Amazons International # 40 ************************** This issue of Amazons International is devoted to sources and references that I'd like to bring to your attention. Thomas Gramstad (editor) Contents: SOURCE REFERENCE SPECIAL (1) Amazons (history, anthropology) (2) Women, armies, war, gender etc. (3) Mythological and literary works (4) Personal empowerment (5) Bodybuilding (6) Bodybuilding articles (7) Women, sport and gender (8) WISHPERD introduction file Date of Transmission: 30.04.94 ************************************************************** Introduction Part (1) through (5) consists of references that I found and compiled through BIBSYS, by searching for keywords, in the form of various combinations and permutations of variations of Amazon(s), women in armies, female warriors, goddesses, gender roles, female bodybuilding etc. through the Library of Congress database. From the search results I selected those books written in English whose title or description captured my attention. When the same book had been published by several publishers, I included only one reference (trying to make an educated guess about which one of the versions would be the easier to find). I'm unfamiliar with most of these books, so I cannot really recommend them, and my classification of them below could be wrong, and there may even be some that are not relevant to Amazon feminism at all -- in short I'd welcome any information, comments, reviews or blurbs that you may offer, privately to me or as a submission to Amazons International. You won't find many titles with the subject "gender roles" here -- references on that subject were so many that I plan a separate future issue with a selection of those. Searching on "Amazon" yielded a considerably larger output than searching on "Amazons". But can you imagine the outlandish travesty of being forced to exclude titles like "The amazing Amazon", "Visiting the Amazon", "The discovery of the Amazon", "Amazon adventure", "Lost in the Amazon", and even "My love, The Amazon" only because they refer to some mosquito-infested alligator habitat in South America?! Oh, well. Here's what I found. ************************************************************** (1) AMAZONS (HISTORY, ANTHROPOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY) Author : Evslin, Bernard Title : Heraclea : a legend of warrior women ; ill. by Lucy Martin Bitzer. Publisher : New York : Four Winds Press, c1978. # pages : 257 p. : ill. ISBN : 0590074059 ($9.95) LC-number : lc77017967 Author : Warrior, MaRa Heart Title : Woman warrior and the art of seeing / by MaRa Heart Warrior. -- 1st ed. Publisher : Burlingame, CA : Woman Warrior Press, 1989. # pages : 189 p., <6> p. of plates : ill. ISBN : 0962203106, 096220316(feil ISBN) (cover) LC-number : lc89050091 Author : Fraser, Antonia, 1932 Title : The warrior queens Publisher : New York : Knopf, 1989. # pages : xiii, 383 p. : ill. (some col.). ISBN : 0394549392 LC-number : lc88045778 Author : Fraser, Antonia, 1932- Title : Boadicea's chariot : the warrior queens Publisher : London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, c1988. # pages : xv, 383 p., <32> p. of plates : ill. (some col.). ISBN : 0297794868 (14.95) LC-number : lc89132741 Author : Freeman, Lucy Title : America's first woman warrior : the courage of Deborah Sampson / Lucy Freeman and Alma Halbert Bond. -- 1st ed. Publisher : New York : Paragon House, 1992. # pages : xiii, 224 p. : ill. ISBN : 1557785147 ($22.95) LC-number : lc91024596 Author : Mann, Herman, 1772-1833 Title : The female review: Life of Deborah Sampson : the female soldier in the War of Revolution / With an introd. and notes by John Adams Vinton. Boston, J. K. Wiggin & W. Parsons Lunt, 1866. Publisher : . # pages : 267 p. : front. (port.). Series : (American women: images and realities) ISBN : 0405044763 LC-number : lc72002603 Author : Snell, Hannah, 1723-1792 Title : The female soldier, or, The