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Journal of Gender Studies Contents of Volume 8, 1999 EDITORS Gaele Sobott-Mogwe, University of Hull, UK Jenny Wolmark, Unwersity of Lincolnshire @ Humberside, UK BOOK REVIEW EDITORS Rachel Alsop, Uniersity of Hull, UK Sheila Cunnison, Uniersity of Lincolnshire and Humberside, UK Sabine Vanacker, University of Hull, UK EDITORIAL BOARD Ros Billington, University of Lincolnshire &@H umberside; Janet Blackman, University of Hull; Diane Dubois, University of Lincolnshire G Humberside; Janet Duffin, University of Hull; Zoubida Guernina, University of Lincolnshire @ Humberside; Jill Halstead, University of Huddersfield, UK; Kate Holden, University of Huddersfield, UK; Lorna Hutson, Uniwersity of Hull, UK; Gill Jagger, Leeds Metropolitan University; Jean Kellie, Uniwersity of Lincolnshire &@H umberside; Alison Lewis, University of Lincolnshire & Humberside; Janet McGivern, University of Lincolnshire @ Humberside; Julia Salmeron, University of Hull, UK; Alison Tate, Unwersity of Lincolnshire @ Humberside; Jane Thompson, University of Lincolnshire @ Humberside; Ana Zamorano, University of Hull, UK EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Sandra Acker, Canada; Ama Ata Aidoo, Zimbabwe; Shaheen-Sardar Ali, Pakistan; Fatma Aloo, Tanzania; Valerie Amos, UK; Lynne Attwood, UK; Helen Baehre, UK; Michele Barrett, UK; Ismay Barwell, New Zealand; Gerd Bjorhovde, Norway; Anne Bottomley, UX; Rosi Braidotti, Netherlands; Rosalind Brunt, UK; Judith Bryce, Uk; Anne Byrne, /reland; Beatrix Campbell, UK; Shirley Chew, UK; Hae-joang Cho, Korea; Cynthia Cockburn, UK; R. W. Connell, USA; Richard Dyer, UK; Mary Eagleton, UX; Susana B. Funck, Brazil; Kathy Glavanis, West Bank, Israel; Joanna de Groot, Uk; Jalna Hanmer, UX; Jeff Hearn, UK; Elina Haavio-Mannila, Finland; Marieme Helie-Lucas, France and Algeria; Nicole Ward Jouve, UK; Cora Kaplan, USA; Sarah Lefanu, UA; Angela Leighton, UX; Gurpreet Mahajan, /ndia; Fatima Babiker Mahmoud, UK and Sudan; Oshadi Mangena, Netherlands; Patricia McFadden, Senegal; Ruth Milkman, USA; Nontobeko Mofokeng, South Afnca; David Morgan, UK; Mpalive-Hangson Msiska, Malawi; Sumati Nair, Netherlands/ India; Rosemary Pringle, Australia; Hilary Rose, UK; Nawal El Saadawi, USA and Egypt; Wendy Savage, UK; Brigitte Schludermann, Uk; Marion Shaw, UK; Carol Smart, UK; Eleni Stamiris, Greece; Anissa Talahite, UK and Algena; Aranzazu Usandizaga, Spain; Amrit Wilson, UK; Bruce Woodcock, Uk The Journal of Gender Studies is a refereed interdisciplinary journal which publishes articles relating to gender from a feminist perspective covering a wide range of subject areas including the Social and Natural Sciences, Arts and Popular Culture. Reviews of books and details of forthcoming conferences are also included. The journal seeks articles from international sources and aims to take account of a diversity of cultural backgrounds and differences in sexual orientation. It encourages contributions which focus on the experiences of both women and men and welcomes articles, written from a feminist perspective, relating to femininity and masculinity, and to the social and cultural constructions of relationships between men and women. The Journal of Gender Studies is noted in the following indexing and abstracting services: Applied Social Science Index, British Humanities Index, Current Contents/ Social and Behavioural Sciences, Feminist Periodwals, Research Alert, Social Sciences Citation Index, Social Scisearch, Sociologual Abstracts and Studies on Women Abstracts. The Journal of Gender Studies is the journal of the Hull Centre for Gender Studies, which organizes seminar programmes and day schools and is jointly sponsored by the Universities of Hull and Lincolnshire & Humberside. Editorial correspondence, including manuscripts for submission, should be addressed to The Editors, School of Comparative and Applied Social Studies, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK. Details concerning the preparation and submission of articles can be found on the inside back cover of each issue. Books for review should be sent to The Reviews Editors Sabine Vanacker, Department of Dutch Studies, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK; e-mail: < [email