Book reviews

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The newer deal: Social work and religion in partnership Ram A. Cnaan with Robert J. Wineburg and Stephanie C. Boddie (1999) Columbia University Press, New York $US22.50 (paperback)

Parenting between cultures — The primary school years Catherine Blunt (2000), Marymead Child and Family Centre, Kingston ACT $36.00

The answer within: A family in therapy reexamined Moshe Lang and Peter McCallum (2000), ACER Press, Melbourne ISBN 0-86431-333-0

Adoption and loss: The hidden grief Evelyn Burns Robinson (2000), Clova Publications, Christies Beach, South Australia 202 pp. $19.95 (paperback)

Managing to survive: Managerial practice in not-for-profit organizations Alun C Jackson & Frances Donovan (1999), Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, NSW Australia, ISBN 1 86448 728 3, 247 pp. (paperback)     

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

Distributed Cognitions: Psychological and Educational Considerations. Gavriel Salomon (Ed.), Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 275 pages, $49.95.

The Computer as Medium. Peter Bøgh Andersen, Berit Holmqvist, & Jens F. Jensen (Eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 495 pages. $54.95.     

Book reviews

Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Ira Berlin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1998. x, 497pp. $29.95. ISBN 0–674–81092–9.

More than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas. Edited by David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996. xi, 341 pp. £14.99 (paper). ISBN 0–253–21043–7.

From Slavery to Freedom: Comparative Studies in the Rise and Fall of Atlantic Slavery. Seymour drescher. Foreword by Stanley L. Engerman. London: Macmillan. 1999. xxv, 454pp. £55.00. ISBN 0–333–73748–2.

Stylin’: African American Expressive Culture from its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit. Shane White and Graham White. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 1998. xv. 301pp. £23.95 (cloth). ISBN 0–80143179–4.

Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop. W. T. Lhamon, Jr. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press. 1998. 269pp. $25.95 (cloth). ISBN 0–674–74711–9.

Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan. John W. Quist. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1998. xi, 562pp. £45.90. ISBN 0–8071–2133–9.

Frccdpeople in the Tobacco South: Virginia, 1860–1900. Jeffrey R. Kerr‐Ritchie. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina press. 1999. xv, 345 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). ISBN 0–8078–2460–7; 0–8078–4763–1.

The Freedmen's Bureau and Black Texans. Barry A. Crouch. Austin: University of Texas at Austin Press. 1999. xix, 187pp. $12.95 (paper). ISBN 0–292–71219–7.

Montpelier, Jamaica: A Plantation Community in Slavery and Freedom, 1739–1912. B.W. Higman. Kingston: The Press University of the West Indies. 1998. xv, 384pp. £20.00/$35.00. ISBN 976–640–039–3.

In Place of Slavery: A Social History of British Indian and Javanese Laborers in Suriname. Rosemarijn Hoefte. Gainsville: University of Florida Press. 1998. xii, 275pp. $49.95. ISBN 0–8130–1625–8.

Writing West Indian Histories. B.W. Higman. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan Education. 1999. xiv, 289 pp. £15.50 (paper). ISBN 0–333–73296–0.

Free and Unfree Labour: The Debate Continues. Edited by Tom Brass and Marcel Van Der Linden. Bern/Berlin/Frankfurt a.M: Peter Lang. 1997 (International and Comparative Social History 5). 602 pp. £52.00. ISBN 3–906756–87–4.

Servicing the Master. Slavery and Society in Nineteenth Century Morocco. Mohammed Ennaji. Translated by Seth Graebner. London: Macmillan, 1999. xix, 166pp. £35.00. ISBN 0–333–75477–8.

Servants of Allah. Sylviane A. Diouf. New York: New York University Press. 1998. vii, 254 pp. $18.50. ISBN 0–8147–1905–8     

BOOK REVIEWS

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DISABILITY, SOCIETY, AND THE INDIVIDUAL Me Smart. Gaithers-burg, MD: Aspen Publication, 2001, 357 pp. Reviewed by John T. Pardeck.

THE LIGHTHOUSE HANDBOOK ON VISION IMPAIRMENT AND VISION REHABILITATION (VOLUMES ONE AND TWO). Barbara Silverstone, Mary Ann Lang, Bruce P. Rosenthal, and Eleanor E. Faye, Editors. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 1371 pp. Reviewed by John T. Pardeck.

