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WOMEN'S STUDIES INTERNATIONAL FOKUM VOLUME 14, 1991 Volume Contents and Author Index PERGAMON PRESS New York Oxford Seoul Tokyo WOMEN'S STUDIES INTERNATIONAL FORUM THE EDITORS African and European Editor Australian and Asian Editor Renate D. Klein Robyn Rowland Box 583 School of Humanities London NW3 1RQ Deakin University England Victoria 3217 Australia Irish and British Editor Latin and North American Co-Editors Ailbhe Smyth Sue V. Rosser Department of French Charlotte Hogsett University College Women’s Studies Dublin 4 University of South Carolina Ireland 1710 College Street Columbia, SC 29208 USA Managing Editor Christine Zmroczek Consulting Editor 8 St. Martin’s Street Dale Spender Brighton East Sussex, BN2 3HJ Feminist Forum Editor England Christine Zmroczek Regional editors also welcome papers from contributors living in countries outside the regions covered above. 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Forum, Vol. 14, No. 6, pp. XVII-XXV, 1991 0277-5395/91 $3.00 + .00 Printed in the USA. © 1991 Pergamon Press plc Volume 14, 1991 CONTENTS VOLUME 14 NUMBERS 1/2 1991 CONTENTS MARILYN PORTER 1 Time, the life course and work in women’s lives: reflections from Newfoundland FRANCES CHERRY 15 The experiences of Canadian women in trades and technology NANCY MCINTYRE DEBORAH JAGGERNATHSINGH KATHLEEN SHELDON 27 Sewing clothes and sorting cashew nuts: factories, families, and women in Beira, Mozambique ADRIANNE ARON 37 The gender-specific terror of El Salvador and Guatemala: SHAWN CORNE post-traumatic stress disorder in Central American refugee ANTHEA FURSLAND women BARBARA ZELWER LITA FURBY 49 Rape prevention and self-defense: at what price? BARUCH FISCHOFF MARCIA MORGAN JANNA THOMPSON 63 Women and war URSULA STRECKEISEN 77 “More and More Women Work”: inquiries into the work patterns of adult Swiss women TOBE LEVIN 85 Jelinek’s radical radio: deconstructing the woman in context RUTH PARKIN-GOUNELAS 99 Charlotte Bronte’s Villette and the textuality of selfhood BOOK REVIEWS H. PATRICIA HYNES 111 Female-friendly Science by Sue V. Rosser CHILLA BULBECK 112 Labour Pains and Labour Power: Women and Childbearing in India by Patricia Jeffrey, Roger Jeffrey and Andrew Lyon The Fish Don’t Talk about the Water: Gender Transformation Power and Resistance Among Women in Sri Lanka by Carla Risseeuw VIRGINIA MASON VAUGHAN 113 Clamourous Voices: Shakespeare’s Women Today by Carol Rutter with Sinead Cusack, Paola Dinisotti, Fiona Shaw, Juliet Stevenson and Harriet Walter AmY HuDOCK 114 Feminism and Science Fiction by Sarah Lefanu ROSALIND EDWARDS Women and Identity: Value Choices in a Changing World by C. Margaret Hall Volume 14 Index Mary MayNarRD 116 Women, Work and Sexual Politics in Eighteenth Century England by Bridget Hill ANNE McCGOovERN 116 Education for Equality: Women’s Rights Periodicals and Women’s Higher Education, 1849-1920 by Patricia Smith Butcher PaT CAPLAN 117 A Woman-Oriented Woman by C. Esther Hodge KATHLEEN FOWLER 118 Edging Women Out: Victorian Novelists, Publishers and Social Change by Gaye Tuchman with Nina E. Fortin INA RAE HARK 119 Feminism and Film Theory edited by Constance Penley JOANNE JACOBSEN 119 Let Us Now Praise Famous Women: Women Photographers for the US Government 1935 to 1944 by Andrea Fisher FavE A. CHADWELL 120 Women Changing Work by Patricia W. Lunnenborg 123 Biographical Statements I Feminist Forum: News, Conferences, Reports VOLUME 14 NUMBER3 1991 CONTENTS RENATE D. KLEIN 125 Passion and politics in Women’s Studies in the nineties SOMER BRODRIBB 135 Discarnate desires: thoughts on sexuality and poststructuralist discourse SUE V. ROSSER 143 Eco-feminism: lessons for feminism from ecology SUSAN HAWTHORNE 153 Gold into straw: feminist fiction and cultural