Feminist Academic Press Column

May, 2003

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New Journals Academic Books from Women's Presses Self-Published Books ABC-CLIO, Inc. Univ. of Alabama Press Univ. of Arizona Press Augsberg Fortress Press Beacon Press Bucknell University Press Cambridge Univ. Press Univ. of California Univ. of Chicago Press Univ. Press of Colorado Press Columbia Univ. Press Cornell Univ. Press Univ. of Delaware Press Duke Univ. Press EdgeWork Books Univ. Press of Florida Gallaudet Univ. Press Univ. of Georgia Press Greenwood Publishing Group Hampton Press Inc Harrington Park Press Harvard Univ. Press Houghton Mifflin Humanity Books, Imprint of Prometheus Univ. of Illinois Press Indiana Univ. Press Intercultural Press Univ. of Iowa Press Johns Hopkins Univ. Press Jossey-Bass Inc. Univ. Press of Kansas Univ. Press of Kentucky Kluwer Academic Press Peter Lang Publishing Univ. of Massachusetts Press Univ. of Michigan Press Michigan State Univ. Press Univ. of Minnesota Press Univ. Press of Mississippi Univ. of Missouri Press MIT Press Modern Language Association Univ. of Nebraska Press Univ. of Nevada Press Univ. Press of New England Univ. of New Mexico Press New York Univ. Press (NYU) Univ. of North Carolina Press Univ. of North Texas Press Northeastern Univ. Press Northern Illinois Univ. Press Northwestern Univ. Press Ohio State Univ. Press Ohio Univ. Press Univ. of Oklahoma Press Oxford Univ. Press Palgrave / Macmillan Penguin Books Univ. of Pennsylvania Press Univ. of Pittsburgh Press Polity Princeton Univ. Press Prometheus Routledge Russell Sage Foundation Rutgers Univ. Press South End Press Southern Illinois Univ. Press Stanford Univ. Press Stylus Publishing State Univ. of New York Pr. (SUNY) Teacher's College Press Temple University Press Univ. of Tennessee Press Univ. of Texas Press Univ. of Toronto Press Univerity Press of America University Press of Virginia Univ. of Washington Press Wesleyan Univ. Press Univ. of Wisconsin Press Yale University Press

Note: Many titles have more than one subject classification. However, in the interest of space, only the primary subject category for each title is listed here. Additional subject areas can be found in the detailed description of the individual titles. African-American Black Women in the Field Gretchen Givens Generett and Rhonda Baynes Jeffries, editors Ghosts of Slavery Jenny Sharpe The Making of "Mammy Pleasant" Lynn M. Hudson Skin Deep, Spirit Strong Kimberly Wallace-Sanders, editor Witnessing and Testifying Rosetta E. Ross Aging Mothers and Their Daughters Karen L. Fingerman Anthropology Circle of Goods Tressa Berman Gender's Place Rosario Montoya, Lessie Jo Frazier and Janise Hurtig, editors Many Faces of Gender Lisa Frink, Rita S. Shepard and Gregory A. Reinhardt, editors Arts: Art, Photography Christina Rossetti and Illustration Lorraine Janzen Kooistra Living with His Camera Jane Gallop and Dick Blau [photographer] Nampeyo and Her Pottery Barbara Kramer Wild by Design Janet Catherine Berlo and Patricia Cox Crews Arts: Film, Video Vanishing Women Karen Beckman Asian American Empire of Care Catherine Ceniza Choy Imagine Otherwise Kandice Chuh Autobiography/Memoir Hold the Roses Rose Marie Letters to Henrietta Isabella Bird and Kay Chubbuck [editor] Naked in the Promised Land Lillian Faderman Pieces from Life"s Crazy Quilt Marvin V. Arnett Sojourning Sisters Jean Barman View from the Fazenda Ellen Bromfield Geld Biography Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley Daniel L. Schafer Doves of War Paul Preston I'll Tell You What annibel Jenkins Jane Austen's "Outlandish Cousin" deirdre Le Faye The Mysteries of Elizabeth I Kirby Farrell and Kathleen Swaim, editors Writing for Her Life Ripley Hugo Zarathustra's Sisters Susan Ingram Culture/Cultural Studies Making Avonlea Irene Gammel, editor Ecology & Environment Finding Higher Ground Catharine Savage Brosman Reinventing Eden Carolyn Merchant Education Contradictions in Women's Education Barbara J. Bank and with Harriet M. Yelon Those Who Give Rosemary Cania Maio Fiction All Night Movie Alicia Borinsky, Translated with the author from the Spanish by Cola Franzen and Forward by Luisa Valenzuela Blood Sisters Valerie Miner The Coffin Tree Wendy Law-Yone The Crux Charlotte Perkins Gilmore and edited with an introduction by Jennifer S. Tuttle Gone Elisabeth Sheffield Hot Chocolate at Hanselmann's Rosetta Loy and Translated by Gregory Conti Irrawaddy Tango Wendy Law-Yone The Power and the Glory Grace MacGowan Cooke and Introduction by Elizabeth S.D. Engelhardt Treasures in Heaven Kahleen Alcal· White Poplar, Black Locust Louise Wagenknecht Fiction: Anthologies Fiction: Lesbian Fiction: Short Stories Bayou Folk Kate Chopin Black Cherries Grace stone Coates Stories Susanne Opfermann and Yvonee Roth, editors Gay/Lesbian Studies Everyday Activism Michael R. Stevenson and Jeanine C. Cogan, editors Gender Nonconformity, Race, and Sexuality Toni Lester, editor Homosexual Rites of Passage Marie Mohler Gender Studies Common Ground or Mutual Exclusion Marianne Braig and Sonia W–lte, editors Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages Sharon Farmer and Carol Braun Pasternack, editors Gender Studies Anne Cranny-Francis, Wendy Waring, Pam Stavropoulos and Joan Kirby The Manly Masquerade Valeria Finucci Health & Medicine Red Flower Dena Taylor When Dieting Becomes Dangerous Deborah M. Michel and Susan G. Willard When the Bough Breaks Winifred J. Ellenchild Pinch History Burning Women Pompa Banerjee The Century of Women Front-Page Women Journalists, 1920-1950 Kathleen A. Cairns A History of Household Government in America Carole Shammas Letters from the Dust Bowl Caroline Henderson and Alvin O. Turner [editor] New Year in Cuba Karen Robert, editor The Other Enlightenment Carla Hesse The Progressive Housewife Sylvie Murray Restoring Women's History through Historic Preservation Gail Lee Dubrow and Jennifer B. Goodman, editors Selling Mrs. Consumer Janice Williams Rutherford Women's Oral History Susan H. Armitage, editor, with Patricia Hart and Karen Weathermoon Writing Women's History Since the Renaissance Mary Spongberg International Women Gender, and Transitional Lives Donna R. Gabaccia and Franca Iacovetta, editors International: Africa In Praise of Black Women, Vol. 3 Simone Schwarz-Bart and with AndrÈ Schwarz-Bart Stepping Forward Catherine Higgs, Barbara A. Moss and Earline Rae Ferguson, editors International: Asia The New Japanese Woman Barbara Sato The Scandal of the State Rajeswari Sunder Rajan Working Out in Japan Laura Spielvogel International: Caribbean International: Latin & Central America Contentious Lives Javier Auyero International: Middle East With All Our Strength Anne E. Brodsky International: Russia & Slavic Nine of Russia's Foremost Women Writers Joanne Turnbull [translator] International: Western Europe Working Differences Šva Fodor Jewish Women Language / Linguistics The Power to Name Hope A. Olsen Latinas Black-Brown Relations and Stereotypes Tatcho Mindiola Jr., Yolanda Flores Niemann and Nestor Rodriguez Reading U.S. Latina Writers Alvina E. Quintana, editor Velvet Barrios Alicia Gaspar de Alba, editor and Tom·s Ybarra Frausto [forward by] Law Domestic Violence and the Politics of Privacy Kristin A. Kelly Privatization, Law, and the Challenge to Feminism Brenda Cossman and Judy Fudge, editors Lesbian Studies An Archive of Feelings Ann Cvetkovich A Donor insemination Guide Marie Mohler and Lacy Frazer Identity Poetics Linda Garber Making Girls into Women Kathryn R. Kent Unpacking Queer Politics Sheila Jeffreys Literary Criticism Braveheart and Broomsticks Elycia Arendt The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry Elisabeth A. Frost Fictional Females Eleanor Hochman Lewd & Notorious Katherine Kittredge, editor Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and May Swenson Kirstin Hotelling Zona Of Women, Poetry, and Power Zofia Burr Persephone Unbound Catherine Perry Sexual Antipodes Pamela Cheek Winter Love Jacob Korg Literature Approaches to Teaching Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper" and Herland Denise D. Knight and Cynthia J. Davis, editors Chaucer's Queer Nation Glenn Burger The Church of Solitude Grazia Deledda and Translated by E. Ann Matter Delia's Doctors Hannah Gardner Creamer and Introduction by Nina Bym Poets in the Public Sphere Paula Bernat Bennett What Answer? Anna E. Dickinson and with introduction by J. Matthew Gallman Women's Experience of Modernity, 1875-1945 Ann L. Ardis and Leslie W. Lewis, editors Native-American Indigenous American Women Devon Abbott Mihesuah The Life and Writings of Betsey Chamberlain Judith A. Ranta Singing the Songs of My ancestors Linda J. Goodman and Helma Swan Periodicals Women's Studies Review Vivienne Batt, Jane Conroy, Sheila Dickinson, Ann Lyons, and Lorna Shaughnessy, editors Philosophy A Defense of Abortion David Boonin Imagine There's No Woman Joan Copjec Women in western Intellectual Culture, 600-1500 Patricia Ranft Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century Jacqueline Broad Poetry Alphabet Theater Meredith Stricker Poetry Are You Experienced? Pamela Gemin, editor Poetry E-Mails from Scheherazad Mohja Kahf Poetry I Will Say Beauty Carol Frost Poetry Marlene Dietrich, Rita Hayworth, and My Mother Rita Maria Magdaleno Poetry Milestones Marina Tsvetaeva and Translated and introduced by Robin Kemball Poetry Naked Wanting Margo Tamex Poetry The Promised Folly Judith Hall Politics Madam President Eleanor Clift and Tom Brazaitis Women Transforming Congress Cindy Simon Rosenthal, editor Psychology Cultures of the Death Drive Esther S·nchez-Pardo Dark Continents Ranjana Khanna Prozac on the Couch Jonathan Michel Metzl Race Theory Entry Denied Eithne LuibhÈid Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference Donald S. Moore, Jake Kosek and Anand Pandian, editors Reference/Directories The Penguin Atlas of Women in the World Joni Seager Women in Higher Education Ana M. MartÌnez Alem·n and Kristen A. Renn, editors Regional: Midwest Seeing with Their Hearts Maureen A. Flanagan Regional: South Making Waves Jack E. Davis and Kari Frederickson, editors Regional: West A Wide-Awake Woman Elinor McGinn Reproductive Rights Behind Every Choice Is a Story Gloria Feldt and with Carol Trickett Jennings The Pivot of Civilization Margaret Sanger and with and introduction by H.G. Wells Science/Technology Sexuality Sexual Borderlands Kathleen Kennedy and Sharon Ullman, editors Social Sciences America's Childcare Problem Suzanne W. Helburn and Barbara R. Bergman Stir It Up Rinku Sen Trauma at Home Judith Greenberg, editor Union Women Mary Margaret Fonow Spirituality/Religion The Goddess Shahrukh Husain Violence and Abuse Sports & Outdoors Athletic Intruders Anne Bolin and Jane Granskog, editors War/Peace/Anti-Militarism War Talk Arundhati Roy Women on War Daniela Gioseffi, editor Women's Studies The American Woman 2003-2004 Cynthia B. Costello, Vanessa R. Wright and Anne J. Stone, editors Beyond French Feminisms Roger CÈlestin, Eliane DalMolin and Isabelle de Courtivron, editors Catching the Wave Rory Dicker, Alison Piepmeier, editors and Afterword by Katha Pollit and Jennifer Baumgardner Feminism without Borders Chandra Talpade Mohanty Feminist Futures Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran and Priya Kurian, editors Right Women Women Paola Bacchetta and Margaret Power, editors This Bridge We Call Home Gloria E. Anzald™a and AnaLouise Keating, editors Work & Labor Women, Power, and AT&T Lois Kathryn Herr

