Women's Review of Books - 2008 Issues

 

January/February 2008

  • The Howling Continues
    Shakespeare’s Kitchen, by Lore Segal
    Tell Me Another Morning, by Zdena Berger
    Reviewed by Alice Mattison
  • Good Reads: What Love Should Be/What it Is
    Landing, by Emma Donoghue
    Harpsong, by Rilla Askew
    Away, by Amy Bloom
    Reviewed by Trish Crapo
  • Then and Now: What Have the Sexual “Revolutions” Wrought?
    By Margaret Morganroth Gullette
  • Interview: Jane Rule
    Eloise Klein Healy
  • Photojournalist of Record: Marilyn Humphries
    By Patricia A. Gozemba and Karen Kahn
  • Poetry
    "Nature, Unspeaking"
    "Still"
    By Suzanne Berger
  • Like an “Animal in a Cage”
    Women in Prison: Inside the Concrete Womb, by Kathryn Watterson
    From Witches to Crack Moms: Women, Drug Law, and Policy, by Susan Boyd
    Neither Angels nor Demons: Women, Crime, and Victimization, by Kathleen Ferraro
    Freeing Tammy: Women, Drugs, and Incarceration, by Jody Raphael
    Reviewed by Silja J.A. Talvi
  • Stepping Out and Moving Forward
    Barefootin’: Life Lessons on the Road to Freedom, by Unita Blackwell (with JoAnne Prichard Morris)
    When We Were Colored: A Mother’s Story, by Eva Rutland
    Invisible Activists: Women of the Louisiana NAACP, 1915-1945, by Lee Sartain
    Reviewed by Margo Culley
  • The Wild Plain and the Limitless World
    Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations, by Georgina Howell
    Reviewed by Barbara Sjoholm
  • A Golden Age
    By Tahmima Anam
    Reviewed by Mandira Sen
  • Creating Herself
    Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and the Image, by Bennetta Jules-Rosette
    Reviewed by Florence Ladd
  • The Last of Everything
    The Last Empress, by Anchee Min
    The Last Chinese Chef, by Nicole Mones
    The Last Communist Virgin, by Wang Ping
    Reviewed by Lori Tsang
  • Chasing Ani
    Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics, by Jennifer Baumgardner
    Reviewed by Sarah L. Rasmusson
  • Searching for an Apology
    Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route, by Saidiya Hartman
    Reviewed by Thulani Davis
  • The Stay-at-Home Pushmepullyou
    Opting Out?: Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home, by Pamela Stone
    Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success, by Sylvia Ann Hewlett
    Reviewed by Lori Rotskoff

 

 April/May 2008

  • Gender, Caring, and Money
    The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics
    Reviewed by Susan F. Feiner and Drucilla K. Barker
  • Origins of Sex
    The Cleft
    By Doris Lessing
    Reviewed by Roberta Rubenstein
  • Bicultural Before There Was A Word For It
    The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Nohnston Schoolcraft
    Edited by Robert Dale Parker
    Reviewed by Margaret Noori
  • Essay
    Book Reviewing: Do It Yourself
    By Gail Pool
  • Poems Including History--And More
    A is for Anne: Mistress Hutchinson Disturbs the Commonwealth
    By Penelope Scambly Schott
    The Resurrection of Trade By Leslie Adrienne Miller
    The Logan Topographies By Alena Hairston
    Blue Front By Martha Collins
    Reviewed by Wendy Vardaman
  • No More Tea Pouring
    Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women Are Changing Their Nation
    By Veronica Chambers
    Reviewed by Kimberly Palmer
  • Field Notes
    The Roll of Small Presses
    By Robin Becker
  • Poetry
    By Hilda Raz
  • Cartoon
    By Diane DiMassa
  • Essay
    Ms. Captivity
    By Jean Trounstine
  • The Search for Healing
    Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resistance
    By Alice Rothchild
    Reviewed by Sherry Gorelick
  • An Account of Things of the Yucatan
    Peregrina: Love and Death in Mexico
    Edited and with an introduction by Michael K. Schuessler
    Foreward by Elena Poniatowska
    Reviewed by Martha Gies
  • The Power of Words
    Liberating Shahrazad: Feminism, Postcolonialism, and Islam
    By Suzanne Gauch
    Reviewed by Nadia Boudidah Faloul
  • Emotion Overflowing
    The Wind from the East
    By Almudena Grandes
    Translated from the Spanish by Sonia Soto
    Reviewed by Inmaculada Pertusa
  • The New "Yiddishe Mama"
    You Never Call You Never Write! A History of the Jewish Mother
    By Joyce Antler
    Reviewed by Debra Spark
  • Remembering Our Health, Forgetting Our Pain
    Just Breath Normally
    By Peggy Schumaker
    I Heard the Vultures Singing: Notes on Poetry, Illness, and Nature
    By Lucia Perillo Reviewed by Nina Murray

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