...Elizabeth Hedrick Hester Thrale Piozzi: Portrait of a Literary Woman . By William McCarthy. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1985 . Pp. xiii , 306 . $28.00 . Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Book Reviews 183 breach . . . seen as being below the nude...

...Annabel Patterson The Feminine Reclaimed: The Idea of Woman in Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton . By Davies Stevie . Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky , 1986 . Pp. xi , 273 . $25.00 . Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Book Reviews 353 The Feminine...

...Kathleen C. Berkeley A Woman Doctor’s Civil War: Esther Hill Hawks’ Diary . Edited with a foreword and afterword by Schwartz Gerald . Columbia : University of South Carolina Press , 1984 . Pp. ix , 301 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book Reviews 317 tory...

...Sara Kermanian By challenging postcolonial theory's “methodological dualism,” this article explores non‐Western intersocietal encounters and interactions that facilitated the vanguard role of the Kurdish region of Iran (Rojhelat) in the country's “woman, life, freedom” revolutionary movement...

...Gerald L. Marriner Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 A Victorian in the Modern World: The Liberated Male s Adjustment to the New Woman and the New Morality Gerald L. Marriner I have sometimes doubted whether many of the men who spoke and worked for the equality of women really...

...Redding S. Sugg, Jr. Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 Lillian Smith and the Condition of Woman Redding S. Sugg, Jr. Six years after Lillian Smith s death, it still seems correct to say that her work was dominated by concern about the evils of segrega­ tion; but the extent...

...Catherine Sherwood Copyright © 1931 by Duke University Press 1931 THE PROFESSIONAL WOMAN AT HOME CATHERINE SHERWOOD NOW that professional and business conditions are grad­ ually being improved for the serious woman worker in the South, we can take time to inquire into another phase of her...

...Anne Firor Scott The Woman Citizen: Social Feminism in the 1920s . By Lemons J. Stanley . Urbana : The University of Illinois Press , 1973 . Pp. xiii , 266 . $9.50 . Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 406 TAe South Atlantic Quarterly President and his many...

...Thomas J. Cottle Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 A Woman Named Sarah Clarke Keller Thomas J. Cottle Sarah Clarke Keller is a tall, thin, handsome black woman of forty-two, a widow, and the mother of four children. For sev­ eral years I have been visiting with the Kellers, who...

...Edward Stone The Stereotype of the Single Woman in American Novels . By Deegan Dorothy Yost . New York : King’s Crown Press , 1951 . Pp. xiv , 252 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 Book Reviews 619 The Art of Sinking in Poetry: Martinus Scriblerus's...

...Frances Acomb France: A Tribute by an American Woman . By Gilliam Florence . New York : E. P. Dutton and Company , 1945 . Pp. 224 . $2.50 . Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 Book Reviews 249 Pope in Johnson s Dictionary, and in Mr. Maurer s article on Pope...

...Frances Acomb Woman as Force in History: A Study in Traditions and Realities . By Beard Mary R. . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1946 . Pp. 369 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 146 The South Atlantic Quarterly artist will not begin anew; he...

...Brenda Murphy Woman, Will, and Survival: The Figure in Margaret Drabble s Carpet Brenda Murphy I find it slightly worrying. 1 mean, what is one so determined to survive for, at everyone else s expense. 1 don t know. Margaret Drabble, 1974, in an interview with Iris Rozencwajg, Women's Studies, 6...

...Gary Davenport Woman of Letters: A Life of Virginia Woolf . By Rose Phyllis . New York : Oxford University Press , 1978 . Pp. xviii , 298 . $12.95 . Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 Book Reviews 405 aware of the complexities of that reality, is more reluctant...

...Edwin Morgan MARY CASSATT: PAINTER AND WOMAN EDWIN MORGAN WHILE MARY CASSATT was surrounded by men, the greatest painters of nineteenth-eentury France Manet, Monet, Sisley, Pissarro, Renoir, and Degas there are practically none in her work, as there were, with perhaps one notable exception, none...

...Anne Firor Scott Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 The "New Woman in the New South Anne Firor Scott In 1884 a distinguished lady in New Orleans was made chairman of a committee of the New Orleans Education Society. When she came to make the report of her committee, over which...

...Anne Scott The Feminine Mystique . By Friedan Betty . New York : W. W. Norton & Company , 1963 . 404 pages. $5.95 . The Ascent of Woman . By Borgese Elizabeth Mann . New York : George Braziller , 1963 . 227 pages. $5.00 . Copyright © 1963 by Duke University...

...Arthur M. Sampley Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 The Woman Who Wasn t There: Lacuna in T. S, Eliot Arthur M. Sampley As every undergraduate English major knows, the blight that afflicted T. S. Eliot s Waste Land was the wound which the Fisher King had received in his genital...

...Alice M. Baldwin Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 THE WOMAN S COLLEGE OF DUKE UNIVERSITY Alice M. Baldwin IN THIS, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Woman s College of Duke University, it may be worth while to review a little of its history and more especially...