Journal of Women's History articles from January 2000

Journal of Women's History archives from January 2000

Southern Women in Revolution, 1776-1800: Personal and Political Narratives.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Cynthia A. Kierner. Southern Women in Revolution, 1776-1800: Personal and Political Narratives. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998. xxviii + 253 pp. ISBN 1-57003-218-1 (cl). The five chapters in this book feature...

Stripping in Time: A History of Erotic Dancing.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Lucinda Jarrett. Stripping in Time: A History of Erotic Dancing. London: Pandora, 1997. x + 246 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-04-440968-0 (pb). As the title suggests, Jarrett traces the history of erotic dancing--including sacred dance, striptease,...

EDITOR'S NOTE.
January 1, 2000... The idea that women have always worked has finally become almost cliched. For nearly thirty years now, historians and sociologists have systematically explored women's labor in different settings, first distinguishing between waged and...

FROM INNOCENT CHILDREN TO UNWANTED MIGRANTS AND UNWED MOMS: Two Chapters in the Public Discourse on Welfare in the United States, 1960-1961.
January 1, 2000... In June 1961, in the declining industrial city of Newburgh, New York, City Manager Joseph Mitchell announced a thirteen-point plan for welfare reform. Mitchell's stringent work requirements, restrictions on Aid to Dependent Children (ADC),...

"MOTHER POWER": The Movement for Welfare Rights in Washington, D.C., 1966-1972.
January 1, 2000... On Mother's Day in 1968, more than five thousand black women marched through Washington, D.C., to mark the opening of the Poor People's Campaign, a mass protest against the problems that besieged America's impoverished. The National Welfare...

LIKELY TO BECOME A PUBLIC CHARGE: Deserted Women and the Family Law of the Poor in New York City, 1910-1936.
January 1, 2000... In mid-June 1934, Jacob Dinsky appeared in the New York City Domestic Relations Court represented by the National Desertion Bureau (NDB), a Jewish legal aid agency. The fifty-eight-year-old unemployed tailor recently had been discharged from...

OF SILK, WOMEN, AND CAPITAL: Peasant Women's Labor in Chinese and Other Third World Capitalisms.
January 1, 2000... Sericulture--the cultivation of mulberry trees and raising of silkworms--has always been viewed as a quintessential form of Chinese women's work. Historical analyses have often portrayed sericulture as offering positive outcomes, pointing to...

ENGENDERING RELIEF: Women, Ablebodiedness, and the New Poor Law in Early Victorian England.
January 1, 2000... The first annual report on the operations of the New Poor Law of 1834 used the following example to articulate the problem of the idle and worthless pauper" that existed in parishes where the system was not being properly administered. ...

THE POLITICS OF ILLEGITIMACY IN AN AGE OF REFORM: Women, Reproduction, and Political Economy in England's New Poor Law of 1834.
January 1, 2000... In 1834, for the first time in English history, single women were made legally and economically responsible for their illegitimate children. The New Poor Law, including the notorious bastardy clauses, radically altered the welfare...

Gender and the Politics of Welfare Reform: Mothers' Pensions in Chicago, 1911-1929.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Joanne Goodwin. Gender and the Politics of Welfare Reform: Mothers' Pensions in Chicago, 1911-1929 Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xii + 284 pp.; ill.; tables. ISBN 0-226-30393-4 (pb). Joanne Goodwin and Sonya Michel have...

Children's Interests/Mothers' Rights: The Shaping of America's Child Care Policy.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Sonya Michel. Children's Interests/Mothers' Rights: The Shaping of America's Child Care Policy. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999. xii + 410 pp.; ill.; tables. ISBN 0-300-05951-5 (cl). Joanne Goodwin and Sonya Michel have...

The War from Within: German Working-Class Women in the First World War.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Ute Daniel. The War from Within: German Working-Class Women in the First World War. Trans. Margaret Ries. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1997. xii + 343 pp.; tables. ISBN 0-85496-892-X (cl); 1-85973-147-3 (pb). During the nineteenth century the...

