includes $175.00, ISBN 978-0230230316. the medicalization of healthcare and chapters about different cultural or how that affects both women and men; social situations that have an impact Reviewed by Nancy Nyland and the need to see patients as individ- on women and mental health — for uals with unique needs, no matter what instance, gender-based violence, and Editors Kuhlmann and Annandale group they may belong to. Healthcare caregiving by women. Parts II and III, have compiled twenty-six chapters on providers and researchers need to be which together make up more than a every possible aspect of healthcare that aware of how the heterosexual male third of the volume, describe specific either affects women differently than point of reference has often been nor- mental illnesses and disorders. Parts men or is affected by gender. The forty- malized as the standard, resulting in IV and V address special topics, such eight contributors are experts on the women being defined as other than the as parental disorders, the impact of a challenges of creating gender-sensitive norm and rendering “non-heterosexu- mother’s mental illness on children and healthcare. These professors and re- als’ experience” of healthcare as “largely the family, and mental health issues in searchers are from the U.S., the U.K., invisible” (p. 256). Gender equity women with intellectual or learning Canada, Australia, Mexico, South Af- includes “the intersections between disabilities. Part VI consists of just one rica, India, Germany, the Netherlands, gender and a wide range of social in- final chapter, “Building On or Building and Scandinavia, and they write from equalities, such as, for instance, ‘race,’ In?,” which calls for increased develop- a global perspective. Five sections cover age, sexual orientation and place” (p. ments in public policy and legislation healthcare policy, social patterns, access 2). “It is clear that gender and culture to provide better women’s mental to healthcare, organization of health- do not operate in isolation but that health provision. care, the healthcare professions, and differences other than gender, such as The volume as a whole reflects how these variables intersect with the ethnicity, age, socio-economic status current thinking and addresses a wide social inequalities that affect women. (SES) and sexual orientation interact array of mental-health issues particular Each chapter concludes with a brief with gender differences and impact in to women and their diverse social and summary and, for those who wish to health” (p. 406). personal situations. The references pursue additional sources, suggestions The healthcare issues discussed for each chapter are consistently from of supplemental “key reading” on the span the gamut: national and interna- sources published in the past fifteen chapter’s topic. tional health policies, the effect of cost years. This work complements other, The organizing theme of the book on outcomes, violence against women, similar titles, such as Women’s Mental is “gender mainstreaming,” the idea mortality rates, reproduction, heart Health: A Life-Cycle Approach (by Sarah that systems (health care in this case) disease, mental health, HIV/AIDS, E. Romans) and the massive 2004 must have an awareness of gender healthcare utilization rates, men’s edition of Women’s Mental Health: A issues built in from the beginning. health, gay/lesbian patients, moth- Comprehensive Textbook (edited by Strategies to address gender issues can- ers and children, rural healthcare, old Kornstein & Clayton), but presents a not be add-ons to healthcare policies, age care, prevention, maternal health more holistic view than either. It would organizations, or programs, where the care, women’s health centers, nursing, be appropriate in a clinician’s library as effects of gender on health care are only women doctors, health and medical re- well as for use as a graduate or upper- considered in the middle or at the end search, complementary and alternative level-undergraduate textbook. of a project’s development. Integration medicine, and gender-sensitive training of gender awareness into the curricu- of health professionals. [Janet S. Fore is the director of the Cush- lum of any kind of medical training is This summary of well-documented wa-Leighton Library at Saint Mary’s one example provided of gender main- research should be in every library that College in Notre Dame, Indiana.] streaming, as contrasted with treating supports a medical training program. gender issues as supplemental. Students and researchers can easily

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make use of any one chapter in their Part I provides a survey of Queering Research area of interest. While the format and feminist studies, situating it as a “post- documentation meet scholarly stan- disciplinary discipline,” meaning, Kath Browne & Catherine J. Nash, dards, as would be expected of any Lykke says, “that the area is seen both QUEER METHODS AND METH- reference work, the prose is still acces- as an independent field of knowledge ODOLOGIES: INTERSECTING sible to college-level students and the production…and as a transgressive QUEER THEORIES AND SOCIAL non-medical public. field” (p. 209). In Part II, Lykke SCIENCE RESEARCH. Burling- summarizes theories of gender, sex, ton, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2010. [Nancy Nyland is a librarian at the Ger- and feminism, illustrates how the 320p. bibl. index. $119.95, ISBN mantown campus of Montgomery College theories intersect, and discusses their 978-0754678434; e-book (contact in Montgomery County, Maryland.] limitations. Part III delves into the publisher for pricing), ISBN 978- methodology used in various feminist 0754696636. approaches, and, in Part IV, Lykke Intersectionality provides examples of intersectional Reviewed by Evan Boyd writing framed by feminist studies and Nina Lykke, Feminist Studies: interpretive practice. Editors Kath Browne and Cath- A Guide to Intersectional Lykke’s writing is heavy with erine Nash originally envisioned a Theory, Methodology and feminist-theory jargon; thankfully, she work that would examine whether Writing. New York: Routledge, also provides a glossary — extensive or not a queer conceptual framework 2010. (Advances in feminist studies and cross-referenced — that covers can be used in traditional social sci- and intersectionality.) 258p. bibl. many of the unfamiliar terms. A ence methodologies. They as well as notes. gloss. index. $125.00, ISBN thorough index will direct readers to the other contributors to this volume 978-0415874847. specific sections of the book, but this interpret “queer,” in its broadest sense, volume is actually meant to be read as to mean non-normative frameworks, Reviewed by Juliann Couture a whole: frequently the text refers back rather than merely LGBT/sexuality-fo- to earlier sections or briefly discusses cused research. Initially they hoped to Scholars writing about feminist or a theory or aspect that will be covered examine how research methods can be gender studies often focus specifically more fully in later chapters. complicated when the focus is on non- on one theoretical aspect, leaving This resource need not be located normative communities and episte- gaps in coverage of the whole subject. in a reference collection; it will do mological frameworks. In the resulting Nina Lykke distinguishes herself in quite well in circulation. It provides edited collection, however, well-known this reference work by serving not a thorough overview of feminist and and emerging social science researchers just as an author, but also as a reader’s gender theory that will work best for examine either their misgivings about guide “who shows readers around graduate students, faculty, researchers, the social-science methodological ap- in a diverse landscape of feminist and some advanced undergraduates. proach itself — and its assumption of theories, methodologies, ethical General users with no prior knowledge an objective, knowing, distant research- reflections and writing practices” and of feminist theory, on the other hand, er — or critique ways in which the “give[s] explanations, tips and ideas will find it dense and overwhelming. academy has promoted certain forms as to how readers may further explore of research as integral while consider- the landscape on their own” (p. 4). [Juliann Couture is a social sciences ing alternative and queer approaches to Intended as a textbook, and part librarian at Arizona State University and be methodologically problematic. of Routledge’s Advances in Feminist serves as the women and gender studies This essay collection is a good Studies and Intersectionality series, this liaison.] companion to the feminist research volume provides an in-depth overview methods texts that are currently avail- of feminist/women/gender studies. able, particularly Hesse-Biber and

