Journal of Women's History articles from June 2002

Journal of Women's History archives from June 2002

Editor's note.
June 22, 2002... As you read this issue, I shall be relocating to the Women's Studies Program at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Because the Journal of Women's History is scheduled to move to a new home in two years, we have arranged to keep...

Peace as a human right: the invasion of women into the world of high international politics.
June 22, 2002... In February 2001, under United Nations (UN) auspices at The Hague, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia found three Serbian men guilty of rape and sexual enslavement for their violent abuse, forced impregnation,...

The status of pleasure: courtesan and literati connections in T'ang China (618-907).(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... Jade pipes and clear strings: their sounds flourishing; Kingfisher hairpins and red sleeves: they sit entangled. (1) Two households perform together at night in the inner chambers, In the eighth month, the time of continuous shade and autumn...

Pauli Murray's notable connections.(civil rights activist)
June 22, 2002... It may be that when historians look back on twentieth-century America, all roads will lead to Pauli Murray. At least that is how it seems to me in my role as editor of the next volume of Notable American Women. (1) I became aware of the Pauli...

"To write like never before": Pauli Murray's enduring yearning.(civil rights activist)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... Some day the poet and warrior Who grapple in my brain shall lock in final contest And I will be ground under. (1) Fascination and quiet delight is what I would expect from Pauli Murray if she could read this forum. I...

Admitting Pauli Murray.
June 22, 2002... In the early days of November 1938, Anna Pauline (Pauli) Murray, twenty-eight years old, a bit over five feet tall, and a descendent of generations of North Carolinians, white and black, applied to do graduate work in the sociology department...

The conjunction of race and gender.(Pauli Murray and 'Jane Crow')
June 22, 2002... Few words have affected the course of American women's history more powerfully than Pauli Murray s favorite expression--"Jane Crow." In suggesting an analogy between race and gender, this simple formulation enabled women's rights advocates in...

Pauli Murray and the `juncture of women's liberation and black liberation'.
June 22, 2002... "Because black women have an equal stake in women's liberation and black liberation, they are key figures at the juncture of these two movements.... By asserting a leadership role in the growing feminist movement, the black woman can help to...

Pauli Murray: the Brandeis years.
June 22, 2002... Pauli Murray's influence, and her amazing trajectory of interests and causes, spanned much of the twentieth century. While much of her pioneering work for civil rights and women's rights has become well known, the story of her remarkable...

Pauli Murray: the unasked question.(lesbianism and feminism)
June 22, 2002... In 1983, when we interviewed Pauli Murray for our book, Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women s Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960s, we had no idea that Pauli Murray might be a lesbian. (1) We were interested in her because she was one...

Agents of Social Change: Celebrating Women's Progressive Activism Across the Twentieth Century.
June 22, 2002... During the weekend of 22-23 September 2000, more than two hundred academics, activists, and archivists from around the United States converged on the Smith College campus to participate in a conference sponsored by the Sophia Smith Collection...

"I was appalled": the invisible antecedents of second-wave feminism.
June 22, 2002... In the beginning, the collections we are celebrating this weekend--like all unprocessed archival collections--were inchoate, miscellaneous assortments of documents and artifacts that arrived in the boxes in which they had languished since...

Social movements, leadership, and democracy: toward more Utopian mistakes.
June 22, 2002... I think of this occasion as doing more than announcing the opening of collections, more than honoring this group of six leaders and two organizations to whom we are all indebted, more even than honoring the Sophia Smith Collection for...

The successes and failures of feminism.
June 22, 2002... I have been trying to figure out for several years how feminism should go forward. This seems to me to be the perfect audience to present these ideas to, and get reactions from, so I am going to try out some of my thoughts on you. I want to...

Dorothy Kenyon: feminist organizing, 1919-1963.(Biography)
June 22, 2002... Dorothy Kenyon (1888-1972) is not well known among feminists or historians but, as a major player in the women's rights, civil rights, and labor movements from the 1920s to the 1970s, she should be. Born and bred in New York City, Kenyon...

Jessie Lloyd O'Connor and Mary Metlay Kaufman: professional women fighting for social justice.
June 22, 2002... Jessie Lloyd O'Connor and Mary Metlay Kaufman dedicated their lives to progressive causes, each in her own way. The evidence that O'Connor and Kaufman left behind--now part of the Sophia Smith Collection--reveals much about these specific...

Using the law for social change: Judge Constance Baker Motley.(civil rights movement)
June 22, 2002... Judge Constance Baker Motley was one of the architects of the civil rights revolution in American law. Her life s work speaks to questions about the relationship of litigation to lasting social change, as well as to issues of individual...

