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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 2012


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  • The Discoverer Discovered
    The Discovery of Jeanne Baret: A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe

    By Glynis Ridley

    Reviewed by Janet Beizer

  • The Care Crisis
    Unprotected Labor: Household Workers, Politics, and Middle-Class Reform in New York, 1870 - 1940
    By Vanessa H. May
    Making Care Count: A Century of Gender, Race and Paid Care Work
    By Mignon Duffy
    The Caring Self: The Work Experiences of Home Care Aides
    By Claire Stacey
    Reviewed by Candace Howes

  • The Meaning Of The Fetus
    Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern Americav
    By Sarah Dubow
    Reviewed by Emily Douglas

  • Purists Vs. Pragmatists
    Lucretia Mott’s Heresy: Abolition and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America
    By Carol Faulkner
    Fighting Chance: The Struggle Over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America
    By Faye Dudden
    Reviewed by Lisa Tetrault

  • Caring For Rosie The Riveter’s Kids
    Demanding Child Care: Women’s Activism and the Politics of Welfare, 1940-1971
    By Natalie M. Fousekis
    Reviewed by Marcy Whitebook

  • Photography
    Unconventional Subjects, Conventional Settings
    Photos By Jess T. Dugan
    Commentary by Karen Irvine

  • Field Notes
    The Complexity Of Life
    By Robin Becker

  • Poetry
    By Rachel Mennies

  • The Connectedness Of Things
    The Undertaker’s Daughter
    By Toi Derricotte
    Shimmer
    By Judy Kronenfeld
    Reviewed by Alicia Suskin Ostriker

  • Down And Out In Paris
    The Unruly Passions of Eugénie R.
    By Carole DeSanti
    Reviewed by Patsy Baudoin

  • Who’s A Terrorist?
    Walking with the Comrades
    By Arundhati Roy
    Reviewed by Kerryn Higgs

  • The Forgotten "I"
    Marzi: A Memoir
    By Marzena Sowa, with art by Sylvain Savoia, translated by Anjali Singh
    Reviewed by Marta Bladek

  • The Crooked Room
    Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America: For Colored Girls Who’ve Considered Politics When Being Strong Isn’t Enough
    By Melissa V. Harris-Perry
    Reviewed by Sheri Parks

  • Required Reading
    A Walk in Victoria’s Secret By Kate Daniels; Violet Transparent
    By Anne Coray
    The Stranger Dissolves
    By Christina Hutchins
    The Takeaway Bin
    By Toni Mirosevich
    Poetry in America
    By Julia Spicher Kasdorf
    Stateside
    By Jehanne Dubrow
    Reviewed by Ginny Kaczmarek

 

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