Feminist Collections, v.34, no.1-2 (winter-spring 2013).
Abstract
Subtitle: A Quarterly of Women?s Studies Resources.
ISSN 0742-7441, 42p.
Subject
Disability
Literary Criticism
MOOCs
Neuroscience
Spanish
Archives
Textbooks
E-Sources
Women's Studies
Gender
Feminism
Library Resources
Reviews
Permanent Link
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/69374Type
Journal Issue
Description
CONTENTS: From the Editors (featuring farewell message from Phyllis Holman Weisbard);
Book Reviews: "Disability Studies and Stories: Connections between Feminist Disability Theory and Lived Experiences," by Karen Keddy (Ball State) reviewing Parin Dossa, RACIALIZED BODIES, DISABLING WORLDS: STORIED LIVES OF IMMIGRANT MUSLIM WOMEN, Sheryl Feinstein & Nicole C. D'Errico, TANZANIAN WOMEN IN THEIR OWN WORDS: STORIES OF DISABILITY AND ILLNESS, and Kim Q. Hall, ed., FEMINIST DISABILITY STUDIES;
"This Is Your Brain on Feminism: Evaluating the Claims of Neuroscience about Sex, Gender, and the Brain," by Alisa Von Hagel (UW-Superior) reviewing Robyn Bluhm, Anne Jaap Jacobson, & Heidi Lene Maibom, eds., NEUROFEMINISM: ISSUES AT THE INTERSECTION OF FEMINIST THEORY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE;
"Mentoring Feminist Literary Critics," by Stephanie H. Wical (UW-Eau Claire) reviewing Sandra M. Gilbert, REREADING WOMEN: THIRTY YEARS OF EXPLORING OUR LITERARY TRADITIONS;
"Coverage, Content, Concepts: Textbooks for Introductory Courses in Women's and Gender Studies," by Christie Launius (UW-Oshkosh) and Holly Hassel (UW Colleges, UW-Marathon County) reviewing eighteen intro textbooks;
"Spanish Women's Studies," by Melissa Guy (Arizona State University at Tempe) reviewing Xon de Ros & Geraldine Hazbun, eds., A COMPANION TO SPANISH WOMEN'S STUDIES;
"Archival Activism: Feminist and Queer Documentation," by Virginia Corvid (Seattle, WA) reviewing Lyz Bly & Kelly Wooten, eds., MAKE YOUR OWN HISTORY: DOCUMENTING FEMINIST AND QUEER ACTIVISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY;
"Going MOOC: Massive Open Online Courses," by Phyllis Holman Weisbard;
E-Sources on Women & Gender;
New Reference Works in Women's Studies:
Toyin Falola & Nana Akua Amponsah, WOMEN'S ROLES IN SUBSAHARAN AFRICA, reviewed by Rachel Bicicchi; Jeannette E. Brown, AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN CHEMISTS, reviewed by Laura Wilson; Judith A. Warner, WOMEN AND CRIME: A REFERENCE HANDBOOK, and Vickie Jensen, ed., WOMEN CRIMINALS: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PEOPLE AND ISSUES, both reviewed by Susan Bennett White; Eleanor Hinton Hoytt & Hilary Beard, HEALTH FIRST! THE BLACK WOMAN'S WELLNESS GUIDE, reviewed by Gabrielle M. Toth; Mary Kosut, ed., THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GENDER IN MEDIA, reviewed by Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh; Glenda Norquay, ed., THE EDINBURGH COMPANION TO SCOTTISH WOMEN'S WRITING, reviewed by Susan Wood; Daina Ramey Berry & Deleso A. Alford, eds., ENSLAVED WOMEN IN AMERICA: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA, reviewed by Vanette Schwartz; Susan Archer Mann, DOING FEMINIST THEORY: FROM MODERNITY TO POSTMODERNITY, reviewed by Beatrice Calvert; Audrey Nelson & Claire Damken Brown, THE GENDER COMMUNICATION HANDBOOK: CONQUERING CONVERSATIONAL COLLISIONS BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN, reviewed by Nancy Nyland.
In addition, our "Periodical Notes," "Items of Note," and "Books Recently Received."