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.

May/June 2012

• 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

The Women's Review of Books receives program support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.