NWSA Journal

Volume 7
Number 1Sexual Orientation
Number 2Out of print!
Number 3Fall 1995

CONTENTS Volume 7, Number 1 Spring 1995

Special Issue: SEXUAL ORIENTATION

Editorial / vii

BONNIE ZIMMERMAN
Introduction / 1

Articles

DEBORAH C. STEARNS
Gendered Sexuality: The Privileging of Sex and Gender in Sexual Orientation / 8

PATRICIA MADOO LENGERMANN and JILL NIEBRUGGE
Flirting with Equality: A Feminist Sociological Commentary on the Opposition to Civil Equality for Lesbians and Gays / 30

BONNIE SPANIER
Biological Determinism and Homosexuality / 54

PENELOPE J. ENGELBRECHT
Strange Company: Uncovering the Queer Anthology / 72

Observations

BONNIE J. MORRIS
A Different Bookworm: Coming Out, Brainy-Girl Style / 91

On Learning and Teaching

JOHN KELLERMEIER
Queer Statistics: Using Lesbigay Word-Problem Content in Teaching Statistics / 98

SUSAN JOHNSTON
Not for Queers Only: Pedagogy and Postmodernism / 109

Report

ESTHER D. ROTHBLUM
Lesbians in Academia / 123

Review Essays

PHYLLIS F. MANNOCCHI
May Sarton / 131

BONNIE KIME SCOTT
Irish Women / 138

Book Reviews

ELLEN LEWIN

Love Makes a Family produced by Remco Kobus, Marla Leech, and Daniel Veltri
Other Families produced by Dorothy Chvatal / 146

ELIZABETH J. BELLAMY
Disputed Subjects: Essays on Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Philosophy by Jane Flax / 150

PATTY REAGAN
Women and HIV/AIDS: An International Resource Book by Marge Berer with Sunanda Ray
Women and AIDS--Psychological Perspectives edited by Careen Squire
Until the Cure: Caring for Women with HIV edited by Ann Kurth / 152

ALISON BLUNT
Feminism and Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge by Gillian Rose
Finding a Way: Encouraging Underrepresented Groups in Geography: An Annotated Bibliography by Michal LeVasseur
Gender on Ice: American Ideologies of Polar Expeditions by Lisa Bloom
Women of the World: Women Travelers and Explorers by Rebecca Stefoff / 156

DONNA C. HALE
Women in Control? The Role of Women in Law Enforcement by Frances Heidensohn / 162

DAWN E. KEETLEY
Dusky Maidens: The Odyssey of the Early Black Dramatic Actress by Jo A. Tanner
Women in the American Theatre: Actresses and Audiences, 1790-1870 by Faye E. Dudden / 164

MARY M. MOYNIHAN
Working-Class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory edited by Michelle M. Tokarczyk and Elizabeth A. Fay
Maid in the U.S.A. by Mary Romero / 168

JUDITH E. FUNSTON
Women and the Journey: The Female Travel Experience edited by Bonnie Frederick and Susan B. McLeod / 172

IMOGENE MOYER
Barred: Women, Writing, and Political Detention by Barbara Harlow
Women Prisoners: A Forgotten Population edited by Beverly R. Fletcher, Lynda Dixon Shaver, and Dreama G. Moon / 174

Contributors / 177

Announcements / 180

Books Received / 181

CONTENTS Volume 7, Number 3 Fall 1995

Articles

SHERRIE A. INNESS and MICHELE LLOYD
"G.I. Joes in Barbie Land": Recontextualizing Butch in Twentieth-Century Lesbian Culture / 1

JOSEPHINE DONOVAN
A Source for Stowe's Ideas on Race in Uncle Tom's Cabin / 24

AUDREY CRAWFORD
"Handing the Power-Glasses Back and Forth": Women and Technology in the Poems of Adrienne Rich / 35

CATHERINE HELEN PALCZEWSKI
Voltairine deCleyre: Sexual Slavery and Sexual Pleasure in the Nineteenth Century / 54

Reports

EVA STACHNIAK
Why Did We Not Become Feminists? Women in Poland / 69

LINDA A. MOODY
Mills--For Women Again: The Role of Women's Spirituality in the Effort to Remain a Women's College / 81

On Learning and Teaching

CAROL HAWKINS
In the Wake of Whispers: Formulating a Response to a Student Narrative on Abortion / 95

Review Essays

LINDA A. BERNHARD
Physicians, Science, and Women's Health / 108

PATROCINIO SCHWEICKART
Margaret Fuller / 115

Book Reviews

MARÍA ROOF
A Poetics of Resistance: Women Writing in El Salvador, South Africa, and the United States by Mary K. DeShazer / 125

LORETTA STEC
The Fifties: A Women's Oral History by Brett Harvey
Un-American Activities: A Memoir of the Fifties by Sally Belfrage
Young, White and Miserable: Growing Up Female in the Fifties by Wini Breines / 127

LINDA SHULT
Politics and Scholarship: Feminist Academic Journals and the Production of Knowledge by Patrice McDermott / 132

NICOLE TONKOVICH
American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present edited by Carol Hurd Green and Mary Grimley Mason
Modern American Women Writers: Profiles of Their Lives and Works--From the 1870s to the Present edited by Elaine Showalter, Lea Baechler, and A. Walton Litz
The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States edited by Cathy N. Davidson and Linda Wagner-Martin / 134

CARA J MARIANNA
Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations by bell hooks / 140

BARBARA EVANS CLEMENTS
An Anthology of Russian Women's Writing, 1777-1992 edited by Catriona Kelly
Dialogues/Dialogi: Literary and Cultural Exchanges between (Ex-)Soviet and American Women edited by Susan Hardy Aiken, Adele Marie Barker, Maya Koreneva, and Ekaterina Stetsenko
Women in Russia: A New Era in Russian Feminism edited by Anastasia Posadskaia
Women in Russia and the Soviet Union: An Annotated Bibliography by Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild / 142

MIRIAM KALMAN HARRIS
Back Talk: Teaching Lost Selves to Speak by Joan Weimer / 148

GAIL J. STEARNS
Who Cares? Women, Care, and Culture by Julia T. Wood
Moral Dilemmas of Feminism: Prostitution, Adultery, and Abortion by Laurie Shrage
Feminist Theological Ethics edited by Lois K. Daly
Lesbian Choices by Claudia Card / 150

1995 NWSA Awards & Scholarships / 156

NWSA News / 157

Contributors / 159

Announcements / 162

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