Journal of Women's History articles from January 2001

Journal of Women's History archives from January 2001

EDITOR'S NOTE.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The intellectual seeds for this special issue were first sown during the 1996 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, held in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. As I paged through the voluminous conference program that year, trying to choose...

WOMEN'S LIFE-CYCLE TRANSITIONS IN A WORLD-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: Comparing Marriage in China and Europe.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Comparing Marriage Cross-Culturally A number of years ago, we were involved in organizing a comparative historical conference on gender and kinship (our areas of specialization are Chinese and European family and women's history)....

YOUNG WOMEN IN FRANCE AND ENGLAND, 1050-1300.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... While certain biological and even psychological aspects of human development may be universal--although sociologists, psychologists, and historians debate this--the significance attached to specific developmental phases, the activities...

THE ADVENTURES OF PEANUT AND BO: Summer Camps and Early-Twentieth-Century American Girlhood.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... I never heard of anybody dying From camping, did you? I've often heard of pretty maidens sighing For just a trip or two; So when you come to camp, don't you start to faint, You may think the camp is going to kill you,...

"AGE": A Problematic Concept for Women.
January 1, 2001... Devoting a special issue of the Journal of Women's History to age as a concept of analysis for women's past is problematic for a number of reasons. Descriptions of aging as a process--maturing through various stages of life from birth to...

GREYING IN THE CLOISTER: The Ursuline Life Course in Eighteenth-Century France.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... When a woman entered a convent in premodern Europe, she became ageless. At the moment of profession, she drew together two distinct life course events--marriage and death--and erased the intervening period. Together, the symbolic: marriage to...

"ARE WOMEN ... ALL MINORS?": Woman's Rights and the Politics of Aging in the Antebellum United States.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... In the antebellum United States, delegates to state constitutional conventions understood manhood not merely in terms of gender and race, but also--and indeed primarily--as a distinct period of a man's life.(1) In constructing citizenship,...

WHOSE MOTHERS? Generational Difference, War, and the Nazi Cult of Motherhood.
January 1, 2001... Introduction: Generations of Mothers Historian Claudia Koonz has called "not the husband and wife, but a soldier and his mother" the "ideal couple" of Nazi Germany. The Nazi cult of motherhood implied that the mother-child bond superseded...

IS FEMINISM THE PROVINCE OF OLD (OR MIDDLE-AGED) WOMEN?
January 1, 2001... In the late 1970s and early 1980s, when sociologist Verta Taylor and I were first working on our coauthored book about the U.S. women's rights movement in the post-Second World War period--the years when feminism was supposed to have been dead...

AGE, GENDER, AND KNOWLEDGE REVOLUTIONS IN AFRICA AND THE UNITED STATES.
January 1, 2001... In this essay, I suggest that Africa and the United States have experienced, and are still experiencing, two revolutions in knowledge systems. By knowledge systems I mean epistemology, content and definitions of knowledge, ways of learning, and...

OLDER WOMEN IN ACADEMIA:.
January 1, 2001... Contemporary History and Issues There is little published information about the experiences of older women in academia. One study compared the career histories of full-time male and female faculty in their fifties,(1) noting their very...

Young Medieval Women.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Katherine J. Lewis, Noel James Menuge, and Kim M. Phillips, eds. Young Medieval Women. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. xx + 202 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-312-22130-4 (cl). Medieval society categorized women as maids, wives, or widows--titles...

Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Cindy L. Carlson and Angela Jane Weisl, eds. Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. x + 270 pp. ISBN 0-312-21136-8 (cl). This excellent book of essays offers readers eleven in-depth...

Colette, Beauvoir, and Duras: Age and Women Writers.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Bethany Ladimer. Colette, Beauvoir, and Duras: Age and Women Writers. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999. x + 235 pp. ISBN 0-8130-1700-9 (cl). Bethany Ladimer's impressive Colette, Beauvoir, and Duras is an outstanding...

Figuring Age: Women, Bodies, Generations.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Kathleen Woodward, ed., Figuring Age: Women, Bodies, Generations. Bloomington: ndiana University Press, 1999. xxix + 362 pp.; ill.; no bibliography. ISBN 0-253-33450-0 (cl); 0-253-21236-7 (pb). Philosopher Simone de Beauvoir's Coming of Age...

