Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Contemporary European History, Vol. 10 (3), November 2001, Theme Issue: Gender and War in Europe c. 1918–1949 Claire Duchen and Irene Bandhauer–Schoffman (eds), When the War Was Over: Women, War and Peace in Europe, 1940–1956 Bonnie S. Anderson, Joyous Greetings: The First International Women's Movement 1830–1860 Jo Fox, Filming Women in the Third Reich Elizabeth Abbott, A History of Celibacy Jocelyn Wogan–Browne, Saints’ Lives and Women's Literary Culture c. 1150–1300: Virginity and its Authorisations Susan Migden Socolow, The Women of Colonial Latin America Federico Garza Carvajal, Vir: Perceptions of Manliness in Andalucía and México, 1561–1699 Tanika Sarkar, Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation: Gender, Religion and the Prehistory of Indian Nationalism Marion W. Gray, Productive Men, Reproductive Women: The Agrarian Household and the Emergence of Separate Spheres during the German Enlightenment Jean H. Quataert, Staging Philanthropy: Patriotic Women and the National Imagination in Dynastic Germany, 1813–1916 Judith M. Bennett and Amy M. Froide (eds), Singlewomen in the European Past 1250–1800 Leonore Davidoff, Megan Doolittle, Janet Fink, Katherine Holden, The Family Story: Blood, Contract and Intimacy, 1830–1960 Georges Vigarello, A History of Rape: Sexual Violence in France from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century Mary A. Procida, Married to the Empire: Gender, Politics and Imperialism in India, 1883–1947 Joy Dixon, Divine Feminine: Theosophy and Feminism in England Catriona M. Parratt, ‘More Than Mere Amusement’: Working–Class Women's Leisure in England, 1750–1914 Nancy A. Hewitt, Southern Discomfort: Women‘s Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s–1920s Emily K. Abel, Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin, 1850–1940 Sandra Lee Barney, Authorized to Heal: Gender, Class, and the Transformation of Medicine in Appalachia, 1880–1930 Margarete Sandelowski, Devices and Desires: Gender, Technology, and American Nursing     

