Women's Review of Books - 2014 Issues
January/February 2014
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Emboldened Actors on the World Stage
The Dinner Party: Judy Chicago and the Power of Popular Feminism, 1970-2000
By Jane Gerhard
Reviewed by Elissa Auther- Jane Franklin Beats Through
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
By Jill Lepore
Reviewed by Martha Saxton The Partners
Passionate Commitments: The Lives of Anna Rochester and Grace Hutchins
By Julia M. Allen
Reviewed by Bettina ApthekerWith Just a Little More Time...
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
By Margalit Fox
Reviewed by Susanna J. SturgisSuccess and its Failures
Rape is Rape: How Denial, Distortion, and Victim Blaming Are Fueling a Hidden Acquaintince Rape Crisis
By Jody Raphael
Up Against a Wall: Rape Reform and the Failure of Success
By Rose Corrigan
Reviewed by Marianne WessonWomen Power and Politics
Women in the Club: Gender and Policy Making in the Senate
By Michele L. Swers
Women and Executive Office: Pathways and Performance
Edited by Melody Rose
Contagious Representation: Women's Political Representation in Democracies Around the World
By Frank C. Thames and Margaret S. Williams
Reviewed by Glenna MatthewsPhotography
Unembedding War Photography: An Interview with Kael AlfordA Complicated Life
Denise Levertov: A Poet's Life
By Dana Greene
A Poet's Revolution: The Life of Denise Levertov
By Donna Krolik Hollenberg
Reviewed by Kate DanielsField Notes
Conversations Recollected and Invented
By Robin BeckerPoetry
By Chana BlochLinked Stories of Love's Difficulties
Horse People
By Cary Holladay
The News from Spain: Seven Variations on a Love Story
By Joan Wickersham
Reviewed by Mako YoshikawaThe Real Camille
The Girl Who Loved Camellias: The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis
By Julie Kavanagh
Reviewed by Carole DeSantiThe Reclusive Revolutionary
One Day in December: Celia Sanchez and the Cuban Revolution
By Nancy Stout
Reviewed by Margaret RandallFriends But Not Equals
My Dear Governess: The Letters of Edith Wharton to Anna Bahlmann
Edited by Irene Goldman-Price
Reviewed by Carol J. SingleyStreams and Undercurrents
Groundswell: Grassroots Feminist Activism in Postwar America
By Stephanie Gilmore
Reviewed by Amy Kesselman
March/April 2014
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Incurable
Breaking Women: Gender, Race, and The New Politics of Imprisonment
By Jill A. McCorkel
Reviewed by Susan Sered- Growing Up Right
Wrapped in the Flag: A Personal History of America's Radical Right
By Claire Conner
Reviewed by Kathleen Blee Half Full or Half Empty
Out of Time: The Pleasures and the Perils of Aging
By Lynne Segal
Reviewed by Alix Kates ShulmanSpeaking Out and Carrying a Big Stick
Pink Sari Revolution: A Tale of Women and Power in India
By Amana Fontanella-Khan
Reviewed by Smitha RadhakrishnanPeople's Culture
Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II
By Farah Jasmine Griffin
The Radical Fiction of Ann Petry
By Keith Clark
Reviewed by Cheryl WallQueer Theory and Critical History, Together at Last
Disturbing Practices: History, Sexuality, and Women's Experience of Modern War
By Laura Doan
Reviewed by Martha VicinusCurioser and Curiouser
Curious Subjects: Women and the Trials of Realism
By Hilary M. Schor
Reviewed by Jan ClausenRisk-Taking Poets
In Broken Latin
By Annette Spaulding-Convey
Odessa
By Patricia Kirkpatrick
Exit Civilian
By Idra Novey
Grand & Arsenal
By Kerri Webster
Reviewed by Carol BereGood Reads
A Gir Like You
By Trish CrapoPoetry
By Charlotte HolmesCartoon
By Becky HawkinsMother/Nature
Claire of the Sea Light
By Edwidge Danticat
Reviewed by Tiphanie YaniqueThe Militant, His Wife, and His Brother
The Lowland
By Jhumpa Lahiri
Reviewed by Valerie MinerWhat is Left Out and What is Recorded
Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom
By Mimi Sheller
Reviewed by A. Lynn BollesPermanence and Flux
Fools
By Joan Silber
Reviewed by Rachel SomersteinThe Whispers of Trees and Water, Moths and Mud
Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History
By Nancy C. Unger
Kissed By a Fox and Other Stories of Friendship in Nature
By Priscilla Stuckey
The Forest House: A Year's Journey Into the Landscape of Love, Loss and Starting Over
By Joelle Fraser
