Table Of Content

Contents of Volume 6, 1997 Number 1 March 1997 Janice McLaughlin. Feminist Relations with Postmodernism: reflections on the positive aspects of involvement kathleen O’Mara. Historicising Outsiders on Campus: The re/production of lesbian and gay insiders Linda Leung. The Making of Matriarchy: a comparison of Madonna and Margaret Thatcher Heidi haye. “This Breast—It’s Me’: Fanny Burney’s mastectomy and the defining gaze Clare Hanson. Virginia Woolf in the House of Love: compulsory heterosexuality in The Years REPORT Shirin Rai. Crossing Boundaries OBITUARY hader honuk & Nancy Jancovich. With Love, In Memory and In Honour of May Ayim BOOK REVIEWS Figments of a Murder (Gillian Hanscombe) reviewed by Nicole Ward Jouve Black Women, Wrting and Identity: migrations of the subject (Carole Boyce Davies reviewed by Denise de Caires Narain Beyond the Natural Body: an archaeology of sex hormones (Nelly Oudshoorn) reviewed by Kathleen Lennon Bad Objects: essays popular and unpopular (Naomi Schor) reviewed by Margaret Whitford Feminisms and the Self: the web of identity (Morwenna Griffiths) reviewed by Kimberly Hutchings Power and Everyday Life: the les of working women in Brazil (Maria Odila Silva Dias reviewed by Maxine Molyneux The Cultural Studies Reader: history, theory, practice Jessica Munns & Gita Rajan, Eds reviewed by Julia Halam Contents of Volume 6, 1997 Number 1 March 1997 Janice McLaughlin. Feminist Relations with Postmodernism: reflections on the positive aspects of involvement kathleen O’Mara. Historicising Outsiders on Campus: The re/production of lesbian and gay insiders Linda Leung. The Making of Matriarchy: a comparison of Madonna and Margaret Thatcher Heidi haye. “This Breast—It’s Me’: Fanny Burney’s mastectomy and the defining gaze Clare Hanson. Virginia Woolf in the House of Love: compulsory heterosexuality in The Years REPORT Shirin Rai. Crossing Boundaries OBITUARY hader honuk & Nancy Jancovich. With Love, In Memory and In Honour of May Ayim BOOK REVIEWS Figments of a Murder (Gillian Hanscombe) reviewed by Nicole Ward Jouve Black Women, Wrting and Identity: migrations of the subject (Carole Boyce Davies reviewed by Denise de Caires Narain Beyond the Natural Body: an archaeology of sex hormones (Nelly Oudshoorn) reviewed by Kathleen Lennon Bad Objects: essays popular and unpopular (Naomi Schor) reviewed by Margaret Whitford Feminisms and the Self: the web of identity (Morwenna Griffiths) reviewed by Kimberly Hutchings Power and Everyday Life: the les of working women in Brazil (Maria Odila Silva Dias reviewed by Maxine Molyneux The Cultural Studies Reader: history, theory, practice Jessica Munns & Gita Rajan, Eds reviewed by Julia Halam The Name of the Mother: writing illegitimacy (Marie Maclean) reviewed by Anna M. de Medeiros The Moral Sex: women’s nature in the Freanch Enlightenment (Lieselotte Steinbtiigge, trans. Pamela E. Selwyn) reviewed by Mary-Claire Hardy Eyes of Love: the gaze in English and French paintings and novels 1840-1990 (Stephen Kern reviewed by Lynne Pearce French Women’s Writing (Elizabeth Fallaize) reviewed by Victoria Howell Visible Women in East Coast Malay Society: on the reproduction of gender in ceremonial, school and market (Ingrid Rudie) reviewed by Janet Carsten That’s Funny, You Don’t Look Like a Teacher: interrogating images and identity in popular culture (Sandra Weber & Claudia Mitchell) reviewed by Christine Suttcliffe Equity in Mathematics Education: influences of feminism and culture (Pat Rogers & Gabriele Kaiser, Eds) reviewed by Janet Duffin Language and Gender (Sara Mills, Ed.) reviewed by Chris Suttcliffe Virginia Woolf James King) and The Unknown Virginia Woolf (Roger Poole) reviewed by Stevie Davies BOOKS RECEIVED NOTICEBOARD NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Number 2 July 1997 Monmin Rahman ©& Stevi Jackson. Liberty, Equality and Sexuality: essentialism and the discourse of rights Barbara Comiskey. You Can Mean More Than One—age, gender and Atwood’s Ss addresses Victoria Robinson. My Baby Just Cares For Me: feminism, heterosexuality and non-monogamy Steven P. Schacht @ Doris Ewing. The Many Paths of Feminism: can men travel any of them? Rita Abrahamsen. Gender Dimensions of AIDS in Zambia BOOK REVIEWS Helene Cixous: authorship, autobiography and love (Susan Sellers) reviewed by Julia Salmeron & Ana Zamorano The Male Survivor: the impact of sexual abuse (Matthew Parynik Mendel) reviewed by Kim McGregor Feminist Cultural Theory: process and production (Beverley Skeggs, Ed.) reviewed by Sue Thornham Women’s Studies and Culture: a feminist introduction (Rosemarie Buikema & Anneke Smelik, Eds) reviewed by Julia Hallam Fashioning