BOOK REVIEWS

Joan M. Gero and Margaret W. Conkey (eds), Engendering Archaeology W. J. Shells and Diana Wood (eds), Women in the Church Penelope D. Johnson, Equal in Monastic Profession, Religious Women in Medieval France Sally Thompson, Women Religious Margaret MacCurtain and Mary O'Dowd (eds), Women in Early Modem Ireland 1500–1800 Lawrence Stone, Road to Divorce: England 1530–1987 Robert B. Shoemaker, Prosecution and Punishment: Petty Crime and the Law in London and Rural Middlesex, c. 1660–1725 Marina Benjamin (ed.), Science and Sensibility, Gender and Scientific Enquiry 1780–1945 Sian Reynolds, Britannica's Typesetters: Women Compositors in Edwardian Edinburgh Eleanor Gordon and Esther Breitenbach (eds), The World is III Divided: Women's Work in Scotland in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Leah Leneman, A Guid Cause. The Women's Suffrage Movement in Scotland Angela V. John (ed.), Our Mothers’Land. Chapters in Welsh Women's History 1830–1939 Harold L. Smith (ed.), British Feminism in the Twentieth Century June E. Hahner, Emancipating the Female Sex: The Struggle for Women's Rights in Brazil, 1850–1940 Jane S. Jaquette (ed.), The Women's Movement in Latin America: Feminism and the Transition to Democracy Susan Glenn, Daughters of the Shtetl. Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation David Tyack and Elizabeth Hansot, Learning Together: A History of Coeducation in American Public Schools Lynn D. Gordon, Gender and Higher Education in the Progressive Era Ileen A. DeVault, Sons and Daughters of Labor: Class and Clerical Work in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh Lisa M. Fine, The Souls of the Skyscraper: Female Clerical Workers in Chicago, 1870–1930 Stephen H. Norwood, Labor's Flaming Youth: Telephone Operators and Worker Militancy, 1878–1923 Nancy F. Cott (ed.), A Woman Making History. Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters Jackie Byars, All That Hollywood Allows. Re-reading Gender Melodrama     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book review in this article: Karma Lochrie, Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh David F. Noble, A World Without Women: The Christian Clerical Culture of Western Science Jutta Schwarzkopf, Women in the Chartist Movement Catherine Hall, White, Male and Middle Class. Explorations in Feminism and History Ed Cohen, Talk on the Wilde Side: Toward a Genealogy of a Discourse on Male Sexualities June Purvis, A History of Women's Education in England Felicity Hunt, Gender and Policy in English Education. Schooling for Girls 1902-1944 Andrew Davies, Leisure, Gender and Poverty. Working-Class Culture in Salford and Manchester, 1900-1939 Andrew Davies and Steven Fielding (eds) Workers’Worlds. Cultures and Communities in Manchester and Salford, 1880–1939 Jo Fisher, Out of the Shadows: Women, Resistance and Politics in South America Sarah A. Radcliffe and Sallie Westwood (eds) Viva: Women and Popular Protest in Latin America Manchester Women's History Group Bibliography Project, Resources for Women's History in Greater Manchester Clare Whiteman and Richard Storey, Women at Work and in Society. Modern Records Centre Sources Booklet No 1 Michelle Perrot (ed.) Writing Women's History Joke J. Hermsen and Alkeline van Lenning (eds) Sharing the Difference. Feminist Debates in Holland Hillary Hinds, Ann Phoenix and Jackie Stacey (eds) Working Out. New Directions for Women's Studies Karen Often, Ruth Roach Pierson and Jane Rendall (eds) Writing Women's History: International Perspectives     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Mary Ann Clawson, Constructing Brotherhood: Class, Gender, and Fraternalism. Mark C. Carnes, Secret Ritual and Manhood in Victorian America. Mary P. Ryan, Women in Public: Between Banners and Ballots, 1825–1880. Alain Corbin, Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850. Linda Mahood, The Magdalenes: Prostitution in the Nineteenth Century. Charles Bernheimer, Figures of Ill Repute. Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France. Bob Cant and Susan Hemmings (eds), Radical Records. Thirty Years of Lesbian and Gay History. Hall Carpenter Archives. Gay Men's Oral History Group (eds), Walking After Midnight. Gay Men's Life Stories. Hall Carpenter Archives. Lesbian Oral History Group (eds), Inventing Ourselves. Lesbian Life Stories. Lesbian History Group, Not a Passing Phase. Reclaiming Lesbians in History 1840–1945. Harriet Bradley, Men's Work, Women's Work. A Sociological History of the Sexual Division of Labour in Employment. Eileen Boris and Cynthia R. Daniels (eds), Homework. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Paid Labor at Home. Shelley Pennington and Belinda Westover, A Hidden Workforce. Homeworkers in England, 1850–1985. Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Women's Work, Markets, and Economic Development in Nineteenth-Century Ontario. Gillian Darley, Octavia Hill. Donna Haraway, Primate Visions: Gender, Race and Nature in the World of Modern Science. Stree Shakti Sanghatana, ‘We Were Making History’, Women and the Telengana Uprising.     

