Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources articles from March 2002

Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources archives from March 2002

From the editors.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... JoAnne took a break from finishing up this issue of Feminist Collections to attend the annual conference of the National Women's Studies Association in Las Vegas. Mostly she represented our publications at the Book Exhibit--and handed out...

Young Feminists' Tales. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 2002... Jill Corral & Lisa Miya-Jervis, eds., YOUNG WIVES' TALES: NEW ADVENTURES IN LOVE AND PARTNERSHIP. Seattle: Seal Press, 2001. 287p. $16.95, ISBN 1-58005-050-6. Allyson Mitchell, Lisa Bryn Rundle, & Lara Karaian, eds., TURBO CHICKS: TALKING...

Women in the Civil Rights Movement. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 2002... Introduction Nearly a quarter of a century ago, a civil rights activist noted the critical role of women and youth in the modern Black freedom movement. "It's no secret that young people and women led organizationally," he observed. (1)...

Sisterhood of Courage: Women in the Movement. (Book Reviews).(2 books on the civil rights movement)
March 22, 2002... Peter J. Ling & Sharon Monteith, eds., GENDER IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT New York & London: Garland Publishing, 1999 (distr. By Routledge). (Crosscurrents in African American history, v.8.) 276p. $60.00, ISBN 0-8153-3079-0. Lynne Olson,...

Allies for Freedom: Non-Black Women in the Movement. (Book Reviews).(2 books on civil rights)
March 22, 2002... Constance Curry et al., DEEP IN OUR HEARTS: NINE WHITE WOMEN IN THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2000. 400p. index. $29.95, ISBN 0-8203-2266-0. Debra L. Schultz, GOING SOUTH: JEWISH WOMEN IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS...

Biographies of Frances Freeborn Pauley and Fannie Lou Hamer. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 2002... Kathryn L. Nasstrom, EVERYBODY'S GRANDMOTHER AND NOBODY'S FOOL: FRANCES FREEBORNPA ULEY AND THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL JUS TICE. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000. 240p. illus. index. $26.00, ISBN 0-8014-3782-2. Chana Kai Lee, FOR...

Feminism and sex work: A review of four films. (Feminist Visions).
March 22, 2002... SACRIFICE: THE STORY OF CHILD PROSTITUTES FROM BURMA. 50 mins. color. 2000. Prod./Dir.: Ellen Bruno. Distr.: Film Library, 22-D Hollywood Ave., Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ 07423; phone: (800) 343-5540; fax: (201) 652-1973; email: tmcndy@aol.com Rental...

Internet-based resources on Female Genital Mutilation. (World Wide Web Review).
March 22, 2002... Although African women have opposed the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM)--also known as female circumcision (FC) or female genital cutting--since at least the 1960s, only in the early 1990s has an explosion of global interest hurled...

Computer Talk.
March 22, 2002... Remember that our website (http://www. library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/) includes electronic versions of all recent "Computer Talk" columns, plus many bibliographies, core lists of women's studies books, and links to hundreds of other...

Bibliotherapy: The Girl's Guide to Books for Every Phase of our Lives. (Bibliotherapy).
March 22, 2002... Nancy Peske and Beverly West, BIBLIOTHERAPY: THE GIRL'S GUIDE TO BOOKS FOR EVERY PHASE OF OUR LIVES. New York: Dell, 2001. 257p. index. $13.95, ISBN 0-440-50897-5. Though "bibliotherapy" may sound like something coined specifically for...

Ahead of their Time: A Biographical Dictionary of Risk-Taking Women. (Biography).
March 22, 2002... Duncan, Joyce, AHEAD OF THEIR TIME: A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF RISK-TAKING WOMEN. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002. 3l2p. bibl. index. $55.00, ISBN 0-313-31660-0. This aptly titled work combines biographies of explorers, travelers,...

The Feminine Gaze: A Canadian Compendium of Non-Fiction Women Authors and their Books, 1836-1945. (Canadian Women Authors).
March 22, 2002... Anne Innis Dagg, THE FEMININE GAZE: A CANADIAN COMPENDIUM OF NON-FICTION WOMEN AUTHORS AND THEIR BOOKS, 1836-1945. Waterloo, Ont., Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001. 346p. index. $45.00, ISBN 0-88920-355-5. Many reference...

Encyclopedia of Women and Gender: Sex Similarities and Differences and the Impact of Society on Gender and Women's Mental Health: A Comprehensive Textbook. (Psychology, Psychiatry, and Mental Health).
March 22, 2002... Judith Worell, ed.-in-chief, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN AND GENDER: SEX SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES AND THE IMPACT OF SOCIETY ON GENDER. San Diego: Academic Press, 2001. 2v. index. $300.00, ISBN 0-12-227245-5. Susan G. Kornstein and Anita H....

Women's Rights. (Speeches).
March 22, 2002... Jennifer A. Hurley, ed., WOMEN'S RIGHTS. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2002. (Great speeches in history.) 240p. bibl. index. $32.45, ISBN 0-7377-0773-9; pap., $21.00, ISBN 0-7377-0772-0. "Aren't I a Woman?" is what Jennifer Hurley has...

Western Women: Interviews with 50 Leading Ladies of Movie and Television Westerns from the 1930S to the 1960S. (Briefly Noted).(WESTERN WOMEN: INTERVIEWS WITH 50 LEADING LADIES OF MOVIE AND TELEVISION WESTERNS FROM THE 1930S TO THE 1960S)(LADIES OF THE WESTERN: INTERVIEWS WITH FIFTY-ONE MORE ACTRESSES FROM THE SILENT ERA TO THE TELEVISION WESTERNS OF THE 1950S AND 1960S)
March 22, 2002... Ladies of the Western. Interviews with Fifty-One More Actresses from the Silent Era to the Television Westerns of the 1950S and 1960S. Michael G. Fitzgerald & Boyd Magers, WESTERN WOMEN: INTERVIEWS WITH 50 LEADING LADIES OF MOVIE AND...