Women's Studies Review: Vol. 8: Making a Difference: Women and the Creative Arts, Vivienne Batt, Jane Conroy, Sheila Dickinson, Ann Lyons, and Lorna Shaughnessy, editors, Womenís Studies Centre / National University of Ireland, $contact publisher for rates pb, 0-9519466-7-6 (ISSN: 1393-726X), 2003.
Women's Studies Review is the first serial women's studies publication from Ireland. This particular issue celebrates the journal's tenth anniversary and does so in an exultant manner through the featuring of women's creativity -- in art, poetry, theatre, literature, and theory. Gathered around the themes of "transforming icons," transgressing conventions," and translating experience," this volume touches on various aspects of Irish women's Studies. It also includes some beautifully reproduced full-color plates art-work. It also includes several book reviews. For a table of contents, see: http://www.nuigalway.ie/wsc/volume8.htm
Women's Studies Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway, Galway, Ireland. Phone: +353 (0)91 750455, Fax: +353 (0) 91 750549, E-mail: wsc@nuigalway.ie (****) Periodicals: Feminist Theory / Culture; Womenís Studies

Academic Books from Women's Presses

Red Flower: Rethinking Menstruation, Dena Taylor, Blackburn Press, $19.95 pb, 1-930665-64-4, 2003.
First published in 1998, Red Flower has been one of the important books to women and scholars interested in the powerful and spiritual dimensions of women's bloods. "An integral part of every woman's life, menstruation has typically been characterized as a curse. Red Flower debunks the myths and prejudices surrounding this natural process through carefully documented research, cross-cultural perspectives, and much more." Poetry, reflective creative writing, drawings and informative essays make this book both a resource for self-refection and academic background as it spans he time from pre-menarche to post-menopausal ages. (****) Health & Medicine; Womenís Studies ** Recommended

Women on War: An International Anthology of Writings from Antiquity to the Present, Daniela Gioseffi, editor, The Feminist Press at CUNY, $19.95 pb, 1-55861-409-5, or $55.00 cl, 1-55861-408-7, 2003.
This timely volume includes poetry, prose, and short essays by more than 150 women including the range of recognized writers to everyday first-hand witnesses of armed conflict. The updated edition contains more than 40% new materials, including reflections on 9-11. There are reflections spanning the globe from ancient to modern times from refugees, rape victims, survivors of armed conflicts, nurses, soldiers and others. (****) War/Peace/Anti-Militarism; Literature ** Recommended

Miscellaneous Self-Published Books

Braveheart and Broomsticks: Essays on Movies, Myths, and Magic, Elycia Arendt, Infinity Publishing.com, $11.95 pb, 0-7414-1233-0, 2002.
To order: http://www.buybooksontheweb.com/description.asp?ISBN=0-7414-1233-0 The author writes... "Braveheart and Broomsticks is a collection of scholarly essays on movies, myths, and magic. It covers a wide variety of topics including: movie ad campaigns, the evolution of the Braveheart legend, Scottish poetry, Jim Henson's movie Labyrinth, internet fan sites, Wicca and the witchcraft movement, the great Harry Potter debate, fairy tales, and the novels of Willa Cather." For more information about the author see http://www.elycia.net/book/author.html (****) Literary Criticism

Fictional Females: Mirrors and Models / The Changing Image of Women in American Novels from 1789 to 1939, Eleanor Hochman, Xlibris.com (1-888-795-4274), $21.24 pb, 1-4010-4455-7, or $31.49 cl, 1-4010-4456-5, 2002.
The author writes... "Fictional Females is a book about books--specifically, about more than 160 American novels that had female protagonists, appeared between the immediate post-Revolutionary period and the beginning of World War II, and shaped as well as reflected women¥s lives. All 80 authors, both men and women, were bestsellers and/or critically acclaimed in their time, and their fiction provides a record of how successive generations of women accepted or challenged the conventions of their day and enjoyed the rewards or suffered the consequences of either choice. Today, an examination of those novels and the historical context in which they appeared illuminates the changing conscious and unconscious assumptions about the nature of woman--of what she is, what she wants, and what she gets--over the years." some of the authors and novels discussed in this 453 page volume includes: James Fenimore Cooper, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rebecca Harding Davis, Helen Hunt Jackson, Kate Chopin (Awakening), Theodore Dreiser (Sister Carrie), Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Edith Summers Kelley (Weeds), F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Agnes Smedley ( Daughter of the Earth), and many others. No individual book is handled in detail but her accessible writing style does make the literature enticing and sets the works discussed in historical context. (****) Literary Criticism; History

Those Who Give, Rosemary Cania Maio, 1st Books Library, $18.00 pb, 1-4033-1951-0, 2003.
http://www.thosewhogive.com/ -- can also be purchased via the Internet for $6.95 (1717k) / From the publisher... "THOSE WHO GIVE is about teachers in the "age of disillusion." It is tragedy and comedy, history and prophecy, celebration and indictment. The setting is Boesch-Conklyn Academy, a public high school in upstate New York. Structured in three parts, the novel begins with Book One: "October 23, 1980," moves forward in time with Book Two: "Interim Progress Report," and reaches its inevitable conclusion in Book Three: "Antithesis." Through the experiences of teachers, THOSE WHO GIVE reflects the human condition by exploring such universal themes as love, loss, greed, work ethic, betrayal, and irony." (**) Education; History

ABC-CLIO, Inc.

