The Women's Review of Books articles from February 2001

The Women's Review of Books archives from February 2001

Letters.
February 1, 2001... Dear Editor, I consider J. Polnachek's article, "Through the looking glass: what does feminist Nader-bashing say about the priorities of the mainstream women's movement?" (January 2001) a truly blockbuster article. Totally important, a...

CORRECTION.(Correction Notice)
February 1, 2001... In our January 2001 issue we published a review of Paule Marshall's novel The Fisher King by Suzette Spencer. Ms. Spencer has asked us to note that the tide she originally gave to the review, "Reclamation, Restoration, and Rebirth" did not...

"Is this the party to whom I am speaking?".(dangers, frauds and hoaxes on the Internet)(Critical Essay)
February 1, 2001... Women, credibility and the Internet Most people have by now seen the famous New Yorker cartoon of two dogs sitting at the computer. Remarking on the way online technology can be used to mask identity, one canine says to the other, "On the...

Participant observer.(author Ellen Ullman)(Interview)
February 1, 2001... Ellen Ullman talks about the facts and fictions of high technology Ellen Ullman first became interested in computer technology in the early 1970s as an English major at Cornell University. She was intrigued by early computer-aided...

The Test: Chapter One.(Short Story)
February 1, 2001... A Proustian moment at the immigration counter A computer can execute millions of instructions in a second. The human brain, in comparison, is painfully slow. The memories of a single year, for instance, took me a full thirty seconds to...

Head hunting in cyberspace.(race on the Internet)
February 1, 2001... Identity tourism, Asian avatars and racial passing on the Web As the well-known quote goes, "on the Internet; nobody knows you're a dog" Is it accurate also to say that on the Internet, nobody can tell what race you are? For the large (and...

When stories come alive.(author Janet H. Murray)(Interview)
February 1, 2001... Janet H. Murray sees an exciting future for electronic creativity Janet H. Murray now directs the Information Design and Technology Program at Georgia Institute of Technology, but she began her academic career in Victorian literature. Her...

Counting our mixed blessings.(impact of computers on academics)
February 1, 2001... Seven academics assess the computer's impact on their lives and work Conversion experience I refused and resisted computer technology for years. I was the Women's Studies "hold out" and often, if generously and gently, teased by my...

Smoke and mirrors.(evaluation of the Internet economy)(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2001... How does the promise of the Internet match up to the reality? You know that annoying Sock Puppet? This past November, he lost his owner. Pets.com had attracted over half a million customers, but its growing sales couldn't keep up with...

When women write the code.(research scientist Kathy Richardson)(Interview)
February 1, 2001... Kathy Richardson reflects on the present and future of women in computing technology Kathy Richardson is a research scientist at Compaq's Western Research Lab. She describes the goals of her work there as "folding computing directly into...

The time of their lives.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement by Constance Curry, Joan C. Browning and others. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2000, 379 pp., $29.95 hardcover At the start of the sixties, the lunch-counter sit ins...

Traveling hopefully.(Review)
February 1, 2001... The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd by Mary Rose O'Reiliey. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2000, 321 pp., $22.95 hardcover. Arecent article in the "Faith and Values" section of my...

The poisoned lotus.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China by Wang Ping. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2000, 320 pp., $27.95 hardcover. Sometimes when I walk through the hutong or alleyway near our foreign compound in Beijing I see an old...

Home for the holidays.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Celebrating the Family: Ethnicity, Consumer Culture, and Family Rituals by Elizabeth H. Pleck. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000, 328 pp., $55.00 hardcover, $22.95 paper. I read this book at the same time I read the New York...

United they stood.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Packinghouse Daughter by Cheri Register St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2000, 280 pp., $24.95 hardcover. Why should we read Cheri Register's life story, one more memoir in the glut flooding the market, one penned by the...

Making modern mothers.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Motherhood in Black and White: Race and Sex in American Liberalism, 1930-1965 by Ruth Feldstein. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000, 320 pp., $45.00 hardcover, $18.95 paper. The Congressional debates that led to passage of the 1996...

Anxiety attacks.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Marked Men: White Masculinity in Crisis by Sally Robinson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000, 259 PP., $17.50 paper. In popular culture today, winners are heroes; heroes are celebrities; and celebrities deserve to be rich. The last...

Matter over mind?(Review)
February 1, 2001... Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry by T. M. Luhrmann. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2000, 337 pp., $26.95 hardcover. If you've never been to a psychiatrist, be warned. No matter how desperate you may feel, after reading...

Sugar without spice.(Review)
February 1, 2001... The Moon Pearl by Ruthanne Lum McCunn. Boston: Beacon Press, 2000, 316 pp. $24.00 hardcover. In the 1970s, Americans started studying Buddhism, Nixon went to China, white people discovered tofu, and a whole slew of vegetarian restaurants...