Growing Up Poor: Home, School, and Street in London, 1870-1914.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Anna Davin. Growing Up Poor: Home, School, and Street in London, 1870-1914. London: Rivers Oram Press, 1996. xiv + 289 pp.; ill.; tables. ISBN 1-85489-062-X (cl); 1-8549-063-8 (pb). During the nineteenth century the figure of the working...

Barmaids: A History of Women's Work in Pubs.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Diane Kirkby. Barmaids: A History of Women's Work in Pubs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xii + 244 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-52156-0381 (cl); 0-52156-8684 (pb). During the nineteenth century the figure of the working woman "served...

The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Elizabeth Wood. The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. 318 pp. ISBN 0-253-33311-3 (cl). During the nineteenth century the figure of the working woman "served...

Perfecting the Family: Antislavery Marriages in Nineteenth-Century America.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Chris Dixon. Perfecting the Family: Antislavery Marriages in Nineteenth-Century America. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. xiii + 322 pp. ISBN 1-55849-068-X (cl). Central to the five books discussed in this review essay...

Trouble Showed the Way: Women, Men, and Trade in the Nairobi Area, 1890-1990.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Claire C. Robertson. Trouble Showed the Way: Women, Men, and Trade in the Nairobi Area, 1890-1990. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. xii + 341 pp.; ill.; map. ISBN 0-253-33360-1 (cl); 0-252-21151-4 (pb). Central to the five...

A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Leslie A. Schwalm. A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xiii + 394 pp.; ill.; map. ISBN 0-252-02259-9 (cl); 0-252-06630-8 (pb). Central to the five...

Mistresses and Slaves: Plantation Women in South Carolina, 1830-1880.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Marli F. Weiner. Mistresses and Slaves: Plantation Women in South Carolina, 1830-1880. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xii + 308 pp. ISBN 0-252-02322-6 (cl); 0-252-06623-5 (pb). Central to the five books discussed in this...

African American Women and Cristian Activism: New York's Black YWCA, 1905-1945.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Judith Weisenfeld. African American Women and Christian Activism: New York's Black YWCA, 1905-1945. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. viii + 231 pp. ISBN 0-674-68973-9 (cl); 0-674-00778-6 (pb). Central to the five books...

Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Rebecca Sharpless. Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999). xxiii + 319 pp.; ill.; tables. ISBN 0-8078-2456-9 (cl); 0-8078-4760-7 (pb). Fertile...

To Be Young Was Very Heaven: Women in New York before the First World War.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Sandra Adickes. To Be Young Was Very Heaven: Women in New York before the First World War. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. x + 294 pp.; ill.; map. ISBN 0-312-16249-9 (cl). Building upon the work of women's historians, Adickes examines...

The Concept of Woman: The Aristotelian Revolution, 750 B.C. - A.D. 1250.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Sister Prudence Allen, R.S.M. The Concept of Woman: The Aristotelian Revolution, 750 B.C.-A.D. 1250. 2d ed. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 1997. xxiv + 583 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8028-4270-4 (pb). This book provides a detailed...

Reinventing Africa: Matriarchy, Religion, and Culture.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Ifi Amadiume. Reinventing Africa: Matriarchy, Religion, and Culture. London: Zed Books, 1997. x + 214 pp.; no bibliography. ISBN 1-85649533-7 (cl); 1-85649-534-5(pb). In this two-part collection of essays written between 1989 and 1992,...

The Journey Home: How Jewish Women Shaped Modern America.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Joyce Antler. The Journey Home: How Jewish Women Shaped Modern America. New York: Schocken Books, 1997. xviii + 410 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8052-1101-2 (pb). Antler's survey of Jewish women in modern U.S. history examines how a wide variety of...

Mothers & Motherhood: Readings in American History.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Rima D. Apple and Janet Golden, eds. Mothers & Motherhood: Readings in American History. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1997. xvii + 605 pp. ISBN 0-8142-0738-3 (cl); 0-8142-0739-1 (pb). The advent of women's history has given...

Jewish Women in Historical Perspective.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Judith R. Baskin, ed. Jewish Women in Historical Perspective. 2d ed. Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 1998.384 pp. ISBN 0-8143-2713-3 (pb). The fifteen essays in this revised and expanded edition apply gender as a category...

