Journal of Women's History articles from January 1999

Journal of Women's History archives from January 1999

THE NEW RELIGIOUS POLITICS AND WOMEN WORLDWIDE: A Comparative Study.(Review)
January 1, 1999... This article accounts for the approaches to women and gender in two types of New Religious Politics: those aimed at taking control of governments, and those targeted at nationalist and territorial goals. The former, which include many Islamist...

FUNDAMENTALISM AND THE FAMILY: Gender, Culture, and the American Pro-family Movement.
January 1, 1999... Within a historical perspective, the relationship between fundamentalism and the recent pro-family movement is complex. From the time of their origins in the late nineteenth century until World War II, fundamentalists said little about the...

FUNDAMENTALISMS AND PATRIARCHAL GENDER POLITICS.
January 1, 1999... Recent studies of North American and Latin American evangelicalism suggest that the ideology and politics of charismatic and legalistic-literalist fundamentalist groups differ with regard to gender relations. Although both advocate patriarchal...

AN HONORABLE AVOCATION FOR LADIES: The Work of the Mexico City Union de Damas Catolicas Mexicanas, 1912-1926.
January 1, 1999... This article examines the volunteer work of the Union de Damas Catolicas Mexicanas (Union of Mexican Catholic Ladies, UDCM) in Mexico City from the Mexican Revolution (1910-1917) to the beginning of the Cristero Rebellion (1926-1929). The UDCM...

WOMEN'S ACTIVISM AND THE VICISSITUDES OF HINDU NATIONALISM.
January 1, 1999... This article explores why Hindu nationalism gives expression to relatively extensive, militant women's activism. Why, to put the question starkly, should larger numbers of women pour onto the streets to destroy a sixteenth-century mosque than...

MILITANT HINDU NATIONALIST WOMEN REIMAGINE THEMSELVES: Notes on Mechanisms of Expansion/Adjustment.
January 1, 1999... This article explores modes in which women militants from India's most extensive Hindu nationalist organization, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, have used Hindu nationalist discourse to produce themselves as political agents. The author...

BEWARE THE BED OF FIRE: Gender, Democracy, and the Jama'at-i Islami in Bangladesh.
January 1, 1999... In recent electoral campaigns in Bangladesh, the Jama'at-i Islami or "party of Islam" has claimed that a vote in its favor is a vote in favor of God and Islam; yet, the party repeatedly has failed to find significant support among what is...

REVOLUTION, RELIGION, AND GENDER POLITICS: Iran and Afghanistan Compared.
January 1, 1999... This article compares the trajectory of gender politics and religio-politics in revolutionary Afghanistan and revolutionary Iran since the late 1970s, and draws attention to the gendered nature of political and cultural projects. Whereas the...

Muslim Women and the Politics of Participation: Implementing the Beijing Platform.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Mahnaz Afkhami and Erika Friedl, eds. Muslim Women and the Politics of Participation: Implementing the Beijing Platform. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1997. xi + 244 pp. ISBN 0-8156-2759-9 (cl); 0-8156-2760-2 (pb). The books...

Mixed Blessings: Gender and Religious Fundamentalism Cross Culturally.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Judy Brink and Joan Mencher, eds. Mixed Blessings: Gender and Religious Fundamentalism Cross Culturally. New York: Routledge, 1997. vi + 275 pp. ISBN 0-415-91185-0 (cl); 0-415-91166-9 (pb). The books reviewed here--which deal with everyday...

The Forbidden Modern: Civilization and Veiling.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Nilufer Gol. The Forbidden Modern: Civilization and Veiling. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. 173 pp. ISBN 0-472-09630-3 (cl); 0-472-06630-7 (pb). The books reviewed here--which deal with everyday life, enmeshments of the...

Gender Politics in Sudan: Islamism, Socialism, and the State.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Sondra Hale. Gender Politics in Sudan: Islamism, Socialism, and the State. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1997. xv + 294 pp. ISBN 0-8133-3370-9 (pb). The books reviewed here--which deal with everyday life, enmeshments of the private and...

Women in the Qur'an, Traditions and Interpretation.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Barbara Stowasser. Women in the Qur'an, Traditions, and Interpretation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. vii + 206 pp. ISBN 0-19-508480-2 (cl); 0-19-5111148-6 (pb). The books reviewed here--which deal with everyday life, enmeshments...

