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: Social Psychology, Past and Present: An Integrative Orientation, by Jay M. Jackson. Hillside, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1988, 173 pages, $24.95, cloth. Networks of Power: Organizational Actors at the National, Corporate, and Community Levels, edited by Robert Perrucci and Harry R. Potter. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1989, 136 pages. Charismatic Capitalism: Direct Selling Organizations in America, by Nicole Woolsey Biggart. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1989, 223 pages, $24.95, hardback. Liberal Education and the Corporation: The Hiring and Advancement of College Graduates, by Michael Useem. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1989, xxvii + 216 pages, $39.95, hardback, $16.95, paper. Symbolic Communication: Signifying Calls and the Police Response, by Peter K. Manning. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988, 309 pages, hardback. Assimilation, Colonialism and the Mexican American People, by Edward Murguia. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1989, 124 pages, $9.75, paperback. Jewish Settler Violence: Deviance as Social Reaction, by David Weisburd. University Park and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989, 164 pages, $22.50, hardback. Differentiation Theory and Social Change: Comparative and Historical Perspectives, edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander and Paul Colomy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990, 496 pages, $40.00, hardback. Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond, by Douglas Kellner. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1989, 246 pages, $35.00, cloth, $11.95, paper. Postindustrial Possibilities: A Critique of Economic Discourse, by Fred Block. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990, 227 pages, $35.00, hardback, $12.95, paper. To The Right: The Transformation of American Conservatism, by Jerome L. Himmelstein. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990, 301 pages, $25.00, hardback. Continental Divide: The Values and Institutions of the United States and Canada, by Seymour Martin Lipset. New York: Routledge, 1990, 337 pages, $29.95/US; $35.00/Canada, hardback. Structure and Meaning: Relinking Classical Sociology, by Jeffrey C. Alexander. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989, 258 pages, $35.00, hardback. Emile Durkheim and the Reformation of Sociology, by Stjepan G. Mestrovic. Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1988, 156 pages, $28.50, cloth.     

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

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: Ethnomethodology and the Human Sciences. Graham Button (ed.). Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Text in Context: Contributions to Ethnomethodology. Graham Watson and Robert M. Seiler (eds.). Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992. Shooting Dope: Career Patterns of Hard-Core Heroin Users, by Charles E. Faupel. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1991, 220 pages, $27.95, hardcover. Capitalist Development and Democracy, by Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Evelyne Huber Stephens, and John D. Stephens. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, 387 pages, $45.00, hardback, $19.95, paper. What Does the Lord Require? How American Christians Think about Economic Justice, by Stephen Hart. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, 251 pages, $24.95, hardback. Understanding Everyday Racism: An Interdisciplinary Theory, by Philomena Essed. Newberry Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1991, 322 pages, $44.00, cloth. The Search for Rational Drug Control, by Franklin E. Zimring and Gordon Hawkins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, 219 pages, $24.95, hardback. Micropolitics of Knowledge: Communication and Indirect Control in Workgroups, by Emmanuel Lazega. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1992, 149 pages, $37.95, hardback, $16.95, paperback. Studying Collective Action, Sage Modern Politics Series Volume 30, sponsored by the European Consortium for Political Research/ECPR, edited by Mario Diani and Ron Eyerman. London: Sage, 1992, 263 pages, $60.00, hardback.     

On the limits of “wired identity” in the age of global media

Spaces of Identity: Global Media, Electronic Landscapes, and Cultural Boundaries. David Morley and Kevin Robins. London: Routledge, 1995.257pp.; $55.00 (cloth) $17.95 (paper).

Virtual Geography: Living with Global Media Events. McKenzie Wark. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.253 pp.; $29.95 (cloth) $14.95 (paper).     

BRIEF REVIEWS

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THE LITTLE BOOK OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE. By Howard Zehr. Intercourse, PA: Good Books, 2002. 71pp. $4.95 (paper).

THE NEW WESTMINSTER DICTIONARY OF CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY. Edited by Philip Sheldrake. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2005. 680pp. $49.95.

FAITH, MEDICINE, AND SCIENCE: A FESTSCHRIFT IN HONOR OF DR. DAVID B.LARSON. Edited by Jeff Levin and Harold G. Koenig. New York: The Haworth Pastoral Press, 2005. 321 pp. $49.95, $34.95 (paper). Reviewed by Eleanor Hannon Judah.

