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Featuring:
A Woman Making
History
Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters
Edited with an Introduction
by Nancy F. Cott
page 5

The Feminist Companion
to Literature in English
Women Writers from the Middle Ages
to the Present
Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements,
and Isobel Grundy
page ro

Learning Together
A History of Coeducation in American
Public Schools
David Tyack and Elisabeth Hansot
page 7

Feminism and
Psychoanalytic Theory
Nancy
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J. Chodorow

No Man's Land

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Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
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Psychology& Psychoanalysis
Feminism and
Psychoanalytic Theory
Nancy J. Chodorow

The Psychology
of Women
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Ongoing Debates

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Edited by Mary Roth Walsh

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-Evelyn Fox Keller
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receive.".-Feminist

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Yongue, M.D., American Journal of
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unconscious awareness of self and
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inequality and difference that permeate
our society and culture.

Nancy J. Chodorow is professor of
sociology at the University of
California, Berkeley.

Melanie Klein
and Critical Social Theory

Marci;i Westkott

An Account of Politics, Art, and Reason Based on
Her Psychoanalytic Theory
C. Fred Alford

"A provocative attempt to address current
feminist debates." -Linda M. Blum,
Contemporary Sociology
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Hamey's background and theory .... She is
well read in regard to feminist theory." -Farah
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Marcia Westkott argues that the central theory
of Karen Hamey's work-the conflict between
dependency and ambition-has a special
relevance for women, who are devalued and
sexualized by both the family and society and
whose attempts to conform to the feminine ideal
are sabotaged by underlying rage.
1986
254 pp.
(133) Paper ISBN04204-3

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Psychotherapy

"[This book] is likely to provide a model for
future generations of books of readings in
psychology."-Margaret W. Matlin, Sex
Roles

A leading scholar in women's studies here
presents some of the current controversies
among those who study the psychology of
women-from "Are women more likely to
be mentally ill?" to "Is pornography
harmful to women?"
1987
504 pp.
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1989
296 pp.
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The Feminist Legacy
of Karen Horney
"As a remarkably deep and prescient thinker,
Horney demands greater recognition today
than she has received. Westkott's thoughtful
explication of Horneyan theory is a strong
first step in that direction." -Robin Lakoff,
Women's Studies International Forum

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"Regularly consigned to the backwaters of
psychoanalysis, Melanie Klein has never
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magnitude of her contributions to the
mainstream of psychoanalytic thought.
Alford's comprehensive study goes far in
redressing this historical injustice."-Jerrold
M. Post, M.D.
In this thoughtful and lucid book, C. Fred
Alford shows how the psychoanalytic theory of
Melanie Klein can be extended to groups and
culture and thus can illuminate issues of social
theory and moral philosophy of the sort
considered by the Frankfurt School. He then
applies this expanded theory to the politics of
large groups, the appeal of works of art, and the
psychological sources of reason.
1989
256 pp.
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Female Adolescence
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Literature
Katherine Dalsimer

"A brilliant and evocative analysis of the
transition from girlhood to womanhood . ...
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of the experiences of adolescent girls, and
provides a welcome contrast to the usual
rendering of this period as a variation on
male development." -Lila Braine
"Dalsimer's book is a success, especially in her
goal to refute earlier psychoanalytic notions that
female adolescents are repulsed by, or attempt
to deny, their emerging sexual urges."
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1986
160 pp.
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Psychology& Psychoanalysis
The Middle Years

Making a Difference

New Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Edited by John M. Oldham, M.D.
and Robert S. Liebert, M.D.

Psychologyand the Construction of
Gender

Edited by Rachel T. Hare-Mustin
and Jeanne Marecek
"[A] reasoned and intellectually sound
critique of the current state of
feminist psychology." -Janet A.
Rodgers, Readings

"In this important new work, Drs. HareMustin and Marecek ask the question,
'How do we know what we know
about gender?' In a series of essays
woven together in a meaningful way,
substantial answers are offered that
challenge the view of positivist/
reductionistic science, as well as recent
thinking in the field offeminist psychology." -Arthur G. Mones, The
Family Psychologist

"These brilliant and provocative essays
step back from the trees-the millions
of studies of sex and gender difference,
non-differences, and meta-differencesand show us instead a way through the
forest: the meanings and inventions of
gender in modern life."
-Carol Tavris, Ph.D.

"[This book is] devoted to what gender
means, how feminist scholarship is
advanced (and impeded), and strategies
for feminist-based inquiry. All of the
authors raise extremely important
questions." -Choice
Drawing on postmodernist skepticism
about what we know and how we
know it, and on recent developments in
the philosophy of science and feminist theory, five leaders in feminist
psychology offer a new perspective on
the meaning of gender, one that is not
determined by the traditional focus on
male-female differences.
1990 160 pp.
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Porn
M.D.

Code Name "Mary"
Memoirs of an American Woman in the Austrian
Underground
Muriel Gardiner
Foreword by Anna Freud

"A heroic [story] of intrigue and courage."
-Joanna Edgars, Ms.
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to the Anschluss." -Library Journal
This book presents the remarkable autobiography of the woman who was the model for
Lillian Hellman's Julia.
1983 198pp.
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Edited by Robert J. Sternberg
and Michael L. Barnes

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"Stoller ... brings enlightenment to a
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extraordinary document . ... [It] will
become a standard and starting place
for serious investigations of porn, other
variants of pornography, and other
varieties of erotic experience."
-Louise J. Kaplan, Ph.D.

"An outstanding contribution to the
psychoanalytic exploration of the erotic
and to the exploration of mass culture
from the psychoanalytic perspective."
-Otto F. Kernberg, M.D.
This psychodynamic ethnography of adult
heterosexual pornography draws
provocative conclusions about porn, its
practitioners, and its effects on society.
According to Dr. Robert Stoller,
pornography does not exist only to
degrade women, there is no reliable
evidence that it increases the frequency of
rape, and (with the exception of child
porn) it does little harm. He finds that
pornography reflects, more than influences,
our values and mores.
Robert J. Stoller, M.D., is professor of
psychiatry at the University of California,
Los Angeles, School of Medicine.
Available in Octob~r
1991 256 pp.
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1989 304 pp.
(93) ISBN 04418-6 $30.00/$2.4.00

The Psychology of Love

Myths for the Twentieth Century

Robert J. Stoller,

In this book, a group of eminent psychoanalysts
cliscuss biological, psychological, and sociological issues relevant to middle age, offering
therapeutic techniques to deal with conflicts
specific to this period. Issues covered include
unconscious fantasies in middle life, the impact
of teenaged children on mothers and fathers,
single women, the middle years of lesbians
and homosexual men, and marital conflict in
middle life.

"[This book] brings together top psychologists'
thinking on love's essence and on how to
develop and sustain intimate relationships."
-Helen Borel, Women's Record
1988 390 pp.
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Competence Considered
Presentations of Gender
Robert J. Stoller, M.D.
"An outstanding contribution to the movement
to explore, expand, and modify the theories
concerning the development of gender
identity."-Robert
S. Grayson, Psychoanalytic
Quarterly
1985 230 pp.
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Observing
the Erotic Imagination
Robert J. Stoller, M.D.
"Provides a rich and engaging introduction to
Stoller's important explorations of gender
development." -E. Barbara Hariton,
Contemporary Psychology
"A serious contribution to the subject of erotic
behaviour." -Eva Lester, International Review
of Psychoanalysis
1985 229 pp.
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Edited by Robert J. Sternberg
and John Kolligian, Jr.
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psychologists will find real treasures in these
chapters, and the study of competence will be
greatly advanced by the compilation of these
writings." -Stephen J. Ceci
"Well-organized, the book moves smoothly from
developmental to social to clinical perspectives."
-Charlotte Ellinwood, Readings
1990 440 pp.
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The Deadly Innocents
Portraits of Children Who Kill
Muriel Garcliner, M.D.
Preface by Stephen Spender

"Each narrative is a combination of an
emotionally charged experience for the reader
and a superb case study for students and professionals concerned with problems of deviant
human development." -Albert J. Solnit, M.D.
1985 221pp.
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Sociology & Psychology
Spouse, Parent, Worker

Theoretical Perspectives
on Sexual Difference

On Gender and Multiple Roles

Edited by Faye J. Crosby

Edited by Deborah L. Rhode

"An outstanding collection that
promises to become a classic."
-Cynthia Fuchs Epstein
"An excellent volume for students of
feminist theory and practitioners of all
disciplines and at all levels of accomplishment." -Adria E. Schwartz,

Readings
"The best ever written on the issues of
sex, gender, and sex differences....
Although this book addresses current
issues, it will undoubtedly be cited by
researchers and theorists for years to
come." -Choice
No issue has been more central to the
American women's movement than sexual difference. This book offers a
unique study of the nature, origins, and
consequences of sexual difference.
Leading scholars in history, philosophy,
law, literary theory, biology, sociology,
psychology, political science, and
anthropology explore the difference
difference makes.
Several traditions of feminist response
to difference are reflected in this volume. One approach has been to challenge the long-established tendency to
mischaracterize culturally influenced
gender differences as biological or psy-

chological imperatives. Among the
essays that draw on this tradition are
Carl Degler's, John Dupre's, Ruth
Hubbard's, and Herma Hill Kay's
reviews of sociobiology; Nancy
Chodorow's challenges to conventional
psychoanalytic frameworks; and Barrie
Thorne's discussion of sex stereotypes
and situational influences. A second
strand of feminist work has sought to
challenge not the significance of gender
differences but the importance society
has attached to them. Alison Jaggar,
Nel Noddings, Susan Moller Okin, and
Karen Offen review the capacities and
constraints of this approach. A third
strategy attempts to dislodge difference
by challenging its centrality and its
organizing premises, thus recasting the
debate about gender relations. Essays
by Bell Hooks and Julianne Malveaux
on race, Jane Collier and Sylvia
Yanagisako on anthropology, Kay
Deaux and Brenda Major on social psychology, Catharine MacKinnon and
Deborah Rhode on law, and Estelle
Friedman, Marilyn Frye, and Regenia
Gagnier on feminist theory explore the
ideological and policy implications of
this perspective.
1990
384 pp.
(97) ISBN04427-5

Sex, Gender, and the Social Order

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A State-Level Analysis
Larry Baron and Murray A. Straus

"Deceptive Distinctions will show

PsychologyToday

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Four Theories of Rape
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11,e Women,s Review of Books

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1987
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reader up to date on sex/ gender
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decision-makers who care about
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In this important book, a leading feminist scholar surveys and critiques gender
research in a range of disciplines showing how distinctions between the sexes
are maintained by ideology and social
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1988
304 pp.
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1989
232 pp.
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Edging Women Out
Victorian Novelists, Publishers, and Social
Change
Gaye Tuchman with Nina E. Fortin

"Belongs in the library of anybody interested in
women's study and Victorian cultural history.
... A brilliant piece ofwork."-Lewis A. Coser
1989
288 pp.
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American History
A Woman Making
History

The Grounding
of Modern Feminism

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Nancy F. Cott

Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters
Edited with an Introduction
by Nancy F. Cott

"A fine historical study of women's
movements in the United States
between 1910 and 1930. Historians and
academic feminists will enjoy Ms. Cott's
detailed, well-written, scrupulously
doctµnented narrative; general readers
can profit from the pertinence of the
story to our own feminism, the socalled 'second wave.'" -Nina Baym,
TheNew York Times Book Review

"An indispensable book for historians
of women, of intellectual history,
and education. This is a highly original work of outstanding scholarly
importance." -Gerda Lerner
"[A] striking collection of letters .... [A]
fascinating volume ... spanning much
of Beard's adult life, from 1912 to 1955."
-Mary Beth Norton, TheNeiv York
Times Book Review
"Beard is revealed as suffragist, reformer,
intellectual, author, and wife who
accepted the greater fame of her
husband .... The library of feminism is
enriched by this book." -Publishers
WeckZv
"Essential for women's studies
collections." -Library Journal
Historian, social reformer, and women's
suffrage campaigner, Mary Ritter Beard
(1876-1958) was one of the most prominent intellectuals of her day. Coauthor

Growing Up in Boston's
Gilded Age
The Journal of Alice Stone BlackJVell,1872-1874
Edited by Marlene Deahl Merrill

"There can be few more beguiling diarists
than Alice." -Margo Miller, The Boston
Globe

with her husband, CharlesA. Beard, of
TheRise of American Civilization and
other renowned works in U.S. history,
she also founded the modern field of
women's history. This collection of her
letters, edited and introduced by Nancy
F. Cott, offers in effect an intellectual
biography-a uniquely vital portrait
that gives Beard the recognition she
is due.
Nancy F. Cott is professor of American
studies and history at Yale University.
1991

380 pp.

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Sarah Grimke: Letters
on the Equality of the Sexes
and Other Essays
Edited with an Introduction
by Elizabeth Ann Bartlett
"A welcome addition to the body of published
primary source material on the nineteenthcentury struggle for woman's rights."-Lori D.
Ginzberg, Journal of American History
1988 192 pp.
(8) ISBN 04n3-6

"Cott's carefully considered synthesis
encourages us to reexamine our assumptions about the connections between the
nineteenth-century women's movement
and modern feminism." -New Directions
for Women
"A landmark in the study of U.S. feminism,
useful as a reference on the women's
movement during the crucial period
1910-1930, and a fascinating book to read
for understanding the roots of the
tensions, goals, and paradoxes of the
contemporary movement." -Feminist
BookstoreNews
"A profoundly important interpretation
crucial for understanding contemporary
feminism."-Joan Scott, Ms.
1987 385pp.
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The Bonds of Womanhood
"Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835
Nancy F. Cott

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The Journal of Esther
Edwards Burr, 1754-1757
Edited by Carol F. Karlsen
and Laurie Crumpacker
"There is nothing quite like this diary available. It
is of great interest not only because of who she
is but also because of its wit and salience and its
myriad insights into Victorianism." -Jane
Hunter
Alice Stone Blackwell, daughter of Lucy Stone
and Henry Blackwell and a famous editor,
suffragist, and social activist in her own right,
began a diary when she was a teenager. Now
edited, annotated, and introduced by Marlene
Deahl Merrill, her two-year journal not only
offers an engaging account of a lively, willful,
intellectually precocious adolescent, but also
provides a historically significant document
about the popular culture, family life, and
reform issues of the Victorian era.
44 illus.
1990 285FP·
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"A rare glimpse of the private world and mindset
of a prominent woman in colonial America."
-Lisa Wilson Waciega, Signs
1984 332pp.
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Lucy Sprague Mitchell
The Making of a Modern Woman
Joyce Antler

"Compelling .... Lucy Sprague Mitchell's
valiant attempt to have a marriage, family, and
career is what makes her modern and
interesting." -Ellen Chesler, The NeJV York
Times Book RevieJV
1987 456 pp.
28 illus.
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"Cott's book is a fine corrective because it sees
virtues in the spheres of activity commonly
thought to be degrading and demeaning: Out of
this came a sense of woman's powers and potential, a genuine sense of sisterhood." -Doris
Grumbach, The NeJV York Times Book RevieJV
1977 237 pp.
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Beyond Separate Spheres
Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism
Rosalind Rosenberg

"A fascinating and even moving picture of our
foremothers in the social sciences."-Arlene
Kaplan Daniels, The Women's Review of Books
1983 312pp.
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American History
Secret Ritual
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and Manhood ~i,-.J
in Victorian America

"These Sad But Glorious
Days"
Dispatchesfrom Europe,1846-1850
Margaret Fuller
Edited by Larry J. Reynolds
and Susan Belasco Smith

Mark C. Carnes

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"Explains an important dimension of
the male experience during an odd if
prolonged moment of recent gender
history." -Peter N. Stearns,Journal
of Ritual Studies

"Fuller's letters arc extraordinarily
good. Not only do they offer perceptive comments on many of the major
figures of the day ... they also show
Fuller's gradual change into a revolutionary .... This complete collection of her letters will be of interest
to scholars of American litcrarurc
and history, women's studies, and
European litcrarurc and history."
-Joel Myerson
Margaret Fuller-journalist, critic,
radical feminist, and political activisttraveled in Europe between 1846 and
1850as a foreign correspondent for the
New-York Tribune. Her letters from
England, France, and Italy, which
began as engaging travel sketches, soon
became moving accounts of the most
widespread revolutionary upheaval
within modem history. These dispatches are now reproduced in their
entirety for the first time.

"Carnes' work shows the true depth of nineteenth-century male sexual anxiety and
hostility toward women. [He] opens new
approaches to the study of gender."
-Donald Yacovone, Journal of American

History

Larry J. Reynolds is professor of
English at Texas A&M University.
Susan Belasco Smith is assistant professor of English at Allegheny College.
Available in November
1991 320 pp.
(44) ISBN 05038-0 $35.00/$28.00

Liberty, A Better Husband

Hannah Arendt

Single Women in America: The Generations of

For Love of the World
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

I780-I840

Lee Virginia Chambers-Schiller

"This gracefully-written book ... explores the
rise of a generation of women who sought
autonomy, self-development, and achievement by remaining single . ... [It] is a fine
book, carefully argued and convincingly presented." -Martha Vicinus, Signs
"Chambers-Schiller has crafted a sensitive and
sophisticated analysis of these women in their
cultural context." -Leila J. Rupp, The Women's
Review of Books
1984 302 pp.
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Partner and I
Molly Dewson, Feminism, and New Deal Politics
Susan Ware

"An important chapter in [the] resurrection of
post-suffrage feminism." -Estelle B. Freedman,
The Women's Review of Books
1987 362 pp.
28 illus.
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Women and Men
on the Overland Trail
John Mack Faragher
1979 295 pp.
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(38) Paper ISBN 02605-6 $14.00/$11.25

"Both a personal and an intellectual biography.
... A lucidly presented work ... [which] represents biography at its best .... It is also quite a
story." -Peter Berger, The New York Times
Book Review
1982 248 pp.
(135)ISBN 03099-1 $17.95/$14.25

Borderland
Origins of the American Suburb, I820-I939
John R. Stilgoe

"In chronicling this great exodus and its impacton culture, women, architecture, and myriad
other aspects of American society-Stilgoe displays wit, scholarship, and insight." -David
Slavic, The Philadelphia Inquirer
1988 368 pp.
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Sugar Creek
Life on the Illinois Prairie
John Mack Faragher

"John Mack Faragher knows and writes about the
real history of the American West: the Indianhating, the racism, and the misogyny, as well as
the egalitarianism, the generosity, and the
democratic ethos." -Michael Merrill, Journal of
American History
1986 302 pp.
illus.
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Mark C. Carnes is associate professor of
history at Barnard College, Columbia
University.
1989 296 pp.
illus.
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(16)Paper ISBN 05146-8 $14.00

Women and the Work
of Benevolence
Morality, Politics, and Class in the NineteenthCentury United States
Lori D. Ginzberg

"A significant addition to the literature on
nineteenth-century women's reform activism
-ambitiously conceived, strongly argued,
well-written, and richly documented."
-Ellen DuBois
"A broad and thought-provoking
M. Boylan

study." -Anne

Yale Historical Publications
1990 242 pp.
(54) ISBN 04704-5 $25.00/$20.00

Confidence Men
and Painted Women
A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America,
I830-I870

Karen Halttunen
"Essential reading for historians, literary
critics, feminists, and cultural commentators."
-Dianne F. Sadoff, American Quarterly
Yale Historical Publications
1983 280 pp.
(56) Paper ISBN 03788-0 $11.95/$9.50

American History
Gender and Higher
Education in the
Progressive Era
Lynn D. Gordon

In the Company
of Educated Women
A History of Women and Higher Education
in America
Barbara Miller Solomon

"[This book] is extremely well-written
throughout, extensively researched, and
adds a great deal to our knowledge of
college women during the Progressive
Era." -Joyce Antler
"Gordon studies the second generation of
women who attended colleges from 1890 to
1920 by thoroughly examining college yearbooks, literary magazines, and underground college newspapers .... By
studying women at both coed and
women's institutions, Gordon provides
important insights that may aid women's
ongoing quest for parity in higher education." -Susan E. Davis, New Directions
for Women
1990
304 pp.
(55) ISBN04550-6

illus.
$29.95/$24.00

Learning Together
A History of Coeducation in American
Public Schools
David Tyack and Elisabeth Hansot
"Original, wonderfully readable, magisterial. It will prove to be an indispensable
guide to the past, present, and future of
coeducation." -Catharine R. Stimpson

"A comprehensive history of women's
higher education in this country, it will
be invaluable to social historians or anyone interested in the education of
women." -Sue Beckwith, New
Directions for Women

The Formation of an American Institution,
r790-r880

34 illus.
1990
248 pp.
(134) ISBN04515-8 $25.00/$20.00

1988
256 pp.
25 illus.
(14) Paper ISBN04814-9 $10.95/$8.75

(124) ISBN04756-8

$29.95/$24.00

"This book on the iconography of the
women's antislavery movement .... is sure
to have a substantive impact on future
scholarship in women's history on several
key subjects: the female antislavery movement, the hegemonic development of
bourgeois gender culture, and the emergence of gender, political, and feminist
consciousness." -Lee Chambers-Schiller

Sunday School

Anne M. Boylan describes Sunday schools and
their place within a national network of evangelical institutions, their complementary relationship to local common schools, and their
connection with the changing history of youth
and women in the nineteenth century.

Copublished with the Russell Sage Foundation
1990
384 pp.
60 illus.

