Reviews, Spring 1987, Vol. 6, No. 1

Feminist Theory: The Intellectual Traditions of American Feminism, by Josephine Donovan; Gender Politics, by Ethel Klein; Crossing the Double-Cross: The Practice of Feminist Criticism, by Elizabeth A. Meese; Gender and Reading: Essays on Readers, Texts, and Contexts, edited by Elizabeth A. Flynn and Patrocinio P. Schweickart, 109-116
Carol E. Klein

Hester Thrale Piozzi: Portrait of a Literary Woman, by William McCarthy, 116-119
Melinda Sansone

Female Friendships and Communities: Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, by Pauline Nestor; Victorian Writing and Working Women: The Other Side of Silence, by Julia Swindells, 119-121
Nina Auerbach

Bearing the Word: Language and Female Experience in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing, by Margaret Homans, 121-122
Lynn M. Alexander

German Women in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Social and Literary History, edited by Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres and Mary Jo Maynes, 122-123
Barbara Hyams

Contemporary American Women Writers: Narrative Strategies, edited by Catherine Rainwater and William J. Scheick; Black and White Women of the Old South: The Peculiar Sisterhood in American Literature, by Minrose G. Gwin, 123-125
Susan Resneck Parr

The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions, by Paula Gunn Allen, 125-126
Melody Graulich

The Southern Belle in the American, by Kathryn Lee Seidel, 127-128
Susan Millar Williams

A Feminist Dictionary, by Cheris Kramarae and Paula A. Treichler, with assistance from Ann Russo, 128-129
Sally McConnell-Ginet

Ordinary Families, by E. Arnot Robertson; The Chinese Garden, by Rosemary Manning, 133-135
Jane Marcus