Women's Review of Books - 2006 Issues

January/February 2006

• All Things Peabody

   The Peabody Sisters
   Reviewed by Rebecca Steinitz

• A Passion for Equality

   The Solitude of Self: Thinking about Elizabeth Cady Stanton
   Reviewed by Farah Jasmine Griffin

• A Woman of Ordinary Splendor

   Watercolor Women, Opaque Men: a novel in verse
   Reviewed by AnaLouise Keating 

• Editor's Letter
• Field Notes: Poetry News and Commentary

   By Robin Becker 

• INTERVIEW: Doha Boraki, Moroccan feminist, translator, novelist

   By Suzanne Ruta 

• Leaving Home--and Finding It Again 
• Living the Undead Life

   Fledgling and The Historian
   Reviewed by Susanna J. Sturgis

• Love and Marriage--or Not

   The New Single Woman and Marriage, A History
   Reviewed by Andi Zeisler

• Other Orders of Intimacy

   Eudora Welty: A Biography
   Reviewed by Trish Crapo

• Plot vs. Character

   An Atomic Romance
   Reviewed by Dorothy Allison

• POETRY

   By Alicia Ostriker & Maxine Kumin

• Pulp and Circumstance

    By Carol Seajay

• The Incomparable Lady Day

    With Billie
    Reviewed by Farah Jasmine Griffin

• Why You'll Never Hear, "Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere's Katey!"

   By Kate Clinton

March/April 2006

• Africa, As the Woman Tell It

   Women Writing Africa: West Africa and the Sahel
   Reviewed by E. Frances White

• Bitch or Slut
• First World Third Class and Other Tales of the Global Mix

   Reviewed by Marguerite Itamar Harrison

• Gathering the Story

    The Painted Drum
    Reviewed by Trish Crapo

• Germany's "Silenced Library"

    By Betina Brandt

• Women Gone Wild

   Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
   Pornified:How Pornography is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships and Our Families
   Reviewed by Leora Tanenbaum

• Men and Women are from Earth

   By Rosalind Barnett and Caryl Rivers

• On My Bookshelf

    By Gish Jen

• The Black Actor's Dilemma

   Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood
   Reviewed by Samantha Barbas

• The Power of Secrets

    Captain of the Sleepers
    Reviewed by Hilda Llorens

• The Secret of the Missing Author

   Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women who Created Her
   Reviewed by Nan Cinnater

• The Shelter of Each Other

   On Beauty
   Reviewed by Susan Alice Fischer

• Womans' Suffrage Long March

   Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists
   Untidy Origins: A Story of Woman's Rights in Antebellum New York
   Reviewed by Vivian Gornick

May/June 2006

• An Acrobat of the Imagination

   Monologue of a Dog
   By Wislawa Szymborska
   Reviewed by Claire Keyes

• Field Notes: Fiction

   By Trish Crapo

• Following the Money

   Women and the U.S. Budget: Where the Money Goes and What You
   Can Do About It.
   By Jane Midgley
   Reviewed by Randy Albelda

• Getting our Fair Share

    Getting Even: Why Women Don't Get Paid Like Men-and What to Do About It
    By Evelyn Murphy with E.J. Graff
    Reviewed by Alice Kessler-Harris

• Media Attention Begets Biased Content
• Octavia E. Butler. June 22, 1947 - February 24, 2006

   By Susanna Sturgis

• Of the People, By the People

    Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty
    By Annalise Orleck
    Reviewed by Rebecca Johnson

• Reconfiguring the World

   Out of Joint: A Private and Public Story of Arthritis
   By Mary Felstiner
   All In My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable,and Only
   Slightly Enlightening HEADACHE
   By Paula Kamen
   My Body Polotic
   By Simi Linton
   Reviewed by Debra Spark

• Stories from the Big House

   A World Apart: Women, Prison, and Life Behind Bars
   By Cristina Rathbone
   All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated
   By Neil Bernstein
   Reviewed by Jean Trounstine

• Strangers to Themselves

    The Inheritance of Loss
    By Kiran Desai
    Reviewed by Mandira Sen

• The Right Woman

   Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade
   By Donald T. Critchlow
   Reviewed by Marie Shear

• The Sanctity of Books
• The Tax on Being Female: 23 Cents per House and Counting

   Media Critic Jennifer L. Pozner talks with Evelyn Murphy and E.J. Graff

• Yaoi 101: Girls Love "Boys' Love"

    By Cathy Camper

• "For Johnny, My Sick Dog"/"Tuning Our Guitars"

July/August 2006

• A Becky Sharpe Kind of Life

    The Story of Chicago May
    By Nuala O'Faolain
    Reviewed by Lauren Byrne

• Cartoon

    The Ghostwriter
    By Joan Hilty

• Dreams Fulfilled and Betrayed

   Children of the New World: A Novel of the Algerian War
   By Assia Djebar
   Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
   By Laila Lalami
   Reviewed by Nadia Boudidah Falfoul

• Field Notes

   Poetry and Poetry
   By Michelle Boisseau

• Gender and Everything Else

    Their Right to Speak: Women's Activism in the Indian and Slave Debates
    By Alisse Portnoy
    Reviewed by Jacqueline Bacon

• Interview

    The Rebel's Daughter: Algerian Novelist Maissa Bey
    By Suzanne Ruta

• New Dreams, New Faces

    Defending Our Dreams: Global Feminist Voicces for a New Generation
    Edited by Shamillah Wilson, Anasuya Sengupta, and Kristy Evans
    Reviewed by Michelle Humphrey  