EXPLORING THE SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE IN THE 12-STEP PROGRAM OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: SPIRITUS CONTRA SPIRITUM. By Jeff Sandoz. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Meilen Press, 2004. 221 pp. $109.95.

STAMPED WITH THE IMAGE OF GOD: AFRICAN AMERICANS AS GOD'S IMAGE IN BLACK. Edited by Cyprian Davis, OSB, and Jamie Phelps, OP. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2003. 156 pp. $50 (hard), $25 (paper).     

Has the Time Come to Reevaluate Evaluation? or,Who Will Be Accountable for Accountability?

Evaluation with Power: A New Approach to Organizational Effectiveness, Empowerment, and Excellence, by Sandra Trice Gray and Associates. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998. 178 pp., $28.95 cloth (vinyl). Measuring the Performance of Human Services Programs, by Lawrence L. Martin and Peter M. Kettner. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1996. 138 pp., $44.50 cloth, $21.95 paper. Miles to Go: A Personal History of Social Policy, by Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996. 256 pp., $22.95 cloth, $14.95 paper. Outcomes Measurement in the Human Services: Cross-Cutting Issues and Methods, edited by Edward J. Mullen and Jennifer L. Magnabosco. Washington, D.C.: National Association of Social Workers, 1997. 337 pp., $29.55 for members of the National Association of Social Workers, $36.95 for nonmembers, paper. The Best of Intentions: The Triumphs and Failures of the Great Society Under Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, by Irwin Unger. New York: Doubleday, 1996. Out of print.     

Book notes

The Social Mind: Language, Ideology and Social Practice By James Paul Gee. New York: Bergin & Garvey, 1992. 175 pages. $14.95 (paper).

The Afterlife of the Life History. A special issue of the Journal of Narrative and Life History, 2(1). M. Blackman (Ed.), Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1992. 79 pages, $17.50.

Teaching Thinking: An Agenda for the 21st Century. C. Collins & J. N. Mangieri (Eds.). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1992. 362 pages, $69.95; $34.50 (paper).     

Letters to the editor

The western roots of modern same‐sex relationships

Same‐Sex Desire and Love in GrecoRoman Antiquity and in the Classical Tradition of the West, Edited by Beert C. Verstraete &; Vernon Provencal. New York: Huntington Park Press, 2006, 491 pages. Cloth, $69.95; Paper, $49.95.

Students go to “sex camp” and write back love letters

Sex Camp, By Brian McNaught. Bloomington, IN: Author House, 2005, 446 Pages. Cloth, $31.50; Paper, $21.75; Electronic, $5.95.

Complexity of sexuality: shifting to a focus on sexuality in close relationships

The Handbook of Sexuality in Close Relationships, Edited by John H. Harvey, Amy Wenzel, &; Susan Sprecher. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004, 668 pages. Cloth, $125.00; Paper $65.00.     

Book reviews

The Anthropology of Europe: Identity and Boundaries in Conflict. Victoria A. Goddard, Josep R. Llobera and Cris Shore, eds. Oxford: Berg Publishers Ltd, 1994. 310 pp. $45.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paper).

Inside European Identities: Ethnography in Western Europe. Sharon MacDonald, ed., Oxford: Berg Publishers Ltd, 1993. 247pp. $ 49.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paper).     

Current Puelications Received

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Europe in Our Time: 1914 to the Present. Revised Edition. By Robert Ergang. Boston: D. C. Heath and Company, 1953. Pp. 576. $6.00. Reviewed by Bernard C. Weber.

The Big Change (America Transforms Itself.) By Frederick Lewis Allen. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1952. Pp. 290. $4.00. Reviewed by Joseph M. Gottschalk.

Wellsprings of Democracy. By John M. Brewer. New York: Philosophical Library. Hallmark-Hubner Press, Inc., 1952. Pp. xii, 232. $4.50. Reviewed by J. F. Santee.

Crime in Modern Society. By Mabel A. Elliott. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1952. Pp. xvi, 874. $6.00. Reviewed by Jerry A. Neprash.

The Keystone State. Geography, History and Government. By Arthur D. Graeff. Philadelphia, Pa.: John C. Winston Company, 1953. Pp. xxiv, 380. $3.60. Reviewed by David W. Harr.

