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: 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

Book review in this article: Karma Lochrie, Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh David F. Noble, A World Without Women: The Christian Clerical Culture of Western Science Jutta Schwarzkopf, Women in the Chartist Movement Catherine Hall, White, Male and Middle Class. Explorations in Feminism and History Ed Cohen, Talk on the Wilde Side: Toward a Genealogy of a Discourse on Male Sexualities June Purvis, A History of Women's Education in England Felicity Hunt, Gender and Policy in English Education. Schooling for Girls 1902-1944 Andrew Davies, Leisure, Gender and Poverty. Working-Class Culture in Salford and Manchester, 1900-1939 Andrew Davies and Steven Fielding (eds) Workers’Worlds. Cultures and Communities in Manchester and Salford, 1880–1939 Jo Fisher, Out of the Shadows: Women, Resistance and Politics in South America Sarah A. Radcliffe and Sallie Westwood (eds) Viva: Women and Popular Protest in Latin America Manchester Women's History Group Bibliography Project, Resources for Women's History in Greater Manchester Clare Whiteman and Richard Storey, Women at Work and in Society. Modern Records Centre Sources Booklet No 1 Michelle Perrot (ed.) Writing Women's History Joke J. Hermsen and Alkeline van Lenning (eds) Sharing the Difference. Feminist Debates in Holland Hillary Hinds, Ann Phoenix and Jackie Stacey (eds) Working Out. New Directions for Women's Studies Karen Often, Ruth Roach Pierson and Jane Rendall (eds) Writing Women's History: International Perspectives     

BOOK REVIEWS

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: Mary Ann Clawson, Constructing Brotherhood: Class, Gender, and Fraternalism. Mark C. Carnes, Secret Ritual and Manhood in Victorian America. Mary P. Ryan, Women in Public: Between Banners and Ballots, 1825–1880. Alain Corbin, Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850. Linda Mahood, The Magdalenes: Prostitution in the Nineteenth Century. Charles Bernheimer, Figures of Ill Repute. Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France. Bob Cant and Susan Hemmings (eds), Radical Records. Thirty Years of Lesbian and Gay History. Hall Carpenter Archives. Gay Men's Oral History Group (eds), Walking After Midnight. Gay Men's Life Stories. Hall Carpenter Archives. Lesbian Oral History Group (eds), Inventing Ourselves. Lesbian Life Stories. Lesbian History Group, Not a Passing Phase. Reclaiming Lesbians in History 1840–1945. Harriet Bradley, Men's Work, Women's Work. A Sociological History of the Sexual Division of Labour in Employment. Eileen Boris and Cynthia R. Daniels (eds), Homework. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Paid Labor at Home. Shelley Pennington and Belinda Westover, A Hidden Workforce. Homeworkers in England, 1850–1985. Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Women's Work, Markets, and Economic Development in Nineteenth-Century Ontario. Gillian Darley, Octavia Hill. Donna Haraway, Primate Visions: Gender, Race and Nature in the World of Modern Science. Stree Shakti Sanghatana, ‘We Were Making History’, Women and the Telengana Uprising.     

Book Reviews

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

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

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

Recovering Lives from behind the Gloss of Ideology: Recent Histories of Elite and Middle‐Class Women in England and America

Books reviewed in this article: Amanda Vickery, The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women's Lives in GeorgianEngland Jill Liddington, Female Fortune: Land, Gender and Authority Laura McCall and Donald Yacovone (eds), A Shared Experience: Men, Women and the History of Gender John Tosh, A Man’s Place: Masculinity and the Middle‐Class Homein Victorian England     

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

Caroline W. Bynum, The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200–1336 Pauline Stafford, Queen Emma and Queen Edith: Queenship and Women's Power in Eleventh Century England Kate Aughterson (ed.), Renaissance Woman: A Sourcebook. Constructions of Femininity in England Suzanne W. Hull, Women According to Men: The World of Tudor–Stuart Women Valerie Frith (ed.), Women and History: Voices of Early Modern England Eric Josef Carlson, Marriage and the English Reformation Joel F. Harrington, Reordering Marriage and Society in Reformation Germany Gillian T. W. Ahlgren, Teresa of Avila and the Politics of Sanctity Sherry M. Velasco, Demons, Nausea and Resistance in the Autobiography of Isabel de Jesús, 1611–1682 Margaret R. Hunt, The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender and the Family in England 1680–1780 Mary Waldron, Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: the Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753–1806 Michèle Cohen, Fashioning Masculinity: National Identity and Language in the Eighteenth Century Susan J. Tracy, In the Master's Eye: Representations of Women, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Antebellum Southern Literature Kathleen Canning, Languages of Labor and Gender: Female Factory Work in Germany, 1850–1914 Anna Davin, Growing Up Poor: Home, School and Street in London 1870–1914 Joel Wolfe, Working Women, Working Men: São Paulo and the Rise of Brazil's Industrial Working Class, 1900–1955 Miriam Cooke and Angela Woollacott (eds), Gendering War Talk Joy Damousi and Marilyn Lake (eds), Gender and War: Australians at War in the Twentieth Century Ruth Lewin Sime, Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics Ann Laura Stoler, Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things Peggy Bristow, Dionne Brand, Linda Carty, Afua P. Cooper, Sylvia Hamilton, Adrienne Shadd (eds), ’We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up’: Essays in African Canadian Women's History Anne Marie Rafferty, The Politics of Nursing Knowledge Mona Ozouf, Les Mots des Femmes: Essai sur la Singularité Française (Women's Words: An Essay on French Particularity)     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: 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     

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

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

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

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: 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

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

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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Robert J. C. Young, Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race Carole Boyce Davies, Black Women, Writing, and Identity: Migrations of the Subject Maria Luddy, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington Gail Bederman, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 7880–7977 Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Conquest Miranda Shaw, Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism Vron Ware, Beyond the Pale. White Women, Racism and History Mrinalini Sinha, Colonial Masculinity: The ‘Manly Englishman’ and the ‘Effeminate Bengali’ in the Late Nineteenth Century Bina Agarwal, A Field of One's Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia Francine Masiello, Between Civilization and Barbarism: Women, Nation, and Literary Culture in Modern Argentina Gertrude M. Yeager (ed.) Confronting Change, Challenging Tradition: Women in Latin American History Susan K. Besse, Restructuring Patriarchy: The Modernization of Gender Inequality in Brazil, 1914–1940 Richard C. Trexler, Sex and Conquest: Gendered Violence, Political Order, and the European Conquest of the Americas Megan Vaughan, Curing Their Ills: Colonial Power and African Illness Henrietta L. Moore and Megan Vaughan, Cutting Down Trees. Gender, Nutrition, and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890–1990 Shula Marks, Divided Sisterhood: Race, Class and Gender in the South African Nursing Profession Heike Becker, Namibian Women's Movement 1980 to 1992: From Anti-Colonial Resistance to Reconstruction     

BOOK REVIEWS

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