Journal of Women's History articles from March 2001

Journal of Women's History archives from March 2001

EDITOR'S NOTE.
March 22, 2001... When the Journal of Women's History moved to Ohio State University in summer 1996, we expected to pass the operation along to a new editorial home in five years. That would be about now, had we stuck to the original plan. Instead, the officers...

Fundamental Misunderstandings: Issues in Feminist Approaches to Islamism.
March 22, 2001... The recent resurgence of Islamism has been a major focus in the West for two obvious reasons. First, Islamism is a significant political force in many parts of the world, and Islamist terrorism in some of these countries (e.g., Algeria)--as in...

Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: A Secularist Interpretation.
March 22, 2001... Bronwyn Winter's thought-provoking and timely article offers a measured feminist critique of the study of women and fundamentalisms. It compels those of us who have previously written on Islamic fundamentalism to reflect on the strengths and...

Brief Comment on "Fundamental Misunderstandings".(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... 1. "Fundamental Misunderstandings" claims to encompass "feminist debates on Islamism" in a global context but is, in fact, mainly about Algeria. The author does not offer any substantive reason why the observations she makes regarding Algeria...

Understanding Islam, Islamism, and Islamic Feminism.
March 22, 2001... Bronwyn Winter's ambitious piece which covers wide ground reminds us of the challenges involved in debating and analyzing the complexities of gender, Islam, Islamism, fundamentalism, and feminism. I would like to take Winter's article as an...

Naming the Oppressor, Not Punishing the Oppressed: Atheism and Feminist Legitimacy.
March 22, 2001... I am grateful to the above authors for engaging in debate on the issues raised in my article, as well as to the editors of the Journal of Women's History for enabling that debate. I now welcome the opportunity, in the response that follows, to...

WAS MOM CHUNG A "SISTER LESBIAN"? Asian American Gender Experimentation and Interracial Homoeroticism.(Margaret Chung)
March 22, 2001... Margaret Chung (1889-1959), reputedly the first American-born woman of Chinese descent to become a physician, achieved recognition during the 1930s and 1940s for her patriotic activities on behalf of China and the United States. As part of her...

A COLONIAL WOMAN IN A REPUBLICAN'S CHILEAN HISTORY: Benjamin Vicuna Mackenna and La Quintrala.
March 22, 2001... In January 1877, the Santiago newspaper El Ferrocarril published a historical investigation of Chile's colonial period. The popularity of the serial prompted the author, Benjamin Vicuna Mackenna, to amplify the material, and, in February of...

"PARTICIPATION IN THE CREATIVE WORK OF THE NATION": Polish Women Intellectuals in the Cultural Construction of Female Gender Roles, 1864-1890.
March 22, 2001... Introduction: The Woman Question in Poland During the nineteenth century, Poland did not exist as a state; it was partitioned among the Russian, German, and Austrian Empires. In each area, women faced distinct political and social...

BETWEEN CHOICE AND COERCION: Women and the Politics of Sterilization in North Carolina, 1929-1975.
March 22, 2001... In summer 1966, Shirley, a thirty-six-year-old white woman, sought sterilization. For fifteen years she had battled schizophrenia. Unable to care for her three children, she put them up for adoption and left her first marriage. In November...

"ABORTIONS UNDER COMMUNITY CONTROL": Feminism, Nationalism, and the Politics of Reproduction among New York City's Young Lords.
March 22, 2001... Eighteen days after a new abortion law went into effect in New York State--on 1 July 1970--the heart of a thirty-one-year-old Puerto Rican woman, Carmen Rodriguez, stopped during a saline-induced second-trimester abortion at Lincoln Hospital in...

DEMYSTIFYING PUBLISHING: The Manuscript Submission, External Review, and Journal Production Process.
March 22, 2001... For those who have a manuscript gracing their desk blotter and are curious how to begin the publication process; for anybody who has entered the process, perhaps with uncertainty; and even for somebody who has published once or extensively,...

Patriotic Toil: Northern Women and the American Civil War.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Jeanie Attie. Patriotic Toil: Northern Women and the American Civil War. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998. xiii + 294 pp. ISBN 0-8014-2224-8 (cl). The gender implications of modern warfare provide a somewhat tenuous linkage...

Women's Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France during the First World War.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Susan R. Grayzel. Women's Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France during the First World War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xiii + 352 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2481-8 (cl); 0-8078-4810-7 (pb)....

Women, Men, and the Great War: An Anthology of Stories.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Trudi Tate, ed. Women, Men, and the Great War: An Anthology of Stories. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 1995.298 pp. ISBN 0-7190-4597-5 (cl); 0-7190-4598-3 (pb). The gender implications of modern warfare provide a somewhat...

