October 2003

Table of Contents, with links to selected articles from this issue

Zelda Fitzgerald

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Natasha Trethewey

Helen Hunt Jackson

Cristina Rivera-Garza

Mary Cartledgehayes

Tricia Rose

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Zelda Fitzgerald, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (© Peter Bailley), Natasha Trethewey, Helen Hunt Jackson, Cristina Rivera-Garza, Mary Cartledgehayes (© Susan M. Newton), Tricia Rose (© Jim MacKenzie).

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

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