‘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

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)     

Lands of women? Writing the history of early medieval women in Ireland and Europe

Lisa M. Bitel Land of Women: Tales of Sex and Gender from Early Ireland. Edited by Christine Meek and Katharine Simms ‘The Fragility of Her Sex’? Medieval Irish Women in their European Context.     

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

Mayles BayléArchitecture Normande au Moyen Age. Actes du Colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle (28 September–2 October 1994). Regards sur l'art de bâtir and Les étapes de la creation. Matthias Becher Rex, Dux und Gens. Untersuchungen zur Entstehung des sächsischen Herzogtums im 9. und 10. Jahrhundert . Edited by John J. Contreni and Pádraig P. Ó Néill. Glossae Divinae Historiae. The Biblical Glosses of John Scottus Eriugena. Christian Coppens, Albert Derolez and Hubert Heymans Codex Eyckensis. An Insular Gospel Book from the Abbey of Aldeneik. A Facsimile with an Introduction. Stephanie CouéHagiographie im Kontext. Schreibanlaß und Funktion von Bischofsviten aus dem 11. und vom Anfang des 12. Jahrhunderts. Alice L. Harting-Corrêa Walahfrid Strabo, ‘Libellus de Exordiis et Incrementis Quarandum in Observationibus Ecclesiasticis Rerum.’ A Translation and Liturgical Commentary.. Rijcklof Hofman The Sankt Gall Priscian Commentary. Part 1. Vol. 1. Introduction; Books 1-5. Vol. 2. Translation and Commentary; Indices. Edited by Richard A. Jackson Ordines Coronationis Franciae, Texts and Ordines for the Coronation of Frankish and French Kings and Queens in the Middle Ages. Vol. I.. Jenny Jochens Old Norse Images of Women.. Mayke de Jong In Samuel’s Image: Child Oblation in the Early Medieval West.. Felice Lifshitz The Norman Conquest of Pious Neustria. Historiographic Discourse and Saintly Relics 684–1090.. Edited by R. McKitterick The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume II, c.700–c.900. Edited by Rosamond McKitterick and Roland Quinault Edward Gibbon and Empire. Inge B. Milfull The Hymns of the Anglo-Saxon Church. A Study and Edition of the ‘Durham Hymnal.’ DáibhíÓ Cróinín Early Medieval Ireland 400–1200. Carol Braun Pasternack The Textuality of Old English Poetry. Edited by Erich Poppe and Bianca Ross The Legend of Mary of Egypt in Medieval Insular Hagiography. Susan A. Rabe Faith, Art, and Politics at Saint-Riquier. The Symbolic Vision of Angilbert. Pierre RichéDictionnaire des Francs. Les carolingiens. Jonathan Riley-Smith The First Crusaders, 1095–1131. Edited by Jane Roberts and Janet Nelson, with Malcolm Godden Alfred the Wise. Studies in Honour of Janet Bately.. Pauline Stafford Queen Emma and Queen Edith: Queenship and Women’s Power in Eleventh Century England. Kees Veelenturf Dia Brátha. Eschatological Theophanies and Irish High Crosses.     

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

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.     

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)     

Book Reviews

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

Did the Priests Plant a Cross in This Woman’s Loins? Love and/or Marriage in the Middle Ages

Brooke, Christopher N.L. The Medieval Idea of Marriage Duby, Georges Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages Sheehan, Michael M. Marriage, Family and Law in Medieval Europe: Collected Studies Laiou, Angeliki, E. (ed.) Consent and Coercion to Sex and Marriage in Ancient and Medieval Societies Elliott, Dyan Spiritual Marriage: Sexual Abstinence in Medieval Wedlock     

BOOK REVIEWS

Caroline Walker Bynum, Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion Electa Arenal and Stacy Schlau (eds), Untold Sisters. Hispanic Nuns in Their Own Words Ronald E. Surtz, The Guitar of Gad. Alison Weber, Teresa of Avila and the Rhetoric of femininity Peggy Knapp, Chaucer and the Social Contest Jill Mann, Geoffrey Chaucer Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, fa Maison ef le mm. Sara F. Matthews Crieco, Ange ou Diablesse. Lyndal Roper, The Holy Household. Vivien Jones (ed), Women in the Eighteenth Century. Jean Fagan Yellin, Women and Sistets. Joy Kasson, Marble Queens and Captives. Malavika Karlekar, Voices from Wthin. Adrienne Munich, Andromeda's Chains Richard Dellamora, Masculine Desire Christine Planté, La Petite Soeur de Balzac Susan Kirkpatrick, Las Romanticas Jennifer Waelti-Walters, Feminist Novelists of the Belle Epoque Margareta Lindholm, Talet om det kvinnliga Deirdre Beddoe, Back to Home and Dty. Miriam Glucksmann, Women Assemble.     

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: Marcia L. Colish Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition 400–1400 Adriann H. BrederoBernard of Clairvaux: Between Cult and History John Howe Church Reform and Social Change in Eleventh‐Century Italy: Dominic of Sora and his Patrons Michael T. Clanchy Abelard: A Medieval Life Vicente Castell Maiques, ed. Proceso Sobre la Ordenación de la Iglesia Valentina, 1238–1246, Vols I and II Ma. Milagros Cárcel Ortí and José Vicente Boscá Codina, eds Visitas Pastorales de Valencia: Siglos XIV–XV Vicent Luïs Simó Santonja, ed. Les Corts Valencianes: 1240–1645 Jan Veenstra: Magic and Divination at the Courts of Burgundy and France Text and Context of Laurens Pignon’s Contre les devineurs (1411) Marilyn Oliva The Convent and the Community in Late Medieval England. Female Monasteries in the Diocese of Norwich, 1350–1540 Abraham Friesen Erasmus, the Anabaptists, and the Great Commission Mark W. Konnert Civic Agendas and Religious Passion: Châlons‐sur‐Marne During the French Wars of Religion, 1560–1594 David Coffey Politics, Religion and the British Revolutions: The Mind of Samuel Rutherford Thomas F. Torrance Scottish Theology: From John Knox to John McLeod Campbell Geoffrey R. Treloar Lightfoot the Historian: The Nature and Role of History in the Life and Thought of J. B. Lightfoot (1828–1889) as Churchman and Scholar Jonathan Sarna, ed. Minority Faiths and the American Protestant Mainstream Michael Glazer and Thomas J. Shelley, eds The Encyclopedia of American Catholic History Bryan F. Le Beau Jonathan Dickinson and the Formative Years of American Presbyterianism Bret E. Carroll Spiritualism in Antebellum America Joel A. Carpenter Revive Us Again: The Reawakening of American Fundamentalism James T. Fisher Dr America: The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927–1961 Timothy E. Fulop and Albert J. Raboteau, eds African‐American Religion: Interpretive Essays in History and Culture Tracy Elaine K’Meyer Interracialism and Christian Community in the Postwar South: The Story of Koinonia Farm Dana L. Robert American Women in Mission: A Social History of Their Thought and Practice John Garrett Where Nets Were Cast: Christianity in Oceania Since World War II Jamsheed K. Choksy Con?ict and Cooperation: Zoroastrian Sub‐alterns and Muslim Elites in Medieval Iranian Society Dennis Hirota No Abode: The Record of Ippen Angelo Zito Of Body and Brush: Grand Sacri?ce as Text/Performance in Eighteenth‐Century China Liz Wilson Charming Cadavers: Horri?c Con?gurations of the Feminine in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature Geoffrey A. Oddie (ed.) Religious Traditions in South Asia: Interaction and Change     

BOOK REVIEWS

P. J. P. Goldberg (ed.) Woman is a Worthy Wight. Women in English Society c. 1200–1500 Alice Clark, Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century Ann Taylor Allen, Feminism and Motherhood in Germany 1800–1914 Victoria De Grazia, How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1922–1945 Mary Buckley (ed.) Perestroika and Soviet Women     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: P. R. Ackroyd and C. R. Evans (Eds): The Cambridge History of the Bible, Vloume I, From the Beginnings to Jerome. T. E. Pollard : Johannine Christology and the Early Church (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, No. 13). James A. Brundage : Medieval Canon Law and the Crusader. Rufus B. Spain : At Ease in Zion: A Social History of Southern Baptists, 1865–1900. Hans Mol : Religion in Australia. A Sociological Investigation. G. J. Cuming (Ed.): The Mission of the Church and the Propagation of the Faith (Studies in Church History, Vol VI).     

