NWSA Journal Volume 8 Number 1Global Perspectives Number 2 Number 3

CONTENTS Volume 8, Number 1 Spring 1996

Special Issue: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES Introduction NUPUR CHAUDHURI and CHERYL JOHNSON-ODIM, Guest Editors / 1 Articles LEILA J. RUPP Challenging Imperialism in International Women's Organizations, 1888-1945 / 8 JANET AFARY Steering between Scylla and Charybdis: Shifting Gender Roles in Twentieth-Century Iran / 28 RADHIKA MOHANRAM The Construction of Place: Maori Feminism and Nationalism in Aotearoa/New Zealand / 50 CAROL C. FAN Asian Women in Hawai'i: Migration, Family, Work, and Identity / 70 BREDA GRAY Irish Women in London: National or Hybrid Diasporic Identities? / 85 CLAIRE L. DEHON Women in Black African Novels Written in French / 110 SAORI KAMANO and DIANA KHOR Toward an Understanding of Cross-National Differences in the Naming of Same-Sex Sexual/Intimate Relationships / 124 V. EUDINE BARRITEAU Structural Adjustment Policies in the Caribbean: A Feminist Perspective / 142

On Learning and Teaching DIANE ENGBER Evolving a Course on Postcolonial Writings by Women / 157 Reports DOROTHY O. HELLY The Fourth World Conference on Women: Beijing '95 / 171 PRISCILLA SEARS What Is Difficult Can Be Done at Once. What Is Impossible Takes a Little Longer: The Beijing Conference / 179 NWSA News / 186 Contributors / 189 Announcements / 192 Books Received / 193

CONTENTS Volume 8, Number 2 Summer 1996

Editorial / vii Articles BARBARA L. WHITTEN What Physics Is Fundamental Physics? Feminist Implications of Physicists' Debate over the Superconducting Supercollider / 1 JEAN E. KENNARD Lesbianism and the Censoring of Wuthering Heights / 17 LYNDA J. AMES Contrarieties at Work: Women's Resistance to Bureaucracy / 37 Reports RUTH PERRY, JOYCE ANTLER, RENEE FALL, LAURA LEVINE FRADER, CAROL HURD GREEN, BARBARA HABER, ALICE JARDINE, and CHRISTIANE ZEHL ROMERO Inventing a Feminist Institution in Boston: An Informal History of the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies at Radcliffe College / 60 BEATRICE W. DIERKS The UN Fourth World Conference on Women / 84 On Learning and Teaching ANNIS H. HOPKINS Women's Studies on Television? It's Time for Distance Learning / 91 Review Essays BETTY REID MANDELL Women and Welfare, Part One / 107 ELISABETH D. KUHN Gender and Language / 117

Book Reviews ROBYN MUNCY Hine Sight: Black Women and the Re-Construction of American History by Darlene Clark Hine U.S. History as Women's History: New Feminist Essays edited by Linda Kerber, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Kathryn Kish Sklar / 126 MARIA PRAMAGGIORE Black Women as Cultural Readers by Jacqueline Bobo / 130 PAMELA THOMA Changing Lives: Life Stories of Asian Pioneers in Women's Studies edited by the committee on Women's Studies in Asia / 132 ROMY BOROOAH Engendering Wealth and well'Being: Empowerment for Global Change edited by Rae Lesser Blumberg, Cathy Rakowski, Irene Tinker, and Michael Monteón Mortgaging Women's Lives: Feminist Critiques of Structural Adjustment edited by Pamela Sparr Women in the Age of Economic Transformation: Gender Impact of Reforms in Post-Socialist and Developing Countries edited by Nahid Aslanbeigui, Steven Pressman, and Gale Summerfield / 134 GLYNIS CARR Feminism and Community edited by Penny A. Weiss and Marilyn Friedman Separatism and Women's Community by Dana R. Shugar / 139 SUSANA CAVALLO Memories of Resistance: Women's Voices from the Spanish Civil War by Shirley Mangini / 143 NANCY COURTNEY Women, Information, and the Future: Collecting and Sharing Resources Worldwide edited by Eva Steiner Moseley / 145 MICHAEL FERBER Re-Visioning Romanticism: British Women Writers, 1776-1837 edited by Carol Shiner Wilson and Joel Haefner Romantic Women Writers: Voices and Countervoices edited by Paula R. Feldman and Theresa Kelley / 147 AUDREY THOMAS McCLUSKEY Adamless Eden: The Community of Women Faculty at Wellesley by Patricia Ann Palmieri Lives of Women Public Schoolteachers: Scenes from American Educational History by Madelyn Holmes and Beverly J. Weiss School Work: Gender and the Cultural Construction of Teaching by Sari Knopp Biklen / 152 MARGARET McFADDEN The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Marie Child by Carolyn L. Karcher / 157 Contributors / 159 Announcements / 163 Books Received / 164

CONTENTS Volume 8, Number 3 Fall 1996

Articles LINDA PERSHING "His Wife Seized His Prize and Cut It to Size": Folk and Popular Commentary on Lorena Bobbitt / 1 MARY K. DeSHAZER "The End of a Century": Feminist Millennial Vision in Adrienne Rich's Dark Fields of the Republic / 36 PATRICIA LARSON KALAYJIAN Revisioning America's (Literary) Past: Sedgwick's Hope Leslie / 63 CHRISTY CHANDLER Mentoring Women in Academia: Reevaluating the Traditional Model / 79 Observation WINI BREINES Sixties Stories' Silences: White Feminism, Black Feminism, Black Power / 101 Report DIANA SCULLY Overview of Women's Studies: Organization and Institutional Status in U.S. Higher Education / 122 Review Essays BETTY REID MANDELL Women and Welfare, Part Two / 129 SHERRIE A. INNESS Girls' Culture / 144

Book Reviews BARBARA R. BIXBY The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service by Laura Kaplan Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe v. Wade by Carole Joffe / 154 ZEHRA F. ARAT The Challenge of Local Feminisms: Women's Movements in Global Perspective edited by Amrita Basu / 157 LYNDA J. AMES Out of the Class Closet: Lesbians Speak edited by Julia Penelope Liberating Memory: Our Work and Our Working-Class Consciousness edited by Janet Zandy Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965 by Annelise Orleck / 159 CAROLE M. COUNIHAN Women Writing Culture edited by Ruth Behar and Deborah A. Gordon / 164 ANNE M. BOYLE Feminist Generations: The Persistence of the Radical Women's Movement by Nancy Whittier Theory in Its Feminist Travels: Conversations in the U.S. Women's Movement by Katie King Feminism Beside Itself edited by Diane Elam and Robyn Wiegman / 166 ADRIENNE LASH JONES Sojourner Truth: Slave, Prophet, Legend by Carleton Mabee with Susan Mabee Newhouse "Doers of the Word": African American Women Speakers and Writers in the North (1830-1880) by Carla L. Peterson / 172 DREW CHRISTIE Animals and Women edited by Carol J. Adams and Josephine Donovan / 175 M. CARMELA EPRIGHT LAURA HENGEHOLD Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir edited by Margaret Simons Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman by Toril Moi / 177 MARLEEN S. BARR To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction by Joanna Russ / 181 DIANE SUTER Reinventing Biology: Respect for Life and the Creation of Knowledge edited by Lynda Birke and Ruth Hubbard / 183 1996 NWSA Awards and Scholarships / 187 Contributors / 188 Announcements / 191 Books Received / 193 Index / 198

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