protected] > . Business correspondence, including orders and remittances relating to subscriptions, back numbers and offprints, should be addressed to the publishers: Carfax Publishing, Taylor & Francis Ltd, Customer Services Department, Rankine Road, Basingstoke, Hants RG25 8PR, UK Advertising enquiries should be addressed to Philip Law, Carfax Publishing, Taylor & Francis Ltd, PO Box 25, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3UE, UK. The journal is published three times a year, in March, July and November. These three issues constitute one volume. An annual index is bound in the November issue. ————— Contents of Volume 8, 1999 Volume 8 Numberl March 1999 Charmaine McEachem. Comic Interventions: passion and the men’s movement in the situation comedy, Home Improvement Gina Wisker. Don’t Look Now! The compulsions and revelations of Daphne du Maurier’s horror writing Susan Rowland. Michéle Roberts’ Virgins: contesting gender in fictions’, re-writing Jungian theory and Christian myth renée c. hoogland. First Things First: Freud and the question of primacy in gendered sexuality Suruchi Thapar-Bjérkert. Negotiating Otherness: dilemmas for a non-Western researcher in the Indian sub-continent John Hopton. Militarism, Masculinism and Managerialisation in the British Public Sector Pamela Abbott & Emma Williamson. Women, Health and Domestic Violence REPORT Ehsan Elgaddal Saeed. Sudanese Women Refugees in Cairo, Egypt BOOK REVIEWS Gender and Migration (Caroline Sweetman, Ed.) reviewed by Henriette Louwerse Gender, Family and Work in Naples (V. A. Goddard) reviewed by Judith Bryce After the Lovedeath: sexual violence and the making ofc ulture (Lawrence Kramer) reviewed by Lizzy Graham Community Actwism and Feminist Politics: organizing across race, class and gender (Nancy A. Naples, Ed.) reviewed by Elizabeth Frazer Women and Work in Modem Bntain (Rosemary Crompton) and Promoting Gender Equality at Work: turning vision into reality for the twenty-first century (Eugenia Date-Bah, Ed.) reviewed by Janette Webb Women in Mathematics: the addition of difference (Claudia Henrion) reviewed by Janet Duffin Dislocating Cultures: tdentities, traditions, and third world feminism (Uma Narayan) reviewed by Kathleen Lennon Strife: sex and politics in labour unions (Barbara Pocock, Ed.) reviewed by Sheila Cunnison Facing the Mirror: older women and beauty shop culture (Frida Kerner Furman) and God’s Daughters: evangelical women and the power of submission (R. Marie Griffith) reviewed by Rosamund Billington Leaky Bodies and Boundaries: feminism, postmodernism and (bio)ethics (Margit Shildrick) reviewed by Diane E. Pitt BOOKS RECEIVED NOTICEBOARD NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Volume 8 Number 2 July 1999 Gaele Sobott-Mogwe & Donna Cox. Laughter and the Medusa: an interview with Jo Brand Kate Holden. Formations of Discipline and Manliness: culture, politics and 1930s women’s writing Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio. Is Feminism Realism Possible? A theory of labial eros and mimesis Cynthia Nantais & Martha F. Lee. Women in the United States Military: protectors or yrotected? The case of Ip risoner of war Melissa Rathbun-Nealy ) Sara Martin. The Power of Monstrous Women: Fay Weldon’s The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983), Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus (1984 and Jeanette Winterson’s Sexing the Cherry (1989) Maria osé Sotelo. Gender Differences in Political ‘Tolerance Among Adolescents STANDPOINT Tina Oraka & Laurie Hawkins. Remember He Comes From a Mother Rahila Khalwa. Some Thoughts on Feminism and Maternity OBITUARY Jenni Calder. Naomi Mitchison 1897-1999 BOOK REVIEWS Everyday Inequalities: critical inquires (Jodi O’Brien & Judith A. Howard, Eds) reviewed by Sara Ahmed Problems of Muslim Women in India (A. A. Engineer, Ed.) reviewed by Farida Abdulla Khan Women’s Voices, Women’s Lives: documents in early American history (Carol Berkin & Leslie Horowitz, Eds) and Women and Freedom in Early America (Larry D. Eldridge, Ed.) reviewed by Henrice Altink The Vestal and the Fasces: Hegel, Lacan, property and the feminine (Jeanne L. Schroeder) reviewed by Donna Cox Tournaments of Value: sociability and hierarchy in a Yemeni town (Anne Meneley) reviewed by Barbara