Woman and society: In the Polish lands in the nineteenth century.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Anna Zarnowska and Andrzej Szwarc. Kobieta i spoleczenstwo: Na ziemiach polskich w XIX wieku (Woman and society: In the Polish lands in the nineteenth century), vol. 1 (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo DiG, Instytut Historyczny Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego,...

Woman and education: In the Polish lands in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries), vol. 2, bk. 1.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Anna Zarnowska and Andrzej Szwarc. Kobieta i edukacja: Na ziemiach polskich w XIX i XX wieku (Woman and education: In the Polish lands in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries), vol. 2, bk. 1 (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo DiG, Instytut Historyczny...

Woman and education: In the Polish lands in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries), vol. 2, bk. 2.
March 22, 2001... Anna Zamowska and Andrzej Szwarc. Kobieta i edukacja: Na ziemiach polskich w XIX i XX wieku (Woman and education: In the Polish lands in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries), vol. 2, bk. 2 (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo DiG, Instytut Historyczny...

Woman and the political world: Poland in comparison in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Anna Zarnowska and Andrzej Szwarc. Kobieta i swiat polityki: Polska na tle porownawczym w XIX i w poczatkach XX wieku (Woman and the political world: Poland in comparison in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries), vol. 3, bk. 1 (Warsaw:...

Woman and the political world: In independent Poland, 1918-1939.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Anna Zarnowska and Andrzej Szwarc. Kobieta i swiat polityki: W niepodleglej Polsce, 1918-1939 (Woman and the political world: In independent Poland, 1918-1939), vol. 3, bk. 2 (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Sejmowe, 1996). 232 pp.; tables. ISBN...

Woman and culture: Women among intellectuals and artists in the era of the partitions and independent Poland.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Anna Zarnowska and Andrzej Szwarc. Kobieta i kultura: Kobiety wsrod tworcow kultury intelektualnej i artystycznej w dobie rozbiorow i w niepodleglym panstwie polskim (Woman and culture: Women among intellectuals and artists in the era of the...

Woman and everyday culture, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Anna Zarnowska and Andrzej Szwarc. Kobieta i kultura zycia codziennego, wiek XIX i XX (Woman and everyday culture, nineteenth and twentieth centuries), vol. 5 (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo DiG, 1997). 454 pp.; ill. ISBN 83-85490-94-9 (pb). Most...

Where have all the girls gone? Contributions toward a gendered history of youth.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Christina Benninghaus and Kerstin Kotz, eds. "Sag mir, wo die Madchen sind...": Beitrage zur Geschlechtergeschichte der Jugend (Where have all the girls gone? Contributions toward a gendered history of youth). Cologne Germany: Bohlau, 1999....

The other young adults: Working-class girls in the Weimar Republic.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Christina Benninghaus. Die anderen Jugendlichen: Arbeitermadchen in der Weimarer Republik (The other young adults: Working-class girls in the Weimar Republic). Frankfurt: Campus, 1999. 334 pp; tables; no index. ISBN 3-593-35498-5 (pb). ...

Voices of Women Historians: The Personal, the Political, the Professional.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Eileen Boris and Nupur Chaudhuri, eds. Voices of Women Historians: The Personal, the Political, the Professional. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. xx + 295 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-253-33494-2 (cl); 0-253-212758 (pb). This book is an...

Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Kathryn Burns. Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999. xi + 307 pp.; ill.; appendixes. ISBN 0-8223-2259-5 (cl); 0-8223-2291-9 (pb). Portrayals of Spanish American...

Hermeneutics and Honor: Negotiating Female "Public" Space in Islamic/ate Societies.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Asma Afsaruddin, ed. Hermeneutics and Honor: Negotiating Female "Public" Space in Islamic/ate Societies. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1999. xi + 222 pp. ISBN 0-932885-21-7 (pb).

Sex in the Heartland.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Beth Bailey. Sex in the Heartland. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. 265 pp.; no bibliography. ISBN 0-674-80278-0 (cl).

Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Antoinette Burton, ed. Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities. New York: Routledge, 1999. xiii + 232 pp.; ill.; no bibliography. ISBN 0-415-200687 (cl).

A WASP among Eagles: A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Ann B. Carl. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999. x + 132 pp.; ill.; appendix. ISBN 1-56098-842-8 (cl).

Walt Whitman and Nineteenth-Century Women Reformers.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Sherry Ceniza. Walt Whitman and Nineteenth-Century Women Reformers. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998. xiv + 291 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8173-0893-8 (cl).

Disciplining Reproduction: Modernity, American Life Sciences, and "the Problems of Sex".(Review)
March 22, 2001... Adele E. Clarke. Disciplining Reproduction: Modernity, American Life Sciences, and "the Problems of Sex." Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xvii + 421 pp.; ill.; tables; appendix. ISBN 0-520-20720-3 (cl).

