Feminist Academic Press Column

October 2001

Publisher List

Subject List

Univ. of Arizona Press Cambridge Univ. Press Univ. of Chicago Press Columbia Univ. Press Cornell Univ. Press Duke Univ. Press Univ. Press of Florida Gallaudet Univ. Press Univ. of Georgia Press Greenwood Publishing Group Harvard Univ. Press Humanity Books, Imprint of Prometheus Univ. of Illinois Press Indiana Univ. Press Intercultural Press Univ. of Iowa Press Univ. Press of Kentucky Univ. of Massachusetts Press Univ. of Minnesota Press Univ. of Missouri Press MIT Press Univ. of Nebraska Press Univ. of Nevada Press Univ. Press of New England Univ. of New Mexico Press New York University Press (NYU) Northeastern Univ. Press Northwestern Univ. Press Ohio Univ. Press Univ. of Oklahoma Press Oxford Univ. Press Univ. of Pennsylvania Press Univ. of Pittsburgh Press Princeton Univ. Press Routledge Rutgers Univ. Press Southern Illinois Univ. Press Stanford Univ. Press State Univ. of New York Pr. (SUNY) Temple University Press Univ. of Tennessee Press Univ. of Texas Press Univ. of Toronto Press University Press of Virginia Univ. of Wisconsin Press Yale University Press

African-American Memphis Tennessee Garrison, Ancella R. Bickley and Lynda Ann Ewen, editors Anthropology Black Feminist Anthropology, Irma McClaurin, editor Architecture Designing for Diversity, Kathryn H. Anthony Arts: Art, Photography Louise Bourgeois' Spider, Mieke Bal As Eve Said to the Serpent, Rebecca Solnit Carr, O'Keeffe, Kahlo, Sharyn Rohlfsen Udall Arts: Film, Video Women of Vision, Alexandra Juhasz, editor Reel Knockouts, Martha McCaughey and Neal King, editors Arts: Music, Dance, Theater Ladies of Soul, David Freeland Autobiography/Memoir Amigas, Marjorie Agosin and Emma Sepúlveda Balsamroot, Mary Clearman Blew All but the Waltz, Mary Clearman Blew Orchid of the Bayou, Cathryn Carroll and Catherine Hoffpauir Fischer When Men Were the Only Models We Had Carolyn G. Heilbrun Multicolored Memories of a Black Southern Girl Kitty Oliver Penitent, with Roses, Paula W. Peterson Home Before Morning, Lynda VanDevanter Biography The Tangled Field, Nathaniel Comfort Carry A. Nation, Fran Grace The Woman Who Knew Too Much, Gayle Greene American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking, Hua-ling Hu The Measure of Life, Herbert Marden Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Sigerman The Masks of Mary Renault, Caroline Zilboorg Biology/Natural History Why Sex Matters, Bobbi S. Low Culture Fashion and Its Social Agendas, Diana Crane Color of Rape, Sujata Moorti Stronger Than Dirt, Juliann Sivulka Welcome to the Dreamhouse, Lynn Spigel Death, Dying Losing Malcolm, #1-57806-339-6 Carol Henderson Disability The Education of Laura Bridgman Ernest Freeburg Double Jeopardy, Harilyn Rousso and Michael L. Wehmeyer, editors Education The Quest for Equity in Higher Education, Beverly Lindsay and Manuel J. Justiz, editors Essays and Literary Criticism On Histories and Stories, A.S. Byatt Fiction: General High Drama in Fabulous Toledo, Lily James Women of the Dawn, Bunny McBride The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress, Michelle Richmond Rivington Street, Meredith Tax Union Square, Meredith Tax A Piece of the World, Mildred Walker Fiction: Mysteries, Suspense Call Me Magdalena, Alicia Steimberg and Andrea G. Labinger [translator] Fiction: Short Stories Water Drops from Women Writers, Carol Mattingly, editor Gay/Lesbian Studies Modern American Queer History, Allida M. Black, editor Postcolonial, Queer, John C. Hawley, editor The Gay & Lesbian Marriage & Family Reader, Jennifer M. Lehmann, editor Foundlings, Christopher Nealon Rebels, Rubyfruit, and Rhinestones, James T. Sears Gender Studies War and Gender, Joshua Goldstein Health & Medicine The Golden Cage, Hilde Bruch Women Take Care, Katie Hogan Crazy Visitation, Saundra Murray Nettles Sensing the Self, Sheila M. Reindl History Joyous Greetings, Bonnie S. Anderson Clipped Wings, Molly Merryman International: Asia Some of Us, Xueping Zhong, Wang Zheng and Bai Di, editors International: Latin & Central America Still Fighting, Katherine Isbester Language & Linguistics Gender and Language, Christine Christie Latinas Latinas, Hedda Garza Telling to Live, The Latina Feminist Group Law A Law of Her Own, Caroline A. Forell and Donna M. Matthews Debating Women's Equality, Ute Gerhard, Allison Brown [translator] and Belinda Cooper, translators Lesbian Studies Lesbian Empire, Gay Wachman Literary Criticism American Women Writers and the Nazis, Thomas Carl Austenfeld Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise K. Barnett and James L. Thorson, editorn Hidden Hands, Patricia E. Johnson Writing the Meal, Diane McGee A Vice for Voices, Marietta Messmer Femicidal Fears, Helene Meyers Against Amnesia, Nancy J. Peterson Outsiders Togther, Natania Rosenfeld Evelyn Scott, Dorothy Scura and Paul Jones, editors The Wounded Heart, Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano Literature Given Ground, Ann Pancake Dreams and Thunder, Zitkala-Sa and P. Jane Hafen [editor] Music Lydia Mendoza's Life in Music / La Historia de Lydia Mendoza, Yolanda Broyles-González Clara Schumann, Nancy B. Reich Mythology & Folklore The Queen's Mirror, Shawn Jarvis and Jeannine Blackwell, editors Native-American Desert Indian Woman, Frances Manuel and Deborah Neff Learning to Be an Anthropologist & Remaining "Native", Beatrice Medicine and Sue-ellen Jacobs [editor] Grandmother's Granchild, Alma Hogan Snell and Becky Matthews [editor] Killing Us Quietly, Irene S. Vernon How Should I Read These?, Helen Hoy Philosophy Three Women in Dark Times, Sylvie Courtine-Denamy and G.M. Goshgarian [translator] Upheavals of Thought, Martha C. Nussbaum Engendering Rationalities, Nancy Tuana and Sandra Morgan, editors An Ethics of Dissensus, Ewa Plonowska Ziarek Poetry This Country of Mothers, Julianna Baggott Horizon Note, Robin Behn In an Angry Season, Lisa D. Chávez Borrowed Dress, Cathy Coleman The Golden Years of the Fourth Dimension, Katharine Coles Such Rich Hour, Cole Swenson The Keep, Emily Wilson Political Science Women and Human Development, Martha C. Nussbaum Psychology Behind the Mask, Dana Crowley Jack Mothers Who Kill Their Children, Cheryl L. Meyer and Michelle Oberman Race Theory Making and Unmaking of Whiteness, Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Eric Klinenberg, Irene J. Nexica and Matt Wray, editors A Promise and a Way of Life, Becky Thompson Reference/Directories Wimmin, Wimps & Wallflowers, Philip H. Herbst Science/Mathematics Women Becoming Mathematicians, Margaret A.M. Murray Science/Technology Has Feminism Changed Science?, Londa Schiebinger Social Sciences Nomads of a Desert City, Barbara Seyda Feminism and Antiracism, France Winddance Twince and Kathleen M. Bree, editors Spirituality/Religion The Journey of One Buddhist Nun, Sid Brown Portraits of buddhist Women, Ranjini Obeyesekere Travel Moving Lives, Sidonie Smith Violence and Abuse "Here, Our Country is Hard", Laura J. McClusky War/Peace/Anti-Militarism Frontline Feminisms, Marguerite R. Waller and Jennifer Rycenga, editors Women's Studies The Myth of Pope Joan, Alain Boureau and Lydia G. Cochrane [translator] Young, White, and Miserable, Wini Breines "The Only efficient Instrument", Aleta Feinsod Cane and Susan Alves, editors Feminist Locations, Marianne Dekoven, editor Contingent Loves, Melanie C. Hawthorne Nurses at the Front, Margaret R. Higonnet, editor Bike Lust, Barbara Joans Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?, Mary Drake Mcfeeley Watching Rape, Sarah Projansky Available Means, Joy Ritchie and Kate Ronald, editors Identity Politics in the Women's Movement, Barbara Ryan, editor Women and Dieting Culture, Kandi Sinson Women and Romance, Susan Ostrov Weisser, editor Unbending Gender, Joan Williams Work & Labor We Can't Eat Prestige, John Hoerr The Rising of the Women, Meredith Tax