"Yellin has done a stunning job of bringing the antislavery feminists to life. This
is an important contribution to someone's history." -Dorothy Sterling

1985
320 pp.
30 illus.
(no) Paper ISBN03639-6 $14.95/$12.00

"Our most substantial, complete, and sophisticated study of the American Protestant Sunday
school. It immediately will become the standard
treatment of the subject."-Jon Butler

"A very exciting book that should have a
major impact on our thinking about the
history of education in the United States."
-Kathryn Kish Sklar

Antislavery Feminists in American Culture
Jean Fagan Yellin

"An effective synthesis of material on the
history of women's higher education in
this country .... This study raises many of
the important issues regarding women's
education and provides a valuable foundation on which to explore those, and other
issues, further." -June Sochen,Journal of
American History

Anne M. Boylan

"With great sophistication, Tyack and
Hansot weave the literature of educational
history and feminist theory into the first
comprehensive account of the role of gen der in the shaping of American education
since the colonial period." -Michael B.
Katz

Women and Sisters

The Gospel of Gentility
American Women Missionaries in Turn-of-theCentury China
Jane Hunter
"Hunter's interest is ... to explore how the meeting of two cultures affected, and was shaped by,
a female angle ofvision."-Regina Markell
Marantz-Sanchez, Signs
1984
348 pp.
illus.
(65) Paper ISBN04603-0

$16.95/$13.50

Marble Queens
and Captives
Joy S. Kasson
"Combines social history and a sophisticated
variety of gender studies to contextualize
the ideal, marble sculpture of nineteenthcentury America." -Linda Nochlin
"Between 1830 and 1880 a form of American
neoclassic sculpture celebrated the Ideal via
subjects derived from literature, history,
and mythology. Kasson revisits this ...
period and genre to examine the portrayal
of women in the context of social history."
-Choice
1990
320 pp.
(73) ISBN04596-4

illus.
$40.00/$32.00

Women Teachers
on the Frontier
Polly Welts Kaufman

Loosening the Bonds
Mid-Atlantic Farm Women, q50-r850
Joan M. Jensen
1986
288 pp.
illus.
( 66) Paper ISBN04265-5

$14.00/$11.25

"Deserves serious consideration by ... anyone
with an interest in the study of gender, ethnicity, and power in the West." -June Namias,
The Women's Review of Books
1984
296 pp.
31 illus.
(74) Paper ISBN03402-4 $11.95/$9.50

1

British & European History
Catherine the Great

We Will Wait

A Short History
Isabel de Madariaga

Wii,esof FrenchPrisonersof War,
r94r194s

Sarah Fishman

~~

"Writing with great admiration for
Catherine's accomplishments and minimizing, perhaps, the harsh conditions outside
of Court circles, [de Madariaga] carefully
points out areas where other historians disagree with her and gaps in existing scholarship (especially Soviet scholarship). . . . This
is a fine summary of the period."-Library
Journal

"An interesting book on a neglected

subject.While the history of occupied
Francehas been the subjectof lively
historicaldebate in recentyears,very
little attention has been paid to the
particular situation of W'Omell."
-John P. Sweets
Whenthe Germanscapturednearlytwo
millionFrenchsoldiersin 1940, theycreateda groupof some eighthundred
thousandwivesof Frenchprisonersof
war.Drawingon interviewsandcorrespondencewithformerprisoners'wives,
as wellas on archivalandpublished
sources,Fishmanpresentsa strikingpicture of FrenchsocietyduringVichyand
of the plightof the prisonerof war
wives.
Accordingto Fishman,althoughFrench
womengainedthe rightto vote andthe
rightto equalpayfor equalworkafter
the war,thesereformsresultedlessfrom
newattitudestowardwomenthanfrom
In
the rejectionof Vichyconservatism.
the end, warwasnot a sourceoflibcration formostwomenbut a periodof

Behind the Lines
Gender and the Two World Wars
Edited by Margaret Randolph Higonnet,
Jane Jenson, Sonya Michel, and Margaret
Collins Weitz

"A quintessential women's studies book."
-Maurine Weiner Greenwald, Journal of
American History
"This collection explores( s] the power of war to
transform, solidify, and challenge our stereotypical conceptions of masculinity and femininity."
-Christine L. Williams, Gender and Society
1987
320 pp.
illus.
( 61) Paper ISBN 04429-1 $11.95/$9.50

Children With a Star
Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe
Deborah Dwork

~~

"(Dwork] has written detailed accounts of operations to rescue children .... She describes a history of women's rescue work that has been
largely neglected by historians who prefer to
concentrate on the more obviously masculine
heroics of armed resistance." -Anne Roiphe,
Los Angeles Times

Deb6rah Dwork has an appointment in the
Program in Judaic Studies in the Department of
Religious Studies and at the Child Study Center,
Yale University.
1991
400 pp.
(32) ISBN05054-2

38 illus.
$25.00

'-2-~

greatstress,andwhenthe warended
roles,
theytradedwartimeleadership
moreor lesswillingly,for moretraditionaldomesticlife.
Sarah FJShman is assistant professor of
historyat the UniversityofHOUSton.
Availablein November
1991
310 pp.
10 illus.
(41) ISBN04n4·6

$35.00/$28.00

The Family in Italy
~~
from Antiquity to the Present
Edited by David I. Kertzer and Richard P. Saller
In this book, distinguished contributors offer
historical and anthropological perspectives on the
Western family, focusing on family life in Italy
from the Roman Empire to the present. Using
methods that range from symbolic to quantitative analysis, the authors discuss a wide variety of
topics, including matchmaking, marriage,
divorce, inheritance, patterns of household organization, childrearing practices, cultural and legal
meanings of death, sexual mores, celibacy, adoption, and property rights.

David I. Kertzer is William R. Kenan, Jr.,
Professor of Anthropology at Bowdoin College.
Richard P. Saller is professor of history and
classics at the University of Chicago.
Available in October
1991
416 pp.
(76) ISBN05037-2

$40.00/$32.00

Three Medieval Views
ofWomen
La Contenance des Fames, Le Bien des Fames,
Le Blasme des Fames
Translated and edited by Gloria K Fiero,
Wendy Pfeffer, and Mathe Allain

"The editors intelligently outline the position of
women, both in courtly, noble society ... and in
bourgeois circles."-Maurice Keen, The New
York Review of Books
1989
192 pp.
14 illus.
• (39) Cloth ISBN 04441-0 $30.00/$15.00
(40) Paper ISBN04442-9
$10.00/$8.00

In addition to outlining the achievements
of Catherine's thirty-four-year regime, eminent Russian scholar Isabel de Madariaga
disentangles myth from verifiable reality to
provide an authoritative account of the
events of this remarkable woman's life.
Isabel de Madariaga, professor emeritus of
Slavonic Studies at the University of
London, is the author of Russia in the Age
of Catherine the Great.
1990
244 pp.
(31) ISBN04845-9

60 illus.
$25.oq/$20.00

Sophia, Regent of Russia,
1657-1704
Lindsey Hughes
"(Sophia's] success in actively attaining and capably wielding power within the context of a rigidly male-dominated society is a remarkable story.
... Highly recommended." -Library Journal
1990
361 pp.
( 64) ISBN04790-8

illus.
$29.95/$24.00

The Body
and the French Revolution
Sex, Class, and Political Culture
Dorinda Outram

"(Outram] shows how the eighteenth-century
middle class justified its revolutionary control,
order, and dignity and ... excluded women and
the lower classes." -Marianne Elliott, The
Observer
1989
208 pp.
(94) ISBN 04436-4

15 illus.
$30.00/$24.00

British & European History

Reflections on Gender
and Science

Painted Love
Prostitution in French Art of the
~t~
Impressionist Era

Evelyn Fox Keller

Hollis Clayson

"Reflections on Gender and Science is a bril-

liant and sensitive undertaking that does
credit not only to feminist scholarship but,
in the end, to science as well." -Barbara
Ehrenreich, Mother Jones

"This readable and original book is the
only serious study of the visual representation of prostitution during this
period. An excellent and important
work." -Linda Nochlin
Prostitution was widespread in nineteenth-century Paris, and as French
streets filled with prostitutes, French art
and literature of the period paralleled
this development. In this engrossing
book, Hollis Clayson explains why. She
provides the first description and analysis
of French artistic interest in women
prostitutes, examining how the subject
was treated in the art of the r87os and
1880sby such avant-garde painters as
Cezanne, Degas, Manet, and Renoir, as
well as by academic and low-brow
painters who were their contemporaries.
Clayson illuminates not only the
imagery of prostitution-with its contradictory connotations of disgust and fascination-but also issues and problems
relevant to women and men in patriarchal society. She discusses the conspicuous sexual commerce during this era and

"Keller has confronted some of the most
troubles?me-yet ... most central-prob- •
!ems in the philosophy of science, as well as
in feminist studies." -Jill G. Morawski,
Contemporary Psychology
the resulting public panic about the
deterioration of social life and mores.
She describes the system that evolved of
regulating prostitutes and the subsequent rise of clandestine prostitutes who
escaped police regulation and who were
condemned both for blurring social
boundaries and for spreading sexual
licentiousness in their moral and social
superiors.

Hollis Clayson is associate professor of
art history at Northwestern University.
Available in October
1991 232 pp.
63 b/w illus.
+ 31color plates
(22) ISBN 04730-4 $4s.oo

The Rothschild Canticles

E. Sylvia Pankhurst

Art and Mysticism in Flanders and the Rhineland
circa I300
Jeffrey F. Hamburger
~t~

Portrait of a Radical
Patricia W. Romero

"A major contribution to our understanding
not only oflate medieval manuscript illumination but also of female spirituality, the
nature of medieval mysticism, and the muchdiscussed question of the nature of images."
-Caroline Walker Bynum

"A judicious and original work, pioneering in its
investigation of the later decades of Pankhurst's
life. Romero balances sympathy for her subject
with a keen sense of that subject's peculiarities."
-Andrew Rosen, Victorian Studies
1987 352pp.
30 illus.
(98) Cloth ISBN 03691-4 $37.00/$29.so
(99) Paper ISBN 04482-8 $17.95/$14.2s

Jane Ellen Harrison
The Mask and the Self
Sandra J. Peacock
"A penetrating study of one of the first women
intellectuals." -Susan Davis, New Directions for
Women
In the first full-length study of the Canticles-one of the most unusual illuminated manuscripts
of the Middle Ages-Jeffrey F. Hamburger
examines the interaction of image and text in the
devotional experience of the religious women
who formed the primary audience for didactic
and mystical literature in Flanders and the
Rhineland.

Jeffrey F. Hamburger is assistant professor of
art history at Oberlin College.
Published with the assistance of the Getty Grant
Program
Yale Publications in the History of Art
1990 324 pp.
225 b/w + 12 color illus.
(57) ISBN 04308-2 $50.00/$40.00

Philosophy

1988 272 pp.
illus.
(96) ISBN 04128-4 $30.00/$24.00

Jewish High Society
in Old Regime Berlin
Deborah Hertz
24 illus.
1988 320 pp.
(60) ISBN 03775-9 $35.00/$28.00

Hubertine Auclert,
The French Suffragette

"[Keller's] book should quickly establish
itself as a central text in feminist theory."
-Donald N. Mager, Criticism
This ground-breaking work explores the
possibilities of a gender-free science and
the conditions that could make such a possibility a reality.
1986 203 pp.
(75) Paper ISBN 03636-1 $9.95/$8.00

The Structure of Love
Alan Soble
"The point of departure for all future work in the
philosophy oflove. Soble believes in personal
love, and his book gives a sober appraisal of what
we can reasonably expect and not expect of
love."-Russell Vannoy
1990
392 pp.
(109) ISBN 04566-2 $35.00/$28.00

Georg Simmel: On Women,
Sexuality, and Love
Translated and edited, with an Introduction
by Guy Oakes
This book presents four important essays by
Simmel dealing with· love, sexuality, and relations
between men and women. The essays are prefaced by an extensive introduction that places
Simmel's discussion offeminism within his
broader theory of culture.
1984 202 pp.
(106) Paper ISBN 03934-4 $n.oo/$8.7s

Woman, Nature, and Psyche
Patricia Jagentowicz Mills
"Stands alone in its ability to integrate feminist
concerns into the work of critical theory on the
development of psyche and civilization."
-Choice
1987 288 pp.
(88) ISBN 03537-3 $30.00/$24.00

Reclaiming a Conversation
The Ideal of the Educated Woman
Jane Roland Martin
1985 232 pp.
(86) ISBN 03999-9 $10.95/$8.7f

Steven C. Hause
13illus.
1987 290 pp.
(59) ISBN 03845-3 $30.00/$24.00

9

IO

Literature
Down
-,f.i~
From the Mountaintop

The Feminist
Companion to
'f.~
Literature in English

Black Women 1s Novels in the Wake of the
Civil Rights Movement, I966-I989
Melissa Walker

Women Writers from the Middle Ages to
the Present
Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements,
and Isobel Grundy

"How welcome is The Feminist
Companion to Li'terature in English!
... A wonderful addition to any
library." -Caroline G. Heilbrun, The
New Tork Times Book R.e11iew
"From stripper Gypsy Rose Lee to
fourteenth-century recluse Julian of
Norwich, this long-awaited, massive volume features 2,700 biographical entries
of literary figures from Britain to Africa,
North America to New Zealand-from
the Middle Ages to the present."
-Patricia Holt, San Francisco Chronicle

The product of extensive new research
into original sources, this book covers
every type of woman author. In addition
to the biographies, it also includes key
topic entries dealing with important
genres and movements such as autobiography, feminist theory and film criticism, and slave narratives. All entries are
alphabetically arranged, and a separate
list of entry headings and cross-references enables readers to pursue particu lar interests.

"Literally the big feminist university press
book of the season. . .. [A] fabulous
1,200 page biographical dictionary ....
A
great gift." -Feminist BookstoreNews

Virginia Blain is Senior Lecturer in
Victorian and Modern Literature at
Macquarie University, New South
Wales. Patricia Clements is professor of
English and Dean of Arts at the
University of Alberta. Isobel Grundy,
formerly Reader in English at Queen
Mary and Westfield College, London, is
Henry Marshall Tory Professor at the
University of Alberta.

"An indispensable reference source."
-Ms.

1990
1247 pp.
(10) ISBN04854-8

"A most impressive work that can be used
both literally and figuratively as a club to
subdue stubborn sexists."
-Los Angeles Times

Semiotics and Interpretation
Robert Scholes

"[Scholes] is among our best interpreters of
literary theory . ... He provides not only an
argument for semiotics but an informed
criticism of it as well." -Martin Green, The
Literary Review
This authoritative guide offers a series of practical
demonstrations applying semiotic concepts and
terminology to fiction, poetry, drama, film, and
the human body itself. The final chapter,
"Uncoding Mama: The Female Body as a Text,"
examines how literature and language have
shaped and controlled male and female consciousness of the female body.
1982
176 pp.
(102) Cloth ISBN02798-2
(103) Paper ISBN03093-2

$49.95

Grimms' Bad Girls
and Bold Boys
The Moral and Social Vision of the Tales
Ruth B. Bottigheimer

"[Bottigheimer] analyzes [the Tales] with a view
to defining their moral and social vision, and
examines the successive editions to show how the
tales were 'gender-skewed' to fit prevalent
notions of male and female roles and characters."
-Janet Adam Smith, The New York Review of
Books

Grammar and Gender
Dennis Baron

1986
264 pp.
(7) Paper ISBN03883-6

$13.00/$10.50

"A highly nuanced narrative .... [Walker]
mines her subject with appropriate depth
and fresh scholarly perception." - New
Directions for Women
"The political and social resonance that
[Walker] uncovers in these texts yields a
thoughtful and stimulating record of these
women's art and historical consciousness."
-Booklist
"Eloquent, fresh readings of works by
Margaret Walker, Alice Walker, Toni
Morrison, Ntozake Shange, and others."
- The Village Voice
In the years since the climactic passage of
the Civil Rights Act, African-American
women have contemplated the struggle for
racial justice in an outpouring of significant
novels. This eloquent book offers fresh
readings of eighteen of these novels, examining how they relate to the movement, to
the conditions that fostered it, and to its
failure to achieve educational, economic,
and social inequality.
Melissa Walker groups the books according
to their historical settings, beginning with
Margaret Walker's Jubilee (1966), set in the
days of slavery and reconstruction, and ending with Alice Walker's Temple of My
Familiar (1989 ), which takes place in the
present. Discussing all the novels of Toni
Morrison and Alice Walker, as well as
selected works by eight other well-known
black women writers, Walker demonstrates
how the authors' visions of history, ranging
from the mythic to the empirical, related to
the novels' forms, thematic concerns, and
narrative strategies.
Within chapters, she discusses novels in
order of their publication, a structure that
reveals how the civil rights movement and
the still unresolved conflicts over race, class,
and gender have influenced the ways in
which these novelists probe events of the
past, conditions of the present, and possibilities for the future.

$22.50/$18.00
$10.00/$8.00

"Baron reveals the male bias of most linguistic
work, and explores some of the efforts that have
been made to change accepted patterns of usage
to reflect changing perceptions of the place of
women in society." -G. M. Awbery, Modern
Language Review

"A fine book that will make an important
contribution to our understanding of
African-American women's fiction in
relation to contemporary culture and
politics. "-Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

By combining a sociohistorical examination of
Grimms 1 Tales with close scrutiny of the language in which they are told, Bottigheimer
brings new insight into the moral and social
vision of the collection.
1987
232 pp.
(13) ISBN04389-9

$12.00/$9.50

Melissa Walker is fellow and teaching
associate of the Emory Institute of
Women's Studies of Emory University.
1991
248 pp.
(125) ISBN04855-6

$26.00/$20.75

Literature
No Man's Land

No Man's Land

The Place of the Woman Writer in the
Twentieth Century
Volume I: The War of the Words
Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar

The Place of the Woman Writer in the v_'JIV.""
Twentieth Century
<II:,,,i,
Volume 2: Sexchanges
~r,
Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar

"[This book] will set the direction of
feminist criticism for the next generation of students and scholars."
-Walter Kendrick.,TheNew Tork
Times Boolt Rniew
"Two of the most influential historians of
women's literary traditions explore how
writers from the 188os to the 1930s
responded to and helped to shape the
upheaval in gender roles around World
War I." -Feminist Bookstore News
"A provocative work .... We can never,
after Sexchanges, doubt that gender
exerts a key influence on the forms and
themes of literary modernism: and without an understanding of that issue, we
cannot make sense of female literary
modernism." -Elyse Blankley, The
Women's Review of Books
"[An] ambitious description of the
twentieth-century woman writer ...
there arc many sensitive readings in
Sexchanges and much previously
neglected material." -Cynthia Giddle,
New Directions for Women

"Sexchanges provokes the reader into
realizing that the critical revolution of
the last twenty years has made
imperative the re-reading of texts that
were formerly 'understood'." -Linda
Wagner-Martin, American Literature

"Gilbert and Gubar persuasively interweave social history and literature and
incorporate recent ideas of other feminist critics, as well as rafts of citations
from nearly every imaginable source."
-Deborah Price, Belles Lettres
Writers covered in this volume range
from Rider Haggard, Olive Schreiner,
and Kate Chopin to Edith Wharton,
Willa Cather, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia
Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and Caryl Churchill.
Sandra M. Gilbert is professor of
English at the U nivcrsity of California,
Davis. Susan Gubar is professor of
English at Indiana University.
1989
472 pp.
38 illus.
(50) Cloth ISBN04375-9 $35.00/$20.00
(51) Paper ISBN05025-9 $17.9s

Jane Austen
Real and Imagined Worlds
Oliver MacDonagh

In this book, a distinguished historian
explores the novels of Janc Austen,
showing how they illuminate English
history in the quarter century between
1792 and 1817and how, in turn, an
appreciation of this period in history
enriches our reading of the novels.
Oliver MacDonagh paints a picture of
Jane Austen's life and personality and of
the social and political worlds she inhabited during and immediately after the
Napoleonic Wars. Analyzing her letters
as well as her novels, he shows how
Austen's experiences and her reactions
to events were woven into her fiction.
Each chapter combines an examination
ofJane Austen's ideas and conduct in a
particular field with a consideration of
her treatment of the same subject in one
or more of her works. MacDonagh
compares the place of the Anglican
church in her life to the role of the
Church of England in MansfieldPark,
juxtaposes her own family relations to
those of the Elliots, Musgrovcs, and
Crofts in Persuasion, and shows how her
economic vicissitudes are reflected in the
use of money as the moving force in
Sense and Sensibility. In the same way,

"Fast, funny, profound in its theoretical
assertions, and deliciously irreverent in its
asides. Male readers and critics will ignore it
at their own peril." -Joyce Carol Oates
"Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, writing
with intelligence, daring and feeling, have
admirably fulfilled their aims in this book,
which should be welcomed both by
contemporary women readers and by
anyone who has had the experience of
modernism but wondered about its
meanings." -Christine Froula, The New
York Times Book Review
"Gilbert and Gubar stunningly critique both
the Lacanian and traditional Freudian
analysis of women, ably discuss the female
affiliation complex, and draw on fantasy
and science fiction for suggestive ideas
on the 'mother tongue' .... The War
of the Words gives us important work to
debate, discuss, savor, reread." -Maggie
McFadden, BellesLettres
In War of the Words, Gilbert and Gubar
survey the social, literary, and linguistic
conflicts between men and women that
mark modernism, examining the work of
writers from Alfred Lord Tennyson and
Charlotte Bronte to Robert Lowell and
Mary Sarton.
1987
336 pp.
illus.
(48) Cloth ISBN 04005-9
(49) Paper ISBN 04587-5

$30.00/$24.00
$12.95/$10.25

The Madwoman in the Attic
The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century
Literary Imagination
Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
"Imperative reading not only for feminists, but for
any scholar, particularly of the nineteenth
century, who thinks he or she has understood
the great novels of that time." -Carolyn G.
Heilbrun, The Washington Post Book World

-

1979
733 pp.
illus.
(137) Cloth ISBN 02286-7 $47-50/$30.00
(47) Paper ISBN 02596-3 $19.95/$16.00

other chapters tackle the themes of
girlhood and education, marriage and
the contemporary female economy, and
local society. In every case, Austen's real
and imagined worlds richly illuminate
one another, providing new insights for
all readers of her work.
Oliver MacDonagh was until his
retirement professor of history at the
Australian National University,
Canberra.
Available in July
1991
192 pp.
(83) ISBN05084-4

12 illus.
$32.00/$25.50

Mary Austin
Song of a Maverick
Esther Lanigan Stineman
"The topic is significant, the research is splendid,
and the study is informed by the current interests
and theories of American studies and feminism."
-NinaBaym
25 illus.
1989
284 pp.
( rr6) ISBN 04255-8 $25.00/$20.00

Prairie Women
Images in American and Canadian Fiction
Carol Fairbanks
1986
312 pp.
(34) ISBN 03374-5

26 illus.
$30.00/$24.00

II

Literature &
Culture

Literature
Ovid's Heroines

1,oty,,

A Verse Translation of the Heroides
i,1' ~
Daryl Hine
-'2,.CiN
q.,v_e'<
d1V,
The Heroides, written by Ovid some two
thousand years ago, consists of a series of
imaginary letters by legendary females of
antiquity to their hapless lovers or husbands. The verse letters-purportedly
penned by such heroines as Helen, Medea,
Penelope, Dido, and Sappho-are the outpourings of women who have been cruelly
victimized, yet they are written in the witty
and ironic tone for which Ovid is famous.

Camille Paglia has been named
"Hot Critic of I99I)) by Rolling
Stone magazine

Sexual Personae
Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily
Dickinson
Camille Paglia

This collection is now available in a lively
verse translation written by the well-known
poet Daryl Hine. Each of the twenty-one
letters (eighteen by women and three by
their lovers) is preceded by a translator's
note identifying the writer and her lover
and sketching the relevant background.

Crises of Love and Loyalism
Kang-i Sun Chang

"An inventive, original, and delightful book."
-Jonathan Spence
This book by Kang-i Sun Chang is the first in
English to focus on the poetry ofCh'en Tzulung-a Ming hero who died in the resistance
against the Manchu invasion of the 1640s. It is
also the first in any language to establish the relationship expressed in Ch'en's poetry between his
romantic love for the courtesan-poet Liu Shih
and his loyalty to his emperor and his country.
1991 224 pp.
illus.
(19) ISBN 04872-6 $25.00/$20.00

Bears Dancing
in the Northern Air
Christiane Jacox Kyle
Foreword by James Dickey
Bears Dancing in the Northern Air is the winning
volume in the 1990Yale Series of Younger Poets
competition. As James Dickey, distinguished
poet and judge of the competition, has said:
"Ms. Kyle is both imaginative and humanly
believable, and her world of the classroom and of
teaching becomes in her words one of radiant
energy and possibility, though it includes plenty
of disappointment, anxiety, and frustration as
well; which is to say her poetry runs through
many parts of the mortal situation, concentrates
them, and makes a unity of them that is
profoundly moving."

Christiane Jacox Kyle is the program manager
of the Women's Studies Center and a teacher of
English and women's studies at Eastern
Washington University.
1991 72 pp.
(80) Cloth ISBN 05007-0
(81) Paper ISBN 05008-9

Political Ambition

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Who Decides to Run for Congress --'2,.t'
Linda L. Fowler and Robert D. McClure
"A landmark book in the analysis of
political recruitment." -Richard F.
Fenno, Jr.

