T h e U n i v e r s i t y o f W i s c o n s i n S y s t e m FFFeministeministeminist CollectionsCollectionsCollections A Quarterly of Women’s Studies Resources W OMEN’ S S TUDIES Volume 23, Number 4, Summer 2002 Published by Phyllis Holman Weisbard L IBRARIAN Women’s Studies Librarian Feminist Collections A Quarterly of Women’s Studies Resources Women’s Studies Librarian University of Wisconsin System 430 Memorial Library 728 State St. Madison, WI 53706 Phone: 608-263-5754 Fax: 608-265-2754 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/ Editors: Phyllis Holman Weisbard, JoAnne Lehman Line drawings, including cover: Miriam Greenwald Graphic design assistance: Dan Joe Staff assistance: Lynne Chase, Teresa Fernandez, Ingrid Markhardt, Katie Roberts, Caroline Vantine Subscriptions: $30 (individuals or nonprofit women’s programs, outside Wisconsin); $55 (institutions, outside Wisconsin); $16 (Wisconsin individuals or nonprofit women’s programs); $22.50 (Wisconsin institutions); $8.25 (UW individuals); $15 (UW organizations). 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Numerous bibliographies and other informational files are available on the Women’s Studies Librarian’s World Wide Website, http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/ You'll find information about the office, tables of contents and selected full-text articles from recent issues of Feminist Collections, many Core Lists in Women’s Studies on such topics as aging, feminist pedagogy, film studies, health, lesbian studies, mass media, and women of color in the U.S., a listing of Wisconsin Bibliographies in Women’s Studies, including full text of a number of them, and links to hundreds of other selected websites and databases on women and gender. ISSN: 0742-7441 Copyright 2002 Regents of the University of Wisconsin System Feminist Collections A Quarterly of Women’s Studies Resources Volume 23, No. 4, Summer 2002 CONTENTS From/To the Editors ii Karen Rosneck Serial Publications of the Russian Women's Movement 1 M.L. Fraser Zine and Heard: Fringe Feminism and the 6 Zines of the Third Wave Book Review Andrea M. Kolasinski History of Women’s Clothing and Accessories 11 World Wide Web Review Sheri Phillabaum Contemporary Women Playwrights 14 Compiled by JoAnne Lehman Computer Talk 18 Feminist Publishing: EdgeWork Books 22 Reviewed by Phyllis Holman Weisbard New Reference Works in Women’s Studies 23 and others Compiled by JoAnne Lehman Periodical Notes 33 Compiled by Caroline Vantine Items of Note 36 Books and AV Recently Received 38 Supplement: Index to Volume 23 40 FROM THE EDITORS Summer 2002. Already (writing Almost as soon as I began to talk, I Knowing of my love for lan- this in early Fall), summer seems so also pretended to speak other lan- guage, the office gave me the opportu- long ago! Back then, though, I redis- guages, imagining myself as a translator nity to spend part of this past summer covered the joys of riding a bicycle (a for famous foreign stars. When I was a in an internship with JoAnne Lehman, secondhand three-speed with big bas- teenager, the United States caught my one of the Feminist Collections editors, kets) and swimming in clear lakes. attention—I do not exactly know why, learning about editing and publishing Here at work I saw an issue of FC to but my mother swears it is because she and copyediting an article for this issue. press, got inspired about “zines” (see was reading about the founding of Even though I had read a substantial M.L. Fraser's article in this issue about America during her pregnancy with amount on editing and done some ex- these fringe-feminist productions), and me! Needless to say, when I entered ercises, working on an actual manu- thoroughly enjoyed supervising a sum- middle school, English became my fa- script was a challenge. Correcting and mer internship for a student assistant vorite subject—I read books in En- improving writing requires experience, who might be interested in an editing glish, watched American movies with and as a beginner in the field of edit- career. Caroline Vantine—whose own subtitles in French, etc. My next goal ing, I found that it took time to put editorial follows—has been a huge asset was to come and live in America. In into practice what I had learned in to many projects in our office for the high school, I spent two consecutive books. Still, it was an exciting experi- past year and a half, and it was reward- summers with a family outside Boston ence. I am back in classes now, enter- ing to introduce her to the complexities to improve my speaking skills. After ing my final semester. I