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

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

From the editors.
June 22, 2005... Winter Solstice, 2005. The sun is shining in southern Wisconsin; I appreciate that on the shortest day of the year. We've already had cold and snow for so long, it feels more like deep midwinter than the start of the season. I've taken...

Gender discrimination in the academy.(Gendered University in Globalized Economies: Power, Careers, and Sacrifices, Inside Corporate U: Women in the Academy Speak out, It's Cold and Lonely at the Middle: Discrimination Against Female Teaching Assistants, Ivory Basement Leadership: Power and Invisibility in the Changing University)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Joanne Ardovini-Brooker, IT'S COLD AND LONELY AT THE MIDDLE: DISCRIMINATION AGAINST FEMALE TEACHING ASSISTANTS. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2003. 154p. bibl. index. pap., $29.00, ISBN 0761825975. Joan Eveline, IVORY BASEMENT...

A college of one's own: women and coeducation.(Babes in Boyland : A Personal History of Co-Education in the Ivy League, Changing the Subject: How the Women of Columbia Shaped the Way We Think About Sex and Politics, Going Codes: Women's Experiences in Formerly Men's Colleges and Universities, Yards and Gates: Gender in Havard and Radcliffe History)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Leslie Miller-Bernal & Susan L. Poulson, eds., GOING COED: WOMEN'S EXPERIENCES IN FORMERLY MEN'S COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES, 1950-2000. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2004. 338p. bibl. index. $79.95, ISBN 0826514480; pap., $29.95,...

Women's presses and bookstores: feminist print history.
June 22, 2005... Junko Onosaka, WOMEN'S BOOKSTORES IN THE UNITED STATES: FEMINIST REVOLUTION IN LITERACY. Ph.D. thesis, State University of New York at Buffalo. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI, 2004. 365p. UMI number 3125746. Simone Murray, MIXED MEDIA: FEMINIST PRESSES...

Feminist philosophy or feminist theory?(Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives, Feminist Theory: A Philosophical Anthology)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Ann E. Cudd & Robin O. Andreasen, FEMINIST THEORY: A PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHOLOGY. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005. 432p. $74.95, ISBN 1-4051-1661-7. Carole R. McCann & Seung-Kyung Kim, FEMINIST THEORY READER: LOCAL AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES. New...

Reworking pasts and envisioning futures: thinking "otherwise" about women's studies.(Troubling Women's Studies: Pasts, Presents, and Possibilities, Who's Afraid of Women's Studies? Feminisms in Everyday Life, Women's Studies for the Future: Foundations, Interrogations, Politics, Women's Studies on Its Own: A Next Reader in Institutional Change)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Mary F. Rogers & C.D. Garrett, WHO'S AFRAID OF WOMEN'S STUDIES? FEMINISMS IN EVERYDAY LIFE. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira, 2002. 176p. bibl. index. $75.00, ISBN 0-7591-0173-6; pap., $24.95, ISBN 0-7591-0174-4. Robyn Wiegman, ed., WOMEN'S...

E-sources on women & gender.
June 22, 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...

A Companion to Feminist Geography.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Lise Nelson & Joni Seager, eds., A COMPANION TO FEMINIST GEOGRAPHY. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005. 617p. bibl. index. $124.95, ISBN 1-4051-0186-5. What is feminist geography? What do feminist geographers do? Where does feminism fit in...

Internet Guide to Cosmetic Surgery for Women.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... M. Sandra Wood, INTERNET GUIDE TO COSMETIC SURGERY FOR WOMEN. New York: Haworth Information Press, 2005. 206p. $49.95, ISBN 0789010666; pap., $22.95, ISBN 0789010674. Recently, someone very close to me underwent a minor cosmetic surgery...

Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Marianne J. Legato, ed., PRINCIPLES OF GENDER-SPECIFIC MEDICINE. Boston: Elsevier Academic Press, 2004. 2 vols. 1396p. $279.95, ISBN 0124409059. Nowadays, it is rare that a new field of medicine emerges that necessitates the first edition...

Woman's Concise Guide to Common Medical Tests.
June 22, 2005... Michele C. Moore & Caroline M. DeCosta, A WOMAN'S CONCISE GUIDE TO COMMON MEDICAL TESTS. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005. 175p. index. $40.50, ISBN 0813535808; pap., $16.95, ISBN 0813535794. Any woman who plans to undergo...

A Woman's Guide to Menopause and Perimenopause.
June 22, 2005... Mary Jane Minkin & Carol V. Wright, A WOMAN'S GUIDE TO MENOPAUSE AND PERIMENOPAUSE. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004. 432p. $18.00, ISBN 0300104359. Menopause is a marker of immense change in a woman's journey through life. In...

The Quotable Jewish Woman: Wisdom, Inspiration and Humor from the Mind and Heart.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Elaine Bernstein Partnow, ed. & compiler, THE QUOTABLE JEWISH WOMAN: WISDOM, INSPIRATION & HUMOR FROM THE MIND AND HEART. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2004. 454p. $29.99, ISBN 1-58023-193-4. The first question to ask about this...

The Book of Latina Women: 150 Vidas of Passion, Strength, and Success.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Sylvia Mendoza, THE BOOK OF LATINA WOMEN: 150 VIDAS OF PASSION, STRENGTH, AND SUCCESS. Avon, MA: Adams Media: 2004. 328p. bibl. index. $12.95, ISBN 1593372124. Sylvia Mendoza, a Latina journalist whose previous book titles include the...

Women and Political Participation: A Reference Handbook.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Barbara C. Burrell, WOMEN AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION: A REFERENCE HANDBOOK. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2004. 277p. bibl. index. $60.00, ISBN 1851095926. In the United States, women have worked hard to gain the right to equal...

Women's Suffrage in America (Updated Edition).(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Elizabeth Frost-Knappman & Kathryn Cullen-DuPont, WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE IN AMERICA (UPDATED EDITION). New York: Facts on File (Eyewitness History Series), 2005. 496p. bibl. index. $75.00, ISBN 0-8160-5693-5. In these times of stagnant or...

Working Americans 1800-2005: Volume VI: Women at Work.
June 22, 2005... Scott Derks, WORKING AMERICANS 1800-2005: VOLUME VI: WOMEN AT WORK. Millerton, NY: Grey House Publishing, 2005. 483p. $145.00, ISBN 1-59237-063-2. More scrapbook in nature than reference work, the sixth volume of the Working Americans...

New and newly discovered periodicals.(PERIODICAL NOTES)
June 22, 2005... AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SEXUALITY EDUCATION. 2005-. Eds.: William J. Taverner & Elizabeth Schroeder. Publ.: Haworth Press. ISSN (print): 1554-6128; (electronic): 1554-6136. 4/yr. Subscriptions: individuals, $45.00; institutions other than...

Special issues of periodicals.(PERIODICAL NOTES)
June 22, 2005... THE GERONTOLOGIST v.43, no.3, June 2003: Special section: "Self-Rated Health, Gender, and Mortality." Ed.-in-chief: Linda S. Noelker. ISSN: 0016-9013. Published by the Gerontological Society of America, P0 Box 79151, Baltimore, MD 21279-0151;...

Queens of the zine scene: best lines.(Periodical Review)
June 22, 2005... Some of the best lines come from random writings. These are lines that you think about for days and wonder if they don't somehow matter in the real screenplay of your life. Here is the latest review of zines and the best lines that came out of...

Items of note.(publications)(Bibliography)
June 22, 2005... In HAPPY BIRTHDAY: A PLAY FOR ELDERS ACTED BY ELDERS, five women, almost all of whom are in their seventies or older, take advantage of a surprise birthday party to discuss aging. The play, based on the research findings of Ruth Harriet Jacobs,...

Books recently received.
June 22, 2005... 100 CANADIAN HEROINES: FAMOUS AND FORGOTTEN FACES. Forster, Merna. Dundurn, 2004. AMERICAN WOMEN MODERNISTS: THE LEGACY OF ROBERT HENRI, 1910-1945. Wardle, Marian, ed. Rutgers, 2005. ANGELA HUTCHINSON HAMMER: ARIZONA'S PIONEER...