Women and Social Movements, March 2011

Editors: Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin
Published by Alexander Street Press and the
Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender, SUNY Binghamton

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DOCUMENT PROJECTS

How Did Women's War Relief in the Spanish-American War Alter Traditions of Female Benevolence and Pave the Way for Women's Formal Military Service?
By Carolyn Strange
| Abstract | Document List | Introduction |

Cornelia Bryce Pinchot's Reform Activism, 1908-1929
By Kathryn Kish Sklar and Corinne Weible
| Document List | Introduction |

BOOK REVIEWS

Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching
By Crystal N. Feimster (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. 336 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 978-0674035621). Reviewed by Keisha N. Blain, Princeton University

Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America
By Rebecca Jo Plant (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. 264 pp. Cloth, $37.50, ISBN 0226670201). Reviewed by Victoria Bissell Brown, Grinnell College

First Lady of Letters: Judith Sargent Murray and the Struggle for Female Independence
By Sheila L. Skemp (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 512 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0812241401). Reviewed by Kerry M. Cohen, University of Alabama

No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism
By Nancy Hewitt, ed. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2010. 472 pp. Cloth, $79.00, ISBN 0813547245, Paper, $29.95, ISBN 0813547253). Reviewed by Deborah Cohen, University of Missouri, St. Louis

Born Southern: Childbirth, Motherhood and Social Networks in the Old South
By V. Lynn Kennedy (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009) 288 pp. $65.00 ISBN: 9780801894176). Reviewed by Deirdre Cooper Owens, University of Mississippi

Review Essay
By Michael A. Rembis, University at Buffalo

Wild Unrest: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Making of "The Yellow Wall-Paper"
By Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 272 pp. Cloth, $24.95, ISBN 978-0199739806).

Elizabeth Packard: A Noble Fight
By Linda Carlisle (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. 272 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 978-0252035722).

Talk with You Like a Woman: African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890-1935
By Cheryl D. Hicks (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. 552 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0807834246; Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0807871621) Reviewed by Marcy Sacks, Albion College, Albion, Michigan

Globalizing Feminisms, 1789-1945: (Rewriting Histories)
By Karen Offen, ed. (New York: Routledge, 2009. 472 pp. Cloth, ISBN 978-0-415-77867-1, $150; Paper (2010) ISBN 978-0-415-77868-8, $46.95). Reviewed by Megan Threlkeld, Denison University

Review Essay: We Are Soldiers in the Freedom Army: Women, Jim Crow, and the Black Freedom Movement
By Pam Brooks, Oberlin College

Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC
By Faith S. Holsaert, et al. eds. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. 656 pp., Cloth, $34.95, ISBN: 0252035577).

Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South
By Anne Valk and Leslie Brown (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 228 pp. Cloth, $90.00; Paper, $28.00, ISBN: 023062152X).

NEWS FROM THE ARCHIVES
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FULL-TEXT DOCUMENTS
New Gender Bias Reports added to the Women and Social Movements database at this time

Alaska Joint State-Federal Courts Gender Equality Task Force: Final Report, April 1996
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[Connecticut] Report to the Chief Justice, September 1991
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Draft Final Report of the Special Committee on Gender to the D.C. Circuit Task Force on Gender, Race and Ethnic Bias
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The Gender, Race, and Ethnic Bias Task Force Project in the D.C. Circuit, vol. 1
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The Gender, Race, and Ethnic Bias Task Force Project in the D.C. Circuit, vol. 2
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Final Report of the Delaware Gender Fairness Task Force, August 1995
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Ohio Joint Task Force on Gender Fairness: Final Report
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Report of the Oregon Supreme Court, Oregon State Bar: Task Force on Gender Fairness, May 1998
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Report of the [Tennessee] Commission on Gender Fairness, January 15, 1997
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[Washington] Gender & Justice in the Courts
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Report to the Washington State Legislature
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