Review by Choice Review
About a decade ago, several collections of essays in the then-new field of women's history appeared; for all their unevenness of quality and coverage, they were veritable treasuries of new information, new insights, and new approaches to historical study. The volume under review is not a good example of this genre. Its essays are uneven in quality and range haphazardly from the ancient Near East to contemporary America. There are some solid, scholarly essays; a larger number of pieces summarize the secondary literature, adding little or nothing new; and a third major group is characterized by unsubstantiated feminist rhetoric. The collection is physically difficult to handle and read. Printed from copy created on a word processor, the volume has an unfinished look about it. The spell-check caught spelling errors in English, but in some cases the footnotes look as though they had received no editing at all. Moreover, the compiler of the volume was unable to cope with the word processor's formatting idiosyncrasies. Not recommended. -J. Zimmerman, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
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