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

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

From the editors.
September 22, 2004... Late April, 2005. I have a new friend whose name is the same as mine, except for a lower-versus-upper-case "A." Joanne Lehman and I met last week, online. But I'd first learned of her existence a few years ago. Have you ever Googled...

New millennium trannies: gender-bending, identities, and cultural politics.(Unzipping Gender : Sex, Cross-Dressing and Culture)(My Husband Betty: Love, Sex, and Life with a Crossdresser)(Self-made Men: Identity and Embodiment Among Transsexual Men)(The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism)(Book review)
September 22, 2004... Charlotte Suthrell, UNZIPPING GENDER: SEX, CROSS-DRESSING AND CULTURE. Oxford, UK: Berg, 2004. 220p. $24.95, ISBN 1-85973-725-0. Helen Boyd, MY HUSBAND BETTY: LOVE, SEX, AND LIFE WITH A CROSS-DRESSER. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2003....

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide.(Book review)
September 22, 2004... Lynn Walter, ed.-in-chief, THE GREENWOOD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN'S ISSUES WORLDWIDE. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003. 6 vols. $550.00, ISBN 0-313-32787-4 (set). Each volume in this excellent Encyclopedia can stand alone in introducing...

Encyclopedia of Women's Health.(Book review)
September 22, 2004... Sana Loue & Martha Sajatovic, eds., ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN'S HEALTH. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2004. 710p. index. $250.00, ISBN 0-306-48073-5. Women in the health professions today are a powerful force, delivering a vast array...

Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America.(Book review)
September 22, 2004... Marc Stein, ed.-in-chief, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER HISTORY IN AMERICA. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons/Thomson Gale, 2004. 3 vols. 1423+p. index. $400.00, ISBN 0-684-31261-1; e-book, ISBN 0-684-31427-4. In...

Handbook of Literary Feminisms.(Book review)
September 22, 2004... Shari Benstock, Suzanne Ferriss, & Susanne Woods, HANDBOOK OF LITERARY FEMINISMS. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. 292p. index. $31.95, ISBN 0195102061. On the surface, this handbook appears to do only two things: (1) look at the...

The Complete Guide to Mental Health for Women.(Book review)
September 22, 2004... Lauren Slater, gen. ed., Jessica Henderson Daniel & Amy Banks, assoc. eds., THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO MENTAL HEALTH FOR WOMEN. Boston: Beacon Press, 2003. 403p. illus. bibl. pap., $24.95, ISBN 0807029254. The impact of mental illness on the...

The Undergraduate's Companion to Women Writers and Their Web Sites.(The Undergraduate's Companion to Women Poets of the World and Their Web Sites)(Book review)
September 22, 2004... Katharine Dean, Miriam Conteh-Morgan, & James K. Bracken, THE UNDERGRADUATE'S COMPANION TO WOMEN WRITERS AND THEIR WEB SITES. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited (Greenwood Publishing), 2002. 200p. $29.95, ISBN 1563089351. Katharine A. Dean, THE...

Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy.(Book review)
September 22, 2004... Gwendolyn Mink & Alice O'Connor, eds., POVERTY IN THE UNITED STATES: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HISTORY, POLITICS, AND POLICY. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2004. 895p. 2 vols. ill. $185.00, ISBN 1576075974. Poverty, as experienced in the United...

Outstanding Women in Public Administration: Leaders, Mentors, and Pioneers.(Book review)
September 22, 2004... Claire L. Felbinger & Wendy A. Hayes, eds., OUTSTANDING WOMEN IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: LEADERS, MENTORS, AND PIONEERS. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2004. 200p. index. $24.95, ISBN 0765613697. In this volume, passionate public servants whose...

American Women Scientists: 23 Inspiring Biographies, 1900-2000.(Book review)
September 22, 2004... Moira Davison Reynolds, AMERICAN WOMEN SCIENTISTS: 23 INSPIRING BIOGRAPHIES, 1900-2000. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2004 [paperback reprint of 1999 hardcover]. 149p. bibl. index. $24.95, ISBN 0786421614. A cytologist who demonstrated...

The power of pen publishing: international grrrl zines and distros.
September 22, 2004... According to Lil, one of the creators of the Argentine riot grrrl e-zine PinkPunkies (http://pinkpunkies.8m.com), zine making is "a pleasure, it's getting to know people from all over the world and from my own country, it's to share ideas and...

E-sources on women & gender.
September 22, 2004... Our website (www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/) includes all recent issues of this column, plus many bibliographies, a database of core women's studies books, and links to hundreds of other websites by topic. Information about...

New periodical.(Meowpower Feminist Journal Online)(Periodical review)(Brief article)
September 22, 2004... MEOWPOWER FEMINIST JOURNAL ONLINE 2004-. Eds.: Alison Edwards, Lynda Hinkle, Jolie Mandelbaum, & Kerri Provost. Online only; free. Website: http://meowpower.org/. (Issues examined: v.1, no.1, December 2004; v.1, no.2, March 2005) ...

Special issues of periodicals.(PERIODICAL NOTES)
September 22, 2004... CRITICAL ASIAN STUDIES v.36, no.2, June 2004: "Crafting Genders: Asian Women Making Decisions." Issue eds.: Hillary Crane & Kathy Nadeau. ISSN: 1467-2715 (print), 1472-6033 (online). Published by Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis. For...

Ceased publication.(PERIODICAL NOTES)
September 22, 2004... THE WOMEN'S REVIEW OF BOOKS suspended publication after its December 2004 issue (v.22, no.2), citing a long struggle with "rising costs and falling subscription and advertising revenues." Hosted since 1983 by the Wellesley Centers for Women,...

Transitions.(PERIODCIAL NOTES)
September 22, 2004... FEMSPEC -- "an interdisciplinary feminist journal dedicated to critical and creative works in the realms of SF, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres"--is now published by Lexington Books, an...

Items of note.
September 22, 2004... Three new publications from the WELLESLEY CENTERS FOR WOMEN: 1. A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS METHOD FOR FEMINIST RESEARCHERS: A GENTLE INTRODUCTION, by Allison J. Tracy and Lynn Sorsli (18p., 2004, WCW Working Paper No. 414), focuses on a new...

Books and AV recently received.
September 22, 2004... AFTERWORDS: LETTERS ON THE DEATH OF VIRGINIA WOOLF. Oldfield, Sybil. Rutgers University Press, 2005. ALL ABOUT THE GIRL: CULTURE, POWER, AND IDENTITIY. Harris, Anita. Routledge, 2004. AM I STILL A WOMAN?: HYSTERECTOMY AND GENDER...