• Our Computing Kin

    My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Library Texts
    By N. Katherine Hayles
    Reviewed by Mara Mills

• Pregnancy and Power
• Recovering Cultural Knowledge

    Holding Yawulyu: White Culture and Black Women's Law
    By Zohl de Ishtar
    Reviewed by Batya Weinbaum

• Solidarity's Disappearing Women
• The First Feminist

    Vindication: A Life of Mare Wollstonecraft
    By Lyndall Gordon
    Reviewed by Kimberly Palmer

• The Male Obsession

    Hung: A meditation on the Measurement of Black Men in America
    By Scott Poulson-Bryant
    Reviewed by: Deborah Bolling

• The Priests Were Women

    The Woman in the Sharman's Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine
    By Barbara Tedlock
    Reviewed by Serinity Young 

• The Stuff of Wonder

    Willful Creatures: Stories
    By Aimee Bender
    Magic for Beginners
    By Kelly Link
    Nice Big American Baby
    By Judy Budnitz
    Reviewed by Rebecca Meacham

• Women--Deconstructed But Still Here

   Women's Studies for the Future:Foundations, Interrogations, Politics
   Edited by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Agatha Beins
   Reviewed by Karin Aguilar-San Juan

September/October 2006

• A Lone Woman's Voice

   Jeannette Rankin: A Political Woman
   By James J. Lopach and Jean A. Luckowski
   Reviewed by Renee Loth

• A Lot of Everything

   Sex Wars: A novel of the Turbulent Post Civil War Period
   By Marge Piercy
   The Night Watch
   By Sarah Waters
   Reviewed by Diana Postlethwaite

• Back to the Garden

   Get A Life
   By Nadine Gordimer
   Reviewed by Florence Howe

• Casualties of Salvation

   Saving the World
   By Julia Alvarez
   Reviewed by Marie-Elise Wheatwind

• ESSAY: "A Strange and Terrible Sight in Our Country"

   By Clarissa Atkinson

• Fictions and Frictions

   The Penelopiad and The Tent
   By Margaret Atwood
   Reviewed by Valerie Miner

• Hopeless Ditz or Systematic Saboteur?
• Interview

    The Carrier of the Story: A conversation with Julia Alvarez
    By Marie-Elise Wheatwind

• On My Bookshelf

   The Greening Season
   By Anita Diamant

• Other Ways of Knowing

   Eight Women Philosophers:Theory, Politics, and Feminism
   By Jane Duran
   Reviewed by Erica Da Costa

• Photography: A Lesbian in Woman's Clothes

    By Jean Segaloff
    Commentary by Rebecca Folkman

• Poetry: Telepathy and Yes Loves No

    By Marianne Boruch

• Saved from Moosewood-Hell

   From Betty Crocker to Feminist Food Studies: Critical Perspectives on Women and Food
   Edited by Arlene Voski Avakian and Barbara Haber
   Reviewed by Rayna Green

• The Hard Work of Organizing

   Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980
   By Kimberly Springer
   Reviewed by Tricia Rose

• The Lines of Truth and Feeling

   A Poet's Prose: Selected Writings of Louise Bogan
   Edited by Mary Kinzie
   Reviewed by Carol Bere

• The Luminous Particular

   Collected Poems
   By Jane Kenyon
   Reviewed by Joyce Peseroff

• The Most Beautiful Navel in Paris

    Lee Miller: A Life
    By Carolyn Burke
    Reviewed by Annalisa Zox-Weaver

November/December 2006

• You're Next
•  The Caged Virgin
•  By Ayann Hirsi Ali
•  Reviewed by Kathy Davis
• Essay: Sappho's Lost Session
• By Meryl Altman

• Crossing The Divide

    The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide
    By Susan Nathan
    Reviewed by Sherna Berger Gluck

• Cartoon

    My Isadora
    By Sabrina Jones

• A Conservative in Liberal's Clothing

   When Sex Goes to School: Warring Views on Sex Since the Sixties
   By Kristen Luker
   Reviewed by Janice Irvine

• Field Notes:

    In Memoriam Patricia Geodicke and Jean Pedrick
    By Robin Becker 

• On My Bookshelf:

    The Shelves of Good Intentions
    By Urvashi Vaid

• Whose Choice?

    Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America 
    By Rickie Solinger
    Reviewed by Kim E. Nielson

• The Wisdom of Myth

    Bellini in Istanbul
    By Lillias Bever
    Five Terraces
    By Ann Fisher-Wirth
    Reviewed by Claire Keyes

• The Man Who Didn't Exist

    James Tiptree Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
    By Julie Phillips
    Reviewed by Susanna J. Sturgis

• The Long Version

    Mara and Dann: An Adventure
    The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot the Snow Dog
    By Doris Lessing
    Reviewed by Ann Snitow

• The History of Torture

   That Inferno: Conversations of Five Women Survivors of an Argentine Torture Came
   By Munu Actis,Cristina Aldini,Liliana Gardella, Miriam Lewin, and Elisa Tokar
   Truth, Torture, and the American Way
   By Jennifer Harbury 
  Reviewed by Pamela Crossland

• The Given Life and the Chosen Life

   Citizen:Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy
   By Louise W. Knight
   Reviewed by Rima Lunin Schultz

• Sweating It Out

   Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine and Menopause in Modern America
   By Judith A. Houck
   Reviewed by Janice Irvine

• Poetry By Andrea Potos
• On Wives and Prostitutes

   The Purchase of Intimacy
   By Viviana A. Zelizer
   Reviewed by Pamela Crossland 

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