Feminist Collections, v.33, no.1 (winter 2012)
Abstract
Subtitle: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources. ISSN: 0742-7441. 34p.
Subject
Archives
Reproductive Health
Gender and Judaism
Jewish women
Women's Studies
Gender
Feminism
Library Resources
Reviews
Permanent Link
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/63331Description
CONTENTS:
From the Editors: http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/publications/feminist-coll/FC_331_FromEditors.pdf .
Book Reviews:
LADIES IN HATS AND OTHER JEWISH GENDER SURPRISES, by Ruth Abrams. Reviews:
Hasia Diner, Shira Kohn, & Rachel Kranson, eds., A Jewish Feminine Mystique? Jewish Women in Postwar America (Rutgers University Press, 2010); & Harriet Hartman & Moshe Hartman, Gender and American Jews: Patterns in Work, Education & Family in Contemporary Life (Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, 2009).
http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/feminist-coll/FC_331_Abrams.pdf .
WHO'S AFRAID OF JEWISH PATRIARCHY? by Rebecca Ennen. Reviews
Elyse Goldstein, ed., New Jewish Feminism: Probing the Past, Forging the Future. Jewish Lights Publishing, 2009; & Marion A. Kaplan & Deborah Dash Moore, eds., Gender and Jewish History (Indiana University Press, 2011).
Archives:
FOUR CENTURIES OF REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AT THE SALLIE BINGHAM CENTER
by Laura Micham.
The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture, part of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University, houses a unique and extensive collection of material -- from several countries -- documenting the history of abortion and reproductive health over four centuries.
New Reference Works in Women's Studies column:
Noel Merino, ed., GENDER. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2010. Reviewed by Chimene Tucker.
Hugh Stevens, ed., THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO GAY AND LESBIAN WRITING. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Reviewed by Michelle Martinez.
Michael Kaufman & Michael Kimmel, THE GUY'S GUIDE TO FEMINISM. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press, 2011. Reviewed by Kelsey Wallner.
Judith Bellafaire, WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES MILITARY: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. New York: Routledge, 2011. Reviewed by Susan Bennett White.
Mary Zeiss Stange & Carol K. Oyster, eds., & Jane Sloan, multimedia ed., THE MULTIMEDIA ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN IN TODAY'S WORLD. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2011. Reviewed by Amanda Swygart-Hobaugh.
Melissa Hope Ditmore, PROSTITUTION AND SEX WORK. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood/ABC-CLIO, 2011. Reviewed by Jeanne Armstrong.
Michele A. Paludi & Florence L. Denmark, eds., VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT AND ABUSE: RESOURCES AND RESPONSES FOR INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger/ABC-CLIO, 2010. Reviewed by Amanda C. Youngbar.
Alison Findlay, WOMEN IN SHAKESPEARE: A DICTIONARY. London, UK: Continuum, 2010. Reviewed by Stacy Russo.
Bethany Bezdecheck, RELATIONSHIPS: 21ST-CENTURY ROLES. New York, NY: Rosen Publishing, 2010. (A Young Woman's Guide to Contemporary Issues.) 1Reviewed by Nancy Nyland.
Linda Bickerstaff, VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: PUBLIC HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS. New York: Rosen Publishing, 2010. (A Young Woman's Guide to Contemporary Issues). Reviewed by Laura Rancani.
In addition, columns describing new electronic resources (http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/publications/feminist-coll/FC_331_E-Sources.pdf), special/thematic issues of periodicals, and other items of note.