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JOURNAL OF WOMEN’S HISTORY JOURNAL OF WOMEN’S HISTORY VoL. 18 No. 4 WINTER 2006 Editorial Staff EDITORS ASSOCIATE EDITORS Jean Allman Marilyn Booth History and African Studies, University of Comparative and World Literature, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University ofI llinois at Urbana-Champaign Antoinette Burton Megan McLaughlin History, University ofI llinois at Urbana- History, University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana-Champaign Book REviEw EDITOR Kristin Hoganson Marilyn Booth History, University ofI llinois at Comparative and World Literature, Urbana-Champaign University ofI llinois at Urbana-Champaign Elizabeth Pleck History, University of Illinois at MANAGING EDITORS Urbana-Champaign History, University of Dana Rabin Illinois at Urbana-Champaign History, University of Illinois at Jennifer Edwards Urbana-Champaign Amanda Brian Tamara Matheson Rebecca McNulty Schreiber History, University of Illinois at James H. Warren Urbana-Champaign Sandra Henderson Shefali Chandra FOUNDER History and Gender and Women’s Studies, Christie Farnham University ofI llinois at Urbana-Champaign FOUNDING EDITORS Epirors EMERITAE Christie Farnham and Joan Hoff Christie Farnham Joan Hoff Leila J. Rupp Donna J. Guy The Journal of Women’s History (ISSN 1042-7961) is published quarterly (spring, summer, autumn, winter) by The Johns Hopkins University Press for the Journal of Women’s History, Inc. Periodicals postage is paid at Baltimore, MD, and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: send address change to: Journal of Women’s History, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2715 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218-4319. All rights reserved. No portion of this journal may be reproduced, by any processo r technique, without the formal consent of the publisher. 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Visit us on the web at: http:/ /w ww.press.jhu.edu / journals/ INDEX VoL. 18, 2006 VoL. 18, No. 1, SprinGc 2006 Editors’ Note / 7 ARTICLES Afsaneh Najmabadi Beyond the Americas: Are Gender and Sexuality Useful Categories of Analysis? / 11 Barbara Weinstein Inventing the “Mulher Paulista”: Politics, Rebellion, and the Gendering of Brazilian Regional Identities / 22 Gregor Kranjc “Long Live Our Honest Girls”: The Image of Women in Slovene Anti-Communist Propaganda 1942-1945 / 50 Norman Smith The Difficulties of Despair: Dan Di and Chinese Literary Production in Manchukuo / 77 Bonnie Frederick Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Virtuous Mother: Argentina, 1852-1910 / 101 History Practice: CONDITIONS OF WoRK FOR WOMEN HIsTORIANS IN THE TWENTY-First CENTURY Linda K. Kerber Risking Our Dreams / 121 Teresa Barnes No Bubble: Contemporary Lives in the African Academy / 133 Janaki Nair Indian Women in the History Profession: An Ambiguous Legacy / 137 Franca lacovetta Towards a More Humane Academy? Some Observations from a Canadian Feminist Historian / 141 Dora Barrancos More Shadow than Light: Teaching at the University of Buenos Aires / 147 Leisa D. Meyer Industrial or Craft Organizing? / 150 188 JOURNAL OF WOMEN’S HISTORY Maria E. Montoya Conditions of Work for Women Historians in the Twenty-First Century: A Response / 154 Deena J. Gonzalez Embracing Equity: Discussing Inequity / 158 Catherine Kudlick A History Profession for Every Body / 163 Erika Lee The Balancing Act: Work, Family, and the Need for Institutional Change in the Academy / 168 Berteke Waaldijk That’s Us: Women’s History and Academic Careers / 172 Fumiko Fujita The Status of Women Faculty: A View from Japan / 177 Book Forum: Moratity TALEs BY LESLIE PEIRCE Julie Hardwick Looking for the Universal in the Local: Morality Tales from the Western End of the Mediterranean / 181 Patricia Skinner Morality Tales: A Medieval Inheritance / 186 Indrani Chatterjee Between West and South: Asianist Women’s History and Islam / 192 Leslie Peirce Response / 197 Book Reviews Charlotte Weber Middle Eastern Modernities: Women, Gender, and Nation in Lebanon and Palestine / 203 Laura J. Hilton The Role of Gender in Racial Colonization and in Displacement / 212 Karen Balcom Constructing Families, Creating Mothers: Gender, Family, State, and Nation in the History of Child Adoption / 219 2006 VoL. 18, No. 2, SUMMER 2006 Editors’ Note / 6 Tani E. Barlow History and the Border / 8 CHALLENGING BOUNDARIES Charlene Boyer Lewis Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte: “Ill Suitted for the Life of a Columbians Modest Wife” / 33 Caroline Waldron Merithew “We Were Not Ladies”: Gender, Class, and a Women’s Auxiliary’s Battle for Mining Unionism / 63 POLICING WoMEN’S BopiEs Deirdre M. Moloney Women, Sexual Morality, and Economic Dependency in Early U.S. Deportation Policy / 95 Dora Barrancos Problematic Modernity: Gender, Sexuality, and Reproduction in Twentieth-Century Argentina / 123 Book Reviews Karen M. Booth Conceiving the Nation: The “Politics of the Womb” in Kenya, the United States, Greece, and Ireland / 151 Susan Englander Coming to Terms with Women’s Suffrage: The British Movement’s Significance for Broader Social Change / 158 Karen Eliot Dancing the Homeland: The Emergence of American Modern Dance / 166 Julia Clancy-Smith The Intimate, the Familial, and the Local in Transnational Histories of Gender / 174 Vol. 18, No. 3, Fall 2006 Editor’s Note / 6 Judith Smart The Politics of Consumption: The Housewives’ Associations in South- eastern Australia Before 1950 / 13 190 JOURNAL OF WOMEN’S HISTORY Landon Storrs Left-Feminism, the Consumer Movement, and Red Scare Politics in the United States, 1935-1960 / 40 Rebecca Pulju Consumers for the Nation: Women, Politics, and Consumer Organization in France, 1944-1965 / 68 Natalia Milanesio “The Guardian Angels of the Domestic Economy”: Housewives’ Respon- sible Consumption in Peronist Argentina / 91 Book Reviews Nicole Tonkovich Ghosts of Domesticities Past / 118 Alison Piepmeier Stepping Out: Rethinking the Public and Private Spheres / 128 Judith E. Walsh Family Matters / 138 VoL. 18, No. 4, WINTER 2006 Editors’ Note / 7 Tillman W. Nechtman Nabobinas: Luxury, Gender, and the Sexual Politics of British Imperialism in India in the Late Eighteenth Century / 8 Abigail McGowan An Ali-Consuming Subject? Women and Consumption in Late- Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Western India / 31 Rebekah Lee Hearth and Home in Cape Town: African Women, Energy Resourcing, and Consumption in an Urban Environment / 55 Katharine French-Fuller Gendered Invisibility, Respectable Cleanliness: The Impact of the Washing Machine on Daily Living in Post-1950 Santiago, Chile / 79 Victoria de Grazia Comment / 101 BOOK FORUM: CINDERELLA DREAMS BY CELE C. OTNES AND ELIZABETH H. PLECK Bonnie Adrian Bridezilla Consciousness / 108 2006 Sarah A. Leavitt Dreaming is a Girl’s Best Friend / 114 A. Holly Shissler Marriages Made on Madison Avenue? / 118 Elizabeth H. Pleck and Cele C. Otnes Response / 123 Book Reviews Ardis Cameron As We Go Playing: Women, Popular Culture, and Activism / 128 Marlis Schweitzer Bodies Beyond Boundaries: Mapping New Territory in Embodiment Studies / 137 Karen W. Tice For Appearance’s Sake: Beauty, Bodies, Spectacle, and Consumption / 147 Joe Perry Consumer Citizenship in the Interwar Era: Gender, Race, and the State in Global-Historical Perspective / 157 CONTRIBUTORS Spring 2006 / 233 Summer 2006/ 184 Falll 2006 / 148 Winter 2006 / 173 Notice TO CONTRIBUTORS Spring / 238 Summer 2006 / 186 Fall 2006 / 150 Winter 2006 / 176 ANNOUNCEMENTS Spring 2006 / 240 Summer 2006 / 188 Fall 2006 / 152 Winter 2006 / 178 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TO REVIEWERS Spring 2006 / 243 Winter 2006 / 181