The Women's Review of Books articles from April 2000

The Women's Review of Books archives from April 2000

Black in black and white.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present edited by Kathleen Thompson and Hilary Mac Austin. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1999, 272 pp., $35.00 hardcover. In her enthusiastic...

Letters.
April 1, 2000... Dear Editor: I settled down to a leisurely lunch accompanied by your February issue. Tucking into the lead review, "Making Change" [review of Walking Back Up Depot Street by Minnie Bruce Pratt, reviewed by Kate Daniels], my anticipation...

Crossing the bar.(Obituary)
April 1, 2000... Sarah Caudwell's niece remembers the mystery writer who died last January Sarah Caudwell died on January 28 of this year, in London, in the act of completing the Times crossword. Lawyer, crime writer, playwright, Caudwell was celebrated...

Big bad Woolf.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Virginia Woolf Icon by Brenda R. Silver. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000, 283 pp., $54.00 hardcover, $19.00 paper. When a writer achieves a celebrity status yoked to her physical appearance, she becomes a cultural icon that many...

Hormone mistreatment.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality by Anne Fausto-Sterling. New York: Basic Books, 2000, 449 pp., $35.00 hardcover. In March, 1993, a highly provocative op-ed appeared in The New York Times. In "How many...

She was a camera.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Germaine Krull: Photographer of Modernity by Kim Sichel. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1999, 355 pp., $65.00 hardcover. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then Germaine Krull's photography speaks tomes, as Kim Sichel shows in the...

Coarse adoptions.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction by Linda Gordon. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999, 407 pp., $29.95 hardcover. In spite of its ride, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction focuses on parents rather than children--on the Anglo...

Radical recollections.(Review)
April 1, 2000... In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution by Susan Brownmiller. New York: The Dial Press, 1999, 330 pp., $24.95 hardcover. Susan Brownmiller is one of the best-known pioneers of the radical women's liberation movement. An early activist in...

The other rules.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Just Sex: Students Rewrite the Rules on Sex, Violence, Activism, and Equality edited by Jodi Gold and Susan Villari. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000, 313 Pp., $17.95 paper. I took two books with me on my last vacation: a cheap...

Working woman.(Review)
April 1, 2000... A Lifetime of Labor: The Autobiography of Alice H. Cook with a Foreword by Arlen Kaplan Daniels. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1998, 354 pp., $29.95 hardcover. Alice Hanson Cook lived a long and productive...

Imagining the unimaginable.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Women's Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination by S. Lillian Kremer. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1999, 320 pp., $45.00 hardcover. It is 1939. In Lodz, a prominent Polish city now under Nazi German rule, Grandfather Well...

No more Martians?(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private by Susan Bordo. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1999, 347 pp., $25.00 hardcover. Susan Bordo's beautifully written book brought back a reaction I had to reading Simone de Beauvoir's...

End games.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Girls by Helen Yglesias. New York: Delphinium Books, 1999, 224 pp., $19.00 hardcover. Increased longevity has meant more illness and disability for many Americans, a situation that will grow worse with the burgeoning of the over-85...

Nights at the opera.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Under the Rose: A Confession by Flavia Alaya. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1999, 400 pp., $25.95 hardcover. In one of several references to Simone de Beauvoir that Flavia Alaya makes in her...

CORRECTION.(Correction Notice)
April 1, 2000... Our March issue included a review by Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild of Till My Tale is Told: Women Memoirs of the Gulag, edited by Simeon Vilensky. An epigraph at the head of the review quoted a passage from Anna Akhmatova but omitted the source...

The Great Flood.(Poem)
April 1, 2000... From the air I see the ancient flood plain clear as a map of itself, the broken banks, the sodden fields surrendered to the river. St. Louis bricks so dense they wall up centuries, the rough mortar of remembrance...