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Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan Janice Boddy Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007 Reviewed by Rebecca Henriksen Janice Boddy’s Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan critically examines how British colonial health and education projects altered modes of embodiment …

Nadine T. Fernandez New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2010 Reviewed by Erica Lorraine Williams In this insightful and well-written ethnography, Nadine Fernandez explores a central paradox: if mestizaje (racial mixing) is the “essence” of the Cuban nation, then why are …

Paloma Martinez-Cruz Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2012. Reviewed by E.A. Polanco Women and Knowledge in Mesoamerica: From East L.A. to Anahuac maps an ethnohistorical journey through Mesoamerican time and space in order to understand why Latinas in …

Kia Lilly Caldwell, Kathleen Coll, Tracy Fisher, Renya Ramirez, and Lok Siu, editors New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2009. Reviewed by Erica Lorraine Williams Gendered Citizenships is an excellent example of cutting-edge scholarship that makes significant contributions to citizenship and women’s …

Yasmina Katsulis Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008 Reviewed by Sharla Blank Yasmina Katsulis’ book, Sex Work and the City: The Social Geography of Health and Safety in Tijuana, Mexico describes and analyzes sex work and sex workers in the …

Christa Craven Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010 Reviewed by Jennifer Aengst In her new book, Pushing for Midwives: Homebirth Mothers and the Reproductive Rights Movement, Christa Craven contributes to the feminist analyses of midwifery through her discussion of the ways …

 Serena Nanda and Joan Gregg Maryland: AltaMira Press, 2009 Reviewed by Sharla Blank   The purpose of this book, The Gift of a Bride: A Tale of Anthropology, Matrimony and Murder, is to introduce readers to gendered relations in India …

 Nupur Chaudhuri, Sherry Katz, and Mary Elizabeth Perry, eds. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010 Reviewed by Traci Yoder Contesting Archives: Finding Women in the Sources examines the role of archival materials in the creation of feminist histories. In this …

Elly Teman Berkley: University of California Press, 2010 Reviewed by Megan McCullough Elly Teman’s Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self elegantly and aptly illustrates Ginsburg and Rapp’s (1995) classic yet cogent point that reproduction is at …

Nandini Gunewardena and Ann Kingsolver (eds) Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research, 2007 Reviewed by Jennifer DeWan, PhD Much of the research and writing on “globalization” that has emerged in the last several decades tends to treat the concept as …