The cost and complexity of competitive
House races, the recruitment of female
legislators, and the changes in American
politics such as reapportionment, the
redistribution of power away from
Washington, and the transformation of parties and interest groups are among the factors that motivate some people to enter a
House race and discourage others.
1989 264 pp.
(42) Cloth ISBN 04405-4 $27.50/$22.00
(43) Paper ISBN 04901-3 $12.95/$10.25

Affirmative Action and Justice

1991 176 pp.
(62) Cloth ISBN 05093-3 $27.50/$22.00
(63) Paper ISBN 05094-1 $11.00

The Late-Ming Poet
Ch'en Tzu-lung
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Politics & Law

A Philosophical and Constitutional Inquiry
Michel Rosenfeld

"Paglia is provocative and provoking
whether she discusses society or art.
Feminists may find Sexual Personae the
book they most love to hate . ... This is
a remarkable book, at once outrageous
and compelling, fanatical and brilliant.
... One must be awed by [Paglia's] vast
energy, erudition, and wit." -Lillian
Faderman, The Washington Post Book
World

"A critical study of sexuality in Western art
that is also a scorched-earth attack on the
underlying assumptions of liberalism and
feminism." -Terry Teachout, The New
York Times Book Review
"Sexual Personae is an erotic history of
Western literature and visual art; written in
a style both erotic and aggressive....
Surely the time is right for such a book."
-Mark Edmundson, The Nation
1990 732 pp.
47 illus.
(95) ISBN 04396-1 $35.00/$28.00

The Desert Is No Lady
Southwestern Landscapes in Women's Writing
and Art
Edited by Vera Norwood and Janice Monk
"A beautifully crafted book with carefully selected
illustrations from the art, photographs, and
poetry it explores. It reveals the desert of the
Southwest to be no barren wilderness but rather
the inspiration for a flowering of women's art."
-Polly Welts Kaufman, The Women's Review of
Books
"Norwood and Monk have contributed to the
rewriting of the history of ideas about the
American West. The Desert Is No Lady offers a
potent challenge to the tenacious myth of the
Marlboro Man." -Linda Logan, Women's
Studies International Forum
1987 304 pp.
74 illus.
(92) Paper ISBN 04588-3 $19.95/$16.00

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"Rosenfeld carefully identifies and criticizes different philosophical notions of equality, acutely
analyzes the confusing course of Supreme Court
decisions ... and develops an intriguing philosophical defense of affirmative action .... His
work materially strengthens the philosophical
and legal Iiterature on affirmative action."
-Mark Tushnet
"A major work of both interdisciplinary scholarship and substantive constitutional analysis."
-David A. J. Richards
1991
384 pp.
(101)ISBN 04781-9 $30.00/$24.00

Belonging to America

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Equal Citizenship and the Constitution i,1' V,q.,V,
Kenneth L. Karst
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"One of the most astute and sympathetic male
interpreters of feminist writing, [Karst] embraces
as a positive virtue an idea of legal decision that
rests on very broad principles rather than more
precise standards." -R. Kent Greenawalt,
Political Science Quarterly
1989 304 pp.
(71) Cloth ISBN 04322-8 $35.00/$28.00
(72) Paper ISBN 05028-3 $15.95/$12.75

Interpreting the Constitution
The Supreme Court and the Processof
Adjudication
Harry H. Wellington

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"Wellington grapples with many of the issues
that arouse controversy in Congress and in
the streets." -Herbert Mitgang, The New
York Times
Writing in an engaging and accessible manner,
Harry H. Wellington offers fascinating examples
of the Court's activities, in particular showing
how it has addressed one of the most controversial political and judicial issues of our timeabortion.
The Yale Contemporary Law Series
1991 184pp.
(131)ISBN 04881-5 $22.50

Legal, Family & Medical Issues
Divorce Reform
at the Crossroads

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Edited by Stephen D. Sugarman
and Herma Hill Kay
Foreword by Franklin E. Zimring

Sexual Harassment
of Working Women

Birth Power
The Casefor Surrogacy
Carmel Shalev

"This !sa book that will provoke a passionate response from lawyers and feminists-indeed, from anyone concerned
with the social, economic, and legal
aspects of reproduction in our age-and
should be read for that very reason."
-Nancy F. Cott

"A liberal feminist lawyer argues forcibly that
women should have the legal right to sell
their reproduction services (and the obligation to fulfill their contracts)." - The New
York Times Book Review
"A liberal feminist defense of surrogate
motherhood (women's rights to control
our bodies includes the right to bear children for money)." -Kris Hoover, Feminist
Bookstore News
Some twenty years after California passed
the first pure no-fault divorce law in the
United States, some form of no-fault has
been adopted in every state-but the
divorce revolution it launched remains
unfinished. Now prominent authorities in
the field have written a book that appraises
the situation today, explains how we got
where we are, and explores legislative
options for the future.
The book presents considerable evidence
contradicting the view expressed by many
critics that allowing no-fault divorce has
significantly disadvantaged women. At the
same time, it recognizes what many
divorced women, especially those with custody of young children, face bleak financial
problems. The authors discuss persisting
problems of the financial rights and obligations of divorcing couples, child custody,
and the role of stepparents, and they analyze proposals for remedying these problems through legislative action. The book is
not only for policymakers, lawyers, and
social scientists who study the family but
also for anyone concerned about marriage,
divorce, and family life in America in the
1990s.

Stephen D. Sugarman is professor oflaw
at the University of California, Berkeley,
and directs the Program in Family Law of
the Earl Warren Legal Institute. Herma
Hill Kay, the Richard W. Jennings
Professor of Law at the University of
California, Berkeley, was a member of the
commission that proposed no-fault in
California.
illus.
1990
288 pp.
( 120) ISBN04831-9 $28.50/$22.75

The Parental Leave Crisis
Toward a National Policy
Edited by Edward F. Zigler and Meryl Frank
1988
384 pp.
(136) Paper ISBN03996-4

$17.95/$14.25

"Arguing that if women are to overcome the
psychological constraints of patriarchy, they
must be seen as autonomous agents
responsible for their own reproductive decisions, Shalev defends surrogacy contracts
and explores the laws governing reproductive relationships." -Varun Gauri,
Hastings Center Report
Reviewing family and reproductive issues
from ancient times to Baby M., Carmel
Shalev contends that to overcome the psychological constraints of a patriarchal society, women must regard themselves as
responsible for their reproductive decisions.
Carmel Shalev is a lawyer living in
Jerusalem. She has written reports on
artificial reproduction for the World Health
Organization and on civil rights under the
intifada for the West Bank Data Base
Project in Jerusalem.
1989
210 pp.
(104) Cloth ISBN04216-7 $25.00/$20.00
( 105) Paper ISBN05u8-2 $12.00

Pregnancy, Contraception,
and Family Planning Services
in Industrialized Countries
Elise F. Jones et al.
A Study by The Alan Guttmacher Institute
The researchers of this book show that the
United States' high incidence of unintended
pregnancy can be attributed at least partially
to the way in which family planning services
are provided and the lack of readily available
information about contraceptive methods
and services.
28 line drawings
1989
306 pp.
(67) ISBN04474-7 $35.00/$28.00

Teenage Pregnancy
in Industrialized Countries

A Case of Sex Discrimination
Catharine A. MacKinnon
Foreword by Thomas I. Emerson
1979
326 pp.
(84) Cloth ISBN02298-0
(85) Paper ISBN02299-9

$40.00/$32.00
$12.95/$10.25

"Doctors Wanted: No Women
Need Apply"
Sexual Barriers in the Medical Profession, r835-r975
Mary Roth Walsh
1977
326 pp.
(126) Paper ISBN02414-2

$12.95/$10.25

In Her Own Words
Oral Histories of Women Physicians
Edited by Regina Markell Morantz, Cynthia
Stodola Pomerleau, and Carol Hansen Fenichel
1985
304 pp.
(89) Paper ISBN03352-4

$12.95/$10.25

Lying-In
A History of Childbirth in America
F,xpanded Edition
Richard W. Wertz and Dorothy C. Wertz
1989
344 pp.
illus.
(132) Paper ISBN04087-3

$15.95/$12.75

To Do No Harm
DES and the Dilemmas of Modern Medicine
Roberta J. Apfel, M.D., M.P.H.
Susan M. Fisher, M.D.
1984
216 pp.
illus.
• (4) Cloth ISBN03192-0 $25.00/$12.50
(5) Paper ISBN03619-1 $9.95/$8.00

When a Baby Dies
Psychotherapyfor Pregnancy and Newborn Loss
Irving G. Leon
Foreword by Erna Furman
1990
248 pp.
(82) ISBN04575-1

$25.00/$20.00

Changing Images
of the Family
Edited by Virginia Tufte and Barbara Myerhoff
1979
412 pp .
• (123) Paper ISBN02671-4

$15.95/$8.00

The Future of Marriage
Jessie Bernard
1982
402 pp.
• (9) Paper ISBN02853-9

$13.95/$7.00

Blue Collar Marriage
Mirra Komarovsky
1987
416 pp.
• (78) Cloth ISBN03918-2
• (79) Paper ISBN03858-5

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$15.95/$8.00

Elise F. Jones et al.
Sponsored by The Alan Guttmacher Institute
1987
328 pp.
(68) PaperISBN 04325-2

$15.00/$12.00

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Anthropology
Manhood in the Making

Blood Relations

Cultural Concepts of Masculiniry
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David D. Gilmore
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"A well-written, accessible, provocative
study that raises a wide range of challenging issues and covers a rich variety
of ethnographic cases." -Michael
Herzfeld

Menstruation and the Origins of Culture
Chris Knight

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The emergence of symbolic culture is
generally linked with the development
of the hunter-gatherer adaptation based
on a sexual division oflabor. This original and ingenious book presents a new
theory of how this symbolic domain
originated. Integrating perspectives of
evolutionary biology and social anthropology within a Marxist framework,
Chris Knight rejects the common
assumption that human culture was a
modified extension of primate behavior
and argues instead that it was the product of an immense social, sexual, and
political revolution initiated by women.
Culture became established, says
Knight, when evolving human females
began to assert collective control over
their own sexuality, refusing sex to all
males except those who came to them
with provisions. Women usually timed
their ban on sexual relations with their
periods of infertility while they were
menstruating, and to the extent that
their solidarity drew women together,
these periods tended to occur in synchrony. The result was that every month
with the onset of menstruation, sexual
relations were ruptured in a collective,
ritualistic way as the prelude to each

successful hunting expedition. This
ritual act was the means through which
women motivated men not only to hunt
but also to concentrate their energies on
bringing back the meat. Knight shows
how his hypothesis sheds light on the
roots of such cultural traditions as
totemic rituals, incest and menstrual
taboos, blood-sacrifice, and hunters'
atonement rites. Providing detailed
ethnographic documentation, he also
explains how Native American,
Australian Aboriginal, and other
magico-religious myths can be read as
derivations of the same symbolic logic.
Chris Knight is a researcher
and lecturer in social and symbolic
anthropology.
Available in November
1991 448 pp.
(77) ISBN049n-o
'4!-00$36,oo

The House of Si Abd Allah

Woman the Gatherer

The Oral History of a Moroccan Family
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Recorded, translated, and edited
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by Henry Munson, Jr.
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Edited by Frances Dahlberg

"A privileged ... look into the lives of some poor
but resilient Moroccan men and women coping
with poverty, illiteracy, an indifferent bureaucracy, and pervasive corruption." -Amal
Rassam, The New York Times Book Review
"One of the most revealing works of the
baroque-should I write arabesque?-texture
of everyday life I have read in anthropology."
-Vincent Crapanzano, American
Anthropologist
The human stories behind the social and political
tensions in today's Arab world are vividly evoked
here in narrative and comment by two divergent
observers. One is a relatively traditional Muslim
peddler in Tangier; the other is his cousin, a
young Muslim woman now living in America
who articulates the outrage of young Muslim
women who refuse to accept their traditional status in society.

Henry Munson, Jr., is associate professor of
anthropology at the University of Maine.
1984 301pp.
illus.
(90) Cloth ISBN03084-3 $35.00/$2.ll.oo
(91) Paper ISBN05029-1 $14.95/$12.00

"An important addition to the growing body of
material on the roles and contributions of
women to societies of the hunting-gathering past
and present .... Excellent beginning required
reading for a course on the anthropology of
women."- Jane B. Lancaster, Ethnology and
Sociobiology
"A useful modification of the dominant 'man the
hunter' view of early hominid society .... While
the men were away, women sustained the rest of
the community, securing protein from catfish,
termites, snails, gerbils. Not very heroic,
Dahlberg says, 'but what is lost in drama is
gained in diversity and complexity.'" -Wilson
Quarterly
1981 265 pp.
illus.
(28) Cloth ISBN02572-6 $30.00/$24.00
(29) PaperISBN 02989-6 $n.95/$9.50

Baba of Karo
A Woman of the Muslim Hausa
Mary F. Smith
Foreword by Hilda Kuper
Introduction and Notes by M. G. Smith
1981 300 pp.
illus.
• (107) Cloth ISBN02734-6 $35.00/$17.50
• (108) Paper ISBN02741-9 $12.95/$6.50

"The news in this anthropological study is
not that so many societies... have developed rigid codes of masculinity .... Rather,
it is that there are societies-on Tahiti and
in Malaysia, for two-in which men are
encouraged to be passive, to allow women
'easy eroticism,' to eschew sporting competitions because they produce bad feelings."
-The Washington Post Book World
What does it mean to "be a man" in different cultures around the world? In the first
cross-cultural study of manhood as an
achieved status, anthropologist David D.
Gilmore finds that a culturally sanctioned
stress on manliness-on toughness and
aggressiveness, stoicism and sexuality-is
almost universal, deeply ingrained in the
consciousness of hunters and fishermen,
workers and warriors, poets and peasants
who have little else in common.
David D. Gilmore is professor of anthropology at the State University of New York,
Stony Brook.
1990
272 pp.
(52) Cloth ISBN04646-4 $28.00/$22.50
(53) Paper ISBN05076-3 $12.00

Radiance from the Waters
Ideals of Feminine Beauty in Mende Art
Sylvia Ardyn Boone
"A major contribution to our ethnographic
understanding of Mende culture, and to understanding the way concepts of women's bodies
encode cultural messages about gender relations." -E. Francis White, The Women's Review
of Books
Yale Publications in the History of Art, 34
1986 304 pp.
90 illus.
(n) Cloth ISBN03576-4 $40.00/$32.00
(12) Cloth ISBN04861-0 $19.95/$16.00

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Sexual Personae

Psychology & Psychoanalysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Art and Decadence from Nefertiti
to Emily Dickinson
Camille Paglia
page 12

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"These Sad But
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Dispatchesfrom Europe, r846-r850
Margaret Fuller
Edited by Larry J. Reynolds
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We Will Wait
Wives of French Prisoners of War, r940-r945
Sarah Fishman
page 8

Blood Relations
Menstruation and the Origins of Culture
Chris Knight
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American History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7
British & European History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-9
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Literature...................................................

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Politics & Law................................................

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Legal, Family & Medical Issues.......................

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Anthropology.................................................

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Edited by Stephen D. Sugarman
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Foreword by Franklin E. Zimring
page 13
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Birth Power
The Casefor Surrogacy
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Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements,
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Nancy J. Chodorow

The Psychology
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Ongoing Debates

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together a series of essays that trace
the evolution of her thinking about
self, society, and gender from its
early beginnings to its mature
development." -Lillian B. Rubin
"Through her deepening reflections on
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reality of women's lives, Ms. Chodorow
puts both Freud and feminism to the
test." -Stuart Schneiderman, The New
York Times Book Review

"Nancy Chodorow's work has been
of the utmost importance to both
psychoanalysis and feminist theory. A
large readership will be grateful for this
new book documenting her shifting
perspective over the last decade. It
provides a retrospective overview that
will inevitably be of enormous interest
to both her followers and her critics."
-Evelyn Fox Keller
"All readers will profit from reading all
of the articles in historical sequence.
Her own changes reflect some general
trends in feminist and social science
thought." -Miriam M. Johnson,
Contemporary Sociology

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"A welcome addition to the fast-growing
field of the study ofwomen."-Judith
Salle
Yongue, M.D., American Journal of
"A valuable collection of her essays on
feminism and psychoanalytic theory ....
Highly recommended for upper-division
undergraduate, graduate, and professional readers." -Choice
In this series of provocative essays,
Nancy J. Chodorow elucidates how the
unconscious awareness of self and
gender we develop from earliest infancy
continues to shape both our experiences
as men and women and the patterns of
inequality and difference that permeate
our society and culture.

Nancy J. Chodorow is professor of
sociology at the University of
California, Berkeley.

Melanie Klein
and Critical Social Theory

Marci;i Westkott

An Account of Politics, Art, and Reason Based on
Her Psychoanalytic Theory
C. Fred Alford

"A provocative attempt to address current
feminist debates." -Linda M. Blum,
Contemporary Sociology
"Westkott is very knowledgeable about Karen
Hamey's background and theory .... She is
well read in regard to feminist theory." -Farah
Gilanshah, International Social Science Review
Marcia Westkott argues that the central theory
of Karen Hamey's work-the conflict between
dependency and ambition-has a special
relevance for women, who are devalued and
sexualized by both the family and society and
whose attempts to conform to the feminine ideal
are sabotaged by underlying rage.
1986
254 pp.
(133) Paper ISBN04204-3

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Psychotherapy

"[This book] is likely to provide a model for
future generations of books of readings in
psychology."-Margaret W. Matlin, Sex
Roles

A leading scholar in women's studies here
presents some of the current controversies
among those who study the psychology of
women-from "Are women more likely to
be mentally ill?" to "Is pornography
harmful to women?"
1987
504 pp.
illus.
(128) Paper ISBN03966-2 $13.95/$n.2s
( 127) Study Guide ISBN04455-0 $2.95/$2.25

1989
296 pp.
(20) Cloth ISBN04417-8 $30.00/$24.00
(21) Paper ISBN05116-6 $14.00

The Feminist Legacy
of Karen Horney
"As a remarkably deep and prescient thinker,
Horney demands greater recognition today
than she has received. Westkott's thoughtful
explication of Horneyan theory is a strong
first step in that direction." -Robin Lakoff,
Women's Studies International Forum

Bookstore News

"Readers interested in the psychology of
women and gender roles should greet this
[book] with enthusiasm." -Choice

"Regularly consigned to the backwaters of
psychoanalysis, Melanie Klein has never
received the recognition she deserves for the
magnitude of her contributions to the
mainstream of psychoanalytic thought.
Alford's comprehensive study goes far in
redressing this historical injustice."-Jerrold
M. Post, M.D.
In this thoughtful and lucid book, C. Fred
Alford shows how the psychoanalytic theory of
Melanie Klein can be extended to groups and
culture and thus can illuminate issues of social
theory and moral philosophy of the sort
considered by the Frankfurt School. He then
applies this expanded theory to the politics of
large groups, the appeal of works of art, and the
psychological sources of reason.
1989
256 pp.
(1) ISBN04506-9

$28.00/$22.50

Female Adolescence
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Literature
Katherine Dalsimer

"A brilliant and evocative analysis of the
transition from girlhood to womanhood . ...
The depiction is rich with the particularities
of the experiences of adolescent girls, and
provides a welcome contrast to the usual
rendering of this period as a variation on
male development." -Lila Braine
"Dalsimer's book is a success, especially in her
goal to refute earlier psychoanalytic notions that
female adolescents are repulsed by, or attempt
to deny, their emerging sexual urges."
-Elizabeth Stark, Belles Lettres
1986
160 pp.
(30) Paper ISBN04031-8

$9.95/$8.00

1'

Psychology& Psychoanalysis
The Middle Years

Making a Difference

New Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Edited by John M. Oldham, M.D.
and Robert S. Liebert, M.D.

Psychologyand the Construction of
Gender

Edited by Rachel T. Hare-Mustin
and Jeanne Marecek
"[A] reasoned and intellectually sound
critique of the current state of
feminist psychology." -Janet A.
Rodgers, Readings

"In this important new work, Drs. HareMustin and Marecek ask the question,
'How do we know what we know
about gender?' In a series of essays
woven together in a meaningful way,
substantial answers are offered that
challenge the view of positivist/
reductionistic science, as well as recent
thinking in the field offeminist psychology." -Arthur G. Mones, The
Family Psychologist

"These brilliant and provocative essays
step back from the trees-the millions
of studies of sex and gender difference,
non-differences, and meta-differencesand show us instead a way through the
forest: the meanings and inventions of
gender in modern life."
-Carol Tavris, Ph.D.

"[This book is] devoted to what gender
means, how feminist scholarship is
advanced (and impeded), and strategies
for feminist-based inquiry. All of the
authors raise extremely important
questions." -Choice
Drawing on postmodernist skepticism
about what we know and how we
know it, and on recent developments in
the philosophy of science and feminist theory, five leaders in feminist
psychology offer a new perspective on
the meaning of gender, one that is not
determined by the traditional focus on
male-female differences.
1990 160 pp.
(58) ISBN 04715-0 $18.95/$1s.2.s

Porn
M.D.

Code Name "Mary"
Memoirs of an American Woman in the Austrian
Underground
Muriel Gardiner
Foreword by Anna Freud

"A heroic [story] of intrigue and courage."
-Joanna Edgars, Ms.
"Garcliner's memoir gives an informative personal
view of pre-Nazi Austria and the events that led
to the Anschluss." -Library Journal
This book presents the remarkable autobiography of the woman who was the model for
Lillian Hellman's Julia.
1983 198pp.
illus.
(45) Paper ISBN 04033-4 $10.00/$8.00

Edited by Robert J. Sternberg
and Michael L. Barnes

"'2-f~

"Stoller ... brings enlightenment to a
subject usually trivialized by legalistic
jargon and empty moralizing. Porn is an
extraordinary document . ... [It] will
become a standard and starting place
for serious investigations of porn, other
variants of pornography, and other
varieties of erotic experience."
-Louise J. Kaplan, Ph.D.

"An outstanding contribution to the
psychoanalytic exploration of the erotic
and to the exploration of mass culture
from the psychoanalytic perspective."
-Otto F. Kernberg, M.D.
This psychodynamic ethnography of adult
heterosexual pornography draws
provocative conclusions about porn, its
practitioners, and its effects on society.
According to Dr. Robert Stoller,
pornography does not exist only to
degrade women, there is no reliable
evidence that it increases the frequency of
rape, and (with the exception of child
porn) it does little harm. He finds that
pornography reflects, more than influences,
our values and mores.
Robert J. Stoller, M.D., is professor of
psychiatry at the University of California,
Los Angeles, School of Medicine.
Available in Octob~r
1991 256 pp.
(n8) ISBN 05092-5 $30.00

illus.
1989 304 pp.
(93) ISBN 04418-6 $30.00/$2.4.00

The Psychology of Love

Myths for the Twentieth Century

Robert J. Stoller,

In this book, a group of eminent psychoanalysts
cliscuss biological, psychological, and sociological issues relevant to middle age, offering
therapeutic techniques to deal with conflicts
specific to this period. Issues covered include
unconscious fantasies in middle life, the impact
of teenaged children on mothers and fathers,
single women, the middle years of lesbians
and homosexual men, and marital conflict in
middle life.

