Volume 27, Number 3 Summerl998 Feminist Authors' Breakfast: ''Rhythms of Life,''· June 28, Sunday, at ALA Annual Now is the time to get your tickets to the Feminist Task Force Author Breakfast, Sunday June 28th at 8:30 a.m. Speaking on the theme Rhythms of Life will be Nancy VanArsdall; Lynn Kanter; Joan Pinkvoss, founder of Aunt Lute Press; and Carol Ann Douglas. Advance tickets are available: $16.0o-General admission $14.00-Ubrary students Send your requests and checks made out to Feminist Task Force to: Dorothy Granger Andre Norman Ubrary Pacific Oaks College 5 Westmoreland Place Pasadena, CA 91103 E-mail address: [email protected] Tickets at the Meal Ticket Desk at the ALA Conference will be $20.00 The ITF author breakfast is an annual event celebrating the work of feminist authors publishing with independent women's presses. In this issue: • ALA Annual Conference news, including: • Feminist Author Breakfast • ALA Conference Pocket Calendar and Map, pages 3 and 4 . Boo!~ Reviezv Sectio11 For your summer reading... Strohmeyer, Sarah. Barbie Unbowtd: and coffee, she feared, would Just make her more A Parody of the Barbie Obsession. perky. As for heroin, no way. Once you stuck a needle In her, It was a bear to get out. One time we ~ Norwich, vr: New Victoria, 1997. Paper, 0-934678-89-8, $12.95. had to use p11ers .... But all that changed the day Strohmeyer does a riotous take-off on the Barbie Grunge Barbie met Pertodically Depressed Ken.• craze while she has some fun with consclousness­ Each Barbie comes with Instructions and ralslng. Barbie poses In a series of black & white discussion questions, and, of course, a range of photographs as "Overweight Outcast Adolescent accessories. The questions deal with pressing social Barbie." "Grunge Barbie," and ·welfare Queen Issues, like what color purse J. Edgar Hoover Ken Barbie.• Ken gets to play, too, as he becomes "Mid­ should carry when he takes Barbie to the prom. Ufe Cr1sls Ken,• loaded with sports equipment, and It's amazing how familiar we are with Barbie. "Milltaty Brat Ken," Tailhook participant. There ts a With a new, more "realistically proportioned" Barbie section of historical characters, also played by Ken doll about to be Introduced, Barote unbound takes and Barbie, Including "J. Edgar Hoover Ken." In drag us one step further In bringing her Into real life, by and shopping, and "Pur1tanlcal Barbie" of Salem, "It making us laugh at how unreal she Is. rhymes with bitch.• -M.Talnton Between the sections Is an Interview with Barbie Reviews continrud on page 5 (although the author points out Barbie can't really talk), where Barbie says ·rm still the same old Barbie." and how her pointy feet appear to keep her perpetually "bound.· Here Is Barbie before she turns to grunge: "She abstained from beer because It was too fattening, Preconference set American Indian issues Wo11lell FEMINIST~ A pre-conference titled •American Indian Issues TASKFORCE in Libraries and Resources: Tribal Views and Federal Sources" Is bttp://darkwlng.uor<goo.cdu/-bolman/FJ'F / scheduled to be held Friday, June 26, 1998, In Women In Libraries, the Newsletter of the American Washington, D. C. The conference Is designed to Ubraiy Association's Feminist Task Force. Is rpovide librarians working In educational, public, published four times a year. To subscribe. Inquire and corporate environments with background and about your subscription. or to change your address, Insights on Issues of concern to American Indian write to Diedre Conkling. Publisher, Women In Ubrarles, c/o ALA. SRirr, 50 East Huron Street; populations. Tribal and U. S. senatorial leaders will Chicago, IL 60611. Subscriptions are $5 for offer their perspectives on Issues Including sover­ individuals, $8 for Institutions (prepaid). or $10 for eignty, property and natural resources rights, Invoiced subscriptions. PerBonnel: Madelelne gaming, employment, cultural perservatlon, and the Talnton. Editor. West Texas A&M University; Diedre tmpact of technology on both rural and urban native Conklin.