Music Taste Groups and Problem Behavior

Internalizing and externalizing problems differ by musical tastes. A high school-based sample of 4159 adolescents, representative of Dutch youth aged 12 to 16, reported on their personal and social characteristics, music preferences and social-psychological functioning, measured with the Youth Self-Report (YSR). Cluster analysis on their music preferences revealed six taste groups: Middle-of-the-road (MOR) listeners, Urban fans, Exclusive Rock fans, Rock-Pop fans, Elitists, and Omnivores. A seventh group of musically Low-Involved youth was added. Multivariate analyses revealed that when gender, age, parenting, school, and peer variables were controlled, Omnivores and fans within the Exclusive Rock groups showed relatively high scores on internalizing YSR measures, and social, thought and attention problems. Omnivores, Exclusive Rock, Rock-Pop and Urban fans reported more externalizing problem behavior. Belonging to the MOR group that highly appreciates the most popular, chart-based pop music appears to buffer problem behavior. Music taste group membership uniquely explains variance in both internalizing and externalizing problem behavior.     

Academic Lionesses

Vivid Dreams

Michèle Roberts, Flesh and Blood, London: Virago, 1994, £14.99 (paper 1995, £6.99).

Living and Losing

Stevie Davies, Closing the Book, London: The Women's Press, 1994, £12.99, £6.99 pbk.

Secondhand Roles: What's So New about Fetishism ?

Lorraine Gamman and Merja Makinen, Female Fetishism: A New Look, London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1994.

De‐mystifying Mysticism

Karma Lochrie, Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.

Sarah Beckwith, Christ's Body. Identity, Culture and Society in Late Medieval Writings, London: Routledge, 1993.     

Reviews

From Mad Max to Sane Elaine

Elaine Showalter, Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media, New York: Columbia University Press, 1997, £16.39; Picador, 1998, £6.99

But Words Can Never Hurt Me

Judith Butler, Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative, New York and London: Routledge, 1997, £40.

Women in Theatre: Practitioners’ Voices

Lizbeth Goodman, Feminist Stages: Interviews with ‘Women in Contemporary British Theatre, Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996, £18. Joanne Tompkins and Julie Holledge (eds), Performing Women/Performing Feminisms: Interviews with International Women Playwrights, Australasian Drama Studies Association Academic Publications 2, University of Queensland, 1997. Elaine Aston (ed.), Feminist Theatre Voices, Loughborough Theatre Texts, University of Loughborough, 1997, £7.99.

Heidi Stephenson and Natasha Langridge, (eds), Rage and Reason: Women Playwrights on Playwriting, London: Methuen, 1997, £9.99.

Life and Death in the Next World

Christine Brook‐Rose, Next, Manchester: Carcanet, 1998, £9.95 pbk.     

Book reviews

Love, power and political interests

Anna G. Jónasdóttir, Love Power and Political Interests. Towards a Theory of Patriarchy in Contemporary Western Societies. 255 pp. Örebro Studies 7, 1991.

The power of the Will. Natalie Zahle. A biography

Birgitte Possing, Viljens Styrke. Natalie Zahle. En biografi (The Power of the Will. Natalie Zahle. A biography.) 2 vols. 622 pp. Summary in English. Copenhagen: Gyldendal 1992.

Image of god and gender models in Judaeo‐Christian tradition

Kari Elisabeth Börresen, ed, Image of God and Gender Models in Judaeo‐Christian Tradition. Oslo: Solum forlag, 1992.

Rethinking change

Rethinking Change ‐ Current Swedish Feminist Research. Uppsala: Swedish Science Press, 1992.

On the politics of theorizing strangers

Julia Kristeva, Strangers to Ourselves. Transl. Leon S. Roudiez. Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991.

Julia Kristeva, Muukalaisia itsellemme. Transl. Paivi Malinen. Gaudeamus, 1992.

Julia Kristeva, Främlingar för oss själva. Transl. Ann Runnqvist‐Vinde. Natur och kultur, 1991.

The state, mothers and day care for children

Arnlaug Leira, Welfare States and Working Mothers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.     

Listings

From Mad Max to Sane Elaine

Elaine Showalter, Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media, New York: Columbia University Press, 1997, £16.39; Picador, 1998, £6.99

But Words Can Never Hurt Me

Judith Butler, Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative, New York and London: Routledge, 1997, £40.

