BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Any Way You Cut It: Meat Processing and Small-Town America, edited by Donald Stull, Michael Broadway, and David Griffith. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1995, 269 pages. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $17.95. The Changing American Countryside: Rural People and Places, edited by Emery Castle. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1995, 563 pages. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $25.00. Work, Self and Society: After Industrialization, by Catherine Casey. London and New York: Routledge, 1995, 264 pages. Cloth, $19.95. The American Street Gang: Its Nature, Prevalence, and Control, by Malcolm W. Klein: New York: Oxford University Press, 1995, 270 pages. Cloth, $27.50. Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism, by Kevin Anderson. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1995, 311 pages. Cloth, $19.95.Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and Political Power in the United States, by Sara Diamond. New York: Guilford Press, 1995, 445 pages. Paper, $19.95. Memories of Migration: Gender, Ethnicity, and Work in the Lives of Jewish and Italian Women in New York, 1870–1924, by Kathie Friedman-Kasaba. New York: State University of New York Press, 1996, 242 pages. Paper, $19.95. Feminism and Social Change: Bridging Theory and Practice, edited by Heidi Gottfried. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996, 286 pages. Cloth, $55.95; paper, $16.50. Engendering Motherhood: Identity and Self-Transformation in Women's Lives, by Martha McMahon. New York: Guilford Press, 1995,324 pages. Paper, $15.25. Talking Union, by Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996, 277 pages. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $15.95. Im/partial Science: Gender Ideology in Molecular Biology, by Bonnie B. Spanier. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995, 227 pages. Paper, $15.45. Resisting Reagan: The U.S. Central America Peace Movement, by Christian Smith. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996, 464 pages. Paper, $16.95. American Indian Ethnic Renewal: Red Power and the Resurgence of Identity and Culture, by Joane Nagel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, 298 pages. Cloth, $45.00.     

Marxism,Post-Marxism,or Post-Post-Marxism?