Women in Higher Education: An Encyclopedia, Ana M. MartÌnez Alem·n and Kristen A. Renn, editors, ABC-CLIO, Inc., $85.00 cl, 1-57607-614-8, 2002.
This is reference book all women's studies departments will want to have in their office -- or at least a copy in the library. This compendium covers topics such as historical and cultural contexts for women in higher education (e.g., Catholic women's colleges, black colleges, tribal colleges, and so on), gender theory in the academy, feminism in the academy, women in the curriculum, women in higher education policy, women students (including sororities, athletics, developmental issues and so on), women faculty, women administrators, and women employees (specifically with regards to unionization). additionally, it includes cross-references at the end of each section, and extensive bibliography, and 2 appendixes covering women's studies research resources and self-identified women's colleges. (Oddly, my alma mater - The College of Notre Dame of Maryland - is missing from that list which makes me wonder how they gathered that piece of information!) (****) Reference/Directories; Education ** Recommended

Univ. of Arizona

Marlene Dietrich, Rita Hayworth, and My Mother, Rita Maria Magdaleno, Univ. of Arizona Press, $15.95 pb, 0-8165-2258-8, 2003.
From the publisher... "This poetic memoir, recalling Magdaleno's return to the land of her birth, is an intertwining of personal and public history, bridging continents and cultures in search of family secrets. Her poems recall a mother "Marlene Dietrich pretty, / her smoky voice / & those wide Aryan / eyes that promised / never to lie," a war bride who named her child after a Hollywood movie star even before casting eyes on America. They also offer a new, intimate view of the waróand of today's reunified Germanyóand show that the consequences of events played out half a century ago continue to resonate with the children of that era." (****) Poetry

Naked Wanting, Margo Tamex, Univ. of Arizona Press, $15.95 pb, 0-8165-2248-0, 2003.
Camino del Sol Series / Jacket copy... "Margo Tamez's voice is that of the cicada and the cricket, the raven and the crane. In this volume of poetry, she shows us that the earth is an erotic current linking all beings, a vibrant network of birth, death, and rebirth. A sacred intertwining from which we as humans have become disconnected." (****) Poetry; Latinas

Now in paperback...
Nampeyo and Her Pottery, Barbara Kramer, Univ. of Arizona Press, $24.95 pb, 0-8165-2321-5, 2003.
(****) Arts: Art, Photography; Native American

Augsberg Fortress Press

Witnessing and Testifying: Black Women, Religion and Civil Rights, Rosetta E. Ross, Augsburg Fortress Press , $23.00 pb, 0-8006-3603-1, 2003.
Septima Clark, Sojourner Truth, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker and Clara Muhammad are just a few of the key figures whose religious beliefs guided their work and motivation as Civil Rights activists. This womanist exploration -- part biography, part sociological study -- provides an important contribution for these women (as well as some others) in bringing their stories, witness and testifying to light. (****) African-American; Spirituality/Religion ** Recommended

Bucknell University Press - (Distributed by Associated University Presses)

Persephone Unbound: Dionysian Aesthetics in the works of Anna de Noailles, Catherine Perry, Bucknell University Press (Distributed by Associated University Presses), $75.00 cl, 0-8387-5499-6, 2003.
Anna de Noailles (1876-1933) was a celebrated poet in France during her lifetime. This is the first extensive book in English on this important writer who intellectually engaged the poetic worlds of Baudelaire, Proust, Rilke, and others. (***) Literary Criticism

University of California Press

Cambridge University Press

A Defense of Abortion, David Boonin, Cambridge Univ. Press, $23.00 pb, 0-521-52035-5, or $65.00 cl, 0-521-81701-3, 2002.
From the publisher... "David Boonin has written the most thorough and detailed case for the moral permissibility of abortion yet published. Critically examining a wide range of arguments that attempt to prove that every human fetus has a right to life, he shows that each of these arguments fails on its own terms. He then explains how even if the fetus does have a right to life, abortion can still be shown to be morally permissible on the critique of abortionís own terms. Finally he considers several pro-life arguments that do not depend on claims that the fetus has a right to life and concludes that these too are ultimately unsuccessful. This major book will be especially helpful to those teaching applied ethics and bioethics in philosophy departments or professional schools of law and medicine. It will interest students of women studies and general readers for whom abortion remains a high-profile issue." (**) Philosophy; Reproductive Rights/Technology

Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century, Jacqueline Broad, Cambridge Univ. Press, $55.00 cl, 0-521-81295-X, 2002.
Philosophers of the seventeen century generally worked within the legacy of Descartes, Locke and others. This volume explores the intellectual lives six important feminist thinkers of the time: Elisabeth of Bohemia, Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, Mary Astell, Damaris Cudworth Masham and Catharine Trotter Cockburn. (**) Philosophy

Univ. of Chicago Press

Univ. Press of Colorado Press

Many Faces of Gender: Roles and Relationships Through Time in Indigenous Northern Communities, Lisa Frink, Rita S. Shepard and Gregory A. Reinhardt, editors, Univ. Press of Colorado Press, $19.95 pb, 0-87081-687-X, or $45.00 cl, 0-87081-677-2, 2002.
This interdisciplinary collection of essays addresses the dearth of descriptions and analyses of gender roles and relationships in Native societies in North America's boreal reaches. (**) Anthropology; Gender Studies

A Wide-Awake Woman: Josephine Roche in the Era of Reform, Elinor McGinn, Colorado Historical Society (distributed by Univ. Press of Colorado Press), $21.95 pb, 0-942576-42-X, 2003.
Volume Seven in the Colorado History Series Josephine Roche (1886-1976) ran for the governorship of Colorado in 1934. Though she lost, she continued to fight for the next 60 years for reform in labor relations, health care, immigration policy and many other issues. (****) Regional: West; Biography

Columbia Univ. Press

Identity Poetics: Race, Class, and the Lesbian-Feminist Roots of Queer Theory, Linda Garber, Columbia Univ. Press, $18.50 pb, 0-231-11033-2, or $49.50 cl, 0-231-11032-4, 2001.
In this column, I generally don't backtrack to titles published more than a year ago but this one slipped by and it relevant to the current debates on Sheila Jeffreys' new book. according to the jacket copy..." "Queer theory," asserts Linda Garber, "alternately buries and vilifies lesbian feminism, missing its valuable insights and ignoring its rich contributions." Rejecting the either/or choice between lesbianism and queer theory, she favors an inclusive approach that defies current factionalism. In an eloquent challenge to the privileging of queer theory in the academy, Garber calls for recognition of the historical -and intellectually significant -role of lesbian poets as theorists of lesbian identity and activism." Garber supports (and disagrees) with some of Jeffreys' thinking though she comes at it from a different angle -- that of literary criticism (whereas Jeffreys' is more of an historian). Read these two books together and march on! (***) Lesbian Studies; Gay/Lesbian/Queer Studies ** Recommended

Cornell Univ. Press

Domestic Violence and the Politics of Privacy, Kristin A. Kelly, Cornell Univ. Press, $16.95 pb, 0-8014-8829-X, or $39.95 cl, 0-8014-3908-6, 2003.
In this study of legal issues and domestic violence, Kelly explores the tensions between preserving the privacy of the family and protecting vulnerable individuals. (***) Law; Violence and Abuse; Gender/Law Issues

Univ. of Delaware Press - (Distributed by Associated University Presses)

The Crux, Charlotte Perkins Gilmore and edited with an introduction by Jennifer S. Tuttle, Univ. of Delaware Press (Distributed by Associated University Presses), $42.50 cl, 0-87413-771-3, 2002.
The Crux examines the issue of sexually transmitted disease. Originally serialized in 1911 in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's magazine The Forerunner, The Crux portrays a multigenerational group of women who flee the repressive traditions of their New England village on the advice of a woman physician. Migrating West, they find self-fulfillment in a Colorado town. An argument against the traditional nineteenth-century ideal of female "innocence" that left women vulnerable to sexually transmitted disease, the novel invokes classic frontier ideology along with a feminist critique of the male-dominated medical establishment in order to argue for women's sexual self-determination. It also envisions many of Gilman's best-known reformist ideas for gender relations and social organization, including socialized housekeeping, professionalized child care, and economic independence for white, middle-class women. This edition of the novel includes explanatory notes to Gilman's text, along with an introduction contextualizing the novel in terms of Gilman's biography as well as nineteenth-century gender ideologies, medical discourses, and frontier mythologies. (****) Fiction

Duke Univ. Press

An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures, Ann Cvetkovich, Duke Univ. Press, $22.95 pb, 0-8223-3088-1, or $69.95 cl, 0-8223-3076-8, 2003.
From the publisher..."Cvetkovich contends that the field of trauma studies, limited by too strict a division between the public and the private, has overlooked the experiences of women and queers....An Archive of Feelings challenges the field to engage more fully with sexual trauma and the wide range of feelings in its vicinity, including those associated with butch-femme sex and aids activism and caretaking. An Archive of Feelings brings together oral histories from lesbian activists involved in act/up New York; readings of literature by Dorothy Allison, Leslie Feinberg, CherrÌe Moraga, and Shani Mootoo; videos by Jean Carlomusto and Pratibha Parmar; and performances by Lisa Kron, Carmelita Tropicana, and the bands Le Tigre and Tribe 8 . Cvetkovich reveals how these cultural formationsóactivism, performance, and literatureógive rise to public cultures that both work through trauma and transform the conditions producing it. (**) Lesbian Studies; Culture/Cultural Studies

