Feminist Academic Press Column

December, 2003

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New Journals Academic Books from Women's Presses Self-Published Books Zenprint ABC-CLIO, Inc. Univ. of Alabama Press Univ. of Arizona Press Augsberg Fortress Press Beacon Press Bucknell University Press Cambridge Univ. Press Univ. of California Univ. of Chicago Press Univ. Press of Colorado Press Columbia Univ. Press Cornell Univ. Press Univ. of Delaware Press Duke Univ. Press EdgeWork Books Univ. Press of Florida Gallaudet Univ. Press Univ. of Georgia Press Guilford Press Hampton Press Inc Harrington Park Press Harvard Univ. Press Houghton Mifflin Humanity Books, Imprint of Prometheus Univ. of Illinois Press Indiana Univ. Press Ivan R. Dee Press Univ. of Iowa Press Johns Hopkins Univ. Press Jossey-Bass Inc. Univ. Press of Kansas Univ. Press of Kentucky Kluwer Academic Press Peter Lang Publishing Univ. of Massachusetts Press Univ. of Michigan Press Minnesota Historical Society Press Univ. of Minnesota Press Univ. Press of Mississippi Univ. of Missouri Press MIT Press Museum of New Mexico Univ. of Nebraska Press Univ. of Nevada Press Univ. Press of New England New World Library New York Univ. Press (NYU) Univ. of North Carolina Press Univ. of North Texas Press Northeastern Univ. Press Northern Illinois Univ. Press Northwestern Univ. Press Notre Dame Univ. Press Ohio State Univ. Press Ohio Univ. Press Univ. of Oklahoma Press Oxford Univ. Press Palgrave / Macmillan Penguin Books Univ. of Pennsylvania Press Univ. of Pittsburgh Press Polity Princeton Univ. Press Prometheus Routledge Rutgers Univ. Press Sage Publications South End Press Southern Illinois Univ. Press Stanford Univ. Press Stylus Publishing State Univ. of New York Pr. (SUNY) Teacher's College Press Temple University Press Univ. of Tennessee Press Univ. of Texas Press Univ. of Toronto Press Univerity Press of America University Press of Virginia Univ. of Washington Press Wesleyan Univ. Press Univ. of Wisconsin Press Yale University Press

Note: Many titles have more than one subject classification. However, in the interest of space, only the primary subject category for each title is listed here. Additional subject areas can be found in the detailed description of the individual titles. African-American Age Ain't Nothing but a Number Carleen Brice, editor Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women's Activism Joyce A. Hanson A Song of Faith and Hope Frankie Muse Freeman and with Candace O"Connor Summer Snow Trudier Harris Aging Widows and Divorcees in Later Life Carol L. Jenkins, editor Anthropology Arts: Art, Photography As Eve Said to the Serpent Rebecca Solnit Elizabeth I Compiled and edited by Georgianna Ziegler Focus on Living Photographs and Interviews by Roslyn Banish From Flitch to Ash Diane Derrick Kara Walker Ian Berry, Darby English, Vivian Patterson, and Mark Reinhardt, editors Never Late for Heaven Sheryl Conkelton and Barbara earl Thomas Women and War Jenny Matthews [photographer] Arts: Film, Video Points of Resistance Lauren Rabinovitz Straight Wheeler Winston Dixon Asian American "A Half Caste" and Other Writings Linda Trinh Moser, editor and Elizabeth Rooney Autobiography/Memoir All in a Day's Work Ida M. Tarbell Gods of Noonday Elaine Neil Orr The Language of Blood Jane Jeong Trenka Songs of Life and Grace Linda Scott DeRosier Biography Alice Hamilton Barbara Sicherman Elizabeth Murray Patricia Cleary Ellen Glasgow Susan Goodman Flannery O'connor Sarah Gordon The Lonely Hunter Virginia Spencer Carr Nietzsches Sister and the Will to Power Carol Diethe Precious Fire Karen Garner The Selected Letters of Dolly Payne Madison David B. Mattern and Holly C. Shulman, editors Two Sisters for Social Justice Lela B. Costin Virginia Woolf's Women Canessa Curtis The World of Hannah Heaton Barbara E. Lacey, editor Culture/Cultural Studies Becoming Cleopatra FrancescaT. Royster Jane Austen and Co. Suzanne R. Pucci and James Thompson, editors Death, Dying Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary Rebecca Brown Disability Long Time, No See Beth Finke Drama Five Comedies George Sand, Translated by E.H. & A.M. Blackmore and Francine GiguËre Women in Turmoil Robert A. Schanke, editor Ecology & Environment Living on Wilderness Time Melissa Walker The Return of the Mexican Gray Wolf Bobbie Holaday Economics Feminist Economics Today Marianne A. Ferber and Julie a. Nelson, editors Education Between Femininities Marnina Gonick Gender and the Modern Research University Patricia MazÛn Girls" Voices Leora Cruddas and Lynda Haddock Girls" Voices Leora Cruddas and Lynda Haddock In Praise of Our Teachers Gloria Wade Gayles, editor Personal and Political Miriam E. David Practice Makes Practice Deborah P. Britzman Reconsidering Feminist Research in Educational Leadership Michelle D. Young and Linda Sklar, editors Silenced Sexualities in Schools and Universities Debbie Epstein, Sarah O"Flynn and David Telford The Teacher"s Body Diane P. Freedman and Martha Stoddard holmes, editors Essays Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed Mimi Schwartz Essays of Resistance The Companion Species Manifesto Donna Haraway Family Relations Should We Worry about Family Change? Jane Lewis Feminist Theory Fractured Feminisms Laura Gray-Rosendale and Gil Harootunian, editors Key Concepts in Feminist Theory and Research Christina Hughes Reading Across Borders Shari Stone-Mediatore Sex Radicals and the Quest for Women's Equality Joanne E. Passet Fiction The Crux Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Introduction by Dana Seitler Ninochka Svetlana Boym West of the Jordan Laila Halaby Where No Gods Came Sheila O"Connor Fiction: Lesbian Ginger's Fire Maureen Brady Past Perfect Judith P. Stelboum Fiction: Short Stories American Indian Stories Zitkala-Sa and Introduction by Susan Rose Dominguez American Wives Beth Helms Broken Lives and Other Stories Anthonia C. Kalu Cities in the Sea Maura Stanton A Private State charlotte Bacon Gay/Lesbian Studies All the Rage Suzanna Danuta Walters Gay Rights and American Law Daniel R. Pinello Gay Seattle Gary Atkins Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution Evan Gerstmann Troubling Education Kevin Kumashiro When the Drama Club Is Not Enough Jeff Perrotti and Kim Westheimer Gender Studies Gender and Politeness Sara Mills Gender Differences at Puberty Chirs Heyward, editor Naked Barbies, Warrior Joes & Other Forms of Visible Gender Jeannie Banks Thomas Seeing Nature through Gender Virginia J. Scharff, editor Gender/Law Issues Am I a Woman Cynthia Eller Health & Medicine Silent Invaders Miriam Jacobs and Barbara Dinham, editors History The Complete Writings of an Italian Heretic Translated and edited by Holt N. Parker Looking Good Margaret A. Lowe Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking Jessamyn Neuhaus On the Farm Front Stephanie A. Carpenter Prostitution, Race & Politics Philippa Levine The Rise of the New Woman Jean v. Matthews Women at the Hague Jane Addams, Emily G. Balch, and Alice Hamilton and with Introduction by Mary Jo Deegan Women at the Hague Jane Addams, Emily G. Balch, and Alice Hamilton and with Introduction by Harriet Hyman Alonso Women, Work and Representation Lynn M. Alexander International International: Africa International: Asia On the Outside Looking In(dian) Phillipa Kafka International: Caribbean Macadam Dreams GisËle Pineau and translated by C. Dickson International: Latin & Central America Sin Puertas Visibles Jen Hofer, editor International: Middle East The Bathhouse Farnoosh Moshiri The Idea of Women in Fundamentalist Islam Lamia Rustum Shehadeh Our Sister's Promised Land Ayala Emmett Wedding Song Farideh Goldin Women and Gender in early Jewish and Palestinian Nations Sheila H. Katz International: Russia & Slavic International: Western Europe Contemporary Spanish Women's Narrative and the Publishing Industry Christine Henseler Jewish Women Language / Linguistics Latinas Chicana Feminisms Gabriela F. Arredondo, AÌda Hurtado, Norma Klahn, Olga N·jera-RamÌrez and Patricia Zavella, editors A Poet's Truth Bruce Allen Dick Translated Woman Ruth Behar Law Lesbian Studies His hands, His Tools, His Sex, His Dress Catherine Reid and Holly K. Iglesias, editors "That Furious Lesbian" Robert A. Schanke Weeding at Dawn Hawk Madrone Literary Criticism Accursed Politics Renee Winegarten Africanism and Authenticity in African-American Women"s Novels Amy K. Levin Black, White, and in Color Hortense J. Spillers Cather Studies, Volume 5 edited by Susan J. Rosowski Explorations in Contemporary Feminist Literature Mary Pernal From Girl to Woman Christy Rishoi Gertrude Stein Ulla E. Dydo and with William Rice How to Live / What to Do Adalaide Morris Literature after Feminism Rota Felski Middlebrow moderns Lisa Botshon and Meredith Goldsmith, editors Personal Property Margit Stange Rita Dove"s Cosmopolitanism Malin Pereira Settler Feminism and Race Making in Canada Jennifer Henderson Toni Morrison Lucille P. Fultz Vernon Lee Christa Zorn Women in the Discourse of Early Modern Spain Joan F. Cammarata Women & Laughter in Medieval Comic Literature Lisa Perfetti Women Writers and National Identity Stephanie Bird Women"s Utopias of the Eighteenth Century Alessa Johns Literature Beautiful Angiola Collected by Laura Gonzenbach and Translated by Jack Zipes The Grand Permission Patricia Dienstfrey and Brenda Hillman, editors House of Day, House of Night Olga Tokarczuk and Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones The Land of Journey"s Ending Mary Austen, Introduction by Melody Graulich and Illustrations by John Edwin Jackson A Lost Lady Willa Cather, Historical Essay by Susan J. Rosowski with Kari Ronning and Textual Editing by Charles W. Mignon and Frederick M. Link My ¡ntonia Willa Cather, Charles Mignon with Kari Ronning [editor] and Historical Essay by James Woodress Reclaiming Klytemnestra Kathleen L. Komar The Story of Sapho Madeleine de ScudÈry and Edited and translated by Karen Newman Music Empress Marie Therese and Music at the Viennese Court, 1792-1807 John A. Rice Music and Gender Tullia Magrini, editor Open the Door William R. Bauer Native-American Blood and Voice Maureen Trudelle Schwarz Periodicals Philosophy Poetry The Dirt She Ate Minnie Bruce Pratt Eyeshot Heather McHugh Mercy Mercy Me Elana Georgiou Mixed Plate Faye Kicknosway Open Slowly Kate Light Ostinato Vamps Wanda Coleman Red Earth Alice Corbin Rhythm & Booze Julie Kane The Shadow's Horse Diane Glancy Singing the Bones Together Angela Shannon Song of Thieves Shara McCallum Sor Juana's Love Poems Sor Juana Inez de la cruz, Translated by Joan Larkin and Jaime Manrique Speak to Me Words Dean Rader and Janice Gould, editors Politics Ideas for action Cynthia Kaufman Pregnancy/Birth Cesarean Section Michele Moore and Caroline de Costa Psychology The Complete Guide to Mental Health for Women Lauren Slater, Ed.D., Jessica Henderson Daniel, Ph.D. and Amy Elizabeth Banks, M.D., editors Social Aggression among Girls Marion K. Underwood Race Theory I Have Been Waiting Jennifer S. Simpson Reference/Directories Kali Guide Stelli Munis Regional: Midwest Regional: South The Confederate Belle Giselle Roberts Dixie's Daughters Karen L. Cox Monuments to the Lost Cause Cynthia Mills and Pamela H. Simpson, editors Regional: West Reproductive Rights The Male Pill Nelly Oudshoorn Science/Technology Unlocking the Clubhouse Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher Sexuality Language and Sexuality Deborah Cameron and Don Kulick Warrior Lovers Catherine Salmon and Donald Symons Social Sciences Book Clubs Elizabeth Long Transexualism Collette Chiland and Philip Slotkin [translator] Spirituality/Religion Breathing Space Heidi B. Neumark From Deborah to Esther Lillian R. Klein In Justice Ann-Cathrin Jarl Poor Banished Children of Eve Gale A. Yee Reconciling Catholicism and Feminism? Sally Barr Ebest and Ron Ebest, editors The Red-Haired Girl from the Bog Patricia Monaghan Religion in French Feminist Thought Morny Joy, Kathleen O"Grady and Judith L. Poxon, editors Women in Ochre Robes Meena Khandelwal Women in the Yoruba Religious Sphere Oyeronke Olajubu Sports & Outdoors Built to Win Leslie Haywood and Shari L. Dworkin Theater Breaking the Bounds Dimple Godiwala Violence and Abuse What's Mother got to Do with It? Julia Krane War/Peace/Anti-Militarism Women's Studies "Am I That Name?" Denise Riley Gendered States Ann Porter Hit Mary E. Walker, M.D. Women and the Bullring Muriel Feiner Writing Gut Feelings Merrill Joan Gerber

