Feminist Academic Press Column

December, 2002
(posted January, 2003)

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* please note: due to a technical snafu, in this issue the isbn #'s do not appear with their dashes. I apologize for the inconvenience.

Univ. of Alabama Press

Hemingway and Women: Female Critics and the Female Voice, Lawrence R. Broer and Gloria Holland, editors, Univ. of Alabama Press, $39.95 cl, 081731136X, 2002.
This collection includes 17 essays by Hemingway scholars all who are women covers a range of discussion on Hemingway's portrayals of women. (**) Literary Criticism; Gender Studies

AltaMira Press

Gender and the Social Construction of Illness: Second Edition, Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore, AltaMira Press, $24.95 pb, 0759102384, or $70.00 cl, 0759102376, 2002.
For those teaching undergraduate courses such as "biology of women" or other healthrelated or gender issues courses, this book can be an important resource or text. Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore cover the social institutions of gender and Western medicine while offering a distinct feminist viewpoint to analyze issues of power and politics concerning physical illness. Topics include: disability, genital surgeries, social epidemiology, AIDS, the health professions, PMS, menopause, and feminist health care. (***) Health & Medicine TEXTBOOK

Beacon Press

Free for All: Defending Liberty in America Today, Wendy Kaminer, Beacon Press, $15.00 pb, 0807044113, 2002.
Though Kaminer generally talks about the threats to civil liberties in the US since 9/11, two sections of essays specifically address women's rights and other issues affecting women's lives. from the publisher... "She argues with her readers and expects them to argue back. Her taste for liberty, her legal training, wit, and innate contrarianism help her elude the usual political labels and inform her writings on censorship, feminism, pop psychology, religion, criminal justice, and a range of rights and liberties at issue in the culture wars." (****) Culture/Cultural Studies ** Recommended

Now in paperback
Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering, and the Search for What Saves Us, Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker, Beacon Press, $18.00 pb, 0807067970, 2002.
from the publisher... "In an emotionally gripping and intellectually rich combination of memoir and theology, Rita Brock and Rebecca Parker show how emphasizing Christ's obedience to God and sacrifice on the cross sanctions violence, exacerbates its effects, blesses silence about the abuse of human beings, and hinders the process of recoveryógiving the fullest and most powerful critique to date of the theology of atonement." (****) Spirituality/Religion; Women's Studies

Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century, Howard Zinn, Dana Frank and D.G. Kelley, Beacon Press, $15.00 pb, 080705013X, 2002.
This history of specific labor strikes in the US include the bravery and clarity of Mother Jones and the "counter girls" at a Detroit Woolworth's. (****) History; Work & Labor ** Recommended

University of California Press

Becoming Marianne Moore: The early Poems, 19071924, Marianne Moore and Robin G. Schulze [editor], Univ. of California Press, $50.00 cl, 0520221397, 2002.
For Marianne Moore, a published poem did not signify that is was "finished." She often revised her work then had them published again. This collection gathers the variant versions of Moore's poems written between 1907 and 1924. In an unusual and contextualized manner, this book provides facsimile editions of her early published verse accompanied by editorial comment thus creating a fusion of history and textual research. Writers of poetry will find this volume interesting as will those who study Moore's work. (****) Poetry; Literary Criticism

Cambridge University Press

Caetano Says No: Women's Stories from a Brazilian Slave Society, Sandra Lauderdale Graham, Cambridge Univ. Press, $17.00 pb, 0521893534, or $50.00 cl, 0521815320, 2002.
These true and dramatic stories of two nineteenthcentury Brazilian women; one young and born a slave, the other old and from an illustrious planter family; show how each in her own way sought to exercise control over her life. (**) International: Latin & Central America; History

Natural Rights and the Right to Choose, Hadley Arkes, Cambridge Univ. Press, $28.00 cl, 0521812186, 2002.
Every now and then, a book comes along that Women's Studies folks and feminist activists should be warned about. This is one of those books. For those who want to understand how rightwing activities impact women in the US and their right to choose (have access to safe abortions), this is a book to read. Arkes was an architect of the Defense of Marriage Act and the main advocate for the BornAlive Infants' Protection act, signed into law by President bush in August 2002. This work presents natural rights within the context of law and philosophy and suggests that critical legal studies and postmodern visions of the law, and the contemporary legal right to choose, are devoid of morality. "That first generation of jurists saw no discrimination then in the world of law and the most demanding work of philosophy. For them, 'natural law' was not one 'theory' among several to be chosen. What they understood as natural law was bound up with 'the laws of reason,' or the very grounds of judgment. To gauge the depth of change in our own times is to measure a shift, then, away from the understanding of 'natural rights,' and a drift into one form or another of legal 'positivism.' (p. 10, Introduction). From the publisher: "Hadley Arkes argues that the "right to choose an abortion" has functioned as the "right" that has shifted the political class from doctrines of natural right. The new "right to choose" overturned the liberal jurisprudence of the New Deal, and placed jurisprudence on a notably different foundation. And so even if there is a "right" to abortion, that right has been detached from the logic of natural rights and stripped of moral substance." This is a very modernist philosophy that asserts the brilliance of the legal minds and moral insights of the founding fathers of the US Constitution. Arkes believes if we look at that writing, we will admire its elegance and accomplishment (p. 10). He wants to return US jurisprudence to those traditions that have no place for the liberty of unmarried persons, women, or who stand outside the traditional views and limited simple moral rightness put forth by those founders. (**) Reproductive Rights/Technology; Politics; Philosophy

Also of interest
Shaping Abortion Discourse: Democracy and the Public Sphere in Germany and the United States, Myra Marx Ferree, William Anthony Gamson, J¸rgen Gerhards and Dieter Rucht, Cambridge Univ. Press, $23.00 pb, 052179384X, or $60.00 cl, 052179045X, 2002.
from the publisher... "Using controversy over abortion as a lens through which to compare the political process and role of the media in these two very different democracies, this book examines the contest over meaning that is being waged by social movements, political parties, churches and other social actors. Abortion is a critical battleground for debates over social values in Germany and the U.S., but the constitutional premises on which arguments rest differ, as do the strategies that movements and parties adopt and the opportunities for influence that are open to them." (**) Culture/Cultural Studies; Politics; Social Sciences

Why Women Protest: Women's Movements in Chile, Lisa Baldez, Cambridge Univ. Press, $23.00 pb, 0521010063, or $65.00 cl, 0521811503, 2002. This book compares two ideologically opposed examples of women's movements in Chile: The one under President Allende (19701973) and the one under General Pinochet (19731990). (*) International: Latin & Central America; History

Also of interest
Women, Life and Literature in PostReformation England, Patricia Phillippy, Cambridge Univ. Press, $60.00 cl, 0521814898, 2002. (*) Literary Criticism

Univ. of Chicago Press

Three Cartesian Feminist Treatises, Francois Poullain de la Barre and Translated by Vivien Bosley, Univ. of Chicago Press, $22.00 pb, 0226676544, 2002. (***) Philosophy; Women's Studies Also of interest

Univ. Press of Colorado Press

Now in paperback
Aurelia: A Crow Creek Trilogy, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Univ. Press of Colorado Press, $16.95 pb, 0870816853, 2002. First published n 1999, these three novellas peer through the eyes of the title character to portray life on the Sioux reservation. (****) Native American; Fiction