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Leavy’s Feminist Research Practice Note back and forth between the main text (FRP).1 While FRP takes the approach and the biographical index. that methods themselves are not femi- 1. Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber & Patri- The purpose of this collection is nist but are used by feminists, many of cia Lina Leavy, Feminist Research Prac- to give speakers and writers a source the contributors to Queer Methods and tice: A Primer (Thousand Oaks, CA: of inspiration for introducing a point Methodologies question that view, sug- SAGE Publications), 2007. in a speech or article and for enhanc- gesting that the methods themselves — ing communication. Ms. Warner says as well as how they are used — make [Evan Boyd is a bibliographer for anthro- in her introduction that she has been a methodological approach feminist/ pology, computer science, mathematics, collecting quotations since she was queer or not. philosophy, Portuguese, world religions, a teenager; in this volume, however, Sadly, the power of institutional Russian, and Spanish at the University of she focuses only on the quotations of review boards (IRBs) and their influ- Northern Iowa.] women, because she believes there is a ence on what is considered acceptable dearth of such works.1 This inexpen- research is only briefly mentioned here; sive title will enhance private as well as for instance, Mathias Detamore notes Quoting Women public and academic libraries, and is that IRBs curtail “the nature of the appropriate for circulating collections. relationships that researchers engage THE WORDS OF EXTRAORDI- in with their participants” (p. 181). NARY WOMEN, sel. & intr. by Caro- Note Nor does any other essay in the collec- lyn Warner; fwd. by Justice Sandra Day tion give more than a passing glance at O’Connor. New York: Newmarket 1. For more comprehensive reference these entities — the reader is left only Press, 2010. 163p. $18.95, ISBN 978- works of quotations by women, see the with a sense of the IRB “looming” over 1557048561; pap., $12.95, ISBN 978- following titles: The New Beacon Book the world of queer research. Research- 155704857. of Quotations by Women, compiled by ers looking for a clear critique of the Rosalie Maggio (Boston: Beacon Press, IRB process as it pertains to queer Reviewed by Bernice Redfern 1996), and The Quotable Woman: The research methodology will be left want- First 5,000 Years, compiled by Elaine T. ing more. Carolyn Warner has here collected Partnow (6th revised edition, New York: Although they examine the theo- and organized brief quotations by Facts on File, 2010). ries behind various research methods, well- and not-so-well-known women the essays here are also highly personal. from all walks of life, from all over the [Bernice Redfern is a social science librar- Jamie Heckert, for instance, in reflect- world, and from various times. Her ian at San Jose State University.] ing on his own dissertation research book will appeal to a large and wide- project, notes that research itself turns ranging audience. It can be used as a the desire to be both a good activist reference for finding a quotation by a Same-Sex Marriage and a good academic into a feeling of particular woman or on a particular “the imposter syndrome — character- topic (e.g., family or education), but David E. Newton, SAME-SEX ised by the worry that one isn’t really reading it from cover to cover is equally MARRIAGE: A REFERENCE an academic or an activist, that one is enjoyable. Many of the quotations are HANDBOOK. Santa Barbara, CA: not good enough, and imagining that laugh-out-loud funny. ABC-CLIO, 2010. (Contemporary others will realize and see through this The quotations are organized into world issues.) 295p. bibl. gloss. index. charade” (p. 51). eleven topical groups — the arts, char- $55.00, ISBN 978-1598847079. Queer Methods and Methodologies acter, education, faith, family, humor, would be valuable to nearly any social leadership, politics, self-image, success, Reviewed by Kari D. Weaver science researcher (feminist/queer or and women — each beginning with not), particularly graduate students and a brief introduction to the topic. The David E. Newton clearly lays their advisers, and would be a great biographical index at the back of the out his purpose in the prologue to addition to any graduate-level research book gives birth and death dates for this reference on same-sex marriage: methods course. each woman who is quoted and a brief “to review the current status of same- description of her profession. This sex marriage and similar institutions index is useful for identifying less-well- in the United States and other parts known women. It is very easy to flip