Women in Theatre: Practitioners’ Voices

Lizbeth Goodman, Feminist Stages: Interviews with ‘Women in Contemporary British Theatre, Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996, £18. Joanne Tompkins and Julie Holledge (eds), Performing Women/Performing Feminisms: Interviews with International Women Playwrights, Australasian Drama Studies Association Academic Publications 2, University of Queensland, 1997. Elaine Aston (ed.), Feminist Theatre Voices, Loughborough Theatre Texts, University of Loughborough, 1997, £7.99.

Heidi Stephenson and Natasha Langridge, (eds), Rage and Reason: Women Playwrights on Playwriting, London: Methuen, 1997, £9.99.

Life and Death in the Next World

Christine Brook‐Rose, Next, Manchester: Carcanet, 1998, £9.95 pbk.     

Syphilis and Madness

Life Lived Like a Story

Julie Cruikshank, Life Lived Like a Story: Life Stories of Three Yukon Elders; in collaboration with Angela Sidney, Kitty Smith and Annie Ned, University of Nebraska Press, £35 hbk, £12.95 pbk.

Laura Coltelli, Winged Words: American Indian Writers Speak, University of Nebraska Press, £21.40.

Paula Gunn Allen, Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women, The Women's Press, £6.95.

Unappeasable Ghosts

Jacqueline Rose, The Haunting of Sylvia Plath, Virago, £14.99.

Paul Alexander, Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath, Viking Press, $12.99.

Backlash

Susan Faludi, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women, Chatto &; Windus, £9.99.

Catherine Hall, White, Male and Middle‐Class: Explorations in Feminism and History, Polity Press, £12.95.

Gendering the Imagined Community

Andrew Parker, Mary Russo, Doris Sommer and Patricia Jaeger (eds), Nationalisms and Sexualities, Routledge, £40 hbk, £12.99 pbk.

Doubts and Daydreams

Teresa Brennan, The Interpretation of the Flesh: Freud and Femininity, Routledge, £35.     

Five women painters: The making of a television series

Broken Dreams? Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas

Race‐ing Justice, En‐gender‐ing Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas and the Construction of Social Reality, ed. and introd. by Toni Morrison, Chatto and Windus, 1993, £12.99.

Unfixing the Maternal: the Case against Object‐Relations Theory

Janice Doane and Devon Hodges, From Klein to Kristeva: Psychoanalytic Feminism and the Search for the ‘Good Enough Mother’, University of Michigan Press, 1992.

Troubled British Hearts

Rose Tremain, Sacred Country, Sinclair‐Stevenson, 1992, £14.99

Crossing Boundaries

Maureen Duffy, Illuminations, Sinclair‐Stevenson, 1991, £13.95, Fontana paperback, 1992, £5.99.

Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body, Jonathan Cape, 1992, £13.99.

Fairy Tales of our Time. Steven Spielberg (director), Jurassic Park     

Choices

A different feminism

Barbara Johnson, The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race, and Gender, Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1998, £14.50.

Beats anonymous

Richard Peabody (ed.), A Different Beat: Writings by Women of the Beat Generation, London: Serpent's Tail, 1997, £8.99 pbk.

Representing native americans

Helen Carr, Inventing the American Primitive: Politics, Gender and the presentation of Traditions, 1789–1936 New York: New York University Press, 1996, $50, $20 pbk.

The limits of the postmodern

Joseph Bristow and Trev Lynn Broughton (eds), The Infernal Desires of Angela Carter: Fiction, Femininity, Feminism, Harlow: Longman, 1997, £42.

Aidan Day, Angela Carter: The Rational Glass, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998, £40, £11.99 pbk.

Sarah Gamble, Angela Carter: Writing from the Front Line, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997, £12.95 pbk.     

Listings

The Winds of Change

Angelo Zito and Tani E. Barlow (eds.), Body, Subject and Power in China, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994, £35.95, £13.50 (pbk.).

Tani E. Barlow (ed.), Gender Politics in Modern China: Writing and Feminism, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994, £42.75, £15.95 (pbk.).

Writing and Killing

Hoda Barakat, The Stone of Laughter, trans. from the Arabic by Sophie Bennett, introd. Fadia Faqir, Garnet Publishing, Arab Women Writers Series, 1994, £8.95.