Cornell Univ. Press

Killed Strangely: The Death of Rebecca Cornell, Elaine Forman Crane, Cornell Univ. Press, $24.95 cl, 0801440025, 2002.
On a winter's evening in 1673, tragedy descended on the respectable Rhode Island household of Thomas Cornell. His 73-year-old mother, Rebecca, was found close to her bedroom's large fireplace, dead and badly burned. Though first declared an accident, later events resulted in Thomas' arrest, trial and conviction for the murder of his mother. The documents from Thomas's trial provide a rare glimpse into seventeenthcentury life. Crane writes, "Instead of the harmony and respect that sermon literature, laws, and a hierarchical/patriarchal society attempted to impose, evidence illustrates filial insolence, generational conflict, disrespect toward the elderly, power plays between motherinlaw and daughterinlaw, [and] adult dependence on (and resentment of) aging parents who clung to purse strings." Rebecca Cornell is a direct ancestor of the founder of Cornell University, Ezra Cornell. (****) Biography; Regional: New England; History

Killing for Life: The Apocalyptic Narrative of ProLife Politics, Carol Mason, Cornell Univ. Press, $18.95 pb, 0801488192, or $45.00 cl, 0801439205, 2002.
From the publisher... "How can those who seek to protect the "right to life" defend assassination in the name of saving lives? Carol Mason investigates this seeming paradox by examining prolife literatureboth archival material and writings from the front lines of the conflict. Her analysis reveals the apocalyptic thread that is the ideological link between established antiabortion organizations and the more shadowy prolife terrorists who subject clinic workers to anthrax scares, bombs, and bullets." (***) Women's Studies; Politics

Maternal Impressions: Pregnancy and Childbirth in Literature and Theory, Cristina Mazzoni, Cornell Univ. Press, $45.00 cl, 0801440351, 2002.
from the publisher... "In an unusual combination of reflection, autobiography, theory, and criticism, Cristina Mazzoni looks at childbirth and early maternity from the perspective of an academic mother with three young children. Mazzoni draws upon examples ranging from contemporary advice manuals and novels to the work of turnofthecentury Italian scientists and women writers, as well as fairy tales, religious texts, psychoanalytic accounts, and feminist theory." (**) Literary Criticism

Now in paperback
Mrs. Stanton's Bible, Kathi Kern, Cornell Univ. Press, $18.95 pb, 0801482887, or $45.00 cl, 0801431913, 2002. 2001 Choice Magazine "Outstanding Academic Book" reviewed in FAPC April, 2001 (***) Women's Studies; History; Spirituality/Religion

Also of interest
Reading Families: Women's Literate Practice in Late Medieval England, Rebecca Krug, Cornell Univ. Press, $45.00 cl, 0801439248, 2002. (**) Women's Studies; Literature

Duke Univ. Press

Anecdotal Theory, Jane Gallop, Duke Univ. Press, $18.95 pb, 0822330385, 2002.
From the cover... "Published during the 1990s, these essays are united through a common methodological engagement writing that recounts a personal anecdote and the attempts to read that anecdote for the theoretical insights it affords." The topics of these essays cover 1970s feminism, postructuralism, pedagogy, sexual issues and positions in the university, academic job opportunities, and the notion of sisterhood, among others. The publisher claims these essays also have a fun and humorous edge to them. Perhaps, but in the few I read, I did not see it. Maybe that's just my particular sense of fun or humor. (***) Essays of Resistance

Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space, Mary Pat Brady, Duke Univ. Press, $18.95 pb, 0822329743, or $54.95 cl, 0822330059, 2002.
Using Chicana feminism, cultural geography, literary theory and an unusual combination of stories and essays, this work explores theories of space and geography through Chicana literature. (**) Latinas; Literary Criticism

A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema, Jennifer M. Bean and Diane Negra, editors, Duke Univ. Press, $27.95 pb, 0822329999, or $84.95 cl, 0822330253, 2002.
From the jacket... "A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema marks a new era of feminist film scholarship. The twenty essays collected here demonstrate how feminist historiographies at once alter and enrich ongoing debates over visuality and identification, authorship, stardom, and nationalist ideologies in cinema and media studies. Drawing extensively on archival research, the collection yields startling accounts of women's multiple roles as early producers, directors, writers, stars, and viewers. It also engages urgent questions about cinema's capacity for presenting a stable visual field, often at the expense of racially, sexually, or classmarked bodies." (**) Arts: Film, Video; Women's Studies TEXTBOOK

TransStatus Subjects: Gender in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia, Sonita Sarker and Esha Niyogi De, editors, Duke Univ. Press, $21.95 pb, 0822329921, or $64.95 cl, 0822329557, 2002.
This collection of essays examines how South and Southeast Asians affect and are affected by globalization. The editors refer to these men and women as "transstatus subjects." From the introduction... "The term captures the fact that individuals, moving in the tracks created by masculinistcapitalist power, are caught in transition from one (economic, social, political) status to another, at the same time as they try to redefine their placesturnedintospaces....[they] experience these spatiotemporal shifts as (de)legitimization of her/his gender , class, race, ethnicity, and so on. In the resulting struggles, to establish oneself in the present, their pasts are perceived at once as decadent and culturalpsychic anchors against flux." The contributors include film theorists, geographers, historians, sociologists and anthropologists from South and southeast Asia, England, Australia, Canada, and the U.S. (**) International: Asia; Gender Studies ** Recommended

The Wedding Complex: forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture, Elizabeth Freeman, Duke Univ. Press, $19.95 pb, 0822329891, or $59.95 cl, 0822329530, 2002.
Are wedding ceremonies really a queer desire for pageantry and celebration? from the publisher... "In The Wedding Complex Elizabeth Freeman explores the significance of the wedding ceremony by asking what the wedding becomes when you separate it from the idea of marriage. Freeman finds that weddings -- as performances, fantasies, and rituals of transformation -- are sites for imagining and enacting forms of social intimacy other than monogamous heterosexuality." (**) Gay/Lesbian/Queer Studies; Culture/Cultural Studies

When a Flower Is Reborn: The Life and Times of a Mapuche Feminist, Rosa Isolde Reuque Paillalef, Florencia E. Mallon [editor & translator], Duke Univ. Press, $19.95 pb, 0822329344, or $59.95 cl, 082232962X, 2002.
Rosa Isolde Reuque Paillalef has been a critical leader within the Mapuche indigenous rights movement in Chile. as the editor states in her introduction, "Creatively negotiating the contradiction between the ideal and the possible, between reality and desire, Isolde Reuque narrates a life in which she has reconstructed her optimism again and again, finding in it the strength to keep going. That is why we agreed to title her book, 'When a Flower is reborn,' a title that symbolizes not only her stubborn spirit, but our shaped hope that...the rebirth of the Mapuche movement and of the aspirations of social justice will help heal the wounds inflicted on Chilean society by a recent and excessive love of modernity and the market" (p. 33). (****) Women's Studies; International: Latin & Central America ** Recommended

Women's Studies on Its Own, Robyn Wiegman, editor, Duke Univ. Press, $23.95 pb, 0822329867, or $69.95 cl, 0822329506, 2002.
This collection of essays assesses the present and future of the field of Women's Studies, its institutionalization as an academic enterprise, and intellectual projects for a new generation of scholars and students. Clusters of essays address he historical present, institutional pedagogies, shifting capitalism, and critical classrooms. They explore the history, curriculum and pedagogy of Women's Studies programs, institutional practices, interdisciplinary considerations, divisions of knowledge, postcolonialism and issues in the academic labor market. (**) Women's Studies TEXTBOOK

