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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.     

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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     

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

Gender and the Family in Pre‐industrial Europe

P. Fleming, Family and Household in Medieval England A. Lynn Martin, Alcohol, Sex and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe N. J. Menuge (ed.), Medieval Women and the Law P. Skinner, Women in Medieval Italian Society, 500–1200 F. A. Underhill, For Her Good Estates: The Life of Elizabeth de Burgh     

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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)     

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

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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     

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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     

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Edward Muir and Guido Ruggiero (eds) History from Crime Frances E. Dolan, Dangerous Familiars: Representations of Domestic Crime in England, J550–1700 Jenny Kermode and Garthine Walker (eds) Women, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England Mary Abbott, Family Ties: English Families, 1540–1920 Beatrice Gottlieb, The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the Industrial Age Rosemary O'Day, The Family and Family Relationships, 1500–1900: England, France, and the United States of America Tessie P. Liu, The Weaver's Knot: The Contradictions of Class Struggle and Family Solidarity in Western France, 1750–1914 Karen V. Hansen, A Very Social Time: Crafting Community in Antebellum New England Thomas Dublin, Transforming Women's Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution Barbara Alpern Engel, Between the Fields and the City: Women, Work, and Family in Russia, 1861–1914 Judith R. Walkowitz, City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London Ellen Ross, Love and Toil: Motherhood in Outcast London, 1870–1918 Jose Harris, Private Lives, Public Spirit. A Social History of Britain, 1870–1914 Marilynn Wood Hill, Their Sisters' Keepers: Prostitution in New York City, 1830–1870 Donna J. Guy, Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires: Prostitution, Family, and Nation in Argentina Shannon Bell, Reading, Writing, and Rewriting the Prostitute Body Janet Hunter (ed.) Japanese Women Working     

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Recent Prize-Winning Books in History The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina, 1860–1870 Between Mutiny and Obedience Review Essay: Clio Goes to the Ballpark Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825–1908 Fleet Walker's Divided Heart: The Life of Baseball's First Black Major Leaguer Sol Whites History of Colored Baseball, with Other Documents on the Early Black Game, 1886–1936 Africa and the Middle East Children of Bondage: A Social History of the Slave Society at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652–1838 Colonialism in the Congo Basin: 1880–1940 The Americas: Frontier Development: Land, Labour, and Capital on the Wheatlands of Argentina and Canada, 1890–1914 James Buchanan and the American Empire The Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power Inside Agitators: White Southerners in the Civil Rights Movement Lion of the Forest: James B. Finley, Frontier Reformer The Limits of Racial Domination: Plebeian Society in Colonial Mexico City, 1660–1720 Race, Class, and Community in Southern Labor History Women of the Mexican Countryside, 1850–1990 Coca Prohibition in Peru: The Historical Debates The Southern Tradition: The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism Commissioner Roosevelt: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt and the New York City Police, 1895–1897 Forging American Communism: The Life of William Z. Foster The Populist Persuasion: An American History Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy Andersonville: The Last Depot. By William Marvel Three Frontiers: Family, land, and society in the American West, 1850–1900 The Social Anxieties of Progressive Reform: Atlantic City, 1854–1920 Amazonian Indians from Prehistory to the Present: Anthropological Perspectives Small Worlds, Large Questions: Explorations in Early American Social History, 1600–1850 Trade Unions and Community: The German Working Class in New York City, 1870–1900 Unsubmissive Women: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco Froth and Scum: Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and the Ax Murder in America's First Mass Medium The Evolution Controversy in America Asia and the Pacific American Pioneers and the Japanese Frontier: American Experts in Nineteenth-Century Japan The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan War and Popular Culture: Resistance in Modern China, 1937–1945 China Since 1978: Reform, Modernization and “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics” Deng Xiaoping: Chronicle of an Empire. By Ruan Ming The Sorrow of War_: A Novel of North Vietnam Turbans and Traders: Hong Kong's Indian Communities Europe The Diplomats, 1939–1979 William Tyndale, A Biography Defenders of the Race: Jewish Doctors and Race Science in Finde-Siècle Europe The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770–1868 Phantoms of Remembrance: Memory and Oblivion at the End of the First Millennium Saint Peter: A Biography Battle Tactics of the Western Front Sidonius Apollinaris and the Full of Rome AD 407–485 Dictionary of East European History since 1945 The German Colonial Empire 1884–1919 The Rise and Fall of Merry England: The Ritual Year, 1400–1700 Nazi Germany at War Disraeli Preaching the Crusades: Mendicant Friars and the Cross in the Thirteenth Century From Renaissance Monarchy to Absolute Monarchy: French Kings, Nobles, and Estates Dueling: The Cult of Honor in Fin-de-Siècle Germany The Social Legacy of Communism Pence Without Victory for the Allies 1918–1932 The Impact of the Reformation Herds of the Tundra: A Portrait of Saami Reindeer Pastoralism An Economic History of Medieval Europe Political Ideas and Institutions in Imperial Russia Innocent III: Leader of Europe, 1198–1216 Constitutional Royalism and the Search For Settlement, c. 1640–1649 The Russian Fur East: A History Socialism and Nationalism in the Ottoman Empire 1876–1923 The Irish Constitutional Tradition: Responsible Government and Modern Ireland, 1782–1992 Neither Kingdom Nor Nation: The Irish Quest for Constitutional Rights, 1698–1800 John Stuart Mill and India Turkey: A Modern History General, Comparative, Historiographical International Relations Since 1945: A History Contesting Colonial Hegemony: State and Society in Africa and India Churchill and Roosevelt at War: The War They Fought and the Peace They Hoped to Make Gender Rhetorics: Postures of Dominance and Submission in 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     