Academic Books from Women's Presses

Miscellaneous Self-Published Books

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Kali Guide: A Directory of Resources for Women - First edition, Stelli Munis, Zenprint, $29.95 pb, 0-9714085-0-5, 2003.
This directory covers products and services in such categories as creativity, culture, health and healing, sexuality, spirituality, life work and leisure. however, more than simply a listing of places to go or organizations to contact, this volume is full of the visions of several women for whom spiritual growth and connectedness to health issues are real. The book is full of reviews, artwork, recommendations, articles and reflections by healers and cultural workers. As with all directories in print, some of the resources are inaccurate (I noticed listings for at least 2 feminist publications now out of business) and some listings largely incomplete (like the listing of feminist bookstores) but overall this is a useful guide for those seeking various connections to spirit, work, and women's cultural power. (****) Reference/Directories; Spirituality/Religion; Womenís Studies ** Recommended

ABC-CLIO, Inc.

Univ. of Arizona

Blood and Voice: Navajo Women Ceremonial Practices, Maureen Trudelle Schwarz, Univ of Arizona Press, $24.95 pb, 0-8165-2301-0, or $50.00 cl, 0-8165-2300-2, 2003.
Through interviews with practitioners and apprentices, this study explores women's roles as singers in Navajo ceremonies, a position more commonly thought to be the role of men. Women's roles as menstruates and reproducers of life do come under consideration in these practices as well. This work calls into question the sexual divisions of labor, self-image, menstrual taboo, gender stereotypes and the tension between tradition and change. (***) Native American; Anthropology; Gender Studies

A Poet's Truth: Conversations with Latino / Latina Poets, Bruce Allen Dick, Univ of Arizona Press, $17.95 pb, 0-8165-2276-0, or $40.00 cl, 0-8165-2275-8, 2003.
Conversations in this volume of 15 interviews include these women: Sandra Maria Esteves, Demetria MartÌnez, Pat Mora, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Aleida RodrÌguez, and Carolina Hospital. (****) Latinas; Poetry

The Return of the Mexican Gray Wolf: Back to the Blue, Bobbie Holaday, Univ of Arizona Press, $18.95 pb, 0-8165-2296-0, or $45.00 cl, 0-8165-2295-2, 2003.
Woman, wolf, wilderness...This firsthand account by Bobbie Holaday provides an important look into the saving of an endangered species. Holaday reintroduced wolves - nearly extinct - back into the Southwest in spite of controversy and struggle with ranchers and politicians. This memoir includes heartbreaking tragedy along with triumph. This account will be useful not only to those who enjoy reading about nature, but also for those looking for alternative ways to discuss environmental politics, political organizing, memoir, regional history. (****) Ecology & Environment; Autobiography/Memoir

The Shadow's Horse, Diane Glancy, Univ of Arizona Press, $15.95 pb, 0-8165-2328-2, 2003.
Jacket copy...The Shadow's Horse is a new collection of poems in which Glancy walks the margin between her white and Indian heritage. In poems that conjure the persistence of fallen leaves or juxtapose images of Christ and the stockyards, she powerfully evokes place and spirit to address with intelligence and beauty issues of family, work, and faith. (****) Poetry; Native American ** Recommended

Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry, Dean Rader and Janice Gould, editors, Univ of Arizona Press, $24.95 pb, 0-8165-2349-5, or $50.00 cl, 0-8165-2348-7, 2003.
Several of the essays in this volume specifically address Native American women's writing, and discuss in detail the work of important women poets. (****) Poetry; Native American also of interest

Augsberg Fortress Press

From Deborah to Esther: Sexual Politics in the Hebrew Bible, Lillian R. Klein, Augsburg Fortress Press , $15.00 pb, 0-8006-3592-2, 2003.
Through the narrative stories of Hannah, Achsah, Esther, Deborah, Delilah, Jael, Michal and Bathsheba, Klein explores male power and male fear in the Hebrew Bible. These women function in contrast to their male counterparts and are exemplary figures. (****) Spirituality/Religion

In Justice: Women and Global Economics, Ann-Cathrin Jarl, Augsburg Fortress Press , $17.00 pb, 0-8006-3568-X, 2003.
This primer on global economics and feminist economics includes discussion of feminist Christian social ethics as well. (****) Spirituality/Religion; Economics; Womenís Studies

Poor Banished Children of Eve: Woman as Evil in the Hebrew Bible, Gale A. Yee, Augsburg Fortress Press , $24.00 pb, 0-8006-3457-8, 2003.
Yee investigates the history the traditional symbolization of woman as evil, including Eve in Genesis, Gomer in Hosea, Oholah and Oholibah in Ezekiel, and the "strange woman" of Proverbs. Employing a materialist literary criticism, ideological criticism, and the social sciences, she investigates how this negative imagery crops up in a variety of forms. (***) Spirituality/Religion; Womenís Studies

Age Ain't Nothing but a Number: Black Women Explore Midlife, Carleen Brice, editor, Beacon Press, $14.00 pb, 0-8070-2823-1, 2003.
This first anthology of its kind includes 43 writings from such notable authors as Maya Angelou, Rita Dove, Jewelle Gomez, April Sinclair, Gloria Naylor, J. California Cooper, among others as they ruminate in poetry, essay, and fiction on the many aspects of aging. These pieces cover such topics as family, friendship, love, sex, beauty, spirituality, work, health and other related topics. (****) African-American; Aging ** Recommended

Am I a Woman: A Skeptic's Guide to Gender, Cynthia Eller, Beacon Press, $24.00 cl, 0-8070-7508-6, 2003.
From the publisher... "Cynthia Eller asks what it is that really makes a woman a woman. Is a woman defined by her anatomy? Does she perceive the world differently from men? Is it her behavior that somehow marks her as inescapably female? Or is it a matter of how others evaluate her? Eller's answers demonstrate that the whole business of deciding who is a woman and who is notóand whyóis far more complicated than it at first appears." (****) Gender/Law Issues

The Bathhouse, Farnoosh Moshiri, Beacon Press, $13.00 pb, 0-8070-8357-7, 2003.
First published in 2001. (****) International: Middle East; Fiction Now in paperback

