Journal of Women's History articles from June 2000

Journal of Women's History archives from June 2000

EDITOR'S NOTE.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... We are especially proud of the geographical range of this issue of the Journal of Women s History. The numerical preponderance of Americans in the ranks of women's historians worldwide and the strength of the field of U.S. women's history...

SPECTRAL SEXUALITIES: Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism, Moral Panics, and the Making of U.S. Obscenity Law.
June 22, 2000... In 1873, Anthony Comstock, a young clerk from New York City, went to Washington, D.C., to present Congress with his personal collection of "abominations."(1) He brought with him racy playing cards, contraceptive "rubber goods," and such...

BETWEEN THE MOTHER OF THE WOUNDED AND THE VIRGIN OF JIU: Romanian Women and the Gender of Heroism during the Great War.
June 22, 2000... The impact of the Great War on gender relations and the construction of identity has become a well-established topic among historians of modern western Europe and the United States.(1) The 1996 PBS series entitled The Great War and the...

MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY AND MALE COERCION: United States' Courts and the Privy Examination, 1864-1887.
June 22, 2000... In late December 1864, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Drury v. Foster, a case that differed from better-known disputes that the Civil War had generated--arguments over presidential powers, habeas corpus, and legal tender, among...

SEXUAL CONTROL AND THE REMAKING OF GENDER: The Attempt of Nineteenth-Century Protestant Norwegian Women To Export Western Domesticity to Madagascar.
June 22, 2000... The first Norwegian Missionary Society (NMS) missionaries arrived in Madagascar in 1866.(1) Malagasy Queen Ranavalona I made all evangelizing efforts difficult after 1835, but Norwegian interest in the island surged after Queen Ranavalona II...

"NEGRO WOMEN ARE GREAT THINKERS AS WELL AS DOERS": Amy Jacques-Garvey and Community Feminism in the United States, 1924-1927.
June 22, 2000... The 1920s marked the decade of the "new Negro," and nowhere was this more pronounced than in New York City. It was in Harlem that an intelligentsia, representing a range of organizations, produced layers of political commentary. Settled...

DOMESTIC SCIENTISTS: Modernity, Gender, and the Negotiation of Science in Australian Nursing, 1880-1910.
June 22, 2000... In the early twentieth century, nursing coexisted uncomfortably with modern scientific medicine. The profession was both scientific and feminized, a position that, for nurses, required serious negotiation. For some women, identification with...

Conservative Empowerment and the Gender of Nazism: Paradigms of Power and Complicity in German Women's History.
June 22, 2000... In the mid-1980s, controversy about the origins of Nazism and the Holocaust raged in West Germany. When the definitive anthology of the debate--the Historikerstreit, as it came to be known--appeared in 1987, it seemed as though the debates...

Women's History in Italy: Cultural Itineraries and New Proposals in Current Historiographical Trends.
June 22, 2000... Italian women's history began in the 1970s, later than in other European countries and the United States, and its genesis was closely connected with the politics of those years.(1) As of 1997, no professorships or degree programs existed.(2)...

Royal Representations: Queen Victoria and British Culture 1837-1876.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Margaret Homans. Royal Representations: Queen Victoria and British Culture, 1837-1876. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xxxvii + 283 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-226-35113-0 (cl); 0-226-35114-9 (pb). Despite the political and intellectual...

Judith: Sexual Warrior: Women and Power in Western Culture.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Margarita Stocker. Judith: Sexual Warrior: Women and Power in Western Culture. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998. ix + 278 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-300-07365-8 (cl). Despite the political and intellectual predominance of men in...

Sex Seen: The Emergence of Modern Sexuality in America.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Sharon R. Ullman. Sex Seen: The Emergence of Modern Sexuality in America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xi + 176 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-520-20954-0 (cl); 0-520-20955-9 (pb). In this fascinating and well-written study, Sharon...

Ladies Errant: Wayward Women and Social Order in Early Modern Italy.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Deanna Shemek. Ladies Errant: Wayward Women and Social Order in Early Modern Italy. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998. xii + 258 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8223-2155-6 (cl); 0-8223-2167-x (pb). In this elegant book, lucid in design and...

The past for the sake of the future: The women's movement in Trans-Dnipro Ukraine.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Liudmyla Smoliar. Mynule zarady maibut`n'oho: Zhinochyi rukh naddniprians'koi ukrainy II pol. XIX-poch. XXst. Storinky istorii . Second half of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Pages of history). Odessa, Ukraine:...

