Women's Review of Books - 2013 Issues
January/February 2013
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Now We Are Thirty
Editorial
By Amy Hoffman, Editor in Chief- Women vs. Women
Battling Miss Bolsheviki: The Origins of Female Conservatism in the United States
By Kirsten Marie Delegard
Reviewed by Kim Phillips-Fein Women Who Want to Be Women
Delirium: How the Sexual Counterrevolution Is Polarizing America
By Nancy L. Cohen
Reviewed by Kathryn JoycePlayground Proselytizing
The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children
By Katherine Stewart
Reviewed by Veronica I. ArreolaThe New Jim Crow for Women
Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation
By Beth Richie
Reviewed by Jean HardistyBridging Past and Present
Hearing Sappho in New Orleans: The Call of Poetry from Congo Square to the Ninth Ward
By Ruth Salvaggio
Reviewed by Ginny KaczmarekReintroducing Rachel Carson
On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson
By William Souder
Reviewed by Joni SeagerPoetry
By Suzanne CareyPhotography: Refusing to Be Intimidated
Photographs by Stephanie Sinclair
Commentary by Edie GrossSaving the Children
Somebody’s Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption
By Laura Briggs
Finding Fernanda: Two Mothers, One Child, and a Cross-Border Search for Truth
By Erin Siegel
Reviewed by Martha NicholsThe Passport to Hell
Sex and the Office: A History of Gender, Power, and Desire
By Julie Berebitsky
Reviewed by Priscilla MuroloField Notes: Stranger to Nothing
By Robin BeckerGym Class Blues
Active Bodies: A History of Women’s Physical Education in Twentieth-Century America
By Martha H. Verbrugge
Reviewed by Laura PappanoVoices from the Margins
Walking Backwards
By Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Spirit Birds They Told Me
By Mary Oishi
Reviewed by Maria MelendezAll Things Marylin
Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox
By Lois Banner
Reviewed by Diana PostlethwaiteAn Ode to Women's Review of Books on the Occasion of Her 30th Anniversary
By Kate Clinton- TV Heroines
Those Girls: Single Women in Sixties and Seventies Popular Culture
By Katherine J. Lehman
Reviewed by Lori Rotskoff
March/April 2013
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Rosie-Colored Glasses
Beyond Rosie the Riveter: Women of World War II in American Popular Graphic Art
By Donna B. Knaff
Reviewed by Ardis CameronWRB Celebrating 30 Years
Anniversary Tribute from Anita Diamant- "Is Marriage Good for Women?"
From the Closet to the Altar: Courts, Backlash, and the Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage
By Michael Klarman
Debating Same-Sex Marriage
By John Corvino and Maggie Gallagher
Here Come the Brides!: Reflections on Lesbian Love and Marriage
Edited by Audrey Bilger and Michele Kort
A Marriage Agreement and Other Essays: Four Decades of Feminist Writing
By Alix Kates Shulman
Not the Marrying Kind
By Nicola Barker
Reviewed by Nicola Barker Who Was Anne Frank? Who is She Now?
Anne Frank Unbound: Media, Imagination, Memory
Edited by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Jeffrey Shandler
Reviewed by Marianne HirschDivided We Stand
All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s
By Robert Self
Reviewed by Felicia KornbluhNormal No More
Gaga Feminism: Gender, Sex, and the End of Normal
By J. Jack Halberstam
Reviewed by Cressida J. HeyesQue(e)ring Sex, Disability, and Feminism
Feminist Disability Studies Edited by Kim Q. Hall; Sex and Disability
Edited by Robert McRuer and Anna Mollow
Reviewed by Lauri UmanskyGood Reads
Passionate Strangers
By Trish CrapoPoetry
By Dorian KotsiopoulosSeeing and Not Seeing
Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White
By Lila Quintero Weaver
Reviewed by Meisha RosenbergA Journey That is Not Straightforward
Mother & Child
By Carole Maso
Reviewed by Roseanne Giannini QuinnSee Jane Read
The Woman Reader
By Belinda Jack
Reviewed by Leah priceComic
By Leela CormanThe Value of Care
Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State
By Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein
Reviewed by Karen KahnCuba's Changing Attitudes
Sexual Revolution in Cuba: Passion, Politics, and Memory
By Carrie Hamilton
Reviewed by Margaret RandallWhich One Would You Be?
Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis
By Alice Kaplan
Anonymous in Their Own Names: Doris E. Fleischman, Ruth Hale, and Jane Grant
By Susan Henry
All We Know: Three Lives
By Lisa Cohen
Reviewed by Emily TothMessing with Texas
Let The People In: The Life and Times of Ann Richards
By Jan Reid
As Texas Goes: How The Lone Star State Hijacked the American Agenda
By Gail Collins
Reviewed by Judith Nies
May/June 2013
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- Outside the Outsiders
Clementine Hunter: Her Life and Art
By Art Shriver and Tom Whitehead
Reviewed by Marilyn Richardson WRB Celebrating 30 Years
Anniversary Tribute from Gloria SteinemImagining the Impossible
Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class and the Assumptions of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Politics
By Urvashi Vaid
Reviewed by Bettina ApthekerPromoting Trans-Literacy
Transfeminist Perspectives In and Beyond Transgender and Gender Studies
Edited by Anne Enke
Reviewed by Cressida J. HeyesThe Voice
Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights
By Mariana Warner
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice
By Terry Tempest Williams
Reviewed by Rebecca Steinitz"What Does Henry Want?"
Bring Up the Bodies
By Hilary Mantel
Reviewed by Jessica JerniganField Notes
Faith and Its Elusiveness
By Robin BeckerEssay
Lesbians on the Move
By Judy GrahnPhotography
Hellen van Meene: A Delicate Balancing Act
Photographs by Hellen van Meene
Commentary by Cassandra GoldwaterAlways Another Fight
Elsewhere, California
By Dana Johnson
Reviewed by Valerie MinerOh Make Me Real!
Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life
By Natalie Dykstra
Reviewed by Judith FetterleyPoetry
By Shirley PowersThe History Beneath History
Out of It
By Selma Dabbagh
Of Noble Origins
By Sahar Kahalifeh
Reviewed by M. Lynx QualeyThe Organization
In the Shadows of the Banyan
By Vaddey Ratner
Reviewed by Marianne VillanuevaThe Authors of Their Lives
NW
By Zadie Smith
Reviewed by Susan Alice FischerA Question of Safety
The Round House
By Louise Erdrich
Flight Behavior
By Barbara Kingsolver
Reviewed by A. J. VerdellFunny Then, Funny Now
We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy: A Very Oral History
By Yael Kohen
Reviewed by Roz Warren- Who Would Jesus Deport?
Immigration and Women: Understanding the American Experience
By Susan C. Pearce, Elizabeth J. Clifford, and Reena Tandon
National Insecurities: Immigrants and US Deportation Policy Since 1882
By Deidre M. Moloney
"I Am an American": Filming the Fear of Difference
By Cynthia Weber
Reviewed by Katarzyna Marciniak
July/Aug 2013
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Short-Haired Women and Long-Haired Men
The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left
By Landon R.Y. Storrs
Reviewed by Alice Kessler-HarrisWRB Celebrating 30 Years
Feminist Superbooster
By Courtney MartinSuperheroines
Womanthology: Heroic
Edited by Mariah Huehner
Reviewed by Joan HiltyPoet and Marketing "Mastermind"
Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage
By Vincent Carretta
Reviewed by Joycelyn MoodyOutlaw Texts
In Contempt: Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature
By Kristen Kalsem
Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diaryof a Victorian Lady
By Kate Summerscale
Reviewed by Lisa RodenskyWages for Housework
Sex, Race, and Class: The Perspective of Winning: A selection of Writings, 1952-2011
By Selma James
Reviewed by Kate WeigandPursued By Hounds
Marmee & Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother
By Eva LaPlante
Reviewed by Martha SaxtonPoetry
By Kelly CherryCartoon
By Gina KamentskyGood Reads
Passionate Strangers
By Trish CrapoThe Warrior Spirit
Crazy Brave: A memoir
By Joy Jarjo
Reviewed by Janice GouldThe Union of Forgotten Wives
Heroine
By Kate Zambreno
Reviewed by Nancy GrayWomen's Struggles in the Arab World
Mapping Arab Women's Movements: A Century of Transformations from Within
Edited by Pernille Arenfeldt and Nawar Al-Hassan Golley
Reviewed by Marilyn BoothSmoking Liberation
Sex, Lies and Cigarettes: Canadien Women, Smoking, and Visual Culture, 1880-2000
By Sharon Anne Cook
Reviewed by Rosemary ElliotWriting and Remembering
The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture after the Holocaust
By Marianne Hirsch
Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Simaite
By Julija Sukys
Reviewed by Rochelle Ruthchild- The Chick Slicks
Airbrushed Nation: The Lure and Loathing of Women's Magazines
By Jennifer Nelson
