Book Reviews

Books Reviewed: L. E. Semler (ed.), Eliza’s Babes: Or The Virgins–Offering (1652) A Critical Edition Hilary Hinds (ed.), The Cry of a Stone by Anna Trapnel Michael Roberts and Simone Clarke (eds), Women and Gender in Early Modern Wales Deirdre Beddoe, Out of the Shadows: A History of Women in Twentieth Century Wales Kathryn Gleadle and Sarah Richardson (eds), Women in British Politics, 1760–1860: The Power of the Petticoat Helen Rogers, Women and the People: Authority, Authorship and the Radical Tradition in Nineteenth–Century England Eileen Janes Yeo (ed.), Radical Femininity: Women’s Self–representation in the Public Sphere Charlotte Sussman, Consuming Anxieties: Consumer Protest, Gender, and British Slavery, 1713–1833 Kathi Kern, Mrs Stanton’s Bible Janice Holmes, Religious Revivals in Britain and Ireland 1859–1905 Andrea Ebel Bro?yna, Labour, Love and Prayer: Female Piety in Ulster Religious Literature, 1850–1914 Pamela J. Walker, Pulling the Devil’s Kingdom Down: The Salvation Army in Britain Elizabeth Dore (ed.), Gender Politics in Latin America: Debates in Theory and Practice Elizabeth Dore and Maxine Molyneux (eds), Hidden Histories of Gender and State in Latin America John D. French and Daniel James (eds), The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers Maxine Molyneux, Women’s Movements in International Perspective: Latin America and Beyond Aviva Chomsky and Aldo Lauria–Santiago (eds), Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean Elizabeth Rose, A Mother’s Job: The History of Day Care 1890–1960 Caroline Daley and Deborah Montgomerie (eds), The Gendered Kiwi Caroline Daley, Girls & Women, Men & Boys: Gender in Taradale 1886–1930 Mary Hilton and Pamela Hirsch (eds), Practical Visionaries: Women, Education and Social Progress, 1790–1930 Elizabeth Edwards, Women in Teacher Training Joan Bellamy, Anne Laurence and Gill Perry (eds), Women, Scholarship and Criticism: Gender and Knowledge, c. 1790–1900     

Book Reviews

Nelson, Claudia Invisible Men: Fatherhood in Victorian Periodicals, 1850–1910 (1995) Bourke, Joanna Dismembering the Male: Men’s Bodies, Britain and the Great War (1996) Sztreter, Simon Fertility, Class and Gender in Britain, 1860–1940 (1996) Bland, Lucy Banishing the Beast. English Feminism and Sexual Morality 1885–1914 (1994) Grossman, Atina Reforming Sex. The German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform, 1920–1950 (1995) Mitchell, Sally The New Girl: Girls’ Culture in England, 1880–1915 (1995) Tinkler, Penny Constructing Girlhood: Popular Magazines for Girls Growing Up in England, 1920–1950 Johnson, Lesley The Modern Girl: Girlhood and Growing Up (1993) Giles, Judy Women, Identity and Private Life in Britain, 1900–50 (1995) Stanley, Liz Sex Surveyed, 1949–1994 (1995) Tebbutt, Melanie Women’s Talk: A Social History of ‘Gossip’ in Working-Class Neighbourhoods, 1880–1960 (1995) Zarnowska, Anna and Szwarc, Andrzej (eds) Kobieta i edukacja na ziemiach Polskich w XIX i XX wieku (1995) Bard, Christine Les Filles de Marianne. Histoire des féminismes 1914–1940 (1995) Reynolds, Siân France Between the Wars. Gender and Politics (1996) Fieseler, Beate Frauen auf dem Weg in die russische Sozialdemokratie 1890–1917: eine kollektive Biographie (1995) Quack, Sibylle (ed.) Between Sorrow and Strength: Women Refugees of the Nazi Period (1995) Wagner, Leonie, Mehrwald, Silke, Maierhof, Gudrun, Jansen, Mechtild M. (eds) Aus dem Leben jüdischer Frauen. ‘Welche Welt ist meine Welt?’ (1994) Frader, Laura L. and Rose, Sonya O. (eds) Gender and Class in Modern Europe (1996) Hill, Bridget Servants: English Domestics in the Eighteenth Century (1996) Faust, Drew Gilpin Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (1996) Morton, Patricia (ed.) Discovering the Women in Slavery: Emancipating Perspectives on the American Past (1996) Copelman, Dina London’s Women Teachers: Gender, Class, and Feminism, 1870–1930 (1996) Garb, Tamar Sisters of the Brush: Women’s Artistic Culture in Late 19th-Century Paris (1994) Orr, Clarissa Campbell (ed.) Women in the Victorian Art World (1995) Willson, Perry R. The Clockwork Factory: Women and Work in Fascist Italy (1993) Pickering-Iazzi, Robin (ed.) Mothers of Invention: Women, Italian Fascism and Culture (1995) Cahn, Susan K. Coming on Strong: Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Women’s Sport (1994) Cayleff, Susan E. Babe: The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1995) Berg, Maxine A Woman in History. Eileen Power, 1889–1940 (1996)     