Latina Performance: Traversing the Stage.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Alicia Arrizon. Latina Performance: Traversing the Stage. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. xxiii + 218 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-253-33508-6 (cl); 0-253-21285-5 (pb).

Woman at the Window: Biblical Tales of Oppression and Escape.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Nehama Aschkenasy. Woman at the Window: Biblical Tales of Oppression and Escape. Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 1998. 181 pp. ISBN 0-8143-2626-9 (cl); 0-8143-2627-7 (pb).

Authorized to Heal: Gender, Class, and the Transformation of Medicine in Appalachia, 1880-1930.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Sandra Lee Barney. Authorized to Heal: Gender, Class, and the Transformation of Medicine in Appalachia, 1880-1930. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xiii + 222 pp.; ill.; tables; map. ISBN 0-8078-2522-0 (cl);...

Cassone Painting, Humanism, and Gender in Early Modern Italy.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Cristelle L. Baskins. Cassone Painting, Humanism, and Gender in Early Modern Italy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiv + 264 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-521-58393-4 (cl).

(Women in golden age Spanish society: Theatrical fiction and historical reality).(Review)
June 22, 2000... Juan Antonio Martinez Berbel and Roberto Castilla Perez, eds. Las mujeres en la sociedad espanola del Siglo de Oro: Ficcion teatral y realidad historica (Women in golden age Spanish society: Theatrical fiction and historical reality)....

When I Was a German: An Englishwoman in Nazi Germany.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Christabel Bielenberg. When I Was a German: An Englishwoman in Nazi Germany. 1968; reprint, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. 285 pp.; no bibliography or index. ISBN 0-8032-6151-9 (pb).

No Middle Ground: Women and Radical Protest.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Kathleen M. Blee, ed. No Middle Ground: Women and Radical Protest. New York: New York University Press, 1998. viii + 329 pp. ISBN 0-8147-1279-7 (cl); 0-8147-1280-0 (pb).

At the Breast: Ideologies of Breastfeeding and Motherhood in the Contemporary United States.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Linda M. Blum. At the Breast: Ideologies of Breastfeeding and Motherhood in the Contemporary United States. Boston: Beacon Press, 1999. 282 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8070-2140-7 (cl).

Ladie Borlase's Receiptes Booke.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Ladie Borlase. Ladie Borlase's Receiptes Booke. Ed. David E. Schoonover, with Jessica Renaud. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1998. viii + 172 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-87745-636-4 (cl).

Cultures in Babylon: Black Britain and African America.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Hazel V. Carby. Cultures in Babylon: Black Britain and African America. London: Verso, 1999. vi + 282 pp.; no bibliography. ISBN 1-85984-884-2 (cl); 1-85984-281-X (pb).

What a Blessing She Had Chloroform: The Medical and Social Response to the Pain of Childbirth from 1800 to the Present.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Donald Caton. What a Blessing She Had Chloroform: The Medical and Social Response to the Pain of Childbirth from 1800 to the Present. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999. xvi + 288 pp.; ill.; no bibliography. ISBN 0-300-07597-9 (cl).

Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism: A Family History.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Phyllis Cole. Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism: A Family History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. viii + 370 pp.; ill.; table; no bibliography. ISBN 0-19-503949-1 (cl).

From Abortion to Contraception: A Resource to Public Policies and Reproductive Behavior in Central and Eastern Europe from 1917 to the Present.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Henry P. David, with the assistance of Joanna Skilogianis, eds. From Abortion to Contraception: A Resource to Public Policies and Reproductive Behavior in Central and Eastern Europe from 1917 to the Present. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press,...

Sexuality and Gender in the English Renaissance: An Annotated Edition of Contemporary Documents.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Lloyd Davis, ed. Sexuality and Gender in the English Renaissance: An Annotated Edition of Contemporary Documents. New York: Garland Publishing, 1998. xxiii + 416 pp. ISBN 0-8153-2452-9 (cl).

Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Alice Domurat Dreger. Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. xiii + 268 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-674-08927-8 (cl).

Eve and the Church.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Georges Duby. Eve and the Church. Trans. Jean Birrell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 122 pp.; no bibliography or index. ISBN 0-226-16785-2 (cl); 0-226-16786-0 (pb).

