Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources articles from December 2008

Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources archives from December 2008

From the editors.(Editorial)
December 22, 2008... Two recent articles on the state of book reviewing caught our eye, both of which told with depressing accuracy how lopsided the situation still is in terms of women's books getting reviewed in the New York Times Book Review. Writing in the...

Correction.(Correction notice)
December 22, 2008... Correction: In the print version of Feminist Collections v.28, no. 4 (Summer-Fall 2007), in the review beginning on page 29, the publisher of Odd Girl Speaks Out: Girls Write About Bullies, Cliques, Popularity, and Jealousy should have been...

Cynthia Enloe as The "Curious Feminist": analyzing empires, militarism, and war.(Cynthia Enloe's books on feminism)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Cynthia Enloe, MANEUVERS: THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF MILITARIZING WOMEN'S LIVES. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000. 418p. $22.95, ISBN 0-520-22070-6. --. THE CURIOUS FEMINIST: SEARCHING FOR WOMEN IN A NEW AGE OF EMPIRE....

Professional Reading.(Librarians, Literacy and the Promotion of Gender Equity)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Lesley S. J. Farmer, LIBRARIANS, LITERACY AND THE PROMOTION OF GENDER EQUITY. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005. 182p. $45.00, ISBN 978-0786423446. In 1989, shortly after the ALA Presidential Committee on Information Literacy issued its final...

Women of color in higher education: resistance and hegemonic academic culture.(Essay)
December 22, 2008... [Editors' note: University of Michigan graduate student Kristine Molina was an award winner in the 2007 student essay contest sponsored by the National Women's studies Association's Women of Color Caucus. Feminist Collections is pleased to be...

E-sources on women & gender.(Website list)(Recommended readings)
December 22, 2008... Our website (http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/) includes recent editions of this column and links to complete back issues of Feminist Collections, plus many bibliographies, a database of women-focused videos, and links to hundreds of other...

You tube and feminism: a class action project.(ROUND-UP 3: YOU TUBE IN WOMEN'S STUDIES)
December 22, 2008... Background You Tube, an online venue for sharing and reviewing video clips, is the fourth-most-visited website in the world (after Yahoo, MSN, and Google). Launched just two years ago, YouTube has quickly permeated the culture. YouTube...

Women on YouTube: a feminist action research project.(ROUND-Up 3: YOU TUBE IN WOMEN'S STUDIES)
December 22, 2008... This is an outline for a group assignment that is a research study of the representations of women on You Tube. The class is broken up into four groups: Literature Review, Textual Analysis, Audience Studies, and Conclusions. Each of the...

Reading You Tube, contextualizing theory.(ROUND-Up 3: YOU TUBE IN WOMEN'S STUDIES)(Essay)
December 22, 2008... At Rutgers University, the introductory course in women's and gender studies, "Women, Culture, and Society," covers a wide range of social issues, the history of feminist activism, and foundational feminist theory. When I teach this course, I...

Keyword: feminism: evaluating representations of feminism in Youtube.(ROUND-UP 3: YOUTUBE IN WOMEN'S STUDIES)(Essay)
December 22, 2008... To help students get a better handle on the meanings of feminism, I begin a lower-division undergraduate course on women's and feminist activism by having students read all of bell hooks' Feminism is for Everybody, as well as selected articles,...

YouTube as case study: analysis of gendered representations in video.(ROUND-UP 3: YOU TUBE IN WOMEN'S STUDIES)(Essay)
December 22, 2008... I have often required students to engage in critique of television shows, commercials, movies, and music videos as a means of developing their critical skills and demonstrating their understanding of the ways in which sex and gender are...

American Indians.(NEW REFERENCE WORKS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES)(The A to Z of American Indian Women)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Liz Sonneborn, A TO Z OF AMERICAN INDIAN WOMEN, REVISED EDITION. New York: Facts on File, 2007. 336p. bibl. index. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-8160-6694-0. With so few biographical reference works on American Indian women, Sonneborn's revised...

Catholic Saints.(NEW REFERENCE WORKS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES)(The Big Book of Women Saints)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Sarah Gallick, THE BIG BOOK OF WOMEN SAINTS. New York: HarperCollins, 2007. 467p. bibl. index. $16.95, ISBN 978-0-06-082512-6. A book of saints' lives is most often compiled in calendar order, with each saint listed on his or her feast day...

Chinese Women.(NEW REFERENCE WORKS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES)(Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: Antiquity through Sui, 1600 B.C.E.-618 C.E.)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Lily Xiao Hong Lee & A.D. Stefanowska, eds.-in-chief, BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF CHINESE WOMEN: ANTIQUITY THROUGH SUI, 1600 B.C.E.-618 C.E. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2007. (University of Hong Kong Libraries publications no. 21.) 440p. glossary....

