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Journal of Women's History 11.3 (1999) 235-237



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Philip E. Baruth, ed. Introducing Charlotte Clarke: Actress, Author, Enigma. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. viii + 250 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-252-02415-X (cl); 0-252-06723-1 (pb).

Thomas J. Brown. Dorothea Dix: New Englander and Reformer. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. xv + 422 pp.; no bibliography. ISBN 0-674-21488-9 (cl).

LaVonne Telshaw Camp. Lingering Fever: A World War II Nurse's Memoir. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1997. viii + 175 pp.; ill.; no bibliography. ISBN 0-7864-0322-5 (cl).

Sharon DeBartolo Carmack. A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Female Ancestors: Special Strategies for Uncovering Hard-to-Find Information about Your Female Lineage. Cincinnati, Ohio: Betterway Books, 1998. 152 pp. ISBN 0-55870-472-8 (pb).

Sylvia Chant and Cathy McIlwaine, eds. Three Generations, Two Genders, One World: Women and Men in a Changing Century. London: Zed Books, 1998. vii + 237 pp. ISBN 0-85649-603-1 (cl); 1-85649-604-X (pb).

Christine B. N. Chin. In Service and Servitude: Foreign Female Domestic Workers and the Malaysian "Modernity" Project. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. xxiv + 299 pp.; ill.; tables. ISBN 0-231-10986-5 (cl); 0-231-10987-3 (pb).

Kate Chopin. Kate Chopin's Private Papers. Ed. Emily Toth and Per Seyersted. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. xxiii + 333 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-253-33112-9 (cl); 0-253-21017-8 (pb).

Elizabeth J. Clapp. Mothers of All Children: Women Reformers and the Rise of Juvenile Courts in Progressive Era America. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. ix + 214 pp. ISBN 0-271-01777-5 (cl); 0-271-01778-3 (pb).

Denise de Costa. Anne Frank and Etty Hillesum: Inscribing Spirituality and Sexuality. Trans. Hoyinck, Mischa F. C. and Robert E. Chesal. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1998. xii + 275 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8135-2549-7 (cl);
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Katy Deepwell, ed. Women Artists and Modernism. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998. vii + 206 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-7190-5081-2 (cl); 0-7190-5082-0 (pb).

Dhuoda. Dhuoda, Handbook for Her Warrior Son: Liber Manualis. Trans. Marcelle Thiébaux. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. ix + 276 pp.; no index. ISBN 0-521-39599-2 (cl).

Axel Erdmann. My Gracious Silence: Women in the Mirror of Sixteenth-Century Printing in Western Europe. Luzern: Gilhofer and Ranschburg GmbH, 1999. xxvi + 319 pp.; ill. No ISBN given.

Moira Ferguson. Animal Advocacy and Englishwomen, 1780-1900: Patriots, Nation, and Empire. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. 174 pp. ISBN
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Joan W. Goodwin. The Remarkable Ripley: The Life of Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998. xxiii + 599 pp.; ill. ISBN 1-55553-368-X (cl.).

Julie Hardwick. The Practice of Patriarchy: Gender and the Politics of Household Authority in Early Modern France. University Park: Pennsylvania State University, 1998. xvi + 240 pp. ISBN 0-271-017821-1 (cl); 0-271-01783-X (pb). [End Page 235]

Diane Long Hoeveler. Gothic Feminism: The Professionalization of Gender from
Charlotte Smith to the Brontës
. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. xix + 250 pp.; no bibliography. ISBN 0-271-01809-7 (cl).

Anya Jabour. Marriage in the Early Republic: Elizabeth and William Wirt and the Companionate Ideal. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. ix + 217 pp. ISBN 0-8018-5877-1 (cl).

Patricia Jeffrey and Amrita Basu, eds. Appropriating Gender: Women's Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia. New York: Routledge, 1998. xi + 276 pp. ISBN 0-415-91865-0 (cl); 0-415-91866-9 (pb).

Catherine Judd. Bedside Seductions: Nursing and the Victorian Imagination, 1830-1880. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. xii + 211 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-312-17705-4 (cl).

Harriet Keyserling. Against the Tide: One Woman's Political Struggle. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998. xviii + 387 pp.; ill.; no bibliography. ISBN 1-57003-271-8 (cl).

Virginia Jeans Laas. Love and Power in the Nineteenth Century: The Marriage of Violet Blair. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press...

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