December 2004

Elfriede Jelinek
Samina Ali
Audre Lorde

Ana Maria Spagna

Roseann Lloyd

Marilynne Robinson

Top to bottom:
Elfriede Jelinek, Samina Ali (photo by Thayer Allyson Gowdy), Audre Lorde (from the cover of her book, Cables to rage), Ana Maria Spagna (photo by Mike Barnhart), Roseann Lloyd, Marilynne Robinson (photo by David Herwalt)

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

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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