Book Reviews

The Afro‐Argentines of Buenos Aires 1800–1900 . George Reid Andrews. Women 's Work : The First 20,000 Years . Elizabeth Wayland Barber. The Saint : A Complete History in Print, Radio, Film and Television of Leslie Charteris ' Robin Hood of Modem Crime, Simon Templal; 1928–1992 . Burl Barer. Aspects of British Calendar Customs . Eds. Theresa Buckland and Juliette Wood. Reading the Social Body . Catherine B. Burroughs and Jeffrey David Ehrenreich, eds. Ethnomimesis . Robert Cantwell. Al Capp Remembered . Elliott Caplin. Holy Days and Holidays . Edward M. Deems. The Cultural Studies Reader . Ed. Simon During. Songs About Work : Essays in Occupational Culture For Richard A. Reuss . Ed. Archie Green. The Politics of Pictures: The Creation of the Public in the Age of Popular Media . John Hartley. Breaking the Ties that Bind : Popular Stories of the New Woman , 1915–1930. Ed. Maureen Honey. Mythical Trickster Figures: Contours, Contexts and Criticisms. Ed. William H. Hynes and William G. Doty. Edward Stratemeyer and the Stratemeyer Syndicate . Deidre Johnson. Seven Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon. Norman M. Klein. Meeting the Madwoman : An Inner Challenge for Feminine Spirit . Linda Schierse Leonard Speaking the Unspeakable : A Poetics of Obscenity . Peter Michelson. Feminism/Postmodemism . Ed. Linda J. Nicholson. Humor Scholarship : A Research Bibliography . Don L.F. Nilson. The Crawfish Book . Glen Pitre. Dick Tracy and American Culture : Morality and Mythology , Text and ContextS . Garyn G. Roberts. Gender in Popular Culture : Images of Men and Women in Literature, Visual Media, and Material Culture . Eds. Susan W. Rollins and Peter C. Rollins. Adult Comics : An Introduction . Roger Sabin. Society's Impact on Television : How the Viewing Public Shapes Television Programming . Gary W. Selnow and Richard R. Gilbert. Animating Culture : Hollywood Cartoons from the Sound Era . Eric Smoodin. Media and Public Policy . Ed. Robert J. Spitzer. Football and Its Fans : Supporters and Their Relations with the Game , 1885–1985. Rogan Taylor. The Less Noble Sex : Scientific, Religious, and Philosophical Conceptions of Woman's Nature . Nancy Tuana. Almanac for Americans . Willis Thornton. Christmas on the American Frontier 1800–1900. John E. Bauer. Happy Birthdays Round the World . Lois S. Johnson. Jewish Holidays and Festivals . Ben M. Edidin. Round the Year with the World's Religions . Royston Pike. Season Feasts and Festivals . E.O. James. Yearbook of English Festivals . Dorothy Gladys Spicer. Imagining America : Dutch Youth and Its Sense of Place . Mel Van Eltern The Remote Control in the New Age of Television . Ed. James R. Walker and Robert V. Bellamy, Jr. Professors, Politics and Pop . Jon Wiener. “ It 's Time for My Story ”: Soap Opera Sources, Structure and Response . Carol Traynor Williams. Bodylore . Ed. Katharine Young.