Correction.
March 22, 2002... In the review of "Dictionaries" in this column last issue (v.23, no. 2, p.26), the price for WIMMIN, WIMPS & WALL FLOWERS (Intercultural Press) should have been listed as $39.95.

New and newly discovered periodicals. (Periodical Notes).
March 22, 2002... WOMEN'S HEALTH AND URBAN LIFE: AN INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL 2002--. Founder & General Ed.: Aysan Sev'er. 2/yr. ISSN: 1499-0369. Subscription (payable to University of Toronto): US$45.00/yr., individuals outside Canada...

Special issues of periodicals. (Periodical Notes).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... EDAH JOURNAL ("a forum for discussion of Orthodox Judaism's engagement with modernity") v.1, no.2, Sivan/5761: "Halakhic Possibilities for Women: Past, Present and Future." Ed.: Eugene Korn. Subscription: free; online at:...

Gloria Steinem and Ellie Smeal announced in the Spring 2002 issue of MS. (Transitions).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Gloria Steinem and Ellie Smeal announced in the Spring 2002 issue of MS. that the magazine has teamed up with the Feminist Majority Foundation (of which Smeal is founder and president), which will operate as the periodical's "umbrella." "[W]e...

Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies: Alam-E-Niswan. (Transitions).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... PAKISTAN JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S STUDIES: ALAM-E-NISWAN, introduced in this column in 1994 (in Feminist Collections v. 16, no.1, p.31). has a new mailing address: C-31, Noman Heaven, Block 15, Gulistane Jauhar, Karachi 75290, Pakistan. The journal's...

The Health and Work of Older Women. A Neglected Issue. (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... For International Women's Day, the European Trade Union Congress (TUG) and the Pennell Initiative for Women's Health introduced a new report on the disregarded status of older women workers. THE HEALTH AND WORK OF OLDER WOMEN. A NEGLECTED...

Prairie Women, Violence and Self-Harm. (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Cathy Fillmore, Colleen Anne Dell, and The Elizabeth Fry Society of Manitoba have produced a report on women and self-injury. PRAIRIE WOMEN VIOLENCE AND SELF-HARM examines "the relationship between adult experiences of abuse and violence and...

Birth rights: New Approaches to Safe Motherhood. (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Even in the twenty-first century, many women in the world die or become ill or disabled from preventable pregnancy-related complications. In BIRTHRIGHTS: NEW APPROACHES TO SAFE MOTHERHOOD Judy Mirsky lists the reasons why this problem persists,...

Deutche Madchenbildung and Madchenbildung Auf. (Items of Note).(Women 's Liberation Movement and Gender Issues)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Harald Fischer Verlag offers two new titles, on microfiche, in the eries Historical Sources of Women 's Liberation Movement and Gender Issues. DEUTCHE MADCHENBILDUNG and MADCHENBILDUNG AUF

Christlicher Grundlage. (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... CHRISTLICHER GRUNDLAGE, both journals published before World War II, carried discussions on the issue of higher education for women. For more information, contact Harald Fischer Verlag, Postfach 15 65, D-9 1005 Erlanger, Germany; phone: 09131/...

Weaving Gender in Disaster and Refugee Assistance. (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... WEAVING GENDER IN DISASTER AND REFUGEE ASSISTANCE is a report that puts together the conclusions arrived at during two InterAction Forum seminars held in 1998. Refugees, donors, nongovernmental organizations, and members of the InterAction...

Gender and Natural Disasters. (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... The InFocus Programme of the International Labour Organization (ILO) started its series on "Crisis Response and Reconstruction" with GENDER AND NATURAL DISASTERS, by Elaine Enarson (2000). This working paper focuses on the social and economic...

Microenterprise and Welfare Reform. (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... MICROENTERPRISE AND WELFARE REFORM, by Angela Bonavoglia and Anna Wadia, reports on the experiences of ten microenterprise programs and a worker-owned cooperative--all of which received grants from the Ms. Foundation's Collaborative Fund for...

Gender of Democracy: The Encounter Between Feminism and Reformism in Contemporary Iran. (Items of Note).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Parvin Paidar's GENDER OF DEMOCRACY: THE ENCOUNTER BETWEEN FEMINISM AND REFORMISM IN CON TEMPORARY IRAN is a 47-page paper from the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) Press. The author discusses the historical...

Books recently received.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... A TO Z OF AMERICAN WOMEN IN PERFORMING ARTS: A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. Sonneborn, Liz. Facts on File, 2002. AMERICAN WOMEN PHARMACISTS: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROFESSION. Henderson, Metta Lou. Haworth, 2002. AT HOME ON THIS EARTH: TWO...

The Internet (II): Psychological Security, Race, Class and Gender Issues: A Bibliography. (Briefly Noted).(THE INTERNET (II): PSYCHOLOGICAL SECURITY, RACE, CLASS AND GENDER ISSUES: A BIBLIOGRAPHY)
March 22, 2002... Nordquist, Joan, comp., THE INTERNET (II): PSYCHOLOGICAL SECURITY, RACE, CLASS AND GENDER ISSUES: A BIBLIOGRAPHY Santa Cruz, CA: Reference and Research Services, 2001. (Contemporary social issues, no. 62.) 68p. $20.00, ISBN 1-8920680-22-2;...