Gender and Australian history in the 1990s

Tom Griffiths, Hunters and Collectors (Cambridge University Press) Melbourne, 1996. Chris Healy, From the Ruins of Colonialism (Cambridge University Press) Melbourne, 1997. Alan Atkinson, The Europeans in Australia: A History, Volume One (Oxford University Press) Melbourne, 1997.

Tom Griffiths, Hunters and Collectors (Cambridge University Press) Melbourne, 1996.

Chris Healy, From the Ruins of Colonialism (Cambridge University Press) Melbourne, 1997.

Alan Atkinson, The Europeans in Australia: A History, Volume One (Oxford University Press) Melbourne, 1997.     

Woman and home in Australia

Jill Julius Matthews, Good and mad women: the historical construction of femininity in twentieth century Australia (George Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1984; Kerreen Reiger, The disenchantment of the home: modernising the Australian family 1880–1940 (Oxford University Press) Melbourne, 1985.     

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.     

Reviews

Rita Felski, The Gender of Modernity (Harvard University Press) Cambridge, MA, 1995.

Katie Holmes, Spaces in Her Day: Australian Women's Diaries 1920s‐1930s (Allen & Unwin) St Leonards, NSW, 1995.

Ros Pesman, Duty Free: Australian Women Abroad (Oxford University Press) Melbourne, 1996.

Frances Porter and Charlotte Macdonald (eds), ’My Hand Will Write What My Heart Dictates’ (Auckland University Press with Bridget Williams Books) Auckland, 1996.

Lucy Bland, Banishing the Beast: English Feminism & Sexual Morality 1885–1914 (Penguin) Harmondsworth, 1995.

Margaret Thornton, Dissonance and Distrust: Women in the Legal Profession (Oxford University Press) Melbourne, 1996.

Diane Bell and Renate Klein (eds), Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed (Spinifex Press) North Melbourne, 1996.

Rye Senjen and Jane Guthrey, The Internet for Women (Spinifex Press) North Melbourne, 1996.     

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.     

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.     

Internal union conflict: The flat glass workers, 1936–1937

From the Molly Maguires to the United Mine Workers: The Social Ecology of an Industrial Union, 1869–1897. By Harold W. Aurand. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 1971. 168 pp. $10.00

Strike! By Jeremy Brecher. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books. 1972. 329 pp. $3.95.

Self‐Reliance and Social Security 1870–1917. By Hace Sorel Tishler. Port Washington, N. Y.: Kennikat Press. 1971. 214 pp. $10.95.

American Communism in Crisis, 1943–1957. By Joseph R. Starobin. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972. 331 pp. $12.95.

The Bracero Program. By Richard Craig. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1971. xvii + 233 pp. $7.50.

Government as Employer. By Sterling D. Spero. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. 1972. 528 pp. $10.00.

Public Workers and Public Unions. Edited by Sam Zagoria for the American Assembly, Columbia University, Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice‐Hall. 1972. $5.95 cloth, $2.45 paper. 182 pp.

Blue‐Collar Workers: A Symposium on Middle America. Edited by Sar A. Levitan. New York: McGraw Hill. 1971. 393 pp. $12.50.

Trade Unions and National Economic Policy. By Jack Barbash. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press. 1972. 206 pp. $8.50.

El Socialhmo en Mexico; Siglo XIX. By Gaston García Cantú. Ediciones Era, Mexico D. F. 1969. 515 pp.

My Generation. By Will Paynter. London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd. 1972. 172 pp. £3.00.

Education and Politics, 1900–1951: A Study of the Labour Party. By Rodney Barker. Oxford University Press. 1972. 173 pp. $10.25.

Ireland and the Irish Question. A Collection of Writings by Karl Marx and Frederick Engles. Edited by R. Dixon. New York: International Publishers. 1972. 518 pp. $2.95.

The Life and Times of James Connolly. By C. Desmond Greaves. New York: International Publishers. 1972. 448 pp. $1.65.

The World of the Office Worker. By Michel Crozier. Translated by David Landau. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1971. 224 pp. $10.50.

