Journal of Women's History articles from March 2000

Journal of Women's History archives from March 2000

RECONSTRUCTING "FREE WOMAN": African-American Women, Apprenticeship, and Custody Rights during Reconstruction.
March 22, 2000... Fifteen-year-old Levi Newsom eluded his master for several weeks, seeking refuge with family and friends and concealing himself in the piney woods of Davidson County, North Carolina. His master, Allen G. Newsom, a Davidson County planter, was...

FEMINIST MATERNALISTS AND THE FRENCH STATE: Two Inspectresses General in the Pre-World War I Third Republic.
March 22, 2000... Recent historians of women reformers' contributions to welfare state formation have underscored the prominence of maternalist arguments in advocacy of new roles for women in the public sphere. Accordingly, historians Seth Koven and Sonya Michel...

CATHOLIC NUNS AND THE INVENTION OF SOCIAL WORK: The Sisters of the Santa Maria Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1897 through the 1920s.
March 22, 2000... Introduction: Tradition and Innovation in Catholic Women's Religious Communities In 1897, Sisters of Charity Justina Segale and Blandina Segale began three decades of social service to the immigrant poor in Cincinnati, Ohio. By the 1920s,...

SEX IN POLITICS: Victoria Woodhull as an American Public Woman, 1870-1876.
March 22, 2000... Sex radical Victoria Woodhull was a woman suffrage icon during the 1870s, but historians disagree on the extent to which she can be held responsible for women's failure to gain the vote during those years. This article suggests that Woodhull...

"TO BE FULLY HUMAN": U.S. Protestant Psychotherapeutic Culture and the Subversion of the Domestic Ideal, 1945-1965.
March 22, 2000... Seward Hiltner opened the May 1953 issue of the journal Pastoral Psychology, which was devoted entirely to the question of "women's role," with a scathing editorial in which he complained bitterly about the circumstances that prevented women...

STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE: Soviet Women in the Postwar Years.
March 22, 2000... In 1945, the Soviet Union celebrated its hard-won victory over Germany and turned from the challenges of the war to the task of rebuilding a devastated country and shattered economy with a depleted and exhausted workforce. War losses and the...

WOMEN'S HISTORY IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM: The Next Generation of Scholars.
March 22, 2000... Mabel Gardiner Hubbard Bell and Margaret Sanger are two historical figures that have captured the imagination of young scholars of women's history. While in sixth grade at Farnsworth Middle School in Albany, New York, Elizabeth A. Picker became...

A Historical Memory for Women: The Gosteli Archive Documents More Than One Hundred Years of Swiss Women's History.
March 22, 2000... Translated by Kornelia Freitag with Karen Offen On a small plateau high above the community of Worblaufen near Bern, Switzerland, the Gosteli Archive for Women's History stands like a miniature chateau. The view reaching to the horizon in...

Spectacular Confessions: Autobiography, Performative Activism, and the Sites of Suffrage, 1905-1938.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Barbara Green. Spectacular Confessions: Autobiography, Performative Activism, and the Sites of Suffrage, 1905-1938. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. viii + 228 pp.; ill.; no bibliography. ISBN 0-312-7267-2 (cl). For many historians of...

The Women's Suffrage Movement: New Feminist Perspectives.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Maroula Joannou and June Purvis, eds. The Women's Suffrage Movement: New Feminist Perspectives. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998. xii + 227 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-7190-4860-5 (cl). For many historians of women's suffrage, the subject...

Rampant Women: Suffragists and the Right of Assembly.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Linda J. Lumsden. Rampant Women: Suffragists and the Right of Assembly. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997. xxxii + 273 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-87049-986-6 (cl). For many historians of women's suffrage, the subject remains rooted in...

Wollstonecraft's Daughters: Womanhood in England and France, 1780-1920.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Clarissa Campbell Orr, ed. Wollstonecraft's Daughters: Womanhood in England and France, 1780-1920. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996. x + 206 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-7190-4241-0 (cl). For many historians of women's suffrage, the...

African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Rosalyn Terborg-Penn. African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. xii + 192 pp. ISBN 0-253-33378-4 (cl); 0-253-21176-X (pb). For many historians of women's suffrage, the...

No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Linda K. Kerber. No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998. xviii + 405 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8-90-7383-8 (cl). In 1981, while the U.S. Supreme Court considered the...

