Volume 7 Number 2 Spring 1982 Volume 7 Numero2 Printemps 1982

Volume 7 Number 2
Spring 1982
Volume 7 Numero2
Printemps 1982
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A Women's Studies Journal
Journal d"etudes sur la femme
Articles
Larry D . Collins
The Politics of Abortion
21
Patricia T . Rooke and R . L . Schnell
The Rise and Decline of British North American
Protestant Orphans' Homes as Woman's Domain, 18501930
37
Ruth Pierson and Alison Prentice
Feminism and the Writing and Teaching of History
47
Alexandra Collins
The Art of Self-Perception in Virginia Woolfs Mrs.
Dalloway and Edith Wharton's The Reef
61
Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl
68
Terrance Q . Percival and Elizabeth F. Percival
Sex Typed Identification, Male Dominance and Attitudes
Toward Social Equality for Women
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Priscilla Galloway
103
Hillel Schwartz
114
Susan Glickman
115
Susan Glickman
121
Susan Glickman
Canadian Women's Archives
89
Marney Allen
Prairie Life: An Oral History of Greta Craig
105
Vivian Darroch
Narrative: A Range of Sense for a Verbal Vision
Ad Feminam
Reports and Review Essays
117
David Bevan
Andre Malraux Feministe
123
Andrea Nugent
Canada's Silenced Communicators
137
Maureen Baker
Finding Partners in the Newspaper
147
Elizabeth Jones
Nude on the Dartmouth Ferry (Patricia Monk)
148
Patricia Morley
Margaret Laurence (Joan Coldwell)
150
Audrey Doerr and Micheline Cormier (eds.)
Women and the Constitution (C. Beckton)
Book Reviews
153
Margaret Stacey and M a r i o n Price
Women, Power and Politics (Janine Brodie)
154
Peggy Reeves Sanday
Female Power and Male Dominance: On the Origins of
Sexual Inequality (Carole Farber)
157
Hilary M . Lips
Women, Men, and the Psychology of Power (Joan E.
Norris)
159
Paula J . Caplan
Between Women: Lowering the Barriers (M. Kaye Kerr)
160
Elsie Gregory M a c G i l l
My Mother the Judge (Susan Jacket)
162
Margaret Gillet
We Walked Very Warily: A History of Women at McGill
(Irene Poelzer)
164
Beth Light and Alison Prentice (eds.)
Pioneer and Gentlewomen of British North America,
1713-1867. (Documents in Canadian Women's History.
Volume I).
Kay Daniels and M a r y Murnane (eds.)
Uphill all the Way. A Documentary History of Women in
Australia (Barbara Roberts)
169
Brigitte Jordan
Birth in Four Cultures
M y r a Leifer
Psychological Effects of Motherhood, A Study of First
Pregnancy
A n n Oakley
Becoming a Mother
A n n Oakley
Women Confined: Towards a Sociology of Childbirth
(Jane Gordon)
171
Kathryn Schrotenboer and Genell J . Subak-Sharpe
Freedom From Menstrual Cramps (Macha MacKay)
172
NailaMinai
Women in Islam (Jan Martin)
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