J. Michael Kaleidoscope Notes: writing women’s music and organizational culture (Stacey Holman Jones) reviewed by Lizzy Graham Cultivating Women, Cultwating Science: flora’s daughters and botany in England, 1760-1860 Ann B. Shteir) and Creatures of Prometheus: gender and the politics of technology Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn) reviewed by Hilary Rose Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud: Victorian fiction and the anxiety ofo rigins (Carolyn Dever) reviewed by CarolynJ . Ayers Women through Women’s Eyes: Latin American women in nineteenth-century travel accounts (June E. Hahner, Ed.) reviewed by Peter Beardsell Wet: on painting, feminism, and art culture (Mira Schor) reviewed by Pat Phippard Faces of Feminism: an activist’s reflections on the women’s movement (Sheila Tobias) reviewed by Jane Grant Managing Like a Man: women and men in corporate management (Judy Wajcman) reviewed by Sheila Cunnison Perspectwes of Feminist Political Thought in European History (Yjitske Akkerman & Siep Stuurman, Eds) reviewed by A. Agnes Sneller Places of Silence, Journeys of Freedom: the fiction of Paule Marshall (Eugenia C. DeLamotte) reviewed by Ranu Samantrai Social Reform, Sexuality and the State (Patricia Uberoi, Ed.) reviewed by Falguni A. Sheth Spanish Women’s Wnting 1849-1996 (Catherine Davies) reviewed by Adelaida Martin Renaissance Woman: a sourcebook (Kate Aughterson, Ed.) reviewed by Amanda Capern BOOKS RECEIVED NOTICEBOARD NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Volume 8 Number 3 November 1999 ‘DIANA’ SPECIAL ISSUE Rosalind Brunt. Guest Editorial Rosalind Brunt. Conversations on the Diana Moment and its Politics Gill Valentine & Ruth Butler. The Alternative Fairy Story: Diana and the sexual dissidents Jenny Hockey & Allison James. Finding the Child in the Woman: the post-mortem infantilisation of Diana Feona Attwood. Same Old Story? The tale of Diana, Princess of Wales Donna Cox. Diana: Her True Story: post-modern transgressions in identity Ann Kaloski-Naylor. ‘I Gan Even Do Reality’: Diana, Monica, and Geni tell stories Beverley Skeggs. ‘One Down—five hundred to go’ STANDPOINT Tomoko Kurihara. A Reply to ‘Some Thoughts on Feminism and Maternity’ by Rahila Khalwa BOOK REVIEWS Ins: a memoir of Ins Murdoch (John Bayley) reviewed by Jill Manthorpe Lise Meitner: a life in physics (Ruth Lewin Sime) reviewed by Mary O’Neill Hildegard of Bingen: a visionary life (Sabina Flanagan) reviewed by Katherine Holman The Legacy of Boadwea: gender and nation in early modern England (Jodi Mikalachki) reviewed by Gweno Williams Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind (Anna Battigelli) reviewed by Gweno Williams The Life of Una Marson 1905-65 (Delia Jarrett-Macauley) reviewed by Sharmilla Beezmohun Bessie Smith (Jackie Kay) reviewed by Sheila Cunnison Three Artists (Three Women): modernism and the art of Hesse, Krasner and O’Keeffe (Anne Middleton Wagner) reviewed by Lisa Panting A House of Her Own: Kay Sage, solitary surrealist (Judith D. Suther) reviewed by Margaret Garlake Surrealist Women: an international anthology (Penelope Rosemont, Ed.) reviewed by Madeleine Cottenet-Hage Healing Strategies for Women of War: seven black women poets (Marie Guise Williams, Tang Line & Shamshad Khan, Eds) reviewed by Gaele Sobott-Mogwe Agnés Varda (Alison Smith) and Coline Serreau (Brigitte Rollet) reviewed by Neil Sinyard Tough Girls: women warriors and wonder women in popular culture (Sherrie A. Inness) reviewed by Judy Giles 368 Barbie Culture (M. ¥. Rogers) reviewed by Sara McNamee 369 The Company She Keeps (V. Hey) reviewed by Sara McNamee Coming Out of Feminism? (Mandy Merck, Naomi Segal & Elizabeth Wright, Eds) reviewed by Simon Shepherd The Shattered Mirror: representations of women in Mexican literature (Maria Elena de Valdés) reviewed by Victoria Carpenter From Out of the Shadows (Vicki L. Ruiz) reviewed by Victoria Carpenter Latin American Women’s Writing: feminist readings in theory and cnsis (Anny Brooksbank Jones & Catherine Davies, Eds) reviewed by Berta Broncano Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel: women, work and home (Monica F. Cohen) reviewed by Elizabeth Langland BOOKS RECEIVED NOTICEBOARD NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS