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

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

From the editors.
March 22, 2007... September 2007 Our "year of girls' studies" officially launches with this issue of Feminist Collections, although there were two sneak-preview articles in the previous issue.* Special guest editor Tracy Wendt Lemaster introduces the series...

A year of girls' studies.(Editorial)
March 22, 2007... In Winter 1997, Feminist Collections released a special issue on "Girls and Young Women," reviewing works from a limited though promising corpus of books, magazines, and videos by and about girls. Coincidentally, we return to this topic exactly...

She's come a long way: new foundational texts for scholars in girls' studies.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Sinikka Aapola, Marnina Gonick, & Anita Harris, YOUNG FEMININITY: GIRLHOOD, POWER AND SOCIAL CHANGE. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 248p. bibl. index. pap., $24.95, ISBN 0-333-96512-4. Catherine Driscoll, GIRLS: FEMININE ADOLESCENCE IN...

Girlhood, identity, and power.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Julie Bettie, WOMEN WITHOUT CLASS: GIRLS, RACE AND IDENTITY. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. 248p. bibl. index. $21.95. ISBN 0-520-23542-8. Pamela J. Bettis & Natalie G. Adams, eds., GEOGRAPHIES OF GIRLHOOD: IDENTITIES IN...

Viewing girlhood in media's mirror.(books on girls' studies)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Frances Gateward & Murray Pomerance, eds., SUGAR, SPICE, AND EVERYTHING NICE: CINEMAS OF GIRLHOOD. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2002. 387p. bibl. index. $49.95, ISBN 0-8143-2917-9; pap., $29.95, ISBN 0-8143-2918-7. Sarah...

E-sources on women & gender.(Website list)
March 22, 2007... Our website (http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/) includes recent issues of this column, plus many bibliographies, a database of women-focused videos, and links to hundreds of other websites by topic. Information about electronic journals and...

Handbook of Gender in Archaeology.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Sarah Mileage Nelson, ed., HANDBOOK OF GENDER IN ARCHAEOLOGY. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2006. 928p. $149.00, ISBN 9780759106789. The stated purpose of this volume--"to highlight the insights and increased specificity that the study of...

Handbook on Women in Business and Management.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Diana Bilimoria & Sandy Kristin Predict, eds., HANDBOOK ON WOMEN IN BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Edgar, 2006. 375p. $195.00, ISBN 978-1-84542-432-9. If one were to rank important issues related to women in business and...

Gender Equality: A Decade of Commonwealth Action.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Cheryl Doral & Marries Roberts, eds., GENDER EQUALITY: A DECADE OF COMMONWEALTH ACTION. Pall Mall, London: Marlborough House, 2005. 244p. [pounds sterling]24.00, ISBN 0-85092-818-4. Given that more and more international programs and...

Jewish Women: a Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Paula E. Hyman, Dalia Offer, & Alice Shelve, eds., JEWISH WOMEN: A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2007. CD-ROM, $200.00, ISBN 978-0827608672. After five and a half years in the making,...

Feminists Who Changed America: 1963-1975.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Barbara J. Love, ed., FEMINISTS WHO CHANGED AMERICA: 1963-1975. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2006. 576p. $80.00, ISBN 978-0252031892. As editor Barbara J. Love declares, "This book had to be written" (p.xi). The success of the...

Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, Vol. 4: Economics, Education, Mobility and Space.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Suad Joseph, gen. ed., ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN & ISLAMIC CULTURES, VOL. 4: ECONOMICS, EDUCATION, MOBILITY AND SPACE. Boston: Brill, 2007. $326.00, ISBN 978-9004128-20-0 (vol.4); ISBN 978-90-04-13247-4 (set). Everyone these days--including...

Women and War: A Historical Encyclopedia from Antiquity to Present.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Bernard A. Cook, ed., WOMEN AND WAR: A HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA FROM ANTIQUITY TO PRESENT. Santa Barbara, CA: ABCCLIO, 2006. 2 vols. 742p. bibl. index. $185.00, ISBN 9781851097708; e-book, ISBN 9781851097753. War and military histories read...

Feminist archives.(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... "For the past five years," writes Sherrill Redmon, Director of the SOPHIA SMITH COLLECTION OF WOMEN'S HISTORY MANUSCRIPTS at Smith College, "we have been wrestling the 800-pound gorilla that is the archives of the YWCA OF THE USA into...

New and newly discovered periodicals.(PERIODICAL NOTES)
March 22, 2007... ASPASIA: INTERNATIONAL YEARBOOK OF CENTRAL, EASTERN AND SOUTHEASTERN EUROPEAN WOMEN'S AND GENDER HISTORY. 2007-. Editors: Francisca de Haan (founding), Maria Bucur, Krassimira Daskalova. Publisher: Berghahn Books. In U.S., contact Berghahn...

Special issues of periodicals.(PERIODICAL NOTES)
March 22, 2007... CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY v.30, no. 1 (2004): "Symposium: Gender, Globalization and Work Restructuring." Issue editors: Heidi Gottfried & Joan Acker. Publisher: Brill (www.brill.nl). ISSN: 0896-9205 (print), 1569-1632 (online). Available online to...

Transitions.(PERIODICAL NOTES)
March 22, 2007... If you're wondering where to find the Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality these days, look under "I," because Haworth Press has renamed it (beginning with v.19, no.1, 2007) the INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SEXUAL HEALTH "to better reflect its...

Books and videos recently received.
March 22, 2007... AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON GENDER IN SECONDARY EDUCATION: RESEARCH FROM SELECTED COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES. Jha, Jyotsna, ed. Commonwealth Secretariat, 2007. BECOMING 13 (VIDEO), Sondhi, Geet, King, Victoria, and Clarke, Annette, producers....