NO PITY: PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES FORGING A NEW CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. Joseph P. Shapiro. New York: Times Books, 1993, 372 pp. Reviewed by John T. Pardeck.     

Community organizing and managing

Analytical Skills for Community Organization Practice, by Donna Hardina. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. 390 pp., $52.00 cloth.     

The Emerging Sophistication in Human Service Management

ABSTRACT

An essay review of: HUMAN SERVICES MANAGEMENT: ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE. By David M. Austin. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-231-10836-2, 468 pp.

ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE IN THE MANAGEMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES ORGANIZATIONS. By Peter M. Kettner. Boston: Allyn &Bacon, 2002. ISBN 0-205-31878-9, 416 pp.

MANAGEMENT OF HUMAN SERVICE PROGRAMS. By Judith A. Lewis, Michael D. Lewis, Thomas R. Packard, Jr., and Federico Souflee. California: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2001. ISBN 0-534-36886-7, 400 pp.     

Unravelling of the conspiracy theory: A new look at the pogroms

Michael I. Aronson, Troubled Waters: The Origins of the 1881 Anti‐Jewish Pogroms in Russia. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990. 286 pp. Maps. Tables. Bibliography. Index.

Michael F. Hamm, Kiev: A Portrait, 1800–1917. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. 304 pp. Map. Tables. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index.

Edward H. Judge, Easter in Kishinev: Anatomy of a Pogrom. New York and London: New York University Press, 1992. 186 pp. Bibliography. Index.

Robert Weinberg, The Revolution of 1905 in Odessa: Blood on the Steps. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993. 302 pp. Tables. Bibliography. Index.

Charters Wynn, Workers, Strikes, and Pogroms: The Donbass‐Dnepr Bend in Late Imperial Russia, 1870–1905. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. 289 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index.     

Slavery and liberty: The case of the Scottish Colliers

Slaves, Warfare, and Ideology in the Greek Historians. Peter Hunt. Cambridge: Cambridge, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xiv, 246pp. £37.50 (cloth). ISBN 0–521–58429–9.

The English in West Africa, 1681–1683: The Local Correspondence of the Royal African Company of England, 1681–1699, Part 1. Edited by Robin Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press/British Academy. 1997. xix, 363pp. £45.00. ISBN 0–19–726176–0.

Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa, and Brazil. Anthony W. Marx. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xvi, 390pp. £22.50/US$29.95. ISBN 0–521–58455–8.

Liberating the Family. Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, South Africa, 1823–1853. Pamela Scully. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. Oxford: James Currey. xiii, 210, index, map. £40 (cloth); £15.95 (paper). ISBN 0–85255–678–0; 0–85255–628–4.

The Lesser Antilles in the Age of European Expansion. Edited by Robert Paquette and Stanley L. Engerman. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 1996. xii, 383pp. £39.95. ISBN 0–8130–1428‐X.

Dictionary of Afro‐American Slavery. Updated with a New Introduction and Bibliography. Edited by Randall M. Miller and John David Smith. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. xix, 892pp. £27.95 (paper). ISBN 0–275–95799–3.

Masters, Slaves, &; Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country, 1740–1790. Robert Olwell. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 1998. xvi, 294pp. £38.95 (cloth); £13.95 (paper). ISBN 0–8014–3488–3; 0–8014–8491‐X.

Slavery, Freedom and Culture among Early American Workers. Graham Russell Hodges. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1998. xi, 185pp. $55.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). ISBN 0–7656–0112–5; 0–7656–0113–3.

Designs against Charleston: The Trial Records of the Denmark Vesey Slave Conspiracy of 1822. Edward A. Pearson. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xiii, 387pp. £31.50. ISBN: 0–8078–2446–1.

Of One Blood: Abolitionism and the Origins of Racial Equality. Paul Goodman. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1998. xxi, 303pp. $35.00. ISBN 0–520–20794–7.

Race, Place, and the Law, 1836–1948. David Delaney. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1998. x, 229pp. $35.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). ISBN 0–292–7–1596‐X; 0–292–71597–8.     