Univ. of Arizona

Desert Indian Woman: Stories and Dreams, Frances Manuel and Deborah Neff, Univ of Arizona Press, $17.95 pb, 0-8165-2008-9, or $39.95 cl, 0-8165-2007-0, 2001.
Basket weaver, storyteller, and tribal elder Frances Manuel is a living preserver of Tohono O'odham culture. Speaking in her own words from the heart of the Arizona desert, she now shares the story of her life. **** Native American; Autobiography/Memoir

In an Angry Season, Lisa D. Chávez, Univ of Arizona Press, $14.95 pb, 0-8165-2152-2, 2001.
from the cover...
With an unexcelled command of narrative verse, Lisa Chávez tells the stories of American lives across more than a century. Whether retelling nineteenth-century captivity narratives or depicting contemporary American women confronting addiction and despair, Chávez investigates issues of identity and self-definition in the face of an often harsh and unremitting history. Her story-poems explore the ways in which people have been made captive&emdash;whether to racism or national policy, to bad marriages or alcoholism, to poverty or emotion&emdash;from the Inuit woman birthing a son among strangers to the wife now deranged by desire for another man. **** Poetry; Latinas

Nomads of a Desert City: Personal Stories from Citizens of the Street, Barbara Seyda, Univ of Arizona Press, $16.95 pb, 0-8165-2079-8, or $35.00 cl, 0-8165-2077-1, 2001. from the press release... They live on the streets or in shelters. They are women and men, young and old, Native or Anglo or Black or Hispanic. Their faces reflect the forces that have shaped their lives: alcoholism, poverty, racism, mental illness, and abuse. But like desert survivors, they draw strength from some hidden reservoir. Few recent studies on homelessness offer such a revealing collection of oral history narratives and compelling portraits. Thirteen homeless women and men open a rare window to enrich our understanding of the complex personal struggles and triumphs of their lives. Nomads of a Desert City sheds a glaring light on the shadow side of the American Dream&emdash;and takes us to the crossroads of despair and hope where the human spirit survives. Highly Recommended **** Social Sciences; Arts: Art, Photography

Cambridge University Press

Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions, Martha C. Nussbaum, Cambridge Univ. Press, $39.95 cl, 0-521-46202-9, 2001.
Nussbaum presents a powerful argument for treating emotions not as alien forces but as highly discriminating responses to what is of value and importance.she draws on her personal experience of grief from the death of her mother while engaging research from the disciplines of psychology, anthropology and readings from literature and music. *** Philosophy; Psychology; Anthropology

War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa, Joshua Goldstein, Cambridge Univ. Press, $39.95 cl, 0-521-80716-6, 2001.
In what Goldstein calls a "dossier of evidence" (p. 58), this fascinating book covers much ground on the salient issues related to war and gender. From biological predisposition and testosterone, through women involved in fighting, women as targets for militarism, issues of labor, feminist perspectives on war, and women's peace activism and more, this book covers all the conceivable issues. Illustrations add to the appeal of the book. Recommended. **** Gender Studies; War/Peace/Anti-Militarism

Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach, Martha C. Nussbaum, Cambridge Univ. Press, $19.95 pb, 0-521-00385-7, or $24.95 cl, 0-521-66086-6, 2000.
Proposing a new kind of feminism that is genuinely international, Martha Nussbaum argues for an ethical underpinning to all thought about development planning and public policy, and dramatically moves beyond the abstractions of economists and philosophers to embed thought about justice in the concrete reality of the struggles of poor women. ** Political Science

Univ. of Chicago Press

Louise Bourgeois' Spider: The Architecture of Art-Writing, Mieke Bal, Univ. of Chicago Press, $30.00 cl, 0-226-03575-1, 2001. The sculptor Louise Bourgeois is best known for her monumental abstract sculptures, one of the most striking of which is the installation Spider (1997). Too vast in scale to be viewed all at once, this elusive structure resists simple narration. It fits both no genre and all of them--architecture, sculpture, installation. Its contents and associations evoke social issues without being reducible to any one of them. Here, literary critic and theorist Mieke Bal presents the work as a theoretical object, one that can teach us how to think, speak, and write about art. **** Arts: Art, Photography; Literature

The Myth of Pope Joan, Alain Boureau and Lydia G. Cochrane [translator], Univ. of Chicago Press, $22.50 pb, 0-226-06745-9, or $60.00 cl, 0-226-06744-0, 2001.
This book is not about Pope Joan, but rather an understanding of this popular myth. Boureau explores how this myth -- created in the 13th century about this 9th century woman who successfully passed herself off as a man and became pope -- continues into the present. He also explores Joan through imagery in tarot decks and compares her to similar religious figures (Joan of Arc, Hildegard and others). ** Women's Studies; History; Spirituality/Religion

Also of interest
Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, and identity in Clothing, Diana Crane, Univ. of Chicago Press, $30.00 cl, 0-226-11798-7, 2001. *** Culture; Social Sciences

Now in paperback
Young, White, and Miserable: Growing Up Female in the Fifties, Wini Breines, Univ. of Chicago Press, $15.00 pb, 0-226-07261-4, 2001. *** Women's Studies

Columbia Univ. Press

Gender and Language: Towards a Feminist Pragmatics, Christine Christie, Edinburgh University Press (distributed by Columbia Univ. Press) , $24.00 pb, 0-7486-0935-0, 2001.
Gender and Language is a pragmatic approach to the study of gender and language use. Aimed at an interdisciplinary audience, the book is both a contribution to current debates in feminism, discourse analysis and linguistics and an introductory text for students. ** Language / Linguistics; Gender Studies

Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman -- Revised Edition, Nancy B. Reich, Cornell Univ. Press, $21.95 pb, 0-8014-8637-8, or $50.00 cl, 0-8014-3740-7, 2001.
Originally published in 1985, this revised edition of this classic biography adds several new photographs, updates the text to include recent research and provides a Catalogue of Works including Schumann's published and unpublished compositions. **** Music; Biography

Women Take Care: Gender, Race, and the Culture of AIDS, Katie Hogan, Cornell Univ. Press, $15.95 (sd) pb, 0-8014-8753-6, or $39.95 (sd) cl, 0-8014-3627-3, 2001.
--from the catalog notes
"Self-sacrificing mothers and forgiving wives, caretaking lesbians, and vigilant maternal surrogates--these "good women" are all familiar figures in the visual and print culture relating to AIDS. Drawing on examples from journalism, medical discourse, fiction, drama, film, television, and documentaries, Hogan describes how texts on AIDS reproduce this historically entrenched paradigm of sacrifice and care, a paradigm that reinforces biases about race and sexuality. Hogan believes that the growing nostalgia for women's traditional roles has deflected attention away from women's own health needs. Throughout her book, she depicts caretaking as a fundamental human obligation, but one that currently falls primarily to those members of society with the least power." **** Health & Medicine; Women's Studies; Gender Studies

Now in paperback
The Measure of Life: Virginia Woolf's Last Years, Herbert Marden, Cornell Univ. Press, $18.95 pb, 0-8014 -8761-7, or $35.00 cl, 0-8014 -3729-6, 2001. *** Biography

Also of interest
Three Women in Dark Times: Edith Stein, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, Sylvie Courtine-Denamy and G.M. Goshgarian [translator], Cornell Univ. Press, $45.00 cl, 0-8014-3572-2, 2001.
*** Philosophy; Biography

Duke Univ. Press

Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion Before Stonewall, Christopher Nealon, Duke Univ. Press, $18.95 pb, 0-8223-2697-3, or $54.95 cl, 0-8223-2688-4, 2001.
from the cover...
What is it like to "feel historical"? In Foundlings Christopher Nealon analyzes texts produced by American gay men and lesbians in the first half of the twentieth century&emdash;poems by Hart Crane, novels by Willa Cather, gay male physique magazines, and lesbian pulp fiction. Nealon brings these diverse works together by highlighting a coming-of-age narrative he calls "foundling"&emdash;a term for queer disaffiliation from and desire for family, nation, and history. *** Gay/Lesbian Studies; Literary Criticism

The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness, Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Eric Klinenberg, Irene J. Nexica and Matt Wray, editors, Duke Univ. Press, $19.95 pb, 0-8223-2740-6, or $59.95 (unjacketed) cl, 0-8223-2730-9, 2001.
These essays represent some of the discussions and work resulting from the Berkeley conference -- The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness. Additionally, they present the viewpoints not only of academics and independent scholars but are also grounded in the work of community organizers and antiracist activists. They seek to understand the changing nature of whiteness identity and tackle such theories as racial domination, comparative global racisms, and transnational white identity. The major themes include the usefulness of whiteness as a category of identification and the conceptions of whiteness as structural privilege, a harbinger of violence and an institutionalization of European imperialism. *** Race Theory

Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios, The Latina Feminist Group, Duke Univ. Press, $19.95 pb, 0-8223-2765-1, or $59.95 cl, 0-8223-2755-4, 2001. -- from the catalog Telling to Live embodies the vision that compelled Latina feminists to engage their differences and find common ground. Its contributors reflect varied class, religious, ethnic, racial, linguistic, sexual, and national backgrounds. Yet in one way or another they are all professional producers of testimonios&emdash;or life stories&emdash;whether as poets, oral historians, literary scholars, ethnographers, or psychologists. Through coalitional politics, these women have forged feminist political stances about generating knowledge through experience. Reclaiming testimonio as a tool for understanding the complexities of Latina identity, they compare how each made the journey to become credentialed creative thinkers and writers. Telling to Live unleashes the clarifying power of sharing these stories. ** Recommended** **** Latinas; Women's Studies

Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs, Lynn Spigel, Duke Univ. Press, $21.95 pb, 0-8223-2696-5, 2001.
African American media coverage of NASA, the intensity of Barbie collectors, the centrality of TV in the family home and side journeys into the comic strips&emdash;these are some of the areas of popular culture viewed in this readable study. This viewing takes the reader into images of the suburbs and the creation of culture in the U.S. in the postwar era. Though broader than strict women's studies, there's plenty of feminist vision in here to make it worth the considering for women's studies sections on modern culture. Engaging. *** Culture

Orchid of the Bayou: A Deaf Woman Faces Blindness, The Kitty Fischer Story, Cathryn Carroll and Catherine Hoffpauir Fischer, Gallaudet Univ. Press, $24.95 pb, 1-56368-104-8, 2001.
"'By this time Mama knew I was 'not right,'' Fischer says of her early childhood. 'She knew the real words for 'not right,' too, though she never said those words. I was deaf and dumb.' Initially Fischer's parents turned to folk healers to try and "cure" their daughter's deafness, but an aunt's fortunate discovery of the Louisiana School for the Deaf would rescue Fischer from misunderstanding and introduce her to sign language and Deaf culture. She weathered the school's experiments with oralism and soon rose to the top of her class, ultimately leaving Louisiana for the academic promise of Gallaudet."-- from the cover copy

Deaf from birth, Kitty Fischer learned eventually that she had Usher's Syndrome -- a genetic syndrome that causes both deafness and blindness. More importantly, though, she discovered that this condition is particularly prevalent among Cajun people offering her the opportunity to reconnect with a family and cultural heritage from which she had tried to deny. **** Autobiography/Memoir; Disability; Culture

Univ. of Georgia Press

As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art, Rebecca Solnit, Univ. of Georgia Pr. Press, $34.95 cl, 0-8203-2215-6, 2001.
As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art skillfully weaves the natural world with the realm of art--its history, techniques, and criticism--to offer a remarkable compendium of Solnit's research and ruminations. The nineteen pieces in this book range from the intellectual formality of traditional art criticism to highly personal, lyrical meditations. **** Arts: Art, Photography; Literature

Crazy Visitation: A Chronicle of IIlness and Recovery, Saundra Murray Nettles, Univ. of Georgia Pr. Press, $22.95 cl, 0-8203-2299-7, 2001.
She thought her symptoms were related to menopause, but upon closer study, it was discovered that Saundra Nettles' symptoms&emdash;fatigue, memory loss, seizures&emdash;were related to a brain tumor that had grown undetected perhaps for decades. This remarkable story offers a unique perspective on the experience of a woman recovering from brain surgery and her the journey to learn and regain trust in her skills, faculties and emotions. **** Health & Medicine; Autobiography/Memoir

Harvard Univ. Press

The Education of Laura Bridgman: first Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language, Ernest Freeburg, Harvard Univ. Press, $27.95 cl, 0-674-00589-9, 2001.
In the mid-nineteenth century, Laura Bridgman, a young child from New Hampshire, became one of the most famous women in the world. Philosophers, theologians, and educators hailed her as a miracle, and a vast public followed the intimate details of her life with rapt attention. This girl, all but forgotten today, was the first deaf and blind person ever to learn language. Anticipating the life of Helen Keller a half-century later, Laura's is a pioneering story of the journey from isolation to accomplishment, as well as a window onto what it means to be human under the most trying conditions. **** Disability; Biography

On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays, A.S. Byatt, Harvard Univ. Press, $22.95 cl, 0-674-00451-5, 2001. from the catalog... As writers of English from Australia to India to Sri Lanka command our attention, Salman Rushdie can state confidently that English fiction was moribund until the Empire wrote back, and few, even among the British, demur. A. S. Byatt does, and her case is persuasive. In a series of essays on the complicated relations between reading, writing, and remembering, the gifted novelist and critic sorts the modish from the merely interesting and the truly good to arrive at a new view of British writing in our time. *** Essays and Literary Criticism

Now in paperback

Behind the Mask: Destruction and Creativity in Women's Aggression, Dana Crowley Jack, Harvard Univ. Press, $15.95 pb, 0-674-00537-6, 1999. *** Psychology; Women's Studies

The Golden Cage: The Enigma of Anorexia Nervosa, Hilde Bruch, Harvard Univ. Press, $14.00 pb, 0-674-00584-8, 2001 (1978).
This classic book on anorexia nervosa is now available in paperback. **** Health & Medicine

Has Feminism Changed Science?, Londa Schiebinger, Harvard Univ. Press, $15.95 pb, 0-674-00544-9, 2001. ** Science/Technology; Women's Studies

Also of interest

Sensing the Self: Women's Recovery from Bulimia, Sheila M. Reindl, Harvard Univ. Press, $29.95 cl, 0-674-00487-6, 2001. *** Health & Medicine; Women's Studies

The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control, Nathaniel Comfort, Harvard Univ. Press, $37.50 cl, 0-674-00456-6, 2001. *** Biography; Science/Technology

Humanity Books, Imprint of Prometheus

Stronger Than Dirt: A Cultural History of Advertising Personal Hygiene in America, 1875 to 1940, Juliann Sivulka, Humanity Books , Imprint of Prometheus, $28.00 pb, 1-57392-952-2, 2001. In this fascinating cultural history, Juliann Sivulka shows that the transformation of soap from luxury product to everday staple and symbol of success was the result of both the newly emerging advertising industry and large-scale societal changes brought on by the modernization of daily life. This profusely illustrated study is full of insights about the development of the consumer culture that we all take for granted. Sivulka reveals many interesting connections between our attitudes toward cleanliness and conceptions of the body, inhabited space, social class, gender, and race. **** Culture; History

Univ. of Illinois Press

The Rising of the Women: Feminist Solidarity and Class Conflict, 1880-1917, Meredith Tax, Univ. of Illinois Press, $18.95 pb, 0-252-07007-0, 2001.
This 20th Anniversary edition of tax's important work includes a new introduction in which tax assesses the progress of women's solidarity since the book's original publication in 1980. *** Work & Labor; Women's Studies

Rivington Street, Meredith Tax, Univ. of Illinois Press, $18.95 pb, 0-252-07032-1, 2001.
First edition, 1982. Continued in the next novel, Union Square.
-- from the catalog description: This sprawling historical novel follows the fortunes of four enterprising, courageous Jewish women on New York's Lower East Side. Hannah Levy masterminds her family's escape, despite her radical husband's objections, from czarist Russia after the Kishinev pogroms; elder daughter Sarah becomes a union organizer and a socialist while the younger Ruby rises to the top of the fashion design world; their friend Rachel abandons her ultra-Orthodox background to go to work for the Jewish Daily Forward. **** Fiction

Union Square, Meredith Tax, Univ. of Illinois Press, $19.95 pb, 0-252-07031-3, 2001.
First edition, 1988.
from the catalog copy: Taking up where her celebrated Rivington Street left off, Meredith Tax's Union Square brims over with the passions and struggles of five indomitable women: Hannah Levy, the Russian immigrant matriarch; Sarah, a communist organizer who sides with the union--and against her Bolshevik husband--in opposing the Hitler-Stalin pact; Ruby, who covertly undercuts her department store magnate husband's business with her own clothing designs; Rachel, a wealthy widow dedicated to bohemian life and the pleasures of the Jazz Age; and Rachel's sister-in-law, Tish, a lesbian expatriate who seeks sexual and artistic fulfillment in the salons of Paris and Weimar Germany. **** Fiction

Also of interest

Designing for Diversity: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Architectural Profession, Kathryn H. Anthony, Univ. of Illinois Press, $34.95 cl, 0-252-02641-1, 2001. ** Architecture; Social Sciences; Women's Studies

Learning to Be an Anthropologist & Remaining "Native": Selected Writings, Beatrice Medicine and Sue-ellen Jacobs [editor], Univ. of Illinois Press, $27.50 pb, 0-252-0979-X, or $55.00 cl, 0-252-02573-3, 2001. ** Native American; Anthropology

Carry A. Nation: Retelling the Life, Fran Grace, Indiana University Press, $35.00 cl, 0-253-33846-8, 2001. Contrary to her portrayal as a hatchet-swining, saloon busting, man-hating, pleasure-hating Puritan, Fran Grace explores newly available archival materials to portray the complexity of Nation within her historical context. Religion is the key to understanding this woman who also led a full life as a widowed single mother, a farmer, a successful hotel proprietor, a preacher, a missionary and osteopathic physician! Grace places her within the larger context of women's struggle for equality. **** Biography; Women's Studies; Spirituality/Religion

Intercultural Press

Wimmin, Wimps & Wallflowers: An Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Gender and Sexual Orientation Bias in the United States, Philip H. Herbst, Intercultural Press, $39.95 cl, 1-877864-80-3, 2001.
Wimmin, Wimps and Wallflowers does just as the subtitle suggests. For any word you can possibly think of that has some derogatory connotation or expression of bias, this dictionary explains its origin, meaning, and usage. I'm not sure how one would use this&emdash;perhaps to explain to students or colleagues why they shouldn't use certain terms or to better understand what it means if those words are directed to you. For those who remain intrigued by language, this will be a good companion to some of Rosalie Maggio's work and to Herbst's first book, The Color of Words (Intercultural Press, 1997, $31.95), which identified and explored racial and ethnic slurs. **** Reference/Directories; Education

The Keep, Emily Wilson, Univ. of Iowa Press, $16.00 pb, 0-87745-773-5, 2001.
Debut in a new poetry series from Iowa -- the Kuhl House Poets Series strives to combine the best of dedicated craft and contemporary vision. **** Poetry

"The Only efficient Instrument": American Women Writers and the Periodical, 1837-1916, Aleta Feinsod Cane and Susan Alves, editors, Univ. of Iowa Press, $39.95 cl, 0-87745-780-8, 2001.
Women writers of the 19th century America made thoughtful and sustained use of newspapers and magazines to effect social change. The essays in this book examine these pioneering efforts and demonstrate that women had a vital presence in the political and intellectual communities of their day. Writers discussed include (among others): Amelia Bloomer, Kate Chopin, Rebecca Harding Davis, Margaret Fuller, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Emma Goldman, Frances E.W. Harper, Zitkala-Sä. *** Women's Studies; Literature

Such Rich Hour, Cole Swenson, Univ. of Iowa Press, $16.00 pb, 0-87745-775-1, 2001.
Poetry inspired by the famous 15th century French illuminated manuscript. **** Poetry

Multicolored Memories of a Black Southern Girl, Kitty Oliver, Univ. Press of Kentucky, $25.00 cl, 0-8131-2208-2, 2001.
This book not only chronicles Oliver's transition from the Jim Crow South to desegregation but also is an upbeat journal of self-discovery. She describes herself as an immigrant in an integrated America as she explores crossing from an all-black early childhood and coming of age during integration into a predominately white world. Oliver grapples with generational clashes, cross-racial relationships, intra-racial divisions yet manages to redefine herself in an increasingly diverse society. **** Autobiography/Memoir; African-American; Women's Studies

Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?: American Women and the Kitchen in the Twentieth Century, Mary Drake Mcfeeley, Univ of Massachusetts Press, $16.95 pb, 1-55849-333-6, 2001.
Woman's true seriousness about how seriously women gendered their homemaking responsibilities was once judged by the quality of her cheery pie (or chocolate layer cake, or biscuits....). This book explores how, in spite of the growing numbers of ready-made foods, women's true value is still measured by her culinary skills and and ability to provide sustenance to the household. **** Women's Studies; Family Relations

The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress: Stories, Michelle Richmond, Univ of Massachusetts Press, $24.95 cl, 1-55849-315-8, 2001.
Winner of the Associated Programs Award for Short Fiction.
our sisters, many lovers, and a series of settings both familiar and exotic delineate the nineteen linked stories in this award-winning debut collection. **** Fiction

Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam, Lynda VanDevanter, Univ of Massachusetts Press, $18.95 pb, 1-55849-298-4, 2001.
Reissue of the 1983 classic which has stood alone as on of the few books viewing the Vietnam war through the eyes of a woman. It was also the basis for the acclaimed television series "China Beach." his edition has a new afterward by the author. **** Autobiography/Memoir; War/Peace/Anti-Militarism; Military

A Vice for Voices: Reading Emily Dickinson's Correspondence, Marietta Messmer, Univ of Massachusetts Press, $34.95 (sd) cl, 1-55849-306-9, 2001.
This study offers a reevaluation of the letters of Emily Dickinson arguing that her primary writing was correspondence and not poetry. ** Literary Criticism

Univ. of Michigan Press

Now in paperback
The Woman Who Knew Too Much: Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation, Gayle Greene, Univ. of Michigan Press, $17.95 pb, 0-472-08783-5, 1999. **** Biography; Science/Technology

Univ. of Minnesota Press

Moving Lives: 20th-Century Women's Travel Writing, Sidonie Smith, Univ. of Minnesota Press, $17.95 pb, 0-8166-2875-0, 2001.
One of by land, two if by sea, whether snow, nor rain nor sleet....oops, getting carried away by mixed metaphors....
Anyway, all of these descriptions, and more, would apply to the travel stories about women covered in this book. Smith organizes these writings by women's mode of travel&emdash;foot, air, rail, road. Their personal narratives create a fascinating record of wmen who mastered new modes of travel and left behind the cultural ideas of femininity as sedentary, subordinate and constrained. *** Travel; Women's Studies

A Promise and a Way of Life: White Antiracist Activity, Becky Thompson, Univ. of Minnesota Press, $19.95 pb, 0-8166-3634-6, or $34.95 cl, 0-8166-3633-8, 2001.
For white people looking for courage and role models to aid them in questioning their white privilege and for people of color looking for allies, this book will prove to be extremely important. Thompson weaves an account of the past 50 years based on the life histories of 39 people who have placed antiracist activity at the center of their lives. She explores the ways in which these "race traitors" have struggled against racism, their success and failures, inspiration, philosophies and visions for the future. She supplements these interviews with historical understandings of social movements including civil rights and Black power movements, Central American peace movements, activism against the prison industry and antiracist education. ** Recommended** **** Race Theory; Social Sciences

Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Film and Video, Alexandra Juhasz, editor, Univ. of Minnesota Press, $19.95 pb, 0-8166-3372-X, or $49.95 cl, 0-8166-3371-1, 2001.
What an interesting collection! Fans of feminist film will treasure this peek into the lives and works of some of our most well-known and not-so-well-known talented film and video makers. Twenty-one women tell their stories accompanied with a complete list of videos and resource materials for each filmmaker. Contact information for each woman is also provided. **** Arts: Film, Video

Univ. Press of Mississippi

Ladies of Soul, David Freeland, Univ. Press of Mississippi, $20.00 pb, 1-57806-331-0, or $46.00 cl, 1-57806-330-2, 2001.
Female performers were responsible for some of the most enduring and powerful contributions to soul music. All too frequently overlooked by the star-making critics, seven of these women are profiled in this book -Maxine Brown, Ruby Johnson, Denise LaSalle, Bettye LaVette, Barbara Mason, Carla Thomas, and Timi Yuro. Their oral histories as told to David Freeland address compelling issues, including racism and sexism within the music industry. They discuss their grueling hardships on the road, their conflicts with male managers, and the cutthroat competition in the recording business. My only complaint with this otherwise fine book is that the print is so small it diminishes the enjoyment of reading it! **** Arts: Music, Dance, Theater; Culture

Losing Malcolm: A Mother's Journey Through Grief, Carol Henderson, Univ. Press of Mississippi, $24.00 cl, 1-57806-339-6, 2001.
Interweaving dreams and journal entries, this memoir offers a mother's harrowing narrative about the loss of her son and her recovering from sorrow. It explores the relationships with her husband and how the loss transformed them, as well as how she dealt with the taboos that exist in the ways society deals with death-- specifically grandparents, neighbors, friends. **** Death, Dying; Family Relations

