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 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 …

Maria Cattell and Marjorie Schweitzer (eds.), Left Coast Press, 2006 Reviewed by Tiffany Worboy Doctoral Candidate in Women’s Studies, Emory University In February 1992, Maria Cattell and Marjorie Schweitzer were both attending an annual conference in Santa Fe when they …

Lisa Duggan Beacon Press, 2003 Reviewed by María Amelia Viteri, Ph.D. candidate in Social Anthropology at American University The modern debate around notions of democracy has been characterized by an ideological struggle between the liberal democratic idea of liberty espoused …

Nancy Holmstrom (ed.) New York: Monthly Review Press, 2002 Reviewed by Karla Momberger, Esq., Arizona State University The Socialist Feminist Project: A Contemporary Reader in Theory and Politics edited by Nancy Holmstrom is just that, a project—something vigorous and alive. …

Karen Ashcraft and Dennis Mumby Sage Publications, 2003 Reviewed by Mimi Saunders, socio-cultural anthropologist Ashcraft and Mumby contend that gender is “a basic constitutive feature of organizations” (96). Reworking Gender explores the multi-faceted relationship between gender and work through a …

Margaret Lock and Patricia A. Kaufert (eds.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998 This volume of thirteen essays provides rich ethnographic and theoretical insights into the dynamic ways in which gender and body politics are historically and culturally contextualized and at …

Karen A. Foss, Sonja K. Foss, Cindy L. Griffin (eds.) Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, Inc., 1999 Reviewed by Marilyn Wilt Feminist Rhetorical Theories is a well-crafted “re-visioning” of rhetoric. Taking their cue from Adrienne Rich, the editors offer the reader …

Gesa E. Kirsch, State University Press of New York, 1999 Feminist Dilemmas in Fieldwork Diane L. Wolf, Westview Press, 1996 Reviewed by Anastasia N. Panagakos The authors of Feminist Dilemmas in Fieldwork and Ethical Dilemmas in Feminist Research are on …

Margaret Sönser Breen and Warren J. Blumenfeld (eds.) United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing, 2005 Reviewed by Margot Weiss, Visiting Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Sweet Briar College This collection of thirteen chapters was originally published in a special issue of the International Journal …