"[This book] brings together top psychologists'
thinking on love's essence and on how to
develop and sustain intimate relationships."
-Helen Borel, Women's Record
1988 390 pp.
(m) Cloth ISBN 03950-6 $40.00/$32.00
( IIJ) Paper ISBN 04589-1 $17.95/$14.2.5

Competence Considered
Presentations of Gender
Robert J. Stoller, M.D.
"An outstanding contribution to the movement
to explore, expand, and modify the theories
concerning the development of gender
identity."-Robert
S. Grayson, Psychoanalytic
Quarterly
1985 230 pp.
(n9) ISBN 03507-1 $30.00/$2.4.00

Observing
the Erotic Imagination
Robert J. Stoller, M.D.
"Provides a rich and engaging introduction to
Stoller's important explorations of gender
development." -E. Barbara Hariton,
Contemporary Psychology
"A serious contribution to the subject of erotic
behaviour." -Eva Lester, International Review
of Psychoanalysis
1985 229 pp.
(117)ISBN 03424-5 $30.00/$2.4.00

Edited by Robert J. Sternberg
and John Kolligian, Jr.
"Cognitive, clinical, developmental, and social
psychologists will find real treasures in these
chapters, and the study of competence will be
greatly advanced by the compilation of these
writings." -Stephen J. Ceci
"Well-organized, the book moves smoothly from
developmental to social to clinical perspectives."
-Charlotte Ellinwood, Readings
1990 440 pp.
(m) ISBN 04567-0

$35.00/$28.00

The Deadly Innocents
Portraits of Children Who Kill
Muriel Garcliner, M.D.
Preface by Stephen Spender

"Each narrative is a combination of an
emotionally charged experience for the reader
and a superb case study for students and professionals concerned with problems of deviant
human development." -Albert J. Solnit, M.D.
1985 221pp.
(46) Paper ISBN 03306-0 $n.oo/$8.75

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Sociology & Psychology
Spouse, Parent, Worker

Theoretical Perspectives
on Sexual Difference

On Gender and Multiple Roles

Edited by Faye J. Crosby

Edited by Deborah L. Rhode

"An outstanding collection that
promises to become a classic."
-Cynthia Fuchs Epstein
"An excellent volume for students of
feminist theory and practitioners of all
disciplines and at all levels of accomplishment." -Adria E. Schwartz,

Readings
"The best ever written on the issues of
sex, gender, and sex differences....
Although this book addresses current
issues, it will undoubtedly be cited by
researchers and theorists for years to
come." -Choice
No issue has been more central to the
American women's movement than sexual difference. This book offers a
unique study of the nature, origins, and
consequences of sexual difference.
Leading scholars in history, philosophy,
law, literary theory, biology, sociology,
psychology, political science, and
anthropology explore the difference
difference makes.
Several traditions of feminist response
to difference are reflected in this volume. One approach has been to challenge the long-established tendency to
mischaracterize culturally influenced
gender differences as biological or psy-

chological imperatives. Among the
essays that draw on this tradition are
Carl Degler's, John Dupre's, Ruth
Hubbard's, and Herma Hill Kay's
reviews of sociobiology; Nancy
Chodorow's challenges to conventional
psychoanalytic frameworks; and Barrie
Thorne's discussion of sex stereotypes
and situational influences. A second
strand of feminist work has sought to
challenge not the significance of gender
differences but the importance society
has attached to them. Alison Jaggar,
Nel Noddings, Susan Moller Okin, and
Karen Offen review the capacities and
constraints of this approach. A third
strategy attempts to dislodge difference
by challenging its centrality and its
organizing premises, thus recasting the
debate about gender relations. Essays
by Bell Hooks and Julianne Malveaux
on race, Jane Collier and Sylvia
Yanagisako on anthropology, Kay
Deaux and Brenda Major on social psychology, Catharine MacKinnon and
Deborah Rhode on law, and Estelle
Friedman, Marilyn Frye, and Regenia
Gagnier on feminist theory explore the
ideological and policy implications of
this perspective.
1990
384 pp.
(97) ISBN04427-5

Sex, Gender, and the Social Order

Directions for

$10.95/$8.75

A State-Level Analysis
Larry Baron and Murray A. Straus

"Deceptive Distinctions will show

PsychologyToday

"A 'state of the art' look at research on
multiple roles and well-being."-Rena L.
Repetti, Sex Roles

Four Theories of Rape
in American Society

11,e Women,s Review of Books

"A leading sociologist challenges the
powerful-but deceptive-distinctions
society makes between the roles of men
and women."-Beryl LieffBenderley,

"A useful and revealing contribution to our
understanding of the major role that work,
in combination with marriage and parenthood, plays in the satisfaction of adults."
-Linda C. Majka, American Journal of

1987
216 pp.
(27) Paper ISBN04744-4

"Epstein's project is not only timely but
ambitious as well." -Naomi Gerstel,

Sociology

I

Women

"This book will become a classic.
It will be an important source for
classroom use as well as for all
scholarship to come on the topic of
sex segregation." -Rose Laub Cos-er

reader up to date on sex/ gender
research and raises important questions
for the sociology of knowledge."
-Barbara F. Reskin, Contemporary

,

"Breaks new ground."-New

Cynthia Fuchs Epstein

"Deceptive Distinctions brings the general

Women's Review of Books

Sociology
$25.00/$20.00

Deceptive Distinctions

decision-makers who care about
women's empowerment the impact law,
social custom, and ideology have on
perpetuating inequality."-Bella Abzug

"A timely compendium of role theory
applied to the many roles working parents must play."-Alice Cook, The

"This book is required reading by every
gender sociologist." -Janet Saltzman
Chafetz, Social Forces
In this important book, a leading feminist scholar surveys and critiques gender
research in a range of disciplines showing how distinctions between the sexes
are maintained by ideology and social
controls.
Copublished with the Russell Sage
Foundation
1988
304 pp.
(33) PaperTSBN04694-4

$13.95

"A model of careful, dispassionate social research .
. . . The authors have provided a considerable
service. The book promises to bring greater
order and direction to research on rape and is
likely to raise the level of discourse on rape by
imposing a stronger standard of evidence."
-Mark Warr, American Journal of Sociology
1989
232 pp.
(6) ISBN04519-0

illus.
$25.00/$20.00

Edging Women Out
Victorian Novelists, Publishers, and Social
Change
Gaye Tuchman with Nina E. Fortin

"Belongs in the library of anybody interested in
women's study and Victorian cultural history.
... A brilliant piece ofwork."-Lewis A. Coser
1989
288 pp.
illus.
(121) ISBN04316-3 $30.00/$24.00

..

American History
A Woman Making
History

The Grounding
of Modern Feminism

~,~

Nancy F. Cott

Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters
Edited with an Introduction
by Nancy F. Cott

"A fine historical study of women's
movements in the United States
between 1910 and 1930. Historians and
academic feminists will enjoy Ms. Cott's
detailed, well-written, scrupulously
doctµnented narrative; general readers
can profit from the pertinence of the
story to our own feminism, the socalled 'second wave.'" -Nina Baym,
TheNew York Times Book Review

"An indispensable book for historians
of women, of intellectual history,
and education. This is a highly original work of outstanding scholarly
importance." -Gerda Lerner
"[A] striking collection of letters .... [A]
fascinating volume ... spanning much
of Beard's adult life, from 1912 to 1955."
-Mary Beth Norton, TheNeiv York
Times Book Review
"Beard is revealed as suffragist, reformer,
intellectual, author, and wife who
accepted the greater fame of her
husband .... The library of feminism is
enriched by this book." -Publishers
WeckZv
"Essential for women's studies
collections." -Library Journal
Historian, social reformer, and women's
suffrage campaigner, Mary Ritter Beard
(1876-1958) was one of the most prominent intellectuals of her day. Coauthor

Growing Up in Boston's
Gilded Age
The Journal of Alice Stone BlackJVell,1872-1874
Edited by Marlene Deahl Merrill

"There can be few more beguiling diarists
than Alice." -Margo Miller, The Boston
Globe

with her husband, CharlesA. Beard, of
TheRise of American Civilization and
other renowned works in U.S. history,
she also founded the modern field of
women's history. This collection of her
letters, edited and introduced by Nancy
F. Cott, offers in effect an intellectual
biography-a uniquely vital portrait
that gives Beard the recognition she
is due.
Nancy F. Cott is professor of American
studies and history at Yale University.
1991

380 pp.

(26) ISBN 04825-4

$35.00/$:r.8.oo

Sarah Grimke: Letters
on the Equality of the Sexes
and Other Essays
Edited with an Introduction
by Elizabeth Ann Bartlett
"A welcome addition to the body of published
primary source material on the nineteenthcentury struggle for woman's rights."-Lori D.
Ginzberg, Journal of American History
1988 192 pp.
(8) ISBN 04n3-6

"Cott's carefully considered synthesis
encourages us to reexamine our assumptions about the connections between the
nineteenth-century women's movement
and modern feminism." -New Directions
for Women
"A landmark in the study of U.S. feminism,
useful as a reference on the women's
movement during the crucial period
1910-1930, and a fascinating book to read
for understanding the roots of the
tensions, goals, and paradoxes of the
contemporary movement." -Feminist
BookstoreNews
"A profoundly important interpretation
crucial for understanding contemporary
feminism."-Joan Scott, Ms.
1987 385pp.
illus.
(24) Cloth ISBN 03892-5 $38.00/$30.50
(25) Paper ISBN 04228-0 $13.00/$10.50

The Bonds of Womanhood
"Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835
Nancy F. Cott

$25.00/$20.00

The Journal of Esther
Edwards Burr, 1754-1757
Edited by Carol F. Karlsen
and Laurie Crumpacker
"There is nothing quite like this diary available. It
is of great interest not only because of who she
is but also because of its wit and salience and its
myriad insights into Victorianism." -Jane
Hunter
Alice Stone Blackwell, daughter of Lucy Stone
and Henry Blackwell and a famous editor,
suffragist, and social activist in her own right,
began a diary when she was a teenager. Now
edited, annotated, and introduced by Marlene
Deahl Merrill, her two-year journal not only
offers an engaging account of a lively, willful,
intellectually precocious adolescent, but also
provides a historically significant document
about the popular culture, family life, and
reform issues of the Victorian era.
44 illus.
1990 285FP·
(87) ISBN 04777-0 $25.00/$20.00

"A rare glimpse of the private world and mindset
of a prominent woman in colonial America."
-Lisa Wilson Waciega, Signs
1984 332pp.
(69) Cloth ISBN 02900-4 $35.00/$21!.oo
(70) Paper ISBN 03750-3 $13.oo/$u.25

Lucy Sprague Mitchell
The Making of a Modern Woman
Joyce Antler

"Compelling .... Lucy Sprague Mitchell's
valiant attempt to have a marriage, family, and
career is what makes her modern and
interesting." -Ellen Chesler, The NeJV York
Times Book RevieJV
1987 456 pp.
28 illus.
• (2) Cloth ISBN 03665-5 $45.00/$22.50
(3) Paper ISBN 04176-4 $16.95/$13.50

"Cott's book is a fine corrective because it sees
virtues in the spheres of activity commonly
thought to be degrading and demeaning: Out of
this came a sense of woman's powers and potential, a genuine sense of sisterhood." -Doris
Grumbach, The NeJV York Times Book RevieJV
1977 237 pp.
(23) Paper ISBN 02289-1 $u.oo/$8.75

Beyond Separate Spheres
Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism
Rosalind Rosenberg

"A fascinating and even moving picture of our
foremothers in the social sciences."-Arlene
Kaplan Daniels, The Women's Review of Books
1983 312pp.
illus.
(100) Paper ISBN 03092-4 $12.95/$10.25
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American History
Secret Ritual
\~v_<JvV-i"
and Manhood ~i,-.J
in Victorian America

"These Sad But Glorious
Days"
Dispatchesfrom Europe,1846-1850
Margaret Fuller
Edited by Larry J. Reynolds
and Susan Belasco Smith

Mark C. Carnes

~~

"Explains an important dimension of
the male experience during an odd if
prolonged moment of recent gender
history." -Peter N. Stearns,Journal
of Ritual Studies

"Fuller's letters arc extraordinarily
good. Not only do they offer perceptive comments on many of the major
figures of the day ... they also show
Fuller's gradual change into a revolutionary .... This complete collection of her letters will be of interest
to scholars of American litcrarurc
and history, women's studies, and
European litcrarurc and history."
-Joel Myerson
Margaret Fuller-journalist, critic,
radical feminist, and political activisttraveled in Europe between 1846 and
1850as a foreign correspondent for the
New-York Tribune. Her letters from
England, France, and Italy, which
began as engaging travel sketches, soon
became moving accounts of the most
widespread revolutionary upheaval
within modem history. These dispatches are now reproduced in their
entirety for the first time.

"Carnes' work shows the true depth of nineteenth-century male sexual anxiety and
hostility toward women. [He] opens new
approaches to the study of gender."
-Donald Yacovone, Journal of American

History

Larry J. Reynolds is professor of
English at Texas A&M University.
Susan Belasco Smith is assistant professor of English at Allegheny College.
Available in November
1991 320 pp.
(44) ISBN 05038-0 $35.00/$28.00

Liberty, A Better Husband

Hannah Arendt

Single Women in America: The Generations of

For Love of the World
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

I780-I840

Lee Virginia Chambers-Schiller

"This gracefully-written book ... explores the
rise of a generation of women who sought
autonomy, self-development, and achievement by remaining single . ... [It] is a fine
book, carefully argued and convincingly presented." -Martha Vicinus, Signs
"Chambers-Schiller has crafted a sensitive and
sophisticated analysis of these women in their
cultural context." -Leila J. Rupp, The Women's
Review of Books
1984 302 pp.
• (17) Cloth ISBN 03164-5 $35.00/$17.50
(18) Paper ISBN 03922-0 $14.00/$11.25

Partner and I
Molly Dewson, Feminism, and New Deal Politics
Susan Ware

"An important chapter in [the] resurrection of
post-suffrage feminism." -Estelle B. Freedman,
The Women's Review of Books
1987 362 pp.
28 illus.
(129) Cloth ISBN 03820-8 $35.00/$28.00
(130) Paper ISBN 04621-9 $16.95/$13.50

Women and Men
on the Overland Trail
John Mack Faragher
1979 295 pp.
(37) Cloth ISBN 02267-0 $35.00/$28.00
(38) Paper ISBN 02605-6 $14.00/$11.25

"Both a personal and an intellectual biography.
... A lucidly presented work ... [which] represents biography at its best .... It is also quite a
story." -Peter Berger, The New York Times
Book Review
1982 248 pp.
(135)ISBN 03099-1 $17.95/$14.25

Borderland
Origins of the American Suburb, I820-I939
John R. Stilgoe

"In chronicling this great exodus and its impacton culture, women, architecture, and myriad
other aspects of American society-Stilgoe displays wit, scholarship, and insight." -David
Slavic, The Philadelphia Inquirer
1988 368 pp.
198illus.
(u4) Cloth ISBN 04257-4 $37.50/$30.00
(u5) Paper ISBN 04866-1 $18.95/$15.25

Sugar Creek
Life on the Illinois Prairie
John Mack Faragher

"John Mack Faragher knows and writes about the
real history of the American West: the Indianhating, the racism, and the misogyny, as well as
the egalitarianism, the generosity, and the
democratic ethos." -Michael Merrill, Journal of
American History
1986 302 pp.
illus.
• (35) Cloth ISBN 03545-4 $30.00/$15.00
(36) Paper ISBN 04263-9 $14.00/$11.25

Mark C. Carnes is associate professor of
history at Barnard College, Columbia
University.
1989 296 pp.
illus.
(15) Cloth ISBN 04424-0 $30.00/$24.00
(16)Paper ISBN 05146-8 $14.00

Women and the Work
of Benevolence
Morality, Politics, and Class in the NineteenthCentury United States
Lori D. Ginzberg

"A significant addition to the literature on
nineteenth-century women's reform activism
-ambitiously conceived, strongly argued,
well-written, and richly documented."
-Ellen DuBois
"A broad and thought-provoking
M. Boylan

study." -Anne

Yale Historical Publications
1990 242 pp.
(54) ISBN 04704-5 $25.00/$20.00

Confidence Men
and Painted Women
A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America,
I830-I870

Karen Halttunen
"Essential reading for historians, literary
critics, feminists, and cultural commentators."
-Dianne F. Sadoff, American Quarterly
Yale Historical Publications
1983 280 pp.
(56) Paper ISBN 03788-0 $11.95/$9.50

American History
Gender and Higher
Education in the
Progressive Era
Lynn D. Gordon

In the Company
of Educated Women
A History of Women and Higher Education
in America
Barbara Miller Solomon

"[This book] is extremely well-written
throughout, extensively researched, and
adds a great deal to our knowledge of
college women during the Progressive
Era." -Joyce Antler
"Gordon studies the second generation of
women who attended colleges from 1890 to
1920 by thoroughly examining college yearbooks, literary magazines, and underground college newspapers .... By
studying women at both coed and
women's institutions, Gordon provides
important insights that may aid women's
ongoing quest for parity in higher education." -Susan E. Davis, New Directions
for Women
1990
304 pp.
(55) ISBN04550-6

illus.
$29.95/$24.00

Learning Together
A History of Coeducation in American
Public Schools
David Tyack and Elisabeth Hansot
"Original, wonderfully readable, magisterial. It will prove to be an indispensable
guide to the past, present, and future of
coeducation." -Catharine R. Stimpson

"A comprehensive history of women's
higher education in this country, it will
be invaluable to social historians or anyone interested in the education of
women." -Sue Beckwith, New
Directions for Women

The Formation of an American Institution,
r790-r880

34 illus.
1990
248 pp.
(134) ISBN04515-8 $25.00/$20.00

1988
256 pp.
25 illus.
(14) Paper ISBN04814-9 $10.95/$8.75

(124) ISBN04756-8

$29.95/$24.00

"This book on the iconography of the
women's antislavery movement .... is sure
to have a substantive impact on future
scholarship in women's history on several
key subjects: the female antislavery movement, the hegemonic development of
bourgeois gender culture, and the emergence of gender, political, and feminist
consciousness." -Lee Chambers-Schiller

Sunday School

Anne M. Boylan describes Sunday schools and
their place within a national network of evangelical institutions, their complementary relationship to local common schools, and their
connection with the changing history of youth
and women in the nineteenth century.

Copublished with the Russell Sage Foundation
1990
384 pp.
60 illus.

"Yellin has done a stunning job of bringing the antislavery feminists to life. This
is an important contribution to someone's history." -Dorothy Sterling

1985
320 pp.
30 illus.
(no) Paper ISBN03639-6 $14.95/$12.00

"Our most substantial, complete, and sophisticated study of the American Protestant Sunday
school. It immediately will become the standard
treatment of the subject."-Jon Butler

"A very exciting book that should have a
major impact on our thinking about the
history of education in the United States."
-Kathryn Kish Sklar

Antislavery Feminists in American Culture
Jean Fagan Yellin

"An effective synthesis of material on the
history of women's higher education in
this country .... This study raises many of
the important issues regarding women's
education and provides a valuable foundation on which to explore those, and other
issues, further." -June Sochen,Journal of
American History

Anne M. Boylan

"With great sophistication, Tyack and
Hansot weave the literature of educational
history and feminist theory into the first
comprehensive account of the role of gen der in the shaping of American education
since the colonial period." -Michael B.
Katz

Women and Sisters

The Gospel of Gentility
American Women Missionaries in Turn-of-theCentury China
Jane Hunter
"Hunter's interest is ... to explore how the meeting of two cultures affected, and was shaped by,
a female angle ofvision."-Regina Markell
Marantz-Sanchez, Signs
1984
348 pp.
illus.
(65) Paper ISBN04603-0

$16.95/$13.50

Marble Queens
and Captives
Joy S. Kasson
"Combines social history and a sophisticated
variety of gender studies to contextualize
the ideal, marble sculpture of nineteenthcentury America." -Linda Nochlin
"Between 1830 and 1880 a form of American
neoclassic sculpture celebrated the Ideal via
subjects derived from literature, history,
and mythology. Kasson revisits this ...
period and genre to examine the portrayal
of women in the context of social history."
-Choice
1990
320 pp.
(73) ISBN04596-4

illus.
$40.00/$32.00

Women Teachers
on the Frontier
Polly Welts Kaufman

Loosening the Bonds
Mid-Atlantic Farm Women, q50-r850
Joan M. Jensen
1986
288 pp.
illus.
( 66) Paper ISBN04265-5

$14.00/$11.25

"Deserves serious consideration by ... anyone
with an interest in the study of gender, ethnicity, and power in the West." -June Namias,
The Women's Review of Books
1984
296 pp.
31 illus.
(74) Paper ISBN03402-4 $11.95/$9.50

1

British & European History
Catherine the Great

We Will Wait

A Short History
Isabel de Madariaga

Wii,esof FrenchPrisonersof War,
r94r194s

Sarah Fishman

~~

"Writing with great admiration for
Catherine's accomplishments and minimizing, perhaps, the harsh conditions outside
of Court circles, [de Madariaga] carefully
points out areas where other historians disagree with her and gaps in existing scholarship (especially Soviet scholarship). . . . This
is a fine summary of the period."-Library
Journal

"An interesting book on a neglected

subject.While the history of occupied
Francehas been the subjectof lively
historicaldebate in recentyears,very
little attention has been paid to the
particular situation of W'Omell."
-John P. Sweets
Whenthe Germanscapturednearlytwo
millionFrenchsoldiersin 1940, theycreateda groupof some eighthundred
thousandwivesof Frenchprisonersof
war.Drawingon interviewsandcorrespondencewithformerprisoners'wives,
as wellas on archivalandpublished
sources,Fishmanpresentsa strikingpicture of FrenchsocietyduringVichyand
of the plightof the prisonerof war
wives.
Accordingto Fishman,althoughFrench
womengainedthe rightto vote andthe
rightto equalpayfor equalworkafter
the war,thesereformsresultedlessfrom
newattitudestowardwomenthanfrom
In
the rejectionof Vichyconservatism.
the end, warwasnot a sourceoflibcration formostwomenbut a periodof

Behind the Lines
Gender and the Two World Wars
Edited by Margaret Randolph Higonnet,
Jane Jenson, Sonya Michel, and Margaret
Collins Weitz

"A quintessential women's studies book."
-Maurine Weiner Greenwald, Journal of
American History
"This collection explores( s] the power of war to
transform, solidify, and challenge our stereotypical conceptions of masculinity and femininity."
-Christine L. Williams, Gender and Society
1987
320 pp.
illus.
( 61) Paper ISBN 04429-1 $11.95/$9.50

Children With a Star
Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe
Deborah Dwork

~~

"(Dwork] has written detailed accounts of operations to rescue children .... She describes a history of women's rescue work that has been
largely neglected by historians who prefer to
concentrate on the more obviously masculine
heroics of armed resistance." -Anne Roiphe,
Los Angeles Times

Deb6rah Dwork has an appointment in the
Program in Judaic Studies in the Department of
Religious Studies and at the Child Study Center,
Yale University.
1991
400 pp.
(32) ISBN05054-2

38 illus.
$25.00

'-2-~

greatstress,andwhenthe warended
roles,
theytradedwartimeleadership
moreor lesswillingly,for moretraditionaldomesticlife.
Sarah FJShman is assistant professor of
historyat the UniversityofHOUSton.
Availablein November
1991
310 pp.
10 illus.
(41) ISBN04n4·6

$35.00/$28.00

The Family in Italy
~~
from Antiquity to the Present
Edited by David I. Kertzer and Richard P. Saller
In this book, distinguished contributors offer
historical and anthropological perspectives on the
Western family, focusing on family life in Italy
from the Roman Empire to the present. Using
methods that range from symbolic to quantitative analysis, the authors discuss a wide variety of
topics, including matchmaking, marriage,
divorce, inheritance, patterns of household organization, childrearing practices, cultural and legal
meanings of death, sexual mores, celibacy, adoption, and property rights.

David I. Kertzer is William R. Kenan, Jr.,
Professor of Anthropology at Bowdoin College.
Richard P. Saller is professor of history and
classics at the University of Chicago.
Available in October
1991
416 pp.
(76) ISBN05037-2

$40.00/$32.00

Three Medieval Views
ofWomen
La Contenance des Fames, Le Bien des Fames,
Le Blasme des Fames
Translated and edited by Gloria K Fiero,
Wendy Pfeffer, and Mathe Allain

"The editors intelligently outline the position of
women, both in courtly, noble society ... and in
bourgeois circles."-Maurice Keen, The New
York Review of Books
1989
192 pp.
14 illus.
• (39) Cloth ISBN 04441-0 $30.00/$15.00
(40) Paper ISBN04442-9
$10.00/$8.00

In addition to outlining the achievements
of Catherine's thirty-four-year regime, eminent Russian scholar Isabel de Madariaga
disentangles myth from verifiable reality to
provide an authoritative account of the
events of this remarkable woman's life.
Isabel de Madariaga, professor emeritus of
Slavonic Studies at the University of
London, is the author of Russia in the Age
of Catherine the Great.
1990
244 pp.
(31) ISBN04845-9

60 illus.
$25.oq/$20.00

Sophia, Regent of Russia,
1657-1704
Lindsey Hughes
"(Sophia's] success in actively attaining and capably wielding power within the context of a rigidly male-dominated society is a remarkable story.
... Highly recommended." -Library Journal
1990
361 pp.
( 64) ISBN04790-8

illus.
$29.95/$24.00

The Body
and the French Revolution
Sex, Class, and Political Culture
Dorinda Outram

"(Outram] shows how the eighteenth-century
middle class justified its revolutionary control,
order, and dignity and ... excluded women and
the lower classes." -Marianne Elliott, The
Observer
1989
208 pp.
(94) ISBN 04436-4

15 illus.
$30.00/$24.00

British & European History

Reflections on Gender
and Science

Painted Love
Prostitution in French Art of the
~t~
Impressionist Era

Evelyn Fox Keller

Hollis Clayson

"Reflections on Gender and Science is a bril-

liant and sensitive undertaking that does
credit not only to feminist scholarship but,
in the end, to science as well." -Barbara
Ehrenreich, Mother Jones

"This readable and original book is the
only serious study of the visual representation of prostitution during this
period. An excellent and important
work." -Linda Nochlin
Prostitution was widespread in nineteenth-century Paris, and as French
streets filled with prostitutes, French art
and literature of the period paralleled
this development. In this engrossing
book, Hollis Clayson explains why. She
provides the first description and analysis
of French artistic interest in women
prostitutes, examining how the subject
was treated in the art of the r87os and
1880sby such avant-garde painters as
Cezanne, Degas, Manet, and Renoir, as
well as by academic and low-brow
painters who were their contemporaries.
Clayson illuminates not only the
imagery of prostitution-with its contradictory connotations of disgust and fascination-but also issues and problems
relevant to women and men in patriarchal society. She discusses the conspicuous sexual commerce during this era and

"Keller has confronted some of the most
troubles?me-yet ... most central-prob- •
!ems in the philosophy of science, as well as
in feminist studies." -Jill G. Morawski,
Contemporary Psychology
the resulting public panic about the
deterioration of social life and mores.
She describes the system that evolved of
regulating prostitutes and the subsequent rise of clandestine prostitutes who
escaped police regulation and who were
condemned both for blurring social
boundaries and for spreading sexual
licentiousness in their moral and social
superiors.

