Book Reviews

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The Afro‐Argentines of Buenos Aires 1800–1900. George Reid Andrews. Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years. Elizabeth Wayland Barber. The Saint: A Complete History in Print, Radio, Film and Television of Leslie Charteris' Robin Hood of Modem Crime, Simon Templal; 1928–1992. Burl Barer. Aspects of British Calendar Customs. Eds. Theresa Buckland and Juliette Wood. Reading the Social Body. Catherine B. Burroughs and Jeffrey David Ehrenreich, eds. Ethnomimesis. Robert Cantwell. Al Capp Remembered. Elliott Caplin. Holy Days and Holidays. Edward M. Deems. The Cultural Studies Reader. Ed. Simon During. Songs About Work: Essays in Occupational Culture For Richard A. Reuss. Ed. Archie Green. The Politics of Pictures: The Creation of the Public in the Age of Popular Media. John Hartley. Breaking the Ties that Bind: Popular Stories of the New Woman, 1915–1930. Ed. Maureen Honey. Mythical Trickster Figures: Contours, Contexts and Criticisms. Ed. William H. Hynes and William G. Doty. Edward Stratemeyer and the Stratemeyer Syndicate. Deidre Johnson. Seven Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon. Norman M. Klein. Meeting the Madwoman: An Inner Challenge for Feminine Spirit. Linda Schierse Leonard Speaking the Unspeakable: A Poetics of Obscenity. Peter Michelson. Feminism/Postmodemism. Ed. Linda J. Nicholson. Humor Scholarship: A Research Bibliography. Don L.F. Nilson. The Crawfish Book. Glen Pitre. Dick Tracy and American Culture: Morality and Mythology, Text and ContextS. Garyn G. Roberts. Gender in Popular Culture: Images of Men and Women in Literature, Visual Media, and Material Culture. Eds. Susan W. Rollins and Peter C. Rollins. Adult Comics: An Introduction. Roger Sabin. Society's Impact on Television: How the Viewing Public Shapes Television Programming. Gary W. Selnow and Richard R. Gilbert. Animating Culture: Hollywood Cartoons from the Sound Era. Eric Smoodin. Media and Public Policy. Ed. Robert J. Spitzer. Football and Its Fans: Supporters and Their Relations with the Game, 1885–1985. Rogan Taylor. The Less Noble Sex: Scientific, Religious, and Philosophical Conceptions of Woman's Nature. Nancy Tuana. Almanac for Americans. Willis Thornton. Christmas on the American Frontier 1800–1900. John E. Bauer. Happy Birthdays Round the World. Lois S. Johnson. Jewish Holidays and Festivals. Ben M. Edidin. Round the Year with the World's Religions. Royston Pike. Season Feasts and Festivals. E.O. James. Yearbook of English Festivals. Dorothy Gladys Spicer. Imagining America: Dutch Youth and Its Sense of Place. Mel Van Eltern The Remote Control in the New Age of Television. Ed. James R. Walker and Robert V. Bellamy, Jr. Professors, Politics and Pop. Jon Wiener.“It 's Time for My Story”: Soap Opera Sources, Structure and Response. Carol Traynor Williams. Bodylore. Ed. Katharine Young.