Oscar Wilde's America: Counterculture in the Gilded Age.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Mary Warner Blanchard. Oscar Wilde's America: Counterculture in the Gilded Age. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998. xv + 302 pp.; ill.; no bibliography. ISBN 0-300-07460-3 (cl). In 1882, Oscar Wilde took a publicized and much...

We Are Everywhere: A Historical Sourcebook of Gay and Lesbian Politics.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Mark Blasius and Shane Phelan, eds. We Are Everywhere: A Historical Sourcebook of Gay and Lesbian Politics. New York: Routledge, 1997. xii + 844 pp.; no index. ISBN 0-415-90858-2 (cl); 0-415-90859-0 (pb). We Are Everywhere presents...

Milcah Martha Moore's Book: A Commonplace Book from Revolutionary America.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Catherine La Courreye Blecki and Karin A. Wulf, eds. Milcah Martha Moore's Book: A Commonplace Book from Revolutionary America. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. xxiv + 341 pp.; ill.; genealogy chart. ISBN...

Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Catherine A. Brekus. Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. x + 466 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8078-2.441-0 (cl); 0-8078-4745-3 (pb). Maximizing the use of sometimes...

Holy Women of the Syrian Orient.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Sebastian P. Brock and Susan Ashbrook Harvey, eds. Holy Women of the Syrian Orient. 1987; reprint, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998. xix + 197 pp.; map. ISBN 0-520-21366-1 (pb). This book is a collection of fifteen Syriac...

The Poor Belong to Us: Catholic Charities and American Welfare.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Dorothy M. Brown and Elizabeth McKeown. The Poor Belong to Us: Catholic Charities and American Welfare. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. viii + 284 pp. ISBN 0-674-68973-9 (cl). Brown and McKeown discuss the role of...

English Feminism, 1780-1980.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Barbara Caine. English Feminism, 1780-1980. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. xvii + 336 pp. ISBN 0-19-820686-0 (cl); 0-19-820434-5 (pb). This overview of British feminist thought extends from the early writings of Mary...

Florence Nightingale in Egypt and Greece: Her Diary and "Visions".(Review)
January 1, 2000... Michael D. Calabria. Florence Nightingale in Egypt and Greece: Her Diary and "Visions." Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. 167 pp. ISBN 0-7914-3116-9 (pb). Before Florence Nightingale's unprecedented accomplishments as a...

Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Pat Califia. Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism. San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1997. 309 pp. ISBN 1-57344-072-8 (pb). Using transgender autobiographies, scholarly works, and her own perspective, Califia gives an account of the...

The Shirley Letters: From the California Mines, 1851-1852.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe. The Shirley Letters: From the California Mines, 1851-1852. Ed. Marlene Smith-Baranzini. Berkeley, Calif.: Heyday Books, 1998. xxxvii + 195 pp.; map; ill. ISBN 0-890771-01-5 (pb). Louise Clappe was one of...

Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Stuart Clark. Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. xvii + 827 pp. ISBN 0-19820001-3 (cl). Clark explores the place and function of witchcraft theory and demonology in early...

Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Patricia Hill Collins. Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998. xxiii + 312 pp.; glossary. ISBN 0-8166-2376-7 (cl); 0-8166-2377-5 (pb). Expanding on her first work, Black...

African Women: A Modern History.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch. African Women: A Modern History. Trans. Beth Gillian Raps. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1997. xviii + 308 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-81332-360-6 (cl); 0-8133-2361-4 (pb). This is a stimulating text that presents an...

The Muslim Family: A Study of Women's Rights in Islam.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Tove Stang Dahl. The Muslim Family: A Study of Women's Rights in Islam. Trans. Ronald Walford. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 1997. vi + 211 pp.; no index. ISBN 82-00-22420-1 (cl). The Muslim Family is part of a broader research...

The Divine Narcissus/El divino narciso.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. The Divine Narcissus/El divino narciso. Trans. and annotated by Patricia A. Peters and Renee Domeier. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. xxxiv + 202 pp.; appendix. ISBN 0-8263-1930-0 (cl);...

Impolitic Bodies: Poetry, Saints, and Society in Fifteenth-Century England, the Work of Osbern Bokenham.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Sheila Delany. Impolitic Bodies: Poetry, Saints, and Society in Fifteenth-Century England, the Work of Osbern Bokenham. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xi + 236 pp., ill. ISBN 0-19-510988-0 (cl); 0-19-510989-9 (pb). Delany...

Imperfect Conceptions: Medical Knowledge, Birth Defects, and Eugenics in China.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Frank Dikotter. Imperfect Conceptions: Medical Knowledge, Birth Defects, and Eugenics in China. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. ix + 226 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-231-11370-6 (cl). This cultural study of medicine explains the ways in...

Women and War in the Twentieth Century: Enlisted with or without Consent.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Nicole Ann Dombrowski, ed. Women and War in the Twentieth Century: Enlisted with or without Consent. New York: Garland, 1999. ix + 377 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8153-2287-9 (cl). This edited volume contains fifteen essays focusing on women and...

Feminist Freikorps: The British Voluntary Women Police, 1914-1940.(Review)
January 1, 2000... R. M. Douglas. Feminist Freikorps: The British Voluntary Women Police, 1914-1940. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1999. xv + 171 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-275-96249-0 (cl). This history of the voluntary women police movement in Britain is a case study...

Sisters in Law: Women Lawyers in Modern American History.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Virginia G. Drachman. Sisters in Law: Women Lawyers in Modern American History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. xiv + 334 pp.; tables; no bibliography. ISBN 0-674-80991-2 (cl). Combining quantitative analysis with...

Remembering the Dead, vol. 2 of Women of the Twelfth Century.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Georges Duby. Remembering the Dead, vol. 2 of Women of the Twelfth Century. Trans. Jean Birrell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. vi + 153 pp.; no index; no bibliography. ISBN 0-226-16784-4 (pb). In the first part of this...

Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie. London: Verso, 1997. viii + 224 pp. ISBN 1-85984-856-7 (cl). Red Dirt is a cathartic family and personal history, an effort by Dunbar-Ortiz to come to terms with her own past and explore...

A World without War: How U.S. Feminists and Pacifists Resisted World War I.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Frances H. Early. A World without War: How U.S. Feminists and Pacifists Resisted World War I. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1997. xx + 265 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8156-2745-9 (cl); 0-8156-2764-5 (pb). Early, a historian of peace...

Revolutionary Women in the War for American Independence: A One-Volume Revised Edition of Elizabeth Ellet's 1848 Landmark Series.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Elizabeth Ellet. Revolutionary Women in the War for American Independence: A One-Volume Revised Edition of Elizabeth Ellet's 1848 Landmark Series. Ed. Lincoln Diamant. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1998. x + 226 pp.; no bibliography. ISBN...

Sexual Subordination and State Intervention: Comparing Sweden and the United States.(Review)
January 1, 2000... R. Amy Elman. Sexual Subordination and State Intervention: Comparing Sweden and the United States. Providence, R.I.: Berghahn Books, 1996. vii + 146 pp. ISBN 1-57181-071-4 (cl); 1-157181-072-2 (pb). Elman's cross-national case study of...

A Revolution of Their Own: Voices of Women in Soviet History.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Barbara Alpern Engel and Anastasia Posadskaya-Vanderbeck, eds. A Revolution of Their Own: Voices of Women in Soviet History. Trans. Sona Hoisington. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1998. x + 236 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8133-3365-2 (cl);...

Women of the American South: A Multicultural Reader.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Christie Ann Farnham, ed. Women the American South: A Multicultural Reader. New York: New York University Press, 1997. x + 319 pp. ISBN 0-8147-2654-2 (cl); 0-8147-26550 (pb). Although the seventeen essays in this collection share a focus...

To the Glory of Her Sex: Women's Roles in the Composition of Medieval Texts.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Joan M. Ferrante. To the Glory of Her Sex: Women's Roles in the Composition of Medieval Texts. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. xii + 295 pp. ISBN 0-253-33254-0 (cl); 0-253-21108-5 (pb). Ferrante examines women's roles in...

Sojourner Truth as Orator: Wit, Story, and Song.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Suzanne Pullon Fitch and Roseann M. Mandziuk. Sojourner Truth as Orator: Wit, Story, and Song. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997. + 238 pp. ISBN 0-313-30068-2 (cl). Part of a series on great American orators, this book provides an...

An Eye-Witness Account of the French Revolution by Helen Maria Williams: Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of France.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Jack Fruchtman, ed. An Eye-Witness Account of the French Revolution by Helen Maria Williams: Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of France. New York: Peter Lang, 1997. 260 pp. ISBN 0-8204-3120-6 (cl). In a series of letters...

Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Alma M. Garcia, ed. Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings. New York: Routledge, 1997. xix + 324 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-415-918006 (cl); 0-415-91800-4 (pb). This collection brings together for the first time the writings of...

Nationalising Femininity: Culture, Sexuality, and British Cinema in the Second World War.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Christine Gledhill and Gillian Swanson, eds. Nationalising Femininity: Culture, Sexuality, and British Cinema in the Second World War. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 1996. 307 pp. ISBN 0-7190-4259-3 (cl). This...

Women through Women's Eyes: Latin American Women in Nineteenth-Century Travel Accounts.(Review)
January 1, 2000... June E. Hahner, ed. Women through Women's Eyes: Latin American Women in Nineteenth-Century Travel Accounts. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1998. xxvi + 184 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8420-2633-9 (cl); 0-84202634-7 (pb). Women through...

"When I'm Bad, I'm Better: Mae West, Sex, and American Entertainment.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Marybeth Hamilton. "When I'm Bad, I'm Better: Mae West, Sex, and American Entertainment. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. x + 307 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-520-21094-8 (pb). Challenging the conventional idea that Mae West is...

The Two-Headed Household: Gender and Rural Development in the Ecuadorean Andes.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Sarah Hamilton. The Two-Headed Household: Gender and Rural Development in the Ecuadorean Andes. Pittsburgh, Penn.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998. x + 296 pp.; ill.; appendixes; tables. ISBN 0-8229-4072-8 (cl); 0-8229-5677-2 (pb). ...

Undocumented in L.A.: An Immigrant Story.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Dianne Walta Hart. Undocumented in L.A.: An Immigrant Story. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1997. 136 pp. ISBN 0-8420-2648-7 (cl); 0-8420-2649-5 (pb). This piece of oral history records the struggles of Yamileh Lopez, a...

From Suffrage to Internationalism: The Political Evolution of Three British Feminists, 1908-1939.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Beryl Haslam. From Suffrage to Internationalism: The Political Evolution of Three British Feminists, 1908-1939. New York: Peter Lang, 1999. xxvi + 250 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8204-2566-4 (cl). This political biography of Kathleen Courtney,...

Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Wanda A. Hendricks. Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. xviii + 162 pp.; no bibliography. ISBN 0-253-33447-0 (cl); 0-253-21233-2 (pb). From 1890 to 1920,...

Peace-Weavers and Shield-Maidens: Women in Early English Society.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Kathleen Herbert. Peace-Weavers and Shield-Maidens: Women in Early English Society. Hockwold-cum-Wilton, England: Anglo-Saxon Books, 1997. 59 pp. ISBN 1-898281-11-4 (pb). Herbert, a scholar of early English culture and a historical...

We Can't Eat Prestige: The Women Who Organized Harvard.(Review)
January 1, 2000... John Hoerr. We Can't Eat Prestige: The Women Who Organized Harvard. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997. xiv + 280 pp. ISBN 1-56639-535-6 (cl). Hoerr traces the organizing efforts of women (and a few men) from their first attempt...

Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Kristin L. Hoganson. Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998. xii + 305 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-300-07181-7 (cl). In this...

Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1852: The California Trail, vol. 4 of Covered Wagon Women.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Kenneth L. Holmes, ed. Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1852: The California Trail, vol. 4 of Covered Wagon Women. 1985; reprint, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. 303 pp. ISBN 0-8032-7277-4 (pb). This collection...

Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1853-1854, vol. 6 of Covered Wagon Women.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Kenneth L. Holmes, ed. Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1853-1854, vol. 6 of Covered Wagon Women. 1986; reprint, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. xi + 291 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8032-7295-2 (pb). This is the latest...

Remaking Queen Victoria.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Margaret Homans and Adrienne Munich, ed. Remaking Queen Victoria. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiii + 279 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-521-57379-3 (cl); 0-521-.57485-4 (pb). However established Queen Victoria's importance in British...

The Victorian Town Child.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Pamela Horn. The Victorian Town Child. New York: New York University Press, 1997. viii + 248 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8147-3575-4 (cl). Horn explores the lives of nineteenth-century English children in the era of industrial and population boom by...

Carryin' On in the Lesbian and Gay South.(Review)
January 1, 2000... John Howard, ed. Carryin' On in the Lesbian and Gay South. New York: New York University Press, 1997. xii + 402 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8147-6513-4 (cl); 0-8147-3560-6 (pb). This collection of fifteen essays spans a wide section of southern...

Echoes from the Holocaust: A Memoir.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Mira Ryczke Kimmelman. Echoes from the Holocaust: A Memoir. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997. xxiv + 176 pp.; ill.; maps. ISBN 0-87049-968-8 (cl); 0-87049-956-4 (pb). Born in 1923, Mira Ryczke Kimmelman, a Holocaust...

Women, Gender, and Science: New Directions.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Sally Gregory Kohlstedt and Helen E. Longino, eds. Women, Gender, and Science: New Directions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. 222 pp. ISBN 0-226-30753-0 (cl); 0-226-30754-9 (pb). This volume offers an eclectic set of essays...

Naked Truths: Women, Sexuality, and Gender in Classical Art and Archaeology.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Anna Olga Koloski-Ostrow and Claire L. Lyons, eds. Naked Truths: Women, Sexuality, and Gender in Classical Art and Archaeology. New York: Routledge, 1997. xv + 315 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-415-15995-4 (cl). This collection's goal is to uncover...

Feminism Frequencies: Gender, German Radio, and the Public Sphere, 1923-1945.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Kate Lacey. Feminism Frequencies: Gender, German Radio, and the Public Sphere, 1923-1945. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. ix + 299 pp. ISBN 0-472-09616-8 (cl); 0-472-06616-1 (pb). Feminist Frequencies features radio as the...

Women of the Western Frontier in Fact, Fiction, and Film.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Ron Lackmann. Women of the Western Frontier in Fact, Fiction, and Film. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1997. 209 pp.; ill.; appendixes. ISBN 0-7864-0400-0 (cl). Lackmann presents the subject of women in the nineteenth-century American West,...

Situated Lives: Gender and Culture in Everyday Life.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Louise Lamphere, Helena Ragone, and Patricia Zavella, eds. Situated Lives: Gender and Culture in Everyday Life. New York: Routledge, 1997. 493 pp. ISBN 0-415-91806-5 (cl); 0-415-91807-3 (pb). Comprised of twenty-six ethnographic case...

The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Roger N. Lancaster and Micaela di Leonardo, eds. The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy. New York: Routledge, 1997. ix + 574 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-415-91004-8 (cl); 0-415-91005-6 (pb). Perhaps more appropriately...

Feminism, the Public, and the Private.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Joan B. Landes, ed. Feminism, the Public, and the Private. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. x + 505 pp. ISBN 0-19-875203-2 (cl); 0-19-875202-4 (pb). Nineteen articles and an introductory essay by the editor encompass twenty-five...

Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Ching Kwan Lee. Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xiii + 210 pp.; tables; figures; appendix. ISBN 0-520-21125-1 (cl); 0-520-21127-8 (pb). Two sharply...

The Qing Period, 1644-1911, vol. 10 of Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Lily Xiao Hong Lee and A.D. Stefenowska, eds. The Qing Period, 1644-1911, vol. 10 of Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women, ed. Clara Wing-chung Ho. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1998. xxxvi + 387 pp. ISBN 0-7656-0043 (cl). Unlike other...

Granny Midwives and Black Women Writers: Double-Dutched Readings.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Valerie Lee. Granny Midwives and Black Women Writers: Double-Dutched Readings. New York: Routledge, 1997. xii + 202 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-415-91507-4 (cl); 0-415-91508-2 (pb). This interdisciplinary study offers fresh insight into the rich...