Also of interest
Figurations: Child, Bodies, Worlds, Claudia CastaÒeda, Duke Univ. Press, $18.95 pb, 0822329697, or $54.95 cl, 0822329581, 2002. (**) Social Sciences; Culture/Cultural Studies; Women's Studies

The World Turned: Essays on Gay history, Politics, and Culture, John D'Emilio, Duke Univ. Press, $18.95 pb, 0822330237, or $54.95 cl, 0822329301, 2002.
Issues addressed through historical perspective include: activism, scapegoating by the Christian right, AIDs and literature, gay gene controversy, queer families and others. (***) Gay/Lesbian/Queer Studies; History

Embracing America: A Cuban Exile Comes of Age, Margaret L. Paris, Univ. Press of Florida, $24.95 cl, 0813025451, 2002.
In 1961, at the age of thirteen, Elena Maza was among the 14,000 children refugees of Operation Pedro Pan. Similar to the Kindertransport of World War II, these children unaccompanied by adults were brought from Cuba to the U.S. They were placed into foster homes where it was thought they would have an opportunity for a better life than under Fidel Castro who had recently come to power in Cuba. Ironically, Elena left a Marxist revolution to encounter the social one in the U.S. civil rights struggle, the women's movement, antiVietnam war insurgency, a sexual revolution and the drug culture. This is the story of her reuniting with her parents and her adaptation to life in the U.S. (****) Latinas; Biography

Incest and the Literary Imagination, Elizabeth Barnes, editor, Univ. Press of Florida, $59.95 cl, 0813025400, 2002.
This collection tracks the contradictory roles of incest in AngloAmerican literature. (**) Literary Criticism; Violence and Abuse

Univ. of Georgia Press

Anna: The Letters of a St. Simon's Plantation Mistress, 18171859, Anna Matilda Page King, Melanie PavichLindsay, Univ. of Georgia Pr. Press, $49.95 cl, 0820323322, 2002.
This is the record of a woman who maintained her own plantation and excelled in the male domain of business and agriculture. (****) Biography; History

Also of interest
Hope and Danger in the New South City: Workingclass Women and Urban Development in Atlanta, 18901940, Georgina Hickey, Univ. of Georgia Pr. Press, $39.95 cl, 0820323330, 2002. (***) History; Regional: South

Haworth Press / Harrington Park Press

Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context, Vern L. Bullough, editor, Harrington Park Press / An Imprint of Haworth Press, $1939 pb, 15602334.95, or $49.95 cl, 1560231920, 2002.
This interesting collection of brief biographies will be especially useful to those new to the pre1969 (Before Stonewall) era of gay and lesbian activism. Perhaps best recommended for college classrooms or high school reference libraries. Unfortunately, the format of the book and the extremely poor reproductions of the photographs weakens the overall quality of this book for those who like to have books such as this in their personal collections. (****) Gay/Lesbian/Queer Studies; History

Building on Women's Strengths: A Social Work Agenda for the TwentyFirst Century, Second Edition, K. Jean Peterson and Alice A. Lieberman, editors, Haworth Press, $34.95 pb, 0789016168, or $49.95 cl, 0789008696, 2002.
Building on Women's Strengths presents a womancentered approach to understanding and analyzing the issues women must confront in their daily lives, including: * family violence * welfare reform * mental health * child welfare * aging * racism * being silenced by society It offers updated information to reflect the enormous changes that have occurred since 1994 in women's lives. Many of the original selections have been revised or totally rewritten to reflect those changes and the more integrated policy/practice focus of this edition. (****) Social Sciences; Women's Studies TEXTBOOK

Everyday Mutinies: Funding Lesbian Activism, Nanette K. Gartrell and Esther D. Rothblum, editors, Harrington Park Press / An Imprint of Haworth Press, $22.95 pb, 1560232595, or $44.95 cl, 1560232587, 2002.
from the publisher... "In Everyday Mutinies: Funding Lesbian Activism, two dozen lesbiansincluding wellknown activists such as Martina Navratilova, Alison Bechdel, Dee Mosbacher, and Jewelle Gomeztell the stories of their activism, with an emphasis on how they support themselves and fund their political activities. Their examples can help you deal with raising and allocating money. Less than 0.3 of all philanthropic dollars are awarded to lesbian and gay projects each year. Yet Everyday Mutinies shares amazing success stories of women surviving, thriving, and making an impact by using the resources they have with intelligence and skill. You will be moved and inspired by the stories behind Naiad Press, The Ladder, Straight from the Heart, and the National Center for Lesbian Rights." (****) Lesbian Studies ** Recommended

Intimate Betrayal: Domestic Violence in Lesbian Relationships, Ellyn Kaschak, editor, Haworth Press, $19.95 pb, 078901663X, or $29.95 cl, 0789016621, 2001.
Unlike the few books intended to be more selfhelp oriented for lesbians in violent relationships, the empirical studies in this short book look more at the statistical, psychological and sociological ramifications of lesbian battering. Copublished simultaneously as Women and Therapy, Vol. 23, 2001. (***) Lesbian Studies; Violence and Abuse

Transforming the Disciplines: A Woman's Studies Primer, Elizabeth L. MacNabb, Mary Jane cherry Susan L. Popham and RenÈ Perri Prys, editors, Haworth Press, $29.95 pb, 1560239603, or $69.95 cl, 156023959X, 2001.
These 30 essays will be good in high school or firstyear introductory classes. despite the price point, it may also appeal to anyone interested in an introductory survey to the ways in which women's studies affects a broad number of disciplines. Contributors discuss the ways women's studies have affected the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and the professions. (****) Women's Studies TEXTBOOK

Women at the Margins: Neglect, Punishment, and Resistance, Josefina FigueiraMcDonough and Rosemary C. Sarri, editors, Haworth Press, $34.95 pb, 1560239727, or $69.95 cl, 1560239719, 2002.
This powerful book addresses the barriers that continue to isolate and marginalize many women from full citizenship, thus rendering them expendable. From the publisher... "Handicapped by the increasing societal inequality they face as an everyday fact of life, these women (and in many cases, their children) have been disconnected from the mainstream for reasons of age, race, gender, health, incarceration, domestic abuse, unwanted pregnancy, unemployment, and economic circumstance. They are poor in an affluent society, powerless in a powerful nation, and the suffering caused by their exclusion is poignant and troubling." (****) Women's Studies; Social Sciences; Economics

Women's Best friendships: Beyond Betty, Veronica, Thelma and Louise, Patricia Rind, Haworth Press, $19.95 pb, 0789015404, or $39.95 cl, 0789015390, 2002.
Recent studies have shown that women place enormous value on best friendships and consider them to be woven tightly into the fabric of their lives. Using indepth interviews, along with close readings of relevant literature and theory, this book focuses on the many facets of these relationships. (****) Women's Studies; Psychology