Labor and Society in Tsarist Russia: The Factory Workers of St. Petersburg, 1855–1870. By Reginald E. Zelnik. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1971. xii + 452 pp. $15.00.

Soviet Agricultural Trade Unions, 1917–1970. By Peter J. Potichnyi. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1972. 258 pp. $12.50.

The Origins of Polish Socialism, The History and Ideas of the First Polish Socialist Party 1878–1886. By Lucjan Blit. Cambridge University Press. 1971. 160 pp. $10.

Socialism and the Great War: The Collapse of the Second International. By Georges Haupt. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1972. 270 pp. £5.

Labor Organization in the United States and Mexico. By Harvey Levenstein. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1971. 258 pp. $10.00.     

The Mythology of Female Sexuality: Alternative Narratives of Belonging

Gillian Beer, Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, £25, £6.99 pbk. (1999). Annie Coombes, Re‐Inventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, £40.00.     

A Matter of Genius

Jacqueline Rose, States of Fantasy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, £25,1998 (pbk.), £12.99.

Wulf Sachs, Black Hamlet, with a new introduction by Saul Dubow and Jacqueline Rose, Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, £14 pbk.     

Book reviews

Moral Economy and Popular Protest: Crowds, Conflict and Authority, edited by Adrian Randall and Andrew Charlesworth. Basingstoke/New York: Macmillan/St. Martin's Press, 2000. Pp. xiv + 280. £47.50 (hardback). ISBN 0 333 67184/0 312 22592 X.

French Peasant Fascism: Henry Dorgeres's Creenshirts and the Crises of French Agriculture, 1929–1939, by Robert O. Paxton. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp.xii + 244. US$45 (hardback). ISBN 0 19 511188 5 and 89 3.

Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Developing Countries: Models, Methods and Policy, edited by Lawrence Haddad, John Hoddinott and Harold Alderman. Baltimore, MD and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, on behalf of the International Food Policy Research Institute. Pp.xii + 341. US$66 (cloth). ISBN 0 8018 5572 1

The Chiapas Rebellion: The Struggle for Land and Democracy, by Neil Harvey. Durham NC and London: Duke University Press, 1998. Pp.xviii + 292. £34 (hardback): £11.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 8223 2209 9 and 2238 2

Shining and Other Paths: War and Society in Peru, 1980–1995, edited by Steve J. Stern. Durham NC and London: Duke University Press, 1998. Pp.xiv +532 pages. £44 (hardback); £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 8223 2201 3 and 2217 X

Services and Quality of Life in Rural Villages in the Former Soviet Union: Data from 1991 and 1993, by David J. O'Brien, Valerie V. Patsiorkovski, Larry D. Dershem, Alessandro Bonanno and Charles Timberlake, Lanham, MD and Oxford: University Press of America, 1998. Pp.289. Hb. ISBN 0 7618 0954 6. No price.

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, by James.C. Scott. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp.xiv + 445. US$35 (hardback). ISBN 0 300 07016 0

Kinship, Honour and Money in Pakistan: Subsistence Economy and the Effects of International Migration, by Alain Lefebvre. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1999. Pp.xiv + 303. £40. ISBN 0 7007 0984 3

Controlling Misbehaviour in England, 1370–1600, by Marjorie Keniston McIntosh (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp.xviii + 289. £40/US$59.95 (hardback). ISBN 0 521 62177 1     

Reviews

Seyla Benhabib, Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics (Polity Press) Cambridge, 1992.

Sneja Gunew and Anna Yeatman (eds), Feminism and the Politics of Difference (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1993.

Joyce Trebilcot, Dyke Ideas: Process, Politics, Daily Life (State University of New York Press) New York, 1994.

Paulina Palmer, Contemporary Lesbian Writing: Dreams, Desire, Difference (Open University Press) Buckingham & Philadelphia, 1993.

Catriona Moore, Indecent Exposures: Twenty Years of Australian Feminist Photography (Allen & Unwin) St Leonards, 1994.

Jeanette Hoorn (ed.), Strange Women: Essays in Art and Gender (Melbourne University Press) Melbourne, 1994.

