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Reviews and Review Essays:

(listed alphabetically by journal, then in reverse chronological order)

THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW

111:5 (Dec. 2006), 1584-1586. Review of Sarah Knott & Barbara Taylor, eds. Women, Gender, and Enlightenment (2005).

109:4 (Oct. 2004), 1311-1312. Review of Barbara Taylor, Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination (2003).

103:1 (Feb. 1998), 168-170. Review of Laura L. Frader & Sonya O. Rose, eds. Gender and Class in Modern Europe (1996).

100:5 (Dec. 1995), 1590-1591. Review of Tamar Garb, Sisters of the Brush: Women's Artistic Culture in Late Nineteenth Century Paris (1994).

98:2 (April 1993), 512-513. Review of Sarah Fishman, We Will Wait: Wives of French Prisoners of War, 1940-1945 (1991).

96:1 (Feb. 1991), 180. Review of Laurence Klejman & Florence Rochefort, L'Égalité en marche; le féminisme sous la Troisième République (1989).

92:3 (June 1987), 679. Review of Guy Chaussinand Nogaret, Madame Roland: Une Femme en Révolution (1985).

BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE D'HISTOIRE MODERNE ET CONTEMPORAINE(France) In French

Série 16: no. 31 (1986), 32-33. Review of Jean Rabaut, Féministes à la Belle Epoque (1985).

Série 16: no. 31 (1986), 42. Review of Ginette Castro, Radioscopie du féminisme américaine (1985).

Série 16: no. 24 (1984), 44. Review of Yvonne Knibiehler et al, De la Pucelle à la minette (1983).

Série 16: no. 23 (1984), 29-30. Review of Michael Mitterauer and Reinhard Sieder, The European Family (1982).

Série 16: no. 23 (1984), 45-46. Review of Pierre Darmon, Mythologie de la femme dans l'ancienne France (1983).

CANADIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY/ANNALES CANADIENNES D'HISTOIRE

Timothy B. Smith, Creating the Welfare State in France, 1880-1940 (2003), for the, vol. 39 (April 2004).

CLIO: HISTOIRE, FEMMES ET SOCIÉTÉS

No. 34 (2011). Review of Alice Primi, Femmes de progrès : Françaises et Allemandes engagées dans leur siècle, 1848-1870 (2010). Online at http://clio.revues.org/10430.

No. 22 (2005), 296-300. Review of Gisela Bock & Anne Cova, eds. Ecrire l'histoire des femmes en Europe du Sud: XIXe-XXe siecles/Writing Women's History in Southern Europe: 19th-20th Centuries (2003). In French.

No. 12 (2000), 230-235. Review of Genevieve Fraisse, Les Femmes et leur histoire (1998) and Michelle Perrot, Les Femmes ou les silences de l'Histoire (1998). In French.

CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY

7:1 (Winter 1990), 130-136. Review of Dorothy McBride Stetson, Women's Rights in France (1987).

CONTEMPORARY FRENCH CIVILIZATION

26:1 (2002), 1138-1139. Review of Leslie Derfler, Paul Lafargue and the Flowering of French Socialism, 1882-1911 (1998).

CLIO: HISTOIRE, FEMMES ET SOCIÉTÉS

20:1 (Spring 1996), 191-194. Review of Susan Pedersen, Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State: Britain and France, 1914-1945 (1993).

3:3 (Spring 1979), 479-483. Review of Eugen Weber, Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914 (1976).

2:l (Fall 1977), 170-173. Retrospective review of Theodore Zeldin, France, 1848-1945, vol. I (1973).

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FICTION (Canada)

Forthcoming 2013: Review of Éliane Viennot & Nicole Pellegrin, éds. Revisiter la “querelle des femmes” : Discours sur l'égalité / inégalité des sexes, de 1750 aux lendemains de la Révolution (2012).

EUROPEAN HISTORY QUARTERLY

32:2 (April 2002), 282-284. Review of Susan Grogan, Flora Tristan: Life Stories (1998) and Stéphane Michaud, ed., Flora Tristan, George Sand, Pauline Roland: Les Femmes et l'invention d'une nouvelle morale, 1830-1848 (1994).

THE EUROPEAN LEGACY: TOWARD NEW PARADIGMS

7:2 (2002), 254-255. Review of Londa Schiebinger, Has Feminism Changed Science? (1999).

7:1 (2002), 132-134. Review of Jolanta Pekacz, Conservative Tradition in Pre-Revolutionary France: Parisian Salon Women (1999).

5:5 (2000), 737-741. Review of Mona Ozouf, Women's Words: Essay on French Singularity (1997; originally published in French 1995).

3:2 (April 1998), 98-100. Review of A History of Women, vol. 3: Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes, ed. Natalie Zemon Davis & Arlette Farge (1993).

1:5 (August 1996), 1799. Review of Gisela Kaplan, Contemporary Western European Feminisms (1992).

FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES

26: 4 (Fall 2003), 727-767. Review Essay: “French Women's History: Retrospect (1789-1940) and Prospect.” Covers eleven books, including works by James F. McMillan; Christiane Veauvy & Laura Pisano; Alain Corbin, Jacqueline Lalouette, & Michele Riot-Sarcey; Mary Lynn Stewart; Katrin Schulthiess; Linda L. Clark; Anne Cova; Evelyne Diebolt; Evelyne Diebolt & Christiane Douyere-Demeulenaere; and Margaret Darrow.

16:4 (Fall 1990), 909-922. Review essay: “The New Sexual Politics of French Revolutionary Historiography.” Surveys recent books and articles concerning women and the French Revolution.

FRENCH POLITICS AND SOCIETY (Center for European Studies, Harvard University, and subsequently, New York University).

19:3 (Fall 2001), 127-130. Review of Linda L. Clark, The Rise of Professional Women in France (2000).

No. 15 (Nov. 1986), 46-49. Review of Patricia Hilden, Working Women and Socialist Politics in France, 1880-1914: A Regional Study (1986).

THE FRENCH REVIEW

45 (March 1972), 892-893. Review of Roger Williams, Le Prince des Polemistes: Henri Rochefort (1970).

GENDER & HISTORY

4:1 (Spring 1992), 116-118. Review essay: “Women Writers,” covering books by Christine Planté, La Petite Soeur de Balzac: Essai sur la femme auteur (1989), Susan Kirkpatrick, Las Romanticas: Women Writers and Subjectivity in Spain 1835-1850 (1989), & Jennifer Waelti Walters, Feminist Novelists of the Belle Epoque (1990).

HARVARD UKRAINIAN STUDIES

14:1 2 (June 1990), 203-206. Review of Martha Bohachevsky Chomiak, Feminists Despite Themselves: Women in Ukrainian Community Life, 1884-1939 (1988).

H-FRANCE FORUM (on-line forum on selected books)

2:1 (Winter 2007). Forum, no. 3. Review of Judith Surkis, Sexing the Citizen:Morality and Masculinity in France, 1870-1920 (2006).

H-FRANCE REVIEW (on-line reviews)

Vol. 9 (June 2009), no. 90. Review of Rosemary Lancaster, Je Suis Australienne: Remarkable Women in France, 1880-1945 (2008). http://www.h-france.net/vol9reviews/vol9no90offen.pdf.

Vol. 3 (Sept. 2003), no. 104. Review of Anne Verjus, Le Cens de la famille: Les femmes et le vote, 1789-1848 (2002). http://www.h-france.net/vol3reviews/offen.html.

THE HISTORIAN (U.K.)

65: 6 (2003). Review of Carla Hesse, The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern (2001).

HISTORY: JOURNAL OF THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION (U.K.)

92:2, no. 306 (April 2007), 281-282. Review of Joan Wallach Scott, Parité: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism (2005).

HISTORY OF EUROPEAN IDEAS (see also its successor, EUROPEAN LEGACY, above)

17:2 3 (1993), 319-323. Review essay, "Republishing French Feminist Texts." Surveys four documentary volumes published by côté-femmes, Paris.

8:6 (1987), 726-729. Review essay on Patrick Kay Bidelman, Pariahs Stand Up! The Founding of the Liberal Feminist Movement in France, 1858-1889 (1982), & Charles Sowerwine, Sisters or Citizens? Women and Socialism in France Since 1876 (1982).

8:6 (1987), 723-726. Review essay on two recent books by Jean Bethke Elshtain, Public Man, Private Woman: Women in Social and Political Thought (1981), & The Family in Political Thought (1982).

8:4 5 (1987), 621-624. Review essay, "New Documents for the History of French Feminism during the Early Third Republic," Surveys six documentary volumes published by Éditions Syros, Paris.

JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY

27:4 (Spring 1997), 687-689. Review of James R. Lehning, Peasant and French: Cultural Contact in Rural France during the Nineteenth Century (1995).

JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY

77:2 (June 2005), 445-447. Review of Hanna Diamond, Women and the Second World War in France, 1939-1948: Choices and Constraints (1999) & Raylene L. Ramsay, French Women in Politics: Writing Power, Paternal Legitimization, and Maternal Legacies (2003).

74:2 (June 2002), 422-424. Review of James Smith Allen, Poignant Relations: Three Modern French Women (2000).

64:3 (Sept. 1992), 608-610. Review of Ruth Harris, Murders and Madness: Medicine, Law, and Society in the Fin de Siècle (1989).

63:1 (March 1991), 116-118. Review of Bonnie S. Anderson and Judith P. Zinsser, A History of Their Own: Women in European History from Prehistory to the Present, vol. 2 (1988).

62:2 (June 1990), 356-358. Review of Joan W. Scott, Gender and the Politics of History (1988).

61:3 (Sept. 1989), 585-588. Review of Richard J. Evans, Comrades and Sisters: Feminism, Socialism and Pacifism in Europe, 1870-1945 (1987), & Steven C. Hause, Hubertine Auclert: The French Suffragette (1987).

58:3 (Sept. 1986), 731-733. Review of Claude Langlois, Le Catholicisme au féminin (1984).

JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY

36:3 (Spring 2003), 786-788. Review of Marcelline J. Hutton, Russian and West European Women, 1860-1939: Dreams, Struggles, and Nightmares (2001).

JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S HISTORY

22:1 (Spring 2010), 154-177. “Surveying European Women's History since the Millenium: A Comparative Review.” A review-essay covering nine survey texts and collections by Barbara Caine & Glenda Sluga; Lynn Abrams; Fiona Montgomery & Christine Collette, Gisela Bock, Mary S. Hartman; Rachel G. Fuchs & Victoria E. Thompson; Mary Jo Maynes, et al; Deborah Simonton; and Ann Taylor Allen.

13:4 (Winter 2002), 180-190. “Women's Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century World: States, Gender, and Historiographical Strategies in Comparative Perspective.” Review essay covering: Elizabeth Thompson, Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon (1999); Landon R. Y. Storrs, Civilizing Capitalism: The National Consumers' League, Women's Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era (2000); Nancy Christie, Engendering the State: Family, Work, and Welfare in Canada (2000); & Rolf Torstendahl, ed. State Policy and Gender System in the Two German States and Sweden, 1945-1989 (1999). [Crosslisted under articles and review essays, 2002, above]

8:1 (Spring 1996), 147-154. "Women's History as French History," a review essay covering Michèle Riot Sarcey's La Démocratie à l'épreuve des femmes (1994), & three volumes of documentary texts.

7:2 (Summer 1995), 145-151. Review of Histoire des femmes en Occident. Vol. 5: Le XXe siècle. Françoise Thébaud, ed. George Duby & Michelle Perrot, series editors (1992); published in English as A History of Women in the West: Toward a Cultural Identity in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, Mass: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, (1994).

MS MAGAZINE

Fall 2008, p. 72. “Herstory Revisited.” Brief review of Marilyn French's From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, 4 volumes (2002).

[“Herstory Revisited” published in Spanish translation in La Aljaba, segunda época : Revista de Estudios de la Mujer (Lujan, Argentina), vol. 9 (2009), 251-252.]

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

11 October 1987. Review of Donald Meyer, Sex and Power: The Rise of Woman in America, Russia, Sweden and Italy (1987).

NEWSLETTER, INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN & GENDER, STANFORD

18:2 (Winter 1994), 9. Review of Marilyn Yalom, Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women's Memory (1993).

14:2 (Winter 1990), 3. Review of Marilyn Yalom, Le Temps des orages: Aristocrates, bourgeoises et paysannes racontent (1989).

NEWSLETTER OF THE WEST COAST ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN HISTORIANS

5:2 (Nov. 1974), 5-7. Review essay: "Shorter and the Sexual Revolution." Addresses two articles by Edward Shorter.

NWSA JOURNAL

4:2 (Summer 1992), 205-211. Review essay: "Feminist Organizational Politics," covering works by Harold L. Smith, ed. British Feminism in the Twentieth Century (1990); Judith Adler Hellman, Journeys among Women: Feminism in Five Italian Cities (1987); Naomi Black, Social Feminism (1989), & Joyce Gelb, Feminism and Politics: A Comparative Perspective (1989).

RFR/DRF(Canada)

19:1 (Summer 1990), 45-46. Review of Mary Lynn Stewart, Women, Work & the French State: Labour Protection & Social Patriarchy, 1879-1919 (1989).

SIGNS: JOURNAL OF WOMEN IN CULTURE AND SOCIETY

11:1 (Autumn 1985), 176-180. Review essay on books by Richard Soloway, Birth Control and the Population Question in England, 1877-1930 (1982); Diana Gittens, Fair Sex: Family Size and Structure in Britain, 1900-1939 (1982); Angus McLaren, Sexuality and Social Order: The Debate over the Fertility of Women and Workers in France, 1770-1920 (1983); Rachel Ginnis Fuchs, Abandoned Children: Foundlings and Child Welfare in Nineteenth-Century France (1983); & George D. Sussmann, Selling Mothers' Milk: The Wet-Nursing Business in France, 1715-1914 (1982).

8:2 (Winter 1982), 372-376. Review essay on books in French women's history by Bonnie G. Smith, Ladies of the Leisure Class: The Bourgeoises of Northern France in the Nineteenth Century (1981), & James F. McMillan, The Place of Women in French Society, 1870-1940 (1981).

WOMEN'S HISTORY REVIEW (U.K.)

16:5 (Nov. 2007), 800-802. Review of Rebecca Rogers, From the Salon to the Schoolroom: Educating Bourgeois Girls in Nineteenth-Century France (2005).

WOMEN'S REVIEW OF BOOKS

24:4 (July/August 2007), 26-27. “Dancing with the Patriarchs.” review of Judith Bennett, History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism (2006).

20:1 (October 2002), 4-5. “The Making of a Historian.” Review of Gerda Lerner's Fireweed (2002).

6:7 (April 1989), 15-16. “The Use and Abuse of History.” Review of Denise Riley, “Am I That Name?”: Feminism and the Category of “Women” in History (1988), and Joan B. Landes, Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution (1988).

WOMEN'S STUDIES ABSTRACTS

3:4 (Fall 1974), 2-3. Review of Alain Decaux, Histoire des Françaises (1972).