Women's Review of Books - 2009 Issues
January/February 2009
- Where are the Women?
Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns
By Erika Falk
Reviewed by Ruth Rosen - The Practice and The Theory
Radical Sisters: Second-Wave Feminism and Black Liberation in Washington, D.C.
By Anne M. Valk
Reviewed by Patricia Hill Collins - Bridging the Chasm
The Bishop's Daughter: A Memoir
By Honor Moore
Reviewed by Catherine Mooney - Essay
The Haunted Room
By Carole DeSanti - An Unbalanced and Impossible Relationship
White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson,
By Brenda Wineapple
Reviewed by Mary Loeffelholz - A Radical Activist, Rediscovered
Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones
By Carole Boyce Davies
Reviewed by Kate Weigand - Defamiliarize Yourself
The Halo RuleBy Teresa Leo; Sister By Nickole Brown; Ordinary Beans By Gwyn McVay;
Bonneville By Jenny Mueller;The Gravity Soundtrack By Erin Keane
Reviewed by Wendy Vardaman - Poetry
By Linda A. Roach - Good Reads
The Benefits of Hindsight
By Trish Crapo - Photography
In the Tradition of Women Redefining the World: Photographs by Stella Johnson
By Magdalen Pierrakos - Of Her Time and Ahead of It
Sex Variant Woman:The Life of Jeannette Howard Foster
By Joanne Passet
Reviewed by Martha Vicinus - Founding Mothers
Prodigal Daughters:Susanna Rowson's Early American Women
By Marion Rust; The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren
and the Founding of a Nation By Nancy Rubin Stuart Reviewed by Martha Saxton - Short and Frisky
Dinner with OsamaBy Marilyn Krysl; Downriver: Short Stories By Jeanne M. Leiby;
Remember Love By Jody Lisberger
Reviewed by Marianne Villanueva - A Dialogue of the Sources
Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections
Edited by Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker
Reviewed by Sandra Yannone - The Second-Best Bed and Other Conundrums
Shakespeare's Wife
By Germaine Greer
Reviewed by Marilyn Yalom - Woman's Best Friend
The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics
Edited by Josephine Donovan and Carol J. Adams;
When Species Meet
By Donna J. Haraway
Reviewed by Kathy Rudy
March/April 2009
- The Art of Interrogation
A Field Guide for Female Interrogators
By Coco Fusco
Reviewed by Jill Dolan - Gamer Girls Rising
Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New Perspectives on Gender and Gaming Edited By Yasmin B. Kafai, Carrie Heeter, Jill Denner, and Jennifer Y. Sun
Reviewed by Latoya Peterson - Woman Suffrage Revised
The Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton:Women's Rights and the American Political TraditionsBy Sue Davis; Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement By Sally G. McMillen; Suffragists in an Imperial Age: US Expansion and the Woman Question, 1870-1929 By Allison L. Sneider
Reviewed by Kathi Kern - Rewriting Normal
Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word)
By Thea Hillman; Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience
By Katrina A. Karkazis
Reviewed by Monica J. Casper - Sex on the Inside - And the Outside
Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality
By Regina Kunzel
Reviewed by Leila J. Rupp - Song, Myth, Epic Poem
The Amputated Memory
By Werewere Liking, Translated by Marjolijn de Jager
Reviewed by Heather Hewett - Poetry
By Alison Townsend - Cartoon
That Pesky Process
By Monica Gallergher - Field Notes
Small Chapbooks Make a Big Impression
By Robin Becker - What Great Art Removes
New Collected Poems
By Eavan Boland; Domestic Violence, By Eavan Boland
Reviewed by Jody Allen Randolph - I Kissed a Girl
Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women's Love and Desire
By Lisa M. Diamond Reviewed by Ellyn Ruthstrom - Pedagogy of the Transnational
Not Born a Refugee Woman: Contesting Identities, Rethinking Practices
Edited By Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed, Nazilla Khanlou, and Helene Moussa Reviewed by Katarzyna Marciniak - Street Theater for Social Change
Teatro Chicana: A Collective Memoir and Selected Plays
Edited By Laura E. Garcia, Sandra M. Gutierrez, and Felicitas Nunez
Reviewed by AnaLouise Keating - A Universalist Life
Lillian Wald: A Biography
By Marjorie N. Feld Reviewed by Louise W. Knight - Everybody's Oprah
Embracing Sisterhood: Class, Identity, and Contemporary Black Women
By Katrina Bell McDonald
Reviewed by Audrey Elisa Kerr
May/June 2009
- The Geography of the Feminist Movement
Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism
By Anne Enke
Reviewed by Ann Snitow - Biblical Womanhood
Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement By Kathryn Joyce
- Righting Feminism: Conservative Women and American Politics
- Ngo-graphy
Women's Social Activism in the New Ukraine: Development and the Politics of Differentiation By Sarah D. Phillips - Desperate Housemates
The Essential Dykes to Watch Our For
By Alison Bechdel
Reviewed by Trina Robbins - Who's Crazy Now?