Breathing Space: A Spiritual Journey in South Bronx, Heidi B. Neumark, Beacon Press, $26.00 cl, 0-8070-7256-7, 2003.
Since 1984, the author has ministered in the South Bronx to a Hispanic and African American congregation coping with poverty provoked by issues of violence, addition, abuse, HIV/AIDS, epidemic health issues, substandard housing and other related issues. This is the memoir of her spiritual journey of activism and faith in this community. "The creation of breathing space is an act of conspiracy. I have come to see 'conspire' as a word with profound spiritual resonance. Like most people, I associated the word with its political meaning: to conspire in the sense of formulating secret strategies to overthrow some public power, person or nation. But the word 'conspiracy' is rooted in deeper soil. It means, literally, conspiritus, to breath together" (p. 106). (****) Spirituality/Religion; Autobiography/Memoir

The Complete Guide to Mental Health for Women, Lauren Slater, Ed.D., Jessica Henderson Daniel, Ph.D. and Amy Elizabeth Banks, M.D., editors, Beacon Press, $24.95 pb, 0-8070-2925-4, 2003.
Unlike many self help or psychology books that seem to want to disconnect mind from body, this useful book offers a way to be proactive and informed about mental health concerns by relating them to general health issues. In this way, disorders such as depression can be related to adjusting to major changes in ones life. The book first cover life cycle, then mental disorders followed by a section on "getting Help." Though a significant portion of the 3rd section covers medication, the final section of the book also acknowledges the ways in which play, spirituality, and exercise can also benefit ones mental health. (****) Psychology; Health & Medicine ** Recommended

In Praise of Our Teachers: A Multicultural Tribute to Those Who Inspired Us, Gloria Wade Gayles, editor, Beacon Press, $17.50 cl, 0-8070-3148-8, 2003.
For those needing inspiration, or those wanting to provide inspiration, or for those looking for an anthology of multicultural writings focused on a particular topic, this anthology offer 32 selections from a variety of people -- known and unknown -- offering praise and thanks for the teachers who impacted their lives. (****) Education; Literature

Summer Snow: Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South, Trudier Harris, Beacon Press, $24.00 cl, 0-8070-7254-0, 2003.
This witty and frank memoir shows the pride and acceptance of Trudier Harris who explores her blackness and southerness and the way these important realities shaped her life as a writer and intellectual. (****) African-American; Autobiography/Memoir ** Recommended

Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story, Ruth Behar, Beacon Press, $20.00 pb, 0-8070-4647-7, 2003.
Tenth Anniversary Edition with a New Preface (****) Latinas; Biography Reissue now available

West of the Jordan, Laila Halaby, Beacon Press, $13.00 pb, 0-8070-8359-3, 2003.
From the publisher... "This is a brilliant and revelatory first novel by a woman who is both an Arab and an American, who speaks with both voices and understands both worlds. Through the narratives of four cousins at the brink of maturity, Laila Halaby immerses her readers in the lives, friendships, and loves of girls struggling with national, ethnic, and sexual identities. Mawal is the stable one, living steeped in the security of Palestinian traditions in the West Bank. Hala is torn between two worlds-in love in Jordan, drawn back to the world she has come to love in Arizona. Khadija is terrified by the sexual freedom of her American friends, but scarred, both literally and figuratively, by her father's abusive behavior. Soraya is lost in trying to forge an acceptable life in a foreign yet familiar land, in love with her own uncle, and unable to navigate the fast culture of California youth. Interweaving their stories, allowing us to see each cousin from multiple points of view, Halaby creates a compelling and entirely original story, a window into the rich and complicated Arab world." (****) Fiction; Arab American ** Recommended

When the Drama Club Is Not Enough: Lessons from Safe Schools Program for Gay and Lesbian Students, Jeff Perrotti and Kim Westheimer, Beacon Press, $17.00 pb, 0-8070-3131-3, 2002.
(****) Gay/Lesbian/Queer Studies; Education ** Recommended

Bucknell University Press - (Distributed by Associated University Presses)

University of California Press

Cambridge University Press

Gay Rights and American Law, Daniel R. Pinello, Cambridge Univ. Press, $23.00 pb, 0-521-01214-7, or $70.00 cl, 0-521-81274-7, 2003.
This study analyzes how federal and state appellate courts treated the civil rights claims of lesbians and gay men between 1981 and 2000. It reveals how legal variables, judges' personal attributes, environmental factors (juridical ideology, consensual sodomy statutes, and gay civil rights laws), institutional determinants (judicial selection method and term length), and time and interest group participation were significant forces in judicial policymaking. This volume is best suited for lawyers, politicians, and other activists seeking for samples of case law in relation to gay rights or those who have a good understanding of legal terminology. (**) Gay/Lesbian/Queer Studies; Law

Gender and Politeness, Sara Mills, Cambridge Univ. Press, $24.00 pb, 0-521-00919-7, or $65.00 cl, 0-521-81084-1, 2003.
Are women necessarily more polite than men? Not according to this study. Politeness, like all gender relationships, is far more complex than merely a description of speech and language. Politeness and impoliteness contain judgment's about the ways in which people apply interventions and interactions in cultural context made difficult by perceived gender stereotypes. (***) Gender Studies

Gender Differences at Puberty, Chris Heyward, editor, Cambridge Univ. Press, $27.00 pb, 0-521-00165-X, or $78.00 cl, 0-521-80704-2, 2003.
Jacket copy... "This book focuses on the emergence of gender difference and provides an up to date summary of interdisciplinary research in the area with contributions from an international team of leading experts in the field. Topics covered include biological aspects of puberty, body image, aggression, sexual abuse, opposite-sex relationships and the psychopathology of puberty." (**) Gender Studies

Language and Sexuality, Deborah Cameron and Don Kulick, Cambridge Univ. Press, $21.00 pb, 0-521-00969-3, or $58.00 cl, 0-521-80433-7, 2003.
This textbook looks at how we talk about sex and why we talk about it the way we do. Drawing on a wide range of examples, from personal ads to phone sex, from sado-masochistic scenes to sexual assault trials, the book introduces the relationship between language and sexuality. Using a broad definition of 'sexuality', the book encompasses not only issues surrounding sexual orientation and identity but also questions about the discursive construction of sexuality and the verbal expression of erotic desire. (***) Sexuality; Language / Linguistics TEXTBOOK

Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution, Evan Gerstmann, Cambridge Univ. Press, $22.00 pb, 0-521-00952-7, or $60.00 cl, 0-521-81100-7, 2003.
From the introduction... "This book argues that we must leave behind the debate over "gay rights" and move on to far more productive and illuminating question of what legal rights all people in America share and what the contours of those rights might be. In truth, there is no such thing as gay rights. There are only legal and constitutional rights that must be applied and protected equally for all people." (pp. 3-4) (****) Gay/Lesbian/Queer Studies; Law

Women Writers and National Identity: Bachmann, Duden, ÷zdamar, Stephanie Bird, Cambridge Univ. Press, $65.00 cl, 0-521-82406-0, 2003.
This book explores the dual themes of female identity and national identity in the works of 3 major 20th-century German language writers. (**) Literary Criticism

Also of interest
Empress Marie Therese and Music at the Viennese Court, 1792-1807, John A. Rice, Cambridge Univ. Press, $75.00 cl, 0-521-82512-1, 2003.
This is the first study of the musical achievement of Empress Marie Therese, an important patron in Vienna during the time of Haydn and Beethoven. (**) Music

Univ. of Chicago Press

All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America, Suzanna Danuta Walters, Univ. of Chicago Press, $19.00 pb, 0-226-87232-7, 2003.
According to Walters, gay people are know seen, but unknown - visible but denied full citizenship. (***) Gay/Lesbian/Queer Studies

Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture, Hortense J. Spillers, Univ. of Chicago Press, $27.50 pb, 0-226-76980-1, 2003.
The focus of this collection of essays by Spillers is the reading of African American literature from slavery to the black intellectual in contemporary life. However, with several chapters on women writers and her feminist thought, this volume is worth considering for feminist/women's studies literature courses. (**) Literary Criticism

Book Clubs: Women and the Uses of Reading in Everyday Life, Elizabeth Long, Univ. of Chicago Press, $19.00 cl, 0-226-49262-1, 2003.
Many women cherish the books clubs they belong too. It seems to make sense -- reading, conversing, and exploring one's emotional terrain through an intellectual activity in a social circle. This book takes a closer look at why this phenomenon seems so compelling to women how book clubs " make a difference in our lives." Long explores who are the women in book groups, and why they find them to be spaces for inspiration and reimagination for themselves and collectively. (See also, Literature after Feminism. (****) Social Sciences; Womenís Studies

The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness, Donna Haraway, Prickly Paradigm Press (Distributed by Univ. of Chicago Press), $10.00 pb, 0-9717575-8-5, 2003.
Haraway views this manifesto as a personal document in which she explores two questions: what can be learned from taking dog-human relationships seriously and how might dog-human worlds convince us that history matters in nature cultures. Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC is devoted to giving serious authors free reign to say what's right and what's wrong about their disciplines and about the world, including what's never been said before. The result is intellectuals unbound, writing unconstrained and creative texts about meaningful matter. (***) Essays of Resistance

Feminist Economics Today: Beyond Economic Man, Marianne A. Ferber and Julie a. Nelson, editors, Univ. of Chicago Press, $16.00 pb, 0-226-24207-2, 2003.
Building on the 1993 publication of "Beyond Economic Man," this volume looks back at the progress of feminist economics and forward to its future, offering a thorough summary of feminist economic thought followed by original essays from the field's leading scholars--including Rebecca Blank, Nancy Folbre, and Myra Strober--reassessing the achievements and goals of the field. (***) Economics; Feminist Theory ** Recommended

