Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources articles from January 2004

Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources archives from January 2004

From the editor.(Editorial)
January 1, 2004... First, a tip of the hat to my co-editor, Phyllis Holman Weisbard--women's studies librarian for the University of Wisconsin System and distinguished academic librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison--who is this year's recipient of the...

Watch Out! Alison Bechdel's Comics as Cultural Commentary.(Book Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Alison Bechdel, DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR. Ann Arbor, MI (originally in Ithaca, NY): Firebrand Books, 1986. 80p. pap., $9.95, ISBN 0-932379-17-6. Publisher's website: http://www.firebrandbooks.com/ ______, MORE DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR....

Practicing art: a review of three videos.(Feminist Visions)(Video Recording Review)
January 1, 2004... NOT FOR SALE: FEMINISM AND ART IN THE USA DURING THE 1970s. 90 mins. b/w & color. 1998. By Laura Cottingham; music by Yoko Ono; ed. by Sally Sasso & Leslie Singer, Hawkeye Productions. Distr.: ARTEXT, Jerry Sobel, 361 Harvard St., #7,...

Finding funding for women: web and non-web resources.
January 1, 2004... Searching for grants benefiting women begins with a basic question: Is funding being sought for an individual--for instance, for a woman starting graduate studies in pharmacy or attending a cultural preservation seminar in Italy--or for an...

E-sources on women & gender.
January 1, 2004... 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 books, and links to hundreds of other...

The JPS Guide to Jewish women: 600 B.C.E.-1900 C.E.(Jewish Women)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Emily Taitz, Sondra Henry, & Cheryl Tallan, THE JPS GUIDE TO JEWISH WOMEN: 600 B.C.E.-1900 C.E. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2003. 354p. illus. bibl. index. pap., $25.00, ISBN 0-8276-0752-0. "I would urge Jewish women to take...

From Convent to Concert Hall: a guide to women composers.(Music)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Sylvia Glickman & Martha Furman Schleifer, eds., FROM CONVENT TO CONCERT HALL: A GUIDE TO WOMEN COMPOSERS. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003. 403p. ill. bibl. index. $75.00, ISBN 1573564117. Despite the fact that, until the twentieth...

The Columbia documentary history of American women since 1941.(History)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Harriet Sigerman, THE COLUMBIA DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF AMERICAN WOMEN SINCE 1941. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. 692p. bibl. index. $75.00, ISBN 0-23111698-5. As a former women's studies major, I have certain ideas about what...

Political and Historical Encyclopedia of Women.(History)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Christine Faure, POLITICAL AND HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN. New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2003. 550p. bibl. index. $150.00, ISBN 1-57958-237-0. Women's participation in political history is often overlooked because of...

Rebel song: feminist zines from the (Southern) third wave.(Zine & Heard)
January 1, 2004... On a visit home last summer, I went in search of, and found, lots of other Southern women writing, writing, writing. I found enough to dedicate a whole column to these rebel grrrls, who range from a thirteen-year-old to a woman in her fifties....

Periodical notes: special issues.
January 1, 2004... BRIARPATCH: A PROGRESSIVE CANADIAN NEWSMAGAZINE v. 32, no. 2, March 2003: "The Regina Monologues: A Candid Look at Society's Impact on Women's Sexual Expression"; and v. 33, no. 2, March 2004: "Voices of the Sisters." Ed.: Debra Brin. ISSN:...

Items of note.
January 1, 2004... Published in 2003 in a tiny hard-cover edition, DOWNER WOMEN, 1851-2001: CELEBRATING THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CHARTER OF MILWAUKEE NORMAL INSTITITUE AND HIGH SCHOOL celebrates women who had important roles in the early development of what...

Books & AV recently received.
January 1, 2004... 2004 DIRECTORY OF WOMEN'S MEDIA. Allen, Martha Leslie. Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press, 2004. 2004 WISCONSIN WOMAN BUSINESS AND RESOURCE DIRECTORY. Wisconsin Woman. O'Gara, 2004. ACCESS DENIED: U.S. RESTRICTIONS ON...