Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources articles from March 2004

Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources archives from March 2004

From the editors.(Editorial)
March 22, 2004... We first took a look at feminist zines in 1996 (in Angela Richardson's "Come On, Join the Conversation!," FC v.17, nos.3-4), and two years ago we made a commitment to reviewing them on a regular basis in Feminist Collections. Since then we've...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
March 22, 2004... June 17, 2004 Could you please pass along to Mhaire Fraser my thanks for her wonderful review of my zine The Visible Woman [in FC v.25, no.2, Winter 2004, p.25]--it meant a lot to me to read her perceptive and very kind analysis. ...

Beyond the numbers: qualitative research on low-income women.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Frank Munger, ed., LABORING BELOW THE LINE: THE NEW ETHNOGRAPHY OF POVERTY, LOW-WAGE WORK, AND SURVIVAL IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2002. 319p. notes. bibl. index. $42.50, ISBN 0871546175. LynNell Hancock,...

Pushed to the margins: the slow death and possible rebirth of the feminist bookstore.
March 22, 2004... When Kathryn Welsh opened Bluestockings Women's Bookstore on Manhattan's Lower East Side in 1999, feminist bookstores across the country were closing, succumbing to the financial pressures of an increasingly competitive market. When the...

Still going strong after all these (nearly thirty) years.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... Madison, Wisconsin's own feminist bookstore--A Room of One's Own--opened in 1975, at 317 W. Johnson Street in the downtown area. In 1997 the store moved to a space on the same street that is twice the size and two doors closer to State...

Polish women's organizations on the Internet.
March 22, 2004... After the fall of Communism in Central Europe in 1989, the women's movement began to develop rapidly. Polish women as well as women in other formerly Communist countries now had their first real opportunity to create non-governmental...

Aanchal Trust.(WEBSITES)
March 22, 2004... AANCHAL TRUST, a support group for lesbians and bisexual and transgender women in Mumbai, India, has an Internet presence at www.aanchal.org/ There's not much on the site yet, beyond an interesting--undated--description of the group's...

Campaign for the Ordination of Women in the Roman Catholic Church.(WEBSITES)
March 22, 2004... The website for the CAMPAIGN FOR THE ORDINATION OF WOMEN IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH opens with this statement: "We are Roman Catholic theologians who firmly believe that the discussion on women priests should be left open." That about sums it...

Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians.(WEBSITES)
March 22, 2004... The National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD) is hosting an exhibit, CHANGING THE FACE OF MEDICINE: CELEBRATING AMERICA'S WOMEN PHYSICIANS, through April 2, 2005. The corresponding website at...

Feminists against Censorship (FAC).(WEBSITES)
March 22, 2004... FEMINISTS AGAINST CENSORSHIP (FAC) is a UK-based group working to defend freedom of expression everywhere, including on the Internet. FAC's website (http://www.fiawol.demon.co.uk/FAC/index.htm#FRED_NAME) asserts, "Those who have power get to...

Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network (LACWHN).(WEBSITES)
March 22, 2004... The twenty-year-old LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN WOMEN'S HEALTH NETWORK (LACWHN) has a new website (available in both Spanish and English) at www.reddesalud.org/ LACWHN, whose coordinating office is currently in Santiago, Chile, seeks to defend...

Manavi.(WEBSITES)
March 22, 2004... MANAVI is a Sanskrit word meaning "primal woman." It's also the name of a nonprofit agency in New Jersey whose mission is to end violence against South Asian women ("women who trace their cultural heritage to Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan,...

Picturing Women.(WEBSITES)
March 22, 2004... A collaborative project called PICTURING WOMEN had a three-location exhibition in the Philadelphia area in early 2004. Curator Susan Shifrin has described the project as looking at "how female identities have been constructed in images,...

Politeia.(WEBSITES)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... From the University of Bonn, POLITEIA, at www.politeiaproject.de/, examines post-1945 German history through the eyes of women, including Elisabeth Selbert, Jeanette Wolff, Kate Strobel, Irmtraud Morgner, Eleonore Romberg, Christa Wolf, Beate...

Websites on Women.(DATABASES)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The IIAV (acronym for the Dutch name of the International Information Centre and Archives for the Women's Movement) keeps developing more terrific resources. The database WEBSITES ON WOMEN, at www.iiav.nl/websites/eng/, currently contains...