Book Reviews

Book review in this article: Christiane Klapisch-Zuber (ed.) Le moyen age Erika Uitz, Die Frau in der mittelalterlichen Stadt [Woman in the medieval city Gerald Beyreuther, Barbara Pätzold and Erika Uitz (eds) Fürstinnen und Städterinnen. Frauen im Mittelalter [Noblewomen and Townswomen. Women in the Middle Ages] Emilie Amt (ed.) Women's Lives in Medieval Europe. A Sourcebook Autumn Stanley, Mothers and Daughters of Invention: Notes Towards a Revised History of Technology Constance Wall Holt, Welsh Women: An Annotated Bibliography of Women in Wales and Women of Welsh Descent in America Marcia J. Citron, Gender and the Musical Canon Kimberly Marshall (ed.) Rediscovering the Muses: Women's Musical Traditions Paola Corti (ed.) Annali dell'lstituto Alcide Cervi [Annals of the Alcide Cervi Institute] Margherita Pelaja, Matrimonio e sessualità a Roma nell'Ottocento [Marriage and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Rome] Silvia Franchini, Elites ed educazione femminile nell'Italia dell'Ottocento: L'Istituto della SS. Annunziata di Firenze [Elites and female education in nineteenth-century Italy: The Institute of St Annunziata in Florence] Barbara Kanner, Women in English Social History 1800–1914: A Guide to Research in Three Volumes Jane Lewis, Women and Social Action in Victorian and Edwardian England Emily Groszos Ooms, Women and Millenarian Protest in Meiji Japan: Deguchi Nao and Mmotoky Wendy Z. Goldman, Women, the State, and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917–1936 Giuliana Bruno, Streetwalking on a Ruined Map: Cultural Theory and the City Films of Elvira Notari Anne Friedberg, Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern Ellen Wiley Todd, The‘New Woman’Revised: Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street Julie Wheelwright, The Fatal Lover. Mata Hari and the Myth of Women in Espionage Lucie Aubrac, Outwitting the Gestapo Mary Louise Roberts, Civilization Without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France 1917–1927 Susan Kingsley Kent, Making Peace: The Reconstruction of Gender in Interwar Britain     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Athalya Brenner, The Intercourse of Knowledge: On Gendering Desire and ‘Sexuality’ in the Hebrew Bible Liz James (ed.), Women, Men and Eunuchs: Gender in Byzantium Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Marie Louise Stig Sørensen (eds), Excavating Women: A History of Women in European Archaeology Helen Solterer, The Master, and Minerva: Disputing Women in Medieval French Culture Ruth Mazo Karras, Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England Judith M. Bennett, Ale, Beer and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300–1600 Warren Chernaik, Sexual Freedom in Restoration Literature Stephanie McCurry, Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country Leora Auslander, Taste and Power: Furnishing Modern France Michèle Riot-Sarcey, La démocratie à l'épreuve des femmes. Trois figures critiques du pouvoir 1830–1848 Gillian Scott, Feminism and the Politics of Working Women: The Women's Co-operative Guild, 1880s to the Second World War Elaine Tyler May, Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness Margaret Marsh and Wanda Ronner, The Empty Cradle: Infertility in America from Colonial Times to the Present Melinda Chateauvert, Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Leisa D. Meyer, Creating GI Jane: Sexuality and Power in the Women's Army Corps During World War II Brenda L. Moore, To Serve My Country, To Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African American WACs Stationed Overseas during World War II Patricia Ann Palmieri, In Adamless Eden: The Community of Women Faculty at Wellesley Alison Mackinnon, Love and Freedom: Professional Women and the Re-shaping of Personal Life Kathleen Day Hulbert and Diane Tickton Schuster (eds), Women's Lives Through Time: Educated American Women of the Twentieth Century Rina Benmayor and Andor Skotnes (eds), Migration and Identity (International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories 3) Rosalind Marsh (ed.), Women in Russia and Ukraine Mary Buckley (ed.), Post-Soviet Women: from the Baltic to Central Asia T. Dunbar Moodie with Vivienne Ndatshe, Going for Gold: Men, Mines and Migration Mari Jo Buhle, Feminism and its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis Elizabeth Abel, Barbara Christian, and Helen Moglen (eds), Female Subjects in Black and White     

Recovering Lives from behind the Gloss of Ideology: Recent Histories of Elite and Middle‐Class Women in England and America

Books reviewed in this article: Amanda Vickery, The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women's Lives in GeorgianEngland Jill Liddington, Female Fortune: Land, Gender and Authority Laura McCall and Donald Yacovone (eds), A Shared Experience: Men, Women and the History of Gender John Tosh, A Man’s Place: Masculinity and the Middle‐Class Homein Victorian England     

Book Reviews

Caroline W. Bynum, The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200–1336 Pauline Stafford, Queen Emma and Queen Edith: Queenship and Women's Power in Eleventh Century England Kate Aughterson (ed.), Renaissance Woman: A Sourcebook. Constructions of Femininity in England Suzanne W. Hull, Women According to Men: The World of Tudor–Stuart Women Valerie Frith (ed.), Women and History: Voices of Early Modern England Eric Josef Carlson, Marriage and the English Reformation Joel F. Harrington, Reordering Marriage and Society in Reformation Germany Gillian T. W. Ahlgren, Teresa of Avila and the Politics of Sanctity Sherry M. Velasco, Demons, Nausea and Resistance in the Autobiography of Isabel de Jesús, 1611–1682 Margaret R. Hunt, The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender and the Family in England 1680–1780 Mary Waldron, Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: the Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753–1806 Michèle Cohen, Fashioning Masculinity: National Identity and Language in the Eighteenth Century Susan J. Tracy, In the Master's Eye: Representations of Women, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Antebellum Southern Literature Kathleen Canning, Languages of Labor and Gender: Female Factory Work in Germany, 1850–1914 Anna Davin, Growing Up Poor: Home, School and Street in London 1870–1914 Joel Wolfe, Working Women, Working Men: São Paulo and the Rise of Brazil's Industrial Working Class, 1900–1955 Miriam Cooke and Angela Woollacott (eds), Gendering War Talk Joy Damousi and Marilyn Lake (eds), Gender and War: Australians at War in the Twentieth Century Ruth Lewin Sime, Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics Ann Laura Stoler, Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things Peggy Bristow, Dionne Brand, Linda Carty, Afua P. Cooper, Sylvia Hamilton, Adrienne Shadd (eds), ’We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up’: Essays in African Canadian Women's History Anne Marie Rafferty, The Politics of Nursing Knowledge Mona Ozouf, Les Mots des Femmes: Essai sur la Singularité Française (Women's Words: An Essay on French Particularity)     

