Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Contemporary European History, Vol. 10 (3), November 2001, Theme Issue: Gender and War in Europe c. 1918–1949 Claire Duchen and Irene Bandhauer–Schoffman (eds), When the War Was Over: Women, War and Peace in Europe, 1940–1956 Bonnie S. Anderson, Joyous Greetings: The First International Women's Movement 1830–1860 Jo Fox, Filming Women in the Third Reich Elizabeth Abbott, A History of Celibacy Jocelyn Wogan–Browne, Saints’ Lives and Women's Literary Culture c. 1150–1300: Virginity and its Authorisations Susan Migden Socolow, The Women of Colonial Latin America Federico Garza Carvajal, Vir: Perceptions of Manliness in Andalucía and México, 1561–1699 Tanika Sarkar, Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation: Gender, Religion and the Prehistory of Indian Nationalism Marion W. Gray, Productive Men, Reproductive Women: The Agrarian Household and the Emergence of Separate Spheres during the German Enlightenment Jean H. Quataert, Staging Philanthropy: Patriotic Women and the National Imagination in Dynastic Germany, 1813–1916 Judith M. Bennett and Amy M. Froide (eds), Singlewomen in the European Past 1250–1800 Leonore Davidoff, Megan Doolittle, Janet Fink, Katherine Holden, The Family Story: Blood, Contract and Intimacy, 1830–1960 Georges Vigarello, A History of Rape: Sexual Violence in France from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century Mary A. Procida, Married to the Empire: Gender, Politics and Imperialism in India, 1883–1947 Joy Dixon, Divine Feminine: Theosophy and Feminism in England Catriona M. Parratt, ‘More Than Mere Amusement’: Working–Class Women's Leisure in England, 1750–1914 Nancy A. Hewitt, Southern Discomfort: Women‘s Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s–1920s Emily K. Abel, Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin, 1850–1940 Sandra Lee Barney, Authorized to Heal: Gender, Class, and the Transformation of Medicine in Appalachia, 1880–1930 Margarete Sandelowski, Devices and Desires: Gender, Technology, and American Nursing