Feminist Collections (v. 32, no. 2, Spring 2011) Page 27 New Reference Works of the world” (p. xiv). The volume, information on the legal and social sexspionage in each case history. Rather part of ABC-CLIO’s longstanding issues surrounding the same-sex than relying on tired stereotypes of Contemporary World Issues series, meets marriage debate. “type A” men having mid-life crises, this goal, almost to a fault. lonely spinsters, lovelorn secretaries, or The book deals well with the [Kari D. Weaver is an assistant professor isolated bachelors, he delves into com- dichotomies that exist around the issue of library science and the library plexities of character to explain events. of same-sex marriage, clearly discussing instruction coordinator at the University Aldrich Ames, for instance, engaged in differences in religious beliefs, public of South Carolina Aiken in beautiful sexspionage after his divorce left him opinion, and historical experience. Aiken, South Carolina.] unable to support his second wife; he Newton’s credibility is underscored by offered to sell the CIA’s secrets to the his previous authorship of numerous Russians for $50,000. Some of the en- other titles, including another classic Sex & Espionage tries in this volume also spotlight ques- in this series, Gay and Lesbian Rights: tionable characters whose interactions A Reference Handbook. The sources Nigel West, HISTORICAL DIC- with strippers or prostitutes resulted in consulted include a wide variety of TIONARY OF SEXSPIONAGE. their arrest and “outing” to intelligence research materials, news stories, and Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2009. agencies. public opinion polls, and citations are 400p. bibl. index. $85.00, ISBN 978- Terms like “Honeytrap” (a staged to electronic as well as print sources, 0810859999. encounter in which one participant increasing the book’s value as a modern is sexually compromised in order to reference tool. The second chapter is Reviewed by Rebecca Tolley-Stokes blackmail him into sharing informa- a particular high point, as it offers a tion or becoming a double agent) delicately balanced treatment of the Using sex to obtain information is and “Bra Camera” are defined and pros and cons in the debate, making a trick as old as the Bible. In this vol- cross-referenced to entries about in- the book ideal for students who need ume from Scarecrow’s Historical Dic- dividuals who have been ensnared by to write speeches or argumentative tionaries of Intelligence and Counterin- such means. The “James Bond” entry papers on same-sex marriage. The telligence series, author Nigel West even highlights Ian Fleming’s use of sexual 22-page index is also superior and mentions Sampson’s Delilah specifically entrapment as a recurring theme in his increases the book’s ease of use for as an early practitioner of “sexspionage” books featuring the fictional character. reference work. If this work suffers, (p. xxvi). President Kennedy’s entry lists names it does so in its limited coverage of Actually, few of the entries in the of women with whom he had affairs material that is better researched Historical Dictionary of Sexspionage (a suspected Nazi spy, a mafioso’s mis- elsewhere anyway, such as information have anything to do with sex per se tress, an East German call-girl, and the about legislative developments and (that is, the act of sexual intercourse), wife of a senior CIA officer), as well as pro-and-con organizations. However, but many feature a woman as an agent a notation about the Addison’s disease the rapidly changing nature of such of intrigue. West writes that “love and that may have accounted for his ex- information generally limits its sex are often cited as factors in the treme promiscuity and left him, “prob- usefulness in the print format. transformation of an otherwise consci- ably more than any other American Despite these drawbacks, however, entious public servant into a traitor,” president, susceptible to coercion” (p. the book is consistently researched but in many of the accounts here, sex 145). and well written, offering much useful itself is merely implied or sexual over- The aluev of this reference work content to both patrons and librarians. tones seem vaguely present in the back- for women’s studies collections may The work’s clear organization and ground (p. xxiv). lie partly in its coverage of the role of the exceptionally balanced coverage West, whose specialization is Brit- gender in counterintelligence agencies. provided by the early chapters make ish intelligence history and whose Use of the pejorative term “spinster” this a good choice for an audience extensive writing experience and global to describe unmarried women, how- of novice researchers who need basic interests are evident in the breadth ever, may irk keen readers. The entries and depth of the entries, sums up the provide historical evidence of women’s motivations, techniques, and results of work in this area and support the belief that women operating under cover

Page 28 Feminist Collections (v. 32, no. 2, Spring 2011) New Reference Works engaged in such activities for a variety the social sciences. The editors’ aim is Performance among Dominican Male of reasons – for instance, coercion, to provide “a scholarly yet accessible Sex Workers,” presents the findings of a patriotism, professional advancement, overview of the diverse and rapidly three-year ethnographic study by Mark and financial exigency are indicated in developing field of sexuality studies B. Padilla. Other chapters provide ex- many cases. today” (p. 7). This collection certainly planations of trends and concepts, such Entries are arranged alphabetically, demonstrates the diversity of scholarly as Chapter 30, “Sexual and Intimate as is the rule for dictionaries, and are approaches and topics in sexuality Partner Violence,” by Claudia Garcia- cross-referenced. Source citations are studies, but in doing so, it fails to pro- Moreno, which reviews statistics and not provided for individual entries, vide a succinct explanation of the field studies on global sexual violence; and but a six-page bibliography lists other as a whole, as suggested by “handbook” Chapter 15, “From Sexology to Sexual works readers can consult for further in the title. Nevertheless, it is a rich Health,” by Eli Coleman, which traces information. The index is standard, and useful resource. the emergence of the focus on sexual except that it distinguishes code names The interdisciplinarity of the field health in the field of public health. with all caps: ROSEWOOD, DERBY of sexuality studies in the twentieth Several of the pieces would make HAT, GOLDFINCH, etc. (but note century is well-represented in this col- excellent, if challenging, introduc- that index entries in all caps do not sig- lection, which includes research on and tory course readings, for example, nify that full entries about those opera- conceptual views of sexuality from the Chapter 6, “The Social Reality of tions appear in the dictionary). fields of anthropology, public health, Sexual Rights,” by Ken Plummer, This work will appeal to a schol- sociology, history, philosophy, and which approaches the concept of sexual arly audience with interests in intelli- psychology. Topics covered include rights through the lens of symbolic gence or military history. reproductive and sexual health, sex interactionism; and Chapter 4, “The work and tourism, sexual behaviors Importance of Being Historical: Un- [Rebecca Tolley-Stokes is an associate pro- and pleasures, identities and subcul- derstanding the Making of Sexualities,” fessor and faculty outreach librarian at tures, political and social movements by Jeffrey Weeks, which examines the East Tennessee State University. Her book for sexual minority rights, regulation late-twentieth-century transforma- reviews appear in Choice: Current Re- and education around sexuality, and tion of global cultural understandings views for American Libraries, Food & sexual violence. The work is global and of sexuality, sexual mores, and sexual Foodways, Gastronomica: The Journal multicultural, with pieces on Indone- regulation. These essays stand in coun- of Food and Culture, Library Journal, sia, South Africa, India, Brazil, Senegal, terpoint to those reporting on specific and Tennessee Librarian.] San Francisco, New York, Iran, the Do- studies, providing the reader with a minican Republic, Mexico, Namibia, useful paradigm-level view of “the cat- Argentina, and Uganda. Section IV egory of the sexual itself” (p. 29). Sexuality Research is devoted entirely to essays about the Chapters are brief, at about ten HIV/AIDS epidemic. pages each, and each concludes with Peter Aggleton & Richard Parker, Although it is called a handbook, bibliographic references. The ten-page eds., ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK this work presents more like a broad- index is adequate, although not robust, OF SEXUALITY, HEALTH AND based anthology in which the field of and helps to make the work accessible RIGHTS. New York: Routledge, 2010. sexuality studies is represented by wide- for a cherry-picking style of informa- 484p. bibl. index. $210.00, ISBN 978- ranging accounts of specific studies, as tion-seeking. Overall, this collection 0415468640; e-book (contact publish- well as overviews of selected concepts is a useful resource for a spectrum of er for price), ISBN 978-0203860229. and trends both in sexuality research readers, from advanced undergraduates and in socio-cultural and historical to seasoned researchers. Reviewed by Susan Wood understandings of sexuality and sexual behaviors. For example, Chapter 9, [Susan Wood is the interlibrary loan With an ample introduction, “Hidden Love: Sexual Ideologies and librarian and subject liaison for women’s sixty-six contributors, eight topical Relationship Ideals in Rural South Af- and gender studies at the University of sections, and forty-seven chapters, the rica,” presents the results of a qualita- Memphis.] Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Health tive, interview-based study by Abigail and Rights offers a sweeping view of Harrison; while Chapter 27, “Tourism the landscape of sexuality research in and the Body: Embodiment and Sexual

