Book Reviews and Shorter Review Essays
Forthcoming book reviews:
Rebecca Rogers, From the Salon to the Schoolroom: Educating Bourgeois Girls in Nineteenth-Century France (2005), for the Women’s History Review (U.K.)
Sarah Knott and Barbara Taylor, eds., Women, Gender, and Enlightenment (2005), for the American Historical Review.
Joan Wallach Scott,Parité: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism (2005), for History: Journal of the Historical Association (U.K.).
Published book reviews, listed alphabetically by journal; many available electronically through JSTOR
THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW.
109:4 (Oct. 2004),1311-1312. Barbara Taylor, Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination (2003), for the American Historical Review,
103:1 (Feb. 1998), 168‑170. Review of Laura L. Frader & Sonya O. Rose, eds. Gender and Class in Modern Europe (1996).
100:5 (Dec. 1995), 1590‑1591. Review of Tamar Garb, Sisters of the Brush: Women's Artistic Culture in Late Nineteenth‑Century Paris (1994).
98:2 (April 1993), 512‑13. Review of Sarah Fishman, We Will Wait: Wives of French Prisoners of War, 1940‑1945 (1991).
96:1 (Feb. 1991), 180. Review of Laurence Klejman and Florence Rochefort, L'Égalité en marche; le féminisme sous la Troisième République (1989).
92:3 (June 1987), 679. Review of Guy Chaussinand‑Nogaret, Madame Roland: Une Femme en Révolution (1985).
BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE D'HISTOIRE MODERNE ET CONTEMPORAINE (Paris). In French.
Série 16: no. 31 (1986), 32‑33. Review of Jean Rabaut, Féministes à la Belle Epoque (1985).
Série 16: no. 31 (1986), 42. Review of Ginette Castro, Radioscopie du féminisme américaine (1985).
Série 16: no. 24 (1984), 44. Review of Yvonne Knibiehler et al, De la Pucelle à la minette (1983).
Série 16: no. 23 (1984), 29‑30. Review of Michael Mitterauer and Reinhard Sieder, The European Family (1982).
Série 16: no. 23 (1984), 45‑46. Review of Pierre Darmon, Mythologie de la femme dans l'ancienne France (1983).
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY./ANNALES CANADIENNES D’HISTOIRE
Timothy B. Smith, Creating the Welfare State in France, 1880-1940 (2003), for the, vol. 39 (April 2004).
CLIO: HISTOIRE, FEMMES ET SOCIÉTÉS.
No. 22 (2005). Review of Gisela Bock & Anne Cova, eds. Ecrire l’histoire des femmes en Europe du Sud: XIXe-XXe siecles/Writing Women’s History in Southern Europe: 19th-20th Centuries (2003). In French.
No. 12 (2000), 230-235. Review of Genevieve Fraisse, Les Femmes et leur histoire (1998) and Michelle Perrot, Les Femmes ou les silences de l’Histoire (1998). In French.
CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY
7:1 (Winter 1990), 130‑36. Review of Dorothy McBride Stetson, Women's Rights in France (1987).
CONTEMPORARY FRENCH CIVILIZATION.
26:1 (2002), 1138-139. Review of Leslie Derfler, Paul Lafargue and the Flowering of French Socialism, 1882-1911 (1998).
20:1 (Spring 1996), 191‑194. Review of Susan Pedersen, Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State: Britain and France, 1914‑1945 (1993).
3:3 (Spring 1979), 479‑83. Review of Eugen Weber, Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870‑1914 (1976).
2:l (Fall 1977), 170‑73. Retrospective review of Theodore Zeldin, France, 1848‑1945, vol. I (1973).
EUROPEAN HISTORY QUARTERLY
32:2 (April 2002), 282-84. Review of Susan Grogan, Flora Tristan: Life Stories (1998) and Stéphane Michaud, ed., Flora Tristan, George Sand, Pauline Roland: Les Femmes et l’invention d’une nouvelle morale, 1830-1848 (1994).
THE EUROPEAN LEGACY: TOWARD NEW PARADIGMS
7:2 (2002), 254-255. Review of Londa Schiebinger, Has Feminism Changed Science? (1999).