Masculinity: national identity and language in the eighth century (Michele Cohen reviewed by John Sly Women in Contemporary Russia (Vitalina Koval, Ed.) reviewed by Lynne Attwood Gender, Drink and Drugs (Maryon McDonald, Ed.) reviewed by Elizabeth Ettorre Blending Genders: social aspects of cross dressing and sex-changing (R. Ekins & D. King, Eds) and Changing Sex: transsexualism, technology, and the ideas of gender (B.L. Hausman) reviewed by Jay Prosser 200 Working Daughters of Hong Rong: filial prety or power in the family? (Janet W. Salaff reviewed by Catherine C.H. Chiu Women’s Rights and Women’s Lives in France 1944-1968 (Claire Duchen) reviewed by Pat Thane The App}a ritional Lesbian: female homosexualityl and modern culture (T. Castle) reviewed by’ Gabriele Griffin Only When the Messengers Come (Olly Komenda-Soentgerath, transl. by Tom Beck reviewed by Beth Linklater The Way of the Woman Writer (Janet Lynn Roseman) reviewed by Audrey Dunne Renaissance Drama by Women: texts and documents (S.P. Cerasano & Marion Wynne- Davies) reviewed by Alison Findlay 208 Castle Rackrent (Maria Edgeworth) reviewed by Myrtle Hill 209 Women, Feminism and Social Change in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, 1890-1940 Asuncion Lavrin) reviewed by Sarah A. Radcliffe The Festival of San Joaquin (Zee Edgell) reviewed by Claire Gard Infiltrating Culture: power and identity in contemporary women’s writing (Mirielle Rosello reviewed by Catherine O’Brien The Memoirs of Princess Dashkova (Jehanne M. Gheith, Ed.) reviewed by Wendy Rosslyn Women Politicians and the Media (Maria Braden) reviewed by Jacqueline Ellen Briggs BOOKS RECEIVED NOTICEBOARD NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Number 3 November 1997 Bronwyn Davies & Hilary Whitehouse. Men on the Boundaries: landscapes and seascapes Hilary Robinson. Within the pale in from: Beyond the Pale: the construction of femininity in the curating of an exhibition season at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin \eluka Silva. ‘Mothers, Daughters and “Whores” of the Nation’: nationalism and female stereotypes in post-colonial Sri Lankan drama in English Irene Visser. Reading Pleasure: Ligg ht in Auggu st and the theory \ of the gendered gaze Elayne Clift & Vicki Freimuth. Changing Women’s Lives: a communication perspective on participatory qualitative research techniques for gender equity Rebecca Horn. Not ‘One of the Boys’: women researching the police Alan Petersen G Deirdre Davies. Psychology and the Social Construction of Sex Differences in Theories of Aggression STANDPOINT Rahila N. hawaguchi. Anarchist Manifesto BOOK REVIEWS Connecting Gender and Ageing: a sociological approach (Sara Arber & Jay Ginn, Eds reviewed by Sheila Cunnison Beyond the Double Blind: woman and leadership (Kathleen Hall Jamieson) reviewed by Claire Cohen The Making of Man-midwifery. Childbirth in England, 1660-1770 (Adrian Wilson reviewed by Alison Rowlands }Vomen’s Health—missing from US medicine (Sue V. Rosser) reviewed by Peggy Foster It Begins With Tears (Opal Palmer Adisa) reviewed by Claire Gard Men, Women, and Gods, Nawal El Saadawi and Arab Feminist Poetics (Fedwa Malti-Douglas) reviewed by Anissa Talahite Unsettling Settler Societies: articulations of gender, race, ethnicity and class (D. Stasiulis & N. Yuval-Davis) reviewed by Ngai-Ling Sum The Social Implications of Bioengineering (Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim, trans. by Laimdota Mazzarins) reviewed by Anne Scott Writing Women in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain: the mothers of Saint Teresa de Avila Ronald Surtz) reviewed by Elena Carrera The Angel and the Perverts (Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, trans. and intro. by Anna Livia reviewed by Catherine O’Brien Women in the Urban Informal Sector in Rwanda (Gisela Burckhardt) reviewed by Su- sanne B>a ue1 on The Education Feminism Reader (Lynda Stone, Ed., with Gail Masuchika Boldt reviewed by Sandra Acker Oscar Wilde: a long and lovely suicide (Melissa Knox) reviewed by Rowland Wymer Spinsters and Lesbians: independent womanhood in the United States (Trisha Franzen reviewed by Jill Manthorpe Sex and Danger in Buenos Aves (DonnaJ . Guy) reviewed by Stephanie Barrientos Gender in Urban Research Judith A. Garber & Robyne S. Turner, Eds) reviewed by Stuart Wilks t: Queer Warhol Jennifer Doyle, Jonathan Flatley & José Esteban Mufioz, Eds Vit wed by Dian Dubois sness. Women, class and representation (Gen Doy) reviewed by Susan IVomen’s Lives: thirtysomething and the Contradictions of Genden Margaret ia. Heide) reviewed by Ann Gray NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS