Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources articles from March 2003

Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources archives from March 2003

From the editors.(Editorial)
March 22, 2003... "It is time," wrote the poet Rilke (as translated by Stephen Mitchell). "The huge summer has gone by." On this 80+-degree September day in Madison, I agree. The summer was huge, and now it is time--for the return of cool weather; for getting...

To the editors.(Letter to the Editor)
March 22, 2003... I wanted to take a moment to thank you for reviewing The Kali Guide: A Directory of Resources for Women in your Winter 2003 issue (vol.24, no.2, p.30). We were so delighted to read it. Also, I wanted to bring to your attention that we do have a...

Mentoring and administrative opportunities: reflections on an internship.
March 22, 2003... Mentors: one way to describe them is as individuals with advanced experience and knowledge who provide support to their proteges or junior organizational members. Developing a mentoring relationship has long been considered essential to...

Can a book about mentoring be a mentor?(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Carolyn S. Duff, LEARNING FROM OTHER WOMEN: HOW TO BENEFIT FROM THE KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM, AND EXPERIENCE OF FEMALE MENTORS. New York: American Management Association (AMACOM), 1999. 172p. bibl. index. Hardcover out of print, ISBN 0-8144-0455-3;...

Keeping the faith.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Lauren F. Winner, GIRL MEETS GOD: ON THE PATH TO A SPIRITUAL LIFE. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2002. 303p. $23.95, ISBN 1565123093. Angela Watrous, ed., BARE YOUR SOUL: THE THINKING GIRL'S GUIDE TO ENLIGHTENMENT. New York: Seal Press,...

The Web of size acceptance: Internet resources for exploring a Feminist Issue.
March 22, 2003... Susie Orbach's Fat Is a Feminist Issue (1978) didn't have the first, the last, or arguably the "most feminist" word on the subject. But the therapist's popular book--even its title alone--may have widened awareness that there might be something...

E-sources on women & gender.
March 22, 2003... Our website (http://www.library.wlsc.edu/libraries/ WomensStudies/) includes all recent issues of this column (formerly called "Computer Talk"), plus many bibliographies, core lists of women's studies books, and links to hundreds of other...

American Women.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Cynthia B. Costello & Anne J. Stone, eds., for the Women's Research and Education Institute, THE AMERICAN WOMAN 2001-2002: GETTING TO THE TOP. New York: Norton, 2001.412p. illus. index, pap., $15.95, ISBN 0-393-32142-8. Cynthia B....

Artists.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Susan R. Ressler, ed., WOMEN ARTISTS OF THE AMERICAN WEST. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2003. 357 p. ill. bibl. index. $75.00, ISBN 0-786-41054-X. This book aims, in the words of the editor, to ask how women's roles fit in with the...

Broadcasting.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Leora M. Sies & Luther F. Sies, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN IN RADIO, 1920-1960. North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2003. 407p. photogs, bibl. index. $95.00, ISBN 0786414766. The early half of the twentieth century brought booming innovations...

Chinese Women.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Lily Xiao Hong Lee, ed., BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF CHINESE WOMEN: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, 1912-2000 (2nd volume in a series, eds.-in-chief Lily Xiao Hong Lee & A.D. Stefanowska). Armonk, NY: Sharpe, 2003. 800p. glossary. $109.95, ISBN...

History.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Larry G. Eggleston, WOMEN IN THE CIVIL WAR: EXTRAORDINARY STORIES OF SOLDIERS, SPIES, NURSES, DOCTORS, CRUSADERS, AND OTHERS. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2003. 214p. bibl. index, illus. $32.50, ISBN 0786414936. Larry Eggleston states in his...

Lesbian and Gay Studies.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Diane Richardson & Steven Seidman, eds., HANDBOOK OF LESBIAN & GAY STUDIES. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2002. 472p. index. $89.95, ISBN 0-7619-6511-4. Something caught my eye in this book even before the table of contents. On the verso of the...

Media.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Martha Leslie Allen, ed., DIRECTORY OF WOMEN'S MEDIA. Washington, DC: Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press, 2003. 98p. $28.00 institutions (plus $5.00 shipping & handling); $23.00 individuals, prepaid (plus $5.00 shipping & handling)....

Music.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Kristine H. Burns, ed., WOMEN AND MUSIC IN AMERICA SINCE 1900: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. 2 vols. 747p. bibl. index. $150.00, ISBN 1-57356-267-X. Providing an approach to American women in music that encompasses a...

Religion.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Susan Frank Parsons, ed., THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO FEMINIST THEOLOGY. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 268p. index, pap., $22.00, ISBN 0-521-66380-6. One of the front pages of the Cambridge Companion to Feminist Theology lists...

Statistics.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Joni Seager, THE PENGUIN ATLAS OF WOMEN IN THE WORLD, 3rd ed. New York: Penguin, 2003. 128p. index, pap., $20.00, ISBN 0-14200241-0. Geographer Seager first mapped women's issues under the title Women in the World: An International Atlas,...

Women Criminals and Prisoners.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Cyndi Banks, WOMEN IN PRISON: A REFERENCE HANDBOOK. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2003. (Contemporary world issues series). 227p. index. $45.00, ISBN 1-57607929-5. Hornberger, Francine, MISTRESSES OF MAYHEM: THE BOOK OF WOMEN CRIMINALS....

Women in Medicine.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Laura Lynn Windsor, WOMEN IN MEDICINE: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2002. 259p. illus. bibl. index. $85.00, ISBN 1-57607-392-0. Recently, on a speaking trip in India, I bought a book entitled Jewish, Indian and Women:...