Book reviewed in this article:
Marxism in the Postmodern Age: Confronting the New World Order , edited by Antonio Callari, Stephen Cullenberg, and Carole Biewener. New York: Guilford, 1995, 560 pages. Cloth $49.95; paper $19.95.
After Marxism , by Ronald Aronson. New York: Guilford, 1995, 321 pages. Paper $18.95.
The Semiotic Self : by Norbert Wiley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994, 250 pages. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $19.95.
Reshaping the Female Body: The Dilemma of'Cosmetic Surgery , by Kathy Davis. New York and London: Routledge, 1995, 206 pages. Cloth $55.00; paper $16.95.
Fear of Crime: Interpreting Victimization Risk , by Kenneth F. Ferraro. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995, 179 pages. Paper, $19.95
Auto Opium: A Social History of American Automobile Design , by David Gartman. London and New York: Routledge, 1994, 264 pages. Paper, $17.95.
Berefi of Reason: On the Decline of Social Thought and Prospects for Its Renewal , by Eugene Halton. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995, 304 pages. Cloth, $39.95.
A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882–1930 , by Stewart E. Tolnay and E. M. Beck. University of Illinois Press, 1995. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95.
Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945–1960 , by Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994, 307 pages. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $16.95.
The Executive Way: Conflict Management in Corporations, by Calvin Morrill . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Cloth, $29.95.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Antonio Candido: On Literature and Society, translated, edited, and introduced by Howard S. Becker. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995,198 pages. Paper, $17.95; cloth, $49.50. [A]uthors use the material of social observation and analysis as the basis of the structure of a work more than its content. The most successful works, artistically, are those in which the form exemplifies the nature of the social phenomenon that furnishes the matter of the fiction, (p. xiii) Teaching Sociology with Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography, compiled by Su Epstein. Washington DC: ASA Teaching Resources, 1996, 80 pages. Paper, $10.50 members /$14.50 nonmembers. Who Will Care for Us?: Aging and Long-Term Care in Multicultural America, by Ronald J. Angel and Jacqueline L. Angel. New York: New York University Press, 304 pages. Cloth, $29.95. Black elderly report generally poorer health than non-Hispanic Whites, but Mexican Americans rate their health as far worse than either of the other two groups. We suspect that this is, to at least some degree, the result of semantic differences between the English and Spanish versions of the question, (pp. 40, 42) The Golden Age Illusion: Rethinking Postwar Capitalism, by Michael J. Webber and David L. Rigby. New York: Guilford Press, 501 pages. Cloth, $45.00. Modernity and the State: East, West, by Claus Offe. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996, 270 pages. Paper, $18.00.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Sociology after the Crisis, by Charles Lemert. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995, 252 pages. Paper, $19.95. Sociological Theory: What Went Wrong? Diagnoses and Remedies, by Nicos Mouzelis. London and New York: Routledge, 1995, 220 pages. Paper, $17.95. Symbolic Interaction and Ethnographic Research: Intersubjectivity and the Study of Human Lived Experience, by Robert Prus. New York: State University of New York Press, 1995, 156 pages. Paper, $19.95. Identity Designs: The Sights and Sounds of a Nation, by Karen A. Cerulo. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995, 252 pages. Cloth, $55.75. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic, by Wendy Simonds. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, 280 pages. Cloth, $48.00; paper, $14.95. Between Voice and Silence: Women and Girls, Race and Relationship, by Jill McLean Taylor, Carol Gilligan, and Amy M. Sullivan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996, 353 pages. Cloth, $22.00.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Sociology Responds to Fascism , edited by Stephen P. Turner and Dirk Käsler. London and New York: Routledge, 1992, x + 261 pages. Cloth, $69.95.
The Professionalization of Psychology in Nazi Germany , by Ulfried Geuter. Translated by Richard J. Holmes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, xxi + 335 pages. Cloth, $54.95.
Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage, and Power at the End of the Renaissance , by Guido Ruggiero. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 286 pages. Paper, $18.95.
Family, Church, and Market: A Mennonite Community in the Old and the New Worlds , Z850-Z930, by Royden K. Loewen. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993, 370 pages. Cloth, $42.50; paper, $19.95.
A History of Race Relations Research: First Generation Recollections , edited by John H. Stanfield 11. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1993, 286 pages. Cloth, $46.00; paper, $23.95.
Full Pews and Empty Altars: Demographics of the Priest Shortage in United States Catholic Dioceses , by Richard A. Schoenherr and Lawrence A. Young, with the collaboration of Tsan-Yuang Cheng. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1993, 460 pages. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $19.95.
