Betty Sancier

Book Reviews : Wages for Caring: Compensating Family Care of the Elderly. By Nathan L. Linsk, Sharon M. Keigher, Lori Simon-Rusinowitz, and Suzanne E. England. New York: Praeger, 1992, 281 pp.,

elderly report the experiences of two states that have followed divergent policies toward paying relatives to care for elderly family members. They do so from four perspectives-policy, service delivery, family caregiver, and consumer-and provide comparative analyses with other nations to illuminate options, lessons, and evolving concerns. The result is a volume crammed with essential facts and statis-

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Preserving abortion rights is again a top priority as a consequence of the 1989 Supreme Court decision in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services. That decision returned to the individual states authority to restrict abortions in significant ways. By the time you read this, other restrictive decisions may well have been handed down. In this issue, the members of the editorial board of AFFILIA share their

On the Bias

Call for Sessions: This Conference will focus on the diverse, intersecting and even contradictory ways that we practice (and at times fail to practice) feminism through pedagogy, activism, art, scholarship and daily life . The Conference committee is seeking proposals for papers, workshops, artwork, performances, films, poster sessions, and other contributions that raise more questions than provide answers about the struggles, rewards and complexities of practicing feminism in a white patriarchal world. The committee is particularly interested in local and community action workshops and innovative modes of presentation that challenge conventional conference dynamics such as using multimedia, constructivist pedagogy, open space technology, engaging audience participation, and enhancing opportunities for dialogue and feedback during the conference day.

On Feminism in Action

Every reader should find something of more than average interest in this issue of A f f ilia. Clinical issues are covered and so is social activism. Feminist approaches to pornography are examined, and an agenda is proposed to help achieve closer ties with black women. These may be considered mainline social work articles in a rapidly expanding feminist tradition. Feminist scholarship is flourishing; we have reason to take pride in our unique contribution to the explosion of knowledge in our field.

Editorial One Step Forward

If we women deciphered the enigma of relationships between mothers and daughters, would we come any closer to solving the problems that women have in making common cause with each other? Perhaps. From Freud to Friday, the fundamental nature of the mother-daughter bond has been recognized. Dynamic theory holds that, to achieve maturity, women must come to terms with a veritable primordial soup of feelings about their mothers. In personal terms, that means that daughters must give up their mothers and mothers must give up their daughters. In political terms, it means that women are taught to look to men, not to other