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Teen Literature materials in libraries. Webber wants quick scan of the entries will find many librarians to keep these concerns “L” designations throughout. The Carlisle K. Webber, GAY, LESBIAN, in mind when selecting GLBTQ “Terms and Acronyms Used” section BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER materials. also describes woman- and lesbian- AND QUESTIONING TEEN The works of literature listed centered fiction such as Femslash/ LITERATURE: A GUIDE TO in this volume are organized not Femmeslash and Yuri (the “Japanese READING INTERESTS. Santa just by mainstream themes, but also word meaning ‘lily,’” p. xv), and refers Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, by issues common to GLBTQ and to “original as well as fan-created 2010. (Genreflecting advisory series.) GLBTQ-friendly readers; thus, we works” (p. xv) focusing on “romantic 132p. indexes. $45.00, ISBN 978- have, for instance, not only “Teen relationships between two women” (p. 1591585060. Romance,” “Family,” and “Abuse,” xv). but also “Coming Out,” “Outcasts Webber also discusses online and Reviewed by Matthew Harrick and Outsiders”: Discrimination, other print resources that may be Homophobia, and Bullying,” and helpful to teens as well as to librarians, This well-organized volume in the “GLBTQ Voices and Life Stories” and, wisely, addresses ways to handle Genreflecting Advisory series, written as categories. Each listing is briefly patron or community challenges to by a former youth-services librarian, annotated with salient plot points, as GLBTQ materials in the library — an is a comprehensive guide to the well as the assumed best audience (gay important topic to cover, since many reading needs of the teenaged GLBTQ males, lesbians, etc.); if appropriate, of these books do get protested or community and to the current state of works are also flagged as having challenged. GLBTQ teen readership and culture, won awards or as being especially This is a well-indexed, readerly as well as to appropriate resources for noteworthy. However, unlike Ellen text recommended for public as well as this community. The book aims neither Bosman and John P. Bradford’s Gay, some academic libraries. to be a critical queer theory text nor Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered “a primer on library or educational Literature: A Genre Guide (also in [Matthew Harrick is an adjunct reference services to GLBTQ teens” (p. xi), but the Genreflecting series, 2008), this librarian at Brooklyn College (City to assist in collection development and guide mentions no “Read-Alikes,” and University of New York).] reader’s advisory, focusing mainly on keywords are supplied for relatively fiction (while including some non- few entries. Also, while the focus is fiction) published in English in the admittedly on teen literature, it seems Women’s Rights past decade. shortsighted not to mention that some The text begins with definitions teens might be interested in classic Michele A. Paludi, ed., FEMINISM of the terms initialized in GLBTQ, literature and other “non-teen-specific” AND WOMEN’S RIGHTS WORLD- relating to the reader issues of identity, reading material. Finally, librarians WIDE. Santa Barbara CA: Praeger, relationships, and community and might also want to consult The Heart 2010. 3 vols. bibl. ill. index. $154.95, describing genre-specific terms that Has Its Reasons: Young Adult Literature ISBN 978-0313375965; eBook set are used throughout. Webber also with Gay/Lesbian/Queer Content, 1969– (contact publisher for price), ISBN explains some special concerns that 2004 (by Michael Cart & Christine A. 978-0313375972. Vol. I, Heritage, will be familiar to readers who do Jenkins; Scarecrow Press, 2006), which Roles, and Issues. 280p. ISBN 978- GLBTQ-related scholarship but that goes into more critical and analytical 0313375989. Vol. II, Mental and all librarians should take note of: that depth. Physical Health. 290p. ISBN 978- people who are interested in GLBTQ Webber tries to give equal 0313376009. Vol. III, Feminism as materials are sometimes reluctant attention, as much as possible, to each Human Rights. 292p. ISBN 978- (for a multitude of reasons) to ask for identity represented by the letters in 0313376023. materials; that GLBTQ materials have “GLBTQ.” Users looking for a section historically been underrepresented or devoted solely to lesbian works will Reviewed by Susan Bennett White misrepresented by libraries; and that not find one, as Webber places lesbian- many communities are resistant or themed works alongside works for gay, Because women’s work is even violently opposed to the GLBTQ bisexual, and trans readers. The author never done and is underpaid community and the inclusion of its uses “L” to denote lesbian texts, and a or unpaid or boring or repeti-

