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Abstract

Demythologizing the Romance of Conquest, by Jeanne Armstrong (Westport: Greenwood P, 2000). Science Fiction Culture, by Camille Bacon‐Smith (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2000). Out of the Shadows: A History of Women in Twentieth‐Century Wales, by Deirdre Beddoe (Cardiff, Wales: U of Wales P, 2000). The Cistercian Evolution: The Invention of a Religious Order in Twelfth‐Century Europe, by Constance Hoffman Berman (U of Pennsylvania P, 2000). Cauldron of Changes: Feminist Spirituality in Fantastic Fiction, by Janice C. Crosby (Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2000). Animal, Vegetable, or Woman'?, by Kathryn Paxton George (New York: State U of New York P, 2000). New Woman Fiction: Women Writing First‐Wave Feminism, by Ann Heilmann (New York: Palgrave, 2000). Body Politics and the Fictional Double, edited by Debra Walker King (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 2000). Women's Bodies/Women's Lives: Health, Well‐Being and Body Image, edited by Baukje Miedema, Janet M. Stoppard, and Vivienne Anderson (Toronto: Sumach P, 2000). Sita, Revised Edition, by Kate Millet (Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2000). Framing the Sexual Subject: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Power, edited by Richard Parker, Regina Maria Barbosa, and Peter Aggleton (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: U of California P, 2000). The Retrieval of a Legacy: Nineteenth Century American Women Inventors, by Denise Pilato (Westport: Praeger Publishers, 2000). Carnal Appetites: FoodSexldentities, by Elspeth Probyn (Routledge, 2000). Poetic Epistemologies: Gender and Knowing in Women's Language‐Oriented Writing, by Megan Simpson (New York: State U of New York P, 2000). The Private Rod: Marital Violence, Sensation, and the Law in Victorian Britain, by Marlene Tromp (Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 2000). Healing Narratives: Women Writers Curing Cultural Dis‐ease, by Gay Wilentz (New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2000).