Journal of Women's History articles from March 1998

Journal of Women's History archives from March 1998

The theory wars, or, who's afraid of Judith Butler? (philosopher)
March 22, 1998... Over the past two decades, feminist historians have struggled through the sex wars, the culture wars, and the science wars. There is a lot of battle fatigue, but also the camaraderie produced by being mostly on the same side. Another conflict...

Trapped between state and society: women's liberation and Islam in Soviet Uzbekistan, 1926-1941.
March 22, 1998... The Soviet campaign for the liberation of women in Uzbekistan consisted of two major components. The first was freeing women from Muslim social and religious strictures. The second was moving large numbers of women into the...

African-American women and the struggle for equality in the meatpacking industry, 1940-1960.
March 22, 1998... Between 1940 and 1960, African-American women in the United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA) forged interracial coalitions to address race and sex discrimination in the meatpacking industry. Drawing up on experiences...

Shaker women and sexual power: heresy and orthodoxy in the Shaker village of Harvard, Massachusetts.
March 22, 1998... This article traces the careers of Roxalana Grosvenor and Fidelia Grosvenor, members of the Shaker village of Harvard, Massachusetts, whom the community expelled in 1865 for claiming a divine call to introduce the celibate...

"Better than silver and gold": design schools for women in America, 1848-1860.
March 22, 1998... During the mid-nineteenth century, schools of design for women in Philadelphia, Boston, and New York formed the core of a midnineteenth-century movement to educate women in the theory and practice of industrial design. A diverse...

Hearing women speak: Antoinette Brown Blackwell and the dilemma of authority. (feminist and abolitionist)
March 22, 1998... Authority for truth, not truth for authority.(1) Antoinette Brown Blackwell Antoinette Brown Blackwell's work, especially her scientific writings, are prescient of contemporary, standpoint theory critiques of Enlightenment...

Gender in cartoons of German unification.
March 22, 1998... A striking number of political cartoons published in the year after the fall of the Berlin Wall use stereotypes of such powerless and often devalued groups as women, children, and the disabled to represent the German...

Poisoned Ivy: Lesbian and Gay Academics Confronting Homophobia.
March 22, 1998... Toni A. H. McNaron. Poisoned Ivy: Lesbian and Gay Academics Confronting Homophobia. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997. 234 pp. ISBN 156639-488-0 (pb). When Poisoned Ivy came into the Journal office, I grabbed it, took it home ...

Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol.
March 22, 1998... Nell Irvin Painter. Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol. New York: W. W. Norton, 1996. xi + 369 pp. ISBN 0-393-02739-2 (cl). For the past decade or so, feminist scholars from a number of disciplines, including history; literature, cultural...

Passing and the Fictions of Identity.
March 22, 1998... Elaine K. Ginsberg, ed. Passing and the Fictions of Identity. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996. 298 pp. ISBN 0-8223-1755-9 (pb). For the past decade or so, feminist scholars from a number of disciplines, including history; literature,...

Chain Her by One Foot: The Subjugation of Native Women in Seventeenth-Century New France, rev. ed.
March 22, 1998... Karen Anderson. Chain Her by One Foot: The Subjugation of Native Women in Seventeenth-Century New France. Rev. ed. New York: Routledge, 1993. 247 pp. ISBN 0-415-90827-2 (pb). The ten books reviewed here are just the tip of the iceberg of new...

"We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up": Essays in African-Canadian Women's History.
March 22, 1998... Peggy Bristow, coord. and Dionne Brand, Linda Carty, Afua P. Cooper, Sylvia Hamilton, and Adrienne Shadd. "We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up": Essays in African-Canadian Women's History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. 248...

Improper Advances: Rape and Heterosexual Conflict in Ontario, 1880-1929.
March 22, 1998... Karen Dubinsky. Improper Advances: Rape and Heterosexual Conflict in Ontario, 1880-1929. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. 228 pp. ISBN 0-226-16754-2 (pb). The ten books reviewed here are just the tip of the iceberg of new work in...

In Subordination: Professional Women, 1870-1970.
March 22, 1998... Mary Kinnear. In Subordination: Professional Women, 1870-1970. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995. 245 pp. ISBN 0-7735-1279-9 (pb). The ten books reviewed here are just the tip of the iceberg of new work in Canadian women's...

Ideal Surroundings: Domestic Life in a Working-Class Suburb in the 1920s.
March 22, 1998... Suzanne Morton. Ideal Surroundings: Domestic Life in a Working-Class Suburb in the 1920s. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. 201 pp. ISBN 0-8020-7575 (pb). The ten books reviewed here are just the tip of the iceberg of new work in...

Changing Roles of Women within the Christian Church in Canada.
March 22, 1998... Elizabeth Gillan Muir and Marilyn Fardig Whiteley, eds. Changing Roles of Women within the Christian Church in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. 391 pp. ISBN 0-8020-7623-8 (pb). The ten books reviewed here are just the tip...

The Feminist Challenge to the Canadian Left, 1900-1918.
March 22, 1998... Janice Newton. The Feminist Challenge to the Canadian Left, 1900-1918. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995. 257 pp. ISBN 0-7735-1291-8 (pb). The ten books reviewed here are just the tip of the iceberg of new work in Canadian...

A Diversity of Women: Ontario, 1945-1980.
March 22, 1998... Joy Parr, ed. A Diversity of Women: Ontario, 1945-1980. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. 335 pp. ISBN 0-8020-7695-5 (pb). The ten books reviewed here are just the tip of the iceberg of new work in Canadian women's history. As...

Earning Respect: The Lives of Working Women in Small-Town Ontario, 1920-1960.
March 22, 1998... Joan Sangster. Earning Respect: The Lives of Working Women in Small-Town Ontario, 1920-1960. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. 333 pp. ISBN 0-8020-6953-3 (pb). The ten books reviewed here are just the tip of the iceberg of new...

In the Shadow of the Law: Divorce in Canada, 1900-1939.
March 22, 1998... James G. Snell. In The Shadow of the Law: Divorce in Canada, 1900-1939. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991. 322 pp. ISBN 0-8020-6821-9 (pb). The ten books reviewed here are just the tip of the iceberg of new work in Canadian women's...

The Memoirs of Princess Dashkova.
March 22, 1998... Ekaterina Romanova Dashkova. The Memoirs of Princess Dashkova. Translated and edited by Kiril Fitzlyon. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1995. 334 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8223-1621-8 (pb). Until recently, the academic communities of Great Britain...

Russian Peasant Women.
March 22, 1998... Beatrice Farnsworth and Lynne Viola, eds. Russian Peasant Women. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. 304 pp.; ill, tables. ISBN 0-19-506693-6 (cl); 0-19-506694-4 (pb). Until recently, the academic communities of Great Britain and North...

Russia, Women, Culture.
March 22, 1998... Helena Goscilo and Beth Holmgren, eds. Russia, Women, Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. xiv + 386 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-253-33019-X (cl); 0-253-21044-5 (pb). Until recently, the academic communities of Great Britain and North...

Women in Russia and Ukraine.
March 22, 1998... Rosalind Marsh, ed. Women in Russia and Ukraine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xvii + 350 pp.; ill., tables. ISBN 0-521-49522-9 (cl); 0-521-49872-4 (pb). Until recently, the academic communities of Great Britain and North...

Women in Russia: A New Era in Russian Feminism.
March 22, 1998... Anastasia Posadskaya, ed. Women in Russia: A New Era in Russian Feminism. Translated by Kate Clark. London: Verso, 1994. xiii + 203 pp. ISBN 0-86091-487-9 (cl); 0-86091-657-X (pb). Until recently, the academic communities of Great Britain...