Reviews

Abstract

Mapping the modern

Nicole Ward Jouve, White Woman Speaks with Forked Tongue: Criticism as Autobiography, Routledge, £35 hbk, £9.99 pbk.

Christine Brooke‐Rose, Stories, Theories and Things, Cambridge University Press, £30 hbk.

Rachel Blau DuPlessis, The Pink Guitar, Routledge, £35 hbk, £9.99 pbk.

Janet Wolff, Feminine Sentences, Polity Press, £29.50 hbk, £9.95 pbk.

’Cats do not go to heaven‘

Elspeth Graham, Hilary Hinds, Elaine Hobby, Helen Wilcox (eds.), Her Own Life: Autobiographical Writings by Seventeenth‐Century Englishwomen Routledge £9.99.

Caroline Lucas, Writing for Women: the Example of Woman as Reader in Elizabethan Romance, Open University Press, £10.99.

Kirby Farrell, Elizabeth H. Hageman, Arthur F. Kinney (eds.), Women in the Renaissance: Selections from ‘English Literary Renaissance’, University of Massachussetts Press, £13.50.

Mary Ann Schofield and Cecilia Macheski, Curtain Calls: British and American Women and the Theatre, 1660–1820, Ohio University Press, £37.95.

Beyond representation ? the hysteric's Jouissance

Monique David‐Ménard, Hysteria from Freud to Lacan. Body and Language in Psychoanalysis, trans. Catherine Porter, Cornell University Press. First published as L'Hysterique entre Freud et Lacan: Corps et langage enpsychanalyse, Editions Universitaires, 1983.

A political lifestory

Carolyn Steedman, Childhood, Culture and Class in Britain: Margaret McMillan 1860–1931, Virago, £16.99