Publications from the Women's Studies Librarian's Office, UW System

About Feminist Collections

FEMINIST COLLECTIONS: A QUARTERLY OF WOMEN'S STUDIES RESOURCES reviews the latest print, electronic, and audiovisual resources for research and teaching in women's studies. Recent book reviews have treated such subjects as women of color in academia, pregnancy in modern America, feminist evangelicalism, and girls' studies. There are guides to new bibliographies and reference works, critiques of videos, announcements of new websties and blogs, and news of out-of-the-way materials -- pamphlets, reports, rare book dealers' catalogs, microforms, and more. Thoughtful articles by experts explore women's publishing, Internet resources, library organization, archives, and other tools for feminist scholarship. New periodicals and special issues of journals in other disciplines are announced in each issue.

Announcing our series on Girls' Studies.

Read the introduction to the series, by Tracy Wendt Lemaster, Guest Editor [from v. 28, no. 3 (Spring 2007].
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FEMINIST COLLECTIONS is part of a joint subscription with FEMINIST PERIODICALS: A CURRENT LISTING OF CONTENT and NEW BOOKS ON WOMEN & FEMINISM. FEMINIST COLLECTIONS is also available in fulltext from vol. 16, no. 1 (Fall 1994) in the databases Contemporary Women’s Issues and GenderWatch and is indexed from vol. 22, no. 1 (Fall 2000) in Alternative Press Index (links will work for University of Wisconsin-Madison users; elsewhere, check your library).

For further information check with the Office of the UW System Women's Studies Librarian, 430 Memorial Library, 728 State Street, Madison, WI 53706; (608) 263-5754, or Email .

Newest Items from Feminist Collections

Announcing our series on Girls' Studies.

Read the introduction to the series, by Tracy Wendt Lemaster, Guest Editor [from v. 28, no. 3 (Spring 2007].

Order the series!

E-Sources on Women and Gender [from v. 28, no. 4 (Summer-Fall 2007)]

Table of Contents from the latest issue [v. 28, no. 4 (Summer-Fall 2007]

Table of Contents from a recent Issue [from v. 28, no. 3 (Spring 2007)]

"E-Sources on Women and Gender" Column

From v. 28, no. 4 (Summer-Fall 2007)

From v. 28, no. 3 (Spring 2007)

Sample Book Reviews

Are Abortion Politics Relevant to Women of Color?, by Sherri L. Barnes [from v.27, no.1 (Fall 2005)]

Can a Book About Mentoring Be a Mentor?, by Jean Waltman [from v.24, no.3-4 (Spring-Summer 2003)]

Celebrating, Deconstructing, Historicizing, and Theorizing Transgenderism and the Transgendered, by Eleanor M. Miller [from v.19, no.2 (Winter 1998)]

Changing Voices and Struggles of Feminist Activism, by Nancy Worcester [from v.27, no.2-3 (Winter-Spring 2006)]

Domestic Violence Texts: A Review of Teaching Resources, by Karen E. Muench [from v.23, no.2 (Winter 2002)]

Evangelical Feminism, by Nadean Bishop [from v.27, no.4 (Summer 2006)]

Introducing the Women and Religion Review Series, by Lori Rowlett [from v.24, no.2 (Winter 2003)]

Narratives from Women of Color in the Halls of Academe, by Pat Washington [from v. 28, no. 1 (Fall 2006)]

New Millenium Trannies: Gender-Bending, Identities, and Cultural Politics, by Joelle Ruby Ryan [from v.26, no.1 (Fall 2004)]

North American Muslim Women Voice Their Concerns, by Sherine Hamdy [from v.22, no.3-4 (Spring-Summer 2001)]

The Pedigogical Mystique: Feminist Academic Discourse, by Carmen Faymonville [from v.24, no.2 (Winter 2003)]

Reworking Pasts and Envisioning Futures: Thinking "Otherwise" About Women's Studies, by Catherine M. Orr [from v.26, no.4 (Summer 2005)]

Writing and Reading Memoir as Consciousness-Raising: If the Personal is Political, is the Memoir Feminist?, by Helen Bannon [from v.26, no.2-3 (Winter-Spring 2005)]

Sample Video Reviews

Honoring the Forgotten History of Birth Control, by Phyllis Holman Weisbard [from v. 28, no. 1 (Fall 2006)]

Transsavvy Transfilms, by Bri Smith [from v.27, no.1 (Fall 2005)]

Women in Islam: Four Films by Jennifer Loewenstein [from v.22, no.3-4 (Spring-Summer 2001).]

For more video reviews, go to Feminist Collections' Archive and search for “Video Reviews” as a subject.

More Sample Articles and Reviews

Blogging Women's Studies (Round-Up), by various contributors [from v.27, no.2-3 (Winter-Spring 2006)]

Digital Feminism: Reaching Women Through Web-Based Courses, by Melissa Alsgaard [from v.22, no.1 (Fall 2000)]

Learning from Student Learning: A Librarian-Instructor's View of Her Information Literacy Class, by Carroll Wetzel Wilkinson (from v. 28, no. 1 (Fall 2006)], a follow-up to her Stronger Students, Better Research: Information Literacy in the Women's Studies Classroom [from v.25, no.4 (Summer 2004)]

Like Catching Waves Upon the Sand: The Challenges of Designing for the Web, by Pamela O'Donnell [from v.24, no.2 (Winter 2003)]

Negotiating Class Interests and Academy-Community Divides: The Case of Women's Studies' Emergence at the University of Minnesota, by Catherine M. Orr [from v.20, no.3 (Spring 1999)]

The Power of Pen Publishing: International Grrrl Zines and Distros, by Elke Zobl [from v.26, no.1 (Fall 2004)]

Queens of the Zine Scene: Best Lines, by M.L. Frasier [from v.26, no.4 (Summer 2005)]

A Research Revolution in the Making: Google Books and More as Sources for Women’s History, by Phyllis Holman Weisbard [from v. 28, no.2 (Winter 2007)]

Treasures of the Women's Movement, by Marianne Boere [from v.22, no.1 (Fall 2000)]

"Why Shop? Week": Shopping, Service-Learning, and Student Activism, by Kayann Short [from v.20, no.3 (Spring 1999)]

For more articles on academy/community connections, go to Feminist Collections' archive and search by date for v.20, no.3 (Spring 1999).

For more articles on the use of technology in women's studies, go to Feminist Collections' archive and search for the subject "Information Technology."

For more zine reviews by M.L. Frasier, go to Feminist Collections' archive and search for the subject "Zines."