Journal of Women's History articles from June 2003

Journal of Women's History archives from June 2003

Editor's note.
June 22, 2003... We were recently informed of the first reported female casualties of the U.S.--and Britishqed war with Iraq; with other reports from the battlefront, we now see female soldiers being taken as prisoners of war and also performing heroic actions...

Women's history in the new millennium: rethinking public and private--continuing the conversation.
June 22, 2003... In the spring 2003 issue, we offered provocative reflections by scholars from different fields of concentration on the concept of public and private. For this issue, we asked two additional scholars, whose work has been pivotal to our thinking...

The public and the private good: across the great divide in women's history.
June 22, 2003... A matron airs some syphilitic linen in a Brazilian court; a consort of the Sultan exercises power from within an Ottoman harem; "detachable collars" and "closed-crotched drawers" announce class and gender status; and hanky panky in the "House"...

Further thoughts on the public/private distinction.
June 22, 2003... A part from the category of gender, there is perhaps no more widely employed concept in feminist historiography than that of the public and the private. But while the former rarely provokes controversy anymore, the public/private remains a...

Gendered theologies of childbirth in early modern Germany and the devotional handbook for pregnant women by Aemilie Juliane, countess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1683).
June 22, 2003... In 1683, the wife of the ruler of a small, east-central German principality published a compilation of devotional songs and prayers for the use of pregnant and birthing women and midwives, nearly all of which she had written herself. At first...

"Vive la Commune!" Feminism, socialism, and revolutionary revival in the aftermath of the 1871 Paris Commune.
June 22, 2003... On May Day 1901, a police informant observed the funeral procession held for Paule Mink, revolutionary, socialist, feminist, orator, and former communarde. He reported: "At the moment the cortege left the mortuary, cries of "Vive la sociale!...

Revolutionary warrior and gendered icon: Aida Lafuente and the Spanish revolution of 1934.
June 22, 2003... Periods of conflict often pose unique opportunities to modify existing political, social, and cultural structures. The nature of war involves widespread disruption and can result in a radical reshaping of society. For women, these times of...

Feeding the imperial appetite: imperial knowledge and Anglo-Indian domesticity.
June 22, 2003... "[T]hanks to Flora Annie Steel's Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook [I got on] very well" with housekeeping, remembered Eileen Sanders, an Anglo-Indian woman explaining how she had managed her household in British India during the 1920s and...

The schoolhouse vs. the armory: U. S. teachers and the campaign against militarism in the schools, 1914-1918.
June 22, 2003... Speaking to educators in 1911, Katherine Devereux Blake, a grade school principal in New York City and noted suffragist, chose for her topic, "Peace in the Schools." Blake predicted an upcoming struggle in public education between an entrenched...

Getting to the source: hints for wives--and husbands.
June 22, 2003... The official report of the 1848 Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, New York, states that during the first day's session, "LUCRETIA MOTT read a humorous article from a newspaper, written by MARTHA C. WRIGHT." (1) The identity of this...

A failure to communicate.(4 books on women and religion)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Lesly F. Massey. Women in the Church: Moving Toward Equality. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2002. xi + 221 pp. ISBN 0-786-411-953 (pb). Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg. Forgetful of Their Sex: Female Sanctity and Society, ca. 500-1100. Chicago:...

Reproduction, regulation, and body politics.(4 books on women and reproduction)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Janet Golden. A Social History of Wet Nursing in America: From Breast to Bottle. Columbus, Ohio State University Press, 2001. xiii + 215 pp.; tables. ISBN 0-8142-5072-6 (pb). Lara V. Marks. Sexual Chemistry: A History of the Contraceptive...

Voices of the other from the 'other Europe': recovering East-Central European women's literary heritage.(A History of Central European Women's Writing; A False Dawn: My Life as a Gypsy Woman in Slovakia)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Celia Hawkesworth, ed. A History of Central European Women's Writing. Studies in Russia and East Europe. New York: Palgrave, 2001. xviii + 323 pp.; map. ISBN 0-333-77809-X (cl). Ilona Lackova. A False Dawn: My Life as a Gypsy Woman in...

Troubling women's history: women in right-wing and colonial politics.(3 books on women and politics)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... June Melby Benowitz. Days of Discontent: American Women and Right-Wing Politics, 1933-1945. Dekalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002. ix + 230 pp. ISBN 0-87580-294 (cl). Kim E. Nielsen. Un-American Womanhood: Antiradicalism,...

Carol K. Bleser and Lesley J. Gordon, eds. Intimate Strategies of the Civil War: Military Commanders and Their Wives.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xxiii + 292 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-19-511509-0 (cl). Each of the twelve essays in this collection studies the marriage of Civil War commanders--six from the Confederacy and six from the Union--during the...