Surviving on the Gold Mountain: A History of Chinese American Women and Their Lives.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Huping Ling. Surviving on the Gold Mountain: A History of Chinese American Women and Their Lives. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. xvii + 252 pp.; ill; tables. ISBN 0-7914-3863-5 (cl); 0-7914-3864-3 (pb). Surviving on the...

The Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Anne Walthall. The Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xvi + 412 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-226-87235-1 (cl); 0-226-87237-8 (pb). In 1990, the Journal of Women's History...

Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Lila Abu-Lughod, ed. Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998. xi + 300 pp. ISBN 0-691-05791-5 (cl); 0-691-05792-3 (pb).

Heart of a Wife: The Diary of a Southern Jewish Woman.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Helen Jacobus Apte. Heart of a Wife: The Diary of a Southern Jewish Woman. Ed. Marcus D. Rosenbaum. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1998. xx + 222 pp.; ill.; appendixes; no index. ISBN 0-8420-2745-9 (cl); 0-8420-2746-7 (pb).

Voices of Resistance: Oral Histories of Moroccan Women.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Alison Baker. Voices of Resistance: Oral Histories of Moroccan Women. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. xx + 341 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-7914-3621-7 (cl); 0-7914-3622-5 (pb).

Till Freedom Cried Out: Memories of Texas Slave Life.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... T. Lindsay Baker and Julie P. Baker, eds. Till Freedom Cried Out: Memories of Texas Slave Life. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997. xxx + 161 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-89096-736-9 (cl).

Finding Fran: History and Memory in the Lives of Two Women.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Lois W. Banner. Finding Fran: History and Memory in the Lives of Two Women. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. xiii + 243 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-231-11216-5 (cl).

Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment, and Victorian Medicine.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Alison Bashford. Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment, and Victorian Medicine. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. xvii + 188 pp., ill. ISBN 0-312-21038-8 (cl).

Women and Gender Relations in Kazakstan: The Social Cost.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Armin Bauer, Nina Boschmann, and David Green. Women and Gender Relations in Kazakstan: The Social Cost. Manila, Philippines: Asian Development Bank, 1997. Distributed by New York Paul and Company Publishers Consortium, Inc. xiii + 138 pp.;...

Mujeres argelinas en lucha por las libertades democraticas.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Carmelo Perez Beltran. Mujeres argelinas en lucha por las libertades democraticas. Granada, Spain: Universidad de Granada, 1997. 387 pp.; tables. ISBN 84-338-2386-8 (pb).

Women's Voices, Women's Lives: Documents in Early American History.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Carol Berkin and Leslie Horowitz, eds. Women's Voices, Women's Lives: Documents in Early American History. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998. xi + 203 pp. ISBN 1-55553-351-5 (cl); 1-55553-350-7 (pb).

From Motherhood to Citizenship: Women's Rights and International Organizations.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Nitza Berkovitch. From Motherhood to Citizenship: Women's Rights and International Organizations. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xii + 207 pp. ISBN 0-8018-6028-8 (cl).

Western Jewry and the Zionist Project, 1914-1933.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Michael Berkowitz. Western Jewry and the Zionist Project, 1914-1933. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xvi + 305 pp. ISBN 0-52147087-0 (cl).

My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Sarah Bernhardt. My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt. Trans. Victoria Tietze Larson. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. xi + 345 pp. ISBN 0-7914-4053-2 (cl); 0-7914-4054-0 (pb).

Modern Girls, Shining Stars, the Skies of Tokyo: Five Japanese Women.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Phyllis Birnbaum. Modern Girls, Shining Stars, the Skies of Tokyo: Five Japanese Women. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. xx + 255 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-231-11356-0 (cl).

Now Hiring: The Feminization of Work in the United States, 1900-1995.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Julia Kirk Blackwelder. Now Hiring: The Feminization of Work in the United States, 1900-1995. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997. xv + 308 pp.; ill.; tables. ISBN 0-89096-776-8 (cl); 0-89096-798-9 (pb).

Living for Change: An Autobiography.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Grace Lee Boggs. Living for Change: An Autobiography. Foreword by Ossie Davis. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998. xvi + 301 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8166-2954-4 (cl); 0-8166-2955-2 (pb).

Patterns of Progress: Quilts in the Machine Age.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Barbara Brackman. Patterns of Progress: Quilts in the Machine Age. Los Angeles: Autry Museum of Western Heritage, 1997. 127 pp.; ill.; no bibliography or index. ISBN 1-882880-03-X (cl); 1-882884-04-8 (pb).

Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust: Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, and Etty Hillesum.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Rachel Feldhay Brenner. Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust: Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, and Etty Hillesum. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. vi + 216 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-271-01623-X...

Women Pioneers for the Environment.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Mary Joy Breton. Women Pioneers for the Environment. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998. xiv + 322 pp.; ill. ISBN 1-55553-365-5 (cl).

The Governess: An Anthology.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Trev Broughton and Ruth Symes, eds. The Governess: An Anthology. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. x + 214 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-312-21089-2 (cl).

Laura Keene: A British Actress on the American Stage, 1826-1873.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Vernanne Bryan. Laura Keene: A British Actress on the American Stage, 1826-1873. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1997. x + 222 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-7864-0075-7 (cl).

Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Mari Jo Buhle. Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. 432 pp. ISBN 0-674-29868-3 (cl).

Margherita of Cortona and the Lorenzetti: Sienese Art and the Cult of a Holy Woman in Medieval Tuscany.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Joanna Cannon and Andre Vauchez. Margherita of Cortona and the Lorenzetti: Sienese Art and the Cult of a Holy Woman in Medieval Tuscany. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. xv + 275 pp.; ill.; maps. ISBN 0-271-01756-2...

The Roosevelt Women.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Betty Body Caroli, ed. The Roosevelt Women. New York: Basic Books, 1998. xv + 511 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-465-07133-3 (cl).

25 Years of Emancipation? Women in Switzerland, 1971-1996.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Joy Charnley, Malcolm Pender, and Andrew Wilkin, eds. 25 Years of Emancipation? Women in Switzerland, 1971-1996. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang, 1998. 201 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8204-3428-0 (pb).

Mandy Oxendine.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Charles W. Chesnutt. Mandy Oxendine. Ed. Charles Hackenberry. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xxviii + 112 pp.; ill.; no bibliography or index. ISBN 0-252-02051-0 (cl); 0-252-06347-3 (pb).

Depraved and Disorderly: Female Convicts, Sexuality, and Gender in Colonial Australia.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Joy Damousi. Depraved and Disorderly: Female Convicts, Sexuality, and Gender in Colonial Australia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. x + 221 pp. ISBN 0-521-58323-3 (cl); 0-521-58723-9 (pb).

Elsie Clews Parsons: Inventing Modern Life.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Desley Deacon. Elsie Clews Parsons: Inventing Modern Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xvi + 520 pp. ISBN 0-226-13907-7 (cl).

Women and Fascism.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Martin Durham. Women and Fascism. New York: Routledge, 1998. vii + 199 pp. ISBN 0-415-12279-1 (cl); 0-415-12280-5 (pb).

Silent Witnesses: Representations of Working-Class Women in the United States.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Jacqueline Ellis. Silent Witnesses: Representations of Working-Class Women in the United States. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1998. ix + 260 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-87972-743-8 (cl); 0-87972-744-6 (pb).

Wily Modesty: Argentine Women Writers, 1860-1910.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Bonnie Frederick. Wily Modesty: Argentine Women Writers, 1860-1910. Tempe: Arizona State University Center for Latin American Studies Press, 1998. xii + 214 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-87918-086-2 (pb).

The Arizona Diary of Lily Fremont, 1878-1881.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Lily Fremont. The Arizona Diary of Lily Fremont, 1878-1881. Ed. Mary Lee Spence. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1997. xiv + 276 pp.; ill.; map. ISBN 0-8165-1449-6 (cl).

A Flourishing Yin: Gender in China's Medical History, 960-1665.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Charlotte Furth. A Flourishing Yin: Gender in China's Medical History, 960-1665. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xiv + 355 pp.; ill.; charts. ISBN 0-520-20828-5 (cl); 0-520-20829-3 (pb).

The Nihilist Princess.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Louise M. Gagneur. The Nihilist Princess. Ed. William Meyers. Trans. III Publishing. 1881; reprint, Gualala, Calif.: III Publishing, 1999. 256 pp. ISBN 1-886625-05-0 (pb).

The King's Midwife: A History and Mystery of Madame du Coudray.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Nina Rattner Gelbart. The King's Midwife: A History and Mystery of Madame du Coudray. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xi + 347 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-520-21036-0 (cl).