Reviewed by Andi Zeisler
September/October 2013
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Not Just the Wife of Her Husband
Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs.Paul Robeson
By Barbara Ransby
Reviewed by Mary Helen WashingtonWRB Celebrating 30 Years
As Long as it Takes
By Carole DeSantiSex Work and the Law
Legalizing Prostitution: From Illicit Vice to Lawful Business
By Ronald Weitzer
Reviewed by Anne Gray FischerDisability, in History and in Life
A Disability History of the United States
By Kim E. Nielsen
Don’t Call Me Inspirational: A Disabled Feminist Talks Back
By Harilyn Rousso
Reviewed by Susan McGee BaileyHer Mad Beauty
Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writing of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
Edited by Irene Gammel and Suzanne Zelazo
Reviewed by Ana Isabel KeilsonTrouble In The Bastion Of Liberalism
Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia
Edited by Gabrielle Gutiérrez Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. González, and Angela P. Harris
Reviewed by Stacey PattonPoetry
By Katherine SoniatPhotography Unapologetically
Photographs By Zanele Muholi
Commentary By Claire BreukelLeaping Into Mystery
The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archeology, and the Origins of European Dance
By Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Reviewed by Debra CashReproductive Rights As They Are Now
Crow After Roe: How "Separate But Equal" Has Become the New Standard in Women’s Health and How We Can Change That
By Robin Marty and Jessica Mason Pieklo
Generation Roe: Inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement
By Sarah Erdreich
Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know
By Rickie Solinger
Reviewed by Janet Golden
Women Working Hard
Journeywoman: Swinging a Hammer in a Man’s World
By Kate Braid
Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods
By Christine Byl
On Equal Terms: Women in the Trades, 35 Years & Still Organizing Created
by Susan Eisenberg
Reviewed by Brigid O’FarrellThe Possibility Of Happy Endings
My Beloved World By Sonia Sotomayor
Reviewed by Ruth RosenBeyond Saving One Woman At A Time
The Political Economy of Violence Against Women
By Jacqui True
Reviewed by Jody RaphaelExposing Pinkwashing
Israel/Palestine and the Queer International
By Sarah Schulman
Reviewed by Eleanor RoffmanStereotype-Threat In The Sciences
Breaking into the Lab: Engineering Progress for Women in Science
By Sue V. Rosser
I Died for Beauty: Dorothy Wrinch and the Cultures of Science
By Marjorie Senechal
Reviewed by Veronica I. Arreola
November/December 2013
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WRB Celebrating 30 Years
A Profound Absence
By Martha NicholsIntensive Mothering
Home Is Where the School Is: The Logic of Homeschooling and the Emotional Labor of Mothering
By Jennifer Lois
Reviewed by Rachel TabachnickThe Call of the Almost-Wild
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
By Michael Pollan
Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity
By Emily Matchar
Reviewed by Sarah BlustainA Deeper Silence
Genocide Lives in Us: Women, Memory and Silence in Rwanda
By Jennie E. Burnet
Reviewed by Jonneke KoomenThe Not-So-Great Generation
What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France
By Mary Louise Roberts
Reviewed by Jennifer G. MathersRevolting Hags and Bereaved Mothers
The Witch in the Western Imagination
By Lyndal Roper
Reviewed by Margaret HuntOther Anne Franks
Helga’s Diary: A Young Girl’s Account of Life in a Concentration Camp
By Helga Weiss
Rutka’s Notebook: A Voice from the Holocaust
By Rutka Laskier
Reviewed by Harriet MalinowitzGood Reads Small and Concentrated
By Trish CrapoPoetry
By Colleen M. WebsterCartoon the Lands of My Imagination
By L. NicholsTrying to Change the World through Sound
Collected Poems
By Naomi Replansky
Faster Than Light: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011
By Marilyn Nelson
Reviewed by Alicia OstrikerInterview
“Only Connect”: The Creative Nonfiction of Amy Hoffman
By Robin BeckerFrom Mexicans to Americans
From Coveralls to Zoot Suits: The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front
By Elizabeth R. Escobedo
Reviewed by Catherine S. RamírezServing Her People - And Herself
The Life and Times of Mary Musgrove
By Steven C. Hahn
Reviewed by Melanie Benson TaylorObjects of Salvation
The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption
By Kathryn Joyce
Reviewed by Ellen Herman
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