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 feature essays and in-depth reviews of new books by and about women. After suspending publication in December 2004 the Women’s Review of Books was relaunched in January 2006 in collaboration with Old City Publishing of Philadelphia.
July/August 2008
- Blasts From The Past
Hanoi Journal 1967
By Carol Cohen McEldowney
Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman
By Cathy Wilkerson
Reviewed by Alice Echols
- Never Give In, Never Give Up
Bella Abzug:An Oral History
By Suzanne Braun Levine and Mary Thom
Reviewed by Ruth Rosen
- Citizens of the Affluent Society?
The Battle for Welfare Rights:Politics and Poverty in America
By Felicia Kornbluh
Life After Welfare: Reform and the persistence of Poverty
By Laura Lein and Deanna T. Schexnayder with Karen Nanges Douglas and Daniel g. Schroeder
Reviewed by Annelise Orleck
- Our Bodies, Ourselves Lives!
The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminist Knowledge Travels Across Borders
By Kathy Davis
Reviewed by Betsy Hartmann
- Families of Affinity
Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage:Valuing All Families Under The Law
By Nancy Polikoff
Reviewed by Ruthann Robson
- "I Will Tell Everything"
The Diary of Mary Berg:Growing Up in the Warsaw Ghetto
Edited by S.L. Shneiderman; New edition prepared by Susan Lee Pentlin
Tasting the Sky:A Palestinian Childhood
By Ibtisam Barakat
Reviewed by Harriet Malinowitz
- Seeking a Usable Past
Feeling Backward:Loss and the Politics of Queer History
By Heather Love
Reviewed by Meryl Altman
- Field Notes
Betrayals of the Heart
By Robin Becker
- Poetry
By Jan Freeman
- Cartoon
By Fly
- The Postfeminist Dilemma
Women as Weapons of War:Iraq,Sex,and the Media
By Kelly Oliver
From Where We Stand:War,Women's Activism and Feminist Analysis
By Cynthia Cockburn
Terrorist Assemblages:Homonationalism in Queer Times
By Jasbir Puar
Reviewed by Alyson M. Cole
- Talking About My Generation
Sisterhood Interrupted: From Radical Women to Girls Gone Wild
By Deborah Siegel
Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters
By Jessica Valenti
We Don't Need Another Wave:Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists
By Melody Berger
Reviewed by Patricia Justine Tumang
- Brought to Light
The Air We Breathe
By Andrea Barrett
Signed, Mata Hari
By Yannick Murphy
Reviewed by Rebecca Meacham
- The Universe Was Her Oyster
Margaret Fuller:An American Romantic Life, The Public Years
By Charles Capper
Margaret Fuller: Wandering Pilgrim
By Meg McGavran Murray
Reviewed by Bell Gale Chevigny
- Dying As She Lived
Circling My Mother
By Mary Gordon
Reviewed by Lauren Byrne
- Outsiders Who Welcome Us In
Pink Harvest:Tales of Happenstance
By Toni Mirosevich
Comfort Food For Breakups: The Memoir of a Hungry Girl By Marusya Bociurkiw
Reviewed by Elana Dykewomon
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