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Tables of Contents for 2001 (with links to selected
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Tables of Contents for 2002 (with links to full text of selected articles)
Tables of Contents for 2003 (with links to full text of selected articles)
Tables of Contents for 2004 (with links to selected articles)
Contents for 2001
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April '03
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June '03
July '03
September '03
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Contents for 2004
January '04
February '04
March '04
April '04
May '04
June '04
July '04
September '04
October '04
November '04
December '04
January 2001
Jennifer Snow Women of the
Afghan War by Deborah Ellis
J. Lee Polnachek Through the
looking glass: What does feminist Nader-bashing say about the priorities
of the mainstream women's movement?
Jan Zita Grover Reflections
in Bullough's Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England by Diana Muir
Joan Nestle Girl in Movement
by Eva Kollisch
Sarah Deutsch Fire & Roses:
The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834 by Nancy Lusignan Shultz
Margaret M. Russell An American
Story by Debra J. Dickerson
Valerie Jablow Ants at Work:
How an Insect Society is Organized by Deborah Gordon
Meryl Altman My Dangerous
Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home by Amber L. Hollibaugh
Suzette A. Spencer The Fisher
King by Paule Marshall
Marion A. Kaplan Home Fires
Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin by
Belinda Davis
Christine Froula The Phantom
Table: Woolf, Fry, Russell and the Epistomology of Modernism by Ann
Banfield
Carol Potter Short History
of a Barn (Poem)
Emily Toth FAT! SO? by
Marilyn Wann; FAT! SO? edited by Marilyn Wann; Radiance: The Magazine
for Large Women edited by Alice Ansfield; Mode Magazine edited
by Corynne Corbett
Sonia Jaffe Robbins Red Feminism:
American Communism and the Making of Women's Liberation by Kate Weigand
Books Received
February
2001
New technology, new
media -- what's new for women?
Laura J. Gurak "Is this the
party to whom I am speaking?" Women, credibility and the Internet
Participant observer Ellen Ullman
talks about the facts and fiction of high technology, and presents the opening
chapter of her novel in progress, The Test
Lisa Nakamura Head hunting
in cyberspace:Identity tourism, Asian avatars and racial passing on the
Web
When stories come alive
Janet H. Murray sees an exciting future for electronic creativity
Counting our mixed blessings Seven
academics assess the computer's impact on their lives and work
Martha Nichols Smoke and Mirrors:
How does the promise of the Internet match up to the reality?
When women write the code
Kathy Richardson reflects on the present and future of women in computing
technology
Reviews
Susan Brownmiller Deep in Our
Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement by Constance Curry, Joan
C. Browning and others
Judy Michaels Two poems
Susan Gardner The Barn at the
End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd by
Mary Rose O'Reilley
Beth Harrison Aching for Beauty:
Footbinding in China by Wang Ping
Susan Porter Benson Celebrating
the Family: Ethnicity, Consumer Culture, and Family Rituals by Elizabeth
H. Pleck
Heidi Bell Packinghouse Daughter
by Cheri Register
Felicia Kornbluh Motherhood
in Black and White: Race and Sex in American Liberalism, 1930-1965 by
Ruth Feldstein
Judith Kegan Gardiner Marked
Men: White Masculinity in Crisis by Sally Robinson
Judith S. Antrobus Of Two Minds:
The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry by T. M. Luhrmann
Lori Tsang The Moon Pearl
by Ruthanne Lum McCunn
Letters
Books Received
March 2001
Molly Hite
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Jane Marcus Virginia Woolf:
Public and Private Negotiations by Anna Snaith; Virginia Woolf by
Nigel Nicolson; Virginia Woolf by Linden Peach; Ravenous Identity:
Eating and Eating Distress in the Life and Work of Virginia Woolf by Allie
Glenny; Flush: A Biography by Virginia Woolf edited by Alison Light
Helen Zia Becoming American:
Personal Essays by First Generation Immigrant Women edited by Meri Nana-Ama
Danquah
Jan Clausen The Gospel of Barbecue
by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers; Crazy Melon and Chinese Apple: The Poems
of Frances Chung compiled by Walter K. Lew; The Island of Lost Luggage
by Janet McAdams
Pat Cooper Mother Jones: The
Most Dangerous Woman in America by Elliot J. Gorn
Margaret Buttenheim Marriage
in a Culture of Divorce by Karla B. Hackstaff; The Unexpected Legacy
of Divorce: A 25 Year Landmark Study by Judith S. Wallerstein, Julia
M. Lewis and Sandra Blakeslee; The Case for Marriage: Why Married People
are Happier, Healthier, and Better Off Financially by Linda J. Waite
and Maggie Gallagher
Sharon Batt Breast Cancer: Society
Shapes an Epidemic edited by Anne S. Kasper and Susan Ferguson
Emma Lapsansky Fanny Kemble's
Journals edited by Catherine Clinton; Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars: The
Story of America's Most Unlikely Abolitionist by Catherine Clinton
Lauri Umansky Life Prints: A
Memoir of Healing and Discovery by Mary Grimley Mason
Judith Grossman My Dream of
You by Nuala O'Faolain
Leslie Gourse Swing Shift: "All-Girl"
Bands of the 1940s by Sherrie Tucker
Maurya Simons Two Poems
Claire Bond Potter Women and
Guns: Politics and the Culture of Firearms in America by Deborah Homsher;
Gun Women: Firearms and Feminism in Contemporary America by Mary Zeiss
Stange and Carol Oyster
Lori J. Marso Ten Years of Exile
by Germaine de Staël
Books Received
April 2001
Kathryn Abrams Subject to Debate:
Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture by Katha Pollitt
Letters
Judith Barrington Always Beginning
and Inside the Halo and Beyond: The Anatomy of a Recovery by
Maxine Kumin
Alice Echols Saturday's Child:
A Memoir by Robin Morgan
Louise Armstrong The Lost
Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care by
Nina Bernstein
Bettina Aptheker Race Woman:
The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois by Gerald Horne
Carol Anshaw The Hiding Place
by Trezza Azzopardi
Deborah Solomon Shutterbabe:
Adventures in Love and War by Deborah Copaken Kogan
Nan Alamilla Boyd Sapphic Slashers:
Sex, Violence, and American Modernity by Lisa Duggan
Gertrude Reif Hughes Cool, Calm
and Collected: Poems 1960-2000 by Carolyn Kizer; The Butcher's Apron:
New and Selected Poems by DianeWakoski; Collected Poems by Kathleen
Raine
Jan Zita Grover Hollow City:
The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism by Rebecca
Solnit, photographs by Susan Schwartzenberg
Joanne Harris Allred Two Poems
Susan Millar Williams Collected
Stories by Ellen Gilchrist
Rachel Kranz Latina Performance:
Traversing the Stage by Alicia Arrizón
E. Kay Trimberger Public Vows:
A History of Marriage and the Nation by Nancy F. Cott
Books Received
May 2001
Diana Hume George Arts of the
Possible: Essays and Conversations by Adrienne Rich
Martha Nichols Like Our Very
Own: Adoption and the Changing Culture of Motherhood, 1851-1950 by Julie
Berebitsky; Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution Is Transforming
America by Adam Pertman
Suzanne Ruta Less is more: Novelist
Francesca Duranti creates a gallery of social misfits
Susan Eisenberg Brick by Brick:
A Woman’s Journey by Lynn Donohue with Pamela Hunt
Nan Levinson In a State of Memory
by Tununa Mercado
Elsa Dorfman One Family by
Vaughn Sills
Mari Jo Buhle To Redeem One
Person Is to Redeem the World: The Life of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann by Gail
A. Hornstein
Janet Golden Devices and Desires:
A History of Contraception in America by Andrea Tone
Alisa Solomon The Five Lesbian
Brothers (Four Plays) by Maureen Angelos, Babs Davy, Dominique Dibbell,
Peg Healey, Lisa Kron
Cynthia Hogue Pity the Bathtub
Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form by Matthea Harvey; Domestic Work
by Natasha Trethewey
Debbie Nathan Finding Celia’s
Place by Celia Morris
Eileen Boris Hearts of Wisdom:
American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940 by Emily K. Abel; Dutiful
Daughters: Caring for Our Parents as They Grow Old edited by Jean Gould
Marjorie Maddox Two Poems
Talia Schaffer Amy Levy: Her
Life and Letters by Linda Hunt Beckman
Barbara Croft Trailer Girl and
Other Stories by Terese Svoboda; The World’s Smallest Unicorn: Stories
by Shena Mackay
Books Received
June 2001
Margo Culley Carry Me Home:
Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
by Diane McWhorter
Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild
Chienne de Guerre: A Woman Reporter Behind the Lines of the War in Chechnya
by Anne Nivat
Barbara Winslow Targets of
Hatred: Anti-Abortion Terrorism by Patricia Baird-Windle and Eleanor J.
Bader
Joni Seager Ill Nature: Rants
and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals by Joy Williams
Sandra F. VanBurkleo Elizabeth
Murray: A Woman’s Pursuit of Independence in Eighteenth-Century America
by Patricia Cleary
Ruth Crocker
Sex and Power by Susan Estrich
Akasha Hull The Bonesetter’s
Daughter by Amy Tan
Deborah Brown Two Poems
Nina Auerbach Footnotes: On
Shoes edited by Shari Benstock and Suzanne Ferris
Serinity Young The Bedtrick:
Tales of Sex and Masquerade by Wendy Doniger
Marie Shear Granny D: Walking
Across America in My Ninetieth Year by Doris Haddock with Dennis Burke
Desley Deacon Wrestling with
the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame by Michael King
Suzanne Sowinska Magic Eight
Ball by Marion Douglas
Lisa Marcus Tender Violence:
Domestic Visions in the Age of US Imperialism by Laura Wexler
Rebecca L. Walkowitz Her Way:
Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution by Paula Kamen
Sharon Sievers Being Modern
in Japan: Culture and Society from the 1910s to the 1930s edited by Elise
K. Tipton and John Clark; Gambling with Virtue: Japanese Women and the
Search for Self in a Changing Nation by Nancy Rosenberger
Letters
Books Received
July 2001
$ Speaking
of money: The last taboo $
Gayle Greene $
For richer or poorer: The lessons we learn about money are hard to leave
behind
Jacqueline Jones $
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Down and out in America $
Barbara Ehrenreich talks about life as a minimum wage employee
Marge Piercy $
Our money, ourselves: When it comes to dealing with money ignorance is
not bliss
Suzanne Ruta $
Taking inventory: An annihilated world resurfaces in a catalogue of confiscated
property
Nancy Folbre $
The economy sucks: Why should virtue be its own reward?