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.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Lin Foxhall and John Salmon (eds), When Men Were Men: Masculinity, Power and Identity in Classical Antiquity Emily A. Hemelrijk, Matrona Docta: Educated Women in the Roman Elite from Cornelia to Julia Domna Bella Vivante (ed.), Women's Role in Ancient Civilisations Susan Kingsley Kent, Gender and Power in Britain, 1640–1990 Martha C. Howell, The Marriage Exchange: Property, Social Place and Gender in Cities of the Low Countries, 1300–1550 Julie Hardwick, The Practice of Patriarchy: Gender and the Politics of Household Authority in Early Modern France Tim Stretton, Women Waging Law in Elizabethan England Mary E. Giles (ed.), Women in the Inquisition: Spain and the New World Deborah Simonton, A History of European Women's Work: 1700 to the Present Pamela Sharpe (ed.), Women's Work: The English Experience, 1650–1914 Jane Long, Conversations in Cold Rooms: Women, Work and Poverty in Nineteenth‐Century Northumberland Carol Mattingly, Well‐Tempered Women: Nineteenth‐Century Temperance Rhetoric Faith Wigzell, Reading Russian Fortunes: Print Culture, Gender and Divination in Russia from 1765 Marjorie Theobald, Knowing Women: Origins of Women's Education in Nineteenth‐Century Australia Jane Martin, Women and the Politics of Schooling in Victorian and Edwardian England Paula M. Krebs, Gender, Race and the Writing of Empire: Public Discourse and the Boer War Natalia Pushkareva, Women in Russian History from the Tenth to the Twentieth Century Jane McDermid and Anna Hillyar, Midwives of the Revolution: Female Bolsheviks and Women Workers in 1917 Sue Bridger (ed.), Women and Political Change: Perspectives from East‐Central Europe Claudia Nelson and Ann Sumner Holmes (eds), Maternal Instincts: Visions of Motherhood and Sexuality in Britain 1875–1925 Kathleen Kiernan, Hilary Land and Jane Lewis, Lone Motherhood in Twentieth‐Century Britain: From Footnote to Front Page Judith Tydor Baumel, Double Jeopardy: Gender and the Holocaust Julia Hell, Post‐Fascist Fantasies: Psychoanalysis, History, and the Literature of East Germany Norbert Finzsch and Dietmar Schirmer (eds), Identity and Intolerance: Nationalism, Racism, and Xenophobia in Germany and the United States Emiko Ochiai, The Japanese Family System in Transition Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin, Borders and Boundaries: Women in India's Partition Becky Conekin, Frank Mort and Chris Waters (eds), Moments of Modernity: Reconstructing Britain 1945–1964 Celia Briar, Working for Women? Gendered Work and Welfare Policies in Twentieth‐Century Britain Victoria de Grazia (ed.) with Ellen Furlough, The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective Christopher Breward, The Hidden Consumer: Masculinities, Fashion and City Life 1860–1914 Irene Cieraad (ed.), At Home: An Anthropology of Domestic Space     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Sarah B. Pomeroy (ed.) Women's History and Ancient History. Georges Duby and Michelle Perrot (eds) Histoire des Femmes en Occident. Ken Dowden, Death and the Maiden. Girls’ Initiation Rites in Greek Mythology. Clarissa W. Atkinson, The Oldest Vocation: Christian Motherhood in the Middle Ages. Dhuoda, Handbook for William: A Carolingian Woman's Counsel for her Son. Michael M. Sheehan and Jacqueline Murray (comps) Domestic Society in Medieval Europe: A Select