Wake Forest University opens women’s studies library

The Women’s Studies Library opened Sept. 5 at 2:30 p.m. The new library, located in C113 Tribble Hall, is home to 450 books, more than 70 compact discs and 25 videos. It is furnished with desks, a couch and chairs and a special viewing area.

Faculty, staff and students will be able to take advantage of a wide array of literary resources like “The Woman’s Bible,” by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “Rediscovering the Muses: Women’s Musical Traditions,” by Kimberly Marshall, and “Woman: An Intimate Geography,” by Natalie Angier. CDs by Billie Holiday, Joan Baez and the Indigo Girls are catalogued near collections of women composers from the 12th to 20th centuries. Movies and documentaries address the role of women in a Muslim-dominated village in India and analyze the gender bias in everyday language.

The library is open to the public through arrangement with the director, Susan Borwick, at 758-5139. The library coordinator is Angie Wood.

The opening will also exhibit a hand-made quilt purchased by faculty and students of the women’s studies program at the Feminist Expo in Baltimore, Md., last spring.