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.     

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.     

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

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     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed: Stan ‐Michel Pellistrandi , Gesche Landais , and Christine Pellistrandi (eds), Le Nain de Tillemont et l’historiagraphie de l’Antiquité romaine. Ekkehard W. Stegemann and Wolfgang Stegemann (eds), The Jesus Movement. A Social History of its First Century. Kathleen Kamerick , Popular Piety and Art in the Late Middle Ages: Image Worship and Idolatry in England 1350–1500. Michael P. Carroll , Irish Pilgrimage: Holy Wells and Popular Catholic Devotion. John Wilkinson , Jerusalem Pilgrims Before the Crusades. Tomaz Mastnak , Crusading Peace: Christendom, the Muslim World, and Western Political Order. Sharon Farmer , Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris: Gender, Ideology and the Daily Lives of the Poor. John W. O'Malley , Trent and all That. Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era. Karin J. Mac Hardy , War, Religion and Court Patronage in Habsburg Austria: The Social and Cultural Dimensions of Political Interactions. Jeffrey R. Watt , Choosing Death. Suicide and Calvinism in Early Modern Geneva. Felicity Heal , Reformation in Britain and Ireland. David Boyd Haycock , William Stukeley. Science, Religion and Archaeology in Eighteenth‐Century England. Francis Harris , Transformations of Love: The Friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin. Robert Hymes , Way and Byway: Taoism, Local Religion, and Models of Divinity in Sung and Modern China. Anthony O'Mahony (ed.), The Christian Communities of Jerusalem and the Holy Land: Studies in History, Religion, and Politics. Amanda Porterfield (ed.), American Religious History. Pat Jalland , Australian Ways of Death: A Social and Cultural History 1840–1918. Colin Holden (ed.), People of the Past? The Culture of Melbourne Anglicanism and Anglicanism in Melbourne's Culture: Papers to Mark the 150th Anniversary of the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne, 1847–1997. Kenneth P. Serbin , Secret Dialogues: Church‐State Relations, Torture and Social Justice in Authoritarian Brazil. Yamaji Aizan , Essays on the Modern Japanese Church: Christianity in Meiji Japan. Thich Nhat Hanh , compiled by Jack Lawlor , Friends on the Path — Living Spiritual Communities. Armand L. Mauss , All Abraham's Children: Changing Mormon Perceptions of Race and Lineage. Margaret Lamberts Bendroth and Virginia Lieson Brereton (eds), Women and Twentieth‐Century Protestantism. Anthony O'Mahony and Atuallah Siddiqui (eds), Christians and Muslims in the Commonwealth: A Dynamic Role in the Future.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: M. G. Wiltshire : Ascetic Figures Before and in Early Buddhism: The Emergence of Gautama the Buddha (Religion and Reason 30, gen. ed. J. Waardenburg) P. G. Griffiths , N. Hakamaya , J. P. Keenan and P. L. Swanson (eds and trans): The Realm of A wakening: A Translation of and Study of the Tenth Chapter of Asan̊ga's Mahay anasan̊graha. Graeme Clarke , Brian Croke , Alanna Emmett Nobbs and Raoul Mortley (eds): Reading the Past in Late Antiquity. Alister E. Mc Grath : Luther's Theology of the Cross: Martin Luther's Theological Breakthrough. Ian Tyrrell : Woman's World, Woman's Empire: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in International Perspective, 1880–1930. Patricia Grimshaw : Paths of Duty. American Missionary Wives in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii Mary Zwiep : Pilgrim Path. The First Company of Women Missionaries to Hawaii John P. Maguire : Prologue: A History of the Catholic Church as Seen from Townsville 1863–1983. W. J. Lawton : The Better Time to Be: Utopian Attitudes to Society among Sydney Anglicans, 1885 to 1914. Madeleine Sophie Mc Grath : These Women? Women Religious in the History of Australia: The Sisters of Mercy Parramatta 1888–1988.     

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: 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