Contentious Lives: Two Argentine Women, Two Protests, and the Quest for recognition, Javier Auyero, Duke Univ. Press, $18.95 pb, 0-8223-3115-2, or $54.95 cl, 0-8223-3128-4, 2003.
Contentious Lives examines the ways popular protests are experienced and remembered, individually and collectively, by those who participate in them. Javier Auyero focuses on the roles of two young women, Nana and Laura, in uprisings in Argentina (the two-day protest in the northwestern city of Santiago del Estero in 1993 and the six-day road blockade in the southern oil towns of Cutral-co and Plaza Huincul in 1996) and the roles of the protests in their lives. (***) International: Latin & Central America; Social Sciences

Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History, Catherine Ceniza Choy, Duke Univ. Press, $19.95 pb, 0-8223-3089-X , or $59.95 cl, 0-8223-3052-0, 2003.
From the publisher... "In western countries, including the United States, foreign-trained nurses constitute a crucial labor supply. Far and away the largest numbers of these nurses come from the Philippines. Why is it that a developing nation with a comparatively greater need for trained medical professionals sends so many of its nurses to work in wealthier countries? Catherine Ceniza Choy engages this question through an examination of the unique relationship between the professionalization of nursing and the twentieth-century migration of Filipinos to the United States. The first book-length study of the history of Filipino nurses in the United States, Empire of Care brings to the fore the complicated connections among nursing, American colonialism, and the racialization of Filipinos." (**) Asian American; History; Health & Medicine

Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Duke Univ. Press, $21.95 pb, 0-8223-3021-0, or $64.95 cl, 0-8223-3010-5, 2003.
From the book jacket..."Bringing together classic and new writings of the trailblazing feminist theorist Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Feminism without Borders addresses some of the most pressing and complex issues facing contemporary feminism....This collection highlights the concerns running throughout her pioneering work: the politics of difference and solidarity, decolonizing and democratizing feminist practice, the crossing of borders, and the relation of feminist knowledge and scholarship to organizing and social movements. Mohanty offers here a sustained critique of globalization and urges a reorientation of transnational feminist practice toward anti-capitalist struggles." (***) Womenís Studies; International ** Recommended

Living with His Camera, Jane Gallop and Dick Blau [photographer], Duke Univ. Press, $23.95 cl, 0-8223-3102-0, 2003.
Rarely do we have the opportunity to know about how the subject of photography feels about having the artist living and continually photographing many intimate moments. Jane Gallop has been living with Dick Blau (and his camera) for twenty years. This is a look into their lives and her meditations on how the camera enters their family life -- and brings them to the public gaze. (****) Arts: Art, Photography; Family Relations

Making Girls into Women: American Women's Writing and the Rise of Lesbian Identity, Kathryn R. Kent, Duke Univ. Press, $21.95 pb, 0-8223-3016-4, or $64.95 cl, 0-8223-3030-X, 2003.
From the publisher... "Making Girls into Women offers an account of the historical emergence of "the lesbian" by looking at late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century womenës writing. Kathryn R. Kent proposes that modern lesbian identity in the United States has its roots not just, or even primarily, in sexology and medical literature, but in white, middle-class women's culture. Kent demonstrates how, as white womenës culture shifted more and more from the home to the school, workplace, and boarding house, the boundaries between the public and private spheres began to dissolve. She shows how, within such spaces, womenës culture, in attempting to mold girls into proper female citizens, ended up inciting in them other, less normative, desires and identifications, including ones Kent calls "protolesbian" or queer." (***) Lesbian Studies; Literary Criticism

The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance, Valeria Finucci, Duke Univ. Press, $24.95 pb, 0-8223-3065-2, or $74.95 cl, 0-8223-3054-7, 2003.
For those more interested in gender studies rather than women's studies, this volume explores the ways in which men were defined as men in Renaissance Italy through a variety of measures -- medical & travel literature, theology, law, myth, plays, chivalric romances, conduct books, art and other cultural reproductions. (**) Gender Studies; History

The New Japanese Woman: modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan, Barbara Sato, Duke Univ. Press, $19.95 pb, 0-8223-3044-X, or $59.95 cl, 0-8223-3008-3, 2003.
This social history of Japanese culture portrays the "new woman" who emerged between the world wars. Images of the modern woman appeared in media and shaped images of women in the midst of urbanization, a growing middle class, and consumerism. (**) International: Asia

Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs, Jonathan Michel Metzl, Duke Univ. Press, $24.95 cl, 0-8223-3061-X, 2003.
I have a number of friends and acquaintances who take Prozac -- so it constantly feels like one must be careful with opinions about drug treatments and women and dependency. And then there's that wonderful song by Cheryl Wheeler "Is it Peace or is it Prozac?", a song reflective of her own breakdown. I often wonder -- is Prozac the new Valium for control of women? This book shed analytic light on some of the questions. From the publisher..."Providing a cultural history of treatments for depression, anxiety, and other mental illnesses through a look at the professional and popular reception of three "wonder drugs"--Milltown, Valium, and Prozac--Metzl explains the surprising ways Freudian gender categories and popular gender roles have shaped understanding of these drugs." Bottom line, Freudian ideas about gender are entangled with modern prescriptions of Prozac -- psychotropic medications have suffused popular culture. However, beyond this warning, itís not clear what the solutions might be for sorting out genre, drugs, and cultural expectations for women. (***) Psychology; Health & Medicine; Gender Studies

The Scandal of the State: Women, Law, and Citizenship in Postcolonial India, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Duke Univ. Press, $21.95 pb, 0-8223-3048-2, 2003.
New Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies Series / This collection of case studies grapples with the relationships between women and the state of India. Rajan argues that the state not only determines women's political rights but also their cultural identity and the way they live their daily lives. The case studies explore such issues as the hysterectomies scandal (sterilization of mentally retarded women), prostitution questions, women's roles in community and state, unwanted girls, and "outlaw" woman. For scholars and activists interested in Indian feminism or postcolonialism, this book comes as an important contribution. (***) International: Asia; Womenís Studies

Vanishing Women: Magic, Film, and Feminism, Karen Beckman, Duke Univ. Press, $19.95 pb, 0-8223-3074-1, or $59.95 cl, 0-8223-3125-X, 2003.
Are women prone to disappear, or to instability, or to elusiveness? According to Beckman in this study of 19th and 20th century films, women vanish through mirrors, trapdoors, elevators, photographs and other places to create anxiety of the "vanishing woman." This constantly vanishing woman portrays the figure that hovers between the visible and invisible, thus psychically and psychologically lurking -- and affecting the relationships between visibility, gender, and agency. (**) Arts: Film, Video; Womenís Studies

Working Differences: Women's Working Lives in Hungary and Austria, 1945-1995, Šva Fodor, Duke Univ. Press, $18.95 pb, 0-8223-3090-3, or $54.95 cl, 0-8223-3077-6, 2003.
(**) International: Western Europe; Work & Labor; Social Sciences Also of interest

Also of interest...

Cultures of the Death Drive: Melanie Klein and the Modernist Melancholia, Esther S·nchez-Pardo, Duke Univ. Press, $24.95 pb, 0-8223-3045-8, or $74.95 cl, 0-8223-3009-1, 2003.
This is a comprehensive guide to the writings of pioneering psychoanalyst Melanie Klein (1882-1960). (**) Psychology; Literary Criticism

Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism, Ranjana Khanna, Duke Univ. Press, $21.95 pb, 0-8223-3067-9, or $64.95 cl, 0-8223-3055-5, 2003.
(*) Psychology

Imagine Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique, Kandice Chuh, Duke Univ. Press, $19.95 pb, 0-8223-3140-3, or $59..95 cl, 0-8223-3104-7, 2003.
(**) Asian American; Literary Criticism

Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference, Donald S. Moore, Jake Kosek and Anand Pandian, editors, Duke Univ. Press, $24.95 pb, 0-8223-3091-1, or $74.95 cl, 0-8223-3079-2, 2003.
(**) Race Theory; Anthropology; Geography; Culture/Cultural Studies

Working Out in Japan: Shaping the Female Body in Tokyo Fitness Clubs, Laura Spielvogel, Duke Univ. Press, $19.95 pb, 0-8223-3049.0, 2003.
(**) International: Asia; Anthropology; Womenís Studies

EdgeWork Books

Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner, Daniel L. Schafer, Univ. Press of Florida, $24.95 cl, 0-8130-2616-4, 2003.
From the publisher..."Anna Kingsley's life story adds a dramatic chapter to histories of the South, the state of Florida, and the African Diaspora....Both an American slave and a slaveowner--and possibly an African princess--Anna was a teenager when she was captured in her homeland of Senegal in 1806 and sold into slavery. Zephaniah Kingsley, Jr., a planter and slave trader from Spanish East Florida, bought her in Havana, Cuba, and took her to his St. Johns River plantation in northeast Florida, where she soon became his household manager, his wife, and eventually the mother of four of his children. Her husband formally emancipated her in 1811, and she became the owner of her own farm and twelve slaves the following year....when Florida passed from Spanish to American control, and racism and discrimination increased in the American territories, Anna Kingsley and her children migrated to a colony in Haiti established by her husband as a refuge for free blacks. Amid the spiraling racial tensions of the antebellum period, Anna returned to north Florida, where she bought and sold land, sued white people in the courts, and became a central figure in a free black community." (****) Biography; African-American; Regional: South; History