Money and the Modern Mind , by Gianfranco Poggi. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993, 228 pages. Cloth, $30.00.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Working-Class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory , edited by Michelle M. Tokarczyk and Elizabeth A. Fay. Amherst, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993, 321 pages. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $18.95.
My Tears Spoiled My Aim and Other Reflections on Southern Culture , by John Shelton Reed. Columbia, Missouri, and London: University of Missouri Press, 1993, 148 pages. Cloth, $17.95.
Declining Fortunes: The Withering of the American Dream , by Katherine S. Newman. New York: Basic Books, 1993, 257 pages. Cloth, $23.00.
The Critical Mass in Collective Action: A Micro-Social Theory , by Gerald Marwell and Pamela Oliver. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, 206 pages.
Forgotten Places: Uneven Development in Rural America , edited by Thomas A. Lyson and William A. Falk. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993, 278 pages. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $14.95.
Money Talks: Corporate PACs and Political Influence , by Dan Clawson, Alan Neustadtl, and Denise Scott. New York: Basic Books, 1992, 272 pages. Cloth, $25.00; paper, $13.00.
Justification and Application: Remarks on Discourse Ethics , by Jurgen Habermas. Translated by Ciaran P. Cronin. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993, 197 pages. Cloth, $24.95.
Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview , by Audrey Smedley. Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 1993, 340 pages. Cloth, $48.50.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The American Grocery Store: The Business Evolution of an Architectural Space, by James M. Mayo. (Contributions in American History, No. 150). Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1993, 304 pages. Cloth, $59.95 Supermarkets Transformed: Understanding Organizational and Technological Innovations by John P. Walsh. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1993, 184 pages. Cloth $36.00. The Agricultural and Food Sector in the New Global Era, edited by Alessandro Bonanno. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company, 1933, 203 pages. Paper, $12.95. Gay Cops, by Stephen Leinen. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1993, 245 pages. Cloth, $22.95. The Death of Meaning, by George V. Zito. London and Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993, 162 pages. Cloth, $49.95 For Democracy: The Noble Character and Tragic Flaws of the Middle Class, by Ronald M. Glassman, William H. Swatos, Jr., and Peter Kivisto. (Contributions in Sociology, No. 105.) Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1993, 174 pages. Cloth, $49.95. AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame, by Paul Farmer. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992, 338 pages. Paper; $13.00. Paying the Piper: Causes and Consequences of Art Patronage, edited by Judith Huggins Balfe. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993, 336 pages. Paper. Thinking Critically About Research on Sex and Gender, by Paula J. Caplan and Jeremy B. Caplan. New York: Harper Collins, 1994, 125 pages. Paper, $10. Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives, edited by Craig Calhoun, Edward LiPluma, and Moishe Postone. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1993, 288 pages. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $16.95. Provisional Irish Republicans: An Oral and Interpretive History, by Robert W. White. (Contributions in Political Science, No. 309.) Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993, 206 pages. Cloth, $55.00. Risky Business: The Political Economy of Hollywood, by David F. Prindle. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993, 189 pages. Cloth, $49.95. The Constant Flux: A Study of Class Mobility in Industrial Societies, by Robert Erikson and John H. Goldthorpe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992, 429 pages, Paper, $19.95. Social Theory and Social Policy: Essays in Honor of James S. Coleman, edited by Aage B. Sbrensen and Seymour Spilerman. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993, 272 pages. Cloth, $59.95. Painful Inheritance: Health and the New Generation of Fatherless Families, by Ronald J. Angel and Jacqueline L. Angel. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993, 264 pages. Cloth, $52.00; paper, $19.95     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Foucault, Health and Medicine, edited by A. Petersen and R. Bunton. London: Routledge, 1997, 264 pages, cloth, $75.00; paper, $20.99.
Bodies in Protest: Environmental Illness and the Struggle over Medical Knowledge, by S. Kroll-Smith and H. H. Floyd. New York: New York University Press, 1997, 217 pages. Cloth, $24.95.
Letters to Cristina: Reflections on My Life and Work, by Paulo Freire and translated by Donaldo Macedo with Quilda Macedo and Alexandre Oliveira. Notes by Ana Maria Araujo Freire. New York: Routledge, 1996. 259 pages. Paper, $16.95.