Regional Women's Directory Database.(DATABASES)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... From Zenska Infoteka (Women's Information and Documentation Centre) in Croatia: the REGIONAL WOMEN'S DIRECTORY DATABASE, consisting of more than 550 groups from Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary,...

Women Working, 1870-1930.(DIGITAL COLLECTION)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Harvard University Library Open Collections Program offers WOMEN WORKING, 1870-1930, providing "access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections. This collection explores...

Amelia Bloomer Project's 2004 List of Recommended Feminist Books for Youth.(E-BIBLIOGRAPHIES)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Sponsored by the Feminist Task Force of the American Library Association's Social Responsibilities Round Table: the AMELIA BLOOMER PROJECT'S 2004 LIST OF RECOMMENDED FEMINIST BOOKS FOR YOUTH, in both PDF and HTML at...

Gender in Geography Bibliography.(E-BIBLIOGRAPHIES)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... From the members of the Discussion List for Feminism in Geography, and hosted by the Department of Social Sciences at Emporia State University (Kansas): GENDER IN GEOGRAPHY BIBLIOGRAPHY, at www.emporia.edu/socsci/fembib/index.htm

Annotated Bibliography, 1997-2004, on the History of Jewish Women in America: A Supplement to Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Archival Resources on the History of Jewish Women in America.(E-BIBLIOGRAPHIES)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Recently updated: Phyllis Holman Weisbard, ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1997-2004, ON THE HISTORY OF JEWISH WOMEN IN AMERICA: A SUPPLEMENT TO ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND GUIDE TO ARCHIVAL RESOURCES ON THE HISTORY OF JEWISH WOMEN IN AMERICA. Madison,...

Annotated Bibliography: Sexuality and Human Rights.(E-BIBLIOGRAPHIES)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Susana T. Fried, ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY: SEXUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS (International Women's Health Coalition, 2002). 19p. Available in PDF on the IWHC's site, www.iwhc.org/index.cfm (select "Sexual Rights," then scroll down to this title under...

The Gender Impact of Pension Reform: A Cross-Country Analysis.(OTHER ONLINE TEXTS)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Estelle James, Alejandra Cox Edwards, & Rebeca Wong, THE GENDER IMPACT OF PENSION REFORM: A CROSS-COUNTRY ANALYSIS. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3074, 2003. 78p. In PDF at www.econ.worldbank.org/files/27365_wps3074.pdf

The "Gender Lens": A Racial Blinder?(OTHER ONLINE TEXTS)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Sarah White, THE "GENDER LENS": A RACIAL BLINDER? Paper prepared for "Feminist Fables and Gender Myths: Repositioning Gender in Development Policy and Practice," an international workshop of the Institute for Development Studies, University of...

Militarized Zones: Gender, Race, Immigration, Environment.(OTHER ONLINE TEXTS)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Ryn Gluckman, Rachael Kamel, & Betsy Hartmann, eds., MILITARIZED ZONES: GENDER, RACE, IMMIGRATION, ENVIRONMENT (a special issue of Political Environments, PE no. 10, Nov. 2003). 60p. Produced by the Immigration, Militarism, Environment and...

Missing: Information about Women's Lives.(OTHER ONLINE TEXTS)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... "ALERT! Over the past few years, vital data has been deleted, buried, distorted, or has otherwise gone missing from government websites and publications." The National Council for Research on Women's Lives (NCRWL) has started a MISINFORMATION...

Teen Dating Violence: Information and Resources (2004).(OTHER ONLINE TEXTS)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Teen dating violence is defined by the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV) as "a pattern of actual or threatened acts of physical, sexual, and/or emotional abuse, perpetrated by an adolescent against a current or former dating...

Understanding the Links: Globalization, Health Sector Reform, Gender and Reproductive Health.(OTHER ONLINE TEXTS)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Barbara Evers & Mercedes Juarez, UNDERSTANDING THE LINKS: GLOBALIZATION, HEALTH SECTOR REFORM, GENDER AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH. Ford Foundation, 2003. 87p. Available in Rich Text Format or PDF from...

Women and International Development (WID) Program.(OTHER ONLINE TEXTS)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Three new Working Papers have been released by Michigan State University's WOMEN AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (WID) PROGRAM and are available in PDF: Working Paper 279: Marianne Mollman, WHO CAN BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONSEQUENCES OF...

Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, and the New Testament.(BIBLICAL WOMEN)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Carol Meyers, gen. ed.; Toni Craven, & Ross S. Kraemer, assoc. eds., WOMEN IN SCRIPTURE: A DICTIONARY OF NAMED AND UNNAMED WOMEN IN THE HEBREW BIBLE, THE APOCRYPHAL/DEUTEROCANONICAL BOOKS, AND THE NEW TESTAMENT. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000....

Women and the American Civil War: An Annotated Bibliography.(CIVIL WAR)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Theresa McDevitt, WOMEN AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003 (Bibliographies and indexes in women's studies, no. 32). 264p. index. $64.95, ISBN 0-313-32105-1. Devoted solely to the vital roles...

Women During the Civil War: An Encyclopedia.(CIVIL WAR)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Judith E. Harper, WOMEN DURING THE CIVIL WAR: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA. New York: Routledge, 2004. 490p. bibl. index. illus. $95.00, ISBN 0-415-93723-X. I am delighted once again to have the privilege of reviewing an insightful resource on women in...

Five Centuries of Women and Gardens.(GARDENS)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Sue Bennett, FIVE CENTURIES OF WOMEN AND GARDENS. London: National Portrait Gallery, 2000. 176p. bibl. illus. index. $30.00, ISBN 1-85514-288-0. In April I traveled to Washington, DC, with several friends to participate in the March for...

Women in Higher Education: An Encyclopedia.(HIGHER EDUCATION)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Ana M. Martinez Aleman & Kristen A. Renn, eds., WOMEN IN HIGHER EDUCATION: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2002. 635p. bibl. illus. index. $85.00, ISBN 1-57607-614-8. Women in Higher Education proves that there is virtually no...

Women and the Law: Leaders, Cases, and Documents.(LAW)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Ashlyn K. Kuersten, WOMEN AND THE LAW: LEADERS, CASES, AND DOCUMENTS. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2003. 256p. illus. index. $85.00, ISBN 0-87436-878-2; e-book, $90.00, ISBN 1-57607-700-4; both, $130.00. This is a well-written reference work on...

Women's History as Scientists: A Guide to the Debates.(SCIENTISTS)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Leigh Ann Whaley, WOMEN'S HISTORY AS SCIENTISTS: A GUIDE TO THE DEBATES. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2003 (Controversies in Science series). 252p. bibl. index. $85.00, ISBN 1-57607-230-4; e-book, $90.00, 1-57607-742-X; both, $130.00. "Are...

Women and Equality in the Workplace: A Reference Handbook.(WORKPLACE)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Janet Zollinger Giele & Leslie F. Stebbins, WOMEN AND EQUALITY IN THE WORKPLACE: A REFERENCE HANDBOOK. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2003. 334p. index. (Contemporary world issues). $45.00, ISBN 1-57607-937-6; e-book, $50.00, ISBN 1-57607-938-4;...

Women's eNews.(SPOTLIGHT)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... We've mentioned it before in Feminist Collections and on our website, but WOMEN'S ENEWS at www.womensenews.org is worthy of special note again. This daily news service, "covering issues of particular concern to women and providing women's...

The Mother: Holistic Parenting in a Modern World.(NEW AND NEWLY DISCOVERED PERIODICALS)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... THE MOTHER: HOLISTIC PARENTING IN A MODERN WORLD. 2002- . Publ./Ed.: Veronika Sophia Robinson. 4/yr. ISSN 1476-0150. Subscriptions: in the U.K., [pounds sterling]10; in Europe (including R.O.I.), [euro]23.00; in the U.S. and elsewhere, $30.00....

Women Writers.(NEW AND NEWLY DISCOVERED PERIODICALS)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... WOMEN WRITERS. 2000- . Ed.: Kim Wells. 2/yr. (June & December). ISSN 1535-8402535-8402. Online only: Free. Website: http://womenwriters.net/ Issue examined: Summer 2004. Editor Kim Wells calls this effort a zine, but its editorial board...

Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal.(SPECIAL ISSUE OF A PERIODICAL)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... ATLANTIS: A WOMEN'S STUDIES JOURNAL. Feminist Knowledge Network (FKN) Special Issue One, 2003: "International Feminist Perspectives: Women and Violence." Guest Ed.: Vanessa Farr. [Atlantis: ISSN 0702-7818. 2/yr. Subscriptions: in Canada, $25.00...

Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Liberation.(ANNIVERSARY ISSUE)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... HECATE: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S LIBERATION (ISSN 0311-4198) published its "thirtieth birthday issue" in 2004 (vol.30, no.1).

Women's International Network (WIN).(CEASED PUBLICATION)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL NETWORK (WIN) NEWS published its last issue in Autumn 2003, ending a nearly thirty-year run of reporting "information of interest to women around the world," including information about United Nations activities affecting...

Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy.(TRANSITIONS)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... HYPATIA: A JOURNAL OF FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY (ISSN 0887-5367) is now edited at Michigan State University by Hilde L. Nelson, assistant professor of philosophy (hlnelson@msu.edu). The editorial office will be at MSU through 2008 (editorship rotates...

Journal of Women's History.(TRANSITIONS)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... As of vol. 16, no.1 (2004), Johns Hopkins University Press (2715 North Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218; website: www.press.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_womens_history) is publishing the JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S HISTORY (ISSN 1042-7961). The previous...

Women in Natural Resources.(TRANSITIONS)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... WOMEN IN NATURAL RESOURCES became "a completely on-line, subscription-free journal" in 2004. Read new and archived articles at www.cnr.uidaho.edu/winr/ Compiled by JoAnne Lehman

Series 7: Lesbian Herstory Archives: Subject files.(ITEMS OF NOTE)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Thomson-Gale has recently added SERIES 7: LESBIAN HERSTORY ARCHIVES: SUBJECT FILES to the Gay Rights Movement series in its Primary Source Microfilm imprint. National and ethnically diverse in its scope, the Lesbian Herstory Archives houses...

Dependency Divas: How the Feminist Big Government Agenda Betrays Women.(ITEMS OF NOTE)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... In conjunction with the upcoming 2004 election, an organization calling itself the Independent Women's Forum--whose roots are in a women's group that supported Clarence Thomas against Anita Hill's allegations during his Supreme Court nomination...

Prevention Through Connection: A Collaborative Approach to Women's Substance Abuse.(ITEMS OF NOTE)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Stone Center's Jean Baker Miller Training Institute of the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) has released PREVENTION THROUGH CONNECTION: A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO WOMEN'S SUBSTANCE ABUSE (2003), by Linda Hartling, Ph.D., Paper No. 103,...

Exploring Concepts of Gender and Health.(ITEMS OF NOTE)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Developed by the Women's Health Bureau, Health Canada (2003), EXPLORING CONCEPTS OF GENDER AND HEALTH offers gender-based analysis--a process by which the impact of proposed and existing programs, policies and legislation relating to both men...

Gender and Citizenship.(ITEMS OF NOTE)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... GENDER AND CITIZENSHIP, the newest addition to BRIDGE's Cutting Edge Pack series, was developed as a resource to teach and encourage policy-makers and activists to view and understand citizenship through a "gender equality perspective"--through...

Global Prescriptions: Gendering Health and Human Rights.(ITEMS OF NOTE)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... New from UNRISD, in conjunction with Zed books, is GLOBAL PRESCRIPTIONS: GENDERING HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS, by Rosalind Pollack Petchesky (306p., $75.00, ISBN 1842770047; paper, $29.95, ISBN 1842770071). An UNRISD press release describes the...

Reading Women's Lives.(ITEMS OF NOTE)
March 22, 2004... Developed by the Women's Studies department at Ohio State University and Pearson Custom Publishing, READING WOMEN'S LIVES is a tool that allows women's studies instructors to construct customized readers tailored to specific course material....

Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWRP).(ITEMS OF NOTE)
March 22, 2004... Of interest to researchers, policymakers, business leaders, activists, students and anyone else concerned with the issues facing women today, the fifteen-year-old INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN'S POLICY RESEARCH (IWRP) is a leader in both producing and...

Books recently received.
March 22, 2004... THE ABORTION RIGHTS CONTROVERSY IN AMERICA: A LEGAL READER. Hull, N. E. H., and others. University of North Carolina Press, 2004. ALASKA'S WOMEN PILOTS: CONTEMPORARY PORTRAITS. Fratzke, Jenifer. Utah State University Press, 2004. ...