The Civil War.(NEW REFERENCE WORKS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES)(Women in the American Civil War, 2 vols.)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Lisa Tendrich Frank, ed., WOMEN IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2008. 631 p. 2 vols. $195.00, ISBN 978-1-85109-600-8; e-book (contact publisher for price), ISBN 978-1-85109-605-3. (Print edition reviewed.) It is...

Education.(NEW REFERENCE WORKS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES)(Handbook for Achieving Sex Equity in Education, 2d ed.)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Susan S. Klein, ed., HANDBOOK FOR ACHIEVING GENDER EQUITY THROUGH EDUCATION, SECOND EDITION. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007. 754p. index. $295.00, ISBN 0-8058-5453-3; pap., $95.00, ISBN 0-8058-5454-1. This new edition of the...

Feminism.(NEW REFERENCE WORKS IN WOMEN'S)(Feminism: Opposing Viewpoints)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Christina Fisanick, editor, FEMINISM: OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS. Detroit, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2008. 264p. $36.20, ISBN 978-0737737691; pap., $24.95, ISBN 978-0737737707. Is feminism still relevant, or are we at the dawn of a post-feminist...

Gender & Sex.(NEW REFERENCE WORKS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES)(Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender, 4 vols.)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Fedwa Malti-Douglas, ed.-in-chief, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SEX AND GENDER. New York: Macmillan Reference, 2007. 4v. index. $475.00 ISBN 978-0-02-865960; e-book (contact publisher for price), ISBN 978-0-02-866115. (Print edition reviewed.) It's not...

Islamic Cultures.(NEW REFERENCE WORKS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES)(Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, vol. 5: Practices, Interpretations and Representations)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Suad Joseph, gen. ed., ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN & ISLAMIC CULTURE, VOL. V: PRACTICES, INTERPRETATIONS, AND REPRESENTATIONS. Boston: Brill, 2007. 598p. $356.00, ISBN 978-90-04-12821-7. Did you know that it was Westerners who created the...

Math & Science.(NEW REFERENCE WORKS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES)(A to Z of Women in Science and Math)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Lisa Yount, A TO Z OF WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND MATH, REVISED EDITION. New York: Facts on File, 2008. 368p. ill. index. ISBN 978-0-8160-66957 Throughout history, women with professed inclinations in math or science have faced reactions ranging...

Music.(NEW REFERENCE WORKS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES)(Women in Music: Research and Information Guide)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Karin Pendle, WOMEN IN MUSIC: A RESEARCH AND INFORMATION GUIDE. New York: Routledge, 2005. 706p. indexes. $120,00, ISBN 978-0415943543 How have women influenced musical traditions throughout the world? How does feminist pedagogy apply to...

The Renaissance.(NEW REFERENCE WORKS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES)(Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance: Italy)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Diana Robin, Anne R. Larsen, & Carole Levin, eds., ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN IN THE RENAISSANCE: ITALY, FRANCE, AND ENGLAND. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2007. 459p. $95.00, ISBN 978-1-85109-772-2. If you were fortunate, you saw last summer's...

Writers.(NEW REFERENCE WORKS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES)(A to Z of American Women Writers)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Carol Kort, ed., A TO Z OF AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS, REVISED EDITION. New York: Facts on File, 2007. 398p. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-8160-6693-3. This new release of A to Z of American Women Writers updates each of the 150 entries that appeared in...

New and newly discovered periodicals.(PERIODICAL NOTES)(Recommended readings)
December 22, 2008... MAKE/SHIFT: FEMINISMS IN MOTION. 2007-. Editorial & publishing collective: Stephanie Abraham, Jessica Hoffmann, & Daria Yudacufski. P.O. Box 2697, Venice, CA 90294; email: info@makeshiftmag.com; website: www. makeshiftmag.com. Frequency: 2/yr...

Special issues of periodicals.(PERIODICAL NOTES)(List)
December 22, 2008... BLACK MUSIC RESEARCH JOURNAL v.26, no.1(spring 2006): Special issue: "The Music of African-American Women: Secular and Sacred, Uplift and Self-Assertion." Editor: Christopher Wilkinson. Publisher: Center for Black Music Research, Columbia...

Transitions.(PERIODICAL NOTES)(Brief article)
December 22, 2008... FEMINIST COLLECTIONS: A QUARTERLY OF WOMEN'S STUDIES RESOURCES and its sister journals, FEMINIST PERIODICALS: A CURRENT LISTING OF CONTENTS and NEW BOOKS ON WOMEN AND FEMINISM, are going through some changes. The covers of all three periodicals...

Books received.
December 22, 2008... 2008 DIRECTORY OF WOMEN'S MEDIA. Allen, Martha Leslie, ed. Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press, 2008. A TO Z OF ANCIENT GREEK AND ROMAN WOMEN. Lightman, Marjorie and Lightman, Benjamin. Facts on File, 2008. rev. ed. ABORTION: A...