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From: TR Young <TR.Young@uvm.edu>
Subject: New Books on Family and Feminism
Cc: ahs-talk@ncsu.edu
the January, 1997 Issue of Contemporary Sociology: a Journal of Reviews,
has reviews of several most interesting books for those interested in
family and feminist scholarship.

Among those one might check out:

1. Jain and Ribbins write about a feminist sociology of child-rearing.

2.  Judith Stacey writes about family values in a postmodern age.

3.  Nancy Whitter looks at radical women's movements.

4.  Sara Diamond surveys right-wing movements in the USA

5.  Pat Mooney and Theo Majka study farm workers' movements.

6.  Nancy Rose evaluates Workfare programs and their effects on women.

7.  Marchland, Parpart, and Taylor edit papers on Feminism and Postmodernism.

8.  Beth Schneider and Nancy Stoller discuss feminist empowerment in the
        context of AIDS.

9.  Ruth Behar and Deborah Gordon write about women writing about culture.

10. Benhabib, Butler, Cornell and Fraser exchange feminist contentions.

                                        
....These and more in a really fine selection of books to review in CS.

                                                                TR Young,
Senior Editor
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