NWSA Journal

Volume 15
Number 1Spring 2003
Number 2Summer 2003
Number 3Gender and Modernism Between the                      Wars

CONTENTS Volume 15, Number 1 Spring 2003

Introduction

MARGARET H. MCFADDEN
Webbing the West and the World / vii

Articles

CAROLINE BROWN
The Representation of the Indigenous Other in Daughters of the Dust and The Piano / 1

SARAH-MARIE BELCASTRO and JEAN MARIE MORAN
Interpretations of Feminist Philosophy of Science by Feminist Physical Scientists / 20

HEATHER BOUSHEY and ROBERT CHERRY
The Economic Boom (1991-1997) and Women: Issues of Race, Education, and Regionalism / 34

GAIL M. MCGUIRE and JO REGER
Feminist Co-Mentoring: A Model of Academic Professional Development / 54

ELOISE BUKER
Is Women's Studies a Disciplinary or an Interdisciplinary Field of Inquiry? 73

STEPHANIE GILMORE
The Dynamics of Second-Wave Feminist Activism in Memphis, 1971-1982: Rethinking the Liberal/Radical Divide / 94

Report

JEAN FOX O'BARR and STEPHANIE A. SHIELDS
The Women's Studies Ph.D.: An Archive / 118

Voices from the Economic South

MARGARET LEBBIE-MOEBIYOR and CREDO
Sierra Leone: A Country Report / 132

Review Essays

BARBARA A. WHITE
The Lives of Nineteenth-Century American Women / 137

JUDITH KEGAN GARDINER
Gender and Masculinity Texts: Consensus and Concerns for Feminist Classrooms / 147

Book Reviews

LYNNE PEARCE
Beyond the Frame: Feminism and Visual Culture, Britain 1850-1900 by Deborah Cherry / 158

REBECCA TORSTRICK
Women and Power in the Middle East edited by Suad Joseph and Susan Slyomovics
Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East: The Egyptian Women's Movement by Nadje Al-Ali
Unveiling Traditions: Postcolonial Islam in a Polycentric World by Anouar Majid / 160

ROSEANNE GIANNINI QUINN
Claiming a Tradition: Italian American Women Writers by Mary Jo Bona
Revisionary Identities: Strategies of Empowerment in the Writing of Italian/American Women by Mary Ann Vigilante Mannino / 165

ELAINE J. O'QUINN
Good Girl Messages: How Young Women were Misled by their Favorite Books by Deborah O'Keefe
Declarations of Independence: Empowered Girls in Young Adult Literature, 1990-2001 by Joanne Brown and Nancy St. Clair / 169

MARTHA HENNING
Leaving Lines of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language Writing by Ann Vickery
Pronoun Envy: Literary Uses of Linguistic Gender by Anna Livia / 172

ROBERTA C. MARTIN
Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity by Lisa Duggan / 177

SANDIE GRAVETT
Sexual Politics in the Biblical Narrative: Reading the Hebrew Bible as a Woman by Esther Fuchs / 179

PATRICIA OWEN-SMITH
Mothers and Children: Feminist Analyses and Personal Narratives by Susan E. Chase and Mary F. Rogers
The Price of Motherhood: Why Motherhood Is the Most Important--and Least Valued Job in America by Ann Crittenden
Mothers and Daughters: Connection, Empowerment, and Transformation edited by Andrea O'Reilly and Sharon Abbey / 181

NANCY L. ASHTON
Sexuation_SIC3 edited by Renata Salecl
Gender edited by Anna Tripp
Fair Sex, Savage Dreams: Race, Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference by Jean Walton / 186

DIANA B. ERCHICK
Imagining Teachers: Rethinking Gender Dynamics in Teacher Education by Gustavo E. Fischman
Understanding Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality: A Conceptual Framework by Lynn Weber / 190

MELISSA CLARKE
Ecofeminist Philosophy: A Western Perspective on What It Is and Why It Matters by Karen J. Warren / 193

MAURICE HAMINGTON
Feminist Interpretations of John Dewey by Charlene H. Seigfried
Living Across and Through Skins: Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism, and Feminism by Shannon Sullivan
Pragmatism, Feminism, and Democracy: Rethinking the Politics of American History by James Livingston / 196

Books Received / 202

Announcements / 213

CONTENTS Volume 15, Number 2 Summer 2003

J. MAC
Oracle (Photo) / viii

Introduction

MARGARET H. MCFADDEN
Women and War, Women and Peace / ix

Articles

MARY K. DESHAZER
Fractured Borders: Women's Cancer and Feminist Theatre / 1

NEVA JEAN SPECHT
Women of One or Many Bonnets?: Quaker Women and the Role of Religion in Trans-Appalachian Settlement / 27

BETH YOUNGER
Pleasure, Pain, and the Power of Being Thin: Female Sexuality in Young Adult Literature / 45

DIANE SHOOS
Representing Domestic Violence: Ambivalence and Difference in What's Love Got to Do with It / 57

RUTH VANITA
The Self Is Not Gendered: Sulabha's Debate with King Janaka / 76

Reports

MAGDALENA GARCIA-PINTO
The State of NWSA: 2002 Presidential Address / 94

AMY C. HUDNALL
Feminists Protest War with Iraq
NWSA Statement, 25 February 2003
Photo Essay / 99

Voices from the Economic South

MADHU KISHWAR
Laws Against Domestic Violence: Underused or Abused? / 111

Review Essays

CHRISTOPHER B. TEUTON
American Indian Women: Nurturing American Indian Cultural and Political Continuance / 123

JESSICA DALLOW
Rethinking Feminism and Visual Culture / 135

NANCY M. THERIOT
Gender and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America / 144

Book Reviews / 154

Announcements / 229

Contributor Notes / 230

CONTENTS Volume 15, Number 3 Fall 2003

Special Issue: Gender and Modernism Between the Wars, 1918-1939 Introduction

MARGARET H. MCFADDEN
Making the Modern / ix

Articles

MILA GANEVA
Fashion Photography and Women's Modernity in Weimar Germany: The Case of Yva / 1

MELANIE TAYLOR
A Poetics of Difference: The Making of Americans and Unreadable Subjects / 26

GENEVIÈVE BRASSARD
From Private Story to Public History: Irene Rathbone Revises the War in the Thirties / 43

TIFFANY JOSEPH
"Non-Combatant's Shell-Shock": Trauma and Gender in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night / 64

SARAH E. STEVENS
Figuring Modernity: The New Woman and the Modern Girl in Republican China / 82

PAVLA VESELÁ
The Hardening of Cement: Russian Women and Modernization / 104

MARINA MACKAY
The Lunacy of Men, the Idiocy of Women: Woolf, West, and War / 124

Report

JENNY B. WHITE
State Feminism, Modernization, and the Turkish Republican Woman / 145

Archives

MARGARET MCFADDEN
Hella Wuolijoki's "Pipe Dreams," Finland to Russia, 1917 / 160

Review Essays

BONNIE KIME SCOTT
Feminist Relocations of Gender and Modernism: A Review Essay / 165

ANNE CHARLES
A Broader View of Modernism / 179

SUSAN BORWICK
Reclaiming Gender in Modernist Music / 189

Book Reviews / 197

Index for Volume 15 / 226

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