Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources articles from June 2002

Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources archives from June 2002

From the Editors.
June 22, 2002... Summer 2002. Already (writing this in early Fall), summer seems so long ago! Back then, though, I rediscovered the joys of riding a bicycle (a secondhand three-speed with big baskets) and swimming in clear lakes. Here at work I saw an issue of...

Serial publications of the Russian women's movement.
June 22, 2002... In the years immediately following the Russian Revolution in 1917, an active women's movement significantly influenced the development of governmental policies, but it was soon forced to take a back seat to other state concerns. In the late...

Zine and heard: fringe feminism and the zines of the third wave.(Bibliography)
June 22, 2002... Fringe culture has traditionally been dominated by men in the forms of punk rock, Straight-Edge, cyberpunk, and even--for a brief but lamentable period--glam rock. Then came the riot grrrl movement in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and the...

History of Women's Clothing and Accessories. (Book Review).(4 books on women's clothing)(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Valerie Steele, THE CORSET: A CULTURAL HISTORY New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. 199p. bibl. index. $39.95, ISBN 0-300-09071-4. Jane Farrell-Beck & Colleen Gau, UPLIFT: THE BRA IN AMERICA. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania...

Contemporary women playwrights. (World Wide Web Review).(Bibliography)
June 22, 2002... Websites with information on women playwrights tend to fall into either of two main categories: support resources for writers or basic information about the work of particular individuals. My search revealed no indepth, fulltext critical...

World wide websites. (Computer Talk).(Bibliography)
June 22, 2002... Filmmaker Laurie Kahn-Leavitt and Harvard University's Film Study Center have created an interactive website about how to "do" history that will fascinate and educate the general adult public as well as students at many levels. The aptly named...

Online publications. (Computer Talk).(Bibliography)
June 22, 2002... Asha S. Kanwar & Margaret Taplin, eds., BRAVE NEW WOMEN OF ASIA: HO WDISTANCE EDUCATION CHANGED THEIR LIVES (Vancouver, BC: The Commonwealth of Learning, 2001). 82p. ISBN 1-895369-79-7. Downloadable in PDF format from http://www.col.org/...

Feminist publishing: "trying to be the press we've been waiting for".(Bibliography)
June 22, 2002... New women's press EDGEWORK BOOKS, founded in Berkeley by a group of already well-published writers that includes Kim Chernin, Gail Sher, and Renate Stendhal, has brought out its "first round" of titles. The press's commitment to the work of...

Artists and Performers. (New Reference Works in Women's Studies).(A to Z of American Women in the Performing Arts; A to Z of American Women in the Visual Arts)(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Carol Kort & Liz Sonneborn, A TO Z OF AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE VISUAL ARTS. New York: Facts on File, 2002. 258p. bibl. index. $44.00, ISBN 0-8160-4397-3. Liz Sonneborn, A TO Z OF AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE PERFORMING ARTS. New York: Facts on File,...

Businesswomen. (New Reference Works in Women's Studies).(A to Z of American Women Business Leaders & Entrepreneurs)(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Victoria Sherrow, A TO Z OF AMERICAN WOMEN BUSINESS LEADERS & ENTREPRENEURS. New York: Facts on File, 2002. 252p. ill. bibl. index. $44.00, ISBN 0-8160-4556-9. Biographical dictionaries of women writers, scientists, and artists now abound,...

Catholic Women Writers. (New Reference Works in Women's Studies).(Catholic Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook)(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Mary R. Reichardt, CATHOLIC WOMEN WRITERS: A BIO-BIBLIO-GRAPHICAL SOURCEBOOK. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002. 424p. bibl. index. $104.95, ISBN 0-313-31147-1. For over a thousand years women have been "writing in the Catholic tradition."...

Health statistics. (New Reference Works in Woman's Studies).(The Women's Health Data Book: A Profile of Women's Health in the United States)(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Dawn Misra, ed., THE WOMEN'S HEALTH DA TA BOOK A PROFILE OF WOMEN'S HEALTH IN THE UNITED STATES. 3rd ed. Washington, DC: Jacobs Institute of Women's Health; and Menlo Park, CA: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation; 2001. 219p. charts, graphs,...

History. (New Reference Works in Women's Studies).(Encyclopedia of Women in American History)(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Joyce Appleby, general ed., ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN IN AMERICAN HISTORY. Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, 2002. 3 vols., 800p. ill. $299.00, ISBN 0-7656-8038-6. Vol. 1 (ed. by Joyce Appleby): Colonization, Revolution, and the New Nation (1585-1820)....

History and Culture. (New Reference Works in Women's Studies).(American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States)(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Sheridan Harvey et al., eds., AMERICAN WOMEN: A LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GUIDE FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN'S HISTORY AND CULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2001. 420p. bibl. index. $35.00, ISBN 0-8444-1048-9. How do...

Midwives, Nurses, and Physicians. (New Reference Works in Women's Studies).(A Biographical Dictionary of Women Healers: Midwives, Nurses, and Physicians)(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Laurie Scrivener & J. Suzanne Barnes, with contributions by Cecilia M. Brown & Dana Tuley-Williams, A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF WOMEN HEALERS: MIDWIVES, NURSES, AND PHYSICIANS. Westport, Ct: Oryx, 2002. 341p. ill. index. $74.95, ISBN...

Psychology. (New Reference Works in Women's Studies).(Handbook of the Psychology of Women and Gender)(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Rhoda K. Unger, ed., HANDBOOK OF THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN AND GENDER. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2001. 556p. bibl. index. $75.00, ISBN 0-471-33332-8. The field of the psychology of women and gender is fortunate to have two new superb...

