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Février 2002
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Sheila Fitzpatrick and Yuri Slezkine, eds. In the Shadow of Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women From 1917 to the Second World War. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. ix + 443 pp. Glossary and index. $67.50 (cloth), ISBN 0-691-01948-7; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 0-691-01949-5.

Reviewed for H-Women by Tom Ewing, Department of History, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia. February 2002.

Challenging Caste: Race, Gender and Class in the Indian Political Matrix
A one-day seminar to be held on October 10, 2002 [Thursday, preceding the annual South Asia Conference, Madison, WI]

Shani D'Cruze, ed. Everyday Violence in Britain 1850-1950: Class and Gender. Harlow, London and New York: Longman, 2000. xii + 233 pp. Notes, selected bibliography, and index. $24.00 (paper), ISBN 0-582-41907-7.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Lynn Abrams, Department of History, Glasgow University. February 2002.

Intolerable Acts: Men, Women and Violence in Everyday Life

Alice Kessler-Harris, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xi + 374 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-19-503835-5.

Reviewed for H-Labor by Jennifer Mittelstadt, Department of History, Brooklyn College, City University of New York. March, 2002.

Gender Roles, Gendered Rights

Edward C. Lorenz, Defining Global Justice: The History of U.S. International Labor Standards Policy. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001. x + 318 pp. $54.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-268-02550-09; $27.95 (paper), ISBN: 0-268-02551-7.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Mark Perlman, Department of Economics, Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh.

We are pleased to announce that ViVa now includes historical citations on women in African history.

New website of the history journals Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung (Yearbook for historical Studies on Communism) and The International Newsletter of Communist Studies, published by Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin.

An editorial homepage of both journals has recently been published in the Internet containing some basic information and links. You may have a look at:

www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/projekte/JHK-news/Homepage.html

Call for Papers

The Information Revolution is considered by many to be an epochal shift in contemporary global economic, social, political and cultural history, comparable with the previous major shift of the Industrial Revolution. Scholars continue to explore and analyze the unparalleled rapid development of information and communication network technologies – most recently that of the Internet and World Wide Web.

The Fondazione di Studi Storici "Filippo Turati" (Florence, Italy) would like to inform about some of the latest volumes published in the Series Società e Cultura (Lacaita Publishing House):

• Andrea Ragusa, L'Antitaliano. Dell'azionismo o dell'élite di un'altra Italia

In the series Strumenti e Fonti (Lacaita Publishing House) the following volumes: