Writing independence: Gayatri Spivak and the dark continent of écriture feminíne

Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex, by Pat Califia. Cleis Books, 1994.

Stirring, Spinning, Sweeping. Performed by Marilyn Arsem with Virginia Abblitt. Slater Mill Historic Site, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, March, 1995.

The Lesbian Postmodern, edited by Laura Doan. Columbia University Press, 1994.

“Vulvamorphia.” Guest edited by Lillian Lennox. Lusitania #6 (1994).

Wonderland. Performed by Paula Josa‐Jones and Performance Works. Conceived and directed by Paula Josa‐Jones, choreography by Jones and dancers. World premiere at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, Massachusetts. July 7–9, 1995.

Fast Trip, Long Drop, video by Gregg Bordowitz.     

Reviews

Rachel Rosenthal . Edited by Moira Roth. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories . By Peggy Phelan. Routledge, 1997.

Phaedra in Delirium . Written by Susan Yankowitz, directed by Alison Summers, performed by Kathleen Chalfant, Peter Jay Fernandez and Sandra Shipley. Presented by the Women's Project and Productions and the Classic Stage Company, New York City. January 20‐February 15, 1998.

Face to Face . Performed by Peeling the Banana, Second Stage Theatre. New York City, April 27, May 4, May 11, 1998.

Dancing the Self: the Solo Art Form . Featuring choreographers Terry Hollis, Amy Kail, Mark Kenison, Laura Staton, and Kathy Westwater in new solos. The 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center, New York City. February 1, 1998.

Jack Smith: Flaming Creature . A museum exhibition at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Museum, Long Island City, NY, October 29, 1997‐March 1, 1998.     

Stalking Aboriginal culture: the Wanda Koolmatrie affair

Hoax, v.t., n. 1. Deceive, take in, (person) by way of joke. 2. n. Humorous or mischievous deception. Fraud, n. Criminal deception, use of false representations to gain unjust advantage; dishonest artifice or trick. Imposition, (-z) n... piece of deception or advantage taking. Utter, v.t. put (notes, base coin, etc.) into circulation. History of a Deception Wanda Koolmatrie's novel My Own Sweet Time was published in 1994 by Magabala Books Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal publishing house based in Broome, Western Australia. It is now known that Wanda Koolmatrie never existed, and My Own Sweet Time is believed to be the work, either jointly or individually, of two white Australian males known as John Bayley and Leon Carmen. As readers were informed in the biography provided by the publisher, Wanda Koolmatrie: was born in the far north of South Australia in 1949... Removed from her Pitjantjara mother in 1950, she was raised by foster parents in the western suburbs of Adelaide. She married Frank Koolmatrie, who died several years later...     

The dictatorship of the proletariat

The American Writer and the Great Depression. Edited by Harvey Swados. Indianapolis: The Bobbs‐Merrill Co., 1966. 521 pp. $7.50.

George Rapp's Harmony Society, 1785–1847. By Karl J. R. Arndt. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965. 682 pp. $12.00.

The Ku Klux Klan in the Southwest. By Charles C. Alexander. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1965. 288 pp. $6.00.

Slavery and Jeffersonian Virginia. By Robert McColley. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1964. 227 pp. $5.00.

The Petitioners, by Loren Miller. New York: Pantheon Books. 1965. 461 pp. $8.95.

The Enterprising Colonials, by W. Sachs and A. Hoogenboom. Chicago: Argonaut, 1965. 236 pp. $8.50.     

Testifying theory: Womanist intellectual thought

Sheila Rowbotham, A Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States, London: Viking, 1997, £20.

Joan Raphael‐Leff and Rosine Jozef Perelberg (eds.), Female Experience: Three Generations of British Women Psychoanalysts on Work with Women, London: Routledge, 1997, £17.99.     

An Aristotelian paradox: Wollstonecraft and the implications of marriage as friendship

ABSTRACT

This essay argues that Mary Wollstonecraft interprets marriage in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman as a relationship reminiscent of Aristotelian higher friendship. This position presents an Aristotelian paradox: Wollstonecraft shows how marriage – an institution Aristotle explicitly viewed as a husband ruling a wife – can be the basis of the Aristotelian fulfilment political society structurally provides to the best men. Overall, Wollstonecraft suggests that marriage should be recognized as a concrete contract of friendship between two individuals as opposed to a male-female complementarity that ends in the propagation of the species through childbirth. Her work enables us to challenge ideas of marriage – from Aristotle to Rousseau to the new natural law tradition – that overlook how the structure of marriage dominates possibilities for partnerships. By thus dignifying marriage, Wollstonecraft both critiques eighteenth century marriage practices and broadens the scope of gender expression today.

Abbreviation: VRW - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman     

Featured reviews

The American Gospel of Success, edited by Moses Rischin, Chicago: Quadrangle Books, Chi. 1965. 429 pp. $7.95.

Protest: Sacco‐Vanzetti and the Intellectuals, by David Felix. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1965. 274 pp. $5.95.

Hinton Rowan Helper, by Hugh C. Bailey. University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1965. 256 pp. $6.95.

Jim Crow's Defense. Anti‐Negro Thought in America, 1900–1930, by I. A. Newby, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1965. 230 pp. $6.50.     

Spreading the Word: feminist print cultures and the Women's Liberation Movement

ABSTRACT

This article investigates the significance of print cultures to the Women's Liberation Movement. It highlights feminist interventions into a male-dominated publishing industry through women's writing, publishing and political commitment, with shifts towards feminist publishing cultures, both emboldened by the WLM and empowered by separatist networks. The construction and publication of feminist magazines was a significant aspect of feminist print cultures and activism. This article discusses the different publishing hinterlands of three important feminist magazines: Shrew, Spare Rib and Womens Voice. Arguing that whilst their concerns were overlapping, their distinctive approaches represented the diversity of print activism of the WLM.     

Newsnotes

Workers Control in America: Studies in the History of Work, Technology, and Labor Struggles. By David Montgomery. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. viii, 189 pp. $14.95.

Essays in Southern Labor History: Selected Papers, Southern Labor History Conference, 1976. Edited by Gary M. Fink and Merl E. Reed, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1977. xv 275 pp. $19.95.

Industrial Relations in the Coal Industry. By Brian J. McCormick. Hamden, CT: The Shoe String Press, 1979. xii, 263 pp. $25.00.     

Educating Women: schooling and identity in England and France, 1800–1867 CHRISTINA DE BELLAIGUE; Rousseau's Daughters: domesticity,education and autonomy in modern France JENNIFER J. POPIEL

The following books are reviewed.

Women and Gender in Early Modern Wales MICHAEL ROBERTS &; SIMONE CLARKE (Eds), 2000 Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 320 pp., ISBN 0 7083 1550 X, paperback, £14.99; 0 7083 1580 1, hardback, £35.00

Women in Scotland c. 1100–c. 1750 ELIZABETH EWEN &; MAUREEN M. MEIKLE (Eds), 1999 East Linton: Tuckwell Press. 282 pp., ISBN 0 86232 046 2, £14.99

Gendering Scottish History: an international approach TERRY BROTHERSTONE, DEBORAH SIMONTON &; OONAGH WALSH (Eds), 1999 Glasgow: Cruithne Press. xxi + 280 pp., ISBN 1 873448 18 X, hardback, £20.00; 1 873448 16 3, paperback, £10.95

Women, Sexuality and War PHILOMENA GOODMAN New York: Palgrave. xii + 164 pp., ISBN 0 333 76086 7, £42.50

Revealing New Worlds: three Victorian women naturalists SUZANNE LE-MAY SHEFFIELD, 2001 London: Routledge. ISBN 0 415 2706 9, hardback, £65.00

‘Wicked’ Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa Dorothy L. Hodgson &; Sheryl A. McCurdy, 2001 Oxford: James Currey. xiii + 325 pp., ISBN 0 85255 695 0, hardback, £40.00; 0 85255 654 4, paperback, £16.95

‘I Will Not Eat Stone’: a women's history of colonial Asante Jean Allman &; Victoria Tashjian, 2000 Oxford: James Currey. xlvi + 255 pp., ISBN 0 85255 691 8, hardback, £40.00; 0 85255 641 1, paperback, £15.95

‘We Women Worked So Hard’: gender, urbanization and social reproduction in colonial Harare, Zimbabwe, 1930–56 TERESA A. BARNES, 1999 Oxford: James Currey. xlv + 204 pp., ISBN 0 85255 686 1, hardback, £40.00; 0 85255 636 5, paperback, £16.95