Hollis Clayson is associate professor of
art history at Northwestern University.
Available in October
1991 232 pp.
63 b/w illus.
+ 31color plates
(22) ISBN 04730-4 $4s.oo

The Rothschild Canticles

E. Sylvia Pankhurst

Art and Mysticism in Flanders and the Rhineland
circa I300
Jeffrey F. Hamburger
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Portrait of a Radical
Patricia W. Romero

"A major contribution to our understanding
not only oflate medieval manuscript illumination but also of female spirituality, the
nature of medieval mysticism, and the muchdiscussed question of the nature of images."
-Caroline Walker Bynum

"A judicious and original work, pioneering in its
investigation of the later decades of Pankhurst's
life. Romero balances sympathy for her subject
with a keen sense of that subject's peculiarities."
-Andrew Rosen, Victorian Studies
1987 352pp.
30 illus.
(98) Cloth ISBN 03691-4 $37.00/$29.so
(99) Paper ISBN 04482-8 $17.95/$14.2s

Jane Ellen Harrison
The Mask and the Self
Sandra J. Peacock
"A penetrating study of one of the first women
intellectuals." -Susan Davis, New Directions for
Women
In the first full-length study of the Canticles-one of the most unusual illuminated manuscripts
of the Middle Ages-Jeffrey F. Hamburger
examines the interaction of image and text in the
devotional experience of the religious women
who formed the primary audience for didactic
and mystical literature in Flanders and the
Rhineland.

Jeffrey F. Hamburger is assistant professor of
art history at Oberlin College.
Published with the assistance of the Getty Grant
Program
Yale Publications in the History of Art
1990 324 pp.
225 b/w + 12 color illus.
(57) ISBN 04308-2 $50.00/$40.00

Philosophy

1988 272 pp.
illus.
(96) ISBN 04128-4 $30.00/$24.00

Jewish High Society
in Old Regime Berlin
Deborah Hertz
24 illus.
1988 320 pp.
(60) ISBN 03775-9 $35.00/$28.00

Hubertine Auclert,
The French Suffragette

"[Keller's] book should quickly establish
itself as a central text in feminist theory."
-Donald N. Mager, Criticism
This ground-breaking work explores the
possibilities of a gender-free science and
the conditions that could make such a possibility a reality.
1986 203 pp.
(75) Paper ISBN 03636-1 $9.95/$8.00

The Structure of Love
Alan Soble
"The point of departure for all future work in the
philosophy oflove. Soble believes in personal
love, and his book gives a sober appraisal of what
we can reasonably expect and not expect of
love."-Russell Vannoy
1990
392 pp.
(109) ISBN 04566-2 $35.00/$28.00

Georg Simmel: On Women,
Sexuality, and Love
Translated and edited, with an Introduction
by Guy Oakes
This book presents four important essays by
Simmel dealing with· love, sexuality, and relations
between men and women. The essays are prefaced by an extensive introduction that places
Simmel's discussion offeminism within his
broader theory of culture.
1984 202 pp.
(106) Paper ISBN 03934-4 $n.oo/$8.7s

Woman, Nature, and Psyche
Patricia Jagentowicz Mills
"Stands alone in its ability to integrate feminist
concerns into the work of critical theory on the
development of psyche and civilization."
-Choice
1987 288 pp.
(88) ISBN 03537-3 $30.00/$24.00

Reclaiming a Conversation
The Ideal of the Educated Woman
Jane Roland Martin
1985 232 pp.
(86) ISBN 03999-9 $10.95/$8.7f

Steven C. Hause
13illus.
1987 290 pp.
(59) ISBN 03845-3 $30.00/$24.00

9

IO

Literature
Down
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From the Mountaintop

The Feminist
Companion to
'f.~
Literature in English

Black Women 1s Novels in the Wake of the
Civil Rights Movement, I966-I989
Melissa Walker

Women Writers from the Middle Ages to
the Present
Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements,
and Isobel Grundy

"How welcome is The Feminist
Companion to Li'terature in English!
... A wonderful addition to any
library." -Caroline G. Heilbrun, The
New Tork Times Book R.e11iew
"From stripper Gypsy Rose Lee to
fourteenth-century recluse Julian of
Norwich, this long-awaited, massive volume features 2,700 biographical entries
of literary figures from Britain to Africa,
North America to New Zealand-from
the Middle Ages to the present."
-Patricia Holt, San Francisco Chronicle

The product of extensive new research
into original sources, this book covers
every type of woman author. In addition
to the biographies, it also includes key
topic entries dealing with important
genres and movements such as autobiography, feminist theory and film criticism, and slave narratives. All entries are
alphabetically arranged, and a separate
list of entry headings and cross-references enables readers to pursue particu lar interests.

"Literally the big feminist university press
book of the season. . .. [A] fabulous
1,200 page biographical dictionary ....
A
great gift." -Feminist BookstoreNews

Virginia Blain is Senior Lecturer in
Victorian and Modern Literature at
Macquarie University, New South
Wales. Patricia Clements is professor of
English and Dean of Arts at the
University of Alberta. Isobel Grundy,
formerly Reader in English at Queen
Mary and Westfield College, London, is
Henry Marshall Tory Professor at the
University of Alberta.

"An indispensable reference source."
-Ms.

1990
1247 pp.
(10) ISBN04854-8

"A most impressive work that can be used
both literally and figuratively as a club to
subdue stubborn sexists."
-Los Angeles Times

Semiotics and Interpretation
Robert Scholes

"[Scholes] is among our best interpreters of
literary theory . ... He provides not only an
argument for semiotics but an informed
criticism of it as well." -Martin Green, The
Literary Review
This authoritative guide offers a series of practical
demonstrations applying semiotic concepts and
terminology to fiction, poetry, drama, film, and
the human body itself. The final chapter,
"Uncoding Mama: The Female Body as a Text,"
examines how literature and language have
shaped and controlled male and female consciousness of the female body.
1982
176 pp.
(102) Cloth ISBN02798-2
(103) Paper ISBN03093-2

$49.95

Grimms' Bad Girls
and Bold Boys
The Moral and Social Vision of the Tales
Ruth B. Bottigheimer

"[Bottigheimer] analyzes [the Tales] with a view
to defining their moral and social vision, and
examines the successive editions to show how the
tales were 'gender-skewed' to fit prevalent
notions of male and female roles and characters."
-Janet Adam Smith, The New York Review of
Books

Grammar and Gender
Dennis Baron

1986
264 pp.
(7) Paper ISBN03883-6

$13.00/$10.50

"A highly nuanced narrative .... [Walker]
mines her subject with appropriate depth
and fresh scholarly perception." - New
Directions for Women
"The political and social resonance that
[Walker] uncovers in these texts yields a
thoughtful and stimulating record of these
women's art and historical consciousness."
-Booklist
"Eloquent, fresh readings of works by
Margaret Walker, Alice Walker, Toni
Morrison, Ntozake Shange, and others."
- The Village Voice
In the years since the climactic passage of
the Civil Rights Act, African-American
women have contemplated the struggle for
racial justice in an outpouring of significant
novels. This eloquent book offers fresh
readings of eighteen of these novels, examining how they relate to the movement, to
the conditions that fostered it, and to its
failure to achieve educational, economic,
and social inequality.
Melissa Walker groups the books according
to their historical settings, beginning with
Margaret Walker's Jubilee (1966), set in the
days of slavery and reconstruction, and ending with Alice Walker's Temple of My
Familiar (1989 ), which takes place in the
present. Discussing all the novels of Toni
Morrison and Alice Walker, as well as
selected works by eight other well-known
black women writers, Walker demonstrates
how the authors' visions of history, ranging
from the mythic to the empirical, related to
the novels' forms, thematic concerns, and
narrative strategies.
Within chapters, she discusses novels in
order of their publication, a structure that
reveals how the civil rights movement and
the still unresolved conflicts over race, class,
and gender have influenced the ways in
which these novelists probe events of the
past, conditions of the present, and possibilities for the future.

$22.50/$18.00
$10.00/$8.00

"Baron reveals the male bias of most linguistic
work, and explores some of the efforts that have
been made to change accepted patterns of usage
to reflect changing perceptions of the place of
women in society." -G. M. Awbery, Modern
Language Review

"A fine book that will make an important
contribution to our understanding of
African-American women's fiction in
relation to contemporary culture and
politics. "-Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

By combining a sociohistorical examination of
Grimms 1 Tales with close scrutiny of the language in which they are told, Bottigheimer
brings new insight into the moral and social
vision of the collection.
1987
232 pp.
(13) ISBN04389-9

$12.00/$9.50

Melissa Walker is fellow and teaching
associate of the Emory Institute of
Women's Studies of Emory University.
1991
248 pp.
(125) ISBN04855-6

$26.00/$20.75

Literature
No Man's Land

No Man's Land

The Place of the Woman Writer in the
Twentieth Century
Volume I: The War of the Words
Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar

The Place of the Woman Writer in the v_'JIV.""
Twentieth Century
<II:,,,i,
Volume 2: Sexchanges
~r,
Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar

"[This book] will set the direction of
feminist criticism for the next generation of students and scholars."
-Walter Kendrick.,TheNew Tork
Times Boolt Rniew
"Two of the most influential historians of
women's literary traditions explore how
writers from the 188os to the 1930s
responded to and helped to shape the
upheaval in gender roles around World
War I." -Feminist Bookstore News
"A provocative work .... We can never,
after Sexchanges, doubt that gender
exerts a key influence on the forms and
themes of literary modernism: and without an understanding of that issue, we
cannot make sense of female literary
modernism." -Elyse Blankley, The
Women's Review of Books
"[An] ambitious description of the
twentieth-century woman writer ...
there arc many sensitive readings in
Sexchanges and much previously
neglected material." -Cynthia Giddle,
New Directions for Women

"Sexchanges provokes the reader into
realizing that the critical revolution of
the last twenty years has made
imperative the re-reading of texts that
were formerly 'understood'." -Linda
Wagner-Martin, American Literature

"Gilbert and Gubar persuasively interweave social history and literature and
incorporate recent ideas of other feminist critics, as well as rafts of citations
from nearly every imaginable source."
-Deborah Price, Belles Lettres
Writers covered in this volume range
from Rider Haggard, Olive Schreiner,
and Kate Chopin to Edith Wharton,
Willa Cather, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia
Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and Caryl Churchill.
Sandra M. Gilbert is professor of
English at the U nivcrsity of California,
Davis. Susan Gubar is professor of
English at Indiana University.
1989
472 pp.
38 illus.
(50) Cloth ISBN04375-9 $35.00/$20.00
(51) Paper ISBN05025-9 $17.9s

Jane Austen
Real and Imagined Worlds
Oliver MacDonagh

In this book, a distinguished historian
explores the novels of Janc Austen,
showing how they illuminate English
history in the quarter century between
1792 and 1817and how, in turn, an
appreciation of this period in history
enriches our reading of the novels.
Oliver MacDonagh paints a picture of
Jane Austen's life and personality and of
the social and political worlds she inhabited during and immediately after the
Napoleonic Wars. Analyzing her letters
as well as her novels, he shows how
Austen's experiences and her reactions
to events were woven into her fiction.
Each chapter combines an examination
ofJane Austen's ideas and conduct in a
particular field with a consideration of
her treatment of the same subject in one
or more of her works. MacDonagh
compares the place of the Anglican
church in her life to the role of the
Church of England in MansfieldPark,
juxtaposes her own family relations to
those of the Elliots, Musgrovcs, and
Crofts in Persuasion, and shows how her
economic vicissitudes are reflected in the
use of money as the moving force in
Sense and Sensibility. In the same way,

"Fast, funny, profound in its theoretical
assertions, and deliciously irreverent in its
asides. Male readers and critics will ignore it
at their own peril." -Joyce Carol Oates
"Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, writing
with intelligence, daring and feeling, have
admirably fulfilled their aims in this book,
which should be welcomed both by
contemporary women readers and by
anyone who has had the experience of
modernism but wondered about its
meanings." -Christine Froula, The New
York Times Book Review
"Gilbert and Gubar stunningly critique both
the Lacanian and traditional Freudian
analysis of women, ably discuss the female
affiliation complex, and draw on fantasy
and science fiction for suggestive ideas
on the 'mother tongue' .... The War
of the Words gives us important work to
debate, discuss, savor, reread." -Maggie
McFadden, BellesLettres
In War of the Words, Gilbert and Gubar
survey the social, literary, and linguistic
conflicts between men and women that
mark modernism, examining the work of
writers from Alfred Lord Tennyson and
Charlotte Bronte to Robert Lowell and
Mary Sarton.
1987
336 pp.
illus.
(48) Cloth ISBN 04005-9
(49) Paper ISBN 04587-5

$30.00/$24.00
$12.95/$10.25

The Madwoman in the Attic
The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century
Literary Imagination
Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
"Imperative reading not only for feminists, but for
any scholar, particularly of the nineteenth
century, who thinks he or she has understood
the great novels of that time." -Carolyn G.
Heilbrun, The Washington Post Book World

-

1979
733 pp.
illus.
(137) Cloth ISBN 02286-7 $47-50/$30.00
(47) Paper ISBN 02596-3 $19.95/$16.00

other chapters tackle the themes of
girlhood and education, marriage and
the contemporary female economy, and
local society. In every case, Austen's real
and imagined worlds richly illuminate
one another, providing new insights for
all readers of her work.
Oliver MacDonagh was until his
retirement professor of history at the
Australian National University,
Canberra.
Available in July
1991
192 pp.
(83) ISBN05084-4

12 illus.
$32.00/$25.50

Mary Austin
Song of a Maverick
Esther Lanigan Stineman
"The topic is significant, the research is splendid,
and the study is informed by the current interests
and theories of American studies and feminism."
-NinaBaym
25 illus.
1989
284 pp.
( rr6) ISBN 04255-8 $25.00/$20.00

Prairie Women
Images in American and Canadian Fiction
Carol Fairbanks
1986
312 pp.
(34) ISBN 03374-5

26 illus.
$30.00/$24.00

II

Literature &
Culture

Literature
Ovid's Heroines

1,oty,,

A Verse Translation of the Heroides
i,1' ~
Daryl Hine
-'2,.CiN
q.,v_e'<
d1V,
The Heroides, written by Ovid some two
thousand years ago, consists of a series of
imaginary letters by legendary females of
antiquity to their hapless lovers or husbands. The verse letters-purportedly
penned by such heroines as Helen, Medea,
Penelope, Dido, and Sappho-are the outpourings of women who have been cruelly
victimized, yet they are written in the witty
and ironic tone for which Ovid is famous.

Camille Paglia has been named
"Hot Critic of I99I)) by Rolling
Stone magazine

Sexual Personae
Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily
Dickinson
Camille Paglia

This collection is now available in a lively
verse translation written by the well-known
poet Daryl Hine. Each of the twenty-one
letters (eighteen by women and three by
their lovers) is preceded by a translator's
note identifying the writer and her lover
and sketching the relevant background.

Crises of Love and Loyalism
Kang-i Sun Chang

"An inventive, original, and delightful book."
-Jonathan Spence
This book by Kang-i Sun Chang is the first in
English to focus on the poetry ofCh'en Tzulung-a Ming hero who died in the resistance
against the Manchu invasion of the 1640s. It is
also the first in any language to establish the relationship expressed in Ch'en's poetry between his
romantic love for the courtesan-poet Liu Shih
and his loyalty to his emperor and his country.
1991 224 pp.
illus.
(19) ISBN 04872-6 $25.00/$20.00

Bears Dancing
in the Northern Air
Christiane Jacox Kyle
Foreword by James Dickey
Bears Dancing in the Northern Air is the winning
volume in the 1990Yale Series of Younger Poets
competition. As James Dickey, distinguished
poet and judge of the competition, has said:
"Ms. Kyle is both imaginative and humanly
believable, and her world of the classroom and of
teaching becomes in her words one of radiant
energy and possibility, though it includes plenty
of disappointment, anxiety, and frustration as
well; which is to say her poetry runs through
many parts of the mortal situation, concentrates
them, and makes a unity of them that is
profoundly moving."

Christiane Jacox Kyle is the program manager
of the Women's Studies Center and a teacher of
English and women's studies at Eastern
Washington University.
1991 72 pp.
(80) Cloth ISBN 05007-0
(81) Paper ISBN 05008-9

Political Ambition

.,,.~q.,v_e"
1\
Who Decides to Run for Congress --'2,.t'
Linda L. Fowler and Robert D. McClure
"A landmark book in the analysis of
political recruitment." -Richard F.
Fenno, Jr.

The cost and complexity of competitive
House races, the recruitment of female
legislators, and the changes in American
politics such as reapportionment, the
redistribution of power away from
Washington, and the transformation of parties and interest groups are among the factors that motivate some people to enter a
House race and discourage others.
1989 264 pp.
(42) Cloth ISBN 04405-4 $27.50/$22.00
(43) Paper ISBN 04901-3 $12.95/$10.25

Affirmative Action and Justice

1991 176 pp.
(62) Cloth ISBN 05093-3 $27.50/$22.00
(63) Paper ISBN 05094-1 $11.00

The Late-Ming Poet
Ch'en Tzu-lung
'2-c,1

Politics & Law

A Philosophical and Constitutional Inquiry
Michel Rosenfeld

"Paglia is provocative and provoking
whether she discusses society or art.
Feminists may find Sexual Personae the
book they most love to hate . ... This is
a remarkable book, at once outrageous
and compelling, fanatical and brilliant.
... One must be awed by [Paglia's] vast
energy, erudition, and wit." -Lillian
Faderman, The Washington Post Book
World

"A critical study of sexuality in Western art
that is also a scorched-earth attack on the
underlying assumptions of liberalism and
feminism." -Terry Teachout, The New
York Times Book Review
"Sexual Personae is an erotic history of
Western literature and visual art; written in
a style both erotic and aggressive....
Surely the time is right for such a book."
-Mark Edmundson, The Nation
1990 732 pp.
47 illus.
(95) ISBN 04396-1 $35.00/$28.00

The Desert Is No Lady
Southwestern Landscapes in Women's Writing
and Art
Edited by Vera Norwood and Janice Monk
"A beautifully crafted book with carefully selected
illustrations from the art, photographs, and
poetry it explores. It reveals the desert of the
Southwest to be no barren wilderness but rather
the inspiration for a flowering of women's art."
-Polly Welts Kaufman, The Women's Review of
Books
"Norwood and Monk have contributed to the
rewriting of the history of ideas about the
American West. The Desert Is No Lady offers a
potent challenge to the tenacious myth of the
Marlboro Man." -Linda Logan, Women's
Studies International Forum
1987 304 pp.
74 illus.
(92) Paper ISBN 04588-3 $19.95/$16.00

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"Rosenfeld carefully identifies and criticizes different philosophical notions of equality, acutely
analyzes the confusing course of Supreme Court
decisions ... and develops an intriguing philosophical defense of affirmative action .... His
work materially strengthens the philosophical
and legal Iiterature on affirmative action."
-Mark Tushnet
"A major work of both interdisciplinary scholarship and substantive constitutional analysis."
-David A. J. Richards
1991
384 pp.
(101)ISBN 04781-9 $30.00/$24.00

Belonging to America

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Equal Citizenship and the Constitution i,1' V,q.,V,
Kenneth L. Karst
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"One of the most astute and sympathetic male
interpreters of feminist writing, [Karst] embraces
as a positive virtue an idea of legal decision that
rests on very broad principles rather than more
precise standards." -R. Kent Greenawalt,
Political Science Quarterly
1989 304 pp.
(71) Cloth ISBN 04322-8 $35.00/$28.00
(72) Paper ISBN 05028-3 $15.95/$12.75

Interpreting the Constitution
The Supreme Court and the Processof
Adjudication
Harry H. Wellington

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"Wellington grapples with many of the issues
that arouse controversy in Congress and in
the streets." -Herbert Mitgang, The New
York Times
Writing in an engaging and accessible manner,
Harry H. Wellington offers fascinating examples
of the Court's activities, in particular showing
how it has addressed one of the most controversial political and judicial issues of our timeabortion.
The Yale Contemporary Law Series
1991 184pp.
(131)ISBN 04881-5 $22.50

Legal, Family & Medical Issues
Divorce Reform
at the Crossroads

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Edited by Stephen D. Sugarman
and Herma Hill Kay
Foreword by Franklin E. Zimring

Sexual Harassment
of Working Women

Birth Power
The Casefor Surrogacy
Carmel Shalev

"This !sa book that will provoke a passionate response from lawyers and feminists-indeed, from anyone concerned
with the social, economic, and legal
aspects of reproduction in our age-and
should be read for that very reason."
-Nancy F. Cott

"A liberal feminist lawyer argues forcibly that
women should have the legal right to sell
their reproduction services (and the obligation to fulfill their contracts)." - The New
York Times Book Review
"A liberal feminist defense of surrogate
motherhood (women's rights to control
our bodies includes the right to bear children for money)." -Kris Hoover, Feminist
Bookstore News
Some twenty years after California passed
the first pure no-fault divorce law in the
United States, some form of no-fault has
been adopted in every state-but the
divorce revolution it launched remains
unfinished. Now prominent authorities in
the field have written a book that appraises
the situation today, explains how we got
where we are, and explores legislative
options for the future.
The book presents considerable evidence
contradicting the view expressed by many
critics that allowing no-fault divorce has
significantly disadvantaged women. At the
same time, it recognizes what many
divorced women, especially those with custody of young children, face bleak financial
problems. The authors discuss persisting
problems of the financial rights and obligations of divorcing couples, child custody,
and the role of stepparents, and they analyze proposals for remedying these problems through legislative action. The book is
not only for policymakers, lawyers, and
social scientists who study the family but
also for anyone concerned about marriage,
divorce, and family life in America in the
1990s.