Social Reformers. (New Reference Works in Women's Studies).(Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers)(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Helen Rappaport, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN SOCIAL REFORMERS. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2001. 2 vols., 888p. $185.00, ISBN 1-57607-101-4 (e-book: $205.00, ISBN 1-57607-581-8). Included in these two volumes are short biographies of...

Briefly noted. (New Reference Works in Women's Studies).(The Women of Warner Brothers: The Lives and Careers of 15 Leading Ladies, with Filmographies for Each)(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Daniel Bubbeo, THE WOMEN OF WARNER BROTHERS: THE LIVES AND CAREERS OF 15 LEADING LADIES, WITH FILMOGRAPHIES FOR EACH. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2002. 262p. photogs. bibl. index. $35.00, ISBN 0-7864-1137-6. Following on the spurs of...

New Web-based tutorials launched.
June 22, 2002... The Office of the Women's Studies Librarian, University of Wisconsin System, announces an interactive web-based tutorial that uses topics related to international women's issues as examples in teaching students how to evaluate the results of...

New and newly discovered periodicals. (Periodical Notes).(Bibliography)
June 22, 2002... BAD JENS: IRANIAN FEMINIST NEWSLETTER 1999?-- . Ed.: Mahsa Shekarloo. Frequency of publication: flexible. Free: online only. Website: http://www.badjens.com/ (Issues examined: Third (1 August 2000); Fourth (21 November 2000); Fifth (25 May...

Special issues of periodicals. (Periodical Notes).(Bibliography)
June 22, 2002... JOURNAL OF DRUG ISSUES v.30, no. 4, Fall 2000: "Substance Use, Abuse, and Treatment: Feminist Perspectives." Guest ed.: Kathy G. Padgett; journal ed.: Bruce Bullington. ISSN: 022-0426. Subscription: 4/yr., $95.00 individuals in the U.S....

Ceasing publication. (Periodical Notes).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... LOLAPRESS--"the international feminist magazine edited by an editorial group living in three continents" and published three times a year since 1994--has announced that due to discontinuance of funding, publication of the journal will be...

The International Information Centre and Archives for the Women's Movement (IIAV). (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... The International Information Centre and Archives for the Women's Movement (IIAV) recently published MAPPING THE WORLD: QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE, a forty-page booklet in both English and French. This guide helps users search for and find...

U.S. Department of State Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... BE SMART, BE SAFE...DON'T BECOME A VICTIM OF THE TRADE IN PEOPLE is a 2001 brochure by the U.S. Department of State Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. It explains what trafficking is, who the victims usually are,...

The Independent Women's Forum (IWF). (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... The Independent Women's Forum (IWF) recently published a negative review of five major Women's Studies textbooks. LYING IN A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN: HOW WOMEN'S STUDIES TEXTBOOKS MISEDUCATE STUDENTS, by Christine Stolba, claims that Women's Studies...

Ipas. (Items of Note).
June 22, 2002... Ipas, "a global nongovernmental organization that has worked for nearly three decades to increase women's ability to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights and to reduce abortion-related deaths and injuries," has several new...

The Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW). (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... The Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW) published WOMEN'S HEALTH NEEDS AND RIGHTS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: A BEIJING MONITORING REPORT in 2001. The thirty-nine-page report focuses on women's health and rights, as well as health...

Thomson-Gale. (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... Thomson-Gale presents the first installment of SERIES FIVE: GAY ACTIVISM IN BRITAIN FROM 1958: THE HALL-CARPENTER ARCHIVES FROM THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS in the Gay Rights Movement microfilm collection. PART 1:THE ALBANY TRUST consists of...

Latin American & Caribbean Women's Health Network (LACWHN). (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... In an informational folder entitled EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION: ENSURING WOMEN'S RIGHT TO HEALTH, the Latin American & Caribbean Women's Health Network (LACWHN) promotes the right of all women to have access to emergency contraception (EC)--a term...

Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW). (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... A twelve-page fact sheet from the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW) (Institut Canadien de Recherches sur les Femmes, or ICREF), WOMEN'S EXPERIENCE OF RACISM: HOW RACE AND GENDER INTERACT is meant to "serve as a...

Equality Authority. (Items of Note).(Bibliography)
June 22, 2002... Ireland's EQUALITY AUTHORITY has published several reports, as well as a database of research publications, on issues such as equality in enterprises, politics, and society, as well as equality for older people, women, and the LGB (lesbian,...

Adam Matthew Publications. (Items of Note).(Bibliography)
June 22, 2002... In 2001, Adam Matthew Publications published a "listing and guide to the microfilm collection" to accompany the project ADVICE LITERATURE IN AMERICA, PART 1: THE SCHLESINGER COLLECTION OF ETIQUETTE AND ADVICE BOOKS FROM THE ARTHUR AND ELIZABETH...

The Women's Holocaust Memoirs Collection. (Items of Note).(Bibliography)
June 22, 2002... The WOMEN'S HOLOCAUST MEMOIRS COLLECTION at the University of Michigan includes forty-three books of memoirs, history, and analysis. To view the list of books, visit the library's website at http:// mirlyn.web.lib.umich.edu (click on "guest...

Books and AV recently received.(Bibliography)
June 22, 2002... BOOKS A TO Z OF AMERICAN WOMEN BUSINESS LEADERS & ENTREPRENEURS. Sherrow, Victoria, Facts on File, 2002. A TO Z OF AMERICAN WOMEN IN SPORTS. Edelson, Paula. Facts on File, 2002. A TO Z OF WOMEN IN WORLD HISTORY. Kuhlman, Erika....