Sharon Ouditt, Fighting Forces, Writing Women: Identity and Ideology in the First World War (Routledge) London, 1994.

Penny Russell (ed.), For Richer, For Poorer: Early Colonial Marriages (Melbourne University Press) Melbourne, 1994.

Jacqueline J. Goodnow and Jennifer M. Bowes, Men, Women and Household Work (Oxford University Press) Melbourne, 1994.

Janeen Baxter, Work at Home: The Domestic Division of Labour (University of Queensland Press) St Lucia, 1993.

Patricia Easteal, Voices of the Survivors (Spinifex Press) North Melbourne, 1994.

Lynette Finch, The Classing Gaze: Sexuality, Class and Surveillance (Allen & Unwin) St. Leonards, 1993.

Renate Howe (ed.), Women and the State: Australian Perspectives, A special edition of Journal of Australian Studies (La Trobe University Press) Bundoora, 1993.

Barbara Einhorn, Cinderella Goes to Market: Citizenship, Gender and Women's Movements in East Central Europe (Verso) London & New York, 1993.

Loulou Brown, Helen Collins, Pat Green, Maggie Humm & Mel Landells (eds), The International Handbook of Women's Studies (Harvester Wheatsheaf) Brighton, 1994.     

Reviews

Barbara Caine and Rosemary Pringle (eds), Transitions: New Australian Feminisms (Allen & Unwin) 1995.

Peta Tait, Converging Realities: Feminism in Australian Theatre (Currency Press) Sydney, 1994.

Pauline Johnson, Feminism as Radical Humanism (Allen & Unwin) St Leonards, 1994.

Denise Russell, Women, Madness and Medicine (Polity Press) Cambridge, 1995.

R.W‐ Connell, Masculinities (Allen & Unwin) St Leonards, 1995.

Margaret Maynard, Fashioned from Penury: Dress as Cultural Practice in Colonial Australia (Cambridge University Press) Melbourne, 1994.

Joy Damousi, Women Come Rally: Socialism, Communism and Gender in Australia, 1890–1955 (Oxford University Press) Melbourne, 1995.

Susan Sheridan, Along the Faultlines: Sex, Race and Nation in Australian Women's Writing, 1880s—1930s (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1995.     

Indian peasant uprisings: Myth and reality

A.R. Desai (ed.), Peasant Struggles in India, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1979. Pp.xxv + 772; Rs. 140.

Sunil Sen, Peasant Movements in India: Mid‐Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Calcutta: K.P. Bagchi, 1982. Pp.275; Rs.75.

D.N. Dhanagare, Peasant Movements in India: 1920–1950, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983. Pp.xii + 254; £12.

This review of some important recent works on peasant movements in India examines four major questions concerning (a) the social locus of rebellions, (b) the role of capitalism and imperialism, (c) the part played by existing state power, and (d) the role of parties or organisations. It is argued that while there is no unchanging social base the disproportionately high degree of tribal participation in armed rebellion may provide some clue to the relative lack of similar participation among the mainstream peasantry, that capitalist imperialism is a multi faceted phenomenon impinging on the peasantry in many ways, that existing state power plays a major part in rebellions, and that a party or organisation is a necessary precondition for any trans‐local or trans‐tribal movement. It concludes by suggesting that varieties of mobilisation within the framework of parliamentary politics should be studied in order to assess the really significant role of the peasantry in the political evolution of post‐independence India.     

Work,love and politics: Recent studies of nineteenth‐century British women

Olive Banks, Becoming a Feminist. The Social Origins of ‘First Wave’ Feminism (Wheatsheaf) Brighton, 1986; Barbara Caine, Destined To Be Wives. The Sisters of Beatrice Webb (Clarendon) Oxford, 1986; Sandra Stanley Holton, Feminism and Democracy. Women's Suffrage and Reform Politics in Britain, 1900–1918 (Cambridge University Press) New York, 1986; Pat Jalland, Women, Marriage and Politics 1860–1914 (Clarendon) Oxford, 1986; Sylvia Walby, Patriarchy at Work. Patriarchal and Capitalist Relations in Employment (Polity) Cambridge, 1986.     