Mad, Bad, and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors By Lisa Appignanesi - Your Wicked Good Militia
The School on Heart's Content Road
By Carolyn Chute
Reviewed by Mary Zeiss Strange - Engaged Poetry Sea Change
- Poetry By Kate Daniels
- Good Reads
Trapped
By Trish Crapo - Photography
Facing Peace: Families Surviving Violence
By Carolyn M. Goldstein Photos by Lisa Kessler - Reforming the Church
Catholic and Feminist: The Surprising History of the American Catholic Feminist Movement
By Mary J. Henold Reviewed by Frances Kissling - Let The Good Work Go On
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution
Edited By Lois Brown Reviewed by Andrea N. Williams - B-Movie Aspirations
The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture
Edited By Lauren Berlant
Reviewed by Heather Love - The Changing of the Guard
Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower Edited by Deborah Gray White Women's Studies on the Edge Edited by Joan Wallach Scott
By Ronnee Schreiber
Reviewed by Abby Scher
Reviewed by Sonia Jaffee Robbins
Reviewed by Rebecca Steinitz
By Jorie Graham
Rising, Falling, Hovering
By C.D. Wright
One Secret Thing
By Sharon Olds
Reviewed by Carol Bere
Reviewed by Lois Rita Hembold
July/August 2009
- Our Great Man
Reborn: Journals & Notebooks 1947-1963
By Susan Sontag, edited by David Rieff
Reviewed by Jan Clausen - Scribbling Women
A Jury Of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
By Elaine Showalter
Reviewed by Carole DeSanti - Today's Rosies
Sisters in the Brotherhoods: Working Women Organizing for Equality In New York City
By Jane Latour
Reviewed by Brigid O’Farrell - Camp Women
Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe
By John A. Lynn II
Reviewed by Jennifer G. Mathers - Cake Walk, Shimmy, and Charleston
Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern
By Jayna Brown
Reviewed by Farah Jasmine Griffin - The Rhetoric and the Reality
What Kind of Liberation?:Women and the Occupation of Iraq
By Nadje Al-Ali and Nicola Pratt;
City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman’s Account of War and Resistance
By Haifa Zangana
Reviewed by Kerryn Higgs - Into Other Claws
A Mercy
By Toni Morrison
Reviewed by Elizabeth McHenry - Cartoon
By Jen Sorensen - Field Notes
Recollected, But Not in Tranquility
By Robin Becker - Choruses of Experience
Blood Dazzler
By Patricia Smith;
Voices
By Lucille Clifton
Reviewed by Ginny Kaczmarek - Poetry
By Andrea Potos - Women Doing Science
Sciences from Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities
By Sandra Harding;
Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory
Edited by Emily Monosson
Reviewed by Emily R. Grosholz - Gossip, History, and Life-History
Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante
By Lily Tuck
Reviewed by Rosalind Delmar - Young, Hip, and Iranian
Passionate Uprisings: Iran’s Sexual Revolution
Reviewed by Persis M. Karim - The Ladies' Entrance
The Girl I Left Behind: A Narrative History of the Sixties
Reviewed by Suzanne McCormack - Tintinnabulation
England’s Child: The Carillon and the Casting of Big Bells
Reviewed by Joseph Davis
September/October 2009
- Whose Culture Is It, Anyway?
