BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: I. Julia Leslie, The Perfect Wife: the orthodox Hindu woman according to the Strldharmapaddhati of Tryambakayajvan. Frédérique Apffel Marglin, Wives of the God-King: the rituals of the devadāsīs of Puri. Christopher Durston, The Family and the English Revolution. Margaret George, Women in the First Capitalist Society: Experiences in Seventeenth-Century England. Kathryn Shevelow, Women and Print Culture: The Construction of Femininity in the Early Periodical. Rudolf M. Dekker and Lotte C. van de Pol, The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modem Europe. Julie Wheelwright, Amazons and Military Maids: Women Who Dressed as Men in the Pursuit of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Nadezhda Durova, The Cavalry Maid: the Memoirs of a Woman Soldier of 1812. Valerie Fildes, Wet Nursing: A History from Antiquity to the Present. Anne M. Boylan, Sunday School: The Formation of an American Institution, 1790–1880. Brian Heeney, The Women's Movement in the Church of England 1850–1930. Joseph A. Kestner, Mythology and Misogyny: The Social Discourse of Nineteenth-Century British Classical-Subject Painting. Mary Poovey, Uneven Developments. The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England. Roderick Phillips, Putting Asunder: A History of Divorce in Western Society. Joan Perkin, Women and Marriage in Nineteenth Century England. Christine Collette, For Labour and For Women: The Women's Labour League, 1906–18. Sally Alexander, (ed), Women's Fabian Tracts.