<!, Publisher, Uncoln Count;y. Oregon, Ubrary District: 1beresa Tobin. Llstseiv Admlnls· populations. trator, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chief Phillip Martin, of the Mississippi Band of Contributors: M. Talnton. WfAMU: D. Turner, ~e Choctaw Tribe, will make a keynote speech, Unlverslt;y of California. Santa Cruz. To subscribe to the Feminist List. send this e-mail Strategies for Dealing with American Indian Eco­ message to: llawenOmit--.mlt.edu: nomic, Political, and Social concerns. Other speak­ ers will present Information management, legal •ulJHribe femlDlst llntname lu- research, historical Images, and congressional Send articles, comments, or materials for resources. A reception will follow. revleW, but not subacrlptlon qw,stlons. to: For Information, visit theAmer1can Indian Madeleine Talnton. Media Services Ubrarlan, West Texas A&M Un!verslt;y, wrAMU Box 736. canyon. Library Association website at www.pltt.edu/ 1X 79016-0736. Phone: 806-656-2407: Fax 806- lmltten/alla.html, or call or write Joan Howland, 656-2213: e-mail: mtalntonewtamu.edu. 612-625-9036, e-mail howlaOOlOtc.umn.edu. 2 Womm in Lil,rarl# ALA Women's Meetings June 27-June 30, 1998 Saturday, June 27 'l~ .<upuow 'lno l~IN S,U.. WOA\ • 8:00-9:30. Feminist Task Force Meeting, .<upuns 'lW.P(ll".IS: s,.10'1lnv lSJUJW::>.!1 ::iiu. • LWS Grand Ball S 11:30-12:30. Introduction to Women's Groups, :s111.Sn11.S111. a11.1 .laq_tuatuaH PLZ-Franklln 2:00-4:00. COSWL Mtg., WCC-Rm. 7 ~ Sunday, June 28 ~ 8:30-11 :00. Ft1rnlnlst Task Force Author Breakfast- ;;; Rhythms ofLife, HIL Congressional. See details, page 1. ! 11:30-12:30. WSS All Committees Mtg., MAD Draw. Rm 1-11 i.: 11:30-12:30. LAMA WomenAdmin. Disc. Grp., wee Rm. 7 -s 2:00-4:00. WSS Exec. Comm. Mtg., QUA-Melbome § 4:30-5:30. WSS Gen. Membership Mtg., CHIL-Federal ~ 4:30-5:30. COSWL Committee Mtg., WCC-Rm.28 ~ Monday, June 29 l 8:00-9:00. Feminist Task Force Meeting, RENW-Rm 3 l 7:00-10:00. Feminist Task Force Women's Night Out, .. SisterSpace and Books. 1515 U Street NW, l Washington DC. Details, page 3. ~ Tuesday, June 30 "S 8:00-9:00. COSWL Mtg., WCC-Rm.2 Hotel key: WCC-Washlngton Convention Center CHIL-Capltal Hilton MAD-The Madison QUA-Quality Suites RENW-Renaissance Washington LWS-Loew's L'Enfant Plaza HIL-Holiday Inn on the Hill ALA in Washington, D. C. Women's Night Out Monday June 29th 7:00-10:00 at SISTERSPACE AND BOOKS. 1515 U Street NW, Washington DC 20009; 202-332-3433-You can get there on the Metro Green Une getting off at the U Street Cardozo Statton. Slsterspace and Books Is the nation's only Afrtcan-Amerlcan women-owned and -operated bookstore speclallzing In books by and about Afrlcan-Amertcan women. Slsterspace opened In 1994, stocks more than 3,000 titles, and also sells crafts, posters, postcards, and similar goods. Amy Tan to speak on Saturday Amy Tan, best-selling author of The Joy Lucic Club, will be the keynote speaker at the Annual Confer­ ence. 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Cloth, 1-57601-023-6, Shelby Camden leads a scrumptiously cheety $23. life that will only get better. She's practically a In this collection of short stones, Giles describes doctor's-wife-to-be, on the verge on her llrst major relatlonshlps between women and slgnlilcant people promotion as a Journalist, and only days away from In their lives. Grlpptng In Its realism from the first her 25th birthday. Plus, her chlpper "lunch bunch" paragraph, the collection makes you feel like you;re co-workers help her plot eve,y little tum her suc­ seetng Inside other women's mtnds. cessful life takes. In the llrst story, -War,· a woman describes how So, why Is she so discontent? Perhaps her new her ex-husband looks after her garden when she Is neighbor, former enlisted soldier Francis Ellen away: Jarvis, can help Shelby figure that ouL The llrst thtngs I noticed when I got back were Sarah Dreher, known for her Stoner McTavlsh all the dead plants tn the yard. It was as If he'd mysteries, crafts this old-fashloned love story, played God with the garden hose, because the bush Solttatre and Brahms, tn Bass Falls, New England, beans and peas were all right.