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BOOK REVIEWS CHOOSING OUR WORDS CAREFULLY: A REVIEW OF WOMEN'S STUDIES TEXTBOOKS ...... 2 by Terry Brown. Review of fifteen introductory Women's Studies textbooks. : CONFRONTING DUALITY ...... 6 by Sandra Krajewski. : Bisexual People Speak Out, ed. by and Lani Kaahumanu; Closer to Home: Bisexuality and , ed. by Elizabeth Reba Weise; Women and Bi- sexuality by Sue George; and Dual Attraction: Understanding Bisexuality by Martin S. Weinberg et al. WHAT'S SO FUNNY: THE EXPLOSION OF LAUGHTER IN FEMINISTCRITICISM ...... 8 by Debra Beilke. New Perspectives on Women and Comedy, ed by Regina Barreca; Untamed and Unabashed: Essays on Women and Humor in British Literature by Regina Barreca; Look Who's Laughing: Gender and Comedy, ed by Gail Finney; Women and Laughter by Frances Gray; American Women Humorists: Critical Essays, ed. by Linda Morris; and Cartooning for Suffrage by Alice Sheppard.

THE HUBRIS OF WRITING SURVEYS, OR A FEMINIST CONFRONTS THE TEXTBOOK...... 12 I by Merry Wiesner-Hanks

I Continued on next page FEMINISTVISIONS...... 16 COh4BAlMENT IN VON TROTI'A'S MRk4NNE AhD JLnLQNE by Marilyn Gottschalk ARCHIVES ...... 18 WOMEN OF WISCONSIN LABOR ORAZ. HISTORY PROJECT by Jamakaya FEMINISTPUBLISHING ...... 19 A library promotion project by women's presses; three new feminist presses; a feminist campus newspaper search; and celebrates twenty years.

COMPUTERTALK ...... 20 Email lists and other electronic resources. NEW REFERENCE WORKS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES ...... 21 Works on African American manuscript sources, women's chronologies, women educators and educational equity, Jewish women, literary criticism, sexual harassment, women in science, women of Yemen, work in developing countries, Southern and Jewish women writers, plus a business resource guide. (Reviewed by Phyllis Holman Weisbard; one title reviewed by Margery Katz.) PERIODICAL NOTES ...... 30 New periodicals on law, fat dykes, spirituality,world religions, development of NGO's, paganism, Barbie, parenting, cartoons, New Zealand , a lesbian lampoon, fat women, Pakistani women, poetry, and women's writing. W Special issues of periodicals on autobiography, evolution of feminist thought, women's and children's health, development, "Who Stole Feminism'?", gender and sexuality, women geographers, and sex workers. Anniversary issues, transitions, ceased publications, and a periodical alarm. (Compiled by Lit& Shulr.) ITEMSOFNOTE...... 34 Among the resources: a catalog of goddess figures, several bookshops, articles on Latin American and Caribbean activism, women's health, and sexual assault, a directory of lesbian and gay studies, a financial guide for older women, a list of research and documentation centers, a mail-order book club, several cuniculum guides, a report on the glass ceiling, slide collections of work by women artists, reports on women's equality in Canada, women offenders, and more. (Compiled by Renee Beaudoin.) BOOKS RECENTLY RECEIVED ...... 37

Fetninisl Colleclio~is published by Phyllis Holman Weisbard, UW System Women's Studies Librarian, 430 Memorial Library, 728 State Street, Madison, W~sconsin53706. Phone: (608) 263-5754. Emil:[email protected]. Editors: Phyllis Holman Weisbard, Linda Shult. Graphics: Daniel L. Joe. ISSN 0742-7441. Subscriptions a= $7.00 for individuals and $12.60 for organizations affiliated with the UW System; $13.25 for individuals and nonprofit women's programs in Wisconsin ($25.00 outside Wisconsin); and $18.90 for libraries and other organizations in Wisconsin ($46.00 outside Wisconsin). Wisconsin subscriber amounts include state tax, except for UW organization amount. Subscribers outside the U.S., please add postage ($5 - surface; $15 - air). Wis fee covers most publications of the office, including Feminist Collections, Feminist Peridcols, and New Books on Women & Feminism. @'I994 Regents of the University of Wisconsin System Feminist Collections v. 16, no. 1, Fall 1994 Page 1 FROM THE EDITORS

New books, new journals, new videos, new computer in-print books on "Women and Language," "Women of resources swirl around us with the force of a Wisconsin Color in the United States," "Feminist Movements in the blizzard, demanding our attention. We try to give some United States," "Sexual Abuse," and additional impor- of each their due, but occasionally we think it would be tant subjects will also be retrievable from our Internet useful to bolt the door, close the transom, shoo away the gopher site. Watch for more details in the next issue of mail carrier, and take stock of resources retrospectively. Feminist Collections or browse the Internet site from time While we can't really halt the influx of new materials, to time (gopher or telnet to WISCINFO.WISC.EDU and this issue of Feminist Collections inaugurates a series of choose successively Library Catalogs and Senices (the examinations of available resources. Terry Brown, Chair Electronic Library)/UW Madison Campus Libraries In- of Women's Studies, University of W~sconsin-RiverFds fonnationlCTW System Women's Studies Librarian's Of- evaluates fifteen introductory women's studies texts ficdCore Bibliographies in Women's Studies (ACRLI and readers. Instructors assigned to teach Introductory WSSICDBC). Women's Studies for the first time and seasoned veter- ans should both find helpful Terry's essay on the par- This issue of Feminist Collections also has the first ticular challenges of teaching the Intro course and the in what we hope will be a series of reviews of videos new varying solutions offered by the array of texts. In our to the University of W~sconsinSystem Women's Studies Spring 1995 issue, Audrey Roberts will review some ten Audiovisual collection. Marily. Gottschallc (University of the best literary anthologies suitable for undergradu- of Wisconsin-Platteville) describes Marianne and Juliane. ate courses in women's literature. Please suggest other a feature film about two sisters in 1970's Germany from course-related topics that would benefit from this ap- filmmaker Margaretha von Tmtta. Many of the other new proach -- andlor offer to serve as a reviewer! acquisitions concern American women of various ethnicities. Although the Collection itself circulates only Another way to keep up with present and past pub- within Wisconsin, the reviews will inform all readers lications is through topical bibliographies. Beginning about interesting narrative and experimental videos by in early 1995 our Office takes over distribution of a se- women directors and useful documentaries about women's ries of core bibliographies in women's studies prepared lives. We welcome offers from Wisconsin readers to re- by members of the Association of College and Research view one or more of them. Libraries Women's Studies Section. These lists of - P.H. W.

Miriam Greenwald BOOK RE VIEWS

CHOOSING OUR WORDS CAREFULLY: Laurel Richardson and Verta Taylor, eds., FEMINIST A REVIEW OF WOMEN'S STUDIES FRONTIERS 111. : McGraw-Hill, 1993. 3rd TEXTBOOKS ed. pap., ISBN 0-07-052298-7.

by Terry Bmwn Alison M. Jaggar and Paula S. Rothenberg, eds., FEMI- NIST FR4MEWORlLY: ALTERNATIVE THEORETI- Virginia Sapiro, WOMEN IN AMERICAN SOCIETE CAL ACCOUNTS OF THE RELATIONS BETWEEN AN INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN'S STUDIES. WOMEN AND MEN. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993. Mountain Mew, Calif.: Mayiield Publishing, 1994. 3rd 3rd ed. 512p. pap., ISBN 0-07-032253-8. ed. 549p. pap., $29.95, ISBN 1-55934-225-0. Miriam Schneir, ed.,FEMINISM IN OUR TIME: THE Jo Freeman, ed., WOMEN: A FEMINIST PERSPEC- ESSENTIAL WRITINGS, WORLD WAR II TO THE TIVE. Mountain %ew, California: Mayiield Publish- PRESENT. New York: Vintage Books, 1994. pap., ing, 1995. 5th ed. pap., ISBN 1-55934-111-4. $ 13.00, ISBN 0-679-74508-4.

Hunter College Women's Studies Collective, WOMEN'S Maggie Humm, ed , MODERN ZCEMINISMS: POLITI- RE4LITIES' WOMEN'S CHOICES: AN INTRODUC- CAL, LITERARK CULTURAL. New York: Columbia TION TO WOMEN'S STUDIES. New York and OX- University Press, 1992. 440p. $45.00, ISBN 0-231- ford: Oxford University Press, 1983. 704p. ill. pap., 08072-7; pap., $15.95, ISBN 0-231-08073-5. $29.00, ISBN 0-19-505883-6. Diane Richardson and MctoriaRobinson, eds., THZNK- Sheila Ruth, IXS'UES IN FEMINISM: AN INTRODUC- ING FEMINIST: KEY CONCEPTS IN WOMEN'S TION TO WOMEN'S STUDIES. Mountain V~ew,Ca- STUDIES. New York: Guilford Press, 1993. 368p. lif.: Mayiieldhblishing, 1995. 3rd ed. ISBN 1-55934- $45.00, ISBN 0-89862-989-6; pap., $18.95, ISBN O- 224-2. 89862-160-7.

Jodi Wetzel, Margo Linn Espenlaub, Monys A. Hagen, Mary Kennedy, Cathy Lubelska, and Val Walsh, eds., Annette Bennington McElhiney, and Carmen Braun MAKING CONNECTIONS: WOMEN'S STUDIES, Williams, eds., WOMEN'S STUDIES: THINKING WOMEN'S MOVEMENTS, WOMEN'S LIVES. Lon- WOMEN. Dubuque, Iowa: KendallA-Iunt, 1993. 608p. don and Washington, D.C.: Taylor & Francis, 1993. pap., $38.95, ISBN 0-8403-9583-3. Linda S. Kauffman, ed., AMERICAN FEMINIST Amy KesseImann, Lily D. McNair, and Nancy THOUGHTAT CENTURY'S Em:A REQDER. Cam- Schniedewind, WOMEN, IMAGES AND REALITIES: bridge: Blackwell, 1993. 512p. $49.95, ISBN 1-55786- A MULTICULTURAL ANTHOLOGY. Molmtain Vlew, 346-6; pap., $19.95, ISBN 1-55786-347-4. Calif.: Mayiield Publishing, 1995.

Jo Whitehorse Cochran, Donna Langston, and Carolyn I can safely say that Introduction to Women's Stud- Woodward, eds., CHANGING OUR POWER: AN IN- ies is the most difficult course I have ever taught. In TRODUCTION TO WOMEN'S STUDIES. Dubuque, fifteen weeks or less I attempt to give the students some Iowa: KendaWHunt Publishing, 1991. 2nd ed. sense of the treatment of women since the beginning of time so they understand why women began formally to Gloria Anzaldha, ed., MAKING FACE, MAKING resist their oppression; at the same time, I am careful not SOUUHACIENDO CARAS: CREATIVE AND CRITI- to generalize about the lives of all women, recognizing CAL PERSPECTIVES BY FEMINISTS OF COLOR. that individual women find themselves caught in a vari- : Aunt Lute Books, 1990. 400p. $25.95, ety of systemic oppressions. Once an historical context ISBN 1-879960-11-7; pap., $15.95, ISBN 1-879960-10- for the course has been established, I survey the influ- 9. ence of feminist research across the curriculum, demon- Feminist Colledicm v.16. no.1. Fa11 1994 Pane 3

strating the ways in which feminism has challenged tra- Realities: A Multicultural Anthology thoroughly fore- ditional epistemologies and methods of inquiry. Because grounds and integrates issues of difference throughout. of the truly interdisciplinary nature of the course, I am Following the pattern of these types of textbooks, it be- inevitably taken out of my field of expertise. The course gins with a section that defines women's studies, but is often made even more challenging by the presence of unlike other textbooks, includes articles written by stu- students (sometimes the majority), who are taking the dents of women's studies, such as "Finding My Latina course, against their will, in order to satisfy a "diversity" Identity Through Women's Studies," and "What Women's requirement. For various personal and political reasons, Studies has Meant to Me." This multicultural women's these students tend to be wary, even defensive, about tak- studies text may be organized according to standard text- ing the course in the first place. Given the particular book models, but it includes a more diverse selection of challenges of the Introduction to Women's Studies, choos- writers: bell hooks, , Lois Gould, Nellie ing the right texts, I have discovered, is more critical Wong, In& Hernandez-Avila, Marilyne Frye, June Jor- than it is for any other course I have taught. dan, Leslie MmonSilko, Angela Davis, Suzanne Pharr, to name a few. For those of us who teach the course with one cen- tral text, there are now many excellent works to choose Since it is the nature of textbooks to generalize about from. Until a few years ago, however, there were very their subject, the genre is already at odds with the com- few texts for introductory women's studies courses, and plex terrain of women's studies. Women k Realities, most were written in the style of traditional textbooks -- Women k Choices, which calls itself "the first basic text- books that, whether by one author or a few, tend to con- book written for women's studies courses," illustrates the vey a unified view of the discipline. ViaSapiro's inherent problem. The Preface devotes several para- Women in American Society: an Introduction to Women k graphs to discussing how the authors decided what pro- Studies, now in its third edition, is probably the most noun to use when refering to women: using "they" had widely read textbook of this kind, and for good reason. the effect, the authors say, of "relegating women, again, The book is an exhaustive explanation of the social con- to the voiceless 'they,' the 'other,' where patriarchy has struction and institutionalization of gender difference in always tried to put all of us" @.xi). But the pronoun the United States. Like most textbooks, Women in Amen- "we," they explain, had the effect of sounding as if the can Society must present a lot of information in a uni- authors were speaking for all women. The problem is fied and clear manner, but in doing so it sacrifices subtlety with the genre of the textbook itself, which, insofar as it and complexity. For example, dividing feminist theory forces its authors to speak for all women (in spite of preh- into four categories -- liberal feminism, socialist femi- tory disclaimers), is antitheticalto a pedagogy that would nism, radical feminism, multicultural feminism -- has seek to preserve a multiplicity of women's voices. The the unfortunate effect of suggesting that these "types" of only truly satisfactory women's studies text, it would feminism are mutually exclusive or even at odds. Like seem, is one that allows women to speak for themselves. Women in American Society, Women: A Feminist Per- I am not surprised, therefore, that the most recently pub- spective, first published in the mid-1970's, presents lished texts in women's studies are "readers," collections monolithic definitions of what it calls "the feminist per- of works written by women. spective" and "the traditionalist view" (emphasis added). Both of these women's studies textbooks, out of neces- Some of these recent texts combine extensive text- sity, find themselves stating as fact ideas that may be book-like commentary with selected readings, in the style arguable even from a feminist point of view. I would of Sheila Ruth's Issues in Feminism, which pairs an es- also add that neither of these textbooks foregrounds other say by the author of the text with selections from diver- issues of difference, such as race, as do more recent gent perspectives. Sheila Ruth, for example, pairs an women's studies texts. Rather than integrate articles on essay on images of women in patriarchy with commen- "difference" throughout the text, the most recent edition taries about women written by St. Thomas Aquinas, of Women: A Feminist Perspective has unfortunately Sigmund Freud, and Simone de Beawoir. Unlike some merely added a chapter at the end of the book entitled texts which collect only contemporary feminist perspec- "Feminism and Diversity," which includes articles on tives, Ruth's book contains feminist and anti-feminist "the experience of minority women in the United States," essays from the past and present, as well as historical "feminist consciousness and black women," "chicana documents such as the "Declaration of Sentiments and feminism," "Jewish feminism," and "." Resolutions" from the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and In contrast, the recently published Women: Images and Sojourner Truth's famous speech ''Ain't I a Woman?' Page 4 Feminist Colldoll~v.16, no.1. Fa11 1994

