Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources articles from June 2008

Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources archives from June 2008

From the editors.(Editorial)
June 22, 2008... What do masculinity, maternity, streaming video, Jewish women's publishing, growing up as a girl, feminist art, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer have in common? They're all the subjects of feature articles in this double issue of Feminist...

Baby blues: considering contemporary maternity.(books on maternity)(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Rebecca Kukla, MASS HYSTERIA: MEDICINE, CULTURE, AND MOTHER'S MOTHERS' BODIES. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. (Explorations in bioethics and the medical humanities.) 264p. pap., $30.95, ISBN 978-0742533585. Marsden Wagner, BORN IN...

Feminisms and art: sparking a revolution.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal, & Sue Scott, AFTER THE REVOLUTION: WOMEN WHO TRANSFORMED CONTEMPORARY ART. New York: Prestel Publishing, 2007. 320p. $39.95, ISBN 978-3791337326. Karen Frostig & Kathy A. Halamka, eds.,...

Traditional masculinity in crisis: an opportunity to create healthy alternatives.(Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex and Power)(The History of Men: Essays in the History of American and British Masculinities)(The Caveman Mystique: Pop-Darwinism and the Debates Over Sex)(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Shira Tarrant, ed., MEN SPEAK OUT: VIEWS ON GENDER, SEX, AND POWER. New York, NY: Routledge, 2008. 295p. bibl. index. pap., $36.95, ISBN 978-0415956574. Michael S. Kimmel, THE HISTORY OF MEN: ESSAYS IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN AND BRITISH...

Undead, gothic, and queer: the allure of Buffy.(books on Buffy the Vampire Slayer)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... Elena Levine & Lisa Parks, eds., UNDEAD TV: ESSAYS ON BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. 209p. bibl. index. notes. ISBN 978-0-8223-4043-0. Rebecca Beirne, ed., TELEVISING QUEER WOMEN: A READER, New York:...

Doris B. Gold, Jewish Women's studies publisher: "impossible to live without making things happen".(Biography)
June 22, 2008... Miriam's Well: Rituals for Jewish Women Around the Year. Voices of Thinking Jewish Women, Gender and Jewish Studies: A Curriculum Guide. The Jewish Women's Awareness Guide: Connections for the 2nd Wave of Jewish Feminism, Sex and the Modern...

Growing up around the world.(FEMINIST VISIONS)(dvds on girls growing up)(Children's review)(Video recording review)
June 22, 2008... REEMA: THERE AND BACK: A FAMILY DIVIDED BY TWO WORLDS. 52 mins. 2006. Written & directed by Paul Emile D'Entremont. Edited by Esther Auger. Produced by Muriele Rioux-Poirier. Distributed by the National Film Board of Canada, 1123 Broadway,...

The good ship motherhood.(FEMINIST VISIONS)(Whatever Floats Your Boat: A Documentary for Women, About Women, by Women)(Video recording review)
June 22, 2008... WHATEVER FLOATS YOUR BOAT: A DOCUMENTARY FOR WOMEN, ABOUT WOMEN, BY WOMEN. 53-minute documentary + 20-minute facilitated discussion. 2007. Created by Maryanne Pope & Shannon Lyons. Directed & edited by Heather McCrae; videographed by Jill...

Blossoms of fire.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Brief article)(Video recording review)
June 22, 2008... Maureen Gosling, BLOSSOMS OF FIRE. Documentary, 74 mins. 2000, 2006 (DVD production). In English, Spanish, and Zapotec, with English subtitles. Produced by Intrepidas Productions, 6540 Dana Street, Oakland, CA 94609; phone: (510) 595-7926;...

Wiseli: advancing institutional transformation; building on a legacy; forward with institutional transformation.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Brief article)(Video recording review)
June 22, 2008... Women in Science & Engineering Leadership Institute (WISELI), University of Wisconsin-Madison, WISELI: ADVANCING INSTITUTIONAL TRANSFORMATION; BUILDING ON A LEGACY; FORWARD WITH INSTITUTIONAL TRANSFORMATION. Produced by the University of...

A torrent of moving images: free online videos for women's studies.(Report)
June 22, 2008... Instructors teaching in 2009 face classrooms full of "digital natives" who have had the Internet at their fingertips for most of their lives. One of the characteristics of this tribe is greater appreciation for visual stimuli, which on the plus...

e-sources on women & gender.
June 22, 2008... 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...

Abortion in the USA.(Abortion: A Documentary and Reference Guide)(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Melody Rose, ABORTION: A DOCUMENTARY AND REFERENCE GUIDE. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2008. 258p. $85.00, ISBN 978-0313340321. How have abortion politics and policy evolved in the United States throughout American history? What are the key...

