Women's Review of Books - 2010 Issues

January/February 2010

• Dramatis Personae
A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Their Remarkable Families 

By Michael Holroyd

• The Historical Truth
  Sojourner Truth's America 
  By Margaret Washington
  Reviewed by Jean M. Humez
• "I Am Not the Wonderful Person I Was"
  The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq 
  By Helen Benedict
  Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks, from Vietnam to Iraq
  Edited by Lisa Bowden and Shannon Cainq
  Reviewed by: Jennifer G. Mathers
• The Ghosts of War
  Haunting the Korean Dispora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War 
  By: Grace M. Cho
  Reviewed by Katharine H.S. Moon
• The Captivity Narrative Redux
  The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman
  By Margot Mifflin
  Reviewed by Siobhan Senier
• The Limits of Reform
  Addressing Rape Reform in Law and Practice
  By Susan Caringella
  Reviewed by Marianne Wesson
• Poetry
  By Paola Corso
• Photography
  City of Children
  by Monika Merva
  Commentary By Diana Edkins
• Feisty Women
  But a Passage in Wilderness
  By Margo Berdeshevsky
  Crazy Love
  By Pamela Uschuk
  Nobody's Mother
  By Leslea Newman
  Reviewed by Marilyn Krysl
• Between the House and the Chicken Yard
  
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor

By Brad Gooch

Reviewed by Kathryn McKee

• Good Reads
  All Day Reading
  By Trish Crapo
• Let the Sun Shine
  Daughters of Aquarius: Women of the Sixties Counterculture
  By Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo
  Reviewed Lori Rotskoff
• Burning the Complacent Veldt
  On Joanna Russ
  Edited by Farah Mendlesohn
  Reviewed by Susanna J. Sturgis
• Cosmo vs. Ms
  Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown
By Jennifer Scanlon

Reviewed by Emily Toth

• The Child is the Mother to the Homo Sapiens
  Mothers and Others: The Evolution Origins of Mutual Understanding
  By Sarah Blafer Hrdy
  Reviewed by Adrienne Zihlman
• Identify Identity's History
  Identity Before Identity Polititcs
  By Linda Nicholson
  Reviewed by Alyson M. Cole

March/April 2010

• "Tell Our Own Stories"
  The Thing Around Your Neck
  By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

By Adaobi Tricia Nqaubani

By Petina Gappah

By Irene Staunton

Reviewed by Heather Hewett

• In Perpetual Revolt
  Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy 
  By Marie Vieux-Chauvet
  Reviewed by Patti M. Marxsen
• Adam and Steve and Leslie and Eve
  When Gay People Get Married: What Happens When Societies Legalize Same-Sex Marriage 
  By M. V. Lee Badgett
  Reviewed by Emily Douglas
• Back in Print After 500 Years
  Incantations: Songs, Spells, and Images by Mayan Women 
  By Ambar Past
  Reviewed by Martha Gies
• Living Large
  The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life from on High
  By Arianne Cohen
  Reviewed by Renee Loth
• The Storyteller and the Listener
  The Shame of Survival: Working Through a Nazi Childhood
  By Ursula Mahlendorf
  Reviewed by Marcie Hershman
• The Help
  The Irish Bridget: Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic Service in America, 1840-1930
  By Margaret Lynch-Brennan
  Reviewed by Lauren Byrne
• It's the End of the World As We Know It
  The Year of the Flood
  By Margaret Atwood
  Reviewed by Katherine V. Snyder
• Call it Work, Call it God
  The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation
  By Fanny Howe
  Reviewed by Kelly Davio
• Poetry
  By Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor
• Cartoon
  by Roberta Gregory
• Field Notes
  A Poetic Reckoning
  By Robin Becker
• Cinderella's Stepmother Speaks Out
  Stepmonsters: A New Look at Why Real Stepmothers Think, Feel, and Act the Way We Do
  By Wednesday Martin
  Reviewed by Audrey Elisa Kerr
• The People and the Land
  
National Monuments

By Heidi E. Erdrich

Reviewed by Cheryl Savageau

• She Who Makes Her Meaning Clear
  I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde
  Edited by Rudolph P. Byrd, Johnetta Betsch Cole, and Beverly Guy Sheftall
  Reviewed by Jewelle Gomex
• The "Ocular Ethic"
  Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility
  By Monica Casper and Lisa Jean Moore
  Reviewed by Beth Schwartzapfel
• The Evolution of a Movement
  The Politics of Sexual Abuse: Emotion, Social Movements, and the State
By Nancy Whittier

Reviewed by Arlene Stein

May/June 2010

• The Meaning of Marilyn
  The Genius & the Goddess: Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe
  By Jeffrey Meyers