The recently published third edition collects more ar- tions - traditions which, in the very act of writing, we ticles on issue; of ethnicity, class, and sexuality, and more try to recoup and to invent. In addition to the task of satisfactorilyaddresses homophobia, including an excerpt writing, or perhaps included in the task of writing, we've from Suzanne Pharr's Homophobia, A Weapon o/Sex- had to create a readership and teach it how to 'read' our ism. Women k Studies: Thinking Women, one of the most work @.xviii). Making Face, Making SouL'Haciendo recently published texts of this type, introduces selected Caras would be an excellent text to use in teaching in- readings with informative summaries on subjects such troductory women's studies students how to read in new, as the psychology of women, women's health, and vio- critical and creative, ways. lence against women. Unlike Ruth's text, Women 9Stud- ies: Thinking Women includes a section on women in the Unlike either Changing Our Power or Making Face, arts. Making SouUHaciendo Caras, Richardson and Taylor's Feminist Frontiers Ill and Jaggar and Rothenberg's Femi- Other women's studies readers simply collect many nist Frameworks: Alternative Theomtical Accounts o/ works from a variety of perspectives. What distinguishes the Relations between Women and Men are thoroughly Changing Our Power: An Infroduction to Women S Stud- academic in perspective and purpose. Feminist Fron- ies among these readers is that it is a deliberately non- tiers Ill, in fact, intends to be an introduction to feminist academic (although intended for the women's studies research, including significant feminist essays from so- classroom) collection of works, some of which are writ- ciologv, science, history, economics, political science, and ten by women who are not professional writers. The psychology. The book foregrounds the subject of race in editors state that "one goal for the textbook is that it can its first section with essays by Audre Lor& and Patricia be accessible - neither cluttered with academic jargon Hill Collins, and integrates articles by and about women nor speaking from unacknowledged assumptions of the of color and lesbians throughout the text. I have used 'generic woman.' One way in which we have tried to this text successfully in my introductory women's stud- meet this goal has been to write, and to ask others to ies courses, but I have found that some selections are write, short essays that come directly from women's ex- written in such lifeless academic prose that, in spite of periences and knowledge" @.xvii). While the quality of the engaging subject, they are a challenge to read with the writing in this collection is uneven, the book is prob- interest. While the organization of Feminist Frontiers ably one of the most inclusive women's studies texts. reflects the Eact that its editors are sociologists, empha- Unfortunately, it is organized into three sections that, sizing the social construction and organization of gen- like the title of the book Changing Our Powee are so der. the omanization of Feminist Frameworks reflects vaguely named ("Our Identities in Difference and Com- the fact that its editors are philosophers, emphasizing munities," "Claiming our Identities: Naming the Vio- more theoretical questions of women's subordination. lence," and "Claiming Our Identities: Creating Against Most of the book is devoted to examining women's sub- All Odds") that it is Wcult to discern any clear orga- ordination through various "lenses" (e.g., the lens of sex, nizing principle or idea. the lens of gender, the lens of class, etc.), or theories, some of which they have called "classical Marxism," Edited by Gloria Anzald~Making Face, Making "radical feminism," "socialist feminism," "multicultural SoulLHaciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspec- feminism," and "global feminism." tives oJFeminists o/Color, like Changing Our Power, collects the writings -- poetry, fiction, memoirs, theory - Feminism in Our lime: The Essential Writings, - of renowned writers such as Sandra Cisneros, Chenie World War II to the Pmsent, edited by Miriam Schnier, Moraga, , and as well as "un- might make a good companion text with either Feminist known, little published or unpublishedwriters." In many Frontierslll or Feminist Frameworks, both of which lack ways, however, the text is more successful than Chang- a satisfactory representation of historical feminist docu- ing Our Power. The selections in this book are consis- ments. The book collects documents and commentaries tently powerful, thought-provoking, and beautifully writ- historically important to Second Wave feminism, such ten. While Anzaldh warns the reader that the book was as: The Combahee River Collective Statement, the organized according to "poetic association," the purpose Radicalesbians' "The Woman-identified Woman," "The of Making Face, Making SouL'Haciendo Caras is clear: Equal Rights Amendment," and Anita Hill's statement "Besides being a testimonial of survival," Anzaldh says to the Senate Judiciary Committee, as well as excerpts in the Introduction, "I wanted abook which would teach from the feminist classics Simone de Beawoir 's The Sec- ourselves and whites to read in nonwhite narrative tradi- ond Sex, Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, and 's Black Macho and the Myth of the Su- ing portrait, these essays deconstruct it: the words Ameri- perwoman. Here and there the collection includes po- can, national, identity, andfeminist are fraught with sig- etry by Audre Lorde, Syvia Plath, and Anne Sexton. nification, but they resist reductive classification. Far from striving for consensus, controversies over race, re- There are several books that call themselves intro- production, sexuality, economics, and identity are con- ductions to women's studies but whose focus is prima- fronted here" @.xv). Some of the most provocative and rily British. Maggie Humm's Modern Feminim: Po- intelligent essays in feminist thought from the 1980's litical, Literay, Cultural might be a useful supplemen- and 1990's are collected here, including Gayle Rubin's tary text for women's studies as it collects excerpts from classic "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the a wide range of historical and contemporary feminist Politics of Sexuality" and Gloria Anzaldlia's "La prose. By its own description, it is "theory and not prac- conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness." tice orientated; academic and not movement based; first world and not third world directed." Diane Richardson Judging from the recent publication of so many ex- and Mctoria Robinson's Thinking Feminist: Key Con- cellent women's studies texts, I can only conclude that, cepts in Women k Studies is a collection of scholarly ar- Ex from being a discipline gasping its final breath as the ticles that summarize the major issues in a range of dis- newspapers would have us believe, perhaps now more ciplines (e.g., feminist theory, cultural studies, literature, than ever women's studies is a serious and thriving aca- sociology, history, economics, and education), after demic discipline, willing to look critically at itself from foregrounding issues of race within women's studies in a variety of perspectives. In spite of the challenges, the one of the introductory essays, Kum-Kum Bhavnani's Introduction to Women's Studies can be one of the most "Talking Racism and the Editing of Women's Studies." rewarding courses to teach, a task made even more grati- Each essay in this volume is careful to represent mul- fying by the array of texts from which to choose. tiple perspectives on the subject without foresaking the author's own perspective. While an essay on feminism [Terry Bmwn is Associate Pmfessor of English and Di- and science would have completed the collection, Think- rector of Women S Studies at the University of Wiscon- ing Feminist, even though it claims to be an introduction sin-River Falls. She has published articles on feminist to the subject, would make an excellent text for a more theory, literature, and pedagogy, and is currently writ- advanced course. Making Connections: Women k Stud- ing a book, with John Nguyet Erni, on travel writing, ies, Women S Movements, Women k Lives is organized sex tourism, and the AIDS epidemic in Thailand.] around the ways feminism has redefined knowledge. The essays here are theoretical and sovhisticatd and some are iery good, especially a comp&ng article by Celia Kihinger and Sue Wmnon heterosexuality and femi- nism. F3y and large, this collection seems too special- ized (e.g., Julia Hallam and Annecka Marshall's "Lay- ers of Difference: The Significance of a Self-Reflexive Research Practice for a Feminist Epistemological Project") to be used in an introductory women's studies course.

Finally, I must recommend American Feminist Thought at CenturykEnd, editedby Linda S. Kauhann, which is probably more appropriate for a course in femi- nist theory or a senior seminar in women's studies. This book is, quite simply, one of the best feminist readers I have examined. It is thoroughly interdisciplinary, col- lecting essays on literature, philosophy, political science, law, science, film, history, sociology, and medicine, while it insists on maintaining a global perspective through- out. Unlike some of the women's studies textbooks we have seen, this collection is wary of consensus and cat- egorization: "Far from attempting to construct a totaliz- Pape 6 Feminist Colledions v.16. m. 1. Fa11 1994

BISEXUALITY.. CONFRONTING mitrnent and monogamy, and marriage. The multiplic- DUALITY ity of voices and perspectives is this book's strength; each piece has an important message to impart. by Sandra Krajewski Closer to Home: Bisexuality andFerninism has goals , Loraine Hutchins and Lani Kaahumanu, eds., BI ANY similar to Bi Any Other Name except the political aspect OTHER NAME: BISEXUAL PEOPLE SPEAK OUT. of bisexuality as a sexual orientation is more central. Boston: Alyson Publications, 1991. 379p. ill. pap., Ordinarily, I would prefer a book such as this with an $11.95. ISBN 1-55583-174-5. overt feminist politic to a more general piece like the first selection: that is not the case here. Many of the Elizabeth Reba Weise, ed., CLOSER TO HOME: BI- pieces in journalist activist Elizabeth Reba Weise's col- SEXUALITYAND FEMIMSM. hncower: Seal Press, lection are wordy and in need of editing. Several of the 1992. 330p. bibl. index. $14.95, ISBN 1-878067-17-6. essays have little content and could have been eliminated Part of my di&culty stems from simultaneous reading of Sue George, WOMEN AND BISEXUALITY. London: the excellent essayists Nancy Mairs and . Scarlet Press; distr. Inbook, 1993. 252p. pap., $16.95, Even remembering that the writers in Weise's book are ISBN 1-85727-071-1. ordinary people and not professional essayists doesn't help; I still find many of the essays tedious instead of Martin S. Weinberg, Colin J. W~lliarns,and Douglas W. enlightening. Pryor, DUAL ATTRA CTION: UNDERSTANDNGBI- SEXUALITY. New Yo*: Oxford Univenity hess, 1994. The last and best section of the book, "The Question 437p. index. $27.50, ISBN 0-19-508482-9. of Community," provides analysis and insight through the lens of bisexuality into what a bisexual feminist poli- tic could be. That section definitely is a keeper. "A bi- Bisexuality, both in theory and in practice, is a con- sexual-feminist eveembraces the reality that sexu- fusing concept for a culture constructed upon the hierar- ality can be a fluid and changeable part of being human. ... chical dualism of heterosexuality and homosexuality. To be a bisexual-feminist woman means to live an in- Bisexuality not only confounds that dualism intellectu- tensely examined lie" @.xi). The best essays in that ally but also confronts the notion of difference on a per- section convey women's struggles and triumphs in achiev- sonal level. As Robin Morgan observes, "The fear is not ing the selfdetennination necessary to bisexual femi- that we are different. The fear is that we are the same." ' nism.

Bisexuality is about choice. The books reviewed Journalistlresearcher Sue George's Women and Bi- here are about women and men living with this capacity sexuality provides us with a clearly written, well-orga- to choose as thoughtful human beings. The presentation nized, and easily accessible text, full of information about of empirical research, theory, politics, and personal sto- bisexuality. It may be my social science background, but ries makes bisexuality become understandable for all who I prefer a format like George's that allows the reader to take the time to read the still sparse but highly accessible enter the book anywhere yet to retrace steps easily when literature. questioning assumptions. Women and Bisexuality, a 1993 product of research done in the United Kingdom, intro- The first of these to be written, Bi Any Other Name: duces bisexuality through three chapters on: the construc- Bisexual People Speak Out, attempts to combine the tion of bisexuality; social science-based theories of bi- multicultural voices of women and men, through essays sexuality; and the relationship between bisexuality and and poetry, to explore bisexuality psychologically, spiri- feminism. Chapter four goes on to present research data. tually, and politically. The pieces are short, often poi- While all three books include women's own words, the gn&c and ~lustrativeof the complexity of being bisek first two are lxunbemme to wade through; George pups in a dualistically constructed homophobic and and categorizes her selections for easier access. heterophobic society. Editors of the coll&ons, Lani Kaahumanu from the West Coast and Loraine Hutchins The three introductory chapters are based on im- from the East Coast, present perspectives from a wide pressive references compiled categorically in the back of array of socioeconomic classes, religions and ethnicities the book. In chapter four George begins to present the in an attempt toelucidate "coming-out", invisibility, com- findings of her study of 142 women, 89 percent of them northern European whites. Based on a ten-page ques- identities as well as the emotional dimensions of sexual tionnaire, this study examines: sexual preference, male preference. Such a focus locates sex in a web of intimate partners, female partners, marriage, monogamy and non- relationships, which permits the uncovering of how monogamy, families, children, coming out, celibacy, people's sexual preferences change. group sex, swinging and AIDS. George also presents seven women's stories, case studies in themselves, which The original study was done in 1983 with a post- bring the research data to a more personal level. AIDS follow-up in 1988 used to trace changing habits in the age of AIDS. , the book reports, was After presenting her research, George defines bi- less of a concern in 1988; in kt,the bisexual center has sexuality using sexual amaction, sexual behavior, sexual closed. The major question now appears to be how to be fantasies, emotional preference, social preference, and sexual at all in the face of an epidemic. Monogamy no self-identification as criteria to structure this complex longer seems at odds with bisexuality but rather a re sexual orientation. She notes that women often identi- sponsible way to organize a relationship. The authors fied as lesbian yet still had sex with men, the reason be- argue that bisexuality now holds scapegoat status and ing they found men to be more willing sex partners, so that status affects sexual preference in a variety of ways, there was not necessarily a direct correspondencebetween most importantly the "coming out process." In fact, identity and behavior. The final section of the book dis- "rather than simply changing patterns of sexual activity, cusses the politics of bisexuality, offering, in my opin- AIDS appears to have been an werall restraint to sexu- ion, too much of George's perspective to be a useful wer- ality, changing the meaning of sex since the more hedo- view. Many political voices out there were overlooked. nistic days of the early 1980's" (p.257).

DuaIAttraction was written for an entirely different Certainly these four books do not bring closure to audience, and to some extent for an entirely different the discussion of bisexuality, but they do offer the reader purpose, by two former Kinsey Institute Sex Research- a place to begin. ers. In considering the results of a study, one must al- ways be aware of the context of the research. In this [Associate Professor of Women 's Studies, Sandra case, I am afraid the context prohibits generalization and Krajewski, is the Chair of the Department of Women's interferes with understanding the complexity of selfde- Studies at the University of Wisconsin-La Cmsse. Her termination outside a small area of the West Coast. All researcWactivist interests include: the prevention of vio- respondents were self-identified bisexuals (both men and lence against women; educational accessfor low-income women), committed enough to this identity to be mem- singIe parents; and mating a safe envimnmentforgays, bers of a bisexual organization. They were mostly twenty- lesbians, and bisexuals on campus. Founding mother of five to forty-four years old, college educated, with mod- Houston County Women 9 Resources in Minnesota and erate incomes (between $10,000 and $30,000), almost Board Secretaryfor New Horizons Shelter and Women 's all white, and employed at the time of the inteniews. Center in La Cmsse, Sandra is a member of UW-La While the authors do not attempt to hide any of these Cmsse 's Senate Executive Committee, Undergraduate limitations and are careful about generalizations, the Cum'culum Committee, and the General Education Com- reader is left wondering what these findings really have mittee.] to do with bisexuals in the metropolitan South or rural Midwest. For example, in the twelve months before the ' Robin Morgan, Anatomy ofFnedom (Garden City, NY study nearly half of the bisexuals participated regularly AnchorlDoubleday, 1982), p.302. in sexual threesomes and approximately one-third par- ticipated in sex parties. Since the research literature base is so limited, I fear these findings may be used out of context by the religious right or by a media determined to f& on the exceptions rather than on the rule.

Despite this limitation, DualAttraction does go be- yond the earlier contributions of Alfred Kinsey, which largely ignoredthe social identities people adopt to make sense of their sexuality. This study, done by sociologists, examines the interaction of sexual behaviors and social Pme 8 Feminist Colldons v. 16. no. 1. Fall 1994

WHAT'S SO FUNNY? THE EXPLOSION Frances Gray's comparison of laughter to nuclear OF LAUGHTER IN FEMINIST energy is typical of recent feminist inquiry into humor. CRITICISM Characterizing laughter as an "inflammatory device," a way to "blow up the law," or to "exploden the founda- by Debra Beilke tions of patriarchy, the writers in these six critical vol- umes are the most recent contributors to the eruption of Regina Barreca, ed., NEW PERSPECTIYES ON women's humor scholarship in the past ten years. De- WOMEN A1M) COMEDY. New York: Gordon and spite subtle variations in their theoretical perspectives, Breach, 1992. (Studies in gender and culture, v.5) 244p. all of the writers reviewed here agree that female laugh- ISBN 2-88124-533-1; pap., ISBN 2-88124-534-X. ter is a serious thing, that it has been all but ignored by traditional (mostly male) humor scholars, and that it can Regina Barreca, UNTAMED AND UNABASHED:ES- be an unsettling, dis~ptivepolitical force, shaking the SAYS ON WOMENAND HUMOR IN BRITISH LIT- core of male domination. ERATURE. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994. 191p. bibl. index. $29.95, ISBN 0-8143-2136-4. In addition to disproving the popular misconcep- tion that women have no sense of humor, feminist critics Gail Finney, ed., LOOK WHO'S LAUGHING: GEN- have alsobeen interested in discovering what, if any, dif- DER AND COMEDY. Langhorne, PA: Gordon and ferences there are between male and female senses of Breach, 1994. (Studies in humor and gender, v.1) 363p. humor. Some of the conclusions have been usefully sum- $39.00, ISBN 2-88124-644-3; pap., $20.00, ISBN 2- marized by Gail Finney in Look Who's Laughing: 88124645-1. They claim, for example, that women tend to Frances Gray, WOMEN AND LAUGHTER. tell comic stories whereas mcn prefer telling Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1994. jokes; that the primary aim of women's humor 202p. $35.00, ISBN 0-8139-15124; pap., $12.95, ISBN is communication and the sharing of experience 0-8139-1513-9. in contrast to men's use of humor as self-pre- sentation and the demonstration of cleverness; Linda Moms, ed., AMERICAN WOMEN HUMOR- that comedy by women is less hostile than that ISTS: CRITICAL ESSAYS. New York: Garland, 1994. by men: female comics are more prone to self- (Studies in humor, v.4) 437p. index. $72.00, ISBN 0- directed putdowns than to putting down oth- 8153-0622-9. ers, the object of women's humor is the power- I ful rather than the pitiful, and women are less Alice Sheppard, MTOONINGFOR SUFFRAGE. likely than men to laugh at those hurt or em- Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994. barrassed; that women's stories are often non- 276p. ill. bibl. index. $37.50, ISBN 0-8263-1458-9. linear; and that in women's comic literature there is frequently more emphasis on recogni- tion than resolution and on process than con- "A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain clusion, leading to a lack of happy endings or on the afections." -- George Eliot. closure altogether. (pp.4-5)

"Laughter, like nuclear energy, has no opinions, Despite this fairly lengthy list of gender differences, positive or negative, about the status quo. What most feminist literary critics of humor have focused on it does have, like nuclear energy, is power, to how women have used humor to underscore the absurdi- which we can relate in a number of ways. . . If ties of patriarchy in an attempt to subvert the system. feminism is to change all that needs to be For example, Regina Barreca, one of the pioneers in the changed, therefore, it is essential forwomen to field, has focused mainly on the rebellious, angry nature clarify their relationship to laughter." --Frances of women's humor. She believes that "comedy can ef- Gray (p.33). fectively channel anger and rebellion by first making them appear to be acceptable and temporary phenomena, no doubt to be purged by laughter; and then by harnessing the released energies, rather than dispersing them" (New Perspectives, p.6). Feminist CoUStions v.16. w.1. Fd1994 Page 9