Salwa Bakr, The Golden Chariot, trans, from the Arabic by Dinah Manisty, introd. Fadia Faqir, Garnet Publishing, Arab Women Writers Series, 1995, £8.95.

A Tunisian Search for Independence

The Silences of the Palaces, directed by Moufida Tlatli.

Landscapes and Bodies

Barbara Hepworth: A Retrospective, The Tate Gallery, Liverpool     

Recent Publications

An Independent Woman: The Life of Lou Henry Hoover, by Anne Besier Allen. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 2000.

Recovering the Black Female Body: Self‐Representations by African American Women, edited by Michael Bennett and Vanessa D. Dickerson. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2001.

Feminisms and Women's Movements in Contemporary Europe, edited by Anna Bull, Hanna Diamond, and Rosalind March. New York: St. Martin's P, 2000.

Female Communities, 1600–1800: Literary Visions and Cultural Realities, edited by Rebecca D'Monte and Nicole Pohl. New York: St. Martin's P, 2000.

Gender and Material Culture in Historical Perspective, edited by Moira Donald and Linda Hurcombe. London: Macmillan, and New York: St. Martin's P, 2000.

Asian American Studies: Identity, Images, Issues Past and Present, edited by Esther Mikyung Ghymn. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2000.

Out of the Past: Adventures in Film Noir, by Barry Gifford. Jackson, MI: UP of Mississippi, 2001.

My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home, by Amber L. Hollibaugh. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2000.

Body Matters: Feminism, Textuality, Corporeality, edited by Avril Horner and Angela Keane. Manchester and New York: Manchester UP, 2000.

The Recess, by Sophia Lee. Lexington, Kentucky: The UP of Kentucky, 2000.

Women Performing Music: The Emergence of American Women as Instrumentalists and Conductors, by Beth Abelson Macleod. Jefferson, NC: McFarland &; Company, 2000.

Unveiling Traditions: Postcolonial Islam in a Polycentric World, by Anouar Majid. Durham: Duke UP, 2000.

The Loony‐Bin Trip, by Kate Millett. Urbana and Chicago: U of Illinois P, 2000.

Thousand of Roads: A Memoir of a Young Woman's Life in the Ukranian Undergroud During and After World War II, by Maria Savchyn Pyskir, translated by Ania Savage. Jefferson, NC, and London: McFarland &; Company, 2001.

A Woman's Way: The Forgotten History of Women Spiritual Directors, by Patricia Ranft. New York: Palgrave, 2000.

Records of Girlhood: An Anthology of Nineteenth‐Century Women's Childhoods, edited by Valerie Sanders. England and United States: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2000.

Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking, by Elizabeth Schneider. New Haven: Yale UP, 2000.

Food, Consumption, and the Body in Contemporary Women's Fiction, by Sarah Sceats. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.

Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory: Bodies of Discourse, by Robert S. Sturges. New York: St. Martin's P, 2000.

Consuming Anxieties: Consumer Protest, Gender, and British Slavery, 1713–1833, by Charlotte Sussman. Stanford, California: Stanford UP, 2000.     

In Brief

Hawthorne's Fuller Mystery, by Thomas R. Mitchell. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.

New Latina Narrative: The Feminine Space of Postmodern Ethnicity, by Ellen McCracken. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1999.

Dos Passos and the Ideology of the Feminine, by Janet Galligani Casey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

The World Wars Through the Female Gaze, by Jean Gallagher. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1998.

The Play of Reason: From the Modern to the Postmodern, by Linda Nicholson. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999.

Sex and Sexuality in Early America, edited by Merril D. Smith. New York: New York University Press, 1998.

Kate Chopin's Private Papers, edited by Emily Toth and Per Seyersted, associate editor, Cheyenne Bonnell. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.

Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America, by Nancy Isenberg. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405–1726, by Josephine Donovan. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Eroticism on the Renaissance Stage: Transcendence, Desire, and the Limits of the Visible, by Celia R. Daileader. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.     

Catherine Cl ment and Julia Kristeva. The Feminine and the Sacred. Trans. Jane Marie Todd. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001

And the Mirror Cracked: Feminist Cinema and Film Theory, by Anneke Smelik. London: Macmillan Press, 1998.

Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Reader, edited by Elizabeth Fallaize. London and New York: Routledge, 1998.

Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World, edited by Barbara Newman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Women Preachers and Prophets Through Two Millennia of Christianity, edited by Beverly Mayne Kienzle and Pamela J. Walker. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind, by Anna Battigelli. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1998.

Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology and Gender in Hollywood, by Philip Green. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.

The Women and War Reader, edited by Lois Ann Lorentzen and Jennifer Turpin. New York: New York University Press, 1998.

Surrealist Women: An International Anthology, edited by Penelope Rosemont. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998.

The Knotted Subjed: Hysteria and its Discontents, by Elisabeth Bronfen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.

Ventures into Childland: Victorians, Fairy Tales, and Femininity, by U.C. Knoepfimacher. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998.     

Construct Validity of Adolescent Antisocial Personality Disorder

This study examined the construct validity of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) diagnosed in adolescence. Boys and girls were grouped by history of DSM-III-R conduct disorder (CD) and ASPD: Controls (n=340) had neither diagnosis; CD Only (n=77) had CD by age 17 but no ASPD through age 20; Adolescent ASPD (n = 64) had ASPD by age 17. The Adolescent ASPD group was then compared to 20 young adult men who met criteria for ASPD (ASPD group). As expected, the Adolescent ASPD group had significantly more depression and substance use disorders, a greater performance>verbal IQ discrepancy, more deviant peers, and poorer academic functioning than the CD Only group and Controls. The Adolescent ASPD and ASPD groups did not differ on most variables. Results support the construct validity of Adolescent ASPD and suggest that such a diagnosis could help identify adolescents at risk for persistent antisocial behavior. Jeanette Taylor is an Assistant Professor at Florida State University. She received her Ph.D. in 1999 from the University of Minnesota. Her research examines biological, cognitive, and environmental influences on personality disorders and substance use disorders. Irene J. Elkins is a Co-investigator at the Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research. She received her Ph.D. in 1993 from the University of Kansas and is a member of the Society for Research on Psychopathology. Her major research interests include the relationship of personality, ADHD, and antisocial behavior to substance abuse, as well as gene-environment interrelationships. Lisa Legrand is a Research Associate with the Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research at the University of Minnesota. She received her Ph.D. in 2003 from the University of Minnesota. Her major research interests include gene-environment interplay in the development of externalizing psychopathology. Dawn Peuschold is a Senior Clinical Forensic Psychologist at the Hennepin Country District Court and an instructor at the University of Minnesota. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in forensic psychology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School after receiving her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Minnesota. She is interested in risk factors for reoffense in juveniles. William G. Iacono is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota, the institution from which he received his Ph.D. in psychology. He conducts longitudinal studies of adolescent twins and adoptees aimed at understanding the development of adult adjustment and mental health.     

The Analysis of Extracurricular Activities and Their Relationship to Youth Violence

The purpose of this study was to examine how extracurricular activities relate to rural youth violence. Gender differences were examined across all of the study variables. Self-report data were collected from 235 teenagers from a rural, ethnically diverse, Virginia community. Correlations revealed a significant inverse relationship between church activity and weapon carrying. Time in non-school clubs (B = .444, p = .000) was the best predictor of fighting frequency for boys. Time in non-school clubs (B = .315, p = .001) and time in religious activities (B = −.291, p = .003) were the best predictors of weapon carrying for boys. Time in extracurricular activities (B = −.267, p = .016), time volunteering (B = .262, p = .007), exercise frequency (B = −.221, p = .046), and number of sports team memberships (B = .240, p = .021) were significant predictors of fighting frequency for girls. None of the activity participation variables were predictive of female weapon carrying. Findings suggest that different types of extracurricular activities are predictive of violent activity. Deanna C. Linville is an Assistant Professor in the Marriage and Family Therapy program at University of Oregon. Received Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in Marriage and Family Therapy. Major research interests are international adoption, collaborative healthcare, and youth resilience. Dr. Angela J. Huebner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Development at Virginia Tech in Falls Church, Virginia. Her research interests include examining adolescent risk and protective factors in context as well as studying the effects of U.S. military deployments on adolescents in military families.     

