About Feminist Collections
FEMINIST COLLECTIONS: A QUARTERLY OF WOMEN'S STUDIES RESOURCES (ISSN 0742-7441) 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 websites 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.FEMINIST COLLECTIONS is part of a joint subscription with FEMINIST PERIODICALS: A CURRENT LISTING OF CONTENT and NEW BOOKS ON WOMEN, GENDER, & 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 in Women's Studies International selectively from 1982-1993, completely thereafter; in Alternative Press Index from vol. 22, no. 1 (Fall 2000); and in Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts from vol. 25, no. 2 (Winter 2004). (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 us.
Newest Items from Feminist Collections
From v. 30, no. 4 (Fall 2009): Table of Contents, E-Sources on Women and Gender Column, and a book review essay "Feminist Ethics: From Local to Global," by Andrea C. Westlund.
From v. 30, no. 3 (Summer 2009): Table of Contents, From the Editors column, E-Sources on Women and Gender column, and "Collecting, Preserving, and Sharing Women's History," a book review by Phyllis Holman Weisbard.
From v. 30, no. 2 (Spring 2009): Table of Contents, E-Sources on Women and Gender column, and "An Open Letter, to the New White House Council on Women & Girls re: Federal Government Website for Women," by Beth Harper.
From v. 30, no. 1 (Winter 2009): Table of Contents, From the Editors, E-Sources on Women and Gender column, and "What's a Bright Feminist Like You Doing in a Genre Like This? Readings Women's Science Fiction," book review essay by Helen Merrick.
From v. 29, no. 3-4 (Summer-Fall 2008): Table of Contents and From the Editors, E-Sources on Women and Gender column, "A Torrent of Moving Images: Free Online Videos for Women’s Studies," an article by Phyllis Holman Weisbard, and
"Undead, Gothic, and Queer: The Allure of Buffy," a book review essay by Pamela O'Donnell.
From v. 29, no. 2 (Spring 2008): Table of Contents, E-Sources on Women and Gender column and "Feminist Artists and Art (Still) Works: Four Films," reviewed by Helen Klebesadel.
From v. 29, no. 1 (Winter 2008): Table of Contents and
E-Sources on Women and Gender that issue
From v. 28, no. 4 (Summer-Fall 2007): Table of Contents and E-Sources on Women and Gender that issue
Table of Contents from v. 28, no. 3 (Spring 2007)
Our series on Girls' Studies
"E-Sources on Women and Gender" Column
v. 30, no. 2 (Spring 2009)v. 30, no. 1 (Winter 2009)
v. 29, no. 3-4 (Summer-Fall 2008)
v. 29, no. 2 (Spring 2008)
v. 29, no. 1 (Winter 2008)
v. 28, no. 4 (Summer-Fall 2007)
v. 28, no. 3 (Spring 2007)
Sample Book Reviews (Firefox users, read this first)
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)]
Collecting, Preserving, and Sharing Women's History, by Phyllis Holman Weisbard [from v.30, no.3 (Summer 2009)
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)]
Feminist Ethics: From Local to Global by Andrea C. Westlund, a review of three books [from v. 30, no.4 (Fall 2009)]
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 Pedagogical 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)]
"Undead, Gothic, and Queer: The Allure of Buffy," by Pamela O'Donnell [from v.29, no.3-4 (Summer-Fall 2008)]
"What's a Bright Feminist Like You Doing in a Genre Like This? Readings Women's Science Fiction," book review essay by Helen Merrick [from v. 30, no.1 (Winter 2009)]
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 (Firefox users, read this first)
Feminist Artists and Art (Still) Works: Four Films, reviewed by Helen Klebesadel [from v. 29, no. 2 (Spring 2008)]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 (Firefox users, read this first)
Blogging Women's Studies (Round-Up), by various contributors [from v.27, no.2-3 (Winter-Spring 2006)]; a second round-up Blogs and Other E-Tools for Women's Studies [from v.28, no.4 (Summer-Fall 2007)]; and a third round-up YouTube in Women's Studies [from v.29, no.1 (Winter 2008)]
Digital Feminism: Reaching Women Through Web-Based Courses, by Melissa Alsgaard [from v.22, no.1 (Fall 2000)]
“Do You YouTube?" Using Online Video in Women’s
Studies Courses, by Deb Hoskins [from v.30, no.2 (Spring 2009)]
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)]
"An Open Letter, to the New White House Council on Women & Girls re: Federal Government Website for Women," by Beth Harper [from v.30, no.2 (Spring 2009)]
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)]
"A Torrent of Moving Images: Free Online Videos for Women’s Studies," an article by Phyllis Holman Weisbard
[from v.29, no.3-4 (Summer-Fall 2008)]
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)]
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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."