The difference between men's and women's humor, Swords explains "Why Women Cartoonists Are Rare, and Barreca argues, is the difference between revolt and revo- Why That's Important," while Laura Kightlinger writes lution. Thus, gender revolution is the primary focus of of the unpleasant realities of being a female stand-up Untamed and Unabashed, a collection of her work on comic. Discussions of comedy from the perspective of the tradition of comedy in British women's fiction. She its creators adds valuable new insights to our understand- analyzes Charlotte Lennox, Jane Austen, Charlotte ing of how laughter works. Bronte, George Eliot, Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark, and Fay Weldon, arguing that all of these writers use The collection is somewhat uneven, not of humor to disrupt, unsettle, and rebel against patriarchal the quality of analysis, but because some of the essays constrictions on women's lives. The purpose of her book are only very obliquely related to humor (such as those is to argue for the acknowledgement of and to identify by Esquibel and Begum). But overall, I would highly the patterns in the tradition of British women's humor recommend this stimulating and enjoyable collection to so that we can better harness its subversive potential. anyone interested in sampling a general, interdiscipli- nary overview of the field. Barreca's essays are insightful, provocative, and witty, shedding new light on the previously unrecognized Look Who 9 Laughing: Gender and Comedy is an- comic elements of the British literary canon. My only other title well worth exploring. Edited and with an in- caveat about Barreca's work is that she has a tendency to troduction by Gail Finney, this volume is similar to over-generalize about women's experiences. Repeatedly New Perspectives in that it includes eighteen essays by making claims about the general nature of women's hu- different authors on a wide variety of humorous texts. It mor, she makes no distinction between different groups differs, however, by focusing more broadly on the inter- of women, and in so doing suggests that all women's section of gender and comedy rather than exclusively on humor is feminist and revolutionary. While some women women While recognizing the differencesbetween men's obviously use humor of a "frame-breaking" nature, oth- and women's humor, inn& also believes there are many ers clearly do not. For example, Phyllis Diller and Joan similaritiesas well. such as the use of the camivalesaue, Rivers are notorious for making fun of women (includ- the mocking of stekdypes and norms, and the subGer- ing themselves) who do not fit into traditional male d&- sion of the status quo. For that reason, her collection "is nitions of female beauty. Another type of female humor heterogeneous in terms of gender, genre, period, race, is that of Anita Loos (author of Gentlemen PMer and national tradition treated" (p.5); the essays, focus- Blondes), who delights in portraying female characters ing on European and American texts, range historically who manipulate rather than subvert the existing struc- from the sixteenth century to the present and cover genres tures of society in order to gain power for themselves. from drama and fiction to performance and film. In my opinion, Barreca's arguments would be stronger if she acknowledged the diversity of women's humor, not Finney argues that the differences between men's all of which is feminist. and women's comedy are historically specific rather than universal and that paying attention to these variations is Despite the universalizing tendency of her introduc- important. Finding the term "women's comedy" unhelp- tion, however, the twenty-one essays in Barreca's New ful, Finney prefers "feminist comedy," which can be pro- Perspectives are exciting for their variety of approaches duced by men as well as women, to describe humorous and insights. Whereas Bamxa's earlier anthology Last texts that attempt to subvert patriarchy. Another differ- Laughs (Gordon & Breach, 1988) focused mainly on ence between Fiand Bmeca is that, whereas Barreca white women's literary humor, this new collection is more is primarily interested in rebellion and "making trouble," interdisciplinary and includes more essays devoted to Finney is more interested in achieving "the classic spirit women of color. Several articles look at literary humor- of comedy" which has more to do with "a festive sense of ists (such as Nannery O'Comor, Louise Erdrich, Mar- community" than with exploding the frames of society garet Drabble, Muriel Spark, and others), (pp.11-12). Nonetheless, the essays in this volume are but the critics also examine performance artists, cartoon- explicitly feminist and subversive in intent. ists, stand-up comics, actresses, essayists, and even Helen Keller jokes. Section I of Finney's collection is devoted to drama, ranging from sixteenthcentury knice to Shakespeare, Especially illuminating are the essays written by cre- Aphra Behn, and Oscar Wdde. (Also discussed are ators of feminist humor. For example, cartoonist Betty Thomas Dekker, John Dryden, W~lliarnCongreve, Jane Page 10 Feminist Collec(iom v.16.m.l. FSII 1994

Austen, Susanna Centlivre, Hannah Cowley, and Ada The project of Frances Gray's Women and Laughter, Leverson.) Most articles are concerned with comedy in her study of television situation comedy and female stand- the sense of the dramatic genre, rather than comedy as up comedy in England and the U.S., is to reconstruct a laughter. The critics, using a variety of methodologies, female history of performance comedy. Rejecting the examine the question of how to mesh subversive repre- traditional theories of humor (relief, disparagement, ccl- sentations of gender and sexuality with the need of tradi- ebration, and incongruity), she prefers instead the in- tional comedy to end in a vision of social integration. sights of Helene Cixous's "Laughter of the Medusa." Emphasizing laughter's potential to explode and destroy hierarchies, Gray argues that being a female performance comedian is an anarchic act which can "shatter the hue- Q: What do lesbians do in bed? work of institutions. . . blow up the law. . . break up the A: It's a lot like heterosexual sex, only one of truth with laughter" (p.37). us doesn't have to fake orgasm. -- Suzanne Westenhoefer After her theoretical investigation of laughter, Gray (from Glibquips) mwes on in Section I1 to examine situation comedy in England and the U.S. By analyzing the complex and shift- ing relationships between the genre of sitcom, its cre- ators, and its consumers, she anives at some interesting The second section focuses on fiction and many of and sometimes unexpected conclusions. For example, the articles investigate the relationship between laughter she argues that in the U.S., the 1950's produced more and genre (e.g., detective fiction, domestic humor, avant- subversivecomic performances by women such as Lucille garde modernism, etc.) Authors discussed are William Ball and Gracie Allen than did the supposedly more lib- Thackeray, George Meredith, Margaret Oliphant, James erated 1960's, with the containment of female power in Joyce, Dorothy Richardson, Zora Neale Hurston, Evelyn shows such as Bewitched and I Dream ofJeunnie. Waugh, Marghanita Laski, Beryl Bainbridge, Sara Paretsky, Mary Roberts Rinem Alice Childress, and In Part HI, Gray turns to the genre of stand-up com- Vuginia WooK edy. Examining the historical evolution of the genre from the 19th century music hall to the present day one-woman Section III analyzes film, stand-up comedy, and car- shows, Gray argues that stand-up comedy is a form of toon art. These articles, the topics of which range from women's autobiography, a way to reinvent the selfthrough Mae West to the genre of Hollywood screwball comedies comic interaction with the audience. to Pedro Almodovar, emphasize the performative and visual aspects of humor and its relationship to identity.

What I like most about took Who's Laughing, in One of my friends tole me she was in labor for addition to the emphasis on historical specificity, is the thirty-six hours. I don't even want to do anything variety of conclusions made about the uses of female that feels good for thirty-six hours. laughter. Unlike many earlier volumes on women's hu- - Rita Rudner mor, which imply Mrhaps inadvertently) that female (from Glibquips) laughter is invariably subversive, many of these writers question that assumption. For example, Kristin Bluemel concludes that the comic potential of Dorothy Richardson is limited by a contradiction between feminist content Because Frances Gray (who resides in England) is a and feminist form, while Barbara Monroe points out some playwright as well as a lecturer in drama, she brings a of the more troubling- ascects- of Zora Neale Hurston's performance-oriented perspective to the field of women's comedy, such as her uncritical portrayals of domestic vie comedy. Although I'm not sure that I agree with all of lence. Though I do not wish to downplay the powerfully her points, such as her argument that stand-up comedy subversive potential of female humor, I also appreciate is inherently more transgressive than humorous writing, this collection's more realistic assessment of the varia- her analysis is rigorous, insightful and elegantly writ- tions of comic effect. ten. Feminists interested in popular culture andfor fe- male performance artists will definitely want to read this book. OTHER RECENT BOOKS OF LNTERESI' &esbianlBberual Cartoons and Humor Hey Mom, Guess What! 150 Ways to Tell Your Molk, by Antholoeies Shelly Roberta and Melissll K. Smey. San Diego: In Stikhes: A Patchwork ofFeminirt Humor and Satire, ed. Paradigm, 1993. by Gloria Kaufman. Blmmington: Indiana University Press, Lesbmania: Humo*, Commenlmy, and New Evidence That 1991. We are E-here, by Jojd Harper. Norwich, CT: New Pulling Our Own Sbings: Feminist Humor and Satim, ed. by Wctoria Publishers, 1994. Gloria Kaufman and Mary Kay Blakcly. Blmmington: A Queer Sense of Humour: A Collechon of Lesbian, Gay Indiana University Rnrs, 1980. and Bisexual Car-. Toronto: Queer M,1 993. Redrasing Ae Balance: American Wmenk LiIeraty Humor Rulyjmit Mountain: A Collectim, by finn Colonial Thes to the 1980 k, 03. by Nancy Walker and Andrea Natalie. Pittsburgh: Cleis Press, 1993. Zita Dresner. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, Spawn of Q&s to Watch Out For, by Alison Bechdel. 1988. Ithaca: Firebrand Books, 1993. S&y Tooned, by Rhonda Dicksion. Naiad Ms, 1993. Critical Works Who Cams if It Z a Choice? Snappy Answers to 101 Nary, A Cenhuy of Women Carloonirls, by Trina Robbins. InbuPivc and Highly Personal Questions about Lesbianr and Northampton, MA: Kitchen Sink Prtse, 1993. Gay Men, by Ellen Orleans. Bala Cynwyd, PA: Laugh Lines Comedy and the Wman Writer: Woo& Spark & Feminiwn, Press, 1994. by Judy Little. Lincoln: Univcrsity of Nebmlta Press, 1983. Lasl Laughs: Perqectives on Wmen and Comedy, by Regina Other Feminist Cartoons and Humor Books Bamca. New York: Gordon & Bmh, 1988. Carloon Girl, by Heather Adams. Marietta. GA: Longstreet They Used to Call Me Snow White. . . But I Driped: Press, 1994. WmenZ Slrategic Use of Humor, by Regina Barerca. New Glipquips: Funny Words by Funny Women, by Roz Warren. York: Penguin, 1991. Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, 1994. A Vhy Serious Thing: Women Z Humor and Ameriean Itk So Magic, by Lynda Barry. New York: Harper Collins, Culture, by Nancy Walker. Minneapolis: Univcrsity of 1994. Minnesota Press, 1988. Tell Me Anorher One: A Wmank Guide to Men Z Classic Wmenk Comic YTons,ed. by June Sochen. Detroit: Wayne Lines, by Judith Newman. New York: Dell, 1994. Stab University Press, 1991. Women Who Run with Ae Poodles: Myh and Tipsfor Honoring Your Mood Swings, by Barbara Graham. New York: Avon, 1994.

Alice Sheppard's Cartooningfor Sueage combines Scholars of American women's literature will defi- history of the American women's mffiage movement with nitely want to obtain Linda Moms' American Women an analysis of turn-of-the-century cartoonists to illumi- Humorists: Critical Essays, which pulls together in one nate the relationship between popular visual imagery and volume the classical critical essays on American women's feminist struggles. Looking at the artwork and cartoons humor. Section I reprints the introductions to four an- of a handful of turn-of-the-century suffragists, Sheppard thologies of women's humor, beginning with Kate analyz~these cartoonists' strategic manipulation of pow- Sanborn's The Wit of Women (1885) and ending with erful symbols, being &to emphasiG both the posi- Walker and Dresner's Redressing the Balance (1988). tive and negative results of their artistic/political strate- The second section wnsists of six essays that examine gies (i.e., they did get the vote, but alsohelped to keep recurring themes and patterns in the tradition of Ameri- old stereotypes of femininity in place). can women's humor.

In addition to analysis, this book contains over two The critics in these first two sections are similar in hundred examples of cartoon art, much of it the result of that most posit some form of the incongruity theory of Sheppard's extensive primary research. Scholars in the humor: women's laughter arises from the gap between field of women's humor and culture will benefit by patriarchal ideologies and the lived experiences of Sheppard's emphasis on the power of visual imagery to women. They also, however, have subtle differences, shape political perceptions. The language is very acces- which makes a thorough reading of each of them worth- sible; teachers might want to consider using this volume while. For example, Emily Toth argues that women writ- for introductory courses in women's studies, especially ers follow the "humane humor" rule, whereas Lucinda those focusing on images of women in culture. MacKethan is more interested in the specific tradition of Page 12 Faninist Collecliom v.16, no. 1, Fall 1994

"Mother Wit" in African-American women's autobiog- business, I do not wish to dismunt the fact that it is also raphies. a lot of fun! One more reason to read all of the texts discussed here is for simple pleasure; these critics enjoy Part III contains essays on individual humorists, what they are doing and it shows in the wit and enthusi- ranging historically from Sarah Kemble Knight's 1704 asm of their prose. Although it is becoming harder to journal to an analysis of stand-up comic . keep up with the proliferation of women's humor schol- Other authors discussed are Frances Miriam Whitcher, arship, it would be ludicrous to complain about this re- Anna Cora Mowatt, Fanny Fern, Marietta Holley, Alice cent phenomenon. Perhaps Mae West said it best when Duer Miller, Florence Guy Seabu~y,Dorothy Parker and she asserted that, "Too much of a good thing can be won- Zora Neale Hurston. derful."

All of the essays in this volume are illurninat and [Debra Beilke is pursuing her Ph.D. in English at enjoyable to read; the main drawback is that all but one the University of Esconsin-Madison. Her dissertation of the essays (the one on Mowatt) have been previously is on identity and humor in Southern Renaissance nov- published. The book's value, therefore, lies not so much els. She is not amused by the amount of time it is taking in advancing knowledge as in the convenience of having her to complete her degree.] all these essays (some of which are hard to find) together in one volume. Although the study of women's humor is a serious

THE HUBRIS OF WRITING SURVEYS, OR A FEMINIST CONFRONTS THE TEXTBOOK

by Meny Resner-Hanks tory," this series was designed, in the words of the pro- spectus, "to provide concise but authoritative surveys of [Editors' note: Versions of thispaper were presented at major themes and problems in European history since 'jlttending to Women in Early Modem Eumpe, " a con- the Renaissance." I was not in the first group of authors ference held at the Centerfor Renaissance andBamque to be contacted, however, for when the editors at Cam- Studies at the University ofMaryland, Baltimore County bridge initially defined the "major themes and problems" and at "Women 's History: Digging, Doing, Disseminat- that warranted a survey, neither women nor gender nor ing, "aWomen 's History Outreach Conference sponsored the family appeared on the list. This rather glaring omis- by the UW-Madison Division of University Outreach. A sion was corrected later when the series editors asked longer version will appear in Attending to Women in me to do a survey on all three. My protests that I am not Early Modem Europe, forthcomingfrom the University a family historian, and that (how many times do we have of Delaware Press.] to say this?) women's and family histow are not the same thing, led to my topic being ''n&owed." Now all I was Just when we think women's history or feminist lit- confronted with was the historv ofEuromwomen from erary or art historical analysis has become fully main- 1500-1750, from Portugal to Russia, with as much of the stream, when we listen contentedly to complaints at con- new scholarship on gender added in as I wanted.' ferences - such as, "All there is these. days is gender, gender, gender" (overheard in a strong Gennanic accent I begin with this story not to be depressing, but at the AmericanHistorical Association several years ago) to point out that when one turns from writing for spe --when graduate students comment that they're now read- cialists to writing for students, those students may not be ing more Toni Monison than Wdiam Faulkner, some- the first obstacle one confronts. In fact, students taking thing reminds us sharply that we're still considered some- upper-level European history courses --the intended au- what of a fringe element. This message came home to dience for the Cambridge series -- may actually be more me most forcefully five years ago, when I was fust con- cognizant of women's history and writings ihan many tacted by the editors for a new Cambridge University Press editorial committees. Unlike books for upper-level his- series. Now titled 'Wew Approaches to European His- tory courses in which material on women continues to be FaniniuI Coll&tiorm v. 16. no. 1. Fall 1994 Pace 13 either absent or marginalized, many Westem Civiliza- tive impact for women of Aristotle's ideas or Athenian tion textbooks have, over the last decade, added and then traditions, which makes misogyny the key element in integrated material on women.= the strength of Aristotle's influence for 2000 years? (I'm willing to say misogyny is a part of the explanation, but The sophistication of some students in terms of not the whole thing.) The same problem co&onted me material on women, though welcome, does make more in writing several sections of Women and Gender, as you diff~cultthe first problem confronting a textbook author can imagine, such as that on humanism: Do I spend time once the editors have been pacified - that of audience. debunking ideas which most of the readers never had, Finding the level appropriate for one's intended audi- readers whose idea of a humanist, if they have one at all, ence can be quite difticulf and we all know textbooks is that mythical creature of late-night fundamentalist ra- that succeed and those that fail miserably. Many of us dio shows, the "secular humanist"? have also decided to change texts when we change schools because our students are either bored or mystified by what A second problem for surveys in women's history is we quite happily used elsewhere. But textbooks in the issue of periodization. Those of us reared on Joan women's history confront the additional issue of the wide Kelly's essay "Did Women Have a Renaissance?" have range of knowledge levels among students -- from long said and taught that traditional periodization doesn't Women's Studies majors to students whose high school work for women, but how do we incorporate that notion honors history program may have still been using RR in the way we write a text or teach a course without im- Palmer's A History of the Modern World in its 1962 edi- plying that women's history never changes, that women tion. are somehow ahistorica1P

Like audience, some problems are common to all Some surveys, most notably Bonnie Anderson and textbooks, and all teaching. Many are problems of bal- Judith Zinsser's A History of Their Own, have rejected ance. There is the balance between generalizing and periodization at least in part, covering, for example, peas- individual examples; too much of the former leads to ant women from the ninth century to the twentieth in a depersonalization, too much of the latter leads to piling single section.' We may applaud this radical adaptation, up anecdotes and names. There is the balance between but find such a work acult to use for our courses, and authoritative voice and scholarly disagreement; our stu- find ourselves, in order to provide a corrective, stressing dents want certainties -perhaps more so in history than to students what has changed in peasant women's lives in literature -- but we want them also to gain a sense of over the millennia. GiannaPomata has recently reviewed the ongoing development of scholarship and of the role several women's history textbooks, and notes her dis- of scholarly debate. As authors or teachers we also have comfort with Zinsser and Anderson's comment that "gen- to cover material for which we are not experts, and though der has been the most important factor in shaping the sometimes these are topics for which we can be most lives of European women"; she says "I perceive here the certain (having read only one book on them), at other shade of essentialism, the idea of an unchanging female times we simply have to report the range of opinion. There nature.n5 is the balance between an organizational thread and anomalous cases -between, for&cample, discussing con- A third problem for women's history textbooks, also tinuities in women's exclusion from wlitics and the lives related to the issue of revision, is the problem of politics of Queen Elizabeth or Joan of Arc. and national differences. How do you revise the standard nationalistic organization without minimizing regional Writing a survey on the history of women brings differences or implying that women's history is separate additional problems, however, problems which different from politics? This is much more of a problem for those textbooks handle in different ways. Women's history is of us who work in the period after 1500 than for our essentially a revisionist methodology, which has to be medievalist colleagues, of course. It is also in some ways modified if one is presenting what might be a student's more of a problem for us than for modem Europeanists, first experience with European history. This is a prob- for whom the nation-state is already in existence. Be- lem I first thought about when teaching Westem Civili- cause so much early modem history has been conceptu- zation: What should I do, for example, with Aristotle alized and taught as the "growth of the nation-state," and ancient Athens? First teach the received wisdom and teaching women in a trans-national way makes them seem then the feminist corrective, which is how I learned it? even more ahistorical. Ignore the received wisdom and concentrate on thepega- Pwe 14 Feminist Collediom v.16. n0.1. Fall 1994

The three conceptual or organizational problems I've studies of women writers in early modern England, and talked about so far can be thought of as three aspects of hundreds of articles using different theoretical perspec- the same issue: How else can we tell women's history as tives to talk about their work. But what about women history other than in maledefined categories? This is a writers in Poland or other parts of eastern Europe? I first problem Abby Kleinbaum wrestled with fifteen years ago thought the issue was my lack of language capabilities, in her essay "Women's History and the Western Civili- but colleagues who know the field assured me it was not, zation Survey," and one that hasn't been solved yet.6 Her that there simply was very little scholarship in any lan- conclusion then, that "women's history will destroy West- guage. ern Civ," does not seem to have happened, though I sup- pose the changes in textbooks I've just mentioned are The problems I've talked about so far resulted from regarded by some as destruction. my being a historian of women, but there were other prob- lems due to my being a feminist historian. Several years One solution appearing on the horizon -- or firmly ago at a Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship here in some fields -- is to stop talking about women and roundtable on women, history, and literature, Barbara start talking about gender. This has, at least in history, Newman succinctly pointed out a great danger facing complicated the "women-and-the-family-are-not-the- feminist history -- the temptation to make unreflective same-thing" assertion, for now we must also say, ". . .and ethical judgments about the past, or, as she put it, the women and gender are not the same thing, either." But I temptation to idealize, pity, orblame? I discovered while am not quite ready to view gender as the answer to all working on this text just how powerful these temptations our conceptual problems. For one thing, too much of the are. Particularly when one has a page limit, such urges scholarship on "gender" still is about women. Here our can become sins of omission as well as commission: traditionalist colleagues have more right to be confused Which writers do I mention by name? Which do I quote? than they do about distinctions between women and the Which religious groups get extensive coverage? The family. And some of the new scholarship on "men as trickiest chapter was one I eventually titled "Women and men" seems to suffer from a reverse of the conceptual the Creation of Culture," for the number of studies of problems in women's history; it tries to tell men's stories women writers on this period far outweighs the number in femaledefined categories. Some of it, as well, re- of studies of any other group of women, including queens. quires great familiarity with the basic materials, making it dillicult for undergraduates to jump into debates mid- stream. It is also counched in language that is hard for many undergraduates to understand, but because much of the scholarly debate revolves around language itself, one cannot just simplify the terms.