7:1 (2002), 132-134. Review of Jolanta Pekacz, Conservative Tradition in Pre-Revolutionary France: Parisian Salon Women (1999).
5:5 (2000), 737-741. Review of Mona Ozouf, Women’s Words: Essay on French Singularity (1997; originally published in French 1995).
3:2 (April 1998), 98‑100. Review of A History of Women, vol. 3: Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes, ed. Natalie Zemon Davis & Arlette Farge (1993).
1:5 (August 1996), 1799. Review of Gisela Kaplan, Contemporary Western European Feminisms (1992).
FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES
16:4 (Fall 1990), 909‑22. Review essay: “The New Sexual Politics of French Revolutionary Historiography.” [see above under Articles & Review Essays]
FRENCH POLITICS AND SOCIETY (Center for European Studies, Harvard University, and subsequently, New York University).
19:3 (Fall 2001), 127-130. Review of Linda L. Clark, The Rise of Professional Women in France (2000)
No. 15 (Nov. 1986), 46‑49. Review of Patricia Hilden, Working Women and Socialist Politics in France, 1880‑1914: A Regional Study (1986).
THE FRENCH REVIEW.
45 (March 1972), 892‑93. Review of Roger Williams, Le Prince des Polemistes: Henri Rochefort (1970).
GENDER & HISTORY
4:1 (Spring 1992), 116‑18. Review essay: “Women Writers,” covering works by Christine Planté, La Petite Soeur de Balzac: Essai sur la femme auteur (1989), Susan Kirkpatrick, Las Romanticas: Women Writers and Subjectivity in Spain 1835-1850 (1989), and Jennifer Waelti‑Walters, Feminist Novelists of the Belle Epoque (1990).
HARVARD UKRAINIAN STUDIES
14:1‑2 (June 1990), 203‑6. Review of Martha Bohachevsky‑Chomiak, Feminists Despite Themselves: Women in Ukrainian Community Life, 1884‑1939 (1988).
HISTORY OF EUROPEAN IDEAS [cf. also THE EUROPEAN LEGACY, above]
17:2‑3 (1993), 319‑23. Review‑essay, "Republishing French Feminist Texts."
8:6 (1987), 726‑29. Review‑essay on Patrick Kay Bidelman, Pariahs Stand Up! The Founding of the Liberal Feminist Movement in France, 1858‑1889 (1982), and Charles Sowerwine, Sisters or Citizens? Women and Socialism in France Since 1876 (1982).
8:6 (1987), 723‑26. Review‑essay on two recent books by Jean Bethke Elshtain, Public Man, Private Woman: Women in Social and Political Thought (1981), and The Family in Political Thought (1982).
8:4‑5 (1987), 621‑24. Review‑essay, "New Documents for the History of French Feminism during the Early Third Republic," (six documentary volumes published by Editions Syros, Paris).
JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY.
27:4 (Spring 1997), 687‑689: Review of James R. Lehning, Peasant and French: Cultural Contact in Rural France during the Nineteenth Century (1995).
JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY.
77:2 (June 2005), 445-447. Review of Hanna Diamond, Women and the Second World War in France, 1939-1948: Choices and Constraints (1999) & Raylene L. Ramsay, French Women in Politics: Writing Power, Paternal Legitimization, and Maternal Legacies (2003).
74:2 (June 2002), 422-424. Review of James Smith Allen, Poignant Relations: Three Modern French Women (2000).
64:3 (Sept. 1992), 608‑10. Review of Ruth Harris, Murders and Madness: Medicine, Law, and Society in the Fin de Siècle (1989).
63:1 (March 1991), 116‑18. Review of Bonnie S. Anderson and Judith P. Zinsser, A History of Their Own: Women in European History from Prehistory to the Present, vol. 2 (1988).
62:2 (June 1990), 356‑58. Review of Joan W. Scott, Gender and the Politics of History (1988).
61:3 (Sept. 1989), 585‑88. Review of Richard J. Evans, Comrades and Sisters: Feminism, Socialism and Pacifism in Europe, 1870‑1945 (1987), and Steven C. Hause, Hubertine Auclert: The French Suffragette (1987).