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 REVIEW

SUMMARY

SMART AND SASSY: THE STRENGTHS OF INNER-CITY BLACK GIRLS. Joyce West Stevens. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2002. Reviewed by Needha Boutte'-Queen.     

REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this Article: Barsky, A. E. & Gould, J. W. (2002). Clinicians in Court: A guide to subpoenas, depositions, testifying and everything else you need to know. New York, Guilford, 256 pp. Hilburt‐Davis, J. & Dyer, W. G. Jr. (2003) Consulting to family businesses: A practical guide to contracting, assessment, and implementation. San Francisco: Jossey‐Bass/Pfeiffer, 270 pp., $ 35.00. Flemons, D. (2002) Of one mind: The logic of hypnosis, the practice of therapy. New York: Norton. Clift, E. (Ed.) (2002). Women's encounter with the mental health establishment: Escaping the yellow wallpaper. New York: Howarth Press, 217 pp.     

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.     

From race to ethnic identity: South central Africa,social anthropology and the shadow of the holocaust 1

The Political Economy of Pondoland 1860–1930 by William Beinart, Johannesburg. Ravan: New History of Southern Africa Series, No. 3, 1983, pp. xi + 220. R11.50

The Land Belongs To Us: The Pedi Polity, the Boers and the British in theNineteenth Century Transvaal, by Peter Delius. Johannesburg, Ravan: New History of Southern Africa Series, 1983, pp. xii + 278. R11.50

The Agrarian Question and Reformism in Latin America by Alain de Janvry. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981.306 pp.

The Crisis in South Africa: Class Defence. Class Revolution by John S Saul and Stephen Gelb, New York: Monthly review Press, 1981.156 pp.     

Book Reviews

William B. Cohen, The French Encounter with Africans: White Responses to Blacks, 1530–1880. (Bloomington and London, Indiana University Press, 1980). Pp.xix + 360, incl. notes and index. £13·50.

Study Commission on US Policy Toward Southern Africa, South Africa: Time Running Out. (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1981). Pp. xxvii + 517. Illus. $8·95.

Henry A. Gemery and Jan S. Hogendorn (eds.), The Uncommon Market: Essays in the Economic History of the Atlantic Slave Trade. (London, Academic Press, 1979). Pp. xvi +448. $24·00.

Leon F. Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery. (London, The Athlone Press, 1980). Pp. xvi + 651. £14·50.

Paul D. Escott, Slavery Remembered: A Record of Twentieth‐Century Slave Narratives. (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1979), Pp. xv + 221. Illus. US $12·50.

Ronald T. Takaki, Iron Cages: Race and Culture in Nineteenth‐Century America. (London, The Athlone Press, 1980). Pp. xviii + 361. Ulus., tables, notes, bibliog., and index. $12·50.

Ronald H. Bayor, Neighbors in Conflict: The Irish, Germans, Jews, and Italians of New York City, 1929–1941 (Baltimore and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980). Pp. xiv + 232. £3·50.

Peter Kwong, Chinatown, N.Y.: Labor and Politics, 1930–1950. (New York and London, Monthly Review Press, 1979). Pp. 178. Illus. £7·60.

Jerry White, Rothschild Buildings: Life in an East End Tenement Block, 1887–1920. (London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980). Pp. xviii + 301. £6·95.

The Runnymede Trust and The Radical Statistics Race Group, Britain's Black Population. (London, Heinemann Educational, 1980). Pp. xiii + 160. £4·95.

Anne Aresty Namon, The Jew in the Victorian Novel—Some Relationships Between Prejudice and Art. (New York, AMS Press Inc., 1980). Pp. 238. £6·50.     

Slavery in eighteenth‐century Rhode Island: Evidence from the census of 1774

Slave Cultures and the Cultures of Slavery. Stephan Palmié (ed.). Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press. 1995. xlvii, 283pp. $35.00. ISBN 087049–903–3.

Carnival. Canboulay and Calypso Traditions in the Making. John Cowley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1996. xv, 293pp. £35.00. ISBN 0–521–48138–4.

West Indies Accounts: Essays on the History of the British Caribbean and the Atlantic Economy in Honour of Richard Sheridan. Roderick a. McDonald (ed.). Kingston, Jamaica: The Press, University of the West Indies. 1996. xvi, 388pp. £14.00 (paperback). ISBN 976–640–022–9.

