Button‐pressers versus picture‐makers: The social reconstruction of amateur photography in the late 19th century U.S.

Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method, New Mexico University Press, 1986, By John, Collier, Jr. and Malcom Collier

Snapshot Versions of Life, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1987, By Richard Chalfen

Six‐Guns and Society: A Structural Study of the Western, University of California Press, 1975, By Will Wright, St. Lawrence University

Bitter Melon: Stories from the Last Rural Chinese Town in America, University of Washington Press, 1987, By Jeff Gillenkirk and James Motlow

Committing Photography ‐ Yes and No, But Mostly Yes. A Review Essay of Committing Photography, by Su Braden, Pluto Press, 1983

Sociology in a Changing World, by William Kornblum, Holt, Reinehart, and Winston, 1987     

Book reviews

The Skewed Revolution: Trends in South African Higher Education 1988–1998. By David Cooper and George Subotzky. Cape Town: Education Policy Unit of the University of the Western Cape. 2001. 284 pages. Paperback

Africanizing Anthropology: Fieldwork, Networks and the Making of Cultural Knowledge in Central Africa. By Lyn Schumaker. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2001. 376 & xii pages.

On the Postcolony By Achille Mbembe. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 2001. 274pp. Paperback.

Fighting Poverty: Labour Markets and Inequality in South African Studies. By Haroon Bhorat, Murray Leibbrandt, Muzi Maziya, Servaas van der Berg and Ingrid Woolard. Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press. 2001. 252 pages.     

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

High‐Risk Sexual Behavior: Interventions With Vulnerable Populations. By Evvie Becker, Elizabeth Rankin, and Annette U. Rickel. New York: Plenum Press, 1998, 168 pages. Cloth, $39.50.

Sexual health expertise and the primary care provider

Sexual Medicine in Primary Care. By William L. Maurice. St. Louis, MO: Mosby, 1999, 366 pages. Paper, $39.95.     

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

Abstract

Human Services at Risk: Administrative Strategies for Survival , edited by Felice Davidson Permutter. Boston, MA: Lexington Books, D.C. Heath and Company, 1984. Reviewed by Mona Struhsaker Schatz

Supervising Student Internships in Human Services , edited by Carlton E. Munson. New York: The Haworth Press, 1984. Reviewed by Harvey Bertcher

Transactional Analysis for Social Workers and Counsellors: An Introduction , by Elizabeth Pitman. London and Boston: Library of Social Work, Routhledge and Kegan Paul, 1984. Reviewed by Edward G. Kuhlmann

Ages in Conflict: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Inequality Between Old and Young , by Nancy Foner. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. Reviewed by Bruce A. Thyer

Clinical Social Work in Health Settings , by Thomas Owen Carlton. New York: Springer Publishing Co., 1984. Reviewed by John R. Ball     

Extended review

The National Liberation Struggle in South Africa. A Case Study of the United Democratic Front, 1983–1987 by Gregory F. Houston. Aldershot: Ashgate. 1999. 299pp. (Available in South Africa in paperback from the Human Sciences Research Council.)

The UDF. A History of the United Democratic Front in South Africa, 1883–1991 by Jeremy Seekings. Cape Town: David Philip. 2000. 371pp.

’Beyond our Wildest Dreams’, the United Democratic Front and the Transformation of South Africa by Ineke van Kessel. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. 2000. 367pp.     

The Why,What, and How of Teaching Children Social Skills

Abstract

The History of Peace: A Short Account of the Organized Movements For International Peace, By A. C. F. Beales, Lincoln Mac Veagh, The Dial Press, New York, 1931. viii, 355 pp. Reviewed by: Lloyd W. Truman.

England in the Age of the American Revolution. By L. B. Namier. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1930, viii, 518 pp. $8.50.

The Black Death and Men of Learning. By Anna M. Campbell. Columbia University Press, New York, 1931, xii, 210 pp. $3.00.

The Voyageur. By Grace Lee Nute. D. Appleton &; Co., New York, 1931. ix. 299 pp. With wood-cut illustrations and end-paper maps. $3.00.

They That Take the Sword. By Esmé Wingfield-Stratford. William Morrow and Company, New York, 1931, xiv, 424 pp. $4.00. Reviewed by: Courtney R. Hall.

Modern Europe and the World. By Ralph Flenley, University of Toronto, Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., 1931. xvi, 567 pp. Reviewed by: John Hall Stewart.

The March of Civilization: Modern World, 1453–1931. By Jesse E. Wrench. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons. 1931. Pp. XVII, 486. $2.00. Reviewed by: Edgar B. Wesley.

Henry Dundas, First Viscount Melville, 1742–1811. By Holden Turber. Oxford University Press, New York, 1931. xi, 331 pp. $6.00. Reviewed by: Charles F. Mullett.

