Journal of Women's History articles from September 1997

Journal of Women's History archives from September 1997

"To build up the morals of the tribe": Southern Ute women's sexual behavior and the Office of Indian Affairs, 1895-1932.
September 22, 1997... This article explores attempts of Office of Indian Affairs (OIA) agents on the Southern Ute reservation in southwestern Colorado to use Southern Ute women to "reform" Ute sexual and marital practices, as well as Ute women's responses to these...

Women "working" the law: gender, authority, and legal process in early modern France.
September 22, 1997... This article unpacks the contexts and meanings of one extended episode surrounding a notary's wife, her husband, their kin, his clients, and the judicial system. It suggests how women as agents and subjects were central in...

Practicing feminist politics: Emily Newell Blair and U.S. women's political choices in early twentieth century.
September 22, 1997... Emily Newell Blair played a major role in efforts to negotiate the meaning of political equality in the first decade of the Nineteenth Amendment. This examination of her choices as her role expanded from midwestern wife, mother, and clubwoman to...

Confronting continuity. (women's history)
September 22, 1997... This exploratory essay shows how attention to long-term continuities in the status of women can create new interpretive possibilities for women's history. These continuities suggest a patriarchal equilibrium that has worked to maintain the status...

A perspective from African women's history: comment on "Confronting Continuity." (article by Judith M. Bennett in this issue, p. 73)
September 22, 1997... In European History whether we have looked at ancient, medieval, early modern, or modern women, we have tended to see that era within a framework of transformation in women's status.... We pay lip service to continuity and then side heavily...

A comparative European perspective: comment on "Confronting Continuity". (response to article by Judith M. Bennett in this issue, p. 73)
September 22, 1997... Judith Bennett's elegant essay is timely and thought-provoking. The sometimes explicit, but even more frequently implicit bias toward "change" in the historiography of women's history that she addresses certainly calls for a considered...

A perspective from European and US women's history: comment on "Confronting Continuity". (response to article by Judith M. Bennett in this issue, p. 73)
September 22, 1997... Judith Bennett's article raises a number of important questions which, while they derive from the practice of women's history, pertain to general history as well. What is the relationship of "change" and "continuity" in history? Are "events"...

The construction of history.
September 22, 1997... Joan Scott's much discussed volume, Gender and the Politics of History, contains theoretical essays that are of special importance because, perhaps more than any other published work in the discipline, they provide a manifesto for the...

"Much more is at stake here...": a response to "The Construction of History." (article by Martin Bunzl in this issue, p. 119)
September 22, 1997... Given the current desire on the part of many historians to question and subsequently reaffirm or reformulate the philosophical foundations of the discipline, it is potentially constructive to have a philosopher assist in the endeavor.(1)...

Women's history and the National History Standards: an introduction.
September 22, 1997... Lynne Cheney, former head of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), ignited a vitriolic debate about the National History Standards with the publication in October 1994 of an op-ed essay entitled "The End of History" in the Wall...

Getting our feet wet: women of color and the National Standards for World History.
September 22, 1997... As a child I never loved history. In fact, I hated it. It was a domain in which I, as a person of color, had no place. When I peered into the "stream of human history," no familiar-looking faces looked back. The images I did see were as unreal...

Women's history and the National Standards for World History: a secondary teacher's perspective.
September 22, 1997... Ironically enough, in a time when content is taking a back seat to skill development and classroom management techniques, the National Standards for History: Basic Edition deals exclusively with content. In the real world, most teacher...

Women's history and the National Standards for World history: change and continuity.
September 22, 1997... The original edition of the Standards for world history (grades 5-12), published in 1994, comprises a whole book with numerous teaching examples, as do the original versions of the Standards for history (K-grade 4) and the Standards for U.S....

The National History Standards: let's go back to the basics.
September 22, 1997... I must confess that I had not read either the original or revised sets of the National History Standards until I prepared my remarks for the Berkshire Conference. But I had followed the controversy over them and, given their endorsement by the...

Comment on "Women's history and the National History Standards."
September 22, 1997... I have been asked to comment on these papers presumably both because I was a member of a panel organized by the Council for Basic Education to review the National History Standards and because I am a historian of women. Having read the papers,...

Women and Political Insurgency: France in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.
September 22, 1997... David Barry. London and New York: Macmillan Press Ltd. and St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1996. 208 pp. ISBN 0-312-12947-5 (cl). Few men or women engage in collective action, so those who do seem to be similar to one another and different from...

New Voices in the Nation: Women and the Greek Resistance, 1941-1964.
September 22, 1997... Janet Hart. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1996. 398 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8014-3044-5 (cl); ISBN 0-8014-8219-4 (pb). Few men or women engage in collective action, so those who do seem to be similar to one another and different from others in...

Defying Male Civilization: Women in the Spanish Civil War.
September 22, 1997... Mary Nash. Denver, Colo.: Arden Press, Inc., 1995. 261 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-912869 16-x (cl). Few men or women engage in collective action, so those who do seem to be similar to one another and different from others in their society They may be...

Women of the Far Right: The Mothers' Movement and World War II.
September 22, 1997... Glen Jeansonne. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 288 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-226-39587-1(cl). Few men or women engage in collective action, so those who do seem to be similar to one another and different from others in their society...

The Frontiers of Women's Writing: Women's Narratives and the Rhetoric of Westward Expansion.
September 22, 1997... Brigitte Georgi-Findlay. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996. xx + 349 pp. ISBN 0-8165-1596-4 (cl); 0-81651597-2 (pb). For nearly a decade, the formerly staid and parochial field of western U.S. history has been rocked by controversies...

A Contest of Faiths: Missionary Women and Pluralism in the American Southwest.
September 22, 1997... Susan M. Yohn. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995. xi + 226 pp. ISBN 0-8014-2964-1 (cl); 0-8014-8273-9 (pb). For nearly a decade, the formerly staid and parochial field of western U.S. history has been rocked by controversies over the...

National Parks and the Woman's Voice.
September 22, 1997... Polly Welts Kaufman. University of New Mexico Press, 1996. xvi + 305 pp. ISBN 0-8263-1706-5. For nearly a decade, the formerly staid and parochial field of western U.S. history has been rocked by controversies over the New Western history....

Women, Family, and Society in Medieval Europe: Historical Essays, 1978-1991.
September 22, 1997... David Herlihy. ed. A. Molho. Providence: Berghahn Books, 1995. 410 pp. ISBN 1-57181-023-4 (cl); ISBN 1-57181-024-2 (pb). During the late medieval and early modern period, the ideal of manhood in Europe changed profoundly. The models of the...

Sex and Subjection: Attitudes Toward Women in Early-Modern Society.
September 22, 1997... Margaret R. Sommerville. London: Arnold, 1995. 287 pp. ISBN 0-34064573-3 (cl). During the late medieval and early modern period, the ideal of manhood in Europe changed profoundly. The models of the warrior and the monk, each pursuing his...

Defining Dominion: Discourses of Magic and Witchcraft in Early Modern France and Germany.
September 22, 1997... Gerhild Scholz Williams. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995. 234 pp. ISBN 0-472-10619-8 (cl). During the late medieval and early modern period, the ideal of manhood in Europe changed profoundly. The models of the warrior and the...

Malevolent Nurture: Witch-Hunting and Maternal Power in Early Modern England.
September 22, 1997... Deborah Willis. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995. 264 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3004-6 (cl); ISBN 0-8014-8194-5 (pb). During the late medieval and early modern period, the ideal of manhood in Europe changed profoundly. The models of the warrior...

The 'Girl Problem': Female Sexual Delinquency in New York, 1900-1930.
September 22, 1997... Ruth M. Alexander. 1900-1930. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1995. x + 200 pp. ISBN 0-8014-2821-1 (cl). Criminals, perverts, and delinquents have historically been defined as men; likewise, their violent or deviant actions have...

Fallen Women, Problem Girls: Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work, 1890-1945.
September 22, 1997... Regina G. Kunzel. 1890-1945. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1993. xi + 264 pp. ISBN 0-300-06509-4 (pb). Criminals, perverts, and delinquents have historically been defined as men; likewise, their violent or deviant actions have...

Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920.
September 22, 1997... Mary E. Odem. 1885-1920. Chapel Hill & London: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. xiv + 265 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2215-9(cl). Criminals, perverts, and delinquents have historically been defined as men; likewise, their violent or deviant...

Breaking the Codes: Female Criminality in Fin-de-Siecle Paris.
September 22, 1997... Ann-Louise Shapiro. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. vi + 265 pp. ISBN 0-8047-1663-3 (cl). Criminals, perverts, and delinquents have historically been defined as men; likewise, their violent or deviant actions have been...

Toronto's Girl Problem: The Perils and Pleasures of the City, 1880-1930.
September 22, 1997... Carolyn Strange. 1880-1930. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 1995. xi + 299 pp. ISBN 0-8020-0598-5 (pb). Criminals, perverts, and delinquents have historically been defined as men; likewise, their violent or deviant...

Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915.
September 22, 1997... Antoinette Burton. 1865-1915. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. xi + 301 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2161-6 (cl). Recent scholarly concerns with the makings of culture and identity have informed and simultaneously been informed by...

The White Woman's Other Burden: Western Women and South Asia During British Rule.
September 22, 1997... Kumari Jayawardena. New York: Routledge, 1995. x + 310 pp. ISBN 0-415-91105-2 (pb). Recent scholarly concerns with the makings of culture and identity have informed and simultaneously been informed by East-West dialogues. Postmodern and...

Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography.
September 22, 1997... Peter Corm, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xxvi + 468 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-521-56080-2 (cl). Recent scholarly concerns with the makings of culture and identity have informed and simultaneously been informed by East-West dialogues....

Women in Modern India.
September 22, 1997... Geraldine Forbes. The New Cambridge History of India, Part IV, Vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xix + 289 pp. ISBN 0-521-26812-5 (cl). Recent scholarly concerns with the makings of culture and identity have informed and...