Women's Review of Books - 2007 Issues
January/February 2007
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
By Alison Bechdel
Reviewed by Anne Elizabeth Moore
Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve
By Sandra Gilbert
Reviewed by Rebecca Steinitz
- The Workaday World
Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace
By Nancy MacLean
Reviewed by Liza Featherstone
- Who's Minding the Kids?
Forgotten Families: Ending the Growing Crisis Confronting Children
Working Parents in the Global Economy
By Jody Heymann
Unsung Heroines: Single Mothers and the American Dream
By Ruth Sidel
Single Mother: The Emergence of the Domestic Intellectual
By Jane Juffer
Reviewed by Martha Nichols
- Mysteries! The Solid Earth!
Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life
By Arlene Blum
On The Ice: An Intimate Portrait of Life at McMurdo Station, Antarctica
By Gretchen Legler
Reviewed by Judith Niemi
- If It Weren't For Her Hair
Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her
Away
By June Cross
Reviewed by Florence Ladd
- Photography
Marian Roth: The Photography of Chance
By Melanie Braverman
- Good Reads
What It Is To Be Human
By Trish Crapo
- Mobius Stripping
Stripped: Inside the Lives of Exotic Dancers
By Bernadette Barton
Reviewed by Leila J. Rupp
- Deconstructing the Chicken
Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power
By Psyche A. Williams-Forson
Reviewed by Francesca Gamber
- The Suck, Slop, and Bliss
What If Your Mother
By Judith Arcana
Daughter Of
By Kathleen Aguero
Reviewed by Enid Shomer
- The Language Without a Name
Ministry of Pain
By Dubravka Ugresic
Reviewed by Meredith Tax
- Curing Gender Amnesia
Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's
Independence
By Carol Berkin
Martha Washington: An American Life
By Patricia Brady
Reviewed by Martha Saxton
- Yeah Baby
Murder in Byzantium: A Novel
By Julia Kristeva
Reviewed by Molly Hite
- The Post-Communist World
The Third Shore: Women's Fiction From East Central Europe
Edited by Agata Schwartz and Luise Von Flotow
Reviewed by Daniela Hurezanu
- Landscapes and Interiors
A Map of Glass
By Donna Morrissey
Reviewed by Anne Marie Todkill
Jean Baker Miller, 1927-2006
Growth Is The Great Gift
By Abigail J. Stewart
- On My Bookshelf
The Food Wars
By Jan Zita Grover
March/April 2007
Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy
By Samantha King
Reviewed By Ellen Leopold
The Trouble Between Us: An Uneasy History of White and Black Women
in the Feminist Movement
By Winifred Breines
Reviewed by Ellen Willis
By Jaclyn Friedman
Friendly Fire
By Giuliana Sgrena
Translated by Lesley Freeman Riva
"The Jill Carroll Story"
By Jill Carroll
With contextual Narrative by Peter Grier
Reviewed by Kerryn Higgs
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause
By The Boston Women's Health Book Collective
I Feel Bad About My Neck, and Other Thoughts about Being a Woman
By Nora Ephron
Reviewed By Emily Toth
May/June 2007
"Persons of Japanese Ancestry"
Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment
Edited by Linda Gordon and Gary Y. Okhiro
Reviewed by Marilyn Richardson- At War with Desire
Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement
By Tanya Erzen
Reviewed by Esther Kaplan
By Susan F. Feiner and Drucilla K. Barker
The Heart to Artemis: A Writer's Memoir
By Bryher
The Player's Boy
By Bryher
Women Together/Women Apart: Portraits of Lesbian Paris
By Tirza True Latimer
Reviewed By Martha Vicinus
July/August 2007
Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care
By Jennifer Block
Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put
Women and Children First
By Marsden Wagner
Birth: The Suprising History of How We Are Born
By Tina Cassidy
Reviewed by Sarah Blustain
Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood
By Karen Ward Mahar
Reviewed by Samantha Barbas
Emerging From Silence
By Carol Hurd Green
- The Feminist Minima
Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism
By Janet Halley
Reviewed by Lisa Jervis
- The Cartography of Age
Age Matters:Realigning Feminist Thinking
Edited by Toni. M Calasanti and Kathleen F. Slevin
Lesbian Communities: Festivals, RVs, and the Internet
Edited by Esther Rothblum and Penny Sablove
Whistling Women: A Study of the Lives of Older Lesbians
By Cheryl Claassen
Reviewed by Leni Marshall
- Sibling Rivalry
By Louise W. Knight
- Total Optimism Regained
Decca:The Letters of Jessica Mitford
Edited by Peter Y. Sussman
Reviewed by Clarissa Atkinson
- And Then She Wrote Comic
By Leanne Franson
- The Poem as Postcard
By Robin Becker
- Rending the Garmet and Smoking Raleighs
By Willa Schneberg
- Fresh Clean--and Hidden
Capitalizing on the Curse: The Business of Menstruation
By Elizabeth Arveda Kissling
Reviewed by Phoebe Connelly
- "Neither Whores nor Submissive"
Muslim Girls and the Other France: Race Identity Politics, and Social
Exclusion
By Trica Danielle Keaton
Breaking the Silence: French Women's Voices from the Ghetto
By Fadela Amara with Sylvia Zappi
Reviewed by Eunice Lipton
- The Most Powerful Woman in Business
Tough Choices
By Carly Fiorina
Reviewed by Sumre Erkut
- Taking the Risk
The View From Castle Rock:Stories
By Alice Munro
The Light of Evening
By Edna O'Brien
Reviewed by Rebecca Meacham
- Dancing with the Patriarchs
History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism
By Judith M. Bennett
