The Women's Review of Books articles from June 2000

The Women's Review of Books archives from June 2000

Basic training.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives by Cynthia Enloe. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000, 428 pp., $45.00 hardcover, $17.95 paper. I read Cynthia Enloe's book at the same time as John...

Water marked.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Lifesaving: a Memoir by Judith Barrington. Pordand, OR: The Eighth Mountain Press, 2000, 186 PP., $22.95 hardcover, $13.95 paper. Lifesaving is a memoririst's memoir, aware from its first words of what it is to recount personal history:...

Arms and the woman.(Review)
June 1, 2000... In Glory's Shadow: Shannon Faulkner, The Citadel, and a New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000, Changing America by Catherine S. Manegold. Breaking Out: VMI and the Coming of Women 330 pp., $26.95 hardcover. by Laura Fairchild...

Home is where the dirt is.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House by Cheryl Mendelson. New York: Scribner, 1999, Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management 884 pp., $35.00 hardcover. New York: Oxford University Press, by Isabella...

More equine than others.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, I have spent (or misspent, depending on your point of view) most of my life in the company of horses: breeding them, raising the foals, training them to ride and drive, and competing...

The politics of suffering.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Living on the Margins: Women Writers on Breast Cancer edited by Hilda Raz. New York: Persea Books, Hollis Sigler's Breast Cancer Journal with text by Hollis Sigler, 1999, 286 pp., $25.95 hardcover. Susan Love, and James Yood....

Beauty and the beast.(Review)
June 1, 2000... There Are No Letters Like Yours: The Correspondence of Isabelle de Charri[grave{e}] and Constant d'Hermenches translated by Janet Whatley and Malcolm Whatley. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press,2000, 538 pp., $29.95 hardcover. ...

Cassandra's career.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Woman Who Knew Too Much: Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation by Gayle Greene. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2000, 344 pp., $25.00 hardcover. In response to the question many readers might raise--who is Alice...

A critic's work is never done.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Critical Condition: Feminism at the Turn of the Century by Susan Gubar. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000, 221 pp., $24.50 hardcover. Retrospectively, we can all trace epochs in our lives, moments when everything changed. It is...

From grief to resistance.(Review)
June 1, 2000... All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life by Winona LaDuke. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 1999, 256 pp., $40.00 hardcover, $16.00 paper. Most indigenous cultures of the western hemisphere suffer an unresolved grief... a...

Poetry, Politics and Postmodernism.(Review)
June 1, 2000... On the Bus with Rosa Parks by Rita Dove. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999, 88 pp., $21.00 hardcover. Then, Suddenly--by Lynn Emanuel. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999, 67 pp., $21.00 hardcover, $11.95 paper. ...

The anthropology of reproduction.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social History of Amniocentesis in America by Rayna Rapp. New York: Routledge, 1999, 361 pp., $30.00 hardcover. Despite its wordy and somewhat misleading title, this is a wonderful book, ranging far...

We are still all right & Every day.(Poem)
June 1, 2000... "Your body is locked behind bars, but your spirit remains free..." Ho Chi Minh with the way things are. My age has not held you back. You are still strong enough to give me the setting sun turning our mountains to blood....

Scene stealer.(Review)
June 1, 2000... In America by Susan Sontag. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000, 387 pp., $26.00 hardcover. "Authority, idiosyncrasy, velvetiness--these are what make a star. And an unforgettable voice." Not since George Eliot's Princess Halm-Eberstein,...

Smart woman, foolish choice?(Review)
June 1, 2000... Living Between Danger and Love: The Limits of Choice by Kathleen B. Jones. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2000, 180 pp., $26.00 hardcover. The moral that Kathleen B. Jones finds in her story is this: "I have wanted to convey...