The Women's Review of Books articles from January 2000

The Women's Review of Books archives from January 2000

Fatherless figures.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man, by Susan Faludi. New York: William Morrow, 1999, 662 pp., $27:50 hardcover. Maybe it's because I went to Sing Sing the day Sputnik went up that Susan Faludi's Stiffed failed from the outset to...

No end in sight.(Review)
January 1, 2000... A Darker Ribbon: Breast Cancer, Women, and Their Doctors in the Twentieth Century, by Ellen Boston: Beacon Press 1999, 282 pp., $27.50 hardcover. IN 1960, RACHEL CARSON, then 53 years old, underwent a radical mastectomy for breast cancer....

Temperance and intemperance.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Domesticating Drink: Women, Men, and Alcohol in America, 1870-1940, by Catherine Gilbert Murdock. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998, 244 pp. $38.50 hardcover. GETTING SWEPT UP in a cause is like falling in love. In the...

Death and the maiden.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Tea, by Stacey D'Erasmo. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2000, 317 pp., $2l.95 hardcover. THE TERM "COMING-OF-AGE NOVEL" always seemed to me a fairly vague rubric until I spent several years reviewing first fiction; after...

Movers and Quakers.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Daughters of Light: Quaker Women Preaching and Prophesying in the Colonies and Abroad, 1700-1775, by Rebecca Larson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999, 382 pp., $35.00 hardcover. IN 1876, THE REVEREND Isaac See was hauled before Presbyterian...

IF YOU COULD TAKE IT WITH YOU.
January 1, 2000... WHAT WOULD YOU MOST WANT TO BRING FROM THE PAST MILLENNIUM INTO THE NEW ONE? What would you most want to bring the past millenium into the new one? We asked some of our contributors to this question: Here are their answers. ...

From pain to pleasure.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Garden of Exile, Poems, by Aleida Rodriguez. Louisville, KY: Sarabande Books, 1999, 96 pp., $20.95 hardcover, $12.95 paper. Rave: Poems, 1975-1999, by Olga Broumas. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1999, 352 pp., $28.00 hardcover,...

Citizen Jane.(Review)
January 1, 2000... A Useful Woman: The Early Life of Jane Addams, by Gioia Diliberto. New York: Lisa Drew/Scribner, 1999, 266 pp., $26.00 hardcover. GIOlA DILIBERTO'S readable account of Jane Addams' first forty years reminds us that we should know more about...

Dazed and confused.(Review)
January 1, 2000... What She Left Me, by Judy Doenges. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1999, 173 pp., $22.95 hardcover. MARIE, THE NARRATOR of one of the stories in What She Left Me, kneels on the floor of her apartment and looks down on the...

Bright particular star.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment, by Isobel Grundy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, 628 pp., $45.00 hardcover. IN 1716 AN ANONYMOUS PAMPHLET claimed that a comet over Constantinople had marked "the arrival of...

Memory I.(Poem)
January 1, 2000... Washington, DC, 1956 To say that my father came from a village and by his own cunning and hard work got out would be dull. You have heard that story before. But at university, he became completely English, fedora to...

Squash game.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Diana in Search of Herself: Portrait of a Troubled Princess, by Sally Bedell Smith. New York: Times Books, 1999, 451 pp., $25.00 hardcover. FEMINIST PSYCHOLOGISTS and psychiatrists have pointed out that masculinity is the reigning norm for...