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Linda L. Clark, The Rise of Professional Women in France: Gender and Public Administration since 1830 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). This splendid book, with its overarching vision, its mastery [...]

Creating the Welfare State in France, 1880-1940, by Timothy B. Smith. Montreal, Quebec and Kingston, Ontario, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. viii, 241 pp. $75.00 US (cloth). This forcefully argued, though [...]

Russian and West European Women, 1860-1939: Dreams, Struggles, and Nightmares. By Marcelline J. Hutton (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001. xii plus 468 pp. $80.00/cloth; $32.95/paper). There is [...]

This book couples a meticulous and deftly executed quantitative historical study of data about French 'peasants,' broadly defined as country dwellers, with an excursion into the new cultural criticism that [...]

The contribution of Ghenia Avril de Sainte-Croix (1855-1939), a feminist who worked for the campaigns against regulated prostitution, started by Josephine Butler is discussed.

S. FREDERICK STARR MAKES A compelling case for optimism about Central Asia's future ['Rediscovering Central Asia,' Summer '09]. His hopeful evaluation rests on two important propositions. First, the author highlights [...]

To purchase or authenticate to the full-text of this article, please visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-229X.2007.394_36.x Byline: KAREN OFFEN (1) Author Affiliation: (1)Stanford University

Gerda Lerner. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2002. 377 pp. $34.50. 'Gerda Lerner, the author of this eloquent autobiography, is best known as a pioneer in women's history. Not only is she […]