CONTENTS Volume 1, Number 1 Autumn 1988
Editorial / 1
Memorial
JOHN F. BRUGGE, SUSAN S. FRIEDMAN, JUDITH W. LEAVITT, and JERZY E. ROSE
On the Death of Professor Ruth Bleier / 3
Articles
RUTH BLEIER
The Cultural Price of Social Exclusion: Gender and Science / 7
House Un-American Activities Committee Statement of Dr. Ruth Bleier / 20
MINROSE C. GWIN
A Theory of Black Women’s Texts and White Women’s Readings, or . . . The Necessity of Being Other /
21
BARBARA T. CHRISTIAN
Response to “Black Women’s Texts” / 32
VIRGINIA SCHARFF
Of Parking Spaces and Women’s Places: The Los Angeles Parking Ban of 1920 / 37
DIANE PRICE HERNDL
The Writing Cure: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Anna O., and “Hysterical” Writing / 52
SUSAN B. MURRAY
The Unhappy Marriage of Theory and Practice: An Analysis of a Battered Women’s Shelter / 75
EVELYN TORTON BECK
The Politics of Jewish Invisibility / 93
Review Essays
LAURA S. BROWN
Lesbians and Family / 103
CAROL P. CHRIST
New Perspectives on Women’s Faith and Spirituality / 109
NANCY A. HEWITT
The Economics of Family Life / 114
Reviews
MARGARET RANDALL

Ixok Amar. Go edited by Zoë Anglesey / 120
DARLENE CLARK HINE
The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It edited by David J. Garrow
Prisons That Could Not Hold by Barbara Deming / 123
KAREN ANDERSON
Women in War by Shelly Saywell
Sanctuary by Judith McDaniel / 127
GWENDOLYN KEITA ROBINSON
Hard Times Cotton Mill Girls by Victoria Byerly / 128
MARCIA RAJNUS GOLDBERG
The Ways of My Grandmothers by Beverly Hungry-Wolf
Mohawk Trail by Beth Brant / 130
BARBARA CHARLESWORTH GELPI
Gender and Reading edited by Elizabeth A. Flynn and Patrocinio P. Schweickart / 133
CORANN OKORODUDU
Fundi directed by Joanne Grant
What Could You do with a Nickel? directed by Cara DiVito and Jeffrey Kleinman
Resurgence directed by Pamela Yates, Tom Sigel, and Peter Kinoy / 135
ELYSE BLANKLEY
Inspiring Women by Mary K. DeShazer
The Female Form by Rosalind Miles / 137
ROSALYN FRAAD BAXANDALL
The Grounding of Modern Feminism by Nancy F. Cott / 141
KATHRYN CIRKSENA
The Celluloid Closet by Vito Russo / 143
MARY SULLIVAN
Rate It X directed by Lucy Winer and Paula de Koenigsberg / 144
AUDREY THOMAS-MCCLUSKEY
Sierra Leone’s Settler Women Traders by E. Frances White / 146
RITA ARDITTI
Man-Made Women/How New Reproductive Technologies Affect Women by Gena Corea, Renate Duelli
Klein, Jalna Hanmer, Helen B. Holmes, Betty B. Hoskins, Madhu Kishwar, Janice Raymond, Robyn
Rowland, and Roberta Steinbacher / 148
CHERIS KRAMARAE
A Women’s Thesaurus edited by Mary Ellen S. Capek / 150
MARJORIE MADIGAN
Notable Women of Hawaii edited by Barbara Bennett Peterson / 152

BARBARA HABER
An Annotated Critical Bibliography of Feminist Criticism by Maggie Humm
The Published Diaries and Letters of American Women by Joyce D. Goodfriend/ 153
Report
TUCKER PAMELLA FARLEY
A Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City University of New York / 157
Scholarship Winners / 161
Contributors / 170
Announcements / 175
Books Received / 178

CONTENTS Volume 1, Number 2 Winter 1988–89
Articles
STEPHANIE LAHAR
Towards an Expanded View of Nature in Women’s Psychology / 183
JAN KURTH
Wayward Wenches and Wives: Runaway Women in the Hudson Valley, N.Y. 1785-1830 / 199
ANN D. GORDON
Writing the Lives of Women / 221
ELIZABETH FAY
Mothers, Fathers, and Dissent: Gender, Class, and Graduate-Student Identity / 238
IRENE CAMPOS CARR
A Survey of Selected Literature on La Chicana / 253
On Learning and Teaching
CYNTHIA BURACK
Bringing Women’s Studies to Political Science: The Handmaid in the Classroom / 274
Review Essays
CAROLE BOYCE DAVIES
Righting Afro-American Women’s Literary History / 284
SANDRA COYNER
Feminist Theory in Research and Teaching / 290
SUSAN E. SEARING
Sources and Resources in Women’s Studies / 297
BETTY SCHMITZ
New Curricular Guides for Women’s Studies / 302
Reviews
MARJORIE AGOSIN
Chicana Creativity and Criticism edited by Maria Herrera-Sobek and Helena Maria Veramontes / 308
KATE DAVY
Dress Suits to Hire by Holly Hughes / 309
SUSAN M. HARTMANN
American Women Since 1945 by Rochelle Gatlin
The American Woman, 1987-88 edited by Sara E. Rix / 312
TANIA RAMALHO

