Women's Review of Books - 2007 Issues

January/February 2007

• The Father, The Daughter

   Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
   By Alison Bechdel
   Reviewed by Anne Elizabeth Moore

• Mourning Isn't What it Used to Be

   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

• Obituary

    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

• Pink Ribbons, Inc.

   Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy
   By Samantha King
   Reviewed By Ellen Leopold

• The Trouble Between Us

   The Trouble Between Us: An Uneasy History of White and Black Women 
   in the Feminist Movement 
   By Winifred Breines
   Reviewed by Ellen Willis

• Because Things Are Worse, People are Paying Attention

   By Jaclyn Friedman

• Kidnapped in Iraq

   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

• Dishing with the Girls...Oops, the Women

   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

• The Dickensian World of Micro-Finance

   By Susan F. Feiner and Drucilla K. Barker

• The Reverse Garden Party

   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

• Modern Childbirth: Failure to Progress

    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

• Regendering the Movies

   Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood
   By Karen Ward Mahar
   Reviewed by Samantha Barbas

• Taking a Break from Upper Case
• Obituary: Tillie Lerner Olsen

   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

• Clark Kent: Adoptee

   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

• Do You Know Who You Are?

   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

• Madame X

    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

• "At Your Service, My Lord, Here I Come"

    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
  

  Amy Hoffman

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