Dancing death by fire: In search of Roop Kanwar

The Distances: The Diary of Alina Reyes, adapted and directed by Ralph Denier, performed by Margo Lee Sherman, based on a story by Julio Cortazar, translated by Paul Blackburn at the Spanish Institute, New York City, April 1984.

Whoopie Goldberg, at Dance Theatre Workshop, New York City, February 1984.

Mud, written and directed by Maria Irene Fames, at Theatre for the New City, Fall 1983.

Sarita, witten and directed by Maria Irene Fames, at Intar, New York City, February 1984.

A ... My Name is Alice, conceived and directed by Joan Micklin Silver and Julianne Boyd. New York City, Spring 1984.

Delicate Feelings, book and lyrics by Rosalyn Drexler, music by Steve and Franne Rosenthal, directed by George Ferencz, at Theatre for the New City, New York City, May 1984.

Las Gringos, conceived by Martha Boesing, created by the company of At the Foot of the Mountain, directed by Martha Boesing/Jan Magrane, at the People's Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 1984.

The Owl was a Baker's Daughter, by Alice Eve Cohen, at the Douglas Fairbanks Studio as part of the International OFF Festival, sponsored by Fools Company, Inc., Theatre Row, May, 1984.

Dance

Skydance/Skytime, choreography by Elaine Summers, Guggenheim Museum, June 7–10,1984.

Café Müller, by Pina Bausch, performed at Brooklyn Academy of Music, June 1984.

Bluebeard, or Listening to a Tape Recording of Bela Bartok's Opera, Bluebeard's Castle by Pina Bausch, at Brooklyn Academy of Music, June 1984.

Pina Bausch, at Brooklyn Academy of Music, June 1984.

Interview with Molissa Fenley

Ripe and Dance the Sacred Cow, by Susan Rethorst, St. Marks Church, New York Cilty, March 15–18, 1984.

Books

The Soap Opera by Muriel G. Cantor and Suzanne Pingree. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1983. 154 pp. + bibliography, index. Cloth: $29.95; paper: $9.95.

Ladies of the Evening: Women Characters of Prime Time‐Television by Diana M. Meehan. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1983. 179 pp. + nous, index. Cloth: $16.00.

Women's Reflections: The Feminist Film Movement by Jan Rosenberg. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1983. 143 pp. + notes, bibliography, index. Cloth: $39.95.

Saints and Shrews: Women and Aging in American Popular Film by Karen M. Stoddard. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT: 1983,155 pp. + bibliography, index.

The Music of Pauline Oliveros by Heidi Von Gunden. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1983.195 pp. + notes, bibliography, catalog of compositions, discography, index. Cloth: $15.00

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Under the analphabête series

Theatre

Speech (The Predicament of Three Women in the Nuclear Age), written and directed by Avram Patt, Theatre for the New York City, October 1983, New York City

Fen, by Caryl Churchill directed by Les Waters, London Joint Stock Theatre Group's production presented by Joseph Paff at the Public Theatre, New York City

Top Girls, by Caryl Churchill, directed by Max Stafford‐Clark, Royal Theatre Court production presented by Joseph Papp at The Public Theatre, New York City

Sophie, by comedienne Judy Sloan, October 1983, at the Gay Women's Alternative, New York City.

Awake Sleeping Heart, a collage for five women based on the life, journals and paintings of the Mexican artist Fri‐da Kahlo, conceived and directed by Emma Missouri, October 1983, Northampton, Massachusetts

Antigone Too: Rites of Love and Defiance, written and directed by Martha Boesing for At the Foot of the Mountain, August 1983, at the People's Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Orgasmo Adulto Escapes from the Zoo, by Dario Fo and Franca Rame, performed by Estelle Parsons at the Public Theatre, New York City, Fall 1983.

Dance

Celebration of Traditional Cultures, La Mama Annex, November 11–13, 1983.

History, An American Dream, by Anne Bogart, St. Mark's Church, October, 1983.

Vamot A Andar (Let's Get Going), Wallflower Order and Grupo Raiz, October, 1983, Symphony Space, New York City

Testimonies, New York City Political Dancers, Merce Cunningham Dance Studio, August 1983.

