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.     

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.     

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.     

Lesbian writing

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

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.     

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.     

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.     

The party organizer: An introduction and appraisal

A Behavioral Approach to Historical Analysis. By Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr. New York: The Free Press. 1969. 321 pp. $7.95.

The Cross of Culture: A Social Analysis of Midwestern Politics, 1850–1900. By Paul Kleppner. New York: The Free Press. 1970. 375 pp.     

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.     

Book reviews

The Afterlife of Property: Domestic Security and the Victorian Novel, by Jeff Nunokawa. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994.

Review of Scenes of Seduction: Prostitution, Hysteria and Reading Difference in Nineteenth‐Century France, by Jann Matlock (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994)     

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.     

Book reviews

Sylvia Plath's sources

Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness, by Edward Butscher, New York, Seabury Press, 388 pp. $15.95.

Chapters in a Mythology: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath. by Judith Kroll. Harper & Row, New York. 303 pp. $12.50.

Victorian Pudding

Women and Marriage in Victorian Fiction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. Pp 223.

Out of obscurity

The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings, by Bell Gale Chevigny, The Feminist Press, 1976.

Celebratory scholarship

The Authority of Experience: Essays in Feminist Criticism, edited by Arlyn Diamond and Lee R. Edwards, University of Massachusetts Press, 1977.

The Lay of the Land, by Annette Kolodny.

A Literature of Their Own. by Elaine Showalter

The Feminization of American Culture, by Ann Douglas     

Book Reviews

MARY SHELLEY &; FRANKENSTEIN; THE FATE OF ANDROGYNY by William Veeder. (The University of Chicago Press, 1986), Cloth, $22.50

THE FEMALE MALADY: WOMEN, MADNESS, AND ENGLISH CULTURE, 1830–1980 by Elaine Showalter. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1985), 312 pp., 29 illustrations.

PATRIARCHAL STRUCTURES IN SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMA by Peter Erickson. (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1985) xii + 209 pp. $22.00

RECLAIMING A CONVERSATION: THE IDEAL OF THE EDUCATED WOMAN by Jane Roland Martin. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985); ALMA MATER: DESIGN AND EXPERIENCE IN THE WOMEN'S COLLEGES FROM THEIR 19TH‐CENTURY BEGINNINGS TO THE 1930s by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz. (New York: Knopf, 1984); IN THE COMPANY OF EDUCATED WOMEN: A HISTORY OF WOMEN AND HIGHER EDUCATION IN AMERICA by Barbara Miller Solomon. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985).     

Feminism and science

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

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.     

Beyond stereotypes: Mary Wilkins Freeman's radical critique of nineteenth‐century cults of femininity

MARY SHELLEY &; FRANKENSTEIN; THE FATE OF ANDROGYNY by William Veeder. (The University of Chicago Press, 1986), Cloth, $22.50

THE FEMALE MALADY: WOMEN, MADNESS, AND ENGLISH CULTURE, 1830–1980 by Elaine Showalter. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1985), 312 pp., 29 illustrations.

PATRIARCHAL STRUCTURES IN SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMA by Peter Erickson. (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1985) xii + 209 pp. $22.00

RECLAIMING A CONVERSATION: THE IDEAL OF THE EDUCATED WOMAN by Jane Roland Martin. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985); ALMA MATER: DESIGN AND EXPERIENCE IN THE WOMEN'S COLLEGES FROM THEIR 19TH‐CENTURY BEGINNINGS TO THE 1930s by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz. (New York: Knopf, 1984); IN THE COMPANY OF EDUCATED WOMEN: A HISTORY OF WOMEN AND HIGHER EDUCATION IN AMERICA by Barbara Miller Solomon. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985).     

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.     

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 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.