Queering new ground

Annamarie Jagose, Queer Theory (University of Melbourne Press) Melbourne, 1996. Catharine Lumby, Bad Girls: The Media, Sex and Feminism in the 90s (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1997.

Jill Julius Matthews, Sex in Public: Australian Sexual Cultures (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1997.     

Film Reviews

Biographical Dictionary of American Labor. Edited by Gary M. Fink. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1985. xvii, 767 pp. $49.95.

What Do Unions Do? By Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff. New York: Basic Books, 1984. viii, 293 pp. $22.95.

Working Class Hero: A New Strategy for Labor. By Stanley Aronowitz. New York: Adama Books, 1984. vii, 229 pp. $12.95

America's Working Man: Work, Home, and Politics among Blue‐Collar Property Owners. By David Halle. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. xviii, 399 pp. $24.95.

The Critical Vision: A History of Social and Political Art in the United States. By Paul Von Blum. Boston: South End Press, 1982. xviii, 169 pp. $9.50

Corporate Liberalism: The Origins of Modern American Political Theory, 1890–1920. By R. Jeffrey Lustig. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. xiii, 357pp. $25.00

High Hopes: The Rise and Decline of Buffalo, New York. By Mark Goldman. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983. 324 pp. $17.95.

Those Who Stayed Behind: Rural Society in Nineteenth‐Century New England. By Hal S. Barron. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. xiii, 184 pp. $24.95.

History and Class: Essential Readings in Theory and Interpretation. Edited by R. S. Neale. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1983. x, 318 pp. $27.00.

Connecticut Workers and Technological Change. By Robert Asher. Storrs: University of Connecticut, Center for Oral History, Project on Connecticut Workers and A Half Century of Technological Change, 1930–1980. 1983. 100 pp. $8.95.

The Haymarket Tragedy. By Paul Avrich. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. xv. 535 pp. $29.50.

Labor Immigration Under Capitalism: Asian Workers in the United States Before World War II. Edited by Lucie Cheng and Edna Bonacich. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. xiv, 634 pp. $32.50.

China and the Overseas Chinese in the United States, 1868–1911. By Shih‐shan Henry Tsai. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1983. ix, 166. $17.50.

The Fight Against Shutdowns: Youngstown's Steel Mill Closings. By Staughton Lynd. San Pedro. CA: Singlejack Books, 1982. xx + 244pp. $9.95.

Energy Transition and the Local Community: A theory of Society applied to Hazleton, Pennsylvania. By Dan Rose. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981. xx, 189pp. $21.95.

“An Impartial Umpire”: Industrial Relations and the Canadian State, 1900–1911. By Paul Craven. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981, 386 pp. C. $21.95

John Ludlow: The Autobiography of a Christian Socialist. Edited and introduced by Alan D. Murray. Totowa, NJ: Frank Cass &; Co. Ltd, 1981. xxxii, 334 pp. $30.00.

The Great Paternalistic: Titus Salt and the Growth of 19th Century Bradford. By Jack Reynolds. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1983. 382 pp.”; $25.00.

Industrial Politics. By Robert Currie. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980, viii, 294 pp. $26.00.

The Militant Worker: Class and Radicalism in France and America. By Scott Lash. Rutherford, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984. vii. 264 pp. $29.50.

The French Workers’ Movement: Economic Crisis and Political Change. Edited by Mark Kesselman. London: George Allen and Unwin. 1984. viii. 350 pp. $35.00.

New Patterns of Work Reform: The Case of Norway. By Bjorn Gustavsen and Gerry Hunnius. Oslo‐Bergen‐Tromsoe: Universitetsforlaget. 1981. 207 pp. $15.00.

Industry and Inequality: The Social Anthropology of Indian Labour. By Mark Holmström. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1984. 342 pp. $44.50.

The Crisis in Marxism. By Jack Lindsay. Totowa, NJ: Barnes and Noble Books, 1981. 183 pp. $22.50.     

