Bücher der Reihe Bibliographies and Indexes in Women's Studies

The most comprehensive bibliography available on historical sources for popular women's magazines, this work fills a niche among existing annotated bibliographies on journalism history.

There has been a dramatic increase in the amount of narrative work published by Chicana and Latina authors in the past 5 to 10 years. Nonetheless, there has been little attempt to catalog this material. This reference provides convenient access to all forms of narrative written by Chicana and Latina authors from the early 1940s through 2002. In doing so, it helps users locate these works and surveys the growth of this vast body of literature.The volume cites more than 2,750 short stories, novels, novel excerpts, and autobiographies written by some 600 Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, Dominican American, and Nuyorican women authors. These citations are grouped in five indexes: an author/title index, title/author index, anthology index, novel index, and autobiography index. Short annotations are provided for the anthologies, novels, and autobiographies. Thus the user who knows the title of a work can discover the author, the other works the author has written, and the anthologies in which the author's shorter pieces have been reprinted, along with information about particular works.

The countries of Spanish America have a history of women's literature that is full, varied, and, until now, undocumented in English. Included are fictional works dealing primarily with women, women's literature, feminism, and the condition of women, with a separate index of anthologies.

This annotated bio-bibliographical guide provides long-overdue recognition for women writers of Spain, including special entries on those writing in Catalan and Galician.

In 1976, Adrienne Rich wrote that the mother-daughter bond is the great unwritten story, awaiting analysis and definition. Most of the stories were written during the past two decades and reflect a reevaluation of the mother-daughter bond and its impact on women's lives.

This unique volume provides a bibliography and analysis of American women's literary interpretations of war and peace during the twentieth century. Chapters cover World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War, nuclear war, and fictional interpretations of war and peace that span more than one war or are nonspecific to a certain war.

Although the Equal Rights Amendment failed to be ratified by the necessary three-quarters majority of the states, the central questions and events that surrounded the campaign for ratification persist as mainstream issues.

The sheer volume of these mostly unrewarded contributions is noteworthy, and this checklist should be consulted by researchers in women's studies as well as drama. Playwrights include such noted writers as Susan Glaspell and Zora Neale Hurston in addition to many unremembered women, some of whom have entries for scores of plays.

The bibliography includes both general works and those devoted to specific disciplines, and the entries include journal articles, books, book chapters, conference papers, and reports. The book begins with a general section followed by chapters on specific disciplines.

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Part one of this bibliography includes both publications by women during the 17th century and works written by women during the period but published later. The second part lists both works for and about women, some of which were mistakenly attributed to women authors, and serials.

Presenting an extensive list of the dramatic works of 20th-century French women playwrights, this checklist includes biographical information, as well as the place and date of publication and performances, and the identification of holding libraries.

Winter has chosen 500 books, articles, and audiovisuals for this highly selective bibliography that emphasizes psychological and social aspects of elective abortion, although clinical technologies are also included.

The work is organized into subject headings under the broad categories of Fertility Determinants, Pregnancy and Fertility, Fertility Regulation, Consequences of Childbearing, and General Topics.

Feminist scholars have shown that women have a long history of productive work outside the home, and current research has focussed on the distinct nature of women's work and the role of women in the workforce.

This annotated bibliography reviews academic work on acquaintance and date rape published in recent years. Earlier works are covered which influenced the emergence of "date rape" as a separate category and there are chapters on the causes of rape, it's effects, treatment and prevention.

This bibliography of selected writings by 184 women authors from German-speaking countries will be a boon to teachers, students, reference librarians, and library selectors interested in women's literature.

During the past 10 years, the situation of women writers in Latin America has dramatically changed as has the interest the reading public has shown in their work. Publishers have noted the growing significance of Latin American women writers and have responded by increasing the availability of the work of these women.

Entries for books and articles include descriptive annotations, and a chronology traces the recent history of sexual harassment in the United States. The problem of sexual harassment was with us long before the highly publicized 1991 confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

Traditionally, scholars have used Hagley to study the history of business and technology, but in the 1990s, they have begun to use Hagley's collections to examine such issues as gender and the workplace, domesticity, female entrepreneurs, engendering business, gender and consumption, and fashion in the women's clothing industry.

One of the most influential American women writers of the 19th century, Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) played a vital role in the shaping of New England Transcendentalism and the birth of the women's movement.

This volume presents a list of the dramatic works of more than 400 French women playwrights from the 16th through 19th centuries and includes brief biographical information, as well as publication, performance and availability information for nearly 3000 plays.

Each geographical area is organized according to six main topics: general studies, historical studies, women's media, images of women in the media, women as an audience, and women as mass media professionals. The media represented include book, magazine, and newspaper publishing;

This exhaustive bibliography contains more than 2,300 annotated entries on the lives of women in Japan. The volume lists works published in English from 1841 to the present, and a particularly significant feature is the inclusion of literary works by Japanese women.

This comprehensive bibliography of the literature on women in Ireland presents over 2,300 annotated, classified listings in a one-volume format. Listings include books, chapters in books, articles, pamphlets, memoirs and biographies, travel accounts, and correspondence.

With large numbers of people migrating to other countries after World War II, scholarship has focused on the status, problems, and successes of women immigrants since 1945. This bibliography is an international compilation which reveals the breadth of work on feminist immigration issues.

Although general bibliographies on immigration may include entries on women, researchers interested in women immigrants will welcome this work.

While the contemporary response to her works was sometimes negative, much recent critical debate concerns her lasting place in the American literary canon, with some scholars placing The Awakening on the same level as Melville's Moby-Dick. The last thirty years have witnessed heightened interest in Chopin's works.

This international survey of literature on women and mass communications focuses on the 1990's and continues where the first volume, Women and Mass Communications: An International Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood, 1991), left off.