Women's Review of Books 

Since 1983 the Women's Review of Books has provided a forum for serious, informed discussion of new writing by and about women. Women’s Review of Books provides a unique perspective on today’s literary landscape and features essays and in-depth reviews of new books by and about women. Women's Review of Books is published by the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College, in collaboration with Old City Publishing in Philadelphia, PA.

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January/Febuary 2015

• Science, Religion, and Politics
  From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women’s Rights in Gilded Age America
  By Kimberly A. Hamlin
  Reviewed byEmily R. Grosholz

• Of Binoculars and Birdhats, Treaties and Toxicology                                                       Fallen Forests: Emotion,Embodiment and Ethics in American Women’s Environmental Writing, 1781-1924 By Karen L. Kilcup; Rachel Carson and Her Sisters: Etraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America's Environment
  By Brian Musil
  Reviewed by Shaeleen A. Meaney

• Capital Matters... But So Does Gender
  Capital in the Twenty-First Century
  By Thomas Piketty, Translated by Arthur Goldhammer
  Reviewed by Kate Bahn

• Those Society Has Abandoned                                                                           From Pariahs to Partners: How Parents and Their Allies Changed New York City’s Child Welfare System By David Tobis; To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care
  By Cris Beam
  Reviewed by Ruth Sidel

• Keeping The Mission Alive
  Sex Work Politics: From Protest to Service Provision
  By Samantha Majic
  Reviewed by Marianna Wesson

• Art and Politics
  The Other Black List: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s
  By Mary Helen Washington
  Reviewed by Dayo Gore

• Photography
  The Meeting of Art and Technology: The Polaroid Collections
  By Ellen Feldman

• The Radical and The Moderate
  Anna Howard Shaw: The Work of Woman Suffrage By Trisha Franzen; Alice Paul: Claiming Power
  By J.D. Zahniser and Amelia R. Fry
  Reviewed by Louise W. Knight
  

• Field Notes
  In Memoriam: Maxine Kumin (1925-2014)
  By Robin Becker

• Competition and Symbiosis
  Invisible Beasts: Tales of the Animals That Go Unseen Among Us
  By Sharon Muir
  Reviewed by Marianna DeKoven

• Poetry
  By Irene Willis

• A Lot More To Say
  The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure
  Edited by Tristan Taormino, Celine Parrenas Shimizu, Constance Penley, Mireille Miller-Young
  Reviewed by Wendy Chapkis

• The Chaos and Quiet of Karen Green 
  Bough Down
  By Karen Green
  Reviewed by Ana Isabel Keilson

• A Black-And-White Photograph 
  Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932
  By Francine Prose 
  Reviewed by Marcie Blanco

• The History of Western Art
  The Blazing World
  By Siri Hustvedt
  Reviewed by Cassandra Langer

• Lost Property
  Things I Don’t Want To Know: On Writing By Deborah Levy; Black Vodka: Ten Stories
  By Deborah Levy 
  Reviewed by Elaine Margolin

The Women's Review of Books receives support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.