Literature after Feminism, Rota Felski, Univ. of Chicago Press, $18.00 pb, 0-226-24115-7, 2003.
From the publisher... "Rita Felski explains how feminism has changed the ways people read and think about literature. She organizes her book around four key questions: Do women and men read differently? How have feminist critics imagined the female author? What does plot have to do with gender? And what do feminists have to say about the relationship between literary and political value?" On a personal note, I often find books focused on literary criticism too dry for the casual reader. However, this book is both readable and interesting. I find it interesting that it arrives in the same season as Book Clubs. Reading these two together might make for an interesting class -- or book club activity. (****) Literary Criticism ** Recommended

Music and Gender: Perspectives from the Mediterranean, Tullia Magrini, editor, Univ. of Chicago Press, $24.00 pb, 0-226-50166-3 , or $60.00 cl, 0-226-50165-5 , 2003.
Jacket copy... "From Spanish flamenco to Algerian raÔ, Greek rebetika to Turkish pop music, Sephardi and Berber songs to Egyptian belly dancers, the contributors cover an exceedingly wide range of geographic and musical territories. Individual essays examine musical behavior as representation, assertion, and sometimes transgression of gender identities; compare men's and women's roles in specific musical practices and their historical evolution; and explore how music and gender relate to such issues as ethnicity, nationality, and religion." (***) Music; International: Middle East; Anthropology

The Story of Sapho, Madeleine de ScudÈry and Edited and translated by Karen Newman, Univ. of Chicago Press, $18.00 pb, 0-226-14399-6, 2003.
The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe Series: Ridiculed for her Saturday salon, her long romance novels, and her protofeminist ideas, Madeleine de ScudÈry's (1607-1701) novels were popular bestsellers in her time, translated almost immediately into English, German, Italian, Spanish, and even Arabic. The Story tells of Sapho, a woman writer modeled on the Greek Sappho, who deems marriage slavery. Interspersed in the love story of Sapho and Phaon are a series of conversations like those that took place in ScudÈry's own salon in which Sapho and her circle discuss the nature of love, the education of women, writing, and right conduct. (****) Literature

Also of interest
The Complete Writings of an Italian Heretic: Olympia Morata, Translated and edited by Holt N. Parker, Univ. of Chicago Press, $22.50 pb, 0-226-53669-6, 2003.
Series Title: The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Olympia Morata (1526-1555)was a scholar in her day and sometimes considered a "Calvinist Amazon." (***) History

Univ. Press of Colorado Press

Columbia Univ. Press

Cornell Univ. Press

Univ. of Delaware Press - (Distributed by Associated University Presses)

Duke Univ. Press

Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader, Gabriela F. Arredondo, AÌda Hurtado, Norma Klahn, Olga N·jera-RamÌrez and Patricia Zavella, editors, Duke Univ. Press, $23.95 pb, 0-8223-3141-1, 2003.
The contributions in the collections presents new essays from emerging scholars and combine scholarly analysis with personal observation, interviews, letter, visual art and poetry. Topics and themes include tensions of history, culture, sexual orientation, language and region. (****) Latinas; Womenís Studies ** Recommended

The Crux, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Introduction by Dana Seitler, Duke Univ. Press, $16.95 pb, 0-8223-3167-5, 2003.
This is the second reprint of this Gilman novel -- different press, different editor, different binding. (see The Crux, Charlotte Perkins Gilmore and edited with an introduction by Jennifer S. Tuttle, Univ. of Delaware Press (Distributed by Associated University Presses), $42.50 cl, 0-87413-771-3, 2002. (Reviewed here, May, 2003). Those interested in Gilman's may want to explore both. (****) Fiction

The Male Pill: A Biography of a Technology in the Making, Nelly Oudshoorn, Duke Univ. Press, $21.95 pb, 0-8223-3195-0, 2003.
This is a study of hormonal contraceptives for men. (**) Reproductive Rights/Technology

EdgeWork Books

Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture, Karen L. Cox, Univ. Press of Florida, $55.00 cl, 0-8130-2625-3, 2003.
Series: New Perspectives on the History of the South From the publisher... "This remarkable history of the organization [United daughters of the Confederacy] presents a portrait of two generations of southern women whose efforts helped shape the social and political culture of the New South. It also offers a new historical perspective on the subject of Confederate memory and the role southern women played in its development." (**) Regional: South; History

The Idea of Women in Fundamentalist Islam, Lamia Rustum Shehadeh, Univ. Press of Florida, $55.00 cl, 0-8130-2606-7, 2003.
From the publisher... "Shehadeh's study, the only work that compiles and critiques the gender theory of the major Islamic fundamentalist ideologues, offers a unifying theory elucidating their stand on women's role in society and the centrality of women in their politically ideal Muslim society. This book provides new perspectives and insights into the 20th-century concept of political Islam." (**) International: Middle East; Spirituality/Religion

Women and the Bullring, Muriel Feiner, Univ. Press of Florida, $34.95 cl, 0-8130-2629-6, 2003.
The story of Women and the Bullring is one of daring and determined women who overcome countless obstacles and sexist barriers to realize a unique dream--that of becoming a ""matadora de toros."" (****) Womenís Studies; Sports/Outdoors

Also of interest
Africanism and Authenticity in African-American Women's Novels, Amy K. Levin, Univ. Press of Florida, $55.00 cl, 0-8130-2631.8, 2003.
(**) Literary Criticism; African-American

Women and Gender in early Jewish and Palestinian Nations, Sheila H. Katz, Univ. Press of Florida, $55.00 cl, 0-8130-2618-0, 2003.
(**) International: Middle East; History; Gender Studies

Women in the Discourse of Early Modern Spain, Joan F. Cammarata, Univ. Press of Florida, $59.95 cl, 0-8130-2578-8, 2003.
(**) Literary Criticism; History

Univ. of Georgia Press

As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art, Rebecca Solnit, Univ. of Georgia Pr. Press, $19.95 pb, 0-8203-2493-0, 2003.
Reviewed October, 2001 (****) Arts: Art, Photography; Literature Now in paperback

Flannery O'connor: The Obedient Imagination, Sarah Gordon, Univ. of Georgia Pr. Press, $19.95 pb, 0-8203-2520-1, 2003.
From the publisher... "The Obedient Imagination shows us a writer whose world was steeped in male presumption regarding women and creativity. The book is filled with fresh perspectives on OíConnorís Catholicism; her upbringing as a dutiful, upper-class southern daughter; her readings of Thurber, Poe, Eliot, and other arguably misogynistic authors; and her schooling in the New Criticism. As Gordon leads us through a world premised on expectations at odds with OíConnorís strong and original imagination, she ranges across all of OíConnorís fiction and many of her letters and essays." (***) Biography; Womenís Studies

The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers, Virginia Spencer Carr, Univ. of Georgia Pr. Press, $29.95 pb, 0-8203-2522-8, 2003.
This definitive biography of Carson McCullers is now back in print. (****) Biography Reissue now available

Guilford Press

Social Aggression among Girls, Marion K. Underwood, Guilford Publications, $24.00 pb, 1-57230-865-6, or $44.00 cl, 1-57230-866-4, 2003.
From the publisher... "While several recent popular books address the topic of girls' "meanness" to one another, this volume offers the first balanced, scholarly analysis of scientific knowledge in this area. Integrating current research on emotion regulation, gender, and peer relations, the book examines how girls are socialized to experience and express anger and aggression from infancy through adolescence. Considered are the developmental functions of such behaviors as gossip, friendship manipulation, and social exclusion; consequences for both victims and perpetrators; and approaches to intervention and prevention. Presenting innovative research models and methods, this is an accessible and much-needed synthesis for researchers, professionals, and students." (****) Psychology

Harrington Park Press / Haworth Press

From Flitch to Ash: A Musing on Trees and Carving, Diane Derrick, Harrington Park Press / An Imprint of Haworth Press, $14.95 pb, 1-56023-217-X, or $29.95 cl, 1-56023-216-1, 2003.
Alice Street editions. Celebrated woodcarver Diane Derrick reflects on her work and her medium. She muses on the elemental force and mystical nature of wood while exploring the profound loss of her entire body of work in a tragic fire. She transforms herself as an artist and her sparse prose reveals both tenderness and depth. The book also includes 16 color plates of her carvings. (****) Arts: Art, Photography; Lesbian Studies; Autobiography/Memoir ** Recommended

Ginger's Fire, Maureen Brady, Harrington Park Press / An Imprint of Haworth Press, $14.95 pb, 1-56023-444-X, or $39.95 cl, 1-56023-443-1, 2003.
Alice Street Editions From the publisher... "In quiet, understated prose, Ginger's Fire tells the story of one woman's painful but very necessary rebirth and awakening. Ginger and Nellie have finally realized their dream: after years of hard work, they have completely restored a beautiful old farmhouse in the Catskill Mountains. But as the house has come together, their relationship has been silently slipping away. When, after all their labors, their beloved home is destroyed in a catastrophic fire, Ginger and Nellie begin to move apart, and Ginger must begin an arduous journey to discover her own long-absent passion and inner fire. As Ginger delves into her past, discovering the river of alcoholism and dependency that runs through her life, she learns to value her own strength once more." (****) Fiction: Lesbian ** Recommended

His hands, His Tools, His Sex, His Dress: Lesbian Writers on Their Fathers, Catherine Reid and Holly K. Iglesias, editors, Harrington Park Press / An Imprint of Haworth Press, $19.95 pb, 1-56023-211-0, or $44.95 cl, 1-56023-210-2, 2003.
There are many books for women to reviews and contemplate their relationships with their mothers. This is not so much true about fathers - and even more removed for lesbians coming to terms with relationship to their fathers. At first, I did not want to approach this book, my own father-daughter relationship being one of stormy and difficult times. But these poems, stories, essays, memoirs compelled me to keep reading, in some cases similar to the ways a car wreck fascinates one. This powerful book anthologizes the writings of 22 critically acclaimed lesbian writers including Jewelle Gomez, Janice Gould, Minnie Bruce Pratt and others. (****) Lesbian Studies; Family Relations; Autobiography/Memoir ** Recommended