Theresa Funiciello $
A step in the right direction: The National Caregiver Credit Campaign
Gayle Pemberton $
Caught in the middle: A love-hate relationship that won’t go away
Profits and principles $
Amy Domini wants socially responsible investors to save the world
Susan Stinson $
Nothing succeeds like excess: Corporate greed goes unchecked in a fat-phobic
society
Lillian S. Robinson $
Money Makes the World Go Round: One Investor Tracks her Cash Through
the Global Economy from Brooklyn to Bangkok and Back by Barbara Garson
Going with the flow $
Barbara Garson reflects on what became of a $29,500 investment
The bottom line $
Nancy Bereano talks about the challenges of feminist publishing on a
shoestring
Meena Alexander $
Raw Meditations on Money
Summer Reading
Indira Karamcheti The Wind
Done Gone by Alice Randall
E. J. Graff The Prize Winner
of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less
by Terry Ryan
Lisa Suhair Majaj Scheherazade
Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems by Fatema Mernissi
Carol Potter Nothing You
Want Anybody to See (poem)
Sandra M. Gilbert A Long-Gone
Sun: a poem by Claire Malroux
Judith Niemi Green Alaska:
Dreams from the Far Coast by Nancy Lord; The Man Who Swam with Beavers
by Nancy Lord; Narrow Road to the Deep North: A Journey into the Interior
of Alaska by Katherine McNamara
Gay Wachman The Element of
Lavishness: Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and William Maxwell, 1938-1978
edited by Michael Steinman
Short Subjects:
Ellen Cronan Rose Back When
We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler
Pamela Petro Everything You
Need by A. L. Kennedy
Gail Pool Beloved Stranger
by Clare Boylan
Diana Postlethwaite Afterimage
by Helen Humphreys
Emma Perez Here’s to You, Jesusa!
by Elena Poniatowska
Esther Whitfield In Cuba I
was a German Shepherd by Ana Menéndez
Amanda Nash The Shape of Things
to Come by Maud Casey
Carole Maso Pages for You
by Sylvia Brownrigg
Lori Tsang Troublemaker and
Other Saints by Christina Chiu
Brenda Wineapple Inventing
Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage by Elaine Showalter
Jody Bolz The Best Artist
in Sixth Grade (poem)
Gabrielle Foreman and Michelle Stein-Evers
Oreo by Fran Ross
Alicia Ostriker Inanna, Lady
of Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna by
Betty De Shong Meador
Valerie Miner The Hero’s Walk
by Anita Rau Badami; Smell by Radhika Jha
Sharon O’Brien Rape, Incest,
Battery: Women Writing Out the Pain edited by Miriam Kalman Harris
Juidith Horowitz Yamamoto Two
Poems
Miriam Sagan Given Sugar,
Given Salt by Jane Hirshfield
Books Received
September 2001
Meryl Altman Mother Millett
by Kate Millett
Jane DeLynn The Holocaust Kid
by Sonia Pilcer
Felicia Kornbluh The Invisible
Heart: Economics and Family Values by Nancy Folbre
Micaela di Leonardo Our Monica,
Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and the National Interest edited by Lauren
Berlant and Lisa Duggan
Julia Epstein Birthmarks: Transracial
Adoption in Contemporary America by Sandra Patton
Rebecca Gordon The Stranger
Next Door: The Story of a Small Community's Battle over Sex, Faith, and Civil
Rights by Arlene Stein
Susan Gubar The Sappho Companion
edited by Margaret Reynolds
Jeanne Marecek In Therapy We
Trust: American's Obsession with Self-Fulfillment by Eva S. Moskowitz
Nancy D. Polikoff Making Babies,
Making Families: What Matters Most in an Age of Reproductive Technologies,
Surrogacy, Adoption, and Same-sex and Unwed Parents by Mary Lyndon Shanley
Carol Lasser Carry A. Nation:
Retelling the Life by Fran Grace
Jan Heller Levi Two Poems
Rebecca Steinitz Getting a Life
by Helen Simpson
Cynthia Peters The Imprisoned
Guest: Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, The Original Deaf-Blind Girl by
Elisabeth Gitter
Maureen T. Reddy Crossing Highbridge:
A Memoir of Irish America by Maureen Waters
Toni McNaron Margaret Mead
Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas by Esther Newton
Dianne Dugaw Queering the Moderns:
Poses/Portraits/Performances by Anne Herrmann
Letters
Books Received
October 2001
Lesley Hazleton
Martyrs’ Crossing by Amy Wilentz
Deborah L. Nelson
Where the Stress Falls by Susan Sontag
Emily Toth
If You Can’t Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday by
Farah Jasmine Griffin
Ann K. Stehney
In Code: A Mathematical Journey by
Sarah Flannery with David Flannery
Anna Wilson
Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties by Sheila Rowbotham
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer
Joycelyn Pollock
The Long Prison Journey of Leslie Van Houten:
Life Beyond the Cult by Karlene Faith
Harriet Malinowitz
Big as Life: Three Tales for Spring by Maureen Howard
Heather Hewett
Recovering the Black Female Body: Self-Representations by African American
Women edited by Michael Bennett and Vanessa D. Dickerson
Priscilla Long
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos by Anne Carson
Ellen Schrecker
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner Now? Multicultural Conservatism in America
by Angela D. Dillard
Susan Millar Williams
Creatures of Habit: Stories by Jill
McCorkle; Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail by Bobbie Ann Mason
Susan Eisenberg
Two Poems
Leonore Tiefer
Did You Hear About the Girl Who...?: Contemporary Legends, Folklore,and
Human Sexuality by Mariamne H. Whatley and Elissa R. Henken
Dorelies Kraakman
Eve’s Proud Descendants: Four Women Writers
and Republican Politics in Nineteenth-Century France by Whitney Walton;
Marie d’Agoult: The Rebel Countess by Richard Bolster; The Life
of Marie d’Agoult Alias Daniel Stern by Phyllis Stock-Morton
Jeanne Schinto
Still She Haunts Me by Katie Roiphe
Cheryl Fish
Looking for Lovedu: Days and Nights in Africa by Ann Jones
Books Received
November 2001
Rosalind P. Petchesky
Phantom towers: Feminist
reflections on the battle between global capitalism and fundamentalist terrorism
Ellen Willis Political
Fictions by Joan Didion
Kate Gilbert Love
and Honor in the Himalayas: Coming to Know Another Culture by Ernestine
McHugh
Nancy Mairs Dangerous
Muse: The Life of Lady Caroline Blackwood by Nancy Schoenberger
Lisa M. Steinman
Humanophone by Janet Holmes; The Paintings of Our Lives by Grace
Schulman; Alluvial by Katherine Soniat
Judy Brady The
Politics of Breast Cancer by Maureen Hogan Casamayou; The Breast Cancer
Wars: Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America
by Barron H. Lerner
Veronica Chambers
Tenderheaded: A Comb-Bending
Collection of Hair Stories edited by Juliette Harris and Pamela Johnson
Suzanne Ruta The
Burden of Time: Photographs from the Highlands of Chiapas by Marcey Jacobson,
edited by Carol Karasik
Carole Joffe Beggars
and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare
in the United States by Rickie Solinger
Valerie Jablow
Beauty and the Beasts: Woman, Ape and Evolution by Carole Jahme
Claire Bond Potter
History and the Texture of Modern Life: Selected Essays by Lucy Maynard
Salmon, edited by Nicholas Adams and Bonnie G. Smith
Adrian Oktenberg
Ash by Sharan Strange; She Didn’t Mean to Do It by Daisy Fried
Cheryl B. Torsney
Lesbian Rabbis: The First
Generation edited by Rebecca T. Alpert, Sue Levi Elwell and Shirley Idelson
Letters
Books Received
December 2001
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Nancy Gray Savage
Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
Lois Rita Helmbold
The Way of the River: Adventures and Meditations of a Woman Martial Artist
by B. K. Loren
Susan Porter Benson
A Walk Down the Aisle: Notes on a Modern Wedding by Kate Cohen; Here
Comes the Bride: Women, Weddings, and the Marriage Mystique by Jaclyn
Geller
WELCOME TO MY WORLD...
Merle Hoffman, Laura Flanders
and Ruth Rosen reflect on everyday terrorism against women in the US
Siobhan Senier
Sarah Winnemucca
by Sally Zanjani
Rose Norman
SHRINKING SHELVES: What’s happening to feminist
bookstores?
