Women's Review of Books 

Since 1983 the Women's Review of Books has provided a forum for serious, informed discussion of new writing by and about women. Women’s Review of Books provides a unique perspective on today’s literary landscape and features essays and in-depth reviews of new books by and about women. Women's Review of Books is published by the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College, in collaboration with Old City Publishing in Philadelphia, PA.

 July/August 2010

• Tilted on her Pedestal
  Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles
  By Panthea Reid
  Reviewed by Carol Hurd Green
• The Race and Gender Factory
  What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America
  By Peggy Pascoe
  Reviewed by Sandra F. VanBurkleo
• The Young Woman
  The Novel
  By Nawal El Saadawi
  translated by Omnia Amin and Rick London
  Reviewed by Marilyn Booth
• The Cosmopolitan Bushwoman
  Her Brilliant Career: The Life of Stella Miles Franklin
  By Jill Roe
  Reviewed by Kerryn Higgs
• The Marching Days
  The Red Squad
  By E.M. Broner
  Risk
  By Elana Dykewomon
  The Labrys Reunion
  By Terry Wolverton
  The Love Children
  By Marilyn French
  Reviewed by Andrea Freud Loewenstein
• Both Central and Marginal
  Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life
  By Lori D. Ginzberg
  Reviewed by Allison L. Sneider
• Cartoon
  By Marguerite Dabaie
• Poetry
  By Jehanne Dubrow
• The Poet in Wartime
  Names
  By Marilyn Hacker
  Nettles
  By Venus Khoury-Ghata
  Reviewed by Marilyn Krysl
• Age-struck and Seeing Strong
  The Book of Seventy
  By Alicia Suskin Ostriker
  A Village Life
  By Louise Glück
  Reviewed by Donna Krolik Hollenberg
• Putting the Reader to Work
  The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
  By Lydia Davis
  Reviewed by Jessica Jernigan
• Mostly Grieving, Occasionally Pleasing
  And The World Changed: Contemporary Stories
  by Pakistani Women
  Edited by Muneeza Shamsie
  Reviewed by Gayatri Devi
• The Other of Others
  Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector
  By Benjamin Moser
  Reviewed by Marguerite Itamar Harrison
• The Constraints of Gender
  Secret Son
  By Laila Lalami
  The Pistachio Seller
  By Reem Bassiouney
  translated by Osman Nusairi
  Reviewed by Valerie Miner
• Who's Wearing the Pants
  When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American
  Women from 1960 to the Present
  By Gail Collins
  Reviewed by Emily Toth
• Making Sense of an Iranian Past
  The Age of Orphans
  By Laleh Khadivi
  Bone Worship
  By Elizabeth Eslami
  Reviewed by Persis Karim