Adventuring women.(Women Adventurers, 1750-1900: A Biographical Dictionary, with Excerpts from Selected Travel Writings)(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Mary F. McVicker, WOMEN ADVENTURERS 1750-1900: A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, WITH EXCERPTS FROM SELECTED TRAVEL WRITINGS. Jefferson, NC McFarland, 2008. 224p. $55.00, ISBN 978-0786432059). The difficulties of travel in the eighteenth and...

American women.(Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America)(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Charlotte S. Waisman & Jill S. Tierjen, HER STORY: A TIMELINE OF THE WOMEN WHO CHANGED AMERICA. New York: HarperCollins, 2008. 272p. $29.95, ISBN 978-0061246517.l Charlotte Waisman and Jill Tietjen hope to "pique your interest" with this...

American western women.(Women in the American West)(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Laura E. Woodworth-Ney, WOMEN IN THE AMERICAN WEST. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2008. (Cultures in the American west.) 387p. $65.00, ISBN 978-1598840506. Voting rights, mining towns, labor activism, conservatism, tourism, farming,...

Identity.(Handbook of Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders)(Book review)
June 22, 2008... David L. Rowland & Luca Incrocci, eds., HANDBOOK OF SEXUAL AND GENDER IDENTITY DISORDERS. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2008. 671p. index. $95.00, ISBN 978-0471767381; e-book, ISBN 978-0-470-25271-0. (Print version reviewed.) How do physicians...

Men.(International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities; International Guide to Literature on Masculinity: A Biography)(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Michael Flood, Judith Kegan Gardiner, Bob Pease, & Keith Pringle, eds., INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MEN AND MASCULINITIES. New York, NY: Routledge, 2007. 704p. Print edition, $230,00, ISBN 978-0415333436; ebook, ISBN 978-0203413067. ...

Sexual assault.(Date Rape)(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Jill Hamilton, ed., DATE RAPE. Detroit: Greenhaven, 2007. 104p. $33.70, ISBN 978-07377-3811-7. Every author--in a wide array that includes activists, educational speakers, essayists, newspaper and magazine writers, organizations, students...

South Asian Muslim Women.(Inscribing South Asian Muslim Women: An Annotated Bibliography and Research Guide)(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Tahera Aftab, INSCRIBING SOUTH ASIAN MUSLIM WOMEN: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY & RESEARCH GUIDE. Boston: Brill, 2008. (Handbook of Oriental studies series.) 616p. $167.00, ISBN 978-9004158498. The confluence of global contemporary politics...

Women on stamps.(Women on United States Postage Stamps)(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Anita Price Davis & Louise Hunt, WOMEN ON UNITED STATES POSTAGE STAMPS. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 304p. bibl. index. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-7864-3124-3. Those who still practice the dying art of snail-mail correspondence know that using...

Women's rights.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Justin Karr, ed., WOMEN'S RIGHTS. Detroit, MI: Greenhaven, 2008. (Issues on trial.) 200p. $37.40, ISBN 978-0737738087. Natasha Thomsen, WOMEN'S RIGHTS. New York: Facts on File, 2007. (Global issues.) 416p. $45.00, ISBN 978-0816068098. ...

World history.(Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, 4 vols.)(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Bonnie G. Smith, ed.-in-chief, OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN IN WORLD HISTORY. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2008 (http://www.oxford-womenworldhistory.com). 4 vols. 2752p. illus. index. $595.00, ISBN 978-0195148909; e-book, ISBN...

New periodicals.(PERIODICAL NOTES)(women's periodicals)
June 22, 2008... INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FEMINIST APPROACHES TO BIOETHICS. 2008--. Official publication of the International Network of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. Editor: Mary C. Rawlinson. Book review editor: Lisa Eckenwiler. Managing editors: Brady...

Special issues of periodicals.(PERIODICAL NOTES)(women's periodicals)
June 22, 2008... AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE v. 33, no. l (2007): Thematic focus on gender-related issues. Issue editor: Trade J. Gardner. Publisher: Informa Healthcare. ISSN: 0095-2990 (print), 1097-9891 (electronic). Available online to...

Transitions.(PERIODICAL NOTES)(Kalliope: A Journal of Women's Literature and Art)(Brief article)
June 22, 2008... KALLIOPE: A JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S LITERATURE AND ART, sponsored by Florida Community College for more than twenty years, has suspended publication indefinitely. OFF OUR BACKS: THE FEMINIST NEWSJOURNAL, after thirty-eight years of print...

Books recently received.
June 22, 2008... ABC OF WOMEN WORKERS' RIGHTS AND GENDER EQUALITY. International Labour Office. 2007. AD WOMEN: HOW THEY IMPACT WHAT WE NEED, WANT, AND BUY. Sivulka, Juliann. Prometheus, 2008. BETWEEN THE COVERS: THE BOOK BABE'S GUIDE TO A WOMAN'S...