Journal of Women's History articles from January 2002

Journal of Women's History archives from January 2002

Editor's note.
January 1, 2002... Ten days after 11 September 2001, as the initial horror and grief have begun to make room for more distanced reflection on the terrorist attack on the United States, one is struck by the nearly complete absence of women among those managing the...

"She consents implicitly": women's citizenship, marriage, and liberal political theory in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Argentina.
January 1, 2002... I'n 1867, before an Argentine provincial judge, dona Elena Eyras asserted that for "just causes," she had fled her marital home and taken refuge with relatives. (1) As she saw it, her estranged husband, don Manuel Pedro dela Pena, had caused...

Taming the female politician in early-nineteenth-century England: John Bull versus Lady Jersey.
January 1, 2002... Recent scholarship has documented more extensive involvement by aristocratic women in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century British politics than previously thought. Because national and local politics were still broadly a social...

Women, salons, and the state in the aftermath of the French revolution.
January 1, 2002... Salon sociability came back to life in France in the aftermath of the French Revolution. Napoleon welcomed and encouraged its revival, and his regime thereby acquired a greater measure of social prestige. But the return of France's traditional...

Organized women and the strong state: the beginnings of female associational activity in Germany, 1810-1840.
January 1, 2002... In response to an article in the liberal newspaper, the Sachsische Vaterlandsblatter, twenty-four-year-old Louise Otto opined that by the position which women of a country occupy, can one see how thick with dirty fog or clear and free the air...

"Worthy wives and mothers:" state-sponsored women's organizing in postrevolutionary Mexico.
January 1, 2002... On 19 August 1936, twenty thousand agricultural wage laborers walked off the job in the middle of the cotton harvest in Mexico's northern region of the Comarca Lagunera. Entire families abandoned plantations during this critical season and...

The creation of a subversive femininst dominion: interracialist social workers and the Georgia New Deal.
January 1, 2002... In the cold Depression month of January 1934, Georgians witnessed an unexpected turn of events. Harry Hopkins, head of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), had had enough of Governor Eugene Talmadge bullying social workers and...

Rethinking women's politics in the 1970s: the League of Women Voters and the National Organization for Women confront poverty.
January 1, 2002... In 1973, the National Organization for Women (NOW)received a letter from an anonymous welfare mother addressed to "The Feminist Movement." The author excoriated feminists for ignoring poor women's needs. "[Y]our rhetoric... is not enough. You...

Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon. (Book reviews: women's citizenship in the twentieth-century world: states, gender, and historiographical strategies in comparative perspective).
January 1, 2002... Elizabeth Thompson. Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. xvii + 402 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-231-10660-2 (cl); 0-213-10661-0 (pb). In the...

Civilizing Capitalism: The National Consumers' League, Women's Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era. (Book reviews: women's citizenship in the twentieth-century world: states, gender, and historiographical strategies in comparative perspective).
January 1, 2002... Landon R. Y. Storrs. Civilizing Capitalism: The National Consumers' League, Women's Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era. Chapel Hill & London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xiv + 392 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8078-2527-1...

Engendering the State: Family, Work, and Welfare in Canada. (Book reviews: women's citizenship in the twentieth-century world: states, gender, and historiographical strategies in comparative perspective).
January 1, 2002... Nancy Christie. Engendering the State: Family, Work, and Welfare in Canada. Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, 2000. xiv + 459 pp. ISBN 0-8020-4768-8 (cl); 0-8020-8231-8 (pb). In the debates now underway over the relationship between...

State Policy and Gender System in the Two German States and Sweden. (Book reviews: women's citizenship in the twentieth-century world: states, gender, and historiographical strategies in comparative perspective).
January 1, 2002... Rolf Torstendahl, ed. State Policy and Gender System in the Two German States and Sweden, 1945-1989. Opuscula Historica Upsaliensia 22. Uppsala: Department of History, 1999. 239 pp. ISBN 91-5-6-1347-2 (pb). In the debates now underway over...

The World Split Open: How to Modern Women's Movement changed America. (Book reviews: bridges and barriers: sex, class, and race in twentieth-century U.S. Women's movements).
January 1, 2002... Ruth Rosen. The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America. New York: Viking, 2000. xxxii + 446 pp.; ill. ISBN 0670-81462-8 (cl). Historians of women find themselves now teaching about feminism in a post-feminist era...

"Rights, Not Roses": Unions of the Rise of Working-Class Feminism 1945-1980. (Book reviews: bridges and barriers: sex, class, and race in twentieth-century U.S. Women's movements).
January 1, 2002... Dennis A. Deslippe. "Rights, Not Roses": Unions and the Rise of Working-Class Feminism, 1945-1980. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. x + 259 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-252-02519-9 (cl); 0-252-06834-3 (pb). Historians of women find...

Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994. (Book reviews: bridges and barriers: sex, class, and race in twentieth-century U.S. Women's movements).
January 1, 2002... Deborah Gray White. Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999. 320 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-393-04667-2 (cl); 0-393-31992-x (pb). Historians of women find themselves now teaching about...

A Room at a Time: How Women Entered Party Politics. (Book reviews: so many worlds, so much to do: historical specificity and gender politics).
January 1, 2002... Jo Freeman. A Room at a Time: How Women Entered Party Politics. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. xii + 352 pp. ISBN 0-8476-9804-1 (d). Can there be such a thing as a woman-friendly state? Not one of these four studies of women...

Gendered Compromises: Political Cultures and the State in Chile, 1920-1950. (Book reviews: so many worlds, so much to do: historical specificity and gender politics).
January 1, 2002... Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt. Gendered Compromises: Political Cultures and the State in Chile, 1920-1950. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xiv + 346 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8078-2567-0 (cl); 0-80784881-6 (pb). Can there be...

Women and Politics in Uganda. (Book reviews: so many worlds, so much to do: historical specificity and gender politics).
January 1, 2002... Aili Mari Tripp. Women and Politics in Uganda. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000. xxvii + 277 pp; ill. ISBN 0-299-16480-2 (cl); 0299-16484-5 (pb). Can there be such a thing as a woman-friendly state? Not one of these four...

Women and Ulster Politics 1890-1940: A History Not Yet Told. (Book reviews: so many worlds, so much to do: historical specificity and gender politics).
January 1, 2002... Diane Urquhart. Women in Ulster Politics 1890-1940: A History Not Yet Told. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2000. 276 pp. ISBN 0-7165-2627-1 (cl). Can there be such a thing as a woman-friendly state? Not one of these four studies of women...

Feminism, the State, and Social Policy. (Book reviews: do feminist historians need a theory of the state?).
January 1, 2002... Nickie Charles. Feminism, the State, and Social Policy. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. viii + 245 pp.; ISBN 0-312-22675-6 (cl). Historian, Judith Ann Giesberg has written an insightful book on women's activities in the United States...

Civil War Sisterhood: The U.S. Sanitary Commission and Women's Politics in Transition. (Book reviews: do feminist historians need a theory of the state?).
January 1, 2002... Judith Ann Giesberg. Civil War Sisterhood: The U.S. Sanitary Commission and Women's Politics in Transition. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000. xiv + 239 pp.; ISBN 1-55553-434-1 (cl). Historian, Judith Ann Giesberg has written an...

Bread Winning: New Zealand Women and the State. (Book reviews: do feminist historians need a theory of the state?).
January 1, 2002... Melanie Nolan. Bread Winning: New Zealand Women and the State. Christ-church, New Zealand: Canterbury University Press, 2000. 386 pp.; ISBN 0-908812-97-3 (pb). Historian, Judith Ann Giesberg has written an insightful book on women's...