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/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 Aptheker

  • With Just a Little More Time...
    The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
    By Margalit Fox
    Reviewed by Susanna J. Sturgis

  • Success 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 Wesson

  • Women 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 Matthews

  • Photography
    Unembedding War Photography: An Interview with Kael Alford

  • A 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 Daniels

  • Field Notes
    Conversations Recollected and Invented
    By Robin Becker

  • Poetry
    By Chana Bloch

  • Linked 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 Yoshikawa

  • The Real Camille
    The Girl Who Loved Camellias: The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis
    By Julie Kavanagh
    Reviewed by Carole DeSanti

  • The Reclusive Revolutionary
    One Day in December: Celia Sanchez and the Cuban Revolution
    By Nancy Stout
    Reviewed by Margaret Randall

  • Friends But Not Equals
    My Dear Governess: The Letters of Edith Wharton to Anna Bahlmann
    Edited by Irene Goldman-Price
    Reviewed by Carol J. Singley

  • Streams and Undercurrents
    Groundswell: Grassroots Feminist Activism in Postwar America
    By Stephanie Gilmore
    Reviewed by Amy Kesselman

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

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