Women's Studies Journal

Women's Studies Journal
1999 - 15:1

contents:

• The Theory/ Practice Dilemma in Political Thinking on Justice for Battered Women
  Sally C. Simmonds
• Women and their Personal Names: Making Sense of Cultural Naming Practices
  Giselle Bahr and Ann Wetherall
• What it Means to be a Lion Red Man: Alcohol Advertising and Kiwi Masculinity
  Linda Hill
• Debating Feminist Theory: A Note on Some Questions and Answers
  Liz Stanley
• The Eventually Untrue Adventures of Two Girls in Felicity: The Problem with Truth in Dare, Truth or Promise
  Amy Hope Jamgochian

Book Reviews:

• The Loving Stitch: A History of Knitting and Spinning in New Zealand, by Heather Nicholson, reviewed by Jane Malthus.
• The Sea is a Jealous Mistress: 'To Thine Own Self be True', by Denise Tilling, reviewed by Katrina Roen.
• A Foucault Primer: Discourse, Power and the Subject, by Alec McHoul and Wendy Grace, reviewed by Heather Worth.
• The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Volume Four. 1921-1940, (ed) Claudia Orange, reviewed by Raewyn Dalziel.

Cover Photograph: Yuk King Tam, Greta Anderson, 1998