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

Book reviewed in this article: Sara M. Evans, Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America. Alice Kessler-Harris, A Woman's Wage. Historical Meanings and Social Consequences. Hilary Marland (trans), ‘Mother and Child Were Saved’: The Memoirs (1693–1740) of the Frisian Midwife Catharina Schrader. Ann Taves (ed), Religion and Domestic Violence in Early New England: The Memoirs of Abigail Abbott Bailey. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785–1812. Carolyn Merchant, Ecological Revolutions, Nature, Gender and Science in New England. Carol A. Kolmerten, Women in Utopia: The Ideology of Gender in the American Owenite Communities. Sally L. Kitch, Chaste Liberation: Celibacy and Female Cultural Status. Frances Bartkowski, Feminist Utopias. Shahida Lateef, Muslim Women in India: Political and Private Realities, 1890s–1980s. Ronald Hyam, Empire and Sexuality: the British Experience. Ruth Compton Brouwer, New Women for Cod: Canadian Presbyterian Women and India Missions, 1876–1914. Catriona Blake, The Charge of the Parasols. Ornella Moscucci, The Science of Woman. Gynaecology & Gender in England, 1800–1929. Felicia Gordon, The Integral Feminist: Madeleine Pelletier, 1874–1939.     

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

Heide Dienst and Edith Saurer (eds), ‘Das Weib existiert nicht fur sich’ Geschltxh-teheziehungen in der biirgerlichen Gesellschafi Helen Diane Russell with Bernadine Barnes, Eva/Ave. Womn in Renaissance and Baroque Prints Donna Landry, The Muses of Resistance. Laboringclass Women's Poetfy in Britain, 1739–1796 Roger Lonsdale (ed), Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. An Oxford Anthology Jane H. Pease and William H. Pease, Ladies, Women, and Wenches: Choice and Constraint in Antebellum Charleston and Boston Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women in the Old South Anita Levy, Other Women: The Writing of Class, Race and Gender, 1832–1898 Christina Crosby, The Ends of History: Victorians and ‘The Woman Question’ Christopher Clark, The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts 1780–1860 Nancy Grey Osterud, Bonds of Community: The Lives of Farm Women in Nineteenth-Century New York Aparna Basu and Bharati Ray, Women's Struggle. A History of the All India Women's Conference 1927-1990 Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Photography at the Dock. Essays on Photographic History, Institutions and Practices Yvonne Hirdman, Att lägga livet till rätta - studier i svensk folkhemspolitik     

Women at Sea: An Other Category

Books reviewed in this article: David Cordingly, Women Sailors and Sailors’ Women: An Untold Maritime History Joan Druett, She Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Sea Lizabeth Paravisini–Gebert and Ivette Romero–Cesareo (eds), Women at Sea: Travel Writing and the Margins of Caribbean Discourse Sena Jeter Naslund, Ahab's Wife or The Star–Gazer Nancy Pagh, At Home Afloat: Women on the waters of the Pacific North–West Dee Pigneguy, Saltwater in Her Hair: Stories of women in the New Zealand maritime industry     