Many of these problems exist becaw the field of gender studies is so new, but I have even greater worries about what will happen when it matures. Will gender turn out to be the white knight who sweeps us off our feet with his brilliance, but leaves us always hanging on be- hind? To use a more modem military metaphor: Can the troops in the trenches of women's history, who are ex- Along with temptation, being a feminist historian ploring the relatively undocumented lives of women, also brought severe attacks of doubt. Not only was there avoid being rolled over by the Sherman tank of the much- the standard academic doubt whether I would ever fin- betterdocumented lives of men? ish, but also doubt about whether I should be writing this book at all. Like my problems, these doubts ranged over To turn from the metaphorical to the mundane: several levels. Should I still be writing history? Our femi- Along with problems shared by all textbook authors and nism has led us to question all claims of objectivity, mak- all authors of women's history texts, I also faced certain ing the statements of Hayden White and others about the problems because of my field. In covering all of Europe, similarity between historians and novelists quite seduc- I found a wildly uneven amount of research and level of ti~e.~We envy literary critics who analyze texts, wishing sophistication depending on the topic and geographic that our sources were more uniform and that we could area. For example, there are now scores of book-length develop more far-reaching theories based on those sources. We don't really know how to answer the ques- respect they deserve without telling their histories? How tion I asked a couple of years ago - "What are your cri- else but by writing could we make sure that women would teria of truth?" - and wish people wouldn't ask it, be- be recognized as historians as well as historical agents, cause we ask it so often of ourselves. that history would have, in Natalie Davis' words, "two bodies"?" A second level of doubt led me to question whether I should be writing a history textbook. In her review of The second thing that kept me going is probably women's history textbooks, Pomata traces the way in already evident hmmv remarks here - the assistance. which traditional textbooks and the master narrative they support, and help from other scholars. More than in any- contain have defined "history" as political and military thing else I have ever done, writing a textbook forced (or events and excluded women. She comments: "The ste better said, allowed) me to rely on the work and ideas of reotype ofthe absence of women from history is largely others and to make contacts with a huge scholarly com- due to the tradition of history textbooks written from the munity. It was the best demonstration of the cooperative end of the nineteenth century until t~day."~Textbooks aims of feminist scholarship, and allowed me to over- written for girls' schools were particularly care11 to re- come despair. It did not allow me to overcome feelings duce the role of women, as their authors, imbued with a of hubris, but if you can handle these, I'd recommend positivist desire for "scientific" history, aimed to draw a writing a survey as a means of overcoming any feelings sharp line between history and literature. Did I really of isolation or marginality. Don't worry about pride -- want to put myself in this lineage? Could any textbook the quantity and quality of what you'll need to read will not adopt the "image of omniscient universality" which be a wonderful antidote against that deadly sin. Pomata rightly criticizes, and still be a textbook? [Merty Wesner-Hanks is PIofssor of History and Di- A third level of doubt led me to question whether I mctor of the Centerfor Women S Studies at the Univer- should be writing thisbook, a history ofwomen and gen- sity of Wsconsin-Milwaukee.At pmsent she is working der in early modem Europe. I was, despite my misgiv- on a World History mader/methodological guide, a ings, writing about women in a maledefined period, tak- project which takes even mom hubris.] ing as my chronological boundaries no dramatic changes in women's lives. I was also attempting to discuss the NOTES lives of all women in Europe, or at least a great many of them, in a universalist way. Though I did include a final Merry E. W~esner,Women and Gender in Early Mod- chapter on gender, was the fact that most of the book em Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. focused on women a sign of hidden essentialism on my 1993). part? Was I falsely attributing a unity to female experi- For examples ofthe addition and integration of women's ence, a unity in the last decade has been at times harshly history in Western Civilization textbooks, see: John criticized by those in women's history - and women's McKay, et al., A History of Western Society (Boston: studies - who emphasize the diversity of women's lives Houghton Mifnin , 1991) and Mark Kishlansky, et al., and the power of factors other than gender in shaping Civilization in the West (New York: Harper Collins, them?I0 Should I be deconstructing the experiences of 1991). early modem women, rather than creating a construct Joan Kelly's essay was first published in Renate which generalized and summarized? Bridenthal and Claudia Koonz, eds., Becoming Esible: Women in Empean History (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Two things prevented my doubt from turning into 1977). pp.137-164, and republished in the second edi- despair, and kept me muddling on. One had made me a tion in 1987. feminist historian in the first place, the desire to know Judith Zinsser andBonnie Anderson, A History of Their about the lives of people in the past, combined with the Own, 2 vols. (New York: Harper and Row, 1988). anger that "the past" I had been taught was so devoid of GiannaPomata, "History, Particular and Universal: On women. The experiences with editors noted at the begin- Reading Some Recent Women's History Textbooks," ning of this article certainly kept that anger alive; his- Feminist Studies v.19 (1993), pp.7-50. I wish to thank tory would continue to be taught as history, despite the Professor Pomata for sharing this with me in manuscript theories of contemporary cultural critics, and who else before publication. The quote from Zinsser and Ander- but feminist historians would make sure it included son is from p.xv. women? How could we give the women of the past the In The History Teacher v.12, no.4 (August 1979), pp.501-506. 'Women ' in Histoty (Mi~e3poliS:University of Minne- ' Papers from this workshop have been published in sota Press, 1988). Exemplaria: A Journal of Theoty in Medieval and Re- " The phrase is from Davis' presidential address as presi- naissance Studies v.2, no.2 (October 1990), pp.687-715. dent of the American Historical Association, "History's Hayden White, Tmpics of Discourse: Essays in Cul- 'bo Bodies," reprinted in The American Historical Re- tural Criticism (l3altimore: Johns Hopkins University view, v.93 (1988), pp. 1-30. Davis uses the "two bodies" Press, 1978) and The Content of the Form: Narrative concept to explore the ideas of five historians, male and Discourse and Historical Representation (Baltimore: female, about the tension between the enduring field of Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987). history and their own work. By using female practitio- Pomata, "History," p.28. ners of "universal" history as well as male, however, and lo The most explicit discussion of this is Denise Riley, by ending with a call for a multiple vision, Davis also Am I That Name?": Feminism and the Categoty of points out the need for including both sexes in the body of historians. FEMINIST VISIONS COMMITMENT IN VON TROTTA'S MARIANNE AND JULWVE that directly addresses the intertwining of the political with the personal is the historical context. The two sis- by Marilyn Gottschalk ters have spent their childhood in Nazi Germany during World War 11 and their adult lives in the turbulent years Marianne and Juliane, Margarethe von Trotta's of 1970's postwar Germany. In fact the character of powerful and provocative film about two sisters in post- Marianne is based on the life of Gudrun Ensslin, a mem- war Germany, is oneof the new additions to the Women's ber of the Bader Meinhof revolutionary group. Juliane, Studies Consortium Audiovisual Collection housed at from whose perspective the story is told, is based on University of Wisconsin-Platteville's Kanmann Library. Ensslin's sister Christiane, to whom von Trotta dedicates her film. Von Trotta, a member of the New German Cinema movement is one of the best known and most sucessful Using flashbacks, von Trotta gives a sense of some of West &rmany's women film directors. Early in her of the shaping forces in the lives of the two sisters. In career she worked inParis with different film collectives. childhood, the two are close. Thiy share the terror of the Returning to Germany in the late 1960's. she acted in WWII bombings, the rigidity of middleclass Christian film and television. She codirected her first two films, A upbringing, a dominating father, the awareness of the Free Woman (1973) and The Lost Honor of Katherina horrors of the holocaust, and a shared sense of moral Blum (1975), with her husband, German film director obligation. Juliane, the older, rebels against patriarchal Voker Schlondofi. Their artistic differences resulted authority. Marianne, on the other hand, is shown as the in her decision to work alone. She subsequently wrote more passive sister, the one who intercedes between her and directed The Second Awakening of Christa Klages sister and the angry, unforgiving father. (1978), Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness (1979), Marianne and Juliane (1981), Sheer Madness (1983), As adults, the sisters choose seemingly very differ- Rosa Luxembu~(1985), and Love and Fear (1987). ent political commitments. Juliane, the rebel, becomes a journalist for a feminist magazine and an activist for A common theme that runs through all of von women's rights. Marianne, the father's dutiful, favorite Trotta's films is the close relationships that women form daughter, joins a revolutionary terrorist group and acts with each other, despite the complexities and problems out her commitments with the same uncompromising, the relationship entails. These relationships are often fierce devotion that mirrors her father's rigid Christian between two women who are in some sense opposites. In morality. Marianne becomes involved in a bombing in- Marianne and Juliane, the two women are sisters whose cident, is hunted by the police, jailed, and dies in prison, lives have taken very different paths. The film tells of reportedly a suicide. their struggle to come to terms with their political differ- ences while coping with their respective political and Juliane, who rejects her sister's radical politics, who personal commitments. An added dimension to the film argues with her over the effectiveness of terrorist tactics, Feminist ColleCtiom v.16. no.]. Fall 1994 Papc 17 nevertheless remains loyal to Marianne. When summoned Cinema (New York: Praeger, 1988); Ellen Seiter, The to meet her sister in secret, she goes. She endures the Political is Personal: Margarethe Von Trotta's 'Marianne invasion of her apartment in the middle of the night by and Juliane,' in Filmsfor Women, Charlette Brunsdon, Marianne and two other members of the terrorist group. ed. (London: British Film Institute, 1986). She visits Marianne in prison and finally, when she real- izes that Marianne has been murdered in prison, sacri- For biographical information, see: Annette Kuhn and iices her career and her ten-year relationship with her Susannah Radstone, eds., Women in Film (New York: lover to track down the proof of the murder. Fawcett Columbine, 1990). The Consortium film collec- tion also contains an on-screen inte~ewwith Mn Tmtta: The issue ofcommitment also arises over Marianne's "Foreign Directors on Directing," Tape 7 of Ally Acker's six-year-old son, Jan. Early in the film, the boy's father Reel Women Mdeos. brings Jan to Juliane and asks her to wefor the child. Juliane refuses. She has made the decision to focus on [Marilyn Gottschalk is an academic staff lecturer at the her work, foregoing marriage and children. When Jan's Universib of Wisconsin-Platteville. She teaches in the father commits suicide while Marianne is in prison, English Department and the Women k Studies pmgram. Juliane decides to place the boy in a foster home. How- She cumntly teaches "Introduction to Women k Stud- ever, after Marianne's death, Jan is the victim of a vi- ies"and has also taught courses on women and the arts.] cious act by the other children at the home, and Juliane decides to bring Jan home to live with her. In an ex- [Editors' note: Thisfilm and others in the collection are tremely ambivalent resolution, the film shows Juliane held at the Karnnann Library, Universiw of Wisconsin- forced into the position she had originally rejected. She Platteville. They are availablefie ofchatge to Wiscon- has responsibility for Marianne's psychologically and sin residents via interlibrary loan. Submit a request physically damaged child. As the film ends, an angry thughthe interlibrary loan service of//pur home cam- Jan tears up his mother's picture, faces Juliane and de- pus library. For a catalog listing all the films in the mands to know "everything" about the mother he can't collection (butNOT to request a film), write to: Women S remember. "Begin! Begin!" he commands. Studies Librarian, 430 Memorial Library, 728 State St., Madison. WI 53706; or phone 608-263-5754. The cata- Despite what seem to be overwhelming differences log is also available electronically via the Universib of between the two sisters, von Trotta binds them together Wisconsin-Madison campus gopher WISCINFO in commitment to each other and in love. During their . WSC.EDU/Library Catalogs and ServicedUWMadiosn last visit in prison, a glass wall is between them. They CampusLibraries Infrmation/WSystem Women k Stud- cannot touch each other. They must talk through a mi- ies Librarian S Oflce/Catalog of Films and MdeosW crophone. Their hands press against the glass; the two System Women k Studies AV Collection.] faces in the glass blur, fade away, come together in an unforgettable visual statement that is a testament to von Trotta's creativity.

Barbara Quart, in her book on women directors, has this to say about von Trotta: "Her work is... of special interest because it is a womancentered and woman-of- fering cinema of a kind still a rarity - women looked at with intensity and love by the woman behind the cam- era, by one another on the screen, and by women like oneself in the audience, to whose eyes the whole is di- rected, and because of the visual and dramatic bounty of metaphors and ideas with which von Trotta turns this into art" (1983).

The following three books contain indepth discus- sions of the film: Ann E. Kaplan, Women and Film: Both Sides ofthe Camera (New York: Methuen, 1983); Bar- bara Quart, Women Directors: The Emergence ofa New - Rini Templeton Page 18 FeminislCollediavl v.16.m.l. Fa11 1994 ARCHIVES

WOMEN OF WISCONSIN LABOR ORAL Holz, Helen Hensler, Helen Altstadt, Dorothy Jafferis HISTORY PROJECT (OPEIU); Martha Love, Patricia Yunk, Joan Zeiger(AFSCME); Lee Schmeling (GAKJ, GCIU); Flo- by Jamakaya rence Simons (AIW); Nancy Hoffamn (Plumbers); Judith Kuhn (a founder of Milwaukee Women in the Trades); Little has been recorded about women union activ- Candice Owley -/AFT); Mary Ann Braithwaite ists in W~sconsin,a fact dramatically illustrated by Rob- (WFTIAFT); Evelyn Gotzion (FLU at Ray+%, UAW); ert Ozanne's 1984 study. me Labor Movement in Ws- Rosella Wartner (FLU at Marathon Electric); Cecilia consin, which devoted only 6 of its 290 pages to working Peterson (ATU); and Evelyn Hunholz (Women's Auxil- women. The Women of Wisconsin Labor Oral History iary). One non-W~sconsinite,singerlactress Ronnie Gil- Project was initiated in 1988 by union women determined bert (Actors Equity, SAG, AFTRA), was interviewed in to ensure that the contributions of women in the labor 1992 while in Milwaukee to perform in her play about movement are documented so they can take their right- labor activist Mother Jones. ful place beside their union brothers in the annals of la- bor history. In addition to distinguished service in their union, many ofthese women worked tirelessly in political cam- The Women of W~sconsinLabor Oral History Project paigns and organizations like the Urban League, the Al- was inspired by unionist Catherine Conroy and educator lied Council of Senior Citizens, the Wisconsin Action Kathryn Clarenbach, both of whom played leadership Coalition, and the National Organization for Women. roles in the feminist movement in Wisconsin and na- Theirs is an impressive record of union solidarity and tionally. The Project has so far interviewed twenty-six community service that deserves to be recognized. women who have played -- and continue to play - im- portant roles in their unions. They come from diverse The Project prioritized interviews with retired union backgrounds and represent many different occupations. activists who made significant contributions over the They hail from La Crosse, Wausau, Madison, Menasha, decades, a sound decision given the subsequent deaths Whitewater, JanesviJle, and Milwaukee. Some began their of four inte~ewees(Comoy, Holz, Domer Day, and union activism in the 1930's; others are making their Simons). Additional subjects were chosen based on rec- marks today. ommendation forms distributed at State AFL-CIO Women's Conferences and other union gatherings. At- All of the interviews offer revealing observations tempts were made to achieve a balance of geographical, about how workplaces have changed for women over the racial, and occupational representation. Organizers ofthe years. They convey the struggles working women have Oral History Project are aware that much more of the had with employers and with their own union brothers to history of Wisconsin's working women is yet to be un- gainacceptanceand respecton the joband in their unions. covered, but they believe they've made a significant be- ginning. The women interviewed touched on many topics, including: union organizing drives of the 1930's; the All of the audio recordings, summaries thereof, and impact of World War I1 on working women; major strikes photos and memorabilia of the interviewees are avail- and the anti-union tactics of management; sexism and able in a special collection entitled "Women of Wlscon- racism in the workplace; opening jobs previously re- sin Labor in the Archives Division ofthe State Histori- stricted to men; the "double day" -- on the job and with cal Society. The interviews, ranging from one hour to the family at home; de-industrialization; the move to- six hours, were conducted by Jamakaya (formerly J.M. ward privatization of public sector employment; and the Dombeck), a feminist writer and historian, and the Project impact of the feminist movement in changing both laws was supervised by Joanne Rim. Funding was provided and attitudes about working women. by the W~sconsinState AFL-CIO, the Wisconsin Labor History Society, IAMAW District 10, USWA District 32, The women interviewed include: Catherine Conroy and the Coalition of Labor Union Women-Milwaukee. and Ann Cnunp (CWA); Evelyn Do~erDay (ILGWU, UAW); Doris Thom (UAW); Nellie Wllson (Smith Steel- For further information on the Oral History Project, workers); Joanne Bruch (IVE); Leona Tarnowski (UPWA, contact Joanne Ricca at (414) 7714700, or the Archives UFCW); Darina Rasmussen (ACWA, OPEIU); Alice Division of the State Historical Society of W~sconsin, 816 State St., Madison, WI 53706, (608) 2646460. Faninist Collediom v. 16. no. 1, Fd 1994 Page 19 FEMINIST PUBLISHING

