The Women's Review of Books articles from April 2003

The Women's Review of Books archives from April 2003

Out of the rubble: competing perspectives on the lives of Afghan women.(books about discrimmination against women in Afghanistan)
April 1, 2003... When the United States made its opening gambit in the war against terrorism by bombing Afghanistan in October 2001, the need to liberate Afghan women from the Taliban regime lent moral justification to the attacks. Among some who had long...

A country in fragments.(book on women in Zimbabwe)(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... The Stone Virgins by Yvonne Vera. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003, 184 pp., $18.00 hardcover. In a nation where fear has ruled for decades, Yvonne Vera has consistently spoken out against injustice and violence. Vera, the author...

Come September: will things get better after they get worse?
April 1, 2003... Living as I do, as millions of us do, in the shadow of the nuclear holocaust that the governments of India and Pakistan keep promising their brainwashed citizenry, and in the global neighborhood of the War Against Terror (what President Bush...

Arrested development.(book on children's literature)(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Boys and Girls Forever: Children's Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter by Alison Lurie. New York: Penguin Books, 2003, 208 pp., $13.00 paper. In her foreword to Boys and Girls Forever, Alison Lurie outlines her thesis and offers, an...

Stranger than fiction.(book about Alzheimer's disease)(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... The Story of My Father: A Memoir by Sue Miller. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003, 174 pp., $22.50 hardcover. A mazon.com's over 700 books on Alzheimer's are medicine-wagon stuff for the most part, but about a quarter are first-person...

Participant observer.(book about women in Iran)(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Inside Iran: Women's Lives by Jane Howard. Washington, DC: Mage Publishers, 2002, 255 pp., $29.95 paper. To most outsiders," writes Jane Howard, a former correspondent for the BBC World Service and The Guardian, "Iran remains a mystery."...

The view from the couch.(book on psychotherapy)(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... The Thief of Happiness: The Story of an Extraordinary Psychotherapy by Bonnie Friedman. Boston: Beacon Press, 2002, 274 pp., $24.00 hardcover, $16.00 paper. In Bonnie Friedman's memoir about seven years of therapy, she follows what Freud...

Inside the revolution.(book on Nicaraguan politics)(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War by Gioconda Belli, translated by Kristina Cordero with the author. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2002, 380 pp., $25.00 hardcover. Like many other North Americans and other...

Love after 9/11.(Poem)
April 1, 2003... Love after 9/11 1. The worst photos were not beaming wedding birthday graduation taped to lampposts subway billboards any walls at all not even the ones you start to recognize yeah that's Angele Brendan Carmen Teresa last...

One child at a time.(book about foster parenting)(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Another Place at the Table by Kathy Harrison. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2003, 240 pp., $23.95 hardcover. I am puzzled how to approach Kathy Harrison's book. Should it be looked at as an ordinary woman's day-to-day journal of the...

From kimchi to ketchup.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... In Full Bloom by Caroline Hwang. New York: Dutton, 2003, 291 pp., $23.95 hardcover. Inhabiting the space between worlds can leave one with the uncomfortable feeling of having two identities and none at all. The Korean American narrator of...

Survival skills.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... The Chelsea Whistle by Michelle Tea. New York: Seal Press, 2002, 331 pp., $14.95 paper. For anyone in their thirties, reading Michelle Teas coming-of-age memoir The Chelsea Whistle will be a lot like reconnecting with a childhood...

Low finance.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Good Faith by Jane Smiley. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003, 414 pp., $26.00 hardcover. Jane Smiley's twelfth book is a big novel. In 414 pages she introduces scores of characters (some larger than life) and such hot topics as property...

Apostle of anarchy.(book on activist Emma Goldman)(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume One: Made for America, 1890-1901 edited by Candace Falk, Barry Pateman and Jessica Moran. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, pp., $60.00 hardcover. No more Emma,...

Earnestly erotic.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Unauthorized Pleasures: Accounts of Victorian Erotic Experience by Ellen Bayuk Rosenman. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003, 218 pp., $49.95 hardcover, $18.95 paper. Seduced scholars assure us periodically that Victorians' sex...