58:3 (Sept. 1986), 731‑33. Review of Claude Langlois, Le Catholicisme au féminin (1984).
JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S HISTORY.
13:4 (Winter 2002), 180-190: “Women’s Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century World: States, Gender, and Historiographical Strategies in Comparative Perspective.” Review essay covering: Elizabeth Thompson, Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon (1999); Landon R. Y. Storrs, Civilizing Capitalism: The National Consumers’ League, Women’s Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era (2000); Nancy Christie, Engendering the State: Family, Work, and Welfare in Canada (2000); and Rolf Torstendahl, ed. State Policy and Gender System in the Two German States and Sweden, 1945-1989 (1999). [Crosslisted under articles and review essays, 2002, above]
8:1 (Spring 1996), 147‑154: "Women's History as French History," a review‑essay covering Michèle Riot‑Sarcey's La Démocratie à l'épreuve des femmes (1994), and three volumes of documentary texts.
7:2 (Summer 1995), 145‑51. Review of Histoire des femmes en Occident. Vol. 5: Le XXe siècle. Françoise Thébaud, ed. George Duby and Michelle Perrot, series editors. Paris: Plon, 1992. (Published in English as A History of Women in the West: Toward a Cultural Identity in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, Mass: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1994)
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWOct. ll, 1987. Review of Donald Meyer, Sex and Power: The Rise of Woman in America, Russia, Sweden and Italy (1987).
NEWSLETTER, INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN & GENDER, STANFORD.
18:2 (Winter 1994), 9. Review of Marilyn Yalom, Blood Sisters (1993).
14:2 (Winter 1990), 3. Review of Marilyn Yalom, Le Temps des orages: Aristocrates, bourgeoises et paysannes racontent (1989).
NEWSLETTER OF THE WEST COAST ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN HISTORIANS.
5:2 (Nov. 1974), 5‑7. Review‑essay: "Shorter and the Sexual Revolution." Discusses two articles by Edward Shorter.
NWSA JOURNAL
4:2 (Summer 1992), 205‑11. Review essay: "Feminist Organizational Politics," covering works by Harold L. Smith, ed. British Feminism in the Twentieth Century (1990); Judith Adler Hellman, Journeys among Women: Feminism in Five Italian Cities (1987); Naomi Black, Social Feminism (1989), and Joyce Gelb, Feminism and Politics: A Comparative Perspective (1989).
RFR/DRF (Canada)
19:1 (Summer 1990), 45‑46. Review of Mary Lynn Stewart, Women, Work & the French State: Labour Protection & Social Patriarchy, 1879‑1919 (1989).
SIGNS: JOURNAL OF WOMEN IN CULTURE AND SOCIETY
11:1 (Autumn 1985), 176‑80. Review‑essay on books by Richard Soloway, Birth Control and the Population Question in England, 1877-1930 (1982); Diana Gittens, Fair Sex: Family Size and Structure in Britain, 1900-1939 (1982); Angus McLaren, Sexuality and Social Order: The Debate over the Fertility of Women and Workers in France, 1770-1920 (1983); Rachel Ginnis Fuchs, Abandoned Children: Foundlings and Child Welfare in Nineteenth-Century France (1983); and George D. Sussmann, Selling Mothers’ Milk: The Wet-Nursing Business in France, 1715-1914 (1982).
8:2 (Winter 1982), 372‑76. Review‑essay on books in French women's history by Bonnie G. Smith, Ladies of the Leisure Class: The Bourgeoises of Northern France in the Nineteenth Century (1981), and James F. McMillan, The Place of Women in French Society, 1870-1940 (1981).
WOMEN'S REVIEW OF BOOKS
20:1 (October 2002): “The Making of a Historian,” Review of Gerda Lerner, Fireweed.
6:7 (April 1989). "The Use and Abuse of History." Review of Denise Riley, "Am I That Name?" Feminism and the Category of "Women" in History (1988), and Joan B. Landes, Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution (1988).
WOMEN'S STUDIES ABSTRACTS
3:4 (Fall 1974), 2‑3. Review of Alain Decaux, Histoire des Françaises (1972).
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