Wittgenstein, Rules and Institutions, by David Bloor. New York: Routledge, 1997, xvi + 173 pages. Cloth, $65.00.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Rationality and Nature: A Sociological Inquiry into a Changing Relationship, by Raymond Murphy. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994, 295 pages. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $21.95. Is Capitalism Sustainable? Political Economy and the Politics of Ecology, edited by Martin O'Connor. New York: Guilford, 1994,283 pages. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $17.95. Cultivating Crisis: The Human Cost of Pesticides in Latin America, by Douglas L. Murray. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994, 208 pages. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $17.95. The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty, by Jill Quadagno. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994, 254 pages. Cloth, $24.00. Editors as Gatekeepers: Getting Published in the Social Sciences, edited by Rita J. Simon and James J. Fyfe. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1994, 275 pages. Cloth, $53.50; paper $22.95. Sexual Salvation: Affirming Women's Sexual Rights and Pleasures, by Naomi B. McCormick. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994, 284 pages, $16.95. Militancy, Market Dynamics, and Workplace Authority: The Struggles over Labor Process Outcomes in the U.S. Automobile Industry, 1946–1973, by James R. Zetka Jr. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994, 292 pages. Cloth, $18.95. Sociology and Visual Representation, by Elizabeth Chaplin. London and New York: Routledge, 1994, 304 pages. Paper, $19.95. Urban Leviathan: Mexico City in the Twentieth Century, by Diane E. Davis. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994, 391 pages. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $24.95. Appalachia in an International Context: Cross-National Comparisons of Developing Regions, edited by Phillip J. Obermiller and William W. Philliber. Westport, CT, and London: Praeger, 1994, 256 pages. Cloth, $55.00. Law in the Sociological Enterprise: A Reconstruction, by Lisa J. McIntyre. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994, 240 pages. Cloth, $52.50; paper, $16.95. Against All Odds: Rural Community in the Information Age, by John C. Allen and Don A. Dillman. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994, 238 pages. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.95. Fundamental Feminism: Contesting the Core Concepts of Feminist Theory, by Judith Grant. New York: Routledge, 1993, 226 pages. Cloth $52.50; paper, $16.95. The Rise and Fall of Catholic Religious Orders: A Social Movement Perspective, by Patricia Wittberg, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994, 423 pages. Cloth, $74.50; paper, $24.95. White Racism: The Basics, by Joe R. Feagin and Hernan Vera. New York: Routledge, 1995, 230 pages. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $16.95.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The Spectacle of History: Speech, Text, and Memory at the Iran-Contra Hearings, by Michael Lynch and David Bogen. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996, 348 pages. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $18.95
The Lynching of Language: Gender, Politics, and Power in the Hill-Thomas Hearings, by Sandra L. Ragan, Dianne G. Bystrom, Lynda Lee Kaid, and Christina S. Beck (eds.). Urbana: The University of Illinois Press, 1996, 293 pages. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $15.95.
"Media events are ceremonial hybrids: part spectacles, part festivals, part texts, part performances." (Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz in Durkheimian Sociology: Cultural Studies, ed. by Jeffrey C. Alexander, 1986, p. 166)
New Social Movements in Western Europe: A Comparative Analysis, by Hanspe-ter Kriesi, Ruud Koopmans, Jan Willem Duyvendak, and Marco G. Giugni. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995, 344 pages. Paper, $21.95.
Leading Sectors and World Powers: The Coevolution of Global Economics and Global Politics, by George Modelski and William R. Thompson. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1996, 263 pages. Cloth, $29.95.
The Agony of Education: Black Students at White Colleges and Universities, by Joe R. Feagin, Hernan Vera, and Nikitah Imani. New York: Routledge Press, 1996, 22 pages. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $17.95.
The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture and Deviance at NASA, by Diane Vaughan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996, 575 pages. Cloth, $24.95.
The Myth of Social Action, by Colin Campbell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, 199 pages. Cloth, $49.95.
Organizing for Equality: The Evolution of Women's and Racial-Ethnic Organizations in America, 1955–1985, by Debra C. Minkoff. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995, 176 pages. Cloth, $48.00.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
On Becoming Homeless: The Shelterization Process for Homeless Families, by Ione Y. DeOllos. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1997, Cloth, $56.00; paper $34.50.
Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from The Baffler, edited by Thomas Frank and Matt Weiland. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997, 288 pages. Cloth, $25.00; paper, $15.00.
Multivariate Analysis Techniques in Social Science Research, by Jacques Tacq. Thousand Oaks, CA and London: Sage, 1997, 411 pages. Cloth $89.95; paper, $38.95.
Nationalism and Literature: The Politics of Culture in Canada and the United States, by Sarah M. Corse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, 213 pages. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $17.95.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Sociology and Nature: Social Action in Context, by Raymond Murphy. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997. 321 pages. Cloth, $72.00.
