Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources articles from January 2005

Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources archives from January 2005

From the editors.(Editorial)
January 1, 2005... Early September, 2005. Vicki Tobias's first in a series of articles on "blogging" (pp. 11-17) is timely. This "hottest trend on the Internet" has shown some of its true value and versatility in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. From the live...

Writing and reading memoir as consciousness-raising: if the personal is political, is the memoir feminist?(The Contemporary Women's Memoir)(Just Beneath My Skin: Autobiography and Self-Discovery)(But Enough About Me: Why We Read Other People's Lives)(Unreliable Truth: On Memoir and Memory)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Janet Mason Ellerby, INTIMATE READING: THE CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S MEMOIR. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2001. 234p. bibl. index. $49.95, ISBN 0815628862; pap., $19.95, ISBN 0815606850. Patricia Foster, JUST BENEATH MY SKIN:...

(En)gendering cooking.(A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women told through Food, Recipes and Remembrances)(Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Laura Schenone, A THOUSAND YEARS OVER A HOT STOVE: A HISTORY OF AMERICAN WOMEN TOLD THROUGH FOOD, RECIPES AND REMEMBRANCES. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2003 (cloth). 412p. bibl. index. $35.00, ISBN 0-393-01671-4; pap., $18.95, ISBN...

Ambiguous outcomes: women and the power and promise of medicine.
January 1, 2005... Jean Elson, AM I STILL A WOMAN? HYSTERECTOMY AND GENDER IDENTITY. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004. 264p. bibl. index. $59.50, ISBN 1-59213-210-3; pap., $19.95, ISBN 1-59213-211-1. Barbara Seaman, THE GREATEST EXPERIMENT EVER...

Blog this! An introduction to blogs, blogging, and the feminist blogosphere.
January 1, 2005... Blogging is the hottest trend on the Internet. (1) Any serious political junkie immersed in the 2004 election season was quickly initiated into the world of the weblog, or "blog." Although blogs have existed since the late 1990s, persistent...

A sampling of blogs by women, for women, and/or discussing women's issues.
January 1, 2005... The sites listed below are a representative sample of blogs that present women's issues. They vary greatly in quality and quantity of content, level of activity, and target demographic. Urban, rural, white, black, straight, gay, mothers,...

E-sources on women & gender.
January 1, 2005... Our website (http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/) includes all recent issues of this column, plus many bibliographies, core lists of women's studies books, and links to hundreds of other websites by topic. Information...

Encyclopedia of Women in the American West.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Gordon Morris Bakken & Brenda Farrington, eds., ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN IN THE AMERICAN WEST. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2003. 381p. index. $130.00, ISBN 0-7619-2356-X. One delivered a future chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court...

Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Susan Ware, ed., NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN: A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY COMPLETING THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. 729p. index. $45.00, ISBN 0-674-01488X. Editors' note: We offer not just...

Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature.(Feminism in Literature: A Gale Critical Companion)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Kathy J. Whitson, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FEMINIST LITERATURE. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004. 312p. $65.00, ISBN 0-313-32731-9. Jessica Bomarito & Jeffrey W Hunter, project eds., FEMINISM IN LITERATURE: A GALE CRITICAL COMPANION. Thomson...

An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films, 1895-1930.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Denise Lowe, AN ENCYCLOPEDIC DICTIONARY OF WOMEN IN EARLY AMERICAN FILMS, 1895-1930. New York: Haworth Press, 2005. 623p. illus. bibl. index. $69.95, ISBN 078901842X; pap., $49.95, ISBN 0789018438. The early American film industry was...

A Companion to Gender Studies.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Philomena Essed, David Theo Goldberg, & Audrey Lynn Kobayashi, eds., A COMPANION TO GENDER STUDIES. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005. 561p. bibl. index. $124.95, ISBN 0631221093. The debate over the sex/gender dichotomy has long functioned as a...

Women's Studies: A Recommended Bibliography, Third Edition.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Linda Krikos & Cindy Ingold, WOMEN'S STUDIES: A RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY, THIRD EDITION. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2004. 848p. indexes. $120.00, ISBN 1563085666. Linda Krikos and Cindy Ingold have produced the third generation of...

In Search of Work: International Migration of Women in Latin America and the Caribbean--Selected Bibliography.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Silke Staab, IN SEARCH OF WORK: INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION OF WOMEN IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN--SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY. Santiago, Chile: United Nations Publications (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Women &...

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Carolyn Dinshaw & David Wallace, eds., THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO MEDIEVAL WOMEN'S WRITING. Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 289p. bibl. index. $60.00, ISBN 052179188X; pap., $22.00, ISBN 0521796385. To...

Special issues of periodicals.(PERIODICAL NOTES)
January 1, 2005... ART HISTORY v.26, no.3, June 2003: "Difference & Excess in Contemporary Art: The Visibility of Women's Practice." ISSN: 0141-6790. Published on behalf of the Association of Art Historians by Blackwell Publishing, 350 Main St., Malden, MA 02148;...

Items of note.
January 1, 2005... The Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press has published a new booklet (No.7) in its "Looking Toward a Radical Restructuring of the Communications Media" series. THE MEDIA LIBERATION MOVEMENT, by Sena Christian (61p., ISBN 0-930470-23-0),...

Books recently received.
January 1, 2005... ARBELLA: ENGLAND'S LOST QUEEN. Gristwood, Sarah. Houghton Mifflin, 2005. AN AUDIENCE OF ONE: DOROTHY OSBORNE'S LETTERS TO SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE 1652-1654. Hintz, Carrie. University of Toronto Press, 2005. BEYOND IDENTITY POLITICS:...