Set and Reset, Trisha Brown and Company, Brooklyn Academy of Music, October 1983.

Books

The Amazing Decade: Women and Performance Art in America 1970–1980, edited by Moira Roth. Los Angeles: Astro Ariz, 1983. 149 pp., bibliographies. Cloth: $25.00; paper: $12.50

Woman and Spirituality by Carol Ochs. Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman and Allanheld, 1983. 144 pp., notes, bibliography, index. Cloth: $16.95

Women In Music: An Anthology of Source Readings from the Middle Ages to the Present, edited by Carol Neuls‐Bates. New York: Harper &; Row, 1982. 332 pp., selected bibliography, index, illustrations. Cloth: $18.50

American Women Composers Before 1870 by Judith Tick. Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Research Press, 1983. 233 pp., appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth: $44.95

Louise Farrenc, 1840–1875 by Bea Friedland. Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Research Press, 1980. 177 pp., appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth: $49.95

Mourning Dress: A Costume and Social History by Lou Taylor, Boston: Allen &; Unwin, 1983. 287 pp., appendices, chapter notes, select bibliography, index. Cloth: $24.50

Listings     

Reviews & Resources

Theater

Split Britches, by Lois Weaver in collaboration with Deborah Margolin and Peggy Shaw, directed by Lois Weaver for the Split Britches Company, Open Gate Theatre, New York City.

Beauty and the Beast—The Otic and Only World‐Famous Vaudeville Revue, written by Deborah Margolin in collaboration with Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw, directed by Lois Weaver, Spring 1983, WOW Cafe, New York City.

'night, Mother, by Marsha Norman directed by Tom Moore, Golden Theatre, New York City.

The Department, by Barbara Gar‐son, directed by Chris Kraus, May 1983, Theater for the New City, New York City.

Sappho and Aphrodite, by Karen Malpede, directed by Lois Weaver, presented by the Sappho and Aphrodite Company as a work‐in‐progress, Provincetown Playhouse, March 1983, New York City.

Cloud 9, by Caryl Churchill, directed by Tommy Tune, Lucille Lortel Theatre, New York City.

Dance

With Longings to Realize, Johanna Boyce and Performance Group, January, 1983, Dance Theatre Workshop, New York City.

Theory and Play of the Duende, by Pilar Rioja, Repertorio Espanol's Gramercy Arts Theater, April 1983, New York City.

Ms. Barbie and Her Friends or Whose Life to Live, by the Barbara Mahler Dance Theater, March 1983, Cash Performance Space, New York City.

Music

Thoughts on Women's Popular Music

Meg Christian, Bottom Line, April 1983, New York City.

Holly Near and Ronnie Gilbert in Concert, Lincoln Center, Avery Fisher Hall April 13, 1983, New York City.

Books

Divine Dancer: A Biography of Ruth St. Denis by Suzanne Shelton. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1981. 338 pp. Bibliography. Index.

American Women Dramatists of the Twentieth Century, A Bibliography. Brenda Coven. Metuchen, New Jersey & London: Scarecrow Press, 1982. 237 pp.

Women in Film: Both Sides of the Camera by E. Ann Kaplan. New York and London: Methuen, Inc., September, 1983.

Biographical Dictionary of Dance.Barbara Naomi Cohen‐Stratyner. New York: Schirmer Books, 1982. 970 pp.

American Women in Jazz: 1900 to the Present—Their Words, Lives, and Music.Sally Placksin. U.S.A.: Wideview Books, 1982. 322 pp. Bibliography, index, and discography.

Women in Theatre: Compassion and Hope.Karen Malpede. New York: Drama Book Publishers, 1983. 265 pp. Selected bibiography and index.

Listings     

Stelarc's post‐evolutionary performance art: Exposing collisions between the body and technology

Performance

The Tarnished Angels and The Elizabethan Phrasing of the Late Albert Ayler. Choreographed by Karole Armitage. Performed by The Armitage Ballet Scenery by David Salle. Brooklyn Academy of Music, November 1987.

