NWSA Journal

Volume 16
Number 1(Re)Gendering Science Fields
Number 2Summer 2004
Number 3Fall 2004

CONTENTS Volume 16, Number 1 Spring 2004

Special Issue:
(Re)Gendering Science Fields

Introduction
BRENDA DALY / vi

(Re)Gendering Science Fields: Transforming Academic Science and Engineering
JILL M. BYSTYDZIENSKI / viii

Articles

Sustaining Gains: Reflections on Women in Science and Technology in 20th-Century United States
SALLY GREGORY KOHLSTEDT / 1

From 'Engineeresses' to 'Girl Engineers' to 'Good Engineers': A History of Women's U.S. Engineering Education
AMY SUE BIX / 27

Using POWRE to ADVANCE: Institutional Barriers Identified by Women Scientists and Engineers
SUE V. ROSSER / 50

Telling Stories About Engineering: Group Dynamics and Resistance to Diversity
CYNTHIA BURACK and SUZANNE E. FRANKS / 79

African American Women in Science: Experiences from High School through the Post-Secondary Years and Beyond
SANDRA HANSON / 96

African Women Pursuing Graduate Studies in the Sciences: Racism, Gender Bias, and Third World Marginality
JOSEPHINE BEOKU-BETTS / 116

Feminism and Science: Mechanism Without Reductionism
CARLA FEHR / 136

Reports

Breaking into the Guildmasters' Club: What We Know About Women Science and Engineering Department Chairs at AAU Universities
DEBBIE NIEMEIER and CRISTINA GONZALEZ / 157

The Story Is Not in the Numbers: Academic Socialization and Diversifying the Faculty
JUDY JACKSON / 172

Gender Equity in Industrial Engineering: A Pilot Study
BETTY J. HARRIS, TERI REED RHOADS, SUSAN E. WALDEN, TERI J. MURPHY, REINHILD MEISSLER, and ANNE REYNOLDS / 186

Creating Status of Women Reports: Institutional Housekeeping as "Women's Work"
SHARON BIRD, JACQUELYN LITT, and YONG WANG / 194

Beyond Gender Schemas: Improving the Advancement of Women in Academia
VIRGINIA VALIAN / 207

Book Reviews

Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine edited by Angela N. H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, and Londa Schiebinger
The Gender and Science Reader edited by Muriel Lederman and Ingrid Bartsch
Women, Science and Technology: A Reader in Feminist Science Studies edited by Mary Wyer, Donna Giesman, Mary Barbercheck, et al.
Feminist Science Studies: A New Generation edited by Maralee Mayberry, Banu Subramaniam, and Lisa H. Weasel
CATHERINE HURT MIDDLECAMP / 221

Beyond Epistemology: A Pragmatist Approach to Feminist Science by Sharyn Clough
MURIEL LEDERMAN / 233

Call for Papers / 235

CONTENTS Volume 16, Number 2 Summer 2004

Introduction

Stay-ing the Course
BRENDA DALY / vii

Special Features

Women's Studies and Activism: An Interview with Ellen Messer-Davidow / 1

Taking the Horizon Path--2003 NWSA Conference Plenary
MINNIE BRUCE PRATT / 15

The Rise of the Bangladesh Garment Industry: Globalization, Women Workers, and Voice (Prize-winning essay, NWSA, Women of Color Caucus, 2001)
FAUZIA ERFAN AHMED / 34

Articles

Race (and Gender and Class) and Child Custody: Theorizing Intersections in Two Canadian Court Cases
CHARMAINE C. WILLIAMS / 46

Stories "That Only a Mother" Could Write: Midcentury Peace Activism, Maternalist Politics, and Judith Merril's Early Fiction
LISA YASZEK / 70

Postcolonial Fiction and the Outsider Within: Toward a Literary Practice of Feminist Standpoint Theory
BROOKE LENZ / 98

Rethinking Masculinized Tools: Machetes, Women's Work, and Suburban Yard Maintenance
WAIRIMU NGARUIYA NJAMBI and MELISSA PUTMAN SPRENKLE / 121

Changing Clothes: Gender Inequality and Professional Socialization
CARRIE YANG COSTELLO / 138

Brain Sex, Cyberpunk Cinema, Feminism, and the Dis/location of Heterosexuality
MICHELLE CHILCOAT / 156

Reports

The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture: Research, Ethics, and Activism in the Archives
LAURA MICHAM / 177

Women's Studies in the Western United States
KAREN L. SALLEY, BARBARA SCOTT WINKLER, MEGAN CELEEN, and HEIDI MECK / 180

Book Reviews

No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women by Estelle B. Freedman
Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century's End by Sara M. Evans
Feminism in the Heartland by Judith Ezekiel
STEPHANIE GILMORE / 190

Dinah's Daughters: Gender and Judaism from the Hebrew Bible to Late Antiquity by Helena Zlotnick
Reading the Women of the Bible: A New Interpretation of Their Stories by Tikva Frymer-Kensky
Midrashic Women: Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature by Judith R. Baskin
Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender by Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert
Rebuilding the House of Israel: Architectures of Gender in Jewish Antiquity by Cynthia M. Baker
ESTHER FUCHS / 196

