Women's Review of Books - 2011 Issues
January/February 2011
- The Mules of the World
Fierce Angels: The Strong Black Woman in American Life and Culture
By Sheri Parks
Behind the Mask of the Strong Black Woman: Voice and the Embodiment of a Costly Performance
By Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant
Reviewed by Stacey Patton - The Children of Feminism
The Unfinished Revolution: How a New Generation is Reshaping Family, Work, and Gender in America
By Kathleen Gerson
Reviewed By Rosalind Barnett and Caryl Rivers - People and Place
Pushing the Bear: After the Trail of Tears
By Diane Glancy
Mattaponi Queen: Stories
By Belle Boggs
From the Hilltop
By Toni Jensen
Reviewed By Margaret Noori - Public Displays of Affection
Untying the Knot: Marriage, the State, and the Case for Their Divorce
By Tamara Metz
From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law
By Martha Nussbaum
Reviewed By Emily Douglas - Murphy Brown Feminism
Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message That Feminism's Work is Done
By Susan J. Douglas
Reviewed By Courtney E. Martin - The Monster That Won't Stop Coming
Interrupted Life: Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States
Edited by Rickie Solinger, Paula C. Johnson, Martha L. Raimon, Tina Reynolds, and Ruby C. Tapia
Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women
By Victoria Law
The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison and Fighting for Those Left Behind
By Safiya Bukhari, edited and with an introduction by Laura Whitehorn
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
By Michelle Alexander
Reviewed By Martha Gies - Speaking for China
Pearl Buck in China
By Hilary Spurling
Pearl of China
By Anchee Min
Reviewed By Rebecca Steinitz - Poetry
By Miriam Levine - Essay: Reading My Mother
By Edith Pearlman - Lost Havens
Of Earth and Sea: A Chilean Memoir
By Marjorie Agosín, translated by Roberta GordensteinConfined: A Novel
By Mariana DietlDeparting at Dawn: A Novel of Argentina's Dirty War
By Gloria Lisé, translated by Alice Weldon
Reviewed By Alicia Partnoy - Good Reads
The Novel of Political Turbulence
By Trish Crapo - Searching For Father and Country
Marielitos, Balseros, and Other Exiles
By Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés
Havana and Other Missing Fathers
By Mia Leonin
Family Sentence: The Search for My Cuban-Revolutionary, Prison-Yard, Mythic-Hero, Deadbeat Dad
By Jeanine Cornillot
Reviewed By Margaret Randall - New Voices From Eastern Europe
This Lamentable City
By Polina Barskova, translated by Ilya Kaminsky, with Kathryn Farris, Rachel Galvin, and Matthew Zapruder
Stars of the Night Commute
By Ana Božic˘evic´
Father Dirt
By Mihaela Moscaliuc
Infinite Beginnings
By Lucyna Prostko
Reviewed By Lori Wilson - Obituary
The Personal is Inescapable (Jill Johnston 1929-2010)
By Debra Cash
March/April 2011
- Time Passes
A Visit from the Goon Squad
By Jennifer Egan
Reviewed by Jessica Jernigan - Sexism, Racism, and Hillary
Big Girls Don’t Cry: The Election That Changed Everything for American Women
By Rebecca Traister
Who Should Be First?: Feminists Speak
Out on the 2008 Presidential Campaign
Edited by Beverly Guy-Sheftall
and Johnnetta Betsch Cole;
Hillary Clinton’s Race for the White House:
Gender Politics and the Media on the Campaign Trail
By Regina G. Lawrence and Melody Rose
Reviewed by Emily Douglas - New Women
Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century
By Sheila Rowbotham
Reviewed by June Purvis - Unruly Women
Equality and Revolution: Women’s Rights in the Russian Empire, 1905-1917
By Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild
Reviewed by Lisa A. Kirschenbaum - The Politics of Point of View
The Red Thread By Ann Hood; Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In
Praise of Adoption
By Scott Simon
Dreaming a World: Korean Birthmothers Tell Their Stories
Edited by Sangsoon Hoon
A Gate at the Stairs
By Lorrie Moore
Reviewed by Martha Nichols - Trading Babies
International Adoption: Global Inequalities and the Circulation of Children
Edited by Diana Marre and Laura Briggs
Babies Without Borders: Adoption and Migration Across the Americas
By Karen Dubinsky
Reviewed by E.J. Graff - The Central Guiding Force
Jesus, Jobs, and Justice: African American Women and Religion
By Bettye Collier-Thomas
Reviewed by M. Shawn Copeland - Field Notes Pole Vaulting
