Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources articles from January 2006

Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources archives from January 2006

From the editors.(Editorial)
January 1, 2006... We hear a lot these days about feminism being passe. If you think not, just try Googling feminism passe, and look at some of the 266,000 hits. Has feminism outlived its usefulness? Not in the view of our contributors and the works they...

Lost and damaged: the perilous American pregnancy.(Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome)(Motherhood Lost: A Feminist Account of Pregnancy Loss in America)(Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Janet Golden, MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE: THE MAKING OF FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. 232p. $25.95, ISBN 0-674-01485-5. Linda Layne, MOTHERHOOD LOST: A FEMINIST ACCOUNT OF PREGNANCY LOSS IN AMERICA. New...

Changing voices and struggles of feminist activism.(Governing Now: Grassroots Activism in the National Organization for Women)(Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism)(Tales from the Trenches: Politics and Practice in Feminist Service Organizations)(The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Maryann Barakso, GOVERNING NOW: GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM IN THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. 192p. $18.95, ISBN 0-8014-8910-5. Jennifer Baumgardner & Amy Richards, GRASSROOTS: A FIELD GUIDE FOR...

Round-up: blogging women's studies.
January 1, 2006... Last year, Feminist Collections published "Blog This! An Introduction to Blogs, Blogging, and the Feminist Blogosphere," by Vicki Tobias (v.26, nos.2-3, Winter-Spring 2005). That article is online at...

Reproductive rights in the blogosphere: a review of blogs.
January 1, 2006... Reproductive rights have long been a hot topic among feminist bloggers, but early 2006 brought a dramatic increase in individual blogs and blog postings related to the subject. The appointment of two conservative, "pro-life" justices to the...

Women Nobel Peace Prize Winners.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Anita Price Davis and Marla J. Selvidge, WOMEN NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006. 216p. photos. index. $35.00, ISBN 0-7864-2399-4. Twelve women have received Nobel Peace Prizes since the award's inception in 1901....

Black Women in America.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Darlene Clark Hine, BLACK WOMEN IN AMERICA, 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 3v. illus. bibl. index. $325.00, ISBN 978-0-19-515677-5. This is a revised edition of Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, which...

Notable Black American Women, Book III.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Jessie Carney Smith, ed., NOTABLE BLACK AMERICAN WOMEN, Book III. New York: Thomson Gale, 2003. 881p. photos. index. $145.00, ISBN 0-7876-6494-4. This is the third in a series that began in 1992 of excellent biographical dictionaries of...

Great American Women of the Nineteenth Century: A Biographical Encyclopedia.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Francis E. Willard and Mary A. Liver-more, eds., GREAT AMERICAN WOMEN OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: A BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA. Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2005. 834p. illus. index. $99.00, ISBN 1-59102-211-8. People familiar with...

Companion to Women's Historical Writing.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Mary Spongberg, Ann Curthoys, & Barbara Caine, eds., COMPANION TO WOMEN'S HISTORICAL WRITING. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 712p. bibl. index. $175.00, ISBN 978-1-4039-1508-5. What do librarians do when first examining a book they...

Women in Early America: Struggle, Survival, and Freedom in a New World.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Dorothy A. Mays, WOMEN IN EARLY AMERICA: STRUGGLE, SURVIVAL, AND FREEDOM IN A NEW WORLD. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2004. 495p. illus., bibl. index. $95.00, ISBN 1-85109-429-6; e-book, $100.00, ISBN 1-85109-434-2. Recently PBS aired John...

Historical Dictionary of Lesbian Literature.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Meredith Miller, HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF LESBIAN LITERATURE. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2006. (Historical dictionaries of literature and the arts, no. 8). 239p. bibl. $70.00, ISBN 0-8108-4941-0. According to John J. Younger's frequently...

Historical Dictionary of Feminist Philosophy.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Catherine Villanueva Gardner, HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2006. (Historical dictionaries of religions, philosophies, and movements, no. 64.) 275p.bibl. $75.00, ISBN0-8108-5346-9. Once again, I'm...

Irish Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Alexander G. Gonzalez, IRISH WOMEN WRITERS: ANA-TO-Z GUIDE. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. 348p. $99.95, ISBN 0-313-32883-8. Undertaking the task of compiling an anthology of any kind requires a certain amount of courage on the part...

E-Sources on Women and Gender.
January 1, 2006... Our website (http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/) includes all recent issues of this column, plus many bibliographies, a database of women-focused videos, and links to hundreds of other websites by topic. Information about...

Zines from the stacks: self-published tracts from lady library workers.
January 1, 2006... Librarians interested in alternative publications have been getting together in the past few years to help each other create, organize, and manage collections of the ephemeral and unique materials known as zines. Designed in some ways to...

Special issues of periodicals.(PERIODICAL NOTES)
January 1, 2006... ACADEMIC PSYCHIATRY v.28, no.4 (December 2004): Special feature: "Women's Professional Development in Psychiatry." ISSN: 1042-9670. Guest ed.: Anna Lembke. Publ.: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 1000 Wilson Blvd., Suite, 1825, Arlington,...

Items of note.(InteLex Corporation adds The Life And Writings of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu)(interview of Sanam Anderlini)(World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action releases Breastfeeding: A Reproductive Health and Rights Issue)
January 1, 2006... The InteLex Corporation, in association with the Oxford University Press, will soon be adding THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU to its PAST MASTERS: WOMEN WRITERS collection. Montagu was an eighteenth-century English traveler...

Books and audio-visual materials received.
January 1, 2006... THE AGE OF THE WORLD TARGET: SELF-REFERENTIALITY IN WAR, THEORY, AND COMPARATIVE WORK. Chow, Rey. Duke University Press, 2006. THE BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF SCOTTISH WOMEN. Ewan, Elizabeth and others, eds. Edinburgh University Press, 2006....