Women's Review of Books
Since 1983 the Women's Review of Books has provided a forum for serious, informed discussion of new writing by and about women. Women’s Review of Books provides a unique perspective on today’s literary landscape and feature essays and in-depth reviews of new books by and about women. After suspending publication in December 2004 the Women’s Review of Books was relaunched in January 2006 in collaboration with Old City Publishing of Philadelphia.
November/December 2008
- Playing the Game Square
An Illuminated Life: Belle da Costa Greene's Journey from Prejudice to Privilege
By Heidi Ardizzone
Reviewed by Marilyn Richardson
- Rape Culture
Rape: Sex, Violence, History
By Joanna Bourke
Reviewed by Jody Raphael
- Reading the Book of the Earth
When the Ground Turns in its Sleep
By Sylvia Sellers-Garcia
Reviewed by Martha Gies
- Welfare Reform to Suit the State
Welfare Reform and Sexual Regulation
By Anna Marie Smith
Reviewed by Jean Hardisty
- Syphilis of the Innocent
Amalia's Tale: An Impoverished Peasant Woman, an Ambitious Attorney,
and a Fight for Justice By David I. Kertzer
Reviewed by Susan M. Reverby
- Cartoon
Written in Stone
By Nicole Schulman
- The Nonanxiety of Influence
Fragment of the Head of a Queen By Cate Marvin;
Blessings and Inclemencies By Constance Merritt;
The Dirty Side of the Sotrm By Martha Serpas
Reviewed by Kate Daniels
- Poetry of Science
What the Blood Knows By Peggy Miller; Constituents of Matter
By Anna Leahy; One-Breasted Woman By Susan Deborah King
Reviewed by Janet McCann
- Field Notes
The Text as Fellowship: Remembering Miriam Goodman
By Robin Becker
- Poetry
By Carolyne Wright
- Heat and Fire
Map of Ireland
By Stephanie Grant
Reviewed by Carol Anshaw
- Doing Science Differently
Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer among
the Romantics By Renee Bergland; Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of
TelomeresBy Catherine Brady
Reviewed by Kathleen Ochs
- The Truth in the Middle
To Love What Is: A Marriage Transformed
By Alix Kates Shulman
Reviewed by Diana Postlethwaite
- The Awesome Body
Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body
By Jennifer Ackerman; Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss -
and the Myths and Realities of DietingBy Gina Kolata; Perfect Girls,
Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body By Courtney E. Martin Reviewed by Lori Rotskoff
- Of Love and Loss
Loving the Difficult
By Jane Rule
Reviewed by Marilyn R. Schuster
- The Immigrant Generations
Unaccustomed Earth
By Jhumpa Lahiri
Reviewed by Mandira Sen
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