Bibliography. Lynn A. Higgins and Brenda R. Silver (eds) Rape and Representation. Kathryn Gravdal, Ravishing Maidens. Writing Rape in Medieval French Literature and Law. Joy Wiltenburg, Disorderly Women and Female Power in the Street Literature of Early Modern England and Germany. Marieluise Christadler (Hrsg), Freiheit, Gleichheit, Weiblichkeit. Aufklarung, Revolution, und die Frauen in Europa. Jeannine Blackwell and Susanne Zantop (eds) Bitter Healing. German Women Writers from 1700 to 1830. An Anthology. Martha Noel Evans, Fits and Starts: A Genealogy of Hysteria in Modem France. Francoise Barret-Ducrocq, Love in the Time of Victoria. Sexuality, Class and Gender in Nineteenth-Century London. Carol Smart (ed.) Regulating Womanhood: Historical Essays on Marriage, Motherhood and Sexuality. Martha A. Ackelsberg, Free Women of Spain. Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women. Sonia E. Alvarez, Engendering Democracy in Brazil. Women's Movements in Transition Politics. Francesca Miller, Latin American Women and the Search for Social Justice. K. Lynn Stoner, From the House to the Streets. The Cuban Woman's Movement for Legal Reform 1898–1940. Leila Ahmed, Women and Gender in Islam. Barbara Daly Metcalf, Perfecting Women. Maulana Ashraf ‘AH Thanawi's ‘Bihishti Zewar’. A Partial Translation with Commentary.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Kelley Hays-Gilpin and David S. Whitely (eds) Reader in Gender Archaeology Robert B. Shoemaker Gender in English Society, 1650–1850: The Emergence of Separate Spheres? Robert Shoemaker and Mary Vincent (eds) Gender and History in Western Europe Eileen Janes Yeo (ed.) Mary Wollstonecraft and 200 Years of Feminisms Leah Leneman Alienated Affections: The Scottish Experience of Divorce and Separation, 1684–1830 David Peterson del Mar What Trouble I Have Seen: A History of Violence Against Wives K. D. Reynolds Aristocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain Clare Midgley Gender and Imperialism Antoinette Burton At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in late-Victorian Britain Indira Chowdhury The Frail Hero and Virile History: Gender and the Politics of Culture in Colonial Bengal Urvashi Butalia The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India Indira Ghose Women Travellers in Colonial India: The Power of the Female Gaze Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch African Women: A Modern History Gwendolyn Mikell (ed.) African Feminism: The Politics of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa Carolina Maria de Jesus I'm Going to Have a Little House: the Second Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus Carolina Maria de Jesus Bitita's Diary: The Childhood Memoirs of Carolina Maria de Jesus Benedita da Silva Benedita da Silva: An Afro-Brazilian Woman's Story of Politics and Love as Told to Medea Benjamin and Maisa Mendonça Robert M. Levine The Brazilian Photographs of Genevieve Naylor, 1940–1942 Penny Summerfield, Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives: Discourse and Subjectivity in Oral Histories of the Second World War Linda K. Schott Reconstructing Women's Thoughts: The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Before World War II Begona Aretxaga Shattering Silence: Women, Nationalism, and Political Subjectivity in Northern Ireland Leonie Sandercock (ed.) Making the Invisible Visible: A Multicultural Planning History     

