The Women's Review of Books articles from February 2003

The Women's Review of Books archives from February 2003

Free and fair.(Today, Free for All: Liberty in America)(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Free for All: Liberty in America Today by Wendy Kaminer. Boston: Beacon Press, 2002, 235 pp., $16.00 paper. Wendy Kaminer's philosophy could be summed up as "fair is fair." As a social critic and lawyer focusing on civil liberties and...

Passionate politician.(Madam Prime Minister: A Life in Power and Politics)(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Madam Prime Minister: A Life in Power and Politics by Gro Harlem Brunddand. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002, 485 pp., $35.00 hardcover. Over the past year, banner photos of world leaders have reminded me of that indomitable...

In a WASP nest.(The Book of Sarahs: A Family in Parts)(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... The Book of Sarahs: A Family in Parts by Catherine E. McKinley. New York: Counterpoint, 2002, 292 pp., $24.00 hardcover. Identity is social, not individual: the question "Who am I?" is indistinguishable from the question "Where do I...

Across the great divide.(Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance)(States, Talk About Sex: The Battles Over Sex Education in the United)(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Talk About Sex: The Battles Over Sex Education in the United States by Janice M. Irvine. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002, 271 pp., $25.95 hardcover. Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance...

Permanent exile.(Girl with Two Landscapes: The Wartime Diary of Lena Jedwab, 1941-1945)(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Girl with Two Landscapes: The Wartime Diary of Lena Jedwab, 1941-1945 by Lena Jedwab Rozenberg, translated by Solon Beinfeld. New York: Holmes and Meier, 2002, 190 pp., $24.95 hardcover. Like Anne Frank, Etty Hillesum and Hannah Senesh,...

Think globally, act globally.(Interview)
February 1, 2003... Mary Robinson puts human rights on everyone's agenda Mary Robinson may well be the most tough-compassion, pragmatic human rights advocate of recent times. Appearing last December as the key moderator for the State of the World Forum's...

Forging the family.(Strangers and Kin: The American Way of Adoption)(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Strangers and Kin: The American Way of Adoption by Barbara Melosh. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002, 326 pp., $29.95 hardcover. Despite their far greater visibility, adoptive families are less common in the US now than they were in...

Reaping what we sow.(Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture)(Chez Panisse Fruit)(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture edited by Andrew Kimbell, Washington, DC: Island Press, 2002, 384 pp., $45.00 paper. Chez Panisse Fruit by Alice Waters. New York: HarperCollins, 2002, 327 pp., $34.94 hardcover. ...

Giant garbage, unsold goods.(Womansword: What Japanese Words Say About Women)(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Womansword: What Japanese Words Say About Women by Kittredge Cherry. New York: Kodansha International, 2002, 150 PP., $16.00 paper. Within five minutes of meeting the landlord of my Tokyo apartment, I was lost. The syllables sounded like...

Fertility goddess.(Conquering Infertility: Dr. Alice Domar's Mind/Body Guide to Enhancing Fertility)(Coping with Infertility)(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Conquering Infertility: Dr. Alice Domar's Mind/Body Guide to Enhancing Fertility and Coping with Infertility by Alice Domar and Alice Lesch Kelly. New York: Viking, 2002, 320 pp., $24.95 hardcover. My mother is a feminist academic who...

A checkered career.(Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir)(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir by Lillian Faderman. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003, 356 pp., $26.00 hardcover. Through the life of one woman, Naked in the Promised Land captures the history of an era. One lesbian's fear of her...

The analyst's analyst.(Circle, Analyzing Freud: Letters of H.D., Bryher and Their)(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Analyzing Freud: Letters of H.D., Bryher and Their Circle edited by Susan Stanford Friedman. New York: New Directions, 2002, 615 pp., $39.95 hardcover. What was it like to be psychoanalyzed by Sigmund Freud? In the spring of 1933 and fall...

Drowning in data.(Publicity's Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy)(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Publicity's Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy by Jodi Dean. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002, 211 pp., $17.95 paper. The World Wide Web has made those with access wary of surveillance, loss of privacy, identity...

Long before Oprah.(Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies)(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies by Elizabeth McHenry. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002, 423 pp., $18.95 paper. Kathryn Johnson, an unknown Black entrepreneur, spent several years...

Polluted by history.(The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World)(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World edited by Alison H. Deming and Lauret E. Savoy. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2002, 210 pp., $18.95 paper. What is the color of nature? Does the cultural lens of the...

Free to be she.(How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States)(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States by Joanne Meyerowitz. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002, 363 pp., $29.95 hardcover. The story of Christine Jorgensen's sex change broke on December 1, 1952 with...

The Bookshelf.(Bibliography)
February 1, 2003... Each month we list the recently published books received during the preceding month or so which we think readers of the Women's Review will want to know about. This is, however, a very partial selection of the books by and about women published...