Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources articles from January 2003

Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources archives from January 2003

From the editors.
January 1, 2003... April 7, 2003. Three weeks into spring, and we've got a snowfall that convinced me to turn around and come home when I was halfway to work this morning. Perhaps I'm more easily intimidated by wintry road conditions than most drivers in...

In memoriam: Esther Lanigan.(Obituary)
January 1, 2003... Esther Franco Lanigan, the first Women's Studies Librarian for the University of Wisconsin System, passed away in Monument, Colorado, on December 29, 2002. Learning of her death, I looked back on the growth of feminist scholarship in Wisconsin,...

Introducing the women and religion review series.
January 1, 2003... As recently as ten years ago, when I mentioned religion and feminism together, people would ask, "Isn't that a contradiction in terms?" Suppressing a sigh, I would begin at the beginning with an explanation of how women bad begun to challenge...

Resources for Teaching "Women and Religion": Five Readers. (Book Reviews).(Bibliography)
January 1, 2003... Elizabeth A. Castelli, ed., with Rosamond C. Rodman, WOMEN, GENDER, RELIGION' A READER. NewYork: Palgrave, 2001. 550p. bibl. $89.95, ISBN 0-312-24004-X; pap., $27.95, ISBN 0-312-24030-9. Nancy Auer Falk & Rita M. Gross, eds., UNSPOKEN...

Interpreting Eve: Gender Politics and the Representation of Christian Scripture in the Evolution of Western Culture. (Book Reviews).(3 books on women and religion)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Matilda Joslyn Gage, WOMAN, CHURCH AND STATE (orig. pub. 1893); with intro, by Sally Roesch Wagner. Amherst, NY: Humanity Books/Prometheus, 2002. 527pp. pap., $22.00, ISBN 1-59102-007-7. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, THE WOMAN'S BIBLE (orig. pub....

The Pedagogical Mystique: Feminist Academic Discourse. (Book Reviews).(NO ANGEL IN THE CLASSROOM: TEACHING THROUGH FEMINIST DISCOURSE; DISCIPLINING FEMINISM: FROM SOCIAL ACTIVISM TO ACADEMIC DISCOURSE)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Berenice Malka Fisher, NO ANGEL IN THE CLASSROOM: TEACHING THROUGH FEMINIST DISCOURSE. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000 (cloth), 2001 (pap.). 3l5p. notes. bibl. index. $85.00, ISBN 0-8476-9123-3; pap., $21.95, ISBN 0-8476-9124-1. Ellen...

The edge of each other's battles: the vision of audre lorde. (Video Updates & Short Takes).(Video Recording Review)
January 1, 2003... THE EDGE OF EACH OTHER'S BATTLES: THE VISION OF AUDRE LORDE. 60 mins. Video. 2002. Prod./writer/dir.: Jennifer Abod. Profile Productions, P.O. Box 21387, Long Beach, CA 90801; phone: (562) 218-7874; email: jabod.profile@gte.net; website:...

If women ruled the world: A Washington dinner party. (Video Updates & Short Takes).(Video Recording Review)
January 1, 2003... IF WOMEN RULED THE WORLD: A WASHINGTON DINNER PARTY. 2 hrs. Video. 2002. Prod.: Richard Karz. Karz Productions, 106 W 80th St. 2R, NewYork, NY 10024; phone: (888) 595-1995; fax: (212) 787-3253; email: info@ifwomenruledtheworld.com; website:...

Like catching waves upon the sand: the challenges of designing for the web.
January 1, 2003... [Reprinted, with minor changes and with permission, from Teaching with Technology Today, v.9, no.6 (Feb. 27, 2003): http:// www.uwsa.edu/ttt/articles/odonnell.htm] In December 2000, Phyllis Holman Weisbard, the University of Wisconsin...

E-Sources on Women & Gender.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2003... Our website (http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/) includes all recent issues of this column (formerly called "Computer Talk"), plus many bibliographies, core lists of women's studies hooks, and links to hundreds of other...

New reference works in women's studies.(A COMPANION TO AMERICAN WOMEN'S HISTORY)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... HISTORY Nancy A. Hewitt, ed., A COMPANION TO AMERICAN WOMEN'S HISTORY. Oxford, England, & Maiden, MA: Blackwell, 2002. 492p. bibl. index. $124.95, ISBN 0-631-21252-3. Recently on an email list, a doctoral student from outside the...