Women's Encounters with the Mental Health Establishment: Escaping the Yellow Wallpaper, Elayne Clift, editor, Haworth Press, $14.95 pb, 0789015463, or $39.95 cl, 0789015455, 2002.
This unique contemporary anthology of women's experiential writing shares women's realities, perceptions, and experiences (positive and negative) within the therapeutic environment. These artistic expressions of personal experience will help women understand their own encounters in a new light. They are also instructive and enlightening for any practitioner working with women in a mental health setting. (****) Women's Studies; Psychology

Also of interest
The Harvey Milk Institute Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Internet Research, Alan Ellis, Liz Highleyman, Kevin Schaub and Melissa White, editors, Harrington Park Press / An Imprint of Haworth Press, $14.95 pb, 1560233532, or $39.95 cl, 1560233524, 2002. (****) Reference/Directories; Gay/Lesbian/Queer Studies

Lesbian Love and Relationships, Suzanna M. Rose, editor, Harrington Park Press / An Imprint of Haworth Press, $14.95 pb, 156023265X, or $34.95 cl, 1560232641, 2002. Copublished simultaneously as Journal of Lesbian Studies, Vol. 6:1, 2002 (****) Lesbian Studies

Stories of Gay and Lesbian Immigration: Together Forever?, John Hart, Harrington Park Press / An Imprint of Haworth Press, $19.95 pb, 1560233842, or $49.95 cl, 1560230789007061, 2002.
This book examines the Australian government's innovative immigration program for samesex couples. (****) Gay/Lesbian/Queer Studies

Humanity Books, Imprint of Prometheus

Reissue now available
On Lynchings, Ida B. WellsBarnett and with an introduction by Patricia Hill Collins, Humanity Books, Imprint of Prometheus, $18.00 pb, 1591020085, 2002.
In 1892, Ida b. wells, the editor of a small newspaper for Blacks in Memphis, TN raised a lone voice in protest against the high numbers of postcivil war lynching of Black people. (****) Essays of Resistance; AfricanAmerican

Reissue now available
Postructuralism, Feminism, and Religion: Triangulating Positions, Carol Wayne White, Humanity Books, Imprint of Prometheus, $49.00 cl, 1573926302, 2002.
from the publisher... "In this brilliant assessment of the relation between poststructuralism and feminism as it impacts on current religious thought, philosopher Carol Wayne White convincingly demonstrates that postmodernist Western and feminist philosophyfar from being antithetical to religious concernsin fact enriches our understanding of religion and its relevance to debates about contemporary culture. By triangulating these three unique perspectives on culture, she expands prevalent views of cultural criticism and opens up the discussion to new creative solutions that arise from the intersecting interests of poststructuralist, feminist, and religious studies." Originally published in 2000 as Triangulating Positions. (**) Philosophy; Women's Studies; Spirituality/Religion

Univ. of Illinois Press

The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America, Linda Gordon, Univ. of Illinois Press, $34.95 cl, 0252027647, 2002.
This book covers the entire history of birth control and the controversies about reproductive rights that accompanies it. This readable history provides the longstanding backdrop for current debates on women's reproductive rights and freedom. Women for centuries have created a variety of methods to practically and responsibly control reproduction while priests and politicians continue to assert their moral values to the denigration of women's rights and moral agency. This is an important book, not only for the history it holds, but also for the foundations it can provide for the ongoing debate on women's control of reproduction. (****) Reproductive Rights/Technology; History; Women's Studies ** Recommended

The Selected Papers of Jane Addams: Vol. 1, Preparing to Lead, 186081, Mary Lynn McGree Bryan, Barbara Bair and Maree de Angury, editors, Univ. of Illinois Press, $65.00 cl, 0252027299, 2003.
For scholars interested in the life and work of Jane Addams, this volume fills a void by collecting the extant documents of her formative years. This hefty volume documents the early development of her social principles and reveals her early leadership skills, compassion, pacifism, educational experiences taking her into a life of progressive action and public commitment. (****) Biography; History; Women's Studies

The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger: Volume 1: The Women Rebel, 19001928, Esther Katz, Cathy Moran Hajo and Peter C. Engelman, editors, Univ. of Illinois Press, $65.00 cl, 025202737X, 2002.
This collection of documents the important influences on the work of Margaret Sanger and offers glimpses into her workingclass childhood, developing feminism, spiritual and scientific interests, sexual explorations, and diverse roles as mother, nurse, wife, journalist and radical socialist activist. (****) Biography; History; Women's Studies

Also of interest
The Political Geographies of Pregnancy, Laura R. Woliver, Univ. of Illinois Press, $34.95 cl, 0252027787, 2002. (**) Women's Studies; Politics

The Extraordinary Work of Ordinary Writing: Annie Ray's Diary, Jennifer Sinor, Univ. of Iowa Press, $19.95 pb, 0877458332, or $49.95 cl, 0877458324, 2002.
Annie Ray homesteaded in the Dakotas in the late nineteenth century and kept a diary. Jennifer Sinor is her greatgreatgreatniece. By exploring this ordinary and everyday form of writing often ignored or dismissed in more literary circles Sinor makes visible the extraordinary work of the ordinary writer. By reading and appreciating diaries outside of the conventions of "literature," she articulates how culture and writing get made in the every day. (****) Writing; Culture/Cultural Studies; Biography

Her Kind of Want, Jennifer S. Davis, Univ. of Iowa Press, $15.95 pb, 0877458182, 2002.
Winner of the 2002 Iowa Short Fiction Award, this collection of stories set mainly in small towns of Alabama, celebrates the spirit and perseverance of people in the south. (****) Fiction: Short Stories ** Recommended

The Kind of Things Saints Do, Laura Valeri, Univ. of Iowa Press, $16.95 pb, 0877458197, 2002. Winner of the 2002 John Simmons Short Fiction Award.
The publisher calls this a collection of "human imperfections and missed connections that grows into a kaleidoscope of inspiration and hope." (****) Fiction: Short Stories ** Recommended

Shadow Girl: A Memoir of Attachment, Deb Abramson, Univ. of Iowa Press, $27.95 cl, 0877458235, 2002.
from the publisher... "Crushed beneath the burden of her parents' rigid expectations yet driven to satisfy their needs, Abramson becomes bulimic, then severely depressed and suicidal, retreating more and more from the troubling outside world to the seeming haven of home, to a cycle of comfort from and competition with her depressed mother, to the frightening but alluring intimacy of her father's affections. Her struggle to extricate herself from the "impermeable, immutable knot" of her family forms the heart of her dazzling book." (****) Autobiography/Memoir; Jewish Women

Worth, Robyn Zchiff, Univ. of Iowa Press, $16.00 pb, 0877458200, 2002. Kuhl House Poets Series.
From the publisher... "In Worth Robyn Schiff inquires about making, buying, selling, and stealing in the material world, the natural landscape, and the human soul." (****) Poetry

Johns Hopkins University Press  

Catholic Women's Colleges in America, Tracy Schier and Cynthia Russett, editors, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, $48.00 cl, 080186805X, 2002.
Nuns founded more than 150 colleges in the United States, and over time they have served many constituencies, setting some educational trends while reflecting others. In Catholic Women's Colleges in America, Tracy Schier, Cynthia Russett, and their coauthors provide a comprehensive history of these institutions and how they met the challenges of broader educational change. (*) Education; Women's Studies; History