Spirited Lives: How Nuns Shaped Catholic Culture and American Life 1836-1920.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Carol K. Coburn and Martha Smith. Spirited Lives: How Nuns Shaped Catholic Culture and American Life, 1836-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xii + 225 pp. ISBN 0-8078-4774-7 (pb)

Female Communities 1600-1800: Literary Visions and Cultural Realities.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Rebecca D'Monte and Nicole Pohl, eds. Female Communities 1600-1800: Literary Visions and Cultural Realities. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. vii + 264 pp. ISBN 0-333-73443-2 (cl).

Constructing Spanish Womanhood: Female Identity in Modern Spain.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Victoria Loree Enders and Pamela Beth Radcliff, eds. Constructing Spanish Womanhood: Female Identity in Modern Spain. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. xiii + 443 pp. ISBN 0-7914-4030-3 (pb).

Family: The Making of an Idea, an Institution, and a Controversy in American Culture.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Betty G. Farrell. Family: The Making of an Idea, an Institution, and a Controversy in American Culture. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press,1999. viii + 199 pp. ISBN 0-8133-1545-X (cl); 0-8133-1546-8 (pb).

Him/Her/Self: Gender Identities in Modern America.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Peter G. Filene. Him/Her/Self: Gender Identities in Modern America. 3d ed. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. xxii + 353 pp. ISBN 0-8018-5920-4 (cl); 0-8018-5921-2 (pb).

The Girls: Jewish Women of Brownsville, Brooklyn, 1940-1995.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Carole Bell Ford. The Girls: Jewish Women of Brownsville, Brooklyn, 1940-1995. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. xiii + 217 pp.; ill.; appendix; glossary. ISBN 0-7914-4363-9 (cl); 0-7914-4364-7 (pb).

Ancient Goddesses: The Myths and the Evidence.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Lucy Goodison and Christine Morris, eds. Ancient Goddesses: The Myths and the Evidence. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. 224 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-299-16320-2 (cl).

Productive Men, Reproductive Women: The Agrarian Household and the Emergence of Separate Spheres during the German Enlightenment.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Marion W. Gray. Productive Men, Reproductive Women: The Agrarian Household and the Emergence of Separate Spheres during the German Enlightenment. New York: Berghahn Books, 2000. xiii + 370 pp. ISBN 1-57181-171-0 (cl); 1-57181-172-9 (pb).

Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Ruth H. Howes and Caroline L. Herzenberg. Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. viii + 264 pp. ISBN 1-56639-719-7 (cl).

Feminism and Renaissance Studies.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Lorna Hutson. Feminism and Renaissance Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. ix + 480 pp. ISBN 0-19-878244-6 (cl); 0-19-878243-8 (pb).

Disloyal Mothers and Scurrilous Citizens: Women and Subversion During World War I.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Kathleen Kennedy. Disloyal Mothers and Scurrilous Citizens: Women and Subversion During World War I. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. xx + 170 pp. ISBN 0-253-33565-5 (cl).

Women in Republican China: A Sourcebook.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Hua R. Lan and Vanessa L. Fong, eds. Women in Republican China: A Sourcebook. Introduction by Christina Kelley Gilmartin. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1999. xxv + 239 pp.; biographical notes, glossary. ISBN: 0-7656-0342-x (cl); 0-7656-0343-8...

The Queen's Poor: Life as They Find It in Town and Country.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Martha Loane. The Queen's Poor: Life as They Find It in Town and Country. Eds. Susan Cohen and Clive Fleay. 1905; reprint, London: Middlesex University Press, 1998. lvi + 312 pp. ISBN 1-898253-22-6 (pb).

Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Suzanne Mettler. Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998. xv + 239 pp.; tables; maps. ISBN 0-8014-3329-0 (cl); 0-8014-3329-8546-0 (pb)

A Wild Country Out in the Garden: The Spiritual Journals of a Colonial Mexican Nun.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Kathleen A. Myers and Amanda Powell, eds. and trans. A Wild Country Out in the Garden: The Spiritual Journals of a Colonial Mexican Nun. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. xiii + 386pp., ill. ISBN 0-253-33581-7 (cl)

Pioneering Deans of Women: More Than Wise and Pious Matrons.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Jana Nidiffer. Pioneering Deans of Women: More Than Wise and Pious Matrons. New York: Teachers College Press, 2000. xiv + 174 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8077-3915-4 (cl.); 0-8077-39154-6 (pb).

Joan of Arc: Her Story.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Regine Pernoud and Marie-Veronique Clin. Joan of Arc: Her Story. Rev. ed. Trans. by Jeremy Duquesnay Adams. Ed. Bonnie Wheeler. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. xxii + 304 pp.; ill.; appendixes. ISBN 0-312-21442-1 (cl); 0-312-22730-2 (pb).

