The University ofWisconsin System *:* *:* A QUARTERLY OF WOMEN'S STUDIES RESOURCES *:* TABLE OF CONTENTS FROMTHEEDITORS ......................................................... BOOK REVIEWS DYNAMICS OF THE CANADIAN WOMEN'S MOVEMENT .................................1 by Eileen Manion. Challenging Times: The Women's Movement in Canadaand the United States ed. byConstance Backhouse and David F1aherty;And Still WeRise: Feminist Political Mobilizing in Contemporay Canada ed. byLinda Carty; Politics as ifwomen Mattered: A Political Analysis of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women by Jill Vickers et al.; and Faces of Feminism: Portraits of Women Across Canada by Pamela Harris. "PAY ATTENTION TO THE RADICAL": CANADIAN WOMEN WRITING ....................4 by Fran Davis. Kitchen Talk: Contemporay Women's Prose and Poety ed. by Edna Alford and Claire Harris; Mapping Our Selves: Canadian Women's Autobiography in English by Helen M. Buss; Canadian Women Writing Fiction ed. by Mickey Pearlman; and Sounding Differences: Conversations with Seventeen Canadian Women Writers by Janice Williamson. UNDERSTANDING RACE AND ETHNICITY OF CANADIAN WOMEN ......................6 by Vijay Agnew. Some Black Women: Profiles of Black Women in Canada by Rella Braithwaite and Tessa Bern-Ireland; The Finest Kind: Voices of Newfoundland and Labrador Women by Marian Frances White;and The Faraway Hills are Green: Voices of Irish Women in Canada by Sheelagh Conway. VISION AND REVISION: RECENT LITERATURE ON WOMEN IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE .................................9 by Rhonda Ambuehl. Female Criminality: The Stateof the Art ed. byConcettaC. Culliver;Unruly Women:ThePoliticsof Confinement & Resistanceby Karlene Faith; WomenAfter Prison byMary Eaton; andFrom 1nside:An Anthology of Writing by Incarcerated Women ed. by Deborah Stein. FEMINISTVISIONS .........................................................11 WOMEN OFFENDERS AND THE LAW: THE CYCLE OF PUNISHMENT by Frances Kavenik. Continued on next paTe WISCONSIN WOMEN IN WORLD WAR 11.. ................................ .14 by Michael Stevens. NEWS FROM UW-CENTERS ................................................ .15 by Jane Ewens. STATISTICAL PROFILE OF WISCONSIN WOMEN ........................... .16 by Linda Shult. MORE GOPHERING AROUND IN WOMEN'S STUDIES ....................... .17 by Phyllis Holman Weisbard. FEMINISTPUBLISHING .................................................... 23 Two new Canadian presses. ARCHIVES ................................................................. 23 Collections on Hispanic women and on Virginia suffragist organizations. COMPUTERTALK .......................................................... 23 Email discussion lists, databases, electronic publications, and more. I NEW REFERENCE WORKS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES. ......................... .25 Resources on women's organizations, goddesses, Minnesota women's history, American and British women'spoetry to 1900, African American women writers, Spanishwomen writers, women in chemistry and physics, Welsh women, Canadian women's studies, gay and lesbian literature, nonstereotyped children's literature, the history of abortion, plus college guides for gay, lesbian, and women students. (Compiled by Phyllis Holman Weisbard.) PERIODICALNOTES ....................................................... 35 W New and newly discovered periodicals on experimental poetry, gender andculture, women over forty, gay and lesbian literature, feminist geography, athletic lesbians, feminist research, travel, health, Australian lesbians, Malaysian women, Central and Eastern European women, lesbian/gay video, Republican women, nurses, lesbians of South Asian descent, single mothers, skiing, gender and the state, I women's cartoons, documentation of violence against women, transsexuals, European women's studies, French studies, self-discovery and expression, work, activism and resistance. I. W Special issues of periodicals on feminist erotica, women in the media, anthropology, Japanese women, Ii family violence, gender in the U.S., women in science, Samuel Johnson'work, medieval women. W Plus news of anniversary issues, changes in address and organization, and publications that have ceased. (Compiled by Linda Shult.) ITEMSOFNOTE ............................................................ 