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

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     

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     

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     

Ways of Thinking and Ways of Doing

Naila Kabeer, Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought Margaret Snyder and Mary Tadesse, African Women and Development: A History Marianne Marchand and Jane Parpart (eds) Feminism, Postmodernism, Development Nabil F. Khoury and Valentine Moghadam (eds) Gender and Development in the Arab World. Women's Economic Participation: Patterns and Policies     

Gender,Colonialism and Citizenship in the Modern Middle East

Books reviewed in this article: Selma Botman, Engendering Citizenship in Egypt Margaret L. Meriwether and Judith E. Tucker (eds), A Social History of Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East Elizabeth Thompson, Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed: Caroline Walker Bynum, Metamorphosis and Identity Bridget Hill, Women Alone: Spinsters in England 1660–1850 Doreen Evenden, The Midwives of Seventeenth–Century London Tim Meldrum, Domestic Service and Gender 1660–1750: Life and Work in the London Household Naomi Tadmor, Family and Friends in Eighteenth–Century England: Household, Kinship and Patronage Nanora Sweet and Julie Melnyk (eds), Felicia Hemans: Reimagining Poetry in the Nineteenth Century Kumkum Sangari, Politics of the Possible: Essays on Gender, History, Narratives, Colonial English Lisa Norling, Captain Ahab had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery 1720–1870 Victoria E. Thompson, The Virtuous Marketplace: Women and Men, Money and Politics in Paris, 1830–1870 Lisa Tiersten, Marianne in the Market: Envisioning Consumer Society in Fin–de–Siècle France Ina Zweiniger–Bargielowska, Austerity in Britain, Rationing, Controls, and Consumption 1939–1955 Ina Zweiniger–Bargielowska (ed.), Women in Twentieth Century Britain, Social, Cultural and Political Change Victoria Lorée Enders and Pamela Beth Radcliff (eds), Constructing Spanish Womanhood: Female Identity in Modern Spain Aurora G. Morcillo, True Catholic Womanhood: Gender Ideology in Franco’s Spain Linda McDowell, Gender, Identity and Place: Understanding Feminist Geographies     

THEMATIC REVIEWS

Clare Midgley, Women Against Slavery: The British Campaigns, 1780-1870 Moira Ferguson (ed.) The Hart Sisters: Early African Caribbean Writers, Evangelicals, and Radicals Moira Ferguson, Colonialism and Gender from Mary Wollstonecraft to Jamaica Kincaid: East Caribbean Connections Doris Y. Kadish and Françoise Massardier-Kenney (eds) Translating Slavery: Gender and Race in French Women's Writing, 1783-1823 Michael Moon and Cathy N. Davidson (eds) Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race, and Gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill     

With Cutlass and Compress: Women's Relations with the Sea

Books reviewed in this article: Margaret S. Creighton and Lisa Norling (eds), Iron Men, Wooden Women:Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic Worlds 1700‐1920 Elaine Forman Crane, Ebb Tide in New England: Women, Seaportsand Social Change 1630‐1800 Hans Turley, Rum, Sodomy and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality and Masculine Identity Violet Jessop, Titanic Survivor: the Memoirs of Violet Jessop, Stewardess     

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)     

Review Article: Nationalisms,National Identities and Nation States: Gendered Perspectives

Books reviewed in this article: Nira Yuval‐Davis, Gender & Nation Lois West (ed.), Feminist Nationalism Rick Wilford and Robert L. Miller (eds.), Women, Ethnicity and Nationalism: The Politics of Transition Cynthia Cockburn, The Space Between Us: Negotiating Gender and National Identities in Conflict     

‘It’s a man’s world’: Recent Studies of Male Representation of the Female in the Middle Ages

