The Women's Review of Books articles from July 2008

The Women's Review of Books archives from July 2008

Baking a new pie.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2008... Half way through the WRB review of The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics (March/April 2008), I was stunned. How could the reviewers so misread and misrepresent this book? Their first paragraphs gave a pretty accurate picture...

Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman (Book)
July 1, 2008... Hanoi Journal 1967 By Carol Cohen McEldowney Edited by Suzanne Kelley McCormack and Elizabeth R. Mock Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007, 151 pp., $22.95, paperback Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a...

Never give in, never give up.(Bella Abzug: An Oral History, How One Tough Broad from the Bronx Fought Joe McCarthy, Pissed off Jimmy Carter, Battled for the Rights of Women and Workers, Rallied Against War and for the Planet, and Shook Up Politics Along the Way)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Bella Abzug: An Oral History: How One Tough Broad from the Bronx Fought Joe McCarthy, Pissed off Jimmy Carter, Battled for the Rights of Women and Workers, Rallied Against War and for the Planet, and Shook Up Politics Along the Way By...

Citizens of the affluent society?(The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in America; Life after Welfare: Reform and the Persistence of Poverty)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in America By Felicia Kornbluh Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007, 287 pp., $24.95, paperback Life after Welfare: Reform and the Persistence of Poverty By...

Our Bodies, Ourselves lives!(The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminism Travels across Borders)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminist Knowledge Travels Across Borders By Kathy Davis Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007, 288 pp, $22.9S, paperback [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For many US feminists of my...

Families of affinity.(Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families Under The Law)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families Under The Law By Nancy Polikoff Boston: Beacon Press, 2008, 259 pp., $24.95, hardcover The same-sex marriage debate is actually two debates. The more well-known version is...

"I will tell everything".(The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing Up in the Warsaw Ghetto; Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing Up in the Warsaw Ghetto Edited by S.L. Shneiderman; new edition prepared by Susan Lee Pentlin Oxford: One World Publications, 2007, 284 pp., $24.95, hardcover Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood...

Seeking a usable past.(Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History By Heather Love Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 196 pp., $39.95, hardcover All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking. ...

Betrayals of the heart.(Field Notes)(topic of betrayal in poet Barbara Helfgott Hyett's collection "Rift")
July 1, 2008... There is no Truth and Reconciliation Commission for betrayals of the heart. There is only time--and art. We are betrayed only by those closest to us--partners, beloved friends, family--those in whom we place our trust. Who do we become...

Hands (For Nina).(Poetry)(Poem)
July 1, 2008... Hands (For Nina) i In the glass room, beside the fire, the stove holds the crying kettle. Between the convex and the concave, the circuitous path carries your hands-- not captive not frozen but...

The Dead.(Poetry)(Poem)
July 1, 2008... The Dead i Those are not leaves lifting in the wind: they are chickadees eating the seed blown out of the feeders. Like balsam, or the scent of smoke or coffee brewing in the morning or cinnamon steaming on the...

The Moomins & me.(Cartoon)
July 1, 2008... THE FIRST TIME I READ BOOKS BY Tore JANSSON WAS--I THINK WHEN I WAS IN GRADE ONE OR TWO--IT WAS THE MOOMIN SERIES & I WAS IMMEDIATELY INFATUATED WITH ALL OF THE CHARACTERS [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ESPECIALLY SNUFKIN!--HE WAS THE CRUSTY...

The postfeminist dilemma.(books on feminism)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex and the Media By Kelly Oliver New York: Columbia University Press, 2007, 208 pp., $26.50, hardcover From Where We Stand: War, Women's Activism and Feminist Analysis By Cynthia Cockburn ...

Talking about my generation.(books on feminism)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Sisterhood Interrupted: From Radical Women to Girls Gone Wild By Deborah Siegel New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007, 240 pp., $14.95, paperback Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters By Jessica...

Brought to light.(The Air We Breathe; Signed, Mata Hari)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... The Air We Breathe By Andrea Barrett New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2007, 320 pp., $24.95, hardcover Signed, Mata Hari By Yannick Murphy New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2007, 288 pp., $23.99, hardcover I read...

The universe was her oyster.(Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, The Public Years; Margaret Fuller: Wandering Pilgrim)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, The Public Years By Charles Capper New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, 649 pp., $40.00, hardcover Margaret Fuller: Wandering Pilgrim By Meg McGavran Murray Athens:...

Dying as she lived.(Circling My Mother)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Circling My Mother By Mary Gordon New York: Pantheon Books, 2007, 254 pp., $24.00, hardcover [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In beginning this account at the end of her mother's life, Mary Gordon reminds us that we experience old age...

Outsiders who welcome us in.(Pink Harvest: Tales of Happenstance; Comfort Food for Breakups: The Memoir of a Hungry Girl)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Pink Harvest: Tales of Happenstance By Toni Mirosevich Minneapolis, MN: Mid-List Press, 2007, 203 pp., $16.00, paperback Comfort Food for Breakups: The Memoir of a Hungry Girl By Marusya Bociurkiw Vancouver, BC: Arsenal...