surprising life and adventures of Hannah Snell ; introduction by Dianne Dugaw. Publisher : New York : AMS Press, 1992. # pages : p. cm. ISBN : 0404702570 LC-number : lc92023097 ************************************************************** (2) VARIOUS COMBINATIONS OF WOMEN, ARMIES, WAR, GENDER ETC. Title : Images of women in peace and war : cross-cultural and historical perspectives / edited by Sharon Macdonald, Pat Holden, and Shirley Ardener. Published : Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1988, c1987. # pages : xx, 240 p. : ill. ISBN : 029911760X ($35.00), 0299117642 (pbk $12.95) LC-number : lc87040518 Author : Newark, Timothy Title : Women warlords : an illustrated military history of female warriors / Tim Newark ; colour illustrations by Angus McBride. Published : London : Blandford ; New York, NY : Distributed in the United States by Sterling Pub. Co., 1989. # pages : 144 p., <16> p. of plates : ill. (some col.). ISBN : 0713719656 LC-number : lc90119178 Author : Stiehm, Judith Title : Arms and the enlisted woman / Judith Hicks Stiehm. Published : Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1989. # pages : 331 p. : ill. ISBN : 0877225656 (alk. paper $29.95) LC-number : lc87033645 Author : Conrod, W. Hugh Title : Athene goddess of war : the Canadian Women's Army Corps, their story / W. Hugh Conrod ; with a foreword by Margaret (Eaton) Dunn. Published : Dartmouth, N.S. : Writing & Editorial Services, 1983. # pages : 397 p. : ill. ISBN : 0969149204 LC-number : lc84136110 Author : Arney, Ada, 1920- Title : Here come the khaki skirts -- the women volunteers : a pictorial review of the Canadian Women's Army Corps during the Second World War / by Ada Arney. Published : Cobalt, Ont. : Highway Book Shop, c1988. # pages : xiv, 169 p. : chiefly ill. ISBN : 0889543232 LC-number : lc89129211 Author : Myles, Bruce, 1942- Title : Night witches, the untold story of Soviet women in combat Published : Novato, CA : Presidio, c1981. # pages : viii, 278 p., <18> p. of plates : ports. ISBN : 0891411259 ($14.95) LC-number : lc81008500 Author : Center of Military History. Staff Support Branch Title : Women in combat and as military leaders : a survey. Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Staff Support Branch, U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1980. # pages : p. cm. LC-number : lc80607083 ************************************************************** (3) MYTHOLOGICAL AND LITERARY WORKS Author : Estes, Clarissa Pinkola Title : Women who run with the wolves : myths and stories of the wild woman archetype -- 1st ed. Published : New York : Ballantine Books, 1992. # pages : xiii, 520 p. ISBN : 0345377443 ($20.00) LC-number : lc91058630 Author : Pilcher, Rosamunde Title : Wild mountain thyme / Rosamunde Pilcher. Published : New York : St. Martin's Press, c1978. # pages : 270 p. ISBN : 0312879814 LC-number : lc77018456 Author : Gates, Doris, 1901- Title : The warrior goddess: Athena / Illustrated by Don Bolognese. -- <1st ed.>. Published : New York : Viking Press, <1972>. # pages : 121 p. : illus. ISBN : 0670749966 LC-number : lc72080515 Author : Jay, Karla Title : The Amazon and the page : Natalie Clifford Barney and Renee Vivien / Karla Jay. Publisher : Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1988. # pages : xv, 152 p. ISBN : 0253304083 (pbk.), 0253204763 (pbk) LC-number : lc87045405 Author : Tomalin, Margaret Title : The fortunes of the warrior heroine in Italian literature : an index of emancipation. Publisher : Ravenna : Longo Editore, c1982. # pages : 233 p. Series : (L'Interprete ; 33) LC-number : lc82220229 Author : Frye, Ellen, 1940- Title : Amazon story bones Publisher : Minneapolis : Spinsters Ink, 1994. # pages : p. cm. ISBN : 1883523001 ($10.95) LC-number : lc93041001 Author : Gimbutas, Marija Alseikaite, 1921- Title : The civilization of the goddess / Marija Gimbutas ; edited by Joan Marler. -- 1st ed. Published : San