Teaching woman

Robyn Rowland, Woman Herself: A Transdisciplinary Perspective on Women's Identity (Oxford University Press), Melbourne, 1988; Barbara Caine, E.A. Grosz, and Marie de Lepervanche (eds), Crossing Boundaries: Feminisms and the Critique of Knowledges (Allen & Unwin), Sydney, 1988.     

Work and home

Jane Jenson, Elisabeth Hagen and Ceallaigh Reddy (eds) Feminization of the Labour Force. Paradoxes and Promises (Polity Press) Cambridge, 1988; Willem van Vliet (ed.) Women, Housing and Community (Gower) Brookfield, Vermont, 1988; Sophie Watson, Accommodating Inequality, Gender and Housing (Allen and Unwin) Sydney, 1988; Christina Hardyment, From Mangle to Microwave. The Mechanization of Household Work (Polity Press) Cambridge, 1988.     

Reading women's bodies

Jane Ussher, The Psychology of the Female Body (Routledge) London, 1989; Emily Martin, The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction (Open University Press) Milton Keynes, 1989 (1987); Phillida Bunkle, Second Opinion: The politics of women's health in New Zealand (Oxford University Press) Auckland, 1988; Valerie Fildes, Wet Nursing: A History from Antiquity to the Present (Basil Blackwell) Oxford, 1988.     

Not being echo: Women's voices in New Australian fiction

Margaret Coombs, Regards to the Czar (UQP) St Lucia, 1988; Marion Campbell, Not being Miriam (Fremantle Arts Press) Fremantle, 1988; Mary Fallon, Working Hot (Sybylla Co‐Operative) Melbourne, 1989.     

Perverse politics

‘Perverse Politics: Lesbian Issues’, Feminist Review No 34 Spring 1990; Monika Kehoe Lesbians Over 60 Speak for Themselves (Haworth Press) New York 1988; Esther D. Rothblum & Ellen Cole (eds) Lesbianism Affirming Nontraditional Roles (Haworth Press) New York 1989.     

Feminist writing about the early modern period

Rudolf M. Dekker & Lotte C. van de Pol, The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern Europe, (Macmillan), London, 1989; Bridget Hill, Eighteenth Century Women: An Anthology, (George Allen & Unwin), London, 1987; Stephanie Coontz, The Social Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families 1600–1900, (Verso), New York, 1988; Natalie Davis, Society and Culture in Early Modern France. Eight Essays, (Polity Press), Cambridge, 1987.     

Poems: The swimmer; Aphrodite,your curly hair; Wedding dress; The frog prince

On or About December 1910: Early Bloomsbury and Its Intimate World, by Peter Stansky. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.

Beyond the Homefront: Women's Autobiographical Writing of the Two World Wars, edited by Yvonne M. Klein. London: Macmillan Press, 1997.

From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism, by Philip Auslander. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust, by Rachel Feldhay Brenner. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.

The Culture of Wilderness: Agriculture as Colonization in the American West, by Frieda Knobloch. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Postmodern Fairy Tales: Gender and Narrative Strategies, by Cristina Bacchilega. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997.

Sex, Nation, and Dissent in Irish Writing, edited by Eibhear Walshe. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Beauty's Body: Femininity and Representation in British Aestheticism, by Kathy Alexis Psomiades. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.

Sexualities in Victorian Britain, edited by Andrew H. Miller and James Eli Adams. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.

The Literary Biography: Problems and Solutions, edited by Dale Salwak. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1996.     

The Woman on the Postage Stamp

Class(room) wars

The Taking Liberties Collective, Learning the Hard Way: Women's Oppression in Men's Education (Macmillan, Women in Society, 1989) £25 hardback, £7.95 paperback.

Ann Thompson and Helen Wilcox (eds) Teaching Women: Feminism and English Studies (Manchester University Press, Cultural Politics Series, 1989), £27.50 hardback, £7.95 paperback.

The past before us: twenty years of feminism

Feminist review, spring 1988

Ania Loomba, gender, race, renaissance drama

Cultural Politics Series, Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York, 1989

The perpetuation of myth

Anne Stevenson, Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath, Viking, £15.95     

Two views of women and the bush

Kay Schaffer, Women and the Bush: Forces of Desire in the Australian Cultural Tradition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988.     

Rural living conditions in pre‐liberation China: A survey of three recent studies

The degree of poverty and immiseration among China's rural population prior to 1949 has been a subject of much debate for many years. Three authors ‐ Brandt (1989), Faure (1989) and Huang (1990) ‐ have rekindled the debate by their diverse conclusions in their new books. While each of the studies have their conceptual and argumentative flaws, taken as a group they reveal that conditions in pre‐Liberation China were extremely complex and varied. As a result, the notion of making categorical statements regarding pre‐Liberation China loses credibility.