On grassroots organizing, poor women's movements, and the intellectual as activist.
June 22, 2002... Whether or not the grassroots organizing of poor women, including women of color, is feminist depends on who defines feminism. Women's efforts to improve working-class communities, and gain a better life for their children, themselves, and...

Frances Fox Piven and the National Congress of Neighborhood Women: grassroots organizing.
June 22, 2002... My purpose here is to offer a brief summary of what I take to be some of the major questions before us in the study of women and social movement activism, and to offer some suggestions about how the papers of Frances Fox Piven and of the...

Persistence and transformation: Gloria Steinem, the Women's Action Alliance, and the feminist movement, 1971-1997.
June 22, 2002... Historians, sociologists, and activists--including Brenda Feigen and Gloria Steinem--have written a great deal about the women's movement between the late 1960s and the present. These reflections have raised many crucial questions for a next...

Outrageous and everyday: the papers of Gloria Steinem.
June 22, 2002... As an archives assistant for the Sophia Smith Collection, I arranged the papers of Gloria Steinem who is, needless to say, a noted feminist activist, journalist, speaker, and organizer. She is also a founder, editor, and spokesperson for Ms.,...

Tracking the women's movement through the Women's Action Alliance.
June 22, 2002... In January 1972, a newly formed organization called the Women's Action Alliance (WAA) announced to the press its mission, to assist women working on practical, local action projects; projects that attack the special problems of social...

The future of women's history.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... The Journal of Women's History proudly cosponsors the junior division women s history prize for the National History Day competition. This year's theme was "Frontiers in History: People, Place, Ideas." The National History Day competition...

Pioneers of production: women industrial workers in World War II.
June 22, 2002... Our aim in choosing this topic was to understand the role of working women in World War II. Elizabeth had visited the Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. the summer before this project began and brought home a "We Can Do It" poster...

Women in war stories.(five books on women in war stories)
June 22, 2002... Belinda J. Davis. Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xiv + 349 pp. ISBN: 0-8078-2526-3 (cl); 0-8078-4837-9 (pb). Robert B. Edgerton. Warrior...

Feminist modernism and national tradition: Britain, the United States, Hungary, India.(four books on feminism)
June 22, 2002... Martin Pugh. The March of the Women: A Revisionist Analysis of the Campaign for Women's Suffrage, 1866-1914. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-19-820775-1 (cl). Patricia Greenwood Harrison. Connecting Links: The...

Public and private rule: the wife and the citizen.(two books on women's history)(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Nancy F. Cott, Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000). v + 297 pp. ISBN 0-674-00320-9 (c1). Sandra F. VanBurkleo, "Belonging to the World:" Women's Rights and American...

Dissertations in women's history.(Bibliography)
June 22, 2002... Malek Hassan Abisaab, "A History of Women Tobacco Workers: Labor, Community, and Social Transformation in Lebanon, 1895-1997," State University of New York at Binghamton, 2001, 424 pp. Amy Brown Amelio, "Land, Family, King: Experiences of...

Yorghos Apostolopoulos, Sevil Sonmex, and Dallen J. Timothy, eds., Women as Producers and Consumers of Tourism in Developing Regions.(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2001. xiv + 258 pp. ISBN 0-275-96397-7 (cl). Composed of eleven original essays, this timely volume explores the various roles women have played (and are playing) in tourism--arguably now the single-largest...

Dianne Bardsley, The Land Girls in a Man's World, 1939-1946.
June 22, 2002... Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago Press, 2000. 142 pp.; ill. ISBN 1-877133-94-9 (pb). Based on interviews with over two hundred women who served in the New Zealand Women's Land Service during World War II, this book tells of the...

Teresa A. Barnes. "We Women Worked so Hard": Gender, Urbanization and Social Reproduction in Colonial Harare, Zimbabwe, 1930-1956.
June 22, 2002... Portsmouth: Heineman, 1999. xiii + 204 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-325-00172-3 (pb). This is an enormously fascinating study that analyzes African ideas of gender in colonial Zimbabwe and how such ideas were instrumental in shaping oppositional...

Leeds Barroll. Anna of Denmark, Queen of England: A Cultural Biography.
June 22, 2002... Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. 226 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3574-6 (cl). The cultural flowering of Jacobean England is traditionally associated with James I's use of the arts to glorify the power of the state. Leeds...

Sue Bruley. Women in Britain Since 1900.
June 22, 2002... Houndsmills, U. K.: Macmillan Press, Ltd., 1999. vii + 227 pp. ISBN 0-333-71694-9 (cl); 0-333-69336-1 (pb). As part of a series on "Social History in Perspective," edited by Jeremy Black, this volume examines the impact of economic,...

