The Women's Review of Books back issues from May 1994:
Red Azalea.
May 01, 1994; ... The cataclysmic Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong's grandiose attempt to instill perpetual revolutionary fervor in the Chinese masses, was officially repudiated in 1980, for year after Mao's death. But Chinese society has never really come to terms with the fury laid bare by the movement, ...
Selected Poems.
May 01, 1994; ... When Thomas - the title character of Rita Dove's third book of poems, Thomas and Beulah - comes North to Ohio in 1921, a fine young black man sporting earrings and strumming a mandolin, he cuts a dazzling figure:. . .gold hoop from the right ear jiggling and a glass ...
The Darker Face of the Earth: A Verse Play.
May 01, 1994; ... When Thomas - the title character of Rita Dove's third book of poems, Thomas and Beulah - comes North to Ohio in 1921, a fine young black man sporting earrings and strumming a mandolin, he cuts a dazzling figure:. . .gold hoop from the right ear jiggling and a glass ...
Strangers in the Senate: Politics and the New Revolution of Women in America.
May 01, 1994; ... These two red, white and blue books (the slick cover designs, featuring bold, patriotically-colored lettering against familiar Capitol landscapes, are remarkably similar) herald a brave new world of revolutionary change in the nation's capitol, all wrought by women. The subtitles, ...
A Woman's Place: The Freshmen Women Who Changed the Face of Congress.
May 01, 1994; ... These two red, white and blue books (the slick cover designs, featuring bold, patriotically-colored lettering against familiar Capitol landscapes, are remarkably similar) herald a brave new world of revolutionary change in the nation's capitol, all wrought by women. The subtitles, ...
Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich.
May 01, 1994; ... The Oral Historian is a collector of tales. Neither judge nor jury, she is a collaborator in the framing and telling of a life. In the process of constructing an oral history, her life and her interview subject's life - and, perhaps also, their fates - become intertwined. "Two lives ...
Up a Country Lane Cookbook.
May 01, 1994; ... Like Many People, I grew beyond my mother's cooking. Nothing I ate immediately after leaving home demonstrated the distance I had traveled, for initially I lived in dormitories where the food's chief claims to attention were plenitude and bulk. Score two for my mother - those were her ...
Cooking, Eating, Thinking: Transformative Philosophies of Food.
May 01, 1994; ... Like Many People, I grew beyond my mother's cooking. Nothing I ate immediately after leaving home demonstrated the distance I had traveled, for initially I lived in dormitories where the food's chief claims to attention were plenitude and bulk. Score two for my mother - those were her ...
Lutheran Church Basement Women: Lutefisk, Lefse, Lunch and Jell-O.
May 01, 1994; ... Like Many People, I grew beyond my mother's cooking. Nothing I ate immediately after leaving home demonstrated the distance I had traveled, for initially I lived in dormitories where the food's chief claims to attention were plenitude and bulk. Score two for my mother - those were her ...
Love, Stars and All That.
May 01, 1994; ... Some People See Life as predicament, some see it as spectacle, reflects one of the bright, articulate characters in Kirin Narayan's charming first novel. Judging by this book, Narayan herself belongs in the second group. The predicament is clearly stated at the outset. It's ...
Life Notes: Personal Writings by Contemporary Black Women.
May 01, 1994; ... Patricia Bell-Scott has brought us two previous collections: Double Stitch: Black Women Write About Mothers and Daughters (Beacon Press, 1991), and, with her coeditors, the book that bears, perhaps, my all-time favorite title: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us ...
Great expectations. (book reviewing)
May 01, 1994; ... My concern today is the distinctive set of issues that arise when feminists review writing about feminist political and social issues and debates. Many of my own books and essays are in this category. I also review books about feminist issues, and that's often the occasion for me to ...
My Lives.
May 01, 1994; ... So who is Roseanne Arnold anyway, and what does it matter? A lot, if you believe, as I do, that she is the most brazen feminist in the public eye today. Not that Roseanne would deign to accept such an appellation. Her identification with feminism is far wilder an woollier than that. ...
Unbroken Thread: An Anthology of Plays by Asian American Women.
May 01, 1994; ... In 1990, When Between Worlds: Contemporary Asian-American Plays (Theatre Communications Group), the first anthology of Asian American drama, appeared, Asian Americans were both pleased and chagrined. We were pleased that there were enough plays by Asian American dramatists to be collected, ...
The Politics of Life: Four Plays by Asian American Women.
