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Journal of Women's History 12.4 (2001) 232-233



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Katherine Clay Bassard. Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999. ix + 183 pp. ISBN 0-691-01639-9 (cl); 0-691-01647-X (pb).

Bruce Burgett. Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early Republic. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998. vii + 213 pp.; no bibliography. ISBN 0-691-01559-7 (cl).

Patricia Clarke. Rosa! Rosa! A Life of Rosa Praed, Novelist and Spiritualist. Carlton South, Victoria, Australia: Melbourne University Press, 1999. xii + 274 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-522-84855-9 (cl).

Dinora Corsi, ed. Altrove: Viaggi di donne dall'antichità al Novecento. Rome: Viella, 1999. viii + 400 pp.; no bibliography. ISBN 88-85669-89-1 (pb).

Claire A. Culleton. Working-Class Culture, Women, and Britain, 1914-1921. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. xiii + 221 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-312-22541-5 (cl).

Agnes "Sis" Cunningham and Gordon Friesen. Red Dust and Broadsides: A Joint Autobiography. Edited by Ronald D. Cohen. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. xiv + 371 pp.; ill.; no bibliography. ISBN 1-55849-209-7 (pb).

Lynne Curry. Modern Mothers in the Heartland: Gender, Health, and Progress in Illinois, 1900-1930. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999. x + 206 pp.; ill.; map. ISBN 0-8142-0830-4 (cl); 0-8142-5032-7 (pb).

Richard Wightman Fox. Trials of Intimacy: Love and Loss in the Beecher-Tilton Scandal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. ix + 419 pp.; ill.; appendix. ISBN 0-226-25938-2 (cl).

Marjory Lang. Women Who Made the News: Female Journalists in Canada, 1880-1945. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999. xv + 371 pp.; ill.; tables. ISBN 0-7735-1838-X (cl).

Wendy McElroy. Queen Silver: The Godless Girl. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2000. 291 pp.; ill.; no bibliography. ISBN 1-57392-755-4 (cl).

Kathryn McPherson, Cecilia Morgan, and Nancy M. Forestell, eds. Gendered Pasts: Historical Essays in Femininity and Masculinity in Canada. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. x + 291 pp.; ill.; no bibliography; no index. ISBN 0-19-541449-7 (pb).

Emma Molloy. Emma Speaks Out: Life and Writings of Emma Molloy (1839-1907). Vol. 2 of Indiana Women Who Made a Difference. Edited by Martha M. Pickrell. Carmel, Ind.: Guild Press, 1999. viii + 162 pp.; ill. ISBN 1-57860-073-1 (cl).

Ellen S. More. Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. xi + 340 pp.; ill.; no bibliography. ISBN 0-674-76661-X (cl).

H. Peter Oberlander and Eva Newbrun. Houser: The Life and Work of Catherine Bauer. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1999. xiv + 342 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-7748-0720-2 (cl); 0-7748-0721-0 (pb).

Julia Tuñón Pablos. Women in Mexico: A Past Unveiled. Translated by Alan Hynds. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. xvi + 144 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-292-78160-1 (cl); 0-292-78161-X (pb).

Naomi Pasachoff. Frances Perkins: Champion of the New Deal. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 158 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-19-512222-4 (cl).

Maryam Poya. Women, Work, and Islamism: Ideology and Resistance in Iran. London: Zed Books, 1999. xvii + 186 pp.; tables; glossary. ISBN 1-85649-681-3 (cl); 1-85649-682-1 (pb).

George Robb and Nancy Erber, eds. Disorder in the Court: Trials and Sexual Conflict at the Turn of the Century. New York: New York University Press, 1999. viii + 253 pp.; no bibliography. ISBN 0-8147-7526-8 (cl).

Jerry L. Rodnitzky. Feminist Phoenix: The Rise and Fall of a Feminist Counterculture. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1999. xii + 221 pp. ISBN 0-275-96575-9 (cl).

Lamia Rustum Shehadeh. Women and War in Lebanon. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999. xvi + 363 pp.; tables. ISBN 0-8130-1707-6 (cl).

M. French Sheldon "Bébé Bwana." Sultan to Sultan: Adventures among the Masai and Other Tribes of East Africa. Introduction by Tracey Jean Boisseau. 1892; reprint, Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 1999. ix + 275 pp.; ill. ISBN 0...

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