Patricia Cleary. Elizabeth Murray: A Woman's Pursuit of Independence in Eighteenth-Century America.
June 22, 2002... Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000. xii + 278 pp.; ill. ISBN 1-55849-263-1 (cl). Elizabeth Murray (1726-85), a remarkable Scots woman who lived from 1750 in Boston, is the subject of Patricia Cleary's wonderful biography....

Gordon A. Cotton, ed. From the Pen of a She-Rebel: the Civil War Diary of Emilie Riley McKinley.
June 22, 2002... Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001. xv + 108 pp. ISBN 1-57003-356-0 (cl). As part of the "Women's Diaries and Letters of the South" series, this brief volume depicts life on the southern homefront during the Civil War....

Diana Crane. Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing.
June 22, 2002... Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2000. x + 294 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-266-11798-7 (cl). This well researched and captivating text reflects a comparative analysis of fashion choices ranging from late-nineteenth-century France and...

Yaffa Claire Draznin. Victorian London's Middle-Class Housewife: What She Did All Day.(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Contributions in Women's Studies, Number 179. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001. xvi + 227. ISBN 0-313-31399-7 (cl). A collective biography, this volume uses general histories of the period, popular magazines and journals, advice...

Robert S. Fogarty. Desire and Duty at Oneida: Tirzah Miller's Intimate Memoir.
June 22, 2002... Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2000. xiv + 204 pp.; ill. No bibliography. ISBN 0-253-33693-7 (cl). Tirzah Miller was a niece of John Noyes, founder of the Oneida colony, a mid-nineteenth-century experiment in communal living. As a...

Jo Fox. Filming Women in the Third Reich.
June 22, 2002... New York: Berg, 2000. xi + 268 pp. ISBN 1-85973-396-4 (pb). In this volume, Jo Fox explores the ways in which the outbreak of World War II changed National Socialist cinematic depictions of women. As men left for the battlefront, women...

Aileen Kilgore Henderson. Stateside Soldier: Life in the Women's Army Corps, 1944-1945.
June 22, 2002... Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001.241 pp.; ill. ISBN 1-57003-396-X (cl). The author, who joined the WAC in 1944 and served-for twenty-three months, offers a look at one woman's military experience. She tells a story of...

Hillyar, Anna and Jane McDermid. Revolutionary Women in Russia, 1870-1917: A Study in Collective Biography.
June 22, 2002... Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001. viii + 232 pp. ISBN 0-7190-4837-0 (cl); 0-7190-4839-9 (pb). This work gives a broad overview of the composition, role, and motivations of women in late Imperial Russia's revolutionary...

Renee S. House and John W. Coakley, eds. Patterns and Portraits: Women in the History of the Reformed Church in America.(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... The Historical Series of the Reformed Church in America, No. 31. Donald J. Burggink, ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1999. xiii + 182 pp. No bibliography. ISBN 0-8028-4705-6 (pb). These essays are an initial...

Angela J. Latham. Posing a Threat: Flappers, Chorus Girls, and Other Brazen Performers of the American 1920s.
June 22, 2002... Hanover, N. H.: Wesleyan University Press and University Press of New England, 2000. ix + 204 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8195-6401-X (pb). Setting the stage with the Roaring Twenties, Angela J. Latham explores the budding of women's sexual displays...

Carole Levin, Debra Barrett-Graves, Jo Eldridge Carney, W. M. Spellman, Gwynne Kennedy, and Stephanie Witham. Extraordinary Women of the Medieval and Renaissance World: A Biographical Dictionary.
June 22, 2002... Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000. xix + 327 pp.; tables. ISBN 0-313-30659-1 (cl). This volume includes the biographies of some seventy women of the medieval and Renaissance eras. Representing nineteen areas of endeavor and some...

Janet Moore Lindman and Michele Lise Tarter. A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early America.
June 22, 2002... Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001. vii + 283 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3601-x (cl); 0-8014-8739-0 (pb). This excellent collection of fifteen essays, organized around categories of permeability, demarcation, performance and discourse, offers a...

Laura McEnaney. Civil Defense Begins at Home: Militarization Meets Everyday Life in the Fifties.
June 22, 2002... Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America. William Chafe, Gary Gerstle, and Linda Gordon, eds. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. ix + 213 pp. ISBN 0-691-00138-3 (cl). McEnaney's study of policy formation within...

Jo Burr Margadant, ed. The New Biography: Performing Identity in Nineteenth-Century France.
June 22, 2002... Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. x + 301pp. ISBN 0-520-22141-9 (pb). Each of the seven essays in The New Biography: Performing Identity in Nineteenth Century France demonstrate afresh methodological approach which has the...