Eden. Choreographed by Maguy Marin. Performed by Compagnie Maguy Marin (Creteil, France). Brooklyn Academy of Music, Next Wave Festival, October 20–22, 1987.

Elena's Aria. Choreographed by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. Performed by Rosas. Brooklyn Academy of Music, Next Wave Festival November 3–8, 1987.

Blue Scene Grey. Written, directed and designed by Linda Mussmann in collaboration with Claudia Bruce; music by Semih Firincioglu. Time &; Space Limited production, New York, October, 1987.

Dress Suits to Hire. Written by Holly Hughes in collaboration with Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw. Performed by Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw. Women's Interart Center, New York, through January 16, 1988.

Improvisations by Simone Forti and Pooh Kaye. 2nd Annual Festival of Women Improvisers, Kraine Gallery, New York City, October 10, 1987.

Blood on the Saddle. Choreographed by Jennifer Monson in collaboration with Zeena Parkins. Danspace, New York City, November 7, 1987.

Active Graphics II and Tangled Graphics. Choreographed by Pooh Kaye. Performed by Eccentric Motions. The Kitchen, New York City, December 5, 1987.

US. Written by Karen Malpede. Directed by Judith Malina. Co‐production of Theater for the New City and Living Theatre. New York, December 1987‐January 1988.

Film

The Golddiggers. Written by Sally Potter, Lindsay Cooper, and Rose English; directed and edited by Sally Potter; music by Lindsay Cooper; Rose English, art director and assistant editor; Babette Mangolte, lighting camera. Released 1983; New York premiere February, 1988.

Books

Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film, and Fiction, by Teresa de Lauretis. Indiana University Press, 1987.

Women Making Music: The Western Art Tradition, 1150–1950, edited by Jane Bowers and Judith Tick Chicago and Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986.

The public forum

On the Road: Voices of Bay Area Women in Performance. Performed, compiled, edited and produced by Anna Deavere Smith. West Coast Women in Theatre Conference, in conjunction with Julian Theatre, San Francisco, January 8–10, 1988.

Electra: An International Festival of Experimental Performance by Women.Double Edge Theatre, Boston, January 8–24, 1988.     

Dréed's drag kinging of race,sex, and the queering of the American racial machine‐désirante

Help Wanted, written by Franz Xavier Kroetz, translated by Gitta Honegger, directed by JoAnne Akalaitis, presented by Mabou Mines at Theatre for the New City, New York City, February and April, 1986.

The Women Here Are No Different, by Nancy Beckett, directed by Jenny O'Hara, presented by 13th Street Repertory Company, New York City. (attended on 8.27.86).

The Early Girl, by Caroline Kava. Directed by Munson Hicks. Circle Repertory Theatre.

Crowsfeet Dance Collective, Performance Space 122, New York City. June 1986.

This Is For You, Anna/A Spectacle of Revenge, directed by June Guralnick; created by The Anna Project (initiated at the Nightwood Theatre in Toronto), Suzanne Odette Khun, Ann‐Marie MacDonald, Patricia Nichols, Banuta Rubess, Maureen White; performed by members of The Women's Ensemble Theatre: Mia Kanazawa, Alonia King, Judith Pucci, Debbie Smith.

Rate It X, produced by Lynn Campbell, Claudette Charbonnear, Paula de Koenigsberg and Lucy Winer. OMT Productions Inc and Channel 4 of London, 1985. NYC Film Forum 1987. Distributed by Interama Inc.

Interview with Filmmaker Marken Gorris, conducted by Katheryn White with Helma Klooss at the Barbizon Plaza Hotel in New York City during Holland Film Week at Carnegie Hall Cinema, Spring, 1986.

Sex &; Dance Series, Dance Theatre Workshop (DTW) and P.S. 122, October‐November, 1986.

L.O.W. in Gaia, by Rachel Rosenthal. The Kitchen. New York City.

Books

Interviews With Contemporary Women Playwrights, by Kathleen Betsko and Rachel Koenig. New York: Beech Tree Books, 1987. 480 pp. Index.

Feminist Theatre: An Introduction to Plays of Contemporary British and American Women, by Helene Keyssar. London: MacMillan Modern Dramatists, 1984. 223 pp. Bibliography and index.

