Women's Review of Books - 2013 Issues

January/February 2013

• 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 Joyce

• Playground Proselytizing
  The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children
  By Katherine Stewart
  Reviewed by Veronica I. Arreola

• The New Jim Crow for Women
  Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation
  By Beth Richie
  Reviewed by Jean Hardisty

• Bridging 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 Kaczmarek

• Reintroducing Rachel Carson
  On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson
  By William Souder
  Reviewed by Joni Seager 

• Poetry
  By Suzanne Carey

• Photography: Refusing to Be Intimidated
  Photographs by Stephanie Sinclair
  Commentary by Edie Gross

• Saving 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 Nichols

• The Passport to Hell
  Sex and the Office: A History of Gender, Power, and Desire
  By Julie Berebitsky
  Reviewed by Priscilla Murolo

• Field Notes: Stranger to Nothing
  By Robin Becker

• Gym Class Blues
  Active Bodies: A History of Women’s Physical Education in Twentieth-Century America
  By Martha H. Verbrugge
  Reviewed by Laura Pappano

• Voices from the Margins
  Walking Backwards
  By Shirley Geok-lin Lim
  
  Spirit Birds They Told Me
  By Mary Oishi
  
  Reviewed by Maria Melendez

• All Things Marylin
  Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox
  By Lois Banner
  Reviewed by Diana Postlethwaite

• An 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

• Rosie-Colored Glasses
  Beyond Rosie the Riveter: Women of World War II in American Popular Graphic Art
  By Donna B. Knaff
  Reviewed by Ardis Cameron

• WRB 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 Hirsch

• Divided We Stand
  All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s
  By Robert Self
  Reviewed by Felicia Kornbluh

• Normal No More
  Gaga Feminism: Gender, Sex, and the End of Normal
  By J. Jack Halberstam
  Reviewed by Cressida J. Heyes

• Que(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 Umansky

• Good Reads
  Passionate Strangers
  By Trish Crapo

• Poetry 
  By Dorian Kotsiopoulos

• Seeing and Not Seeing
  Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White
  By Lila Quintero Weaver
  Reviewed by Meisha Rosenberg

• A Journey That is Not Straightforward
  Mother & Child
  By Carole Maso
  Reviewed by Roseanne Giannini Quinn

• See Jane Read
  The Woman Reader
  By Belinda Jack
  Reviewed by Leah price

• Comic
  By Leela Corman

• The 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 Kahn

• Cuba's Changing Attitudes
  Sexual Revolution in Cuba: Passion, Politics, and Memory
  By Carrie Hamilton
  Reviewed by Margaret Randall

• Which 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 Toth

• Messing 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

• 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 Steinem

• Imagining the Impossible
  Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class and the Assumptions of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Politics
  By Urvashi Vaid
  Reviewed by Bettina Aptheker

• Promoting Trans-Literacy
  Transfeminist Perspectives In and Beyond Transgender and Gender Studies
  Edited by Anne Enke
  Reviewed by Cressida J. Heyes

• The 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 Jernigan

• Field Notes
  Faith and Its Elusiveness
  By Robin Becker

• Essay
  Lesbians on the Move
  By Judy Grahn

• Photography
  Hellen van Meene: A Delicate Balancing Act
  Photographs by Hellen van Meene
  Commentary by Cassandra Goldwater

• Always Another Fight
  Elsewhere, California
  By Dana Johnson
  Reviewed by Valerie Miner

• Oh Make Me Real!
  Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life
  By Natalie Dykstra
  Reviewed by Judith Fetterley

• Poetry
  By Shirley Powers

• The History Beneath History
  Out of It
  By Selma Dabbagh
  
  Of Noble Origins
  By Sahar Kahalifeh
  
  Reviewed by M. Lynx Qualey

• The Organization
  In the Shadows of the Banyan
  By Vaddey Ratner
  Reviewed by Marianne Villanueva

• The Authors of Their Lives
  NW
  By Zadie Smith
  Reviewed by Susan Alice Fischer

