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.

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May/June 2013

• Outside the Outsiders
  Clementine Hunter: Her Life and Art
  By Art Shriver and Tom Whitehead
  Reviewed by Marilyn Richardson

• WRB Celebrating 30 Years
  Anniversary Tribute from Gloria Steinem

• Imagining the Impossible
  Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class and the Assumptions of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Politics
  By Urvashi Vaid
  Reviewed by Bettina Aptheker

• Promoting Trans-Literacy
  Transfeminist Perspectives In and Beyond Transgender and Gender Studies
  Edited by Anne Enke
  Reviewed by Cressida J. Heyes

• The Voice
  Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights
  By Mariana Warner
  
  When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice
  By Terry Tempest Williams
  
  Reviewed by Rebecca Steinitz

• "What Does Henry Want?"
  Bring Up the Bodies
  By Hilary Mantel
  Reviewed by Jessica Jernigan

• Field Notes
  Faith and Its Elusiveness
  By Robin Becker

• Essay
  Lesbians on the Move
  By Judy Grahn

• Photography
  Hellen van Meene: A Delicate Balancing Act
  Photographs by Hellen van Meene
  Commentary by Cassandra Goldwater

• Always Another Fight
  Elsewhere, California
  By Dana Johnson
  Reviewed by Valerie Miner

• Oh Make Me Real!
  Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life
  By Natalie Dykstra
  Reviewed by Judith Fetterley

• Poetry
  By Shirley Powers

• The History Beneath History
  Out of It
  By Selma Dabbagh
  
  Of Noble Origins
  By Sahar Kahalifeh
  
  Reviewed by M. Lynx Qualey

• The Organization
  In the Shadows of the Banyan
  By Vaddey Ratner
  Reviewed by Marianne Villanueva

• The Authors of Their Lives
  NW
  By Zadie Smith
  Reviewed by Susan Alice Fischer

• A Question of Safety
  The Round House
  By Louise Erdrich
  
  Flight Behavior
  By Barbara Kingsolver
  
  Reviewed by A. J. Verdell

• Funny Then, Funny Now
  We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy: A Very Oral History
  By Yael Kohen
  Reviewed by Roz Warren

• Who Would Jesus Deport?
  Immigration and Women: Understanding the American Experience
  By Susan C. Pearce, Elizabeth J. Clifford, and Reena Tandon
  
  National Insecurities: Immigrants and US Deportation Policy Since 1882
  By Deidre M. Moloney
  
  "I Am an American": Filming the Fear of Difference
  By Cynthia Weber
  
  Reviewed by Katarzyna Marciniak

The Women's Review of Books receives program support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.