Book Reviews

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Robert J. C. Young, Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and RaceCarole Boyce Davies, Black Women, Writing, and Identity: Migrations of the SubjectMaria Luddy, Hanna Sheehy SkeffingtonGail Bederman, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 7880–7977Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial ConquestMiranda Shaw, Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric BuddhismVron Ware, Beyond the Pale. White Women, Racism and HistoryMrinalini Sinha, Colonial Masculinity: The ‘Manly Englishman’ and the ‘Effeminate Bengali’ in the Late Nineteenth CenturyBina Agarwal, A Field of One's Own: Gender and Land Rights in South AsiaFrancine Masiello, Between Civilization and Barbarism: Women, Nation, and Literary Culture in Modern ArgentinaGertrude M. Yeager (ed.) Confronting Change, Challenging Tradition: Women in Latin American HistorySusan K. Besse, Restructuring Patriarchy: The Modernization of Gender Inequality in Brazil, 1914–1940Richard C. Trexler, Sex and Conquest: Gendered Violence, Political Order, and the European Conquest of the AmericasMegan Vaughan, Curing Their Ills: Colonial Power and African IllnessHenrietta L. Moore and Megan Vaughan, Cutting Down Trees. Gender, Nutrition, and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890–1990Shula Marks, Divided Sisterhood: Race, Class and Gender in the South African Nursing ProfessionHeike Becker, Namibian Women's Movement 1980 to 1992: From Anti‐Colonial Resistance to Reconstruction