A coalition of women+wned independent presses have sage). The first two books from the press are on com- joined together, in an eEort tagged THE WOMEN'S munications between women and men in office envi- PRESSES LIBRARY PROJECT, to increase the vis- ronments (The Men at the Office) and on working ibility of their titles in libraries throughout the United mothers and their children (titled, appropriately, lbo States and Canada. The Project plans to work closely Years Sleep: Working Moms Talk About Hav- with librarians both individually and through various li- ing a Baby and a Job). There is also a Spanish version brary organizations and publications, in order to keep of lboYears W~thoutSleep. The books are available librarians current on the women's interest titles published only by direct order to: Blue Point Books, P.O. Box by the participating presses. Among the strategies 91347, Santa Badma, CA 93190-1347. Cost is $9.95 planned are to increase the number of library-appropri- for the first book (includes shipping), $8.95 for each ate book reviews, exhibit at American Library Associa- additional book. tion national and regional conferen&, organize author appearances and events in libraries and at conferences, The University Conversion Project at Cambridge, Mas- and create catalogs and reference materials for librar- sachusetts is trying to identify a number of feminist ians about relevant titles. Some of the presses involved alternative campus newspapers. As of the middle of are: Aunt Lute Books (SanFrancism); Astarte Shell Press November, eight had been identified and most were portland, Maine); Firebrand Books (Ithaca, New York); corn& to each other by email as part of a larger Kelsey St. Press (Berkeley, California); and Women's network of alternative campus papers. For informa- Press (Toronto, Ontario). tion, contact Rich Cowan at University Conversion Project, Box 748, Cambridge, MA 02142. GENDER PRESS is a new feminist publishing venture in Thailand. In its two years of existence, the press has THE FEMINIST PRESS AT THE CITY UNIVER- published 25 books, in English or Thai, plus cards, a SITY OF NEW YORK is embarking on its twenty- newsletter in English, and a Thai women's magazine. fifth year of publishing. A three-page piece in their The titles include fiction, nonfiction, and nonsexist catalog traces the history of the publisher from Flo- children's books. Supportive funding comes through rence Howe's "experimenting with womencentered Friends of Women Foundation from the Ford Founda- curricula for literature and writing" to the founding of tion. Their address: 10321156 Soi Ruarnsirimitra, the press in 1970 to its many achievements since. The Pahobothin 18, Lard-Yao Jatujak, Bangkok 10900Thai- year 1972 saw the beginnings of the Women's Studies land. (Information from Feminist Bookstore News, Sep Newsletter, which later became Women's Studies Quar- tember1October 1994, p.22.) terly; in the 1980's the Feminist Press published "five significant texts by and about African-American Another new publisher outside the U.S. is Egypt's NOUR women," including the nwel Brown Girl, Brownstones PRESS, begun following the last International Feminist by Paule Marshall and All the Women Are White, All Book Fair by a group of five women who pled their the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black money to cover office expenses. The press has two books Women's Studies. Looking toward the United Nations to its credit, and also distributes some 100 titles from gathering in Beijing, the press is publishing three in- other publishers on Arab women's topics. Dissatisfied ternational collections on women's studies, politics, and with the response of distributorsto their work, Now also nontraditional work. A cookbook and a travel series publishes a newsletter carrying information about are also in the ofig. The press is located at 311 East women's publications as well as women's news and words 9th St., New York, NY 10128-5684. of encouragement to writers. The press will sponsor the first ever Arab Women's Book Fair late in 1995. The address is 9 Mudiriyet El Tahrir Street, Garden City, Cairo, Egypt. (Information from Feminist Bookstore News, SeptemberIOctober 1994, pp.22-23.) BLUE POINT BOOKS is a "grass roots publishing project made possible by the support of a very informal network of working people who are using ow books to share information and experiences" (from email mes- Page 20 Faninist Colledions v.16, no. I. Fa11 1994 COMPUTER TALK

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ARCHIVES conscious effort was made to acquire such papers until the 1970's, the Library began receiving collections from von Salis, Susan J., REVE4LING DOCUMENTS: A African American women in 1955 and had interspersed GUIDE TO AFRICAN AMERICAN MANUSCRIPT material in the collections of white women even earlier. SOURCES IN THE SCHLESINGER LLBRARY AND The Library acquired the papers of several participants THE RADCLIFFE COLLEGE ARCHIYES. Boston: in the Black Women Oral History Project mounted by G.K. Hall, 1993. 174p. index. $50.00, ISBN 0-8161- the Schlesinger in the 1970s, including Ellen Jackson, 0613-4. Maida Springer Kemp, Lucy Miller Mitchell, Julia Smith, Dorothy West, and Ozeline Wise. "No documents, no history." According to Eva Moseley's introduction to Revealing Documents, this The Guide is divided into four parts: Part I lists col- statement was often repeated by Mary Ritter Bear4 pio- lections of African American women and Part I1 collec- neer historian of women's history, quoting French histo- tions about African American women in the Schlesinger rian Fustel de Coulanges. For fifty years the Arthur and Library. Parts III and IV provide a parallel treatment for Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women material on African American alumnae found in the in America at Radcliffe College has been a primary col- Radcliffe College Archives. Names of individuals and lector of the documents of women's history - diaries, organizations as well as subject terms and genre entries letters, photographs, scrapbooks, organizational records, are found in an index. and more recently cookbooks and women's fiction. Because each entry contains a brief biography of the The Schlesinger Library is also a major repository individual or history of the group covered, Revealing of material on African American women. Although no Documents is itself a resource on African American Paae 22 Feminist Collections v.16. no. 1. Fall 1994 women's history. In Part I1 the entry for Wisconsinwoman good in both works. The authors are experienced writ- suffrage leader Olympia Brown (p.44) reveals that her erdchronologists, and it shows. (Trager is also the au- correspondents did not re@ suhgefor African Ameri- thor of The People k Chtunology [Holt, rev. ed. 19921, cans in the same light as for women -- one letter in 1867 andbooks about food and . Olsen has writ- pointed to the lack of support for women suffrage even ten Remember the Ladies: A Woman k Book ofDays pni- among the recently freed slaves in the South and warned versity of Oklahoma Press, 19931 and books on quilt de- of the dangers of letting African American women vote. signs.) Trager's entries are longer, and I hnd them live- Folklorist Mary Elizabeth Bamicle Cadle's collection lier. Here's an entry coded "political event" from 1923: includes notes outlining the structure and origins of many African American spirituals and folk songs as well as an President Harding dies August 23 and is interview with folksinger Aunt Molly Jackson (p.49). succeeded by his laconic vice president, Sisters Caroline Phelps Stokes and Olivia Phelps Stokes Calvin Coolidge, whose wife, Grace, is a established and contributed to the Phelps Stokes Fund to onetime teacher of the deaf and mute. "That support the education of African American women and made it easier for her to live with Calvin," men (pp. 112-113). says Washington wit Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who will soon become a great This Guide serves as both a finding aid to material friend of the new chief executive and his on African American women in the Schlesinger Library wife. (p.434) and Radcliffe Archives and a likely stimulant to other repositories to conduct similar studies of their holdings. Olsen has only one short entry under Government, the Military, and the Law" in 1923: "Sweden admits women to most of its civil servicejobs" (p.216). CHRONOLOGY While priced the same, Trager 's book is longer (al- Kirstin Olsen, CHRONOLOGY OF WOMEN'S HIS- though Olsen's larger format gets somewhat more on a TORY. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1994. 506p. index. page) and contains 180 black-and-white illustrations $39.95, ISBN 0-313-28803-8. (Olsen's has none). Both feature extensive indexes, mak- ing them true reference works for more than chronology, James Trager, THE WOMEN'S CHRONOLOGY;. A with the edge going to Olsen's walloping 107 triplecol- YEAl-BY-YEQR RECORD FROM PREHISTORY TO wedpages. THE PRESENT. New York: H. Holt, 1994. 787p. in- dex. $40.00, ISBN 0-8050-2975-3. Neither book offers bibliographic citations to the facts assembled, but Olsen at least provides a three-page "Se- Good things come in pairs, an old saying goes. Still, lect bibliography" to the source books relied upon. This one has to wonder what it feels like to be either Kirsten bibliography gives a clue to the wide coverage in Olsen's Olsen or James Trager and know that your entertaining chronology. Besides books on women's history by pe- year-by-year record of women's history has been matched riod, profession, or place (U.S. and Britain predominate), by a similar effort issued almost simultaneously. Many there are four books on Japan and three each on China libraries and individual purchasers will opt for one, not and Latin America, plus books covering Christian both. Which one should it be? women, women in Islam, and witches. One source cat- egory is missing: no monographs are listed on African- Structurally the two books march through history American women (except Slave Women in Caribbean hmprehistory to the present. Olsen subdivides each year Society, by Barbara Bush, 1990). There are quite a few or group of years into ten categories: General Status and listings under "blacks" in the index, however; and read- Daily Life; Government, the Military, and the Law; Lit- ers can further supplement with "Black Women in the erature and Visual Arts;" Performing Arts and Enter- United States: A Chronology," compiled by Jamie Hart tainment; Athletics and Exploration; Business and In- and Elsa Barkley Brown in Black Women in America: dustry; Science and Medicine; Education and Scholar- An Historical Encyclopedia, edited by Darlene Clark ship; and Religion. Trager codes each entry with one of Hine (Carlson, 1993), pp. 1309-1332. In the absence of twenty-nine symbols indicating the area of endeavor, a bibliography, it is harder to judge the coverage in Trager. adding "nutrition," "crime," "population," and others to There are no listings in Trager's index for African Ameri- the types of categories found in Olsen. The writing is cans, &Americans, or Blacks. 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The entries are sufliciently eclectic that there is much sin-Madison's online catalog revealed many other titles more uniquely captured in each work than there is over- for these luminaries. For instance, I located twenty-five lap. I'm tempted to cop out and say (to librarians mostly), works by Catherine Beecher compared to the seven listed "Buy both." Well, buy both if you can, but if you can in the book. More complete bibliographies would have afford only one, consider these factors: If you have plenty strengthened this reference source. of other reference works on women's history and what you mainly want is chronology, then get Trager, because The women profiled represent different class and more information is supplied in the entries, enhanced by racial backgrounds. Further, the definition of educator photographs. But Olsen's index provides better use of is broad - and does not necessarily encompass the tradi- her book as a general women's history reference work, tional role of teacher or administrator, It is interesting and the larger typeface is easier on the eyes. to compare profiles of three women who appear consecu- tively: Fannie Mary Cohn, Johnetta B. Cole, and Miriam Colon. Ms. Cohn, a Jewish immigrant born in Minsk, EDUCATION Russia in 1885 to a prosperous family, became an educa- tor among union workers. Johnetta B. Cole was born in Maxine Schwartz Seller, ed., WOMEN EDUCATORS 1936 in Jacksonville, Florida into a prominent African- IN THE UNITED STATES, 18281993: A BIO-BIB American family who worshipped at the African Meth- LIOGRAPHICAL SOURCEBOOK. Westport, CT: odist Episcopal Church. She earned a Ph.D. in anthro- Greenwood, 1994. 603p. index. $99.50, ISBN 0-313- pology and became the first African American woman 27937-3. president of the prestigious black liberal arts college for women, Spelman College. Miriam Colon, born in Puerto Maxine Schwartz Seller has edited a useful refer- Rico into a working class family during the 1930's, stud- ence book with biographical information on sixty-six ied theater at various institutions including the Univer- women who made imbrtant contributions to American sity of Puerto Rim and Lee Strassberg's Actor's Studio. education from the &ly nineteenth century to the late She founded the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater and twentieth century. The focus on American women edu- became a distinguished cultural educator through her cators is a wise choice bringing together substantial in- work as an actress, producer, and director. formation for scholars and teachers studying the history of education as well as the history of American women. The profiles, illustrating the different lives and ac- com~lkhIUentsof American women educators. make this An informative introduction discusses the range of reference tool unique. I recommend Women Educators women, common themes among the educators, and the in the United States for college and university libraries, historical contexts to their works. The alphabetically particularly those libraries with strong collections on the arranged profiles average eight or nine pages each and history of education and the history of American women. are written by many different contributors. A chrono- Its Gialty provides new insigh& for both fields. logical list in the back of the work helps readers who wish to find women of the same em At the end of each [Reviewed by Margery E. Kalz, who is a librarian con- profile are short bibliographies that list works by and sultant for the State Historical Sociev of Msconsin Li- about the educator. A selected bibliography is useful for brary.] finding general books on women in education, and a gen- eral index is also included. Beverly A. Stilt, GENVER EQUITY IN EDUCATION: I was very pleased with the quality of the individual AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. Carbondale: profiles. Women I had read about included such notables Southern Illinois University Press, 1994. 168p. index. as Nobel Peace Prize winner Laura Jane Addams, home $24.95, ISBN 0-8093-1937-3. economist Catherine Beecher, abolitionist Lydia Maria Francis Child, and the creator of the National Council Several recent books have put some teeth behind the on Negro Women Mary McLdBethune. The profiles impression that girls face gender-based inequities in provided new interpretations of each of their lives by b schools. The 1992 AAUW Report summarizes hundreds cusing on their particular work as educators. However, I of studies documenting How Schools Shortchange Girls. found many ofthe bibliographies to be wholly hadequate. Myra and David Sadker culminate thirty years of research A quick computer search of the University of Wiscon- on these issues with Failing at Fairness: How America 9 Page 24 Feminist Calledi- ~.16.p.l.Fa11,1994 - "* P +- - ,-. . Schools Cheat Girls (Scnir 's, 1994). JouFqalistPeggy caqorq" and "Nont@tional €aree&' bslt someone in- Orenstein presents the disturbing findings of;he.r obser- terested in career imes yuld simply all three. A vations of middle- school children wough riveting nar- section that will bqof ioteqesj to adult educators- is titled ratives in Schoolgirls: Young Women,$e~+steem, and :.'Displaced HomemakersJReentry Women." the Confidence Gap @oubleQy. 1994). Byt, what's @e , - well-meaning teacher supposed to do after she's read these accounts and intedized the conclqiow? Slhe could turn to Gender Equikin Education:An+qnotated ~ibliog&~h~,which is ful! of specific clkrwm activi- R Baskin and Shelly ties, videos, curriculum guides, and other resources for AND JEWSHSTUDIES: A CURRICULUM GUIDE. alleviating gender inequity. &h citation contains in- New York: Biblio Press, 1994, 163p. $12.95, ISBN 0- formation on a source for obtaining the item. 930395-194.

piler Stitt, coordinator of This is the first collection of syllabi in the field since associate professor of information syste - Sue Levi Elwell's The Jewish Women k Studies Guide. ,Lege of Technical Careers @ Southem Illinois Univer- whose second edition appearedin 1987, also from Biblio sity,hasbpen seleciive indeciding what to include. While Press. According to the editors, these new syllabi have omitting what she considers outdated or poorly devel- all moved beyond the inclusion of "women worthies" and oped materials, she lists many resources prepared in @e represent attempts either to incorporate gender concerns 1970's and 1980's that she evaluated as remaining use- into Jewish Studies courses or to focus on Jewish women's ful. I have some trouble with this approach, because there particularity within women's studies. They begin to re- seems to be such a preponderance of citations to earlier dress the double marginality of Jewish women in univer- material. The "History" section lists many iteqfrom sity curricula - invisible in Jewisb Studies as women the National Womeds History Project, for example, but and absent as Jews from the prevailing categories of none dated later than 1986. The address provided for the multicultural experiences. The syllabi come from both Project has not been correct for some years, and several university and adult education cowses. of the items no longer are listed in the Project's catalog. Numerous newer resources distributed by the Project are Most of the syllabi and course descriptions are from missing from Gender Equity m Education, and I am members oft& Jewish Studies Women's Caucus, an in- dubious it is because thexare "poorly developed materi- dependent support and networking organization for als." In other stions Stitt lists computer software dat- women scholars in the Association of Jewish Studies. ing from 1984. What current machine would this soft- The university-based contributors are on faculties of Jew- ish Studies, Women's Studies, History, English, Sociol- ogy, and other fields at Yale, University of Pennsylvania, Duke, Clark, Brandeis, various campuses of the State University-of New York and elsewhere. Adult educators ministrators,counselors, and teachers a good start at tack- include Eenina Adelman, author of Miriam k Well: Ritu- ling gender inequity. The book is arranged into twenty- als for Jewish Women Amund the Year, Sondra Henry, three categories relating to school subjects, services, and co-author of Written Out ofHislory: A Hidden Legacy of concerns, including Elementary Education, Gender Role Jewish Women Revealed Thmugh,Their Writings and Stereotyping, Pregnant and Parenting Teens, and Math Letters, and Marcia Cohn Spiegql, *author of The Jew- and Science. In my view some of the megories belong ish Women k Awamness Guide. together, such as "Career Guidance," "Vocational Edu- The syllabi are arranged in sections covering Bible much analytical work in a comparatively new field like and Rabbinics, General History, Jewish History, Women feminist literary criticism must be mined from the as- and Religion, Literature, Social Science, and Learning yet-unpublished work of young researchers trained by Programs in the Women's Community. They can be used the first generation of feminist scholars. by instxuctors wishing to incorporate units on Jewish women into their courses and by readers looking for sug- gestions on significant works to read about Jewish SEXUAL HARASSMENT women. Kerry Segrave. THE SEXUAL HARASSMENT OF WOMENIN THE WORKPLACE,1600-1993. Jefferson, LITERARY CRITICISM NC: McFarland, 1994. 27333. index. $32.50, ISBN O- 7864-007-2. Liana Sakelliou-Schultz, FEMINIST CRITICISM OF AMERICANPDETS: ANAmOTATED BIBWOGR4- The depressing fact that Segrave documents so well PHY 1975-1993. New Yo*: Garland, 1994. 332p. in- is that the phenomenon we now call sexual harassment dexes. ISBN 0-8240-7084-4. has always shadowed women whenever and wherever they work. "One of the striking aspects is the universal- Liana Sakelliou-Schultz of the University of Ath- ity..." says Segrave, including a surprising amount of ens, Greece, structured this annotated bibliography to written documentation pre-1960, a "testament to the de- emphasize the distinction between theory and practice. termination of people ...who persevered in getting abuses Three of the six chapters describe theoretical work about on record, even if they could not stop the abuse" (Pref- feminist criticism and three list practical literary criti- ace). Segravebegins by discussing the concept of woman cism of women poets and their works. In addition, her as slut - "loose, immoral, promiscuous" - who would thirty-two-page introduction sets out a series of questions actively entice men. Women who fell into prostitution on the most discussed issues in feminist criticism, largely through economic necessity confirmed the viewpoint. of a theoretical nature. "What are the goals of feminist Add the Victorian idea that the male sex drive was pow- literary scholarship?" "What is the definition of feminist erful and diflicult if not impossible to control, and the criticism?" "Should feminist criticism look to other criti- resounding conclusion was that men were blameless. The cal appmaches to develop its methods'?"and "Do women convoluted logic is taken to the extreme in an article have a Werent literature because they have a different Segrave cites by Nicholas Davidson in Society (1991). body and experience?" --these are some of the questions According to Davidson, feminists are responsible, be- Sakelliou-Schultz takes on She guides the reader through cause feminists promoted the sexual revolution. But as the responses provided by major figures in the field such Segrave shows, sexual harassment needs no sexual revo- as Elaine Showalter, Annis Pratt, Linda Kauffman, Ellen lution to ignite it. Messer-Davidow, Ton1 Moi, Jane Gallop, Sandra Gil- bert, and Susan Gubar. Yet, she concludes her introduc- Segrave surveys harassment of indentured servants, tion with the view "...more work still needs to be done. serfs, and slaves who began arriving in America in 1620; At the end of this period [I9931 there still are no full- domestic servants in Europe and America from the 1600's scale theories in feminist criticism with the degree of onward; industrial workers in the 1800's and 1900's, articulation and breadth of application as in some male including harassment within trade unions; women in theories -Eliot's and Bloom's are characteristic" @.xlv). male-intensive blue-collar occupations; clerical workers; those in "serving and nurturing roles"; women in war- The bibliography will be useM to two types of read- time and military work; professional women; and women ers: those looking for guidance in contextualizing the who work for politicians. A chapter is devoted to each increasing number of books, dissertations, and articles category, followed by chapters on surveys and laws and on feminist literary theory, and those needing citations on legal myths and realities. I could feel my blood pres- on critical approaches to individual poets. The name and sure rising as I read through instance after instance of subject index provides access to the works on individu- harassment. Segrave's juxtaposing of cases from differ- als, since the arrangement of the chapters is strictly by ent countries and centuries intensifies the experience. format (books, dissertations, and articles). The promi- This is a powerful book. nence given to dissertations reminds researchers that Paee 26 Feminist Collections v.16. na. 1 Fdl 1 OOA

