NWSA Journal Volume 10 Number 1 Number 2 Number 3Affirmative Action Reconsidered

CONTENTS Volume 10, Number 1 Spring 1998

Articles MARJORIE PRYSE Critical Interdisciplinarity, Women's Studies, and Cross-Cultural Insight / 1 ADRIANA CAVALCANTI de AGUIAR Medicine and Women's Studies: Possibilities for Enhancing Women's Health Care / 23 SONDRA M. BRANDLER Aged Mothers, Aging Daughters / 43 ANNA SHANNON ELFENBEIN, LINDA E. LUCAS, BARBARA C. EWELL, KATHRYN CIRKSENA, and MARGARET MCFADDEN Taking on the World: U.S. Women Fulbrighters / 57 On Teaching and Learning FRANCES L. HOFFMANN and JAYNE E. STAKE Feminist Pedagogy in Theory and Practice: An Empirical Investigation / 79 DEBBIE STORRS and JOHN MIHELICH Beyond Essentialisms: Team Teaching Gender and Sexuality / 98 MEG LOVEJOY "You Can't Go Home Again": The Impact of Women's Studies on Intellectual and Personal Development / 119 Observations DEBRA BAKER BECK The "F" Word: How The Media Frame Feminism / 139 Review Essay SUSAN DOUGLAS FRANZOSA Curriculum Transformation / 154

Book Reviews DORIS GRIESER MARQUIT Against the Tide: Women Reformers in American Society edited by Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller "To Do & To Be": Portraits of Four Women Activists, 1893-1986 by Ann Schofield Women Reshaping Human Rights: How Extraordinary Activists Are Changing the World by Marguerite Guzman Bouvard The Politics of Motherhood: Activist Voices from Left to Right edited by Alexis Jetter, Annelise Orleck, and Diana Taylor / 162 VIRGINIA T. BEMIS Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture by Elaine Showalter / 172 EDELMA DE LEON HUNTLEY Making More Waves: New Writing by Asian American Women edited by Elaine H. Kim / 174 ESTHER FUCHS Cornerstones of Peace: Jewish Identity Politics and Democratic Theory by Marla Brettschneider The Narrow Bridge: Jewish Views on Multiculturalism edited by Marla Brettschneider / 176 SUZANNE E. FRANKS Reproducing Persons: Issues in Feminist Bioethics by Laura Purdy / 179 CHERYL CLAASSEN Women in Human Evolution edited by Lori Hager / 181 MAURICE HAMINGTON Pragmatism and Feminism: Reweaving the Social Fabric by Charlene Haddock Seigfried / 183 ANNE RIGHTON MALONE Schoolwomen of the Prairies and Plains: Personal Narratives from Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska, 1860's-1920's by Mary Hurlbut Cordier My Ever Dear Daughter, My Own Dear Mother: The Correspondence of Julia Stone Towne & Mary Julia Towne 1868-1882 edited by Katherine Redington Morgan / 185 LESLIE GERBER The Divorce Culture by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead / 189 MARY CARROLL JOHANSEN History and Theory: Feminist Research, Debates, Contestations edited by Barbara Laslett, et al. / 192 BARBARA RYAN Frontline Feminism, 1975-1995: Essays from Sojourner's First 20 Years edited by Karen Kahn The Second Signs Reader: Feminist Scholarship, 1983-1996 edited by Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres and Barbara Laslett / 194 Contributors / 199 Announcements / 204 Books Received / 206