Louise Armstrong
Taking Back Our Lives: A Call to Action for the Feminist Movement by
Ann Russo
Ellen Samuels
Women and Dieting Culture: Inside a Commercial Weight Loss Group by
Kandi Stinson
Anne Dellenbaugh
Walking Home: A Woman’s Pilgrimage on the Appalachian Trail by Kelly Winters
Madonna Hettinger
Travels with a Medieval
Queen by Mary Taylor Simeti
Maxine Scates
Two Poems
Anna Wilson
The Camera My Mother Gave Me by Susanna Kaysen
Lois W. Banner
A Perfect Fit: Clothes, Character, and the Promise of America by Jenna
Weissman Joselit
Linda Niemann
Flying Sparks: Growing Up on the Edge of Las Vegas by Odette Larson
Letters
Books Received
January 2002
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From Kids Like Me
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Debbie Nathan
Doméstica: Immigrant Workers
Cleaning and Caring in the Shadow of Affluence by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo;
Servants of Globalization:
Women, Migration, and Domestic Work by Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
Christina Gombar
Weekday warriors: Why the
work culture of the World Trade Center is nothing to be proud of
Bell Gale Chevigny
The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative by Vivian
Gornick
Anita D. McClellan
I Love You Like Crazy
Cakes by Rose A. Lewis; Wuhu
Diary: On Taking My Adopted Daughter Back to Her Hometown in China by
Emily Prager; Kids Like
Me in China by Ying Ying Fry
Mari Jo Buhle
The Enigma of Anna O.: A Biography of Bertha Pappenheim by Melinda
Given Guttmann
Karin Aguilar-San Juan
A Promise and a Way of Life: White Antiracist Activism by Becky Thompson
Eunice Lipton
Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered by Ruth Kluger
Florence Howe Bat
Ode by Jeredith Merrin; Coming Back to the Body by Joyce Sutphen;
The Penultimate Suitor by Mary Leader; Simon Says by Jan Freeman
Judith Niemi
Rowing to Latitude: Journeys
Along the Arctic’s Edge by Jill Fredston
Ruth Sidel
In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship
in Twentieth-Century America by Alice Kessler-Harris
Sally Gregory Kohlstedt
On Her Own Terms: Annie Montague Alexander and the Rise of Science in
the American West by Barbara R. Stein
Alicia Ostriker
Motherwords (poem)
Meg Daly
Young Wives’ Tales: New Adventures in Love and Partnership edited
by Jill Corral and Lisa Miya-Jervis
Arwen Donahue
Shaping Losses: Cultural Memory and the Holocaust edited by Julia
Epstein and Lori Hope Lefkovitz
Tracy Seeley
Gwen Raverat: Friends, Family
and Affections by Frances Spalding
Books Received
February 2002
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Asian diasporic authors
Clockwise from upper left: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (©Neela Banerjee),
Jhumpa Lahiri, Bharati Mukherjee (©Tom Victor), Gish Jen
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 The
world in the classroom: Women teaching diaspora
INTRODUCTION
TO THE SPECIAL SECTION
Sonita Sarker MOVING
TARGET: The
study of diaspora opens up a multitude of paradoxes
THINK GLOBALLY, TEACH LOCALLY
Kamala Kempadoo and Lisa
Sun-Hee Park trace multiple connections between their work and their lives
Ketu H. Katrak THE
AESTHETICS OF DISLOCATION:
Writing the hybrid lives of South Asian Americans
Sharmila Sen FOREIGN
ACCENTS: Notes
upon my return to the Diaspora
Michiko Hase CLASS
CONFLICT: Student
resistance and nationalism in the classroom
HYPHENATION GENERATION
Rosane Rocher reflects on
ten years of cultural change on campus
Rachel Lee WHO'S
CHINESE? Gish
Jen explores the gendered terms of our traveling cultures
WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE
Kum-Kum Bhavnani finds
a growing fascination with the links between North and South
Rhacel Salazar Parreñas HUMAN
SACRIFICES:
What happens when women migrate and leave families behind?
King-Kok Cheung
PEDAGOGIES
OF RESONANCE:
How can American literature speak to an Asian audience?
Evelyn Hu-DeHart WORKING
FOR CHANGE: Activists take on the global sweatshop
Reviews
Sharon Lieberman Having
Faith: An Ecologist’s Journey to Motherhood by Sandra Steingraber
Jennifer L. Pozner
MISSING
IN ACTION: Whatever
happened to the gender gap?
Patrice Clark Koelsch Grandma
Moses in the 21st Century by Jane Kallir
Emma Lapsansky Lift Up
Thy Voice: The Grimke Family’s Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights
Leaders by Mark Perry
Lisa Knopp Standing
Up to the Rock by T. Louise Freeman-Toole; A
Geography of Saints by Penny Allen
Lisa L. Moore Lesbian Empire:
Radical Crosswriting in the Twenties by Gay Wachman
Gail Hershatter A
Woman Soldier’s Own Story: The Autobiography of Xie Bingying by
Xie Bingying
Jan Zita Grover Dinner
Roles: American Women and Culinary Culture by Sherrie A. Inness; Pilaf,
Pozole, and Pad Thai: American Women and Ethnic Food edited by Sherrie
A. Inness; Cooking Lessons: The Politics of Gender and Food edited
by Sherrie A. Inness
Elizabeth Rosner Two Poems
Nancy Ordover Money, Myths,
and Change: The Economic Lives of Lesbians and Gay Men by M. V. Lee
Badgett
Karen Rosenberg The Rebecca
Rioter: A Story of Killay Life by Amy Dillwyn
Lesley A. Rimmel All the
Clean Ones Are Married and Other Everyday Calamities in Moscow by
Lori Cidylo
Books Received
March 2002
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Yolanda Mevs, contributor to Walking
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Carolyn G. Heilbrun
The Sisters: The Saga
of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
Inside Organized Racism: Women
in the Hate Movement by Kathleen Blee
Amy Wilentz
Walking on Fire: Haitian
Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance by Beverly Bell
Catharine A. MacKinnon
State of Emergency: Who will declare war on terrorism against
women?
Donna Minkowitz
Nekropolis by Maureen McHugh; A Woman's Liberation: A Choice of
Futures by and about Women edited by Connie Willis and Sheila Williams
Gail Pool
The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir by Valerie Miner
Nancy K. Miller
Happening by Annie Ernaux
Adrian Oktenberg
Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota
de Macedo Soares by Carmen L. Oliveira
Ninotchka Rosca
Last Witnesses: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans
edited by Erica Harth
Elaine Sexton
Two Poems
Layne Goldsmith
The Age of Homespun:
Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth
by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Eleanor Heginbotham
My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson by Alfred
Habegger
Lisa Marcus
Flirting with Danger: Young Women's Reflections on Sexuality and Domination
by Lynn M. Phillips
Jennifer Scanlon
The Girl on the Magazine Cover: The Origins of Visual Stereotypes in American
Mass Media by Carolyn Kitch
Books Received
April 2002
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Christine Noelle-Karimi
History lessons:
In Afghanistan’s decades of confrontation with modernity, women have always
been the focus of conflict
Meryl Altman
Sleeping with Cats: A Memoir
by Marge Piercy; Heartbreak:
The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant by Andrea Dworkin
Mimi Wesson
Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self by Susan J. Brison
Suzanne Ruta
For Rouenna: A Novel by Sigrid Nunez
Margaret Randall
Until Death Do Us Part:
My Struggle to Reclaim Colombia by Ingrid Betancourt
Rosellen Brown
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Mary Zeiss Stange
When Montana and I Were Young: A Frontier Memoir by Margaret Bell,
edited by Mary Clearman Blew; Breaking Clean by Judy Blunt
Suzanne E. Kammlott
The Corset: A Cultural
History by Valerie Steele
Diana Postlethwaite
The Passion of Artemisia
by Susan Vreeland; Mary
Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriet Scott Chessman
Susan Rosenberg
Imagining Medea: Rhodessa Jones and Theater for Incarcerated Women
by Rena Fraden; Shakespeare Behind Bars: The Power of Drama in a Women’s
Prison by Jean Trounstine
Alice T. Friedman
Designing for Diversity: Gender, Race and Ethnicity in the Architectural
Profession by Kathryn H. Anthony
Ann Farnsworth-Alvear
Radical Women in Latin America: Left and Right edited by Victoria
Gonzalez and Karen Kampwirth
Natasha Sajé
Two Poems
Letters
Books Received
May 2002
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Florence George Graves
Blinded by the Right: The
Conscience of an Ex-Conservative by David Brock
Sarita Sarvate
Indira: The Life of Indira
Nehru Gandhi by Katherine Frank
Marilyn Frye
Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman by Phyllis Chesler
Helena Goscilo
Nihilist Girl by Sofya Kovalevskaya
Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
The Floating Brothel:
The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and Its Cargo
of Female Convicts by Siân Rees
Susan Balée
Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing by Margaret Atwood
Amal Kawar
Refugees in our Own Land:
Chronicles from a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Bethlehem by Muna
Hamzeh
Ellen Cantarow
Open the Door: The Life
and Music of Betty Carter by William Bauer
Linda A. Kinnahan
Drafts 1-38, Toll by Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Lauri Umansky
Shaky Ground: The Sixties and Its Aftershocks by Alice Echols
Ann Jones
Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert by Terry Tempest Williams;
This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland by Gretel Ehrlich;
Alone Across the Arctic: One Woman’s Epic Journey by Dog Team by
Pam Flowers; Journey Across Tibet: A Young Woman’s Trek Across the
Rooftop of the World by Pam Sorrel Wilby
Bettina Aptheker
Women, Gender, and Human Rights: A Global Perspective edited by
Marjorie Agosín
Liz Ahl
Two Poems
Lynne T. Hanley
Women in Combat: Civic Duty or Military Liability? by Lorry M.
