Journal of Women's History articles from March 2002

Journal of Women's History archives from March 2002

Editor's note.(Editorial)
March 22, 2002... Ever since 11 September, it seems impossible to begin anything--a welcome speech, a newsletter column, an editor's note--without reflecting on the meaning of those cataclysmic events for the subject at hand. It is a bit like the millennium, but...

No color line at Loretto Academy: Catholic sisters and African Americans on Chicago's South Side.
March 22, 2002... One of the most enduring images of the modern civil rights movement is that of Catholic sisters in protest, marching in full habit down Dallas County roads from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in March 1965. Changing America forever, the movement...

Women coffee sorters confront the mill owners and the Veracruz revolutionary state, 1915-1918.
March 22, 2002... For a long time, the question of gender was ignored or marginalized in Latin American labor history. (1) While South American historians have taken the lead in addressing this issue, Mexican scholars have lagged somewhat behind. (2) This study...

The rural batrachka (hired agricultural laborer) and the Soviet campaign to unionize her.
March 22, 2002... When Vladimir Ilich Lenin, the head of the Soviet Union, introduced the New Economic Policy (NEP), in 1921, which partially restored the free market, he ushered in a time of relative calm and freedom for Russia's peasantry. The Communist...

Public words and body politics: reflections on the strategies of women poets in rural Yemen.
March 22, 2002... In the Republic of Yemen, as in other countries in the Middle East, dis courses of women's liberation have contributed continuously to the formation of a modern national polity. (1) Through years of socialist-inspired state building and...

Going against the grain: Hobbes's case for original maternal dominion.
March 22, 2002... In the Leviathan, Hobbes developed an enigmatic and politically contentious theory of the nature of gender relations. (1) His depiction of women as independent contractors in the state of nature, contractors even with the children they bear,...

Women's history in the new millennium: a retrospective analysis of Barbara Welter's "The Cult of True Womanhood, 1820-1860".(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... There may be no more frequently cited article than Barbara Welter's analysis of ideals for white middle-class northern urban American women in the early nineteenth century. Welter's exploration of prescriptive literature has since prompted...

True womanhood revisited.
March 22, 2002... Barbara Welter's article, "The Cult of True Womanhood, 1820-1860," arrived in my hands on the headwinds of the feminist seventies. It was in quiet awe, I remember, that I finally shut the covers of her Dimity Convictions. The essays in that...

Taking the true woman hostage.
March 22, 2002... In the late 1980s and 1990s, there was Joan Scott's "Gender: A Useful category of Historical Analysis" and Elsa Barkley Brown's "Womanist Consciousness"; before that, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg's "The Female World of Love and Ritual"; and in the...

Gendering religion.
March 22, 2002... Barbara Welter's "The Cult of True Womanhood, 1820-1860" shows how well any scholarly work might age: it reads as deftly now as ever, burdened neither by the considerable weight of the historical sources it interprets nor, as sometimes happens...

True womanhood in Latin America.
March 22, 2002... Since 1966, the image of ideal, nineteenth-century middle-class womanhood described by Barbara Welter has shaped not only U.S. history, but also women's history generally. It described a society that perceived itself as literate as well as...

Sex, race, gender and power: Southern Rhodesia and the American South.
March 22, 2002... Jock McCulloch. Black Peril, White Virtue: Sexual Crime in Southern Rhodesia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. ix + 272 pp. ISBN 0-253-33728-3 (cl). Laura F. Edwards. Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the...

Gender and medicine: blurring the boundaries of tradition.(4 books on women and medicine)
March 22, 2002... Nancy Rose Hunt. A Colonial Lexicon of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999. xix + 475 pp. ISBN 0-8223-2331-1 (cl); 0-8223-2366-4 (pb). Ellen Leopold, A Darker Ribbon: Breast...

Gender and the Americanization of Judaism.
March 22, 2002... Karla Goldman. Beyond the Synagogue Gallery: Finding a Place for Women in American Judaism. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. xii + 275 pp. ISBN 0-674-00221-0 (cl). Historian Karla Goldman examines the ways in which Jewish...

Interpreting marital status as a political and cultural marker in mid-twentieth-century Germany.
March 22, 2002... Elizabeth D. Heineman. What Difference Does a Husband Make? Women and Marital Status in Nazi and Postwar Germany. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xviii + 374 pp.; ill.; tables. ISBN 0-520-21425-0 (cl). The first World War...

Dissertations in women's history.(Bibliography)
March 22, 2002... Sanjam Ahluwalia, "Controlling Births, Policing Sexualities: A History of Birth Control in Colonial India, 1877-1946," University of Cincinnati, 2000, 321 pages. Gul Muhsine Aldikacti, "Framing, Culture, and Social Movements: A Comparison...