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Book reviews

1998; Routledge; Volume: 7; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/09589236.1998.9960704

1465-3869

Jill Manthorpe, Claire Cohen, Uduak Archibong, Steve Conway, Jenel Virden, Haseenah Ebrahim, Bev Orton, Siv Jansson, Alison Lee Bracker, Zoubida Guernina, Zoubida Guernina, Judy Etheridge, Patsy Stoneman, Bev Orton, Rohini Hensman, Marion Shaw, Elisa Costa, Berta Broncano, Charlotte Whittingham, Audrey Dunne, Eleonora Federici,

Gender Politics and Representation

Family, State and Social Policy Lorraine Fox Harding, 1996 Basingstoke, Macmillan 262 pp., 0 333 57482 6, £12.50 Gender, Symbolism and Organizational Cultures Silvia Gherardi, 1995 London, Sage 0 8039 8911 3, pb Cutting the Rose—Female Genital Mutilation: the practice and its prevention Efua Dorkenoo, 1994 London, Minority Rights Publication £15.95 Men's Health and Illness: gender, power and the body Donald Sabo & David Frederick Gordon, Eds, 1995 Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage ix + 334 pp., 0 8039 5275 9, £19.95 Creating GI Jane: sexuality and power in the Women's Army Corps during World War II Leisa D. Meyer, 1996 New York, Columbia University Press 0 231 10144 9, $34.00, £24.00 Women Filmmakers of the African and Asian Diaspora: decolonizing the gaze, locating subjectivity G.A. Foster, 1997 Carbondale & Edwardsville, Southern Illinois University Press 0 809 32119 X, hb $39.95; 0 809 32120 3, pb $19.95 Prime‐time Feminism Bonnie J. Dow, 1996 Philadelphia, PA, 240 pp., 780812 215540, pb Performativity and Performance Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick & Andrew Parker, Eds, 1995 London & New York, Roudedge 239 pp., 0 415 91054 4, hb, £35.00; 0 415 91055 2, pb, £11.99 Women in the Victorian Art World Clarissa Campbell Orr, Ed., 1995 Manchester, Manchester University Press xii + 200 pp., 0 7190 4122 8, hb, £40.00, 0 7190 4123 6, pb, £14.99 Doria Shafik, Egyptian Feminist: a woman apart Cynthia Nelson, 1996 University Press of Florida 0 8130 1455 7, hb African Women South of the Sahara M. Hay & S. Stichter, 1995 Harlow, Longman 0 582 21241 3 Feminist Television Criticism: a reader Charlotte Brunsdon, Julie D'Acci & Lynn Spigel, 1997 Oxford, Oxford University Press 387 pp. Four Dreamers and Emily Stevie Davies, 1996 London, Women's Press 258 pp., 0 7043 4468 8, pb £6.99 The Web of Belonging Stevie Davies, 1997 London, Women's Press 225 pp., 0 7043 4519 6, pb £6.99 Love and Ideology in the Afternoon. Soap Opera, Women and Television Genre L.S. Mumford, 1995 Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press 165 pp., 0 253 20965 X, pb Race, Class & Gender: common bonds, different voices Esther Ngan‐Ling Chow, Doris Wilkinson & Maxine Baca Zinn (Eds), 1996 Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage xxvi + 406 pp., 0 8039 7057 9, pb Vera Brittain: a feminist life Deborah Gorham, 1996 Oxford, Blackwell x + 330 pp., 0 631 14715 2, £20 Contemporary Feminist Fiction in Spain Catherine Davies, 1994 London, Berg Latin American Women's Writing: feminist readings in theory and crisis Anny Brooksbank Jones & Catherine Davies (Eds), 1996 Oxford, Oxford University Press 250 pp., 0 19 871513 7, pb Swedish Women's Writing 1850–1995 Helena Försås‐Scott, 1997 London, Athlone xiv + 333 pp., 0 485 91003 9, hb; 0 485 92003 4, pb The Myth of the Goddess: evolution of an image Anne Baring & Jules Cashford, 1993 Penguin Arkana Books xv + 782 pp., 0 14 019292 1, pb £15.99 Women and the Health Care Industry: an unhealthy relationship? Peggy Foster, 1995 Buckingham, Open University Press 218 pp., 0 335 09472 4, pb £12.99; 0 335 09473 2, hb £37.50 Children, Health and the Social Order Berry Mayall, 1996 Buckingham, Open University Press vi + 186 pp., 0 335 19282 3, pb £12.99 Feminisms of the Belle Epoque: a historical and literary anthology Jennifer Waelti‐Walters & Steven C. Hause, Eds, 1994 Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press 337 pp., 0 8032 4762 1, hb £40.00; 0 8032 9748 3, pb £15.95