Univ. of Missouri Press

The Masks of Mary Renault: A Literary Biography, Caroline Zilboorg, Univ. of Missouri Press, $34.95 (sd) cl, 0-8262-1322-7, 2001. ** Biography; Literary Criticism

MIT Press

Women Becoming Mathematicians: Creating a Professional Identity in Post-World War II America, Margaret A.M. Murray, MIT Press, $16.95 pb, 0-262-63246-2, or $29.95 cl, 0-262-13369-5, 2000.
from the catalog...
Women Becoming Mathematicians looks at the lives and careers of thirty-six of the approximately two hundred women who earned Ph.D.s in mathematics from American institutions from 1940 to 1959. This book explores the complex interplay between the personal and professional lives of those women who embarked on mathematical careers during this period, with a view to understanding how changes in American society during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s affected their career development and identities as mathematicians. *** Science/Mathematics; History

Call Me Magdalena, Alicia Steimberg and Andrea G. Labinger [translator], Univ. of Nebraska Press, $16.95 pb, 0-8032-9282-1, or $45.00 cl, 0-8032-4290-5, 2001.
Latin American Women Writers series
from the cover...Within the taut framework of a murder mystery, Alicia Steimberg weaves a tale far more concerned with who-is-it than with whodunit. In what is probably the celebrated author's most interesting and complex novel, Magdalena conducts us through her tortuous childhood as an Argentine Jew and through her doubts about morality and mortality, the existence of God, and the amorphous nature of identity. **** Fiction: Mysteries/Suspense; International: Latin & Central America

Dreams and Thunder: Stories, Poems, and The Sun Dance Opera, Zitkala-Sa and P. Jane Hafen [editor], Univ. of Nebraska Press, $22.95 cl, 0-8032-4918-7, 2001.
Zitkala-Sa (Red Bird) 1876-1938), also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was one of the best-known and most influential Native American (Sioux) of the twentieth century.The richness of her vision and heritage are collected here in previously unpublished stories, rare poems, and the libretto to The Sun Dance Opera. **** Literature; First Nations

The Gay & Lesbian Marriage & Family Reader: Analyses of Problems and Prospects for the 21st Century, Jennifer M. Lehmann, editor, Univ. of Nebraska Press, $39.95 pb, 1-884092-57-8, 2001.
Gordian Knot Books distributed by Univ. of Nebraska Press.
This book provides a range of chapters addressing major issues facing gays and lesbians involved in marriage and family life in the 21st century -- legalized marriage and cohabitation; parenting and coparenting; child custody and adoption; coming out to family members; and living in stepfamilies. The issues are addressed from the law, psychology, social work, and cultural arenas. It's fairly academic/professional in presentation, though, and perhaps beyond the price range of the casual reader. ** Gay/Lesbian Studies; Family Relations

A Piece of the World, Mildred Walker, Univ. of Nebraska Press, $12.95 pb, 0-8032-9823-4, 2001. A sensitive story about the small and large accommodations of getting along in life, growing up, and finding a place to call one's own, A Piece of the World possesses the quiet intensity and lasting charm of Mildred Walker's best work. **** Fiction

The Queen's Mirror: Fairy Tales by German Women, 1780-1900, Shawn Jarvis and Jeannine Blackwell, editors, Univ. of Nebraska Press, $29.95 pb, 0-8032-61810, or $60.00 cl, 0-8032-1299-2, 2001.
These powerful fairy tales transmit stories with interesting and conflicted females who are queens, girls on quests, mothers, daughters, magical wisewomen -- well, all the stuff that makes for good fairytales. Unfortunately, the publisher has done them a disservice by making the print just a tad too small for comfortable reading. *** Mythology & Folklore; Literature

Now in paperback
Grandmother's Granchild: My Crow Indian Life, Alma Hogan Snell and Becky Matthews [editor], Univ. of Nebraska Press, $12.95 pb, 0-8032-9291-0, 2000. **** Native American; Autobiography/Memoir

Women of the Dawn, Bunny McBride, Univ. of Nebraska Press, $11.95 pb, 0-8032-8277-X, 1999.
Friends of American Writers Literary Award **** Fiction; Native American

Also of interest
Killing Us Quietly: Native Americans and HIV/AIDS, Irene S. Vernon, Univ. of Nebraska Press, $14.95 pb, 0-8032-9624-X, or $50.00 cl, 0-8032-4668-4, 2001. **** Native American; Health & Medicine

The Golden Years of the Fourth Dimension: Poems, Katharine Coles, Univ. of Nevada Press, $12.50 pb, 0-87417-480-5, 2001.
The Golden Years of the Fourth Dimension is the third poetry volume of Katharine Coles, whose work always exciting, has grown with each collection. Her poetry is erotic at the same time it is scientific, and seductively accessible while it is intellectually challenging. **** Poetry

Given Ground, Ann Pancake, Middlebury College Press / UPNE, $24.95 cl, 1-58465-118-0, 2001.
These short stories explore the cultural change and class conflict in contemporary Appalachia, West Virgina. Winner of the Katherine Bakeless Nason Fiction Prize. **** Literature; Regional: South

Penitent, with Roses: An HIV+ Mother Reflects, Paula W. Peterson, Middlebury College Press / UPNE, $24.95 cl, 1-58465-128-8, 2001.
Winner of the 2000 Bakeless Literary Publication Prize for Nonfiction. Paula Peterson writes about the circumstances which led up to her diagnosis with HIV and her subsequent work as an AIDS activist. the second half of the book is an extended letter to her young son as a way to stay alive in his mind and heart. **** Autobiography/Memoir; Health & Medicine

Latinas: Hispanic Women in the United States, Hedda Garza, Univ. of New Mexico Press, $17.95 pb, 0-8263-2360-X, 2001.
This paperback reissue of Hedda Garza's important work brings to visibility the major contributions of Latina women in the United States. She provides important historical information about how Hispanics peoples were displaced and colonized by both the Spaniards, then the U.S. In this way she also offers inspiring accounts of women -- Chicanas, Puertorriqueñas, Cubanas, Dominicanas and from throughout Central and South America -- who struggled to improve conditions for Latinas in the United States. ** Highly Recommended. **** Latinas; Young Adult Non-fiction; History

Leslie Marmon Silko: a Collection of Critical Essays, Louise K. Barnett and James L. Thorson, editors, Univ. of New Mexico Press, $24.95 pb, 0-8263-2675-7, 2001.
The thirteen essays in this volume touch on all of Silko's important short fiction and non-fiction essays, but particularly focuses on her novel Almanac of the Dead. Overall, this will be an important collection for students interested in new perspectives and a deeper understanding of of Silko's work. ** Literary Criticism; Native-American

Clipped Wings: The Rise and Fall of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) of World War II, Molly Merryman, New York University Press (NYU), $20.00 pb, 0-8147-5568-2, 2001.
The Women's Airforce Service Pilot program was the only branch of military service comprised entirely of women who flew dangerous missions during WWII. This history examines the social pressures which culminated in their disbandment in 1944 even though a wartime need for their services still existed, and documents their struggles and eventual success -- in 1977 -- to gain military status and receive veterans benefits. **** History; Military

Feminism and Antiracism: International Struggles for Justice, France Winddance Twince and Kathleen M. Bree, editors, New York University Press (NYU), $22.50 pb, 0-8147-9855-1, 2001. This anthology provides an interdisciplinary spectrum of issues and locations bridging the gaps between feminist and antiracist theories and practices. Looking in-depth at sites of local organizing and activism from around the world (specifically, Australia, Canada, India, Italy, France, Japan, South Africa, and the United States, Yemen, and Zimbabwe), the editors and writers engage feminists in antiracist practices. The ways in women in various regions perceive "western" feminisms is also explored. For those interested in the intersections of antiracism and feminism and interested in organizing globally, this volume will prove important. *** Social Sciences; Race Theory; Women's Studies

Identity Politics in the Women's Movement, Barbara Ryan, editor, New York University Press (NYU), $24.50 pb, 0-8147-7479-2, 2001.
This broad-based anthology unpacks issues of race, class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and age to offer a critical examination of the inescapable role of identity in academic and activist feminism. The authors and theorists represented in this volume include: Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Marilyn Frye, Daphne Patai, Barbara Smith, Shane Phelan, Adrienne Rich, Sonia Shah, Rosa Mariá Pegueros among others. *** Women's Studies

A Law of Her Own: The Reasonable Woman as a Measure of Man, Caroline A. Forell and Donna M. Matthews, New York University Press (NYU), $22.50 pb, 0-8147-2677-1, 2001.
Despite some apparent progress in women's legal status, the law remains profoundly male, and as such contributes tot he pervasive violence and injustice against women. By shifting the paradigm to introducing a "reasonable woman standard," the authors aim to rebalance the law to incorporate women's values surrounding sex and violence. ** Law; Violence and Abuse

Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postmodernist Culture, Sarah Projansky, New York University Press (NYU), $18.50 pb, 0-8147-6690-0, 2001.
This book addresses the relationship between rape and postfeminism and a crucial contribution to film and cultural studies. Projansky challenges popular culture, in order to see the rampant depictions of rape, the way media shapes our views of sexual violence, and stresses that feminist perspectives are still very much needed. ** Women's Studies; Arts: Film, Video; Violence and Abuse

Women and Romance: A Reader, Susan Ostrov Weisser, editor, New York University Press (NYU), $21.95 pb, 0-8147-9355-X, or $65.00 cl, 0-8147-9355-X, 2001.
This volume covers many, if not all, of the angles attributed to the power of romantic love -- the pleasure and the pain -- in women's lives. The section headings alone indicate the scope of these essays. Historical views, letters an personal writings, second-wave and contemporary feminist theory, feminist explantions in history, sociology, pyscholgy, literary criticism, popular romance and the experience of love are handled by such writers as Charlotte Brontë, Rita Mae Brown, Patricia Hill Collins, Emma Goldman, bell hooks, Adudre Lorde, Jane Rule, Mary Wollsonecraft, Victoria Woodhull, Virginia Woold, to name only a few. Weisser has compiled a fascinating volume clarified by section introductions which point to the emerging themes. **** Women's Studies; Literature; Literary Criticism

Also of interest
Mothers Who Kill Their Children: Understanding the Acts of Moms from Susan Smith to the "Prom Mom", Cheryl L. Meyer and Michelle Oberman, New York University Press (NYU), $18.50 pb, 0-8147-5644-1, or $55.00 cl, 0-8147-5643-3, 2001. **** Psychology; Social Sciences

Northeastern Univ. Press

Nurses at the Front: Writing the Wounds of the Great War, Margaret R. Higonnet, editor, Northeastern Univ. Press, $16.95 pb, 1-55553-484-8, or $40.00 cl, 1-55553-485-6, 2001.
Representative selections from two classic texts are published for the first time in one volume. Ellen N. La Motte's (1873&endash;1961) The Backwash of War and Mary Borden's (1886&endash;1968) The Forbidden Zone present in powerful, vivid, and often haunting prose each woman's acute observations of the stark realities of battle and the severe conditions under which military medicine is practiced. They both are two of the best known American nurses who wrote about their experiences working in the same field hospital on the Western Front during World War I. **** Women's Studies; History; Literature

Northwestern Univ. Press

High Drama in Fabulous Toledo, Lily James, FC2 (Distributed by Northwestern Univ. Press), $12.95 pb, 1-57366-094-9, 2001. "James' postfeminist fiction is smart and accessible; it skips along like a flower girl in moon boots. Still, her trippy narrative packs a wallop with its wry, skin-tight prose, at once insightful and corrosive to reality. Like a postmodern Flannery O'Connor story, High Drama in Fabulous Toledo is unafraid to shake the balance of order and chaos, or toy with our most private fantasies of escape." -- from the book jacket Also note that Lily James has her own website which adds to the experience (http://www.lilylit.com/menu.htm). **** Fiction

Ohio Univ. Press

Hidden Hands: Working-Class Women and Victorian Social-Problem Fiction , Patricia E. Johnson, Ohio Univ. Press, $24.95 pb, 0-8214-1389-9, or $55.00 cl, 0-8214-1388-0, 2001.
from the cover...
Uncovering a series of images in Victorian fiction ranging from hot-tempered servants and sexually harassed factory girls to working-class homemakers pictured as beaten dogs, Hidden Hands demonstrates that representations of working-class women, however marginalized or incoherent, reveal the very contradictions they are constructed to hide and that the dynamics of these representations have broad implications both for other groups, such as middle-class women, and for the emergence of working-class women as writers themselves. ** Literary Criticism

Memphis Tennessee Garrison: The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Women, Ancella R. Bickley and Lynda Ann Ewen, editors, Ohio Univ. Press, $17.95 pb, 0-8214-1374-0, or $44.95 cl, 0-8214-1373-2, 2001. This title inaugurates a new series for Ohio University Press -- the Series in Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia. This memoir and history provides the oral history of Memphis Tennessee Garrison, daughter of slaves, schoolteacher, and civil rights activist. Her found writings add a crucial piece to the history of African American life in West Virginia Appalachians. **** African-American; Regional: South; Women's Studies

Univ. of Oklahoma Press

Reissues now available

All but the Waltz: A Memoir of Five Generations in the Life of a Montana Family, Mary Clearman Blew, Univ. of Oklahoma Press, $12.95 pb, 0-8061-3321-X, 2001. **** Autobiography/Memoir; Regional: West

Balsamroot: A Memoir, Mary Clearman Blew, Univ. of Oklahoma Press, $12.95 pb, 0-8061-3322-8, 2001. **** Autobiography/Memoir

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Right Is Ours, Harriet Sigerman, Oxford Univ. Press, $24.00 cl, 0-19-511969-X, 2001. Oxford Portrait Series -- informative and insightful biographies of people whose lives shaed their times and continue to influence ours, intended for ages 10 and up. Harriet Sigerman presents a fascinating profile of the woman who courageously campaigned for women's absolute right to social and political equality in the 1800s. Featuring never-before-seen photos and illustrations, Elizabeth Cady Stanton brings to life one of history's liveliest and most fascinating women's rights leaders. **** Biography; Women's Studies; Young Adult Non-fiction

Lydia Mendoza's Life in Music / La Historia de Lydia Mendoza: Norteño Tejano Legacies, includes audio CD, Yolanda Broyles-González, Oxford Univ. Press, $29.95 cl, 0-19-512706-4, 2001.
Lydia Mendoza had a 60-year musical career, making her integral to the recording industry, prominent as a performer and a champion of Chicana/o music. We hear much of her "voice" not only on CD of a live performance recording but also in the telling of her story given in interviews with Broyles-González. This captivating book should be considered a wonderful contribution for those interested in multiple disciplines&emdash;musicology, memoir, history, multiculturalism, women's leadership, working-class struggles. This bilingual edition has added appeal through the numbers of photographs also included. **** Music; Biography

Now in paperback
Joyous Greetings: the First International Women's Movement, 1830-1860, Bonnie S. Anderson, Oxford Univ. Press, $15.95 pb, 0-19-514397-3, 2001. **** History; Women's Studies

Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do about It, Joan Williams, Oxford Univ. Press, $14.95 pb, 0-19-514714-6, 2000. **** Women's Studies; Family Relations; Work & Labor

Univ. of Pennsylvania Press

Against Amnesia: Contemporary Women Writers and the Crisis of Historical Memory, Nancy J. Peterson, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, $46.50 cl, 0-8122-3594-0, 2001. ** Literary Criticism

When Men Were the Only Models We Had: My Teachers Barzun, Faiman, Trilling, Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, $24.95 cl, 0-8122-3632-7, 2001. **** Autobiography/Memoir; Women's Studies

Available Means: An Anthology of Women's Rhetoric(s), Joy Ritchie and Kate Ronald, editors, Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, $24.95 pb, 0-8229-5753-1, or $50.00 cl, 0-8229-4152-X, 2001.
The shortcomings of primer anthologies generally relate to the sameness of which authors get anthologized and the repetitiveness of which writings by those authors get selected. This is NOT the case with case with Available Means. Ranging historically from early works of writers such as Aspasia and Hortensia through contemporary persuasive writers such as Leslie Marmon Silko and Patricia Williams, this volume adds greatly to rhetorical thought and history. Users of this volume, though, should know that the writers are predominately from the Western Hemisphere but there is a broad range of multi-cultural and multi-racial representation. Most importantly, though, is not only that these essays present an important contribution to rhetorical tradition but it expands the canon by representing essays not previously over-anthologized. **** Women's Studies; Essays and Literary Criticism; Essays of Resistance

Also of interest
Still Fighting: The Nicaraguan Women's movement, 1977-2000, Katherine Isbester, Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, $19.95 pb, 0-8229-5757-4, or $45.00 cl, 0-8229-4155-4, 2001. *** International: Latin & Central America; History; Political Science

