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 2010

• Dramatis Personae
  A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Their Remarkable Families
  By Michael Holroyd
Reviewed by Penny Farfan
• The Historical Truth
  Sojourner Truth's America
  By Margaret Washington
  Reviewed by Jean M. Humez
• "I Am Not the Wonderful Person I Was"
  The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq
  By Helen Benedict
  Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks, from Vietnam to Iraq
  Edited by Lisa Bowden and Shannon Cainq
  Reviewed by: Jennifer G. Mathers
• The Ghosts of War
  Haunting the Korean Dispora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War
  By: Grace M. Cho
  Reviewed by Katharine H.S. Moon
• The Captivity Narrative Redux
  The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman
  By Margot Mifflin
  Reviewed by Siobhan Senier
• The Limits of Reform
  Addressing Rape Reform in Law and Practice
  By Susan Caringella
  Reviewed by Marianne Wesson
• Poetry
  By Paola Corso
• Photography
  City of Children
  by Monika Merva
  Commentary By Diana Edkins
• Feisty Women
  But a Passage in Wilderness
  By Margo Berdeshevsky
  Crazy Love
  By Pamela Uschuk
  Nobody's Mother
  By Leslea Newman
  Reviewed by Marilyn Krysl
• Between the House and the Chicken Yard
  
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor
By Brad Gooch
Reviewed by Kathryn McKee

• Good Reads
  All Day Reading
  By Trish Crapo
• Let the Sun Shine
  Daughters of Aquarius: Women of the Sixties Counterculture
  By Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo
  Reviewed Lori Rotskoff
• Burning the Complacent Veldt
  On Joanna Russ
  Edited by Farah Mendlesohn
  Reviewed by Susanna J. Sturgis
• Cosmo vs. MS
  Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown
  
By Jennifer Scanlon
Reviewed by Emily Toth

• The Child is the Mother to the Homo Sapiens
  Mothers and Others: The Evolution Origins of Mutual Understanding
  By Sarah Blafer Hrdy
  Reviewed by Adrienne Zihlman
• Identify Identity's History
  Identity Before Identity Polititcs
  By Linda Nicholson
  Reviewed by Alyson M. Cole

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