know that I of manuscript copyediting and the graduating, I spent a year in St. Paul, will spend hours dissecting my own whole publication process for this jour- Minnesota, as an au pair, taking care of papers this fall! nal—and no small bonus that she can three boys. But I still wanted more, C.V. translate French and has an eagle eye and what I needed was to come here as for typos and spacing errors! a student. So, here I am, majoring in TO THE EDITORS J.L. English literature, not surprisingly, and graduating this December. Via our website feedback form: Just wanted to say that Barbara aving contributed to the edit- My interest in women’s studies H Walton's fine article [published in FC ing of this issue as part of an intern- developed during my time at this uni- v.20, no.2, and posted on the Web at ship, I now have the pleasure of briefly versity. I have taken classes on women www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/Wom- introducing myself to you. and health, women and social institu- ensStudies/fc/fcwebwal.htm] on online The first time I heard about tions, and women and literature. I single parent groups is missing a key women’s studies was when I arrived kept registering for more as I discov- resource, the Single Parent Resource here as a student at the University of ered that women’s voices and histories Center (www.singleparentusa.com), Wisconsin–Madison. Formerly, I had in this patriarchal society are unique. which offers the only how-to guide on naively believed that men and women While perspiring over my numerous starting Single Parent Groups, and is had the same status in society. I grew readings and papers, I still had to make also organizing Single Parents USA. up in Dijon, France, where both my ends meet. Fortunately, the supervisor Please consider adding them if at all parents worked full-time. But my at the Office of the Women’s Studies possible. mother was always the one to make Librarian called to offer me a student Take care and hope, important decisions for the family and position. I was thrilled at the idea of Edward J. Madara, M.S., Director, household, earn a better salary, and combining my interests—literature and American Self-Help Group Clear- discipline my older brother and me. women—with a job. I have been inghouse She also encouraged us to be ambitious working at the office for more than a year and a half, focusing primarily on and to bravely face barriers imposed by [Ed.'s note: We don't change already- compiling bibliographies of new books society. In other words, I was raised in published (in print) reviews, but we're a world where women were strong and on women and feminism. happy to let our readers know about this determined. resource.] Page ii Feminist Collections (v.23, no.4, Summer 2002) SERIAL PUBLICATIONS OF THE RUSSIAN WOMEN’S MOVEMENT by Karen Rosneck In the years immediately follow- fomatsionnyi tsentr Nezavisimogo chiny Rossii), offering information ing the Russian Revolution in 1917, zhenskogo foruma). The Center has about conferences, organizations and an active women’s movement signifi- published a journal entitled The Her- Russian women’s history. Other cantly influenced the development of ald (Vestnik), as well as a weekly news prominent organizations include the governmental policies, but it was soon digest, The Information Leaflet (Infor- club “Preobrazhenie” (Transfigura- forced to take a back seat to other matsionyi listok), which is distributed tion), which has issued a literary jour- state concerns. In the late 1970s, by email and printed cumulatively as nal of the same name since 1993, and members of a small feminist dissident the monthly Little Herald (Vestnich- the Museum of Women’s Modern Art movement in Leningrad were obliged ka).4 The Consortium of Women’s (Muzei sovremennogo zhenskogo to emigrate. During the period of so- Non-Governmental Associations iskusstva). The first issue of the Muse- cial change in the late 1980s, a wom- (Konsortium zhenskikh um’s journal of feminist criticism, Idi- en’s movement again appeared, partic- nepravitel’stvennykh ob”edinenii) om, appeared as Number 26 of the ularly blossoming after the fall of the links more than 150 Russian organiza- American journal Heresies. Women in U.S.S.R. in 1991. By 1998, six hun- tions with partners in the U.S. and in Science and Education (Zhenshchiny dred of about two thousand nongov- other countries of the former Soviet v nauke i obrazovanii) provides select- ernmental women’s organizations had Union. A network of 36 organiza- ed Web-based articles of its newspaper registered with the Ministry of Justice.