Culture Keeping: White Mothers, International Adoption, and the Negotiation of Family Difference
By Heather Jacobson;
Lucky Girl
By Mei-Ling Hopgood Reviewed by Martha Nichols - Girl Delinquents
The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory
Catherine S. Ramírez
Reviewed by Miroslava Chávez-Garcí - Woman of Valor
To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells
By Mia Bay;
Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign against Lynching
By Paula Giddings
Reviewed by Sherrilyn A. Ifill - Striving for Realness
Kinship by Design: A History of Adoption in the Modern United
States By Ellen Herman - Anomie in the New China
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
By Leslie T. Chang
Reviewed by Xujun Eberlein - Sticky Tables
Nothing Right: Short Stories
By Antonya Nelson
Reviewed by Rebecca Meacham - Good Reads
Lost and Found
By Trish Crapo - Poetry
By Trish Reeves - Photography
By Moira Barrett Comment by Dana Hoey - A Tree Putting Forth Green Leaves
Poems from the Women’s Movement Edited by Honor Moore; Love Belongs to Those Who Do The Feeling: New and Selected Poems (1966-2006)
By Judy Grahn
Reviewed by Alicia Ostriker - A Failure of Understanding Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery
- Dissolved Boundaries
Wetlands
By Charlotte Roche;
Voice Over
By Céline Curiol
Reviewed by Jessica Jernigan - Touched by Grace
The Vagrants
By Yiyun Li
Reviewed by Mako Yoshikawa - Temper, Mind, and Mouth
The Other Side of Paradise By Staceyann Chin - The Rural Life
Home By Marilynne Robinson;
A Country Called Home
By Kim Barnes
Reviewed by Valerie Miner
Reviewed by Barbara Melosh
By Siddartha Kara
Reviewed by Melissa Hope Ditmore
Reviewed by Heather Seggel
November/December 2009
- The Teacher and the Student
Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller
By Kim Neilsen Reviewed by Deborah Kent - The Paella of Revolution
To Change the World: My Years in Cuba
By Margaret Randall
Reviewed by Minrose Gwin - The Revolutionist
The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience
By Kirstin Downey
Reviewed by Susan Feiner - Isolation and Repression
Perfect Hostage: A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s
Prisoner of Conscience
By Justin Wintle
No Time for Dreams: Living in Burma Under Military Rule
By Carolyn Wakeman and San San Tin
Reviewed by Marianne Villanueva - Baseball is War
Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don't Play Baseball
By Jennifer Ring
Reviewed by Laura Pappano - Words Wrenched Out of Silence
To Hell and Back: The Life of Samira Bellil
By Samira Bellil, translated by Lucy R. McNair
Reviewed by Cécile Oumhani - Poetry
By Leslie Ullman - Cartoon
Telling Stories
By Joey Alison Sayers - Field Notes
The Mind of the Poet: New Work by Leslie Ullman
By Robin Becker - A Taste of Today's Poets When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women
- Cooking and Eating
Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes From and Why We Need to Get It Back
By Anne Vileisis
Reviewed by Jan Zita Grover - The Growth of a Writer
Triangular Road: A Memoir
By Paule Marshall
Reviewed by Florence Ladd - Hip Hop Warzones
The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop—And Why It Matters
By Tricia Rose
Pimps Up, Ho’s Down: Hip Hop’s Hold on Young Black Women
By T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Reviewed by Latoya Peterson - The Imperial Presidency
The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy’s Future By Carol Gilligan and David A. J. Richards - Religious Feminists
Taking Back God: American Women Rising Up for Religious Equality
By Leora Tanenbaum
Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion
By Danya Ruttenberg
Dating Jesus: A Story of Fundamentalism, Feminism, and the American Girl
By Susan Campbell
A Dynamic God: Living an Unconventional Catholic Faith
By Nancy Mairs
Reviewed by Ann Braude
Edited by Andrea Hollander Budy
Reviewed by Carol Bere
Reviewed by Dianne M. Hunter
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