Gaining Daylight: Life on Two Islands
By Sara Loewen
Reviewed by Gretchen Legler
May/June 2014
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Changing the Definition of Family
Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States Since the Second World War
By Daniel Winunwe Rivers
Reviewed by Dana Rudolph- The Complexity of Life in Iran
Kissing the Sword: A Prison Memoir
By Shahrnush Parsipur
The Book of Fate
By Parinoush
The Pomegranate Lady and Her Sons
By Goli Taraghi
Reviewed by Amy Montlagh "A Prostitution of Her Sex"
Rebels at the Bar: The Fascinating, Forgotten Stories of America's First Women Lawyers
By Jill Norgren
Gender and Justice: Why Women in the Judiciary Really Matter
By Sally J. Kenney
Reviewed by Sandra F. VanBurkleoSports Bras and Ponytails
Qualifying Times: Points of Change in US Women's Sport
By Jamie Schultz
Reviewed by Susan WarePeople's Culture
Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II
By Farah Jasmine Griffin
The Radical Fiction of Ann Petry
By Keith Clark
Reviewed by Cheryl WallThe Future of Disability
Feminist Queer Crip
By Alison Kafer
Reviewed by Rosemarie Garland-ThomsonOn the Way, But Not There Yet
Intimate Activism: The Struggle for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua
By Cymene Howe
Reviewed by Florence BabbLate Marriage, Independent Women, and Democracy
Household Politics: Conflict in Early Modern England
By Don Herzog
Reviewed by Mary S. HartmanGoing Home
Ghana Must Go
By Taiye Selasi
We Need New Names
By NoViolet Bulawayo
Reviewed by Heather HewettField Notes
The Hard Work of Hope
By Robin BeckerPoetries of Affirmation
Women’s Poetry: Poems and Advice
By Daisy Fried
Tiger Heron
By Robin Becker
Reviewed by Alicia OstrikerPoetry
By Barbara L. GreenbergOpening the Red Gate
Shadow Woman: The Extraordinary Career of Pauline Benton
By Grant Hayter-Menzies
Reviewed by Debra CashFamilies and "Alienists"
Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in England
By Sarah Wise
Reviewed by Gayle DavisFrom Stalin's Elite to the Gulag
Agnessa: From Paradise to Purgatory: A Voice From Stalin’s Russia
By Agnessa Ivanovna Mironova-Koroli
Reviewed by Rochelle Goldberg RuthchildAutobiografiction
The Art of Joy
By Goliarda Sapienza
Reviewed by Rosalind Delmar
July/August 2014
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An African American Prima Donna
American Cocktail: A "Colored Girl" in the World
By Anita Reynolds, with Howard Miller, Edited by George Hutchinson
Reviewed by Marilyn Richardson- The Gendered Politics of Seriousness
Seriously! Investigating Crashes and Crises As if Women Mattered
By Cynthia Enloe
Reviewed by Charlotte Bunch A Medical Sea-Change
Polio Wars: Sister Kenny and the Golden Age of American Medicine
By Naomi Rogers
Reviewed by Patricia KullbergGenital Mutilation, Western Style
Making Sense of Intersex: Changing Ethical Perspectives in Biomedicine
By Ellen K. Feder
Reviewed by Catherine Clune-TaylorLeaders, Not Ladies
He Runs, She Runs: Why Gender Stereotypes Do Not Harm Women Candidates
By Deborah Jordan Brooks
More Women Can Run: Gender and Pathways to the State Legislatures
By Susan J. Carroll and Kira Sanbonmatsu
Reviewed by Joanna WeissRacializing Beauty
Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South
By Blain Roberts
Reviewed by Tamara Beauboeuf-LafontantVolunteering for Blackness
Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance
By Carla Kaplan
Reviewed by Cherene Sherrard-JohnsonCartoon
By Jennifer CruteThe Golden Age
Divas, Dames & Daredevils: Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics
By Mike Madrid
Reviewed by Joan HiltyGood Reads
Inevitable Conclusions
By Trish CrapoFrom in-Law to Outlaw
Later Poems: Selected and New, 1971-2012
By Adrienne Rich
Reviewed by Florence HowePoetry
By Maria TerroneI Am His Other
Know the Night: a Memoir of Survival in the Small Hours
By Maria Mutch
Reviewed by Kelly DavioSubterfuges, Survivals, and Liberation
The Infamous Rasalie (Rosalie l'Infame)
By Evelyne Trouillot, Translated by M.A. Salvadon
Reviewed by Danielle Legros GeorgesFixated on Men, but Saved by Women
Clever Girl
By Tessa Hadley
Reviewed by Valerie MinerThe Poet and Her Mother
Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore
By Linda Leavell
Reviewed by Robin G. Schulze
