Women’s Studies International Forum, Vol. 23, No. 6, pp. 801-808, 2000 Copyright © 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd Pergamon Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 5395/01 $—see front matter VOLUME 23, 2000 CONTENTS VOLUME2 3 NUMBER1 2000 JANUARY-FEBRUARY CONTENTS SUE JACKSON Networking women: a history of ideas, issues and developments in women’s studies in Britain DIANE REAY 3 “Dim dross”: marginalised women both inside and outside the academy ERELLA SHADMI 3 Between resistance and compliance, feminism and nationalism: Women in Black in Israel PAULA WILCOX 35 “Me mother’s bank and me nanan’s, you know, support!”: women who left domestic violence in England and issues of informal support BARBARA LOBODZINSKA Polish women’s gender-segregated education and employment KIMBERLY A. CHANG 73 Neither “saints” nor “prostitutes”: sexual discourse in the Filipina and JULIAN MCALLISTER GROVES domestic worker community in Hong Kong Bev GATENBY Feminist participatory action research: methodological and Maria HUMPHRIES and ethical issues MAariA LOHAN Come back public/private; (almost) all is forgiven: using feminist methodologies in researching information communication technologies REGINA SCHEYVENS Gender, ethics and empowerment: dilemmas of and HELEN LESLIE development fieldwork BOOK REVIEWS VALERIE BEGLEY é Significant Contemporary American Feminists: A Biographical Sourcebook edited by Jennifer Scanlon ANITA S. FRANKLIN é From Stumbling Blocks to Stepping Stones by Kathleen F. Slevin and C. Ray Wingrove Volume Contents and Author Index MAGDALENA J. ZABOROWSKA Women and Political Change: Perspectives from East-Central Europe. (Selected Papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1995) edited by Sue Bridger JupitH TyDor BAUME! Women in the Holocaust edited by Dalia Ofer and Lenore J. Weitzman MARION MARKWICK Gender, Identity and Place: Understanding Feminist Geographies by Linda McDowell MARIAN E. STROBEI Gendered Justice in the American West: Women Prisoners In Men’s Penitentiaries by Anne M. Butler KAREN WEEKES Career Strategies for Women in Academe: Arming Athena edited by Lynn H. Collins, Joan C. Chrisler, and Kathryn Quina Biographical Statements Feminist Forum: News, Conferences, Reports VOLUME 23 NUMBER2 2000 MARCH-APRIL CONTENTS ROSEMARY DEEM Transforming post-compulsory education? Femocrats at and JENNIFER T. OZGA work in the academy BREDA GRAY Gendering the Irish diaspora: questions of enrichment, hybridization and return KAREN BoyLt The pornography debates: beyond cause and effect CATHERINE SO-KUM TANG Exploring how Chinese define violence against women: Day WONG a focus group study in Hong Kong FANNY M. C. CHEUNG and ANTOINETTE LEI JENNIFER K. WESELY The lived body experience of domestic violence survivors: Maria T. ALLISON an interrogation of female identity and INGrRID E. SCHNEIDER ROSEMARY GILLESPIE When no means no: disbelief, disregard, and deviance as discourses of voluntary childlessness Mary HOLMES Second-wave feminism and the politics of relationships SALLY SHORTALI In and out of the milking parlour: a cross-national comparison of gender, the dairy industry and the state Volume Contents and Author Index BOOK REVIEWS QupsIA MIRZA 5 Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism by Meyda Yegenoglu ANITA KIRCHEN Africa: Women’s Art, Women’s Lives by Betty LaDuke Gendered Visions: The Art of Contemporary Africana Women Artists edited by Salah M. Hassan Women, Art and Geometry in Southern Africa by Paulus Gerdes JILL RADFORD Policing Sexual Assault by Jeanne Gregory and Sue Lees LoulsE LIVESEY Making Sense of Prostitution by Joanna Phoenix SUE JACKSON i Women, Research and Careers by Sue Hatt, Julie Kent, and Carolyn Britton NabDJE AL-ALI Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Limits of Postmodern Analysis by Haideh Moghissi HAIDEH MoGuiss! 