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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 January/February 2010

Women's Review of Books

  • 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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