The Women's Review of Books articles from April 2001

The Women's Review of Books archives from April 2001

Refusing and resisting.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture by Katha Pollitt. New York: Modern Library, 2001, 332 pp., $13.95 paper. Is there a feminist who hasn't wished, at one time or another, that she could be Katha Pollitt?...

Letters.
April 1, 2001... To the Editor: I am writing to respond to J. Lee Polnachek's article in the January 2001 Women's Review of Books, [subtitled] "What Does Feminist Nader-Bashing Say about the Priorities of the Mainstream Women's Movement?" I would like to...

Charmed life.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Always Beginning by Maxine Kumin. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2000, 237 pp., $17.00 paper. Inside the Halo and Beyond: The Anatomy of a Recovery by Maxine Kumin. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000, 206 pp., $21.95 hardcover. I...

Personal best.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Saturday's Child: A Memoir by Robin Morgan. New York: W.W. Norton, 2001, 503 pp., $27.95 hardcover. Midway through her compulsively readable memoir, Robin Morgan reveals that her friend, composer Ned Rorem, once said of her that she "finds...

Hopeless cases.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care by Nina Bernstein. New York: Pantheon Books, 2001, 462 pp., $27.50 hardcover. It is the puzzle of the century. No system in America--not even welfare itself--has had the...

Out of the shadow.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois by Gerald Home. New York: New York University Press, 2000, 400 pp., $28.95 hardcover. On many Sunday afternoons my father and I would pile into his 1953 Plymouth sedan and drive several...

In terra incognita.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000, 282 pp., $24.00 hardcover. According to axiom, character is fate. This leaves unexamined, however, the part fate plays in shaping character. In her impressive...

Shooting star.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Shutterbabe: Adventures in Love and War by Deborah Copaken Kogan. New York: Villard Books, 2000, 320 pp., $24.95 hardcover. Based on hearsay, I was fully prepared to have fun making light of this hook. I was wrong. The book...

Fantasy lives.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity by Lisa Duggan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001, 297 pp., $17.95 paper. Lisa Duggan's wonderful new book charts a departure from the genre of US lesbian and gay social history....

Readers digest.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Cool, Calm and Collected: Poems 1960-2000 by Carolyn Kizer. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2000, 400 pp., $30.00 hardcover. The Butcher's Apron: New and Selected Poems by Diane Wakoski. Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow...

Tales of the city.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism by Rebecca Solnit, photographs by Susan Schwartzenberg. New York: Verso, 2001, 160 pp., $27.00 hardcover. Rebecca Solnit, a former art historian and author of...

Shameless.(Poem)
April 1, 2001... after a photo in Life magazine, 1944 If she is still among the living and not in some bone heap like those found a few months later at Auschwitz, her hair would have grown white and airy as dandelion fluff. In the photo...

Twin.(Poem)
April 1, 2001... Mirror cracked in the womb, once I caught you in the Sacramento's glass-- I stood in smooth current, back warmed by the sun, and saw your filaments shoot a nimbus around my form. I took the radiance for more than...

Guilty pleasures.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Collected Stories by Ellen Gilchrist. Boston: Little Brown, 2000, 563 pp., $27.95 hardcover. I've always been a fan of Ellen Gilchrist. Partly it's just that the places she loves are also the places I love--San Francisco, New Orleans, the...

Setting the scene.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Latina Performance: Traversing the Stage by Alicia Arrizon. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2000, 208 pp., $18.95 paper. How does a Latina bring her female body out onto the stage? Her own culture, steeped in the traditions...

For better or worse.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation by Nancy F. Cott. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000, 297 pp., $27.95 hardcover. The work of historian Nancy Cott addresses important issues of gender change in the United...