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

Books reviewed: Alan Bray, The Friend Patricia Fortini Brown, Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture and the Family K. J. P Lowe, Nuns’ Chronicles and Convent Culture in Renaissance and Counter‐Reformation Italy Natalie R. Tomas, The Medici Women: Gender and Power in Renaissance Florence Helen Berry, Gender, Society and Print Culture in Late‐Stuart England: The Cultural World of the Athenian Mercury Mihoko Suzuki, Subordinate Subjects: Gender, the Political Nation, and Literary Form in England, 1588–1688 Patience A. Schell, Church and State Education in Revolutionary Mexico City Susie S. Porter, Working Women in Mexico City: Public Discourses and Material Conditions, 1879–1931 Nell Irvin Painter, Southern History across the Color Line Michael Zakim, Ready‐Made Democracy: A History of Men's Dress in the American Republic, 1760–1860 Sarah Watts, Rough Rider in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Desire Thomas Winter, Making Men, Making Class: The YMCA and Workingmen, 1877–1920 Gail Braybon (ed.), Evidence, History and the Great War: Historians and the Impact of 1914–1918 Fabrice Virgili, Shorn Women: Gender and Punishment in Liberation France     

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: Natalie Zemon Davis and Arlette Farge (eds) Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes, vol. 3 of A History of Women in the West Roger Sawyer, ‘We are but Women’: Women in Ireland's History Esther S. Cope, Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie Esther Breitenbach and Eleanor Gordon (eds) Out of Bounds: Women in Scottish Society 1800–1945 Patricia Crawford, Women and Religion in England 1500–1720 Phyllis Mack, Visionary Women. Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. Esther S. Cope, Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie     

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

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     

Women,work, property and gender in early modern Europe

Natalie DAVIS & Arlette FARGE eds, A History of Women in the West, III. Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1993, ISBN 0–674–40372‐X.

Merry E. WIESNER, Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993, ISBN 0–521–38459–1 hardback, 0–521–38613–6 paperback.

Hilary MARLAND, ed., The Art of Midwifery. Early Modem Midwives in Europe, Routledge, London, 1993, ISBN 0–415–06425–2.

Amy Louise ERICKSON, Women and Property in Early Modem England, Routledge, London, 1993, ISBN 0–415–06267–5.     

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)     

Creative Thinking and Emotion in Human Social Life: The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms

Abstract

There is debate whether The Merchant of Venice is an anti-Semitic play. However, in this debate there has been insufficient attention paid to Shylock's relationship with Tubal. In his criticisms of Shylock, Tubal represents the larger Jewish community. This criticism shows that, in Shakespeare's view, Jewish self-understanding of what it means to be a good Jew is incompatible with the character of Shylock.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: James Raymond Vreeland , The IMF and Economic Development Fatoumata Jawara and Aileen Kwa , Behind the Scenes at the WTO: The Real World of International Trade Negotiations Richard Peet , Unholy Trinity: The IMF, World Bank and the WTO William I. Robinson , A Theory of Global Capitalism: Production, Class, and State in a Transnational World Mary Ann Haley , Freedom and Finance: Democratisation and Institutional Investors in Developing Countries Ganeshan Wignaraja (ed.) , Competitiveness Strategy in Developing Countries: A Manual for Policy Analysis Kaushik Basu (ed.) , India's Emerging Economy: Performance and Prospects in the 1990s and Beyond Alvin Y. So (ed.) , China's Developmental Miracle: Origins, Transformations and Challenges Shahra Razavi (ed.) , Agrarian Change, Gender and Land Rights Haleh Afshar and Deborah Eade (eds) , Development, Women, and War: Feminist Perspectives Emmanuel Nnadozie , African Economic Development Fantu Cheru , African Renaissance: Roadmaps to the Challenges of Globalization Fumihiko Saito , Decentralization and Development Partnerships: Lessons from Uganda Lise Rakner , Political and Economic Liberalisation in Zambia 1991–2001 Jim Igoe , Conservation and Globalization: A Study of National Parks and Indigenous Communities from East Africa to South Dakota Hugh Schwartz , Urban Renewal, Municipal Revitalization: The Case of Curitiba, Brazil Simon Maxwell and Rachel Slater (eds) , Food Policy Old and New     

