Journal of Women's History articles from September 1999

Journal of Women's History archives from September 1999

WOMEN'S HISTORY IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM: Women, Work, and Family after Two Decades.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Introduction As part of our ongoing consideration of the past, present, and future of women's history, we offer a retrospective on a classic work in the field, Louise A. Tilly and Joan W. Scott's Women, Work, and Family, published in...

Women and the Household Economy in the Preindustrial Period: An Assessment of Women, Work, and Family.
September 22, 1999... In assessing the place of Louise A. Tilly and Joan W. Scott's work on the study of women's contribution to work and family, I propose three broad contexts in which to examine their book. I will look backward to the work of Alice Clark in The...

Women, Work, and Family: The View from the United States.
September 22, 1999... It has been twenty years now since the appearance of Louise A. Tilly and Joan W. Scott's overview of the interaction of women's work and family life in England and France since the early eighteenth century. The passage of time and ensuing...

Women, Work, and Family Revisited.
September 22, 1999... When it first appeared in 1978, Women, Work, and Family by Louise A. Tilly and Joan W. Scott was, as they claimed, "like a map of relatively uncharted territory."(1) It remained so for some time. Nine years later, in the introduction to the...

History/Women's History: Then/Now.
September 22, 1999... The timing of this discussion of Louise A. Tilly and Joan W. Scott's Women, Work, and Family coincides not only with the countdown to the second millennium of the common era but also the twentieth anniversary of the book's first publication....

POISONOUS WOMEN: Sexual Danger, Illicit Violence, and Domestic Work in German Southern Africa, 1904-1915.
September 22, 1999... August 1912 marked the opening of the most notorious criminal trial in the history of German imperial rule in Southwest Africa (Deutsch-Sudwestafrika, DSWA), now Namibia. Colonial farmer Ludwig Cramer stood accused of systematically shackling...

VIOLENT AND VIOLATED WOMEN: Justice and Gender in Rural Guatemala, 1936-1956.
September 22, 1999... Violence against women in Guatemala offers an intriguing commentary on gender relations in a racialized society, as do "gendered crimes," which were defined in a way that only women could commit them. This article explores the social meanings...

DRESSING UP AND DRESSING DOWN: Prostitution, Pornography, and the Seventeenth-Century English Textile Industry.
September 22, 1999... In 1696, John Dunton began publishing his eccentric serialized expose of London prostitutes, The Nightwalker: or, Evening Rambles in search After Lewd Women, With the conferences Held with Them, Etc. To Be publish'd Monthly, `Till a Discovery...

RESPECTING "THE WISE ALLOTMENT OF OUR SPHERE": White Women and Politics in Mississippi, 1840-1860.
September 22, 1999... In a letter dated 8 March 1853, "The Ladies" of Ripley, Mississippi, expressed to local attorney Charles D. Fontaine their "highest satisfaction" with his decision to run for judge of the circuit court in their district. "We trust we may not...

SOVIET "CIVIC-MINDED WOMEN" IN THE 1930s: Gender, Class, and Industrialization in a Socialist Society.
September 22, 1999... Gender, Class, and Industrialization in a Socialist Society In August 1934, Grigorii Ordzhonikidze, commissar of heavy industry, toured new industrial complexes in the Urals. As he inspected these enterprises, many of them equipped with...

WOMEN AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Pearl S. Buck's Critique of the Cold War.
September 22, 1999... When Pearl S. Buck addressed an alumnae gathering of her alma mater, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, in June 1933, she began somewhat wistfully that she would have liked to discuss "Women and International Relations." She lamented, however,...

GETTING TO THE SOURCE The World Wide Web of Resources for Women's History.
September 22, 1999... It is no secret that the Internet has become one of the most ubiquitous venues known to humans (and computer viruses) for the dissemination of information. The Internet is limitless, and for scholars it has the potential to provide...

Spinning Fantasies: Rabbis, Gender, and History.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Miriam B. Peskowitz. Spinning Fantasies: Rabbis, Gender, and History. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997. xiv + 249 pp. ISBN 0-520-20831-5 (cl); 0-520-20967-2 (pb). The study of women in antiquity presents the modern...

Perpetua's Passion: The Death and Memory of a Young Roman Woman.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Joyce E. Salisbury. Perpetua's Passion: The Death and Memory of a Young Roman Woman. New York: Routledge, 1997. 228 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-415-91836-7 (cl); 0-415-91837-5 (pb). The study of women in antiquity presents the modern scholar with a...

Domestic Dangers: Women, Words, and Sex in Early Modern London.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Laura Gowing. Domestic Dangers: Women, Words, and Sex in Early Modern London. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. 301 pp. ISBN 0-19-820517-1 (cl). Contemporary consumers of modern media are perhaps more sensitive than ever to the...

