Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources articles from June 2007

Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources archives from June 2007

From the editors.(Editorial)
June 22, 2007... This issue of Feminist Collections continues, with vigor, to delve into what guest editor Tracy Lemaster described last season as the journal's "longest series and one of the most exciting scholarly areas today": girls' studies. Since it brings...

Gendered subjectivity and the female body: discovering agency and power.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Martha Haring Groeschell, THE DEVELOPMENT OF BODY IMAGE IN PREADOLESCENT GIRLS: A QUALITATIVE STUDY. Psy.D. dissertation, Argosy University, 2005. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Dissertation Express. 100p. Laura Fingerson, GIRLS IN POWER: GENDER, BODY,...

Mass marketing and our daughters.('Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes' and 'Somewhere In-Between: Tween Queens and the Marketing Machine')(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Sharon Lamb & Lyn Mikel Brown, PACKAGING GIRLHOOD: RESCUING OUR DAUGHTERS FROM MARKETERS' SCHEMES. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2006 (paperbound, 2007). 336p. pap., $14.95, ISBN 978-0312370053. Meredith Rae Guthrie, SOMEWHERE IN-BETWEEN:...

Educating the girl: learning and schooling in America.('The Science Education of American Girls: A Historical Perspective' and 'A Vision for Girls: Gender, Education, and the Brynmawr School')(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Kimberley Tolley, THE SCIENCE EDUCATION OF AMERICAN GIRLS: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE. New York: Routledge Falmer, 2003. 287p. bibl. index. $36.95, ISBN 978-0415934732. Andrea Hamilton, A VISION FOR GIRLS: GENDER, EDUCATION, AND THE BRY...

Girls, grrrls, gurls, and the tools they use.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Gerry Bloustien, GIRL MAKING: A CROSS-CULTURAL ETHNOGRAPHY ON THE PROCESSES OF GROWING UP FEMALE. New York: Berghahn Books, 2003. 296p. illlus. bibl. index. pap., $25.00/[pounds sterling]7.00, ISBN 978-1-57181-426-5. Mary Celeste Kearney,...

"Othered" girls: growing up between two worlds.('The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double Dutch to Hip-Hop', 'YELL-Oh Girls!: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American' and 'Latina Girls: Voices of Adolescent Strength in the U.S.')(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Kyra D. Gaunt, THE GAMES BLACK GIRLS PLAY: LEARNING THE ROPES FROM DOUBLE-DUTCH TO HIP-HOP. New York: New York University Press, 2006. 238p. bibl. index. musical transcriptions, pap., $20.00, ISBN 978-0814731208. Vickie Nam, ed., YELL-OH...

Disruptive girlhoods: books on aggression in girls.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Sharon Lamb, THE SECRET LIVES OF GIRLS: WHAT GOOD GIRLS REALLY DO--SEX PLAY, AGGRESSION, AND THEIR GUILT. New York: Free Press, 2002. 272p. ISBN 978-0743201070. (Out of print, but available used from many booksellers.) Marjorie Harness...

Reimagining girlhood: girls' writings and self-portrayals.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Lauren Greenfield, GIRL CULTURE. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2002. 156p. $40.00, ISBN 978-0811837903. Sherry S. Handel, BLUE JEAN: WHAT YOUNG WOMEN ARE THINKING, SAYING, AND DOING. Rochester, NY: Blue Jean Press, 2001. 256p. pap.,...

Great reads for young girls.(Recommended readings)
June 22, 2007... Peggy Gifford, MOXY MAXWELL DOES NOT LOVE STUART LITTLE. New York: Schwartz & Wade/Random House Children's Books, 2007. 92pp. $12.99, ISBN 978-0-375-83915-3. Sara Pennypacker, CLEMENTINE. New York: Hyperion Books, 2006. 136pp. $14.99, ISBN...

What adolescent girls read.(Recommended readings)
June 22, 2007... Laurie Halse Anderson, SPEAK. 1st edition: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999. Newest edition: Peter Smith Publisher Inc., 2006. 208p. $23.75, ISBN 978-0844672922. Marina Budhos, ASK ME NO QUESTIONS. New York: Simon & Schuster/Atheneum/Ginee...

Round-up 2: blogs and other e-tools for women's studies.(Recommended readings)
June 22, 2007... This is our second round-up of reports on incorporating blogging and other "e-formats" into the classroom, particularly the women's studies classroom. Our first one appeared in Feminist Collections v.27, nos.2-3 (Winter-Spring 2006), available...

E-sources on women & gender.(Recommended readings)
June 22, 2007... Our website (http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/) includes recent editions of this column and links to complete back issues of Feminist Collections, plus many bibliographies, a database of women-focused videos, and links to hundreds of other...

Guide des Sources de L'Histoire du Feminisme: de la Revolution Francaise a nos Jours.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Christine Bard, Annie Dizier-Metz, Valerie Neveu, & Veronique Fau-Vincenti, GUIDE DES SOURCES DE L'HISTOIRE DU FEMINISME: DE LA REVOLUTION FRANCAISE A NOS JOURS. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2006. 442p. bibl. index. ISBN...