WOMEN IN SCIENCE women at work. American Women in Science is now the most convenient place to hnd biographies of women in Martha J. Bailey, AMERICAN WOMEN IN SCIENCE: the history of science in America. A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARK Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1994.463~.index. $60.00, ISBN 0-87436- 740-9. WOMEN WORLDWIDE

"She was appointed lecturer while her husband was Joke Buringa, edited by Marta Colburn, BIBLIOGRA- appointed professor" (Irmgard Flugge-Lotz).... "Shewas PHY ON WOMEN IN YEMEN. Westbury, NY: Ameri- unable to find a salaried academic position due to preju- can Institute for Yemeni Studies. 1992. 157p. $10.00, dices against hiring women professors.. .taught at Barnard ISBN 1-882557-00-X. Available from Middle East Stud- College as an unpaid professor because she had an inde- ies Association, University of Arizona, 1232 Cherry Av- pendent income" (Emily Gregory).... "She was unable to enue, Tucson, AZ 85721. secure a position at a major institution" (Priscilla Butler Hussey) .... "The social convention of the time was that Dutch anthropologistBuringa was commissioned by women did not work after marriage, but many wives con- the Dutch government to compile this bibliography of tinued to work as unpaid or underpaid assistants in their Western language resources in order to help scholars and husbands' laboratories, editing and preparing manu- people active in development understand the role of scripts for publication, and instructing graduate students women in a rapidly changing society. Change in Yemen in laboratory procedwn @. 185) -- a litany familiar to has been political as well as societal. In 1987-88 when observers of the history of women in science, but made most of the information was collected, Buringa's research more poignant through stories about individual women was confined to the part of Yemen formally known as affected by the discrimination and prejudice encountered Yemen Arab Republic (YAR). By 1990, the YAR and the by women scientists. This biographical dictionary does a People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY) had fine job of conveying the facts about the lives of four unified into the Republic of Yemen, making the bibliog- hundred women whose careers began prior to 1950. raphy somewhat dated. The editor added some references to women in the PDRY and updated from 1988. Bailey built her core list of American women scien- Buringa lists citations two ways -- alphabetically by tists from several excellent prior reference sources: the author and by subject. The subject categories include early editions of American Men and Women of Science "main sources" and several topics in development, health, (formerly American Men of Science), published since and child care. The editor appended a section listing gen- 1906; Notable American Women; the Dictionary of eral bibliographies about Yemen. Many listings include American Biography; and Caroline Hemnberg's check- the libraries and organizations where Buringa found the list Women Scientists From Antiquity to the Present material in Yemen. Some of the reports cited are unpub- (1986). She also found information on many women lished and may be difficult to obtain, according to employed by federal and state agencies using John Buringa, because project directors and organizations "re- Barnhart's Biographical Notes Upon Botanists (1965). serve the right to hand over unpublished materials at their Women in the Scient$c Search, by Patricia Siege1 and own discretion." While this is undoubtedly true, perhaps Kay Finley (1985) and Women in the Sciences: Antiq- they will decide to publish the reports if they get mul- uity Through the Nineteenth Century,by Marilyn Ogilvie tiple requests generated by mention of the documents in (1986) were also useful, along with additional publica- this bibliography. tions cited in Bailey's bibliography. Some readers may quibble about the inclusion of women like Fanny Farmer WOMEN'S STUDIES ANTHOLOGIES who started cooking schools or botanical illustrators, but given the constraints on the education and employment Sara Brownmiller and Ruth Dickstein, AN INDEX TO of women during early periods, their presence seems jus- WOMEN'S STUDIES ANTHOLOGIES: RESE4RCH titied. ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES, 1980-1984. New York: G.K.Hall,1994.494p. indexes. $150.00, ISBN 0-8161- This book is well laid out for appeal to general read- 0589-8. ers as well as researchers. There are pleasant graphics used at the beginning of each letter of the alphabetically Women's studies transcends the boundaries of tra- arranged entries, the typeset is large, and many photo- ditional disciplines. This is simultaneously an appealing graphs accompany the biographies, often showing the aspect of conducting women's studies research and area- FaninisI CoUAnul v. 16. no. 1. Fd1994 P.P~27 son for considerable frustration. It isn't really the field WORK that causes the fj-ustration. It is the clunky ways libraries deal with interdisciplinarity -where do you classify it? Parvin Ghorayshi, WOMEN AA!D WORK IN DEVEL- where do you index it? where do you shelve it? The re- OPING COUNTRIES: AN ANNOTATED BLBLIOG search problem is compounded by considering material RAPHY. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994.223~.index. published in collections, proceedings, and other antholo- $59.95, ISBN 0-313-28834-8. gies. Though more like periodical articles, such essays are not indexed in periodical indexes, nor can one rely Parvin Ghorayshi is a professor of sociology at the on book-level cataloging to provide subject access to the University of Winnipeg whose areas of interest are the contents of anthologies. The only resource devoted ex- sociology of work, social theory, and economic sociol- clusively to capturing the contents of anthologies, the ogy. Her aim in Women and Work in Developing Coun- Essay and General Literature Index, covers only a small tries is to help "develop an understanding of the nature number of women's studies works each year. of women's work in all its variations and permutations. and to evaluate its importance to the larger society" (Pref- An hdex to Women 's Studies Anthologies fills this ace). In the 1980's and 1990's this subject has been of particular research gap in all respects for the period cov- increasing interest in women's studies, particularly with ered, 1980-1984. The contents of almost five hundred respect to studying the meaning and value of women's anthologies in economics, anthropology, communica- work in developing countries, and citations from this time tions, literary criticism, science, psychology, sociology, period predominate. history, international studies and more are fully acces- sible by author, editor, broad subject category, and title- Despite this attention at the societal level, accord- keyword. The compilers used New Books on Women & ing to Ghorayshi, there have been few actual studies of Feminism from our office to compile their initial list, women's working lives. A portrait of women at work supplemented by the Essay and General Literature In- does emerge, however, in several documentary videos that dex (they note that this proved to be a "meagre source for Ghorayshi thoughtfully included in the bibliography. Her locating women's anthologies not already listed in New cross-referencing system between the audiovisual chap- Books" ~ntrcduction]and keyword searches of online ter and the rest of the book will help instructors incorpo- catalogs. The coverage of books published outside the rate these resources into their teaching, although contact United States is especially welcome, since it is another information on distributors would have been welcome. source of material treated less well by other U.S.-based indexes. The book has an interesting structure that demon- strates both the differences in work situations for women Indexed here are such diverse essays as "Ceremo- in different countries or regions and draws out some com- nies of the Alphabet: Female Grandmatologies and the mon analytical themes. Besides chapters on general works Female Autograph" retrievable under Autograph, Cer- covering methodological issues and audiovisual re- emony, and Grandmatology; "Mood and Behavior sources, four other chapters divide the developing world Changes in Menopausal Women Receiving Gonadal regionally (Africa, Asia, Latin AmeridCaribbean, and Hormones or Placebos," found under Behavior, Meno- Middle East). But all six chapters have sections on the pause, Mood, Gonadal. Hormone, and Placebo; and social construction of gender; women, state and devel- "Afro-American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Cen- opment policies; work and family; women's experience tury: A Guide to Research and Bio-bibliographies of the of wage-work; working in rural areas; and working for Poets" listed under African American women, Poet, Bib- change. Countrylregion, author, and subject indexes pro- liography, Biobibliography, and Nineteenth Century. vide Wermeans of access.

