The Women's Review of Books articles from January 2008

The Women's Review of Books archives from January 2008

The invisible mothers.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2008... Dear Editor, Upon reading Martha Nichols' review of two books on transnational and cross racial adoption (September/October 2007), I feel compelled to raise a voice for the birth mothers whom Nichols does not mention. She does address the...

The stay-at-home pushmepullyou.(Opting Out?: Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home )(Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success )(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Opting Out?: Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home By Pamela Stone Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007, 295 pp., $24.95, hardcover Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success By...

The language of the enemy.(A Golden Age )(Book review)
January 1, 2008... A Golden Age By Tahmima Anam New York: Harper, 2008, 288 pp., $24.95, hardcover Tahmima Anam's novel takes place mainly during the nine-month civil war between West and East Pakistan--the War of Liberation as it is now referred...

Stepping out and moving forward.(Barefootin': Life Lessons on the Road to Freedom)(When We Were Colored: A Mother's Story)(Invisible Activists: Women of the Louisiana NAACP and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1915-1945)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Barefootin': Life Lessons on the Road to Freedom By Unita Blackwell (with JoAnne Prichard Morris) New York: Crown Publishers, 2006, 258 pp., $19.95, paperback When We Were Colored: A Mother's Story ...

Jane Rule: inventing and reinventing community.(Interview)(Interview)
January 1, 2008... Note: Jane Rule died on Tuesday, November 27, 2007, at her home on Galiano Island, British Columbia, in the company of family and friends. It was Jane's choice, once she found out she had terminal cancer, to seek only palliative care and to...

Gender criminals.(Women in Prison: Inside the Concrete Womb )(From Witches to Crack Morns: Women, Drug Law, and Policy )(Neither Angels nor Demons )(Freeing Tammy: Women, Drugs, and Incarceration )(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Women in Prison: Inside the Concrete Womb By Kathryn Watterson Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1996 (revised edition), 402 pp., $26.00, paperback From Witches to Crack Morns: Women, Drug Law, and Policy By Susan Boyd...

The howling continues.(Shakespeare's Kitchen )(Tell Me Another Morning )(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Shakespeare's Kitchen By Lore Segal New York and London: The New Press, 2007, 225 pp., $22.95, hardcover Tell Me Another Morning By Zdena Berger Ashfield, MA: Paris Press, 2007, 288 pp., $15.95, paperback ...

What love should be/what it is.(Good Reads)(Landing)(Harpsong)(Away)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Landing by Emma Donoghue New York: Harcourt, 2007, 324 pp., $25.00, hardcover Harpsong by Rilla Askew Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007, 245 pp., $24.95, hardcover Away by Amy Bloom New...

Nature, Unspeaking.(Poetry)(Poem)
January 1, 2008... Nature, Unspeaking Just clouds, and clouds of yellow pollen over the wet birds' choked tweep: And nothing is awake but you (and awake all night) and the thin squirrels in the windy barn In all this rustling and...

Still.(Poetry)(Poem)
January 1, 2008... Still I. The man is planted like a stem among supermarket flowers and produce, told, Stay right here, don't move. Stillness is all there is in him, and blankness disguised as patience. He does not...

Photojournalist of record: Marilyn Humphries.(Photography)
January 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Over the past 27 years, Marilyn Humphries, an independent photojournalist, has become the photographer of record for many of Boston's progressive movements. She has dedicated herself to capturing the lesbian, gay...

Chasing Ani.(Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics By Jennifer Baumgardner New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, 244 pp., $24.00, hardcover In her new book Look Both Ways, Jennifer Baumgardner develops the image of...

Then and now: what have the sexual "revolutions" wrought?(Essay)(Essay)
January 1, 2008... I can't reread Alix Kates Shulman's Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen (1972), newly reissued, without wincing at how awful "dating" was when I was young. Shulman's heroine experiences many then-predictable disasters: illegal abortion, bodily...

Searching for an apology.(Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route )(Book review)
January 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route By Saidiya Hartman New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, 270 pp., $25.00, hardcover Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother is a scholar's...

Creating herself.(Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and the Image)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and the image By Bennetta Jules-Rosette. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007, 368 pp., $35.00, paperback [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Josephine Baker's life has engaged...

The wide plain and the limitless world.(Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations By Georgina Howell New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, 481 pp., $27.50, hardcover [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) was hardly the first Victorian...

The last of everything.(The Last Empress )(The Last Chinese Chef )(The Last Communist Virgin )(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Last Empress By Anchee Min Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2007, 352 pp., $25.00, hardcover The Last Chinese Chef By Nicole Mones Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2007, 278 pp., $24.00, hardcover ...