October 2001

Joan Didion

Sharan Strange

Daisy Fried

Rickie Solinger

Janet Holmes

Grace Schulman

Katherine Soniat

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Joan Didion, Sharan Strange, Daisy Fried (© Pierce Backes), Rickie Solinger (©Ali Geiser), Janet Holmes (© Mike Long), Grace Schulman (© Nancy Crampton), Katherine Soniat.

IN THIS MONTH'S ISSUE of The Women's Review of Books:

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

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