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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)     

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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)     

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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

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

Ann Laura Stoler, Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule Catherine Hall, Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830–1867 Kathleen Wilson, The Island Race: Englishness, Empire and Gender in the Eighteenth Century Andrew Kirkendall, Class Mates: Male Student Culture and the Making of a Political Class in Nineteenth‐Century Brazil Sueann Caulfield, In Defense of Honor: Sexual Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early‐Twentieth‐Century Brazil David M. Halperin, How to Do the History of Homosexuality Paul Hammond, Figuring Sex between Men From Shakespeare to Rochester Tom Betteridge (ed.), Sodomy in Early Modern England Felicia Gordon and P. N. Furbank, Marie Madeleine Jodin 1741–1790: actress, philosophe and feminist Joan B. Landes, Visualizing the Nation: Gender, Representation, and Revolution in Eighteenth‐Century France Lynn Abrams, The Making of Modern Woman: Europe, 1789–1918 Gisela Bock, Women in European History Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall, Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780–1850 Beverly Wilson Palmer (ed.), Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott Susan Weiner, Enfants Terribles: Youth and Femininity in the Mass Media in France, 1945–1968     

BOOK REVIEWS

Recent Prize-Winning Books in History: Providence island, 1630–1641: The Other Puritan Colony. Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism. The New Rural History: A Subject Whose Time Has Come Born in the Country: A History of Rural America. Linoleum, Better Babies, and the Modern Farm Woman, 1890-1930. Africa and the Middle East The Boundaries of Modern Iran. Anioma: A Social History of the Western Igbo People. The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective. The Americas: Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America. The Provincial: Calvin Coolidge and His World, 1885-1895. The George R. “Bob” Caron Story—Tail Gunner of the Enola Gay: Fire of a Thousand Suns. Science and Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and James Madison. The Scottish High Church Tradition in America: An Essay in Scotch-Irish Ethnoreligious History. The Abolitionists & The South, 1831-1865. Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control. Our Rightful Share: The Afro-Cuban Struggle for Equality, 1886-1912. Paying the Price of Freedom: Family and Labor among Lima's Slaves, 1800-1854. Creating the Commonwealth: The Economic Culture of Puritan New England. Changing Differences: Women and the Shaping of American Foreign Policy, 1917-1994. The Latter Day Saints: A Study of the Mormons in the Light of Economic Conditions. Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America. To Foreign Shores: U.S. Amphibious Operations in World War II. Gateway to the Promised Land: Ethnic Cultures in New York's Lower East Side. Rural Guatemala: 1760-1940. Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. The Martinsville Seven: Race, Rape, and Capital Punishment. Hard Bargain: How FDR Twisted Churchill's Arm, Evaded the Law, and Changed the Role of the American Presidency. “Lest We Forget:” A Guide to Civil War Monuments in Maryland. The Sixties and the End of Modern America. Joseph E. Johnston: A Civil War Biography. McCarthyism and New York's Hearst Press: A Study of Roles in the Witch Hunt. Asia and the Pacific China in World History. To Steal a Book Is an Elegant Offense: Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization. The Cambridge History of China. Volume 6. Alien Regimes and Border States, 907-1368. Teachers of the Inner Chambers, Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China. Learning to be Modern: Japanese Political Discourse on Education. The New Cambridge History of India. Volume III:4, Ideologies of the Raj. The Technological Transformation of Japan: From the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century. A History of Brunei. Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India. India, Pakistan, and the Kashmir Dispute: On Regional Conflict and Its Resolution. Europe: Italy Since 1800: A Nation in the Balance? The Azerbaijani Turks: Power and Identity under Russian Rule. Counter-Revolution: The Second Civil War and its Origins, 1646-8. Art and the French Commune: Imagining Paris after War and Revolution. Parliamentary Taxation in Seventeenth-Century England. Napoleon and Josephine: An Improbable Marriage. Asquith As War Leader. Paris Babylon: The Story of the Paris Commune. A Long Walk to Church: A Contemporary History of Russian Orthodoxy. Subversive Words: Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France. Muslim Resistance to the Tsar: Shamil and the Conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan. Charlotte Brontë. A Passionate Life. Latitudinarianism in the Seventeenth-Century Church of England. Captain James Cook: A Biography. Poland Since 1944: A Portrait of Years. Richthofen: Beyond the Legend of the Red Baron. Communications and Power in Medieval Europe: The Gregorian Revolution and Beyond. New French Thought: Political Philosophy. The Franks in the Aegean 1204-1500. Gladstone 1875-1898. The Oxford Movement in Context: Anglican High Churchmanship, 1760-1857. The Elect Nation. The Savonarolan Movement in Florence 1494-1545. Imperial London: Civil Government Building in London, 1850-1915. Who Are The Macedonians? Exile and Destruction. The Fate of Austrian Jews, 1938-1945. Economic Structures of Antiquity. The Fatal Knot: The Guerrilla War in Navarre and the Defeat of Napoleon in Spain Law and Citizenship in Early Modern France. Witches, Devils, and Doctors in the Renaissance. Johann Weyer, De praestigiis daemonum. The Last Great Frenchman: A Life of General de Gaulle. London at War, 1939-1945. kathinka Zitz-Halein and Female Activism in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Germany. General, Comparative, Historiographical The Ambassadors and America's Soviet Policy. The pacific Basin Since 1945: A History of the Foreign Relations of the Asian, Australasian and American Rim states and the Pacific Islands.     

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     

Godliness,Sex and Propaganda: Gender in the Confessional Age

Books reviewed in this article: Kenneth Charlton, Women, Religion and Education in Early Modern England Frances E. Dolan, Whores of Babylon: Catholicism, Gender and Seventeenth–Century Print Culture Marilyn J. Westerkamp, Women and Religion in Early America 1600–1850: The Puritan and Evangelical Traditions Merry E. Wiesner–Hanks, Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World: Regulating Desire, Reforming Practice     

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.