The trade union press: An historical analysis

American Labor: from Conspiracy to Collective Bargaining. Created by Leon Stein and Philip Taft. New York: Arno Press. 1969.60 volumes. $744.50.¹

Women in Industry: A Study in American Economic History. By Edith Abbott. New York and London: D. Appleton. 1910. 408 pp. $14.50.

The Working‐Class Movement in America. By Edward and Eleanor Marx Aveling. Second edition. London: Swan Sonnenschein &; Co. 1891. 239 pp. $9.00.

The American Labor Movement: A Short History. By Mary Ritter Beard. New York: Macmillan. 1931. 206 pp. $7.50.

The Strike for Union. By Heber Blankenhorn. New York: H. W. Wilson. 1924. 259 pp. $9.50.

Labor Economics. By Solomon Blum. New York: Henry Holt. 1925. 579 pp. $20.00.

Women in Industry. By Louis D. Brandéis and Josephine Goldmark. New York: National Consumers' League. 1907.121 pp. $5.00.

American Syndicalism: The I.W.W. By John Graham Brooks. New York: Macmillan. 1913. 264 pp. $9.50.

Women and the Trades. Pittsburgh, 1907–1908. By Elizabeth Beardsley Butler. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 1909.440 pp. $15.50.

Homestead: The Households of a Mill Town. By Margaret F. Byington. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 1910. 307 pp. $11.00.

Labor and Politics: The Attitude of the American Federation of Labor toward Legislation and Politics. By Mollie Ray Carroll. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin. 1923. 206 pp. $7.50.

The Molly Maguire Riots: Industrial Conflict in The Pennsylvania Coal Region. By J. Walter Coleman. Richmond: Garrett and Massie. 1936. 189 pp. $7.00.

Men and Coal. By McAlister Coleman. New York: Farrar &; Rinehart. 1943. 350 pp. $12.50.

Industrial Goodwill. By John R. Commons. New York: McGraw‐Hill. 1919. 213 pp. $8.00.

Industrial Government. By John R. Commons and others. New York: Macmillan. 1921. 425 pp. $15.00.

Annals of the Great Strikes in the United States. By Joseph A. Dacus. Chicago: L. T. Palmer. 1877. 480 pp. $17.00.

The Laborer: A Remedy for His Wrongs. By William Dealtry. Cincinnati: William Dealtry. 1869. 420 pp. $14.50.

The Worker in Modern Economic Society. By Paul H. Douglas, Curtice N. Hitchcock, and Willard E. Atkins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1923. 929 pp. $32.00.

Work‐Accidents and the Law. By Crystal Eastman. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 1910. 361 pp. $13.00.

The Labor Movement in America. By Richard T. Ely. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. 1886. 399 PP. $14.00.

Problems in Labor Relations. By Herman Feldman. New York: Macmillan. 1937. 353 pp. $12.50.

The Steel Workers. By John A. Fitch. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 1911. 393 pp. $14.00.

Labor Problems: A Book of Materials for Their Study. By Edgar S. Furniss and Lawrence R. Guild. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Riverside Press. 1925. 621 pp. $22.00.

Working People and Their Employers. By Washington Gladden. Boston: Lockwood, Brooks. 1876. 241 pp. $9.00.

Labor and the Common Welfare. By Samuel Gompers. New York: E. P. Dutton. 1919. 306 pp. $11.00.

American Labor Dynamics, in the Light of Post‐War Developments. J. B. S. Hardman, editor. New York: Harcourt, Brace. 1928. 432 pp. $15.00.

Voluntarism in Organized Labor in the United States, 1930–1940. By George Gilmary Higgins. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press. 1944. 182 pp. $7.00.

The Strike: A Study in Collective Action. By Ernest T. Hiller. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1928. 304 pp. $11.00.

Studies in American Trade Unionism. By Jacob H. Hollander and George E. Barnett. New York: Henry Holt. 1906. 380 pp. $13.50.

The Voice of Labor. By Symmes M. Jelley. Philadelphia: H. J. Smith. 1888. 401 pp. $14.50.

Autobiography of Mother Jones. By Mary Jones. Edited by Mary Field Parton. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr. 1925. 242 pp. $9.00.

