Barco (United Kingdom)

The following books are reviewed. New-born Child Murder: illegitimacy and the courts in eighteenth-century England MARK JACKSON, 1996 Manchester: Manchester University Press. ix + 206 pp., £35.00 Only Paradoxes to Offer: French feminists and the Rights of Man JOAN WALLACH SCOTT, 1996 Cambridge: Harvard University Press. xiii + 229 pp., £17.50, $27.95 Seeking the Highest Good: social service and gender at the University of Toronto, 1888-1937 SARA BURKE, 1996 Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 187 pp., $17.95 Three Artists (Three Women): modernism and the art of Hesse, Krasner and O'Keefe ANNE MIDDLETON WAGNER, 1996 Berkeley: University of California Press. 384 pp., hardback $35.00 Not only the ‘Dangerous Trades’: women's work and health in Britain, 1880-1914 BARBARA HARRISON, 1996 London: Taylor & Francis. xiii + 283 pp., paperback £13.95, hardback £39.00 West End Women: women and the London stage, 1918-1962 MAGGIE GALE, 1996 London: Routledge. x + 262 pp., £12.99 Austrian Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: cross-disciplinary perspectives DAVID F. GOOD, MARGARETE GRANDNER & MARY JO MAYNES, 1996 Oxford: Berghahn Books. xxxiii + 237 pp., hardback £35.00, paperback £14.95 The Wages of Sin: censorship and the fallen woman film, 1928-1942 LEA JACOBS, 1997 Berkeley: University of California Press. xiv + 202 pp., $15.95 Power of the Weak: studies on medieval women JENNIFER CARPENTER & SALLY-BETH MACLEAN (Eds), 1995 Urbana: University of Illinois Press. xix + 227 pp., hardback $39.95, paperback $14.95 Nationalising Femininity: culture, sexuality and British cinema in the Second World War CHRISTINE GLEDHILL & GILLIAN SWANSON (Eds), 1996 Manchester: Manchester University Press. xi + 307 pp., £45.00 The Uses of Autobiography JULIA SWINDELLS (Ed.), 1996 London: Taylor & Francis. ix + 227 pp., £12.95