By Robin Becker - Poetry
By Susan Rich - Cartoon
By Mari Naomi - Photography - Capacious Beauty
Photos by Jennette Williams
Commentary by Cassandra Goldwater - Nobody Knows My Name
Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject
By Kirsten Pai Buick
Reviewed by Jennifer DeVere Brody - Work That Body
Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater,
Community Engagement, and Working It Out
By Nadine George-Graves
STREB: How To Become An Extreme Action Hero
By Elizabeth Streb
Reviewed by Debra Cash - Reverse the Curse
New Blood: Third-Wave Feminism and the Politics of Menstruation
By Chris Bobel
Reviewed by Rachel Fudge - A Twinned Narrative
Specters
By Radwa Ashour, translated by Barbara Romaine
Reviewed by M. Lynx Qualey
May/June 2011
- The Judicial Temperament
In Defense of Women: Memoirs of an Unrepentant Advocate
By Nancy Gertner
Reviewed by Renée Loth - Making the Agony Visible
Diary Drawings: Mental Illness and Me
By Bobby Baker (with Dora Whittuck)
Reviewed by Gail A. Hornstein - Women Win On and Off the Court
Game, Set, Match: Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women’s Sports
By SusanWare
Reviewed by Laura Pappano - A Law Named After A Woman
Pink Pirates: Contemporary Women Writers and Copyright
By Caren Irr
Review by Carole DeSanti - Discovering a Meaningful Life
The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth
By Lillian Nayder
Reviewed by Lisa Rodensky - Good Reads
"A Book Is An Axe": Indian Feminist Publisher, Mandira Sen
By Trish Crapo - Love and Delusion
The Pleasure Seekers
By Tishani Doshi
Reviewed by Mandira Sen - Poetry
By Christina Hutchins - Photography
Amy Thompson Avishai: Revealing A Hidden World
By Leslie K. Brown
Photos by Amy Thompson Avishai - Big Voices
The Sensual World Re-Emerges
By Eleanor Lerman;
No Surrender
By Ai
Reviewed by Kate Daniels - Unreality Television
Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV
By Jennifer L. Pozner
Reviewed by Michelle Dean - Danticat's Dialogues
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work
By Edwidge Danticat
Reviewed by Danielle Georges - No "True Womanhood" For Her
Harriet Hosmer: A Cultural Biography
By Kate Culkin
Reviewed by Marilyn Richardson - Unruly Women
Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography
By Susan Cheever;
Jane Addams: Spirit in Action
By Louise W. Knight
Reviewed by Emily Toth - The Irreducible History
I Hotel
By Karen Tei Yamashita
Reviewed by Mako Yoshikawa
July/August 2011
- Freedom’s ArchitectsAt the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance: A New Historyof the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black PowerAt the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance: A New Historyof the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
By Nancy Gertner;
Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC
Edited By Faith S. Holsaert, Martha Prescod, Norman Noonan, Judy Richardson, Betty Garman Robinson, Jean Smith Young, and Dorothy M. Zellner
Reviewed by Bettina Aptheker - Radical Hotness
- Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers: Staging the Unimaginable at the WOW Café Theatre
- By Kate Davy
Reviewed by Robin Bernstein - Music or Noise
Pink Noises: Women on Electric Music and Sound
By Tara Rodgers
Reviewed by Deborah Frost - Adult Education
A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s
By Stephanie Coontz; Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life
By Stephanie Staal
Reviewed by Lori E. Rotskoff - The Women Of Juárez
Making a Killing: Femicide, Free Trade, and La Frontera
Edited by Alicia Gaspar de Alba, with Georgina Guzmán
Reviewed by Margaret Randall - Good Reads
The Half-Life of Violence
By Trish Crapo - Poetry
By Katherine Sonia - Cartoon
Gender Revolution
By Elisha Lim - Get Out Your Speculums
- Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women’s Health in the Second Wave
- The Missing Middle, Found
Reshaping the Work-Family Debat
By Joan C. William
Reviewed by Jean Hardisty - No Blank Slates
Brainstorm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences
By Rebecca M. Jordan-Young;
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
By Cordelia Fine
Reviewed by Rosalind Barnett and Caryl Rivers - The Sludge of Ageism
Facing Age: Women Growing Older in Anti-Aging Culture
By Laura Hurd Clark
Agewise: Fighting the New Ageism in Americ
