Book reviews
Reviews in History is an electronic publication which reviews and reappraises significant work in all fields of historical interest, covering the principal areas of the subject as taught in institutions of higher education. The reviews listed below relate to the study of gender in history.
- General
- Women's history
- Life history
- Men's history
- Gay and lesbian history
- Cultural and social history
General
Gender in History
by Merry Wiesner-Hanks
Review by Joanne Bailey
Merry Wiesner-Hanks's Response
Her Prospect Before Her. A History of Women in Western Europe
by Olwen Hufton
Review by Pat Thane
Olwen Hufton's Response
Worlds Between. Historical Perspectives on Gender and Class
by Leonore Davidoff
Review by Mary Chamberlain
Women's history
The Militant Suffrage Movement. Citizenship and Resistance in Britain, 1860–1930
by Laura E. Nym Mayhall
Review by June Hannam
Laura E. Nym Mayhall's response
Public Lives: Women, Family and Society in Victorian Britain
by Eleanor Gordon and Gwyneth Nair
Review by Kathryn Gleadle
Eleanor Gordon's and Gwyneth Nair's response
When Gossips Meet: Women, Family and Neighbourhood in Early Modern England
by Bernard Capp
Review by Laura Gowing
Bernard Capp's response
Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth-Century England: Gender, Work and Wages
by Nicola Verdon
Review by Karen Sayer
Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia
by Wendy Z. Goldman
Review by Choi Chatterjee
Women of the Twelfth Century
by Georges Duby
(Translated by Jean Birrell)
Review by Ann J. Kettle
Life history
A Woman's Place. An Oral History of Working-Class Women, 1890–1940
by Elizabeth Roberts
Review by Sally Alexander
Elizabeth Roberts's response
Letters of Medieval Women
by Anne Crawford (ed.)
and
Reading Families: Women's Literate Practice in Late Medieval England
by Rebecca Krug
Review by Ann J. Kettle
Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home and History and Late Colonial India
by Antoinette Burton
and
Family History
by Janaki Agnes Penelope Majumdar
Review by Sarah Ansari
The Remembrances of Elizabeth Freke, 1671–1714
by Raymond A. Anselment (ed.)
Review by Amy Louise Erickson
Men's history
Meanings of Manhood in Early Modern England
by Alexandra Shepard
Review by Bernard Capp
From Boys to Men. Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe
by Ruth Mazo Karras
Review by John H. Arnold
Ruth Mazo Karras's response
The Image of Man: the Creation of Modern Masculinity
by George L. Mosse
Review by Joanna Bourke
George L. Mosse's response
Fashioning Masculinity. National Identity and Language in the Eighteenth Century
by Michèle Cohen
Review by Robert B. Shoemaker
Michèle Cohen's response
Gay and lesbian history
Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia
by Dan Healey
Review by Daniel Beer
Dan Healey's response
Cultural and social history
Unquiet Lives: Marriage and Marriage Breakdown in England, 1660–1800
by Joanne Bailey
Review by David Turner
Fashioning Adultery: Gender, Sex and Civility in England 1660–1740
by David Turner
Review by Seth Denbo
David Turner's response
Governing Pleasures: Pornography and Social Change in England, 1815–1914
by Lisa Sigel
Review by H. G. Cocks
The New Woman in Fiction and Fact: Fin de Siècle Feminisms
by Angelique Richardson and Chris Willis (eds.)
Review by Mary Elizabeth Tusan
Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai: a Social History, 1849–1949
by Christian Henriot
Review by Lars Laamann