It is of course unfortunate that this excellent volume There are some omissions. Although Ruth Taplin is covers only books published more than ten years ago. cited for her work on women and work in Egypt (same Publisher G.K. Hall says that a second volume covering citation listed as both #136, in the General Works chap- 1985-1989 is in progress. I hope that Brownmiller and ter, and #529, in The Middle East), her crosscultural Dickstein.and the publisher will consider adding these study Economic Development and the Role of Women: volumes to the Women 9 Studies hdex on CD-ROM, also An Interdisciplinary Appmach (Avebury, 1989) would produced by G.K.Hall. Hurry, hurry, the need is great! surely have been appropriate to the bibliography, too. Debra Renee Kaufman's Rachel b Daughters: Newly Orthodox Women (Rutgers, 1991) is one of the few cita- general business associations. Almost half the book is a tions to works ostensibly about Israeli women, but the dimtory of national, regional, and state offices of vari- book in fact deals with American Jewish women. A bet- ous business-related governmental agencies. Five pages ter choice on Israeli women would have been the article of "Books For and About Women in Business" published by Dafna Izraeli and personal essays by women workers since 1988 lead to additional resources. in the "Work Women Do" section of Calling the Equal- ity Blu8 Women in Israel, edited by Barbara Swirski The Women's Business Resource Guide is graphi- and Marilyn P. Safir (Pergamon, 1991). These essays are cally pleasing and easy to browse. It is a good choice for just the type Ghorayshi wanted to include. public libraries. The state-by-state listings of the offices of the same federal agencies seem a bit superfluous, how- Nevertheless, I recommend Women and Work in ever. A description of each agency with offices through- Developing Countries as a very good resource to anyone out the United States would have been sufficient, with a interested in finding a variety of materials on the sub- note "Oflices in each state. Consult federal listings in ject. your local phone book for the office in your area." I doubt this would have stymied would-be entrpreneurs. But then the book would have been considerably shorter, and per- Barbara Littman and Michael Ray, THE WOMEN'S haps too short to publish. BUSINESS RESOURCE GUDE: A NATIONAL DI- RECTORY OF OVER 600 PROGRAMS, RESOURCES AmORGANI24TIONS TO HELP WOMEN START OR -AND A BUSINESS. Eugene, OR: The Resource Group, 1994 (P.0. Box 25505, Eugene, OR 97402). 13 lp. Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman and Christopher J. index. $21.95. ISBN 1-884565-01-8. Canfield, CONTEMPDR4RY SOUTHERN WOMEN FICTION WRITERS:ANANNOTATED BIBLIOGRA- Women currently own 30 percent of all businesses PHY. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1994. 225p. in- in the United States, a number expected to rise to 40-50 dex. $32.50, ISBN 0-8108-2832-4. percent by the year 2000, according to the Small Busi- ness Administration's Status Report to Congress, Statis- Each word in the title is significant to understand- tical Information on Women in Business (1990). Accord- ing who is included (and who isn't) among the twenty- ing to Littman and Ray (a married couple with back- eight authors in this bibliography. "Contemporary" is grounds in small business, marketing, education, writ- defined as currently or recently producing works of fic- ing, and design), women-owned businesses grow more tion, thus excluding Eudora Welty. "Southern" means slowly than those started by men, although their long- writers born in the South, even if they live elsewhere and term success rate is dramatically better. Citing Manage- disparage their birthplace (ex.: Alice Adams). "Fiction" ment Review March 1992, they say that 75 percent of allows novelists and short story writers in, but not poets women-owned businesses succeed, compared to 20 per- or essayists, and "women writers" include those who es- cent for "all businesses." Yet, they were struck by how chew the label. The realities of annotating are such that few businmomen they came in contact with were aware the phrase "annotated bibliography" presages selectivity of the many resources available to women in business, over comprehensiveness, and though the work bears a and they therefore decided to compile this Guide. 1994 publication date, citations end with 1991. Because The Guide covers federal, state, and private resources the authors also wanted to balance the amount of mate- of information and training, technical assistance and rial presented on each writer, citations on well-researched counseling programs. Basic information is provided about writers like Alice Walker come mainly fiombooks, while each resource, and in some cases a more detailed "pro- Vicki Covington's listing include periodicals and news- file" of a participant follows. They also devote one of paper articles. Since the authors clearly enunciate this their five chapters to "Selling to the Gwenunent" to poiicy in their introduction, readers should have no prob- encourage women entrepreneurs to compete for govern- lem interpreting the level of coverage. ment contracts, calling special attention to "small busi- ness set-asides," a procurement regulation requiring that One pmblem I have with the book, however, is one I government purchases of $25,000 or less be purchased find much too often with reference works on women. I from small businesses. Another chapter describes pro- see articles cited from Saturday Review, Critique: Stud- fessional and business associations of women along with ies in Modern Fiction, The New York Rmes Book Re- view and The Southern Literary Journal. But where are. Beck adds women and ethical concerns to the definition: the the women's studiesjournals? The introduction says they've limited citations to "generally accessible books Being Jewish informs a woman's conscious- at the htlevel, well-known scholarly journals and/or ness from the time she is young ... Our shared general interest magazines after that. If necessary we wisdom, shared fears and hopes, shared sense would delve into more obscure scholarly works, followed of history, shared languages and literature; our by newspapers and magazine reviews" (p.4). Scanning oral story-telling tradition (Introduction, p.3, the entries, I saw only one citation representing women's quoting Beck, Nice Jewish Girls, 1982). studies periodicals (Belles Leihs). Surely The Women k Review ofBooks has to fit somewhere here. I cannot rec- The introduction describes the several strands of a ommend a work on women writers that makes such in- "braided tradition" present in these writers' works - nar- adequate use of women's studies literature and review ratives by and about the immigrant experience, Holo- journals. caust and survivor literature, works motivated by reli- gion and/or ethnicity, narratives focusing on gender is- sues, and literature exploring ethical concerns, sometimes Ann R Shapiro, et al., eds., JEWISH AMERICAN in a religious context. Mary Antin and Anzia Yezierska WOMEN WRITERS: A BIO-BLBLIOGRAPHICAL are two women who wrote of the generational conflicts AND CRITICAL SOURCEBOOK. Wgtport, a:Green- among the large wave of Eastern European Jewish im- wood, 1994.576~.index. $89.50, ISBN 0-313-28437-7. migrants to America at the turn of the century. Holo- caust survivors Ilona Karmel, Irena Klepiisz, and Lore What do radical feminist essayist , Segal are. each influenced by their personal histories. The Fannie Hurst, author of Back Stmet and Imitatim oflife, work of Norma Rosen, Marge Piercy, and Cynthia Ozick playwright Wendy Wasserstein, and poet Alicia Ostriker also Mls in the penumbra of the Holocaust. Several writ- have in common? They are all Jewish women writers ers use Biblical settings Glizabeth Swados and Shirley and are among the fifty-seven writers sweyedby scholar- Kaufman), and others create modem characters who contributors in Jewish American Women Writers. There struggle with issues of Jewish identity (Rebecca Goldstein, is no recognized canon of Jewish American women's lit- Tova Reich). erature, however, and the compilers have selected sev- eral less-well-known contemporary writers as well as Each chapter focuses on a different writer, but fol- these better-known figures. The definition of "Jewish lows the same pattern: biography, major themes, criti- writer" is also an interpretive one. According to Sara cism, and bibliography of works and criticism. Essays Blacher Cohen's foreword, the women in thisS0u11:ebook vary in length based on the amount of work written by include many who earlier in their careers wanted to "cut and about the author. An interesting final chapter sur- the Jewish literary cord," but who subsequently returned veys autobiography, an important idproli6c genre for to their Jewish roots. The compilers rely on inclusive Jewish American women. Accordine to contributor Bar- deutionsby Elie W~eseland . First, bara Shollar, some two hundred twehtiethcentury auto- W~esel's: biographies by Jewish women can be identified in which ethnicity and gender are important themes. Whether he celebrates the triumphs or the torments of his people or whether he deni- Jewish American Women Writers will be of great grates them, whether he clings to his past or assistance to comparative literature and Jewish women's detaches himself from it, he will reflect his studies instructors as well as readers interested in find- background in more than one way. Jew by ing out something about the lives of these authors, other conviction or Jew in spite of himself, the Jew- books they've written, and analysis by reviewers and other ish writer cannot be anything else. What is critics. most ironic is that even his rejection of his - P.H. W. Jewishness identifies him (Introduction, p.2, quoting Wiesel, "Foreword," The Literature of the Jews, ed. by T. Gross, 1974). I Page 30 Feminist CoUdom v.16,no.l, Fa11 1994 I PERIODICAL NOTES NEW AND NEWLY DISCOVERED PER& new religious movements like Raelians and followers of ODICALS Rajneesh; the Mother Goddess in Hindu religious expe- rience; Judaism's feminine aspect of God, and looks at CORDOZO WOMENS LAwjoWAL 1994- . 2/yr. Biblical parallels in the film Affer Dark, My Sweet. Single copy: $20. ISSN 1074-5785. 55 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10003. (Issue examined: v. 1, no.2, 1994) GROOTS NEWSLETTER 1993- . Eds.: Jaya The sample issue includes two articles: " 'Those Arumchala~Sri Vidhya, and Meera Sankaran. c/o Privileges Long Rmw:Tennimtion of Parend Groots India, No.5 5, Bhimasena Garden Street, Rights Law, the Family Right to Integrity and the Pri- Mylaporte, ~a&'aH3lo004, India. (Issue -4: v.2, vate Culture of the Family" (J. Bohl); "African Ameri- "0.4, July-August 1994) can Women and the Limits of Law and Society" (Carole This newsletter of Grassroots Organisations Oper- H. Hofstein); a review of For Whose Pmtection? Repm- ating Together In Sisterhood seems geared to develop- ductive Hazarrls and Exclusionary Policies in the Un ired i% non-govemmend organizations (NGOS) toward such States and Britain by Sally J. Kenney (Deirdre Burke); world gatherin@ as the recent UN Conference on PoPu- and an annotated legal bibliography. lation andDevelopment in Cairo and the upcoming 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women tobe held in Beijing. FAT GIRL 1994-. 4/yr. $20. 2215-R Market st., #193, Female infanticide is the topic of the sample issue's "Pub- San Francisco, CA 94114. (Issue examined: No. 1,1994) lic Forum." This 'zine is "for and about Fat Dykes" and seeks to "create a broad-based dialogue which both challenges HECATE'S LOOM 1986- . Eds.: Collective. 4Iyr. and informs our notions of Fat- identity." Inside CDNs11-15 sliding scale (Canada); ~~$13-18(u.s.); the issue are stories, photos, cartoons, interviews and CDN18-24 (overseas). Single copy: $3.95. Box 5206, surveys, and regular columns such as an a&, column, Station B., Victoria, BC V8R 6N4, Canada. (Issue ex- information swaps, announcements, etc. The sixty pages amined: Lammas 994) include some graphic photographs and images; the mast- Within its forty-six pages, this "National Pagan head notes that Fat Girl is not to be read by minors. Magazine" of Canada includes regular columns such as Letters, Fonun, Reviews, Coming Events, and Full Moon MOM THE FLAMES: A QUARTERLY JOURNAL Fever, plus articles CWhat Witches DO in and OFMBICAL FEMINISM ,G SPIRITUALITY 1991-. '''Other' as a Religious Category," for example), news 4/yr. Sliding scale for indiv.: f 7-525 (UK); f 9-527 Eu- fiomvarious wid~aganclubsandgatheri~g,arc and rope &worldwide (surface mail); f 12-80 (airmail); inst. pay top rate. Single copy: f 1.95 (UK); £2.50 @&ope); £3 (worldwide). 42 Mapperley Rd., Nottingham, NG3 HEY THERE, BARBIE GIRL! 1994- . Ed.: Barbara 5AS, England. (Issue examined: no. 13, Summer 1994) Kligman. S21issue. P.O. Box 819, Peter Stuyvesant Sta- The forty pages of this women-only quarterly include tion, New Yo4 NY 10009. (Issues examined: No.1, topics such as how therapy can depoliticize women, the W~nter1994; No.2 Spring 1994; No.3 Summer 1994) false memory syndrome, one woman's experience with This snickering 'zine look at the overdeveloped postnatal depression, and Sonia Johnson's latest book. Barbie doll image offers such compelling articles as "To- There are also poetry, artwork, a substantial letters sec- tally Unemployed Barbie," "Gothic Barbie on Color tion, news of opportunities for activism, and a resource Therapy," "Psycho-Babble Barbie: 101," "Our Barbies, listing. Ourselves," "Origin of Species: Homo Barb-iens," and "Minimalist Barbie," plus previews of "Barbies to GENDER IN WORLD RELIGIONS 1990- . Eds.: Come ...." Interesting photos and artwork fill each issue. Arvhd Sharma, Katherine K. Young, Pamela D. Stewart, and Paul A. Nathanson. $15. ISSN 1183-3491. Arvind HIP MAMA: THE PARENTING ZINE 1994- . Ed.: Sharma, Faculty of Religious Studies, 3520 University Ariel Gore. 4/yr. $12-20. Single copy: $3.95. P.O. Box St., McGill University, Montreal, PQ H3A 2A7, Canada. 9097, Oakland, CA 94613. (Issue examined: No.3, Fall (Issues examined: v.111, 1992; v.IV, 1993) 1994) Articles in the two sample issues (four essays in each) Dedicated to "celebrating the multiplicity of moth- cover topics such as Christian theology and feminism, ering experiences everywhere," (p.2) this quarterly in- cludes such columns as "Beyond Whirled Peas" (on food in this culture." photocopies and compiles the material, ideas), "A Little Motherly Advice," and "Loose Grip." then mails a publication of more than one hundred pages There are also reviews, poetry, arhvork, and a variety of to those contributors. Billing itself as "an amateur press articles on such themes as rearing multiracial children association for those selfdefined as abundant, ample, in our society, belly dancing during pregnancy, and f3ct.d altitudinally disproportionate, bountiful," etc., the pub- statistics that mothers should know. lication is meant "to share our joys and pains, ways we've found to keep our sanity, love ourselves and keep our HOTHEAD PAISAN HOMICIDAL LESBL4N TER- lives going despite negative attitudes we find around us" RORIST 19911- . Writerlillustrator: Diane Dimassa. 41 (publicity flier). yr. $14 (U.S.); $15 (Canada); $18 (overseas). P.O. Box 214. New Haven, CT 06502. Single copy: $3.50. (Is- PAKISTAN JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S STUDIES: sues examined: no. 13, n0.4, no.15) ALAM-ENISWAN 1993- . Ed.: Tahera Afiab. Uyr. W~thinthis 5-112 x 8-112-inch publication are is- $30 (intl., indiv., surface mail); $36 (intl., inst., surface); sue-length cartoon stories by writerlillustrator Diane $36 (intl,, indiv. airmail); $42 (intl., inst., airmail). C- Dirnassa, plus occasional photographs and letters from 12, Staff Town, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270, fans. Pakistan. (Issue examined: v. 1, no. 1 [1994]) Topics within the eighty-five pages of this Pakistani LAVENDER ANNUAL 19891- . Compiler: Miriam journal include domestic violence in Bangladesh, alien- Saphira. $12. ISBN 0-908780-16-8. Papers, Inc., P.O. ation among working women, women's rights in tribal Box 47-398, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand. (Issue areas of Pakistan, nual Bangladesh women in family examined) decision-making, employment patterns of Malaysian "Poems, Pride, People, Puzzles, Pictures, Purple women, and more. Following the book reviews is a long Prose, Passion & Fashion" says the cover of the sample section called "News and Views," with short takes on issue. Inside are such titles as "Sketches from our Past" women's research centers and programs around the (Jane Heap), "For the Parents" (Rachel), "Dyke Power world, conferences, and other tidbits of information. Rap" (Saj), "To Hug or Not to Hug" (Evachild), 'Xow Lesbian Are You?" (Miriam Saphira), plus line drawing FVETRIX 1994- . Eds.: Committee. 2&. $12 (in- "puzzles," photos, cartoons, and a total of 139 pages cludes postage). Single copy: $5. ISSN 1320-9345. do meant "to contribute to raising the self esteem of lesbi- Footscray Community Arts Center, P.O. Box 479, ans, provide a venue for the many talents of lesbians to Footscray, Wc 3011 Australia. (Issue examined: No.2, be expressed, and to cheer us up over the winter May 1994) months...." "Aiming for the highest possible standard," this small Australian journal plans to feature "both well THE LESBITARLAN. Ed.: Jenn McCree. 6&. $20; known and new [Australian] writers in a mix of the $64 (outside U.S.). Single copy: $3.95 (U.S.); $4.95 thoughtful, provocative, sad, funny, political, dynamic, (Canada). Miner Enterprises, 3636 S. Almeda, Suite quiet..." (p.33). Twenty-six poets are featured in the 191, Corpus Christi, TX78411-1723. (Issuesexamined: sample issue of thirty-two pages. August/September 1994; October/November, 1994) This tongue-incheek periodical lampoons the news, WOMEN'S WRITING: THE ELIZ4BETN TO WC- lesbian issues, Christmas carols, personals ads, commer- TOWPERIOD 1994- . Eds.: Marie Mulvey Rob- cial advertising, and much more. Issues received are erts, Janet Todd. 3&. $52l;E35 (indiv.); S1201L72 (inst). eighteen and twenty-one pages, side stapled. "Dedicated ISSN 0969-9082. Triangle Journals, Ltd., P.O. Box 65, to publicizing the buffoonery of Rush Limbaugh and Lisa Wallingford, Oxfords 're OX10 OYG, UK. (Issue ex- Marie Presley," says the masthead. amined: v.1 n0.1. 199 "Not ...confined Ato the recently created feminist LMNG LARGE 1993- . Ed.: Kathleen Madigan. 6&. canon...," this new journal will also include "discom $2 per issue postage account (for mailing costs). Single concerned with science, medicine, the body and sexual- copy: $4. P.O. Box 1006, Elgin, IL 60121-1006. (Issues ity, as well as educational treatises and conduct books ..." examined; no.7, ApriVMay 1994; no.8, JundJuly 1994; (p.3). The focus is to be on earlier women's writing and no.9. August/September 1994) "little-worked later areas and writers." Among the writ- Editor Madigan gathers 'zine contributions from a ers discussed in the first issue are Rachel Hunter, limited number of participants on the topic of "being fat Catherine Hutton, Lady Eleanor Davies, Frances Burney, and Penelope Aubin. 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SPECIAL ISSUES OF PERIODICALS Illicit Drug Use by Pregnant Women: Reports from Or- egonBirth Attendants" (Iaure.noe Slutsker et al.); "AIDS- ah: AUTO/BIOGRAPHY STUDIES v.8, no.2, Fall Related Knowledge, Perceptions, and Behaviors among 1993: "Special Issue: Feminist Biography." Eds.: Rebecca Impoverished Minority Women" (Adeline Nyamathi et Hogan, Joseph Hogan. $15 (indiv.); $30 (inst.). Lori al.). Askeland, a/b:Auto/Biography Shtdies, Joyce and Eliza- beth Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kan- COWRGENCE v.27, no.213, 1994: special issue on sas, Lawrenoe, KS 66045-2967. (Issue examined) women and development. Guest ed.: Leslie Limage. Contents: "Introduction: Feminism, Biography, Africa, Asia and Latin America: $30; single copy: $9 Theory." (Janet Sharistanian); "Biography and Autobi- (includes surface mail), $16 (double issue); elsewhere: ography: Intermixing the Genres" (Lois W. Banner); $39; single copy: $12; double issue: $20. ISSN 0010- "Heroine of the Peripheral? Biography, Feminism, and 8146. International Council for Adult Education, 720 Sylvia Plath" (Devoney Looser); "Caroline Leakey: Body Bathurst Street, Suite 500, Toronto, Ontario CanadaMSS and Authorship" (Jenna Mead); "The Value of Female 2R4. (Issue examined) Public Rituals for Feminist Biography: Maria Weston Among the twenty articles, most of which are in Chapman and the Boston Anti-Slavery Anniversary" (Lee English, are these: "Women's Literacy in Worldwide Chambers-Schiller); "The Sewing Contest: Christina Perspective" (Leslie Limage); "Women, Work and De- Rossetti and the Other Women" (Janet Gray); and "Femi- mocracy in Latin America" (Beatrice Edwards); "Gen- nist Biography as Shaped Narrative: Telling Willa der Identity and Muslim Women: Tools of Oppression Cather's Stories" (Sharon O'Brien). Turned into Empowerment" (Nayyar Javed); "Women's Literacy: The Connection to Health and Family Plan- ABS: AMERICAN BEHAVIORAL SCIENTIST v.37, ning" (John P. Comings et al.); "Participatory Video as no.8, August 1994: "Rethinking Feminist Concerns: The Post-Literacy Activity for Women in Rural Nepal" Evolution of Feminist Thought." Guest eds.: Madeleine (Sumon Tuladhar); and "Concretizing Concepts: Con- R Stoner, Betty Friedan. $66 (indiv.); $220 (inst.). tinuing Education Strategies for Women" (Renyuka Single copy: $14 (indiv.); $28 (inst.). ISSN 0002-7642. Mishra et al.). Sage Publications, 2455 Teller Rd., Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. (Issue examined) DEMOCRATIC CULTUREv.3, no.2 pall 1994): "Spe- Partial contents, taken largely fiom presentations at cial Issue on: Who Stole Feminism?" Ed.: John K. Wll- the Betty Friedan Think Tank at the University of South- son. $25 (membership); $5 (studentflow income). Single em California: "Developing New Paradigms for Living, copy: $5. Teachers for a Democratic Culture, P.O. Box Working, and Community Throughout Life" (Madeleine 6405, Evanston, IL 60204. (Issue examined) R Stoner); "Toward the Evolution of Feminist Thought" Sixteen essays offer commentary on Christina Hoff (Betty Friedan); "A Feminist Regrounding of Sexuality Sommers' Who Stole Feminism? The writers: Nina and Intimacy" (presentation by Banie Thorne and Carol Auerbach, Dale Bauer, Russell Eisenman, Jonathan Warren); "Rethinking the Choice to Have Children" (pre- Entin, Patricia Fmt, Elizabeth Fay, Ann Ferguson, sented by Elizabeth Bartholet and Elaine Draper); "Re- Laura Flanders, Susan Friedman, Linda Hirshman,. thinking Environmental Choices" (presented by Gloria Celinda Lake, Ellen Messer-Davidow, David Sadker, Orenstein and Doretta Zemp). Myra Sadker, Rebecca Sinkler, and John K. W~lson.

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH v.83, PARAGRAPH v. 17, no. 1, March 1994: "Inequality/ no. 1, January 1993: special section titled "Articles on Theory 2: Gender and Sexuality." Ed.: Cath Sharrock. Women's and Children's Health." Ed.: Mervyn Susser. f19.75/$38.50 (indiv.); f39.50/$77 (inst.); f22 (indiv. $100 (indiv.); $140 (indiv., international); $160 (inst.); overseas); £44 (inst. overseas). Single copy: f 15/$26; $200 (inst., international). Single copy: $13; $14 (int'l. f16 (overseas). ISSNO264-8334. Journals Subscriptions surface mail); $22 (int'l. airmail). ISSN 00904036. Department, Edinburgh University Press, 22 George 1015 Fifteenth St., NW,Washington, DC 20005. Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LF Scotland (Issue examined) Partial contents: "The Health Consequences of Partial contents: "Sexual Politics: a Re-trait?" Maquiladora Work: Women on the US-Mexican Border" (Andreas Bjernerud); "The Motley Crew: What's at Stake (Sylvia Guendelman and Monica Silberg); "Demographic in the Production of Bisexual Identity (7)" (Jo Eadie); Predictors of Mammography and Pap Smear Screening '"Gender' and Cultural Analysis" (Morag Shiach); "So- in US Women" (Eugenia E. Calle et al.); "Recognizing cialist Realism and the Female Body" (Jan Monteliore); - - - and '"A Noise of Myth': Speaking (as) Woman in the thing of an "institution in berican letters.* ~~ll~~ Poetry of Eavan Boland and Medbh McGuckiafl (Anne Letmes, editorial address is 1115 Walk F0Wf-Y). North Potomac. MD 20878. HEALTH CARE FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL is THE PRoFESSzoNAL v.46' also celebrating its tenth year. In v.15, no.5 (September1 February 1994: section titledUWomenin the Field: Cnh- October 1994), editor Phyllis Noeragel Stern reflects on cal Feminist Methodologies and Theoretical Perspec- the beginning of the journal as in Health of tives." General ed.: J. Dennis Lord. No rate given for in 1979 and recalls some of the topics covered indiv. in U.S.; $56.50 (indiv., outside U.S.); $85 (inst.); since HCWI went international: "midlife, the old old, $101.50 (inst, outside U.S.). Single copy: $28.50 (indiv., chronic illness, the burden of incontinence, U.S.); $24.50 (inst., U.S.); $17.50 (indiv., outside U.S.); women's anger, and women in the sex industry." Ad- $24.50(inst, omideU.S.). 1SSN0033-0124. dress is: 'Paylor and Francis, 1101 Vermont Ave., Suite Publishers, 238 Main St., Cambridge, MA 02142. (Is- 200, Washington, DC 20005. sue examined) Contents: "Opening Remarks on 'Women in the RADLANCEhas grown the last ten years from Field"' (Heidi J. Nast); "Playing the Field: Questions of first twenty-page, word processed issue" to a m-page, in (Cindi Katz); the slickcover publication full of photos and articles by and Field: Gender, 'Race,' and the Politics of Fieldwork" about large In the Fall 1994 issue, (Audrey Kobayashi); "Getting personal: Reflexivity, lisher Alice looks back over magazine,s ten Positionality, and Feminist Research" (Kim V. L. En- years and promises a few pages in each of the tenth-year gland); "The Politics of Location: Doing Feminist Re- iswes on the anniversary. Address: search at 'Home"' (Melissa R Gilbert); and "A Discus- p.O. Box 30246, Oakland, CA 94604. sion of 'Women in the Field': The Politics of Feminist Fieldwork" (Lynn A. Staeheli, Victoria A. Lawson). WOMEN'S- INTERNATIONAL NETWORK NEWS is celebrating its twentieth year of publication. In the Win- SOCL4L TEXT v.ll, no.4? Wmter 1993 (#37): ter 1994 issue, editor/publisher Fm Hosken nowthat section: "Sex Workers and Sex Work." Guest ed.: Anne IC7N News had its beginnings during the International McClintock. $24 (indiv.); $60 (inst.); overseass, add $6. Women,s Year (1975) as way of direct communica- Single copy: $8; overseas, add $2. ISSN 0164-2472. tion between from different areas of the Duke University Press, 905 W. Main St. #18-B, Box (p. 1). Looking forward, Hosken is now seeking "imagi- 90660, Durham, NC 27708-0650. (Issue examined) native proposals to vastly enlarge the networlS" to Partial contents: "It's aPleasureDoing Business with a worldwide media institution by and for women.,, Ad- You" ("Barbara"); "Porn in the USA" (Candidahyalle); dress: 187 Grant St., Lexington, MA 02173. "The Whore Stigma: Female Dishonor and Male Un- worthiness" (Gail Pheterson); "Confessions of a Psycho- Mistress" (Mistress Vena); "Maid to Order: Commercial TRANSmONS Fetishism and Gender Power" (Anne McClintock);.. "A Provoking Agent: The Pornogra~h~and PerfonnanoeArt THE WOUNIST,noted in the '$NewPeriodicals" set- of Annie Sprinkle" (Linda W~lliams);and "Prostitution, tion of our last issue, has announced that there will be Feminist Theory, and Ambivalence: Notes from the So- one more issue under the title and format, due ciological Underground" (Lynn Sharon Chancer). out in Wmter 1995. After that, the publishers will reor- ganize to produce Womanist Theory &Research, a more ANNIVERSARY ISSUES substantial, "full-fledged journal," according to editors Lavli Philli~sand Barbara McCaskill. Subscription prices will be: $11 (indiv.); free to indiv. who ¬ BELLES LETTRES begins its tenth year of publication "pay comfortably"; $33 (inst.); $4 per single copy. Ad- with v. 10, no. 1. Editor Janet Palmer Mullaney notes that dress: Institute for African-American Studies, Univer- in the journal's first issue, Julia Alvarez reviewed Love sity of Georgia. 164 Psychology Bldg., Athens, GA Medicine by Louise Erdrich, and now Alvarez has pub- 30602-3012. (Information from editors,) lished her second book while Erdrich has become some- Page 34 Feminist Collections v.16, n0.1, Fall 1994

CEASED PUBLICATION PERIODICAL ALARM

PANDORA, a feminist newspaper in Nova Scotia, re- In November, many periodicals on feminist and gay and cently closed its doors after eight years, partly as a result lesbian topics, worth some $25,000, were removed from of a lawsuit brought by a man after the newspaper re- their shelves or defaced at Zimmerman Library at the fused to print his letter. Although Pandora won the law- University ofNew Mexico. Some materials were replaced suit, legal expenses drained their resources. (Informa- with books on Germany and the Nazi party, and defaced tion from oflour bach and Kinesis.) materials had such things as swastikas and "bitch propa- ganda" written across them. Most ofthe collection has TROUBLE& STRIFENO. 1,1983-No.28, Spring 1994. been recovered from behind shelves in other parts of the Ed.: Collective. P.O. Box 8, Diss, Norfolk IP22 3XG library, but many issues will have to be replaced. The UK. (Information from WMST-L electronic list.) university community at UNM has been quite support- ive of the library. A reward has been offered by a local bookstore for information leading to arrest of those re- sponsible, and the local FBI office has been notified. For further information about the incident, please contact Steve Rollins, Associate Dean of Library Senices (505- 277-6401 or [email protected].