Beyond the Sublime Porte. By Barnette Miller. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1931. XIX, 281 pp. $5.00. Reviewed by: Margaret Willis.

King Charles II. By Arthur Bryant. Longmans, Green &; Co., New York, 1931. xi, 448 pp. $3.50.

Annals of the New York Stage. By George C. D. Odell. Columbia University Press, New York, 1927–1931. Seven volumes. Vol. I (To 1798), xiii, 496 pp.; Vol. II (1798-1821), vii 8, 643 pp.; Vol. III (1821-1834), xii, 747 pp.; Vol. IV (1834-1843), xii, 757 pp.; Vol. V (1843-1850), xiii, 655 pp.; Vol. VI (1850-1857), xiii, 676 pp.; Vol. VII (1857-1865), xv 793 pp.     

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     

Book reviews

A classic republished

Sex and Sex Worship. By O.A. Wall. London: Kegan Paul, 2006, 607 pages. Cloth, $255.

Senior sex: Exploring the sex lives of older adults

Sexuality, Sexual Health, and Ageing. By Merryn Gott. New York, NY: Open University Press, 2005,149 pages. Paper, $36.95.

The social construction of erotophobia

The Politics of Lust. By John Ince. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2005, 335 pages. Paper, $16.00.     

Uses of imagination: The Russian Jewish past and its afterlives in the new and old worlds

David G. Roskies, The Jewish Search for a Usable Past (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999, 217pp.);

Steven J. Zipperstein, Imagining Russian Jewry: Memory, History, Identity (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999, 139pp.);

Veniamin Lukin, Boris Khaimovich, 700 evreiskikh mestechek Urkrainy: istoricheskii putevoditel’. Vypusk 1 : Podoliya (A Historical Guide to 100 Ukrainian Jewish Shtetls, No. 1 : Podolia) (Jerusalem‐St Petersburg; Ezro, 1997, 256pp.)     

White ‘ladies’, coloured ‘favourites’ and black ‘wenches’; some considerations on sex,race and class factors in social relations in white Creole Society in the British Caribbean

The Formation of a Planter Elite: Jonathan Bryan and the Southern Colonial Frontier. By Alan Gallay. Athens &; London: University of Georgia Press, 19S9, xx, 282 pp. $35.00.

Unification of a Slave State: The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina Backcountry, 1760–1808. By Rachel N. Klein. Chapel Hill &; London: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1990. vii, 331 pp. $34.95.

Women and Sisters: Antislavery Feminists in American Culture. By Jean Fagan Yellin. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. ix, 226 pp. £20.00/$29.95.

Virtue's Hero: Emerson, Antislavery, and Reform. By Lengougeon. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press. 1990. xiii, 408 pp. $45.00.

Race and Revolution. By Gary B. Nash. Madison: Madison House, 1990. 212pp. $27.95.

Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery. Edited by B.A. Botkin. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1990. xl, 297 pp. $14.95 (paper).

Religion and the Radical Republican Movement 1860–1870. By Victor B. Howard. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1990. 297 pp. $32.00.

Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880–1920. By Willard B. Gatewood. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1990. cii; 450 pp. $39.95.

Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar: Martinique and the World Economy, 1830–1848. By Dale W. Tomich. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. xiv, 353pp.

Indenture and Exile: The Indo‐Caribbean Experience. Edited by Frank Birbal‐Singh. Tsar, Toronto, 1989. 264 pp. £10.00.     

BOOK AND MEDIA REVIEWS

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LINKING LIFETIMES: A GLOBAL VIEW OF INTERGENERATIONAL EXCHANGE. By Matt Kaplan, Nancy Henkin, and Atsuko Kusano (Eds.). University Press of America, 2002. Reviewed by Margaret Ann Nicholls

BIG MAMA. A Film by Tracy Seretean. Winner of the 2001 Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject. Running time 40 minutes. Reviewed by Cathy Tompkins     

BOOK AND MEDIA REVIEWS

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GENERATIONS IN TOUCH: LINKING THE OLD AND THE YOUNG IN A TOKYO NEIGHBORHOOD. By Leng Leng Thang. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2001, 209pp., pbk £10.95 ISBN 0 8014 8732 3., by Leng Leng Thang Reviewed by Stephen W. Ellis.

LEGACY:INSPIRINGSOCIALCHANGEINTHEU.S.ANDABROAD.A Film by Tod Lending. Reviewed by Jaia Peterson     

BRIEF REVIEWS

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VIOLENCE IN GOD'S NAME: RELIGION IN AN AGE OF CONFLICT. By Oliver McTernan. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2003. 192pp., $20.00 (paper).

RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY, AND AGING: A SOCIAL WORK PERSPECTIVE. By Harry R. Moody (Ed.). Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press, Inc. 2005. 350pp., $39.95 (paper).

