Journal of Women's History articles from June 1999

Journal of Women's History archives from June 1999

COLONIAL DIMENSIONS OF DUTCH WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE: Aletta Jacobs's Travel Letters from Africa and Asia, 1911-1912.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1999... In 1910, the subject of a long vacation to get away from daily suffrage work first appears in the correspondence between Dutch suffragist Aletta Jacobs, president of the Dutch Association for Women's Suffrage since 1903, and her American...

RACE, GENDER, AND ANTICOMMUNISM IN THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR MOVEMENT: The Pan-African Connections of Maida Springer.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1999... A 1963 New York Times article celebrating the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) international struggle against communism and colonialism mentioned the 1957 American Trade Union Scholarship Program for...

A GENTLEMEN'S CLUB IN A WOMAN'S SPHERE: How Dorothy Whitney Straight Created the New Republic.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1999... However frequently historians say Herbert Croly founded the New Republic, the assertion makes little sense. Editors of the Architectural Record, such as Croly; whose best books have sold 7,500 copies do not found New York political weeklies,...

CONFLICTING EXPECTATIONS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH MATRIMONY: The Failed Companionate Marriage of Effie Gray and John Ruskin.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1999... The annulment of John Ruskin's marriage to Euphemia (Effie) Chalmers Gray in 1854 ranks among the great Victorian scandals, still retaining its fascination in the late twentieth century.(1) Why revisit such a well-documented episode? Such...

"OUR `HOUSE BEAUTIFUL'": The Woman's Temple and the WCTU Effort to Establish Place and Identity in Downtown Chicago, 1887-1898.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1999... In 1887, Frances Willard, national president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), the largest women's organization in the United States, announced an ambitious building project. To Willard, the modern downtown Chicago office...

"HEARTS UPLIFTED AND MINDS REFRESHED": The Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Production of Pure Culture in the United States, 1880-1930.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1999... The Woman's Christian Temperance Union's (WCTU) participation in debates about "pure" culture and the pro-censorship movement, from the 1880s to the 1930s, provides an interesting historical parallel to today's culture wars.(1) Christian...

Prostitution and the Question of Sexual Identity in Medieval Europe.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1999... The received wisdom in the history of sexuality is that sexualities did not exist before the modern era. David M. Halperin argues that as "a separate, sexual domain within the larger field of human psychophysical nature," the history of...

Medieval Prostitution and the Case of a (Mistaken?) Sexual Identity.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1999... As historian of early modern same-sex sexuality (for lack of a better term) and as a student of current homophobia, I welcome Ruth Karras's challenge to the present master narrative in the historiography of sexuality. I also underscore the...

Acts, Identities, and Sexuality's (Pre)Modern Regimes.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1999... In "Forgetting Foucault: Acts, Identities, and the History of Sexuality," David Halperin takes on the "acts versus identities" debate generated among historians and theorists of sexuality as a result of a single--and, Halperin argues,...

Response: Identity, Sexuality, and History.(response to Theo van der Meer, p 179, this issue)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1999... History is the story of change, but also of continuity; of revolution, but also of evolution. It is exciting to focus on points of rupture, of drastic discontinuity, but if the discontinuity is so total that we cannot use the same language to...

WOMEN'S HISTORY IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM.(Panel Discussion)
June 22, 1999... A Conversation across Three "Generations": Part 2 Introduction In the last issue, Part I of this "Conversation across Three `Generations'" relayed the fascinating stories of how Anne Scott, Sara Evans, Susan Cahn, and Liz Faue came...

The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Bonnie G. Smith. The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. viii + 306 pp. ISBN 0-674-34181-3 (cl). In tracing the gendered nature of modern historiography in the West,...

Women and Law in Late Antiquity.
June 22, 1999... Antti Arjava. Women and Law in Late Antiquity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. 304 pp. ISBN 0-19-815033-4 (cl). The common themes that animate these five books are among those most important to historians of women and gender:...

Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World 1300-1600.
June 22, 1999... Judith M. Bennett. Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. 260 pp. ISBN 0-19-507390-8 (cl). The common themes that animate these five books are among those...

Celtic Women: Women in Celtic Society and Literature.
June 22, 1999... Peter Berresford Ellis. Celtic Women: Women in Celtic Society and Literature. London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1995. 288 pp. ISBN 0-8028-3808-1 (cl). The common themes that animate these five books are among those most important to...

Gender, Sex, and Subordination in England 1500-1800.
June 22, 1999... Anthony Fletcher. Gender, Sex, and Subordination in England, 1500-1800. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1995. 442 pp. ISBN 0-300-06531-0 (cl). The common themes that animate these five books are among those most important to...

The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England 1680-1780.
June 22, 1999... Margaret R. Hunt. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 343 pp. ISBN 0-520-20260-0 (cl). The common themes that animate these five books are among those...