265 A Daughter of Isis. The Autobiography of Nawal El Saadawi by Nawal El Saadawi SHIRIN M. Ral Gender Politics in Global Governance edited by Mary K. Meyer and Elisabeth Prugl Biographical Statements Feminist Forum: News, Conferences, Reports VOLUME2 3) NUMBER3_ 2000 MAY-JUNE WOMEN AND THE FISHERIES CRISIS CONTENTS Dona Davis Introduction: gender and resource crisis and Sirt GERRARD in the north Atlantic fisheries BARBARA NEIS In the eye of the storm: research, activism and teaching within the Newfoundland fishery crisis Volume Contents and Author Index Sir GERRARD 299 The gender dimension of local festivals: the fishery crisis and women’s and men’s political actions in north Norwegian communities UNNUR Dis SKAPTADOTTIR Women coping with change in an Icelandic fishing community: a case study MARIAN BINKLEY ‘Getting by’ in tough times: coping with the fisheries crisis Eva MUNK-MADSEN Wife the deckhand, husband the skipper: authority and dignity among fishing couples Dona DAvis Gendered cultures of conflict and discontent: living ‘the crisis’ in a Newfoundland community DAGRUNN GR@NBECH Recycling the past: perspectives on women, households and resource management among early 20th century fisher/farmers in north Norway JANE NADEL-KLEIN Granny baited the lines: perpetual crisis and the changing role of women in Scottish fishing communities BOOK REVIEWS ETHEL YOUNG-MINOR Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice by Patricia Hill Collins CYNTHIA COCKBURN Gender and Catastrophe edited by Ronit Lentin ROSALIND EDWARDS Organising Feminisms: The Micropolitics of the Academy by Louise Morley REBECCA PELAN Women’s Work: The Story of the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition by Kate Fearon DEIRDRE CLANCY The Diary of Elizabeth Richards, 1798-1825: From the Wexford Rebellion to Family Life in the Netherlands by Elizabeth Richards JANE MAct Mother Time: Women, Aging, and Ethics edited by Margaret Urban Walker SALLY MACEWEN Women’s Roles in Ancient Civilizations: A Reference Guide edited by Bella Vivante Biographical Statements Feminist Forum: News, Conferences, Reports Volume Contents and Author Index VOLUME2 3 NUMBER4 2000 JULY-AUGUST DIASPORIC SUBJECTS AND IDENTITY NEGOTIATIONS: WOMEN IN AND FROM ASIA CONTENTS SHIRLENA HUANG Diasporic subjects and identity negotiations: PecGcy TEO women in and from Asia and BRENDA S.A. YEOH PAULINE GARDINER BARBER Agency in Philippine women’s labour migration and provisional diaspora BRENDA S.A. YEOH “Home” and “away”: foreign domestic workers and SHIRLENA HUANG and negotiations of diasporic identity in Singapore NoBUE SUZUKI : Between two shores: transnational projects and Filipina wives in/from Japan Yu Zou 5 The fall of “the other half of the sky”? Chinese immigrant women in the New York area SALLY LLoypD EvANs Crossing boundaries: racialised gendering and the labour and SopHiA BOWLBY market experiences of Pakistani migrant women in Britain CLAIRE DwYER 5 Negotiating diasporic identities: young British South Asian Muslim women REBECCA ELMHIRS1 7 A Javanese diaspora? Gender and identity politics in Indonesia’s transmigration resettlement program RACHEL M. SILVEY Diasporic subjects: gender and mobility in South Sulawesi BOOK REVIEWS Mary EvANs 5 Colette, Beauvoir and Duras: Age and Women Writers by Bethany Ladimer ROSEMARY AUCHMUTY 5 The Idea of Prostitution by Sheila Jeffreys SHANI D’CRUZE Prostitution: Prevention and Reform in England, 1860-1914 by Paula Bartley LioBA Mosui Women’s Voices in a Man’s World by Lidwien Kapteijns and Maryan Omar Ali DIANA G. ZOELLE Rights of Women: A Guide to the Most Important