Journal of Women's History articles from September 2002

Journal of Women's History archives from September 2002

Editor's note.
September 22, 2002... It is with great pleasure that I begin my co-editorship of the Journal of Women's History. I look forward to working with a fantastic editorial group at OSU. Stephanie Gilmore has been a wonderful help to me as I begin to take an active role in...

Nwando Achebe--daughter, wife, and guest--a researcher at the crossroads. (Getting to the Source).
September 22, 2002... As a student of history, I am often frustrated by what appears to be a de-centering of the researcher's fieldwork experience in the historical discipline. (1) This avoidance is inexcusable since fieldwork is a major component of historical...

Women, private property, and the limitations of state authority in early modern Venice.
September 22, 2002... Most scholars have defined women's relationship to the state in early modern Europe as one of exclusion from the exercise of political power, or of subjugation to state power. As historian Natalie Zemon Davis argues, "on the whole, city...

The savage family: colonialism and female infanticide in nineteenth-century India.
September 22, 2002... In 1870, after an exhaustive internal debate, the colonial government of India passed the Act for the Prevention of Female Infanticide (FI Act). The law gave provincial governments sweeping powers to intervene in what was increasingly seen as a...

Sanitized for your protection: medical discourse and the denial of incest in the United States, 1890-1940.
September 22, 2002... Is the fall of 1913, the Boston Dispensary and Massachusetts Society for Sex Education hired social worker Bertha C. Lovell to do case work with the dispensary's female patients infected with a "venereal disease," a term for sexually...

Cultivating modernity: culture and internationalism in Australian feminism's pacific age.
September 22, 2002... In 1928, leading Australian feminist Bessie Rischbieth reported to the International Women's Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) on an international women's conference in the Pacific. The first Pan-Pacific Women's Conference (PPWC), held in Honolulu under...

Paradigm shift books: a Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. (Dialogue).
September 22, 2002... It gives me great pleasure to discuss--celebrate--the work of Laurel Ulrich, a friend and colleague. When Helen Horowitz arranged this panel, she anticipated some generational differences in our approaches to A Midwife's Tale (1)--perhaps...

Long before I finally met Laurel, I felt I knew her, from my close and repeated encounters teaching Good Wives, her first book, in my women's history lecture course at University of California, Santa Barbara. (Dialogue).
September 22, 2002... Long before I finally met Laurel, I felt I knew her, from my close and repeated encounters teaching Good Wives, her first book, in my women's history lecture course at University of California, Santa Barbara. Far more than most history...

A couple of weeks ago, I got to visit one of my very good friends from graduate school, and I was telling her about this panel and its multigenerational aspect. (Dialogue).
September 22, 2002... A couple of weeks ago, I got to visit one of my very good friends from graduate school, and I was telling her about this panel and its multigenerational aspect. When I said that my job was to represent "younger scholars," she started laughing....

Since authors are probably the least trustworthy commentators on their own works, I am grateful to Mary Dunn, Pat Cohen, and Maria Miller, not only for their generous praise, but also for helping me understand the surprising success of A Midwife's Tale. (Dialogue).
September 22, 2002... Since authors are probably the least trustworthy commentators on their own works, I am grateful to Mary Dunn, Pat Cohen, and Maria Miller, not only for their generous praise, but also for helping me understand the surprising success of A...

The trauma of an arranged marriage.(The Letters of the Rozmberk Sisters: Noblewomen in Fifteenth-Century Bohemia)(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... John M. Klassen with Eva Dolezalovg and Lynn Szabo. The Letters of the Rozmberk Sisters: Noblewomen in Fifteenth-Century Bohemia. Cambridge, Mass.: D. S. Brewer, 2001.134 pp. ISBN 0-8599-1612-X (pb). This small gem of a book brings to life...

Power, religiosity, and sexuality in medieval Spain.(Abadesas y Clerigos: Poder, Religiosidad y Sexualidad en el Monacato Espanol, siglo x-xv)(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Cecilia E. Lagunas. Abadesas y Clerigos: Poder, Religiosidad y Sexualidad en el Monacato Espanol, siglo x-xv. Madrid: Universidad Nacional de Lujan, 1999. 324 pp. ISBN 987-9285-03-4 (pb). Cecilia Lagunas opens the cloisters of medieval...

The civil rights movement, from the outside and the inside.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Yevette Richards. Maida Springer: Pan-Africanist and International Labor Leader. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000. xv + 366 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8229-4139-2 (cl). Debra L. Schultz. Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights...

Partners in crime? Writing the social history of women and the poststructural history of gender.(Becoming Modern: Young Women and the Reconstruction of Womanhood in the 1920s; Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity)(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Birgitte Soland, Becoming Modern: Young Women and the Reconstruction of Womanhood in the 1920s. Princeton University Press, 2000. x--249 pp., bib. 0-691-0492-70 (cl.). Lisa Duggan, Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity....