CONTENTS Volume 10, Number 2 Summer 1998

Articles BONNIE S. ANDERSON The Lid Comes Off: International Radical Feminism and the Revolutions of 1848 / 1 ANGELETTA KM GOURDINE Hearing Reading and Being Read by Beloved / 13 RASHMI VARMA UnCivil Lines: Engendering Citizenship in the Postcolonial City / 32 ANN-JANINE MOREY A Desolate Bloom: Mother Images in Margaret Deland's The Iron Woman / 56 LINDA B. ARTHUR Deviance, Agency, and the Social Control of Women's Bodies in a Mennonite Community / 75 On Teaching and Learning JOAN ROTHSCHILD Designed Environments and Women's Studies: A Wake-up Call / 100 DIANE SUTER and DAVID SCHWEICKART The Biology and Philosophy of Race and Sex: A Course / 117 Review Essay MARY KAY SCHLEITER The Status of Feminisms in the Academy / 137 Book Reviews DARCY PLYMIRE Cross Purposes: Lesbians, Feminists, and the Limits of Alliance edited by Dana Heller Feminism Meets Queer Theory edited by Elizabeth Weed and Naomi Schor The New Lesbian Studies: Into the Twenty-First Century edited by Bonnie Zimmerman and Toni A. H. McNaron / 143 HAZEL DICKEN-GARCIA Twilight Zones: The Hidden Life of Cultural Images from Plato to O.J. by Susan Bordo Feminism and Film by Maggie Humm Feminism, Media, and the Law edited by Martha A. Fineman and Martha T. McCluskey / 148 CAROL HORWITZ Fat: A Fate Worse Than Death? by Ruth Raymond Thone Writing on the Body: Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory edited by Katie Conboy, Nadia Medina and Sarah Stanbury Textual Bodies: Changing Boundaries of Literary Representation edited by Lori Hope Lefkovitz / 154

GAIL J. STEARNS God's Daughters: Evangelical Women and the Power of Submission by R. Marie Griffith Women in New Religions: In Search of Community, Sexuality and Spiritual Power by Elizabeth Puttick / 158 MADHURI DESHMUKH Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures edited by Chandra Talpade Mohanty and M. Jacqui Alexander Women's Liberation and the Dialectics of Revolution: Reaching for the Future by Raya Dunayevskaya / 162 DOROTHY C. MILLER A Tradition That Has No Name: Nurturing the Development of People, Families, and Communities by Mary Field Belenky, Lynne A. Bond, and Jacqueline S. Weinstock For-Giving: A Feminist Criticism of Exchange by Genevieve Vaughan / 166 BATYA WEINBAUM Spinning Fantasies: Rabbis, Gender and History by Miriam B. Peskowitz The Beautiful Days of My Youth: My Six Months in Auschwitz and Plaszow by Ann Novac / 170 JANINE LANZA Property, Women and Politics: Subjects or Objects? by Donna Dickenson /172 LENA AMPADU On Our Own Terms: Race, Class, and Gender in the Lives of African American Women by Leith Mullings / 174 JAN BARDSLEY Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labor and Activism, 1900-1937 by Vera Mackie / 176 STELLA ANDERSON Women and Work: Exploring Race, Ethnicity, and Class edited by Elizabeth Higginbotham and Mary Romero / 178 GLENN ELLEN STARR Sexism and Reentry: Job Realities for Women Librarians by Katherine Murphy Dickson / 180 Contributors / 183 Announcements / 186 Books Received / 189

CONTENTS Volume 10, Number 3 Fall 1998

Special Issue: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION RECONSIDERED Margaret McFadden, Editor TIM WISE Is Sisterhood Conditional? White Women and the Rollback of Affirmative Action DARA Z. STROLOVITCH Playing Favorites: Public Attitudes toward Race-and Gender-Targeted Anti-discrimination Policy GREG MOSES To Begin Where We Have Not Yet Reached: Affirmation Action in the Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. LESLIE SCHWINDT, KATHARINE HALL, and REBECCA HOWARD DAVIS Affirmative Action in Action: A Case Study of Faculty Recruitment at One Major Land-Grant University JANET M. LUM Backward Steps in Equity: Health System Reform's Impact on Women and Racial Minorities in Ontario

VALERIE BRAITHWAITE and JANINE BUSH Affirmative Action in Australia: A Consensus-Based Dialogic Approach SHIRLEY J. YEE, EILEEN BORIS, SHIRLEY M. GEIGER, and BARBARA A.WOODS The Past, Present, and Future of Affirmative Action: AHA Roundtable, January 1998 PATRICIA A. WASHINGTON "First, You Got to use What's Lying Around the House": Some Personal Reflections on Affirmative Action and White Feminism BATYA WEINBAUM How the Job Market, Anti-Semitism, and Affirmative Action Intersect: A Glimpse in One Life JAIME M. GRANT Affirmative Inaction

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