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 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: Arnold Hermann , To Think Like God: Pythagoras and Parmenides: The Origins of Philosophy. G. R. Evans (ed.), The First Christian Theologians. An Introduction to Theology in the Early Church. Elizabeth A. Castelli , Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making (Gender, Theory, and Religion). Frederick B. Davis , The Jew and Deicide: The Origin of an Archetype. Lucetta Scaraffia and Gabriella Zarri (eds), Women and Faith. Catholic Religious Life in Italy from Late Antiquity to the Present. Anthony Kenny , A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume Two: Medieval Philo‐sophy. Joshua Trachtenberg , Jewish Magic and Superstition: A Study in Folk Religion. Charles Christopher Mierow , trans., Otto of Freising, The Deeds of Frederick Barbarossa. Dianne Hall , Women and the Church in Medieval Ireland, c. 1140–1540. Matthew Levering , Scripture and Metaphysics: Aquinas and the Renewal of Trinitarian Theology. Maribel Fierro (ed.), Judíos y Musulmanes en al‐Andalus y el Magreb Contactos Intelectuales. Alessandro Barbero , Charlemagne: Father of a Continent. Anne Winston ‐Allen , Convent Chronicles: Women Writing about Women and Reform in the Late Middle Ages. Theresa Coletti , Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints: Theater, Gender, and Religion in Late Medieval England. Anneke B. Mulder ‐Bakker , Lives of the Anchoresses. The Rise of the Urban Recluse in Medieval Europe. Virginia Nixon , Mary's Mother: Saint Anne in Late Medieval Europe. Eamon Duffy , Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village. Robert Frykenberg (ed.) and Alain Low , assoc. (ed.), Christians and Missionaries in India: Cross‐Cultural Communication since 1500. Alister E. McGrath , The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation, 2d ed. Matt Goldish , The Sabbatean Prophets. Bernard Joassart , Érudition hagiographique au XVIIIe siècle. Jean Lebeuf et les Bollandistes. Correspondence. Presentation, édition et commentaire par Bernard Joassart. Michiel Wielema , The March of the Libertines. Spinozists and the Dutch Reformed Church (1660–1750). William Gibson , Enlightenment Prelate: Benjamin Hoadly, 1676–1761. Paul E. Kerry , Enlightenment Thought in the Writings of Goethe: A Contribution to the History of Ideas. John Harvey (ed.). Edmund Jones, The Appearance of Evil: Apparitions of Spirits in Wales. Roger Lee Brown (ed.), The Letters of Edward Copleston, Bishop of Llandaff, 1828–1849. R. Tudor Jones , Congregationalism in Wales. R. Tudor Jones , Faith and the Crisis of a Nation: Wales 1890–1914. Raymond Brady Williams , Williams on South Asian Religions and Immigration. Lawrence Rigel and Rosita Rosenberg , Liberal Judaism: The First Hundred Years. Daniel Carey (ed.), Asian Travel in the Renaissance. Maria Hsia Chang , Falun Gong: The End of Days. Heinz Halm , Shi ‘ism. Adrian Hastings , Alistair Mason , and Hugh Pyper (eds), Christian Thought: A Brief History. Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells (eds), The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics. Alister E. McGrath , Theology: The Basics. Margaret Miles , The Word Made Flesh. A History of Christian Thought. Gareth Jones (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Modern Theology. Jack Goody , Islam in Europe. Robert Haight , Christian Community in History: Vol. 1, Historical Ecclesiology. Alister E. McGrath and Darren C. Marks (eds), The Blackwell Companion to Protestantism. John Marston and Elizabeth Guthrie (eds), History, Buddhism, and New Religious Movements in Cambodia. Jorgen Nielson , Muslims in Western Europe. John David Dawson , Christian Figural Reading and the Fashioning of Identity. Nils Holger Petersen , Mette Birkedal Bruun , Jeremy Llewellyn , and Eyolf Østrem (eds), The Appearances of Medieval Rituals: The Play of Construction and Modification.     

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     

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

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)     

Writing the History of Irish Women

Joanna Bourke, Husbandry to Housewifery: Women, Economic Change, and Housework in Ireland 1890-1914 Margaret Ward (ed.) In Their Own Voice: Women and Irish Nationalism Mary O'Dowd and Sabine Wichert (eds) Chattel, Servant or Citizen: Women's Status in Church, State and Society Joan Hoff and Moureen Coulter (eds) Irish Women's Voices Past and Present     

Review Article: ‘Managing’ Women in War and Peace

UTE DANIEL.The War from Within: German Working-Class Women in the First World War, trans. Margaret Ries. Oxford and New York: Berg, 1997. Pp. xii, 343. $18.50 (us), paper; DEBORAH THOM. Nice Girls and Rude Girls: Women Workers in World War I. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1998; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xvi, 224. $59.50 (us); FRANCES H. EARLY. A World without War: How US Feminists and Pacifists Resisted World War I. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1997. Pp. xxi, 265. $22.95 (us), paper, LUCY NOAKES. War and the British: Gender, Memory, and National Identity. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1998; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. vi, 218. $59.50 (us); JANE SLAUGHTER. Women and the Italian Resistance, 1943–1945. Denver: Arden Press, 1997. Pp. xx, 171. $22.50 (us), paper; DALIA OFER and LENORE J. WEITZMAN, eds., Women in the Holocaust. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. vii, 402. $30.00 (us).     

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: 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: 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

Books reviewed: Ulinka Rublack, The Crimes of Women in Early Modern Germany Margaret L. Arnot and Cornelie Usborne (eds), Gender and Crime in Modern Europe Michael B. Young, James VI and I and the History of Homosexuality David Cressy, Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England: Tales of Discord and Dissension Isobel Grundy, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment Mary Waldron, Jane Austen and the Fiction of her Time Radhika Singha, A Despotism of Law: Crime & Justice in Early Colonial India Afsaneh Najmabadi, The Story of the Daughters of Quchan: Gender and National Memory in Iranian History