Journal of Women's History articles from September 2000

Journal of Women's History archives from September 2000

EDITOR'S NOTE.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... This issue continues our consideration of the past, present, and future of women's history, beginning with another contribution to "Women's History in the New Millennium." Five scholars from different parts of the world reflect on Carroll...

WOMEN'S HISTORY IN THE NEW MILLENIUM: Carroll Smith-Rosenberg's "The Female World of Love and Ritual" after Twenty-Five Years.
September 22, 2000... Introduction Continuing our consideration of classic works in women's history, launched with a retrospective on Louise Tilly and Joan Scott's Women, Work, and Family in the autumn 1999 issue, we turn here to what is certainly the most...

Female Worlds.
September 22, 2000... In her preface to Disorderly Conduct, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg wrote, "When all is said, it is to and for our daughters and their generation that we write. We want to tell them what we know. We wish them to understand what impelled us to fight...

Interfeminine Bonding: Reading Carroll Smith-Rosenberg from a Southern Indian Perspective.
September 22, 2000... Carroll Smith-Rosenberg's article "Female World of Love and Ritual" brought to light the largely ignored experience of intimate, loving friendship between two women. According to Rosenberg, women in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century North...

Female Friends in Nineteenth-Century Bohemia: Troubles with Affectionate Writing and "Patriotic Relationships".
September 22, 2000... When I first read Carroll Smith-Rosenberg's "Female World of Love and Ritual," I was fascinated by the uniqueness of the special friendships that allowed women to express affection toward each other in the allegedly sexually repressive...

Unveiling Relations: Women and Women--On Carroll Smith-Rosenberg's Research.
September 22, 2000... Carroll Smith-Rosenberg's research on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American women has offered two critiques of history and feminist theory. On the one hand, it is an example of herstory, while, on the other hand, it speaks to contemporary...

The Female World: Viewed from Denmark.
September 22, 2000... While rereading Carroll Smith-Rosenberg's "Female World of Love and Ritual," I was surprised by the number of times Smith-Rosenberg engaged in dialogue with psychiatric literature.(1) Today, I wonder if we would feel that psychiatry mattered,...

EPISTOLARY PASSIONS: Friendship and the Literary Public of Constance de Salm, 1767-1845.
September 22, 2000... Months after their first meeting in 1818, Therese, princess of Tour et Taxis, wrote to Constance, princess of Salm-Dyck: "I had scarcely arrived in Frankfurt when your letter was delivered.... Imagine what its contents made me feel? It is...

DEPICTING MESTIZAJE: Gendered Images of Ethnorace in Colonial Mexican Texts.
September 22, 2000... Colonial Latin American social history has been concerned for over twenty-five years with questions of identity and difference, especially with how classification of individuals helped determine their access to status and property. Yet scholars...

OLD NORMS IN NEW BOTTLES: Constructions of Gender and Ethnicity in the Early Tamil Novel.
September 22, 2000... You are wrong to argue that to be educated we must know English, and that if we teach only Tamil to women they will remain ignorant, never becoming scholars. Are there just two choices between complete knowledge and ignorance? If so, few could...

BENEFICENT MATERNALISM: Argentine Motherhood.
September 22, 2000... Argentine Motherhood in Comparative Perspective, 1880-1920 The Beneficent Society... is an impregnable fortress against which all hostile actions must fail."(1) Argentine president Carlos Pellegrini thus described the nation's most...

SINGLE MOTHERHOOD AND MATERNAL EMPLOYMENT IN DIVIDED GERMANY: Ideology, Policy, and Social Pressures in the 1950s.
September 22, 2000... In 1991, a poll of women of the former German Democratic Republic revealed that only 3 percent could imagine being housewives. In case any West German readers were confused, a respondent helpfully explained: "the role of `just-a-housewife' does...

RESCUING SEX FROM PRUDERY AND PRURIENCE: American Women's Use of Sex Education as an Antidote to Obscenity, 1925-1932.
September 22, 2000... In the 1920s and 1930s, audiences flocked to see strippers parade up and down runways, Rudolph Valentino take unconscious damsels to bed, and starlets reveal and trade their bodies for money. Such shows disturbed and puzzled many women--as much...

Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: Restoring Women to History.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Iris Berger and E. Frances White. Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: Restoring Women to History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. lxi + 169 pp.; maps. ISBN 0-253-33476-4-0 (cl); 0-253-21309-6 (pb). Women's History and World History...

Women in the Middle East and North Africa: Restoring Women to History.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Guity Nashat and Judith E. Tucker. Women in the Middle East and North Africa: Restoring Women to History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. lxi + 160 pp.; maps. ISBN 0-253-33478-0 (cl); 0-253-21264-2 (pb). Women's History and...

Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: Restoring Women to History.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Marysa Navarro and Virginia Sanchez Korrol, with Kecia Ali. Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: Restoring Women to History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. lxvii + 128 pp.; maps. ISBN 0253-33479-9 (cl); 0-253-21307-X (pb)....

Women in Asia: Restoring Women to History.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Barbara N. Ramusack and Sharon Sievers. Women in Asia: Restoring Women to History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. li + 266 pp.; maps. ISBN 0-253-33481-0 (cl); 0-253-21267-7 (pb). Women's History and World History When the...

Making the Amalgamated: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Baltimore Clothing Industry, 1899-1939.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Jo Ann E. Argersinger. Making the Amalgamated: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Baltimore Clothing Industry, 1899-1939. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. x + 229 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8018-5989-1 (cl). As numerous...

Spreading the Light: Work and Labour Reform in Late-Nineteenth-Century Toronto.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Christina Burr. Spreading the Light: Work and Labour Reform in Late-Nineteenth-Century Toronto. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. x + 254 pp.; ill.; tables. ISBN 0-8020-0940-9 (cl); 0-8020-7908-3 (pb). As numerous feminist...

Gender and the Politics of Office Work: The Netherlands, 1860-1940.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Francisca de Haan. Gender and the Politics of Office Work: The Netherlands, 1860-1940. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1998. 243 pp.; ill.; tables; appendixes. ISBN 90-5356-304-0 (cl). As numerous feminist historians have pointed...

Women Workers in the Soviet Interwar Economy: From "Protection'" to "Equality."(Review)
September 22, 2000... Melanie Ilic. Women Workers in the Soviet Interwar Economy: From "Protection'" to "Equality." New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. ix + 241 pp.; tables; glossary; appendixes. ISBN 0-312-21780-3 (cl). As numerous feminist historians have...

Steam Laundries: Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain 1880-1940.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Arwen P. Mohun. Steam Laundries: Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. x + 348 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8018-6002-4 (cl). As numerous feminist...

Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Samita Sen. Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xviii + 265 pp.; maps; tables. ISBN 0-521-45363-1 (cl). As numerous feminist historians have pointed out, the...

Engendered Encounters: Feminism and Pueblo Cultures, 1879-1934.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Margaret D. Jacobs. Engendered Encounters: Feminism and Pueblo Cultures, 1879-1934. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. xiii + 273 pp.;ill. ISBN 0-780803-276093. In 1895, American feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton asserted that...

White Women's Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Louise Michele Newman.White Women's Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. vii + 261 pp.; ill. ISBN 9-780195-124668. In 1895, American feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton asserted...

The Other Feminists: Activists in the Liberal Establishment.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Susan M. Hartmann. The Other Feminists: Activists in the Liberal Establishment. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998. ix + 292 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-300-07464-6 (cl). The two books reviewed here are part of an important trend in...

Feminism and the Politics of Working Women: The Women's Cooperative Guild, 1880s to the Second World War.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Gillian Scott. Feminism and the Politics of Working Women: The Women's Cooperative Guild, 1880s to the Second World War. London: University College London Press, 1998. xii + 297 pp. ISBN 1-85728-798-3 (cl). The two books reviewed here are...

Notable Women in American History: A Guide to Recommended Biographies and Autobiographies.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Lynda G. Adamson. Notable Women in American History: A Guide to Recommended Biographies and Autobiographies. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999. xiv + 450 pp.; appendixes. ISBN 0-313-29584-0 (cl).

A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader of Brigstock, c. 1295-1344.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Judith M. Bennett. A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader of Brigstock, c. 1295-1344. Boston: McGraw-Hill College, 1999. x + 147 pp.; ill.; glossary; no bibliography. ISBN 0-007-290331-7 (pb).

Women, the State, and Political Liberalization: Middle Eastern and North African Experiences.
September 22, 2000... Laurie A. Brand. Women, the State, and Political Liberalization: Middle Eastern and North African Experiences. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. xviii + 320 pp. ISBN 0-231-11266-1 (cl); 0-231-11267-X (pb).

Women of Courage: Jewish and Italian Immigrant Women in New York.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Rose Laub Coser, Laura S. Anker, and Andrew J. Perrin. Women of Courage: Jewish and Italian Immigrant Women in New York. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999. x + 162 pp.; tables; appendix. ISBN 0-31330820-9 (cl).

Towards Emancipation: German Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Carol Diethe. Towards Emancipation: German Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century. New York: Berghahn, 1998. viii + 214 pp.; ill. ISBN 1-57181-932-0 (cl); 1-57181-933-9 (pb).

Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1726.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Josephine Donovan. Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1726. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. xiii + 176 pp.; no bibliography. ISBN 0-312-21827-3 (cl).

Yours in Sisterhood: Ms. Magazine and the Promise of Popular Feminism.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Amy Erdman Farrell. Yours in Sisterhood: Ms. Magazine and the Promise of Popular Feminism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xi + 232 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8078-2424-0 (cl); 0-8078-4735-6 (pb).

Bodies of Modernity: Figure and Flesh in Fin-de-Siecle France.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Tamar Garb. Bodies of Modernity: Figure and Flesh in Fin-de-Siecle France. London: Thames and Hudson, 1998. 240 pp.; ill. ISBN: 0-500-01842-1 (cl); 0-500-28049-5 (pb).

Refusing the Favor: The Spanish-Mexican Women of Sante Fe, 1820-1880.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Deena J. Gonzales. Refusing the Favor: The Spanish-Mexican Women of Sante Fe, 1820-1880. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xx + 186 pp.; ill.; tables; figures; maps. ISBN 0-19-507890-X (cl).

We Have Come to Stay: American Women and Political Parties, 1880-1960.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Melanie Gustafson, Kristie Miller, and Elisabeth Israels Perry, eds. We Have Come to Stay: American Women and Political Parties, 1880-1960. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. xiv + 205 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8263-1969-6 (cl);...

The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Hildegard of Bingen. The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen. Vol. 2. Ed. and trans. by Joseph L. Baird and Radd K. Ehrman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xv + 215 pp.; scriptural index. ISBN 0-19-512010-8 (cl).

Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Martha Hodes, ed. Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History. New York: New York University Press, 1999. xvi + 542 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8147-5336-8 (cl); 0-8147-3557-6 (pb).

Where the Wild Animals is Plentiful: Diary of an Alabama Fur Trader's Daughter, 1912-1914.(Review)
September 22, 2000... May Jordan. Where the Wild Animals is Plentiful: Diary of an Alabama Fur Trader's Daughter, 1912-1914. Ed. Elisa Moore Baldwin. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999. 263 pp.; ill.; appendix. ISBN 08173-0980-2 (cl).

Women and Christian Origins.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Ross Shepard Kraemer and Mary Rose D'Angelo, eds. Women and Christian Origins. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. x + 406 pp. ISBN 0-19-510395-5 (cl); 0-19-510396-3 (pb).

A Shared Experience: Men, Women, and the History of Gender.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Laura McCall and Donald Yacavone, eds. A Shared Experience: Men, Women, and the History of Gender. New York: New York University Press, 1998. xvi + 371 pp. ISBN 0-8147-9682-6 (cl); 0-8147-9683-4 (pb).

Gender, Law, and Resistance in India.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Erin P. Moore. Gender, Law, and Resistance in India. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. x + 205 pp.; no bibliography. ISBN 0-8165-18033 (cl).

A Fragile Union: New and Selected Writings.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Joan Nestle. A Fragile Union: New and Selected Writings. San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1998. 206 pp.; no index. ISBN 1-57344-040-X (pb).

Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Barbara Newman, ed. Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. ix + 278 pp.; ill.; tables; musical examples; discography. ISBN 0-520-20826-9 (cl); 0-520-21758-6 (pb).

Muslim Women of the British Punjab: From Seclusion to Politics.
September 22, 2000... Dushka Saiyid. Muslim Women of the British Punjab: From Seclusion to Politics. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. xix + 145 pp.; maps; glossary; appendixes. ISBN 0-312-21459-6 (cl).

Women Waging Law in Elizabethan England.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Tim Stretton. Women Waging Law in Elizabethan England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 1998. xv + 271 pp.; tables; maps. ISBN 0-521-49554-7 (cl).

Margaret Chase Smith: Model Public Servant.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Marlene Boyd Vallin. Margaret Chase Smith: Model Public Servant. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. xvii + 243 pp. ISBN 0-313-29163-2 (cl).

Whisper to the Black Candle: Voodoo, Murder, and the Case of Anjette Lyles.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Jaclyn Weldon White. Whisper to the Black Candle: Voodoo, Murder, and the Case of Anjette Lyles. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1999. 177 pp.; ill.; no bibliography. ISBN 0-86554-638-X (cl).

A History of Popular Women's Magazines in the United States 1792-1995.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Mary Ellen Zuckerman. A History of Popular Women's Magazines in the United States, 1792-1995. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. xi + 272 pp. ISBN 0-313-30675-3 (cl).

ERRATA.(Correction Notice)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... The following images were left out of Maria Bucur's article, "Between the Mother of the Wounded and the Virgin of Jiu: Romanian Women and the Gender of Heroism during the Great War," in the previous issue of the Journal. [ILLUSTRATION...