Book Reviews

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     

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)     

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     

THEMATIC REVIEWS

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

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     

Renaissance Women

Books reviewed in this article: Judith Brown and Robert Davies (eds), Gender and Society in RenaissanceItaly Trevor Dean and Kate Lowe (eds), Marriage in Italy, 1300‐1600 Deanna Shemek, Ladies Errant: Wayward Women and Social Order in Early Modern Italy Paola Tinagli, Women in Italian Renaissance Art: Gender, Representation,Identity     

Book Reviews

Book review in this Article: Joanna E. Ziegler, Sculpture of Compassion. The Pieta and the Beguines in the Southern Low Countries c.1300-C.1600 Thomas V. Cohen and Elizabeth S. Cohen, Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome: Trials before the Papal Magistrates Lyndal Roper, Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Sexuality and Religion in Early Modern Europe Wayne E. Franits, Paragons of Virtue: Women and Domesticity in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art Hilary Marland, The Art of Midwifery. Early Modern Midwives in Europe Susan Brock and E. A. J. Honigman (eds) Playhouse Wills, 1558–1642. An Edition of Wills by Shakespeare and his Contemporaries in the London Theatre Amy Louise Erickson, Women and Property in Early Modern England David Lindley, The Trials of Frances Howard: Fact and Fiction at the Court of King James Laura Levine, Men in Women's Clothing: Anti-Theatricality and Effeminization 1579–1642 Jean E. Howard, The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England Margaret J. M. Ezell, Writing Women's Literary History Richard Braverman, Plots and Counterplots: Sexual Politics and the Body Politic in English Literature, 1660–1730 Mona Scheuermann, Her Bread to Earn: Women, Money, and Society from Defoe to Austen N. H. Keeble (ed.) The Cultural Identity of Seventeenth-Century Woman: A Reader Anne Laurence, Women in England 1500–1760: A Social History Merry E. Wiesner, Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe     

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     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Kelley Hays-Gilpin and David S. Whitely (eds) Reader in Gender Archaeology Robert B. Shoemaker Gender in English Society, 1650–1850: The Emergence of Separate Spheres? Robert Shoemaker and Mary Vincent (eds) Gender and History in Western Europe Eileen Janes Yeo (ed.) Mary Wollstonecraft and 200 Years of Feminisms Leah Leneman Alienated Affections: The Scottish Experience of Divorce and Separation, 1684–1830 David Peterson del Mar What Trouble I Have Seen: A History of Violence Against Wives K. D. Reynolds Aristocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain Clare Midgley Gender and Imperialism Antoinette Burton At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in late-Victorian Britain Indira Chowdhury The Frail Hero and Virile History: Gender and the Politics of Culture in Colonial Bengal Urvashi Butalia The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India Indira Ghose Women Travellers in Colonial India: The Power of the Female Gaze Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch African Women: A Modern History Gwendolyn Mikell (ed.) African Feminism: The Politics of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa Carolina Maria de Jesus I'm Going to Have a Little House: the Second Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus Carolina Maria de Jesus Bitita's Diary: The Childhood Memoirs of Carolina Maria de Jesus Benedita da Silva Benedita da Silva: An Afro-Brazilian Woman's Story of Politics and Love as Told to Medea Benjamin and Maisa Mendonça Robert M. Levine The Brazilian Photographs of Genevieve Naylor, 1940–1942 Penny Summerfield, Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives: Discourse and Subjectivity in Oral Histories of the Second World War Linda K. Schott Reconstructing Women's Thoughts: The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Before World War II Begona Aretxaga Shattering Silence: Women, Nationalism, and Political Subjectivity in Northern Ireland Leonie Sandercock (ed.) Making the Invisible Visible: A Multicultural Planning History     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed: L. E. Semler (ed.), Eliza’s Babes: Or The Virgins–Offering (1652) A Critical Edition Hilary Hinds (ed.), The Cry of a Stone by Anna Trapnel Michael Roberts and Simone Clarke (eds), Women and Gender in Early Modern Wales Deirdre Beddoe, Out of the Shadows: A History of Women in Twentieth Century Wales Kathryn Gleadle and Sarah Richardson (eds), Women in British Politics, 1760–1860: The Power of the Petticoat Helen Rogers, Women and the People: Authority, Authorship and the Radical Tradition in Nineteenth–Century England Eileen Janes Yeo (ed.), Radical Femininity: Women’s Self–representation in the Public Sphere Charlotte Sussman, Consuming Anxieties: Consumer Protest, Gender, and British Slavery, 1713–1833 Kathi Kern, Mrs Stanton’s Bible Janice Holmes, Religious Revivals in Britain and Ireland 1859–1905 Andrea Ebel Bro?yna, Labour, Love and Prayer: Female Piety in Ulster Religious Literature, 1850–1914 Pamela J. Walker, Pulling the Devil’s Kingdom Down: The Salvation Army in Britain Elizabeth Dore (ed.), Gender Politics in Latin America: Debates in Theory and Practice Elizabeth Dore and Maxine Molyneux (eds), Hidden Histories of Gender and State in Latin America John D. French and Daniel James (eds), The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers Maxine Molyneux, Women’s Movements in International Perspective: Latin America and Beyond Aviva Chomsky and Aldo Lauria–Santiago (eds), Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean Elizabeth Rose, A Mother’s Job: The History of Day Care 1890–1960 Caroline Daley and Deborah Montgomerie (eds), The Gendered Kiwi Caroline Daley, Girls & Women, Men & Boys: Gender in Taradale 1886–1930 Mary Hilton and Pamela Hirsch (eds), Practical Visionaries: Women, Education and Social Progress, 1790–1930 Elizabeth Edwards, Women in Teacher Training Joan Bellamy, Anne Laurence and Gill Perry (eds), Women, Scholarship and Criticism: Gender and Knowledge, c. 1790–1900     

Of Sheep and Scribbling: Women and Writing in (Mostly) Early Modern England

Books reviewed in this article: Kevin Pask, The Emergence of the English Author: Scripting the Life of the Poet in Early Modern England Carol Barash, English Women’s Poetry 1649-1714: Politics, Community and Linguistic Authority Anna Battigelli, Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind Helen Wilcox (ed.), Women and Literature in Britain 1500-1700 Jeni Williams, Interpreting Nightingales: Gender, Class and Histories     

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)     

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     

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     

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     

Abstracts

Garthine Walker, Rereading Rape and Sexual Violence in Early Modern England Nancy Leys Stepan, Race, Gender, Science and Citizenship Lora Wildenthal, ‘When Men Are Weak’: The Imperial Feminism of Frieda von Bülow Sumathi Ramaswamy, Body Language: The Somatics of Nationalism in Tamil India Carol Dyhouse, Women Students and the London Medical Schools, 1914–39: The Anatomy of a Masculine Culture Solveig Widén , Alma Söderhjelm and Hilma Granqvist     

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     

Ways of Thinking and Ways of Doing

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

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: 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