Scraps of Life by Marjorie Agosin / 315
JANE CAPUTI
Enduring Values by June Sochen
Rocking Around the Clock by E. Ann Kaplan / 317
ANNIS PRATT
The Desert is No Lady edited by Vera Norwood and Janice Monk / 322
ANITA PLATH HELLE
A Poetics of Women’s Autobiography by Sidonie Smith / 324
GISELA J. HINKLE
Gender and Power by Robert W. Connell / 326
CHERYL KNOTT MALONE
Invisible Careers by Arlene Kaplan Daniels
Philanthropy and Volunteerism by Daphne Niobe Layton / 329
MARGARET A. WALSH
Labor Pains by Deborah A. Sullivan and Rose Weitz
Made to Order edited by Patricia Spallone and Deborah Lynn Steinberg / 332
Report
HEIDI GOTTFRIED
In Defense of Socialized Child Care: A Comparison of Child-Care Policies in the United States and
Sweden / 336
Contributors / 346
Announcements / 349
Books Received / 351

CONTENTS Volume 1, Number 3 Spring 1989
Articles
CHRISTINE ST. PETER
Feminist Discourse, Infertility, and Reproductive Technologies / 353
LORALEE MACPIKE
The New Woman, Childbearing, and the Reconstruction of Gender, 1880-1900 / 368
ELIZABETH A. SMITH
Butches, Femmes, and Feminists: The Politics of Lesbian Sexuality / 398
JAMES T. SEARS
The Impact of Gender and Race on Growing Up Lesbian and Gay in the South / 422
Focus on China
LI XIAOJIANG and LI HUI
Women’s Studies in China / 458
LI HUI
Report from the Henan Conference / 461
EUGENIA KALEDIN
Chinese Students Confront American Women’s Literature / 465
Portrait
BETTY LADUKE
Egyptian Painter Inji Efflatoun: The Merging of Art, Feminism, and Politics / 474
On Learning and Teaching
SUZANNA ROSE
The Protest as a Teaching Technique for Promoting Feminist Activism / 486
Research Notes
GEORGE WINDHOLZ
Three Researchers in Pavlov’s Laboratories / 491
Review Essays
BARBARA CORRADO POPE
The Evolution of Texts for Women’s Studies Students / 497
J. MICHELE EDWARDS
Women and Music / 506
DIANA L. VÉLEZ

Latin-American Women Writers / 519
Reviews
JACQUELYN N. ZITA
Sex, Power, and Pleasure by Mariana Valverde / 524
EILEEN BORIS
Legacies: An Audiocourse on the History of Women and the Family in America, 1607-1870 developed by the Public Media Foundation in cooperation with the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women
Women in American Life: A Four-Part Video Documentary of the Experiences and Contributions of
Women in American History, 1861–1955 developed by the National Women’s History Project
Women in American History: An Introductory Teaching Packet by Elizabeth Phillips / 526
CAROLYN WOODWARD
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa / 530
EVELYNE ACCAD
Third World-Second Sex edited by Miranda Davies
Third World-Second Sex 2 edited by Miranda Davies / 532
ANNE FAUSTO STERLING
Sex and Scientific Inquiry edited by Sandra Harding and Jean F. O’Barr / 534
VIVIEN W. NG
Love Must Not Be Forgotten by Zhang Jie
Chinese Profiles by Zhang Xinxin and Sang Ye / 536
CHRISTINE HAVICE
Feminist Art Criticism: An Anthology edited by Arlene Raven, Cassandra L. Langer, and Joanna Frueh
Crossing Over: Feminism and Art of Social Concern by Arlene Raven / 538
HODA M. ZAKI
Alien to Femininity: Speculative Fiction and Feminist Theory by Marleen S. Barr / 542
CORLANN GEE BUSH
Women and Farming: Changing Structures edited by Wava G. Haney and Jane B. Knowles / 544
LIDWIEN KAPTEIJNS
Patriarchy and Class: African Women in the Home and the Workforce edited by Sharon B. Stichter and
Jane L. Parpart
Life Histories of African Women edited by Patricia Romero / 546
BETH HARTUNG
The Age of Sex Crime by Jane Caputi
The Lust to Kill: A Feminist Investigation of Sexual Murder by Deborah Cameron and Elizabeth Frazer /
550
TATYANA MAMONOVA
Terrible Perfection: Women and Russian Literature by Barbara Heldt