September/October 2014
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How the Battle of Memory Was Won
The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898
By Lisa Tetrault
Reviewed by Bonnie J. Dow- Waitressing in the Sky
The Jet Sex: Airline Stewardesses and the Making of an American Icon
By Victoria Vantoch
Reviewed by Priscilla Murolo Becoming Raced and Classed
Fannie Barrier Williams: Crossing the Borders of Region
By Wanda A. Hendricks
Reviewed by Corinne T. FieldNot Known Persons
Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture
By Gaiutra Bahadur
Reviewed by Indira KaramchetiThe Noble Terrorist
The Defiant Life of Vera Figner: Surviving the Russian Revolution
By Lynne Ann Hartnett
Reviewed by Lisa A. KirschenbaumThe Daughters' Stories
My Mother's Funeral
By Adriana Paramo
My Mother's Wars
By Lillian Faderman
Nothing Holds Back the Night
By Delphine de Vigan
You Animal Machine (The Golden Greek)
By Eleni Sikelianos
Reviewed by Carol SternhellPhotography
Mary Ellen Mark's Long-Term Relationships
Photography by Mary Ellen Mark and Commentary by Ellen FeldmanCommunities of Artistic Women
In Her Words: Conversations with Composers in the United States
By Jennifer Kelly
Five Lives in Music: Women Performers, Composers, and Impresarios from the Baroque to the Present
By Cecelia Hopkins Porter
Reviewed by Kate DoyleField Notes
Hurtling Ahead
By Robin BeckerPost-Soviet Poetry
Paul Klee's Boat
By Anzhelina Polonskaya
Relocations: 3 Contemporary Russian Women Poets
Edited by Catherine Ciepiela
Reviewed by Kelly CherryPoetry
By Suzanne Gardinier"What do we see? What do we not see?"
So How's the Family? and Other Essays
By Arlie Russell Hochschild
Reviewed by E.J. GraffDoing the Dirty Work
Immigrant Women Workers in the Neoliberal Age
Edited by Nilda Flores-Gonzalez, Anna Romina Guevara, Maura Toro-Morn, and Grace Chang
Reviewed by Gwendolyn BeethamBlack and Native Women: Not Quite Sisters
Trail Sisters: Freedwomen in Indian Territory, 1850-1890
By Linda Williams Reese
Reviewed by Patricia Penn HildenThe Dynamic Dyad
Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome
By Sarah S. Richardson
Reviewed by Monica J. CasperThe Banshee's Wail
The Banshees: A Literary History of Irish American Women Writers
By Sally Barr Ebest
Reviewed by Mary O'Donoghue
November/December 2014
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The Fire Will Not Consume Us
Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger
By Kelly Cogswell
Reviewed by Carmen Maria Machado- Global Family Making
Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America
By Catherine Ceniza Choy
Reviewed by Miliann Kang The Glass Cliff
The New Soft War on Women
By Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett
What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know<br " />By Joan C. Williams and Rachel Dempsey
Reviewed by Helaine OlenSpecifically Universal
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
By Roz Chast
Reviewed by Rebecca SteinitzCitizenship and Sexual Coercion
Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation
By Estelle B. Freedman
Reviewed by Danielle L. McGuireVirgin Mary, Become a Feminist!
Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot
By Masha Gessen
Reviewed by Rochelle Goldberg RuthchildWomen's Complicity
Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
By Wendy Lower
Reviewed by Elizabeth HeinemanCartoon
Ekphrasis
By Amy MartinGood Reads
Moments of Crisis
By Trish CrapoWho Am I?
Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag
By A.K. Summers
Reviewed by Samantha MelerMiddlemarch and Me
My Life in Middlemarch
By Rebecca Mead
Reviewed by Martha GiesPoetry
By Catherine FreelingArt and Activism
How It Feels to Be Free:
Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement
By Ruth Feldstein
Reviewed by Salamishah TilletAmbitious Assemblages
Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe
By Matthew Pratt Guterl
Reviewed by Florence LaddThe Value of History
Citizenship and the Origins of Women’s History in the United States
By Teresa Anne Murphy
Reviewed by Eileen Ka-May ChengBeyond Rescue
Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States
By Denise Brennan
Reviewed by Melissa Hope Ditmore
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