Feminism and science

Ruth Bleier (ed.), Feminist Approaches to Science (Pergamon Press, The Athene Series) New York, 1986.     

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.     

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.     

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     

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.     

Constructions of sexuality

Dorchen Leidholdt and Janice Raymond (eds) The Sexual Liberals And The Attack On Feminism (Pergamon) New York, 1990; Lynda Nead Myths Of Sexuality: Representations Of Women In Victorian Britain (Blackwell) Oxford, 1990; Lesley Holly (ed.) Girls And Sexuality: Teaching And Learning (O.U.P.) Milton Keynes, 1989.     

Mother and daughter

Janet Todd (ed.) A Wollstonecraft Anthology (Polity Press) Cambridge, 1989; Anne K. Mellor, Mary Shelley: Her Life Her Fiction Her Monsters (Routledge) New York and London, 1989.     

Notes on Contributors

The Dangerous Class: Crime and Poverty in Columbus, Ohio, 1860–1885. By Eric H. Monkkonen. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975. ix, 185 pp. $13.50.

Herbert H. Lehman and New York's Little New Deal, By Robert P. Ingalls. New York: New York University Press, 1975. xx, 287 pp. $15.00

Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa. By Jacques E. Levy. New York: W. W. Norton &; Co., 1975. xxv, 546 pp. $12.95.

An Alternative Vision: The Socialist Party in the 1930s. By Frank A. Warren. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1974. xiii, 273 pp. $10.00.

Marxism in United States History Before the Russian Revolution (1876–1917). By Oakley C. Johnson. New York: Humanities Press, 1974. ix, 196 pp. $8.95.

Blue Collar Community, By William Kornblum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974. 260 pp. $9.95.

American Labor Songs of the Nineteenth Century. By Philip S. Foner. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1975. 356 pp. with two recordings. $13.95.

Faculty Grievance Arbitration in Higher Faculty Grievance Arbitration: Living With Collective Bargaining. By June Weisberger. Ithaca, New York: Institute of Public Employment, IPE Monograph No. 5, Cornell University, 1976. 44pp. $2.25.

Trade Unions and Revolution: The Industrial Politics of the Early British Communist Party. By James Hinton and Richard Hyman. London: Pluto Press, 1975.78 pp. 90 pence.

Comparative Union Democracy: Organisation and Opposition in British and American Unions. By J. David Edelstein and Malcolm Warner. New York: John Wiley &; Sons, 1976. viii, 378 pp. $15.00.

The Road to Bloody Sunday: Father Gapon and the St. Petersburg Massacre of 1905. By Walter Sablinsky, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976. xi, 414 pp. $18.50.

Workers Against the Monolith: The Communist Parties Since 1943. By Ian H. Birchall. New York: Urizen Books, 1976. 256 pp. $4.95, paperback

Class and Politics: New South Wales, Victoria and the Early Commonwealth, 1890–1910. By John Rickard. Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1976. xiv, 372 pp. $A15.95.     

Women in the U.S.S.R.

Genia K. Browning, Women and Politics in the USSR. Consciousness Raising and Soviet Women's Croups (Wheatsheaf Books) Sussex, 1987; Tatyana Mamonova, Russian Women's Studies. Essays on Sexism in Soviet Culture (Pergamon Press) Oxford, 1989.     

Songs of the eight‐hour movement∗

The Making of the Labor Bureaucrat: Union Leadership in the United States, 1870–1920. By Warren R. Van Tine. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1973. 230 pp. $10.00.

Urban Liberalism and Progressive Reform. By John D. Buenker. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973. xi + 299 pp. $8.95.

Labor's Search For Political Order: The Political Behavior Of The Missouri Labor Movement, 1890–1940. By Gary M. Fink. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1973. viii + 228 pp. $10.00.

Them and Us: Struggles of a Rank and File Union. By James J. Matles and James Higgins. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice‐Hall, 1974. 311 pp. $6.95.

Writers in Revolt: the Anvil Anthology, 1933–1940. Edited by Jack Conroy and Curt Johnson. New York: Lawrence Hill &; Co., 1973. 234 pp. $8.95.

The Aristocracy of Labor: The Position of Skilled Craftsmen in the American Class Structure. Cambridge Studies in Sociology 7. By Gavin Mackenzie. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1973‐ 208 pp. $14.50.

Aspects historiques du mouvement ouvrier au Quebec. Edited and with an introduction by Fernand Harvey. Etudes d'histoire du Québec, 6. Montréal: Les Editions du boréal express, 1973. 226 pp. $5.80.

G. D. H. Cole. An Intellectual Biography. By L. P. Carpenter. Conference on British Studies Biographical Series. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1973. 271 pp. $14.95.

Five Per Cent Philanthropy: An Account of Housing in Urban Areas Between 1840 and 1914. By John Nelson Tarn. Cambridge, G. B.; Cambridge University Press, 1973. xiv, 211 pp. $23.50.

The Emancipation of Women: The Rise and Decline of the Women's Movement in German Social Democracy 1863–1933. By Werner Thonnessen. Trans. Joris de Btes. London: Pluto Press, 1973.185 pp. £3.75.     

Reviews

The Absence of lzanagi By Kei Takei Performed at La MaMa E.T.C., New York June 22–25, 2000

Otome Bunraku performs two Japanese classics Japan Society, New York September 13–16, 2000

Towa—Part I—Kanojo (Eternity—Part I—She) By Kishida Rio Performed at Kinokuniya Southern Theatre, Tokyo August 31‐September 9, 2000

Toothless By Kazuko Hohki Performed at Battersea Arts Centre, London June‐July 2000

Hagi‐ke no San‐Shimai (Three Sisters of the Hagi Family) By Nagai Ai Performed at Theatre Tram, Setagaya Public Theatre, Tokyo November 4–19, 2000

Women's Gidayū and the Japanese Theatre Tradition. By A. Kimi Coaldrake. 1998. London and New York: Nissan Institute, Routledge Japanese Studies Series. Xxix+262. With nine‐track CD.

Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan. By Jennifer Robertson. 1998. University of California Press, Japan. Xvi+278.

Angura: Posters of the Japanese Avant‐Garde. David G. Goodman. 1999. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. Viii+91.

About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater. By Dorinne Kondo. 1997. New York and London: Routledge. xiii +277.     

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.     

Lesbian writing

Karla Jay and Joanne Glasgow (eds) Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions, (New York University Press), New York and London, 1990.     

Briefly noted

Modern Girls, Shining Stars, The Skies of Tokyo 5 Japanese Women. By Phyllis Birnbaum. 1999. New York: Columbia University Press.

Japanese Women: New Feminist Perspectives on the Past, Present and Future. Kumiko Fujimura‐Fanselow and Atsuko Kameda, eds. 1995. New York: Feminist Press, City University of New York.

The Voyage of Contemporary Japanese Theatre. By Senda Akihiko. Translated by J. Thomas Rimer. 1997. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.

Geisha. Liza Dalby. 1998. Berkeley: University of California Press.     

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.     

Politics and culture in a Diva's diversion: The body of Astrid Hadad in performance

Performance

Song of Lawino. Directed by Valeria Vazilevski and choreographed by Ja‐wole Willa Jo Zollar. Aaron Davis Hall, City University of New York, New York, January 5–8, 1989.

Abingdon Square. Directed by Irene Fornes. American Place Theatre, New York, 1988.

The Kathy &; Mo Show: Parallel Lives. Written and produced by Kathy Najimy and Mo Gaffney. Westside Arts Theatre, 1989.

Annulla, An Autobiography. Written and Directed by Emily Mann, performed by Linda Hunt. TNT (The New Theatre of Brooklyn), New York, October‐November, 1988.

The Warrior Ant. Written and directed by Lee Breuer; music composed by Bob Telson. Brooklyn Academy of Music, Next Wave Festival, October 19–30, 1988.

Go Between Gettysburg. Written, directed and designed by Linda Mussmann, in collaboration with Claudia Bruce and composer Semih Firincioglu. Theatre of the Riverside Church, New York City, November 10–20, 1988.

Mary Surratt. Written, directed, and designed by Linda Mussmann, in collaboration with Claudia Bruce; music by Semih Firincioglu. Time &; Space Limited production. New York, 1988.

Elizabeth Streb. Dance Chance series, Dance Theatre Workshop, New York, January 4–8 and 11–13, 1989.

Books

Dance, Sex and Gender: Signs of ‘Identity, Dominance, Defiance and Desire, by Judith Lynne Hanna. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988 ($15.95 paper).

The public forum

Sexist Images in Women's Performance. Performances by Jerri Allyn, Ellen Fisher and Dancenoise, and Panel moderated by Peggy Shaw. Movement Research, New York, December 19, 1988.

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Edinburgh, Scotland, 1988.

Plenty Money, by Pat Kaufman; Men, Women and Margaret Fuller, by Laurie James; “An Evening of Dance: Karen Bernard, Jean Churchill and Joanna Zubaty”; “Readings by Sonia Taitz,” Women &; Performance Events Series, produced by Katheryn Kovalcik‐White. Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, June‐December, 1988.     

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.     

Mother,maiden and the marriage of death: Women writers and an ancient myth

Writing Women's Communities: The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary Multi‐Genre Anthologies, by Cynthia G. Franklin. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997.

For Women and the Nation: Funmilayo Ransome‐Kuti, by Cheryl Johnson‐Odim and Nina Emma Mba. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.

Dangerous Territories: Struggles for Difference and Equality in Education, edited by Leslie G. Roman and Linda Eyre. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Gender And Material Culture: The Archaeology Of Religious Women, by Roberta Gilchrist. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Minding The Body: Women And Literature In The Middle Ages, 800–1500, by Monica Brzezinski Potkay and Regula Meyer Evitt. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1997.

Consuming Subjects: Women, Shopping, and Business in the Eighteenth Century, by Elizabedi Kowaleski‐Wallace. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing, by Isabel Cristina Pinedo. Albany: SUNY Press, 1997.

From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers, by Marina Warner. New York: The Noonday Press, Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1996.

English Sexualities, 1700–1800, by Tun Hitchcock. New York: Routledge, 1997.     

Book Reviews

Brenda Webster, Paradise Farm. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999.

Helen Wilcox, ed. Women and Literature in Britain 1500–1700. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Catherine B. Burroughs, Closet Stages: Joanna Baillie and the Theatre Theory of British Romantic Women Writers. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997.     

Labor History Symposium

American Labor Unions and Politics, 1900–1918. By Marc Karson. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Press, 1958. xv, 358 pp. $6.50.

The First International: Minutes of the Hague Congress of 1872 with Related Documents. Edited and translated by Hans Gerth. Madison, Wis.: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1958. xx, 315 pp. $6.00.

Communism And Social Democracy 1914–1931 Part I and II. By G. D. H. Cole. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1958. x, viii, 940 pp. $14.50.

The A.F. of L. from the Death of Gompers to the Merger. By Philip Taft. New York: Harper &; Brothers, 1959. xi, 499 pp. $7.50.