The public forum

A Report on the Women's Preconvention of the National Educational Theatre Conference, Tisch School of the Arts and the Gallatin Division, New York University, August 15–16, 1986.

Founding Mothers: Contemporary Dance as a Canon for Women's Studies, Department of Dance in collaboration with the Women's Studies Program and the Research Center for the Arts and Humanities, University of Maryland, College Park.

The Third Annual Women in Theatre Festival, Boston, March 20–29, 1987.     

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.     

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).     

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).     

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.     

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.     

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 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.     

Modern socialism: an introduction and appraisal

Bisbee ‘17: a novel. By Robert Houston. New York: Pantheon Books, 1979. 287 pp. $10.00.

Minnesota Farmer‐Laborism: The Third‐Party Alternative. By Millard L. Gieske. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1979. ix, 389 pp. $15.00.

The Dust Bowl: Men, Dirt, and Depression. By Paul Bonnifield. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1979. xii, 232 pp. $12.50

The Landrum‐Grijjin Act: Twenty Years of Federal Protection of Union Members’ Rights. By Janice R. Bellace and Alan D. Berkowitz. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School Industrial Research Unit, 1979. xiv, 363 pp. $15.00.

Political Control of the Economy. By Edward R. Tufte. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. xi, 168 pp. $10.00.

Auto Work and Its Discontents. Edited by B.J. Widick. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. 112 pp. $8.00.

Corporate Power and Urban Crisis in Detroit. By Lynda A. Ewen. Princeton University Press, 1978. xii, 312 pp. $17.50.

The Impact of the AT&;T‐EEO Consent Decree. By Herbert R. Northrup, and John A. Larson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School Industrial Research Unit, 1979. xvi, 234 pp. $11.50.

Women in the Labor Market. Edited by Cynthia B. Lloyd, Emily S. Andrews and Curtis L. Gilroy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. xxi, 377 pp. $25.00.

Mary Lyon and Mount Holyoke. By Elizabeth Alden Green. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1979. 406 pp. $17.50.

The Making of a Feminist: Early Journals and Letters of M. Carey Thomas. Edited by Marjorie Housepian Dobkin with a foreword by Millicent Carey McIntosh. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1979. 314 pp. $15.00.

The Kaleidoscopic Lens: How Hollywood Views Ethnic Groups. Edited by Randal M. Miller. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Jerome S. Ozer, 1980. xiii, 222 pp. $12.95.

Consciousness and Class Experience in Nineteenth‐Century Europe. Edited by John M. Merriman. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1979. vii, 261 pp. $24.50.

Women, Work, and Family. By Louise A. Tilly and Joan W. Scott. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978. xiv, 274 pp. $6.95 paperback.

The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. By Albert Goodwin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979. 594 pp. $20.00.

Independent Collier: The Coalminer as Archetypal Proletarian Reconsidered. Edited by Royden Harrison. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978. 276 pp. $20.00.

British Socialists: The Journey from Fantasy to Politics. By Stanley Pier‐son. Cambridge: MA Harvard University Press, 1979.403 pp. $25.00.

Cunningham Graham: A Critical Biography. By Cedric Watts and Laurence Davies. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 1980. xiii, 333 pp. $27.50.

G. D. H. Cole and Socialist Democracy. By A. W. Wright. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. 301 pp. $36.00.

Paths To Authority: The Middle Class and the Industrial Labor Force in France, 1820–48. By Peter N. Stearns. Urbana, Chicago, London: University of Illinois Press, 1978. 222 pp. $20.00.     

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.     

Listings

From Mad Max to Sane Elaine

Elaine Showalter, Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media, New York: Columbia University Press, 1997, £16.39; Picador, 1998, £6.99

But Words Can Never Hurt Me

Judith Butler, Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative, New York and London: Routledge, 1997, £40.

Women in Theatre: Practitioners’ Voices

Lizbeth Goodman, Feminist Stages: Interviews with ‘Women in Contemporary British Theatre, Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996, £18. Joanne Tompkins and Julie Holledge (eds), Performing Women/Performing Feminisms: Interviews with International Women Playwrights, Australasian Drama Studies Association Academic Publications 2, University of Queensland, 1997. Elaine Aston (ed.), Feminist Theatre Voices, Loughborough Theatre Texts, University of Loughborough, 1997, £7.99.