Dissertations in women's history.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2002... Hibbe E. Abugideiri, "Egyptian Women and the Science Question: Gender in the Making of Colonized Medicine, 1893-1929," Georgetown University, 2001. Bradley Ellis Austin, "A Competitive Business: The Ideologies, Cultures, and Practices of...

The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... This useful encyclopedia includes 237 alphabetical entries of people, places, issues, organizations, and events surrounding the life and times of Eleanor Roosevelt. Over 150 scholars, librarians, archivists, and a few friends and relatives...

Bitter Bonds: a Colonial Divorce Drama of the Seventeenth-Century.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... This book uses a highly documented seventeenth-century divorce case to examine the creole culture of Dutch trading settlements, to analyze the role of marriage as a channel of cultural exchange and colonial property-tranmission, and to...

Women of the House: Women's Household Work in Ireland, 1922-1961, Discourses, Experiences, Memories.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Clear uses oral history, women's magazines, and relevant government records to explore how Irish politicians, female activists, and writers, as well as the Irish people themselves, regarded the work of housewives between the founding of the...

Gender Camouflage: Women and the U.S. Military.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... The twelve essays in this collection focus on the ways in which the military system operates to construct and define appropriate masculinities and femininities and then deploy such norms to maintain gendered boundaries both in the military and...

Waiting on the Bounty: the Dust Bowl Diary of Mary Knackstedt Dyck.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... The Dust Bowl diary of Mary Knackstedt Dyck covers the period from October 1936 to May 1941. Dyck was 52 years old, a wife, and the mother of adult children when she began to keep this portion of her family log (she wrote in the third person)....

Becoming Citizens: the Emergence and Development of the California Women's Movement, 1880-1911.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... The literature on suffrage has focused on the national campaign; surprising few full-length studies exist of the suffrage struggle on the state level. Gayle Gullett's welcome examination of the California suffrage movement helps us to...

The Reign of Elizabeth I.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... True to its title, this book provides a concise yet detailed introduction to the events, personnel, policies and problems that defined the forty-five year tenure of the Elizabethan state of sixteenth-century England. Organized both thematically...

Ana Pauker: the Rise and Fall of a Jewish Communist.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... This apologetic biography of Ana Pauker puts the life of one of Romania's leading communists into the larger historical contexts of Jewish and communist political history. The author traces Pauker from her childhood in a religious Jewish family...

Retrospect of Western Travel.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... This abridged version features passages of interest to American audiences. Footnotes provide enough information to indicate the caliber of people among whom Martineau traveled. Her route begins in New York City, turns south through...

Vichy and the Eternal Feminine: a Contribution to a Political Sociology of Gender.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Germany's swift conquering of the French government during the summer of 1940 precipitated an intense reexamination of French social structures. This was followed by massive attempts at reform under the Vichy regime of Marshal Petain. Francine...

In Struggle Against Jim Crow: Lulu B. White and the NAACP, 1900-1957.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... This book chronicles the remarkable life and political career of a little-known, yet influential and effective community activist--Lulu Belle Madision White. Beginning with White's childhood in east Texas, Merline Pitre poignantly describes the...

Live Nude Girls Unite.(Video Recording Review)
September 22, 2002... Narrating the unionization of San Francisco's Lusty Lady Theater, Julia Query's first-person documentary tells how she and her stripper coworkers organized, gained recognition, and bargained their first contract between 1996 and 1997. The film...

Arab Women in the Middle Ages: Private Lives and Public Roles.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Guthrie has reconstituted the essence of Arab women's lives. The study looks at practices from Egypt to Iran with occasional reference to Andalusia and Africa. The first chapter, "Marriage and the Home," includes details of marriage and divorce...

Members of the Regiment: Army Officers' Wives on the Western Frontier, 1865-1890.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... In this book, Nancy restores historical agency to her "remarkable" women. Tracing the lives of eleven officers' wives, she demonstrates how women on the military frontier both adhered to and altered the meaning of "true womanhood." Identifying...

The Ladies Etiquette Handbook: the Importance of Being Refined in the 1880s.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Part of the Iowa Szathmary Culinary Arts Series, The Ladies Etiquette Handbook is a compendium of two nineteenth-century etiquette and household management pamphlets. "Smart Hints on Social Etiquette by Aunt Matilda," published in Philadelphia,...

Between North and South: the Letters of Emily Wharton Sinkler, 1842-1865.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Between North and South is the fourteenth volume in the Women's Diaries and Letters of the South series. The collection of letters in this work chronicles the life of Emily Wharton Sinkler after her 1842 marriage and subsequent move from...

The Public at Play: Gender and the Politics of Recreation in Post-War Ontario.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Shirley Tillotson examines the construction and regulation of gender roles through the design of, and participation in, government-funded recreation programmes in rural and urban Ontario between 1945 and 1961. These recreation programmes, which...

Announcements.
September 22, 2002... The Radcliffe Institute's Schlesinger Library and the National Heritage Museum announce the premiere of "Enterprising Women: 250 Years of American Business." This exhibit brings together the life stories of some 40 women who helped shape the...