Francisco, Calif. : HarperSanFrancisco, c1991. # pages : xi, 529 p. : ill. ISBN : 0062503685 (alk. pape $60.00) LC-number : lc90055792 Author : Gimbutas, Marija Alseikaite, 1921 Title : The language of the goddess : unearthing the hidden symbols of western civilization / Marija Gimbutas. Published : San Francisco : Harper & Row, c1989. # pages : xxiii, 388 p., <8> p. of plates : ill. (some col.). ISBN : 0062503561 ($49.95) LC-number : lc89045398 Author : Johnson, Buffie Title : Lady of the beasts : ancient images of the Goddess and her sacred animals / Buffie Johnson. Published : San Francisco : Harper & Row, c1988. # pages : xi, 386 p., <25> p. of plates : ill., port. ISBN : 0062504231 ($34.95) LC-number : lc89104284 Author : Morgan, Robin Title : Lady of the beasts : poems -- 1st ed. Published : New York : Random House, c1976. # pages : ix, 131 p. ISBN : 039440758X. 0394732294 LC-number : lc76010750 Author : Dugaw, Dianne Title : Warrior women and popular balladry, 1650-1850 Publisher : Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989. # pages : xvi, 233 p. : ill. Series : (Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ; 4) ISBN : 0521372542 LC-number : lc89007396 Author : Shepherd, Simon Title : Amazons and warrior women : varieties of feminism in seventeenth-century drama Publisher : New York : St. Martin's Press, 1981. # pages : 234 p. ISBN : 0312021550 ($25.00) LC-number : lc81013579 Title : Amazon expedition; a Lesbian feminist anthology / Edited by Phyllis Birkby . Publisher : Washington, N.J. : Times Change Press; . # pages : 93 p. : illus. ISBN : 0878105263, 0878100261 (pbk.) LC-number : lc73079902 Author : Cooney, Linda A Title : Change of hearts Publisher : New York : Scholastic, c1985. # pages : 280 p. Series : (Couples ; 1) ISBN : 0590333909 (pbk $2.50) LC-number : lc86100186 Author : Brown, Rita Mae Title : High hearts Publisher : Toronto ; New York : Bantam Books, 1986. # pages : xv, 464 p. ISBN : 0553051202 LC-number : lc85048042 Author : Scott-Stokes, Natascha Title : An Amazon and a donkey Publisher : London : Century, 1991. # pages : x, 249 p. : ill., maps. ISBN : 0712634525 (14.99) LC-number : lc92159884 Author : Beal, Mary F Title : Amazon one / M. F. Beal. -- 1st ed. Publisher : Boston : Little, Brown, 1975. # pages : 299 p. ISBN : 0316084662 LC-number : lc74028111 Author : McKenna, Terence K., 1946 Title : The archaic revival : speculations on psychedelic mushrooms, the Amazon, virtual reality, UFOs, evolution, Shamanism, the rebirth of the goddess, and the end of history -- 1st ed. Publisher : San Francisco, Calif. : HarperSanFrancisco, 1992. # pages : p. ISBN : 0062506137 LC-number : lc91055290 Author : Rosen, Winifred, 1943- Title : Henrietta, the wild woman of Borneo ; illustrated by Kay Chorao. Published : New York : Four Winds Press, <1975>. # pages : <46> p. : ill. ISBN : 0590073907 LC-number : lc74031017 Author : Walker, Alice, 1944- Title : Warrior marks : female genital mutilation and the sexual blinding of women / Alice Walker and Pratibha Parmar. -- 1st ed. Publisher : New York : Harcourt Brace, c1993. # pages : 373 p. : ill. ISBN : 0151000611 ($24.95) LC-number : lc93242654 Title : Arms and the woman : war, gender, and literary representation / edited by Helen M. Cooper, Adrienne Auslander Munich, and Susan Merrill Squier. Published : Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1989. # pages : xx, 348 p. ISBN : 0807818607 (alk. paper), 0807842567 (pbk. : alk. paper) LC-number : lc89005246 Author : Roberts, Mary Louise Title : Civilization without sexes : reconstructing gender in postwar France, 1917-1927 / Mary Louise Roberts. Published : Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1994. # pages : xiv, 337 p. Series : (Women in culture and society) ISBN : 0226721213 (acid-free paper), 0226721221 (pbk. : acid-free paper) LC-number : lc93026899 ************************************************************** (4) PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT Author : LaPuma, Karen Title : Awakening female power : the way of the goddess warrior / Karen LaPuma with Walt Runkis. -- 1st ed. Published : Fairfax, CA : SoulSource Pub., c1991. # pages : 225 p. : ill. ISBN : 1878203029 ($12.95) LC-number : lc89051331 Author : King, Laurel Title : A whistling woman is up to no good : finding your wild woman Published : Berkeley : Celestialarts, 1993. # pages : p. cm. ISBN : 0890876967 ($12.95) LC-number : lc93007867 Author : Andrews, Lynn V Title : The woman of Wyrrd : the arousal of the inner fire -- 1st HarperPerennial ed. Published : New York, NY : HarperPerennial, 1991. # pages : xi, 257 p. ISBN : 0060974109 LC-number : lc90056420 Author : Roszak, Betty Title : Masculine / feminine : readings in sexual mythology and the liberation of women / Edited by Betty Roszak and Theodore Roszak. -- <1st ed.>. Published : New York : Harper & Row, . # pages : xii, 316 p. Series : (Harper colophon books/CN 220) LC-number : lc74133277 Author : Budapest, Zsuzsanna Emese, 1940- Title : The goddess in the office : a personal energy guide for the spiritual warrior at work -- 1st ed. Published : : HarperSanFrancisco, c1993. # pages : xi, 148 p. : ill. ISBN : 0062500872 (alk. pape $10.00 ($13.50 Canada)) LC-number : lc91058920 Author : Hawthorne, Nan Title : Loving the goddess within : sex magick for women Published : Oak Park, Ill. : Delphi Press, 1991. # pages : 171 p. ISBN : 1878980017 (alk. paper $13.95) LC-number : lc90086176 Author : Caskey, George Martin, 1876- Title : Amazon triumph : a spectacular group dance for older girls Publisher : , c1923. # pages : <11> p. : illus. LC-number : lc23011931 ************************************************************** (5) BODYBUILDING Author : McLish, Rachel Title : Perfect parts / Rachel McLish and Joyce L. Vedral. Publisher : New York, NY : Warner Books, c1987. # pages : xii, 236 p. : ill. ISBN : 0446385344 (pbk. $12.95 ($17.50 Can.)) LC-number : lc87015887 Author : Weider, Ben Title : Superpump! : hardcore women's bodybuilding / Ben Weider & Robert Kennedy. Publisher : New York : Sterling Pub. Co., c1986. # pages : 192 p. : ill. ISBN : 0806948000 (pbk.) LC-number : lc86006034 Author : Portugues, Gladys Title : Hard bodies / Gladys Portugues and Joyce Vedral ; photographs by Paul B. Goode. Publisher : New York, N.Y. : Dell Pub. Co., c1986. # pages : 203 p. : ill. ISBN : 0440534240 (pbk $8.95 ($11.50 Can.)) LC-number : lc85016846 Author : Carnes, Valerie Title : Bodysculpture : weight training for women / by Valerie and Ralph Carnes ; photography by Ralph Carnes. Publisher : New York : Simon and Schuster, c1978. # pages : 191 p. : ill. ISBN : 0671230581 LC-number : lc78017269 Author : Kennedy, Robert Title : Bodybuilding for women / Robert Kennedy. Publisher : Buchanan, N.Y. : Emerson Books, 1979. # pages : 128 p. : ill. ISBN : 0875231942 LC-number : lc79051870 Author : Cohn, Nik Title : Women of iron : the world of female bodybuilders / text by Nik Cohn ; photographs by Jean-Pierre Laffont ; designed by J.C. Suares. -- 1st ed. Publisher : New York : Wideview Books, c1981. # pages : 159 p. : ill. (some col.). ISBN : 0872237273 LC-number : lc81050338 Author : Thomas, Al et al. Title : The Female physique athlete : a history to date, 1977-1983 / by Al Thomas ... . Publisher : : Abs-solutely/The Women's Physique Publication, c1983. # pages : 264 p. : ill. (some col.). LC-number : lc82082911 This is the end of the Library of Congress-references. ************************************************************** (6) A FEW BODYBUILDING ARTICLES The article references below were posted to the weight mailing list (about weight lifting), weights-request@fa.disney.com. _Elite women bodybuilders: Models of resistance or compliance?