Journal of Women's History articles from March 1997

Journal of Women's History archives from March 1997

"Sweet Dreams of Freedom": freedwomen's reconstruction of life and labor in the low country in South Carolina.
March 22, 1997... In his memoir of Civil War and Reconstruction, rice planter Charles Manigault offered what he regarded as some of the "leading Characteristicks of The NEGRO, and . . . The Times, through which we have recently passed." For Manigault, those...

Memory and the cult of revolution in the 1871 Paris Commune.
March 22, 1997... At the beginning of the civil war between the Paris Commune and the National Assembly in early April 1871, a crowd of women gathered on the Place de la Concorde for a march on the government at Versailles. "There were between seven and eight...

The memory of violence: Soviet and East European Mennonite refugees and rape on the second World War.
March 22, 1997... Although contemporary studies of sexual violence against women are becoming more prevalent, until recently, historians have given slight treatment to the topic of rape. Even less examined is the issue of wartime rape, although media exposes...

Biography's window on social change: benevolence and justice in Jane Addam's "A Modern Lear".
March 22, 1997... Historians who have studied American women's practice of benevolence in the nineteenth century recently have stressed its function as an ideology--its power to stir middle-class women to social activism and its role in shaping their sense of...

Getting to the source: striking lives: oral history and the politics of memory.
March 22, 1997... As one of the only means of retrieving the historical experience of non-elite people whose lives are not recorded in historical documents, oral history has played a crucial role in the writing of women's history. Beginning in the early...

Confronting class: comment on Honig. (response to article by Emily Honig in this issue, p. 139)
March 22, 1997... When I was in high school in Texas 25 years ago, I remember my friends and I used to talk about how the stuff we read in history never included ordinary people like us. Of course, it is only now that I realize that we were raising questions...

Mother-Work, Women, Child Welfare, and the State: 1890-1930.
March 22, 1997... Molly Ladd-Taylor. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994. x + 211 pp. In 1906, Josephine Conger-Kaneko published an essay in World's Work exploring how "the dominant influence of women" in charity and welfare, education, and culture...

Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State, Britain and France: 1914-1945.
March 22, 1997... Susan Pedersen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xv + 478. In 1906, Josephine Conger-Kaneko published an essay in World's Work exploring how "the dominant influence of women" in charity and welfare, education, and culture...

Surviving Beyond Fear: Women, Children and Human Rights in Latin America.
March 22, 1997... Marjorie Agosin, ed. Fredonia, N.Y.: White Pine Press, 1993. 217. Motherhood: Marianistas and Supermadres But the image of the black-clad mantilla-draped figure, kneeling before the altar, rosary in hand, praying for the souls...

Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story
March 22, 1997... Ruth Behar. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993. xiv + 372. Motherhood: Marianistas and Supermadres But the image of the black-clad mantilla-draped figure, kneeling before the altar, rosary in hand, praying for the souls of her sinful...

Women in the Latin American Process.
March 22, 1997... Christine E. Bose and Edna Acosta-Belen, eds. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995.x + 290. Motherhood: Marianistas and Supermadres But the image of the black-clad mantilla-draped figure, kneeling before the altar,...

Revolutionizing Motherhood: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo.
March 22, 1997... Marguerite Guzman Bouvard. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1994. 278. Motherhood: Marianistas and Supermadres But the image of the black-clad mantilla-draped figure, kneeling before the altar, rosary in hand, praying...

Guatemalan Women Speak.
March 22, 1997... Margaret Hooks. Washington, D.C.: EPICA, 1993. xvi + 133. Motherhood: Marianistas and Supermadres But the image of the black-clad mantilla-draped figure, kneeling before the altar, rosary in hand, praying for the souls of her...

Dolor y Alegria: Women and Social Change in Urban Mexico.
March 22, 1997... Sarah Le Vine in collaboration with Clara Sunderland Correa. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. xi + 239. Motherhood: Marianistas and Supermadres But the image of the black-clad mantilla-draped figure, kneeling before...

Feminism/Postmodernism/Development.
March 22, 1997... Marianne H. Marchand and Jane L. Parpart, eds. London: Routledge, 1995. xiii + 275. Motherhood: Marianistas and Supermadres But the image of the black-clad mantilla-draped figure, kneeling before the altar, rosary in hand,...

'Viva' Women and Popular Protest in Latin America.
March 22, 1997... Sarah A. Radcliffe and Sallie Westwood, eds. London: Routledge, 1993. xiii + 270. Motherhood: Marianistas and Supermadres But the image of the black-clad mantilla-draped figure, kneeling before the altar, rosary in hand,...

Sandino's Daughters Revisited: Feminism in Nicaragua.
March 22, 1997... Margaret Randall. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1994. xvi + 311. Motherhood: Marianistas and Supermadres But the image of the black-clad mantilla-draped figure, kneeling before the altar, rosary in hand, praying...

Our Voices/Our Lives: Stories of Women from Central America and the Caribbean.
March 22, 1997... Margaret Randall. Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1995. 213. Motherhood: Marianistas and Supermadres But the image of the black-clad mantilla-draped figure, kneeling before the altar, rosary in hand, praying for the souls...

Hear My Testimony: Maria Teresa Tula - Human Rights Activist of El Salvador.
March 22, 1997... Lynn Stephen, ed. and translator. Boston: South End Press, 1994. 240. Motherhood: Marianistas and Supermadres But the image of the black-clad mantilla-draped figure, kneeling before the altar, rosary in hand, praying for the...

Consuming Angels: Advertising and Victorian Women.
March 22, 1997... Lori Ann Loeb. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. xii + 224 pp.; ill. When department stores first opened their doors it was largely women who filled their aisles, and retailers, recognizing that fact, geared their...

The Girl's Own: Cultural Histories of the Anglo-American Girl, 1830-1950.
March 22, 1997... Claudia Nelson and Lynne Vallone, eds. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1994. ix + 296 pp.; ill. When department stores first opened their doors it was largely women who filled their aisles, and retailers, recognizing that...

The Trial of Woman: Feminism and the Occult Sciences in Victorian Literature.
March 22, 1997... Diana Basham. New York University Press, 1992. x + 253 pp.; ill. When department stores first opened their doors it was largely women who filled their aisles, and retailers, recognizing that fact, geared their advertisement to female...

The Education of the Southern Belle: Higher Education and Student Socialization in the Antebellum South.
March 22, 1997... Christie Anne Farnham. New York: New York University Press, 1994. x + 256 pp. Northern, and increasingly national, attitudes toward southern education have typically ranged from condescension to contempt. The South's history of...

"Bible, bath, and broom": Nannie Helen Burroughs's training school and African-American racial uplift.
March 22, 1997... In a promotional booklet, "Making Their Mark," school president and founder Nannie H. Burroughs looked back on the accomplishments of the National Training School for Women and Girls by relating the story of former student Bettie B. Reed....