Female Genital Cutting: Cultural Conflict in the Global Community, Elizabeth Heger Boyle, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, $36.00 cl, 0801870631, 2002.
From the publisher... " In this study, sociologist Elizabeth Boyle examines this controversial issue from the perspectives of the international system, governments, and individuals. Drawing on previous scholarship, records of international organizations, demographic surveys, and the popular media, Boyle examines how the issue is perceived and acted upon at international, national, and individual levels. Grounding her work in the sociological theory of neoinstitutionalism, Boyle describes how the choices made by governments and individual women are influenced by the oftenconflicting principles of individual human rights and sovereign autonomy. She concludes that while globalization may exacerbate such conflicts, it can ultimately lead to social change." (***) Culture/Cultural Studies; International

0801868483 Shameless: The Visionary Life of Mary Gove Nichols, Jean L. SilverIsenstadt, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, $24.95 cl, 0801868483, 2002. from the publisher... "Though little known today, Mary Gove Nichols (181084) was once one of the most infamous and influential women in America, a radical social reformer and pioneering feminist who preached equality in marriage, free love, spiritualism, the health risks of corsets and masturbation, the benefits of the coldwater cure, and, above all, the importance of happiness. In Shameless, Jean SilverIsenstadt offers the first biography of this remarkable woman who paved the way for such activists as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Margaret Sanger. Drawing on the extensive public and private writings of the Nicholses and their peers, SilverIsenstadt vividly portrays Mary Gove Nichols' courageous life and visionary intellect, revealing the rich diversity of opinion within nineteenthcentury America's social reform movements and uncovering the inspiring story of a woman who dared to live by the utopian principles she advocated." (***) Biography

080186786X Strangers at Home: Amish and Mennonite Women in History, Kimberly D. Schmidt, Diane Zimmerman Umble and Steven D. Reschley, editors, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, $39.95 cl, 080186786X, 2002. This collection of original essays focuses on the rich, historically diverse, and often misunderstood experiences of Amish, Mennonite, and other women of Anabaptist traditions across 400 years. (**) Social Sciences; History

Now in paperback
From Motherhood to Citizenship: Women's Rights and International Organizations, Nitza Berkovitch, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, $18.95 pb, 0801871026, or $40.95 cl, 0801860288, 2002. (***) Social Sciences

Now in paperback
Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women's Liberation, Kate Weigand, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, $18.95 pb, 0801871115, or $57.00 cl, 0801864895, 2001. "The gulf between first and secondwave feminism seems less broad thanks to this thoughtful analysis of women's activism with the Communist Party U.S.A. between World War II and the mid1950s... An important supplement to standard histories of American feminism." Booklist (****) History; Women's Studies

Now in paperback
Revising Women: EighteenthCentury "Women's Fiction" and Social Engagement, Paula R. Backscheider, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, $19.95 pb, 080187095X, or $46.00 cl, 0801862361, 2000. (**) Literary Criticism

JosseyBass Inc.

The JosseyBass academic administrator's guide to Budgets and Financial Management, Margaret J. Barr, JosseyBass Inc., $18.00 pb, 078795957X, 2002.
This book is a bit out of the sphere of this column, but occasionally WMSTL floats questions about administering women's studies departments and women's centers. Perhaps this book can offer some guidelines and advise in the practical pieces of budgeting and fiscal management, strategies for dealing with loss of resources, and other tools for those who find themselves out of their comfort range in the business aspects of academia. (****) Business and Work; Education

Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography, Lawrence J. Quirkland and William Schoell, Univ. Press of Kentucky, $27.50 cl, 0813122546, 2002.
Part biography, part film criticism, these authors claim Joan Crawford's career and achievements as an actress should be taken seriously and considered separately from the allegations against her in Christina Crawford's Mommie Dearest. (****) Biography

Stories of the Academy: Learning from the Good Mother, Mary Beth Spore, Marsha Dianne Harrison and Nelson L. Haggerson, Jr., editors, Peter Lang Publishing, $22.95 pb, 0820452815, 2002.
Counterpoints Series From the publisher... "Stories of the Academy looks at relationships between women entering the ranks of faculty in higher education and more experienced faculty. Occasionally these relationships are so mutually fulfilling that they lead to great satisfaction and personal reward and can be named GoodMother relationships. The archetype of the Good Mother provides a way to name and explicate these relationships. Using mythology and philosophy as guides to come to understand these relationships, the book first defines the myth of the Good Mother, demythologizes the myth, presents Good Mother stories told in conversational form, and, ultimately, searches for the mythic meaning in those stories."
As women's studies professors and other women faculty read this book, it will be interesting to compare and contrast various experiences with this construct. I know many faculty whose experiences differ. In years of reading of the WMSTL, I've yet to hear such an analogy raised. This is curious so I'll wait for the critiques from those inside. Let me know! (****) Education; Work & Labor

Talking Back and Acting Out: Women Negotiating the Media Across Cultures, Sandra Jackson and Ann Russo, editors, Peter Lang Publishing, $29.95 pb, 082045172X, 2002.
from the publisher... "Talking Back and Acting Out is a collection of writing by women who actively negotiate, reconstruct, and reimagine their identities in opposition to dominant cultural constructions. This collection explores individual women's refusal to be reduced to hegemonic constructions, prescribed identities, and limited possibilities. These essays highlight stories of women who push the boundaries of what it means to be a woman in this multicultural, yet white supremacist, patriarchal, capitalist society." Counterpoints Series (***) Culture/Cultural Studies

Univ. of Massachusetts Press

The Devotion of These Women: Rhode Island in the Antislavery Network, Deborah Bingham Van Broekhoven, Univ of Massachusetts Press, $39.95 cl, 1558493638, 2002.
Having just moved to Providence, I am still personally getting to know this smallest state in the U.S. and finding it has a rich and exciting history. This book adds not only to the scholarship of Rhode Island history but also contributes an essential piece to understanding women's activism in the antislavery movement. At a time when the radical abolitionism activities of the state seemed to be dissolving, the Providence Antislavery Society turned its funds over to Amarancy Paine, who with other women revived the movement in the state and kept it going for another 10 years. This work traces that network, its fragility that still gained success and the willingness of women to work behind the scenes without public acknowledgment in order to pursue just causes. Several illustrations and maps accompany the text. (***) History; Regional: New England

Lillie Devereux Blake: Retracing a Life Erased, Grace Farrell, Univ of Massachusetts Press, $34.95 cl, 1558493492, 2002.
Lillie Devereux Blake (18331913) was a fiction writer, journalist and essayist who played a major role in the struggle for women's rights, though her contributions have been little recognized. She was Elizabeth Cady Stanton's candidate to succeed Susan B. Anthony as president of the National American Women Suffrage Association though official histories sanctioned by Anthony do not recognize her work. This biography not only chronicles Blake's work for the movement and corrects some long held misconceptions but also makes note of her literary career as well. (****) Biography; History

McFarland & Co.