The Life and Times of Daniel Lindley. By Edwin W. Smith. New York: Library Publishers, 1952. Pp. xiii, 456. $5.50. Reviewed by Wilfred T. Grenfell.

Soviet Civilization, By Corliss Lamont. New York: Philosophical Library, 1952. Pp. x, 433. $5.00. Reviewed by Richard H. Bauer.

The Suez Canal in World Affairs. By Hugh J. Schoufield. New York: Philosophical Library, 1953. Pp. xvi, 174. $4.50.     

BRIEF REVIEWS

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THE POORHOUSE: AMERICA'S FORGOTTEN INSTITUTION. By David Wagner. Lanham, MD: Rowman &; Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005. 177 pp. $60.00 (hard), $22.95 (paper). Reviewed by Eleanor Hannon Judah.

PARISH MINISTRY IN A HISPANIC COMMUNITY. By Charles W. Dahm, OP. New York/Mahwah NJ: Paulist Press, 2004. 296 pp. $22.95 (paper). Reviewed by Eleanor Hannon Judah

SPIRITUAL ASSESSMENT: HANDBOOK FOR HELPING PROFESSIONALS. By David R. Hodge. Botsford, CT: North American Association of Christians in Social Work, 2003. 121 pp. $18.00 (paper). Reviewed by Eleanor Hannon Judah.

SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE ACROSS DISABILITY. By Juliet C. Rothman, Boston, MA: Allyn &; Bacon, 2003. 346 pp. $52.20 (paper). Reviewed by Eleanor Hannon Judah.

SILENCE AND WITNESS: THE QUAKER TRADITION. By Michael L. Birkel. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2004. 164 pp. $16.00 (paper). Reviewed by Eleanor Hannon Judah.

JUSTICE: A GLOBAL ADVENTURE. By Walter J. Burghardt. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Press, 2004. 276 pp. $20.00 (paper). Reviewed by Eleanor Hannon Judah.     

BOOK REVIEWS

ABSTRACT

LESBIAN LEGAL THEORY REMAINS UNDOMESTICATED. SAPPHO GOES TO LAW SCHOOL: FRAGMENTS IN LESBIAN LEGAL THEORY. Robson, Ruthann. NY: Columbia University Press, 1998, 303 pp., $17.50 paper, ISBN 0-231-10561-4; $49.50 cloth, ISBN 0-231-10560-6. Reviewed by Martha T. Zingo.

TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT POLITICS, THE INTERLOCKING NATURE OF OPPRESSIONS, RESISTANCE AND THE VALUE OF BLACK LESBIAN LIVES. THE TRUTH THAT NEVER HURTS: WRITINGS ON RACE, GENDER, AND FREEDOM, Smith, Barbara. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998. Reviewed by Kim Vaz.

LESBIAN COUPLES ARE FAMILIES, TOO. THE LESBIAN FAMILY LIFE CYCLE (2nd Ed.). Slater, Suzanne. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999, Hardcover, $25.00; Paperback, $14.95. Reviewed by Anna Myers.

THE MANY FACES OF ANNE. FEMALE FORTUNE: LAND, GENDER AND AUTHORITY: THE ANNE LISTER DIARIES AND OTHER WRITINGS 1833-36. Liddington, Jill. New York: Rivers Oram Press, 1998, $50. Reviewed by Mary Eichbauer.

THE EVOLUTION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION: EMBRACING A FAMILY PERSPECTIVE. LESBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL IDENTITIES IN FAMILIES: PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES. Patterson, Charlotte J., and Anthony R. D'Augelli (Eds.). New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Reviewed by Phillip Hammack.

TRU ADVENTURES. CHIMNEY ROCK BLUES. McClellan, Janet. Naiad Press,Inc., 1999, $11.95. Reviewed by Ann E. Maloney.

WIDENING THE LENS. MARGARET MEAD AND RUTH BENEDICT: THE KINSHIP OF WOMEN. Lapsley, Hilary. University of Massachusetts Press, 1999, $39.95 cloth. Reviewed by Kimberly F. Balsam.

GAY AND LESBIAN RELATIONSHIPS: COMMITMENT, CEREMONIES, AND MARRIAGE. FROM THIS DAY FORWARD: COMMITMENT, MARRIAGE, AND FAMILY IN LESBIAN AND GAY RELATIONSHIPS. Stiers, Gretchen A. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999, $24.95. Reviewed by Robin E. Roy.

ROMANCING THE GENERATION GAP. DAWN OF THE DANCE. Martin, Marianne K. Tallahassee, FL: The Naiad Press,Inc., 1999, $11.95. SILVER THREADS. Denison, Lyn. Tallahassee, FL: The Naiad Press,Inc., 1999, $11.95. Reviewed by Margaret Soenser Breen.     

Defining the Nonprofit Sector Cross-Nationally

Defining the Nonprofit Sector: A Cross-National Analysis, by Lester M. Salamon and Helmut K. Anheier. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997. 526 pp., $29.95 paperback. The Nonprofit Sector in France, by Edith Archambault. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997. 324 pp., $27.95 paperback. The Nonprofit Sector in Italy, edited by Gian Paolo Barbetta. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997. 309 pp., $59.95. The Nonprofit Sector in Sweden, by Tommy Lundstrom and Filip Wijkstrom. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997. 345 pp., $69.95.     

Muscular performance following coitus∗

Amir, Menachem. Patterns in Forcible Rape. Forword by Marvin E. Wolfgang. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971. 394 pages. Price $15.00.

Christenson, Cornelia V. Kinsey, a Biograghy. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana Univ. Press, 1971. xii + 241 pp. $6.95.

Gordon, David Cole. Self‐Love. Baltimore, Md: Penguin Books, 1972. 96 pages. $1.00 (paperback).

Harper, Robert A. and Walter Stokes. 45 Levels to Sexual Understanding and Enjoyment. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1972. 231 pages. $6.95.

O'Neill, George, Ph.D. and O'Neill, Nena, Open Marriage, A New Life Style for Couples. New York, N. Y.: M. Evans and Co. (distributed by Lippincott) 1972. 287 pages. $6.95

Parker, William. Homosexuality. A Selective Bibliography of Over 3,000 Items. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1971.

Weinberg, Martin S. and Alan P. Bell. Homosexuality. An Annotated Bibliography. New York, N. Y.: Harper and Row, 1972. 550 pages. $15.00.     

The why and how of volunteering

Volunteers: A Social Profile, by Marc A. Musick and John Wilson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. 680 pp., $39.95 cloth. The Decision to Volunteer: Why People Give Their Time and How You Can Engage Them, by Beth Gazley and Monica Dignam. Washington, D.C.: ASAE and the Center for Association Leadership, 2008. 144 pp., $89.85 paper. Challenges in Volunteer Management, edited by Matthew Liao‐Troth. Charlotte, N.C.: Information Age, 2008. 292 pp., $73.99 cloth, $39.99 paper.     

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

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TANGLED RELATIONSHIPS: MANAGING BOUNDARY ISSUES IN THE HUMAN SERVICES. By Frederic G. Reamer. New York: Columbia University Press 2001. 214 pp. $45.00 (hard), $22.50 (paper). Reviewed by Patricia O'Donnell, DSW

SPIRITUALITY WITHIN RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS IN SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE. Edited by Mary Van Hook, Beryl Hugen, and Marian Aguilar. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Press, 2001. 300 pp. $43.95. Reviewed by Chris Stewart, PhD

SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGION IN SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE: DECISION CASES WITH TEACHING NOTES. Edited by T. Laine Scales, Terry A. Wolfer, David A. Sherwood, Diana R. Garland, Beryl Hugen, and Sharon Pitman. Alexandria, VA: Council on Social Work Education, 2002. 219 pp. $29.95 (paper). Reviewed by Michael J. Sheridan

THEINVISIBLECARINGHAND:AMERICANCONGREGATIONS AND THE PROVISION OF WELFARE. By Ram A. Cnaan, with Stephanie C. Boddie, Femida Handy, Gaynor Yancey, and Richard Schneider. New York: New York University Press, 2002. 328 pp. $60 (hard), $19.50 (paper)., Reviewed by Bruce D. Friedman

UNDERSTANDING POVERTY Edited by Sheldon H. Danziger and Robert H. Haveman. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001. 566 pp. $55.00 (hard), $24.95 (paper). Reviewed by Edward J. Ryle