E-Mails from Scheherazad, Mohja Kahf, Univ. Press of Florida, $12.95 pb, 0-8130-2621-0, or $24.95 cl, 0-8130-2620-2, 2003.
The University of Central Florida Contemporary Poetry Series / From the publisher... "Kahf's carefully crafted poems do not speak only to important issues of ethnicity, gender, and religious diversity in America, but also to universal human themes of family and kinship, friendship, and the search for a place to pray." (****) Poetry; Arab American ** Recommended

Making Waves: Female Activists in Twentieth-Century Florida, Jack E. Davis and Kari Frederickson, editors, Univ. Press of Florida, $55.00 cl, 0-8130-2604-0, 2003.
Some of the women activists portrayed in the rich history of feminist activism in Florida include: Ruth Bryan Owen ( First congresswomen in Florida), Betty Mae Tiger Jumper (Seminole activist), Mary McLeod Bethune (founder of Bethune-Cookman College). The women in this volume addressed urban renewal, environmental activism, child welfare, labor unions, education, women's liberation and civil liberties. (****) Regional: South; History

Univ. of Georgia Press

Selling Mrs. Consumer: Christine Frederick and the Rise of Household Efficiency, Janice Williams Rutherford, Univ. of Georgia Pr. Press, $22.95 pb, 0-8203-2480-9, 2003.
An early Martha Stewart without the empire? Christine Frederick (1883-1970) was an educated woman who created a career for herself by establishing the ideal of preserving the virtuous home -- and for women's permanent place within it. (***) History; Womenís Studies

Greenwood Publishing Group

Black Women in the Field: Experiences Understanding Ourselves and Others through Qualitative Research, Gretchen Givens Generett and Rhonda Baynes Jeffries, editors, Hampton Press Inc. (23 Braodway, suite 208, Cresskill, NJ 07626 - 201-894-1686), $18.95 pb, 1-57273-484-1, or $39.50 cl, 1-57273-483-3, 2003.
Understanding Education and Policy Series / From the introduction... "As Black women qualitative researchers struggling with our identities, e ask ourselves many questions between the lines of this text. How do we get out of ourselves in order to see into them? And once we get out, how do we go back? This volume is a glimpse of eight Black female academics attempting to mediate the back and forth -- acknowledging the impossibility of understanding the other without understanding the self. we ask ourselves if out intentions in these chapters will transcend the language we have used to express our ideas about other people. We ponder our ability to speak on the Black experience, as well as the Black female academic experience, without generalizing and stereotyping it. we crave for that experience to be heard and embraced by our participants and our colleagues" (pp. 8-9). This will be an important book for African American academics and researcher s seeking to make sense of their voices and observations. (***) African-American; Education ** Recommended

Harrington Park Press / Haworth Press

A Donor Insemination Guide: Written By and For Lesbian Women, Marie Mohler and Lacy Frazer, Harrington Park Press / An Imprint of Haworth Press, $12.95 pb, 1-56023-227-7, or $29.95 cl, 1-56023-226-9, 2003.
Alice Street Editions / From the publisher..."A Donor Insemination Guide details the mechanics of conception, including preconception fertility efforts, the key characteristics of viable sperm, and determining fertile periods. Each phase of the process is illustrated by the real-life experiences of the authors and several other lesbian couples. This step-by-step guide is designed to help you meet the logistical, emotional, and legal challenges to achieving conceptions and a healthy pregnancy." (****) Lesbian Studies; Health & Medicine

Also of interest...
Homosexual Rites of Passage: A Road to Visibility and Validation, Marie Mohler, Harrington Park Press / An Imprint of Haworth Press, $14.95 pb, 1-56023-978-6, or $29.95 cl, 1-56023-977-8, 2003.
(****) Gay/Lesbian/Queer Studies; Psychology

Harvard Univ. Press

Naked in the Promised Land, Lillian Faderman, Houghton Mifflin, $26.00 cl, 0-618-12875-1, 2003.
This memoir has received high praise from writers such as Amy Tan, Sarah Schulman, and Emma Donoghue among others -- as well as it should. Faderman has turned her talents as a brilliant social historian and literary academic to gaze at her own life events. She takes us on a remarkable journey as the daughter and niece on the only Holocaust survivors of her family, through her days in the underworld of lesbian addicts and pimps through her college life as a burlesque stripper and finally as a renowned scholar. Wow! (****) Autobiography/Memoir; Lesbian Studies ** Recommended

Humanity Books, Imprint of Prometheus

What Answer?, Anna E. Dickinson and with introduction by J. Matthew Gallman, Humanity Books, Imprint of Prometheus, $18.00 pb, 1-59102-050-6, 2003.
Classics in Black Studies Series Anna E. Dickinson (1842-1932) -- 19th century orator, abolitionist and advocate for women's rights -- wrote just one novel. This is it. set in the midst of the Civil War ear, this controversial work explores issues of racial inequality, interracial marriage, and social justice as well as the conflicted attitudes of Northern citizens to blacks just after the war. The publisher admits this may not be an extraordinary piece of literature but it does offer an important and timely insight into post-Civil War racial conflict. (****) Literature; African-American; History

Reissue now available...
The Pivot of Civilization, Margaret Sanger and with and introduction by H.G. Wells, Humanity Books, Imprint of Prometheus, $18.00 pb, 1-59102-058-1, 2003.
Classics in Women's Studies Series - First published in 1922, this is Margaret Sanger's most pioneering book in her attempt to discuss the still radical idea of birth control. (****) Reproductive Rights/Technology; Womenís Studies

Univ. of Illinois Press

Delia's Doctors: or, A Glance Behind the Scenes, Hannah Gardner Creamer and Introduction by Nina Bym, Univ. of Illinois Press, $14.95 pb, 0-252-07108-5, or $39.95 cl, 0-252-02807-4, 2003.
First published in 1852, Delia's Doctors is one of four known novels by Hannah Gardner Creamer, an American writer whose life and career have been all but absent from the annals of American history. This early feminist novel is a wickedly funny slice of mid-nineteenth-century Americana peppered with details of the era's freakish medical tactics and leavened with a smart and sassy commentary about the societal restraints on women's physical and intellectual abilities. (****) Literature

The Making of "Mammy Pleasant": A Black Entrepreneur in the Nineteenth-Century San Francisco, Lynn M. Hudson, Univ. of Illinois Press, $29.95 cl, 0-252-02771-X, 2003.
Women in American History Series / From the publisher... "Mary Ellen Pleasant arrived in Gold Rush-era San Francisco a free black woman with abolitionist convictions and a predilection for entrepreneurial success. Behind the convenient and trusted disguise of "Mammy," she transformed domestic labor into enterprise, amassed remarkable real estate, wealth, and power, and gained notoriety for her work in fighting Jim Crow." (****) African-American; History; Biography

Of Women, Poetry, and Power: Strategies of Address in Dickinson, Miles, Brooks, Lorde, and Angelou, Zofia Burr, Univ. of Illinois Press, $39.95 cl, 0-252-02769-8, 2002.
Burr explores the poetry of Josephine Miles, Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lorde, and Maya Angelou within the canonization of the works of Emily Dickinson. (**) Literary Criticism; Poetry

Intercultural Press

The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry, Elisabeth A. Frost, Univ. of Iowa Press, $24.95 cl, 0-87745-836-7, 2003.
Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, Sonia Sanchez Susan Howe and Harryette Mullen are the primary poets whose work come into focus in this historical and theoretical account of avant-garde women poets in the US from 1910 through the 1990s. Expanding traditional conceptions of feminism and avant-garde writing, Frost specifically explores radical forms and politics and female identity as written by this group of diverse poets. (**) Literary Criticism; Poetry

Also of interest...
Are You Experienced?: Baby Boom Poets at Midlife, Pamela Gemin, editor, Univ. of Iowa Press, $19.95 pb, 0-87745-850-2, 2003.
(****) Poetry; Culture/Cultural Studies

Johns Hopkins University Press  

Jossey-Bass Inc.

Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy, Rinku Sen, Jossey-Bass Inc., $25.00 pb, 0-7879-6533-2, 2003.
This promising book was sponsored by the MS. Foundation and is another important publication from the Chardon Press Series edited by Kim Klein. This book offers more than simply a best practice manual for community activism and social organizing. Using case studies from economic justice grantees funded by the MS Foundation between 1997 and 2001, this manual considers the effects of the globalization of economic development on community organizing. As the author states in her preface, "today's social, political and economic context, characterized by global capitalism resurgent conservative movement, and the continued role of racism and sexism in world society, requires deeper strategic capacity than most organization have today....the range of political skills required of us goes far beyond recruiting members and planning creative actions" (p. xvii). (****) Social Sciences ** Recommended

Univ. Press of Kansas

I'll Tell You What: The Life of Elizabeth Inchbald, Annibel Jenkins, Univ. Press of Kentucky, $39.95 cl, 0-8131-2236-8, 2003.
Elizabeth Simpson Inchbald (1753ñ1821) was one of the leading literary figures of the late eighteenth centuryóan actress, a successful playwright and editor of several collections of plays, a popular novelist, and a drama critic. (***) Biography; Arts: Music, Dance, Theater

Also of interest...
Hold the Roses, Rose Marie, Univ. Press of Kentucky, $25.00 cl, 0-8131-2264-3, 2003.
(****) Autobiography/Memoir

Kluwer Academic Publishers

The Power to Name: Locating the Limits of Subject Representation in Libraries, Hope A. Olsen, Kluwer Academic Publishers, $86.00 cl, 1-4020-0776-0, 2002.
Naming has power. When I was a budding feminist 25 years ago, this was one of my first awakenings. It was only 10 or so years, ago, however, that I began to realize how this extended to library classifications. It was Sanford Berman and many other committed feminist librarians who helped me to understand how to find things in libraries - and how, as a publisher/bookseller - such classifications affect how we sort and bring visibility to our books. For researchers and librarians, this book is an important. As the author states in her preface, " The Power to Name is intended for two audiences: those interested in knowledge organization and those interested in theoretical study of representation. These two groups come from the perspective of the structure and principles of organization and from the perspective of understanding the cultural ramifications of naming. The first may be those who develop subject representation schemes for a wide range of purposes and those who apply those schemes [librarians, etc.]. The second group is likely to be feminist, post structural and postcolonial theorists who explore the construction of meaning." This book may be beyond the price rang of casual readers but any good library should be sure to add this important book to their collection. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Order Department, P.O. Box 358, Accord Station Hingham, MA 02018-0358, 1-781 871-6600, kluwer@wkap.com (***) Language / Linguistics; Reference/Directories; Social Sciences

Univ. of Massachusetts Press

The Mysteries of Elizabeth I: Selections from English Literary Renaissance, Kirby Farrell and Kathleen Swaim, editors, Univ. of Massachusetts Press, $19.95 pb, 1-55849-231-3, 2003.
These thirteen essays, nine of which were first published in English Literary Renaissance, provide an important contribution to the literature exploring the life and identity of Elizabeth I. (***) Biography; History

Univ. of Michigan Press

Lewd & Notorious: Female Transgression in the 18th century, Katherine Kittredge, editor, Univ. of Michigan Press, $24.95 pb, 0-472-08906-4, or $59.50 cl, 0-472-11090-X, 2003.
Women who transgress (hags, arts, killers, freaks and otherwise lewd or notorious) are perceived as terrifying...and thus become marginalized. What do we as feminist makes of such women? In her introduction, Kittredge suggests we ten to turn away in revulsion. "This collection reflects my belief that we must not continue to avert our eyes. In this volume, a group of talented scholars focuses the critical gaze on images of women that are frequently painful, grotesque, or pathetic to ascertain the messages that these depictions may convey and the way this information was interpreted and negotiated by contemporary women" (pp. 1-2). (***) Literary Criticism; Womenís Studies

Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and May Swenson: The Feminist Poetics of Self- Restraint, Kirstin Hotelling Zona, Univ. of Michigan Press, $44.50 cl, 0-472-11304-6, 2002.
From the publisher... "This book examines the strategic possibilities of poetic self-restraint. Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and May Swenson all wrote poetry that is marked by a certain reserve--precisely the motive against which most feminist poets and critics of the last thirty years have established themselves. Kirstin Hotelling Zona complicates this dichotomy by examining the conceptions of selfhood upon which it depends." (**) Literary Criticism

Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture, Kimberly Wallace-Sanders, editor, Univ. of Michigan Press, $24.95 pb, 0-472-06707-9, or $52.50 cl, 0-472-09707-5, 2003.
From the introduction...(p. 5) "The chapters in Skin Deep, Spirit Strong are both discernibly independent and in dialogue with each other as they address issues of identity and representation in visual, literary, and historical contexts. The volume demonstrates that when Black women stand at the center of the discussion about the female body, their bodies tell a profoundly different story about historic and contemporary American culture." (***) African-American; Womenís Studies

Reissue now available...
The Goddess: Power, Sexuality, and the Feminine Divine, Shahrukh Husain, Univ. of Michigan Press, $14.95 pb, 0-472-08934-X, 2003.
This reprint edition of the 1997 book published by Peter Baird is filled with amazing color plates and artifacts tracing images of the Goddess throughout history and from around the world. (****) Spirituality/Religion; Arts: Art, Photography; History

Michigan State Univ. Press

Blood Sisters, Valerie Miner, Michigan State Univ., $19.95 pb, 0-87013-665-8, 2003.
There are few novels I have read from many years ago that continue to stay vivid in my memory and in the background of my thinking on political activism. This is one of them. I read this novel when it was first published in 1982. I have thought about this story many times, as I clash with friends, colleagues and family members on viewpoints concerning activism, social justice, strategies for civil disobedience, violence and non-violence, nationality, struggles for freedom, and so on. I highly recommended it during these difficult political times as it portrays with honesty that our positionalities and decisions are complicated in multiple layers of ethics and decision-making. Publisher description ... "At the heart of Blood Sisters are two cousins, one Irish, one American, who grew up steeped in their mothersí ideals of the 1916 Uprising. The two young women try to understand each otherís views, to cross the blurry lines between private and political life, but are divided by their separate histories and often despair at the possibility of comprehension, let alone reconciliation. Blood Sisters intricately combines important issues within the tense format of a thriller. Miner subtly explores the relationships among women of different generations, unexpected and unacceptable romance, the daily dramas of immigrant life, and the struggle of Irish people to discover and create their own identity and autonomy." (****) Fiction ** Recommended

Univ. of Minnesota Press

Chaucer's Queer Nation, Glenn Burger, Univ. of Minnesota Press, $22.95 pb, 0-8166-3806-3, or $63.95 cl, 0-8166-3805-5 , 2003.
From the publisher catalog..."Bringing the concerns of queer theory and postcolonial studies to bear on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, this ambitious book compels a rethinking not only of this most canonical of works, but also of questions of sexuality and gender in pre- and postmodern contexts, of issues of modernity and nation in historiography, and even of the enterprise of historiography itself. Glenn Burger shows us Chaucer uneasily situated between the medieval and the modern, his work representing new forms of sexual and communal identity but also enacting the anxieties provoked by such departures from the past." Medieval Cultures Series, volume 34 (**) Literature; Gay/Lesbian/Queer Studies

Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women's Lives, Jenny Sharpe, Univ. of Minnesota Press, $17.95 pb, 0-8166-3723-7, 2003.
Sharpe traces the three very different experiences of slave women -- Nanny the maroon leader, Joanna the mulatto concubine, and Mary Prince a fugitive slave -- during different eras of slavery. Using nontraditional sources such as oral storytelling, slave songs, travel writing, court documents, proslavery literature, and contemporary literature, the author investigates the lives of these women to draw a portrait of the unique and composite gendered story of slavery. (**) African-American; Womenís Studies; History

Union Women: Forging Feminism in the united Steelworkers of America, Mary Margaret Fonow, Univ. of Minnesota Press, $19.95 pb, 0-8166-3883-7, 2003.
This sociological and historical study portrays the work and spaces created by women steelworkers in a male-dominated workforce. These women address issues of sexual discrimination and advocate for women's rights. their organizations, networks and resources contribute to the feminist response to globalization and economic and labor concerns. (***) Social Sciences; Womenís Studies

Also of interest...
Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border, Eithne LuibhÈid, Univ. of Minnesota Press, $19.95 pb, 0-8166-3804-7, or $54.95 cl, 0-8166-3803-9, 2003.
An examination of 150 years of sexuality-based discrimination against immigrants to the United States. (****) Race Theory; Womenís Studies; Sexuality

Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages, Sharon Farmer and Carol Braun Pasternack, editors, Univ. of Minnesota Press, $24.95 pb, 0-8166-3894-2, or $68.95 cl, 0-8166-3893-4, 2002.
Medieval Cultures Series, volume 32 (**) Gender Studies; Literature

Univ. Press of Mississippi

Univ. of Missouri Press

MIT Press

Imagine There's No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation, Joan Copjec, MIT Press, $29.95 cl, 0-262-03299-6, 2003.
According to the publisher, this book is a psychoanalytic and philosophical exploration of sublimation as a key term in Jacques Lacan's theories of ethics and feminist sexuality. WARNING: not only will one's intellect be tested, but also one's eyesight. It is annoyingly set in 8 or 9-point text type thus making it a visual challenge as well as a challenge to one's ethical viewpoints. (**) Philosophy; Psychology

Modern Language Association

Approaches to Teaching Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper" and Herland, Denise D. Knight and Cynthia J. Davis, editors, Modern Language Assoc., $18.00 pb, 0-87352-901-4, or $37.50 cl, 0-87352-900-6, 2003.
This is the 76th volume of MLA's Approaches to Teaching World Literature series. It is divided into two parts: 1) Materials includes historical and biographical background and information on published editions, film versions and other cultural information surrounding Gilman's work; and 2) Approaches features 21 essays from a variety of teaching perspectives and a range of course offerings. It will be a valuable resource for teachers new to teaching Gilman and for those seeking fresh approaches. (***) Literature; Rhetoric

