Women's Review of Books - 2008 Issues
January/February 2008
- The Howling Continues
Shakespeare’s Kitchen, by Lore Segal
Tell Me Another Morning, by Zdena Berger
Reviewed by Alice Mattison - Good Reads: What Love Should Be/What it Is
Landing, by Emma Donoghue
Harpsong, by Rilla Askew
Away, by Amy Bloom
Reviewed by Trish Crapo - Then and Now: What Have the Sexual “Revolutions” Wrought?
By Margaret Morganroth Gullette - Interview: Jane Rule
Eloise Klein Healy - Photojournalist of Record: Marilyn Humphries
By Patricia A. Gozemba and Karen Kahn - Poetry
"Nature, Unspeaking"
"Still"
By Suzanne Berger - Like an “Animal in a Cage”
Women in Prison: Inside the Concrete Womb, by Kathryn Watterson
From Witches to Crack Moms: Women, Drug Law, and Policy, by Susan Boyd
Neither Angels nor Demons: Women, Crime, and Victimization, by Kathleen Ferraro
Freeing Tammy: Women, Drugs, and Incarceration, by Jody Raphael
Reviewed by Silja J.A. Talvi - Stepping Out and Moving Forward
Barefootin’: Life Lessons on the Road to Freedom, by Unita Blackwell (with JoAnne Prichard Morris)
When We Were Colored: A Mother’s Story, by Eva Rutland
Invisible Activists: Women of the Louisiana NAACP, 1915-1945, by Lee Sartain
Reviewed by Margo Culley - The Wild Plain and the Limitless World
Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations, by Georgina Howell
Reviewed by Barbara Sjoholm - A Golden Age
By Tahmima Anam
Reviewed by Mandira Sen - Creating Herself
Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and the Image, by Bennetta Jules-Rosette
Reviewed by Florence Ladd - The Last of Everything
The Last Empress, by Anchee Min
The Last Chinese Chef, by Nicole Mones
The Last Communist Virgin, by Wang Ping
Reviewed by Lori Tsang - Chasing Ani
Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics, by Jennifer Baumgardner
Reviewed by Sarah L. Rasmusson - Searching for an Apology
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route, by Saidiya Hartman
Reviewed by Thulani Davis - The Stay-at-Home Pushmepullyou
Opting Out?: Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home, by Pamela Stone
Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success, by Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Reviewed by Lori Rotskoff
March/April 2008
- Gender, Caring, and Money
The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics
Reviewed by Susan F. Feiner and Drucilla K. Barker - Origins of Sex
The Cleft
By Doris Lessing
Reviewed by Roberta Rubenstein - Bicultural Before There Was A Word For It
The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Nohnston Schoolcraft
Edited by Robert Dale Parker
Reviewed by Margaret Noori - Essay
Book Reviewing: Do It Yourself
By Gail Pool - Poems Including History--And More
A is for Anne: Mistress Hutchinson Disturbs the Commonwealth
By Penelope Scambly Schott
The Resurrection of Trade By Leslie Adrienne Miller
The Logan Topographies By Alena Hairston
Blue Front By Martha Collins
Reviewed by Wendy Vardaman - No More Tea Pouring
Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women Are Changing Their Nation
By Veronica Chambers
Reviewed by Kimberly Palmer - Field Notes
The Roll of Small Presses
By Robin Becker - Poetry
By Hilda Raz - Cartoon
By Diane DiMassa - Essay
Ms. Captivity
By Jean Trounstine - The Search for Healing
Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resistance
By Alice Rothchild
Reviewed by Sherry Gorelick - An Account of Things of the Yucatan
Peregrina: Love and Death in Mexico
Edited and with an introduction by Michael K. Schuessler
Foreward by Elena Poniatowska
Reviewed by Martha Gies - The Power of Words
Liberating Shahrazad: Feminism, Postcolonialism, and Islam
By Suzanne Gauch
Reviewed by Nadia Boudidah Faloul - Emotion Overflowing
The Wind from the East
By Almudena Grandes
Translated from the Spanish by Sonia Soto
Reviewed by Inmaculada Pertusa - The New "Yiddishe Mama"
You Never Call You Never Write! A History of the Jewish Mother
By Joyce Antler
Reviewed by Debra Spark - Remembering Our Health, Forgetting Our Pain
Just Breath Normally
By Peggy Schumaker
I Heard the Vultures Singing: Notes on Poetry, Illness, and Nature
By Lucia Perillo Reviewed by Nina Murray
May/June 2008
- Female Spoons and Male Forks
American Food Writing: An Anthology with Classic Recipes
Edited by Molly O'Neill
Reviewed by Sandra M. Gilbert - The Insanity File
The Madness of Mary Todd Lincoln
By Jason Emerson
Reviewed by Joan D. Hedrick - Art Without Balls
Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art
Edited by Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin
Reviewed by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw - Sex Without Procreation, Procreation Without Sex
Everything Concievable: How Assisted Reproduction is Changing Men, Women, and the World
By Liza Mundy Queering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience - The Rescuer of Women
Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories
By Katha Pollitt
Reviewed by Lisa Jervis - The Boys Against the Girls
Playing with the Boys: Why Separate is Not Equal
By Eileen McDonagh and Laura Pappano
Equal Play: Title IX and Social Change
Edited by Nancy Hogshead-Makar and Andrew Zimbalist
Reviewed by Pat Griffin - Good Reads
The Resonance of "Quiet" Fiction
By Valerie Miner - Poetry
By Barbara Greenberg - Detour De Force
Awkward: A Detour
By Mary Cappello
Reviewed by Jan Clausen - Photography
The Aftermath
Photographs by Rania Matar
Article by Rahcel Rosenfield Lafo - Essay
Where No Woman Has Gone Before
By Victoria Rosner - Cultural Identity and Multicultural Complexity