Book Reviews

Robert J. C. Young, Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race Carole Boyce Davies, Black Women, Writing, and Identity: Migrations of the Subject Maria Luddy, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington Gail Bederman, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 7880–7977 Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Conquest Miranda Shaw, Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism Vron Ware, Beyond the Pale. White Women, Racism and History Mrinalini Sinha, Colonial Masculinity: The ‘Manly Englishman’ and the ‘Effeminate Bengali’ in the Late Nineteenth Century Bina Agarwal, A Field of One's Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia Francine Masiello, Between Civilization and Barbarism: Women, Nation, and Literary Culture in Modern Argentina Gertrude M. Yeager (ed.) Confronting Change, Challenging Tradition: Women in Latin American History Susan K. Besse, Restructuring Patriarchy: The Modernization of Gender Inequality in Brazil, 1914–1940 Richard C. Trexler, Sex and Conquest: Gendered Violence, Political Order, and the European Conquest of the Americas Megan Vaughan, Curing Their Ills: Colonial Power and African Illness Henrietta L. Moore and Megan Vaughan, Cutting Down Trees. Gender, Nutrition, and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890–1990 Shula Marks, Divided Sisterhood: Race, Class and Gender in the South African Nursing Profession Heike Becker, Namibian Women's Movement 1980 to 1992: From Anti-Colonial Resistance to Reconstruction     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Anne K. Mellor, Mothers of the Nation: Women's Political Writing in England, 1780–1830 Hilda Smith (ed.), Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition Rachel Weil, Political Passions, Gender, the Family and Political Argument in England, 1680–1714 Karin Wulf, Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia Larry E. Tise (ed.), Benjamin Franklin and Women Barbara Kanner, Women in Context: Two Hundred Years of British Women Autobiographers, a Reference Guide and Reader R. N. Swanson (ed.), Gender and Christian Religion, Studies in Church History Kathryn Burns, Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru Sudhir Chandra, Enslaved Daughters: Colonialism, Law and Women's Rights Ruth Roach Pierson and Nupur Chaudhuri with the assistance of Beth McAuley (eds), Nation, Empire, Colony: Historicizing Gender and Race Julia Bush, Edwardian Ladies and Imperial Power Julia Clancy‐Smith and Frances Gouda (eds), Domesticating the Empire: Race, Gender and Family Life in French and Dutch Colonialism Alan Kidd and David Nicholls (eds), Gender, Civic Culture and Consumerism: Middle‐Class Identity in Britain, 1800–1940 Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland and Jane Rendall, Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the Reform Act of 1867 Shawn Michelle Smith, American Archives: Gender, Race and Class in Visual Culture Linda Mizejewski, Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema Deborah Cherry, Beyond the Frame: Feminism and Visual Culture, Britain 1850–1900 Ludmilla Jordanova, History in Practice Bonnie G. Smith, The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice Judith Halberstam, Female Masculinity Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe (eds) Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature Paul Robinson, Gay Lives: Homosexual Autobiography from John Addington Symonds to Paul Monette Paula Bartley, Prostitution: Prevention and Reform in England, 1860–1914 Claire A. Cullerton, Working‐Class Culture, Women and Britain, 1914–1921 Claire Langhamer, Women's Leisure in England 1920–1960 Lesley A. Hall, Sex, Gender and Social Change in Britain since 1880     

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Denise Nowakowski Baker. Julian of Norwich's Showings. From Vision to Book Lynn Staley. Margery Kempe's Dissenting Fictions Grace M. Jantzen. Power, Gender and Christian Mysticism Anthony Fletcher. Gender, Sex and Subordination in England 1500 to 1800 Laura Gowing. Domestic Dangers. Women, Words, and Sex in Early Modern London Naomi J. Miller. Changing the Subject: Mary Wroth and Figurations of Gender in Early Modern England Naomi Zack. Bachelors of Science: Seventeenth-Century Identity, Then and Now Linda Lopez McAlister (ed.). Hypatia's Daughters: Fifteen Hundred Years of Women Philosophers Kathryn Gleadle. The Early Feminists: Radical Unitarians and the Emergence of the Women's Rights Movement, 1831–51 Barbara Caine. English Feminism 1780–1980 Clarissa Campbell Orr (ed.). Wollstonecraft's Daughters: Womanhood in England and France 1780–1920 Ann-Louise Shapiro. Breaking the Codes: Female Criminality in Fin-de-Siècle Paris Sally Ledger. The New Woman: Fiction and Feminism at the Fin de Siècle Maroula Joannou. ‘Ladies, Please Don't Smash These Windows’: Women's Writing, Feminist Consciousness and Social Change 1918–38 Barbara Evans Clements. Bolshevik Women Alison Oram. Women Teachers and Feminist Politics 1900–1939 Maria Tatar. Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany Katharina von Ankum (ed.). Women in the Metropolis: Gender and Modernity in Weimar Culture Yvonne M. Klein (ed.). Beyond the Home Front: Women's Autobiographical Writing of the Two World Wars Mary Nash. Defying Male Civilization: Women in the Spanish Civil War Rachel Feldhay Brenner. Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust – Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, Etty Hillesum Evelyn Fox Keller and Helen E. Longino (eds). Feminism and Science Mary Maynard (ed.). Science and the Construction of Women Ann Wagner. Adversaries of Dance. From the Puritans to the Present Amy Koritz. Gendering Bodies / Performing Art. Dance in Early Twentieth-Century British Culture     