Listen Up: Voices from the Next Generation.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Barbara Findlen, ed. Listen Up: Voices from the Next Generation. Seattle, Wash.: Seal Press, 1995. xi + 264 pp.; no bibliography or index. ISBN 1-878067-61-3 (pb). Many second wave feminists have recently offered "instructions" to the next...

To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Rebecca Walker, ed. To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism. New York: Anchor Books, 1995. viii + 292 pp.; no bibliography or index. ISBN 0-385-47261-7 (cl); 0-385-47262-5 (pb). Many second wave feminists have...

Women in the Hebrew Bible: A Reader.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Alice Bach, ed. Women in the Hebrew Bible: A Reader. New York: Routledge, 1999. xxvi + 539 pp. ISBN 0-415-91560-0 (cl); 0-415-91561-9 (pb). This anthology of cross-disciplinary scholarship presents thirty-four critical essays and two...

Over the Threshold: Intimate Violence in Early America.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Christine Daniels and Michael V. Kennedy, eds. Over the Threshold: Intimate Violence in Early America. New York: Routledge, 1999. viii + 296 pp.; ill.; tables; no bibliography. ISBN 0-415-91804-9 (cl); 0-415-91805-7 (pb). This collection...

Women in Early Modern England, 1500-1700.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Jacqueline Eales. Women in Early Modern England, 1500-1700. London: University College London Press, 1998. viii + 133 pp. ISBN 1-85728-268-X (pb). In ten chapters, Eales surveys the breadth of current historical scholarship on women's...

Historical Dictionary of Women's Education in the United States.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Linda Eisenmann, ed. Historical Dictionary of Women's Education in the United States. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. xx + 534 pp. ISBN 0-313-29323-6 (cl). This reference book consists of 245 short essays spanning from the 1600s to...

Ancient Greek Love Magic.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Christopher A. Faraone. Ancient Greek Love Magic. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. xii + 223 pp.; tables; glossary. ISBN 0-674-03320-5 (cl). Faraone has divided love spells used in Greece from the eighth to the first...

Reading Witchcraft: Stories of Early English Witches.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Marion Gibson. Reading Witchcraft: Stories of Early English Witches. London: Routledge, 1999. ix + 242 pp.; appendixes. ISBN 0-415-20645-6 (cl); 0-415-20646-4 (pb). This volume examines early modern English witchcraft pamphlets. Gibson...

Women in the Inquisition: Spain and the New World.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Mary E. Giles, ed. Women in the Inquisition: Spain and the New World. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. ix + 402 pp.; glossary. ISBN 0-8018-5931-X (cl); 0-8018-5932-8 (pb). The fourteen essays in this volume explore...

The Columbia Reader on Lesbian and Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Larry Gross and James D. Woods, editors. The Columbia Reader on Lesbian and Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. xviii + 659 pp. ISBN 0-231-10446-4 (cl); 0-231-10447-2 (pb). This reader...

Sex, Gender, and Culture in Old California.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Albert L. Hurtado. Sex, Gender; and Culture in Old California. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. xxix + 173 pp.; ill.; tables. ISBN 0-8263-1953-X (cl); 0-8263-1954-8 (pb). Using illustrative moments in the history of what...

Women and Health in America.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Judith Walzer Leavitt, ed. Women and Health in America. 2d ed. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. ix + 692 pp.; ill.; tables; graphs. ISBN 0-299-15960-4 (cl); 0-229-15964-7 (pb). First published in 1984, Women and Health in...

Equal at the Creation: Sexism, Society, and Christian Thought.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Joseph Martos and Pierre Hegy, eds. Equal at the Creation: Sexism, Society, and Christian Thought. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. viii + 207 pp.; no index. ISBN 0-8020-0868-2 (cl); 0-8020-7852-4 (pb). This collection of ten...

American Domesticity: From How-To Manual to Hollywood Melodrama.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Kathleen Anne McHugh. American Domesticity: From How-To Manual to Hollywood Melodrama. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. x + 235 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-19-512261-5 (cl). McHugh compares depictions of housework and the housewife in...