By Ted Schwartz

By J. Randy Taraborrelli

Reviewed by Lois Banner
• Incest and Epidemiology
  Unspeakable: Father-Daughter Incest in American History 
  By Lynn Sacco
  Reviewed by Mary Hamer
• Stand Tall!
  Justice Older Than the Law: The Life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree 
  By Katie McCabe and Dovey Johnson Roundtree
  Moisture of the Earth: Mary Robinson, Civil Rights and Textile Union Activist 
  By Katie McCabe
  Boycotts, Buses, and Passes: Black Women's Resistance in the US South and South Africa 
  By Pamela E. Brooks
  Reviewed by Eileen Boris
• Biology ≠ Destiny
  Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps - And What We Can Do About It 
  By Lise Eliot
  Reviewed by Rosalind C. Barnett and Caryl Rivers
• Sexual Behavior in the Human Sex Researcher
  Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love
  By Thomas Maier
  Reviewed by Janice Irvine
• The Photographer of Democracy
  Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits
  By Linda Gordon
  Reviewed by Dalia Habib Linssen
• Good Reads
  Hearing Voices
  By Trish Crapo
• Photography (PDF) 
  Foreign Objects
  Photographs by Shadi Ghadirian
  Commentary by Ellen Feldman
• Poetry
  By Julie R. Enszer
• Looking for Lesbians in the City
  Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities
  By Julie Abraham
  Reviewed by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Rowena Kennedy-Epstein
• Interview
  The City and the Homosexiaul
  by Robin Becker
• Transformational Feminism
  Living with History/Making Social Change
  By Gerda Lerner
  Reviewed by Joanne M. Braxton
• The Personal and the Political
  The Lacuna
  By Barbara Kingsolver
  Reviewed by Margaret Randall
• Expectations about Expecting
Make Room for Daddy: The Journey from Waiting Room to Birthing Room

By Judith Walzer Leavitt 

Deliver Me from Pain: Anesthesia and Birth in America

By Jacqueline H. Wolf 

Reviewed by Randi Epstein
• Obituary
  Mary Daly, Revolting Hag
  By Susanna J. Sturgis

July/August 2010

• Tilted on her Pedestal
  Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles
  By Panthea Reid
  Reviewed by Carol Hurd Green
• The Race and Gender Factory
  What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America
  By Peggy Pascoe
  Reviewed by Sandra F. VanBurkleo
• The Young Woman
  The Novel
  By Nawal El Saadawi
  translated by Omnia Amin and Rick London
  Reviewed by Marilyn Booth
• The Cosmopolitan Bushwoman
  Her Brilliant Career: The Life of Stella Miles Franklin
  By Jill Roe
  Reviewed by Kerryn Higgs
• The Marching Days
  The Red Squad
  By E.M. Broner
  Risk
  By Elana Dykewomon
  The Labrys Reunion
  By Terry Wolverton
  The Love Children
  By Marilyn French
  Reviewed by Andrea Freud Loewenstein
• Both Central and Marginal
  Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life
  By Lori D. Ginzberg
  Reviewed by Allison L. Sneider
• Cartoon
  By Marguerite Dabaie
• Poetry
  By Jehanne Dubrow
• The Poet in Wartime
  Names
  By Marilyn Hacker
  Nettles
  By Venus Khoury-Ghata
  Reviewed by Marilyn Krysl
• Age-struck and Seeing Strong
  The Book of Seventy
  By Alicia Suskin Ostriker
  A Village Life
  By Louise Glück
  Reviewed by Donna Krolik Hollenberg
• Putting the Reader to Work
  The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
  By Lydia Davis
  Reviewed by Jessica Jernigan
• Mostly Grieving, Occasionally Pleasing
  And The World Changed: Contemporary Stories
  by Pakistani Women
  Edited by Muneeza Shamsie
  Reviewed by Gayatri Devi
• The Other of Others
  Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector
  By Benjamin Moser
  Reviewed by Marguerite Itamar Harrison
• The Constraints of Gender
  Secret Son
  By Laila Lalami
  The Pistachio Seller
  By Reem Bassiouney
  translated by Osman Nusairi
  Reviewed by Valerie Miner
• Who's Wearing the Pants
  When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American
  Women from 1960 to the Present
  By Gail Collins
  Reviewed by Emily Toth
• Making Sense of an Iranian Past
  The Age of Orphans
  By Laleh Khadivi
  Bone Worship
  By Elizabeth Eslami
  Reviewed by Persis Karim