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James Grantham Turner (ed.) Sexuality and Gender in Early Modem Europe: Institutions, Texts, Images Richard Burt and John Michael Archer (eds) Enclosure Acts: Sexuality, Property, and Culture in Early Modern England Roddey Reid, Families in Jeopardy: Regulating the Social Body in France, 1750–1910 Jann Matlock, Scenes of Seduction: Prostitution, Hysteria, and Reading Difference in Nineteenth-Century France Jeffrey R. Watt, The Making of Modern Marriage: Matrimonial Control and the Rise of Sentiment in Neuchâtel, 1550–1800 Claire Duchen, Women's Rights and Women's Lives in France, 1944–1968 Amanda Anderson, Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture Deborah Epstein Nord, Walking the Victorian Streets: Women, Representation, and the City Angela Groppi, I Conservatori Delia Virtú. Donne Recluse Nella Roma dei Papi Joanne E. Gates, Elizabeth Robins, 1862–1952: Actress, Novelist, Feminist Angela V. John, Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862–1952 Kenneth A. Lockridge, On the Sources of Patriarchal Rage: The Commonplace Books of William Byrd and Thomas Jefferson and the Gendering of Power in the Eighteenth Century Christine Bolt, The Women's Movements in the United States and Britain from the 1790s to the 1920s Ian Tyrrell, Woman's World/Woman's Empire: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in International Perspective Audrey Oldfield, Woman Suffrage in Australia: A Gift or a Struggle? The Blaze of Day Nancy A. Hewitt and Suzanne Lebsock (eds) Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism Teresa Anne Murphy, Ten Hours’Labor: Religion, Reform, and Gender in Early Slew England Virginia Bernhard, Betty Brandon, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Theda Perdue (eds) Southern Women: Histories and Identities Catherine Clinton (ed.) Half Sisters of History: Southern Women and the American Past Melvyn Stokes and Rick Halpern (eds) Race and Class in the American South since 1890 Catherine Wessinger (ed.) Women's Leadership in Marginal Religions: Explorations Outside the Mainstream Wendy E. Chmielewski, Louis J. Kern and Marlyn Klee Hartzell (eds) Women in Spiritual and Communitarian Societies in the United States Jean Humez (ed.) Mother's First-Born Daughters: Early Shaker Writings on Women and Religion W. Peter Ward, Birth Weight and Economic Growth: Women's Living Standards in the Industrializing West David Cordingly, Life Among the Pirates: Fact vs Fiction Catherine Wendy Bracewell, The Uskoks of Senj: Piracy, Banditry, and Holy War in the Sixteenth-Century Adriatic B. R. Berg, Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean (New York University Press, New York and London, 1994; rev. ed. of Sodomy and the Perception of Evil) Carol A. B. Giesen, Coal Miners’Wives: Portraits of Endurance Gillian Thomas, A Position to Command Respect: Women and the Eleventh Britannica     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Tjitske Akkerman and Siep Stuurman (eds), Perspectives on Feminist Political Thought in European History from the Middle Ages to the Present Sara Mendelson and Patricia Crawford, Women in Early Modern England, 1550–1720 Lilian R. Furst (ed.), Women Healers and Physicians: Climbing a Long Hill Hilary Marland and Margaret Pelling (eds), The Task of Healing: Medicine, Religion and Gender in England and the Netherlands, 1450–1800 Lynette Hunter and Sarah Hutton (eds), Women, Science and Medicine 1500–1700: Mothers and Sisters of the Royal Society Brean S. Hammond, Professional Imaginative Writing in England, 1670–1740: ‘Hackney for Bread’ Paula McDowell, The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678–1730 Randolph Trumbach, Sex and the Gender Revolution, vol. 1, Heterosexuality and the Third Gender in Enlightenment London Gwenda Morgan and Peter Rushton, Rogues, Thieves and the Rule of Law: The Problem of Law Enforcement in North‐East England 1718–1800 Ulla Wikander, Von der Magd zur Angestellten: Macht, Geschlecht und Arbeitsteilung 1789–1950 Hilda Kean, Animal Rights: Political and Social Change in Britain Since 1800 Shani D'Cruze, Crimes of Outrage: Sex, Violence and Victorian Working Women Elizabeth A. Wood, The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia Barbara Alpern Engel and Anastasia Posadskaya‐Vanderbeck (eds), A Revolution of Their Own: Voices of Women in Soviet History Krassimira Daskalova (ed.), From the Shadow of History: Women in Bulgarian Society and Culture Sabrina P. Ramet (ed.), Gender Politics in the Western Balkans: Women and Society in Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav Successor States Miriam B. Peskowitz, Spinning Fantasies: Rabbis, Gender, and History Miriam B. Peskowitz and Laura Levitt (eds), Judaism Since Gender Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896–1920 Consuelo Lopez Springfield (ed.), Daughters of Caliban: Caribbean Women in the Twentieth Century Paula L. Aymer, Uprooted Women: Migrant Domestics in the Caribbean Belinda Edmondson, Making Men: Gender, Literary Authority and Women's Writing in Caribbean Narrative Alison Bashford, Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine Diana Gittins, Madness in its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital, 1913–1997 Rosemary Pringle, Sex and Medicine: Gender, Power and Authority in the Medical Profession Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson (eds), The Oral History Reader Mary Chamberlain and Paul Thompson (eds), Narrative and Genre     