Chrysalides: Femmes dans la Vie Privee (XIXe-XXe Siecles).(Review)
September 22, 1999... Anne-Marie Sohn. Chrysalides: Femmes dans la Vie Privee ([XIX.sup.e]-[XX.sup.e] Siecles). 2 vols. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1996. 1095 pp. ISBN 2-85944--289-8 (pb). Contemporary consumers of modern media are perhaps more...

Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Melinda Chateauvert. Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xiv + 267 pp. ISBN 0-252-06636-7 (pb). Neither race nor politics exist as stable, timeless categories....

Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Laura E Edwards. Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xvi + 378 pp. ISBN 0-252-06600-6 (pb). Neither race nor politics exist as stable, timeless categories....

African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Ann D. Gordon with Bettye Collier-Thomas, John H. Bracey, Arlene Voski Avakian, and Joyce Avrech Berkman, eds. African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. 214 pp. ISBN 1-55849-059-0 (pb)....

Southern Strategies: Southern Women and the Woman Suffrage Question.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Elna C. Green. Southern Strategies: Southern Women and the Woman Suffrage Question. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xx + 287 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2323-5 (cl); 0-8078-4641-4 (pb). Neither race nor politics exist as...

To Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Tera W. Hunter. To `Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. ix + 311 pp. ISBN 0-674-89309-3 (cl). Neither race nor politics exist as stable, timeless...

A Diplomacy of the Oppressed: New Directions in International Feminism.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Georgina Ashworth, ed. A Diplomacy of the Oppressed: New Directions in International Feminism. London: Zed Books, 1995. 248 pp. ISBN 1-85649-143-9 (cl); 1-85649-144-7 (pb). For centuries social critics and philosophers have commented on...

The Women and the Warriors: The U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1915-1946.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Carrie A. Foster. The Women and the Warriors: The U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1915-1946. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1995.422 pp. ISBN 0-8156-2625-8 (cl); ISBN 0-8156-2662-2 (pb). ...

Changing Differences: Women and the Shaping of American Foreign Policy, 1917-1994.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones. Changing Differences: Women and the Shaping of American Foreign Policy, 1917-1994. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1995. 275 pp. ISBN 0-8135-2166-1 (cl). For centuries social critics and philosophers...

Reconstructing Women's Thoughts: The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom before World War II.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Linda K. Schott. Reconstructing Women's Thoughts: The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom before World War II. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997. 211 pp. ISBN 0-8047-2746-5 (cl). For centuries social...

Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Kathy Peiss. Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture. New York: Metropolitan Books, 1998. xii + 334 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8050-5550-9 (cl). For several years, Kathy Peiss has been a leading researcher in a long-neglected field:...

The Last Diary of Tsaritsa Alexandra.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Tsaritsa Alexandra. The Last Diary of Tsaritsa Alexandra. Ed. Vladimir A. Kozlov and Vladimir M. Khrustalev. Introduction by Robert K. Massie. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997. 1vii + 225 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-300-07212-0 (cl).

Frauen arbeiten: Weibliche Erwerbstatigkeit in Ost- und Westdeutschland nach 1945.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Gunilla-Friederike Budde, ed. Frauen arbeiten: Weibliche Erwerbstatigkeit in Ost- und Westdeutschland nach 1945. Gottingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 1997. 301 pp.; charts. ISBN 3-525-01363-9 (pb).

Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women: Commodification, Consumption, and Cleanliness in Modern Zimbabwe.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Timothy Burke. Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women: Commodification, Consumption, and Cleanliness in Modern Zimbabwe. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1996. x + 298 pp. ISBN 0-8223-1753-2 (cl); 0-8223-1762-1 (pb).

How German Is She? Postwar West German Reconstruction and the Consuming Woman.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Erica Carter. How German Is She? Postwar West German Reconstruction and the Consuming Woman. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. xi + 272 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-472-10755-0 (cl).

The Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Catherine Clinton and Michele Gillespie, ed. The Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. xx + 274 pp. ISBN 0-19-511242-3 (cl); 0-19-511243-1 (pb).

Bitita's Diary: The Childhood Memoirs of Carolina Maria de Jesus.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Carolina Maria de Jesus. Bitita's Diary: The Childhood Memoirs of Carolina Maria de Jesus. Ed. Robert M. Levine. Trans. Emanuelle Oliveira and Beth Joan Vinkler. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1997. xxiv + 163 pp.; ill.; maps. ISBN 0-7656-0211-3...