BOOK REVIEWS

Ruth Padel, In and Out of the Mind David I. Kertzer and Richard P. Sailer (eds) Sherrill Cohen, The Evolution of Women's Asylums Since 1500 Nancy A. Hardesty, Your Daughters Shall Prophesy Mary D. Pellauer, Towards a Tradition of Feminist Theology Eleanor Gordon, Women and the Labour Movement in Scotland Linda Edmondson (ed.) Mark C. Carnes and Clyde Griffen (eds) Meanings for Manhood Kathleen M. Blee, Women of the Klan Michèle Martin, “Hello, Central?” Julia Epstein and Kristina Straub (eds) Body Guards Marjorie Garber, Vested Interests Cornelie Usborne, The Politics of the Body in Weimar Germany Terry Gourvish and Alan O'Day (eds) Jane Lewis, Women in Britain since 1945 Alan Sked and Chris Cook, Post-War Britain. A Political History Allen Guttmann, Women's Sports: A History Marion A. Kaplan, The Making of the Jewish Middle Class. Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article Editorial Office : 400 Elliott Hall, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH 43015 Telephone : 740-368-3642 Fax : 740-368-3643 E-mail: brhistor@cc.owu.edu Web address: http://www.cc.owu.edu/~histor/ There Goes the Neighborhood: Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Early Twentieth-Century Iowa. By David Reynolds. The Life and Times of Poncho Villa. By Frederick Katz. Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia. By Woody Holton. Fragments of Empire: Capital, Slavery, and Indian Indentured Labor in the British Caribbean. By Madhavi Kale. In Place of Slavery: A Social History of British Indian and Javanese Laborers in Suriname. By Rosemarijn Hoefte. The People Trade: Pacific Island Laborers and New Caledonia, 1865-1930. By Dorothy Shineberg. European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman State: The Merchants of Genoa and Turkey. By Kate Fleet. The Persian Presence in the Islamic World. Edited by Richard G. Hovannisian and Georges Sabbagh. A Concise History of South Africa. By Robert Ross. Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America. By John-Manuel Andriote. Patriotic Toil: Northern Women and the American Civil War. By Jeanie Attie. Lethal Imagination: Violence and Brutality in American History. Edited, with an introduction, by Michael Bellesiles. A Living Constitution or Fundamental Law? American Constitutionalism in Historical Perspective. By Herman Belz. Jefferson Davis's Generals. Edited by Gabor S. Boritt. Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas. By Gregg Cantrell. Security with Solvency: Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Shaping of the American Military Establishment. By Gerald Clarfield. Eyewitness to the American West: From the Aztec Empire to the Digital Frontier in the Words of Those Who Saw It Happen. Edited by David Colbert. A Useful Woman: The Early Life of Jane Addams. By Gioia Diliberto. Lincoln's Admiral: The Civil War Campaigns of David Farragut. By James P. Duffy. Over There: The United States in the Great War, 1917-1918. By Byron Farwell. Trials of Intimacy: Love and Loss in the Beecher-Tilton Scandal. By Richard Wightman Fox. Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom: The Union & Slavery in the Diplomacy of the Civil War. By Howard Jones. American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20th Century. By Michael Kammen. Nixon's Vietnam War. By Jeffrey Kimball. Jonathan Dickinson and the Formative Years of American Presbyterianism. By Bryan F. Le Beau. All the Daring of a Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies. By Elizabeth D. Leonard. The Drive-In, the Supermarket, and the Transformation of Commercial Space in Los Angeles, 1914-1941. By Richard Longstreth. Brennan and Democracy. By Frank I. Michelman. The Pullman Case: The Clash of Labor and Capital in Industrial America. By David Ray Papke. If They Don't Bring Their Women Here: Chinese Female Immigration Before Exclusion. By George Anthony Peffer. An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton. By Richard A. Posner. How Long? How Long? African-American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights. By Belinda Robnett. Technology in America: A Brief History. By Alan I. Marcus and Howard P. Segal. Citizen Soldiers in the War of 1812. By C. Edward Skeen. Opposition Beyond the Water's Edge: Liberal Internationalists, Pacifists and Containment, 1945-1953. By E. Timothy Smith. Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks. By Mark David Spence. Smoldering Ashes: Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780-1840. By Charles F. Walker. Women and Religion in Early America, 1600-1850: The Puritan and Evangelical Traditions. By Marilyn J. Westerkamp. The American Century: The Rise and Decline of the United States as a World Power, By Donald W. White. The Columbia Guide to Modern Japanese History. By Gary D. Allinson. Everyday Things in Premodern Japan: The Hidden Legacy of Material Culture. By Susan B. Hanley. The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 B.C. Edited by Michael Loewe and Edward L. Shaughnessy. Of Camel Kings and Other Things: Rural Rebels Against Modernity in Late Imperial China. By Roxann Prazniak. Human Bullets: A Soldier's Story of the Russo-Japanese War. By Tadayoshi Sakurai. With an introduction by Roger J. Spiller. Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry. By Samita Sen. Threshold of Terror. The Last Hours of the Monarchy in the French Revolution. By Rodney Allen. “Final Solution”: Nazi Population Policy and the Murder of the European Jews. By Götz Aly. Translated by Belinda Cooper and Allison Brown. Spain and the Great Powers in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Sebastian Balfour and Paul Preston. 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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.