BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Kenneth G. Holum, Theodosian Empresses: Women and Imperial Dominion in Late Antiquity . Edith Ennen, The Medieval Woman . Judith M. Bennett, Elizabeth A. Clark, Jean F. O'Barr, Anne B. Vilen and Sarah Westphal‐Wihl (eds), Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages . Alice T. Friedman, House and Household in Elizabethan England: Wollaton Hall and the Willoughby Family . Kate Mertes, The English Noble Household 1250–1600: Good Governance and Politic Rule . Patricia Grimshaw, Paths of Duty. American Missionary Wives in Nineteenth‐Century Hawaii . Margaret Jolly and Martha Macintyre (eds), Family and Gender in the Pacific. Domestic Contradictions and the Colonial Impact . Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid (eds), Recasting Women. Essays in Colonial History . Ann Braude, Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth‐Century America . Alex Owen, The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth Century England . Catherine Lowman Wessinger, Annie Besant and Progressive Messianism (1847–1933) . Carolyn Steedman, Childhood, Culture and Class in Britain: Margaret McMillan, 1860–1931 . Joanna Hubbs, Mother Russia: The Feminine Myth in Russian Culture . Stephanie Urdang, And Still They Dance: Women, War and the Struggle for Change in Mozambique .