41 Microfiche on Spanish women writers, a survey on violence against S/M lesbians, a bibliography on outdoor women, movies celebrating gays and lesbians, debates surrounding Irish American women, a \ health catalog, a bibliography on African American women's periodicals, a booklet on maternity care, a report on violence in mass media, a booklet on female genital mutilation, a menopause resource guide, a Canadian report on the status of women, a pamphlet on lesbian battering, a women-of-color resource database, a poster series on African American women, a radio station directory, and many more items. (Compiled by Renee Beaudoin.) ( BOOKS RECENTLY RECEIVED ..............................................44 Feminist Collections is published by Phyllis Holman Weisbard, Acting UW System Women's Studies Librarian, 430 Memorial Library, 728 State Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53706. Phone: (608)263-5754. 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T~ISfee covers most publications of the office, including Feminist Collectzons, Femintst Pmodiculs, and New Books on Women b Feminism. 01994 Regents of the University of Wisconsin System Feminist CoUecliom v.lJ.no3, Spring 1994 Wgc 1 FROM THE EDITORS A SALUTE TO CANADIAN FEMINISTS Many other publishers and producers keep the movement alive and thriving despite recent cutbacks Our Canadian sisters have been hard at work in the level of government funding. on the "second wave" of feminism for at least as long as those of us in the U.S., and the movement has We pay tribute to the many tireless and been strong and vital, with far more government committed feminists of Canada with three reviews in support than we have managed here. Still, as Eileen this issue. In addition to Eileen Manion's Manion notes in her review of books on the exploration of the women's movement, there is a Canadian women's movement, "Americans usually look at the work of Canadianwomen writers by Fran assume that the only thing distinctive about Canada Davis, and Vijay Agnew critiques several books on is the climate, and that's cold and unpleasant." Canadian ethnic women. We invite you to delve into some of these riches, to pay attention to what our Because we regularly scan a vast amount of Canadian sisters are up to, and to recognize the literature on women and feminism, our office has commonality of our struggles. become keenly aware of the wealth of resources produced by Canadian scholars and activists. The second focus of this issue grapples with the Consistently high-quality journals such as Resources often-neglectedworldsof women in prison. Rhonda for Feminist Research and Canadian Woman Studies Ambuehl explores several new books on women's continue to explore all aspects of women's lives; prison experience, while Frances Kavenik critiques publishers such as Women's Press Canada and Press some recent videos on the topic. As Kavenik notes, Gang produce numbers of books by and about "Women in prison represent the failure of promises: women; and even within the National Film Board of of social and political justice, of educational and Canada, the Studio D staff produce and distribute an economic opportunities for women in this country astounding number of excellent films about women. and Canada!' We ignore their situation at peril to all of us. P.H.W. and L.S. BOOK REWEWS DYNAMICS OF THE CANADIAN Jill Vickers, Pauline Rankin and Christine Appelle, WOMEN'S MOVEMENT POLITICS AS IF WOMEN MATTERED: A POLITICXL ANALYSIS OF THE NATIONAL by Eileen Manwn ACTION COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Constance Backhouse and David Flaherty, eds., Toronto Press, 1993. 347p. $50.00, ISBN 0-8020- CHALLENGING TIMES: THE WOMEN'S 5850-7; pap., $19.95, ISBN 0-0802-6757-3. MOVEMENT IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's Pamela Harris, FACES OF FEMINISM: PORTRAITS University Press, 1992. 368p. $49.95, ISBN 0-7735- OF WOMEN ACROSS CANADA. Toronto: 1992. 0910-0; pap., $19.95, ISBN 0-7735-0919-4. 174p. $48.00, ISBN 0-929005-37-6; pap., $34.19,0- 929005-36-8. Linda Carty, ed., AM) STILL WE RISE: FEMINIST POLITICAL MOBILIZING IN CONTEMPORARY Americans usually assume that the only thing CANADA. Toronto: Women's Press, 1993. 455p. distinctive about Canada is the climate, and that's $17.95, ISBN 0-88961-177-7. cold and unpleasant. If Canadianculture, politics, or social movements are different from those in Pam 2 Peminisl Collections v.15, no.3. S~rina1994 America, that can only mean they're pale imitations. feminine d'6ducation et d'action sociale, where they For scholars and academics - even, sad to say, participated in crucial discussions, such as on feminists - Canada may be a great place to spend women's education,