The Women's Review of Books articles from January 2001

The Women's Review of Books archives from January 2001

War without end.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2001... Women of the Afghan War by Deborah Ellis. Westport, CT: When somebody has fallen, maybe she will get up again, and stand up again. I will not live to see Afghanistan stand, because I am old, but the young generation may see it. The world...

Through the looking glass.
January 1, 2001... What does feminist Nader-bashing say about the priorities of the mainstream women's movement? I knew I needed to take stock of the feminist movement when an eighty-year-old woman noticed my "Another Babe for Nader" button and gave me the...

Laws of nature.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Reflections in Bullough's Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England by Diana Muir. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2000, $26.95 hardcover. Bullough's Pond, like the rest of the familiar New England landscape," writes Diana...

The life of the party.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Girl in Movement by Eva Kollisch. Thetford, VT: Glad Day Books, 2000, 264 pp., $16.95 hardcover. In this subtle narrative, Eva Kollisch details four years of her life, from 1941 to 1945. As a fourteen-year-old Austrian Jewish refugee newly...

Incendiary actions.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Fire & Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834 by Nancy Lusignan Shultz. New York: The Free Press, 2000; 310 pp., $25.00 hardcover. The leader of the Protestant crowd that torched the Ursuline convent 1834 in Charlestown,...

Speaking for herself.(Review)
January 1, 2001... An American Story by Debra J. Dickerson. New York: Pantheon Books, 2000, 285 pp., $24.00 hardcover. Debra Dickerson, an African American journalist with an exceptional life story, takes a bold and purposeful step in entitling her...

Small world.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Ants at Work: How an Insect Society is Organized by Deborah Gordon. New York: The Free Press, 1999, 182 pp., $25.00 hardcover, $13.95 paper. Like humans, ants are social creatures, which goes far in explaining our fascination with them....

Sexual politics.(Review)
January 1, 2001... My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home by Amber L. Hollibaugh. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000, 272 pp., $49.95 hardcover, $17.95 paper. I have lived on the wrong side of sex since birth. This is both who I am and...

Truth and reconciliation.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Fisher King by Paule Marshall. New York: Scribner, 2000, 222 pp., $23.00 hardcover. Kinship fractured by anger, unrelenting stubbornness and entrenched national prejudices are the primary subjects of Paule Marshall's fifth novel, The...

Breadlines and battlefields.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin by Belinda Davis. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2000, 349 pp., $55.00 hardcover, $24.95 paper. Home Fires Burning, a study of the "street...

Grand illusions.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Phantom Table: Woolf, Fry, Russell and the Epistomology of Modernism by Ann Banfield. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 433 pp., $49.95 hardcover. "Well, I was educated in the old Cambridge School." Virginia Woolf, letter...

Absolutely flabulous.(Review)(Periodical Review)
January 1, 2001... FAT! SO? by Marilyn Wann. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 1998, 208 pp., $12.95 paper. FAT! SO? edited by Marilyn Wann. P. O. Box 423464, San Francisco, CA 94142 or www.fatso.com. Four issues a year, $12. Founded 1994. Radiance: The...

Red-diaper mothers.(Review)
January 1, 2001

Short History of a Barn.(Poem)
January 1, 2001... A tolerable level of loss. We were being reasonable. Dry eyed, walking up the road. Sensible. It was tolerable. The startling grass. The boat in the barn. The conversation productive. We were doing good work we said. ...