L'Engrenage de la Liberté: Caraïbes ‐ XIXe siècle, Nelly Schmidt. Aix‐en‐Provence: Publications de l'Université de Provence. 1995. 360pp. 250FF. ISBN 2–85399–359–0.

Slave Captain: The Career of James Irving in the Liverpool Slave Trade. Suzanne Schwarz (ed.). Wrexham: Bridge Books. 1995. 164pp. £8.95. ISBN 1–872424–42–2. The Slave Trade and the Economic Development of Eighteenth‐Century Lancaster. Melinda Elder. Halifax: Ryburn Publishing. 1992. 232pp. £25. ISBN 1–85331–030–1.

Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps. William Dusinberre. New York: Oxford University Press. 1996. xiv, 556pp. £40.00.

The Kidnapped and the Ransomed: The narrative of Peter and Vina Still after forty years of slavery, Kate E.R. Pickard. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. 1995. xv, 103, 409 pp. £14.00. ISBN 0–8032–9233–3.

The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America. Jean Fagan Yellin and John C. van Horne (eds.). Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, in co‐operation with the Library Company of Philadelphia. 1994. xviii, 363pp.

’what nature suffers to groe’: Life, labor and landscape on the Georgia coast, 1680–1920. Mart A. Stewart. Athens &; London: University of Georgia Press, 1996. xix, 370pp. $45. ISBN 0–8203–1808–6.

Abolitionism in the United States and Brazil: A Comparative Perspective, Celia M. Azevedo. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.1995. xxvi, 200pp. ISBN 0–8153–2332–8.     

BOOK REVIEWS

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INDEPENDENT LIVES: SPINSTERS AND LESBIANS. Franzen, Trisha. New York: New York University Press, 1996. Reviewed by Monisha Pashupati and Progga Choudhury.

RUSSIA'S SAPPHO: SOPHIA PARNOK: THE LIFE AND WORK OF RUSSIA'S SAPPHO. Burgin, Diana Lewis. New York: New York University Press, New York, 1994. Reviewed by Rochelle G. Ruthchild.

RULES, RESPECT, TELLING THE TRUTH: SKIN: TALKING ABOUT SEX, CLASS & LITERATURE. Allison, Dorothy. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1994. Reviewed by Lynda J. Ames.

WOMEN AND MURDER IN THE COUNTRY: OUT OF THE NIGHT. Bruyer, Kris. Naiad Press, Inc., 1996. Reviewed by Myra Betschild.

WOMEN AND MURDER IN THE COUNTRY: HOODED MURDER. Van Dyke, Annette. Naiad Press, Inc., 1996. Reviewed by Myra Betschild.

A PRECIOUS COMMODITY FOR LESBIAN SCHOLARSHIP: THE FAMILY SILVER: ESSAYS ON RELATIONSHIPS AMONG WOMEN. Krieger, Susan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. Reviewed by Mickey Eliason.

LOVE BETWEEN WOMEN: AN UNLOVELY VIEW: LOVE BETWEEN WOMEN: EARLY CHRISTIAN RESPONSES TO FEMALE HOMOEROTICISM. Brooten, Bernadette J. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Reviewed by Anne L. Clark.

BABE, WE HARDLY KNEW YA: BABE: THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF BABE DIDRIKSON ZAHARIAS. Cayleff, Susan. Urbana, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Reviewed by Pat Griffin.

MORE GENDERED THAN THOU: THE FEMME MYSTIQUE. Newman, Lesléa (Ed.). Boston: Alyson Press, 1995. Reviewed by Beverly Burch.

“AN ISLE OF DYS-TOP-IA”: SEP-A-RA-TISM AND WOMEN'S COMMUNITY. Shugar, Dana R. University of Nebraska Press, 1995. Reviewed by R. Amy Elman.

MURDER AND MONOGAMY: LET'S FACE THE MUSIC AND DIE. Scoppettone, Sandra. NY: Little, Brown. Reviewed by Jane Futcher.

SEXUALITY AND IDENTITY: CONFLICTS BETWEEN MARRIAGE AND LESBIAN AUTONOMY: AND THEN I MET THIS WOMAN: PREVIOUSLY MARRIED WOMEN'S JOURNEYS INTO LESBIAN RELATIONSHIPS. Cassingham, Barbee J. MA, and Sally M. O'Neil, PhD. Mother Courage Press, 1993. Reviewed by Caitlin Morris.

