NWSA Journal

Volume 9
Number 1
Number 2Sexual Harrassment
Number 3Women, Ecology, and the Environment

CONTENTS Volume 9, Number 1 Spring 1997

Editorial / vii

Articles

AMY KALER
Maternal Identity and War in Mothers of the Revolution / 1

KATHY RUDY
Ethics, Reproduction, Utopia: Gender and Childbearing in Women on the Edge of Time and The Left Hand of Darkness / 22

Forum: Affirmative Action

SUSAN FRAIMAN
"Diversity" in Adversity: The Retreat from Affirmative Action / 39

ESTELLA LAUTER
Toward Diversity / 44

RANU SAMANTRAI
On Being the Object of Concern / 49

SUSAN FRAIMAN
Power not Plurality: A Response to Estella Lauter and Ranu Samantrai / 54

On Learning and Teaching

MARALEE MAYBERRY and MARGARET N. REES
Feminist Pedagogy, Interdisciplinary Praxis, and Science Education / 57

FAWZIA AFZAL-KAHN
Introducing a New Course: Muslim Women in Twentieth-Century Literature / 76

Review Essays

DIANA TAYLOR
Women and Health / 89

ELAINE SAVORY
African Women's Voices on Film / 99

Book Reviews

CYNTHIA BURACK
A Rising Public Voice: Women in Politics Worldwide edited by Alida Brill
Women in World Politics: An Introduction edited by Francine D'Amico and Peter R. Beckman / 107

SYDNEY STAHL WEINBERG
From the Other Side: Women, Gender, and Immigrant Life in the U.S. 1820-1990, by Donna Gabaccia
European Immigrant Women in the United States: A Biographical Dictionary edited by Judy Barrett Litoff and Judith McDonnell
How We Found America: Reading Gender through East European Immigrant Narratives by Magdalena J. Zaborowska / 110

HARRIET MALINOWITZ
Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Lesbian and Gay Liberation by Urvashi Vaid / 115

BARBARA MOLONY
Contemporary Portraits of Japanese Women by Yukiko Tanaka
Japanese Women: New Feminist Perspectives on the Past, Present, and Future edited by Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow and Atsuko Kameda / 117

SHARON LEDER
The Woman's Guide to Hysterectomy by Adelaide Haas and Susan Puretz / 121

PATRICIA E. ORTMAN
Odyssey with the Goddess: A Spiritual Quest in Crete by Carol Christ
Women's Spirituality, Women's Lives edited by Judith Ochshorn and Ellen Cole / 123

JANET N. GOLD
An Annotated Bibliography of Hispanic Feminist Criticism by Lou Charnon-Deutsch
Latin American Women Writers: Class, Race, and Gender by Myriam Yvonne Jehenson
Lesbian Voices from Latin America: Breaking Ground by Elena M. Martínez / 126

LORI GRUEN
Neither Man nor Beast: Feminism and the Defense of Animals by Carol J. Adams
Beyond Animal Rights: A Feminist Caring Ethic for the Treatment of Animals edited by Josephine Donovan and Carol J. Adams / 131

Contributors / 135

Announcements / 138

Books Received / 140

CONTENTS Volume 9, Number 2 Summer 1997

Special Issue: SEXUAL HARASSMENT

Introduction
PATROCINIO P. SCHWEICKART / vii

Articles

FRANCES J. RANNEY
What's a Reasonable Woman to Do? The Judicial Rhetoric of Sexual Harassment / 1

PHOEBE MORGAN STAMBAUGH
The Power of Law and the Sexual Harassment Complaints of Women / 23

PATRICIA M. HANRAHAN
"How Do I Know if I'm Being Harassed or if This Is Part of My Job?" Nurses and Definitions of Sexual Harassment / 43

EILEEN BRESNAHAN
Putting Your Body On the Line: A Meditation on "Hostile Environment" Sexual Harassment from a Working-Class Perspective / 64