transformation JOCELYNNE A. SCUTT 163 The domestic paradigm: violence, nurturance and stereotyping of the sexes SHARLENE HEsSE-BIBER 173 Women, weight and eating disorders: a socio-cultural and political-economic analysis KRIS KISSMAN 193 Women caregivers, women wage earners: social policy perspectives in Norway JANET MANCIN: BILLSON 201 The progressive verification method: toward a feminist methodology for studying women cross-culturally JULIA DAIN 217 Women and computing: some response to falling numbers in higher education BOOK REVIEWS JANICE G. RAYMOND 227 Solomon Says: A Speakout on Foster Care by Louise Armstrong MARILYN HODER-SALMON 229 Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women’s History edited by Ellen Carol DuBois and Vicki L. Ruiz RUTH B. CowAN Life Stories of the Nicaraguan Revolution by Denis Lynn and Daly Heyck Volume 14 Index MILDRED L. JACKSON 230 The Women’s Suffrage Movement and Irish Society in the Early Twentieth Century by Cliona Murphy MAUREEN GLANCY 231 A Leisure of One’s Own: A Feminist Perspective on Women’s Leisure by Karla A. Henderson, M. Deborah Bialeschki, Susan M. Shaw and Valeria J. Freysinger THERESA SAUTER-BAILLIET 231 The Orwell Mystique: A Study in Male Ideology by Daphne Patai and The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood DIANE ROBERTS 233 The Southern Belle in the American Novel by Kathryn Lee Seidel BATYA WEINBAUM 234 Agnes Smedley: The Life and Times of an American Radical by Jannice R. Mackinnon and Stephen Mackinnon BATYA WEINBAUM 234 Sex, Power and Pleasure by Mariana Valverde 237 Biographical Statements I Feminist Forum: News, Conferences, Reports VOLUME 14 NUMBER4 1991 CONTENTS REACHING FOR GLOBAL FEMINISM: APPROACHES TO CURRICULUM CHANGE IN THE SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES JANICE MONK ANNE BETTERIDGE Amy W. NEWHALL 239 Introduction: reaching for global feminism in the curriculum CAROLE Boyce DAVIES 249 Writing off marginality, minoring, and effacement TEssiE Lru 265 Teaching the differences among women from a historical perspective: rethinking race and gender as social categories Jupy NoLtTE LENSINK 277 Strategies for integrating international material in the introductory Women’s Studies course KATE BEGNAL 285 Knowing difference: internationalizing a women-and-literature course JANET OWENS FROST 295 Making connections: teaching anthropology of the Third World in New Mexico AMAL KAWAR 305 The intersection of gender and politics: revising a political science course MARIE CorT DANIELS 311 Teaching Mexican culture in Mexico from a Women’s Studies perspective RICHLEY H. CRAPO 321 Human sexuality and gender: a course of study VELLA NEIL EvANS 335 Try, try again: incorporating international perspectives into a course on sex roles and social change ASOKA BANDARAGE In search of a new world order BIBLIOGRAPHY RUTH DICKSTEIN 357 Women in international studies: a bibliographic guide Volume 14 Index BOOK REVIEWS ANNETTE MCELHINEY 375 Longman Anthology of World Literature by Women: 1875- 1975 edited by Marian Arkin and Barbara Shollar PATRICE CALDWELL 375 Interpreting Women’s Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives edited by the Personal Narratives Group MERRIHELEN PONCE 376 Scraps of Life: Chilean Arpilleras by Marjorie Agosin VIRGINIA SCHARFF 377 Promissory Notes: Women in the Transition to Socialism edited by Sonia Kruks, Rayna Rapp, and Marilyn B. Young CLARA LOMAS 377 Plotting Women: Gender and Representation in Mexico by Jean Franco WENDA TREVATHAN 378 Women as Healers: Cross-Cultural Perspectives edited by Carol Shepherd McClain VOLUME 14 NUMBER 5 1991 EPIGRAPH BARBARA CHRISTINE SCHWEIZER 383 After the death of the rapist CONTENTS DIANE BELL 385 Intraracial rape revisited: on forging a feminist future beyond factions and frightening