Feminism and Islam: Legal and Literary Perspectives.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Mai Yamani, ed. Feminism and Islam: Legal and Literary Perspectives. New York: New York University Press, 1996. xii + 385 pp. ISBN 0-8147-9680-X (cl); 0-8147-9681-8 (pb). The books reviewed here--which deal with everyday life, enmeshments...

Muslim Women and the Politics of Participation: Implementing the Beijing Platform.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Mahnaz Afkhami and Erika Friedl, eds. Muslim Women and the Politics of Participation: Implementing the Beijing Platform. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1997. 198 pp. ISBN 0-8156-2760-2 (pb). Many recent publications in the...

Reconstructed Lives: Women and Iran's Islamic Revelution.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Haleh Esfandiari. Reconstructed Lives: Women and Iran's Islamic Revolution. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1997. 234 pp. ISBN 0-8018-5619-1 (pb). Many recent publications in the interdisciplinary field of Middle East...

Islam, Gender and Social Change.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and John L. Esposito, eds. Islam, Gender, and Social Change. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 259 pp. ISBN 0-19-511357-8 (pb). Many recent publications in the interdisciplinary field of Middle East women's...

Marriage on Trial: A Study of Islamic Family Law.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Ziba Mir-Hosseini. Marriage on Trial: A Study of Islamic Family Law. London: I. B. Tauris & Co., Ltd., 1993. 245 pp. ISBN 1-86064-182-2 (pb). Many recent publications in the interdisciplinary field of Middle East women's studies have...

Somerville for Women: An Oxford College, 1879-1993.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Pauline Adams. Somerville for Women: An Oxford College, 1879-1993. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xviii + 394 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-19920-179-X (cl); 0-19-920-182-X (pb). Adams, a librarian and fellow of Somerville College, extensively...

Notable Women in World History: A Guide to Recommended Biographies and Autobiographies.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Lynda G. Adamson. Notable Women in World History: A Guide to Recommended Biographies and Autobiographies. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. xiv + 401 pp. ISBN 0-313-29818-1 (cl). This rich guide includes brief biographical...

Eleanor Rathbone.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Johanna Alberti. Eleanor Rathbone. London: Sage, 1996. viii + 200 pp. ISBN 0-8039-8875-3 (cl); 0-8039-8876-1 (pb). Eleanor Rathbone, a leading member of Great Britain's suffrage movement at the turn of the century, occupies a unique place...

Black Women Intellectuals: Strategies of Nation, Family, and Neighborhood in the Works of Pauline Hopkins, Jessie Fauset, and Marita Bonner.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Carol Allen. Black Women Intellectuals: Strategies of Nation, Family, and Neighborhood in the Works of Pauline Hopkins, Jessie Fauset, and Marita Bonner. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1998. v + 169 pp. ISBN 0-8153-3112-6 (cl). Allen...

Policing Women: The Sexual Politics of Law Enforcement and the LAPD.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Janis Appier. Policing Women: The Sexual Politics of Law Enforcement and the LAPD. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998. x + 227 pp.; ill.; charts; no bibliography. ISBN 1-56639-559-3 (cl); 1-56639-560-7 (pb). Using gender as a...

Women of Mongolia.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Martha Avery. Women of Mongolia. Boulder, Colo.: Asian Art and Archaeology in Association with University of Washington Press, 1996. 188 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-937321-05-2 (pb). Avery allows Mongolian women from all walks of life to tell their...

Die europaische Querelle des Femmes. Geschlechterdebatten des 15.-18. Jahrhunderts.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Gisela Bock and Margarete Zimmermann, eds. Die europaische Querelle des Femmes. Geschlechterdebatten des 15.-18. Jahrhunderts. Stuttgart: Verlag J. B. Metzler, 1997. 400 pp.; ill.; no index. ISBN 3-476-01526-2 (pb). The second volume of...

Women Reshaping Human Rights: How Extraordinary Women Are Changing the World.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Marguerite Guzman Bouvard. Women Reshaping Human Rights: How Extraordinary Women Are Changing the World. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1996. xxvi + 319 pp. ISBN 0-8420-2562-6 (cl); 0-8420-2563-4 (pb). Bouvard describes...

Recipes for Reading: Community Cookbooks, Stories, Histories.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Anne L. Bower, ed. Recipes for Reading: Community Cookbooks, Stories, Histories. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. xii + 271 pp.; ill.; no index. ISBN 1-55849-088-4 (cl); 1-55849-089-2 (pb). This collection of essays by...

Presbyterian Women in America: Two Centuries of a Quest for Status.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Lois A. Boyd and R. Douglas Brackenridge. Presbyterian Women in America: Two Centuries of a Quest for Status. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996. vii + 180 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-313-29841-6 (cl). This book traces women's relationship to...

Tituba, The Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Elaine G. Breslaw. Tituba, The Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies. New York: New York University Press, 1996. xxv + 243 pp. ISBN 0-8147-1227-4 (cl). Breslaw reconstructs the life of Tituba, the Indian slave...

Women Mystics Confront the Modern World: Marie de L'Incarnation (1599-1672) and Madame de Guyon (1648-1717).(Review)
January 1, 1999... Marie-Florine Bruneau. Women Mystics Confront the Modern World: Marie de L'Incarnation (1599-1672) and Madame de Guyon (1648-1717). Albany: SUNY Press, 1998. x + 279 pp. ISBN 0-7914-3661-6 (cl); 0-79143662-4 (pb). This volume examines...

Inscribing the Daily: Critical Essays on Women's Diaries.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Suzanne L. Bunkers and Cynthia A. Huff, eds. Inscribing the Daily: Critical Essays on Women's Diaries. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996. ix + 296 pp. ISBN 1-55849-010-8 (cl); 1-55849-011-6 (pb). This interesting and...

Uncommon Common Women: Ordinary Lives of the West.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Anne M. Butler and Ona Siporin. Uncommon Common Women: Ordinary Lives of the West. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1996. x + 138 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-87421-209-X (cl); 0-87421-210-3 (pb). A fascinating meld of media and genre, this short...

Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Whitney Chadwick, ed. Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1998. xiii + 193 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-262-53157-7 (pb). This beautifully illustrated volume, which accompanied a recent MIT exhibit on...

Confronting State, Capital, and Patriarchy: Women Organizing in the Process of Industrialization.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Amrita Chhachhi and Renee Pittin, eds. Confronting State, Capital, and Patriarchy: Women Organizing in the Process of Industrialization. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. xii + 369 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-312-12980-7 (cl). This collection of...

Adela Pankhurst: The Wayward Suffragette, 1885-1961.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Verna Coleman. Adela Pankhurst: The Wayward Suffragette, 1885-1961. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996. xi + 198 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-522-84728-5 (pb). Coleman's biography seeks to place the least well-known of the Pankhurst women...

Daughters of Thunder: Black Women Preachers and Their Sermons, 1850-1979.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Bettye Collier-Thomas. Daughters of Thunder: Black Women Preachers and Their Sermons, 1850-1979. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1998. xx + 345 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-7879-0918-1 (cl). This study contains a unique collection of sermons...

Feminism and the New Democracy: Resiting the Political.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Jodi Dean, ed. Feminism and the New Democracy: Resiting the Political. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1997. vii + 274 pp. ISBN 0-8039-7617-8 (cl); 08039-7618-6 (pb). The fifteen essays of this edited collection of feminist theory revolve...

Marriage in Italy, 1300-1650.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Trevor Dean and K. J. P. Lowe, eds. Marriage in Italy, 1300-1650. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xi + 304 pp.; ill.; tables. ISBN 0-521-55402-0 (cl). This collection highlights recent research that uses marriage as a means to...

Women, Religion, and Social Change in Brazil's Popular Church.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Carol Ann Drogus. Women, Religion, and Social Change in Brazil's Popular Church. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. xiii + 226 pp. ISBN 0-268-01951-7 (cl). Drogus examines the Brazilian popular church's attempts to...

Sexual Politics and the European Union: The New Feminist Challenge.(Review)
January 1, 1999... R. Amy Elman, ed. Sexual Politics and the European Union: The New Feminist Challenge. Providence, R.I.: Berghahn Books, 1996. x + 178 pp. ISBN 0-57181-062-5 (cl); 1-57181-046-3 (pb). This edited collection provides a rare overview of the...

Mexican American Women: Changing Images.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Juan R Garcia, ed. Mexican American Women: Changing Images. Tucson: University of Arizona, Mexican American Studies and Research Center, 1995. x + 195 pp.; graphs. ISBN 0-939363-05-4 (pb). The diverse nature of these seven essays signifies...

Searching for Saleem: An Afghan Woman's Odyssey.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Farooka Gauhari. Searching for Saleem: An Afghan Woman's Odyssey. Foreword by Nancy Dupree. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. xxii + 255 pp.; maps. ISBN 0-8032-2156-8 (cl). When Afghan airforce officer Saleem Gauhari disappeared...

In the Shadow of Marriage: Gender and Justice in an African Community.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Anne M. O. Griffiths. In the Shadow of Marriage: Gender and Justice in an African Community. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. vii + 310 pp.; ill.; tables. ISBN 0-226-30873-1 (cl); 0-226-30875-8 (pb). In this comparative...

Flora Tristan: Life Stories.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Susan Grogan. Flora Tristan: Life Stories. New York: Routledge, 1998. viii + 280 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-415-04962-8 (cl). Moving beyond the historical identity of Flora Tristan as a French socialist and feminist, Grogan contextualizes...

Families in the U.S.: Kinship and Domestic Politics.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Karen V. Hansen and Anita Ilta Garey, eds. Families in the U.S.: Kinship and Domestic Politics. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998. xxi + 888 pp.; tables; no index. ISBN 1-56639-589-5 (cl); 1-56639-590-9 (pb). This edited...

Behind Closed Doors: Women's Oral Narratives in Tunis.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Monia Hejaiej. Behind Closed Doors: Women's Oral Narratives in Tunis. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1996. xi + 369 pp. ISBN 0-8135-2376-1 (cl); 0-8135-2377-X (pb). Tales passed down from generation to generation among Beldi...

Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women's Suffrage Movement.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Sandra Stanley Holton. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women's Suffrage Movement. London: Routledge, 1996. xiv + 309 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-415 -10942-6 (pb). Holton examines the British suffrage movement from its origins to 1918 by weaving...

Women's Work in Rural China: Change and Continuity in an Era of Reform.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Tamara Jacka. Women's Work in Rural China: Change and Continuity in an Era of Reform. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. viii + 264 pp.; appendices. ISBN 0-521-56225-2 (cl); 0-521-59928-8 (pb). Jacka examines the complex...

Dangerous Talk and Strange Behavior: Women and Popular Resistance to the Reforms of Henry VIII.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Sharon L. Jansen. Dangerous Talk and Strange Behavior: Women and Popular Resistance to the Reforms of Henry VIII. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. viii + 232 pp. ISBN 0-312-16090-9 (cl). Jansen examines the roles of women in popular...

Muslim Women throughout the World: A Bibliography.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Michelle R. Kimball and Barbara R. von Schlegell. Muslim Women throughout the World: A Bibliography. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997. ix + 309 pp. ISBN 1-55587-680-3 (cl). This bibliography is a compilation of studies of...

Taking Charge: Nursing, Suffrage, and Feminism in America, 1873-1920.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Sandra Beth Lewenson. Taking Charge: Nursing, Suffrage, and Feminism in America, 1873-1920. New York: National League for Nursing Press, 1996. xxiv + 271 pp.; ill.; appendices; glossary. ISBN 0-88737-684-3 (cl). Lewenson traces the...

Conversations with Dvora: An Experimental Biography of the First Modern Hebrew Woman Writer.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Amia Lieblich. Conversations with Dvora: An Experimental Biography of the First Modern Hebrew Woman Writer. Trans. Naomi Seidman and ed. Chana Kronfeld and Naomi Seidman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. vii + 343 pp.; no index;...

Populism and Feminism in Iran: Women's Struggles in a Male-Defined Revolutionary Movement.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Haideh Moghissi. Populism and Feminism in Iran: Women's Struggles in a Male-Defined Revolutionary Movement. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. ix + 214 pp. ISBN 0-312-16469-6 (pb). This book is a three stage analysis of the evolution of...

Lubavitcher Women in America: Identity and Activism in the Postwar Era.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Bonnie J. Morris. Lubavitcher Women in America: Identity and Activism in the Postwar Era. Albany: SUNY Press, 1998. x + 186 pp. ISBN 0-7914-3799-X (cl); 0-7914-3800-7 (pb). Morris examines an overlooked population of American Jewish...