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tious and we’re the first to get Perhaps the set’s greatest strength Clare Cushman, ed., SUPREME fired and what we look like is that it organizes and gathers into a COURT DECISIONS AND WOM- is more important than what coherent whole the extensive global EN’S RIGHTS: MILESTONES TO we do… And for lots of other literature on feminism produced over EQUALITY, SECOND EDITION, reasons we are part of the roughly the last decade. And yet it goes fwd. by Assoc. Justice Ruth Bader women’s liberation movement. beyond being a bibliography (as which Ginsburg; spons. by Sup. Ct. Hist. (vol. I, p. ix) it could also serve) to create a context Soc. Washington, DC: CQ Press/Sage, for and a summary of the findings in 2010. 351p. bibl. index. $65.00, ISBN In three volumes totaling some that literature. Future editions could 978-1608714063; pap., $55.00, ISBN 862 pages, Michele Paludi has drawn be strengthened by overall subject and 978-1608714070. together an encyclopedic body of contributor indexes, but this is not a research, analysis, and finely drawn serious flaw. Reviewed by Amanda Swygart-Hobaugh conclusions to paint a remarkably Michele Paludi has created a trio detailed picture of the place and of well-documented texts in clear At the 1848 Woman’s Rights Con- circumstance of women in the world and direct language, suitable for any vention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton said, today. Although the title includes the broad treatment of feminism, and, “The history of mankind is a history of term ”feminism,” which can imply by extension, for women’s studies at repeated injuries and usurpations on women having a degree of freedom and the college and university level. This the part of man toward woman, having power, this work shows not just the resource would also be suitable for in direct object the establishment of an opportunities but also the limitations advanced high-school classes. Each absolute tyranny over her.” She then and challenges women face globally, volume has been structured to stand delineated the various laws of the day and it does so with remarkable clarity alone so that it can be acquired as that propagated this tyranny.1 This ref- and, at times, aching honesty. an individual work, which could be erence work enumerates the key U.S. Each volume begins in the same helpful in some settings, but the mod- Supreme Court decisions from the way: a series introduction, acknowl- est price for the set and the carefully 1800s to the present that have eroded edgments, and an introduction to the parallel structure of the volumes are an the legal instruments of tyranny over volume. Each then focuses on a differ- argument for acquiring the complete women. ent central theme; is made up of signed set if at all possible. This is an accessible This revised edition retains the chapters, each with a solid bibliogra- but outstanding reference work, in a organization and largely the same con- phy; and concludes with biographies field where issues are so important and tent as the original 2001 publication, of its own contributors and an index. harm so egregious that such a calm but to which various authors contributed; Each of the first two volumes also has thorough treatment is both rare and new content in this edition is provided an appendix: “Women’s Studies Pro- welcome. solely by the editor, Clare Cushman. grams in the United States” in Volume The work opens with a discussion of I and “Feminist and Women’s Rights [Susan Bennett White is the sociology li- how the notion of “romantic paternal- Organizations Worldwide” in Volume brarian at Princeton University Library, ism,” wherein women were viewed as II. where she provides materials and research inherently vulnerable and thus in need Although many chapters focus support for the program in lesbian, gay, of protection, prescribed the unequal on feminism in the United States, the bisexual and transgender studies. She has treatment of women in the legal arena. “worldwide” promise of the title is been a senior research librarian at Princ- Throughout the remaining chapters on fulfilled in detailed surveys from many eton for more than twenty-five years.] sex discrimination (in jury duty, the countries. Reference is also made to the family, education, the armed forces, work done and standards established the workplace), sexual harassment, by many international organizations and reproductive rights, the presented — information that can otherwise be Supreme Court decisions illustrate the difficult to locate. Of particular note is slow chipping away of this paternalistic Chapter 8 of Volume II, “Prejudice and conception and consequent achieve- Discrimination against Sexual Minori- ments of equality for women under the ties: A Brazilian Perspective.” law. While the work’s title implies that “women’s rights” is of primary concern,