Book Reviews

Twenty Years On, special issue of Australian Historical Studies (1996) Carpenter, Jennifer and MacLean, Sally-Beth (eds) Power of the Weak: Studies on Medieval Women (1995); Ward, Jennifer (ed.) Women of the English Nobility and Gentry, 1066–1500 (1995); Goldberg, P. J. (ed.) Women in England c. 1275–1525. Documentary Sources (1995) Surtz, Ronald E. Writing Women in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain: The Mothers of Saint Teresa of Avila (1995); Yarbro-Bejarano, Yvonne Feminism and the Honor Plays of Lope de Vega (1993) Matter, E. Ann and Coakley, John (eds) Creative Women in Medieval and Early Modern Italy: A Religious and Attistic Renaissance (1994); Monson, Craig A. Disembodied Voices: Music and Culture in an Early Modern Italian Convent (1995) Goodman, Dena The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment (1994) Ruane, Christine Gender, Class, and the Professionalization of Russian City Teachers, 1860–1914 (1994) Dyhouse, Carol No Distinction of Sex? Women in British Universities, 1870–1939 (1995) Bonner, Thomas Neville To the Ends of the Earth: Women’s Search for Education in Medicine (1992); Roberts, Shirley Sophia Jex-Blake. A Woman Pioneer in Nineteenth Century Medical Reform (1993); Leneman, Leah In the Service of Life: The Story of Elsie Inglis and the Scottish Women’s Hospitals (1994) Hartman Strom, Sharon Beyond the Typewriter: Gender, Class, and the Origins of Modern American Office Work, 1900–1930 (1992); Kwolek-Folland, Angel Gendering Business: Men and Women in the Corporate Office, 1870–1930 (1994); Cohen, Miriam Workshop to Office: Two Generations of Italian Women in New York City, 1900–1950 (1992) Swindells, Julia (ed.) The Uses of Autobiography (1995) Alexander, Sally Becoming a Woman and Other Essays in 19th and 20th Century Feminist History (1994): Davidoff, Leonore Worlds Between: Historial Perspectives on Gender and Class (1995)     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Cristina La Rocca (ed.), Italy in the Early Middle Ages 476–1000 Mary Dockray‐Miller, Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo‐Saxon England Samantha J. E. Riches and Sarah Salih (eds), Gender and Holiness: Men, Women and Saints in Late Medieval Europe Anthony Goodman, Margery Kempe and her World Bettine Birge, Women, Property, and Confucian Reaction in Sung and Yüan China 960–1368 David Kuchta, The Three‐Piece Suit and Modern Masculinity: England, 1550–1850 Harry Cocks, Nameless Offences: Homosexual Desire in the 19th Century Wendy Rosslyn (ed.), Women and Gender in 18th‐Century Russia Irina Paert, Old Believers, Religious Dissent and Gender in Russia, 1760–1850 Shirley Wilson Logan, ‘We Are Coming’: The Persuasive Discourse of Nineteenth‐Century Black Women Adele Perry, On the Edge of Empire. Gender, Race and the Making of British Columbia 1849–1871 Myra Rutherdale, Women and the White Man's God. Gender and Race in the Canadian Mission Field Maina Chawla Singh, Gender, Religion and ‘Heathen Lands’: American Missionary Women in South Asia (1860s–1940s)     

The Struggle for Australian History

Dixson, Miriam The Real Matilda: Women and Identity in Australia 1788 to the Present Ferres, Kay (ed.) The Time to Write: Australian Women Writers 1890–1930 Grimshaw, Patricia, Lake, Marilyn, McGrath, Ann and Quartly, Marian Creating a Nation 1788–1990 Summers, Anne Damned Whores and God’s Police Robinson, Portia The Women of Botany Bay     

