Book reviews

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The Woman's Hand P.G. Schalow & J.A. Walker (Eds), 1996 Stanford, Stanford University Press 512 pp., 0 8047 27236, pb £15.95 Women and Sexuality in China: dominant discourses on female sexuality and gender since 1949 Harriet Evans, 1997 London, Polity Press 288 pp., 0 745 61397 7, hb £45.00; 0 745 61398 5, pb £13.95 Women and Politics in the Third World Haleh Afshar (Ed.), 1996 London and New York, Routledge 210 pp., 0 415 13853 1, hb £50.00; 0 415 13861 2, pb £14.99 Gender in Third World Politics Georgina Waylen, 1996 Buckingham, Open University Press (Issues in Third World Politics Series) xi + 163 pp., 0 335 15770 X, pb £14.99; 0 335 15771 8, hb £45.00 Victorian Love Stories: an Oxford anthology Kate Flint (Ed.), 1996 Oxford, Oxford University Press 502 pp., 0 19 212330 0, hb £17.99 Angela Carter: writing from the front line Sarah Gamble, 1997 Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press 200 pp., 0 7486 0851 6, £12.95 Gender, I‐deology: essays on theory, fiction and film Chantal Cornut‐Gentille D'Arcy & José Angel Garcia Landa (Eds), 1996 Postmodern Studies No. 16 Amsterdam & Atlanta, Rodopi 466 pp., 9 0518 39588 The Third Eye: race, cinema and ethnographic spectacle Fatimah Tobing Rony, 1996 Durham, Duke University Press 300 pp., 0 822 31834 2, hb £47.50; 0 822 31840 7, pb £16.95 Anorexic Bodies: a feminist and sociological perspective on anorexia nervosa Morag MacSween, 1995 London, Routledge 0 415 02847 7, pb £15.95 Conversations with Maryse Condé Françhise Pfaff, 1997 University of Nebraska Press 178 pp., 0 803 237 13 8, hb £32.35; 0 803 287 43 7, pb £14.00 Reversed Realities: gender hierarchies in development thought Naila Kabeer, 1994 London & New York, Verso 346 pp., 0 86091 384 8, hb $64.95; 0 86091 584 0, $18.95, pb £15.00 Engendering a Nation: a feminist account of Shakespeare's English histories Jean E. Howard & Phyllis Rackin, 1997 London and New York, Routledge 248 pp., 0 415 04748 X, hb £45.00; 0 415 04749 X, pb £14.99 The Political Consequences of Thinking: gender and Judaism in the work of Hannah Arendt Jennifer Ring, 1997 Albany, New York, State University of New York Press 358 pp., 0 7914 3483 4, hb £27.00 Hannah Arendt: twenty years later Larry May & Jerome Kohn (Eds), 1996 Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, The MIT Press 384 pp., 0 262 13319 9, hb £33.95; 0 252 63782 2, pb £14.95 Roman Shakespeare: warriors, wounds, and women Coppélia Kahn, 1997 London and New York, Routledge 190 pp., 0 415 05450 8, hb £45; 0 415 05451 6, pb £14.99 Aurora Floyd M.E. Braddon, 1996 [introduction by P.D. Edwards (Ed.)] Oxford, Oxford University Press 474 pp., 0 19 282402 3, pb £6.99 Vixen M.E. Braddon, 1996 (introduction by Fionn O'Toole) Stroud, Alan Sutton 476 pp., 0 7509 0445 3, pb £6.99 Eleanor's Victory M.E. Braddon, 1996 (introduction by Fionn O'Toole) Stroud, Alan Sutton 384 pp., 0 7509 1118 2, pb £6.99 The Fatal Three M.E. Braddon, 1997 (introduction by Jan Hewitt) Stroud, Sutton 322 pp., 0 7509 1664 8, pb £6.99 The Heat of the Hearth: the process of kinship in a Malay fishing community Janet Carsten, 1997 Oxford, Clarendon 314 pp., 0 198 28045 9, hb £40; 0 138 28 046 7, pb £15.99