Feminist Collections (v. 32, no. 2, Spring 2011) Page 31 New Reference Works several cases elucidate how the legal in the past decade and on the newest Women’s Roles codification of traditional gender role Supreme Court appointees having yet assumptions infringed on men’s rights to establish a legacy. Finally, while Jus- Jennine Hurl-Eamon, Women’s as well. tice Ginsburg’s foreword and the intro- Roles in Eighteenth-Cen- The topical groupings of cases fit- duction by Leon Silverman (Chairman tury Europe. Denver, CO: ABC- tingly illustrate the precedential process of the Supreme Court Historical Soci- CLIO/Greenwood, 2010. (Women’s by which the Court, when making new ety) adequately contextualize the work’s roles through history.) 171p. bibl. in- case decisions, draws on past decisions scope and aim, the volume would ben- dex. $55.00, ISBN 978-0313376962. from cases with similar circumstances. efit from a concluding chapter synthe- Likewise, the interspersed discussions sizing the many accomplishments (and Reviewed by Melissa A. Young of key legislation aptly reveal the re- noted setbacks) in the realm of the law flexive relationship between judiciary and women’s/gender rights, as well as Through an array of keenly chosen actions and law: Chapter 7’s presenta- offering some speculation about the excerpts, illustrations, and narratives, tion of the Court’s applications of Title future, particularly in relation to the Jennine Hurl-Eamon illustrates the VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ever-evolving Supreme Court member- state of flux that existed in Europe and the Equal Pay Act of 1963, and the ship. in the 1700s regarding ideals about Court’s role in the development of the I would highly recommend this femininity, gender roles, and women’s Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, is accessible and comprehensive work as rights, as defined by the public and particularly strong. The boxed inserts a text for an undergraduate course on domestic spheres of family, work, with illustrations detailing key indi- women/gender and law. It would also politics, law, art, science, religion, viduals engagingly bring the abstract be a welcome addition to a library’s and war. Women across Europe, from issues down to a personal level — for circulating or reference collection. the Russian Empire to Portugal and instance, the backstory of McCorvey, Supreme Court Decisions and Women’s from Finland to Italy, are included in of Roe v. Wade fame, told on pages Rights deftly illuminates just how far this discussion of royalty, domestics, 210–213, is a must-read. The book’s removed we are from Elizabeth Cady Salonnièrs, urban craftswomen, revo- timelines of major cases and events Stanton’s “tyranny” of 1848. lutionaries, midwives, military wives, further ground the work in a historical and more. procession. Note Hurl-Eamon acknowledges My primary criticisms involve the the inherent difficulty in looking at added content for the updated edition. 1. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “Call to women of the period as a whole, as if Aside from Cushman’s discussion of the Woman’s Rights Convention and they all fit neatly into a homogenous the two cases and legislation involving a Declaration of Sentiments,” in The group, when in reality their lives were the controversial “partial-birth abor- First Convention Ever Called to Discuss uniquely affected by societal norms, tion” procedure, the case additions the Civil and Political Rights of Women, demographic change, expansionist come off as afterthoughts in their lim- Seneca Falls, N.Y., July 19, 20, 1848, wars, and revolutions. On the other ited treatments. Similarly, alongside the ed. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia hand, she has (and we have) the gift of biographical sketches of Justices Sandra Mott, Martha C. Wright, Mary Ann hindsight, which allows us to recog- Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Gins- McClintock, & Jane C. Hunt (Seneca nize the truth that eighteenth-century burg (duly lauded for her longtime Falls, NY: 1848), pp.1–4. ideals tended to differ sharply from involvement in women’s rights advo- women’s actual experience. Even as the cacy), those of Sotomayor and Kagan [Amanda Swygart-Hobaugh is the librar- Enlightenment broadened the Euro- are scant. However, these shortcomings ian for sociology, anthropology, and ger- pean view of femininity, the eighteenth may reflect less on Cushman’s efforts ontology at Georgia State University.] century remained a time of mixed than on the scarcity of landmark cases opportunity and of contradiction, during which many women were subject to the same burdens that had plagued their forbears. The average woman was

Page 32 Feminist Collections (v. 32, no. 2, Spring 2011) New Reference Works poor, not middle-class or an aristocrat. the Spanish government began to offer provides an overview scaffolded around She was occupied with the immedi- pensions to officers’ wives and children multiple examples. Each chapter in- ate issues affecting her, such as the (1760) and when the Swiss courts ex- cludes a series of chronological and/or availability of work and food, and was ecuted Anna Göldi, the last person to topic-specific subsections, followed by often limited in her role to domestic be convicted of witchcraft in Europe a set of discussions about specific coun- servant, child-bearer, and dependent. (1781). Ultimately, this volume will tries in the Middle East and North Most women experienced the ideals be valuable to anyone who wants to Africa. Not every chapter addresses of the Enlightenment only from the understand women’s experience in the every country, but together they offer periphery. context of history. insights into women’s participation The stories of these women do in society across twenty-one different not end there, however. Women’s Roles [Melissa A. Young graduated from the countries, from Algeria to Yemen. in Eighteenth-Century Europe shows University of Wisconsin–Madison in Chapter 1, the most compre- clearly the unpredictable nature of 2010 with a B.A. in psychology and hensive in terms of regional cover- women’s roles during a time when they French and is now working on her J.D. age, touches on women’s work as it were defined at once as “man’s equal” at the UW-Madison Law School. She has evolved from the late eighteenth and as “a failed man,” and depicts the was a student assistant in our office for century through the present, and in significance of the average as well the three years.] fifteen countries across the region. Like extraordinary woman of those times Chapter 1, Chapters 2 and 5 com- quite intriguingly. One chapter dis- prehensively cover specific periods in cusses how the emergence of new ideas Ruth Margolies Beitler & Angelica history, including the Islamic Period, about the biology of sexual difference R. Martinez, WOMEN’S ROLES the Golden Age of Islam, the Turk- led to both innovation and stagnation IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND ish and Mongol Period, the Ottoman in the education of women. Women NORTH AFRICA. Santa Barbara, Period, and WWI and its aftermath. were given enough education to teach CA: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, 2010. The remaining chapters, although they their children, but were kept from di- (Women’s roles through history.) 225p. do refer to historical periods, focus on rectly pursuing research and education notes. bibl. index. $55.00, ISBN 978- select topics, such as marriage, divorce, on their own unless they lucked out 0313362408; e-book (call publisher for inheritance (Ch. 4), literature, regional and found a man (usually a husband) pricing), ISBN 978-0313362415. customs, rites of passage (Ch. 6), and willing to share his expertise. Hester perceptions of women in religious texts Chapone, an English author, even en- Reviewed by Aryana Bates and practices (Ch. 3). Chapter 6 fo- couraged women to study science as cuses on women’s perpetuation of cul- a way to find a husband or at least to Women’s Roles in the Middle East ture through oral tradition and written become more attractive to the oppo- and North Africa locates women media, varying in means and intensity site sex. This reference also highlights squarely at the center of the original depending on time period, country, the infamous women of eighteenth- schism between Shiites and Sunnis in and genre of cultural creation. Every century Europe, and it does so in a way Islam (p. 105). For this claim as well chapter ends with notes and a list of that makes even Marie Antoinette seem as for all others in this text, authors suggested further readings. newly dynamic. Beitler and Martinez give factually This reference work provides an Readers at the high-school level grounded and nuanced explanations enticing overview of complex lives, and beyond with even a slight inter- in a straightforward, easy-to-absorb cultures, and social patterns and will est in eighteenth-century history or style. Readers learn about major play- leave interested readers wanting more. women’s roles in European society will ers, female and male, in early Muslim Chapter 3, for example, illustrates the find a chapter of Women’s Roles to suit communities and see how women varied patterns of women’s involve- their intellectual curiosity. The book influenced the core and competing ment in religion and participation in includes a helpful chronology that principles of religious and political le- unorthodox versus orthodox commu- begins at the year 1700 and ends at gitimacy in the development of Islam. nities, suggesting several explanations the year Maria Dalla Donne received The book’s six chapters focus on for women’s historically active role in her medical degree (1799), identify- work, family, religion, the law, politics, Sufism (p. 114) and discussing wom- ing numerous dates, including when and culture, respectively, and each en’s comparatively restricted agency