Was sind Frauen? Was sind Manner? Geschlechterkonstruktionen im historischen Wandel.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Christiane Eifert, Angelika Epple, Martina Kessel, Marlies Michaelis, Claudia Nowak, Katharina Schicke, and Dorothea Weltecke, eds. Was sind Frauen? Was sind Manner? Geschlechterkonstruktionen im historischen Wandel. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp...

Prostitution and the Victorians.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Trevor Fisher. Prostitution and the Victorians. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. xxviii + 164 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-312-17583-3 (cl).

The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers: From Household and Factory to the Union Hall and Ballot Box.(Review)
September 22, 1999... John D. French and Daniel James, eds. The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers: From Household and Factory to the Union Hall and Ballot Box. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1997. viii + 320 pp.; ill.; graphs; tables. ISBN...

Women Healers and Physicians: Climbing a Long Hill.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Lillian R. Furst, ed. Women Healers and Physicians: Climbing a Long Hill. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997. vii + 274 pp. ISBN 0-8131-2011-X (cl).

Natural Eloquence: Women Reinscribe Science.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Barbara T. Gates and Ann B. Shteir, ed. Natural Eloquence: Women Reinscribe Science. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. xiii + 280 pp. ISBN 0-299-15480-7 (cl); 0-299-15484-X (pb).

On Being Female, Black, and Free: Essays by Margaret Walker, 1932-1992.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Maryemma Graham, ed. On Being Female, Black, and Free: Essays by Margaret Walker, 1932-1992. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997. x + 246 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-87049-980-7 (cl); 0-87049-981-5 (pb).

Death in the Victorian Family.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Pat Jalland. Death in the Victorian Family. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xii + 464 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-19-8201885-5 (cl).

A Course in Russian History: The Time of Catherine the Great.(Review)
September 22, 1999... V. O. Kliuchevsky. A Course in Russian History: The Time of Catherine the Great. Ed. and trans. Marshall S. Shatz. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1997. xxvii + 227 pp. ISBN 1-56324-526-4 (cl); 1-56324-527-2 (pb).

Contested Communities: Class, Gender, and Politics in Chile's El Teniente Copper Mine, 1904-1951.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Thomas Miller Klubock. Contested Communities: Class, Gender, and Politics in Chile's El Teniente Copper Mine, 1904-1951. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998. xiii + 363 pp.; maps. ISBN 0-8223-2092-4 (pb).

The Story of Suzanne Aubert.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Jessie Munro. The Story of Suzanne Aubert. Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press, 1996. 464 pp.; ill. ISBN 1-86940-155-7 (cl).

The Second Wave: A Reader in Feminist Theory.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Linda Nicholson, ed. The Second Wave: A Reader in Feminist Theory. New York: Routledge, 1997. ix-x + 414 pp. ISBN 0-415-91760-3 (cl); 0-415--91761-1 (pb).

The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Related by Herself.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Mary Prince. The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Related by Herself. Ed. Moira Ferguson. 1831; reprint, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. 173 pp.; appendices; no index. ISBN 0-472-08410-0 (pb).

Women's Activism in Contemporary Russia.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Linda Racioppi and Katherine O'Sullivan See. Women's Activism in Contemporary Russia. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997. xiii + 277 pp.; appendices. ISBN 1-56639-520-8 (cl); 1-56639-521-6 (pb).

Historia silenciada de la mujer. La mujer espanola desde la epoca medieval hasta la contemporanea.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Alain Saint-Saens, ed. Historia silenciada de la mujer. La mujer espanola desde la epoca medieval hasta la contemporanea. Madrid: Editorial Complutense, 1996. 179 pp. ISBN 84-89365-77-6 (pb).

The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Nancy Tomes. The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. xv + 351 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-674-35707-8 (cl).

Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Ida B. Wells. Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900. Ed. Jacqueline Jones Royster. Boston: Bedford Books, 1997. vii + 228 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-3121-2812-6 (cl).

BOOKS RECEIVED.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Philip E. Baruth, ed. Introducing Charlotte Clarke: Actress, Author, Enigma. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. viii + 250 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-252-02415-X (cl); 0-252-06723-1 (pb). Thomas J. Brown. Dorothea Dix: New Englander and...

ANNOUNCEMENTS.
September 22, 1999... The Journal has received the following announcements. Requests for inclusion of future announcements should reach us nine months prior to the deadline of the event (to ensure timely publication of posting and allow adequate time for...

Errata.(Correction Notice)
September 22, 1999... In volume 11, number 1 (spring 1999) issue, in "Women's History in the New Millennium: A Conversation," the reference on page 27 to Linda Gordon should be Ann D. Gordon. A space was inadvertently omitted in the name of Sweden's Women's...