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Front MatterSource: Signs, Vol. 10, No. 4, Communities of Women (Summer, 1985), pp. 828-830Published by: The University of Chicago PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3174305 .
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A Community of Secrets: The Separate World of Bedouin Women
Hull House in the 1890s: A Community of Women Reformers
"Together and in Harness": Women's Traditions in the Sanctified Church
Burning Incense, Pledging Sisterhood: Communities of Women Workers in the Shanghai Cotton Mills, 1919-1949
The Women's Community in the National Woman's Party, 1945 to the 1960s
VIEWPOINT
Women and the Holocaust: A Reconsideration of Research
REVISIONS/REPORTS
762 The First Feminist Art Program: A View from the 1980s
BOOK REVIEWS
Teresa LaFromboise and 782 The Hidden Half: Studies of Plains Indian Elizabeth Anne Parent Women edited by Patricia Albers and Beatrice
Medicine; American Indian Women: Telling Their Lives by Gretchen M. Bataille and Kathleen Mullen Sands; A Gathering of Spirit: Writing and Art by North American Indian Women edited by Beth Brant; Native American Women: A Contextual Bibliography by Rayna Green
Barbara Molony 785 Flowers in Salt: The Beginnings of Feminist Consciousness in Modern Japan by Sharon L. Sievers; Haruko's World: A Japanese Farm Woman and Her Community by Gail Lee Bernstein; Japanese Women: Constraint and Fulfillment by Takie Sugiyama Lebra
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790 Rethinking the Family: Some Feminist Questions edited by Barrie Thorne with Marilyn Yalom
792 Women's Realities, Women's Choices: An Introduction to Women's Studies by Hunter College Women's Studies Collective
Elizabeth Fee 793 Discovering Reality: Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and the Philosophy of Science edited by Sandra Harding and Merrill Hintikka
Susan Seymour 794 Dangerous Wives and Sacred Sisters: Social and Symbolic Roles of High-Caste Women in Nepal by Lynn Bennett; The Gift of a Virgin: Women, Marriage, and Ritual in a Bengali Society by Lina M. Fruzzetti
Gloria Rudolf and 797 Women, Men, and the International Division of Monica Frblander-Ulf Labor edited by June Nash and Maria P.
Fernandez Kelly
Joanne Meyerowitz 798 Erin's Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century by Hasia R. Diner; Serving Women: Household Service in Nineteenth-Century America by Faye E. Dudden; We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century edited by Dorothy Sterling
Carolyn Lee Arnold 803 Women in the Scientific and Engineering Professions edited by Violet B. Haas and Carolyn C. Perrucci; Machina ex Dea: Feminist Perspectives on Technology edited by Joan Rothschild; The Technological Woman: Interfacing with Tomorrow edited by Jan Zimmerman
Marilyn J. Boxer 806 Women, the Family, and Freedom: The Debate in Documents edited by Susan Groag Bell and Karen M. Offen; Feminist Theorists: Three Centuries of Key Women Thinkers edited by Dale Spender
LETTERS/COMMENTS
Gerda Lerner 811
Unni Wikan 815
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Comment on Lerner's "Sarah M. Grimke's 'Sisters of Charity"' Comment on Abu-Lughod's Review of Behind the Veil in Arabia
United States Notes
About the Contributors
Index to Volume 10
Notice to Contributors
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LILA ABl-LUGHOD is an assistant professor of anthropology at Williams College. Her forthcoming book, Veiled Sentiments. Honor, Modesty, and Poetry in a Bedourin Society (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, in press), is the product of her field research in an Egyptian Bedouin community, in which she focused on the relationship between the ideology of gender relations and oral poetry. She received the 1984 Stirling Award for Contributions to Psychological Anthropology for her unpublished paper "Honor and the Sentiments of' Loss in a Bedouin Society."
(AROLYN LEE ARNOLD is a Ph.D. candidate in the sociology of education and an M.S. candidate in statistics at Stanford University. Her interests include the origins and maintenance of gender segregation in the labor market, and she is currently researching the development of stratification bv gender among com- puter specialists. She has coauthored papers with Myra Strober on gender seg- regation in computer-related occupations and bank telling. MARILYN 1. BOXER is an associate dean of the College of Arts and Letters and a professor of women's studies at San Diego State University. She is coauthor, with Jean H. Quataert, of Socialist Women:. European Socialist Feminism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Cenituries (Nexw York: Elsevier, 1978), and is currently working with Quataert on a book tentatively titled "Women and the Western World: 1500 to the Present," forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Her other publica- tions iiiclude articles on women's work in nineteenth-century Fiance and on the development of women's studies in the United States.
FLIZABErH FEE, editor of Women and Health. The Politics of Sex in Medicine (Farm- ingdale, N.Y.: Bavwood Publishing Co., 1982), is an associate professor at the School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests include women's health issues, especially reproductive technologies and policies, and the historv, ethics, and politics of public health. She has published various articles on science and feminism and is author of a forthcoming book entitled "Education foi Public Health, 1916-1939."
MONICA FROLANDER-t LF, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstowni, is interested in the cross-cultural analysis of gender, global political economy, ai(nd Third World developmient. She has conducted field research in Finland, Pittsburgh, and Jamaica. Her written work includes her Ph.D. dissertation, "Women, the Cattle Keepers of Eastern Finland"; a pamphlet entitled How about a Little Strategy? An Idea Book ora Mothers in School or Training (Pittsburgh, 1978); and, with coauthor Frank Lindenfeld, the book A New Earth. The Sigar W'orkers' Cooperatives of Jamaica (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, in press).