Feminist Collections (v. 32, no. 2, Spring 2011) Page 33 New Reference Works in Wahhabism, the puritanical state the Qur’an nor the Bible is included in Note religion of Saudi Arabia (p. 119). This the bibliography or the endnotes, even chapter does not dedicate much cover- though the authors quote the Qur’an 1. Of related interest are Roudi- age to specific countries, and so feels in their discussion of women’s piety Fahimi Farzaneh, Valetine Moghadam, somewhat abrupt in its closing. The and the veil — a contested subject & Population Reference Bureau, final paragraphs, however, describing about which readers could benefit from Empowering Women, Developing Society: Israel as a magnet for Jewish, Christian having guidance to specific Suwar (p. Female Education in the Middle East and Muslim women throughout his- 117). This may simply be an editorial and North Africa (Washington, DC : tory and highlighting Hindiyya Ujay- oversight, like the several typographical Population Reference Bureau, 2003); mi, founder of an early Maronite holy errors scattered throughout the text. James Sanchez, Women in the Middle order in Lebanon, serve as a perfect Women’s Roles in the Middle East East and North Africa: A Bibliography invitation to readers to delve into the and North Africa stands out in its com- (Seattle, WA: Reference Corp., 1997); notes and suggested readings at the end prehensive coverage of a large region, a and Sanja Kelly & Julia Breslin, eds., of the chapter (pp. 121–123). vast expanse of time, and the multi-di- Women’s Rights in the Middle East and In keeping with the intent of its mensional reality of women’s lives and North Africa (Lanham, MD: Rowman parent series, Women’s Roles through participation in society. Other useful & Littlefield, 2010) (available in History, this text offers “sound scholar- reference sources exist, but most focus paperback, as a CD-ROM, and online ship in an accessible manner” (p. x). on more singular aspects of women’s at http://www.freedomhouse.org). The eight pages of bibliographic entries roles in the region.1 This carefully writ- include primarily scholarly books and ten text provides an anchor from which [Aryana Bates works as an instruction articles ranging in publication date to understand and pursue greater com- and reference librarian for the social sci- from 1903 through 2009, but most plexities. Recommended for collegiate ences at North Seattle Community Col- were published within the last fifteen and public library audiences alike. lege. She also teaches courses in anthro- years. Interestingly enough, neither pology, religion, and philosophy.]

Miriam Greenwald

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New Online Journal “We Keep Living”; Tiina Rosenberg, “Still Angry after All These Years, or Valerie Solanas under Your Skin”; Catherine The online-only JOURNAL OF WOMEN’S AND Filloux, “Hair on a Ribbon That Got Away”; Kathy A. INTERCULTURAL LEADERSHIP has just one Perkins & Sandra L. Richards, “Black Women Playwrights issue (two articles in PDF) up so far at http://www. in American Theatre”; Brandi Wilkins Catanese, “Taking centerforwomeninleadership.org/jwil/, but wants to the Long View”; Janelle Reinelt, “Creative Ambivalence and publish more, with your help: “JWIL focuses on women’s Precarious Futures: Women in British Theatre”; April De studies, leadership development, and intercultural education Angelis, “Troubling Gender on Stage and with the Critics”; (including international and domestic multicultural) and Jill Dolan, “Making a Spectacle, Making a Difference”; the complex interdisciplinary intersections among these Sarah Schulman, “Supremacy Ideology Masquerading disciplines to yield a distinctive, interconnected synthesis as Reality: The Obstacle Facing Women Playwrights in of ideas and best practices. We welcome manuscripts from America”; Julie Crosby, “It’s All About You: The March academics, independent scholars, practitioners, community Toward Parity in the American Theatre.” Articles: Elaine leaders and activists, and students.” Subscriptions appear Aston, “Feeling the Loss of Feminism: Sarah Kane’s Blasted to be free: just sign up with an email address on the and an Experiential Genealogy of Contemporary Women’s “Subscriptions” page (under “About JWIL”). Playwriting”; Sharon Friedman, “The Gendered Terrain In the first issue: Tania Giordani, “Advocates for All in Contemporary Theatre of War by Women”; Amelia Children: Mothers Fighting for Educational Reform”; Howe Kritzer, “Enough! Women Playwrights Confront Bonnie Bazata et al., “Leadership for Social Change: the the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”; Nehad Selaiha & Sarah Women’s Intercultural Leadership Model.” Enany, “Women Playwrights in Egypt”; Katherine E. Kelly, “Making the Bones Sing: The Feminist History Play, 1976- 2010.” m Special Issues of Periodicals Compiled by JoAnne Lehman

CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS v. 34, no. 6 (November 2010): Symposium: “Post-Keynesian and Feminist Economics.” Section editors: Irene van Staveren & Colin Danby. Publisher: Oxford Journal, on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. ISSN: 1464-3545 (online); 0309-166X (print). Partial contents: Siobhan Austen & Therese Jefferson, “Feminist and Post-Keynesian Economics: Challenges and Opportunities”; Irene van Staveren, “Post- Keynesianism Meets Feminist Economics”; S. Charusheela, “Gender and the Stability of Consumption: A Feminist Contribution to Post-Keynesian Economics”; Colin Danby, “Interdependence through Time: Relationships in Post- Keynesian Thought and the Care Literature.”