Demeter and Persephone: Lessons from a Myth, Tamara AghaJaffar, McFarland & Company, Inc. (18002532187), $32.00 pb, 0786413433, 2002.
In her introduction to this book, AghaJaffar asserts the complexity of meaning contained in the myth of Demeter and Persephone and sees it as a way to growth and selfdiscovery through suffering to grief to healing. She uses Homer's Hymn to Demeter as the starting point, providing three chapters of examination and summary to explore the many perspectives in the myth. She then discusses the symbolism of critical objects and invites readers... "to make connections between the interpretations and lessons gleaned from this myth to their own deeds, their own thoughts, and their own lives....to explore the different dynamics through which the individual and the collective interact and relate to each other..."(p. 5). (***) Mythology & Folklore; Women's Studies ** Recommended

Univ. of Michigan Press

A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical, Stacy Wolf, Univ. of Michigan Press, $19.95 pb, 0472067729, or $49.50 cl, 0472097725, 2002.
Sometimes scholarship just needs to be a little irreverent and have some fun. Such is the case with this book. The photos of Mary Martin at "Maria" on the over of the book, the title, the layout and the pictures, and the first sentence of the preface ("This is a book about women and musical.") promise a level of research peppered with humor. The book focuses on the Broadway tomboys, rebel nuns, and funny girls, who upset the 1950s gender norms: Mary Martin, Ethel Merman, Julie Andrews, and Barbra Streisand and demonstrates the ways in which their musicals celebrated strong women characters moving beyond gender expectations. As the publisher states, "Pioneering the feminist and lesbian study of the American Broadway musical, A Problem Like Maria is a groundbreaking contribution to feminist studies, queer studies, and American studies and a delight for fans of musical theater." Count me in as I hum along! (****) Arts: Music, Dance, Theater; Gender Studies; Lesbian Studies ** Recommended

Stately Bodies: Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of Gender, Adriana Cavarero, translated by Robert de Lucca and Deanna Shemek, Univ. of Michigan Press, $24.95 pb, 0472066749, or $60.00 cl, 0472096745, 2002.
Cavarero examines bodily metaphor in political discourse and its fictional depictions of politics thus exposing the problematic nature of the mind/body dualism that has been essential in Western thought. This book is highly praised by Judith Butler as she notes, "her views...offer new ways to think old questions in a novel feminist framework." (**) Philosophy; Literary Criticism

Women of Jeme: Lives in a Coptic Town in Late Antique Egypt, T.G. Wilfong, Univ. of Michigan Press, $24.95 pb, 0472066129, or $49.50 cl, 0472096125, 2002.
Through the use of text documents tracing the lives of individual woman, this book introduces the women in the ancient town of Jeme, a Christian enclave in Egypt that existed from 600 to 800 C.E. (**) Anthropology; History

Now in paperback
Banished Immortal: Searching for Shuangqing, China's Peasant Woman Poet, Paul S. Ropp, Univ. of Michigan Press, $23.95 pb, 0472088920, or $45.00 cl, 0472111957, 2002.
from the publisher... "This highly personal account is designed to introduce a general audience to the pleasures, pitfalls, rigors, and surprises involved in the exploration of China's rich cultural heritage. Readers won't help but become full participants in this most intriguing search for China's peasant woman poet." (***) International: Asia; History

Univ. of Minnesota Press

Border Women, Debra A. Castillo and MarÌa Scorro Tabuenca CÛrdoba, editors, Univ. of Minnesota Press, $19.95 pb, 0816639582, or $54.95 cl, 0816639574, 2002.
Cultural Studies of the America, Vol. 9. From the cover... "It is a peculiar fact that U.S.Mexico border theory is dominated by those who write about, not from, the border. By looking at the work of women writers from both sides of the border, [the editors] open border studies to a truly transnational analysis while bringing questions of gender to the fore." (****) Latinas; Women's Studies

Captive Women: Oblivion and Memory in Argentina, Susana Rotker and Jennifer French [translator], Univ. of Minnesota Press, $18.95 pb, 0816640300, or $52.95 cl, 0816640297, 2002.
Cultural Studies of the Americas, Volume 10. Rotker brings forward the 19th century history of Argentina by discussing the widespread kidnapping of white women by Argentine Indians. This historical act of forgetting is further concealed by the successful erasure from Argentinean history of the presence of Indians, Africans, and mestizos. (**) International: Latin & Central America; History

City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender and the Politics of Poverty, Ananya Roy, Univ. of Minnesota Press, $22.95 pb, 0816639337, or $63.95 cl, 0816639329, 2002.
Globalization and Community Series, Volume 10. This ethnography studies the urban development of Calcutta to reveal how the dynamics of class and gender contributes to the persistence of poverty. (**) International: Asia; Gender Studies TEXTBOOK

Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border, Eithne LuibhÈid, Univ. of Minnesota Press, $19.95 pb, 0816638047, 2002.
From the publisher... "This innovative work clearly links sexualitybased immigration exclusion to a dominant nationalism premised on sexual, gender, racial, and class hierarchies." This could be a useful book for those interested in immigration issues, especially as the laws and practices affect lesbians, prostitutes, women crossing racial lines, pregnant women, victims of sexual assault and other women's experiences that have been perceived in bordermonitoring practices as a threat to national security. (**) Race Theory; Women's Studies

The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks: Complete Edition, Margaret Scott, editor, Univ. of Minnesota Press, $29.95 pb, 0816642362, 2002.
Those who appreciate Katherine Mansfield's stories will treasure this first collection of her journals and notes finally edited closely to their original context. This collection includes letters, notes on scraps of paper, poems, recipes, unfinished stories, diary entries and other pieces o her writings. What emerges is the portrait of a woman who is ambitious, neurotic, witty, sexual, and obsessed with death. (****) Literature; Biography

Lusosex: Gender and Sexuality in the PortugueseSpeaking World, Susan Canty Quinlan, editor and Fernando Arenas, Univ. of Minnesota Press, $22.95 pb, 0816639213, 2002.
This volume uses the critical lenses of gay and lesbian studies, queer theory, postcolonial studies, feminist theory, and postmodern theory to consider the connections between nationhood, sex, and gender in the Portuguesespeaking world. (**) Gender Studies; Sexuality

Negritude Women, T.Denean SharpleyWhiting, Univ. of Minnesota Press, $17.95 pb, 081663680X, 2002.
This book studies the contributions of women who played a major role in the success of the Negritude movement. (***) AfricanAmerican; Women's Studies

Workplace Justice: Organizing MultiIdentity Movements, Sharon Kurtz, Univ. of Minnesota Press, $22.95 pb, 0816633150, 2002.
For those interested in social movement theory and organizing movements across race, class, and gender, this book comes as an interesting case study. In 1991, Columbia University's clerical workers created a diverse union twothirds black and Latina, threefourths women to bring about justice in their workplace. Kurtz includes the case studies of unions at Yale and Harvard to examine the challenges and identity politics central to labor movement organizing. (***) Work & Labor; Social Sciences ** Recommended

Reissue now available
Garbo, Barry Paris, Univ. of Minnesota Press, $19.95 pb, 081664182X, 2002.
First time in paperback, first published in 1994. (****) Arts: Film, Video; Biography

Univ. Press of Mississippi

Conversations with Erica Jong, Charlotte Templin, editor, Univ. Press of Mississippi, $18.00 pb, 1578065100, or $46.00 cl, 1578065097, 2002.
This collection of interviews between 1973 to 2001 with a range of authors including Elaine Showalter and Susie Bright among others highlights Jong's experience in the seventies as a pioneer writer on women's sexual experiences. These conversations include her advise to women who suffer retaliation for writing on sexual topics, on how to keep writing honest, and how to escape media distortion of one's work. (****) Biography; Literary Criticism