CHERYL I OWNSENtD GILKES is anl assistant professor of sociology at Boston Uni- versitv. Her recent publications include articles related to her forthcoming book, "Going Up for the Oppressed: Black Womein and Their Communitx WNork." She
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is currently researching the importance of the Sanctified Church in the reorga- nization of Afro-American religions and community life between 1890 and 1950.
PAULA HARPER, author of Daumier's Clowns: New Biographical and Political Functions for a Nineteenth-Century Myth (New York: Garland Publishing, 1981), is an assistant professor of art history at the University of Miami, Coral Gables. Her concentra- tion is nineteenth-century French art. She has coauthored, with Ralph E. Shikes, Pissaro: His Life and Work (New York: Horizon Press, 1980). BARBARA J. HARRIS is a professor of history at Pace University. She specializes in women's history and that of the family, particularly within the early Tudor period. Her most recent work, written in collaboration with JoAnn McNamara, is "Women and the Structure of Society: Selected Research from the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women." She has just completed a monograph on Edward Stafford, Third Duke of Buckingham (1477-1521). EMILY HONIG is an assistant professor of history at Lafayette College. She is author of Women in the Shanghai Cotton Mills, 1919-1949 (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, in press), a book based on her research on women workers in Shanghai during the Republican period. She is currently working on a book about contemporary urban Chinese women.
TERESA D. LAFROMBOISE, visiting assistant professor in the School of Education at Stanford University, has published articles on counseling and research with American Indians in the Harvard Educational Review, the Journal of Counseling Psychology, and the Journal of College Student Personnel. Her research focuses on the efficacy of culturally adapted counseling interventions for American Indian bicultural competence. GERDA LERNER, Robinson-Edwards Professor of History and WARF Senior Dis- tinguished Research Professor, directs a Ph.D. and an M.A. program in women's history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her most recent published book is The Majority Finds Its Past: Placing Women in History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979). The first volume of her book in progress, "Women and History," will be published by Oxford University Press in the spring of 1986.
JOANNE MEYEROWITZ is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Ohio State University. She is currently writing a book entitled "'Women Adrift': Working Women Apart from Family in Chicago, 1880-1930."
BARBARA MOLONY is an assistant professor of history at the University of Santa Clara who specializes in Japanese economic history. Her current research ex- amines the motivations for and impact of employment of women in textiles, Japan's largest industry before World War II. ELIZABETH ANNE PARENT is an assistant professor and chairperson of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University. She is interested in multicultural education, the history of American Indian education, and women's studies. She recently completed "The Educational Experiences of the Residents of Bethel, Alaska: An Historical Case Study" (Ph.D. diss., Stanford University, 1984). JOAN RINGELHEIM, a fellow at the Institute for Research in History, is director of the Women and the Holocaust Project and the Holocaust Catalog Project. She has also taught philosophy at various universities since 1968. Her recent publications include "The Unethical and the Unspeakable: Women and the Holocaust" (Simon Wiesenthal Annual 1 [1984]: 69-87), and, coedited with Esther Katz, Proceedings of
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the Conference, Women Surviving the Holocaust (New York: Institute for Research in History, 1983). Her article in this issue is part of a larger ongoing research project on women and the Holocaust.
GLORIA RUDOLF is an anthropologist affiliated with the Program for Female Offenders. Her commitment to dealing with issues of inequality has led to diverse work, including directing a research project to aid mothers who are finishing school, and assisting women ex-offenders in their search for employment. She has also conducted research in the highlands of Panama and is currently writing a book about Third World poverty, labor migration, and political movements.
LEILA J. RUPP, author of Mobilizing Women for War: German and American Propa- ganda, 1939-1945 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1978), is an associ- ate professor of history and women's studies at Ohio State University. She has just completed a collaborative study with Verta Taylor of the American women's movement from 1945 to the mid-1960s.
SUSAN SEYMOUR is coordinator of women's studies at the Claremont Colleges and a professor of anthropology at Pitzer College. She is interested in changing house- hold structure, socialization practices, and sex roles in India. She has published various articles on these subjects and a book entitled The Transformation of a Sacred Town: Bhubaneswar, India (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1980). She is currently at work on "Attitudinal Differences between Daughters of Working and Non- working Mothers with Regard to Their Self-Images and Potential Roles in Soci- ety" in cooperation with the Asian Women's Institute.
KATHRYN KISH SKLAR, a professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, is currently studying the political power of American women reformers in the Progressive Era (1880-1932) through a biography of Florence Kelley. She has edited Kelley's autobiography Notes of Sixty Years (Chicago: Charles Kerr, in press). GAYE TUCHMAN is a professor of sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Author and editor of several books on the mass media, she is currently preparing a book on how changes in the nineteenth- century British publishing industry affected the structure of opportunity for Victorian women to become novelists.
UNNI WIKAN is an associate professor of social anthropology and director of the Ethnographic Museum at the University of Oslo. She is interested in research on poverty and gender roles in the Middle East and Indonesia. Her publications in English include Life among the Poor in Cairo (London: Tavistock, 1980), and Behind the Veil in Arabia: Women in Oman (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982).
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