May 01, 1994; ... In 1990, When Between Worlds: Contemporary Asian-American Plays (Theatre Communications Group), the first anthology of Asian American drama, appeared, Asian Americans were both pleased and chagrined. We were pleased that there were enough plays by Asian American dramatists to be collected, ...
Presumption: An Entertainment.
May 01, 1994; ... Without boasting or giving pain to the opposite sex, one may say that Pride and Prejudice is a good book. At any rate, one would not have been ashamed to have been caught in the act of writing Pride and Prejudice. It is a truth universally acknowledged that there ought to be a ...
Pemberley or Pride and Prejudice Continued.
May 01, 1994; ... Without boasting or giving pain to the opposite sex, one may say that Pride and Prejudice is a good book. At any rate, one would not have been ashamed to have been caught in the act of writing Pride and Prejudice. It is a truth universally acknowledged that there ought to be a ...
Lifting a Ton of Feathers: A Woman's Guide to Surviving in the Academic World.
May 01, 1994; ... Political self-help guides aren't much fun to read. If they emphasize self-help they reduce questions of power to questions of attitude (yours), and counsel you to develop positive thinking or a stiff upper lip, qualities that you may find it hard to summon up while you're being blamed for ...
Happenstance: Two Novels in One About a Marriage in Transition.
May 01, 1994; ... You would expect that good books from a country as close to us (in every sense) as Canada would quickly find American covers. Apparently not. It has taken more than a decade for the first US edition of Carol Shields' Happenstance to appear, and I suspect we might not have it even now if ...
The Stone Diaries.
May 01, 1994; ... You would expect that good books from a country as close to us (in every sense) as Canada would quickly find American covers. Apparently not. It has taken more than a decade for the first US edition of Carol Shields' Happenstance to appear, and I suspect we might not have it even now if ...
Chic Thrills: A Fashion Reader.
May 01, 1994; ... Feminist critiques of fashion have often painted a rather grim portrait of the mostly male designers and industry executives who dream up such things as girdles, baby doll dresses, the waif look, high heels, corsets and other symbols of femininity that seem intended to keep women in their ...
The Face of Fashion: Cultural Studies in Fashion.
May 01, 1994; ... Feminist critiques of fashion have often painted a rather grim portrait of the mostly male designers and industry executives who dream up such things as girdles, baby doll dresses, the waif look, high heels, corsets and other symbols of femininity that seem intended to keep women in their ...
Shelter, Women and Development: First and Third World Perspectives.
May 01, 1994; ... This rich collection of fifty essays connects two areas of feminist theory and practice: the work of architects and urban planners and that of social scientists concerned with economic development. It carries these issues into a discussion of current practice in the United States, Canada ...
Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939.
May 01, 1994; ... Isabella Ford, Katharine Bruce Glasier, Florence Dixie, Gertrude Dix, Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, Leonora Eyles, Gertrude Colmore, Marie Stopes, Charlotte Haldane, "Victoria Cross," Theodora Wilson Wilson, Ethel Mannin, Katharine Burdekin, Phyllis Bottome, Sally Carson, "Sarah Campion," ...
Planet.
May 01, 1994; ... More than fifteen years ago, I discovered the work of Alma Luz Villanueva on the shelf of a used bookstore. A slim chapbook, Mother, May I?, published by an obscure small press (Motherroot Publications, 1978), caught my eye because it was written by a Chicana poet, a rarity in those days ....
Naked Ladies.
May 01, 1994; ... More than fifteen years ago, I discovered the work of Alma Luz Villanueva on the shelf of a used bookstore. A slim chapbook, Mother, May I?, published by an obscure small press (Motherroot Publications, 1978), caught my eye because it was written by a Chicana poet, a rarity in those days ....
Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States.
May 01, 1994; ... Way back in 1915, the historian Mary Beard predicted that the legacy of the social activism of the women of her generation would be a fundamental rethinking of "women's work in civilisation." The feminist critic Charlotte Perkins Gilman, though usually not a Pollyanna, also divined an ...
Black Popular Culture.
May 01, 1994; ... Black popular culture presents papers from a 1991 conference held jointly at the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Dia Center for the Arts in SoHo, in New York City. This combination of sites seems emblamatic of the problem of defining what is "black," what is "popular" and even what is ...
The Complete Novels and Selected Writings of Amy Levy: 1861-1889.
May 01, 1994; ... In the fall of 1992, just as I was leaving for England to do research on Amy Levy, an obscure but very gifted late-Victorian Anglo-Jewish writer, I heard that the University Press of Florida would soon be coming out with an edition of her work. It is now available, and I am delighted with ...