Black Cherries, Grace stone Coates, Univ. of Nebraska Press, $14.95 pb, 0-8032-6429-1, 2003.
This collection of interconnected short stories by Grace Stone Coates (1881-1976) portrays the harsh life, deprivation, rural hardship and family bitterness of a Kansas farm family. (****) Fiction: Short Stories; Regional: West

Hot Chocolate at Hanselmann's, Rosetta Loy and Translated by Gregory Conti, Univ. of Nebraska Press, $16.95 pb, 0-8032-8006-8, or $50.00 cl, 0-8032-2945-3, 2003.
European Women Writers Series / Jacket copy... "A work of understated elegance and cumulative power, this novel eases readers into a drama unfolding within a Catholic family in Italy on the eve of World War II. As scenes only dimly understood by the child Lorenza are revisited by the woman she becomes, what seemed a family affairóa romance involving Lorenzaís mother, her fatherís Jewish friend Arturo, and her aunt Margot in Switzerlandóbegins to reveal the broader outlines of the drama of history, in particular the tragedy of Italyís Jews during the Holocaust. Limning the interplay of past and present, of memory and presence, this haunting work by one of Italyís foremost writers brings to life the subtleties and complexities of history as it is experienced, interpreted, and relived within the most intimate of realms." (****) Fiction; International: Western Europe

Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism, Devon Abbott Mihesuah, Univ. of Nebraska Press, $16.95 pb, 0-8032-8286-9, or $50.00 cl, 0-8032-3227-6, 2003.
From the introduction..."I have written these essays because of my concern about tribal America" (p. xi). These essays by prominent Oklahoma Choctaw scholar Devon Abbott Mihesuah, examine how American Indigenous women have been perceived and depicted by non-Natives, including scholars, and by themselves. her writings explore colonialism and patriarchal thought, women's traditional tribal roles, participation in academia, effects of Euro-American and Christianity, psychological stress , intratribal factionalism, Red Power, feminism and activism as they affect the lives and conditions of American Indigenous women. (***) Native American; Womenís Studies ** Recommended

Pieces from Life's Crazy Quilt, Marvin V. Arnett, Univ. of Nebraska Press, $26.95 cl, 0-8032-1064-7, 2003.
American Lives Series -- The captivating book is part memoir and part social history. It reveals the urban life of a black neighborhood in Detroit during the Great Depression and through the Detroit race riot of 1943. Each piece of this "crazy quilt" draws the reader into these vivid coming-of-age stories revealed in the drama of adult complexities. (****) Autobiography/Memoir; Social Sciences; History ** Recommended

White Poplar, Black Locust, Louise Wagenknecht, Univ. of Nebraska Press, $26.95 cl, 0-8032-4804-0, 2003.
This novel combines memoir and history to tell two related stories -- one of growing up in a small and isolated northern California lumber town that no longer exists and another of harmful timbering practices devastating ancient old-growth forests and destroying communities and environment. (****) Fiction ** Recommended

Women's Oral History: The Frontiers Reader, Susan H. Armitage, editor, with Patricia Hart and Karen Weathermoon, Univ. of Nebraska Press, $29.95 pb, 0-8032-5944-1, 2002.
Publisher description: "Women's Oral History includes nineteen essays, each addressing the particularity of women's lives and experience. The collection provides both "how to" interview guides and examples of current research in sections covering basic methodology and rationale; the myriad uses of women's oral history; and discoveries and insights gained from oral history applications. The essays raise thought-provoking questions, glean original insights about the lives of women and the practice of history, and call for women to write and record their own histories." (***) History; Womenís Studies

Also of interest...
Front-Page Women Journalists, 1920-1950, Kathleen A. Cairns, Univ. of Nebraska Press, $45.00 cl, 0-8032-1525-8, 2003.
A feminist and historical view of the journalistic contributions and work of Ruth Finney, Charlotta Bass, and Agness Underwood. (****) History; Womenís Studies; Work & Labor

Trauma at Home : After 9/11, Judith Greenberg, editor, Univ. of Nebraska Press, $19.95 pb, 0-8032-7108-5, 2003.
(****) Social Sciences

Writing for Her Life: The Novelist Mildred Walker, Ripley Hugo, Univ. of Nebraska Press, $29.95 cl, 0-8032-2383-8, 2003.
In this biography written by her daughter -- Ripley Hugo -- we not only catch a glimpse of Mildred Walker as a successful novelist but also witness Hugo's search to understand a mother known to her children as a doctor's wife and not as n ambitious novelist. (****) Biography; Literature

Finding Higher Ground: A Life of Travels, Catharine Savage Brosman, Univ. of Nevada Press, $21.95 cl, 0-87417-538-0, 2003.
Environmental Arts & Humanities Series / This collection of personal essays explores the relationship between human beings and the environment. They are reflective pieces drawing on philosophical engagement, childhood memories, and a lifelong concern with cultural values. (****) Ecology & Environment; Essays of Resistance; Culture/Cultural Studies

New York University Press (NYU)

University of North Carolina Press

Univ. of North Texas Press

Behind Every Choice Is a Story, Gloria Feldt and with Carol Trickett Jennings, Univ. of North Texas Press, $19.95 cl, 1-57441-158-6, 2003.
In this book Gloria Feldt, the President of Planned Parenthood of America, weaves together personal journey, commentary and memoir to discuss a woman's right to control her reproductive choices. From the introduction... "I have learned from nearly three decades of my work with planned Parenthood of America (PPFA) and from my own experience as a mother that in a woman's life, these issues [sex and reproduction] take on another, almost unfathomable layer of meaning. The choices we make manifest themselves in our bodies, define our lives, and become our stories....If you think this book is about abortion, think again. many stories in this book are about abortion, to be sure, but most are about the many other, often unacknowledged, facets of reproductive life" (xiv-xv). (****) Reproductive Rights/Technology; History; Womenís Studies

Northeastern Univ. Press

Catching the Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century, Rory Dicker, Alison Piepmeier, editors and Afterword by Katha Pollit and Jennifer Baumgardner, Northeastern Univ. Press, $20.00 pb, 1-55553-570-4, or $50.00 cl, 1-55553-571-2, 2003.
From the publisher... "Contesting the notion that we are in a post-feminist age, this provocative collection of original essays identifies a third wave of feminism. The contributors argue that the next generation needs to develop a politicized, collective feminism that both builds on the strategies of second wave feminists and is grounded in the material realities and culture of the twenty-first century." This collection of essays is organized in five sections: Needing Feminism, Coming to Feminism, Recognizing Feminism, Redefining Feminism and Doing Feminism and includes essays by Nancy Gruver (New Moon Magazine), Emi Koyama, Susan Muaddi Darraj, Jennifer Pozner and others. For those who want to add to their collection of writings and positions on Third Wave feminisms, this will be an important book for the collection. (****) Womenís Studies ** Recommended

Doves of War: Four Women of Spain, Paul Preston, Northeastern Univ. Press, $30.00 cl, 1-55553-560-7, 2003.
This biographical history outlines the involvement of four women during the Spanish Civil War: On the left -- Margarita Nelkin, a revolutionary feminist and Nan Green, a communist nurse, and on the right -- Mercedes Sanz-Bachiller, a powerful woman in the Francoist zone and Priscilla Scott-Ellis, a wealthy English socialite who helped as a nurse on the frontlines. (****) Biography; History; Womenís Studies

The Life and Writings of Betsey Chamberlain: Native American Mill Worker, Judith A. Ranta, Northeastern Univ. Press, $18.95 pb, 1-55553-564-X, or $47.50 cl, 1-55553-565-8, 2003.
Betsey Guppy Chamberalin (1797-1886) was a mixed-race (English & Algonkian) writer who worked in the textile mills of Lowell, MA. She wrote stories and sketches of mill workerís lives, many of which were published in local workers' magazines. She is the first known writer of published Native American fiction and prose that challenged the persecution of the Native people and affirmed their dignity. (****) Native American; Literature; Biography ** Recommended

The Power and the Glory: A Novel of Appalachia, Grace MacGowan Cooke and Introduction by Elizabeth S.D. Engelhardt, Northeastern Univ. Press, $18.95 pb, 1-55553-553-4, 2003.
First published in 1909, this adventure follows heroine Johnnie Consadine who moves from the Appalachian mountains to work in a textile mil in Tennessee. Her she stands up to the hypocritical middle-class, exposes corporate environmental poisoning, and invents and patents an idea for improving machinery. From the publisher... "The novel's themes of ecological feminism, social activism, gender roles, and class distinctions remain strikingly relevant for modern readers, who will revel in the adventures of a strong, intelligent, funny, and resourceful Appalachian woman." (****) Fiction; Womenís Studies ** Recommended