Zine and Heard (again).
January 1, 2003... As promised, this installment of "Zine and Heard" (1) is all about the "cut and paste" zines that come out from all over the country and indeed all over the world. Some real gems are here as well as some that have room for improvement. Despite...

Firebrand Books. (Feminist Publishing Feminist Archives).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... FIREBRAND BOOKS is back! Nancy Bereano founded this feminist/lesbian publishing house in 1984 and ran it for sixteen years, introducing 100-some titles by the likes of Jewelle Gomez, Dorothy Allison, Alison Bechdel, Barrie Jean Borich, Audre...

Redbone Press. (Feminist Publishing Feminist Archives).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Lisa C. Moore's REDBONE PRESS exists to give voice to Black lesbian writers. Moore published Does Your Mama Know? An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories in 1997, and then Sharon Bridgforth's Bull-Jean Stories in 1998. Next up:...

EMMA Goldman Papers Project. (Feminist Publishing Feminist Archives).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The EMMA GOLDMAN PAPERS PROJECT, which has collected, organized, and edited tens of thousands of documents about the famous anarchist -- described as "a major figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism" -- has been in the works...

Periodical notes.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2003... NEW AND NEWLY DISCOVERED PERIODICALS JOURNAL OF GAY & LESBIAN ISSUES IN EDUCATION (JGLED) 2003- . Publ.: Harrington Park Press. Ed.: James T. Sears (Univ. of South Carolina). 4/yr. ISSN: 1541-0889 (print); 1541-0870 (electronic)....

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January 1, 2003... Items of note. [Text incomplete in original source] A report from the Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence and the Canadian Women's Health Network, IMMIGRANT, REFUGEE AND VISIBLE MINORITY WOMEN EXPERIENCE POST TRAUMATIC STRESS...

Books and AV recently received.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2003... 2003 DIRECTORY OF WOMEN'S MEDIA. Allen, Martha Leslie. ed. Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press, 2002. "ALL THIS READING": THE LITERARY WORLD OF BARBARA PYM. Lenckos, Frauke Elisabeth and Miller, Ellen J., eds. Fairleigh Dickinson...

Resources for teaching "women and religion": five readers. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Elizabeth A. Castelli, ed., with Rosamond C. Rodman, WOMEN, GENDER, RELIGION: A READER. New York: Palgrave, 2001. 550p. bibl. $89.95, ISBN 0-312-24004-X; pap., $27.95, ISBN 0-312-24030-9. Nancy Auer Falk & Rita M. Gross, eds., UNSPOKEN...

Series six: Atlanta lesbian feminist alliance archives. (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Thomson-Gale presents SERIES SIX: ATLANTA LESBIAN FEMINIST ALLIANCE ARCHIVES, ca. 1972-1994 in the Gay Rights Movement microfilm collection. The series contains approximately 189 reels in four parts: PART 1: ADMINISTRATIVE FILES; PART 2:...

Gender in transition. (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... GENDER IN TRANSITION is a World Bank report that examines how reforms have had different effects on men and women in the transition countries of Europe and Central Asia, and "aims to help put gender on the map of policy making in the region by...

Challenges for feminism in a globalized world. (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... A collection of papers entitled CHALLENGES FOR FEMINISM IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD, originally presented at the "Global, Diverse and Plural Feminism" seminar during the World Social Forum 2002 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, is available in print, in both...

A comparative study of women trafficked in the migration process: patferats, profiles, and health consequences of sexual exploitation in five countries. (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF WOMEN TRAFFICKED IN THE MIGRATION PROCESS: PATFERATS, PROFILES, AND HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF SEXUAL EXPLOITATION IN FIVE COUNTRIES is a recent study by Janice G. Raymond, Jean D'Cunha, Siti Ruhaini Dzuhayatin, H. Patricia...

Assessing women's well-being in Asia. (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... A new report on how the lives of Asian women are improving, due to economic and social changes and better access to health and family planning technology, ASSESSING WOMEN'S WELL-BEING IN ASIA, by Sidney Westley, Asia-Pacific Population Policy,...

UNESCO International symposium report. (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... WOMEN'S RIGHTS, CYBER RIGHTS, a UNESCO International Symposium Report from 2002, describes the gender inequalities found in cyberspace, once anticipated to be a place free from gender-bias for men and women. The report is available from the...

Men, masculinities, and development: broadening our work towards gender equality. (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... In a paper by Alan Greig, Michael Kimmel, and James Lang (no. 10, UNDP, 2002) entitled MEN, MASCULINITIES, AND DEVELOPMENT: BROADENING OUR WORK TOWARDS GENDER EQUALITY, the diverse roles of men and the ways in which they are affected by gender...