Some Ethical Gains Through Legislation. By Florence Kelley. New York: Macmillan. 1905. 341 pp. $12.00.

The Making of America: Labor. Robert M. LaFollette, editor. Chicago: John D. Morris. 1905. 433 pp. $15.00.

Civil War in West Virginia. By Winthrop D. Lane. New York: B. W. Huebsch. 1921. 128 pp. $5.00.

Conditions of Labor in American Industries. By W. Jett Lauck and Edgar Sydenstricker. New York and London: Funk &; Wagnalls. 1917. 404 pp. $14.50.

Adjusting Immigrant and Industry. By William M. Leiserson. New York and London: Harper &; Brothers. 1924. 356 pp. $12.50.

The Knights of St. Crispin, 1867–1874. By Don D. Lescohier. Madison, Wisconsin: Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin, No. 355. 1910. 101 pp. $4.50.

I Break Strikes! The Technique of Pearl L. Bergoff. By Edward Levinson. New York: Robert M. McBride. 1935. 314 pp. $11.50.

Men, the Workers. By Henry Demarest Lloyd. New York: Doubleday, Page. 1909. 280 pp $10.50.

The Women's Garment Workers: A History of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. By Louis Lorwin (Louis Levine). New York: B. W. Huebsch. 1924. 608 pp. $21.50.

Children in Bondage. By Edwin Markham, Benjamin B. Lindsey, and George Creel. New York: Hearst's International Library. 1914. 411 pp. $14.50.

American Labor Unions. By Helen Marot. New York: Henry Holt. 1914. 275 pp. $10.00.

Organized Labor and the Law, with Special Reference to the Sherman and Clayton Acts By Alpheus T. Mason. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 1925. 265 pp. $10.00

A Plain Man's Talk on the Labor Question. By Simon Newcomb. New York: Harper &; Brothers. 1886. 195 pp. $7.50.

The Modern Factory: Safety, Sanitation and Welfare. By George M. Price. New York: John Wiley &; Sons. 1914. 574 pp. $20.00.

The Problem of Group Responsibility to Society. By John Herman Randall. New York: Columbia University. 1922. 296 pp. $10.00.

Social Insurance, with Special Reference to American Conditions. By I. M. Rubinow. New York: Henry Holt. 1913. 525 pp. $18.50.

Readings in Trade Unionism. By David M. Saposs. New York: George H. Doran. 1926 451 pp. $15.50.

Union Policies and Industrial Management. By Sumner H. Slichter. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institute. 1941. 611 pp. $21.50.

The Accused and the Accusers, The Famous Speeches of the Eight Chicago Anarchists in Court. Socialistic Publishing Society. Chicago: Socialistic Publishing Society, n.d. 188 pp. $7.00.

The Pullman Strike. Leon Stein, editor. New York: Arno Press. 1969. 254 pp. $9.50.

Religion, Reform, and Revolution: Labor Panaceas in the Nineteenth Century. Leon Stein and Philip Taft, editors. New York: Arno Press. 1969. 581 pp. $21.00.

Wages, Hours, and Strikes: Labor Panaceas in the Twentieth Century. Leon Stein and Philip Taft, editors. New York: Arno Press. 1969. 528 pp. $18.50.

A Momentous Question. The Respective Attitudes of Labor and Capital. By John Swinton. Philadelphia and Chicago: Keller. 1895. 498 pp. $17.50.

The Labor Movement: Its Conservative Functions and Social Consequences. By Frank Tannenbaum. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1921. 259 pp. $9.50.

Instincts in Industry: A Study of Working‐Class Psychology. By Ordway Tead. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin. 1918. 222 pp. $8.00.

Labor's New Millions. By Mary Heaton Vorse. New York: Modern Age Books. 1938. 312 pp. $11.50.

The Government in Labor Disputes. By Edwin E. Witte. New York and London: McGraw‐Hill. 1932. 352 pp. $12.50.

The Working Girls of Boston. By Carroll D. Wright. Boston: Wright &; Potter. 1889. 133 pp. $5.50.

The Wage Policies of Labor Organizations in a Period of Industrial Depression. By Vertrees J. Wyckoff. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. 1926. 119 pp. $5.00.

American Labor Struggles. By Samuel Yellen. New York: Harcourt, Brace. 1936. 398 pp. $14.00.     