Weeding at Dawn: A Lesbian Country life, Hawk Madrone, Harrington Park Press / An Imprint of Haworth Press, $14.95 pb, 1-56023-207-2, or $39.95 cl, 1-56023-206-4, 2003.
It can sometimes be easy to romanticize or admire those women, many lesbians, who made their way from cities to rural "back to the land" or communal living. This is the journey of Hawk Madrone who has lived in the hills of Oregon for 25 years. This beautifully told collection of poems, essays and creative nonfiction offer an aging and weathered view of youthful enthusiasm, philosophical and reflective rumination on struggle, labor, intimacy, vision, and lesbian-history-in the-making, and ultimately the peaceful contentment of living close to nature. The photo essay in the center offers another breathtaking view of what can be seen when we allow ourselves to be present. (****) Lesbian Studies; Autobiography/Memoir ** Recommended

Also of interest
Past Perfect, Judith P. Stelboum, Harrington Park Press / An Imprint of Haworth Press, $19.95 pb, 1-56023-201-3, or $49.95 cl, 1-56023-200-5, 2003.
(****) Fiction: Lesbian

Widows and Divorcees in Later Life: On Their Own Again, Carol L. Jenkins, editor, Haworth Press, $24.95 pb, 0-7890-2192-7, or $39.95 cl, 0-7890-2191.9, 2003.
This monograph is published simultaneously as journal of Women & aging, Vol. 15, Nos. 2/3. (****) Aging; Womenís Studies

Harvard Univ. Press

Humanity Books, Imprint of Prometheus

Hit: Essays on Women's Rights, Mary E. Walker, M.D., Humanity Books, Imprint of Prometheus, $18.00 pb, 1-59102-098-0, 2003.
Classics in Women's Studies Series Mary Walker (1832-1919) received a Congressional Medal of Honor for her service during the Civil War , one of the first women in the country to receive a medical degree, and a strong feminist supporting women's independence. (****) Womenís Studies

Women at the Hague, Jane Addams, Emily G. Balch, and Alice Hamilton and with Introduction by Mary Jo Deegan, Humanity Books, Imprint of Prometheus, $17.00 pb, 1-59102-059-X, 2003.
This title adds to Humanity's books series, Classics in Women's Studies. In this volume, three eminent feminist peace activists in the early 20th century, discuss their experiences and views of The International Peace Congress of 1915. It includes an impassioned statement from Jane Addams on the needlessness of war. (****) History; Womenís Studies ** Recommended

Univ. of Illinois Press

Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters, Barbara Sicherman, Univ. of Illinois Press, $24.95 pb, 0-252-07152-2, 2003.
This biography integrates the letters of Alice Hamilton to more fully document Hamilton's life as a pioneer in the stud of diseases in the workplace, founder of industrial toxicology in the U.S., and Harvard's first woman professor. (****) Biography; Health & Medicine

All in a Day's Work: An Autobiography, Ida M. Tarbell, Univ. of Illinois Press, $21.95 pb, 0-252-07136-0, 2003.
Ida M. Tarbell (1857-1944) looks at her fifty-year career as an investigative journalist. (****) Autobiography/Memoir

"A Half Caste" and Other Writings: Onoto Watanna, Linda Trinh Moser, editor and Elizabeth Rooney, Univ. of Illinois Press, $16.95 pb, 0-252-07094-1, or $34.95 cl, 0-252-02782-5, 2003.
From the publisher... "Onoto Watanna (1875-1954) was born Winnifred Eaton, the daughter of a British father and a Chinese mother. The first novelist of Chinese descent to be published in the United States, she "became" Japanese to escape Americans' scorn of the Chinese and to capitalize on their fascination with things Japanese....Of Watanna's numerous shorter works, this volume includes nineteen--thirteen stories and six essays--intended to show the scope and versatility of her writing." (****) Asian American

How to Live / What to Do: H.D.'s Cultural Poetics, Adalaide Morris, Univ. of Illinois Press, $34.95 cl, 0-252-02796-5, 2003.
From the publisher... Adalaide Morris removes the work of H.D. from compartments into which it has historically been placed, as she examines the "ongoingness" of H.D.'s writing. She shows H.D. to be a playful linguistic innovator, a woman whose writings bear on debates in science, technology, and cinema as well as on poetry. Foremost, however, H.D. was a profound reshaper of the boundaries and possibilities of poetry, a generative form that, as this book shows, can indeed serve the cultural work of survival and resistance against the violence of modern culture. (*) Literary Criticism

The Land of Journey's Ending, Mary Austen, Introduction by Melody Graulich and Illustrations by John Edwin Jackson, Univ. of Illinois Press, $24.95 pb, 0-252-07162-X, 2003.
(****) Literature Reissue now available

Long Time, No See, Beth Finke, Univ. of Illinois Press, $24.95 cl, 0-252-02827-9, 2003.
"She did what she had to do." These are the words Beth Finke's mother would use to describe her daughter's travel through the everyday. This is Finke's memoir of her struggles with juvenile diabetes, blindness and a host of other hardships including a disabled son. Finke appreciates her mother's words rather than the label of courageous! (****) Disability; Autobiography/Memoir

Points of Resistance: Women, Power & Politics in the New York Avant-garde Cinema, 1943-71 2nd edition, Lauren Rabinovitz, Univ. of Illinois Press, $16.95 pb, 0-252-07124-7, 2003.
(**) Arts: Film, Video; Womenís Studies Reissue now available

Reclaiming Klytemnestra: Revenge or Reconciliation?, Kathleen L. Komar, Univ. of Illinois Press, $34.95 cl, 0-252-02811-2, 2003.
Komar reflects on the ways in which mother and matricide have been reflected in contemporary literature, especially in the 1980s, through the character of Klytemnestra. She looks at the works of Dacia Maraini, Christa Wolf and Marie Cardinal, among others. (*) Literature; Literary Criticism

Rhythm & Booze: Poems, Julie Kane, Univ. of Illinois Press, $14.95 pb, 0-252-07140-9, or $29.95 cl, 0-252-02865-1, 2003.
Selected by Maxine Kumin as one of five volumes published in 2003 in the National Poetry Series. Each section of this volume is set in a different Louisiana city and captures the raucous struggles and life hardships as understood through music, party & drink. (****) Poetry ** Recommended

Rita Dove's Cosmopolitanism, Malin Pereira, Univ. of Illinois Press, $29.95 cl, 0-252-02837-6, 2003.
This is a critical study of Rita Dove's complete body of work -- poetry, fiction, drama and literary criticism. (**) Literary Criticism

Sex Radicals and the Quest for Women's Equality, Joanne E. Passet, Univ. of Illinois Press, $39.95 cl, 0-252-02804-X, 2003.
From the publisher... "In charting the growth of the sex radical movement, Joanne E. Passet draws on a host of documents from the period--letters, periodicals, lectures, and pamphlets--to establish a strong link between the rise of print culture and the freedom of citizens, especially women, to build geographically dispersed communities of ideas. She also advances models of sexuality that challenge the restrictive mores of society at large and shows that the majority of correspondents who participated in the sex radical movement resided in the Midwest and the Great Plains states, where ideas of individual freedom and sovereignty resonated particularly strongly." (***) Feminist Theory; History

Toni Morrison: Playing with Difference, Lucille P. Fultz, Univ. of Illinois Press, $34.95 cl, 0-252-02823-6, 2003.
From the publisher... "Lucille P. Fultz explores Toni Morrison's rich body of work, uncovering the interplay between differences--love and hate, masculinity and femininity, black and white, past and present, wealth and poverty--that lie at the heart of these vibrant and complex narratives." (**) Literary Criticism; African-American

Two Sisters for Social Justice: A Biography of Grace and Edith Abbott, Lela B. Costin, Univ. of Illinois Press, $17.95 pb, 0-252-07155-7, 2003.
From the Progressive Era through the New Deal and contemporaries of Jane Addamm, Grace Abbott (1878-1939) and her sister Edith (1876-1957) were an integral part of the debate that raged around the issues of suffrage, workers' rights, child labor laws, juvenile delinquency, prostitution, the "immigrant problem," tenement housing, social security, emergency relief programs, and the peace movement. (****) Biography; Womenís Studies ** Recommended

Women at the Hague: The International Congress of Women and Its Results, Jane Addams, Emily G. Balch, and Alice Hamilton and with Introduction by Harriet Hyman Alonso, Univ. of Illinois Press, $12.95 pb, 0-252-07156-5, or $24.95 cl, 0-252-02888-0, 2003.
This title continues UIP's reissues of the works of Jane Addams. In all the years of doing this column this is the first time I've seen the same title issued by 2 publishers in the same season! Compare: Women at the Hague, Jane Addams, Emily G. Balch, and Alice Hamilton and with Introduction by Mary Jo Deegan, Humanity Books, Imprint of Prometheus, $17.00 pb, 1-59102-059-X, 2003. (****) History; Womenís Studies

Women's Utopias of the Eighteenth Century, Alessa Johns, Univ. of Illinois Press, $34.95 cl, 0-252-02841-4, 2003.
Revolution or utopia? Absolutist models or emerging and reimagining possibilities? These are some of the conceptions discussed as Johns explores the reform-oriented visions of utopia put forth in the works of Mary Astell, Sarah Fielding, Mary Hamilton, Sarah Scott and other writers from Britain and continental Europe in the eighteenth century. (**) Literary Criticism; Literature

Also of interest
Contemporary Spanish Women's Narrative and the Publishing Industry, Christine Henseler, Univ. of Illinois Press, $29.95 cl, 0-252-02831-7, 2003.
(***) International: Western Europe; Literature