Encyclopedia of Domestic Violence.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Nicky Ali Jackson, ed., ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. New York: Routledge, 2007. 789p. $190.00, ISBN 978-0415969680. A recent WorldCat search revealed more than 5,400 records for English-language books with domestic violence in the...

An Annotated Bibliography on Gender in Secondary Education: Research from Selected Commonwealth Countries.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Jyotsna Jha, ed., AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON GENDER IN SECONDARY EDUCATION: RESEARCH FROM SELECTED COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES. London, UK: Commonwealth Secretariat, 2007. 196p. $47.50, ISBN 0-85092-846-X. As the women's and gender study...

Reel Women: An International Directory of Contemporary Feature Films About Women.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Jane Sloan, REEL WOMEN: AN INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF CONTEMPORARY FEATURE FILMS ABOUT WOMEN. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007. 435p. filmography. $60.00, ISBN 0-8108-58974-7. Jacqueline Leuitin's 1987 film Eva Guerilla, set in El...

The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Ellen Rooney, ed., THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO FEMINIST LITERARY THEORY. Cambridge (UK) and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 322p. $80.00, ISBN 978-0521807067; pap., $27.99, ISBN 978-0521001687. The field of feminist literary...

Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Boston Women's Health Book Collective, OUR BODIES, OURSELVES: MENOPAUSE. New York: Simon & Schuster/Touchstone, 2006. 368p. index. pap., $15.00, ISBN 978-0743274876. Since publishing the groundbreaking first edition of Our Bodies,...

The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Linda Martin Alcoff & Eva Feder Kittay, eds., THE BLACKWELL GUIDE TO FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY. Maiden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007. 292p. bibl, index. $86.95, ISBN 978-0631224273; pap., $36.95, ISBN 978-0631224280. Feminists began critiquing...

Feminist Fieldwork Analysis.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Sherryl Kleinman, FEMINIST FIELDWORK ANALYSIS. Qualitative Research Methods Series 51. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2007. 132p. $18.95, ISBN 9781412905497. In Feminist Fieldwork Analysis, Sherryl Kleinman explains how a feminist can do...

Different Voices: Women in United States History.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Emily Teipe, DIFFERENT VOICES: WOMEN IN UNITED STATES HISTORY. Redding, CA: CAT Publishing Company (http://www.catpublishing.com), 2006. 435p. pap., ISBN 9781562265847. Reading a textbook is one of the most common ways for a college...

Point/Counterpoint: Women in the Military.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Victoria Sherrow & Alan Marzilli, ed., POINT/COUNTERPOINT: WOMEN IN THE MILITARY. New York: Chelsea House Publishing, 2007. 139p. index. library binding, $32.95, ISBN 978-0791092903. From the thirteenth century B.C.E., when Ramses II ruled...

Women Engaged in War in Literature for Youth: A Guide to Resources for Children and Young Adults.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Hilary S. Crew, WOMEN ENGAGED IN WAR IN LITERATURE FOR YOUTH: A GUIDE TO RESOURCES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007. 303p. $51.00, ISBN 0-8108-4929-1. Joan of Arc. Clara Barton. Mulan. These may be the names...

New periodical.(PERIODICAL NOTES)(Kitu Kizuri: The Voice of the African Women)(Periodical review)(Brief article)
June 22, 2007... KITU KIZURI: THE VOICE OF THE AFRICAN WOMAN. 2007-. Founder and editor-in-chief: Angela W. Ogbolu. Publisher: Kitu Kizuri LLC, PO Box 347, East Stroudsburg, PA 18301; phone: (570) 421-4006; website: http://www.kitukizuri.com. 4/yr....

Ceased publication.(PERIODICAL NOTES)(Women-Church: An Australian Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion)(Brief article)
June 22, 2007... WOMEN-CHURCH: AN AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF FEMINIST STUDIES IN RELIGION (ISSN 1030-0139) published its final issue--Number 40--in 2007. Editors Elaine Lindsay and Camille Paul write, "Our hopes were modest when we started publishing Women-Church:...

Special issues of periodicals.(PERIODICAL NOTES)(Bibliography)
June 22, 2007... ALCOHOL AND ALCOHOLISM v.41, supp.1, October/November 2006: Special issue: "Gender, Culture and Alcohol Problems: A Multi-National Study." Issue editor: Kim Bloomfield. ISSN: 0735-0414. Publisher: Pergamon Press. Available online to licensed...

Items of note.('Healing Through Dialogue: Theater of the Oppressed and Beyond', '2007 Directory of Women's Media' and 'Teca Huiini')(Brief article)
June 22, 2007... In HEALING THROUGH DIALOGUE: THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED AND BEYOND, the ninth in a series of discussion papers published by Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace (WISCOMP), Jaya Iyer looks at a theatre workshop that provides conflict...

Books and videos recently received.
June 22, 2007... A TO Z OF AMERICAN INDIAN WOMEN. Sonneborn, Liz. Facts on File, 2007. rev. ed. A TO Z OF AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS. Kort, Carol. Facts on File/Infobase, 2007. A TO Z OF WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND MATH. Yount, Lisa. Facts On File/Infobase,...