• A Question of Safety
  The Round House
  By Louise Erdrich
  
  Flight Behavior
  By Barbara Kingsolver
  
  Reviewed by A. J. Verdell

• Funny 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

• 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-Harris

• WRB Celebrating 30 Years
  Feminist Superbooster
  By Courtney Martin

• Superheroines
  Womanthology: Heroic 
  Edited by Mariah Huehner
  Reviewed by Joan Hilty

• Poet and Marketing "Mastermind"
  Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage
  By Vincent Carretta
  Reviewed by Joycelyn Moody

• Outlaw 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 Rodensky

• Wages for Housework
  Sex, Race, and Class: The Perspective of Winning: A selection of Writings, 1952-2011
  By Selma James
  Reviewed by Kate Weigand

• Pursued By Hounds
  Marmee & Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother
  By Eva LaPlante
  Reviewed by Martha Saxton

• Poetry
  By Kelly Cherry

• Cartoon
  By Gina Kamentsky

• Good Reads
  Passionate Strangers
  By Trish Crapo

• The Warrior Spirit
  Crazy Brave: A memoir
  By Joy Jarjo
  Reviewed by Janice Gould

• The Union of Forgotten Wives
  Heroine
  By Kate Zambreno
  Reviewed by Nancy Gray

• Women'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 Booth

• Smoking Liberation
  Sex, Lies and Cigarettes: Canadien Women, Smoking, and Visual Culture, 1880-2000
  By Sharon Anne Cook
  Reviewed by Rosemary Elliot

• Writing 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

• Not Just the Wife of Her Husband
  Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs.Paul Robeson
  By Barbara Ransby
  Reviewed by Mary Helen Washington

• WRB Celebrating 30 Years
  As Long as it Takes
  By Carole DeSanti

• Sex Work and the Law
  Legalizing Prostitution: From Illicit Vice to Lawful Business
  By Ronald Weitzer
  Reviewed by Anne Gray Fischer

• Disability, 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 Bailey

• Her Mad Beauty
  Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writing of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
  Edited by Irene Gammel and Suzanne Zelazo
  Reviewed by Ana Isabel Keilson

• Trouble 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 Patton

• Poetry
  By Katherine Soniat

• Photography Unapologetically
  Photographs By Zanele Muholi
  Commentary By Claire Breukel

• Leaping Into Mystery
  The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archeology, and the Origins of European Dance
  By Elizabeth Wayland Barber
  Reviewed by Debra Cash

• Reproductive 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’Farrell

• The Possibility Of Happy Endings
  My Beloved World By Sonia Sotomayor
  Reviewed by Ruth Rosen

• Beyond Saving One Woman At A Time
  The Political Economy of Violence Against Women
  By Jacqui True
  Reviewed by Jody Raphael

• Exposing Pinkwashing
  Israel/Palestine and the Queer International
  By Sarah Schulman
  Reviewed by Eleanor Roffman

• Stereotype-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

• WRB Celebrating 30 Years
  A Profound Absence
  By Martha Nichols

• Intensive Mothering
  Home Is Where the School Is: The Logic of Homeschooling and the Emotional Labor of Mothering
  By Jennifer Lois
  Reviewed by Rachel Tabachnick

• The 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 Blustain

• A Deeper Silence
  Genocide Lives in Us: Women, Memory and Silence in Rwanda
  By Jennie E. Burnet
  Reviewed by Jonneke Koomen

• The 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. Mathers

• Revolting Hags and Bereaved Mothers
  The Witch in the Western Imagination
  By Lyndal Roper
  Reviewed by Margaret Hunt

• Other 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 Malinowitz

• Good Reads Small and Concentrated
  By Trish Crapo

• Poetry
  By Colleen M. Webster

• Cartoon the Lands of My Imagination
  By L. Nichols

• Trying 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 Ostriker

• Interview
  “Only Connect”: The Creative Nonfiction of Amy Hoffman
  By Robin Becker

• From 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. Ramírez

• Serving Her People - And Herself
  The Life and Times of Mary Musgrove
  By Steven C. Hahn
  Reviewed by Melanie Benson Taylor

• Objects of Salvation
  The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption
  By Kathryn Joyce
  Reviewed by Ellen Herman

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