Recently added articles from Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources:

From the editors.(Editorial)

Dec 22, 2008 ... Two recent articles on the state of book reviewing caught our eye, both of which told with depressing accuracy how lopsided the situation still is in terms of women's books getting reviewed in the New York Times Book Review. Writing in the March/April issue of the Women's Review of Books, ...

Correction.(Correction notice)

Dec 22, 2008 ... Correction: In the print version of Feminist Collections v.28, no. 4 (Summer-Fall 2007), in the review beginning on page 29, the publisher of Odd Girl Speaks Out: Girls Write ...

Cynthia Enloe as The "Curious Feminist": analyzing empires, militarism, and war.(Cynthia Enloe's books on feminism)(Book review)

Dec 22, 2008; Schemenauer, Ellie C. ... Cynthia Enloe, MANEUVERS: THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF MILITARIZING WOMEN'S LIVES. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000. 418p. $22.95, ISBN 0-520-22070-6. --. THE CURIOUS FEMINIST: SEARCHING FOR WOMEN IN A NEW AGE OF EMPIRE. Berkeley, CA: University of California ...

Professional Reading.(Librarians, Literacy and the Promotion of Gender Equity)(Book review)

Dec 22, 2008; Loomis, Abbie ... Lesley S. J. Farmer, LIBRARIANS, LITERACY AND THE PROMOTION OF GENDER EQUITY. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005. 182p. $45.00, ISBN 978-0786423446. In 1989, shortly after the ALA Presidential Committee on Information Literacy issued its final report, (1) which transformed the ...

Women of color in higher education: resistance and hegemonic academic culture.(Essay)

Dec 22, 2008; Molina, Kristine ... [Editors' note: University of Michigan graduate student Kristine Molina was an award winner in the 2007 student essay contest sponsored by the National Women's studies Association's Women of Color Caucus. Feminist Collections is pleased to be able to showcase Ms. Molina's scholarly paper ...

E-sources on women & gender.(Website list)(Recommended readings)

Dec 22, 2008; Lehman, JoAnne ... Our website (http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/) includes recent editions of this column and links to complete back issues of Feminist Collections, plus many bibliographies, a database of women-focused videos, and links to hundreds of other websites by topic. Information about ...

You tube and feminism: a class action project.(ROUND-UP 3: YOU TUBE IN WOMEN'S STUDIES)

Dec 22, 2008; Siddiqui, Shereen ... Background You Tube, an online venue for sharing and reviewing video clips, is the fourth-most-visited website in the world (after Yahoo, MSN, and Google). Launched just two years ago, YouTube has quickly permeated the culture. YouTube videos are being used by instructors in ...

Women on YouTube: a feminist action research project.(ROUND-Up 3: YOU TUBE IN WOMEN'S STUDIES)

Dec 22, 2008; Andaloro, Ann ... This is an outline for a group assignment that is a research study of the representations of women on You Tube. The class is broken up into four groups: Literature Review, Textual Analysis, Audience Studies, and Conclusions. Each of the groups formulates a definition of its ...

Reading You Tube, contextualizing theory.(ROUND-Up 3: YOU TUBE IN WOMEN'S STUDIES)(Essay)

Dec 22, 2008; Falzetti, Ashley ... At Rutgers University, the introductory course in women's and gender studies, "Women, Culture, and Society," covers a wide range of social issues, the history of feminist activism, and foundational feminist theory. When I teach this course, I season the required texts with YouTube videos ...

Keyword: feminism: evaluating representations of feminism in Youtube.(ROUND-UP 3: YOUTUBE IN WOMEN'S STUDIES)(Essay)

Dec 22, 2008; Eudey, Betsy ... To help students get a better handle on the meanings of feminism, I begin a lower-division undergraduate course on women's and feminist activism by having students read all of bell hooks' Feminism is for Everybody, as well as selected articles, book chapters, and websites offering ...

YouTube as case study: analysis of gendered representations in video.(ROUND-UP 3: YOU TUBE IN WOMEN'S STUDIES)(Essay)

Dec 22, 2008; Eudey, Betsy ... I have often required students to engage in critique of television shows, commercials, movies, and music videos as a means of developing their critical skills and demonstrating their understanding of the ways in which sex and gender are represented in popular culture. Such an assignment ...