Natural Causes: Essays in Ecological Marxism, by James O'Connor. New York, NY: The Guilford Press, 1998. 350 pages. Paper, $19.95.
Understanding Globalization: The Social Consequences of Political, Economic, and Environmental Change, by Robert K. Schaeffer. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997. 360 pages. Paper, $21.95.
Ethnic Families in America: Patterns and Variations, edited by Charles H. Mindel, Robert W. Haberstein, Roosevelt Wright Jr., Fourth Edition. Upper Saddle River: NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998. 518 pages. Paper, $37.60.
Shelter Blues: Sanity and Selfhood Among the Homeless, by Robert Desjarlais. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. 307 pages. Cloth, $42.50; paper, $19.95.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The People in the Playground . Iona Opie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, 240 pages. Cloth, $60.00.
Gender Play . Barrie Thorne. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1993, 237 pages. Cloth, $30.00; paper, $12.95.
Ideal Citizens: The Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement . James Max Fendrich. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1993, 202 pages. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $16.95.
The Shadow of Dionysus: A Contribution to the Sociology of the Orgy . Michel Maffesoli. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993, 167 pages. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $16.50.
Jones's Minimal: Low-Wage Labor in the United States . David Griffith. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993, xvii, 266 pages. Cloth, $44.50; paper, $14.95.
The Politics of Pensions: A Comparative Analysis of Britain, Canada, and the United States, 1880–1940 . Ann Shola Orloff. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1993, 381 pages. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $19.95.
Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France . Robert A. Nye. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 316 pages.
Adolescence: An Anthropological Inquiry . Alice Schlegel and Herbert Barry III. New York: Free Press, 1991, 263 pages. Cloth, $29.95.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Indians ‘R’ Us? Culture and Genocide in Native North America, by Ward Churchill. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1994, 382 pages. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $14.95. Ending the Cold War at Home: From Militarism to a More Peaceful World Order, by Sam Marullo. New York: Lexington Books, 1993, 275 pages. Cloth, $29.95. The Homeless, by Christopher Jencks. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994, 161 pages. Cloth, $17.95. Careers and Creativity: Social Forces in the Arts, by Harrison C. White. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1993, 256 pages. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $16.95. Race and the City: Work, Community, and Protest in Cincinnati, 1820–1970, edited by Henry Louis Taylor Jr. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993, 308 pages. Cloth, $44.95. The Rope, the Chair, and the Needle: Capital Punishment in Texas, 1923–1990, by James W. Marquart, Sheldon Ekland-Olson, and Jonathan R. Sorensen. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994, 275 pages. Cloth, $24.95. Gangbangs and Drive-bys: Grounded Culture and Juvenile Gang Violence, by William B. Sanders. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1994, 195 pages. Cloth, $35.95; paper $17.95. Goodness Personified: The Emergence of Gifted Children, by Leslie Margolin. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1994, 156 pages. Cloth, $55.00. Public Reactions to Nuclear Waste: Citizens’Views of Repository Siting, edited by Riley E. Dunlap, Michael E. Kraft, and Eugene A. Rosa. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993, 332 pages. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $24.95. Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism, edited by Gary Gereffi and Miguel Korzeniewicz. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994, 334 pages. Cloth, $56.00; paper, $22.95. The Farm Labor Movement in the Midwest: Social Change and Adaptation among Migrant Farmworkers, by W. K. Barger and Ernesto M. Reza. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994, 235 pages. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $15.95.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Who is Black? One Nation's Definition, by F. James Davis. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991, 204 pages, $25.00, hardback, $12.50, paperback. The Social Mobility of Women: Beyond Male Mobility Models, edited by Geoff Payne and Pamela Abbott. London: The Falmer Press, 1990, 193 pages, $49.00 hardback, $25.00 paperback. Group Work with Older Adults, by Ronald W. Toseland. New York: New York University Press, 1990, 221 pages, $35.00, hardcover. Social Studies of Science, by Bernard Barber. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Transaction Publishers, 1990, 278 pages, $34.95, hardback. Kamikaze Biker: Parody and Anomy in Affluent Japan, by Ikuya Sato. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991, 277 pages, $34.95, hardback. Serial Murderers and Their Victim, by Eric W. Hickey. Pacific Grove, Calif.: Brooks/Kole, 1991, 265 pages, $14.50, paperback. Metatheorizing in Sociology, by George Ritzer. Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1991, 362 pages, $49.95, hardback.     