Stories: Elizabeth Stoddard, Susanne Opfermann and Yvonee Roth, editors, Northeastern Univ. Press, $18.95 pb, 1-55553-562-3, or $45.00 cl, 1-55553-563-1, 2003.
Elizabeth Stoddard (1823-1902)was the predecessor for such regional favorites as Mary Wilkins freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Kate Chopin. Her short fiction has long been overlooked. This is a collection of 16 short stories that first appeared in publications such as Harper's Monthly, Harper's Bazaar and the Atlantic Monthly. (****) Fiction: Short Stories

Reissue now available...
Letters to Henrietta, Isabella Bird and Kay Chubbuck [editor], Northeastern Univ. Press, $18.95 pb, 1-55553-554-2, or $47.50 cl, 1-55553-555-0, 2003.
(****) Autobiography/Memoir; Travel

Also of interest...
New Year in Cuba: Mary Gardner Lowell's Travel Diary, 1831-1832, Karen Robert, editor, Northeastern Univ. Press, $17.95 pb, 1-55553-558-5, or $45.00 cl, 1-55553-559-3, 2003.
(****) History; Womenís Studies

Women, Power, and AT&T: Winning Rights in the Workplace, Lois Kathryn Herr, Northeastern Univ. Press, $18.95 pb, 1-55553-536-4, or $47.50 cl, 1-55553-537-2, 2002.
(***) Work & Labor; Autobiography/Memoir

Northwestern Univ. Press

Gone, Elisabeth Sheffield, FC2 (Distributed by Northwestern Univ. Press), $13.95 pb, 1-57366-108-2, 2003.
From the publisher... Elisabeth Sheffield's novel Gone juxtaposes the manic, run-on confession of Stella Vanderzee, California freeway flyer, with a series of cryptic letters from her Aunt Juju. This interwoven, doubling narrative recounts how Stella returns home to seek an inheritance she considers her own. However, her search is confounded by a secret history, a strange tale of closeted sexuality and suppressed desire, revealing a family saga overwritten by half-truth and innuendo. Gone is an attempt to give form to what has been lostóthe pastoral past, the feminine bodyóeven as that attempt is inevitably the undoing of what it retrieves (****) Fiction

I Will Say Beauty, Carol Frost, Northwestern Univ. Press, $14.95 pb, 0-8101-5139-1, or $49.95 cl, 0-8101-5138-3, 2003.
Catalog copy: ""I will say beauty," Carol Frost boldly says in one of her new lyrical poems, beauty being for her and all of us elusive-in and out of nature. The phrase is meant as a cri de coeur, and the poems are arranged to offer a fresh way to look at-and exist within-nature. For Frost, beauty is a far cry from the decorous and social."You walk toward a woman like yourself, but older, only she isn't. You know how that is?" -- from A Woman Like Yourself, p. 75 (****) Poetry

Milestones: A Bilingual edition, Marina Tsvetaeva and Translated and introduced by Robin Kemball, Northwestern Univ. Press, $24.95 pb, 0-8101-1941-2, 2003.
Part of the European Poetry Classics series, these 84 poems were written by Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) in 1916. (****) Poetry

Nine of Russia's Foremost Women Writers, Joanne Turnbull [translator], glas (distributed by Northwestern Univ. Press), $17.95 pb, 5-7172-0063-3, 2003.
Third in glas's series of collections of top women writers, this collection includes nine known and new important Russian women writers: Svetlana Alexiyevich, Maria Arbatova, Nina Gorlanova, Anastasia Gosteva, Ludmila Petruvskaya, Margarita Sharapova, Olga Slavnikova, Olga Smirnova and Ludmila Ulitskaya. (****) International: Russia & Slavic; Fiction: Anthologies ** Recommended

The Promised Folly, Judith Hall, Northwestern Univ. Press, $14.95 pb, 0-8101-5137-5, or $49.95 cl, 0-8101-5136-7, 2003.
Jacket copy... "If, as Oscar Wilde said, "nothing ages like happiness," then nothing rejuvenates like a pursuit. This is certainly the American way, and in The Promised Folly, Judith Hall takes a fresh look at our American pursuits, our supreme fictions. Her poems explore the folly that follows mere existence and gives it back to her readers in different voices--Venus, Walt Whitman, Julius Caesar, "Ma" Rainey--voices that contain multitudes. Whitman will become Falstaff, for example, and Venus becomes Mars. Absurdities and incongruities such as these are for Hall opportunities for lyric pleasure. As a result her poems are puckish, sumptuous, and austere, and--not incidentally--compassionate." (****) Poetry

Reissue now available ...
All Night Movie, Alicia Borinsky, Translated with the author from the Spanish by Cola Franzen and Forward by Luisa Valenzuela, Northwestern Univ. Press, $15.95 pb, 0-8101-1954-4, 2002.
(****) Fiction; International: Latin & Central America

The Coffin Tree, Wendy Law-Yone, TriQuarterly Books / Northwestern Univ. Press, $15.95 pb, 0-8101-5141-3, 2003.
(****) Fiction; International: Asia

Irrawaddy Tango, Wendy Law-Yone, TriQuarterly Books / Northwestern Univ. Press, $15.95 pb, 0-8101-5142-1, 2003.
From the publisher... "Irrawaddy Tango, a pepper-tongued, tango-dancing Asian beauty rises from a village girlhood to become the wife of her country's dictator and then a leader of the rebel forces arrayed against him. Tango captures the attention of an ambitious colonel--the self-proclaimed Supremo--while dancing at a talent contest. Once married, she is forced to endure the cruelties of a ruthless and foolish husband, is kidnapped by rebel forces, recaptured and brutally punished by her husband's military clique, and exiled to America. But when she decides to return to the fictional Republic of Daya (clearly Burma) it will decide the fates of both. Irrawaddy Tango tells the unsettling tale of powerful men and powerless women. It evokes as well the harshness of exile, revealing the misunderstandings between East and West and by doing so captures the intensity of living between the two." (****) Fiction; International: Asia

Treasures in Heaven, Kathleen Alcal·, Northwestern Univ. Press, $15.95 pb, 0-8101-2036-4, 2003.
With this novel by Kathleen Alcal· Northwestern University Press launches a new series -- Latino Voices -- which features fiction and literary non-fiction written in English but expressing Latino/a experience in the United States. First published in 2000 by Chronicle Books, Treasures in Heaven received the 2001 Washington State Book Award. This novel portrays the degradation of being a woman alone (without husband) in nineteenth-century Mexico who emerges as an activist for women's issues in the foreshadowing of the Mexican Revolution. (****) Fiction; Latinas

Ohio State Univ.

Sexual Borderlands: Constructing an American Sexual Past, Kathleen Kennedy and Sharon Ullman, editors, Ohio State Univ Press, $29.95 pb, 0-8142-5107-0, or $74.95 cl, 0-8142-0927-0, 2003.
For professors seeking to present the historical, theoretical and often eclectic materials on sexuality to their students, this collection of essays will prove accessible, diverse and provocative. Essays include discussions of race, miscegenation, homosexuality, prostitution, erotica, marriage and class among other topics. It explores the relationships between sexuality in the narrative history of the U.S. (***) Sexuality; History TEXTBOOK

Ohio Univ. Press

Christina Rossetti and Illustration: A Publishing History, Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Ohio Univ. Press, $55.00 cl, 0-8214-1454-2, 2003.
can you judge a book by its cover...or n the case of Christina Rossetti, by its art? Kooistra studies the writings of Rossetti's poetry, devotional prose, and work for children to understand the connections between image and text and how publishers brought meaning to her works through book production. Rossetti' s commitment to illustration and how she controlled the production of her books influenced the ongoing reception of her work through time and to a variety of audiences. (****) Arts: Art, Photography; Literature

Stepping Forward: Black Women in Africa and the Americas, Catherine Higgs, Barbara A. Moss and Earline Rae Ferguson, editors, Ohio Univ. Press, $26.95 pb, 0-8214-1456-9, or $55.00 cl, 0-8214-1455-0, 2002.
From the introduction... "This volume presents the edited proceedings of a conference held at the University of Tennessee from September 15 to 18, 1999,....The meeting brought together scholars from South Africa, Jamaica, and the United States to examine the comparative experiences of nineteenth- and twentieth-century black women in African and African Diaspora communities. The idea for the conference -- and this volume -- grew out of our common interests in black women, their lives, their actions, and their aspirations....we were intrigues by the similarities in the assumptions black women made and the strategies they employed despite their cultural and geographical differences" (p. xiii). These 18 essays cover a broad range of ground -- historical, activist, sociological, spiritual, literary, artistic, and political -- in countries such as Kenya, Jamaica, U.S. South, Liberia, and others. (***) International: Africa

View from the Fazenda: A Tale of the Brazilian Heartlands, Ellen Bromfield Geld, Ohio Univ. Press, $26.95 cl, 0-8214-1474-7, 2003.
Ellen Bromfield Geld is the daughter of Pulitzer prize winning author Louis Bromfield. Except for passing references, though, this book is not about their relationship. Rather it's about the life Ellen made on her own with her husband and children in the rugged farm country of Brazil. She is a compelling and accomplished writer in her own right. Her opening sentence draws us into her lyrical style with open ease... "I imagine everyone has a center of gravity. Something which binds one to the earth and gives sense and direction to what one does. Mine has to do with writing