About the Women's Review

Reviews of the latest books by and about women
Authoritative comment and criticism
Special Theme Issues every February and July
Academic and other job postings
Poetry, interviews, letters and an invaluable list of new books

The Women's Review of Books appears monthly (except August). We publish reviews of new books by and about women, in all fields, including non-fiction, fiction and poetry. We've been called "a lifeline" and "more than a guide to good reading--a monitor of the currents in contemporary feminism."

Recently the Hungry Mind Review wrote: "This newsprinted monthly makes the New York Times Book Review seem about as comprehensive as Reader's Digest."

"In the mainstream press, male experience is neutral, female experience deviant. The WRoB provides a place where female experience is the ground upon which many feminists may engage in dialogue, agree, disagree, discover. Here women speak." - Carolyn Heilbrun


"The Women's Review of Books helps keep me in touch not only with the scholarship in my own field - African American Studies - but especially with women's writing from the Third World. It is indispensable to me." - Barbara Christian

Who creates the Women's Review?

To find out more about our staff and their interests, or contact them directly:

EDITOR IN CHIEF: Amy Hoffman

email: ahoffman@wellesley.edu

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: Jan Zita Grover, Martha Nichols

POETRY EDITOR: Robin Becker

PRODUCTION EDITOR: Amanda Nash

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email: anash@wellesley.edu

ADVERTISING MANAGER: Anita D. McClellan

email: amcclellan@wellesley.edu

OFFICE COORDINATOR: Nancy Wechsler

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email: nwechsler@wellesley.edu

EDITORIAL BOARD: Margaret Andersen, Claudia M. Christie, Marsha Darling, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Carol Gilligan, Sandra Harding, Nancy Hartsock, Carolyn Heilbrun, Evelyn Fox Keller, Jean Baker Miller, Ruth Perry, Peggy Phelan, Helene Vivienne Wenzel

OUR EDITORIAL POLICY:
The Women's Review of Books is feminist but not restricted to any one conception of feminism; all writing that is neither sexist, racist, homophobic, nor otherwise discriminatory will be welcome. We seek to represent the widest possible range of feminist perspectives both in the books reviewed and in the content of the reviews. We believe that no one of us, alone or in a group, can speak for feminism, or women, as such; all of our thinking and writing takes place in a specific political, social, ethnic and sexual context, and a responsible review periodical should reflect and further that diversity. The Women's Review takes no editorial stance; all the views expressed in it represent the opinion of the individual authors.