Book Reviews

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Books reviewed:Lin Foxhall and John Salmon (eds), When Men Were Men: Masculinity, Power and Identity in Classical AntiquityEmily A. Hemelrijk, Matrona Docta: Educated Women in the Roman Elite from Cornelia to Julia DomnaBella Vivante (ed.), Women's Role in Ancient CivilisationsSusan Kingsley Kent, Gender and Power in Britain, 1640–1990Martha C. Howell, The Marriage Exchange: Property, Social Place and Gender in Cities of the Low Countries, 1300–1550Julie Hardwick, The Practice of Patriarchy: Gender and the Politics of Household Authority in Early Modern FranceTim Stretton, Women Waging Law in Elizabethan EnglandMary E. Giles (ed.), Women in the Inquisition: Spain and the New WorldDeborah Simonton, A History of European Women's Work: 1700 to the PresentPamela Sharpe (ed.), Women's Work: The English Experience, 1650–1914Jane Long, Conversations in Cold Rooms: Women, Work and Poverty in Nineteenth‐Century NorthumberlandCarol Mattingly, Well‐Tempered Women: Nineteenth‐Century Temperance RhetoricFaith Wigzell, Reading Russian Fortunes: Print Culture, Gender and Divination in Russia from 1765Marjorie Theobald, Knowing Women: Origins of Women's Education in Nineteenth‐Century AustraliaJane Martin, Women and the Politics of Schooling in Victorian and Edwardian EnglandPaula M. Krebs, Gender, Race and the Writing of Empire: Public Discourse and the Boer WarNatalia Pushkareva, Women in Russian History from the Tenth to the Twentieth CenturyJane McDermid and Anna Hillyar, Midwives of the Revolution: Female Bolsheviks and Women Workers in 1917 Sue Bridger (ed.), Women and Political Change: Perspectives from East‐Central EuropeClaudia Nelson and Ann Sumner Holmes (eds), Maternal Instincts: Visions of Motherhood and Sexuality in Britain 1875–1925Kathleen Kiernan, Hilary Land and Jane Lewis, Lone Motherhood in Twentieth‐Century Britain: From Footnote to Front PageJudith Tydor Baumel, Double Jeopardy: Gender and the HolocaustJulia Hell, Post‐Fascist Fantasies: Psychoanalysis, History, and the Literature of East GermanyNorbert Finzsch and Dietmar Schirmer (eds), Identity and Intolerance: Nationalism, Racism, and Xenophobia in Germany and the United StatesEmiko Ochiai, The Japanese Family System in TransitionRitu Menon and Kamla Bhasin, Borders and Boundaries: Women in India's PartitionBecky Conekin, Frank Mort and Chris Waters (eds), Moments of Modernity: Reconstructing Britain 1945–1964Celia Briar, Working for Women? Gendered Work and Welfare Policies in Twentieth‐Century BritainVictoria de Grazia (ed.) with Ellen Furlough, The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical PerspectiveChristopher Breward, The Hidden Consumer: Masculinities, Fashion and City Life 1860–1914Irene Cieraad (ed.), At Home: An Anthropology of Domestic Space