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Volume 20; Issue 2

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Volume 20; Issue 2

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Making the Match: Domestic Placement Agencies and the Racialization of Women's Household Work

Abigail B. Bakan and Daiva K. Stasiulis

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1995

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english

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Upstaging Big Daddy: Directing Theater as If Gender and Race Matterby Ellen Donkin; Susan Clement;Acting out: Feminist Performancesby Lynda Hart; Peggy Phelan

Review by: Tracy C. Davis

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1995

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english

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Threads of Solidarity: Women in South African Industry, 1900-1980by Iris Berger;The Most Difficult Revolution: Women and Trade Unionsby Alice H. Cook; Val R. Lorwin; Arlene Kaplan Daniels;Sweatshop Strife: Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto, 1900-1939by Ruth A. Frager;Maid in the U.S.A.by Mary Romero;Beyond the Typewriter: Gender, Class, and the Origins of Modern American Office Work, 1900-1930by Sharon Hartman Strom;Working Women of Collar City: Gender, Class, and Community in Troy, 1864-86by Carole Turbin;Factory Daughters: Gender, Household Dynamics, and Rural Industrialization in Javaby Diane Lauren Wolf

Review by: Sonya O. Rose

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1995

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english

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United States and International Notes

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Front Matter

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Erratum: Book Reviews

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1995

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english

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Gayl Jones and the Matrilineal Metaphor of Tradition

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1995

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english

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Japan's 1986 Equal Employment Opportunity Law and the Changing Discourse on Gender

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1995

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english

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"We Must Be about Our Father's Business": Anna Julia Cooper and the In-Corporation of the Nineteenth-Century African-American Woman Intellectual

Elizabeth Alexander

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1995

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english

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Defining Difference: The "Scientific" Construction of Sexuality and Gender in the People's Republic of China

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1995

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english

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[Introduction]

Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres and Barbara Laslett

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1995

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english

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New Thoughts on "The Oldest Vocation": Mothers and Motherhood in Recent Feminist Scholarship

Review by: Ellen Ross

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1995

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english

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Maternal Bonds: Recent Literature on Mothering

Review by: Alice Adams

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1995

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english

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Correction to Traub

Review by: Valerie Traub

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1995

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english

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No End to Her: Soap Opera and the Female Subjectby Martha Nochimson;Screen Memories: The Hungarian Cinema of Marta Meszarosby Catherine Portuges;Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar Americaby Lynn Spigel

Review by: George Lipsitz

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1995

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english

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Victorian Women Poets: Writing against the Heartby Angela Leighton;Victorian Sages and Cultural Discourse: Renegotiating Gender and Powerby Thais E. Morgan;Rewriting the Victorians: Theory, History, and the Politics of Genderby Linda M. Shires;City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian Londonby Judith R. Walkowitz

Review by: Joyce Zonana

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1995

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english

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Betrayals of the Body Politic: The Literary Commitments of Nadine Gordimerby Andrew Vogel Ettin;Protest and Possibility in the Writing of Tillie Olsenby Mara Faulkner;Toni Morrison's World of Fictionby Karen Carmean;The Voices of Toni Morrisonby Barbara Hill Rigney

Review by: Robin Dizard

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1995

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english

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Natural Allies: Women's Associations in American Historyby Anne Firor Scott;Gender, Class, Race, and Reform in the Progressive Eraby Noralee Frankel; Nancy S. Dye;Social Work and Social Order: The Settlement Movement in Two Industrial Cities, 1889-1930by Ruth Hutchinson Crocker

Review by: Joanne L. Goodwin

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1995

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english

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Disciplining Foucault: Feminism, Power, and the Bodyby Jana Sawicki;Freedom, Foucault, and the Subject of Americaby Lee Quinby

Review by: Joan Cocks

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1995

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english

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Italian Feminist Thought: A Readerby Paola Bono; Sandra Kemp;Determined Women: Studies in the Construction of the Female Subject, 1900-90by Jennifer Birkett; Elizabeth Harvey;Gender Shock: Practicing Feminism on Two Continentsby Hester Eisenstein;Writing Women's History: International Perspectivesby Karen Offen; Ruth Roach Pierson; Jane Rendall

Review by: Angelika Bammer

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1995

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english

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Black Women and White Women in the Professions: Occupational Segregation by Race and Class, 1960-1980by Natalie J. Sokoloff;Decisions without Hierarchy: Feminist Interventions in Organization Theory and Practiceby Kathleen P. Iannello;Gender Images in Public Administration: Legitimacy and the Administrative Stateby Camilla Stivers;Compassionate Authority: Democracy and the Representation of Womenby Kathleen B. Jones

Review by: Joan Acker

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1995

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english

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Willful Virgin: Essays in Feminismby Marilyn Frye;Secrets of Life/Secrets of Death: Essays on Language, Gender and Scienceby Evelyn Fox Keller;Gathering Rage: The Failure of 20th Century Revolutions to Develop a Feminist Agendaby Margaret Randall

Review by: Patricia S. Mann

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1995

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english

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The Auto/Biographical I: The Theory and Practice of Feminist Auto/Biographyby Liz Stanley;De/Colonizing the Subject: The Politics of Gender in Women's Autobiographyby Sidonie Smith; Julia Watson;I Dwell in Possibility: A Memoirby Toni McNaron;Sending My Heart Back across the Years: Tradition and Innovation in Native American Autobiographyby Hertha Dawn Wong;Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Storiesby Lila Abu-Lughod

Review by: Mary Jean Corbett

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1995

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english

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Settlement Folk: Social Thought and the American Settlement Movement, 1885-1930by Mina Carson;Pluralism and Progressives: Hull House and the New Immigrants, 1890-1919by Rivka Shpak Lissak;Poor Women and Their Families: Hard Working Charity Cases, 1900-1930by Beverly Stadum