Fenner and Marie E. deYoung
Helen Benedict
The Life Before Her Eyes by Laura Kasischke
Randi Hoffman
Breeder: Real Life Stories from the New Generation of Mothers edited
by Ariel Gore and Bee Lavender
Amber Hollibaugh
Desiring Revolution: Second-Wave Feminism and the Rewriting of American
Sexual Thought, 1920 to 1982 by Jane Gerhard
Letters
Books Received
June 2002
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Louise Armstrong
Harmful to Minors: The
Perils of Protecting Children from Sex by Judith Levine
Sarah L. Rasmusson
V is for vagina, A is
for aid to Afghan women
Kerryn Higgs
Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit by Vandana Shiva
Rosalyn Baxandall
No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women
by Estelle Freedman
Nan Levinson
Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy
by Robert D. Dean
Judith Fetterley
When Men Were the Only
Models We Had: My Teachers Barzun, Fadiman, Trilling by Carolyn
G. Heilbrun
Jean Humez
The Force of a Feather: The Search for a Lost Story of Slavery and Freedom
by DeEtta Demaratus
Phyllis Eckhaus
My Life as a Radical Jewish Woman: Memoirs of a Zionist Feminist in Poland
by Puah Rakovsky, edited by Paula E. Hymam
Valerie Miner
Lucky in the Corner by Carol Anshaw
Paula DiPerna
The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable
by Gretchen C. Daily and Katherine Ellison
Michelle Yasmine Valladares
Two Poems
Kathryn Kish Sklar
Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy by Jean Bethke Elshtain;
The Jane Addams Reader edited by Jean Bethke Elshtain
Emily Toth
Bike Lust: Harleys, Women,
and American Society by Barbara Joans
Dale Edwyna Smith
Too Much to Ask: Black Women in the Era of Integration by Elizabeth
Higginbotham
Leslie Gourse
Just for a Thrill: Lil
Hardin Armstrong, First Lady of Jazz by James L. Dickerson
Ann Withorn
Welfare Racism: Playing the Race Card Against America's Poor by Kenneth
J. Neubeck and Noel A. Cazenave; Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child
Welfare by Dorothy Roberts
Banu Subramaniam
Biology at Work: Rethinking Sexual Equality by Kingsley R. Browne
Catherine Squires
Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture by Sarah
Projansky; Color of Rape: Gender and Race in Television's Public Sphere
by Sujata Moorti
Books Received
July 2002
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Clockwise from top: Taslima Nasrin, Cathy Park Hong,
Maxine Hong Kingston, Meena Alexander, Hiromi Goto, Caroline Hwang, Jessica
Hagedorn and (center) Bharati Mukherjee
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Women writing the Asian
diaspora
Maxine Hong Kingston
I choose the Poet’s life:
Maxine Hong Kingston invites the muse
From warrior to poet Maxine
Hong Kingston talks to Lori Tsang about her latest book
Taslima Nasrin Growing
up confused: For a
Bengali Muslim girl, life is full of contradictions
Meena Alexander Two poems
Prageeta Sharma Illiterate
Heart: Where translations perish
Caroline Hwang The
plates of wrath: At
a Korean dinner-party, food becomes a lethal weapon
Caroline Hwang Growing
up in a broken English home
Suzanne Ruta Desirable
Daughters by Bharati
Mukherjee
Decoding the language Bharati
Mukherjee tells Suzanne Ruta some of the stories behind Desirable Daughters
Jean Lee Cole Butterflies
and cherry blossoms:
In search of the first Asian American woman writer
Jan Clausen
Translating Mo’um
by Cathy Park Hong
Slipping and sliding Cathy
Park Hong talks to the Women’s Review about the politics of language
Cathy Park Hong Two poems
Cross-cultural creatures Hiromi
Goto brings magic into everyday life
Hiromi Goto Birthing
the kappa child: Of
sisters, shopping carts and cucumbers
Barbara Tran Spider: after
1975 (poem) and A contextual aside
Mông-Lan ventriloquist
(poem) and Birthing the "ventriloquist"
Indira Karamcheti This
Place Called Absence
by Lydia Kwa; Shadow Theatre by Fiona Cheong; Joss and Gold
by Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Singapore on my mind Fiona
Cheong, Lydia Kwa and Shirley Geok-lin Lim compare notes
Jessica Hagedorn Perpetual
motion: In Manila, New York and points between, home is always somewhere
else
Not your mother’s diaspora
Voices of the Asian American
avant-garde
Bhanu Kapil Rider From The
Wolfgirls of Midnapure
Reviews
Letters
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz Every
Secret Thing: My Family, My Country by Gillian Slovo; Red Dust: A
Novel by Gillian Slovo
Maxine Kumin Epicurean
Simplicity by Stephanie
Mills; Bonelight: Ruin and Grace in the New Southwest by Mary Sojourner
R. Ruth Linden Maps
of Women’s Goings and Stayings
by Rela Mazali
Inside the talking house R.
Ruth Linden talks with Rela Mazali
Martha Nichols Moral Hazard
by Kate Jennings
Adrian Oktenberg the volcano
sequence by Alicia Suskin Ostriker; Fox, Poems 1998-2000 by Adrienne
Rich
Harriet Malinowitz Small
Wonder: Essays
by Barbara Kingsolver
Anna Wilson Bad Blood
by Lorna Sage; A House Unlocked by Penelope Lively
Susan Millar Williams Sitting
Up with the Dead: A Storied Journey Through the American South by Pamela
Petro
Amanda Nash Inappropriate
Behavior: Prada Sucks! and Other Demented Descants edited by Jessica
Berens and Kerri Sharp
Jan Zita Grover Love Works
Like This: Opening One’s Life to a Child by Lauren Slater
Valerie Jablow In Nature’s
Name: An Anthology of Women’s Writing and Illustrations, 1780-1930
edited by Barbara T. Gates; American Women of Letters and the Nineteenth-Century
Sciences: Styles of Affiliation by Nina Baym
Books Received
September 2002
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Kate Daniels Enemy Women:
A Novel by Paulette Jiles
Karen Kahn Outlaw Woman: A
Memoir of the War Years, 1960-1975 by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Emily Toth Common-sense
columnist: Ann Landers
taught self-respect to generations of women
Vanessa Northington Gamble Into
Our Own Hands: The Women's Heath Movement in the United States, 1969-1990
by Sandra Morgen
Kate Adams Surviving
Madness: A Therapist's Own Story
by Betty Berzon
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts Mr.
Potter by Jamaica
Kincaid
Lesley Rimmel My Life in Stalinist
Russia: An American Woman Looks Back by Mary M. Leder
Judith Rollins Sister Circle:
Black Women and Work edited by Sharon Harley and The Black Women and
Work Collective
Carol Emshwiller The Deadly
Space Between by Patricia Duncker
E. Ann Kaplan Disciplining
Feminism: From Social Activism to Academic Discourse by Ellen Messer-Davidow
Julia Lisella Writing with
an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors by Edvige Giunta
Ann Ferguson Women and the
Politics of Class by Johanna Brenner
Lindita Aliu Tahiri Two Poems
Barbara J. Risman
For Better or For Worse:
Divorce Reconsidered
by E. Mavis Hetherington and John Kelly
Suzette A. Spencer In Praise
of New Travelers: Reading Caribbean Migrant Women's Writing by Isabel
Hoving
Sharon O'Brien Telling Incest:
Narratives of Dangerous Remembering from Stein to Sapphire by Janice
Doane and Devon Hodges
Letters
Books Received
October 2002
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SPECIAL
SECTION:
Remembering June Jordan: Alexis
De Veaux, Laura Flanders,
Ruth Forman, Marilyn
Hacker, Jan Heller Levi,
Donna Masini, Sara
Miles and Adrienne Torf
mourn and celebrate the poet, essayist and activist who died last June
Margaret Randall Caramelo
by Sandra Cisneros
Karen Offen Fireweed:
A Political Autobiography by Gerda Lerner
Cheryl B. Torsney Her Works
Praise Her: A History of Jewish Women in America from Colonial Times to
the Present by Hasia R. Diner and Beryl Lieff Benderly
Mariana Valverde Governing
Pleasures: Pornography and Social Change in England 1815-1914 by
Lisa Z. Sigel
Judith Grossman No Bones
by Anna Burns
Heather Hewett Riding the
Bus with My Sister: How I Learned to Slow Down and Enjoy the Ride by
Rachel Simon
Andi Zeisler Catfight: Women
and Competition by Leora Tanenbaum
Diana Postlethwaite The War
at Home: A Memoir-Novel by Nora Eisenberg
Gay Seidman Melting Pots
and Rainbow Nations: Conversations about Difference in the United States
and South Africa by Jacklyn Cock and Alison Bernstein
Eileen Boris Starting at
Home: Caring and Social Policy by Nel Noddings; Child Care Policy at the
Crossroads: Gender and Welfare State Restructuring edited by Sonya Michel
and Rianne Mahon
Katherine Callen King Female
Acts in Greek Tragedy by Helene Foley
Leslie Brokaw Camille
Claudel: A Life by Odile Ayral-Clause
Kate Gilbert Woman at the
Center: Life in a Modern Matriarchy by Peggy Reeves Sanday
Books Received
November 2002
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Alice Kessler-Harris Class
Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case that Changed Sexual
Harassment Law by Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler
Hilda Scott The Courage of
Strangers: Coming of Age with the Human Rights Movement by Jeri Laber
Vivian Gornick Zora Neale
Hurston: A Life in Letters edited by Carla Kaplan
Rebecca Steinitz Three Junes
by Julia Glass
Carolyn Cohen Rosalind
Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
by Brenda Maddox
Shireen Hassim Before the
Knife: Memories of an African Childhood by Carolyn Slaughter
Cora Kaplan Anecdotal Theory
by Jane Gallop; But Enough About Me: Why We Read Other People's Lives
by Nancy K. Miller
Doris Davenport Catching
Light: Poems by Kathryn Stripling Byer
Sandra F. VanBurkleo In the
Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 by Mary Beth Norton
Elizabeth West Hutchinson Art
/ Women / California, 1950-2000: Parallels and Intersections edited
by Diana Burgess Fuller and Daniela Salvioni
Barbara Winslow Feminism
in the Heartland by Judith Ezekiel
Laura Briggs From
Puerto Rico to Philadelphia: Puerto Rican Workers and Postwar Economies
by Carmen Teresa Whalen
Denise Bergman Two Poems
Meda Chesney-Lind Odd Girl
Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls by Rachel Simmons; The
Secret Lives of Girls: What Good Girls Really Do--Sex Play, Aggression,
and Their Guilt by Sharon Lamb; Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping
Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and other Realities of
Adolescence by Rosalind Wiseman
Books Received
December 2002
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Kathryn McKee The
Last Girls by Lee Smith
Deborah Solomon The Bitch
in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood,
and Marriage edited by Cathi Hanauer
Lisa Suhair Majaj Women and
the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered
Narratives of Dislocation edited by Nahla Abdo and Ronit Lentin
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts The
Autograph Man by Zadie Smith
Stephanie Golden The Package
Deal: Marriage, Work, and Fatherhood in Men's Lives by Nicholas W. Townsend
Judith Van Allen Genital
Cutting and Transnational Sisterhood: Disputing U.S. Polemics edited
by Stanlie M. James and Claire C. Robertson.
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg Webs
of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising by Starhawk
Lisa Kirschenbaum Writing
the Siege of Leningrad: Women's Diaries, Memoirs, and Documentary Prose
edited by Cynthia Simmons and Nina Perlina; The
Siege: A Novel by Helen Dunmore
Rickie Solinger The Political
Geographies of Pregnancy by Laura R. Woliver
Barbara Croft The House on
Eccles Road by Judith Kitchen
Linda Grant Niemann Hey,
Waitress! The USA from the Other Side of the Tray by Alison Owings
E. Kay Trimberger Bachelor
Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century
by Betsy Israel
Florence Ladd Two Poems
Valerie Miner It Wasn't All
Dancing and Other Stories by Mary Ward Brown; Lily in the Desert:
Stories by Annie Dawid
Banu Subramaniam Sexual Selections:
What We Can and Can't Learn About Sex from Animals by Marlene Zuk
Sally McConnell-Ginet Sista,
Speak! Black Women Kinfolk Talk About Language and Literacy by Sonja
L. Lanehart
Books Received
January 2003
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Heather Love This
Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation edited by
Gloria E. Anzaldúa and AnaLouise Keating
Kerryn Higgs Fences and Windows:
Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate by Naomi
Klein
Carol Anshaw Miniatures
by Norah Labiner
Jo Ann Citron Equality Practice:
Civil Unions and the Future of Gay Rights by William N. Eskridge, Jr.