Stephen D. Sugarman is professor oflaw
at the University of California, Berkeley,
and directs the Program in Family Law of
the Earl Warren Legal Institute. Herma
Hill Kay, the Richard W. Jennings
Professor of Law at the University of
California, Berkeley, was a member of the
commission that proposed no-fault in
California.
illus.
1990
288 pp.
( 120) ISBN04831-9 $28.50/$22.75

The Parental Leave Crisis
Toward a National Policy
Edited by Edward F. Zigler and Meryl Frank
1988
384 pp.
(136) Paper ISBN03996-4

$17.95/$14.25

"Arguing that if women are to overcome the
psychological constraints of patriarchy, they
must be seen as autonomous agents
responsible for their own reproductive decisions, Shalev defends surrogacy contracts
and explores the laws governing reproductive relationships." -Varun Gauri,
Hastings Center Report
Reviewing family and reproductive issues
from ancient times to Baby M., Carmel
Shalev contends that to overcome the psychological constraints of a patriarchal society, women must regard themselves as
responsible for their reproductive decisions.
Carmel Shalev is a lawyer living in
Jerusalem. She has written reports on
artificial reproduction for the World Health
Organization and on civil rights under the
intifada for the West Bank Data Base
Project in Jerusalem.
1989
210 pp.
(104) Cloth ISBN04216-7 $25.00/$20.00
( 105) Paper ISBN05u8-2 $12.00

Pregnancy, Contraception,
and Family Planning Services
in Industrialized Countries
Elise F. Jones et al.
A Study by The Alan Guttmacher Institute
The researchers of this book show that the
United States' high incidence of unintended
pregnancy can be attributed at least partially
to the way in which family planning services
are provided and the lack of readily available
information about contraceptive methods
and services.
28 line drawings
1989
306 pp.
(67) ISBN04474-7 $35.00/$28.00

Teenage Pregnancy
in Industrialized Countries

A Case of Sex Discrimination
Catharine A. MacKinnon
Foreword by Thomas I. Emerson
1979
326 pp.
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(85) Paper ISBN02299-9

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$12.95/$10.25

"Doctors Wanted: No Women
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Sexual Barriers in the Medical Profession, r835-r975
Mary Roth Walsh
1977
326 pp.
(126) Paper ISBN02414-2

$12.95/$10.25

In Her Own Words
Oral Histories of Women Physicians
Edited by Regina Markell Morantz, Cynthia
Stodola Pomerleau, and Carol Hansen Fenichel
1985
304 pp.
(89) Paper ISBN03352-4

$12.95/$10.25

Lying-In
A History of Childbirth in America
F,xpanded Edition
Richard W. Wertz and Dorothy C. Wertz
1989
344 pp.
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(132) Paper ISBN04087-3

$15.95/$12.75

To Do No Harm
DES and the Dilemmas of Modern Medicine
Roberta J. Apfel, M.D., M.P.H.
Susan M. Fisher, M.D.
1984
216 pp.
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When a Baby Dies
Psychotherapyfor Pregnancy and Newborn Loss
Irving G. Leon
Foreword by Erna Furman
1990
248 pp.
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Changing Images
of the Family
Edited by Virginia Tufte and Barbara Myerhoff
1979
412 pp .
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The Future of Marriage
Jessie Bernard
1982
402 pp.
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Blue Collar Marriage
Mirra Komarovsky
1987
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1987
328 pp.
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Anthropology
Manhood in the Making

Blood Relations

Cultural Concepts of Masculiniry
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David D. Gilmore
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"A well-written, accessible, provocative
study that raises a wide range of challenging issues and covers a rich variety
of ethnographic cases." -Michael
Herzfeld

Menstruation and the Origins of Culture
Chris Knight

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The emergence of symbolic culture is
generally linked with the development
of the hunter-gatherer adaptation based
on a sexual division oflabor. This original and ingenious book presents a new
theory of how this symbolic domain
originated. Integrating perspectives of
evolutionary biology and social anthropology within a Marxist framework,
Chris Knight rejects the common
assumption that human culture was a
modified extension of primate behavior
and argues instead that it was the product of an immense social, sexual, and
political revolution initiated by women.
Culture became established, says
Knight, when evolving human females
began to assert collective control over
their own sexuality, refusing sex to all
males except those who came to them
with provisions. Women usually timed
their ban on sexual relations with their
periods of infertility while they were
menstruating, and to the extent that
their solidarity drew women together,
these periods tended to occur in synchrony. The result was that every month
with the onset of menstruation, sexual
relations were ruptured in a collective,
ritualistic way as the prelude to each

successful hunting expedition. This
ritual act was the means through which
women motivated men not only to hunt
but also to concentrate their energies on
bringing back the meat. Knight shows
how his hypothesis sheds light on the
roots of such cultural traditions as
totemic rituals, incest and menstrual
taboos, blood-sacrifice, and hunters'
atonement rites. Providing detailed
ethnographic documentation, he also
explains how Native American,
Australian Aboriginal, and other
magico-religious myths can be read as
derivations of the same symbolic logic.
Chris Knight is a researcher
and lecturer in social and symbolic
anthropology.
Available in November
1991 448 pp.
(77) ISBN049n-o
'4!-00$36,oo

The House of Si Abd Allah

Woman the Gatherer

The Oral History of a Moroccan Family
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Recorded, translated, and edited
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by Henry Munson, Jr.
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Edited by Frances Dahlberg

"A privileged ... look into the lives of some poor
but resilient Moroccan men and women coping
with poverty, illiteracy, an indifferent bureaucracy, and pervasive corruption." -Amal
Rassam, The New York Times Book Review
"One of the most revealing works of the
baroque-should I write arabesque?-texture
of everyday life I have read in anthropology."
-Vincent Crapanzano, American
Anthropologist
The human stories behind the social and political
tensions in today's Arab world are vividly evoked
here in narrative and comment by two divergent
observers. One is a relatively traditional Muslim
peddler in Tangier; the other is his cousin, a
young Muslim woman now living in America
who articulates the outrage of young Muslim
women who refuse to accept their traditional status in society.

Henry Munson, Jr., is associate professor of
anthropology at the University of Maine.
1984 301pp.
illus.
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"An important addition to the growing body of
material on the roles and contributions of
women to societies of the hunting-gathering past
and present .... Excellent beginning required
reading for a course on the anthropology of
women."- Jane B. Lancaster, Ethnology and
Sociobiology
"A useful modification of the dominant 'man the
hunter' view of early hominid society .... While
the men were away, women sustained the rest of
the community, securing protein from catfish,
termites, snails, gerbils. Not very heroic,
Dahlberg says, 'but what is lost in drama is
gained in diversity and complexity.'" -Wilson
Quarterly
1981 265 pp.
illus.
(28) Cloth ISBN02572-6 $30.00/$24.00
(29) PaperISBN 02989-6 $n.95/$9.50

Baba of Karo
A Woman of the Muslim Hausa
Mary F. Smith
Foreword by Hilda Kuper
Introduction and Notes by M. G. Smith
1981 300 pp.
illus.
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"The news in this anthropological study is
not that so many societies... have developed rigid codes of masculinity .... Rather,
it is that there are societies-on Tahiti and
in Malaysia, for two-in which men are
encouraged to be passive, to allow women
'easy eroticism,' to eschew sporting competitions because they produce bad feelings."
-The Washington Post Book World
What does it mean to "be a man" in different cultures around the world? In the first
cross-cultural study of manhood as an
achieved status, anthropologist David D.
Gilmore finds that a culturally sanctioned
stress on manliness-on toughness and
aggressiveness, stoicism and sexuality-is
almost universal, deeply ingrained in the
consciousness of hunters and fishermen,
workers and warriors, poets and peasants
who have little else in common.
David D. Gilmore is professor of anthropology at the State University of New York,
Stony Brook.
1990
272 pp.
(52) Cloth ISBN04646-4 $28.00/$22.50
(53) Paper ISBN05076-3 $12.00

Radiance from the Waters
Ideals of Feminine Beauty in Mende Art
Sylvia Ardyn Boone
"A major contribution to our ethnographic
understanding of Mende culture, and to understanding the way concepts of women's bodies
encode cultural messages about gender relations." -E. Francis White, The Women's Review
of Books
Yale Publications in the History of Art, 34
1986 304 pp.
90 illus.
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We Will Wait
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Blood Relations
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Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements,
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The Psychology
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Psychoanalytic Theory, she brings
together a series of essays that trace
the evolution of her thinking about
self, society, and gender from its
early beginnings to its mature
development." -Lillian B. Rubin
"Through her deepening reflections on
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reality of women's lives, Ms. Chodorow
puts both Freud and feminism to the
test." -Stuart Schneiderman, The New
York Times Book Review

"Nancy Chodorow's work has been
of the utmost importance to both
psychoanalysis and feminist theory. A
large readership will be grateful for this
new book documenting her shifting
perspective over the last decade. It
provides a retrospective overview that
will inevitably be of enormous interest
to both her followers and her critics."
-Evelyn Fox Keller
"All readers will profit from reading all
of the articles in historical sequence.
Her own changes reflect some general
trends in feminist and social science
thought." -Miriam M. Johnson,
Contemporary Sociology

receive.".-Feminist

"A welcome addition to the fast-growing
field of the study ofwomen."-Judith
Salle
Yongue, M.D., American Journal of
"A valuable collection of her essays on
feminism and psychoanalytic theory ....
Highly recommended for upper-division
undergraduate, graduate, and professional readers." -Choice
In this series of provocative essays,
Nancy J. Chodorow elucidates how the
unconscious awareness of self and
gender we develop from earliest infancy
continues to shape both our experiences
as men and women and the patterns of
inequality and difference that permeate
our society and culture.

Nancy J. Chodorow is professor of
sociology at the University of
California, Berkeley.

Melanie Klein
and Critical Social Theory

Marci;i Westkott

An Account of Politics, Art, and Reason Based on
Her Psychoanalytic Theory
C. Fred Alford

"A provocative attempt to address current
feminist debates." -Linda M. Blum,
Contemporary Sociology
"Westkott is very knowledgeable about Karen
Hamey's background and theory .... She is
well read in regard to feminist theory." -Farah
Gilanshah, International Social Science Review
Marcia Westkott argues that the central theory
of Karen Hamey's work-the conflict between
dependency and ambition-has a special
relevance for women, who are devalued and
sexualized by both the family and society and
whose attempts to conform to the feminine ideal
are sabotaged by underlying rage.
1986
254 pp.
(133) Paper ISBN04204-3

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Psychotherapy

"[This book] is likely to provide a model for
future generations of books of readings in
psychology."-Margaret W. Matlin, Sex
Roles

A leading scholar in women's studies here
presents some of the current controversies
among those who study the psychology of
women-from "Are women more likely to
be mentally ill?" to "Is pornography
harmful to women?"
1987
504 pp.
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1989
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The Feminist Legacy
of Karen Horney
"As a remarkably deep and prescient thinker,
Horney demands greater recognition today
than she has received. Westkott's thoughtful
explication of Horneyan theory is a strong
first step in that direction." -Robin Lakoff,
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"Readers interested in the psychology of
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"Regularly consigned to the backwaters of
psychoanalysis, Melanie Klein has never
received the recognition she deserves for the
magnitude of her contributions to the
mainstream of psychoanalytic thought.
Alford's comprehensive study goes far in
redressing this historical injustice."-Jerrold
M. Post, M.D.
In this thoughtful and lucid book, C. Fred
Alford shows how the psychoanalytic theory of
Melanie Klein can be extended to groups and
culture and thus can illuminate issues of social
theory and moral philosophy of the sort
considered by the Frankfurt School. He then
applies this expanded theory to the politics of
large groups, the appeal of works of art, and the
psychological sources of reason.
1989
256 pp.
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Female Adolescence
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Literature
Katherine Dalsimer

"A brilliant and evocative analysis of the
transition from girlhood to womanhood . ...
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of the experiences of adolescent girls, and
provides a welcome contrast to the usual
rendering of this period as a variation on
male development." -Lila Braine
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to deny, their emerging sexual urges."
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1986
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Making a Difference

New Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Edited by John M. Oldham, M.D.
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Psychologyand the Construction of
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Edited by Rachel T. Hare-Mustin
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"[A] reasoned and intellectually sound
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reductionistic science, as well as recent
thinking in the field offeminist psychology." -Arthur G. Mones, The
Family Psychologist

"These brilliant and provocative essays
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of studies of sex and gender difference,
non-differences, and meta-differencesand show us instead a way through the
forest: the meanings and inventions of
gender in modern life."
-Carol Tavris, Ph.D.

"[This book is] devoted to what gender
means, how feminist scholarship is
advanced (and impeded), and strategies
for feminist-based inquiry. All of the
authors raise extremely important
questions." -Choice
Drawing on postmodernist skepticism
about what we know and how we
know it, and on recent developments in
the philosophy of science and feminist theory, five leaders in feminist
psychology offer a new perspective on
the meaning of gender, one that is not
determined by the traditional focus on
male-female differences.
1990 160 pp.
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Muriel Gardiner
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"Garcliner's memoir gives an informative personal
view of pre-Nazi Austria and the events that led
to the Anschluss." -Library Journal
This book presents the remarkable autobiography of the woman who was the model for
Lillian Hellman's Julia.
1983 198pp.
illus.
(45) Paper ISBN 04033-4 $10.00/$8.00

Edited by Robert J. Sternberg
and Michael L. Barnes

"'2-f~

"Stoller ... brings enlightenment to a
subject usually trivialized by legalistic
jargon and empty moralizing. Porn is an
extraordinary document . ... [It] will
become a standard and starting place
for serious investigations of porn, other
variants of pornography, and other
varieties of erotic experience."
-Louise J. Kaplan, Ph.D.

"An outstanding contribution to the
psychoanalytic exploration of the erotic
and to the exploration of mass culture
from the psychoanalytic perspective."
-Otto F. Kernberg, M.D.
This psychodynamic ethnography of adult
heterosexual pornography draws
provocative conclusions about porn, its
practitioners, and its effects on society.
According to Dr. Robert Stoller,
pornography does not exist only to
degrade women, there is no reliable
evidence that it increases the frequency of
rape, and (with the exception of child
porn) it does little harm. He finds that
pornography reflects, more than influences,
our values and mores.
Robert J. Stoller, M.D., is professor of
psychiatry at the University of California,
Los Angeles, School of Medicine.
Available in Octob~r
1991 256 pp.
(n8) ISBN 05092-5 $30.00

illus.
1989 304 pp.
(93) ISBN 04418-6 $30.00/$2.4.00

The Psychology of Love

Myths for the Twentieth Century

Robert J. Stoller,

In this book, a group of eminent psychoanalysts
cliscuss biological, psychological, and sociological issues relevant to middle age, offering
therapeutic techniques to deal with conflicts
specific to this period. Issues covered include
unconscious fantasies in middle life, the impact
of teenaged children on mothers and fathers,
single women, the middle years of lesbians
and homosexual men, and marital conflict in
middle life.

"[This book] brings together top psychologists'
thinking on love's essence and on how to
develop and sustain intimate relationships."
-Helen Borel, Women's Record
1988 390 pp.
(m) Cloth ISBN 03950-6 $40.00/$32.00
( IIJ) Paper ISBN 04589-1 $17.95/$14.2.5

Competence Considered
Presentations of Gender
Robert J. Stoller, M.D.
"An outstanding contribution to the movement
to explore, expand, and modify the theories
concerning the development of gender
identity."-Robert
S. Grayson, Psychoanalytic
Quarterly
1985 230 pp.
(n9) ISBN 03507-1 $30.00/$2.4.00

Observing
the Erotic Imagination
Robert J. Stoller, M.D.
"Provides a rich and engaging introduction to
Stoller's important explorations of gender
development." -E. Barbara Hariton,
Contemporary Psychology
"A serious contribution to the subject of erotic
behaviour." -Eva Lester, International Review
of Psychoanalysis
1985 229 pp.
(117)ISBN 03424-5 $30.00/$2.4.00

Edited by Robert J. Sternberg
and John Kolligian, Jr.
"Cognitive, clinical, developmental, and social
psychologists will find real treasures in these
chapters, and the study of competence will be
greatly advanced by the compilation of these
writings." -Stephen J. Ceci
"Well-organized, the book moves smoothly from
developmental to social to clinical perspectives."
-Charlotte Ellinwood, Readings
1990 440 pp.
(m) ISBN 04567-0

$35.00/$28.00

The Deadly Innocents
Portraits of Children Who Kill
Muriel Garcliner, M.D.
Preface by Stephen Spender

"Each narrative is a combination of an
emotionally charged experience for the reader
and a superb case study for students and professionals concerned with problems of deviant
human development." -Albert J. Solnit, M.D.
1985 221pp.
(46) Paper ISBN 03306-0 $n.oo/$8.75

3

Sociology & Psychology
Spouse, Parent, Worker

Theoretical Perspectives
on Sexual Difference

On Gender and Multiple Roles

Edited by Faye J. Crosby

Edited by Deborah L. Rhode

"An outstanding collection that
promises to become a classic."
-Cynthia Fuchs Epstein
"An excellent volume for students of
feminist theory and practitioners of all
disciplines and at all levels of accomplishment." -Adria E. Schwartz,

Readings
"The best ever written on the issues of
sex, gender, and sex differences....
Although this book addresses current
issues, it will undoubtedly be cited by
researchers and theorists for years to
come." -Choice
No issue has been more central to the
American women's movement than sexual difference. This book offers a
unique study of the nature, origins, and
consequences of sexual difference.
Leading scholars in history, philosophy,
law, literary theory, biology, sociology,
psychology, political science, and
anthropology explore the difference
difference makes.
Several traditions of feminist response
to difference are reflected in this volume. One approach has been to challenge the long-established tendency to
mischaracterize culturally influenced
gender differences as biological or psy-

chological imperatives. Among the
essays that draw on this tradition are
Carl Degler's, John Dupre's, Ruth
Hubbard's, and Herma Hill Kay's
reviews of sociobiology; Nancy
Chodorow's challenges to conventional
psychoanalytic frameworks; and Barrie
Thorne's discussion of sex stereotypes
and situational influences. A second
strand of feminist work has sought to
challenge not the significance of gender
differences but the importance society
has attached to them. Alison Jaggar,
Nel Noddings, Susan Moller Okin, and
Karen Offen review the capacities and
constraints of this approach. A third
strategy attempts to dislodge difference
by challenging its centrality and its
organizing premises, thus recasting the
debate about gender relations. Essays
by Bell Hooks and Julianne Malveaux
on race, Jane Collier and Sylvia
Yanagisako on anthropology, Kay
Deaux and Brenda Major on social psychology, Catharine MacKinnon and
Deborah Rhode on law, and Estelle
Friedman, Marilyn Frye, and Regenia
Gagnier on feminist theory explore the
ideological and policy implications of
this perspective.
1990
384 pp.
(97) ISBN04427-5

Sex, Gender, and the Social Order

Directions for

$10.95/$8.75

A State-Level Analysis
Larry Baron and Murray A. Straus

"Deceptive Distinctions will show

PsychologyToday

"A 'state of the art' look at research on
multiple roles and well-being."-Rena L.
Repetti, Sex Roles

Four Theories of Rape
in American Society

11,e Women,s Review of Books

"A leading sociologist challenges the
powerful-but deceptive-distinctions
society makes between the roles of men
and women."-Beryl LieffBenderley,

"A useful and revealing contribution to our
understanding of the major role that work,
in combination with marriage and parenthood, plays in the satisfaction of adults."
-Linda C. Majka, American Journal of

1987
216 pp.
(27) Paper ISBN04744-4

"Epstein's project is not only timely but
ambitious as well." -Naomi Gerstel,

Sociology

I

Women

"This book will become a classic.
It will be an important source for
classroom use as well as for all
scholarship to come on the topic of
sex segregation." -Rose Laub Cos-er

reader up to date on sex/ gender
research and raises important questions
for the sociology of knowledge."
-Barbara F. Reskin, Contemporary

,

"Breaks new ground."-New

Cynthia Fuchs Epstein

"Deceptive Distinctions brings the general

Women's Review of Books

Sociology
$25.00/$20.00

Deceptive Distinctions

decision-makers who care about
women's empowerment the impact law,
social custom, and ideology have on
perpetuating inequality."-Bella Abzug

"A timely compendium of role theory
applied to the many roles working parents must play."-Alice Cook, The

"This book is required reading by every
gender sociologist." -Janet Saltzman
Chafetz, Social Forces
In this important book, a leading feminist scholar surveys and critiques gender
research in a range of disciplines showing how distinctions between the sexes
are maintained by ideology and social
controls.
Copublished with the Russell Sage
Foundation
1988
304 pp.
(33) PaperTSBN04694-4

$13.95

"A model of careful, dispassionate social research .
. . . The authors have provided a considerable
service. The book promises to bring greater
order and direction to research on rape and is
likely to raise the level of discourse on rape by
imposing a stronger standard of evidence."
-Mark Warr, American Journal of Sociology
1989
232 pp.
(6) ISBN04519-0

illus.
$25.00/$20.00

Edging Women Out
Victorian Novelists, Publishers, and Social
Change
Gaye Tuchman with Nina E. Fortin

"Belongs in the library of anybody interested in
women's study and Victorian cultural history.
... A brilliant piece ofwork."-Lewis A. Coser
1989
288 pp.
illus.
(121) ISBN04316-3 $30.00/$24.00

..

American History
A Woman Making
History

The Grounding
of Modern Feminism

~,~

Nancy F. Cott

Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters
Edited with an Introduction
by Nancy F. Cott

"A fine historical study of women's
movements in the United States
between 1910 and 1930. Historians and
academic feminists will enjoy Ms. Cott's
detailed, well-written, scrupulously
doctµnented narrative; general readers
can profit from the pertinence of the
story to our own feminism, the socalled 'second wave.'" -Nina Baym,
TheNew York Times Book Review

"An indispensable book for historians
of women, of intellectual history,
and education. This is a highly original work of outstanding scholarly
importance." -Gerda Lerner
"[A] striking collection of letters .... [A]
fascinating volume ... spanning much
of Beard's adult life, from 1912 to 1955."
-Mary Beth Norton, TheNeiv York
Times Book Review
"Beard is revealed as suffragist, reformer,
intellectual, author, and wife who
accepted the greater fame of her
husband .... The library of feminism is
enriched by this book." -Publishers
WeckZv
"Essential for women's studies
collections." -Library Journal
Historian, social reformer, and women's
suffrage campaigner, Mary Ritter Beard
(1876-1958) was one of the most prominent intellectuals of her day. Coauthor

Growing Up in Boston's
Gilded Age
The Journal of Alice Stone BlackJVell,1872-1874
Edited by Marlene Deahl Merrill

"There can be few more beguiling diarists
than Alice." -Margo Miller, The Boston
Globe

with her husband, CharlesA. Beard, of
TheRise of American Civilization and
other renowned works in U.S. history,
she also founded the modern field of
women's history. This collection of her
letters, edited and introduced by Nancy
F. Cott, offers in effect an intellectual
biography-a uniquely vital portrait
that gives Beard the recognition she
is due.
Nancy F. Cott is professor of American
studies and history at Yale University.
1991

380 pp.

