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

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

From the editors.
June 22, 2006... In the late 1980s, wanting an engaging intellectual experience outside of my regular job as a social sciences editor, I signed up for my first--and even to date my only--women's studies course: "Women in Literature," at Eastern Michigan...

Evangelical feminism.(Evangelical Feminism: A History)(Living on the Boundaries: Evangelical Women, Feminism and the Theological Academy)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Pamela D.H. Cochran, EVANGELICAL FEMINISM: A HISTORY. New York: New York Univ. Press, 2005. 243p., notes. bibl. index. pap., $19.00, ISBN 0-8147-1650-4. Nicola Hoggard Creegan & Christine D. Pohl, LIVING ON THE BOUNDARIES: EVANGELICAL...

Women in Chinese television and film.(Women Through the Lens: Gender and Nation in a Century of Chinese Cinema)(Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Shuqin Cui, WOMEN THROUGH THE LENS: GENDER AND NATION IN A CENTURY OF CHINESE CINEMA. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2003. 304p. bibl. filmography. index. notes. $42.00, ISBN 0-8248-2532-2. Rachel DeWoskin, FOREIGN BABES IN...

E-sources on women & gender.(Website list)
June 22, 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...

African American women.(Writing African American Women: An Encyclopedia of Literature By and About Women of Color)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu, ed., WRITING AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LITERATURE BY AND ABOUT WOMEN OF COLOR. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. 991p. 2 vols. bibl. index. $199.95, ISBN 0313331960 (set). For centuries, African...

Central and Eastern European women.(Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminism in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe: 19th and 20th Centuries)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Francisca de Haan, Krasimira Daskalova, & Anna Loutfi, BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF WOMEN'S MOVEMENTS AND FEMINISMS IN CENTRAL, EASTERN, AND SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE: 19THAND 20TH CENTURIES. Budapest & New York: CEU Press/Central European University...

Feminist literature.(Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Mary Ellen Snodgrass, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FEMINIST LITERATURE. New York: Facts on File, 2006. 766p. $75.00, ISBN 0-8160-6040-1. Mary Ellen Snodgrass is the author of an array of reference books on topics as diverse as utopian literature and...

Gender & women's studies.(Handbook of Gender and Women's Studies)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Kathy Davis, Mary Evans, & Judith Lorber, eds., HANDBOOK OF GENDER AND WOMEN'S STUDIES. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2006. 494p. index. $130.00, ISBN 0761943900. Women's studies was thus first the claim by women for the study of...

Islamic women.(Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures: Family, Body, Sexuality and Health, vol. 3)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Suad Joseph & Afsaneh Najmabadi, eds., ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN AND ISLAMIC CULTURES, VOL. 3: FAMILY, BODY, SEXUALITY AND HEALTH. Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. 588p. $326.00, ISBN 9004128190. In this third volume of the Encyclopedia...

Latinas.(Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Vicki L. Ruiz & Virginia Sanchez Korrol, eds., LATINAS IN THE UNITED STATES: A HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. 3 vols. pap., $325.00, ISBN 0253346800 (set). Latinas in the United States should not be...

Librarianship.(On Account of Sex: An Annotated Bibliography on the Status of Women in Librarainship)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Betsy Kruger & Catherine Larson, eds., ON ACCOUNT OF SEX: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN LIBRARIANSHIP, 1998-2002. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2006. 226p. bibl. index. pap., $50.00, ISBN 0810852276. Since...

Religion.(Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Rosemary Skinner Keller & Rosemary Radford Ruether, eds., ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN AND RELIGION IN NORTH AMERICA. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. 1394p. 3 vols. illus. $325.00, ISBN 0253346851. This is a comprehensive collection...

Scottish women.(Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women from the Earliest Times to 2004)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Elizabeth Ewan et al., eds., BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF SCOTTISH WOMEN FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO 2004. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. 403p. bibl. index. $100.00, ISBN 0748617132. Filling a gap in the world's...

Statistics.(Women's Roles and Statuses the World Over)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Stephanie Hepburn & Rita J. Simon, WOMEN'S ROLES AND STATUSES THE WORLD OVER. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006. 267p. bibl. index. $55.00, ISBN 0-7391-1356-9. Hepburn and Simon gather information from sources such as the CIA Factbook,...

New and newly discovered periodicals.(PERIODICAL NOTES)
June 22, 2006... After media professional Jacklyn E. Bruce earned a J.D. and completed a year-long law clerkship, she decided to start a magazine for "professional, aspirational" women. Her e-zine, IMPRESSIONS, debuted online in July of this year at...

Special issues of periodicals.(PERIODICAL NOTES)
June 22, 2006... ADULT EDUCATION IN ISRAEL no.9, 2006: "Gender in Adult Education." Ed.-in-chief: Mayer Fialkoff. ISSN: 0793-033-033. Published by the Division of Adult Education in Israel's Ministry of Education, 22 Kanfei Nesharim Street, Jerusalem 91911,...

Transitions.(PERIODICAL NOTES)(Harrington Lesbian Fiction Quarterly has been retitled Harrington Lesbian Literary Quarterly)(Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching)(Brief article)
June 22, 2006... Harrington Lesbian Fiction Quarterly has been retitled HARRINGTON LESBIAN LITERARY QUARTERLY "to better reflect its focus": "lesbian writing, including fiction, novel excerpts, poetry, essays, and drama.... It [also] features artwork, graphics,...

Items of note.(Center for Health and Gender Equity's Debunking the Myths in the U.S. Global AIDS Strategy: An Evidence -Based Analysis)
June 22, 2006... In 2004, the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) released DEBUNKING THE MYTHS IN THE U.S. GLOBAL AIDS STRATEGY: AN EVIDENCE-BASED ANALYSIS, a critical analysis of the PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS RELIEF: U.S. FIVE-YEAR GLOBAL...

Books received.
June 22, 2006... AKRON'S 'BETTER HALF': WOMEN'S CLUBS AND THE HUMANIZATION OF THE CITY, 1825-1925. Endres, Kathleen L. University of Akron Press, 2006. ANGELS IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD. Marshall, Peter and Walsham, Alexandra, eds. Cambridge University...