Journal of Women's History articles from September 1998

Journal of Women's History archives from September 1998

MAPPING RACIAL BOUNDARIES: Gender, Race, and Poor Relief in Barbadian Plantation Society.
September 22, 1998... This article explores problems the intersections of race, gender, and class created in the construction of the identities and material realities of white women in Barbados during the era of plantation slavery. Of the diverse...

VALUING CARE: Turn-of-the-Century Conflicts between Charity Workers and Women Clients.
September 22, 1998... During the late nineteenth and early twentieth Centuries, the New York Charity Organization Society (COS) often clashed with women clients about placing sick and disabled family members in hospitals and sanatoria. Although the...

FEDERAL EXPANSION, FERTILITY CONTROL, AND PHYSICIANS IN THE UNITED STATES: The Politics of Maternal Welfare in the Interwar Years.
September 22, 1998... This article reconsiders connections between the movements for birth control and maternal and infant welfare in the early-twentieth-century United States. I argue that since both movements were dedicated to lowering infant and...

WOMEN, AUDIENCE, AND PUBLIC ACTS IN MEDIEVAL FLANDERS.
September 22, 1998... The intersection of economic dynamism, Germanic custom, and religious decentralization made thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Flanders one of the most heterosocial societies in Europe. The county's primarily oral-aural...

EUGENICS, SPIRITUALITY, AND SEX DIFFERENTIATION IN EDWARDIAN ENGLAND: The Case of Frances Swiney.
September 22, 1998... Frances Swiney, a prominent Edwardian suffragist and Theosophist, used both scientific/eugenic ideas and spiritualism to argue that women represented a higher stage of evolutionary development than men and that women therefore ...

FROM CONCUBINES TO CAPITALISTS: Women, Property, and Power in Eighteenth-Century Cairo.
September 22, 1998... From what is left by parents And those nearest related There is a share for men And a share for women Qur'an, S.IV:7 This article shows how property rights granted to women under Islamic law empowered women in the eighteenth...

GETTING TO THE SOURCE.
September 22, 1998... Hetty Shepard, Dorothy Dudley, and Other Fictional Colonial Women I Have Come to Know Altogether Too Well In a commendable attempt to make available to current undergraduates authentic documents written by colonial American women,...

An Archival Resource: INS Case Files on Chinese Women in the American Midwest.
September 22, 1998... In conducting research on Chinese women in the United States during the Chinese exclusion period (1882-1943), historians have concentrated on women residing on the East and West Coasts. By examining the use of the Midwest ...

Languages of Labor and Gender: Female Factory Work in Germany, 1850-1914.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Kathleen Canning. Languages of Labor and Gender: Female Factory Work in Germany, 1850-1914. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1996. 343 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8014-3123-9 (cl). It is hard to believe that only ten years ago, "gender" was...

Unruly Women of Paris: Images of the Commune.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Gay L. Gullickson. Unruly Women of Paris: Images of the Commune. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1996. 283 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8014-3228-6 (cl); 0-8014-8318-2 (pb). It is hard to believe that only ten years ago, "gender" was largely...

Public Men and Virtuous Women: The Gendered Languages of Religion and Politics in Upper Canada, 1791-1850.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Cecilia Morgan. Public Men and Virtuous Women: The Gendered Languages of Religion and Politics in Upper Canada, 1791-1850. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. 304 pp. ISBN 0-8020-0725-2 (cl); 0-8020-7671-8 (pb). It is hard to...

Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Joan Wallach Scott. Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996. 229 pp. ISBN 0-674-63930-8 (cl). It is hard to believe that only ten years ago, "gender" was largely a...

Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Gail Hershatter. Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xii + 591 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-520-20438-7 (cl); 0-520-20439-5 (pb). State-regulated female...

Interzones: Black/White Sex Districts in Chicago and New York in the Early Twentieth Century.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Kevin J. Mumford. Interzones: Black/White Sex Districts in Chicago and New York in the Early Twentieth Century. New York: New York University Press, 1997. xix + 238 pp. ISBN 0-231-1492-8 (cl); 0-231-10493-6 (pb). State-regulated female...