M.E. Melody and Linda M. Peterson, eds. Teaching America about Sex: Marriage Guides and Sex Manuals from the Late Victorians to Dr. Ruth.
June 22, 2002... New York: New York University Press, 1999. xii + 286 pp. ISBN 0-8147-5532-1 (cl). Written by specialists in political science and psychology, this volume examines sex advice literature in the United States from the late nineteenth to the...

Ashley Montague. The Natural Superiority of Women.
June 22, 2002... 5th ed. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 1999. 335 pp. ISBN 0-7619-8981-1 (cl); 0-7619-8982-X (pb). Feminists in hope of finding an academic treatise that elevates women by demoting men will find themselves frustrated and disappointed...

Berida Ndambuki and Claire C. Robertson. We Only Come Here to Struggle: Stories from Berida's Life.
June 22, 2002... Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. xxxi + 138 pp.; 39 ills. no index. ISBN 0-253-33701-1; 0-253-21366-5 (pb.) This monograph tells the story of Berida Ndambuki, an Akamba woman--the mother of sixteen children and a leader among...

Robert A. Nye, ed. Sexuality.
June 22, 2002... Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. xvii + 503 pp. ISBN 0-19-288019-5 (pb). Stipulating that history provides the best tool for understanding human sexuality, Nye has collected one hundred fifty short excerpts--two to three pages...

Margon V. Perkins. Autobiography as Activism: Three Black Women of the Sixties.
June 22, 2002... Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2000. xviii+161 pp. 1-57806-230-6 (pb). The only women activists of the Black Power movement to publish autobiographies, Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, and Elaine Brown, lend themselves to an...

David L. Ransel. Village Mothers: Three Generations of Change in Russia and Tataria.
June 22, 2002... Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. viii + 315 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-253-33825-5 (cl). This book examines three generations of ordinary rural women in European Russia. It begins with a brief overview of tsarist and soviet child...

Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead, eds. Writing Religious Women: Female Spiritual and Textual Practices in Late Medieval England.
June 22, 2002... Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. xi + 270 pp. ISBN 0-8020-3517-5 (cl). This volume of ten essays collect explores the influences upon "vernacular theology," the spirituality of English laywomen in the late medieval period. The...

Michael Roberts and Simone Clark, eds. Women and Gender in Early Modern Wales.(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000. xiv +320 pp.; tables; ill. ISBN 0-7083-1550 (pb). The ten essays in this volume explore the social and cultural evolution of gender in early modern Wales. Utilizing a variety of sources ranging...

J. Clay Smith Jr., ed. Rebels in Law: Voices in History of Black Women Lawyers.
June 22, 2002... Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. xvii + 323 pp. ISBN 0-472-08646-4 (pb). Admitted to the District of Columbia bar in 1872, Charlotte E. Ray, became the first black woman lawyer in United States history. A little-explored...

William St. Clair and Irmgard Maassen, eds. Conduct Literature for Women: 1500-1640.
June 22, 2002... 6 vols. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2000. ISBN 1851-965-262 (cl). This series of six volumes includes essays in facsimile from English homiletic and didactic literature in a variety of genres from sermons to poetry of the sixteenth and...

Margaret Stetz and Bonnie B. C. Oh, eds. Legacies of the Comfort Women of World War II.
June 22, 2002... New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2001.220 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-7656-0544-9 (pb). This volume offers a variety of scholarly and personal responses to current issues regarding the Japanese Imperial system of comfort women during World War II. It also...

Charlotte Sussman. Consuming Anxieties: Consumer Protest, Gender, and British Slavery, 1713-1833.
June 22, 2002... Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000. vii + 267 pp. ISBN 0-8047-3103-9 (cl). This book examines the history of consumer protests against colonialism from the Treaty of Utrecht to the abolition of slavery in the British...

Colleen Whitley, ed. Worth Their Salt, Too: More Notable but Often Unnoted Women of Utah.
June 22, 2002... Logan: Utah State University Press. 2000. x + 322 pp.; ill. No index. ISBN 0-87421-288-X (pb). Like its predecessor, Worth Their Salt, this volume consists of brief biographical essays about women active in art, politics, education,...

Kathleen Broome Williams. Improbable Warriors: Women Scientists and the U.S. Navy in World War II.
June 22, 2002... Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2001. 220 pp.; ill. ISBN 1-55750-961-1 (cl). The first account of women scientists in the navy, this volume provides an overview of women who contributed vital services in the areas of naval science and...

Announcement.
June 22, 2002... Call for Proposals to Edit the Journal of Women's History The Journal of Women's History, founded in 1989 as the first journal devoted exclusively to the international field of women's history, invites proposals for a new editorial home...