The Women's Review of Books articles from June 2001

The Women's Review of Books archives from June 2001

The sins of the fathers.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001, 701 pp., $35.00 hardcover. Addie Mae Collins. Denise McNair. Carole Robertson. Cynthia Wesley....

Letters.
June 1, 2001... To the editor: Alice Echols' review (April 2001) of Robin Morgan's new memoir, Saturday's Child, contains a major historical error: it was Kathie Sarachild, not Morgan, who coined the phrase, "Sisterhood Is Powerful." Fortunately this can...

Caught in the crossfire.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Chienne de Guerre: A Woman Reporter Behind the Lines of the War in Chechnya by Anne Nivat, translated by Susan Darnton. New York: Public Affairs, 2001, 238 pp., $25.00 hardcover. War is so unjust and ugly that all who must wage it must try...

Clear and present danger.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Targets of Hatred: Anti-Abortion Terrorism by Patricia Baird-Windle and Eleanor J. Bader. New York: Palgrave, 2001, 416 pp., $27.95 hardcover. 7 murders 17 attempted murders 40 bombings 163 arsons 882 acts of vandalism...

Inhuman kind.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals by Joy Williams. New York: The Lyons Press, 2001, 214 pp., $24.95 hardcover. If ever there was a time for a good environmental rant, this is it. In case you were too...

Declarations of independence.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Elizabeth Murray: A Woman's Pursuit of Independence in Eighteenth-Century America by Patricia Cleary. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000, 274 pp., $29.95 hardcover. A few months before her sudden death at the age of 59, at...

Report from the trenches.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Sex and Power by Susan Estrich. New York: Riverhead Books, 2000, 285 pp., $24.95 hardcover. Susan Estrich's new book, Sex and Power is part memoir, part progress report, part call to action. In ten breezy chapters she surveys women's...

Uncommon language.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan. New York: Putnam, 2001, 353 pp., $25.95 hardcover. Two writers fill the pages of Amy Tan's latest novel, The Bouesetter's Daughter. The first and most talented is LuLing, an 82-year-old Chinese woman...

In the toe zone.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Footnotes: On Shoes edited by Shari Benstock and Suzanne Ferris. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001, 315 pp., $24.00 paper. Footnotes wallows in shoes, but it seems scarcely to care about feet; accoutrements are everything,...

The oldest deception.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade by Wendy Doniger. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000, 576 pp., $35.00 hardcover. The "bedtrick" of Wendy Doniger's title refers to a theme of many ancient and modern storytelling...

Great grandmother.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Granny D: Walking Across America in My Ninetieth Year by Doris Haddock with Dennis Burke. New York: Villard Books, 2001, 288 pp., $19.95 hardcover. Thelma and Louise had a convertible. Doris Haddock had arthritic feet, emphysema and a...

Triumph of the imagination.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Wrestling with the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame Michael King. Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 2000, 564 pp., $30.00 hardcover. Anyone who has seen Jane Campion's 1990 film, An Angel al My Table, based on Janet Frame's autobiographies, need...

Mixed messages.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Magic Eight Ball by Marion Douglas. Vancouver, BC: Polestar, 2001, 221 pp., $13.95 paper. When I tell my more literary-minded lesbian friends that I'm reading a lesbian novel, they generally roll their eyes. To them lesbian writing is an...

Images of imperialism.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in the Age of US Imperialism by Laura Wexler. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2000, 384 pp., $49.95 hardcover, $24.95 paper. In Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin wrote famously of...

One way street?(Review)
June 1, 2001... Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution by Paula Kamen. New York: New York University Press, 2000, 267 pp., $25.95 hardcover. Before he learns "what women want" in the recent Hollywood comedy, the exemplary male chauvinist played...

Daring to change.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Being Modern in Japan: Culture and Society from the 1910s to the 1930s edited by Elise K. Tipton and John Clark. Sydney, Australia: Australian Humanities Research Foundation, 2000, 216 pp., $35.00 paper. Gambling with Virtue: Japanese Women...

Death of a Mouse & In a Dream My Mother Scrubs the Floor.(Poem)
June 1, 2001... Death of a Mouse I saw its paws--pink, five-fingered, tapering-- each with delicate knuckles. It clawed its way up the cabin wall, then swayed toward and away. There was a tail, too, as long as its body, that flicked...