Sondra Hale Emma's
War by Deborah Scroggins
Patricia Moran My Father's
Ghost: The Return of My Old Man and Other Second Chances by Suzy McKee
Charnas
Marilyn Booth Walking
Through Fire: A Life of Nawal El Saadawi by Nawal El Saadawi
Laura Green Eat My Words:
Reading Women's Lives Through the Cookbooks They Wrote by Janet Theophano
Emily Toth Pink Think: Becoming
a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons by Lynn Peril
Julia Cole Two Poems
Leslie Brokaw Kitchen
Table Entrepreneurs: How Eleven Women Escaped Poverty and Became Their Own
Bosses by Martha Shirk and Anna S. Wadi
Sally Sommer Rockin' Out
of the Box: Gender Maneuvering in Alternative Hard Rock by Mimi Schippers
Judith Harris Intervale:
New and Selected Poems by Betty Adcock; Shadow of Heaven: Poems
by Ellen Bryant Voigt; Trans by Hilda Raz
Nan Alamilla Boyd The
Girls in the Back Room: Looking at the Lesbian Bar by Kelly Hankin
Mariana Valverde Love on
the Rocks: Men, Women, and Alcohol in Post-World War II America by Lori
Rotskoff
Ellyn Kaschak Woman-to-Woman
Sexual Violence: Does She Call It Rape? by Lori B. Girshick; No More
Secrets: Violence in Lesbian Relationships by Janice Ristock
Carolyne Wright Two Poems
Cecilia Tan The Battle of
the Sexes in Science Fiction by Justine Larbalestier
Letters
Books Received
February 2003
Nan Levinson Free
for All: Liberty in America Today by Wendy Kaminer
Deborah Valenze Madam
Prime Minister: A Life in Power and Politics by Gro Harlem Brundtland
E. J. Graff The
Book of Sarahs: A Family in Parts by Catherine E. McKinley
Gail Bederman Talk About
Sex: The Battles Over Sex Education in the United States by Janice M.
Irvine; Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance
by Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini
Rochelle G. Ruthchild Girl
with Two Landscapes: The Wartime Diary of Lena Jedwab, 1941-1945 by
Lena Jedwab Rozenberg
Amy Edelstein Think
globally, act globally: Mary Robinson puts human rights on everyone's agenda
Sherri Broder Strangers and
Kin: The American Way of Adoption by Barbara Melosh
Jan Zita Grover Fatal Harvest:
The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture edited by Andrew Kimbrell; Chez
Panisse Fruit by Alice Waters
Kimberly Shearer Palmer Womansword:
What Japanese Words Say About Women by Kittredge Cherry
Lisa Marcus Conquering Infertility:
Dr. Alice Domar's Mind/Body Guide to Enhancing Fertility and Coping with
Infertility by Alice Domar and Alice Lesch Kelly
Judith Barrington Naked
in the Promised Land: A Memoir by Lillian Faderman
Christine Froula Analyzing
Freud: Letters of H.D., Bryher and Their Circle edited by Susan Stanford
Friedman
Julia Epstein Publicity's
Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy by Jodi Dean
Gabrielle Foreman Forgotten
Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies
by Elizabeth McHenry
Helen Zia The Colors of Nature:
Culture, Identity, and the Natural World edited by Alison H. Deming
and Lauret E. Savoy
Paisley Currah How Sex Changed:
A History of Transsexuality in the United States by Joanne Meyerowitz
Marcia Falk Two Poems
Books Received
March 2003
Sandra Gilbert Sylvia
and Ted by Emma Tennant;
Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath by Kate Moses
Nancy Tomes A Consumers' Republic:
The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America by Lizabeth Cohen
Marianne Hirsch Clara Mondschein's
Melancholia by Anne Raeff
Mary O'Donoghue Almost
There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman
by Nuala O'Faolain
Elyse Blankley Wild Heart,
a Life: Natalie Clifford Barney's Journey from Victorian America to the
Literary Salons of Paris by Suzanne Rodriguez
Lisa Levenstein Hands to Work:
The Stories of Three Families Racing the Welfare Clock by LynNell Hancock
Eunice Lipton A
Tarnished Reputation: Madame de Pompadour still gets no respect
Meena Alexander Crossing
Sabarmati: An oasis of peace sits in a city divided by hate
Linda Schlossberg Rereading
Sex: Battles over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century
America by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Patricia Roth Schwartz Two
Poems
Helen Benedict The Usual Rules
by Joyce Maynard
Audrey Bilger Mad Madge: The
Extraordinary Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, the First
Woman to Live by Her Pen by Katie Whitaker
Mary Taylor Simeti Sicilian
Odyssey by Francine Prose
Karen L. King The Resurrection
of Mary Magdalene: Legends, Apocrypha, and the Christian Testament by
Jane Schaberg
Letters
Books Received
April 2003
Amy Zalman Out
of the rubble: Competing perspectives on the lives of Afghan women
Heather Hewett The
Stone Virgins by Yvonne Vera
Arundhati Roy Come
September: Will things get better after they get worse?
Elizabeth Bobrick Boys and
Girls Forever: Children's Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter by
Alison Lurie
Sharon Thompson The Story
of My Father: A Memoir by Sue Miller
Shahla Haeri Inside Iran:
Women's Lives by Jane Howard
Jeanne Marecek The Thief of
Happiness: The Story of an Extraordinary Psychotherapy by Bonnie Friedman
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz The Country
Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War by Gioconda Belli
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz Love
after 9/11 (poem)
Edith Milton Another Place
at the Table by Kathy Harrison
Christine Thomas In
Full Bloom by Caroline Hwang
Heidi Bell The Chelsea Whistle
by Michelle Tea
Valerie Miner Good Faith
by Jane Smiley
Karen Rosenberg Emma
Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume One: Made for
America, 1890-1901 edited by Candace Falk, Barry Pateman and Jessica
Moran
Nina Auerbach Unauthorized
Pleasures: Accounts of Victorian Erotic Experience by Ellen Bayuk Rosenman
Books Received
May 2003
Adele Logan Alexander Being
Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America by Martha Saxton
Linda Gardiner The
way we were: Founding editor Linda Gardiner looks back at twenty years in
the editor's chair
Emily Maruja Bass
The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk: Why I Refused to Testify Against the Clintons
and What I Learned in Jail by Susan McDougal
Judith Beth Cohen All Over
Creation by Ruth Ozeki
Jean Kilbourne Branded:
The Buying and Selling of Teenagers by Alissa Quart
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts Wrapped
In Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston by Valerie Boyd
Helena Goscilo The Slynx and
Pushkin's Children: Writings on Russia and Russians by Tatyana Tolstaya
Susanna J. Sturgis Report
to the Men's Club and Other Stories and The Mount by Carol Emshwiller
Heather Love An Archive of
Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures by Anne Cvetkovich
Barbara Winslow Emmeline
Pankhurst: A Biography by June Purvis
Martha Gies Selected Prose
and Prose-Poems by Gabriela Mistral; A Queer Mother for the Nation by
Licia Fiol-Matta
Kate Daniels The Unswept Room
by Sharon Olds
Emily Toth Swamp Songs: The
Making of an Unruly Woman by Sheryl St. Germain
Elaine Terranova Two Poems
Marie-Elise Wheatwind What
Night Brings by Carla Trujillo
The Bookshelf
June 2003
Susan Brownmiller
Tidal Wave: How Women
Changed America at Century’s End by Sara Evans; Women,
Power and AT&T: Winning Rights in the Workplace by Lois Kathryn
Herr
Andi Zeisler
Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century edited
by Rory Dicker and Alison Piepmeier
Julia Query
Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children
by Ann Hulbert
Leora Tanenbaum
The Only Girl in the Car: A Memoir by Kathy Dobie
Debbie Notkin
Persepolis: The Story of
a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
Sherna Berger Gluck
In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story by Ghada Karmi
Emily Calhoun
One Night: Realities of Rape by Cathy Winkler
Erika Munk
The Miss Stone Affair: America’s First Modern Hostage Crisis by Teresa
Carpenter
Emma Lapsansky
Mordecai: An Early American Family by Emily Bingham
Jeanne Schinto
Rosie’s Mom: Forgotten
Women Workers of the First World War by Carrie Brown
Clea Simon
Appetites: Why Women Want
by Caroline Knapp
Arlene Raven
Singular Women: Writing the Artist edited by Kristen Frederickson
and Sarah E. Webb
Sharon Lieberman
Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue by Danielle Ofri
Camille-Yvette Welsch
Like Joy in Season, Like Sorrow by Mary Dorcey; Dharmakaya
by Paula Meehan; The Soldiers of Year II by Medbh McGuckian; The
Girl Who Married the Reindeer by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Kaethe Weingarten
When I Look Into the Mirror And See You: Women, Terror, and Resistance
by Margaret Randall
Judy Kronenfeld
Two Poems
Letters
The Bookshelf
July 2003
Special Issue:
Women Aging
Alix Kates Shulman Thoughts
at 70: A woman with a past? Or one with a future? What is old anyway?
Vivian Gornick The House
of Elder Artists: The challenge of making a daydream into reality
Gayle Greene Catching
Zzzs: Women lie awake and wonder: Why is most sleep research conducted on
men?
Suzanne Ruta Scrabble with
my mother: What the words really spell
Kerryn Higgs A
tale of two accidents: Injury at 20 is not the same as injury at 55
Alicia Ostriker Praying
for the end of anger: "A woman is her mother," poet Anne Sexton once wrote.
But is that fate inevitable?