Eve Golden. Anna Held and the Birth of Ziegfeld's Broadway.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2000. ix + 243 pp. ISBN 0-8131-2153-1 (cl). Eve Golden's biography of turn-of-the-century musical comedy star Anna Held illuminates a long overlooked figure of Broadway. Held, a Jewish woman...

Ann D. Gordon, ed. The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.(Volume II: Against an Aristocracy of Sex, 1866 to 1873)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Volume II: Against an Aristocracy of Sex, 1866 to 1873. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2000. xlii + 682 pp. ISBN 0-8135-2318-4 (cl). This volume, the second of a six-volume series, compiles speeches, letters, and diary...

June Hannam and Karen Hunt. Socialist Women: Britain, 1880s to 1920s.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... London: Routledge, 2002. viii + 232 pp. ISBN 0-415-26639-4 (pb). Challenging traditional histories of both suffrage and labor, Hannam and Hunt explore the contested identities of socialist women in Britain from the 1880s into the interwar...

Amalie M. Kass. Midwifery and Medicine in Boston: Walter Channing, M.D., 1786-1876.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2002. xvii + 386 pp. ISBN 1-55553-501-1 (cl). This is a meticulously researched, engaging account of Walter Channing, an obstetrician, dean of faculty at Harvard Medical College, and active social...

Angel Kwolek-Folland, Incorporating Women: a History of Women and Business in the United States.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New York: Palgrave, 2002. x + 278 pp. bib., index. ISBN 0-312-23349-3 (pb). Drawing from primary research and a wealth of secondary literature, Angel Kwolek-Folland has produced an up-to-date synthesis of the role of women in the American...

Min-zhuan Lu. Shanghai Quartet: the Crossings of Four Women of China.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2001. xvi + 292 pp. ISBN 0-82070322-2 (cl). Addressed to the author's daughter, this is a memoir of three generations of women in Min-zhuan Lu's family: her grandmother, "Haopo" (1889-1993); the nanny...

Susan Mann and Yu-yin Cheng, eds. Under Confucian Eyes: Writings on Gender in Chinese History.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. xiii + 310 pp.; illus. ISBN 0-520-22276-8 (pb); 0-520-22274-I (cl). This collection of translations of writings by or about Chinese women before the twentieth century helps to fill a large gap...

Lori Rotskoff. Love on the Rocks: Men, Women, and Alcohol in Post-World War II America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xi+242 pp., index, bib. ISBN 0-8078-2728-2 (cl) American life was transformed following the Great Depression and World War II in numerous respects. Among these was the changing...

Katrin Schultheiss. Bodies and Souls: Politics and the Professionalization of Nursing, 1880-1922.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Harvard Historical Studies, 139. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. vi + 248 pp. ISBN 0-674-00491-4 (cl). Katrin Schultheiss has composed a skillful study of how nursing, once the province of Catholic orders, was enrolled into...

Daphne Spain. How Women Saved the City.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis, 2001. xvii+299 pp., index, bib. ISBN 0-8166-3532-3 (pb). In this well-written work, Professor Spain charts the rise of voluntary associations among women during the period of rapid urbanization...

Magrit Stange. Personal Property: Wives, White Slaves, and the Market in Women.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. x + 171 pp. ISBN 0-8018-5626-4 (cl). In this book, Margit Stange explores literary and sociological texts published in the United States between 1899 and 1914 as they relate to women's...

Monica Szurmuk, Women in Argentina: Early Travel Narratives.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. x + 144 pp., index, bib. ISBN 0-8130-1889-7 (cl) The writings of Argentine women or European women who went to Argentina are explored in this brief book about travel writing. Drawing heavily...

Adelheid von Saldern. The Challenge of Modernity: German Social and Cultural Studies, 1890-1960.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... trans. Bruce Little. Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany, Ed. Geoff Eley. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. xxii + 383 pp. ISBN 0-4721-0986-3 (cl) Spanning nearly a decade of work, this collection of...

Anna Zarnowska and Andrzej Szwarc, eds. Kobieta i kultura czasu wolnego.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (Women and Leisure Culture) 556 pp., ill., tables. Warsaw: Wydawnic-two DiG, 2001. ISBN 83-7181-199-3 (pb). Part of Zarnowska and Szwarc's series on women's history, this edited collection of thirty essays mostly but not solely on Polish...

Anna Zarnowska and Andrzej Szwarc. Kobieta i praca: Wiek XIX i XX.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (Women and Work: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries) 401 pp., ill., tables. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo DiG, 2000. ISBN 83-7181-141-1 (pb). Twenty-one essays comprise the collection Kobieta i praca, another addition to Zarnowska and Szwarc's series...