Women's Studies Journal

Women's Studies Journal
2000 - 16:2

contents:

• Embodying ambiguity: Somali refugee women and ethnic boundary 'maintenance'
  Louise Humpage
• Mixed-sex rooming and being female: Delving into the complexities of identity and subjectivity
  Beverley Burrell

Book Reviews:

• Poverty, social assistance and the employability of mothers: Restructuring welfare states, Maureen Baker and David Tippin. Reviewed by Jane Higgins.
• A daughter of Isis: An autobiography of Nawal El Saadawi, Nawal El Saadawi. Reviewed by Nabila Jaber.
• Childfree and sterilized: Women's decisions and medical responses, Annily Campbell. Reviewed by Jan Cameron.
• Her side of the story: Readings of Mander, Mansefield and Hyde, Mary Paul. Reviewed by Livia Kathe Wittmann.

Poetry:

• Poems by Johanne McComish

Review Article:

• Double vision: Art histories and colonial histories in the Pacific, Nicholas Thomas and Diane Losche (eds). Reviewed by Lynne Star.

Bibliographical Index:

• Women and the Law in New Zealand: Thirty Years of Scholarship
  Sandra Petersson

Cover Image by Rosa Gabriella Alice.