By Margaret Gullett
Reviewed by Margaret Cruikshank - “We Couldn't Do What You Do Here”
The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life
By Jasmin Darznik
Reviewed by Persis Karim - Essay
Founding The Feminist Press
By Florence Howe - At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance: A New Historyof the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
By Wendy Kline
Reviewed by Amy Kesselman
September/October 2011
Jesus, Gandhi, Buddha, and Eleanor: Identifying with ER
She Was One of Us: Eleanor Roosevelt and the American Worker
By Brigid O’Farrell
Eleanor Roosevelt: Transformative First Lady
By Maurine H. Beasley
Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage
By Hazel Rowley
Reviewed by Priscilla MuroloAn Unshakeable Faith In Humanity
Memoir of a Gulag Actress
By Tamara Petkevich
Reviewed by Cathy A. FriersonGrowing Up Communist, Coming Out a Folkie Feminist
My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement
By Alix Dobkin
Reviewed by Susanna J. SturgisThe Gender Of Survival
Sexual Violence Against Jewish Women During the Holocaust
Reviewed by Rochelle G. RuthchildWeapons Of The Weak
On the Move for Love: Migrant Entertainers and the US Military in South Korea
By Sealing Cheng
Reviewed by Grace ChangField Notes
Embracing The Range Of Human Feeling
By Robin BeckerPhotography
by Laura Heyman; Commentary by Rachel SomersteinPoetry
By Rebecca FoustBorn To Describe
Inferno (A Poet’s Novel)
By Eileen Myles
Reviewed by Lisa L. MooreNothing But Being Told You Don’t Belong
Gorée: Point of Departure
By Angela Barry;
How To Escape from a Leper Colony: A Novella and Stories
By Tiphanie Yanique
Reviewed by Rebecca MeachamRetrofitted Memory
¡Chicana Power!: Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement
By Maylei Blackwell
Reviewed by Miroslava Chávez-GarcíaThe Female Betrayer
Hanoi Jane: War, Sex, and Fantasies of Betrayal
By Jerry Lembcke
Reviewed by Suzanne Kelley McCormackFeminist Roots
Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War
By Dayo Gore
Sojourning For Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism
By Erik McDuffie
Reviewed by Mary Helen WashingtonA Culture Of Resistance
Living the Revolution: Italian Women’s Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945
By Jennifer Guglielmo
Reviewed by Karen Pastorello
November/December 2011
But Are They Any Good?
True Confessions: Feminist Professors Tell Stories Out of School
Edited by Susan Gubar
Reviewed by Audrey BilgerThe Economy of Shame
Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh
By Lamia Karim
Reviewed by Ghazal ZulfiqarRace, Gender, and Nail Polish
The Managed Hand: Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work
By Miliann Kang
Reviewed by Jennifer Jihye ChunThe Hysteria Capital of the World
Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris
By Asti Hustvedt
Reviewed by Rosalind DelmarJim and Jane Crow
Reasoning from Race: Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution
By Serena Mayeri
Reviewed by Stacey PattonPoetry
By Jessica GreenbaumGood Reads
What The Dead Would Have Wanted
By Trish CrapoA World of Trouble
Elizabeth Packard: A Noble Fight
By Linda V. Carlisle
Reviewed by Sandra F. VanBurkleoCartoon
Grace And Miki
By Rica Takashima“I Like Me Black Face and Me Kinky Hair”
Una Marson: Selected Poems
Edited by Alison Donnell
Reviewed by Erika J. WatersDiscrimination in the Womb
Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men
By Mara Hvistendahl
Reviewed by Amy AgigianTwo Sexperts
Bachelors and Bunnies: The Sexual Politics of Playboy
By Carrie Pitzulo;
Big Sex Little Death: A Memoir
By Susie Bright
Reviewed by Emily TothThe Nannies’ Dilemma
Shadow Mothers: Nannies, Au Pairs, and the Micropolitics of Mothering
By Cameron Lynn Macdonald
Raising Brooklyn: Nannies, Childcare, and Caribbeans Creating
Communities
By Tamara Mose Brown
Reviewed by Rosanna HertzThe Keepers of Utopia
Rebel Girls: Youth Activism and Social Change Across the Americas
By Jessica K. Taft
Reviewed by Courtney E. MartinUntangling the Marriage Knot
Unhitched: Love, Marriage, and Family Values from West Hollywood to Western China
By Judith Stacey
A History of Marriage: From Same-Sex Unions to Private Vows and Common Law, the Surprising Diversity of a Tradition
By Elizabeth Abbott
Reviewed by Kristin Celello
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