118 Bibliographical Reviews

Excellent scope notes introduce each section III the book. Lucid annotations are evaluat:ve as well as descriptive m nature. This exemplary work concludes with Author. Title, and Subject indexes. The ;iuthor and Title indexes Include references to books mentloned m annoratIons but not annotated themselves. This is indispensable for building a Women’s Studies collection.

NEW FEMINIST S~HOLAMHIP: X GUIDE TO BIBLCGRAPHIES by Jane Williamson, 139 pages. Feminist Press, Old Westbury, N.Y., 1979. Price, hardback 515.00.

WOMEN’S STUDIES: A CHECKLIST OF BIBLICZGRAPHIES by Maureen Ritchie. 107 pages. Mansell. London, 1980. Price, hardback $23.50.

WOMEN: A BIBLIGG~UPHY OF BIBLIOGRAPHIES by Patricia K. Bailou, 155 pages. G. K. Hall. Boston, 1980. Price hardback 516.00.

New Feminist Scholarship. by Jane Williamson. is a research-oriented, annotated guide that mcludes nearly four hundred bibliographies, resource lists, and literature reviews on women. Both separately published bibliographies and those published as periodical articles are included. Her compilation includes mostly bibliographies from informal and non-commercial sources. That is, many were produced by women’s organizations. Only English- language materials are included. Material is arranged into thirty specific subject areas. such as Drugs and Alcohol, Professions, and Third World Countries. Each section is prefaced by helpful scope notes, and the cross-references between sections make it quite easy to use. Author and Title Indexes and a list of addresses for the publishers represented complete this fine compilation.

Another bibliography of bibliographies is Women’s Studies: .A Checklist of Bibliographies, by Maureen Ritchie. Like the books by Williamson and Ballou (below), it is research-onented. Unlike them, however, it has no annotations or scope notes. Entries consist of author. title. imprint, pagination, ISSBN, series information and name and address of supplier if difficult to find. With few exceptions, only English-language materials are included although materials covered are international. Ritchie has searched bibliogaphies specific to particular subJects, those specific to Women’s Studies, and general bibliographies for this compilation. Coverage includes bibliographies published as books, articles, pamphlets, reports, library lists or just a few stenciiled pages. Only a few bibliographies of a special nature that were published as parts of books are included. The checklist is organized by broad subject areas with rather specific subdivisions. For example, the divisions of the Economics section are Development, Specific Occupations, and Work and Employment. These listings represent broad coverage of subjects and include good cross-references to related citations. There are author and keyword indexes.

Women; ‘4 Bibliography of Bibliographies, by Pat Bailou is an extensive, selective, annotated bibliography of bibliographies on women-related topics published between 1970 and 1979. It mcludes non-English-language titles in a total compilation of well over five hundred items, making it more extensive than the Williamson and Ritchle guides. Both separately published bibliographies and those issued as parts of books or as journal articles appear here. This work covers women’s movement publications in addition to scholarly works. Three divisions of citations form the basic outline of this work: a section by particular type or format (including dissertations and library catalogues); a section by geographic subjects (such as U.S. and Third World); a topical subjects section, arranged by general subject areas, e.g. Economics, which have very specific subdivisions. e.g., Employment re-entry. There are cross-references throughout and a personal name index. This is the most useful of these three

BETH STAFFORD