Modern Language Association

Claire D'albe, Sophie Cottin and translated by Margeret Cohen, Modern Language Assoc., $9.95 pb, 087352926X, 2002.
Scandalous for its day (1799), this novel depicts as a positive act of selffulfillment the adulterous love between a woman (Claire) and her husband's adopted son. The story is told through letters primarily written by Claire to a friend and her friend's responses. (****) Literature

Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities, Sharon L. Snyder, Brenda Jo Brueggemann and Rosemarie GarlandThomson, editors, Modern Language Assoc., $22.00 pb, 0873529812, or $40.00 cl, 0873529804, 2002.
This particular book may not be directly as women's studies or particularly feminist, but it does cover some important ground for our consideration. This collection includes articles on identity politics, queer existence, feminist bodies and Audre Lorde's cancer Journals, disabled women, and pedagogical considerations. It includes perspectives in the humanities, art, media, medicine, psychology, the academy and society. It also includes a CDRom containing XML and ASCII versions of the text for persons with visual impairments. (***) Disability ** Recommended

Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife, Adolphe Belot and Translated by Christopher Rivers, Modern Language Assoc., $9.95 pb, 0873527992, 2002.
from the publisher... "The sensational Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife (published in 1870 with a preface by Zola) tells of the suffering of a naive young man whose new bride will not agree to consummate the marriage. Eventually he learns from an acquaintance, to his amazement, that their wives are lovers. In the pitched battle between husband and wife, the sexes are evenly matched until the end. Christopher Rivers argues in his introduction that the protagonist's homophobic attitude toward lesbianism is ironically linked to his intimate homosocial bonds with men. This example of commercial fiction, Rivers argues, reveals tensions in nineteenthcentury French society not apparent in canonical works of high culture." (****) Fiction; Gay/Lesbian/Queer Studies

Recovering Spain's Feminist Tradition, Lisa Vollendorf, editor, Modern Language Assoc., $22.00 pb, 0873522745, or $40.00 cl, 0873522737, 2001.
These 19 essays on women writers who call themselves feminist or deal with feminist issues in their work traces the historical roots of Spain's feminist consciousness and emphasize its intellectual traditions. (***) International: Western Europe; Women's Studies

Also of interest
Nihilist Girl, Sofya Kovalevskaya, Translated by Natasha Kolchevska and with Mary Zirin, Modern Language Assoc., $9.95 pb, 0873527909, 2001.
First published in Switzerland in 1892. (****) Fiction

Museum of New Mexico Press

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Immortal Summer: A Victorian Woman's Travels in the Southwest, The 1897 Letters & Photographs of Amelia Hollenback, Mary J. Straw Cook, Museum of New Mexico Press, $$24.95 pb, 0890134030, or $45.00 cl, 08901340022, 2002. It's wonderful when the old trunk of a deceased elderly relative yields a wonderful treasure of history, information, pictures a time capsule. This is what the grand nieces of Amelia Hollenback discovered in what has become this book. Among the letters, diaries and journals contained there was the story of the 1897 adventure of two sisters who embarked from Pennsylvania in search of soulbroadening experiences in the Indian Southwest, newly opened to intrepid travelers. Their letters and photographs are the heart of this brilliantly reassembled grand tour. It includes 85 blackandwhite photographs. (****) Travel; Women's Studies

Chicana Leadership: The frontiers Reader, Yolanda Flores Niemann, editor, with Susan H. Armitage, Patricia Hart and Karen Weathermon, Univ. of Nebraska Press, $29.95 pb, 0803283822, 2002.
This volume is a collection of 15 articles originally published in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. They demonstrate the strength and diversity of Chicanas as well as their continuing struggle to have their voices heard. They touch on an array of topics including faith, labor, activism, nationalism, diversity, identity, racism and many other issues. (****) Latinas; Women's Studies

Designs of the Night Sky, Diane Glancy, Univ. of Nebraska Press, $24.95 cl, 0803221908, 2002.
This novel is told through the perspective of a librarian of Cherokee ancestry who rekindles and reinvents her Native identity. from the publisher... "Designs of the Night Sky moves between the turbulent history of a tribe and the experiences of the survivors of that history still caught in turmoil. Rolling from past to present and present to past, Diane Glancy's story provokes and illumines while it invites us to reconsider the form and effect of Native American stories in today's world." I was immediately drawn into this novel. The language is sparse and yet the images and voices are amazingly luscious. (****) Fiction; Native American; Native American ** Recommended

Moving Out: A Nebraska Woman's Life, Polly Spence and Edited & with an afterword by Karl Spence Richardson, Univ. of Nebraska Press, $17.95 pb, 080329297X, 2002.
This autobiography continues the Women in the West Series. It portrays the hardships and resiliency of Polly Spence (19141998) and intertwines the events of her life through the characteristics of her time and place the Great Depression, the intolerance of the KKK, and the end of the Old West. (****) Autobiography/Memoir; Regional: West

The Professor's House: Scholarly Edition, Willa Cather, Univ. of Nebraska Press, $75.00 cl, 0803214286, 2002.
In addition to the novel itself, this edition includes an historical essay by James Woodress, explanatory notes by James Woodress with Karl Ronning and textual editing by Frederick M. Link. This volume continues the set of scholarly editions of Cather's works being reissued by the Univ. of Nebraska Press. so far, the editions include A Lost Lady, My ¡ntonia and O Pioneers! They may be too pricey for the home library so be sure your local town or university library stocks them! UNP also has an impressive array of titles on the work and life of Willa Cather. (***) Literature; Literary Criticism

Willa Cather Remembered, Sharon Hoover, editor, Univ. of Nebraska Press, $19.95 pb, 0803273339, or $45.00 cl, 0803223951, 2002.
This collection offers a view in to the life of Willa Cather not well known to contemporary readers. It comprises reminiscences written between the 1920s and the 1980s by people ranging from close friends to journalists and acquaintances. These writings come from newspapers, journals, portions of books, and unpublished personal letters. The pieces are clustered in three large sections (apprenticeship, literary life, friendships) and then in smaller themes (e.g., a Pittsburgh teacher, a mature professional, in the neighborhood). It includes a few illustrations but I especially enjoyed the many "faces" of Cather shown on the cover. (****) Biography

Also of interest
Memorial Fictions: Willa Cather and the First World War, Steven Trout, Univ. of Nebraska Press, $40.00 cl, 0803244428, 2002.
(**) Literary Criticism

Literary Liaisons: Auto/biographical appropriations in Modernist Women's Fiction, Lynette Felber, Northern Illinois Univ. Press, $36.00 cl, 0875803016, 2002.
This work explores the ways in which AnaÔs Nin, Rebecca West, Zelda Fitzgerald, Radclyffe Hall and H.D. made use of their loves and relationships in their fiction and literary voice. (**) Literary Criticism

The New Woman of Color: The Collected Writings of Fannie Barrier Williams, 18931918, Mary Jo Deegan, editor, Northern Illinois Univ. Press, $38.00 cl, 0875802931, 2002.
Fannie Barrier Williams was an African American reformer who helped develop Chicago's Frederick Douglass Center and was the first African American admitted to the Chicago's Women's Club. This collection of her writings detail her perspectives on race relations, women's rights, economic justice and the role of African American women in society. (****) AfricanAmerican; History

Also of interest
The Hour and the Woman: Harriet Martineau's "Somewhat Remarkable" Life, Deborah Anna Logan, Northern Illinois Univ. Press, $42.00 cl, 0875802974, 2002.
(****) Biography; History