Purity (Tehora) directed by Anat Zuria
JUDITH R. BASKIN / 206

Teaching Sceince for Social Justice by Angela Calabrese Barton, with Jason L. Ermer, Tanahia A. Burkett, and Margery D. Osborne
Connecting Girls and Science: Constructivism, Feminism, and Science Education Reform by Elaine V. Howes
CAROL B. BRANDT / 208

Connecting Girls and Science: Constructivism, Feminism, and Science Education Reform by Elaine V. Howes
MARALEE MAYBERRY / 212

Women, Technology and the Myth of Progress by Eileen B. Leonard
AMY BUG / 214

Self-Trust and Reproductive Anatomy by Carolyn McLeod
TANYA ZANISH-BELCHER / 216

The Empress Theodora: Partner of Justinian by James Allan Evans
Women in Purple: Rulers of Medieval Byzantium by Judith Herrin
MARY A. VALANTE / 218

Divine Feminine: Theosophy and Feminism in England by Joy Dixon
Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America by Anne Braude
JUNE HADDEN HOBBS / 221

Saints Sinners Survivors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature by Trudier Harris
The Freedom to Remember: Narrative, Slavery, and Gender in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction by Angelyn Mitchell
KAREN CHANDLER / 225

Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Women's Fiction by Susan Sellers
Tracing Arachne's Web: Myth and Feminist Fiction by Kristen M. Mapel Bloomberg
M. CHARLENE BALL / 229

Damaged Identities, Narrative Repair by Hilda Lineman Nelson
Women Escaping Violence: Empowerment through Narrative by Elaine J. Lawless
BARBARA RYAN / 234

Into Our Own Hands: The Women's Health Movement in the United States, 1969-1990 by Sandra Morgen
TANFER EMIN-TUNC / 237

Wired to the World, Chained to the Home: Telework in Daily Life by Penny Gurstein
MARY A. ARMSTRONG / 240

Call for Papers / 243

CONTENTS Volume 16, Number 3 Fall 2004

Essays

The Politics of Feminist Locations: A Materialist Analysis of Women’s Studies
CATHERINE M. ORR and DIANE LICHTENSTEIN / 1

Circling the Missiles and Staining Them Red: Feminist Rhetorical Invention and Strategies of Resistance at the Women’s Peace Camp at Greenham Common
MARGARET L. LAWARE / 18

Cluster on Menstrual Cycle Research

The Menstrual Cycle: Feminist Analyses from the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research
MARGARET L. STUBBS and PHYLLIS KERNOFF MANSFIELD / 42

What We Have Learned? An Historical View of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research
ALICE J. DAN / 45

Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT): Getting to the Heart of the Politics of Women’s Health?
NANCY WORCESTER / 56

Online Data Collection in Women’s Health Research:A Study of Perimenopausal Women with Migraines
MARGARET F. MOLONEY, ORA L. STRICKLAND, ALEXA DIETRICH, and STUART MYERBURG / 70

Third-Wave Feminism(s) Grrrls and Women Together in the Third Wave: Embracing the Challenges of Intergenerational Feminism(s)
JENNIFER PURVIS / 93

Negotiating Spaces For/Through Third-Wave Feminism
AMBER E. KINSER / 124

Third-Wave Feminism and the Need to Reweave the Nature/Culture Duality
COLLEEN MACK-CANTY / 154

Report

Prospects for Renewed Feminist Activism in the Heartland: A Study of Daytonian Women’s Politics
ANNE SISSON RUNYAN and MARY V. WENNING / 180

Reviews

Victorian America: A Family Record from the Heartland by Margaret Baker Graham
SUZANNE L. BUNKERS / 215

From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart: A Cultural History of Domestic Advice by Sarah A. Leavitt Three Faces of Beauty: Casablanca, Paris, Cairo by Susan Ossman
NEVA JEAN SPECHT / 217

Swamp Songs: The Making of an Unruly Woman by Sheryl St. Germain
YUNG-SING WU / 220

Children of the Crocodile, a film by Marsha Emerman
RUBY C. TAPIA / 222

An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality and Lesbian Public Cultures by Ann Cvetkovich
ERICA MEINERS / 224

No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women by Estelle B. Freedman The Retreat from Organization: U.S. Feminism Reconceptualized by Elisabeth Armstrong
JAN E. THOMAS / 226

Women and the Machine: Representations from the Spinning Wheel to the Electronic Age by Julie Wosk BARBARA CROW / 229

The Female Tragic Hero in English Renaissance Drama edited by Naomi Conn Liebler
ROBERTA MILLIKEN / 231

Motherhood Lost: A Feminist Account of Pregnancy Loss in America by Linda Layne
MECHTHILD NAGEL / 233

Naked Barbies, Warrior Joes, and Other Forms of Visible Gender by Jeannie Banks Thomas
LORI DUIN KELLY / 235

Call for Papers / 238

Thanks to Readers for 2004 16.3 / 239

Index for Volume 16 / 240

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