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

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

Book reviewed in this article: Sandra J. Peacock, Jane Ellen Harrison. The Mask and the Self. Thomas Wiedemann, Adults and Children in the Roman Empire. Peter Brown, The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity. Elaine Pagels, Adam, Eve and the Serpent. Morag Shiach, Discourse on Popular Culture: Class, Gender and History in Cultural Analysis, 1730 to the Present. Malek Alloula, The Colonial Harem. Sarah Graham-Brown, Images of Women: The Portrayal of Women in Photography of the Middle East 1860–1950. Joyce Senders Pedersen, The Reform of Girls’ Secondary and Higher Education in Victorian England: A Study of Elites and Educational Change. Jane Rendall, editor, Equal or Different: Women's Politics, 1800–1914. Jane Cox (ed.), A Singular Marriage. A Labour Love Story in Letters and Diaries: Ramsay and Margaret MacDonald. Gifford Lewis, Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper: A Biography. Shari Benstock, Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900–1940. Gillian Hanscombe and Virginia L. Smyers, Writing For Their Lives. Richard J. Evans, Comrades and Sisters. Feminism, Socialism and Pacifism in Europe, 1870–1945. Effie Avdela and Angelika Psarra (eds), Ho pheminismos sten Hellada tou mesopolemou: mia anthologia. Lorraine Gamman and Margaret Marshment (eds), The Female Gaze. Tania Modleski, The Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Feminist Theory. Annette Kuhn, Cinema, Censorship and Sexuality 1909–25. Billie Melman, Women and the Popular Imagination in the Twenties: Flappers and Nymphs.     

Lost and Found: the Woman Writer in the Eighteenth Century

Jennifer Summit, Lost Property: the Woman Writer and English Literary History, 1380–1589 Jane Spencer, Aphra Behn's Afterlife Harriet Guest, Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750’1810 Elizabeth Eger, Charlotte Grant, Cliona O Gallchoir and Penny Warburton (eds), Women, Writing and the Public Sphere, 1700’1830     

Book Reviews

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: Matthew Kuefler, The Manly Eunuch: Masculinity, Gender Ambiguity, and Christian Ideology in Late Antiquity Deborah A. Fraioli, Joan of Arc: The Early Debate Tamara L. Hunt and Micheline R. Lessard, Women and the Colonial Gaze Joanne Bailey, Unquiet Lives: Marriage and Marriage Breakdown in England Leah Leneman , Promises, Promises: Marriage Litigation in Scotland 1698–1830 Eleanor Gordon and Gwyneth Nair, Public Lives: Women, Family and Society in Victorian Britain Anna Cova , Au service de L’Église, de la patrie et de la famille: Femmes catholiques et maternité sous la III^e République Mary Lynn Stewart, For Health and Beauty: Physical Culture for Frenchwomen, 1890s–1930s Lara V. Marks, Sexual Chemistry: A History of the Contraceptive Pill Muriel Feiner, Women and the Bullring     

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

Books reviewed: Alan Bray, The Friend Patricia Fortini Brown, Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture and the Family K. J. P Lowe, Nuns’ Chronicles and Convent Culture in Renaissance and Counter‐Reformation Italy Natalie R. Tomas, The Medici Women: Gender and Power in Renaissance Florence Helen Berry, Gender, Society and Print Culture in Late‐Stuart England: The Cultural World of the Athenian Mercury Mihoko Suzuki, Subordinate Subjects: Gender, the Political Nation, and Literary Form in England, 1588–1688 Patience A. Schell, Church and State Education in Revolutionary Mexico City Susie S. Porter, Working Women in Mexico City: Public Discourses and Material Conditions, 1879–1931 Nell Irvin Painter, Southern History across the Color Line Michael Zakim, Ready‐Made Democracy: A History of Men's Dress in the American Republic, 1760–1860 Sarah Watts, Rough Rider in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Desire Thomas Winter, Making Men, Making Class: The YMCA and Workingmen, 1877–1920 Gail Braybon (ed.), Evidence, History and the Great War: Historians and the Impact of 1914–1918 Fabrice Virgili, Shorn Women: Gender and Punishment in Liberation France     

Book Reviews

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     

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.