Recently added articles from The Women's Review of Books:
Still no Woman President.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... While I greatly enjoyed Ruth Rosen's review of Women for President [WRB, January/February 2009], she left out a political/structural reason that American women face that leaders such as Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, and Margaret Thatcher did not: the former are not participating in a ...
Feminist geography.(Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism)(Book review)
May 01, 2009; ... Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism By Anne Enke Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007, 369 pp., $23.95, paperback It's the fortieth anniversary of 1968, and people like me who were there are being wheeled out to ...
Biblical womanhood.('Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement' and 'Righting Feminism: Conservative Women and American Politics')(Book review)
May 01, 2009; ... Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement By Kathryn Joyce Boston: Beacon Press, 2009, 315 pp., $25.95, hardcover Righting Feminism: Conservative Women and American Politics By Ronnee Schreiber New York: Oxford University ...
NGO-graphy.(Women's Social Activism in the New Ukraine: Development and the Politics of Differentiation)(Book review)
May 01, 2009; ... Women's Social Activism in the New Ukraine: Development and the Politics of Differentiation By Sarah D. Phillips Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2008, 206 pp., $24.95, paperback [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Anthropologist ...
Desperate housemates.(The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For)(Book review)
May 01, 2009; ... The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For By Alison Bechdel New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008, 416 pp., $25.00, hardcover Unless you are a reader of alternative or gay newspapers, you may not have been aware of Alison Bechdel's brilliant comic strip, ...
Who's crazy now?(Mad, Bad, and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors)(Book review)
May 01, 2009; ... Mad, Bad, and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors By Lisa Appignanesi New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2008, 540 pp., $29.95, hardcover [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the first pages of Mad, Bad, ,and Sad, Lisa Appignanesi introduces her book s ...
Your Wicked Good Militia.(The School on Heart's Content Road)(Book review)
May 01, 2009; ... The School on Heart's Content Road By Carolyn Chute New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008, 384 pp., $24.00, hardcover One of the luxuries--and, surely, responsibilities-that comes with reviewing a book some months after its publication is reading what ...
Engaged poetry.('Sea Change', 'Rising, Falling, Hovering' and 'One Secret Thing')(Book review)
May 01, 2009; ... Sea Change By Jorie Graham New York: Ecco Press, 2008, 56 pp., $23.95, hardcover Rising, Falling, Hovering By C.D. Wright Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2008, 97 pp., $22.00, hardcover One Secret Thing ...
A Walk in Victoria's Secret.(Poetry)(Poem)
May 01, 2009; ... If an infant could speak, he would no doubt pronounce the act of sucking at his mother's breast by far the most important in his life. --S. Freud <Pre> A Walk in Victoria's Secret In an hour, I'll be lying on the worn-out, mauve-colored couchin the 304 ...
Trapped.(Good Reads)('Lark and Termite', 'All the Living' and 'Coventry' )(Book review)
May 01, 2009; ... Lark and Termite Jayne Anne Phillips New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009, 272 pp., $24.00, hardcover All the Living C. E. Morgan New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009, 208 pp., $23.00, hardcover Coventry Helen ...
Facing peace: families surviving violence.(Photography)
May 01, 2009; ... Audrey Brown-Perkins's twenty-year-old son, Antoine Perkins, was shot in 2006. His killer is still at large, yet Brown-Perkins looks for ways to move beyond her pain to create a world where this kind of violent death is no longer possible. For support in this struggle, she makes ...
Reforming the church.(Catholic and Feminist: The Surprising History of the American Catholic Feminist Movement)(Book review)
May 01, 2009; ... Catholic and Feminist: The Surprising History of the American Catholic Feminist Movement By Mary J. Henold Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008, 328 pp., $32.00, hardcover [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] American feminists have a hard ...
Let the good work go on.(Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution)(Book review)
May 01, 2009; ... Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution By Lois Brown Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008, 704 pp., $45.00, hardcover Standing before an audience of social activists in Boston in 1905, Pauline Hopkins boldly declared ...
B-movie aspirations.(The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture)(Book review)
May 01, 2009; ... The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture By Lauren Berlant Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008, 353 pp., $23.95, paperback "For the people who identify with it, femininity is a B movie, a genre of the ...
The changing of the guard.('Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower' and 'Women's Studies on the Edge')(Book review)
May 01, 2009; ... Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower Edited by Deborah Gray White Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008, 291 pp., $21.95, paperback Women's Studies on the Edge Edited by Joan Wallach Scott ...
Careless art.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 01, 2009; ... As an art historian, I was startled to read in the Nov/Dec issue of Women's Review of Books that Rubens's Three Graces depicts the female body ideal of the fifteenth century. If Rubens could be shown to have been looking two centuries back in his conception of the female form, such an ...
The art of interrogation.(A Field Guide For Female Interrogators)(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... A Field Guide For Female Interrogators By Coco Fusco New York: Seven Stories Press, 2008, 144 pp. $16.95, paperback Coco Fusco's A Field Guide for Female Interrogators is a project for the moment. Fusco uses a variety of styles and modes of address--from ...
Gamer girls rising.(Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New Perspectives on Gender and Gaming)(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New Perspectives on Gender and Gaming Edited by Yasmin B. Kafai, Carrie Heeter, Jill Denner, and Jennifer Y. Sun Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008, 350 pp., $29.95, hardcover I was shocked recently when my father casually ...
Woman suffrage revised.(The Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Women's Rights and the American Political Traditions; Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement; Suffragists in an Imperial Age: US Expansion and the Woman Question, 1870-1929)(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Women's Rights and the American Political Traditions By Sue Davis New York: New York University Press, 2008, 298 pp., $49.00, hardcover Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement ...
Rewriting normal.(Intersex: For Lack of a Better Word; Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience)(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word) By Thea Hillman San Francisco: Manic D Press, 2008, 160 pp., $14.95, paperback Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience By Katrina A. Karkazis Durham, NC: Duke University ...