The Prostitution Prism.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Gail Pheterson. The Prostitution Prism. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 1996. 176 pp. ISBN 90-5356-176-5 (pb). State-regulated female prostitution was one of the first modern public health campaigns. From the Napoleonic wars to...

Feminizing Venereal Disease: The Body of the Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century Medical Discourse.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Mary Spongberg. Feminizing Venereal Disease: The Body of the Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century Medical Discourse. New York: New York University Press, 1996. x + 231 pp. ISBN 0-8147-8060-1 (cl). State-regulated female prostitution was one...

Ah Ku and Karayuki-san: Prostitution in Singapore.(Review)
September 22, 1998... James Francis Warren. Ah Ku and Karayuki-san: Prostitution in Singapore. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1993. xvi + 433 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-19-588616-X (cl). State-regulated female prostitution was one of the first modern public health...

The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Luise White. The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. xi + 285 pp. ISBN 0-226-89507-6 (pb). State-regulated female prostitution was one of the first modern public health...

The Concept of the Goddess.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Sandra Billington and Miranda Green, eds. The Concept of the Goddess. London: Routledge, 1996. xiv + 192 pp.; ill.; map. ISBN 0-415-14421-3 (cl). Inclusion. Equality. Difference. Separatism. Sexuality. Womantalk. These concepts have...

Old Norse Images of Women.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Jenny Jochens. Old Norse Images of Women. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. xv + 326 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3358-1 (cl). Inclusion. Equality. Difference. Separatism. Sexuality. Womantalk. These concepts have driven feminist...

Early Christian Women and Pagan Opinion: The Power of the Hysterical Woman.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Margaret Y. MacDonald. Early Christian Women and Pagan Opinion: The Power of the Hysterical Woman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xiv + 276 pp. ISBN 0-521-56174-4 (cl); 0-521-56728-9 (pb). Inclusion. Equality. Difference....

Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns through Two Millennia.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Jo Ann McNamara. Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns through Two Millennia. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996. xi + 751 pp. ISBN 0-674-80984-X (cl). Inclusion. Equality. Difference. Separatism. Sexuality. Womantalk. These...

Profiles of Anabaptist Women: Sixteenth-Century Reforming Pioneers.(Review)
September 22, 1998... C. Arnold Snyder and Linda A. Huebert Hecht, eds. Profiles of Anabaptist Women: Sixteenth-Century Reforming Pioneers. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1996. xxi + 438 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-88920-277-X (pb). Inclusion....

Women's Monasticism and Medieval Society: Nunneries in France and England, 890-1215.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Bruce L. Venarde. Women's Monasticism and Medieval Society: Nunneries in France and England, 890-1215. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997. xix + 243 pp.; ill.; maps. ISBN 0-8014-3203-0 (cl). Inclusion. Equality. Difference....

Women, Art, and Spirituality: The Poor Clares of Early Modern Italy.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Jeryldene Wood. Women, Art, and Spirituality: The Poor Clares of Early Modern Italy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xiv + 272 pp.; ill.; maps. ISBN 0-524-49602-0 (pb). Inclusion. Equality. Difference. Separatism. Sexuality....

New-Born Child Murder: Women, Illegitimacy, and the Courts in Eighteenth-Century England.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Mark Jackson. New-Born Child Murder: Women, Illegitimacy, and the Courts in Eighteenth-Century England. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996. vii + 206 pp. ISBN 0-7190-4607-6 (cl). Why do "secret" or stigmatized practices become...

Substance and Shadow: Women and Addiction in the United States.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Stephen R. Kandall. Substance and Shadow: Women and Addiction in the United States. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996. vii + 353 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-674-85360-1 (cl). Why do "secret" or stigmatized practices become visible...

Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture since 1870.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Katherine Ott. Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture since 1870. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996. viii + 242 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-674-29910-8 (cl). Why do "secret" or stigmatized practices become visible and...

When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Leslie J. Reagan. When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. viii + 387 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-520-08848-4 (cl). Why do "secret" or stigmatized practices...