September/October 2010

• The Grand Rectification
  The Second Sex
  By Simone de Beauvoir
  Reviewed by Meryl Altman
• Feminist Mothers and Daughters
  The Feminist Promise: 1792 to the Present
  By Christine Stansell
  Reviewed by Alice Echols
• Self-Awareness, Blindspot, or Just LOL
  The Professor and Other Writings
  By Terry Castle
  Reviewed Lisa L. Moore
• History with a Capital H
  Before Auschwitz: Irène Némirovsky and the Cultural Landscape of Inter-War France
  By Angela Kershaw
  The Life of Irène Némirovsky, Author of Suite Française, 1903-1942
  By Olivier Philipponnat and Patrick Lienhardt
  Reviewed by Susan Rubin Suleiman
• Say, Have You Seen Lydia?
  The Tattooed Lady: A History
  By Amelia Klem Osterud
  Reviewed by Carol Anshaw
• Legal in Name Alone
  Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors,
  Patients, and the Rest of Us
  By Carol Joffe
  Reviewed by Kathryn Joyce
• Healthy at Any Size
  The Fat Studies Reader
  Edited by Esther Rothblum and Sondra Solovay
  Reviewed by Abigail Saguy
• Simone-Izing
  Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone
  By Nadine Codohas
  Reviewed by Salamishah Tillet
• Photography
  Time Recovered
  Photos by Ellen Feldman
  Commentary by Marilyn Richardson
• Good Reads
  Hoping for Change
  By Trish Crapo
• Poetry
  By Betty Buchsbaum
• New Irish Poetry
  Selected Poems
  By Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
  The Sun-Fish
  By Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
  Painting Rain
  By Paula Meehan
  Reviewed by Carol Bere
• The Poet's Daughter
  No Love Without Poetry: The Memoirs of Marina Tsvetaeva's Daughter
  By Ariadna Tsvetaeva
  Reviewed by Kelly Cherry
• The Corrupt World
  The Passport
  By Herta Müller
  Reviewed by Jeanette Clausen
• Come to Me
  The Fowl and the Pussycat: The Love Letters of Michael Field, 1876-1909
  Edited By Sharon Bickle
  Reviewed by Jill Ehnenn
• "We Know Blows and Hard Words"
  The Fullness of Everything
  By Patricia Powell
  Reviewed by Erika Waters
• Poets Laureate
  Where I Live: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010
  By Maxine Kumin;
  The Best of It: New and Selected Poems
  By Kay Ryan
  Reviewed by Wendy Vardaman
• Every Answer Raises Another Question
  The Long Song
  By Andrea Levy
  Reviewed by Susan Alice Fischer

November/December 2010

• Living Out Loud
  Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life
  By Bill Minutaglio and W. Michael Smith
  Reviewed by Laura Flanders
• Branding Jane
  Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World
  By Claire Harman
  Reviewed by Audrey Bilger
• Reading, Writing, and Rehabilitation
  By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives
  By Judith Tannenbaum and Spoon Jackson
  Reading is My Window: Books and the Art of Reading in Women's Prisons
  By Megan Sweeney
  Reviewed Bell Gale Chevigny
• Women and the War
  Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War
  By Cynthia Enlow
  Reviewed by Lynne Hanley
• Abigail Adams, Capitalist
  Abigail Adams
  By Woody Holton
  Reviewed by Martha Saxton
• The Power of Activism
  DES Daughters: Embodies Knowledge and the Transformation of Women's Health Politics
  By Susan E. Bell
  Reviewed by Wendy Kline
• Field Notes
  Birds of a Feather: The Themed AnthologyBy Robin Becker
• Poetry
  By Irene Willis
• Cartoon
  By Paige Braddock
• Outside the Statistics
  Flexible Bones
  By Maria Melendez
  Flameco Hips and Mud Red Feet
  By Dixie Salazar
  Reviewed by Marie-Elise Wheatwind
• Beauty Culture and Racial Uplift
  Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry
  By Tiffany M. Gill
  Reviewed by Francesca Gamber
• Memory, Identity, Secrets, and Lies
  Day After Night
  By Anita Diamant
  Reviewed by Rochelle G. Ruthchild
• That Saved a Kvetch Lie Me
  Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness
  By Ariel Gore
  Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
  By Barbara Ehrenreich
  Reviewed by Emily Toth
• They Know We Know They Know
  A Mountain of Crumbs
  By Elena Gorokhova
  Street without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria
  By Kapka Kassabova
  Reviewed by Marta Bladek
• One at a Time
  Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing
  By Lydia Peelle
  Triple Time
  By Anne Sanow
  Reviewed by Mako Yoshikawa
• Gilmania
  Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Biography
  By Cynthia J. Davis
  The Feminism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Sexualities, Histories, Progressivism
  By Judith A. Allen
  Reviewed by Louise W. Knight

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