Northeastern Univ. Press

Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Critical Perspectives, Lucinda DamonBach and Victoria Clements, editors, Northeastern Univ. Press, $40.00 cl, 1555535488, 2002.
This collection of articles provides a detailed look at the literary accomplishments of Catharine Maria Sedgwick (17891867) one of the nation's first woman writers ranked along Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper. (**) Literary Criticism

Remapping the Home Front: Locating Citizenship in British Women's Great War Fiction, Debra Rae Cohen, Northeastern Univ. Press, $18.95 pb, 1555535321, or $47.50 cl, 155553533X, 2002.
Cohen explores how four female novelists Violet Hunt, Rose Macauley, Stella Benson, and Rebecca West handled wartime pressures to produce new kinds of war stories told from women's perspectives of the home front. (***) Literary Criticism; Women's Studies

Rosie's Mom: forgotten Women Workers of the First World War, Carrie Brown, Northeastern Univ. Press, $35.00 cl, 1555535356, 2002.
Rosie the Riveter and Wendy the Welder wellknown from WWII were not the first women to contribute to the U.S. war effort. During World War I numbers of women worked in overalls at munitions plants dealing with regular explosions, crushing machine parts, and other hazardous conditions. Filled with carefully reproduced black and white photos, this important book chronicles an important aspect of women's work in the 20th century. (****) Work & Labor; History; Women's Studies ** Recommended

Shine the Light: Sexual Abuse and Healing in the Jewish Community, Rachel Lev, Northeastern Univ. Press, $26.95 cl, 1555535348, 2003.
According to Rachel Lev, sexual abuse, though it occurs in all cultures, has been particularly difficult for he Jewish community to acknowledge because of its long history of victimization and its need for positive selfimages. This is a collection of writings and art by 22 creative artists both women and men from a wide range of professions, ethnic backgrounds and identities from "just Jewish" to Orthodox. Includes 8 pages of fullcolor plates. (****) Jewish Women; Violence and Abuse

Northwestern Univ. Press

Reissue now available
Constance Ring, Amalie Skram, Translated from the Norwegian by Judith Messick and with Katherine Hanson, Northwestern Univ. Press, $19.95 pb, 0810119676, 2002.
This novel was first published by the Seal Press in 1988. This novel, first rejected as scandalous during its time, is now considered a classic in Scandinavian literature. It tells the story of a young woman who sets out to divorce her loving but adulterous husband. (****) Literature; International: Western Europe

Ohio Univ. Press

Aquamarine Blue 5: Personal Stories of College Students with Autism, Dawn PrinceHughes, editor, Swallow Press / Ohio Univ. Press, $14.95 pb, 0804010544, or $32.95 cl, 0804010536, 2002.
This is the first book to be written by autistic college students about the challenges they face. Aquamarine Blue 5 presents an array of writings by students who have been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome or with HighFunctioning Autism, showing their unique ways of looking at and solving problems. In their own words, they portray how their divergent thinking skills could be put to great use if they were given an opportunity. (****) Autobiography/Memoir; Ecology & Environment; Psychology ** Recommended

Ohio I My Dwelling Place: Schoolgirl Embroideries, 18001850, Sue Studebaker, Ohio Univ. Press, $34.95 pb, 0821414534, or $70.00 cl, 0821414526, 2002.
With 216 photographs, 120 of them in color this volume provides a guide to samplers embroidered by young women and girls in Ohio in the years prior to the Civil War. (***) Crafts; History; Regional: Midwest

Univ. of Oklahoma Press

American Gypsy: Six Native American Plays, Diane Glancy, Univ. of Oklahoma Press, $34.95 cl, 0806134589, 2002.
Using poetry and a mÈlange of voices, These plays invoke the myths and realities of modern Native American life. Glancy addresses themes of gender, generational relationships, myth and tensions between Christianity and traditional Native American belief systems. (****) Drama; Native American

Te Ata: Chickasaw Storyteller, American Treasure, Richard Green, Univ. of Oklahoma Press, $34.95 cl, 0806134119, 2002.
from the publisher... "Throughout her sixtyyear career, Te Ata's performances of American Indian folklore enchanted a wide variety of audiences, from European royalty to Americans of all ages, and Indians across the American continents from Canada to Peru. Richard Green sets the inspiring story of Te Ata (18951995) against the historical, political, economic, and social upheavals of the Dawes Act, the federal government's allotment program designed to abolish tribal governments and assimilate the Chickasaw and other Indian tribes into the American mainstream." (****) Biography; Native American

Now in paperback
The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley, Glenda Riley, Univ. of Oklahoma Press, $17.95 pb, 0806135069, 1994.
Volume 7 in the Oklahoma Western Biographies. (****) Biography; History; Regional: West

Also of interest
Trailblazers in Nursing Education: A Caribbean Perspective, Hermi Hyacinth Hewitt, Univ. of the West Indies Press (distributed by Univ. of Oklahoma Press), $25.00 pb, 9768125780, 2002.
(****) Education; International: Caribbean

Pace University Press

Virginia Woolfe Out of Bounds: Selected Papers from the Tenth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolfe, Jessica Berman and Jane Goldman, editors, Pace University Press, $40.00 pb, 0944473555, 2001.
Though published in 2001, this book slip through the radar and I wanted to be sure it got mentioned. The annual conference on Virginia Woolf, begun at Pace University in 1991, affords scholars and common readers an opportunity to focus on Woolf and her multiple affiliations. For ten years, Pace University Press published an edited volume of papers. The volumes map the landscape of critical and readily attention to this important modernist, feminist, pacifist writer. In addition to another fine contribution to the scholarship on Woolfe's work, Selected Papers 10 includes a name and subject index to all ten volumes. (**) Literary Criticism

Woolfe studies annual: Volume 8, 2002, Mark Hussey, editor, Pace University Press, $35.00 pb, 0944473598, 2002.
Woolf Studies Annual is a refereed journal publishing substantial new scholarship on the work of this major writer and her milieu. Each volume includes several articles, reviews of new books, and an uptodate guide to library special collections of interest to researchers. The Annual also occasionally features edited transcriptions of previously unpublished manuscripts. (**) Periodicals: Academic

Palgrave/Macmillan

Women for Afghan Women: Shattering Myths and Claiming the Future, Sunita Mehta, editor, Palgrave Macmillan (Global Publishing from St. Martin's Press), $13.95 pb, 1403960178, or $45.00 cl, 1403960526, 2002.
This important anthology collects the essays, poems and personal stories from a conference held in November 2001at City University of New York. This group of activists and scholars spent that time understanding the history of women's rights in Afghanistan and under Islam, looking at the needs of women in postTaliban Afghanistan and visioning a blueprint for effective social change. Contributors include US activists such as Gloria Steinem and Eleanor Smeal as well as women from Afghanistan, international relief agencies and the United Nations: Zohra Yosef Daoud, Simi Wali, Angela King and many others. (****) International: Middle East; Women's Studies ** Recommended

Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors, Edvige Giunta, Palgrave Macmillan (Global Publishing from St. Martin's Press), $18.95 pb, 0312294697, or $59.95 cl, 0312221258, 2002.
From the introduction... "The literature of Italian American women mirrors, in its own distinct way, the phenomena of b