Women Travellers in Colonial India: The Power of the Female Gaze.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Indira Ghose. Women Travellers in Colonial India: The Power of the Female Gaze. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. ix + 196 pp. ISBN 0-19564208-2 (cl).

The Living Goddesses.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Marija Gimbutas. The Living Goddesses. Ed. Miriam Robbins Dexter. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xx + 286 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-520-21393-9 (cl).

Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism. New York: New York University Press, 1998. vii + 269 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8147-3110-4 (cl).

Women against the Good War: Conscientious Objection and Gender on the American Home Front, 1941-1947.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Rachel Waltner Goossen. Women against the Good War: Conscientious Objection and Gender on the American Home Front, 1941-1947. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xii + 180 pp.; ill.; map. ISBN 0-8078-2366-X (cl);...

Women's Representations of the Occupation in Post-'68 France.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Claire Gorrara. Women's Representations of the Occupation in Post-'68 France. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. vii + 168 pp. ISBN 0-312-21255-0 (cl).

Raising Baby by the Book: The Education of American Mothers.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Julia Grant. Raising Baby by the Book: The Education of American Mothers. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998. ix + 309 pp. ISBN 0-300-07214-7 (cl).

Women and Socialism, Socialism and Women: Europe between the Two World Wars.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Helmut Gruber and Pamela Graves, eds. Women and Socialism, Socialism and Women: Europe between the Two World Wars. New York: Berghahn Books, 1998. xvi + 591 pp.; ill. ISBN 1-57181-151-6 (cl); 1-57181-152-4 (pb).

Sex, Morality, and the Law.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Lori Gruen and George E. Panichas, eds. Sex, Morality, and the Law. New York: Routledge, 1997. x + 454 pp.; no index. ISBN 0-415-91635-6 (cl); 0-415-91636-4 (pb).

The Gender of Death: Cultural History in Art and Literature.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Karl S. Guthke. The Gender of Death: Cultural History in Art and Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xii + 297 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-521-59195-3 (cl); 0-521-64460-7 (pb).

Landsknechte, Soldatenfrauen und Nationalkrieger: Militar, Krieg und Geschlechterordnung im historischen Wandel.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Karen Hagemann and Ralf Prove, eds. Landsknechte, Soldatenfrauen und Nationalkrieger: Militar, Krieg und Geschlechterordnung im historischen Wandel. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 1998.368 pp.; ill. ISBN 3-593-36101-9 (pb).

Women in the Medieval Islamic World.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Gavin R. G. Hambly, ed. Women in the Medieval Islamic World. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. xiii + 566 pp.; ill.; maps; tables; no index. ISBN 0-312-21057-4 (cl).

The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Jeffrey F. Hamburger. The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany. New York: Zone Books, 1998. 607 pp.; ill.; no bibliography. ISBN 0-942299-45-0 (cl).

Femme: Feminists, Lesbians, and Bad Girls.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Laura Harris and Elizabeth Crocker, eds. Femme: Feminists, Lesbians, and Bad Girls. New York: Routledge, 1997. viii + 222 pp.; no bibliography or index. ISBN 0-415-91873-1 (cl); 0-415-91874-X (pb).

Votes without Leverage: Women in American Electoral Politics, 1920-1970.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Anna L. Harvey. Votes without Leverage: Women in American Electoral Politics, 1920-1970. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiii + 253 pp. ISBN 0-521-59239-9 (cl); 0-521-59743-9 (pb).

A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Darlene Clark Hine and Kathleen Thompson. A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America. New York: Broadway Books, 1998. 355 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-7679-0110-X (cl).

She Glanceth from Earth to Heaven: The Phenomenon of Love Mysticism among Women in Antebellum Virginia and Maryland.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Laura Hobgood-Oster. She Glanceth from Earth to Heaven: The Phenomenon of Love Mysticism among Women in Antebellum Virginia and Maryland. New Orleans: University Press of the South, 1998. ix + 199 pp. ISBN 1-889431-32-X (pb).

The Marriage Exchange: Property, Social Place, and Gender in Cities of the Low Countries, 1300-1550.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Martha C. Howell. The Marriage Exchange: Property, Social Place, and Gender in Cities of the Low Countries, 1300-1550. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xv + 278 pp.; tables. ISBN 0-226-35515-2 (cl); 0-226-35516-0 (pb).

Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Nancy Isenberg. Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xviii + 319 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2442-9 (cl); 0-8078-4746-1 (pb).

Women, Men, and Eunuchs: Gender in Byzantium.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Liz James, ed. Women, Men, and Eunuchs: Gender in Byzantium. London: Routledge, 1997. xxiv + 207 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-415-14685-2 (cl); 0-415-14686-0 (pb).

The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Julie Roy Jeffrey. The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xiii + 311 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8078-2436-4 (cl); 0-8078-4741-0 (pb).

Gambler's Wife: The Life of Malinda Jenkins.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Malinda Jenkins. Gambler's Wife: The Life of Malinda Jenkins. 1933; reprint, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. xv + 296 pp.; no bibliography or index. ISBN 0-8032-7607-9 (pb).

Picturing Women in Renaissance and Baroque Italy.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Geraldine A. Johnson and Sara F. Matthews Grieco, eds. Picturing Women in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiv + 321 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-521-562767 (cl); ISBN 0-521-565804 (pb).

Women's Writing of the Romantic Period, 1789-1836: An Anthology.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Harriet Devine Jump, ed. Women's Writing of the Romantic Period, 1789-1836: An Anthology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997. xxiv + 240 pp. ISBN 0-7486-0806-0 (cl); 0-7486-0915-6 (pb).

The Gendering of American Politics: Founding Mothers, Founding Fathers, and Political Patriarchy.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Mark E. Kann. The Gendering of American Politics: Founding Mothers, Founding Fathers, and Political Patriarchy. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1999. xvi + 194 pp. ISBN 0-275-96111-7 (cl); 0-275-96112-5 (pb).

Women in Context: Two Hundred Years of British Women Autobiographers, A Reference Guide and Reader.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Barbara Kanner. Women in Context: Two Hundred Years of British Women Autobiographers, A Reference Guide and Reader. New York: G. K. Hall, 1997. lix + 1049 pp. ISBN 0-8161-7346-X (cl).

Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Marion A. Kaplan. Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xii + 290 pp., ill. ISBN 0-19-511531-7 (cl).

Women Preachers and Prophets through Two Millennia of Christianity.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Beverly Mayne Kienzle and Pamela J. Walker, eds. Women Preachers and Prophets through Two Millennia of Christianity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xxii + 362 pp., ill. ISBN 0-520-20921-4 (cl), 0-520-20922-2 (pb).

Beyond the Household: Women's Place in the Early South, 1700-1835.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Cynthia A. Kierner. Beyond the Household: Women's Place in the Early South, 1700-1835. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998. xii + 295 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8014-3453-X (cl); 0-8014-8462-6 (pb).

Das Erwerbsverhalten von Frauen in der intensive Familienphase: Ein Vergleich zwischen Muttern in der Bundesrepublik und in den USA.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Karin Kurz. Das Erwerbsverhalten von Frauen in der intensive Familienphase: Ein Vergleich zwischen Muttern in der Bundesrepublik und in den USA. Opladen, Germany: Leske + Budrich, 1998. 273 pp.; tables; no index. ISBN 3-8100-1941-0 (pb).

Cultures of Color in America: A Guide to Family, Religion, and Health.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Sybil M. Lassiter. Cultures of Color in America: A Guide to Family, Religion, and Health. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. xiv + 207 pp. ISBN 0-313-30070-4 (cl).

Dress, Culture, and Commerce: The English Clothing Trade before the Factory, 1660-1800.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Beverly Lemire. Dress, Culture, and Commerce: The English Clothing Trade before the Factory, 1660-1800. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. xv + 224 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-312-16404-1 (cl).

Cultivating Music in America: Women Patrons and Activists since 1860.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Ralph P. Locke and Cyrilla Barr, eds. Cultivating Music in America: Women Patrons and Activists since 1860. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xi + 357 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-520-08395-4 (cl).

Women in Medieval English Society.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Mavis E. Mate. Women in Medieval English Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. v + 114 pp. ISBN 0-521-58322-5 (cl); 0-521-58733-6 (pb).

Creating the New Woman: The Rise of Southern Women's Progressive Culture in Texas, 1893-1918.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Judith N. McArthur. Creating the New Woman: The Rise of Southern Women's Progressive Culture in Texas, 1893-1918. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. x + 199 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-252-02376-5 (cl); 0-252-06678-0 (pb).