The Women's Review of Books articles from January 1999

The Women's Review of Books archives from January 1999

A Season in Hell: A Memoir.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Marilyn French. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998, 255 pp., $23.00 hardcover. The risk of breast cancer for women in the United States is one in ten by the age of eighty; one out of every 55 women will get ovarian or primary peritoneal...

Wet Earth and Dreams: A Narrative of Grief and Recovery.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Jane Lazarre. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998, 122 pp., $17.95 hardcover. The risk of breast cancer for women in the United States is one in ten by the age of eighty; one out of every 55 women will get ovarian or primary...

Mary Mamie O'Brien: July 8, 1926 - October 19, 1998.(Obituary)
January 1, 1999... We were very sorry to hear of the recent death of feminist thinker Mary O'Brien, who was one of our first writers and an early and enthusiastic supporter of the Women's Review. Her former colleagues, Frieda Forman and Angela Miles of the...

Master Georgie.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Beryl Bainbridge. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1998, 190 pp., $21.00 hardcover. In her two previous novels, The Birthday Boys and Every Man for Himself, Beryl Bainbridge took her fiction in a new direction, creating a distinctive kind of...

Seeing Ourselves: Women's Self-Portraits.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Frances Borzello. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998, 244 pp., $55.00 hardcover. Seeing ourselves: Women's Self-Portraits follows the feminine principle as author and motif through its expressions and redefinitions over more than five...

Empty Without You: The Intimate Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by Rodger Streitmatter. New York: The Free Press, 1998, 298 pp., $25.00 hardcover. In this bitter moment of backlash, lynching and homophobia, it is refreshing to see the cordial response to Rodger Streitmatter's selections from the...

Ecological Politics: Ecofeminists and the Greens.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Greta Gaard. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1998, 324 pp., $59.95 hardcover, $22.95 paper. It was a glorious summer day in upstate New York, where I live, but I'd just read the latest data from our local scientific field...

Adios, Barbie: Young Women Write About Body Image and Identity.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by Ophira Edut. Seattle: Seal Press, 1998, 288 pp., $14.95 paper. In the opening paragraphs of her essay in Adios, Barbie, Amy Richards writes that "For many women, our bodies have become the canvasses upon which our struggles paint...

Inner Hunger: A Young Woman's Struggle Through Anorexia and Bulimia.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Marianne Apostolides. New York: W. W. Norton, 1998, 171 pp., $22.00 hardcover. In the opening paragraphs of her essay in Adios, Barbie, Amy Richards writes that "For many women, our bodies have become the canvasses upon which our...

Real Girl/Real World: Tools for Finding Your True Self.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Heather M. Gray and Samantha Phillips. Seattle: Seal Press, 1998, 240 pp., $14.95 hardcover. In the opening paragraphs of her essay in Adios, Barbie, Amy Richards writes that "For many women, our bodies have become the canvasses upon...

Driving to Detroit: An Automotive Odyssey.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Lesley Hazleton. New York: Simon and Chuster, 1998, 304 pp., $25.00 hardcover. On-the-road books are the Ur-narratives of our invading culture; they hearken back to voyages of discovery and to the building of the roads themselves. The...

The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum ed.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by R. W. Franklin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998, 3 vols., 1654 pp., $125.00 hardcover. For complex reasons, Emily Dickinson chose not to become a published poet during her lifetime. A leading theory suggests that she...

The Love of a Good Woman.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Alice Munro. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998, 340 pp., $24.00 hardcover. Fans of Alice Munro's earlier short story collections will find familiar rewards in her new book, The Love of a Good Woman: the same rich language, the same...

Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By B. Ruby Rich. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998, 448 pp., $59.95 hardcover, $18.95 paper. Writing about women as spectators of Hollywood cinema, B. Ruby Rich once protested that the choices have been "to identify either with...

'Tu Bishvat' in the Redwoods: a meditation suite for the earth.(poem)
January 1, 1999... Composed for the Tu Bishvat Seder at Headwater Forest, January 26, 1997 1. Here we are. We are here. And why, when here, do we always want more? 2. Here you are, back in the redwood forest - how tall the fir trees, how...

Francesca Woodman.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Francesca Woodman, edited by Herve Chandes. Zurich, Switzerland and New York: Scalo, 1998, 160 pp., $39.95 hardcover. The two teenaged girls in the photograph are bare-breasted. Leaning shoulder to shoulder and hip to hip against the...

The Traffic in Women: Human Realities of the International Sex Trade.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Siriporn Skrobanek, Nataya Boonpakdee and Chutima Jantateero. London, UK: Zed Books, 1997, 119 pp., $55.00 hardcover, $17.50 paper In 1911, shortly after the wobblies began to organize prostitutes, Emma Goldman's The Traffic in Women...

Night Market: Sexual Cultures and the Thai Economic Miracle.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Ryan Bishop and Lillian S. Robinson. New York: Routledge, 1998, 271 pp., $75.00 hardcover, $17.99 paper. In 1911, shortly after the wobblies began to organize prostitutes, Emma Goldman's The Traffic in Women enraged suffragists -...