Reviews

Ways of Seeing Red

Mary Joannou, ’Ladies, Please Don't Smash These Windows’: Women's Writing, Feminist Consciousness and Social Change 1918–38, Oxford: Berg, 1995, £14.95.

Gen Doy, Seeing and Consciousness: Studies in Women, Class and Representation, Oxford: Berg, 1995, £14.95.

A Fragile Space

Gill Perry, Women Artists and the Parisian Avant‐Garde: Modernism and ‘Feminine’ Art, 1900 to the late 1920s, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995, £45, £16.99 (pbk.).

Poetic Dissent

William McCarthy and Elizabeth Kraft (eds.), The Poems of Anna Letetia Barbauld, Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1994.

Fictional and Actual Nobodies

Catherine Gallagher, Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace 1670–1820, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995, £25.

Edward Copeland, Women Writing about Money: Women's Fiction in England 1790–1820, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, £35.     

Letter

Tributes for the daughters of earth

Mary Jacobus, First Things: The Maternal Imaginary in Art, Literature and Psychoanalysis, London and New York: Routledge, 1995, £14.99.

Adeline Virginia Stephen . . .

Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf, London: Chatto and Windus 1996, £20, £8.99 (pbk.).

Virginia Woolf: not so common destinations

Rachel Bowlby, Feminist Destinations and Further Essays on Virginia Woolf, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997, £16.95 pbk.

Gillian Beer, Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground, Essays by Gillian Beer, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996, £14.95 pbk.

Running on empty?

Parveen Adams, The Emptiness of the Image: Psychoanalysis and Sexual Differences, London and New York: Routledge, 1996, £37.50, £11.99 pbk.

Refusing to ‘Pass‘

Lola Young, Fear of the Dark ‘Race’, Gender and Sexuality in the Cinema, London: Routledge, 1995, £40, £13.99 pbk.     

Chōra/Chōros: Samuel R. Delany and the masculine semiotic in Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders (2012)

Julia Kristeva’s idea of the semiotic chōra continues to haunt gender, literary, and political theory and practice. Reaching what some might consider its controversial climax in the early to middle 1990s – following its introduction in La revolution du langage poétique – the fate of the chōra was left mainly with Judith Butler’s deconstruction of Kristeva’s use of the term in Gender Trouble and Bodies that Matter. Respectively Butler argues: (a) ‘Kristeva restricts herself to an exclusively prohibitive conception of the paternal law, [and] is unable to account for the ways in which the paternal law generates certain desires in the form of natural drives’ and (b) ‘Kristeva insists upon [the] identification of the chora with the maternal body.’ The present article seeks to resurrect this debate with a critique of Kristeva’s as well as Butler’s position regarding the chōra; my argument is twofold: (i) Kristeva is guilty of being unable to account for the generative capacity of the paternal law and (ii) Kristeva’s use of the semiotic chōra does indeed resonate uncomfortably close to certain frequencies of essentialism in gender theory; however, both criticism can be overcome by adding chōros, the masculine form of chōra, to Kristeva’s theoretical lexicon. In order to sketch out the implications for gender, literary, and political theory and practice I turn to American author and critic Samuel R. Delany’s Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders.     

Book Reviews

Gerda Lerner. Black Women in White America: A Documentary History New York: Pantheon Books, 1972.

Eleanor Flexner. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Biography. New York: Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, Inc., 1972.

Two Great Lives, and One Lesser Life

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Hukou and land: market reform and rural displacement in China

Scholarship about the Chinese hukou (household registration) system has focused on the advantages and entitlements associated with urban hukou. This paper shifts attention to the key entitlement provided by rural hukou – village land. While early hukou reforms were mainly designed to open up urban labor markets to rural migrants, recent reforms have also begun to open up rural land markets, by replacing hukou-based land rights with market-based rights. These reforms are designed to facilitate land concentration and the transfer of land to outside developers and agribusiness companies, which has been hindered by hukou-based land rights. Underlying the reforms is the government's agenda of promoting large-scale agriculture and urbanization, both of which require the removal of a large portion of the rural population from the land. By focusing on land rights rather than urban benefits, this paper provides a new perspective on the evolution of the hukou system, and highlights the negative implications of recent reforms for livelihood security in the countryside.