Canadian Women's Health Network. (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... A report from the Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence and the Canadian Women's Health Network, IMMIGRANT, REFUGEE AND VISIBLE MINORITY WOMEN EXPERIENCE POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER describes the personal experiences of immigrant and...

Her story: women in Christian tradition. (Items of Note).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Two textbooks from Fortress Press, HER STORY: WOMEN IN CHRISTIAN TRADITION, by Barbara J. MacHaffie, and READINGS IN HER STORY, are now supplemented with a CD-ROM. The textbooks include an introduction to women in Christian history as well as a...

Women and community safety: a resource book on planning for safer communities. (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... In a publication entitled WOMEN AND COMMUNITY SAFETY: A RESOURCE BOOK ON PLANNING FOR SAFER COMMUNITIES, the Cowichan Women Against Violence Society (Duncan, BC, Canada) highlights the "importance of integrating the experiences and concerns of...

Beyond early detection: a new look at breast cancer. (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... DES Action Canada, a non-profit organization "whose purpose it is to identify, educate, provide support to, and advocate for people exposed to the drug diethylstilbestrol," has published a 35-page guide entitled BEYOND EARLY DETECTION A NEW...

Conflict transformation in Africa: African women's perspectives. (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The International Alert and Association of African Women For Research and Development (AAWORD) has published a report based on the workshop CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION IN AFRICA: AFRICAN WOMEN'S PERSPECTIVES, which was held in Senegal. The report...

A motherhood issue discourse on mothering under duress. (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... A report by Lorraine Greaves, Colleen Varcoe, Nancy Poole, Marina Morrow, Joy Johnson, Ann Pederson, and Lori Irwin, entitled A MOTHERHOOD ISSUE DISCOURSE ON MOTHERING UNDER DURESS, explains how "media portrayals and public policies demonstrate...

Teaching motherhood: a collection of post-secondary courses on mothering/motherhood. (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The Association for Research on Mothering has recently published TEACHING MOTHERHOOD: A COLLECTION OF POST-SECONDARY COURSES ON MOTHERING/MOTHERHOOD, a 90-page collection of course outlines from U.S. and Canadian colleges and universities. It...

Bringing rights to bear: an analysis of the work of UN treaty monitoring bodies on reproductive and sexual rights. (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The Center for Reproductive Law and Policy and the University of Toronto International Programme on Reproductive and Sexual Health Law present BRINGING RIGHTS TO BEAR: AN ANALYSIS OF THE WORK OF UN TREATY MONITORING BODIES ON REPRODUCTIVE AND...

American social, women's, business, & literary history: a selection of manuscript diaries, correspondences, account books, ledgers, & other manuscripts. (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Carmen D. Valentino, Rare Books & Manuscripts, has published AMERICAN SOCIAL, WOMEN'S, BUSINESS, & LITERARY HISTORY: A SELECTION OF MANUSCRIPT DIARIES, CORRESPONDENCES, ACCOUNT BOOKS, LEDGERS, & OTHER MANUSCRIPTS, some of which pertain to women...

United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), established in 1963 to "promote research on the most pressing social issues of development," published several papers in 2002 with a focus on women or gender: these include...

Voluntary approaches to corporate responsibility. (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) and the United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (NGLS) have jointly published a volume entitled VOLUNTARY APPROACHES TO CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY. This book is divided...

Global media governance: a beginner's guide. (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... GLOBAL MEDIA GOVERNANCE: A BEGINNER'S GUIDE was copublished by the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) and Rowman and Littlefield under its series Concepts in Critical Media Studies. The guide is divided into three...

Creating successful mentoring programs: a catalyst guide. (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Catalyst, a "non-profit research and advisory organization working to advance women in business," produced several new publications in 2002: CREATING SUCCESSFUL MENTORING PROGRAMS: A CATALYST GUIDE (ISBN 0-89584-234-3); WOMEN OF COLOR IN...

Population reports. (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Two special issues of POPULATION REPORTS (published by the Population Information Program of the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) deal with women's issues: ENDING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN (v.27, no. 4, Dec. 1999; also...

International Center for Research on Women. (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... SEE HOW THEY GROW BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT SERVICES FOR WOMEN'S BUSINESS GROWTH, by economist Simel Esim, is a 2001 publication from the International Center for Research on Women. This 40-page booklet consists of two parts: a review of literature...