Veronica Chambers Friends
for life: How female friendship evolves from youthful crushes to the deeper
relationships of years
Marilyn Hacker The poet at
80: A tribute to the aging poet Marie Ponsot is full of the imagery of vigor
and growth
Lesley Hazleton Mary grows
up: The Virgin in her later years
Florence Howe My "old ladies":
As writers age, they find ways to continue their work
Jane O'Reilly Running out
of time: Reaching the age of acceptance and pendulous earlobes
Carolyn G. Heilbrun Taking
a U-turn: The aging woman as explorer of new territory
Gayle Pemberton No regrets:
Which ambitions and possessions are important, and which are not, was a
lesson learned in an unlikely setting-Hollywood
Eileen Boris Caring for the
Caretakers: Feminist Ethics and Home Health Care by Jennifer A. Parks
Reviews
Susan Millar Williams Wild
Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on Home by Janisse Ray
Jan Clausen The
Book of Salt by Monique Truong
Nan Levinson Reading Lolita
in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
Amanda Nash The Quality of
Life Report by Meghan Daum; The Porno Girl and Other Stories
by Merin Wexler
Martha Nichols The
Bug by Ellen Ullman
Diana Postlethwaite The Photograph
by Penelope Lively
Nancy B. Reich Clara: A Novel
by Janice Galloway
Marie Shear The Atheist:
Madalyn Murray O'Hair by Bryan F. Le Beau
Heidi Bell Tilt by Elizabeth
Burns
Peg Aloi The Virago Book
of Erotic Myths and Legends edited by Shahrukh Husain
Alice Kessler-Harris The
Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of
Space Flight by Martha Ackmann
Margaret Weigel Coffee and
Kung Fu by Karen Brichoux; We Can Still Be Friends by Kelly Cherry;
Thoughts While Having Sex by Stephanie Lehmann
Martha Gies All Night Movie
by Alicia Borinsky
Pamela Petro A Visit to Don
Otavio: A Traveller's Tale from Mexico by Sybille Bedford; Pleasures
and Landscapes: A Traveler's Tales from Europe by Sybille Bedford; A
Legacy: A Novel by Sybille Bedford; Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education
by Sybille Bedford
Sarita Sarvate The Mango
Season by Amulya Malladi
Adrian Oktenberg Calendars
by Annie Finch; Flux, Poems by Cynthia Hogue;Little River, New
and Selected Poems by Linda McCarriston; Against Love Poetry, Poems
by Eavan Boland
Letters
The Bookshelf
September 2003
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From The Black Female Body
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Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw The
Black Female Body: A Photographic History by Deborah Willis and
Carla Williams; Skin Deep,
Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture edited
by Kimberley Wallace-Sanders
Harriet Malinowitz Nothing
Sacred: Women Respond to Religious Fundamentalism and Terror edited
by Betsy Reed
Kathy Davis Sisterhood is
Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium edited by Robin
Morgan
Emily Toth A
Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance by
Jane Juska; Sexual Healing
by Jill Nelson
Priscilla Long The Lives
of the Saints by Suzanne Paola
Falguni A. Sheth Abortion
and Social Responsibility: Depolarizing the Debate by Laurie Shrage
Karla Jay The Literature
of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall edited
by Terry Castle
Kimberly Shearer Palmer Autobiography
of a Geisha by Sayo Masuda
Jena Osman The Feminist Avant-Garde
in American Poetry by Elizabeth Frost
E. J. Graff Getting
Mother's Body by Suzan-Lori Parks
Marilyn Frye The Philosopher
Queen: Feminist Essays on War, Love, and Knowledge by Chris Cuomo
Paula DiPerna Reinventing
Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture by Carolyn Merchant
Jane Garrity Modernist Women
and Visual Cultures: Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Photography and Cinema
by Maggie Humm
Jo Freeman Subversive Southerner:
Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South
by Catherine Fosl; Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical
Democratic Vision by Barbara Ransby
Judith Barrington Two Poems
Letters
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October 2003
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Zelda Fitzgerald
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Nancy Gray Zelda
Fitzgerald: Her Voice in Paradise by Sally Cline
Laura Zimmerman Where
are the women? The strange case of the missing feminists. When was the last
time you saw one on TV?
Rebecca Steinitz A Lady's
Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Bird; Letters to Henrietta
by Isabella Bird, edited by Kay Chubbuck; The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle
Eberhardt by Isabelle Eberhardt, edited by Elizabeth Kershaw; Travels
in West Africa by Mary Kingsley
Gretchen A. Case Dubious
Equalities and Embodied Differences: Cultural Studies on Cosmetic Surgery
by Kathy Davis
Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild
Resilience and Courage: Women, Men, and the Holocaust by Nehama Tec
Martha Gies No One Will See
Me Cry by Cristina Rivera-Garza, translated by Andrew Hurley
Marilyn Richardson Regarding
the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts Longing
to Tell: Black Women Talk About Sexuality and Intimacy by Tricia Rose
Lori D. Ginzberg The Syntax
of Class: Writing Inequality in Nineteenth-Century America by Amy Schrager
Lang
Siobhan Senier Helen Hunt
Jackson: A Literary Life by Kate Phillips
Lesley Hazleton Beyond Belief:
The Secret Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels
E. Frances White Having It
All? Black Women and Success by Veronica Chambers; Rock My Soul:
Black People and Self-Esteem by bell hooks
Margaret Weigel Buffy the
Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Loathing in Sunnydale edited
by James B. South
Cathleen Calbert Poem
Adrian Oktenberg Outlandish
Blues by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers; Bellocq's
Ophelia: Poems by Natasha Trethewey
Becky Tuch Grace: A Memoir
by Mary Cartledgehayes
Barbara Haber Manly
Meals and Mom's Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America
by Jessamyn Neuhaus; Made
from Scratch: Reclaiming the Pleasures of the American Hearth by
Jean Zimmerman
Anne Coray Two Poems
Melissa McFarland Pennell The
Life and Writings of Betsey Chamberlain: Native American Millworker
by Judith A. Ranta
Michele Faith Wallace Gender
Talk: The Struggle for Women's Equality in African American Communities
by Johnnetta B. Cole and Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Letters
November 2003
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Louise Bourgeois
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Pat Berman Runaway
Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgeois by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan;
Louise Bourgeois by Robert
Storr, Paolo Herkenhoff, and Allan Schwartzman; Louise
Bourgeois: Intime Abstraktionen/Intimate Abstractions edited
by Beatrice E. Stammer, Kathrin Becker, Antje Weitzel, and Valeria Schulte-Fischedick
Jan Clausen The Fifth Book
of Peace by Maxine Hong Kingston
Lois W. Banner Reforming
Women's Fashion, 1850-1920: Politics, Health, and Art by Patricia
A. Cunningham
Susan Brownmiller Family
Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left by Susan Braudy
Anne Fausto-Sterling American
Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy and the Science of Nationalism by Nancy
Ordover
Amanda Nash 3
by Julie Hilden
Amanda Nash Interview
with Julie Hilden
Karen Kahn
The Commercialization of Intimate Life: Notes from Home and Work
by Arlie Russell Hochschild
Judith Nies Living
History by Hillary Rodham Clinton; Anticipating
Madame President edited by Robert P. Watson and Ann Gordon; Madame
President: Women Blazing the Leadership Trail by Eleanor Clift and
Tom Brazaitis; Women Transforming
Congress edited by Cindy Simon Rosenthal
Susanna J. Sturgis Changing
Planes: Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin
Carolyne Wright Here There
Was Once a Country by Vénus Khoury-Ghata; She Says by Vénus Khoury-Ghata
Katherine Soniat Two Poems
Linda Niemann Eclipse: Stories
by Jeanne Bryner
December 2003
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From Wide Open Town.
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Remembering Carolyn Heilbrun
(Click
here to read Carolyn Heilbrun's article on women aging from our July 2003
issue)
Carolyn G. Heilbrun Beautiful
Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson
Marie J. Kuda Highsmith:
A Romance of the 1950s by Marijane Meaker
Deborah E. McDowell Love
by Toni Morrison
Julie Abraham Wide
Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965 by Nan Alamilla
Boyd
Dykes to watch out for: Lisa London talks to Alison Bechdel about
20 years of cartooning and her new book, Dykes
and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life-Forms to Watch Out For
Laurie Stone The Unprofessionals:
A Novel by Julie Hecht
Karen Rosenberg Eleanora
Duse: A Biography by Helen Sheehy
Frieda Gardner The Lightning
Field by Carol Moldaw; The Cloud of Knowable Things by Elaine Equi
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz My Invented
Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile by Isabel Allende
Louise W. Knight Woman's
Voice, Woman's Place: Lucy Stone and the Birth of the Woman's Rights Movement
by Joelle Million
Julia Query Buying Dad: One
Woman's Search for the Perfect Sperm Donor by Harlyn Aizley
Sandra Kohler Two Poems
Silja J. A. Talvi Feminism
without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity by Chandra
Talpade Mohanty
Susan Ware Kate Remembered
by Scott Berg
Sarah Lucia Hoagland Wild
Politics: Feminism, Globalisation, Bio/Diversity by Susan Hawthorne
Enid Shomer We Never Speak
of It: Idaho-Wyoming Poems, 1889-1890 by Jana Harris
Letters
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January 2004
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From Kara Walker.
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Johanna Branson Kara
Walker: Narratives of a Negress edited by Ian Berry, Darby English,
Vivian Patterson, and Mark Reinhardt
Julia Balén In
memoriam: Monique Wittig. A tribute to the innovative philosopher/poet/
novelist who died in January 2003
Bernestine Singley Murder
and the Reasonable Man: Passion and Fear in the Criminal Courtroom by
Cynthia Lee
Angela Ards Random Family:
Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole
LeBlanc; Flat Broke With Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform
by Sharon Hays
Meryl Altman Sappho's
Leap by Erica Jong; The
Sappho History by Margaret Reynolds; If
Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson
Kim E. Nielsen The Story
of My Life by Helen Keller, edited by Roger Shattuck with Dorothy Herrmann;
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller, edited by James Berger
Martha Nichols Global Woman:
Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy edited by Barbara
Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild; We Are Not Babysitters: Family
Child Care Providers Redefine Work and Care by Mary C. Tuominen
Marie Shear Learning to
be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging by Margaret Cruikshank
Joycelyn K. Moody What Answer?
by Anna E. Dickinson, edited by J. Matthew Gallman
Rebecca Maksel Intertwined
Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle by Lois W.
Banner
Ann Killough Becoming Ebony
by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley; Swimming with Dolphins by Adrian Oktenberg;
I Will Say Beauty by Carol Frost
Serinity Young Kiss of the
Yogini: "Tantric Sex" in its South Asian Context by David Gordon White;
Power of Denial: Buddhism, Purity, and Gender by Bernard Faure; Encountering
Kali: In the Margins, at the Center, in the West edited by Rachel Fell
McDermott and Jeffrey J. Kripal
Kasey Jueds Two Poems
Letters
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February 2004
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From Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan.
