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

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

From the editors.(Editorial)
June 22, 2004... January 7, 2005. This issue--officially the Summer 2004 one, despite the date on which it goes to press--completes the twenty-fifth volume of Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources. Twenty-five years is a long or a short...

Stronger students, better research: information literacy in the women's studies classroom.
June 22, 2004... In 1997, in a Women's Studies Center Curriculum Committee meeting at West Virginia University, our founding director, Dr. Judith Stitzel, observed that the students in the capstone course of the women's studies curriculum were not yet ready to...

Gender studies for a civil society: a Russian experience.
June 22, 2004... The terms "civil society," "gender," and "gender studies" have become part of contemporary social-political and cultural lexicons as well as tangible forces shaping the modern world. In different world regions, civil society arises under...

Videos screened at "Women in the Middle: Borders, Barriers, Intersections".(FEMINIST VISIONS)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... Instead of an in-depth, comparative review of two or three films on a single topic, this "Feminist Visions" column offers brief synopses of all the videos shown at the 2004 National Women's Studies Association conference, held in June in...

E-Sources on women & gender.
June 22, 2004... Our website (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 websites by...

New reference works in women's studies.(Sister Days: 365 Inspired Moments in African American Women's History)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN Janus Adams, SISTER DAYS: 365 INSPIRED MOMENTS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S HISTORY. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999 (2000 for paperback and e-book). 432p. $22.95, ISBN 0-471-28361-4; paper, $19.95, ISBN...

New and newly discovered periodicals.(PERIODICAL NOTES)(Periodical Review)
June 22, 2004... EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY WOMEN: STUDIES IN THEIR LIVES, WORK, AND CULTURE. 2001--. Ed. Linda Veronica Troost (Washington and Jefferson College). 1/yr. ISSN 1529-5966 (hardcover). Price: $94.50/volume/year. AMS Press, Inc., Brooklyn Navy Yard Bldg....

Special issues of periodicals.(PERIODICAL NOTES)
June 22, 2004... ECONOMY AND SOCIETY v.31, no.4, November 2002: "Feminism and the Political." Special issue eds.: Angela McRobbie, Celia Lury. ISSN: 0308-5147 (print); 1469-5766 (online). 4/yr. Subscriptions: in US, $297.00 for institutions (includes print and...

Zine and tasted: yum.(periodical reviews)(Periodical Review)
June 22, 2004... Each of the publications reviewed in this column is delicious, and each is remarkable in its own way: which one pleases your palate most will just depend on what you're looking for in a zine. There's not a baddie in the bunch, so pick and...

Items of note.
June 22, 2004... VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: THE HEALTH SECTOR RESPONDS, a 2003 report by Marijke Velzeboer, Mary Ellsberg, Carmen Clavel Arcas, and Claudia Garcia-Moreno, is listed as Pan American Health Organization Occasional Publication No.12. It focuses on...

Books recently received.
June 22, 2004... ABORTION AND DIVORCE LAW IN IRELAND. Spreng, Jennifer E. McFarland, 2004. ALTERNATIVE FEMINITIES: BODY, AGE, AND IDENTITY. Holland, Samantha. Berg, 2004. AMERICAN WOMEN SCIENTISTS: 23 INSPIRING BIOGRAPHIES, 1900-2000. Reynolds, Moira...