Women and the Creation of Urban Life: Dallas, Texas, 1843-1920.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Elizabeth York Enstam. Women and the Creation of Urban Life: Dallas, Texas, 1843-1920. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1998. xx + 284 pp.; ill.; tables. ISBN 0-08906-799-7 (cl).

Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179: A Visionary Life.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Sabina Flanagan. Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179: A Visionary Life. 2d ed. London: Routledge, 1998. xvi + 227 pp.; ill.; map. ISBN 0-415-18551-3 (pb)

The Prostitution of Women and Girls.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... R. Barri Flowers. The Prostitution of Women and Girls. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 1998. x + 253 pp.; tables. ISBN 0-7864-0490-6 (cl).

(The popular women's movement: German Nationalist and National Socialist gender politics in Austria).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Johanna Gehmacher. Voelkische Frauenbewegung: Deutschnationale und nationalsozialistische Geschlechterpolitik in Osterreich (The popular women's movement: German Nationalist and National Socialist gender politics in Austria). Vienna: Docker...

Hard Bargains: The Politics of Sex.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Linda R. Hirshman and Jane E. Larson. Hard Bargains: The Politics of Sex. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. viii + 312 pp.; no bibliography. ISBN 0-1.9-509664-9 (cl).

Sexualities and Popular Culture.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Carl B. Holmberg. Sexualities and Popular Culture. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1998. xviii + 297 pp. ISBN 0-7617-0350-X (cl); 0-7619-0351-8 (pb).

Women of Faith in Victorian Culture: Reassessing the Angel in the House.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Anne Hogan and Andrew Bradstock, eds. Women of Faith in Victorian Culture: Reassessing the Angel in the House. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. xv + 230 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-333-69455-4 (cl).

Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Paula E. Hyman and Deborah Dash Moore, eds. Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia. 2 vols. New York: Routledge, 1998. 1770 pp. ISBN 0-415-91936-2 (cl).

Gender and the Formation of Taste in Eighteenth-Century Britain: The Analysis of Beauty.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Robert W. Jones. Gender and the Formation of Taste in Eighteenth-Century Britain: The Analysis of Beauty. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xii + 268 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-52.1-59326-3 (cl).

Nature Displayed: Gender, Science, and Medicine, 1760-1820.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Ludmilla Jordanova. Nature Displayed: Gender, Science, and Medicine, 1760-1820. London: Longman, 1999. xii + 260 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-582-30189-0 (cl); 0-582-30190-4 (pb).

Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the State.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Caren Kaplan, Norma Alarcon, and Minoo Moallem, eds. Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the State. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999. viii + 407 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8223-2302-8 (cl); 0-8223-2322-2 (pb).

Renaissance Women Patrons: Wives and Widows in Italy, c. 1300-c. 1550.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Catherine King. Renaissance Women Patrons: Wives and Widows in Italy, c. 1300-c. 1550. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 1998. xii + 272 pp., ill. ISBN 0-7190-5288-2 (cl); 0-7190-5289-2 (pb).

Women, the Novel, and the German Nation, 1771-1871: Domestic Fiction in the Fatherland.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Todd Kontje. Women, the Novel, and the German Nation, 1771-1871: Domestic Fiction in the Fatherland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xv + 242 pp. ISBN 0-521-63110-6 (cl).

"Bad" Mothers: The Politics of Blame in Twentieth-Century America.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Molly Ladd-Taylor and Lauri Umansky, eds. "Bad" Mothers: The Politics of Blame in Twentieth-Century America. New York: New York University Press, 1998. ix + 411 pp. ISBN 0-8147-5119-9 (cl); 0-8147-5120-2 (pb).

Murder in Victorian Scotland: The Trial of Madeleine Smith.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Douglas MacGowan. Murder in Victorian Scotland: The Trial of Madeleine Smith. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1999. ix + 170 pp.; ill.; maps. ISBN 0-275-96431-0 (cl).

Women in the Holocaust.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Delia Ofer and Leonore J. Weitzman, eds. Women in the Holocaust. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998. vii + 402 pp. ISBN 0-300-07354-2 (cl).

(The trace of desires: Sexuality, gender, and power).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Cornelia Ott. Die Spur der Luste: Sexualitat, Geschlecht und Macht (The trace of desires: Sexuality, gender, and power). Opladen, Germany: Leske + Budrich, 1998. 219 pp. ISBN 3-8100-1903-8 (pb).