Book reviews

Krafft‐ebing: a reconsideration

Step Children of Nature: Krafft‐Ebing, Psychiatry, and the Making of Sexual Identity. By Harry Oosterhuis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000, 321 pages. Cloth, $30.00.

Love american style

Love and Eroticism. Edited by Mike Featherstone. London: 1999, 425 pages. Paper, $24.95.

Doing the right thing: Three new books on the importance of sex

Male, Female: The Evolution of Human Sex Differences. By David C. Geary. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 1998, 410 pages. Cloth, $49.95. Why Sex Matters. By Bobbi Low. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999, 328 pages. Cloth, $29.95. Sex Differences: Developmental and Evolutionary Strategies. By Linda Mealey. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 2000, 492 pages. Cloth, $79.95.

Courageous, compassionate, and scholarly: An evolutionary analysis of rape and male sexual coercion

A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion. By Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2000, 251 pages. Cloth, $28.95.

Deconstructing the discourse of sexual dimorphism: rethinking, bending, and crossing sexual boundaries

Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. By Anne Fausto‐Sterling. New York: Basic Books, 2000, 473 pages. Cloth, $35.00.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life , by Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton. New York: Harper & Row, 1985, 355 pages, $8.95 softcover.
The Good Society , by Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991, 347 pages, $25.00 hardcover.
Acts of Compassion: Caring for Others and Helping Ourselves , by Robert Wuthnow, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991, $25.00 hardcover
The Consequences of Modernity , by Anthony Giddens. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1990, 186 pages, $9.95 softcover, $29.50 hardcover.
A Future for the American Economy: The Social Market , by Severyn T. Bruyn. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1991, 362 pages, $60.00 hardback.
Work in the Fast Lane: Flexibility, Division of Labor, and Inequality in High-Tech Industries , by Glenna Colclough and Charles M. Tolbert II. Ithaca, NY: State University of New York Press, 1992, 157 pages, $16.95, paper.
Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty and the Underclass , by Christopher Jencks. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992,280 pages, $27.95 hardback.
They Call Her Pastor: A New Role for Catholic Women , by Ruth A. Wallace. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992, 204 pages, $44.50 (est.) hardback, $14.95 (est.) paper.     

Book reviews

New scholarship on rape in American history

Sex Without Consent: Rape and Sexual Coercion in America. Edited by Merril D. Smith. New York: New York University Press, 2001, 308 pages. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $19.50.

The enigma of sexual desire

Sexual Appetite, Desire and Motivation: Energetics of the Sexual System. Edited by Walter Everaerd, Ellen Laan, and Stephanie Both. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Knaw Edita, 2001, 156 pages. Paper, NLG 80.00, Euro 36.30.

American sex in the private and public sectors

Sex, Love, and Health in America: Private Choices and Public Policies. Edited by Edward O. Laumann and Robert T. Michael. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2000, 535 pages. Hardcover, $48.

Enlarging the landscape of sexual pleasure

Good Sex: Feminist Perspectives from the World's Religions. Edited by Patricia Beattie Jung, Mary E. Hunt, and Radhika Balakrishnan. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001, 220 pages. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.00.

Another stab at sexual theory

The Role of Theory in Sex Research. Edited by John Bancroft. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2000, 366 pages. Cloth, $49.95.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Artificial Experts: Social Knowledge and Intelligent Machines , by H. M. Collins. Cambrige, MA and London, England: MIT Press, 1990, 266 + XIII pages, $19.95, hardback.
Images of Issues: Typifying Contemporary Social Problems , edited by Joel Best. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1989, 258 pages, $34.95, hardback, $16.95, paper.
An End to Shame: Shaping Our Next Sexual Revolution , by Ira L. Reiss with Harriet M. Reiss. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1990, 287 pages, $21.95, hardback.
Structures of Power and Constraint: Papers in Honor of Peter M. Blau , edited by Craig Calhoun, Marshall W. Meyer, and W. Richard Scott. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, 495 pages, $65.00, hardback.
Social Entropy Theory , by Kenneth D. Bailey. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990, 310 pages, $54.50, cloth, $17.95, paper.
Sociological Theories in Progress: New Formulations , by Joseph Berger, Morris Zelditch and Bo Anderson (eds.). Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 1989, 416 pages, $42.00.     

Parental Love and Gender Affirmation Leads a New Transgender Movement

The development of the pill

On the Pill: A Social History of Oral Contraceptives, 1950–1970. By Elizabeth Siegel Watkins. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998, 183 pages. Cloth, $25.95.

Hermaphrodites then and now

Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex. By Alice Domurat Dreger. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998, 266 pages. Cloth, $35.00.

Coming home to our sexual selves

Women's Sexuality Across the Life Span: Challenging Myths, Creating Meanings. By Judith C. Daniluk. New York: The Guilford Press, 1998, 416 pages. Cloth, $36.95.

Behavioral Strategies in the Prevention of HIV Infection, STDs, and Unintended Pregnancy

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