Feminizing Politics

Sons and Daughters of Darkness

Barry Keith Grant (ed.), The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996, £17.20 pbk.

Fin‐de‐siècle Fictions

Sally Ledger, The New Woman: Fiction and Feminism at the Fin de Siècle, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997, £35, £12.99 pbk.

David Glover, Vampires, Mummies and Liberals: Bram Stoker and the Politics of Popular Fiction, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996, £47.50, £15.95 pbk.

Historicizing the Uncanny

Terry Castle, The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth‐century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, £27.50, £11.99 (pbk.).

Erotic Aesthetics

Suzanne Nalbantian (ed.), Anaïs Nin: Literary Perspectives, London: Macmillan, 1997, £40.

Topic of Cancer

Jackie Stacey, Teratologies: A Cultural Study of Cancer, London: Routledge, 1997, £45.00, £13.99 pbk.     

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     

Union labels and boycotts: Cooperation of the knights of labor and the cigar makers international union, 1885–6

Hard‐Rock Epic: Western Miners and the Industrial Revolution, 1860–1910. By Mark Wyman. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1979. x, 331 pp. $15.95.

Wage‐Earning Women: Industrial Work and Family Life in the United States, 1900–1930. By Leslie Woodcock Tentler. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. 266 pp. $14.95.

Feigned Necessity: Hawaii's Attempts to Obtain Chinese Contract Labor, 1921–1923. By John E. Reinecke. San Francisco: Chinese Materials Center, Inc., 1979. xvi, 697 pp., n.p.

Lumber and Politics: The Career of Mark E. Reed. By Robert E. Ficken. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1979. xi, 276 pp. $14.95.

The Mess in Washington: Manpower Mobilization in World War II. By George Q. Flynn. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1979. xi, 294 pp. $17.95.

The Great Fear: The Anti‐Communist Purge Under Truman and Eisenhower. By David Caute. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978. 638 pp. $14.95.

Which Side Are You On? The Brookside Mine Strike in Harlan County, Kentucky. By Lynda Ann Ewen. Chicago: Vanguard Books, 1979. 139 pp. Appendix. $4.95.

A Ghetto Grows In Brooklyn. By Harold X. Connolly. New York: New York University Press, 1977. xv, 248 pp. $15.00.

Voices of Discord: Canadian Short Stories from the 1930's. Edited by Donna Phillips. Introduction by Kenneth J. Hughes. Toronto: New Hogtown Press, 1979. 220 pp. $7.95.

Popular Disturbances in England: 1700–1870. By John Stevenson. New York: Longman, 1979. vii, 374 pp. $24.00.

Before The Welfare State: Social Administration in Early Industrial Brit‐tain. By Ursula R. Q. Henriques. New York: Longman, 1979. 294 pp. $10.50.

Aristocracy and People: Britain 1815–1865. By Norman Gash. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979. vii, 375 pp. $20.00.

Artisans and Politics in Early Nineteenth‐Century London: John Gast and His Times. By I. J. Prothero. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979. 418 pp. $30.00.

The Edwardian Age: Conflict and Stability 1900–1914. Edited by Alan O'Day. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1979. 199 pp. $19.95.

Goodbye to the Working Class: A Study of 122 Former Grammar School Children from Dagenham. By Roy Greenslade. London: Marion Boyars, 1979. 192 pp. $ 5.95.

The Action Française and Revolutionary Syndicalism. By Paul Mazgaj. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1979. 281 pp. $24.95.

Paths To Authority: The Middle Class and the Industrial Labor Force in France, 1820–1848. By Peter N. Stearns. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978. 222 pp. $12.95.

French Peasants in Revolt: The Insurrection of 1851. By Ted W. Marga‐dent. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. xxiv, 379 pp. $25.00.

The Service City: State and Townsmen In Russia, 1600–1800. By J. Michael Hittle. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979. viii, 297 pp. $20.00.

Karl Marx, Romantic Irony and the Proletariat: The Mythopoetic Origins of Marxism. By Leonard P. Wessell, Jr. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1979. 297 pp. $20.00.     

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.