Single Mothers and Their Children: Disposal, Punishment, and Survival in Australia.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Shurlee Swain with Renate Howe. Single Mothers and Their Children: Disposal, Punishment, and Survival in Australia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. v + 264 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-521-47443-4 (cl). Why do "secret" or stigmatized...

Teresa of Avila and the Politics of Sanctity.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Gillian T. W. Ahlgren. Teresa of Avila and the Politics of Sanctity. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1996. ix + 188 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3232-4 (cl). Ahlgren examines the theological and ecclesiastical climate of sixteenth-century...

Shattering Silence: Women, Nationalism, and Political Subjectivity in Northern Ireland.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Begona Aretxaga. Shattering Silence: Women, Nationalism, and Political Subjectivity in Northern Ireland. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997. xiv + 211 pp. ISBN 0-691-03755-8 (cl); 0-691-03754-x (pb). Aretxaga writes an...

Women in Nigeria: An Annotated Bibliography.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Uche Azikiwe, ed. Women in Nigeria: An Annotated Bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996. x + 144 pp. ISBN 0-313-29960-9 (cl). Azikiwe suggests that this bibliography will help in the efforts to improve the quality of the...

Land of Women: Tales of Sex and Gender from Early Ireland.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Lisa M. Bitel. Land of Women: Tales of Sex and Gender from Early Ireland. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1996. xvi + 307 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-9014-3095-X (cl). This work seeks to offer an understanding of gender roles and relations...

A Nationality of Her Own: Women, Marriage, and the Law of Citizenship.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Candice Lewis Bredbenner. A Nationality of Her Own: Women, Marriage, and the Law of Citizenship. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xi + 294 pp. ISBN 0-520-20650-9 (cl). In this first comprehensive exploration of U.S. policy...

The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Susan E. Cayleff. Babe: The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. xiv + 327 pp. ISBN 0--252-06593X (pb). Cayleff explores the life and legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1911-1956), one...

Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Myriam J. A. Chancy. Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997. xxv + 246 pp. ISBN 1-56639-539-9 (cl); 1-56639-540-2 (pb). Chancy explores how Afro-Caribbean women in...

Women in the Streets: Essays on Sex and Power in Renaissance Italy.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. Women in the Streets: Essays on Sex and Power in Renaissance Italy. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. ix + 250 pp. ISBN 0-8018-5309-5 (cl); 0-8018-5308-7 (pb). Cohn dwells on two theses throughout...

Maria Izquierdo: 1902-1955.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Teresa del Conde and Luis-Martin Lozano. Maria Izquierdo: 1902-1955. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996. 128 pp.; ill.; no index. ISBN 1-889410-00-4 (pb). Maria Izquierdo: 1902-1955 presents ninety-four of the Mexican artist's...

Justyna's Narrative.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Gusta Davidson Draenger. Justyna's Narrative. Trans. Roslyn Hirsch and David H. Hirsch. Ed. and with an Introduction by Eli Pfefferkorn and David H. Hirsch. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996. xiii + 144 pp.; ill.; map; no...

Eleanor of Aquitaine and Six Others, vol. 1 of Women of the Twelfth Century.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Georges Duby. Eleanor of Aquitaine and Six Others, vol. 1 of Women of the Twelfth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. 104 pp.; no index; no bibliography. ISBN 0-226-16776-3 (cl); 0-226-16780-1 (pb). This volume includes...

The Walled-Up Wife: A Casebook.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Alan Dundes, ed. The Walled-Up Wife: A Casebook. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. xi + 210 pp. ISBN 0-299-15074-7 (pb). Dundes offers eighteen essays devoted to the folkloric ballad about the immurement of women within a...

Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Rebecca Edwards. Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. xii + 232 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-19-511695-X (cl); 0-19-511696-8 (pb). Angels in...

Playing Nice: Politics and Apologies in Women's Sports.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Mary Jo Festle. Playing Nice: Politics and Apologies in Women's Sports. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. xvii + 379 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-231-10162-7 (cl). This history of women's sports in the United States since the 1950s looks at...

