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 feature essays and in-depth reviews of new books by and about women. After suspending publication in December 2004 the Women’s Review of Books was relaunched in January 2006 in collaboration with Old City Publishing of Philadelphia.
May/June 2008
- Female Spoons and Male Forks
American Food Writing: An Anthology with Classic Recipes
Edited by Molly O'Neill
Reviewed by Sandra M. Gilbert
- The Insanity File
The Madness of Mary Todd Lincoln
By Jason Emerson
Reviewed by Joan D. Hedrick
- Art Without Balls
Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art
Edited by Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin
Reviewed by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
- Sex Without Procreation, Procreation Without Sex
Everything Concievable: How Assisted Reproduction is Changing Men, Women, and the World
By Liza Mundy
Queering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience
By Laura Marno
Reviewed by Amy Agigian
- The Rescuer of Women
Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories
By Katha Pollitt
Reviewed by Lisa Jervis
- The Boys Against the Girls
Playing with the Boys: Why Separate is Not Equal
By Eileen McDonagh and Laura Pappano
Equal Play: Title IX and Social Change
Edited by Nancy Hogshead-Makar and Andrew Zimbalist
Reviewed by Pat Griffin
- Good Reads
The Resonance of "Quiet" Fiction
By Valerie Miner
- Poetry
By Barbara Greenberg
- Detour De Force
Awkward: A Detour
By Mary Cappello
Reviewed by Jan Clausen
- Photography
The Aftermath
Photographs by Rania Matar
Article by Rahcel Rosenfield Lafo
- Essay
Where No Woman Has Gone Before
By Victoria Rosner
- Cultural Identity and Multicultural Complexity
The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism
By Melanie Kaye/Kantowitz
Reviewed by Bettina Aptheker
- Quincanera Barbie
Hijas Americanas: Beauty, Body Image, and Growing Up Latina
By Rosie Molinary
Once Upon a Quincanera: Coming of Age in the USA
By Julia Alvarez
Reviewed by Marie-Elise Wheatwind
- Handmaidens No More
Daring to Care: American Nursing and Second-Wave Feminism
By Psusan Gelfand Malka
Reviewed by Peggy Lynch
- All to Mother
Household Accounts: Working-Class Family Economies in the Interwar United States
By Susan Porter Benson
Reviewed by Alice Kessler-Harris
- Obituary
Tender Impiety: Grace Paley, 1922-2007
By Rachel Rubin
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