LESBIAN OR QUEER?: THE ANGEL AND THE PERVERTS. Delarue-Mardrus, Lucie. New York: New York University Press, 1930, 1995 (reprint). Reviewed by Gabriele Griffin.

THE FICTION OF ELIZABETH BOWEN: SEXUAL/TEXTUAL POLITICS: ELIZABETH BOWEN: A REPUTATION IN WRITING. hoogland, renée c. New York and London: New York University Press, 1994. Reviewed by Paulina Palmer.

CELEBRATING TOMBOYS: TOMBOYS! TALES OF DYKE DERRING-DO. Yamaguchi, Lynne and Karen Barber (Eds.). Los Angeles: Alyson, 1995. Reviewed by Karen M. Jordan.

PASSIONATE FRIENDSHIPS AND “DOLL RACKETS”: MATERNAL JUSTICE: MIRIAM VAN WATERS AND THE FEMALE REFORM TRADITION. Freedman, Estelle B. University of Chicago Press, 1996. Reviewed by Hilary Lapsley.

“WE STILL HAVE QUESTIONS”: GAY AND LESBIAN STUDENTS: UNDERSTANDING THEIR NEEDS. Besner, Hilda F., and Charlotte J. Spungin. Washington, DC: Taylor & Francis Publishers, 1995. Reviewed by Jan Donley.

GAY AND LESBIAN FAMILIES-MOVING BEYOND THE PATRIARCHY: LESBIANS AND GAYS IN COUPLES AND FAMILIES: A HANDBOOK FOR THERAPISTS. Laird, Joan and Robert-Jay Green (Eds.). Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1996. Reviewed by Amy Banks.

RADICAL REDUX: TOO QUEER: ESSAYS FROM A RADICAL LIFE. Brownworth, Victoria A. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1996. Reviewed by Lynda Goldstein.

ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT: AND SAY HI TO JOYCE: THE LIFE AND CHRONICLES OF A LESBIAN COUPLE. Price, Deb, and Joyce Murdoch. Doubleday, 1995. Reviewed by Ellen Cole.

LOOKING FOR THE LESBIAN SUBJECT: HETEROSEXUAL PLOTS AND LESBIAN NARRATIVES. Farwell, Marilyn R. New York: New York University Press, 1996. Reviewed by Rosemary Hennessy.

THE MATERNAL MYSTERY :BABY, IT'S COLD. Maiman, Jaye. FL: Naiad Press, 1996. Reviewed by J.A. Myers.

SEEKING SAFETY BEYOND THE WALLS: AMNESTY. Blum, Louise A. Boston: Alyson Publications, Inc., 1995. Reviewed by Amy J. Ojerholm.

JENIFER LEVIN'S “LESBIAN EROS”: LOVE AND DEATH & OTHER DISASTERS, STORIES 1977-1995. Levin, Jenifer. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1996. Reviewed by Annette Van Dyke.

REDEFINING LESBIAN FICTION: TASTING LIFE TWICE: LITERARY LESBIAN FICTION BY NEW AMERICAN WRITERS. Levy, E.J. (Ed.). Avon Books, 1995. Reviewed by Margaret Kissam Morris.

A RODEO ROMANCE: NOW & THEN. Hayes, Penny. Naiad Press, 1996. Reviewed by Nicki Thorogood and Jane Franklin.     

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.     

Toward a New Mississippi history

Political Culture in the Nineteenth‐Century South: Mississippi, 1830–1900. BRADLEY G. BOND. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 1995. 342 pp., notes, bibliography, index. $35.00. ISBN 0–807–1976–8.

Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770–1860. CHRISTOPHER MORRIS. New York: Oxford University Press. 1995. 258 pp., notes, illustrations, appendices, index. $35.00. ISBN 0–19–508366–0.

"Worse than Slavery:”; Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice. DAVID M. OSHINSKY. New York: Free Press. 1996. 306 pp., notes, illustrations, index. $25.00.

Mississippi: An American Journey. ANTHONY WALTON. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1996. 279 pp., illustrations. $24.00.