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 review in this Article Reliving the Past: The Worlds of Social History. Edited by Olivier Zunz. Revolution: A History of the ldea. Edited by David Close and Carl Bridge. Nero: The End of a Dynasty. By Miriam Griffin. Women in Roman Law and society. By Jane F. Gardner. The Fall of the Roman Empire: The Military Explanation. By Arthur Ferrill. The Romans in Central Europe. By Herbert Schutz. German Knighthood, 1050–1300. By Benjamin Arnold. The Worlds of Alfonso the Learned and James the Conqueror: Intellect and Force an the Middle Ages. Edited by Robert I. Burns, S.J. Women, Production, and Patriarchy in Late Medieval Cities. By Martha C. Howell. Saint Jerome in the Renaissance. By Eugene F. Rice Jr. Women, Family, and Ritual in Renaissance Italy. By Christiane Klapisch-Zuber. Translated by Lydia Cochrane. Tuscans and their Families: A Study of the Florentine Catasto of 1427. By David Herlihy and Christiane Klapisch-Zuber. Statesmen and Politicians of the Stuart Age. Edited by Timothy Eustace. Carlyle and the Burden of History. By John D. Rosenberg. Léger Félicité Sonthonax. The Lost Sentinel of the Republic. By Robert Louis Stein. Napoleon And Iberia: The Twin Sieges of Ciudad Rodrigo and Almeida, 1810. By Donald D. Horward. The Red City: Limoges and the French Nineteenth Century. By John M. Merriman. The German Empire, 1871–1918. By Hans-Ulrich Wehler. Translated by Kim Traynor. Liberal Democrats in the Weimar Republic: The History of the German Democratic Party and the German State Party. By Bruce B. Frye. The Change in the European Balance of Power, 1938–1939: The Path to Ruin. By Williamson Murray. Modern India The Origins of an Asian Democracy. By Judith M. Brown. The Soong Dynasty. By Sterling Seagrave. 1676: The End of American Independence. By Stephen Saunders Webb. Neighbors, Friends, or Madmen: The Puritan Adjustment to Quakerism in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts Bay. By Jonathan M. Chu. The Bells of Victory: The Pitt-Newcastle Ministry and the Conduct of the Seven Years’ War, 2757–2762. By Richard Middleton. A People's Army: Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years’ War. By Fred Anderson. The Reformation of American Quakerism, 1748–1783. By Jack D. Marietta. The French Enlightenment in America: Essays on the Times of the Founding Fathers. By Paul Merrill Spurlin. This Destructive War: The British Campaign in the Carolinas, 1780–1782. By John S. Pancake. The Whiskey Rebellion: Past and Present Perspectives. Edited by Steven R. Boyd. Tecumseh's Last Stand. By John Sugden. Samuel Slater and the origins of the American Textile Industry, 1790–1860. By Barbara M. Tucker. North Carolina Planters and Their Children, 1800–1860. By Jane Turner Censer. The Line of Duty: Maverick Congressmen and the Development of American Political Culture, 1836–1860. By Johanna Nicol Shields. Those Who Stayed Behind Rural Society in Nineteenth-Century New England. By Hal S. Barron. George Washington Williams: A Biography. By John Hope Franklin. Abolitionists and Working-Class Problems in the Age of Industrialization. By Betty Fladeland. Presbyterian Missionary Attitudes toward American Indians, 1838–1893. By Michael C. Coleman. The Web of Southern Social Relations: Women, Family, & Education. Edited by Walter J. Fraser Jr., R. Frank Saunders Jr. and Jon L. Wakelyn. Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale smith. By Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery. Investigation and Responsibility: Public Responsibility in the United States, 1864–1900. By William R. Brock. The Underground Reservation: Osage Oil. By Terry P. Wilson Protestant Thought in the Nineteenth Century, 1870–1914. Vol. 2. By Claude Welch. The American Churches in World War 1. By John F. Piper Jr. Hoover, Blacks, & Lily-Whites: A Study of Southern Strategies. By Donald J. Lisio. Organized for Prohibition: A New History of the Anti-Saloon League. By K. Austin Kerr. Propaganda in an Open Society: The Roosevelt Administration and the Media, 193–1941. By Richard W. Steele. Big Business and Presidential Power: From FDR to Reagan. By Kim McQuaid. Triumph and Disaster 1945–1964. [Vol. 3 of The Years of MacArthur.] By D. Clayton James. The United States and Mexico. By Josefina Zoraida Vázquez and Lorenzo Meyer.     