American Indians.(NEW REFERENCE WORKS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES)(The A to Z of American Indian Women)(Book review)

Dec 22, 2008; Rice, Janice M. ... Liz Sonneborn, A TO Z OF AMERICAN INDIAN WOMEN, REVISED EDITION. New York: Facts on File, 2007. 336p. bibl. index. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-8160-6694-0. With so few biographical reference works on American Indian women, Sonneborn's revised publication will be a key purchase for all ...

Catholic Saints.(NEW REFERENCE WORKS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES)(The Big Book of Women Saints)(Book review)

Dec 22, 2008; Fore, Janet S. ... Sarah Gallick, THE BIG BOOK OF WOMEN SAINTS. New York: HarperCollins, 2007. 467p. bibl. index. $16.95, ISBN 978-0-06-082512-6. A book of saints' lives is most often compiled in calendar order, with each saint listed on his or her feast day as determined by the Catholic Church ....

Chinese Women.(NEW REFERENCE WORKS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES)(Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: Antiquity through Sui, 1600 B.C.E.-618 C.E.)(Book review)

Dec 22, 2008; Xu, Ye (Dianna) ... Lily Xiao Hong Lee & A.D. Stefanowska, eds.-in-chief, BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF CHINESE WOMEN: ANTIQUITY THROUGH SUI, 1600 B.C.E.-618 C.E. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2007. (University of Hong Kong Libraries publications no. 21.) 440p. glossary. $99.95, ISBN 978-0-7656-1750-7. ...

The Civil War.(NEW REFERENCE WORKS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES)(Women in the American Civil War, 2 vols.)(Book review)

Dec 22, 2008; Phelps, Connie L. ... Lisa Tendrich Frank, ed., WOMEN IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2008. 631 p. 2 vols. $195.00, ISBN 978-1-85109-600-8; e-book (contact publisher for price), ISBN 978-1-85109-605-3. (Print edition reviewed.) It is largely in the past thirty years that ...

Education.(NEW REFERENCE WORKS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES)(Handbook for Achieving Sex Equity in Education, 2d ed.)(Book review)

Dec 22, 2008; Uzelac, Elizabeth ... Susan S. Klein, ed., HANDBOOK FOR ACHIEVING GENDER EQUITY THROUGH EDUCATION, SECOND EDITION. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007. 754p. index. $295.00, ISBN 0-8058-5453-3; pap., $95.00, ISBN 0-8058-5454-1. This new edition of the 1985 Handbook for Achieving Sex Equity ...

Feminism.(NEW REFERENCE WORKS IN WOMEN'S)(Feminism: Opposing Viewpoints)(Book review)

Dec 22, 2008; Engle, Lea Susan ... Christina Fisanick, editor, FEMINISM: OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS. Detroit, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2008. 264p. $36.20, ISBN 978-0737737691; pap., $24.95, ISBN 978-0737737707. Is feminism still relevant, or are we at the dawn of a post-feminist existence? Do women really earn less than ...

Gender & Sex.(NEW REFERENCE WORKS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES)(Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender, 4 vols.)(Book review)

Dec 22, 2008; Clements, Nina ... Fedwa Malti-Douglas, ed.-in-chief, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SEX AND GENDER. New York: Macmillan Reference, 2007. 4v. index. $475.00 ISBN 978-0-02-865960; e-book (contact publisher for price), ISBN 978-0-02-866115. (Print edition reviewed.) It's not every encyclopedia that can boast a ...

Islamic Cultures.(NEW REFERENCE WORKS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES)(Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, vol. 5: Practices, Interpretations and Representations)(Book review)

Dec 22, 2008; Marger, Dena ... Suad Joseph, gen. ed., ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN & ISLAMIC CULTURE, VOL. V: PRACTICES, INTERPRETATIONS, AND REPRESENTATIONS. Boston: Brill, 2007. 598p. $356.00, ISBN 978-90-04-12821-7. Did you know that it was Westerners who created the "Oriental" cabaret attire that many of us ...

Math & Science.(NEW REFERENCE WORKS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES)(A to Z of Women in Science and Math)(Book review)

Dec 22, 2008; Campbell, Michelle K. ... Lisa Yount, A TO Z OF WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND MATH, REVISED EDITION. New York: Facts on File, 2008. 368p. ill. index. ISBN 978-0-8160-66957 Throughout history, women with professed inclinations in math or science have faced reactions ranging from marginalization and suspicion to ...