The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism
By Melanie Kaye/Kantowitz
Reviewed by Bettina Aptheker - Quincanera Barbie
Hijas Americanas: Beauty, Body Image, and Growing Up Latina
By Rosie Molinary
Once Upon a Quincanera: Coming of Age in the USA
By Julia Alvarez
Reviewed by Marie-Elise Wheatwind - Handmaidens No More
Daring to Care: American Nursing and Second-Wave Feminism
By Psusan Gelfand Malka
Reviewed by Peggy Lynch - All to Mother
Household Accounts: Working-Class Family Economies in the Interwar United States
By Susan Porter Benson
Reviewed by Alice Kessler-Harris - Obituary
Tender Impiety: Grace Paley, 1922-2007
By Rachel Rubin
By Laura Marno
Reviewed by Amy Agigian
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
September/October 2008
- Drawing Pride
Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist
By Nancy Goldstein
Reviewed by Meisha Rosenberg, - Can't Live With It, Can't Live Without It
Moving Mountains: How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice from Big Coal
By Penny Loeb
Reviewed by Liza Featherstone - Opting For the Air Conditioning
The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women, and the Real Gender Gap
By Susan Pinker
Reviewed by Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barnett - Two-Story White House, North
Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing, and Region
Edited By JerriAnne Boggis, Eve Allegra Raimon, and Barbara A. White
Reviewed by Jean M. Humez - The Shiver of Possibility
The Plague of Doves
By Louise Erdrich
Reviewed by Margaret Noori - Scrubwomen of Truth
Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Poems 2004-2006
By Adrienne Rich; My Body: New and Selected poems
By Joan Larkin
Reviewed by Alicia Ostriker - Poetry
By Nicole Stellon O'Donnell - Photography
Miriam Goodman, 1938-2008: A Friend's Reflections
By Karen Davis - Good Reads
Balancing on the Pacific Rim and Other Travelers' Tales
By Valerie Miner - Out of the Habit
Habits of Compassion: Irish Catholic Nuns and the Origins of New York's Welfare System, 1830-1920
By Maureen Fitzgerald; Good Hearts: Catholic Sister in Chicago's Past
By Suellen Hoy; Double Crossed: Uncovering the Catholic Church's Betrayal of American Nuns
By Kenneth Briggs
Reviewed by Catherine M. Mooney - Bringing Up Baby
Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family
By Nancy Folbre; Who Cares for Our Children? The Child Care Crisis in the Other America
By Valerie Polakow
Reviewed by Martha Nichols - A Culture of Female Talent
The Talented Women of the Zhang Family
By Susan Mann
Reviewed by Ellen Widmer - What We Talk About When We Talk About...
One for the Girls! The Pleasures and Practices of Reading Women's Porn
By Clarissa Smith; Gettin Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity
By Robert Jensen;
Bonk; The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
By Mary Roach
Reviewed by Emily Toth - Affection for the World
Shelter Half
By Carol Bly
Reviewed by Judith Niemi - Remaking the Body
Surgery Junkies: Wellness and Pathology in Cosmetic Culture
By Victoria Pitts-Taylor; Bodies in the Making: Transgressions and Transformations
Edited By Nancy N. Chen and Helene Moglen
Reviewed by Kathy Davis - Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the US Prison System
By Silja J.A. Talvi; Wretched Sisters: Examining Gender and Capital Punishment
By Mary Welek Atwell
Reviewed by Karin Aguilar-San Juan
November/December 2008
- Playing the Game Square
An Illuminated Life: Belle da Costa Greene's Journey from Prejudice to Privilege
By Heidi Ardizzone
Reviewed by Marilyn Richardson - Rape Culture
Rape: Sex, Violence, History
By Joanna Bourke
Reviewed by Jody Raphael - Reading the Book of the Earth
When the Ground Turns in its Sleep
By Sylvia Sellers-Garcia
Reviewed by Martha Gies - Welfare Reform to Suit the State
Welfare Reform and Sexual Regulation
By Anna Marie Smith
Reviewed by Jean Hardisty - Syphilis of the Innocent
Amalia's Tale: An Impoverished Peasant Woman, an Ambitious Attorney,
and a Fight for Justice By David I. Kertzer
Reviewed by Susan M. Reverby - Cartoon
Written in Stone
By Nicole Schulman - The Nonanxiety of Influence
Fragment of the Head of a Queen By Cate Marvin;
Blessings and Inclemencies By Constance Merritt;
The Dirty Side of the Sotrm By Martha Serpas
Reviewed by Kate Daniels - Poetry of Science
What the Blood Knows By Peggy Miller; Constituents of Matter
By Anna Leahy; One-Breasted Woman By Susan Deborah King
Reviewed by Janet McCann - Field Notes
The Text as Fellowship: Remembering Miriam Goodman
By Robin Becker - Poetry
By Carolyne Wright - Heat and Fire
Map of Ireland
By Stephanie Grant
Reviewed by Carol Anshaw - Doing Science Differently
Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer among
the Romantics By Renee Bergland; Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of
TelomeresBy Catherine Brady
Reviewed by Kathleen Ochs - The Truth in the Middle
To Love What Is: A Marriage Transformed
By Alix Kates Shulman
Reviewed by Diana Postlethwaite - The Awesome Body
Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body
By Jennifer Ackerman; Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss -
and the Myths and Realities of DietingBy Gina Kolata; Perfect Girls,
Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body By Courtney E. Martin Reviewed by Lori Rotskoff - Of Love and Loss
Loving the Difficult
By Jane Rule
Reviewed by Marilyn R. Schuster - The Immigrant Generations
Unaccustomed Earth
By Jhumpa Lahiri
Reviewed by Mandira Sen
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