(26) ISBN 04825-4

$35.00/$:r.8.oo

Sarah Grimke: Letters
on the Equality of the Sexes
and Other Essays
Edited with an Introduction
by Elizabeth Ann Bartlett
"A welcome addition to the body of published
primary source material on the nineteenthcentury struggle for woman's rights."-Lori D.
Ginzberg, Journal of American History
1988 192 pp.
(8) ISBN 04n3-6

"Cott's carefully considered synthesis
encourages us to reexamine our assumptions about the connections between the
nineteenth-century women's movement
and modern feminism." -New Directions
for Women
"A landmark in the study of U.S. feminism,
useful as a reference on the women's
movement during the crucial period
1910-1930, and a fascinating book to read
for understanding the roots of the
tensions, goals, and paradoxes of the
contemporary movement." -Feminist
BookstoreNews
"A profoundly important interpretation
crucial for understanding contemporary
feminism."-Joan Scott, Ms.
1987 385pp.
illus.
(24) Cloth ISBN 03892-5 $38.00/$30.50
(25) Paper ISBN 04228-0 $13.00/$10.50

The Bonds of Womanhood
"Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835
Nancy F. Cott

$25.00/$20.00

The Journal of Esther
Edwards Burr, 1754-1757
Edited by Carol F. Karlsen
and Laurie Crumpacker
"There is nothing quite like this diary available. It
is of great interest not only because of who she
is but also because of its wit and salience and its
myriad insights into Victorianism." -Jane
Hunter
Alice Stone Blackwell, daughter of Lucy Stone
and Henry Blackwell and a famous editor,
suffragist, and social activist in her own right,
began a diary when she was a teenager. Now
edited, annotated, and introduced by Marlene
Deahl Merrill, her two-year journal not only
offers an engaging account of a lively, willful,
intellectually precocious adolescent, but also
provides a historically significant document
about the popular culture, family life, and
reform issues of the Victorian era.
44 illus.
1990 285FP·
(87) ISBN 04777-0 $25.00/$20.00

"A rare glimpse of the private world and mindset
of a prominent woman in colonial America."
-Lisa Wilson Waciega, Signs
1984 332pp.
(69) Cloth ISBN 02900-4 $35.00/$21!.oo
(70) Paper ISBN 03750-3 $13.oo/$u.25

Lucy Sprague Mitchell
The Making of a Modern Woman
Joyce Antler

"Compelling .... Lucy Sprague Mitchell's
valiant attempt to have a marriage, family, and
career is what makes her modern and
interesting." -Ellen Chesler, The NeJV York
Times Book RevieJV
1987 456 pp.
28 illus.
• (2) Cloth ISBN 03665-5 $45.00/$22.50
(3) Paper ISBN 04176-4 $16.95/$13.50

"Cott's book is a fine corrective because it sees
virtues in the spheres of activity commonly
thought to be degrading and demeaning: Out of
this came a sense of woman's powers and potential, a genuine sense of sisterhood." -Doris
Grumbach, The NeJV York Times Book RevieJV
1977 237 pp.
(23) Paper ISBN 02289-1 $u.oo/$8.75

Beyond Separate Spheres
Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism
Rosalind Rosenberg

"A fascinating and even moving picture of our
foremothers in the social sciences."-Arlene
Kaplan Daniels, The Women's Review of Books
1983 312pp.
illus.
(100) Paper ISBN 03092-4 $12.95/$10.25
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American History
Secret Ritual
\~v_<JvV-i"
and Manhood ~i,-.J
in Victorian America

"These Sad But Glorious
Days"
Dispatchesfrom Europe,1846-1850
Margaret Fuller
Edited by Larry J. Reynolds
and Susan Belasco Smith

Mark C. Carnes

~~

"Explains an important dimension of
the male experience during an odd if
prolonged moment of recent gender
history." -Peter N. Stearns,Journal
of Ritual Studies

"Fuller's letters arc extraordinarily
good. Not only do they offer perceptive comments on many of the major
figures of the day ... they also show
Fuller's gradual change into a revolutionary .... This complete collection of her letters will be of interest
to scholars of American litcrarurc
and history, women's studies, and
European litcrarurc and history."
-Joel Myerson
Margaret Fuller-journalist, critic,
radical feminist, and political activisttraveled in Europe between 1846 and
1850as a foreign correspondent for the
New-York Tribune. Her letters from
England, France, and Italy, which
began as engaging travel sketches, soon
became moving accounts of the most
widespread revolutionary upheaval
within modem history. These dispatches are now reproduced in their
entirety for the first time.

"Carnes' work shows the true depth of nineteenth-century male sexual anxiety and
hostility toward women. [He] opens new
approaches to the study of gender."
-Donald Yacovone, Journal of American

History

Larry J. Reynolds is professor of
English at Texas A&M University.
Susan Belasco Smith is assistant professor of English at Allegheny College.
Available in November
1991 320 pp.
(44) ISBN 05038-0 $35.00/$28.00

Liberty, A Better Husband

Hannah Arendt

Single Women in America: The Generations of

For Love of the World
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

I780-I840

Lee Virginia Chambers-Schiller

"This gracefully-written book ... explores the
rise of a generation of women who sought
autonomy, self-development, and achievement by remaining single . ... [It] is a fine
book, carefully argued and convincingly presented." -Martha Vicinus, Signs
"Chambers-Schiller has crafted a sensitive and
sophisticated analysis of these women in their
cultural context." -Leila J. Rupp, The Women's
Review of Books
1984 302 pp.
• (17) Cloth ISBN 03164-5 $35.00/$17.50
(18) Paper ISBN 03922-0 $14.00/$11.25

Partner and I
Molly Dewson, Feminism, and New Deal Politics
Susan Ware

"An important chapter in [the] resurrection of
post-suffrage feminism." -Estelle B. Freedman,
The Women's Review of Books
1987 362 pp.
28 illus.
(129) Cloth ISBN 03820-8 $35.00/$28.00
(130) Paper ISBN 04621-9 $16.95/$13.50

Women and Men
on the Overland Trail
John Mack Faragher
1979 295 pp.
(37) Cloth ISBN 02267-0 $35.00/$28.00
(38) Paper ISBN 02605-6 $14.00/$11.25

"Both a personal and an intellectual biography.
... A lucidly presented work ... [which] represents biography at its best .... It is also quite a
story." -Peter Berger, The New York Times
Book Review
1982 248 pp.
(135)ISBN 03099-1 $17.95/$14.25

Borderland
Origins of the American Suburb, I820-I939
John R. Stilgoe

"In chronicling this great exodus and its impacton culture, women, architecture, and myriad
other aspects of American society-Stilgoe displays wit, scholarship, and insight." -David
Slavic, The Philadelphia Inquirer
1988 368 pp.
198illus.
(u4) Cloth ISBN 04257-4 $37.50/$30.00
(u5) Paper ISBN 04866-1 $18.95/$15.25

Sugar Creek
Life on the Illinois Prairie
John Mack Faragher

"John Mack Faragher knows and writes about the
real history of the American West: the Indianhating, the racism, and the misogyny, as well as
the egalitarianism, the generosity, and the
democratic ethos." -Michael Merrill, Journal of
American History
1986 302 pp.
illus.
• (35) Cloth ISBN 03545-4 $30.00/$15.00
(36) Paper ISBN 04263-9 $14.00/$11.25

Mark C. Carnes is associate professor of
history at Barnard College, Columbia
University.
1989 296 pp.
illus.
(15) Cloth ISBN 04424-0 $30.00/$24.00
(16)Paper ISBN 05146-8 $14.00

Women and the Work
of Benevolence
Morality, Politics, and Class in the NineteenthCentury United States
Lori D. Ginzberg

"A significant addition to the literature on
nineteenth-century women's reform activism
-ambitiously conceived, strongly argued,
well-written, and richly documented."
-Ellen DuBois
"A broad and thought-provoking
M. Boylan

study." -Anne

Yale Historical Publications
1990 242 pp.
(54) ISBN 04704-5 $25.00/$20.00

Confidence Men
and Painted Women
A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America,
I830-I870

Karen Halttunen
"Essential reading for historians, literary
critics, feminists, and cultural commentators."
-Dianne F. Sadoff, American Quarterly
Yale Historical Publications
1983 280 pp.
(56) Paper ISBN 03788-0 $11.95/$9.50

American History
Gender and Higher
Education in the
Progressive Era
Lynn D. Gordon

In the Company
of Educated Women
A History of Women and Higher Education
in America
Barbara Miller Solomon

"[This book] is extremely well-written
throughout, extensively researched, and
adds a great deal to our knowledge of
college women during the Progressive
Era." -Joyce Antler
"Gordon studies the second generation of
women who attended colleges from 1890 to
1920 by thoroughly examining college yearbooks, literary magazines, and underground college newspapers .... By
studying women at both coed and
women's institutions, Gordon provides
important insights that may aid women's
ongoing quest for parity in higher education." -Susan E. Davis, New Directions
for Women
1990
304 pp.
(55) ISBN04550-6

illus.
$29.95/$24.00

Learning Together
A History of Coeducation in American
Public Schools
David Tyack and Elisabeth Hansot
"Original, wonderfully readable, magisterial. It will prove to be an indispensable
guide to the past, present, and future of
coeducation." -Catharine R. Stimpson

"A comprehensive history of women's
higher education in this country, it will
be invaluable to social historians or anyone interested in the education of
women." -Sue Beckwith, New
Directions for Women

The Formation of an American Institution,
r790-r880

34 illus.
1990
248 pp.
(134) ISBN04515-8 $25.00/$20.00

1988
256 pp.
25 illus.
(14) Paper ISBN04814-9 $10.95/$8.75

(124) ISBN04756-8

$29.95/$24.00

"This book on the iconography of the
women's antislavery movement .... is sure
to have a substantive impact on future
scholarship in women's history on several
key subjects: the female antislavery movement, the hegemonic development of
bourgeois gender culture, and the emergence of gender, political, and feminist
consciousness." -Lee Chambers-Schiller

Sunday School

Anne M. Boylan describes Sunday schools and
their place within a national network of evangelical institutions, their complementary relationship to local common schools, and their
connection with the changing history of youth
and women in the nineteenth century.

Copublished with the Russell Sage Foundation
1990
384 pp.
60 illus.

"Yellin has done a stunning job of bringing the antislavery feminists to life. This
is an important contribution to someone's history." -Dorothy Sterling

1985
320 pp.
30 illus.
(no) Paper ISBN03639-6 $14.95/$12.00

"Our most substantial, complete, and sophisticated study of the American Protestant Sunday
school. It immediately will become the standard
treatment of the subject."-Jon Butler

"A very exciting book that should have a
major impact on our thinking about the
history of education in the United States."
-Kathryn Kish Sklar

Antislavery Feminists in American Culture
Jean Fagan Yellin

"An effective synthesis of material on the
history of women's higher education in
this country .... This study raises many of
the important issues regarding women's
education and provides a valuable foundation on which to explore those, and other
issues, further." -June Sochen,Journal of
American History

Anne M. Boylan

"With great sophistication, Tyack and
Hansot weave the literature of educational
history and feminist theory into the first
comprehensive account of the role of gen der in the shaping of American education
since the colonial period." -Michael B.
Katz

Women and Sisters

The Gospel of Gentility
American Women Missionaries in Turn-of-theCentury China
Jane Hunter
"Hunter's interest is ... to explore how the meeting of two cultures affected, and was shaped by,
a female angle ofvision."-Regina Markell
Marantz-Sanchez, Signs
1984
348 pp.
illus.
(65) Paper ISBN04603-0

$16.95/$13.50

Marble Queens
and Captives
Joy S. Kasson
"Combines social history and a sophisticated
variety of gender studies to contextualize
the ideal, marble sculpture of nineteenthcentury America." -Linda Nochlin
"Between 1830 and 1880 a form of American
neoclassic sculpture celebrated the Ideal via
subjects derived from literature, history,
and mythology. Kasson revisits this ...
period and genre to examine the portrayal
of women in the context of social history."
-Choice
1990
320 pp.
(73) ISBN04596-4

illus.
$40.00/$32.00

Women Teachers
on the Frontier
Polly Welts Kaufman

Loosening the Bonds
Mid-Atlantic Farm Women, q50-r850
Joan M. Jensen
1986
288 pp.
illus.
( 66) Paper ISBN04265-5

$14.00/$11.25

"Deserves serious consideration by ... anyone
with an interest in the study of gender, ethnicity, and power in the West." -June Namias,
The Women's Review of Books
1984
296 pp.
31 illus.
(74) Paper ISBN03402-4 $11.95/$9.50

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British & European History
Catherine the Great

We Will Wait

A Short History
Isabel de Madariaga

Wii,esof FrenchPrisonersof War,
r94r194s

Sarah Fishman

~~

"Writing with great admiration for
Catherine's accomplishments and minimizing, perhaps, the harsh conditions outside
of Court circles, [de Madariaga] carefully
points out areas where other historians disagree with her and gaps in existing scholarship (especially Soviet scholarship). . . . This
is a fine summary of the period."-Library
Journal

"An interesting book on a neglected

subject.While the history of occupied
Francehas been the subjectof lively
historicaldebate in recentyears,very
little attention has been paid to the
particular situation of W'Omell."
-John P. Sweets
Whenthe Germanscapturednearlytwo
millionFrenchsoldiersin 1940, theycreateda groupof some eighthundred
thousandwivesof Frenchprisonersof
war.Drawingon interviewsandcorrespondencewithformerprisoners'wives,
as wellas on archivalandpublished
sources,Fishmanpresentsa strikingpicture of FrenchsocietyduringVichyand
of the plightof the prisonerof war
wives.
Accordingto Fishman,althoughFrench
womengainedthe rightto vote andthe
rightto equalpayfor equalworkafter
the war,thesereformsresultedlessfrom
newattitudestowardwomenthanfrom
In
the rejectionof Vichyconservatism.
the end, warwasnot a sourceoflibcration formostwomenbut a periodof

Behind the Lines
Gender and the Two World Wars
Edited by Margaret Randolph Higonnet,
Jane Jenson, Sonya Michel, and Margaret
Collins Weitz

"A quintessential women's studies book."
-Maurine Weiner Greenwald, Journal of
American History
"This collection explores( s] the power of war to
transform, solidify, and challenge our stereotypical conceptions of masculinity and femininity."
-Christine L. Williams, Gender and Society
1987
320 pp.
illus.
( 61) Paper ISBN 04429-1 $11.95/$9.50

Children With a Star
Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe
Deborah Dwork

~~

"(Dwork] has written detailed accounts of operations to rescue children .... She describes a history of women's rescue work that has been
largely neglected by historians who prefer to
concentrate on the more obviously masculine
heroics of armed resistance." -Anne Roiphe,
Los Angeles Times

Deb6rah Dwork has an appointment in the
Program in Judaic Studies in the Department of
Religious Studies and at the Child Study Center,
Yale University.
1991
400 pp.
(32) ISBN05054-2

38 illus.
$25.00

'-2-~

greatstress,andwhenthe warended
roles,
theytradedwartimeleadership
moreor lesswillingly,for moretraditionaldomesticlife.
Sarah FJShman is assistant professor of
historyat the UniversityofHOUSton.
Availablein November
1991
310 pp.
10 illus.
(41) ISBN04n4·6

$35.00/$28.00

The Family in Italy
~~
from Antiquity to the Present
Edited by David I. Kertzer and Richard P. Saller
In this book, distinguished contributors offer
historical and anthropological perspectives on the
Western family, focusing on family life in Italy
from the Roman Empire to the present. Using
methods that range from symbolic to quantitative analysis, the authors discuss a wide variety of
topics, including matchmaking, marriage,
divorce, inheritance, patterns of household organization, childrearing practices, cultural and legal
meanings of death, sexual mores, celibacy, adoption, and property rights.

David I. Kertzer is William R. Kenan, Jr.,
Professor of Anthropology at Bowdoin College.
Richard P. Saller is professor of history and
classics at the University of Chicago.
Available in October
1991
416 pp.
(76) ISBN05037-2

$40.00/$32.00

Three Medieval Views
ofWomen
La Contenance des Fames, Le Bien des Fames,
Le Blasme des Fames
Translated and edited by Gloria K Fiero,
Wendy Pfeffer, and Mathe Allain

"The editors intelligently outline the position of
women, both in courtly, noble society ... and in
bourgeois circles."-Maurice Keen, The New
York Review of Books
1989
192 pp.
14 illus.
• (39) Cloth ISBN 04441-0 $30.00/$15.00
(40) Paper ISBN04442-9
$10.00/$8.00

In addition to outlining the achievements
of Catherine's thirty-four-year regime, eminent Russian scholar Isabel de Madariaga
disentangles myth from verifiable reality to
provide an authoritative account of the
events of this remarkable woman's life.
Isabel de Madariaga, professor emeritus of
Slavonic Studies at the University of
London, is the author of Russia in the Age
of Catherine the Great.
1990
244 pp.
(31) ISBN04845-9

60 illus.
$25.oq/$20.00

Sophia, Regent of Russia,
1657-1704
Lindsey Hughes
"(Sophia's] success in actively attaining and capably wielding power within the context of a rigidly male-dominated society is a remarkable story.
... Highly recommended." -Library Journal
1990
361 pp.
( 64) ISBN04790-8

illus.
$29.95/$24.00

The Body
and the French Revolution
Sex, Class, and Political Culture
Dorinda Outram

"(Outram] shows how the eighteenth-century
middle class justified its revolutionary control,
order, and dignity and ... excluded women and
the lower classes." -Marianne Elliott, The
Observer
1989
208 pp.
(94) ISBN 04436-4

15 illus.
$30.00/$24.00

British & European History

Reflections on Gender
and Science

Painted Love
Prostitution in French Art of the
~t~
Impressionist Era

Evelyn Fox Keller

Hollis Clayson

"Reflections on Gender and Science is a bril-

liant and sensitive undertaking that does
credit not only to feminist scholarship but,
in the end, to science as well." -Barbara
Ehrenreich, Mother Jones

"This readable and original book is the
only serious study of the visual representation of prostitution during this
period. An excellent and important
work." -Linda Nochlin
Prostitution was widespread in nineteenth-century Paris, and as French
streets filled with prostitutes, French art
and literature of the period paralleled
this development. In this engrossing
book, Hollis Clayson explains why. She
provides the first description and analysis
of French artistic interest in women
prostitutes, examining how the subject
was treated in the art of the r87os and
1880sby such avant-garde painters as
Cezanne, Degas, Manet, and Renoir, as
well as by academic and low-brow
painters who were their contemporaries.
Clayson illuminates not only the
imagery of prostitution-with its contradictory connotations of disgust and fascination-but also issues and problems
relevant to women and men in patriarchal society. She discusses the conspicuous sexual commerce during this era and

"Keller has confronted some of the most
troubles?me-yet ... most central-prob- •
!ems in the philosophy of science, as well as
in feminist studies." -Jill G. Morawski,
Contemporary Psychology
the resulting public panic about the
deterioration of social life and mores.
She describes the system that evolved of
regulating prostitutes and the subsequent rise of clandestine prostitutes who
escaped police regulation and who were
condemned both for blurring social
boundaries and for spreading sexual
licentiousness in their moral and social
superiors.

Hollis Clayson is associate professor of
art history at Northwestern University.
Available in October
1991 232 pp.
63 b/w illus.
+ 31color plates
(22) ISBN 04730-4 $4s.oo

The Rothschild Canticles

E. Sylvia Pankhurst

Art and Mysticism in Flanders and the Rhineland
circa I300
Jeffrey F. Hamburger
~t~

Portrait of a Radical
Patricia W. Romero

"A major contribution to our understanding
not only oflate medieval manuscript illumination but also of female spirituality, the
nature of medieval mysticism, and the muchdiscussed question of the nature of images."
-Caroline Walker Bynum

"A judicious and original work, pioneering in its
investigation of the later decades of Pankhurst's
life. Romero balances sympathy for her subject
with a keen sense of that subject's peculiarities."
-Andrew Rosen, Victorian Studies
1987 352pp.
30 illus.
(98) Cloth ISBN 03691-4 $37.00/$29.so
(99) Paper ISBN 04482-8 $17.95/$14.2s

Jane Ellen Harrison
The Mask and the Self
Sandra J. Peacock
"A penetrating study of one of the first women
intellectuals." -Susan Davis, New Directions for
Women
In the first full-length study of the Canticles-one of the most unusual illuminated manuscripts
of the Middle Ages-Jeffrey F. Hamburger
examines the interaction of image and text in the
devotional experience of the religious women
who formed the primary audience for didactic
and mystical literature in Flanders and the
Rhineland.

Jeffrey F. Hamburger is assistant professor of
art history at Oberlin College.
Published with the assistance of the Getty Grant
Program
Yale Publications in the History of Art
1990 324 pp.
225 b/w + 12 color illus.
(57) ISBN 04308-2 $50.00/$40.00

Philosophy

1988 272 pp.
illus.
(96) ISBN 04128-4 $30.00/$24.00

Jewish High Society
in Old Regime Berlin
Deborah Hertz
24 illus.
1988 320 pp.
(60) ISBN 03775-9 $35.00/$28.00

Hubertine Auclert,
The French Suffragette

"[Keller's] book should quickly establish
itself as a central text in feminist theory."
-Donald N. Mager, Criticism
This ground-breaking work explores the
possibilities of a gender-free science and
the conditions that could make such a possibility a reality.
1986 203 pp.
(75) Paper ISBN 03636-1 $9.95/$8.00

The Structure of Love
Alan Soble
"The point of departure for all future work in the
philosophy oflove. Soble believes in personal
love, and his book gives a sober appraisal of what
we can reasonably expect and not expect of
love."-Russell Vannoy
1990
392 pp.
(109) ISBN 04566-2 $35.00/$28.00

Georg Simmel: On Women,
Sexuality, and Love
Translated and edited, with an Introduction
by Guy Oakes
This book presents four important essays by
Simmel dealing with· love, sexuality, and relations
between men and women. The essays are prefaced by an extensive introduction that places
Simmel's discussion offeminism within his
broader theory of culture.
1984 202 pp.
(106) Paper ISBN 03934-4 $n.oo/$8.7s

Woman, Nature, and Psyche
Patricia Jagentowicz Mills
"Stands alone in its ability to integrate feminist
concerns into the work of critical theory on the
development of psyche and civilization."
-Choice
1987 288 pp.
(88) ISBN 03537-3 $30.00/$24.00

Reclaiming a Conversation
The Ideal of the Educated Woman
Jane Roland Martin
1985 232 pp.
(86) ISBN 03999-9 $10.95/$8.7f

Steven C. Hause
13illus.
1987 290 pp.
(59) ISBN 03845-3 $30.00/$24.00

9

IO

Literature
Down
-,f.i~
From the Mountaintop

The Feminist
Companion to
'f.~
Literature in English

Black Women 1s Novels in the Wake of the
Civil Rights Movement, I966-I989
Melissa Walker

Women Writers from the Middle Ages to
the Present
Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements,
and Isobel Grundy

"How welcome is The Feminist
Companion to Li'terature in English!
... A wonderful addition to any
library." -Caroline G. Heilbrun, The
New Tork Times Book R.e11iew
"From stripper Gypsy Rose Lee to
fourteenth-century recluse Julian of
Norwich, this long-awaited, massive volume features 2,700 biographical entries
of literary figures from Britain to Africa,
North America to New Zealand-from
the Middle Ages to the present."
-Patricia Holt, San Francisco Chronicle

The product of extensive new research
into original sources, this book covers
every type of woman author. In addition
to the biographies, it also includes key
topic entries dealing with important
genres and movements such as autobiography, feminist theory and film criticism, and slave narratives. All entries are
alphabetically arranged, and a separate
list of entry headings and cross-references enables readers to pursue particu lar interests.

"Literally the big feminist university press
book of the season. . .. [A] fabulous
1,200 page biographical dictionary ....
A
great gift." -Feminist BookstoreNews

Virginia Blain is Senior Lecturer in
Victorian and Modern Literature at
Macquarie University, New South
Wales. Patricia Clements is professor of
English and Dean of Arts at the
University of Alberta. Isobel Grundy,
formerly Reader in English at Queen
Mary and Westfield College, London, is
Henry Marshall Tory Professor at the
University of Alberta.

"An indispensable reference source."
-Ms.

