From Library Journal
In this study, McDermott (American studies, Univ. of Maryland) finds that "feminist academic journals have been drawn completely inside the university and have only tenuous connections to the splintered and withered community movement." McDermott sets out to discuss feminist publishing and the underground press but ends up roaming aimlessly; she gives a long definition of what a feminist journal is that becomes difficult to meet. Though she focuses on the university journals Feminist Studies, Frontiers, and Signs, she also appends a list of 32 feminist academic journals in the United States. Full of notes and jargon perhaps necessary to satisfy the "gatekeepers"-those who set the standard for the academic system-this work is finally relevant only to journalism, political science, and women's studies collections.
Helen Rippier Wheeler, formerly of UC-Berkeley, SLIS
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Helen Rippier Wheeler, formerly of UC-Berkeley, SLIS
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
"McDermott is forthright in laying out her own perspective as a passionately engaged but intellectually detached observer of feminist knowledge and institutions." -- Jane Sherron De Hart, American Historical Review