PATRICIA BELL-SCOTT
To Keep My Self-Respect: Dean Lucy Diggs Slowe's 1927 Memorandum on the Sexual Harassment of Black Women / 70

MARY M. CLARK
The Silva Case at the University of New Hampshire / 77

MARY HAWKESWORTH
Challenging the Received Wisdom and the Status Quo: Creating and Implementing Sexual Harassment Policy / 94

FELICIA MITCHELL
Keeping it All in the Family: Sexual Harassment Policies and Informal Resolution in Small Colleges / 118

JEANNETTE OPPEDISANO
Academics' Shame: Our Failure to Confront Sexual Harassment / 126

ELIZABETH M. CHAMBERLAIN
Courtroom to Classroom: There Is More to Sexual Harassment / 135

Review Essays

GLORIA DESOLE
Sexual Harassment / 155

CHARLOTTE WITT
Pornography / 165

Book Reviews

MARJEAN D. PURINTON
Mary Wollstonecraft: "A Vindication of the Rights of Men with a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints" edited by Sylvana Tomaselli
Feminist Interpretations of Mary Wollstonecraft edited by Maria J. Falco
Ahead of Her Time: A Sampler of the Life and Thought of Mary Wollstonecraft selected and arranged by Ella Mazel / 175

JUDITH KENT GREEN
Reading Buchi Emecheta: Cross-Cultural Conversations by Katherine Fishburn
Africa Wo/man Palava: The Nigerian Novel by Women by Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi / 180

BARBARA CORRADO POPE
Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns through Two Millennia by Jo Ann Kay McNamara
Hail Mary? The Struggle for Ultimate Womanhood in Catholicism by Maurice Hamington
Liberating Conscience: Feminist Explorations in Catholic Moral Theology by Anne E. Patrick / 184

JULIA DIETRICH
Three Radical Women Writers: Class and Gender in Meridel Le Sueur, Tillie Olsen, and Josephine Herbst by Nora Ruth Roberts
Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur by Constance Coiner / 189

ANN FERGUSON
Sex and Revolution: Women in Socialist Cuba by Lois M. Smith and Alfred Padula / 193

KATE BURNS
Wired Women: Gender and New Realities in Cyberspace edited by Lynn Cherny and Elizabeth Reba Weise
Nattering on the Net: Women, Power, and Cyberspace by Dale Spender / 195

BARBARA A. WHITE
Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography by Peter Conn / 198

The Future of NWSA--"Through the Looking Glass. . . "
BARBARA W. GERBER / 200

Contributors / 205

Announcements / 209

Books Received / 212


CONTENTS Volume 9, Number 3 Fall 1997

Special Issue: WOMEN, ECOLOGY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT /

MARLENE LONGENECKER
Introduction / 1

Articles

CATRIONA SANDILANDS
Mother Nature, the Cyborg, and the Queer: Ecofeminism and (More) Questions of Identity / 18

PATRICK D. MURPHY
Ecofeminism and Postmodernism: Agency, Transformation, and Future Possibilities / 41

LINDA VANCE
Ecofeminism and Wilderness / 60

ELIZABETH DODD
The Mamas and the Papas: Goddess Worship, the Kogi Indians, and Ecofeminsm / 77

MARCIA BJORNERUD
Gaia: Gender and Scientific Representations of the Earth / 89

HELEN ZWEIFEL
The Gendered Nature of Biodiversity Conservation / 107

JILL S. SCHNEIDERMAN
The Common Interests of Earth Science, Feminism, and Environmental Justice / 124

ANN FILEMYR
Unmasking the Population Bomber: Analyzing Domination at the Intersection of Gender, Race, Class, and Ecology / 138

Observation

ELIZABETH HENRY
Toward a Feeling for the Organism / 156

Review Essays

ESTHER FUCHS
Women And Jewish Studies / 163

ANNE CHARLES
Modernism Modified / 174

Book Reviews / 183

Contributors / 207

Announcements / 211

Books Received / 212

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