Rethinking Twentieth‐Century Guadalajara

This paper discusses the impact of the conference ‘Las Olvidadas: Gender and Women's History in Post‐Revolutionary Mexico’ that took place at Yale University in May 2001, into my own work on women's political mobilisations. It points out from where I departed and how it changed my perspective from women's history to gender history by focusing on women workers in the tortilla industry, a union cacicazgo (political bossism), civic culture, narratives, cultural memory and female political trajectories after the granting of women's suffrage in 1953 in Jalisco.     

Book Reviews

Book review in this article: Natalie Zemon Davis and Arlette Farge (eds) Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes, vol. 3 of A History of Women in the West Roger Sawyer, ‘We are but Women’: Women in Ireland's History Esther S. Cope, Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie Esther Breitenbach and Eleanor Gordon (eds) Out of Bounds: Women in Scottish Society 1800–1945 Patricia Crawford, Women and Religion in England 1500–1720 Phyllis Mack, Visionary Women. Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. Esther S. Cope, Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Iris Berger, Cheryl Johnson-Odim, Guity Nashat, Marysa Navarro, Barbara N. Ramusack, Virginia Sanchez Korrol, Sharon Sievers, Margaret Strobel, Judith Tucker, E. Frances White, Restoring Women to History: Teaching Packets for Integrating Women's History into Courses on Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. Arthur Brittan, Masculinity and Power. Sabina Flanagan, Hildegard of Bingen, 1098–1179: A Visionary Life. Ruth Martin, Witchcraft and the Inquisition in Venice, 1550–1650. Volker Hunecke, Die Findelkinder von Mailand. Kinderaussetzung und aussetzende Eltern vom 17. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert. David L. Ransel, Mothers of Misery, Child Abandonment in Russia. Jacqueline Pearson, The Prostituted Muse. Images of Women and Women Dramatists 1642–1737. David Roberts, The Ladies: Female Patronage of Restoration Drama. Janet Todd, The Sign of Angellica. Women Writing and Fiction 1660–1800. Joan B. Landes, Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution. Dorinda Outram, The Body and the French Revolution. Sex, Class and Political Culture. Caitriona Clear, Nuns in Nineteenth Century Ireland. Anne Haverty, Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Cliona Murphy, The Women's Suffrage Movement and Irish Society in the Early Twentieth Century. Roy Porter and Dorothy Porter, In Sickness and In Health: The British Experience, 1650–1850. Loan Jacobs Brumberg, Fasting Girls. The Emergence of Anorexia as a Nervous Disease. Diane Atkinson, Votes for Women. Hilary Bourdillon, Women as Healers-a history of women and medicine. Caroline Lang, Keep Smiling Through-Women in the Second World War. Gill Thomas, Women in the first World War. Dea Birkett, Spinsters Abroad: Victorian Lady Explorers. Pat Jalland, Octavia Wilberforce, Pioneer Woman Doctor.