Journal of Women's History articles from March 1999

Journal of Women's History archives from March 1999

Women's history in the new millennium.(discussion among four women's studies professors)(Panel Discussion)
March 22, 1999... A Conversation across Three "Generations": Part I Introduction In contemplating the approach of the year 2000, I thought it would be a good time to try to reflect on where the field of women's history has been and where it might be...

"To the Company of a Man like My Husband, No Law Can Compel Me": The Limits of Sanctions against Wife Beating in Arequipa, Peru, 1780-1850.
March 22, 1999... Recent studies of domestic violence emphasize that the resiliency of patriarchy rests on ideologies that distinguish responsible exercise of power from abuse. While acknowledging the contribution of such analyses, this article explores the...

The deserving sick: poor women and the medicalization of poverty in Brattleboro, Vermont.
March 22, 1999... This article examines negotiations between poor women and charity providers in Brattleboro, Vermont, during the Progressive Era, when the expansion and specialization of medicine shifted the focus of providers to improving the health of the...

To Live "through One's Own Powers": British Medicine, Tuberculosis and "Invalidism" in the Life of Alice Clark (1874-1934).(British women's historian)
March 22, 1999... This article analyzes British women's historian Alice Clark's (1874-1934) encounters with tuberculosis, in order to chart her rejection of an invalid identity for a more autonomous sense of self. It also compares and contrasts the effect of...

In Defense of Their Families: Working-Class Women, Alcohol, and Politics in Revolutionary Russia.
March 22, 1999... By focusing on drink as a central feature of working-class culture in early-twentieth-century Russia, this article provides a new context in which to examine Temma Kaplan's assertion that collective protest by women is motivated by "female...

"Only in a Republic Can It Be Proved That Science Has No Sex": Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska (1829-1902) and the Multiple Meanings of Science in the Nineteenth-Century United States.(prominent female physician)
March 22, 1999... This article looks at the life and work of Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska, one of the most prominent female physicians in the nineteenth-century United States. She is best known among historians of medicine as an advocate of science and a critic of...

Arm in Arm: Gender, Eugenics, and Virginia's Racial Integrity Acts of the 1920s.
March 22, 1999... In 1924, Virginia passed a law "to preserve racial integrity" as part of a wave of eugenic legislation. Debate surrounding the passage of the Racial Integrity Act, a law forbidding a white person to marry anyone of another race, reveals how...

Cultural Materialism: Reflections on a Theoretical Odyssey from Africa to the West Indies.
March 22, 1999... This article addresses how theory has shaped the author's choice of research topic and analysis as she takes her readers on a journey to Ghana, Kenya, North America, and Saint Lucia. Coming from the position of a reformed materialist feminist...

Becoming a Historian, Being an Activist, and Thinking Archivally: Documents and Memory as Sources.
March 22, 1999... This article examines the relationship between documentary .sources and memory, drawing upon the author's experiences as a scholar who has used oral history, an activist who did not keep documents about the causes for which she worked, a...

The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Dena Goodman. The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1994. xii + 338 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8014-2968-4 (cl); 0-8014-8174-0 (pb). Although women's historians have...

Gender and Heresy: Women and Men in Lollard Communities, 1420-1530.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Shannon McSheffrey. Gender and Heresy: Women and Men in Lollard Communities, 1420-1530. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. xi + 253 pp.; ill.; maps. ISBN 0-8122-3310-7 (cl); 0-8122-1549-4 (pb). Although women's...

France between the Wars: Gender and Politics.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Sian Reynolds. France between the Wars: Gender and Politics. New York: Routledge, 1996. xii + 280 pp. ISBN 0-415-12736-X (cl); 0-415-12737-8 (pb). Although women's historians have investigated the social organization of differences between...

The Secret History of Gender: Women, Men, and Power in Late Colonial Mexico.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Steve J. Stern. The Secret History of Gender: Women, Men, and Power in Late Colonial Mexico. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. xiii + 478 pp.; maps. ISBN 0-8078-2217-5 (cl); 0-8078-4643-0 (pb). Although women's...

We Paid Our Dues: Women Trade Union Leaders of the Caribbean.(Review)
March 22, 1999... A. Lynn Bolles. We Paid Our Dues: Women Trade Union Leaders of the Caribbean. Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1996. xxxviii + 250 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-88258-086-8 (cl); 0-88258-087-6 (pb). In recent years, feminist writers have begun...

Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xxii + 384 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8078-2287-6 (cl); 0-8078-4596-5 (pb). ...

What a Woman Ought To Be and To Do: Black Professional Women Workers during the Jim Crow Era.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Stephanie J. Shaw. What a Woman Ought To Be and To Do: Black Professional Women Workers during the Jim Crow Era. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. xvi + 347 pp. ISBN 0-226-75119-8 (cl); 0-226-75120-1 (pb). In recent years,...

Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Ellen Carol DuBois. Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997. x + 353 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-300-06562-0 (cl). How did women, excluded so blatantly from full political equality in...

"The Transfiguring Sword": The Just War of the Women's Social and Political Union.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp. "The Transfiguring Sword": The Just War of the Women's Social and Political Union. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997. x + 201 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8173-0870-9 (cl). How did women, excluded so blatantly...

The Meagre Harvest: The Australian Women's Movement, 1950s-1990s.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Gisela Kaplan. The Meagre Harvest: The Australian Women's Movement, 1950s-1990s. St. Leonards, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1996. xiii + 242 pp. ISBN 1-86448-062-9 (pb). How did women, excluded so blatantly from full political equality in...

Woman Suffrage and the New Democracy.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Sara Hunter Graham. Woman Suffrage and the New Democracy. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1996. 256 pp. ISBN 0-300-06346-6 (cl). The relationship between the histories of woman suffrage and U.S. politics suffered from a reluctance...

Toward a Tenderer Humanity and a Nobler Womanhood: African-American Women's Clubs in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Anne Meis Knupfer. Toward a Tenderer Humanity and a Nobler Womanhood: African-American Women's Clubs in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago. New York: New York University Press, 1996. 222 pp. ISBN 0-8147-4671-3 (cl); 0-8147-4691-8 (pb). The...

Battle for the Ballot: Essays on Woman Suffrage in Utah, 1870-1896.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Carol Cornwall Madsen, ed. Battle for the Ballot: Essays on Woman Suffrage in Utah, 1870-1896. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1997. 332 pp. ISBN 0-87421-222-7 (cl); ISBN 0-87421-223-5 (pb). The relationship between the histories of...

Woman Suffrage and the Origins of Liberal Feminism in the United States, 1820-1920.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Suzanne M. Marilley. Woman Suffrage and the Origins of Liberal Feminism in the United States, 1820-1920. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996. 294 pp. ISBN 0-674-95465-3 (cl). The relationship between the histories of woman...

Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters under Lenin and Stalin.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Victoria E. Bonnell. Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters under Lenin and Stalin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xxii + 363 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-520-08712-7 (cl). Bonnell skillfully employs work and theory of numerous...

Cartographies of the Diaspora: Contesting Identities.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Avtar Brah. Cartographies of the Diaspora: Contesting Identities. New York: Routledge, 1996. xi + 276 pp. ISBN 0-415-12125-6 (cl); 0-415-12126-4 (pb). Brah suggests that the idea of "diaspora" be used to frame current theoretical debates...

Post-Soviet Women: From the Baltic to Central Asia.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Mary Buckley, ed. Post-Soviet Women: From the Baltic to Central Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xvii + 316 pp.; ill.; maps. ISBN 0-521-56320-8 (cl). The fifteen essays in this volume survey women's position in...

Feminist Amnesia: The Wake of Women's Liberation.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Jean Curthoys. Feminist Amnesia: The Wake of Women's Liberation. New York: Routledge, 1997. xii + 200 pp. ISBN 0-19-511242-3 (cl); 0-415-14807-3 (pb). This work provocatively examines the disjuncture between contemporary radical thought...

Family and Favela: The Reproduction of Poverty in Rio de Janeiro.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Julio Cesar Pino. Family and Favela: The Reproduction of Poverty in Rio de Janeiro. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997. x + 199 pp.; maps; tables. ISBN 0-313-30362-2 (cl). This work explores how social inequality is reproduced in Brazil...

Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Sabrina Petra Ramet, ed. Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives. New York: Routledge, 1996. xii + 231 pp. ISBN 0-415-11482-9 (cl); 0-415-11483-7 (pb). The essays in this collection explore...

Post-War Women's Writing in German: Feminist Critical Approaches.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Chris Weedon, ed. Post-War Women's Writing in German: Feminist Critical Approaches. Providence: Berghahn Books, 1997. 360 pp. ISBN 1-57181-048-X (pb). This is the first work to examine the development and impact of Frauenliteratur (women's...