Women and Modernity in Weimar Germany: reality and representation in popular fiction VIBEKE RÜTZOU PETERSEN, 2001 Oxford: Berghahn Books. xvi + 184 pp., ISBN 1 57181 154 0, hardback, £20.00; 1 57181 789 1, paperback, £13.95

The Irish Women's History Reader ALAN HAYES &; DIANE URQUHART (Eds), 2001 London: Routledge. xi + 242 pp., ISBN 0 415 19914 X

The Routledge Historical Atlas of Women in America SANDRA OPDYCKE, 2000 New York: Routledge. 144 pp., ISBN 0 415 92138 4, £10.99

What American Women Did, 1789–1920 LINDA MILES COPPENS, 2001 Jefferson, NC: McFarland &; Company. ix + 259 pp., ISBN 0 7864 0899 5, £36.60

Favorite Dishes: a Columbian autograph souvenir cookery book CARRIE V. SHUMAN (Ed.), 2001 (reprinted from an 1893 edition) Champaign: University of Illinois Press. lxiii + 210 pp., hardback, $29.95; paperback, $15.00

Feminist Freikorps: the British voluntary women police, 1914–40 R.M. DOUGLAS, 1999 Westport: Praeger. xiv + 171 pp., ISBN 0 275 96249 0, hardback, US$58/£48.95     

Book notes

The Ku Klux Klan, By William Peirce Randel. Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Books, 1965. 300 pp. $5.95.

The Business Establishment. Edited by Earl F. Cheit. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1965. 248 pp. $4.95.

Age of Excess: The United States from 1877 to 1914. By Ray Ginger. New York: Macmillan, 1965. 386 pps. $5.75.

Equality in America. By Alan P. Grimes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964. 136 pp. $4.00.

The Quest for the Dream. By John P. Roche. New York: Macmillan, 1963. 308 pp. $5.95.

Quest for America, 1810–1824. Edited by Charles Sanford. New York: Washington Square‐NYU Press, 1964. 474 pp. $7.50.     

Correspondence

Gli I.W.W. e il Movimento Operaio Americano: Sloria e Documenti 1905–1914. By Renato Musto. Naples: Thélème, 1975, lxviii, 317 pp. Lire 3,200.

Working Class Radicalism in Mid‐Victorian England. By Trygve R. Tholf‐sen. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977. x, 332 pp. $20.00.

Im Schatten der Arbeiterbewegung: Zur Geschichte Des Anarchismus in Oesterreich und Deutschland. By Gerhard Botz, Gerfried Brandstetter, and Michael Pollak. Vienna: Europaverlag, 1977. 190 pp. DM 28.

The Broken Wave: The Chinese Communist Peasant Movement, 1922–1928. By Roy Hofheinz, Jr. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1977. 355 pp. $16.50.

Toward Industrial Democracy. By Kunio Odaka. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975. 290 pp. $15.00.     

The Madonna and Margaret fuller

Alicia Suskin Ostriker. Feminist Revision and the Bible. Cambridge, Blackwell Publishers, 1993. 148 pp., ix; intro., Catherine Pastore Blair and Harold Schweizer.

Brenda Webster, Sins of the Mothers. Baskerville Publishers, Dallas, Texas, 1993. 364 pp.

Shoshana Felman, What Does a Woman Want? Reading and Sexual Difference. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, 178 pp.     

Book reviews

Understanding Gender in the Social Sciences and Women's Research Karin Widerberg and Arnhild Taksdal, eds, F?rståeker av kj?nn —i samfumsvitenskapenes fag og kvimeforskning (Understanding Gender in the Social Sciences and Women's Research). Oslo: Ad Notam Gyldendal, 1992.

A feminist literary study in romanticism Eva Borgström: "Om jag får be om öbst”: Kring kvinnliga författares kvimobilder i svensk romantik. ("If I may ask for ölost”: On the Images of Women Portrayed by Women Writers of the Swedish Romantic Age). 272 pp. Summary in English. Göteborg: Anamma förlag, 1991.     

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.     