Blamires, Alcuin (ed.) Woman Defamed and Woman Defended. An Anthology of Medieval Texts Baldwin, John W. The Language of Sex: Five Voices from Northern France around 1200 Kay, Sarah and Rubin, Miri (eds) Framing Medieval Bodies Lomperis, Linda and Stanbury, Sarah (eds) Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature Burns, E. Jane Bodytalk: When Women Speak in Old French Literature Krueger, Roberta L. Women Readers and the Ideology of Gender in Old French Verse Romance Cazelles, Brigitte The Lady as Saint: A Collection of French Hagiographic Romances of the Thirteenth Century Meale, Carol M. (ed.) Women and Literature in Britain, 1150–1500 Cherewatuk, Karen and Wiethaus, Ulrike (eds) Dear Sister: Medieval Women and the Epistology Genre     

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

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     

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 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

Barbara Watterson, Women in Ancient Egypt Kirby Farrell, Elizabeth H. Hageman, and Arthur F. Kinney (eds) Women in the Renaissance: Selections from English Literary Renaissance Heather Dubrow, A Happier Eden: The Politics of Marriage in the Stuart Epithalamium Constance Jordan, Renaissance Feminism: Literary Texts and Political Models Karen Newman, Fashioning Femininity and English Renaissance Drama Maryanne Cline Horowitz (ed.) Race, Gender and Rank: Early Modem Ideas of Humanity Margaret Brabant (ed.) Politics, Gender & Genre: the Political Thought of Christine de Pizan Pamela Joseph Benson, The Invention of the Renaissance Woman: the Challenge of Female Independence in the Literature and Thought of Italy and England Jacques Gélls, History of Childbirth. Fertility, Pregnancy and Birth in Early Modern Europe Margaret Felling and Richard M. Smith (eds) Life, Death, and the Elderly. Historical Perspectives Clare Brant and Diane Purkiss (eds) Women, Texts and Histories 1575–1760 Isobel Grundy and Susan Wiseman (eds) Women, Writing, History 1640–1740 Lucia Zedner, Women, Crime and Custody in Victorian England Alan Duben and Cem Behar, Istanbul Households. Marriage, Family and Fertility, 1880–1940 Laura Engelstein, The Keys to Happiness: Sex and the Search for Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle Russia Eve Levin, Sex and Society in the World of the Orthodox Slavs, 900–1700 Nancy Leys Stepan, The Hour of Eugenics': Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America Ava Baron (ed.) Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor Nancy F. Gabin, Feminism in the Labor Movement: Women and the United Auto Workers, 1935–1975 Barbara Melosh, Engendering Culture: Manhood and Womanhood in New Deal Public Art and Theatre Sandra Schackel, Social Housekeepers: Women Shaping Public Policy in New Mexico, 1920–1940 Alison Light, Forever England. Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars Antonia Lant, Blackout: Reinventing Women for Wartime British Cinema Peter Burke (ed.) Mew Perspectives on Historical Writing     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Kenneth G. Holum, Theodosian Empresses: Women and Imperial Dominion in Late Antiquity. Edith Ennen, The Medieval Woman. Judith M. Bennett, Elizabeth A. Clark, Jean F. O'Barr, Anne B. Vilen and Sarah Westphal-Wihl (eds), Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages. Alice T. Friedman, House and Household in Elizabethan England: Wollaton Hall and the Willoughby Family. Kate Mertes, The English Noble Household 1250–1600: Good Governance and Politic Rule. Patricia Grimshaw, Paths of Duty. American Missionary Wives in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii. Margaret Jolly and Martha Macintyre (eds), Family and Gender in the Pacific. Domestic Contradictions and the Colonial Impact. Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid (eds), Recasting Women. Essays in Colonial History. Ann Braude, Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. Alex Owen, The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth Century England. Catherine Lowman Wessinger, Annie Besant and Progressive Messianism (1847–1933). Carolyn Steedman, Childhood, Culture and Class in Britain: Margaret McMillan, 1860–1931. Joanna Hubbs, Mother Russia: The Feminine Myth in Russian Culture. Stephanie Urdang, And Still They Dance: Women, War and the Struggle for Change in Mozambique.     

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