politics R. AMy ELMAN 413 Unprotected by the Swedish welfare state: a survey of battered MAupD L. EDUARDS women and the assistance they received JANE CAPUTI 423 The metaphors of radiation: or, why a beautiful woman is like a nuclear power plant LynpDaA I. A. BIRKE 443 Science, feminism and animal natures I: extending the boundaries LynpaA I. A. BIRKE 451 Science, feminism and animal natures II: feminist critiques and the place of animals in science NELLY OUDSHOORN 459 Dualism in biology: the case of sex hormones MARIANNE VAN DEN WIJNGAARD H. PATRICIA HYNES 473 The race to save the planet: will women lose? LAURA R. WOLIVER 479 The influence of technology on the politics of motherhood: an overview of the United States KATHLEEN B. JONES 491 Women of the Paris Commune FRANCOISE VERGES LETTERS SECTION 505 Editorial 506 Letters to the editors BOOK REVIEWS SHELLEY MINDEN 515 The Recurring Silent Spring by H. Patricia Hynes ROSALIND EDWARDS 517 Young Mothers? by Ann Phoenix Volume 14 Index CLAIRE DUCHEN 518 The Condition of Women in France, 1945 to the Present Day. A Documentary Anthology edited by Claire Laubier KAREN SAYER 518 Where No Man Has Gone Before, Women and Science Fiction edited by Lucie Armitt FaYE A. CHADWELL 520 Feminist Novelists of the Belle Epoque: Love as a Lifestyle by Jennifer Waelti-Walters Eve TAVOR BANNET 520 Women in the Eighteenth Century: Constructions of Femininity edited by Vivien Jones TAKAYO MUKAI 521 Significant Differences: Feminism in Psychology by Corinne Squire MARIE DE VERE 522 Storia: A Woman’s Eye View of Britain Today edited by Kate Figes 523 Biographical Statements I Feminist Forum: News, Conferences, Reports VOLUME 14 NUMBER6 1991 CONTENTS SCHOOL-AGE CHILD CARE IN THE WESTERN NORTHERN HEMISPHERE PaT PETRIE 525 Introduction: school-age child care R1A MEIVOGEL Uta ENDERS-DRAGASSER PaT PETRIE 527 School-age child care and equal opportunities PETER Moss 539 School-age child care in the European Community UTA ENDERS-DRAGASSER 551 Child care: love, work and exploitation RIA MEIVOGEL 557 School-age child care in the Netherlands: the shift from equality aims to the interest of the child JANET READ 561 There was never really any choice: the experience of mothers of disabled children in the United Kingdom CHRISTINE ORTON 573 Working in partnership? Voluntary sector child care in the United Kingdom MICHELLE SELIGSON 577 Models of school-age child care: a review of current research on implications for women and their children BRONWEN COHEN 585 Taking time off: leave provision in the European Community for parents of school-age children HETTIE A. PotT-BUTER 599 The economics of bringing up children in The Netherlands JYTTE JUUL JENSEN 607 School-age child care in the Danish social context today BOOK REVIEWS ANN PHOENIX 613 Working Parents: Transformation in Gender Roles and Public Policies in Sweden by Phyllis Moen NANCY P. GREENLEAF 613 A Feminist Ethic for Social Science Research by the Nebraska Sociological Feminist Collective Volume 14 Index LauRA L. O’TOOLE 614 An Introduction to Sociology: Feminist Perspectives by Pame- la Abbott and Claire Wallace ELLEN BROWN 615 Opera or the Undoing of Women by Catherine Clément. Translated by Betsy Wing SuSAN P. MILLINGER 615 Women in Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe. Private and Public Worlds edited by Sherrin Marshall SUSAN P. MILLINGER 616 Opera Muliebria Women and Work in Medieval Europe by David Herlihy ELAINE R. OGNIBENE 617 Women of Bloomsbury: Virginia, Vanessa and Carrington by Mary Ann Caws Biographical Statements I Feminist Forum: News, Conferences, Reports XVII Volume 14 Contents and Author Index a tie ar cnt Reproduced with the permission of Pergamon Press Inc., by University Microfilms Inc. Duplication or resale without permission is prohibited.