Heretics or Daughters of Israel? The Crypto-Jewish Women of Castile.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Renee Levine Melammed. Heretics or Daughters of Israel? The Crypto-Jewish Women of Castile. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. vi + 256 pp.; appendix. ISBN 0-19-509580-4 (cl). Melammed examines Inquisition records from Spain during...

Die wechseljahre der frau: Aktualitat und geschichte 1772-1996.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Birgit Panke-Kochinke. Die wechseljahre der frau: Aktualitat und geschichte 1772-1996 (Women's menopause: Actuality and history, 1772-1996). Opladen, Germany: Leske + Budrich, 1998. 205 pp. ISBN 3-8100-1955-0 (pb). Panke-Kochinke's...

A Family of Women: The Carolina Petigrus in Peace and War.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Jane H. Pease and William H. Pease. A Family of Women: The Carolina Petigrus in Peace and War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xv + 328 pp.; ill.; maps; appendix. ISBN 0-8078-2505-0 (cl). The authors focus on three...

The Horror Trains: A Polish Woman Veteran's Memoir of World War II.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Wanda E. Pomykalski. The Horror Trains: A Polish Woman Veteran's Memoir of World War II. Pasadena, Md.: Minerva Center, 1999. xiii + 362 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-9634895-4-2 (cl). In this engaging memoir, Wanda Pomykalski, now residing in the...

Fighting to Become Americans: Jews, Gender, and the Anxiety of Assimilation.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Riv-Ellen Prell. Fighting to Become Americans: Jews, Gender, and the Anxiety of Assimilation. Boston: Beacon Press, 1999. vii + 313 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8070-3632-3 (cl). Prell examines the creation and development of gendered stereotypes...

Women and Nature: Saving the "Wild" West.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Glenda Riley. Women and Nature: Saving the "Wild" West. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. xviii + 279 pp.; ill.; no bibliography. ISBN 0-8-32-3932-7 (cl); 0-8032-8975-8 (pb). This book makes a threefold argument: that women...

Women and Urban Change in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1820-1868.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Felix V. Matos Rodriguez. Women and Urban Change in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1820-1868. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999. ix + 180 pp.; ill.; maps; tables; glossary. ISBN 0-8130-1676-2 (cl). The main focus of this study is a...

A History of European Women's Work, 1700 to the Present.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Deborah Simonton. A History of European Women's Work, 1700 to the Present. New York: Routledge, 1998. x + 337 pp.; tables; figures. ISBN 0-415-05531-8 (cl); 0-415-05532-6 (pb). In A History of European Women's Work, Simonton offers a...

The Legend of Pope Joan: In Search of the Truth.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Peter Stanford. The Legend of Pope Joan: In Search of the Truth. New York: Henry Holt, 1998. 207 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8050-3910-4 (pb). Stanford's work is the first modern investigation into the legend that has haunted the Catholic Church since...

Working with Class: Social Workers and the Politics of Middle-Class Identity.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Daniel J. Walkowitz. Working with Class: Social Workers and the Politics of Middle-Class Identity. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xvii + 413 pp.; ill.; tables. ISBN 0-8078-2454-2 (cl); 0-8078-4758-5 (pb). Using the...

Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Zheng Wang. Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xxii + 402 pp; ill.; glossary. ISBN 0-520-21350-5 (cl); 0-520-21874-4 (pb). Wang explores the complex relationship...

Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Steven Weisenburger. Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998. xiii + 352 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8080-6953-9 (cl). The story of escaped Kentucky slave Margaret Garner stood center...

Ye Heart of a Man: The Domestic Life of Men in Colonial New England.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Lisa Wilson. Ye Heart of a Man: The Domestic Life of Men in Colonial New England. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999. xii + 255 pp.; no bibliography. ISBN 0-300-07546-4 (cl). Known for her work on colonial women, Wilson has...

BOOKS RECEIVED.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Katherine Clay Bassard. Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999. ix + 183 pp. ISBN 0-691-01639-9 (cl); 0-691-01647-X (pb). Bruce...