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ABSTRACT ABSTRACT The Challenge of Local Feminisms: Women's Movements in Global Perspective. Edited by Amrita Basu. (Boulder: Westview, 1995. Pp. xi + 493. $65.00 cloth; $19.50 paper.) Reviewed by Linda Chen. Gender and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Politics of Women's Resistance. By Simona Sharoni. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1995. Pp. xiii+ 199. $34.95 cloth; $14.95 paper.) Reviewed by Kathie Friedman-Kasaba. Perspectives on the Politics of Abortion. Reviewed by Ted Men. (Westport5 CT: Praeger, 1995. Pp. vii + 208. $49.95 cloth.) Reviewed by Melissa Haussman. Abortion Politics in the Federal Courts: Right versus Right. By Barbara M. Yarnold. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1995. Pp. viii + 156. $49.95 cloth.) Reviewed by Melissa Haussman. A Woman s Place Is in the House: Campaigning for Congress in the Feminist Era. Reviewed by Barbara C. Burrell. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994. Pp. 192. $39.50 cloth; $19.95 paper.) Reviewed by Karen M. Kedmwski. Congressional Women: Their Recruitment, Integration and Behavior. 2nd edition, revised and updated, by Irwin N. Gertzog. (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1995. Pp. xv + 328. $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.) Reviewed by Karen M. Kedmwski. Moral Voices, Moral Selves: Carol Gilligan and Feminist Moral Theory. By Susan J. Hekman. (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. Pp. ix + 188. $40.00 cloth; $16.95 paper.) Reviewed by Poirizio Longo. The Color of Gender; Reimaging Democracy. By Zillah Eisensiein. (Berkeley; University of California Press, 1994. Pp. xi + 277. $45.00 cloth; $15.00 paper.) Reviewed by Carol Nackenojf. Feminist Theory and International Relations in a Postmodern Era. By Christine Sylvester. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. ix + 265. $54.95 cloth; $17.95 paper.) Reviewed by Anne Sisson Runyan.