Naked Barbies, Warrior Joes & Other Forms of Visible Gender, Jeannie Banks Thomas, Univ. of Illinois Press, $21.95 pb, 0-252-07135-2, or $39.95 cl, 0-252-02854-6, 2003.
(***) Gender Studies; Culture/Cultural Studies

Nietzsches Sister and the Will to Power: A Biography of Elisabeth F–rster-Nietzsche, Carol Diethe, Univ. of Illinois Press, $34.95 cl, 0-252-02826-0, 2003.
(****) Biography

Ivan R. Dee

Accursed Politics: Some French Women Writers and Political Life, 1715-1850, Renee Winegarten, Ivan R Dee, $27.50 cl, 1-56663-499-7, 2003.
Renee Winegarten probes the intriguingly subtle equivocations revealed by six highly gifted and fascinating French women writers who were deeply involved in the political life of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These writers include Germaine de StaÎl and George Sand among others. (**) Literary Criticism

The Rise of the New Woman: The Women's Movement in America, 1875-1930, Jean v. Matthews, Ivan R Dee, $24.95 cl, 1-56663-500-4, 2003.
Following on her history of the womenís movement in America that took the story to 1876 (Women's Struggle for Equality, 1990), Jean Matthewsís new book chronicles the movement through 1930, recounting the changing fortunes and transformations of the organized suffrage movement. (****) History; Womenís Studies ** Recommended

American Wives, Beth Helms, Univ. of Iowa Press, $15.95 pb, 0-87745-868-5, 2003.
Winner of the 2003 Iowa Short Fiction Award; These are stories about wives -- military wife, wealthy widow, devoted mother, lifetime companion -- and their hopes, disappointments, failures, resignations, desires and joys. (****) Fiction: Short Stories

Johns Hopkins University Press  

Jossey-Bass Inc.

Univ. Press of Kansas

Seeing Nature through Gender, Virginia J. Scharff, editor, Univ. Press of Kansas, $17.95 pb, 0-7006-1285-8, or $45.00 cl, 0-7006-1284-X, 2003.
Seeing Nature through Gender here reintroduces gender as a meaningful category of analysis for environmental history, showing how womenís actions, desires, and choices have shaped the world and seeing men as gendered actors as well. Contributors include: Peter Boag, Annie Gilbert Coleman, Giovanna Di Chiro, Amy Green, Maril Hazlett, Katherine Jensen, Catherine Kleiner, Nancy Langston, Paige Raibmon, Douglas Sackman, Virginia Scharff, Bryant Simon, and Mark Tebeau. (**) Gender Studies; Education; History

Songs of Life and Grace, Linda Scott DeRosier, Univ. Press of Kentucky, $26.00 cl, 0-8131-2276-7, 2003.
DeRosier explores her Appalachian family roots and ties. (****) Autobiography/Memoir

Kluwer Academic Publishers

Explorations in Contemporary Feminist Literature: The Battle against Oppression for Writers of Color, Lesbian and Transgender Communities, Mary Pernal, Peter Lang Publishing, $29.95 pb, 0-8204-5662-4, 2003.
Series: Eruptions: New Thinking Across the Disciplines: Vol. 15 -- Erica McWilliam, General Editor. Jacket copy... [This book] "bridges issues of oppression across diverse communities within the contemporary feminist movement. Fictional writings by authors such as Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Rose Tremain, and others are addressed in regard to their content of social messages. The major focus of this book is the need for personal-redefinition by members of marginalized communities seeking a ground of self-determination and respect, as expressed by various authors. The connections between authors' perspectives are raised and a critical gaze is directed at the claim that personal choice equates with freedom." (***) Literary Criticism

On the Outside Looking In(dian): Indian women Writers at Home and Abroad, Phillipa Kafka, Peter Lang Publishing, $29.95 pb, 0-8204-5812-0, 2003.
Jacket copy... "On the Outside Looking In(dian) analyzes works over the past century translated into or written in English by feminist Indian women writers such as Krupabai Satthianadhan, Rokeya Sakhewat Hossein, Maitreyi Devi, Kamala Das, Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, and others. These writers condemn patriarchal customs and laws for depriving Indian womenóof all castes and classes, as well as women of other culturesóof their basic human rights by sanctioning child marriage, sati, purdah, and the wearing of the burqa, while prohibiting widow remarriage, the expression of sexuality, and the pursuit of an education to promote self-sufficiency, and equal economic, political, and social status with men." (***) International: Asia; Literary Criticism

Also of interest
Breaking the Bounds: British Feminist Dramatists Writing in the Mainstream since c. 1980, Dimple Godiwala, Peter Lang Publishing, $61.95 cl, 0-8204-6135-0, 2003.
(**) Theater; Literary Criticism

Univ. of Massachusetts Press

Elizabeth Murray: a Woman's Pursuit of Independence in Eighteenth-Century America, Patricia Cleary, Univ of Massachusetts Press, $19.95 pb, 1-55849-396-4, 2003.
First published in 2000. (**) Biography; History Now in paperback

Focus on Living: Portraits of Americans with HIV and AIDS, Photographs and Interviews by Roslyn Banish, Univ of Massachusetts Press, $24.95 pb, 1-55849-395-6, or $50.00 cl, 1-55849-394-8, 2003.
This is an incredible book of photos and first-person narratives of only a few of the thousands of people in the US who live with HIV and AIDS. These are stories of people of all ages, races, income, sexuality who struggle with their health -- some more successfully than others -- and each filled with determination, grief, hope anger, pride and strength. Some of the stories are quite simple, others more complex...but all touching and inspiring. (****) Arts: Art, Photography; Autobiography/Memoir; Health & Medicine ** Recommended

Precious Fire: Maud Russell and the Chinese Revolution, Karen Garner, Univ of Massachusetts Press, $39.95 cl, 1-55849-404-9, 2003.
Jacket copy... "When Maud Russell (1893ñ1989) first sailed for China in 1917, she traveled as one of a number of "foreign secretaries" dispatched by the YWCA to do "Woman's Work for Woman." A product of the Progressive Era, she sought to bring the benefits of Christianity and Western civilization to a new generation of Chinese women struggling to find their own path to modernity in the wake of the 1911Republican Revolution. Instead, over the next twenty-six years, Russell was herself transformed -- from Christian liberal reformer to committed Marxist revolutionary." (****) Biography

A Private State: Stories, charlotte Bacon, Univ of Massachusetts Press, $17.95 pb, 1-55849-397-2, or $24.95 cl, 1-55849-114-7, 2003.
First published in 1997. (****) Fiction: Short Stories Now in paperback

Univ. of Michigan Press

Cities in the Sea, Maura Stanton, Univ. of Michigan Press, $24.00 cl, 0-472-11364-X, 2003.
Winner of the First Annual Michigan Literary Prize in the category for short stories. I only had opportunity to read the first story but I was so strongly drawn in that I can't wait to read all of them. Carried away by the tornado described in that first story, I was transported to one of those (un)real places where good stories can take us and cause us to find a way back on our own. From the publisher... "These stories, set in the Midwest and the Southwest, in Florida and in Europe, blur the boundaries between fairy tale and veritÈ. A range of characters - from a businessman to a pianist, from a county coroner to a hardware store clerk, from a Greek immigrant to a Danish artist - come to discover that the past is a ruined kingdom, lost forever, but still a place to visit in wish, dream, and memory." (****) Fiction: Short Stories ** Recommended

Open the Door: The Life and Music of Betty Carter, William R. Bauer, Univ. of Michigan Press, $18.95 pb, 0-472-06791-5, or $29.95 cl, 0-472-09791-1, 2003.
Much more than a biography, this book written by Bauer who worked with Carter for 17 years, provides not only life context of Barter as a post bop and jazz singer. It includes insight into how she actually sang and includes samples of her music. (****) Music; African-American

Our Sister's Promised Land: Women, Politics, and Israeli-Palestinian Coexistence, Ayala Emmett, Univ. of Michigan Press, $22.95 pb, 0-472-08930-7, or $40.00 cl, 0-472-10733-X, 2003.
Using in-depth interviews, supplemented with scholarship document, popular literature and media information, Emmett looks critically at the Israeli-Palestinian conflicts through women's peace activism. She describes the successes and failures of Israeli and Palestinian women working for peace throughout the 1990s. Her work provides insight for understanding the on-going conflicts in the Middle East as well as the role of contemporary peace movement activism -- especially through the involvement of women. In doing so, she also offers commentary on the role of the US in this conflict. (****) International: Middle East; War/Peace/Anti-Militarism

Women and War, Jenny Matthews [photographer], Univ. of Michigan Press, $29.95 pb, 0-472-08964-1, 2003.
This is a disturbing and startling collection of photographs. They portray a range of experiences of women from many different countries that continuously face war. The photographs not only display the horror, fear, resignation and despair associated with violence but also show women who attempt to celebrate, maintain joy and create some semblance of coping and planning of more "normal" activities (e.g., putting on make-up or having a wedding). The publisher has indicated that the International Center of Photography in Manhattan will likely host an exhibit of these photos in 2004. (****) Arts: Art, Photography; War/Peace/Anti-Militarism ** Recommended

Also of interest
Where No Gods Came, Sheila O'Connor, Univ. of Michigan Press, $24.00 cl, 0-472-11365-X, 2003.
Winner of the First Annual Michigan Literary Prize in the category of fiction. (****) Fiction

Women & Laughter in Medieval Comic Literature, Lisa Perfetti, Univ. of Michigan Press, $57.50 cl, 0-472-11321-6, 2003.
This book explores a wide range of literary representation of women's laughter in the thirteenth through the sixteenth century. (*) Literary Criticism; History Also of interest

