Journal of Women's History articles from September 2001

Journal of Women's History archives from September 2001

Editor's note.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
September 22, 2001... Difference and similarity, peace and war, containment and revolution, nationalism and internationalism--these are the not-necessarily-opposite phenomena with which this issue grapples. We offer here an unusual variety of formats. First comes a...

Jane Grey Swisshelm, Elizabeth Keckley, and the significance of race consciousness in American women's history. (Theoretical Issues).
September 22, 2001... In the midst of the Great Depression, an Associated Press article appeared on one of the back pages of the Washington Star entitled, "Bizarre Lincoln Story is Traced, `Sob Sister' Revealed as Writer of Tragic Tale of Widow." According to the...

Pacifist thought and gender ideology in the political biographies of women peace activists in Germany, 1899-1970: introduction.
September 22, 2001... Introduction Overview of Women's Peace Activism The German peace movement, which gained organizational status with the founding of the first German peace organization in 1892--the Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft (German Peace Society,...

A radical women's rights and peace activist: Margarethe Lenore Selenka, initiator of the first worldwide Women's Peace Demonstration in 1899.
September 22, 2001... Margarethe Lenore Selenka belongs to the pantheon of women's rights activists who, by the end of the nineteenth century, had already recognized the political connections between the repression of women and the dominance of violence. At the...

Helene Stocker's pacifism in the Weimar Republic: between ideal and reality.
September 22, 2001... Kurt Hiller's description of Helene Stocker on her sixtieth birthday aptly summarized the markers along her intellectual path and alluded to the complexity of her thought: "Helene Stocker stands, generally speaking, at the point where a radical...

Klara Marie Fassbinder (1890-1974) and women's peace activities in the 1950s and 1960s.
September 22, 2001... Klara Marie Fassbinder was a radical pacifist in the Cold War era. Her understanding of pacifism was founded on her religious views, according to which pacifism, economic and social reorganization, and Catholicism belonged together. This...

Reimagining the family.(in memory of Jane F. Levey)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Introduction Born in New York in 1960, Jane F. Levey attended Brown University, where Mari Jo Buhle inspired her interest in U.S. women s history. After she graduated from Brown, Jane worked as a manuscript editor at Yale University Press...

Imagining the family in postwar popular culture: the case of The Egg and I and Cheaper by the dozen.
September 22, 2001... If, as social scientist Sidney Goldstein insisted, the family was the cradle for the future, by the mid-1940s that cradle seemed to be rocking wildly. Distinguished psychiatrist William C. Menninger's concern was representative. "How's Your...

Ambivalent dreams: women and the home after World War II.
September 22, 2001... Jane Levey's work points to some intriguing ambiguities about gender and family life in the post-World War II era. Americans were rushing into family life as never before: the marriage age dropped, the marriage rate rose, the birthrate...

Reading the 1920s in the 1940s.(women's roles in books by Betty McDonald and the Gilbraith family)
September 22, 2001... My one meeting with Jane Levey left a vivid memory of intellectual vitality, one which is conveyed by her essay reinterpreting the public lamentations of social crisis in the American family at the end of and immediately following World War II....

Imagining the possibilities: Jane Levey's "Rainbow at Midnight".
September 22, 2001... When I last taught the second half of the American history survey course, I began by emphasizing that the late nineteenth century was a moment of flux and possibility, a moment in which woman suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton could envision a...

Scratching the surface: critique and ambiguity in postwar popular culture.
September 22, 2001... In the last decade, studies of gender and women's experiences during the Cold War have problematized our picture of the smiling housewife and her children standing proudly in front of a suburban ranch house. Elaine Tyler May's influential 1988...

If not Ward Cleaver, then who?
September 22, 2001... The immediate postwar years witnessed a great debate about women's and the family's place in American society. While "domestic containment" may have been the dominant discourse, Jane. Levey's fine addition to the Not June Cleaver school of...

Models for modernity.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Throughout the twentieth century, Americans have displayed a great propensity to worry about the state of their families. According to Jane Levey, the family crisis of the post-World War II period was perceived to be especially acute; questions...

Ma and Pa Kettle go to the AHA.
September 22, 2001... In her fine article, Jane Levey joins a chorus of historians who have sought to complicate not only the picture of women's experience in the two decades after World War II but also the ideological surround of that experience by challenging the...