Reviewed by Rebecca Meacham
- Changing Sex, Changing Mind
Trasparent: Love,Family,and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers
By Cris Beam
What Becomes You
By Aaron Raz Link and Hilda Raz
The Testosterone Files: My Hormonal and Social Transformation from Female to Male
By Max Wolf Valerio
- On My Bookshelf
Literary Wanderings
By Pauline M. Loewenhardt
September/October 2007
Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption
Edited by Jane Jeong Trenka, Julie Chinyere Oparah and Sun Yung Shin
Beyond Good Intentions: A Mother Reflects on Raising Internationally Adopted Children
By Cheri Register
Reviewed by Martha Nichols
- Reinterpreting the Ancients
Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece
By Joan Breton Connelly
Reviewed by Joy Connolly
- The Bush Countdown
George W. Bush and the War on Women: Turning Back the Clock on Progress
By Barbara Finlay
Reviewed by Renee Loth
- Equity and Difference
The Constitutionas Social Design:Gender and Civic Membership in the American Constitutional Order
Reviewed by Sandra F. VanBurkleo
The Grandmothers of the Plaza De Mayo
By Rita Arditti
- Settling for a Fever
Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq and Baghdad Burning II: More Girl
Blog From Iraq
By Riverbend
Reviewed by Pamela Annas
- Heir to the Throne
Intimate Politics: How I grew up Red, Fought for Free Speech, and Became
a Feminist Rebel
By Bettina F. Aptheker
Reviewed by Margaret Randall
- Selective Vision
Leni Riefenstahl: A Life
By Jurgen Trimborn, Translated by Edna McCann
Reviewed by Barbara Kosta
The Recent Work of Carrie Mae Weems
By Cheryl Kaplan
- The Isle of Echo Park and My Mothers
By Eloise Klein Healy
- Downwinders
By Trish Crapo
Living Islam Out Loud: American Muslim Women
Edited by Saleemah Adbul-Ghafur
Muslim Women in America: The Challenge of Islamic Identity Today
By Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Jane I. Smith, and Kathleen M. Moore
Vocies of Resistance: Muslim Women on War,Faith, and Sexuality
Edited by Sarah Husain
Reviewed by Gayatri Devi
- "Harder Days Are Coming"
Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems
By Ingeborg Bachmann, translated and introduced by Peter Filkins
Reviewed by Sara Lennox
- The Other Woman
Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill,Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes's Doomed Love
By Yehuda Koren and Eliat Negev
Reviewed by Carol Bere
- The Fires at Home
While They're at War:The True Story of American Families on the Homefront
By Kristin Henderson
Under the Sabers: The Unwritten Code of Army Wives
By Tanya Biank
Reviewed by Sandi E. Cooper
November/December 2007
- WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
Organized by Cornelia Butler
Edited by Lisa Gabrielle Mark
Reviewed by Elissa Auther Rudimentary
The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
Reviewed by Kate Clinton- Veiled Bestsellers
Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit by Gillian Whitlock
Let Me Tell You Where I Have Been: New Writing By Women of the Iranian Diaspora
Edited by Persis Karim
Reviewed by Jasmin Darznik - Not Saying, But Doing
Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham by Carolyn Brown
Reviewed by Debra Cash - The Politics of the Table
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
With Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver
Reviewed by Jan Zita Grover - Love and Marriage
Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England by Sharon Marcus
Reviewed by Rebecca Steinitz - Reluctant Revolutionaries
Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood without Marriage and Creating the New American Family by Rosanna Hertz
Naked on the Page: The Misadventures of my Unmarried Midlife by Jane Ganahl
Single Mom Seeking: Playdates, Blind Dates, and Other Dispatches from the Dating World by Rachel Sarah
Reviewed by E. Kay Trimberger - Memoirs in Words and Pictures
Essay by Karen Karin Rosenberg
- That Ring, That Veil, and the Burning of the Books
Poetry by Irene Willis
- The Islands Project: Poems for Sappho
Fieldnotes by Robin Becker
- Cartoon
By Jamaica Dyer
- Monstrous Beings In Need of a Hairwash
The Blue of Her Body by Sarah Greenslit
Incubation: A Space for Monsters by Bhanu Kapil
The Revisionist by Miranda Melis
Reviewed by Mary Cappello - Found In Translation
Four From Japan: Contemporary Poetry and Essays by Women
Introduction and Translations by Sawako Nakayasu
Inside and Other Short Fiction: Japanese Women by Japanese Women
Compiled by Cathy Layne Reviewed by Daniela Hurezanu - Art and Resistance
Michelangelo in Ravensbruck: One Women's War Against the Nazis by Countess Karolina Lanckororiska
Reviewed By Rochelle G. Saidel - No Media, No Progress
Women and Media: A Critical Introduction by Carolyn M. Byerly and Karen Ross
Reviewed By Ariel Dougherty - The Truths Within
Secrets of Women: Gender, Generations, and the Origin of Human Dissection by Katharine Park
Reviewed By Tara Nummedal - Disoriginated
Recyclopedia Trimmings, S*PeRMK*T, and Muse & Drudge by Harryette Mullen
Innovative Women Poets: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and Interviews
Edited by Elisabeth A. Frost and Cynthia Hogue
The Incognito Body: Poems by Cynthia Hogue
Reviewed By Rebecca Meacham - Interview: Feeling Like a 2,000-Year-Old Lesbian
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