Minnesota Historical Society / Borealis Books

The Language of Blood: A Memoir, Jane Jeong Trenka, Borealis Books - Trade Imprint of Minnesota Historical Society Press, $23.95 cl, 0-87351-466-1, 2003.
As a Korean adoptee into a white Minnesotan family, Jane Jeong Trenka did not question her identity until repeated encounters with a stalker raised years o repressed questions. This memoir is a coming of age story as well as an exploration into her quest for understanding family, connections by blood and coming to terms with multicultural realities. (****) Autobiography/Memoir; Asian American

Univ. of Minnesota Press

"Am I That Name?": Feminism and the Category of Women in History, Denise Riley, Univ. of Minnesota Press, $15.95 pb, 0-8166-4269-9, 2003.
Writing about changes in the notion of womanhood, Denise Riley examines, in the manner of Foucault, shifting historical constructions of the category of "women" in relation to other categories central to concepts of personhood: the soul, the mind, the body, nature, the social. (**) Womenís Studies; History

Built to Win: The Female Athlete as Cultural Icon, Leslie Haywood and Shari L. Dworkin, Univ. of Minnesota Press, $19.95 pb, 0-8166-2624-9, 2003.
In this engaging book, filled with pictures of ads and athletes, the complexities of women in the culture of sport and women in sport as affecting culture are explored. (****) Sports/Outdoors; Womenís Studies ** Recommended

Univ. Press of Mississippi

Univ. of Missouri Press

The Confederate Belle, Giselle Roberts, Univ. of Missouri Press, $32.50 cl, 0-8262-1464-9, 2003.
Diaries, letters and memoirs are explored to uncover the Civil wartime experiences of young women (ladies) in Mississippi and Louisiana. Their experiences are specifically understood within the framework of coning-in-age through "bellehood." (****) Regional: South; Biography

Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women's Activism, Joyce A. Hanson, Univ. of Missouri Press, $32.50 cl, 0-8262-1451-7, 2003.
This biography of Mary McLeod Bethune sets her life and work in the context of shifting political realities between the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It demonstrates Bethune's use of two differing political strategies -- non-confrontational and confrontational. (****) African-American; Biography; History ** Recommended

A Song of Faith and Hope: The Life of Frankie Muse Freeman, Frankie Muse Freeman and with Candace O'Connor, Missouri Historical Society Press (Distributed by Univ. of Missouri Press), $29.95 cl, 1-883982-41-3, 2003.
This memoir tells the story of Frankie Muse Freeman the first woman appointed to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. She was a civil rights attorney and advocate for fair housing. (****) African-American; Biography

MIT Press

Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress, Ian Berry, Darby English, Vivian Patterson, and Mark Reinhardt, editors, MIT Press, $45.00 cl, 0-262-02540-X, 2003.
This book accompanies an exhibition organized by the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College and the Williams College Museum of Art. It features a collection of Kara Walker's (b.1969) black paper cutout silhouettes that confront stereotypes, sex, violence, and power relationships through Civil War-era parodies and narratives. (****) Arts: Art, Photography; African-American ** Recommended

Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing, Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher, MIT Press, $12.95 pb, 0-262-63269-1, or $24.95 cl, 0-262-13398-9, 2003.
Reviewed May, 2002. (***) Science/Technology; Womenís Studies Now in paperback

Museum of New Mexico Press

Red Earth: Poems of New Mexico, Alice Corbin, Museum of New Mexico Press, $16.95 cl, 0-89013-450-2, 2003.
This beautiful book celebrates Corbin's thriving year's in New Mexico where she had gone for health reasons. First published in 1920, this edition is graced with some of the finest art and photography from Santa Fe's Museum of Fine arts collection -- adding another layer of connection between life and art. The poems, radical for their time, include cultural infusions of Hispanic ballad, Indian song, folk tradition and a diversity of form and style. (****) Poetry; Arts: Art, Photography ** Recommended

Univ. of Nebraska Press

American Indian Stories, Zitkala-Sa and Introduction by Susan Rose Dominguez, Univ. of Nebraska Press, $12.95 pb, 0-8032-9917-6, 2003.
This is a reissue of the stories of one of the Sioux nations most significant writers and activists, Zitkala-Sa. (****) Fiction: Short Stories; Native American

Cather Studies, Volume 5: Willa Cather's Ecological Imagination, edited by Susan J. Rosowski, Univ. of Nebraska Press, $35.00 pb, 0-8032-6435-6, 2003.
Journal: The wide-ranging essays collected in this volume of Cather Studies examine Willa Catherís unique artistic relationship to the environment. Under the theoretical rubric of ecocriticism, these essays focus on Catherís close observations of the natural world and how the environment proves, for most of these contributors, to be more than simply a setting for her characters. While it is certain that Catherís novels and short stories are deeply grounded in place, literary critics are only now considering how place functions within her narratives and addressing environmental issues through her writing . (***) Literary Criticism; Ecology & Environment

A Lost Lady: Scholarly Edition, Willa Cather, Historical Essay by Susan J. Rosowski with Kari Ronning and Textual Editing by Charles W. Mignon and Frederick M. Link, Univ. of Nebraska Press, $18.95 pb, 0-8032-6430-5, 2003.
Cloth edition published 1997. (****) Literature Now in paperback

Macadam Dreams, GisËle Pineau and translated by C. Dickson, Univ. of Nebraska Press, $20.00 pb, 0-8032-8773-9, or $50.00 cl, 0-8032-3730-8, 2003.
GisËle Pineau is an important author in the Creole movement of Francophone literature. In this novel, she uses two cataclysms (a cyclone of 1928 and Hurricane Hugo) on the island of Guadeloupe as experienced by the main character, Eliette, to portray the violence and poverty endured by women in this island nation. (****) International: Caribbean; Fiction

My ¡ntonia: Scholarly edition, Willa Cather, Charles Mignon with Kari Ronning [editor] and Historical Essay by James Woodress, Univ. of Nebraska Press, $20.00 pb, 0-8032-6433-X, 2003.
Cloth Edition published in 1994. (****) Literature Now in paperback

Open Slowly, Kate Light, Zoo Press (Distributed by the Univ. of Nebraska Press), $14.95 pb, 1-932023-04-6, 2003.
From the publisher... "In her second book, Open Slowly, Kate Light carries on her standard of wise, witty poems on living, loving and making sense of the two. Light, a classically trained violinist, brings an understanding of rhythm and lyricism to her work that allows each poem to be formal yet accessible. Her pragmatic themes - relationships, love, attractions and the bodies that contain them - do open slowly..." (****) Poetry

Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed, Mimi Schwartz, Univ. of Nebraska Press, $14.95 pb, 0-8032-9299-6, 2003.
Told in three segments -- Midnight to 5a.m., Morning Legacies, Life After Breakfast -- these essays chronicle 40 years of marriage, feminism, love, faithfulness and companionship. The essays are wise without being sentimental and represent a range of characters from quirky to complex. (****) Essays

Wedding Song: Memoirs of an Iranian Jewish Woman, Farideh Goldin, Brandeis Univ. Press / Univ. Press of New England, $24.95 cl, 1-58465-344-2, 2003.
Farideh Goldin was born in 1953 in Shiraz, the oldest Jewish community in the Muslim world. This is a mother-daughter relationship explored in a community confronting western influences and a rising revolution. (****) International: Middle East; Autobiography/Memoir

New World Library

The Red-Haired Girl from the Bog: The Landscape of Celtic Myth and Spirit, Patricia Monaghan, New World Library, $22.95 cl, 1-57731-190-6, 2003.
Patricia Monaghan has long been one of the leading scholars studying Celtic history and mythology. This new book explores the paces in Ireland of goddesses, landscapes and rich mythology through her own travels as an Irish-American searching for her roots through spiritual pilgrimage. In doing so, she explores important aspects of these myths and goddesses as they are embodied n women's lives through the contradictions of love and hate. mother and seductress, harmony and struggle. (****) Spirituality/Religion; International: Western Europe ** Recommended

New York University Press (NYU)

University of North Carolina Press

Univ. of North Texas Press

On the Farm Front: The Women's Land Army in World War II, Stephanie A. Carpenter, Northern Illinois Univ. Press, $40.00 cl, 0-87580314-8, 2003.
Like Rose the Riveter and women's support of industrial work during W.W.II, many women also continued the necessary work on farms in agricultural communities. This history looks at the work of women in agriculture, canneries and dairies during wartime. (***) History

The World of Hannah Heaton: The Diary of an Eighteenth-Century New England Farm Woman, Barbara E. Lacey, editor, Northern Illinois Univ. Press, $48.00 cl, 0-87580-312-1, 2003.
This diary offers a rare and important view into one woman's experiences during the settling of the United States. It also recounts her spiritual journey and the ways in which her pieties and beliefs separate her from her family and community. (****) Biography; Regional: New England

Northeastern Univ. Press

Middlebrow moderns: Popular American Women Writers of the 1920s, Lisa Botshon and Meredith Goldsmith, editors, Northeastern Univ. Press, $22.50 pb, 1-55553-556-9, or $50.00 cl, 1-55553-557-7, 2003.
"Middlebrow" was a derogatory term used by the literary elite to scorn authors of popular fiction -- that ironically won awards, became bestsellers and were adapted for Hollywood films. This book looks at a diverse group of women writers previously unexplored who worked in a broad range of media, magazines, literature, radio, film, essay, and so on. The authors include Winnifred Easton, Jessie Redmond Fauset, Edna Ferber, Dorothy Canfield Fisher and others. (**) Literary Criticism; Womenís Studies; Womenís Studies

Northwestern Univ. Press

Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises, 1923-1934, Ulla E. Dydo and with William Rice, Northwestern Univ. Press, $49.95 cl, 0-8101-1919-6, 2003.
This is a book that any aspiring expert or casual fan of the literature of Gertrude Stein will want to own. In detail, Dydo, the editor of A Stein Reader, illuminates Stein's work through the investigation of Stein's notebooks, manuscripts and letters. In this way, Stein's work is further illuminated through the context of her daily life and work. (**) Literary Criticism