`Not a man's union': women teamsters in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s.
September 22, 2001... Over the course of the 1940s and 1950s, an important transformation took place in the way Teamsters Union leaders depicted their organization. In the first half of this century, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) celebrated the...

Getting To The Source: Women in the 1848-1849 Hungarian Revolution.
September 22, 2001... On 29 April 1848, six weeks after the outbreak of revolution in Hungary, a remarkable document appeared in a patriotic Hungarian-language newspaper, Pesti Divatlap (Pest Fashion Magazine). Entitled "Demands of the Radical Hungarian Women," this...

Joyous Greetings: The First International Women's Movement, 1830-1860. (Book reviews: feminist webs, feminist magma: new histories of women's activism).
September 22, 2001... Bonnie S. Anderson. Joyous Greetings: The First International Women's Movement, 1830-1860. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xii + 277 pp. ISBN 0-19-512623-8 (cl.) In keeping with our growing awareness of globalization, scholars...

Golden Cables of Sympathy: The Transatlantic Sources of Nineteenth-Century Feminism. (Book reviews: feminist webs, feminist magma: new histories of women's activism).
September 22, 2001... Margaret H. McFadden. Golden Cables of Sympathy: The Transatlantic Sources of Nineteenth-Century Feminism. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1999. xiv + 270 pp. ISBN 0-8131-2117-5 (cl.) In keeping with our growing awareness of...

European Feminisms, 1700-1950. (Book reviews: feminist webs, feminist magma: new histories of women's activism).
September 22, 2001... Karen Often. European Feminisms, 1700-1950. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000. xxviii + 554 pp. ISBN 0-8047-3419-4 (cl.); 08047-3420-8 (pb.) If keeping with our growing awareness of globalization, scholars have focused...

Kiss and Tell: Surveying Sex in the Twentieth Century. (Sex and Science--The Return of the Repressed).
September 22, 2001... Julia A. Ericksen, with Sally A. Steffen. Kiss and Tell: Surveying Sex in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. ix + 270 pp.; no bibliography. ISBN 0-674-50535-2 (cl). Scholars have been studying the...

The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction. (Sex and Science -- The Return of the Repressed).
September 22, 2001... Rachel P. Maines. The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xviii + 181 pp.; ill.; no bibliography. ISBN 0-80185941-7 (cl). Scholars have been...

The Erotic Margin: Sexuality and Spatiality in Alterist Discourse. (Sex and Science -- The Return of the Repressed).
September 22, 2001... Irvin Cemil Schick. The Erotic Margin: Sexuality and Spatiality in Alterist Discourse. London: Verso, 1999. x + 315 pp.; ill. ISBN 1-85984-732-3 (cl). Scholars have been studying the history of sexuality for almost thirty years. We have...

An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society. (Sex and Science -- The Return of the Repressed).
September 22, 2001... Jennifer Terry. An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xiv + 537 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-226-79366-4 (cl); ISBN 0-226-79367-2 (pb). Scholars have been studying...

The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. (Writing and Rewriting Women of Color).
September 22, 2001... Linda Gordon. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. xv + 416 pp. ISBN 0-674-36041-9 (cl). Let me confess at the outset of this review that I have not focused on women's history in my own work....

For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer. (Writing and Rewriting Women of Color).
September 22, 2001... Chana Kai Lee. For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. xvi + 255 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-252-02151-7 (cl). Let me confess at the outset of this review that I have not focused on women's...

If They Don't Bring Their Women Here: Chinese Female Immigration Before Exclusion. (Writing and Rewriting Women of Color).
September 22, 2001... George Anthony Peffer. If They Don't Bring Their Women Here: Chinese Female Immigration Before Exclusion. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. xiii + 164 pp. ISBN 0-252-02469-9 (cl); 0-252-06777-0 (pb). Let me confess at the outset...

The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History. (Writing and Rewriting Women of Color).
September 22, 2001... Emma Perez. The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. xix + 181 pp. ISBN 0-253-33504-3 (cl); 0-253-21283-9 (pb). Let me confess at the outset of this review that I have not focused...

Announcement.
September 22, 2001... The Journal of Women's History is soliciting articles for a special issue on women's labors throughout the world, under diverse economic and gender systems, and in all historical periods. We seek manuscripts on all forms of women's work, both...