Taking Christianity to China: Alabama Missionaries in the Middle Kingdom, 1850-1950.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Wayne Flynt and Gerald W. Berkley. Taking Christianity to China: Alabama Missionaries in the Middle Kingdom, 1850-1950. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997. ix + 424 pp. ISBN 0-8173-0833-4 (cl). Though only a fraction of 1...

Abortion Politics: Public Policy in Cross-Cultural Perspective.(Review)
September 22, 1998... This anthology is a four-part comparative analysis of abortion policy in industrialized countries. Part 1 explores the legal constraints resulting from the constitutionalization of abortion issues, the framing of abortion as a matter of...

Dutch Culture Overseas: Colonial Practice in the Netherlands Indies, 1900-1942.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Frances Gouda. Dutch Culture Overseas: Colonial Practice in the Netherlands Indies, 1900-1942. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1995. ix + 304 pp.; ill. ISBN 90-5356-178-1 (pb). This book centers around the idea that the culture...

Technohistory: Using the History of American Technology in Interdisciplinary Research.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Chris Hables Gray, ed. Technohistory: Using the History of American Technology in Interdisciplinary Research. Malabar, Fla.: Krieger Publishing Company, 1996. xvi + 280 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-89464-853-5 (pb). Technology always has been an...

Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Elizabeth Haiken. Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. ix + 370 pp.; ill.; no bibliography. ISBN 8018-5763-5 (cl). This book examines the development of cosmetic surgery in the...

Love across the Color Line: The Letters of Alice Hanley to Channing Lewis.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz and Kathy Peiss, eds. Love across the Color Line: The Letters of Alice Hanley to Channing Lewis. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996. xii + 144 pp.; ill. ISBN 1-55849-023-X (cl); 1-55849-024-8 (pb). ...

Women according to Men: The World of Tudor-Stuart Women.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Suzanne W. Hull. Women according to Men: The World of Tudor-Stuart Women. Walnut Creek, Calif.: Alta Mira Press, 1996. 239 pp. ISBN 0-7619-9119-0 (cl); 0-7619-9120-0 (pb). As the title suggests, this book uses the writings of men in...

Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Eva Illous. Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xiii + 371 pp. ISBN 0-520-20275-9 (cl); 0-520-20571-5 (pb). Illous argues that the body of...

The Antipolygamy Controversy in the U.S. Women's Movements, 1880-1925: A Debate on the American Home.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Iversen explores the relationships between the nineteenth-century suffrage and social purity movements and activist Mormon women. She argues that suffragists and elite Mormon women shared ideals of female social and economic autonomy which...

The Politics of Motherhood: Activist Voices from Left to Right.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Alexis Jetter, Annelise Orleck, and Diana Taylor. The Politics of Motherhood: Activist Voices from Left to Right. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1997. x + 386 pp. ISBN 0-87451-779-6 (cl); 0-87451-780-X (pb). In this...

Women in Medieval England.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Helen Jewell. Women in Medieval England. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996. vii + 210 pp. ISBN 0-7190-4016-7 (cl). This volume offers a comprehensive overview of women's roles and status in medieval English society. While the...

Made in God's Image: Eve and Adam in the Genesis Mosaics at San Marco, Venice.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Penny Howell Jolly. Made in God's Image: Eve and Adam in the Genesis Mosaics at San Marco, Venice. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xv + 142 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-520-20537-5 (cl). The focus of this study are the mosaics of the...

Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Gary Kelly. Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft. Rev. ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. vii + 249 pp. ISBN 0-312-12904-1 (pb). Kelly positions his close reading of Wollstonecraft's literary output in...

Celestial Sirens: Nuns and their Music in Early Modern Milan.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Robert L. Kendrick. Celestial Sirens: Nuns and their Music in Early Modern Milan. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. xxi + 556 pp.; musical scores. ISBN 0-19-816408-4 (cl). While the cloistered nuns of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century...

Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Judith Walzer Leavitt and Ronald L. Numbers, eds. Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. xi + 587 pp.; ill.; charts. ISBN 0-299-15320-7 (cl);...

The Ladies of Zamora.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Peter Linehan. The Ladies of Zamora. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. xvi + 192 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-271-01682-5 (cl). Utilizing a vast array of archival sources located throughout Spain, Linehan has created a...