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Special Issue:
Women, War, and Peace
Bettina Aptheker Meena,
Heroine of Afghanistan: The Martyr Who Founded RAWA, The Revolutionary Association
of the Women of Afghanistan by Melody Ermachild Chavis; The
Storyteller's Daughter by Saira Shah
Frieda Gardner Anti-war
in the heartland: Feminists have been organizing for peace around the US--not
just on the two coasts
Lory Manning Military
women: Who they are, what they do, and why it matters
Carol Cohn Feminist
peacemaking: In Resolution 1325, the United Nations requires the inclusion
of women in all peace planning and negotiation
Ayse Gul Altinay Feminists
Under Fire: Exchanges Across War Zones edited by Wenona Giles, Malathi
de Alwis, Edith Klein, Neluka Silva
Lisa Suhair Majaj The
road from Beirut: From student to refugee overnight. In the one suitcase
you can carry, do you pack photographs or an extra sweater?
Mary Zeiss Stange No
more raping: When some women are armed, are all of us safer?
Sonia Sanchez Two
poems
Vanessa Farr The
new war zone: The ubiquitous presence of guns and light weapons has changed
the definitions of "war," "victim," and "perpetrator"
Catherine Lutz Living
room terrorists: Rates of domestic violence are three to five times higher
among military couples than civilian ones
Kimberly Shearer Palmer Serving
Our Country: Japanese American Women in the Military during World War II
by Brenda L. Moore.
Amy Zalman Women,
citizens, Muslims: Afghan women assert their human rights in the context
of Islam, not in opposition to it
Cynthia Enloe Crucial
reporting: Human rights reports and why we should all be reading them
The Bookshelf
The Women's Review of Books
thanks Cynthia Enloe, editorial advisor for this special issue.
This issue is funded in part by a grant
from the National Endowment for the Arts
March 2004
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Photo by Shadafarin Ghadirian,
from Veil.
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Nadine Khalil Veil: Veiling,
Representation and Contemporary Art edited by David A. Bailey and Gilane
Tawadros; The Veil Unveiled: The Hijab in Modern Culture by Faegheh
Shirazi
Karin Aguilar-San Juan Dream
Jungle by Jessica Hagedorn
Karin Aguilar-San Juan An
interview with Jessica Hagedorn
Jan Zita Grover Home Grown:
The Case for Local Food in a Global Market by Brian Halweil; Local
Flavors by Deborah Madison; The Penguin Atlas of Food: Who Eats What,
Where, and Why by Erik Millstone and Tim Lang; Food Politics: How
The Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health by Marion Nestle
Mandira Sen The
Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Judith Niemi No
Horizon is So Far: A Historic Journey Across Antarctica by Ann Bancroft
and Liv Arnesen; Ada Blackjack:
A True Story of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven; The
Woman Who Walked to Russia: A Writer's Search for a Lost Legend
by Cassandra Pybus
Heather Love Touching Feeling:
Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Patrice Clark Koelsch Inner
Lives: Voices of African American Women in Prison by Paula C. Johnson;
Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Testimony from Our Imprisoned Sisters
by Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Facility
Leslie Brokaw There Must
Be a Pony In Here Somewhere: the AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for
a Digital Future by Kara Swisher with Lisa Dickey
Carol Bere The Bookseller
of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
Andrea Hoag Farewell, My
Queen: A Novel by Chantal Thomas
Enid Shomer Open Slowly
by Kate Light
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts Drinking
Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
Amy Hoffman A
conversation with abortion rights activist Merle Hoffman
Karen Malpede Common Shock:
Witnessing Violence Every Day by Kaethe Weingarten
Rebecca Tuch Curled in the
Bed of Love: Stories by Catherine Brady; Blind Love by Mary Woronov
Maud Lindsay Two poems
Frieda Gardner Two poems
Letters
The
Bookshelf (web version)
April 2004
Trish Crapo Listen
Here: Women Writing in Appalachia edited by Sandra L. Ballard and
Patricia L. Hudson
Jennifer L. Pozner She's
Not There: A Life In Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan
Jennifer L. Pozner GENDER
IMMIGRANT: A conversation with Jennifer Finney Boylan
Anne Fausto-Sterling IS
SCIENCE OBJECTIVE? The Bush administration has been criticized
for mixing science and politics. But is this really the problem?
Joy Connolly Olympia Morata:
The Complete Writings of an Italian Heretic edited and translated by
Holt N. Parker
Mary Cappello The
Red Passport by Katherine Shonk
Ritu Menon The Sari by
Mukulika Banerjee and Daniel Miller
Cynthia A. Pearson The Greatest
Experiment Ever Performed on Women: Exploding the Estrogen Myth by Barbara
Seaman
Brooks Robards Jane Austen
on Screen edited by Gina Macdonald and Andrew F. Macdonald
Jody Bolz Two
poems
Alison Townsend Livelihood
by Phoebe MacAdams; Embellishments by Virginia Chase Sutton
Anne Marie Todkill Am I Still
A Woman? Hysterectomy and Gender Identity by Jean Elson
Karla Jay The Modern Woman
Revisited: Paris Between the Wars edited by Whitney Chadwick and Tirza
True Latimer
Susanne Boitano The Habit:
A History of the Clothing of Catholic Nuns by Elizabeth Kuhns
Barbara Sjoholm The
World: Travels 1950-2000 by Jan Morris
Letters
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Bookshelf (web version)
May 2004
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Edwidge Danticat
Photo by Jill Krementz
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Rhonda Cobham The
Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat
Adele Logan Alexander Harriet
Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton; Harriet
Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories by Jean M. Humez; Bound
for the Promised Land by Kate Clifford Larson
Martha Gies Holy Terrors:
Latin American Women Perform edited by Diana Taylor and Roselyn Costantino
Judith Barrington Occasions
of Sin by Sandra Scofield; Wishing
for Snow by Minrose Gwin; Rescuing
Patty Hearst: Memories from a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman
Louise W. Knight Diva Julia:
The Public Romance and Private Agony of Julia Ward Howe by Valarie H.
Ziegler
Miriam Sagan Fools and Crows
by Terri Witek; Granted by Mary Szybist; Miracle Fruit by
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Joanne M. Braxton Pocahontas:
Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat by Paula Gunn Allen
Joanne M. Braxton Pocahontas'
voice: A conversation
with Paula Gunn Allen
Lesley Hazleton Reporting
from Ramallah: An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land by Amira Hass
Randi Hutter Epstein The
Pursuit of Perfection: The Promise and Perils of Medical Enhancement
by Sheila Rothman and David Rothman
Marie Shear Millicent
Fenwick: Her Way by Amy Schapiro; Pat
Schroeder: A Woman of the House by Joan A. Lowy; Fire
in My Soul by Joan Steinau Lester
Elaine Sexton Two poems
Eileen Boris The Other Women's
Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America by Dorothy
Sue Cobble
Harriet Casdin-Silver Women,
Art, and Technology edited by Judy Malloy
Nancy Berke Against Love:
A Polemic by Laura Kipnis; Quirkyalone: A Manifesto for Uncompromising
Romantics by Sasha Cagen
Serinity Young Cleopatra
Dismounts by Carmen Boullosa; Becoming Cleopatra: The Shifting Image
of an Icon by Francesca T. Royster
Lynne Gouliquer Officially
Gay: The Political Construction of Sexuality by the US Military by Gary
L. Lehring; Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Debating the Gay Ban in the Military
edited by Aaron Belkin and Geoffrey Bateman
Letters
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Bookshelf (web version)
June 2004
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Photo from A Thousand
Years Over a Hot Stove.
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Jan Zita Grover A
Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told Through
Food, Recipes, and Remembrances by Laura Schenone; Something
from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America by Laura Shapiro
Debra Spark Beautiful
as the Moon, Radiant as the Stars: Jewish Women in Yiddish Stories
edited by Sandra Bark
Nancy Caplan Emotional Trials:
The Moral Dilemmas of Criminal Defense Attorneys by Cynthia Siemsen
Erica DaCosta Simone Weil:
As We Knew Her by Joseph Marie Perrin, Gustave Thibon, and J. P. Little
Lauren Byrne Daughters of
Ireland: The Rebellious Kingsborough Sisters and the Making of a Modern
Nation by Janet Todd; No Ordinary Women: Irish Female Activists in
the Revolutionary Years 1900-1923 by Sinéad McCoole
Martha Saxton Earthbound
and Heavenbent: Elizabeth Porter Phelps and Life at Forty Acres (1747-1817)
by Elizabeth Pendergast Carlisle
Judith Vollmer Two poems
Florence Howe Threshold
by Shirley Kaufman; The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems by Minnie
Bruce Pratt
Bernestine Singley Underground
Codes: Race, Crime and Related Fires by Katheryn Russell-Brown
Kathy Davis Styling
Jim Crow: African American Beauty Training During Segregation by
Julia Kirk Blackwelder; Rapunzel's
Daughters: What Women's Hair Tells Us About Women's Lives by Rose
Weitz
Nancy Mairs Gendering Disability
edited by Bonnie G. Smith and Beth Hutchison
Ellie Hernandez Chicana Without
Apology: The New Chicana Cultural Studies by Edén Torres
Eithne Johnson Perpetually
Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong (1905-1961) by Anthony B.
Chan; Anna May Wong: From
Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend by Graham Russell Gao
Hodges; Anna May Wong:
A Complete Guide to Her Film, Stage, Radio and Television Work by
Philip Liebfried and Chei Mi Lane
The
Bookshelf (web version)
July 2004
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Drawing of herself by Emily
Carr, 1901. From Opposite
Contraries (Douglas &
McIntyre, 2003).
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Anne Marie Todkill
Klee Wyck by Emily
Carr; The Forest Lover
by Susan Vreeland
Gayle Pemberton
Pushkin and the Queen
of Spades by Alice Randall
Adrian Oktenberg
Up to Speed by Rae Armantrout; Desesperanto: Poems 1999-2002
by Marilyn Hacker
Emily Toth
America’s Mom: The Life, Lessons,
and Legacy of Ann Landers by Rick Kogan; A
Life in Letters: Ann Landers’ Letters to Her Only Child by Margo
Howard
Heather Hewett
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Pamela J. Annas
Whose Names Are Unknown: A Novel by Sanora Babb
Jewelle Gomez
Little Black Book of Stories by A. S. Byatt
Leslie Lawrence
Referred Pain and Other
Stories by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Valerie Miner
Double Vision by Pat Barker
Rebecca Steinitz
Emma Brown by
Clare Boylan and Charlotte Brontë; The
Brontë Myth by Lucasta Miller
Alison Hawthorne Deming
Trembling Air by Michelle Boisseau; Slave Moth: A Narrative in
Verse by Thylias Moss; Bend by Natasha Sajé
Judith Grossman
Little Edens by Barbara Klein Moss; Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories
by Joan Silber
Hiromi Goto
The Legend of Fire Horse Woman by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Andrea Freud Loewenstein
A Seahorse Year by Stacey D’Erasmo
Lori Tsang
Empress Orchid by Anchee Min
Marie-Elise Wheatwind
The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and
the Imagination by Ursula K. Le Guin
Edith M. Vásquez
¡Caramba! A Tale Told in Turns of the Card by Nina Marie Martínez
Andrea Potos
Two poems
Enid Shomer
Two poems
Letters
The
Bookshelf (web version)
September 2004
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Panel from Jennifer Camper's review of
Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi.
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Ayse Gul Altinay
The Line: Women, Partition
and the Gender Order in Cyprus by Cynthia Cockburn
Ayse Gul Altinay
REACHING
ACROSS DIVIDED SOCIETIES: A conversation with Cynthia Cockburn
Carol Burke
FROM RECRUIT
TO SOLDIER: Military discipline is enforced with marching chants-and
their sexist, racist, brutal messages.
Jennifer Camper
Persepolis 2 by
Marjane Satrapi
Cynthia Enloe
Plan of Attack by
Bob Woodward
Liza Featherstone
PINK
THONGS AND PATRIARCHY: In protests against the Iraq war, women are
using the media and popular culture as never before.
Ryn Gluckman, Betsy Hartmann, and Azi Shariatmadar
PRO-WHOSE-LIFE?
Ten reasons why militarism is bad for your health
Eloise Klein Healy, Julia Kasdorf, Maxine Kumin, Elizabeth Macklin,
and Gail Mazur
Poetry, War, and Peace
Kerryn Higgs
An Ordinary Person's Guide
to Empire by Arundhati Roy; The
Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy.
Interviews by David Barsamian
Suzanne Ruta
A LIFE OF
RESISTANCE: Ethnographer and concentration camp survivor Germaine
Tillion is little known in the US but a hero in France for her lifelong
opposition to violence and torture.
Harriet Malinowitz
The Exception to the
Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love
Them by Amy Goodman with David Goodman
Harriet Malinowitz
THE
SWORD AND THE SHIELD: A conversation with independent journalist
Amy Goodman
Lisa London
Let Me Go by Helga
Schneider
Dyan Mazurana
WHERE
ARE THE GIRLS? Girls have become indispensable members of many armies,
in Africa and around the world. Their treatment is often brutal and their
reintegration into the community difficult.
Robin Riley
HIDDEN SOLDIERS:
Women with jobs in the defense industry must keep the nature of their work
secret--from friends, family, and even themselves.
Martha Norkunas
Naked Barbies, Warrior
Joes, & Other Forms of Visible Gender by Jeanne Banks Thomas; Restoring
Women's History Through Historic Preservation edited by Gail Lee
Dubrow and Jennifer B. Goodman; Monuments
to the Lost Cause edited by Cynthia Mills and Pamela H. Simpson
Rochelle G. Ruthchild
After Such Knowledge:
Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust by Eva Hoffman;
The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück
Concentration Camp by Rochelle G. Saidel
Gila Svirsky
ORGANIZING
FOR PEACE IN ISRAEL: Why Israeli and Palestinian women want a peace
movement of their own
Letters
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Bookshelf (web version)
The Women's Review thanks Cynthia Enloe
for her editorial advice on this issue and Poetry Editor Robin Becker for
commissioning and selecting the work in our special War and Peace poetry
section.
This issue is funded in part by a grant
from the National Endowment for the Arts
October 2004
Gloria Anzaldúa
Photo by Annie Valva
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AnaLouise Keating
Gloria Anzaldúa (1942-2004):
As a "threshold person," a nepantlera, Anzaldúa moved among worlds in her art,
her politics, and her spirituality
Mary Cappello
Truth and Beauty: A Friendship
by Ann Patchett
Kim E. Nielsen
The Education of Jane Addams
by Victoria Bissell Brown.
Elizabeth Potter
Beyond Epistemology: A Pragmatist
Approach to Feminist Science Studies by Sharyn Clough; Scrutinizing
Feminist Epistemology: An Examination of Gender in Science edited by Cassandra
L. Pinnick, Noretta Koertge, and Robert F. Almeder
Barbara Seaman
Treating infertility: Amid a
confusing array of resources, how to decide which you can trust
Kathryn McKee
Lives Full of Struggle and Triumph:
Southern Women, Their Institutions, and Their Communities edited by
Bruce L. Clayton and John A. Salmond; Southern
Women at the Millennium: A Historical Perspective edited by Melissa
Walker, Jeanette R. Dunn, and Joe P. Dunn
Barbara Sjoholm
Alone! Alone! Lives of Some
Outsider Women by Rosemary Dinnage; A
Chance Meeting: Intertwined lives of American Writers and Artists 1854-1967
by Rachel Cohen
Susanna J. Sturgis
Wonder Women: Feminisms and
Superheroes by Lillian S. Robinson; Decoding
Gender in Science Fiction by Brian Attebery; Girls
Who Bite Back: Witches, Mutants, Slayers, and Freaks edited by Emily
Pohl-Weary
Ilana Nash
Kiddie Lit: The Cultural Construction
of Children's Literature in America by Beverly Lyon Clark
Diana Postlethwaite
Remember Me by
Trezza Azzopardi
Laura Zimmerman
The Spiral Staircase: My
Climb Out of Darkness by Karen Armstrong
Jennifer L. Pozner
The Fire This Time: Young Activists
and the New Feminism edited by Vivien Labaton and Dawn Lundy Martin
Gillian Rodger
Women's Voices Across Musical
Worlds edited by Jane A. Bernstein
Judith Sornberger
Two poems
Jane Hilberry
Two poems
The
Bookshelf (web version)
November 2004
Jan Clausen
Heir to the Glimmering World
by Cynthia Ozick
E. J. Graff
Women Don't Ask: Negotiation
and the Gender Divide by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever; Necessary
Dreams: The Vital Role of Ambition in Women's Changing Lives by Anna
Fels; Why Women Earn Less: How
to Make What You're Really Worth by Mikelann R. Valterra
Trish Crapo
Above the Clearwater: Living
On Stolen Land by Bette Lynch Husted; Clearing
Land: Legacies of the American Farm by Jane Brox
Phyllis Eckhaus
Inez: The Life and Times of
Inez Milholland by Linda J. Lumsden
Carol Anshaw
The Love Wife by Gish
Jen
Meryl Altman
The Sex of Knowing by
Michèle Le Doeuff
Paula J. Caplan and Mary Ann Palko
The Times is not a-changin':
Your impression of the New York Times and other prestigious book review
publications (present company excluded) is correct: The women are missing
Helen Fremont
In My Mother's House
by Margaret McMullan
Heather Love
The Judith Butler Reader
edited by Sarah Salih with Judith Butler; Precarious
Life: The Power of Mourning and Violence by Judith Butler; Undoing
Gender by Judith Butler
Alicia Ostriker
Visa for Avalon by
Bryher
Lise Vogel
Separate Roads to Feminism: Black,
Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America's Second Wave by Benita
Roth
Toni Lester
Living Spirit, Living Practice:
Poetics, Politics, Epistemology by Ruth Frankenberg
Julia Balén
Colette by Julia Kristeva
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon,
Marea Gordett, Theresa
Burns, L. B. Thompson,
Betty Buchsbaum, Judy Katz,
and Maurya Simon
Poetry
Letters
The
Bookshelf (web version)
December 2004
Bettina Brandt
The challenging writings of
Elfriede Jelinek: Austrian feminist wins Nobel prize in literature
Joycelyn K. Moody
Harriet Jacobs: A Life
by Jean Fagan Yellin
Esther Kaplan
Evangelical Christian Women:
War Stories in the Gender Battles by Julie Ingersoll; Home-Grown
Hate: Gender and Organized Racism edited by Abby L. Ferber
Ruth Milkman
Competing Devotions: Career
and Family among Women Executives by Mary Blair-Loy; The
Time Divide: Work, Family and Gender Inequality by Jerry A. Jacobs and
Kathleen Gerson
Kerryn Higgs
…as Mothers of the Land: the
Birth of the Bougainville Women for Peace and Freedom edited by Josephine
Tankunani Sirivi and Marilyn Taleo Havini
Rebecca Johnson
Warrior Poet: A Biography of
Audre Lorde by Alexis De Veaux; Conversations
with Audre Lorde edited by Joan Wylie Hall
Peg Aloi The
Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain
by Alice Weaver Flaherty; An Alchemy
of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain by Diane Ackerman
Paula Bonnell,
Jane Shore, Kathleen
Aguero, Karen Head, Jessica
R. Greenbaum, Susan Wicks,
Carole Simmons Oles, Kathleen
Sheeder, and Robin
Becker
Poetry
Mandira Sen
Madras on Rainy Days by
Samina Ali
Valerie Miner
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Judith Niemi
Publishing for the love of it:
Small presses are changing the world, one page at a time
Ann Snitow
Skeptical Feminism: Activist
Theory, Activist Practice by Carolyn Dever
Mary Titus
The Strange History of Suzanne
LaFleshe and Other Stories of Women and Fatness edited by Susan Koppelman;
Venus of Chalk by Susan
Stinson
Meryl Altman
Cool Men and the Second Sex
by Susan Fraiman
Karen Kahn
Moving Mountains: The Race to
Treat Global AIDS by Anne-christine d'Adesky
Julia Query
Mother's Milk: Breastfeeding
Controversies in American Culture by Bernice L. Hausman
Alison Townsend
Because of the Light
by Roseann Lloyd; Buddha's
Dogs by Susan Browne
Silja J. A. Talvi
Global Prescriptions: Gendering
Health and Human Rights by Rosalind Pollack Petchesky
Irene Wanner
Now Go Home: Wilderness, Belonging,
and the Crosscut Saw by Ana Maria Spagna
Marie Shear
Mass Media and the Shaping of
American Feminism, 1963-1975 by Patricia Bradley
Brooks Robards
Being Rita Hayworth: Labor,
Identity, and Hollywood Stardom by Adrienne L. McLean
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