Feminist Collections, v.9, no.2 (winter 1988)
Abstract
Subtitle: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources. 35p.
Subject
Women's Studies
Gender
Feminism
Library Resources
Reviews
Permanent Link
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/21760Description
FROM THE EDITORS: Happy Birthday to Us! Reflections on the first ten years of the Women's Studies Librarian's office.
"LET'S TALK ABOUT IT": WOMEN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY: A book discussion program for public libraries.
A PERSPECTIVE ON EUROPEAN BOOKSELLING: Feminist bookstore owner Sandi Torkildson experiences an international bookselling conference.
NEWS FROM UW-PLATTVILLE: By Gloria Stephenson.
REFERENCE WORKS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES: New sources on: research terms on women; black American families; black librarian/writer Ann Allen Shockley; women's paid
and unpaid work; maps, charts and tables related to U.S. women; women's published diaries and letters; women in mathematics;
feminist criticism; nonsexist terms; gay and lesbian periodicals; materials on black girls and young women; feminism and pornography; Virginia Woolf's essays; vocational sex equity materials; nonsexist children's books; and women and development;
plus five more works.
PERIODICAL NOTES: New periodicals on the diverse "American voice"; witchcraft and goddess religion; bodybuilding; social welfare needs of women; Madison area feminist news; gender issues in education; gay and lesbian youth; miscarriage; welfare activism; women's publishing in England; and autobiographical writing.
Special issues on adolescent abortion; pornography; sex differences in education; the "Women Question"; and American
feminism from a conservative historical perspective. Transitions for Outwrite and Sinister Wisdom. Ceased publication: Women's Review (England).
ITEMS OF NOTE: A women's pamphlet on AIDS; a clearinghouse on women and girls
with disabilities; teaching modules on black women's education in the South; the TABS poster series; videos on sexual harassment;
the Business and Professional Women's Foundation database; more rare and out-of-print booksellers; a guide to ethical and legal issues of surrogate mothers; and more.
WISCONSIN BIBCIOGRAPHIES IN WOMEN'S STUDIES: A new listing of the most recent reference works in the field of women's studies.
WOMEN'S STUDIES IN WISCONSIN: The fourth edition of our statewide women's studies directory.
BOOK REVIEWS: "Specifying" and "signifying": the oral tradition in black
feminist writing, by Renny Harrigan.
The intersection of race and gender: autobiographies of Afro-American women, by Cheryl Johnson-Odim.
BOOKS RECENTLY RECEIVED.