1990
1247 pp.
(10) ISBN04854-8

"A most impressive work that can be used
both literally and figuratively as a club to
subdue stubborn sexists."
-Los Angeles Times

Semiotics and Interpretation
Robert Scholes

"[Scholes] is among our best interpreters of
literary theory . ... He provides not only an
argument for semiotics but an informed
criticism of it as well." -Martin Green, The
Literary Review
This authoritative guide offers a series of practical
demonstrations applying semiotic concepts and
terminology to fiction, poetry, drama, film, and
the human body itself. The final chapter,
"Uncoding Mama: The Female Body as a Text,"
examines how literature and language have
shaped and controlled male and female consciousness of the female body.
1982
176 pp.
(102) Cloth ISBN02798-2
(103) Paper ISBN03093-2

$49.95

Grimms' Bad Girls
and Bold Boys
The Moral and Social Vision of the Tales
Ruth B. Bottigheimer

"[Bottigheimer] analyzes [the Tales] with a view
to defining their moral and social vision, and
examines the successive editions to show how the
tales were 'gender-skewed' to fit prevalent
notions of male and female roles and characters."
-Janet Adam Smith, The New York Review of
Books

Grammar and Gender
Dennis Baron

1986
264 pp.
(7) Paper ISBN03883-6

$13.00/$10.50

"A highly nuanced narrative .... [Walker]
mines her subject with appropriate depth
and fresh scholarly perception." - New
Directions for Women
"The political and social resonance that
[Walker] uncovers in these texts yields a
thoughtful and stimulating record of these
women's art and historical consciousness."
-Booklist
"Eloquent, fresh readings of works by
Margaret Walker, Alice Walker, Toni
Morrison, Ntozake Shange, and others."
- The Village Voice
In the years since the climactic passage of
the Civil Rights Act, African-American
women have contemplated the struggle for
racial justice in an outpouring of significant
novels. This eloquent book offers fresh
readings of eighteen of these novels, examining how they relate to the movement, to
the conditions that fostered it, and to its
failure to achieve educational, economic,
and social inequality.
Melissa Walker groups the books according
to their historical settings, beginning with
Margaret Walker's Jubilee (1966), set in the
days of slavery and reconstruction, and ending with Alice Walker's Temple of My
Familiar (1989 ), which takes place in the
present. Discussing all the novels of Toni
Morrison and Alice Walker, as well as
selected works by eight other well-known
black women writers, Walker demonstrates
how the authors' visions of history, ranging
from the mythic to the empirical, related to
the novels' forms, thematic concerns, and
narrative strategies.
Within chapters, she discusses novels in
order of their publication, a structure that
reveals how the civil rights movement and
the still unresolved conflicts over race, class,
and gender have influenced the ways in
which these novelists probe events of the
past, conditions of the present, and possibilities for the future.

$22.50/$18.00
$10.00/$8.00

"Baron reveals the male bias of most linguistic
work, and explores some of the efforts that have
been made to change accepted patterns of usage
to reflect changing perceptions of the place of
women in society." -G. M. Awbery, Modern
Language Review

"A fine book that will make an important
contribution to our understanding of
African-American women's fiction in
relation to contemporary culture and
politics. "-Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

By combining a sociohistorical examination of
Grimms 1 Tales with close scrutiny of the language in which they are told, Bottigheimer
brings new insight into the moral and social
vision of the collection.
1987
232 pp.
(13) ISBN04389-9

$12.00/$9.50

Melissa Walker is fellow and teaching
associate of the Emory Institute of
Women's Studies of Emory University.
1991
248 pp.
(125) ISBN04855-6

$26.00/$20.75

Literature
No Man's Land

No Man's Land

The Place of the Woman Writer in the
Twentieth Century
Volume I: The War of the Words
Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar

The Place of the Woman Writer in the v_'JIV.""
Twentieth Century
<II:,,,i,
Volume 2: Sexchanges
~r,
Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar

"[This book] will set the direction of
feminist criticism for the next generation of students and scholars."
-Walter Kendrick.,TheNew Tork
Times Boolt Rniew
"Two of the most influential historians of
women's literary traditions explore how
writers from the 188os to the 1930s
responded to and helped to shape the
upheaval in gender roles around World
War I." -Feminist Bookstore News
"A provocative work .... We can never,
after Sexchanges, doubt that gender
exerts a key influence on the forms and
themes of literary modernism: and without an understanding of that issue, we
cannot make sense of female literary
modernism." -Elyse Blankley, The
Women's Review of Books
"[An] ambitious description of the
twentieth-century woman writer ...
there arc many sensitive readings in
Sexchanges and much previously
neglected material." -Cynthia Giddle,
New Directions for Women

"Sexchanges provokes the reader into
realizing that the critical revolution of
the last twenty years has made
imperative the re-reading of texts that
were formerly 'understood'." -Linda
Wagner-Martin, American Literature

"Gilbert and Gubar persuasively interweave social history and literature and
incorporate recent ideas of other feminist critics, as well as rafts of citations
from nearly every imaginable source."
-Deborah Price, Belles Lettres
Writers covered in this volume range
from Rider Haggard, Olive Schreiner,
and Kate Chopin to Edith Wharton,
Willa Cather, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia
Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and Caryl Churchill.
Sandra M. Gilbert is professor of
English at the U nivcrsity of California,
Davis. Susan Gubar is professor of
English at Indiana University.
1989
472 pp.
38 illus.
(50) Cloth ISBN04375-9 $35.00/$20.00
(51) Paper ISBN05025-9 $17.9s

Jane Austen
Real and Imagined Worlds
Oliver MacDonagh

In this book, a distinguished historian
explores the novels of Janc Austen,
showing how they illuminate English
history in the quarter century between
1792 and 1817and how, in turn, an
appreciation of this period in history
enriches our reading of the novels.
Oliver MacDonagh paints a picture of
Jane Austen's life and personality and of
the social and political worlds she inhabited during and immediately after the
Napoleonic Wars. Analyzing her letters
as well as her novels, he shows how
Austen's experiences and her reactions
to events were woven into her fiction.
Each chapter combines an examination
ofJane Austen's ideas and conduct in a
particular field with a consideration of
her treatment of the same subject in one
or more of her works. MacDonagh
compares the place of the Anglican
church in her life to the role of the
Church of England in MansfieldPark,
juxtaposes her own family relations to
those of the Elliots, Musgrovcs, and
Crofts in Persuasion, and shows how her
economic vicissitudes are reflected in the
use of money as the moving force in
Sense and Sensibility. In the same way,

"Fast, funny, profound in its theoretical
assertions, and deliciously irreverent in its
asides. Male readers and critics will ignore it
at their own peril." -Joyce Carol Oates
"Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, writing
with intelligence, daring and feeling, have
admirably fulfilled their aims in this book,
which should be welcomed both by
contemporary women readers and by
anyone who has had the experience of
modernism but wondered about its
meanings." -Christine Froula, The New
York Times Book Review
"Gilbert and Gubar stunningly critique both
the Lacanian and traditional Freudian
analysis of women, ably discuss the female
affiliation complex, and draw on fantasy
and science fiction for suggestive ideas
on the 'mother tongue' .... The War
of the Words gives us important work to
debate, discuss, savor, reread." -Maggie
McFadden, BellesLettres
In War of the Words, Gilbert and Gubar
survey the social, literary, and linguistic
conflicts between men and women that
mark modernism, examining the work of
writers from Alfred Lord Tennyson and
Charlotte Bronte to Robert Lowell and
Mary Sarton.
1987
336 pp.
illus.
(48) Cloth ISBN 04005-9
(49) Paper ISBN 04587-5

$30.00/$24.00
$12.95/$10.25

The Madwoman in the Attic
The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century
Literary Imagination
Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
"Imperative reading not only for feminists, but for
any scholar, particularly of the nineteenth
century, who thinks he or she has understood
the great novels of that time." -Carolyn G.
Heilbrun, The Washington Post Book World

-

1979
733 pp.
illus.
(137) Cloth ISBN 02286-7 $47-50/$30.00
(47) Paper ISBN 02596-3 $19.95/$16.00

other chapters tackle the themes of
girlhood and education, marriage and
the contemporary female economy, and
local society. In every case, Austen's real
and imagined worlds richly illuminate
one another, providing new insights for
all readers of her work.
Oliver MacDonagh was until his
retirement professor of history at the
Australian National University,
Canberra.
Available in July
1991
192 pp.
(83) ISBN05084-4

12 illus.
$32.00/$25.50

Mary Austin
Song of a Maverick
Esther Lanigan Stineman
"The topic is significant, the research is splendid,
and the study is informed by the current interests
and theories of American studies and feminism."
-NinaBaym
25 illus.
1989
284 pp.
( rr6) ISBN 04255-8 $25.00/$20.00

Prairie Women
Images in American and Canadian Fiction
Carol Fairbanks
1986
312 pp.
(34) ISBN 03374-5

26 illus.
$30.00/$24.00

II

Literature &
Culture

Literature
Ovid's Heroines

1,oty,,

A Verse Translation of the Heroides
i,1' ~
Daryl Hine
-'2,.CiN
q.,v_e'<
d1V,
The Heroides, written by Ovid some two
thousand years ago, consists of a series of
imaginary letters by legendary females of
antiquity to their hapless lovers or husbands. The verse letters-purportedly
penned by such heroines as Helen, Medea,
Penelope, Dido, and Sappho-are the outpourings of women who have been cruelly
victimized, yet they are written in the witty
and ironic tone for which Ovid is famous.

Camille Paglia has been named
"Hot Critic of I99I)) by Rolling
Stone magazine

Sexual Personae
Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily
Dickinson
Camille Paglia

This collection is now available in a lively
verse translation written by the well-known
poet Daryl Hine. Each of the twenty-one
letters (eighteen by women and three by
their lovers) is preceded by a translator's
note identifying the writer and her lover
and sketching the relevant background.

Crises of Love and Loyalism
Kang-i Sun Chang

"An inventive, original, and delightful book."
-Jonathan Spence
This book by Kang-i Sun Chang is the first in
English to focus on the poetry ofCh'en Tzulung-a Ming hero who died in the resistance
against the Manchu invasion of the 1640s. It is
also the first in any language to establish the relationship expressed in Ch'en's poetry between his
romantic love for the courtesan-poet Liu Shih
and his loyalty to his emperor and his country.
1991 224 pp.
illus.
(19) ISBN 04872-6 $25.00/$20.00

Bears Dancing
in the Northern Air
Christiane Jacox Kyle
Foreword by James Dickey
Bears Dancing in the Northern Air is the winning
volume in the 1990Yale Series of Younger Poets
competition. As James Dickey, distinguished
poet and judge of the competition, has said:
"Ms. Kyle is both imaginative and humanly
believable, and her world of the classroom and of
teaching becomes in her words one of radiant
energy and possibility, though it includes plenty
of disappointment, anxiety, and frustration as
well; which is to say her poetry runs through
many parts of the mortal situation, concentrates
them, and makes a unity of them that is
profoundly moving."

Christiane Jacox Kyle is the program manager
of the Women's Studies Center and a teacher of
English and women's studies at Eastern
Washington University.
1991 72 pp.
(80) Cloth ISBN 05007-0
(81) Paper ISBN 05008-9

Political Ambition

.,,.~q.,v_e"
1\
Who Decides to Run for Congress --'2,.t'
Linda L. Fowler and Robert D. McClure
"A landmark book in the analysis of
political recruitment." -Richard F.
Fenno, Jr.

The cost and complexity of competitive
House races, the recruitment of female
legislators, and the changes in American
politics such as reapportionment, the
redistribution of power away from
Washington, and the transformation of parties and interest groups are among the factors that motivate some people to enter a
House race and discourage others.
1989 264 pp.
(42) Cloth ISBN 04405-4 $27.50/$22.00
(43) Paper ISBN 04901-3 $12.95/$10.25

Affirmative Action and Justice

1991 176 pp.
(62) Cloth ISBN 05093-3 $27.50/$22.00
(63) Paper ISBN 05094-1 $11.00

The Late-Ming Poet
Ch'en Tzu-lung
'2-c,1

Politics & Law

A Philosophical and Constitutional Inquiry
Michel Rosenfeld

"Paglia is provocative and provoking
whether she discusses society or art.
Feminists may find Sexual Personae the
book they most love to hate . ... This is
a remarkable book, at once outrageous
and compelling, fanatical and brilliant.
... One must be awed by [Paglia's] vast
energy, erudition, and wit." -Lillian
Faderman, The Washington Post Book
World

"A critical study of sexuality in Western art
that is also a scorched-earth attack on the
underlying assumptions of liberalism and
feminism." -Terry Teachout, The New
York Times Book Review
"Sexual Personae is an erotic history of
Western literature and visual art; written in
a style both erotic and aggressive....
Surely the time is right for such a book."
-Mark Edmundson, The Nation
1990 732 pp.
47 illus.
(95) ISBN 04396-1 $35.00/$28.00

The Desert Is No Lady
Southwestern Landscapes in Women's Writing
and Art
Edited by Vera Norwood and Janice Monk
"A beautifully crafted book with carefully selected
illustrations from the art, photographs, and
poetry it explores. It reveals the desert of the
Southwest to be no barren wilderness but rather
the inspiration for a flowering of women's art."
-Polly Welts Kaufman, The Women's Review of
Books
"Norwood and Monk have contributed to the
rewriting of the history of ideas about the
American West. The Desert Is No Lady offers a
potent challenge to the tenacious myth of the
Marlboro Man." -Linda Logan, Women's
Studies International Forum
1987 304 pp.
74 illus.
(92) Paper ISBN 04588-3 $19.95/$16.00

~

--'2,.t

"Rosenfeld carefully identifies and criticizes different philosophical notions of equality, acutely
analyzes the confusing course of Supreme Court
decisions ... and develops an intriguing philosophical defense of affirmative action .... His
work materially strengthens the philosophical
and legal Iiterature on affirmative action."
-Mark Tushnet
"A major work of both interdisciplinary scholarship and substantive constitutional analysis."
-David A. J. Richards
1991
384 pp.
(101)ISBN 04781-9 $30.00/$24.00

Belonging to America

e'<

Equal Citizenship and the Constitution i,1' V,q.,V,
Kenneth L. Karst
--'2,.e\\1
"One of the most astute and sympathetic male
interpreters of feminist writing, [Karst] embraces
as a positive virtue an idea of legal decision that
rests on very broad principles rather than more
precise standards." -R. Kent Greenawalt,
Political Science Quarterly
1989 304 pp.
(71) Cloth ISBN 04322-8 $35.00/$28.00
(72) Paper ISBN 05028-3 $15.95/$12.75

Interpreting the Constitution
The Supreme Court and the Processof
Adjudication
Harry H. Wellington

--'2,.e'1

"Wellington grapples with many of the issues
that arouse controversy in Congress and in
the streets." -Herbert Mitgang, The New
York Times
Writing in an engaging and accessible manner,
Harry H. Wellington offers fascinating examples
of the Court's activities, in particular showing
how it has addressed one of the most controversial political and judicial issues of our timeabortion.
The Yale Contemporary Law Series
1991 184pp.
(131)ISBN 04881-5 $22.50

Legal, Family & Medical Issues
Divorce Reform
at the Crossroads

~~ii

Edited by Stephen D. Sugarman
and Herma Hill Kay
Foreword by Franklin E. Zimring

Sexual Harassment
of Working Women

Birth Power
The Casefor Surrogacy
Carmel Shalev

"This !sa book that will provoke a passionate response from lawyers and feminists-indeed, from anyone concerned
with the social, economic, and legal
aspects of reproduction in our age-and
should be read for that very reason."
-Nancy F. Cott

"A liberal feminist lawyer argues forcibly that
women should have the legal right to sell
their reproduction services (and the obligation to fulfill their contracts)." - The New
York Times Book Review
"A liberal feminist defense of surrogate
motherhood (women's rights to control
our bodies includes the right to bear children for money)." -Kris Hoover, Feminist
Bookstore News
Some twenty years after California passed
the first pure no-fault divorce law in the
United States, some form of no-fault has
been adopted in every state-but the
divorce revolution it launched remains
unfinished. Now prominent authorities in
the field have written a book that appraises
the situation today, explains how we got
where we are, and explores legislative
options for the future.
The book presents considerable evidence
contradicting the view expressed by many
critics that allowing no-fault divorce has
significantly disadvantaged women. At the
same time, it recognizes what many
divorced women, especially those with custody of young children, face bleak financial
problems. The authors discuss persisting
problems of the financial rights and obligations of divorcing couples, child custody,
and the role of stepparents, and they analyze proposals for remedying these problems through legislative action. The book is
not only for policymakers, lawyers, and
social scientists who study the family but
also for anyone concerned about marriage,
divorce, and family life in America in the
1990s.

Stephen D. Sugarman is professor oflaw
at the University of California, Berkeley,
and directs the Program in Family Law of
the Earl Warren Legal Institute. Herma
Hill Kay, the Richard W. Jennings
Professor of Law at the University of
California, Berkeley, was a member of the
commission that proposed no-fault in
California.
illus.
1990
288 pp.
( 120) ISBN04831-9 $28.50/$22.75

The Parental Leave Crisis
Toward a National Policy
Edited by Edward F. Zigler and Meryl Frank
1988
384 pp.
(136) Paper ISBN03996-4

$17.95/$14.25

"Arguing that if women are to overcome the
psychological constraints of patriarchy, they
must be seen as autonomous agents
responsible for their own reproductive decisions, Shalev defends surrogacy contracts
and explores the laws governing reproductive relationships." -Varun Gauri,
Hastings Center Report
Reviewing family and reproductive issues
from ancient times to Baby M., Carmel
Shalev contends that to overcome the psychological constraints of a patriarchal society, women must regard themselves as
responsible for their reproductive decisions.
Carmel Shalev is a lawyer living in
Jerusalem. She has written reports on
artificial reproduction for the World Health
Organization and on civil rights under the
intifada for the West Bank Data Base
Project in Jerusalem.
1989
210 pp.
(104) Cloth ISBN04216-7 $25.00/$20.00
( 105) Paper ISBN05u8-2 $12.00

Pregnancy, Contraception,
and Family Planning Services
in Industrialized Countries
Elise F. Jones et al.
A Study by The Alan Guttmacher Institute
The researchers of this book show that the
United States' high incidence of unintended
pregnancy can be attributed at least partially
to the way in which family planning services
are provided and the lack of readily available
information about contraceptive methods
and services.
28 line drawings
1989
306 pp.
(67) ISBN04474-7 $35.00/$28.00

Teenage Pregnancy
in Industrialized Countries

A Case of Sex Discrimination
Catharine A. MacKinnon
Foreword by Thomas I. Emerson
1979
326 pp.
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(85) Paper ISBN02299-9

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$12.95/$10.25

"Doctors Wanted: No Women
Need Apply"
Sexual Barriers in the Medical Profession, r835-r975
Mary Roth Walsh
1977
326 pp.
(126) Paper ISBN02414-2

$12.95/$10.25

In Her Own Words
Oral Histories of Women Physicians
Edited by Regina Markell Morantz, Cynthia
Stodola Pomerleau, and Carol Hansen Fenichel
1985
304 pp.
(89) Paper ISBN03352-4

$12.95/$10.25

Lying-In
A History of Childbirth in America
F,xpanded Edition
Richard W. Wertz and Dorothy C. Wertz
1989
344 pp.
illus.
(132) Paper ISBN04087-3

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To Do No Harm
DES and the Dilemmas of Modern Medicine
Roberta J. Apfel, M.D., M.P.H.
Susan M. Fisher, M.D.
1984
216 pp.
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When a Baby Dies
Psychotherapyfor Pregnancy and Newborn Loss
Irving G. Leon
Foreword by Erna Furman
1990
248 pp.
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Changing Images
of the Family
Edited by Virginia Tufte and Barbara Myerhoff
1979
412 pp .
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The Future of Marriage
Jessie Bernard
1982
402 pp.
• (9) Paper ISBN02853-9

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Blue Collar Marriage
Mirra Komarovsky
1987
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Elise F. Jones et al.
Sponsored by The Alan Guttmacher Institute
1987
328 pp.
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Anthropology
Manhood in the Making

Blood Relations

Cultural Concepts of Masculiniry
e-V.e"I
David D. Gilmore
., \'11V.
-,S.t''
"A well-written, accessible, provocative
study that raises a wide range of challenging issues and covers a rich variety
of ethnographic cases." -Michael
Herzfeld

Menstruation and the Origins of Culture
Chris Knight

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The emergence of symbolic culture is
generally linked with the development
of the hunter-gatherer adaptation based
on a sexual division oflabor. This original and ingenious book presents a new
theory of how this symbolic domain
originated. Integrating perspectives of
evolutionary biology and social anthropology within a Marxist framework,
Chris Knight rejects the common
assumption that human culture was a
modified extension of primate behavior
and argues instead that it was the product of an immense social, sexual, and
political revolution initiated by women.
Culture became established, says
Knight, when evolving human females
began to assert collective control over
their own sexuality, refusing sex to all
males except those who came to them
with provisions. Women usually timed
their ban on sexual relations with their
periods of infertility while they were
menstruating, and to the extent that
their solidarity drew women together,
these periods tended to occur in synchrony. The result was that every month
with the onset of menstruation, sexual
relations were ruptured in a collective,
ritualistic way as the prelude to each

successful hunting expedition. This
ritual act was the means through which
women motivated men not only to hunt
but also to concentrate their energies on
bringing back the meat. Knight shows
how his hypothesis sheds light on the
roots of such cultural traditions as
totemic rituals, incest and menstrual
taboos, blood-sacrifice, and hunters'
atonement rites. Providing detailed
ethnographic documentation, he also
explains how Native American,
Australian Aboriginal, and other
magico-religious myths can be read as
derivations of the same symbolic logic.
Chris Knight is a researcher
and lecturer in social and symbolic
anthropology.
Available in November
1991 448 pp.
(77) ISBN049n-o
'4!-00$36,oo

The House of Si Abd Allah

Woman the Gatherer

The Oral History of a Moroccan Family
e,V,e"I
Recorded, translated, and edited
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by Henry Munson, Jr.
-,s.e

Edited by Frances Dahlberg

"A privileged ... look into the lives of some poor
but resilient Moroccan men and women coping
with poverty, illiteracy, an indifferent bureaucracy, and pervasive corruption." -Amal
Rassam, The New York Times Book Review
"One of the most revealing works of the
baroque-should I write arabesque?-texture
of everyday life I have read in anthropology."
-Vincent Crapanzano, American
Anthropologist
The human stories behind the social and political
tensions in today's Arab world are vividly evoked
here in narrative and comment by two divergent
observers. One is a relatively traditional Muslim
peddler in Tangier; the other is his cousin, a
young Muslim woman now living in America
who articulates the outrage of young Muslim
women who refuse to accept their traditional status in society.

Henry Munson, Jr., is associate professor of
anthropology at the University of Maine.
1984 301pp.
illus.
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"An important addition to the growing body of
material on the roles and contributions of
women to societies of the hunting-gathering past
and present .... Excellent beginning required
reading for a course on the anthropology of
women."- Jane B. Lancaster, Ethnology and
Sociobiology
"A useful modification of the dominant 'man the
hunter' view of early hominid society .... While
the men were away, women sustained the rest of
the community, securing protein from catfish,
termites, snails, gerbils. Not very heroic,
Dahlberg says, 'but what is lost in drama is
gained in diversity and complexity.'" -Wilson
Quarterly
1981 265 pp.
illus.
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Baba of Karo
A Woman of the Muslim Hausa
Mary F. Smith
Foreword by Hilda Kuper
Introduction and Notes by M. G. Smith
1981 300 pp.
illus.
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"The news in this anthropological study is
not that so many societies... have developed rigid codes of masculinity .... Rather,
it is that there are societies-on Tahiti and
in Malaysia, for two-in which men are
encouraged to be passive, to allow women
'easy eroticism,' to eschew sporting competitions because they produce bad feelings."
-The Washington Post Book World
What does it mean to "be a man" in different cultures around the world? In the first
cross-cultural study of manhood as an
achieved status, anthropologist David D.
Gilmore finds that a culturally sanctioned
stress on manliness-on toughness and
aggressiveness, stoicism and sexuality-is
almost universal, deeply ingrained in the
consciousness of hunters and fishermen,
workers and warriors, poets and peasants
who have little else in common.
David D. Gilmore is professor of anthropology at the State University of New York,
Stony Brook.
1990
272 pp.
(52) Cloth ISBN04646-4 $28.00/$22.50
(53) Paper ISBN05076-3 $12.00

Radiance from the Waters
Ideals of Feminine Beauty in Mende Art
Sylvia Ardyn Boone
"A major contribution to our ethnographic
understanding of Mende culture, and to understanding the way concepts of women's bodies
encode cultural messages about gender relations." -E. Francis White, The Women's Review
of Books
Yale Publications in the History of Art, 34
1986 304 pp.
90 illus.
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