Writers.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Jane Eldridge Miller, ed., WHO'S WHO IN CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S WRITING. New York: Routledge, 2001. 385p. bibl. nationality index. $29.95, ISBN 0-41515980-6; pap., $14.95, ISBN 0-41515981-4. If you use this book in a library, most likely it...

Women's Rights.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Sharon Hartman Strom, WOMEN'S RIGHTS. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2003. (Major issues in American history.) 353p. bibl. index. $$55.00, ISBN 0-313-31135-8. Treanor, Nick, ed., THE FEMINIST MOVEMENT. San Diego: Greenhaven, 2002. (American...

Fierce Magazine.
March 22, 2003... 2003-. Ed.-in-chief: Asata Reid. Publ.: Tara Roberts. 6/yr. Subscriptions in U.S.: $24.95/ yr.; Canada & other countries, add $10.00. Single issue: $4.95 ($7.50 Canadian). 595 Piedmont Ave., Suites 320331, Atlanta, GA 30308; phone: (404)...

Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... 2003-. Publ.: Brill Academic Publishers. Ed.-in-Chief: Amira El-Azhary Sonbol. 3/yr. ISSN: 1569-2078 (print); ESSN: 1569-2086 (online). Subscription: EUR 170/US$198.00 (institutions); EUR 90/US$95.00 (individuals); includes online access....

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... 2003-. Publ.: ProActive Publications. Ed.: Marilyn L. Grady; assoc. ed.: Barbara Y. LaCost. 4/yr. ISSN: 1541-6224. Subscriptions: $89.00/yr. (institutions & libraries); $49.00/yr. (individuals); $29.00/yr. (students). Single issue: $25.00. 1148...

Urdhva Mula: the Journal of Sophia Centre for Women's Studies and Development.
March 22, 2003... 2002-. Publ.: Sophia College (Mumbai, India). Ed.: Vibhuti Patel. 2/yr.? No ISSN. Subscriptions: Rs.50/ US$10 for one issue; Rs.90/US$18 for two issues. Sophia Centre for Women's Studies & Development, Sophia College, Bhulabhai Desai Rd.,...

Cross Cultural Management: an International Journal.
March 22, 2003... v.8, nos.3/4, 2001: special issue on women in management. Publ.: Barmarick Publications (England). ISSN: 1352-7606. Single issue: 9.95, from Barmarick's website: http://www.harmaricLco.uk; also available online to licensed users through...

Labor's Heritage.
March 22, 2003... v. 12, no. 1, Winter/Spring 2003: "Labor Feminism." Publ.: The George Meany Center for Labor Studies--The National Labor College; Susan J. Schurman, President. ISSN: 1041-5904. Single issue: $5.95. Labor's Heritage, 10000 New Hampshire Ave.,...

Act now: a resource guide for young women on HIV/AIDS.(Items of Notes)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... ACT NOW: A RESOURCE GUIDE FOR YOUNG WOMEN ON HIV/AIDS is a 42-page booklet by UNIFEM from 2002. Geared toward young female leaders, it includes information on the role of young women's leadership in fighting HIV/AIDS and suggests activities to...

Girls will be boys will be girls ... coloring book.(Items of Notes)
March 22, 2003... The GIRLS WILL BE BOYS WILL BE GIRLS... COLORING BOOK was created by J.T. Bunnell and Irit Reinheimer. It draws material and images from a variety of sources, including children's books and kids' drawings, in order to challenge our assumptions...

Globalization, health sector reform, gender and reproductive health.(Items of Notes)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... A 2001 collection of papers commissioned by the Ford Foundation's Reproductive Health Affinity Group, entitled GLOBALIZATION, HEALTH SECTOR REFORM, GENDER AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, "explore[s] how changes in macro-economic and social policies...

Early marriage, sexual exploitation and the human rights of girls.(Items of Notes)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... The Forum on Marriage and the Rights of Women and Girls--a network of organizations "sharing a common vision of marriage as a sphere in which women and girls have inalienable rights"--published a report in November 2001 entitled EARLY MARRIAGE,...

Gender justice, development, and rights.(Items of Notes)(Book Review)(Brief Review)
March 22, 2003... GENDER JUSTICE, DEVELOPMENT, AND RIGHTS was co-published by the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) and Oxford University Press as part of their Democratization series in 2002. This publication deals with social...

The Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) published Beijing+5 review: highlighting positions from Central Asia and the Pacific, as well as women and decision-making in South East Asia and the Pacific, in 1999.(Items of Notes)
March 22, 2003... The Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) published BEIJING+5 REVIEW: HIGHLIGHTING POSITIONS FROM CENTRAL ASIA AND THE PACIFIC, as well as WOMEN AND DECISION-MAKING IN SOUTH EASTASIA AND THE PACIFIC, in 1999. The latter...

Women of valor.(Items of Notes)
March 22, 2003... The WOMEN OF VALOR poster series from the Jewish Women's Archive highlights the lives and accomplishments of historic Jewish women. Each year the JWA produces three new posters to add to the collection. The complete set of eighteen posters is...

Using natural progesterone to balance female hormones & improve athletic performance: a safer alternative to estrogen.(Items of Notes)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... USING NATURAL PROGESTERONE TO BALANCE FEMALE HORMONES & IMPROVE ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE: A SAFER ALTERNATIVE TO ESTROGEN is an article in the journal Peak Running Performance: Leading-Edge Training and Racing Strategies for Runners, v.11, no.6...

Books recently received.
March 22, 2003... AFRICANISM AND AUTHENTICITY IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN'S NOVELS. Levin, Amy K. University of Florida Press, 2003. BISEXUAL WOMEN IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. Atkins, Dawn, ed. Harrington Park, 2002. THE BLUE DRESS. Townsend, Alison....