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Two‐Spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality. Sue‐Ellen Jacobs. Wesley Thomas. and Sabine Lang, eds. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1997.332 pp.

Most women living on Danish farms work off the farm and have a non‐farming education and background. The first part of the paper discusses how farm women's identity is understood theoretically and then suggests a perspective inspired by theories of modernity and everyday life, enabling a view of farm women as knowledgeable actors. The second part is an empirical study, based on qualitative interviews, of how farm women who work outside agriculture experience living on a farm. The study shows that living on a farm poses specific dilemmas for these women because they individually have to reconcile practices on the farm with norms and practices they bring with them from their earlier experiences, as well as with norms associated with gender relations more generally in society. However, the women are actively trying to reconcile their different experiences and by doing so they are reconstructing female identity and, in turn, gender identity in agriculture.

Abstract  As in most capitalist countries, the advent of the "consumer society" has brought about radical cultural change in Japanese society. In this paper I aim to illustrate the undercurrents of this change, focusing on the transformation of social consciousness and gender identity as it is reflected in the popular and youth cultures. In order to show these changes, I have sellected several bestsellers from youth fictions (sekhun‐shousetsu) as my main object of study and have presented several diagrams to illustrate the apparent relationship between this type of fictions and the so‐called "aprgs‐guerre" generation, the "gang of sun," the "baby‐boomers," the "moratorium generation," the "mutant generation." While analyzing the historical trend of youth fiction for the last 45 years and refering to the other types of popular culture (films, popular songs, comics etc.), I shall attempt to throw light upon the substance of these changes and predict what directions the Japanese culture is likely to take in the future.

A Review of Gender Identities and Education: The Impact of Starting School, by Barbara Lloyd and Gerald Duveen.