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     

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     

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     

Women at Sea: An Other Category

Books reviewed in this article: David Cordingly, Women Sailors and Sailors’ Women: An Untold Maritime History Joan Druett, She Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Sea Lizabeth Paravisini–Gebert and Ivette Romero–Cesareo (eds), Women at Sea: Travel Writing and the Margins of Caribbean Discourse Sena Jeter Naslund, Ahab's Wife or The Star–Gazer Nancy Pagh, At Home Afloat: Women on the waters of the Pacific North–West Dee Pigneguy, Saltwater in Her Hair: Stories of women in the New Zealand maritime industry     

Gender,Politics and Mass Culture

Books reviewed in this article: Margaret Finnegan, Selling Suffrage: Consumer Culture and Votes for Women Nan Enstad, Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Alison M. Parker, Purifying America: Women, Cultural Reform and Pro‐Censorship Activism, 1873‐1933     

Re(ge)ndering Gender(ed) Studies

McAuslan, Ian and Walcot, Peter (eds) Women in Antiquity Archer, Leonie J., Fischler, Susan and Wyke, Maria (eds) Women in Ancient Societies: ‘An Illusion of the Night’ Hawley, Richard and Levick, Barbara (eds) Women in Antiquity: New Assessments Richlin, Amy (ed.) Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome Sorkin Rabinowitz, Nancy and Richlin, Amy (eds) Feminist Theory and the Classics Reeder, Ellen D. Pandora: Women in Classical Greece     

With Cutlass and Compress: Women's Relations with the Sea

Books reviewed in this article: Margaret S. Creighton and Lisa Norling (eds), Iron Men, Wooden Women:Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic Worlds 1700‐1920 Elaine Forman Crane, Ebb Tide in New England: Women, Seaportsand Social Change 1630‐1800 Hans Turley, Rum, Sodomy and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality and Masculine Identity Violet Jessop, Titanic Survivor: the Memoirs of Violet Jessop, Stewardess     

Anthropology and women in development the Leiden experiment

The following publications of the Research Center Women and Development, Institute for Social and Cultural Studies, State University of Leiden, Leiden, the Netherlands, are reviewed:

I De Beij, Ilsa. Van Noot Tot Noodzaak: het belong van karite voor vrouwen in een Gourounsi—dorp in Boven‐Volta. Leiden, 1982, 126 pp., n.p.¹

II Most van Spijk, Marileen van der. Eager to Learn: An Anthropological Study of the Needs of Egyptian Village Women; Report of an Experiment. Cairo‐Leiden, 1982, 84 pp. n.p.

III Most van Spijk, Marileen van der. Who Cares For Her Health? An Anthropological Study of Women's Health Care in a Vilage in Upper Egypt. Cairo‐Leiden, 1982. 99 pp., n.p.

IV Most van Spijk, Marileen van der, Hoda Youssef Fahmy, and Sonja Zimmermann, Remember to be Firm: Life Histories of Three Egyptian Women. Cairo‐Leiden, 1982. 79 pp., n.p.

V Postel, Els and Joke Schrijvers (eds.) A Woman s Mind is Longer than a Kitchen Spoon: Report on Women in Sri Lanka. Colombo‐Leiden, 1980.146 pp. + Appendices, n.p.

VI Risseeuw, Carla. The Wrong End of the Rope: Women Coir Workers in Sri Lanka. Colombo‐Leiden, 1980. 253 pp. + Appendices, n.p.

VII Samarasuriya, Shireen, Who Needs Tourism? Employment for Women in the Holiday‐Industry of Sudugama, Sri Lanka. Colombo‐Leiden, 1982. 85 pp. n.p.