Princeton Univ. Press

Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior, Bobbi S. Low, Princeton Univ. Press, $18.95 pb, 0-691-08975-2, 2001.
from the cover... Why are men, like other primate males, usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do women typically have fewer sexual partners? Why is killing infants routine in some cultures, but forbidden in others? Why is incest everywhere taboo? Bobbi Low ranges from ancient Rome to modern America, from the Amazon to the Arctic, and from single-celled organisms to international politics to show that these and many other questions about human behavior largely come down to evolution and sex. More precisely, as she shows in this uniquely comprehensive and accessible survey of behavioral and evolutionary ecology, they come down to the basic principle that all organisms evolved to maximize their reproductive success and seek resources to do so. ** Biology/Natural History; Science and women; Anthropology

Now in paperback
Outsiders Togther: Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Natania Rosenfeld, Princeton Univ. Press, $16.95 pb, 0-691-08960-4, or $45.00 cl, 0-691-05884-9, 2000. *** Literary Criticism

Frontline Feminisms: Women, War, and Resistance, Marguerite R. Waller and Jennifer Rycenga, editors, Routledge, $26.95 pb, 0-415-93239-4, 2001.
Some books just land when they're needed most. Frontline Feminisms is such a book which became available just prior to the attacks on September 11. For feminists interested in the connections between protests against war and injustices, this collection of essays by scholars and activists will be most welcome. It provides insight into the and viewpoints of local women's groups who protest war, militarization, political domination and the patriarchal injustices related to them. **** War/Peace/Anti-Militarism; Social Sciences; Women's Studies

Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis, and Poetics, Irma McClaurin, editor, Rutgers Univ. Press, $22.00 pb, 0-8135-2926-3, or $55.00 cl, 0-8135-2925-5, 2001.
In this groundbreaking work, contributors to this volume disclose how their experiences as black women have influenced their anthropological practices in Africa, the Caribbean, and the united States, and how anthropology has influenced their development as black feminists. These women also recognize the long unheard voices of black feminist anthropologists, regardless of what official titles and recognition these 'kinfolk' such as Zora Neale Hurston, Caroline Bond day, Filomena Chioma Steady, and Gwendolyn Mikell to name a few, have previously been given. ** Recommended ** *** Anthropology; African-American; Women's Studies

Feminist Locations: Global and Local, Theory and Practice, Marianne Dekoven, editor, Rutgers Univ. Press, $25.00 pb, 0-8135-2923-9, or $58.00 cl, 0-8135-2922-0, 2001. Contemporary feminist scholarship on topics of feminist success versus social backlash, global women's human rights, postcolonial feminism, the politics of reproduction, and narratives of women's aging in postmodern culture are among the feminist theory and practice addressed in this volume. Three sections are organized around themes of current feminist thought assessed for future directions; political issues; and questions of the body. *** Women's Studies

Lesbian Empire: Radical Crosswriting in the Twenties, Gay Wachman, Rutgers Univ. Press, $24.00 pb, 0-8135-2942-5, or $56.00 cl, 0-8135-2941-7, 2001.
Lesbian crosswriting, according to Gay Wachman, is a literary practice that "transposes the otherwise unrepresentable lives of invisible or silenced or simply closeted lesbians into narratives about gay men" (p. 1). By exploring the works of Sylvia Townsend Warner, Virginia Woolfe, Radclyffe Hall, Clemence Dane, Rose Allatini, and Evadne Price, she further examines how these authors used crosswriting to explore sexual expression within historical turmoil. ** Lesbian Studies; Literary Criticism

Rebels, Rubyfruit, and Rhinestones: Queering Space in the Stonewall South, James T. Sears, Rutgers Univ. Press, $28.00 cl, 0-8135-2964-6, 2001.
Building upon his previous book, Lonely Hunters: An Oral History of Lesbian and Gay Southern Life, 1948-1968, James Sears continues his in-depth look at gay and lesbian life in the South, this time since the events of Stonewall. His stories of queer history in the South includes the characters and events ushered in by the antiwar, civil rights, women's liberation, and gay movements. It's a fascinating book and full of anecdotal, personal recollections which make it an engaging joy to read. ** Highly Recommended **** Gay/Lesbian Studies; Regional: South; History

Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era, Xueping Zhong, Wang Zheng and Bai Di, editors, Rutgers Univ. Press, $22.00 pb, 0-8135-2969-7, or $58.00 cl, 0-8135-2968-9, 2001.
Some of Us includes nine memoirs written by Chinese women who grew up during the Mao era and now live in the united States. They write bout their strengths, their perceptions of gender and revolution, and the complexity of their lives during that time. They reflect on their skills as peasants and their hopes as young adult seeking to use their talents effectively. **** International: Asia; Autobiography/Memoir

Women and Dieting Culture: Inside a Commercial Weight Loss Group, Kandi Sinson, Rutgers Univ. Press, $22.00 pb, 0-8135-2949-2, or $54.00 cl, 0-8135-2948-4, 2001.
The diet industry makes billions of dollars each year off people's (especially women's) obsession to lose weight. Stinson's work offers a new approach to understanding the cultural values transmitted among women participants in a weight loss organization. As a paying fully-participant member and through interviewing other members, she discovers that the women's view of the causes and cures of being overweight can be placed in five distinct yet overlapping categories: self-help, work, religion, addiction, and feminism. **** Women's Studies; Social Sciences

Also of interest
Debating Women's Equality: Toward a Feminist Theory of Law from a European Perspective, Ute Gerhard, Allison Brown [translator] and Belinda Cooper, translators, Rutgers Univ. Press, $45.00 cl, 0-8135-2905-0, 2001. ** Law; International: Western Europe

This Country of Mothers, Julianna Baggott, Southern Illinois Univ. Press, $12.95 pb, 0-8093-2381-8, 2001.
Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry **** Poetry

Now in paperback
American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking: the Courage of Minnie Vautrin, Hua-ling Hu, Southern Illinois Univ. Press, $19.95 pb, 0-8093-2386-9, 2000.
Story of an American missionary who defied the Japanese and protected 10,000 Chinese women and children during the "rape of Nanking." **** Biography; History

Also of interest
Water Drops from Women Writers: A Temperance Reader, Carol Mattingly, editor, Southern Illinois Univ. Press, $35.00 cl, 0-8093-2399-0, 2001. **** Fiction: Short Stories

Stanford Univ. Press

An Ethics of Dissensus: Postmodernity, Feminism, and the Politics of Radical Democracy, Ewa Plonowska Ziarek, Stanford Univ. Press, $19.95 pb, 0-8047-4103-4, or $55.00 cl, 0-8047-4102-6, 2001.
From the cover...Ziarek puts into dialogue discourses that have hitherto been segregated: postmodern ethics, feminism, race theory, and the idea of radical democracy. Addressing a constellation of diverse thinkers&emdash;including Emmanuel Levinas, Patricia Williams, Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Frantz Fanon, Julia Kristeva, and Luce Irigaray&emdash;the author proposes a new conception of ethics, an ethics of dissensus that rethinks the relation between freedom and obligation in a double context of embodiment and antagonism. ** Philosophy; Women's Studies

Color of Rape: Gender and Race in Television's Public Spheres, Sujata Moorti, State Univ. of New York Pr. (SUNY), $20.95 pb, 0-7914-5134-8, 2001.
Through an analysis of television images of rape, this book makes important contributions to theories of the public sphere as well as feminist theories of rape. *** Culture; Violence and Abuse; Women's Studies

Double Jeopardy: Addressing Gender Equity in Special Education, Harilyn Rousso and Michael L. Wehmeyer, editors, State Univ. of New York Pr. (SUNY), $27.95 pb, 0-7914-5076-7, 2001.
Girls and women with disabilities face a double jeopardy in the educational system. Their face discrimination based not only on gender but also in their disability and special education status. they are more likely than their male counterparts to leave schools or training programs with inadequate vocational skills. ** Disability; Education

Engendering Rationalities, Nancy Tuana and Sandra Morgan, editors, State Univ. of New York Pr. (SUNY), $25.95 pb, 0-7914-5086-4, or $?? cl, 0-7914-5085-6, 2001.
from the cover... Engendering Rationalities brings together theorists whose work has been foundational to the development of feminist investigations of reason, objectivity, and knowledge with the work of scholars who build up and extend their insights. Contributors not only question standard conceptions of truth, objectivity, and our realist conceptions of the relationships between human knowledge and the world, but also offer rich and exciting alternatives to traditional theories that both arise out of and are compatible with feminist concerns. The book provides more adequate models of rationality that include the epistemic significance of a variety of subjective factors such as our specific cultural and social locations including sex, race, ethnicity, class, etc., and our personal commitments, desires, and interests. ** Philosophy; Women's Studies

