The Women's Review of Books articles from January 2002

The Women's Review of Books archives from January 2002

A long way from home.('Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadow of Affluence' and 'Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration, and Domestic Work')
January 1, 2002... Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadow of Affluence by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001, 284 pp., $19.95 paper. Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration, and...

Weekday warriors: Why the work culture of the World Trade Center is nothing to be proud of.
January 1, 2002... It always felt like a war zone to me. The huge, monolithic buildings. The dearth of sunlight, the vast barren stretches of concrete and, above all, the foreign, giant-scale money culture. It was all a far cry from my liberal arts degree, the...

The uses of solitude.('The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative')
January 1, 2002... The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative by Vivian Gornick. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 165 pp., $21.00 hardcover. A woman striding the streets of New York, quick eyes missing nothing, pausing to argue or laugh...

Bridging the ocean.('I Love You Like Crazy Cakes,' 'Wuhu Diary: On Taking My Adopted Daughter Back to Her Hometown in China,' 'Kids Like Me in China')(Children's Review)
January 1, 2002... I Love You Like Crazy Cakes by Rose A. Lewis, illustrated by Jane Dyer. New York: Little, Brown, 2000, 32 pp., watercolors, ages 4-6, $14.95 hardcover. Wuhu Diary: On Taking My Adopted Daughter Back to Her Hometown in China by Emily...

On and off the couch.('The Enigma of Anna O.: A Biography of Bertha Pappenheim')
January 1, 2002... The Enigma of Anna O.: A Biography of Bertha Pappenheim by Melinda Given Guttmann. Wickford, RI: Moyer Bell, 2001, 414 pp., $27.95 hardcover. Bertha Pappenheim (1859-1936) achieved fame twice over. Under her own name, she pioneered the...

Against the current.('A Promise and a Way of Life: White Antiracist Activism')
January 1, 2002... A Promise and a Way of Life: White Antiracist Activism by Becky Thompson. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2001, 457 pp., $34.95, hardcover, $19.95 paper. Writing about race and racism is increasingly concerned with...

Survival skills.('Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered')
January 1, 2002... Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered by Ruth Kluger. New York: The Feminist Press, 2001, 216 pp., $24.95 hardcover. Still Alive is about girlhood, about the Holocaust, about remembering. Can each be considered discretely? The...

Searching for wholeness.(four poetry collections)
January 1, 2002... Bat Ode by Jeredith Merrin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001, 68 pp., $15.00 paper. Coming Back to the Body by Joyce Sutphen. Duluth, MN: Holy Cow! Press, 2001, 109 pp., $13.95 paper. The Penultimate Suitor by Mary Leader....

Support the Women's Review.
January 1, 2002... "No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure' so lasting," said Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Reading may be cheap, but publishing isn't. Like many periodicals, we can't bring in all the income we need through subscription,...

Fragile strengths.('Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge')
January 1, 2002... Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge by Jill Fredston. New York: North Point Press/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001, 289 pp., $24.00 hardcover. Jill Fredston would be anyone's choice of travel companion: intelligent,...

Defining women's place.('In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America')
January 1, 2002... In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America by Alice Kessler-Harris. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, 416 pp., $35.00 hardcover. In 1920, Julia C. Lathrop, the first head of...

Enlightened self-interest.('On Her Own Terms: Annie Montague Alexander and the Rise of Science in the American West')
January 1, 2002... Enlightened self-interest: On Her Own Terms: Annie Montague Alexander and the Rise of Science in the American West by Barbara R. Stein. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001, 435 pp., $35.00 hardcover. Upper-class women,...

Motherwords.(Poem)
January 1, 2002... The commandment to honor our parents is the hardest of all. But only then will our relationships with those around us be transparent to us. And only then will our desire to be good be within our reach. --Lawrence Kushner although I...

The personal is... personal.('Young Wives' Tales: New Adventures in Love and Partnership')
January 1, 2002... Young Wives' Tales: New Adventures in Love and Partnership edited by Jill Corral and Lisa Miya-Jervis. Seattle, WA: Seal Press, 2001, 287 pp., $16.95 paper. At the last meeting of my book group--which consists of a lesbian couple of five...

Mirror images.('Shaping Losses: Cultural Memory and the Holocaust')
January 1, 2002... Mirror images: Shaping Losses: Cultural Memory and the Holocaust edited by Julia Epstein and Lori Hope Lefkovitz. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001, 233 pp., $21.95 paper. Picture a photographer framing an image: she knows that in...

Portrait of the artist.('Gwen Raverat: Friends, Family and Affections')
January 1, 2002... Portrait of the artist: Gwen Raverat: Friends, Family and Affections by Frances Spalding. London: The Harvill Press, 2001, 438 pp., $50.00 hardcover. British artist Gwen Darwin Raverat (1885-1957) has long deserved a biography befitting...