United Nations Treaties on Women’s Human Rights edited by Vicki J. Semler, Anne S. Walker, Leonora Wiener, Tina Johnson, and Jane Garland Katz Volume Contents and Author Index SUSAN Love BROWN a2 The Caribbean State, Health Care and Women: Analysis of Barbados and Grenada During the 1979-1983 Period by Patricia Rodney JAMI FRAZI 52 Just a Gaze — Female Clientele of Diet Clinics in Cairo: An Ethnomedical Study by Inman Farid Basyouny BLAISE ASTRA PARKER a2 Fed Up: Women and Food in America by Catherine Manton Dorotuy Row! 523. Overcoming All Obstacles: The Women of the Académie Julian edited by Gabriel P. Weisberg and Jane R. Becker Merry I. Wuit! : Modern Girls, Shining Stars, the Skies of Tokyo by Phyllis Birnbaum Biographical Statements Feminist Forum: News, Conferences, Reports VOLUME2 3 NUMBERS 2000 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER CONTENTS HIMANI BANNERII 537. The paradox of diversity: the construction of a multicultural Canada and “Women of Color” SUSAN McKay Gender justice and reconciliation RicHA NAGAR I'd rather be rude than ruled: gender, place and communal politics among South Asian communities in Dar es Salaam LYNDA BirRKI 587 Sitting on the fence: biology, feminism and gender-bending environments AGNES SENGANATA MUNS1 Lesbians’ contribution to the autonomous women’s movement in (West-) Germany, exemplified by a state capital city ANNE-Marie MCGAURAN Vive la différence: the gendering of occupational structures in a case study of Irish and French retailing VICK! BERTRAM Making friends? Contemporary women poets’ difficulties with friendship RESEARCH METHODS GILL WADSWORTH Hearing midlife voices: assessing different methods for researching women’s experiences of menopause and midlife Volume Contents and Author Index BOOK REVIEWS KATHLEEN CLARK Neither Separate Nor Equal: Women, Race, and Class in the South edited by Barbara Ellen Smith Rutu E. Davis 5 To Have and to Hit: Cultural Perspectives on Wife Beating by Dorothy Ayers Counts, Judith K. Brown, and Jacquelyn C. Campbell DENISE ROMAN 5 The Politics of Duplicity. Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu’s Romania by Gail Kligman CELESTE MICHELLE CONDI 5 Speaking of Abortion: Television and Authority in the Lives of Women by Andrea L. Press and Elizabeth R. Cole SUSAN LOvE BROWN 5 Fear as a Way of Life: Mayan Widows in Rural Guatemala by Linda Green DEBORAH CASLAV COVINO 660 Why Feminism? Gender, Psychology, Politics by Lynne Segal 661 Biographical Statements 663 Feminist Forum: News, Conferences, Reports VOLUME2 3 NUMBER6_ 2000 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER CONTENTS BARBARA EINHORN Histoire/histoires: special issue in honour of Claire Duchen CHRISTINE ZMROCZEK JupiTH MILLER Go ahead, go away: a poem by Fatoumata Keita, Mali SIAN REYNOLDS The lost generation of French feminists? Anti-fascist women in the 1930s Ronit LENTIN Expected to live: women Shoah survivors’ testimonials of silence BARBARA EINHORN Gender, nation, landscape and identity in narratives of exile and return Rosi BRAIDOTTI 5 The way we were: some post-structuralist memoirs HANNA DIAMOND A new dawn? French women and the liberation SUSAN HAYWARD é Simone Signoret (1921-1985)—the body political NIKKI COOPER (En)gendering Indochina: feminisation and female figurings in French colonial discourses Volume Contents and Author Index CLAIRE GORRARA Speaking volumes: Amélie Nothomb’s Hygiéne de l’assassin Pat MAHONY Teacher education and feminism CLAIRE DUCHEN Cancer stories: extracts IRENE BANDHAUER-SCHOFFMANN 785 Working with Claire on the book: When the War was Over: Women, War, and Peace in Europe 1944-1956 (2000) Biographical Statements Feminist Forum: News, Conferences, Reports Volume 23 Contents and Author Index