The Journey of One Buddhist Nun: Even against the Wind, Sid Brown, State Univ. of New York Pr. (SUNY), $19.95 pb, 0-7914-5096-1, 2001.
This is the story of Wabi, a young Thai woman who sought a religious life. It recounts her struggle to become a Buddhist nun while overcoming the numerous obstacles along her path. **** Spirituality/Religion; Women's Studies

Portraits of Buddhist Women: Stories from the Saddharmaratnavaliya, Ranjini Obeyesekere, State Univ. of New York Pr. (SUNY), $17.95 pb, 0-7914-5112-7, 2001. *** Spirituality/Religion; Women's Studies

Postcolonial, Queer: Theoretical Intersectons, John C. Hawley, editor, State Univ. of New York Pr. (SUNY), $?? pb, 0-7914-5092-9, 2001.
Thirteen essays address possible ramifications arising from the globalization of western notions of gay and lesbian identities. ** Gay/Lesbian Studies; Culture

The Quest for Equity in Higher Education: Toward New Paradigms in an Evolving Affirmative Action Era, Beverly Lindsay and Manuel J. Justiz, editors, State Univ. of New York Pr. (SUNY), $23.95 pb, 0-7914-5062-7, 2001.
"This volume investigates the role of equity (justice and fairness), diversity (various demographic concerns), and affirmative action in colleges and universities in the United States -- the policy and programmatic mechanisms offering educational opportunities to those who have not been full participants in American higher education....The overarching issues are equity and diversity, but affirmative action is a means to attain the democratic goals of a civil society." editors in Chapter 1, p. 5. *** Education

Also of interest
Femicidal Fears: Narratives of the Female Gothic Experience, Helene Meyers, State Univ. of New York Pr. (SUNY), $19.95 pb, 0-7914-5152-6, 2001. ** Literary Criticism

Temple University Press

Modern American Queer History, Allida M. Black, editor, Temple University Press, $19.95 pb, 1-56639-905-X, or $69.50 cl, 1-56639-904-1, 2001.
"This important collection brings together classic essays with new scholarship in a bold effort to reconfigure the field of lesbian and gay history. Lucid and comprehensive, the book will appeal not just to scholars and students, but to a crossover audience of general readers." --Paula Martinac, author of The Queerest Places: A Guide to Gay and Lesbian Historic Sites *** Gay/Lesbian Studies; History

We Can't Eat Prestige: The Women Who Organized Harvard, John Hoerr, Temple University Press, $18.95 pb, 1-56639-925-4, or $69.50 cl, 1-56639-535-6, 2001.
Praised by several writers in labor history and organizing, this work tells the story of the decades-long struggle of staff employees at Harvard organized by groups of women buoyed by the feminist movement. The author examines the culture of a female-led union from the inside and provides points of view by Harvard administrators and union organizers. *** Work & Labor; History

Univ. of Tennessee Press

Evelyn Scott: Recovering a Lost Modernist, Dorothy Scura and Paul Jones, editors, Univ. of Tennessee Press, $32.50 cl, 1-57233-116-X, 2001.
This anthology explores the various aspects of Evelyn Scott's writing and her significant contribution to experimental forms and techniques. They set her work in the context of her contemporaries (Kay Boyle, Katherine Anne Porter, William Faulkner) as well as examine her contributions to both women's literature and southern literature. ** Literary Criticism

Amigas: Letters of Friendship and Exile, Marjorie Agosin and Emma Sepúlveda, Univ. of Texas Press, $14.50 pb, 0-292-70506-9, or $30.00 cl, 0-292-70505-0, 2001.
Marjorie Agosin and Emma Sepúlveda have been friends for more than thirty yeas, meeting when they were adolescent in their native Chile. Both living in exile in the United States as writers, academics, and political activists, these letters provide an important testimony to the lives of Latina immigrant women. They write not only of their personal lives -- family life, loneliness, professional experiences -- but also their political perspectives and experiences -- women's roles, turmoil in Chile, and exile. **** Autobiography/Memoir; Women's Studies; International: Latin & Central America

Reel Knockouts: Violent Women in the Movies, Martha McCaughey and Neal King, editors, Univ. of Texas Press, $22.95 pb, 0-292-75251-2, or $45.00 cl, 0-292-75250-4, 2001.
This book will appeal to those in film studies and in women's studies who explore issues of feminine portrayals in film and media. However, this book takes an important turn from viewing women as victims of violence to women who use violence to assert their power, authority, or (self) defense. These women take action into their own hands to pursue their goals of revenge, justice, or sexuality. Real Knockouts tries to make feminist sense of the portrayal of violent women in films. **** Arts: Film, Video

The Wounded Heart: Writing on Cheríe Moraga, Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, Univ. of Texas Press, $19.95 pb, 0-292-79608-0, or $45.00 cl, 0-292-79607-2, 2001. from the cover -- In her work as poet, essayist, editor, dramatist, and public intellectual, Chicana lesbian writer Cherríe Moraga has been extremely influential in current debates on culture and identity as an ongoing, open-ended process. Analyzing the "in-between" spaces in Moraga's writing where race, gender, class, and sexuality intermingle, this first book-length study of Moraga's work focuses on her writing of the body and related material practices of sex, desire, and pleasure. *** Literary Criticism; Latinas; Gay/Lesbian Studies

Also of interest
"Here, Our Country is Hard": Stories of Domestic Violence from a Mayan Community in Belize, Laura J. McClusky, Univ. of Texas Press, $21.95 pb, 0-292-75249-0, or $45.00 cl, 0-292-75248-2, 2001. *** Violence and Abuse; International: Latin & Central America

How Should I Read These?: Native Women Writers in Canada, Helen Hoy, Univ. of Toronto Press, $24.95 pb, 0-8020-8401-X, or $55.00 cl, 0-8020-3519-X, 2001.
"One of the few books on contemporary Native writing in Canada, this work raises and addresses questions around difference' and the locations of cultural insider and outsider in relation to texts by contemporary Native women prose writers in Canada. Drawing on post-colonial, feminist, post-structuralist and First Nations theory, it explores the problems involved in reading and teaching a variety of works by Native women writers from the perspective of a cultural outsider. In each chapter, Hoy examines a particular author and text in order to address some of the basic theoretical questions of reader location, cultural difference, and cultural appropriation, finally concluding that these Native authors have refused to be confined by identity categories such as 'woman' or 'Native,' and have themselves provided a critical voice guiding how their texts might be read and taught."-- from the UTP catalog

I would also add that, perhaps unintentionally, her selection of authors honors the work of independent presses in Canada. Because of my expertise with small presses, I recognized several of the authors in this volume. It once again emphasizes how critical the work of small and independent presses are to making visible the literature of many underrepresented communities. *** Native-American; Literary Criticism

Also of interest...
Writing the Meal: Dinner in the Fiction of Early Twentieth-Century Women Writers, Diane McGee, Univ. of Toronto Press, $60.00 cl, 0-8020-3541-8, 2001. ** Literary Criticism

American Women Writers and the Nazis: Ethics and Politics in Boyle, Porter, and Hellman, Thomas Carl Austenfeld, University Press of Virginia, $34.50 cl, 0-8139-2052-3, 2001.
Through examining the works of Kay Boyle, Katherine Anne Porter, Jean Stafford, and Lillian Helman, Austenfeld demonstrates the ways in which these authors mingle ethical behavior and political conviction in their writings. ** Literary Criticism

Contingent Loves: Simone de Beauvoir and Sexuality, Melanie C. Hawthorne, University Press of Virginia, $17.50 pb, 0-8139-1974-6, or $49.50 cl, 0-8139-1916-9, 2001.
With the uncovering of her early diaries and the recent publication of her passionate letters to Nelson Algren, she has become more than a towering figure of twentieth-century feminism. This volume brings into play a variety of fresh voices, from a Swedish novelist and advice columnist to an interdisciplinary theorist of decadence. The essays address the multitude of issues arising from the affective, personal, political, and sexual dimensions of Beauvoir's life and work. ** Women's Studies

Bike Lust: Harleys, Women, & American Society, Barbara Joans, Univ. of Wisconsin Press, $21.95 pb, 0-299-17354-2, or $55.00 cl, 0-299-17350-X, 2001. "The bitch seat, usually small, extremely uncomforatble, and precariously perched (almost as an afterthought) both actualizes and symbolizes the women's position. She is both necessary to and peripheral to the biking world....Women who ride today are a relatively new phenomenon....There are motorcycle festivals, parties, rallies and gatherings....The women at these events cover all parts of the riding continuum....Whether they ride in the front or on the back, they have challenged the historical roles of women in the biking world. None of them are bitches on the back." (pp. 138-139) In this adventure story that is also an insider's study of an American subculture, Barbara Joans enters as a passenger on the back of a bike, but soon learns to ride her ow