Commercialization and Agricultural Development: Central and Eastern China 1870–1937, by Loren Brandt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp.xiii + 232. £30.00/$42.50 (hardback). ISBN0521 371961

The Peasant Family and Rural Development in the Yangzi Delta, 1350–1988, by Philip C.C. Huang. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1990. Pp.xiv + 421. $49.50 (hardback); $16.95 (paperback). ISBN 0847 1787 and 1788 5

The Rural Economy of Pre‐Liberation China: Trade Increase and Peasant Livelihood in Jiangsu and Guangdong, 1870 to 1937, by David Faure. Hongkong: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp.xiv + 283. £22.50 (hardback). ISBN 0 19 582707 4     

Which way to the barricades?

Ann Curthoys, For and Against Feminism. A Personal Journey into Feminist Theory and History (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1988; Elizabeth Wilson, Hidden Agendas. Theory, Politics, and Experience in the Women's Movement (Tavistock) London & New York, 1986; Charlotte Bunch, Passionate Politics. Feminist Theory in Action (St. Martin's Press) New York, 1987.     

Feminists on peace,war and ecology

Diana E.H. Russell (ed.) Exposing Nuclear Phallacies (Pergamon Press, The Athene Series), New York, 1989; Birgit Brock Utne, Feminist Perspectives on Peace and Education (Pergamon Press, The Athene Series), New York, 1989; H. Patricia Hynes, The Recurring Silent Spring (Pergamon Press, The Athene Series), New York, 1989.     

New reproductive technologies

Patricia Spallone and Deborah Lynn Steinberg (eds), Made to Order: The Myth of Reproductive and Genetic Progress (The Athene Series, Pergamon Press), Oxford, 1987; Michelle Stanworth (ed.), Reproductive Technologies: Gender, Motherhood and Medicine (Polity Press), Cambridge, 1987.     

Late Victorian Poets

Who's a Pervert?

Jonathan Dollimore, Sexual Dissidence: Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault, Oxford University Press, £35.00 &; £9.95. Louise J. Kaplan, Female Perversions, Pandora, £17.00.

Border Zone Travellers

John B. Allcock and Antonia Young (eds), Black Lambs and Grey Falcons: Women Travellers in the Balkans, Bradford University Press, £11.00.

Canonising H.D.

Claire Buck, H.D. and Freud: Bisexuality and a Feminine Discourse, Harvester, £35.

Susan Stanford Friedman, Penelope's Web: Gender, Modernity, H.D.’s Fiction, Cambridge University Press, £37.50.

Susan Stanford Friedman and Rachel Blau DuPlessis (eds), Signets: Reading H.D., University of Wisconsin Press, £14.00

Lawrence Among the Women

Carol Siegel, Lawrence Among the Women: Wavering Boundaries in Women's Literary Traditions, University Press of Virginia, £19.95 or $29.95.     

Feminism and the academy

R.D. Klein and D.L. Steinberg (eds) Radical Voices. A Decade of Feminist Resistance from Women's Studies International Forum’ (Pergamon Press) Oxford, 1989. M. Paludi and G.A. Steuernagel (eds) Foundations for a Feminist Restructuring of the Academic Disciplines (Haworth Press), New York, 1990. L. Stanley (ed) Feminist Praxis. Research, Theory and Epistemology in Feminist Sociology (Routledge), London, 1990.     

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.     

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.     

Literary feminism

Susan Sheridan, Christina Stead, Key Women Writers, (Harvester Wheatsheaf). Hemel Hempstead, 1988; Janet Todd, Feminist Literary History, (Routledge), New York, 1988; Jane Heath, Simone de Beauvoir, Key Women Writers, (Harvester Wheatsheaf), Hemel Hempstead, 1989; Linda Kauffman, (ed.), Gender and Theory: Dialogues on Feminist Criticism, (Basil Blackwell), New York, 1989; Patricia Waugh, Feminine Fictions: Revisiting the Postmodern, (Routledge), London, 1989.     

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.     

In Brief

Women Intellectuals, Modernism, and Difference: Transatlantic Culture, 1919–1945, by Alice Gambrell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family, by Linda Wagner‐Martin. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1997.

Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England, by Elizabeth Reis. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.

Making Worlds: Gender, Metaphor, Materiality, edited by Susan Hardy Aiken, Ann Brigham, Sallie A. Marston, and Penny Waterstone. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1998.

Dwelling in Possibility: Women Poets and Critics on Poetry, edited by Yopie Prins and Maeera Shreiber. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.

Constructing the Little House: Gender, Culture, and Laura Ingalls Wilder, by Ann Romines. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997.

Mary Magdalene: Beyond the Myth, by Esther De Boer. London: Trinity Press International, 1997.

Feminism and the Politics of Reading, by Lynne Pearce. London: Arnold, 1997.

Irish Women's Letters, compiled by Laurence Flanagan, with an introduction by Edna O'Brien. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Frankenstein's Daughters: Women Writing Science Fiction, by Jane Donawerth. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1997.

Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories, by Peggy Phelan. New York: Routledge, 1997.