_ Guthrie, Sharon R.; Castelnuovo, Shirley: Play & Culture 1992 (Nov) Vol. 5(4) pp. 401-408. _Epistemological perspectives among women who participate in physical activity._ Special Issue: Gender roles, sport, and exercise. Bredemeier, Brenda J.; Desertrain, Gloria S.; Fisher, Leslee A.; Getty, Debby et al: Journal of Applied Sport Psychology 1991 (Mar) Vol. 3(1) pp. 87-107. _Gender (body) verification (building)_. Daniels, Dayna B.: Play & Culture 1992 (Nov) Vol. 5(4) pp. 370-377. Argues that sport is neither socially nor politically neutral. Women who challenge the standards of femininity by being very successful in sport or through the soma-altering nature of bodybuilding may find their femininity and womanhood questioned. Although women athletes are more celebrated today, the focus on femininity often overshadows attention to their athletic success. Women who are "too" successful in sport, or whose bodies, carefully developed and trained for their chosen sports, do not fit the contemporary image of feminine, face criticism and challenge. Gender verification procedures for Olympic events and the social rejection of female bodybuilders exemplify the control exerted over women's bodies and women's choices in sport participation. _Social perception of bodybuilders_. Freeman, Harvey R.: Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology 1988 (Sep) Vol. 10(3) pp. 281-293. Exp. 1 examined the effects of being labeled a "bodybuilder" on Ss' ratings of the probability that the stimulus person possessed gender-related characteristics. Exp. 2 was designed to determine whether female bodybuilders, compared with attractive and unattractive female non-bodybuilders, were (a) assumed to possess less socially desirable personality traits, (b) expected to lead less successful lives, and (c) viewed as less physically attractive. Data from 167 undergraduates indicate that bodybuilding information played a dominant role in influencing judgments. Stimulus persons who engaged in bodybuilding were judged to be more likely to perform masculine role behaviors and less likely to be employed in feminine occupations, irrespective of gender. Female bodybuilders were viewed as relatively unattractive and were attributed with less desirable personality traits than were attractive female non-bodybuilders. Perpetuation of stereotypes is discussed. ************************************************************** (7) A FEW SPORT, FEMINISM AND GENDER REFERENCES Here are a few references that Trish Shewokis at BGSU was kind enough to send to me, in response to my posting the Amazon feminism reading list from AI # 16 to WISHPERD. Hence, this section may be perceived as a supplement to the book list from AI # 16. I will be more thorough about sport, feminism and gender in the future gender role references issue. Burton-Nelson, M. (1991). ARE WE WINNING YET? HOW WOMEN ARE CHANGING SPORTS AND SPORTS ARE CHANGING WOMEN. NY: Random House. Lenskyj, H. (1991). WOMEN, SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY: RESEARCH AND BIBLIOGRAPHY. Ottawa: Canadian Communication Group Minster of Supply and Services. Messner, M. & Sabo, D. (1990). SPORT, MEN AND THE GENDER ORDER: CRITICAL FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics. Jarrat, E. (1990). Feminist Issues in Sport. WOMEN'S STUDIES INTERNATIONAL FORUM. 13(5), 491-499. WOMEN'S STUDIES INTERNATION FORUM Volume 10 Number 4: 1987 -- Issue focus on women and sport. ************************************************************** (8) WISHPERD INTRODUCTION FILE WISHPERD on LISTSERV@sjsuvm1.sjsu.edu Women in Sport, Health, or LISTSERV@SJSUVM1.BITNET Physical Education, Recreation and Dance WISHPERD (Women in Sport, Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance) has been created to enable discussion of any issues of concern in these fields; to share information, put out requests for help, to distribute questionnaires or calls for papers, announce positions available, new publications or grant opportunities and other issues of interest to the group. 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