Women's Reading in Britain, 1750-1835: A Dangerous Recreation.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Jacqueline Pearson. Women's Reading in Britain, 1750-1835: A Dangerous Recreation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. x + 300 pp. ISBN 0-521-58439-6 (cl).

Gender Politics in the Western Balkans: Women and Society in Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav Successor States.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Sabrina P. Ramet, ed. Gender Politics in the Western Balkans: Women and Society in Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav Successor States. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. vii + 343 pp.; table. ISBN 0-271-01801-1 (cl);...

Sisters in Sorrow: Voices of Care in the Holocaust.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Roger A. Ritvo and Diane M. Plotkin. Sisters in Sorrow: Voices of Care in the Holocaust. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1998. xviii + 314 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-89096-810-1 (cl).

A Mother's Job: The History of Day Care, 1890-1960.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Elizabeth Rose. A Mother's Job: The History of Day Care, 1890-1960. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xi + 275 pp; ill; appendix. ISBN 0-19-511112-5 (cl).

Women in the Politics of Postcommunist Eastern Europe.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Marilyn Rueschemeyer, ed. Women in the Politics of Postcommunist Eastern Europe. Rev. ed. Armonk,. N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1998. xii + 308 pp.; tables; graphs; charts. ISBN 0-7656-0295-4 (cl); 0-7656-0296-2 (pb).

The Empress, the Queen, and the Nun: Women and Power at the Court of Philip III of Spain.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Magdalena S. Sanchez. The Empress, the Queen, and the Nun: Women and Power at the Court of Philip III of Spain. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. xii + 267 pp. ISBN 0-8018-5791-0 (cl).

Gender and Literacy on Stage in Early Modern England.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Eve Rachele Sanders. Gender and Literacy on Stage in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University/Press, 1998. xvii + 260 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-521-58234-2 (cl).

Women and Faith: Catholic Religious Life in Italy from Late Antiquity to the Present.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Lucetta Scaraffia and Gabriella Zarri, eds. Women and Faith: Catholic Religious Life in Italy from Late Antiquity to the Present. Trans. Keith Botsford. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. vi + 378 pp.; ill.; no bibliography....

Feminism and Cultural Studies.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Morag Schiach, ed. Feminism and Cultural Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. xi + 597 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-19-875236-9 (cl); 0-19-875235-0 (pb).

(Norm and reality of religious women's communities during the early Middle Ages: The "Institutio sanctimonialium Aquisgranensis" of 816 and the problems of the constitution of women's communal organizations).(Review)
June 22, 2000... Thomas Schilp. Norm und Wirklichkeit religioser Frauengemeinschaften im Fruhmittelalter: Die "Institutio sanctimonialium Aquisgranensis" des Jahres 816 und die Problematik der Verfassung von Frauenkommunitaten (Norm and reality of religious...

Forgetful of Their Sex: Female Sanctity and Society, ca. 500-1100.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Jane Tibbetts Schulenberg. Forgetful of Their Sex: Female Sanctity and Society, ca. 500-1100. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xii + 587 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-226-74053-6 (cl); 0-226-74054-4 (pb).

Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Hugh Small. Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel. 1998; reprint, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. xii + 221 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-312-22699-3 (cl).

Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Hilda L. Smith, ed. Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiv + 392 pp. ISBN 0-521-58509-0 (cl).

Sex and Sexuality in Early America.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Merril D. Smith, ed. Sex and Sexuality in Early America. New York: New York University Press, 1998. ix + 341 pp; ill. ISBN 0-8147-8067-9 (cl); 0-8147-8068-7 (pb).

From Mae to Madonna: Women Entertainers in Twentieth-Century America.(Review)
June 22, 2000... June Sochen. From Mae to Madonna: Women Entertainers in Twentieth-Century America. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999. ix + 240 pp. ISBN 0-8131-2112-4 (cl).

What Women Do in Wartime: Gender and Conflict in Africa.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Meredith Turshen and Clotilde Twagiramariya. What Women Do in Wartime: Gender and Conflict in Africa. London: Zed Books, 1998. xi + 180 pp.; tables; map. ISBN 1-85649-537-X (cl); 1-85649-538-8 (pb).

BOOKS RECEIVED.(Bibliography)
June 22, 2000... Soo-Young Chin. Doing What Had to Be Done: The Life Narrative of Dora Yum Kim. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. xi + 229 pp.; ill.; appendix; no bibliography. ISBN 1-56639-693-X (cl); 1-56639-694-8 (pb). Althea T. Davis....