ITEMS OF NOTE

GRAND ADYENTURE has published a catalog titled "The Goddess Is Among Us" portraying recreated fig- to female circumcision. Published in 1993 by Isis, the ures of goddesses worldwide, cast in Artstone. Grand ordering number is 04401.00. Cost per copy is $18.50 Adventure is a group of artists, craft persons, world trav- for institutions; $13.00 for groups and individuals. Con- elers, adventurers, and business people. For a copy, write tact Isis for details on postage. Write: Isis International, to: Grand Adventure, RD6 Box 6198A, Stroudsburg, PA Casilla 2067, Santiago, Chile. Phone (562) 633-4582; 18360. Phone: (717) 992-6393. fax: (562) 638-3 142. Email: [email protected]

Opening in January 1995, BINTI LEGACY An intimate apparel manufacturer from North Carolina, BOOKSHOP, a feminiddevelopment bookstore, will be SHADOWNE, is starting a national philanthropy pro- located in Nairobi, Kenya. They encourage any pub- gram to help support organizations committed to vital lishers to add Binti on their mailing list. Contact: Aoko women's issues. Interested organizations should write Midiwo4demb0, P.O. Box 3 1534, Nairobi, Kenya. USA to: Shadowline, Inc., 550 Lenoir Rd., Morganton, NC Contact: Dan Hoffman, 597 San Luis Rd., Berkeley, CA 28655. 94907. Phone: (510) 528-9900; fax: (510) 527-1019. IMAGES OF THE DMNE: A MULTICULTURAL WE SPEAK FOR OURSEL YES: POPULATION AND FEMINIST PERTPECTIVE is a curriculum for teach- DEVELOPMENT, contains articles by activists in Latin ers of secondary schools, introductory college courses, America and the Caribbean. The articles analyze popu- and community based education programs. It challenges lation and propose policy changes. Free to individuals the patriarchal Western bias of most traditional courses and organizations in the South, this 32-page report can about the myths and rituals of ancient peoples. Cost is also be obtained in Spanish. Order from: The Panos $25 + $3 shipping and handling. Contact: The Prism Institute, 1717 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Suite 301, Collective, P.O. Box 1042, Webster, NY 14580-7742. Washington, DC 20036. Montreal Health Press has a new edition of its publica- INTERNATIONAL OVERWEW OF WOMEN AND tion, SEXUAL ASSAULT. This fifly-page booklet ad- HEALTH is a 130-page packet by the Boston Women's dresses sexual assault in society and ways to deal with it. Health Book Collective, with articles ranging from It is available for $4; contact Montreal Health Press for women and multinational industries to pharmaceuticals current shipping and handling costs. Other publications include: "Birth Control Handbook," "STD Handbook," F& F& Colldicm v.16,no.l, Fa11 1994 Page 35

Znd a book about menopause; all, including Sexual As- more information, contact: Barbara Wmlow, CCWHP- sault, are available also in French. Write to: The Press, CGWH, 124 Park Place, , NY 11217. Phone: P.O. Box 1000, Sation Place du Parc, Montreal, Quebec, (718) 638-3227; Email: 7464 1.401@compuse~e.com. H2W 2N1 Canada. A non-profit organization, WOMEN'S VOICES lhnew reports can be obtained from the CENTER FOR BOOKCLUB FOUNDATION, offers a catalog of WOMEN POLICY STUDIES. "Defining Work and women's interest books. The net proceeds are used to Family Issues: Listening to the Voices of Women of support women's organizations. Unlike a book club, Color," by Jennifer Tucker andLeslie R Wolfe costs $10. custom orders are accepted, there are no automatic The second report is "Women's Health Decision Mak- monthly mailings of books, and no purchase commit- ing: A Review of the Literature," available for $ 12. Con- ments. For a catalog. write to: The Foundation, 5661 tact: The Center, 2000 P Street, N.W., Suite 508, Wash- Columbia Road #302, Columbia, MD 21044. Phone: ington, D.C. 20036. Phone: (202) 872-1770. (410) 715-3991; fax: (410) 715-3993.

A directory from the CENTER FOR LESBL4N AND THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP has a new catalog, GAY STUDIES lists some 600 scholars in the field of "Women's Studies, Fall 1994," which lists 220 used and lesbian and gay research. It also has cross-listings by antiquarian books by, for, or about women. For a copy, field, institution, and geographic location. This direc- contact the bookshop at 290 Fillmore St., Denver, CO torywill be updatedbi-annually. Copies cost $10 + $1.50 80206-5020. Phone: (303) 388-6811; fax: (303) 674- postage. Write to: CLAGS, Graduate School of City Uni- 8492. versity, 33 West 42nd St., Room 404 N, New York, NY 10036-8099. Phone: (212) 642-2924. THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS CENTER FOR RESICARCH ON WOMEN has two new publications by THEBACK-TOSCHOOL MONEYBOOK: A FINAN- Lynet Uttal. "Racial Safety, Cultural Competence and CIAL AID GUIDE FOR MIDLIFE AND OLDER Cultural Maintenance: The Child Care Concerns of WOMEN SEEKING EDUCATION AND TRAINING Employed Mothers," addresses child care arrangements is a free book offered from the American Association of for working mothers. The other report, "Good Mothers, Retired Persons (AARP) Women's Initiative. The stock Bad Mothers, Other Mothers: Making Sense of Child number is D15400. Available from: AARP Fulfillment, Care", discusses how employed mothers deal with hav- 601 E Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20049. ing others care for their children. Available from: The Center, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN Janis E. Nickel's nineteen-page report AND WHAT 38152. ABOUT THE WOMEN OF BURMA? discusses the double oppression of women d minority groups in Bwma A new program from the Center of Concern is WOMEN For a copy, contact: Burma Issues, P.O. Box 1076, Silom CONNECTING. It was created to bring the voices of Post mce, Bangkok 10504, Thailand. American women to the discussions at the United Na- tions Fourth World Conference on Women, being held Compiled by Mariam Chamberlain, INTERNATIONAL in September, 1995, in Beijing, China. The program CENTERS FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN lists more offers resource materials for local workshops. For more than 155 research anddocumentation centers in 66 coun- information, contact: Jane Deren at the Center for Con- tries. The 44-page listing costs $12. Order from: The cern, Washington, DC. Phone: (202) 635-2757; fax: National Council for Research on Women, 530 Broad- (202) 832-9494. way, 10th floor, New York, NY 10012-3920. Phone: (212) 274-0730; fax: (212) 274-0821. Geared toward high school or university level teachers, the LESBL4N/GAY HISTORY MONTH CURRICU- A HISTORY OF THE COORDINATING COMMIT- LUM PACKET contains information about Lesbigay TEE ON WOMEN IN THE HISTORICAL PROFES- people and events along with activity suggestions for SION-CONFERENCE GROUP ON WOMEN'S HIS- October, the designated LesbianIGay History Month. TORY is 85-page report written by Hilda Smith, Nupur Copies cost $5; checks should be made payable to Gerberl Chaudhuri, Gerda Lerner, and Berenice A. Carroll. This Hart, with a notation in the memo section: "NLGHM." 1994 publication traces the history of the CCWHP- Send to: Lesbian & Gay History Month, c/o Gehr/Hart CGWH group since its origin in December, 1969. For Library and Archives, 3352 N. Paulina, Chicago, IL 60657. Page 36 Feminist Collections v. 16. no.]. Fall 1994

RUSSIAN WOMEN'S SERL4LS from the National Li- Books, 1404 S. Negley Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15217. brary of Russia, St. Petersburg (formerly Saltykov- Phone: (800) 356-2 199; fax: (412) 521-84 10; Email: Shchedrin Library) is now available on microfiche from [email protected] Nonnan Robs Publishing. The titles include 19th- and early 20thcentury Russian women's serials. Contact: WORK IN PROGRESS: TRACKING WOMEN'S Nonnan Robs Publishing, Inc., 330 West 58th St., New EQUALITY IN CANADA reports slow progress on York, NY 10019. Phone: (800) 648-8850; (212) 765- women's equality issues in Canada. Copies of the report 8200. are available from: Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women, 110, O'Connor St., 9th Floor, Box REPORT OF THE GOVERNOR'S TASK FORCE ON 1541, Station B, Ottawa, Ontario, KIP 5R5 Canada. THE GLASS CEILING INITIATIVE was published in Phone: (613) 992-4975. November, 1993. The task force's purpose was to deter- mine, through surveys, whether artificial barriers ("glass A set of papers from the WOODROW WLSON NA- ceiling") prevent Wmnsin's women and minorities from TIONAL FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION offer a guide advancing into middle and upper management positions. to teachers on ways to achieve fairness in the classroom. Copies can be obtained from: Wisconsin Women's Coun- The papers are a result of the 1993 Woodrow Wilson cil, 16 N. Carroll St., Suite 720, Madison, WI 53702. Gender Equity in Mathematics and Science Congress Phone: (608) 266-2219. (WW-GEMS). Obtain free copies from: WW-GEMS, Woodrow Wllson National Fellowship Foundation, CN SANDAK has a new list of its slide collection of works 5281, Princeton, NJ 08543. Phone: (609) 452-7007; fax: by women artists. The slides include paintings, draw- (609) 452-0066. ings, graphics, photography, and more. For a catalog, now: Sandak/G.K. Hall & Co., 70 Lincoln St., Boston, Prepared by Don Salm and Pam Shannon of the Wiscon- MA 02111. Phone: (617) 423-3990. JUDYCHICXGO'S sin Legislative Council, LEGISLATION ON WOMEN BIRTH PROJECT (set #93 1,100 slides for $220; indi- OFFENDERS IN THE CORRECTIONAL SYSTEMis vidual slides from $2.95) is distributed by Sandakl a 35-page report for the State Assembly's Special Com- Macmillan Publishing, 180 Harvard Ave., Stamford, CT mittee on Women Offenders in the Correctional System. 06902. Phone: (800) 343-2806; fax: (203) 967-2745. It is Report No. 16 to the 1993 Legislature, classified LEG. 1: 1993116 in depository libraries of Wisconsin docu- Catalog #45 from SCHOYER'S BOOKS is titled ments. "Women: Lives & Letters." This 1994 catalog lists 584 items. To obtain a copy, contact: Schoyer's Antiquarian -- R.B.

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BLACK JOURNEE A BLACK AMERICAN REVUE. GENDER AND SLUM CULTURE IN URBAN ASIA. McElroy, Njoki. Gderie Publications, 1994. (Address: 2901 Thorbck, Susanne. Zed, 1994. Panorama Drive, North Vancouver, British Columbia, V7G 2A4 GENDER EQUITY IN EDUCATION: AN ANNOTATED Canada) BIBLIOCRAPHK Stitt, Beverly A. Southern Illinois Univer- BODY GUARD. McNab, Claire. Naiad, 1994. sity Press, 1994. BUILDING ON WOMEN'S STRENGTHS: A SOCIAL GERTRUDE STEIN REMEMBERED. Simon, Linda. Uni- WORK AGENDA FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURK versity of Nebraska Press, 1994. Davis, Liane V., ed. Haworth, 1994. GOOD BONES AND SIMPLE MURDERS. Atwood, ma- BURDENS OF HISTORE BRITISH FEMINISTS, INDIAN ret. Doubleday, 1994. WOMEN, AND IMPERIAL CULTURE, 1865-1915. Burton, GREAT WOMEN WRITERS: THE LIVES AND WORKS Antoinette. University of North Carolina Press, 1994. OF 135 OF THE WORLB'S MOST IMPORTANT WOMEN CACTUS LOLY Lynch, Lee. Naiad, 1994. WRITERS, FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT Mngill, COMING INTO EIGHlT POEMS. Sarton, May. Norton, Frank N., ed. Henry Holt, 1994. 1994. GREEN SANDS: MY FIVE YEARS IN THE SAUDI THE COMMON CATALOG OF THE NATIONAL COUN- DESERT Kirk. Ma. Texas Tech University Press, 1994. CIL FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN. Hallgrath, Susan A.. HALFSLYTERS OFHISTORE SOUTHERN WOMENAND ed. The National Council for Research on Women, 1994. THE AMERICAN PAST Clinton, Catherine, ed. Duke Uni- CONSUMING PASSIONS: FEMINIST APPROACHES TO versity Press, 1994. WEIGHTPREOCCUPATIONAND EATING DISORDERS. HISPANIC, FEMALE AND YOUNG: AN ANTHOLOGK Brown, Catrina & Jasper, Karin, eds. Second Story, 1993. Tashlik, Phyllis, ed. PiiiataIArte Wblico, 1994. DIRECTORY OF WZSCONSIN WOMEN'S ORGANIZA- A HISTORY OF THE COORDINAmG COMMITTEE ON TIONS AND SERVICES. Wisconsin Women's Council, 1994. WOMENIN THEHISTORlCAL PROFEYSION- CONFER- (Address: 16 North CmU St., Suite 720, Madison, WI 53702) ENCE GROUP ON WOMEN'S HISTORK Smith, Hilda, et EARTH FOLLIES: COMING TO FEMINIST TERMS al. CCWHP-CGWH, 1994. (Address: Barbara Winslow, 124 WITH THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS. Seager, Park Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217) Joni. Routledge, 1994. A HUNGER SO WIDE AND SO DEEP: AMERICAN EAmGPROBLEMS: A FEMINIST PSYCHOANALYTIC WOMEN SPEAK OUT ON EATING PROBLEMS. Thomp TREATMENT MODEL Women's Therapy Center Institute: son, Becky W. University of Minnesota Press, 1994. Bloom, Carol, et al. BasicBooks/HarperCollins, 1994. INOTHER WORDS: LITERATUREBYLAmAS OF THE EFRONU: AN ARMENIAN LOM STORK Katchadourian, UNITED STATES. Fernandez, Roberta, ed. Arte Publico, Stina. Northeastern University Press. 1993. 1994. EMILY FAITHFULL: VICTORIAN CHAMPION OF AN INDIAN FREEDOM FIGHTER RECALLS HER LIFE: WOMEN'S RIGHTS. Stone, James S. P.D. Meany, 1994. MANMOHINI ZUTSHI SAHGAL Forbes, Geraldine, ed. (Address: Box 118, Streetsville, Ontario, L5M 2B7, Canada) M.E. Sharpe, 1994. (Address: 80 Business Park Drive, Armonk, ENGENDERING MODERNZTE FEMINISM, SOCIAL NY 10504) THEORY AND SOCIAL CHANGE Marshall, Barbara L. JEWlSRAMERlCAN WOMEN WRITERS: A BIO-BLBLIe Northeastern University Press, 1994. GRAPHICAL AND CRlTICAL SOURCEBOOK Shapiro, FEMINIST CRITICISM OF AMERICAN BIETS: AN AN- Ann R., ed. Greenwood, 1994. NOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 1975-1993. Sakelliou-Schulk, LESBIAN AGING ISSUES FORUM REPORT Liana. Garland, 1994. AgeAdvantAge. Area Agency on Aging, 1994. (Address: 3601 FEMINIST PARENTING: STRUGGLES, TRIUMPHS & Memorial Drive, Madison, WI 53704) COMIC INTERLUDES. Taylor, Dena, ed. Crossing, 1994. LIFECYCLES: JEWISH WOMEN ON LIFE PASSAGES FEMINIST THEORYAND THE STUDY OF FOLKLORE AND PERSONAL MILESTONES. Orenstein, Debra, ed. Jew- Hollis, Susan Tower, et al., eds. University of Illinois Press, ish Lights Publishing, 1994. 1993. MLLKWEED. Gardner, Mary. Papier-Mache, 1993. THE FEMINIZATION OF AMERICAN CULTURE Dou- MODERN : POLITICAL, LITERARI: CUL glas, Ann. Knopf, 1977; repr. Anchor/DoubIeday, 1988. TURAL Humm, Maggie, ed. Press, 1992. 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