Review by: Sybil Lipschultz

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1995

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english

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Woman and Modernity: The (Life)Styles of Lou Andreas-Saloméby Biddy Martin;Else Lasker-Schüler: Inside This Deathly Solitudeby Ruth Schwertfeger;In the Shadow of Olympus: German Women Writers around 1800by Katherine R. Goodman; Edith Waldstein;Women in German Yearbook 7by Jeanette Clausen; Sara Friedrichsmeyer

Review by: Nancy Kaiser

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1995

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english

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Beyond Accommodation: Ethical Feminism, Deconstruction and the Lawby Drucilla Cornell;The Philosophy of the Limitby Drucilla Cornell;Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justiceby Drucilla Cornell; Michel Rosenfeld; David Gray Carlson

Review by: Iris Young

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1995

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english

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Back Matter

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1995

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english

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Defining Difference: The "Scientific" Construction of Sexuality and Gender in the People's Republic of China

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1995

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english

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PDF, 2.84 MB

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Black Women and White Women in the Professions: Occupational Segregation by Race and Class, 1960-1980 . Natalie J. Sokoloff Decisions without Hierarchy: Feminist Interventions in Organization Theory and Practice . Kathleen P. Iannello Gender Images in Public Administration: Legitimacy and the Administrative State . Camilla Stivers Compassionate Authority: Democracy and the Representation of Women . Kathleen B. Jones

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1995

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english

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PDF, 316 KB

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Woman and Modernity: The (Life)Styles of Lou Andreas-Salomé . Biddy Martin Else Lasker-Schüler: Inside This Deathly Solitude . Ruth Schwertfeger In the Shadow of Olympus: German Women Writers around 1800 . Katherine R. Goodman , Edith Waldstein Women in German Yearbook 7 . Jeanette Clausen , Sara Friedrichsmeyer

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1995

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english

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PDF, 404 KB

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Natural Allies: Women's Associations in American History . Anne Firor Scott Gender, Class, Race, and Reform in the Progressive Era . Noralee Frankel , Nancy S. Dye Social Work and Social Order: The Settlement Movement in Two Industrial Cities, 1889-1930 . Ruth Hutchinson Crocker

Goodwin, Joanne L.

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1995

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english

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Disciplining Foucault: Feminism, Power, and the Body . Jana Sawicki Freedom, Foucault, and the Subject of America . Lee Quinby

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1995

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english

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Japan's 1986 Equal Employment Opportunity Law and the Changing Discourse on Gender

Molony, Barbara

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1995

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english

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Making the Match: Domestic Placement Agencies and the Racialization of Women's Household Work

Bakan, Abigail B., Stasiulis, Daiva K.

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1995

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english

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New Thoughts on "The Oldest Vocation": Mothers and Motherhood in Recent Feminist Scholarship Apache Mothers and Daughters: Four Generations of a Family . Ruth McDonald Boyer , Narcissus Duffy Gayton Mother-Infant Bonding: A Scientific Fiction . Diane E. Eyer Shelley's Goddess: Maternity, Language and Subjectivity . Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi Motherhood by Choice: Pioneers in Women's Health and Family Planning . Perdita Huston Mothers of Incest Survivors: Another Side of the Story . Janis Tyler Johnson Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popula

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1995

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english

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Maternal Bonds: Recent Literature on Mothering Apache Mothers and Daughters: Four Generations of a Family . Ruth McDonald Boyer , Narcissus Duffy Gayton Mother-Infant Bonding: A Scientific Fiction . Diane E. Eyer Shelley's Goddess: Maternity, Language and Subjectivity . Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi Motherhood by Choice: Pioneers in Women's Health and Family Planning . Perdita Huston Mothers of Incest Survivors: Another Side of the Story . Janis Tyler Johnson Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama . E.

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1995

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english

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Settlement Folk: Social Thought and the American Settlement Movement, 1885-1930 . Mina Carson Pluralism and Progressives: Hull House and the New Immigrants, 1890-1919 . Rivka Shpak Lissak Poor Women and Their Families: Hard Working Charity Cases, 1900-1930 . Beverly Stadum

Lipschultz, Sybil

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1995

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english

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Betrayals of the Body Politic: The Literary Commitments of Nadine Gordimer . Andrew Vogel Ettin Protest and Possibility in the Writing of Tillie Olsen . Mara Faulkner Toni Morrison's World of Fiction . Karen Carmean The Voices of Toni Morrison . Barbara Hill Rigney

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1995

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english

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PDF, 333 KB

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Italian Feminist Thought: A Reader . Paola Bono , Sandra Kemp Determined Women: Studies in the Construction of the Female Subject, 1900-90 . Jennifer Birkett , Elizabeth Harvey Gender Shock: Practicing Feminism on Two Continents . Hester Eisenstein Writing Women's History: International Perspectives . Karen Offen , Ruth Roach Pierson , Jane Rendall

Bammer, Angelika

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1995

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english

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Correction to Traub Daughters, Wives, and Widows: Writings by Men about Women and Marriage in England, 1500-1640 . Joan Larsen Klein Fashioning Femininity and English Renaissance Drama . Karen Newman Staging the Gaze: Postmodernism, Psychoanalysis, and Shakespearean Comedy . Barbara Freedman

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1995

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english

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Beyond Accommodation: Ethical Feminism, Deconstruction and the Law . Drucilla Cornell The Philosophy of the Limit . Drucilla Cornell Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice . Drucilla Cornell , Michel Rosenfeld , David Gray Carlson

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1995

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