Community Activism and Feminist Politics: Organizing across Race, Class, and Gender.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Nancy A. Naples, ed. Community Activism and Feminist Politics: Organizing across Race, Class, and Gender. New York: Routledge, 1998. xi + 411 pp. ISBN 0-415-91629-1 (cl); 0-415-91630-5 (pb). Intended to bridge the divide between theory and...

Women's Movements and Public Policy in Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Geertje Lycklama A Nijeholt, Virginia Vargas, and Saskia Wieringa, eds. Women's Movements and Public Policy in Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1998. xvi + 189 pp.; no index. ISBN 0-8153-2479-0 (cl)....

Cities of Hope: People, Protests, and Progress in Urbanizing Latin America, 1870-1930.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Ronn Pineo and James A. Baer, eds. Cities of Hope: People, Protests, and Progress in Urbanizing Latin America, 1870-1930. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1998. xiii + 285 pp.; ill.; maps; tables. ISBN 0-8133-2443-2 (cl). These essays...

The End of the Age of Innocence: Edith Wharton and the First World War.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Alan Price. The End of the Age of Innocence: Edith Wharton and the First World War. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. xvii + 238 pp.; ill. ISBN 0312-12938-6 (cl). Price examines Edith Wharton's activities during the First World War as a...

The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Diane Purkiss. The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations. New York: Routledge, 1996. viii + 296 pp. ISBN 0-415-08762-7 (pb). A historical examination based primarily in textual analysis, Purkiss argues that...

Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example.(Review)
January 1, 1999... D. Michael Quinn. Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. x + 477 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-252-02205-X (cl). This is a fascinating account by an excommunicated but still...

Winter Quarters: The 1846-1848 Life Writings of Mary Haskin Parker Richards.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Mary Haskin Parker Richards. Winter Quarters: The 1846-1848 Life Writings of Mary Haskin Parker Richards. Ed. Maurine Carr Ward. Foreword by Maureen Ursenbach Beecher. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1996. xvi + 336 pp.; ill.; maps. ISBN...

Building and Breaking Families in the American West.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Glenda Riley. Building and Breaking Families in the American West. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996. xii + 204 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8263-1719-7 (cl); ISBN 0-8263-1720-0 (pb). Seeking to answer the question of why the American...

American Women in Mission: A Social History of Their Thought and Practice.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Dana L. Robert. American Women in Mission: A Social History of Their Thought and Practice. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1996. ix + 444 pp. ISBN 0-86554-549-9 (cl). Women experienced the missionary impulse in some of the same ways...

Poverty, Chastity, and Change: Lives of Contemporary American Nuns.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Carole Garibaldi Rogers. Poverty, Chastity, and Change: Lives of Contemporary American Nuns. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996. xxi + 323 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8057-9139-1 (cl). This volume records the experiences of over fifty American Catholic...

"And Prairie Dogs Weren't Kosher": Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest since 1855.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Linda Mack Schloff. "And Prairie Dogs Weren't Kosher": Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest since 1855. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1996. x + 243 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-87351-338-X (pb). This book is a collection of Jewish women's...

Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora's Daughters and Botany in England, 1760 to 1860.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Ann B. Shteir. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora's Daughters and Botany in England, 1760 to 1860. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. xi + 301 pp. ISBN 0-8019-5141-6 (cl). In England after 1760, the history of...

Fifty Years of Fashion: New Look to Now.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Valerie Steele. Fifty Years of Fashion: New Look to Now. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997. vii + 167 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-300-07132-9 (cl). This coffee-table sized book, with many full-page color photographs, presents a history of...

Science for a Polite Society: Gender, Culture, and the Demonstration of Enlightenment.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Geoffrey V. Sutton. Science for a Polite Society: Gender, Culture, and the Demonstration of Enlightenment. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1995. xiii + 391 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8133-1575-1 (cl); 0-8133-1576-X (pb). Covering the progress of...

On to Oregon: The Diaries of Mary Walker and Myra Eells.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Mary Walker and Myra Eells. On to Oregon: The Diaries of Mary Walker and Myra Eells. Ed. Clifford Merrill Drury. Introduction by Mina J. Carson. 1963; reprint, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. 382 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8032-6613-8 (pb)....

Worth Their Salt: Notable but Often Unnoted Women of Utah.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Colleen Whitley, ed. Worth Their Salt: Notable but Often Unnoted Women of Utah. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1996. xi + 308 pp.; ill.; no index. ISBN 0-87421-206-5 (cl). This collection of eighteen essays about women with some...