Defying fraternity: Woman as citizen in Germaine de staël's corinne,or Italy*

Women Playwrights in England, Ireland, and Scotland, 1660–1823. David D. Mann and Susan Garland Mann with Camille Gamier. Bloomington &; Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 1996. 432 pp. $57.50 cl.     

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.     

Broad Anthology on Situated Health Studies

Feminist science and technology studies — a challenge to science and to feminism?

Lynda Birke, Feminism, Animals and Science: The Naming of the Shrew. 167pp. Buckingham, Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1994.

Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature. 239 pp. London/New York: Routledge, 1993.

Londa Schiebinger, Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science. 289 pp. Boston: Beacon Press 1993.

Nelly Oudshoorn, Beyond the Natural Body: An Archeology of Sex Hormones. 195 pp. London/New York: Routledge 1994.

New understanding of women battering in marriage

Margareta Hydén, Woman Battering as Marital Act: The Construction of a Violent Marriage. 172 pp. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 1994.

Learning and life

Maaret Wager, Constructions of Femininity in Academic Women: Continuity Between Private and Professional Identity. 287 pp. Helsinki: Suomalainen Teidekatemia, 1994.

Gunilla Bjerén and Inga Elgquist‐Saltzmann, eds, Gender and Education in a Life Perspective: Lessons from Scandinavia. 170 pp. Aldershot, UK: Avebury, 1994.     

Lynette D. Myles. Beyond Borders: Female Subjectivity in African American Women's Narratives of Enslavement

Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relations Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, introduction by Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Woman Suffrage 6? Women's Rights, by Ellen Carol DuBois. New York: New York University Press, 1998.

The Madwoman Can't Speak: Or Why Insanity Is Not Subversive, by Marta Caminero‐Santangelo. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998.

Common Science? Women, Science, and Knowledge, by Jean Barr and Lynda Birke. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.

The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement, by Julie Roy Jeffrey. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Feminism and its Fictions: The Consciousness‐Raising Novel and the Women's Liberation Movement, by Lisa Marie Hogeland. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.

The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice, by Bonnie G. Smith. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Dissing Elizabeth: Negative Representations of Gloriana, edited by Julia M. Walker. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1998.     

Reviews & Resources

Theatre

The Miss Firecracker Contest, by Be A Henley at Westside Arts Theatre, New York City.

Me and My Shadow by Terry Wolver‐ton, at ABC No Rio in New York City, Fall 1984.

A Good American Novel, by Beth Lapides, at P.S. 122, New York City, December 1984.

nubs? (?nubs/'nebz/n: an ugly woman), by Lisa Goldberg, produced at SUNY‐Binghamton Fine Arts Center, December 1984.

Out/In The World: Life in the Work of Jane Bowles, created, directed and performed by Ellie Covan, produced by Open Channels in New York City, October‐November, 1984.

Dance

Pooh Kaye and Eccentric Motions at Dance Theatre Workshop, New York City, October 1984.

Sequestered Gestures, Carol Martin, Experimental Intermedia Foundation, December 1984.

Senta Driver's Harry, Emanu‐El Midtown YM‐YWHA, New York City, October 1984.

Marie Chien Noir at the Jerusalem Festival, Israel, Summer 1984.

Film

A Question of Silence, directed by Marlene Gorris, Netherlands. A Quartet Films Release, 1982.

An earlier version of this review, “Ordinary Women Who Kill,” appeared in the New York Native, August 13–26, 1984.

Books

The Diaries of Judith Malina: 1941–1957 by Judith Malina. NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1984. 464 + index. Cloth: $22.50; paper: $11.95.

Women in Motion by Alexa L. Foreman. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1983. 245 pp. + bibliography. Cloth: $19.95.

Women Composers, Conductors, and Musicians of the Twentieth Century by Jane Weiner LePage. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, Inc., Volume I, 1980; Volume II, 1983. 275 pp. and 360 pp. respectively, index. Cloth: $18.50 and $21.50 respectively.

Stormy Weather: The Music and Lives of a Century of Jazzwomen by Linda Dahl. NY: Pantheon Books, 1984. 268 pp. + notes, discography, bibliography, index. Paper: $12.95.

Mother of the Blues: A Study of Ma Rainey by Sandra B. Lieb. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1981. 173 pp. + discography, appendices, notes, bibliography, two indices. Paper: $9.95.

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