Heidi Stephenson and Natasha Langridge, (eds), Rage and Reason: Women Playwrights on Playwriting, London: Methuen, 1997, £9.99.

Life and Death in the Next World

Christine Brook‐Rose, Next, Manchester: Carcanet, 1998, £9.95 pbk.     

Reviews

From Mad Max to Sane Elaine

Elaine Showalter, Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media, New York: Columbia University Press, 1997, £16.39; Picador, 1998, £6.99

But Words Can Never Hurt Me

Judith Butler, Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative, New York and London: Routledge, 1997, £40.

Women in Theatre: Practitioners’ Voices

Lizbeth Goodman, Feminist Stages: Interviews with ‘Women in Contemporary British Theatre, Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996, £18. Joanne Tompkins and Julie Holledge (eds), Performing Women/Performing Feminisms: Interviews with International Women Playwrights, Australasian Drama Studies Association Academic Publications 2, University of Queensland, 1997. Elaine Aston (ed.), Feminist Theatre Voices, Loughborough Theatre Texts, University of Loughborough, 1997, £7.99.

Heidi Stephenson and Natasha Langridge, (eds), Rage and Reason: Women Playwrights on Playwriting, London: Methuen, 1997, £9.99.

Life and Death in the Next World

Christine Brook‐Rose, Next, Manchester: Carcanet, 1998, £9.95 pbk.     

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.     

Gender and Change: agency,chronology and periodisation ALEXANDRA SHEPARD & GARTHINE WALKER

The following books are reviewed.

Unequal Sisters: a multicultural reader in US women's history ELLEN CAROL DUBOIS &; VICKI L. RUIZ (Eds∥, 1990 New York: Routledge. xvi + 473pp, paperback £12.99, hardback £40.00

The Bluestocking Circle: women, friendship, and the life of the mind in eighteenth-century England SYLVIA HARCSTARK MYERS, 1990 Oxford: Clarendon Press. xvi + 342 pp., £35.00

Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650-1838 BARBARA BUSH, 1990 James Currey (London), in conjunction with Heinemann (Kingston) and Indiana University Press (Bloomington). v + 190pp., paperback £8.95, hardback £25.00.

The Muses of Resistance: labouring-class women's poetry in Britain, 1739-96 DONNA LANDRY, 1990 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. x + 325 pp., £30.00.

Theorizing Patriarchy SYLVIA WALBY, 1990 Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 229 pp., £10.95

Women in an Industrialising Society, 1750-1880 JANE RENDALL, 1990 Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 112 pp., £4.95

Women and Industrialisation: gender at work in nineteenth century England JUDY LOWN, 1990 Cambridge: Polity Press. xi + 260pp., £27.50

Women and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-45 BARBARA JANCAR-WEBSTER, 1990 Denver: Arden Press. xvi + 227 pp., hardback $26.50, paperback $16.95

Getting Smart: feminist research and pedagogy within the postmodern world PATTI LATHER, 1991 London: Routledge. xv + 212 pp., £30.00

Not a Passing Phase: reclaiming lesbians in history, 1840-1985 LESBIAN HISTORY GROUP, 1989 London: The Women's Press. 264 pp., £7.95

Women in Early Modern Ireland MARGARET MACCURTAIN &; MARY O. DOWD, 1991 Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. x + 340pp., £35.00

The Best Type of Girl: a history of girls. independent schools GILLIAN AVERY, 1991 London: André Deutsch. xiii + 410 pp., £20.00

Women of the New Mexico Frontier, 1846-1912 CHERYL J. FOOTE, 1990 Niwot: University Press of Colorado. xviii £ 198 pp., $19.95

Feminism and the Family in England, 1880-1939 CAROL DYHOUSE, 1989 Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 204 pp., hardback £29.50, paperback £7.50

Women Engravers PATRICIA JAFFE, 1990 London: Virago Press. 128 pp., many illustrations, £9.99