Book Reviews

• Published in: Women's history review 1999, Vol.8 (4), p.737-762
• Main Authors: Walker, Linda, Jolly, Margaretta, Woodward, Kath, Thompson, Lynne, Page, Dorothy, Eales, Jacqueline, Giles, Judy, Lassner, Phyllis, Midgley, Clare, Jackson, Christine, Meikle, Maureen M., Mukta, Partia, Brina, Carolyn, Burnell, Jocelyn Bell, Eagleton, Mary
• Format: Review
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0961-2025; 1747-583X
• DOI: 10.1080/09612029900200221

The following books are reviewed. Equivocal Feminists: the Social Democratic Federation and the woman question, 1884-1911 KAREN HUNT, 1996 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xiii + 296 pp., £35.00, ISBN 0521 55451 9 Radclyffe Hall: a woman called John SALLY CLINE, 1997 London: John Murray. xiv + 434 pp., £15.99, ISBN 0 7195 5408 X Sexology Uncensored: the documents of sexual science LUCY BLAND & LAURA DOAN (Eds), 1998 Cambridge: Polity Press. xv + 261 pp., ISBN 0 7456 2113 9 Sexology in Culture: labelling bodies and desires LUCY BLAND & LAURA DOAN (Eds), 1998 Cambridge: Polity Press. ix + 236 pp., ISBN 0 7456 1983 5 The Acceptable Face of Feminism: the Women's Institute as a social movement MAGGIE ANDREWS, 1997 London: Lawrence & Wishart. xv + 176 pp., £12.99 ISBN 0 85315 833 9 'My Hand Will Write What My Heart Dictates': the unsettled lives of women in nineteenth century New Zealand as revealed to sisters, family and friends FRANCES PORTER & CHARLOTTE MACDONALD (Eds), 1996 Auckland: Auckland University Press, with Bridget Williams Books. x + 518 pp., £29.95, ISBN 1 86940 129 8 Domestic Dangers: women, words, and sex in early modern London LAURA GOWING, 1996, 1998 Oxford: Clarendon Press. £35.00 hardback, £15.99 paperback Radical Femininity EILEEN JANES YEO (Ed.), 1998 Manchester: Manchester University Press. 229 pp., ISBN 0 7190 5244 0 Brave New Causes: women in British post-war fictions DEBORAH PHILIPS & IAN HAYWOOD, 1998 London: Leicester University Press. 171 pp., ISBN 0 7185 0059 8 Nation, Empire, Colony: historicizing gender and race RUTH ROACH PIERSON & NUPUR CHAUDHURI (Eds), 1998 Bloomington: Indiana University Press. viii + 314 pp., ISBN 0 253 33398 8 hardback, 0 253 21191 3 paperback Unbridled Spirits, Women of the English Revolution: 1640-1660 STEVIE DAVIES, 1998 London: The Women's Press. xii + 356 pp., £17.99, ISBN 0 7043 5082 3 Women in Early Modern England SARA MENDELSON & PATRICIA CRAWFORD, 1998 Oxford: Clarendon Press. xviii + 480 pp., £25.00, ISBN 0 19 820124 9 Contentious Traditions: the debate on sati in colonial India LATA MANI, 1998 University of California Press. £13.95, ISBN 0 520 214027 Resisting the Holocaust RUBY ROHRLICH (Ed.), 1998 Oxford: Berg. 264 pp., £14.99 1 85973 216 X Lise Meitner RUTH LEWIN SIME, 1996 Berkeley: University of California Press. xiii + 526 pp., ISBN 0 520 20860 9 Women Writers of the 1930s: gender, politics and history MAROULA JOANNOU (Ed.), 1999 Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. x + 224 pp., ISBN