Book Reviews

• Published in: Women's History Review 2003, Vol.12 (4), p.679-709
• Main Authors: Crawford, Elizabeth, Liggins, Emma, Pickles, Katie, Roe, Jill, Manley, John, Hall, Lesley A., Mathers, Helen, Jones, Shirley, Ahluwalia, Sanjam, Semple, Rhonda, Chaudhuri, Nupur, Cook, Hera, Castledine, Jacqueline, Tuson, Penelope, Meikle, Maureen M., Boydell, Christine, Whitelegg, Elizabeth
• Format: Review
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0961-2025; 1747-583X
• DOI: 10.1080/09612020300200371

The following books are reviewed. Collective Biography of Women in Britain, 1550-1900: a select annotated bibliography SYBIL OLDFIELD, 1999 London: Mansell. xviii + 168 pp., 45 illustrations, ISBN 0 7201 2321 6, £60 Women: a modern political dictionary CHERYL LAW, 2000 London: I.B. Tauris. xi + 276pp., ISBN 1 86064 502 X, £25 Women: a modern political dictionary CHERYL LAW, 2000 London: I.B. Tauris. xi + 276pp., ISBN 1 86064 502 X, £25 The New Woman in Fiction and in Fact: fin-de-siècle feminisms ANGELIQUE RICHARDSON & CHRIS WILLIS (Eds), 2001 Houndmills: Palgrave. 258 pp., ISBN 0 333 77665 8, £42.50 Who was that Woman? The Australian Women's Weekly in the post-war years SUSAN SHERIDAN with BARBARA BAIRD, KATE BORRETT & LYNDALL RYAN, 2002 Sydney: University of New South Wales Press. 165 pp., ISBN 0 86840 618 X, AU$39.95 Passionate Friends: Mary Fullerton, Mabel Singleton and Miles Franklin SYLVIA MARTIN, 2001 London: Onlywomen Press. 190 pp., ISBN 0 9065 0064 8, paperback Red Feminism: American communism and the making of women's liberation KATE WIEGAND, 2001 Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0 8018 6489 5, hardback, £29.50 A Victorian Marriage: Mandell and Louise Creighton JAMES COVERT, 2001 London: Hambledon & London xvi + 412 pp., ISBN 1 85285 250 7, £19.95 Josephine Butler JANE JORDAN, 2001 London: John Murray xii + 368 pp., ISBN 0 7195 5584 1, hardback, £22.50 Dickens and the Daughter of the House HILARY M. SCHOR, 1999 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press xii + 232 pp., ISBN 0 521 44076 9, hardback, £35.00 Encyclopedia of Birth Control VERN L. BULLOUGH, 2001 Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO xv + 349 pp., ISBN 1 57607 181 2, $75.00 Gender, religion, and 'heathen lands': american missionary women in south asia (1860s-1940s) MAINA CHAWLA SINGH, 2000 New York: Garland xiii + 385pp., ISBN 08153 2824 9, $70.00 Gendered Nations: nationalisms and gender order in the long nineteenth century IDA BLOM, KAREN HAGEMANN & CATHERINE HALL (Eds), 2000 Oxford: Berg ix+ 347 pp., ISBN I 85973 264 X, paperback, $19.50 The Technology of Orgasm: 'hysteria,' the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction RACHEL P. MAINES, 1999 Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press xviii + 181 pp., ISBN 0 8018 6646 4, £11.00 pbk; £32.00 hbk. Women in the United States, 1830-1945 S.J. KLEINBERG, 1999 New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press xii + 368 pp., ISBN 0 33 61097 0, US$14.99 Inventing home: emigration, gender, and the middle class in Lebanon, 1870-1920 AKRAM FOUAD KHATE