A LITTLE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. By E. H. Gombrich. New Haven, CT: Yale University press, 2005. 284 pp., $25.00 Reviewed by Eleanor Hannon Judah.

THE CATHOLIC WORKER MOVEMENT: INTELLECTUAL AND SPIRITUAL ORIGINS. By Mark and Louise Zwick. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2005. 358pp., $29.95 (paper).     

Unconventional political participation and political confidence in South Africa: A longitudinal analysis using data from the world values study

Money‐go‐rounds: The Importance of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations for Women edited by Shirley Ardener &; Sandra Burman. Oxford, Berg, 1993

Illicit Union: Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa by Saul Dubow. Johannesburg, Witwatersrand University Press, 1995.

Christianity and Democracy: A Theology for a Just World Order by John W. De Gruchy. Cape Town, David Philip, 1995.

African Women and Development: a History edited by Margaret C Snyder and Mary Tadesse. Johannesburg, Witwatersrand University Press, 1995.

Rethinking South African Literary History, edited by Johannes Smit, Johan van Wyk and Jean‐Philippe Wade. Durban, YPress, 1996.     

Observations by a Visitor from Atlantis on Instruction in the Social Studies I

Abstract

A Theory of Education. By Joseph D. Novak. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1977. Pp. 295. $15.00. Reviewed by Richard E. Gross.

Urban Sociology in an Urbanized Society. By J. R. Mellor. Boston, Mass.: Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd. Pp. 309, $15.50. Reviewed by John Kramer.     

The fate of Belarusian and Yiddish in the Soviet and Post‐Soviet periods

A New ‘Tsar Liberator'?. Seweryn Bialer, Politics, Society, and Nationality Inside Gorbachev's Russia. Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1989. xv +241pp. Bibl. Index.

Michael Rywkin, Soviet Society Today. New York and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1989. xii +234pp. Bibl. Index.

Glasnost on Latvian Jewry. Literatūra un Māksla (Literature and Art), no. 48 (2294), Riga, November 1988.

Openness or Concealment?. Raymond Hutchings. Soviet Secrecy and Non‐Secrecy. London: Mac‐millan Press, 1987. 292pp. Bibl. Index. £29.50.

The Making of Czech Jewry. Hillel J. Kieval. The Making of Czech Jewry: National Conflict and Jewish Society in Bohemia 1870–1918. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. x + 279pp. Notes. Bibl. Index. $25.00.     

Book reviews

Nurturing nature and the nature of science: Toward transcendence

As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who was Raised as a Girl. By John Colapinto. New York: HarperCollins, 2000, 288 pages. Cloth, $26.00.

The pedagogical value of as nature made him: The boy who was raised as a girl

As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who was Raised as a Girl. By John Colapinto. New York: HarperCollins, 2000, 288 pages. Cloth, $26.00.

What Americans Learned About Sex

Teaching America About Sex: Marriage Guides and Sex Manuals from the Late Victorians to Dr. Ruth. By M. E. Melody and Linda M. Peterson. New York: New York University Press, 1999, 304 pages. Cloth, $28.95.

Teen romance under the microscope

The Development of Romantic Relationships in Adolescence. Edited by Wyndol Furman, B. Bradford Brown, and Candice Feiring. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999, 443 pages. Cloth, $49.95.

All hail the penis

Phallacies [Video]. Directed and produced by Vishnu Mathur. 2000. Available from Bullfrog Films, P. O. Box 149, Oley, PA 19547, www.bullfrogfilms.com. VHS, $250.     

Anxious urbanity: xenophobia,the native subject and the refugee camp

G. Lewis, Between the Wire and the Wall; A history of South African ‘Coloured’ politics, (Cape Town, David Philip, 1987)

Ian Goldin, Making Race: The politics and economics of Coloured identity in South Africa (Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman, 1987).

Gavin Lewis, Between the Wire and the Wall: A History of South African ‘Coloured’ Politics (Cape Town: David Philip, 1987).

Women in African Literature Today, No. 15, James Curry Limited, London: 1987.

Left‐Radical Movements in South Africa and Namibia 1900–1981 A Bibliographical and Historical Study, compiled by Elizabeth W. Böhmer. 2 vols. Cape Town: South African Library, 1986 and 1987.

South African Review 4. Edited and compiled by Glenn Moss and Ingrid Obery for the Southern African Research Service (SARS). Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1987, 599 pp., R24,95

The Rise and Decline of Apartheid: A study of political movements among the coloured people of South Africa, 1880–1985, R.E. van der Ross, (Cape Town, Tafelberg, 1986)

Setiloane, Gabriel M. African Theology ‐An Introduction. Johannnesburg. Skotaville 1986.

Pass Controls and the Urban African Proletariat, by Doug Hindson, Johannesburg, Ravan Press, 1987.

Class, Community and Conflict: South African Perspectives, edited by Belinda Bozzoli (Ravan, Johannesburg, 1987).