Women and Politics in the USSR: Consciousness Raising and Soviet Women’s Groups by Genia K.
Browning / 554
MARGARET O’BRIEN
The Making of Masculinities: The New Men’s Studies edited by Harry Brod
The Gender of Oppression: Men, Masculinity and the Critique of Marxism by Jeff Hearn
The Horned God: Feminism and Men as Wounding and Healing by John Rowan / 559
Research in Progress: Scholarship Winners / 563
NWSA News / 572
Contributors / 575
Announcements / 580
Books Received / 584

CONTENTS Volume 1, Number 4 Summer 1989
Editorial / 587
Articles
CHEZIA THOMPSON-CAGER
Ntozake Shange’s Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo: Resistance and Mystical Women of Power / 589
DEBORAH SWEDBERG
What Do We See When We See Woman/Woman Sex in Pornographic Movies / 602
SUSAN HAWTHORNE
The Politics of the Exotic: The Paradox of Cultural Voyeurism / 617
KATRINA IRVING
(Still) Hesitating on the Threshold: Feminist Theory and the Question of the Subject / 630
DONNA R. KAUFFMAN and FRANCES J. PERRY
Institutionalized Sexism in Universities: The Case of Geographically Bound Academic Women / 644
Observations
CAROL WOLFE KONEK
Nairobi / 660
Reports
DOROTHY FRIESEN
The Women’s Movement in the Philippines / 676
ELLEN D. KOLBA and JAN WIDMAYER
Running the Minefield of Gender-Fair Language / 689
Review Essay
CHRISTINE SAXTON
Feminist Intervention: Film Practice and Theory / 697
Reviews
MARNY HALL
Unbroken Ties: Lesbian Ex-Lovers by Carol S. Becker
Lesbian Couples by D. Merilee Clunis and G. Dorsey Green / 713
MELANIE KAYE/KANTROWITZ
Israel: The Embattled Land, Jewish and Palestinian Women Talk About Their Lives by Beata Lipman /
716
TONI A. H. MCNARON
The Lesbian Teacher in Front of the Classroom: Writings by Lesbian Teachers edited by Sarah-Hope
Parmeter and Irene Reti

Women Teaching for Change: Gender, Class and Power by Kathleen Weiler / 719
BETTINA APTHEKER
Passionate Politics: Feminist Theory in Action, Essays 1968-1986 by Charlotte Bunch
Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation by Sonia Johnson
A Restricted Country by Joan Nestle / 722
MARGO CULLEY
Writing a Women’s Life by Carolyn G. Heilbrun / 727
REBECCA GORDON
You Can’t Kill the Spirit by Pam McAllister / 728
PATRICIA SULLIVAN
Academic Writing as Social Practice by Linda Brodkey / 732
JUDITH MAYNE
Thinking Through the Body by Jane Gallop / 734
CAROL THURSTON
Good-bye Heathcliff: Changing Heroes, Heroines, Roles, and Values in Women’s Category Romances by
Mariam Darce Frenier / 736
LOIS W. BANNER
On Account of Sex: The Politics of Women’s Issues, 1945-1968 by Cynthia Harrison
On the Move: American Women in the 1970s by Winifred D. Wandersee / 738
VIRGINIA W. BEAUCHAMP
Feminist Literary History by Janet Todd
Subject to Change: Reading Feminist Writing by Nancy K Miller / 741
MERRY MORASH
Flowers in Hell: An Investigation into Women and Crime by Barney Bardsley
Female Crime: The Construction of Women in Criminology by Ngaire Naffine / 744
ARLENE KAPLAN DANIELS
Putting on Appearances: Gender and Advertising by Diane Barthel / 747
MARY JANE LUPTON
Images of Bleeding: Menstruation as Ideology by Louise Lander
The Wise Wound: The Myths, Realities, and Meanings of Menstruation by Penelope Shuttle and Peter
Redgrove / 749
Research in Progress: Scholarship Winners / 753
Responses / 769
NWSA News / 772
Contributors / 775

Announcements / 781
Books Received / 788
Index: Volume 1 / 791