Journal of Women's History articles from June 1998

Journal of Women's History archives from June 1998

Christian morality revealed in New Spain: The inimical Nahua woman in Book Ten of the Florentine Codex.
June 22, 1998... The introduction of Spanish Christianity to the Central Valley of Mexico brought an understanding of the world that was radically different from the Nahua (Aztec) worldview. The Florentine Codex, a sixteenth-century Spanish Franciscan text,...

The feminist uses of psychoanalysis: Beatrice M. Hinkle and the foreshadowing of modern feminism in the United States.
June 22, 1998... This article uses the career and writings of feminist psychoanalyst Beatrice M. Hinkle (1874-1953) to explore the impact of psychological thinking on American feminism in the immediate presuffrage and postsuffrage era. Feminism (as distinct from...

Reconstructing rural infanticide in eighteenth-century Scotland.
June 22, 1998... Infanticide was a common occurrence in early modern Scotland, the result of complex economic forces that made marriage difficult. Premarital sex leading to illegitimate births was dangerous for women even from 1690, when a harsh statute was...

From moral to professional authority: secularism, social work, and middle-class women's self construction in World War I Britain.
June 22, 1998... World War I is an episode that illuminates the long-term change in definitions of women's authority from the nineteenth-century hegemonic concept of female moral authority to a latter-twentieth-century at least partial acceptance of women's...

Patriot or prostitute?; sexual discourses, print media, and American women during World War II.
June 22, 1998... This article examines the simultaneous mobilization and control of female sexuality in the United States during the World War II era. It focuses, in part, on the role that print media played in encouraging women to support the war effort both in...

Farm daughters and industrialization: a comparative analysis of dairying in New York and Sweden, 1860-1920.
June 22, 1998... Both Swedish and American dairying industrialized at about the same time. Centralized factories removed processing from the farm household, where women traditionally had dominated production. In Sweden, the central involvement of women in dairy...

Getting to the source: women in the medieval and early modern Netherlands.
June 22, 1998... This survey of old and recent literature about Dutch women in medieval and early modern times discusses power and politics, labor, religion, criminality and prostitution, family, body and sexuality, arts and sciences, and, finally, image and...

Gender, Kinship, Power: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary History.
June 22, 1998... Mary Jo Maynes, Ann Waltner, Birgitte Soland, and Ulrike Strasser, eds. Gender, Kinship, Power: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary History. New York: Routledge, 1996. 363 pp. ISBN 0-41591-297-0 (cl); 0-41591-298-9 (pb). Over the past...

Protecting Women: Labor Legislation in Europe, the United States, and Australia, 1880-1920.
June 22, 1998... Ulla Wikander, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Jane Lewis, eds. Protecting Women: Labor Legislation in Europe, the United States, and Australia, 1880-1920. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. 357 pp. ISBN 0-25202-1754 (cl); 0-25206-464-x (pb)....

Maternal Justice: Miriam Van Waters and the Female Reform Tradition.
June 22, 1998... Estelle B. Freedman. Maternal Justice: Miriam Van Waters and the Female Reform Tradition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. xvii + 458 pp. ISBN 0-226-26149-2 (cl). Just over a decade ago, Ursula K. LeGuin spoke to graduating...

Doria Shafik, Egyptian Feminist: A Woman Apart.
June 22, 1998... Cynthia Nelson. Doria Shafik, Egyptian Feminist: A Woman Apart. Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 1996. xxvi +322 pp.;ill. ISBN 0-8130-1455-7 (cl). Just over a decade ago, Ursula K. LeGuin spoke to graduating seniors at Bryn...

Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism.
June 22, 1998... Barbara Winslow. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. xxvii + 236 pp. ISBN 0-312-16268-5 (cl); 0-312-16329-0 (pb). Just over a decade ago, Ursula K. LeGuin spoke to graduating seniors...

School Work: Gender and the Cultural Construction of Teaching.
June 22, 1998... Sari Knopp Biklen. School Work: Gender and the Cultural Construction of Teaching. New York, N.Y.: Teachers College Press, 1995. x + 207 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8077-3407-1 (pb); 0-8077-3408-X (cl). For nearly two centuries, many women have made...

London's Women Teachers: Gender, Class, and Feminism, 1870-1930.
June 22, 1998... Dina M. Copelman. London's Women Teachers: Gender, Class, and Feminism, 1870-1930. London: Routledge, 1996. xix + 286 pp.; ill., tables. ISBN 0-415-01312-7 (cl). For nearly two centuries, many women have made their career in teaching. Yet...

Teachers and Feminist Politics, 1900-1939.
June 22, 1998... Alison Oram. Women Teachers and Feminist Politics, 1900-1939. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 1996. viii + 258 pp; tables. ISBN 0-7190-2959-4 (cl). For nearly two centuries, many women have made their career in teaching....

Knowing Women: Origins of Women's Education in Nineteenth-Century Australia.
June 22, 1998... Marjorie Theobald. Knowing Women: Origins of Women's Education in Nineteenth-Century Australia. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996. ix + 294 pp.; ill., tables. ISBN 0-521-42004-0 (cl). For nearly two centuries, many women...

The Time of Opportunities: Working-Class Women and the Change in Finnish Society form the 1910s to the 1930s.
June 22, 1998... Maria Lahteenmaki. Mahdollisuuksien Aika: Tyolaisnaiset ja yhteiskunnan muutos 1910-1930 luvun Suomessa. (The Time of Opportunities: Working-Class Women and the Change in Finnish Society from the 1910s to the 1930s.) Helsinki: Suomen...

Between Teenage Girls and Respectable Women: Gender and Culture in the YWCA, 1883-1940.
June 22, 1998... Hilda Romer Christensen. Mellem backfische og paene piger: Kon og kultur i KFUK 1883-1940. (Between Teenage Girls and Respectable Women: Gender and Culture in the YWCA, 1883-1940.) Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanums Forlag, 1995. 294 pp. ISBN...