In Struggle Against Jim Crow: Lulu B. White and the NAACP, 1900-1957.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Merline Pitre. In Struggle Against Jim Crow: Lulu B. White and the NAACP, 1900-1957. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1999. xiv + 181 pp. ISBN 0-89096-869-1 (cl).

My Turn to Weep: Salvadoran Refugee Women in Costa Rica.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Robin Ormes Quizar. My Turn to Weep: Salvadoran Refugee Women in Costa Rica. Westport, Conn.: Bergen & Garvey, 1998. xvii + 196 pp. ISBN 0-89789-540-1 (cl).

Women in Islam and the Middle East: A Reader.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Ruth Roded, ed. Women in Islam and the Middle East: A Reader. London: I. B. Tauris, 1999. xv + 271 pp.; tables. ISBN 1-86064-308-6 (cl); 1-86064309-4 (pb).

Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Will Roscoe. Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. viii + 319 pp.; ill.; tables; glossary. ISBN 0-312-17539-6 (cl).

Hide: A Child's View of the Holocaust.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Naomi Samson. Hide: A Child's View of the Holocaust. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. xii + 194 pp.; ill.; no bibliography or index. ISBN 0-8032-9272-4 (pb).

Reproducing the State.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Stevens, Jacqueline. Reproducing the State. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999. vii + 307 pp. ISBN 0-691-01714-X (cl); 0-691-017131 (pb).

Cuban and Cuban-American Women: An Annotated Bibliography.(Review)
March 22, 2001... K. Lynn Stoner, with Luis Hipolito Serrano Perez, eds. and comps. Cuban and Cuban-American Women: An Annotated Bibliography. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 2000. xxii + 189 pp.; no bibliography. ISBN 0-8420-2643-6 (cl).

Getting and Spending: European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Susan Strasser, Charles McGovern, and Matthias Judt, eds. Getting and Spending: European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. ix + 477 pp.; ill.; tables. ISBN 0-521-62237-9 (cl);...

Inside the Citadel: Men and the Emancipation of Women, 1850-1920.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Richard Symonds. Inside the Citadel: Men and the Emancipation of Women, 1850-1920. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. ix + 208 pp. ISBN 0-312-22202-5 (cl).

The Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Kathleen Thompson and Hilary Mac Austin, eds. The Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present. Introduction by Darlene Clark Hine. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. vii + 258 pp. ISBN 0-253-33635-X...

Women's Roles in Ancient Civilizations: A Reference Guide.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Bella Vivante, ed. Women's Roles in Ancient Civilizations: A Reference Guide. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999. vii + 389 pp.; ill.; maps. ISBN 0-313-30127-1 (cl).

Ladies, knights, feminists: Women's emancipation discourse in Poland.(Ladies, knights, feminists: Women's emancipation discourse in Poland)(Review)
March 22, 2001... Slawomira Walczewska. Damy, rycerze, feministki: Kobiecy dyskurs emancypacyjny w Polsce (Ladies, knights, feminists: Women's emancipation discourse in Poland). Krakow: Wydawnictwo eFKa, 1999. 198 pp.; no index. ISBN 83-910362-0-0 (pb).

Germaine Greer: Untamed Shrew.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Christine Wallace. Germaine Greer: Untamed Shrew. New York: Faber and Faber, 1998. xiii + 333 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-571-19934-8 (cl).

Listening to Heloise: The Voice of a Twelfth-Century Woman.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Bonnie Wheeler, ed. Listening to Heloise: The Voice of a Twelfth-Century Woman. Vol. 14 of The New Middle Ages. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. xxii + 394 pp. ISBN 0-312-21354-9 (cl).

Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World: Regulating Desire, Reforming Practice.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks. Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World: Regulating Desire, Reforming Practice. London: Routledge, 2000. ix + 277 pp.; ill.; no bibliography. ISBN 0-415-14434-7 (cl); 0-415-1443-45 (pb).

Strangers in the Land of Paradise: The Creation of an African American Community, Buffalo, New York 1900-1940.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Lillian Serece Williams. Strangers in the Land of Paradise: The Creation of an African American Community, Buffalo, New York 1900-1940. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. xvii + 273 pp.; ill.; maps; charts, appendixes. ISBN...

Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Karin Wulf. Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2000. xii + 217 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8014-3702-4 (cl).

He is the Sun, She is the Moon: Women in Early Modern Germany.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Heide Wunder. He is the Sun, She is the Moon: Women in Early Modern Germany. Trans. Thomas Dunlap. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. x + 310 pp. ISBN 0-674-38321-4 (cl).

The Power of Solitude: My Life in the German Resistance.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Marion Yorck von Wartenburg. The Power of Solitude: My Life in the German Resistance. Ed. and trans. Julie M. Winter. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. xxxi + 96 pp.; ill.; no bibliography. ISBN 0-80329915-x (pb).