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.

January/February 2012

• The Women Rebel
  Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion By Jean H. Baker
  By Jean H. Baker
  Reviewed by Sarah Blustain

• Into the Eye of the Storm
  Night’s Dancer: The Life of Janet Collins, With Her Unfinished Autobiography
  By Yaël Tamar Lewin 
  Reviewed by Debra Cash

• Grief for Men, Grief from Men
  Surviving the Bosnian Genocide: The Women of Srebrenica Speak By Selma Leydesdorff; War Is Not Over When It’s Over: Women Speak Out from the Ruins of War
  By Ann Jones
  Reviewed by Cynthia Cockburn

• Where They Have to Take You In
  Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home
  By Anita Hill
  Reviewed by Renée Loth

• Rape During Wartime and Beyond 
  Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones: From the Ancient World to the Era of Human Rights
  Edited by Elizabeth D. Heineman
  Reviewed by Jennifer G. Mathers

• A Useable Past
  Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes
  By Lisa L. Moore
  Reviewed by Martha Vicinus

• Photography
  Despartely Perfect
  Photos by Rachel Papo and Commentary by Nina Alovert

• The Things They Left Behind
  The Buddha in the Attic
  By Julie Otsuka
  Reviewed by Mako Yoshikawa

• Poetry 
  By Alissa Valles

• Field Notes
  There Are Places That I Remember
  By Robin Becker

• Uniting and Dividing
  Twin Cites By Carol-Muske Dukes
  Selected Poems: A New Selection By Amy Clampitt
  Reviewed by Grace Schulman

• What's Out There?
  Head Off & Split By Nikky Finney
  Life On Mars By Tracy K. Smith
  Reviewed by Colleen J. McElroy

• Having Fun Learning To Be Liberal
  Before Porn Was Legal: The Erotica Empire of Beate Uhse
  By Elizabeth Heineman
  Reviewed by Leila J. Rupp

• Breaking Rank
  An American Radical: Political Prisoner in My Own Country
  By Susan Rosenberg
  Reviewed by Brackette F. Williams

• Gender and Power
  The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe
  By Nwando Achebe
  Reviewed by E. Frances White

• Violence is Gendered
  Equality with a Vengeance: Men’s Rights Groups, Battered Women, and Antifeminist Backlash By Molly Dragiewicz 
  The Victimization of Women: Law, Policies, and Politics By Michelle L. Meloy and Susan L. Miller
  Reviewed by Amy Barasch

   

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