House of Day, House of Night, Olga Tokarczuk and Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Northwestern Univ. Press, $17.95 pb, 0-8101-1892-0, or $59.95 cl, 0-8101-1869-6, 2003.
Writings from an Unbound Europe Series This is a bestselling novel by one of Poland's best young writers. It's the story of a woman who collects the rich cultural heritage of a region whose history includes being part of Poland, Germany and the former Czechoslovakia. (****) Literature; International: Eastern Europe

Singing the Bones Together, Angela Shannon, Tia Chucha (Distributed by Northwestern Univ. Press), $13.95 pb, 1-882688-28-7, 2003.
Jacket copy... "Shannon's voice is genuinely new--through her characters, she gives dramatic expression to experience and feeling, and she possesses a gift for lyric poems of intimate intensity and a keen consciousness of the shared past. The historical sweep of her work is from the Middle Passage to post-integration America, and her characters--living and dead, human and in nature--create a sweet and indomitable polyphony of voices." (****) Poetry; African-American

Notre Dame Univ. Press

Reconciling Catholicism and Feminism?: Personal Reflections on Tradition and Change, Sally Barr Ebest and Ron Ebest, editors, Univ of Notre Dame Press, $25.00 pb, 0-268-04020-6, or $50.00 cl, 0-268-04014-1, 2003.
Twenty-two Widely respected writers, historians, theologians and feminists reflect on their personal experiences with the Catholic Church and how they have some to terms (or not) with a church that does not allow them full participation due to their political or progressive disagreements with church teaching. (****) Spirituality/Religion; Feminist Theory

Ohio State Univ.

Ohio Univ. Press

Broken Lives and Other Stories, Anthonia C. Kalu, Ohio University Center for International Studies, $19.95 pb, 0-89680-229-9, 2003.
From the publisher... "Broken Lives and Other Stories presents a portrait of the ordinary women, children, and men whose lives have been battered by war in their homeland. Written in response to the Nigerian Civil War, known on the Igbo side as Ogu Biafraóthe Biafran Waró this collection focuses on the everyday conditions of the local people and how their personal situations became entangled in national crises. The stories capture a diversity of issues, from the implications of self-rule and the presence of soldiers among civilians, to masquerades, air raids, and rape (****) Fiction: Short Stories; International: Africa

Also of interest
Vernon Lee: Aesthetics, History, & the Victorian Female Intellectual, Christa Zorn, Ohio Univ. Press, $49.95 cl, 0-8214-1497-6, 2003.
(***) Literary Criticism; Womenís Studies

Women, Work and Representation: Needlewomen in Victorian Art and Literature, Lynn M. Alexander, Ohio Univ. Press, $44.95 cl, 0-8214-1493-3, 2003.
(**) History; Arts: Art, Photography

Univ. of Oklahoma Press

Palgrave/Macmillan

Becoming Cleopatra: The Shifting Image of an Icon, Francesca T. Royster, Palgrave Macmillan (Global Publishing from St. Martinís Press), $19.95 pb, 1-4039-6108-5, or $65.00 cl, 1-4039-6109-3, 2003.
From the introduction... " This volume considers the uses of the Cleopatra icon in the staging and deconstruction of racial identity in moments of cultural exchange, from the first films about Egypt made by early ethnographers, to the appropriation of Cleopatra in twentieth-century "blaxpoitation" films and other forms of popular culture. Beyond a study of character or stereotypes, I am interested in the ways that Cleopatra, as a kind of perpetual motion machine of desire, highlights a larger anxiety about the image and the relevance of this anxiety to race and feminist studies" (pp. 20-21). (****) Culture/Cultural Studies; Race Theory

Reading Across Borders: Storytelling and Knowledges of Resistance, Shari Stone-Mediatore, Palgrave Macmillan (Global Publishing from St. Martinís Press), $24.95 pb, 0-312-29567-7, or $75.00 cl, 0-312-29566-9, 2003.
Jacket copy..."Bringing together the work of Hannah Arendt and transnational feminist theory, Shari Stone-Mediatore investigates the role that narration can play in resistant knowledge and politics. She argues that "storytelling," although not objective truth, is nonetheless crucial to responsible public debate, and identifies the specific narrative practices that impede, and those that facilitate, feminist and democratic struggles." (***) Feminist Theory; Feminist Theory

Silent Invaders: Pesticides, Livelihoods, and Women's Health, Miriam Jacobs and Barbara Dinham, editors, Zed Books (Distributed by Palgrave /St. Martinís), $25.00 pb, 1-85649-996-0, 2003.
This important book focuses on the ways in which women around the world as primary food handlers are affected by the pesticides used to grow those foods. The dangers of chemical pesticides are also discussed in relation agricultural environment but also to workplaces and home. The chemical dangers are a global threat to women, as this book documents, and are connected to diseases such as cancer, HIV, infertility as well as gravely affecting reproductive health. (****) Health & Medicine; Ecology & Environment ** Recommended

Penguin Books

Univ. of Pennsylvania Press

The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, $12.95 pb, 0-8229-5826-0, 2003.
If poets did a "best of..." collection, The Dirt She Ate might be considered such a volume. But "best of..." is crass, perhaps, and maybe not poetic. This collection by Pratt includes some of her poems from earlier publications and sitting next to each other, they not only illustrate the changes in her style of writing but her on-going willingness to keep close to the earth and to her roots, near to the edges of reality, attending to the vibrancy of her sexuality and sensuality, and consistently able to express with brutal honesty the struggle, clarity and fearlessness of women's love for women. (****) Poetry ** Recommended

Ostinato Vamps: Poems, Wanda Coleman, Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, $12.95 pb, 0-8229-5833-3, 2003.
From the publisher... "Ostinato Vamps continues and enlarges the traits that have been Wanda Coleman's hallmark for more than three decades: a fierce adherence to the truth and a language so musical one can almost hear the blues line beneath her stanzas." (****) Poetry

Sin Puertas Visibles: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women, Jen Hofer, editor, Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, $22.50 pb, 0-8229-5798-1, 2003.
This bilingual anthology collects the writings of 11 emerging women poets in Mexico. Each has a book published in Mexico but their works have not previously been translated or published in English. Featuring the work of: Cristina Rivera-Garza, Carla Faesler, AngÈlica Tornero, Ana BelÈn LÛpez, Silvia Eugenia Castillero, MÛnica Nepote, Dana Gelinas, MarÌa Rivera, Ofelia PÈrez Sep™lveda, Dolores Dorantes, and Laura SolÛrzano. (****) International: Latin & Central America; Poetry

Song of Thieves, Shara McCallum, Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, $12.95 pb, 0-8229-5813-9, 2003.
From the publisher... Song of Thieves delves into issues of racial identity and politics, the immigrant experience, and the search for "home" and family histories. In this follow-up to her award-winning debut collection, The Water Between Us, Shara McCallum artfully draws from the language and imagery of her Caribbean background to play a haunting and soulful tune. (****) Poetry

Polity / Blackwell Publishing

Princeton Univ. Press

Prometheus Books

Routledge

Beautiful Angiola: The Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales, Collected by Laura Gonzenbach and Translated by Jack Zipes, Routledge, $30.00 cl, 0-415-96808-9, 2003.
From the publisher..."In one of the most startling literary discoveries of recent years, Jack Zipes has uncovered this neglected treasure trove of Sicilian folk and fairy tales. Like the Grimm brothers before her, Laura Gonzenbach, a talented Swiss-German born in Sicily, set out to gather up the tales told and retold among the peasants. Gonzenbach collected wonderful stories - some on subjects that readers will know from the Grimms or Perrault, some entirely new - and published them in German. Her early death and the destruction of her papers in the Messina earthquake of 1908 only add to the mystery behind her achievement. " (****) Literature ** Recommended

Religion in French Feminist Thought: Critical Perspectives, Morny Joy, Kathleen O'Grady and Judith L. Poxon, editors, Routledge, $25.95 pb, 0-415-21536-6, 2003.
The editors of this volume have collected essays addressing the philosophical questions of divinity, subjectivity and ethics as focused by major French feminist thinkers as Luce Irigaray, HÈlËne Cixous, Julia Kristiva, and Catherine ClÈment. (**) Spirituality/Religion; Womenís Studies

Also of interest
Prostitution, Race & Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire, Philippa Levine, Routledge, $25.00 pb, 0-415-94447-3, or $95.00 cl, 0-415-94446-5, 2003.
(**) History

Troubling Education: Queer Activism and Antioppressive Pedagogy, Kevin Kumashiro, Routledge, $25.95 pb, 0-415-93312-9, 2003.
(***) Gay/Lesbian/Queer Studies; Education Also of interest

Rutgers University Press

Sage Publications

Key Concepts in Feminist Theory and Research, Christina Hughes, Sage Publications, $29.95 pb, 0-7619-6988-8, 2003.
This new text in feminist theory does several things. First, it explores post-structuralist and postmodern implications for feminist theory through key concepts of equality, difference, choice, care, time and experience. Secondly, it introduces "conceptual literacy" as a pedagogical task. finally, it presents diver conceptualizations of theory along with application to feminist research. Each chapter includes several case studies, a summary of key discussion points for that chapter accompanied by suggested further reading list. Though designed as a textbook, casual readers interested in academic feminist theory and research will find this an accessible tool. (****) Feminist Theory ** Recommended

Ideas for action, Cynthia Kaufman, South End Press, $20.00 pb, 0-89608-693-3, 2003.
WMST-L often receives messages from instructors looking for action-oriented ideas for service learning and other related classroom assignments. This book for students fighting oppressions on many fronts combines intellectual inquiry with practical applications in political traditions including Marxism, anarchism, feminism, anti-imperialism, critical race theory, and environmentalism. (****) Politics ** Recommended

Southern Illinois Univ. Press