THEATRE JOURNAL v. 62, no. 4 (December 2010): Special issue: “Contemporary Women Playwrights.” Issue editors: Penny Farfan & Lesley Ferris. Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press. E-ISSN: 1086-332X. Partial contents: Forum essays: Judith Thompson, “That Stinking Hot Summer”; Caridad Svich, “A Dream of Making”; Yan Haiping, “Turning Points: Women Playwrights in Contemporary China”; Elin Diamond,

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BODY SHOTS: HOLLYWOOD AND THE CULTURE RAPE-REVENGE FILMS: A CRITICAL STUDY. Heller- OF EATING DISORDERS. Fox-Kales, Emily. State Nicholas, Alexandra. McFarland, 2011. University of New York Press, 2011. READING WOMEN’S WORLDS FROM CHRISTINE BOOMER: RAILROAD MEMOIRS. Niemann, Linda DE PIZAN TO DORIS LESSING: A GUIDE TO SIX Grant. Indiana University Press, 2011. 2nd ed. CENTURIES OF WOMEN WRITERS IMAGINING ROOMS OF THEIR OWN. Jansen, Sharon L. Palgrave CALIFORNIA WOMEN AND POLITICS: FROM THE Macmillan, 2011. GOLD RUSH TO THE GREAT DEPRESSION. Cherny, Robert W. and others, eds. University of Nebraska Press, ROLLING AWAY THE STONE: MARY BAKER EDDY’S 2011. CHALLENGE TO MATERIALISM. Gottschalk, Stephen. Indiana University Press, 2011. EATING DISORDERS SOURCEBOOK. Judd, Sandra J, ed. Omnigraphics, 2011. 3rd ed. THE STRONGER SEX: THE FICTIONAL WOMEN OF LAWRENCE DURRELL. Nichols, James R. Farleigh ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN IN TODAY’S WORLD. Dickinson University Press, 2011. Stange, Mary Zeiss and others, eds. Sage, 2011. THROUGH FEMINIST EYES: ESSAYS ON FATSHAME: STIGMA AND THE FAT BODY IN CANADIAN WOMEN’S HISTORY. Sangster, Joan. AMERICAN CULTURE. Farrell, Amy Erdman. New York Athabasca University Press, 2011. University Press, 2011. TRANSFORMING MEMORIES IN CONTEMPORARY FEMINIST LEGAL HISTORY: ESSAYS ON WOMEN WOMEN’S REWRITING. Plate, Liedeke. Palgrave AND LAW. Thomas, Tracy A. and Boisseau, Tracey Jean, Macmillan, 2011. eds. New York University Press, 2011. TRANSFORMING SCHOLARSHIP: WHY WOMEN’S GENDER AND WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP: A AND GENDER STUDIES STUDENTS ARE REFERENCE HANDBOOK. O’Connor, Karen, ed. Sage, CHANGING THEMSELVES AND THE WORLD. 2010. Berger, Michele Tracy and Radeloff, Cheryl. Routledge, INTERCULTURAL COUPLES. Bystydzienski, Jill M. 2011. New York University Press, 2011. TRANSNATIONAL BORDERLANDS IN WOMEN’S AN ISLAM OF HER OWN: RECONSIDERING GLOBAL NETWORKS: THE MAKING OF CULTURAL RELIGION AND SECULARISM IN WOMEN’S RESISTANCE. Roman-Odio, Clara and Sierra, Marta, eds. ISLAMIC MOVEMENTS. Hafez, Sherine. New York Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. University Press, 2011. UNHITCHED: LOVE, MARRIAGE, AND FAMILY THE JACKETS. DeJesus, Liz. Arte Público, 2011. VALUES FROM WEST HOLLYWOOD TO WESTERN LOVE, SEX AND DISABILITY: THE PLEASURES OF CHINA. Stacey, Judith. New York University Press, 2011. CARE. Rainey, Sarah Smith. Lynne Rienner, 2011. WOMEN AGING IN PRISON: A NEGLECTED MARCUS OF UMBRIA: WHAT AN ITALIAN DOG POPULATION IN THE CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM. TAUGHT AN AMERICAN GIRL ABOUT LOVE. van Aday, Ronald H. and Krabill, Jennifer J. Lynne Rienner , der Leun, Justine. Rodale, 2010. 2011. NEOLIBERALIZATION AS BETRAYAL: STATE, WOMEN AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES IN LATE FEMINISM, AND A WOMEN’S EDUCATION MEDIEVAL GHENT. Hutton, Shennan. Palgrave PROGRAM IN INDIA. Sharma, Shubhra. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Macmillan, 2011. WOMEN & CATHOLICISM: GENDER, OUR LADY OF CONTROVERSY: ALMA LOPEZ’S COMMUNION, AND AUTHORITY. Zagano, Phyllis. “IRREVERENT APPARITION.” Gaspar de Alba, Alicia Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. and López, Alma, eds. University of Texas Press, 2011. A XICANA CODEX OF CHANGING PANSY’S HISTORY: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CONCIOUSNESS: WRITINGS, 2000–2010. Moraga, MARGARET E. P. GORDON. Bushman, Claudia, ed. Cherrie L. Rodriguez, Celia Herrera, illus. Duke University Utah State University Press, 2011. Press, 2011.

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