The Women's Review of Books articles from June 2002

The Women's Review of Books archives from June 2002

Wishful thinking.(Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex)
June 1, 2002... Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex by Judith Levine. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2002, 299 pp., $25.95 hardcover. Talk about timing. To publish a book subtitled "The Perils of Protecting...

To Kabul with love--and money.(Eve Ensler)
June 1, 2002... V is for vagina, A is for aid to Afghan women Known in the US for her controversial and highly successful play The Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler--playwright, performer, anti-war activist and feminist--may be better known since the war in...

Running on empty.(Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit)
June 1, 2002... Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit by Vandana Shiva. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2002, 156 pp., $14.00 paper. During the twentieth century, human water consumption increased tenfold--two to three times faster than...

Wide world of women.
June 1, 2002... No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women by Estelle Freedman. New York: Ballantine Books, 2001, 464 pp., $26.00 hardcover. As someone who has taught and written about women's history for over thirty years, I was...

When the though got going.
June 1, 2002... Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy by Robert D. Dean. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002, 329 pp., $29.95 hardcover. Robert D. Dean opens Imperial Brotherhood with a riddle: "how did...

Feet of clay.
June 1, 2002... When Men Were the Only Models We Had: My Teachers Barzun, Fadiman, Trilling by Carolyn G. Heilbrun. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002, 159 PP., $24.95 hardcover. In her most recent book, Carolyn G. Heilbrun observes...

In search of absolution.
June 1, 2002... The Force of a Feather: The Search for a Lost Story of Slavery and Freedom by DeEtta Demaratus. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2002, 240 pp., $27.95 hardcover. This is a book about how a white writers black history research...

Looking for the promised land.
June 1, 2002... My Life as a Radical Jewish Woman: Memoirs of a Zionist Feminist in Poland by Puah Rakovsky, edited by Paula E. Hyman, translated by Barbara Harshav with Paula E. Hyman. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002, 205 pp., $26.95...

Stresses and strains.
June 1, 2002... Lucky in the Corner by Carol Anshaw. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002, 256 pages, $23.00 hardcover. Carol Anshaw's third novel is a smart, witty portrait of contemporary American family life, complete with two working parents who love each...

The end of the free ride.
June 1, 2002... The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable by Gretchen C. Daily and Katherine Ellison. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2002, 247 pp., $25.00 hardcover. In 1992, Rio de Janeiro in Brazil hosted an unprecedented...

Defining democracy.
June 1, 2002... Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy by Jean Bethke Elshtain. New York: Basic Books, 2002,328 pp., $26.00 hardcover. The Jane Addams Reader edited by Jean Bethke Elshtain. New York: Basic Books, 2002, 488 pp., $20.00 paper. ...

Jamming the wind.
June 1, 2002... Bike Lust: Harleys, Women, and American Society by Barbara Joans. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001, 256 pp., $21.95 paper. Usually you don't have to walk and talk like a badass to be an anthropologist. But for Barbara Joans,...

In uncharted waters.
June 1, 2002... Too Much to Ask: Black Women in the Era of Integration by Elizabeth Higginbotham. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2001, 288 pp., $19.95 paper. The importance of Elizabeth Higginbotham's story may lie between the lines....

Unsung heroine.
June 1, 2002... Just for a Thrill: Lil Hardin Armstrong, First Lady of Jazz by James L. Dickerson. New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002, 241 pp., $26.95 hardcover. Jazz book junkie that I am, I have often wished that I could find material on...

The persistence of prejudice.
June 1, 2002... Welfare Racism: Playing the Race Card Against America's Poor by Kenneth J. Neubeck and Noel A. Cazenave. New York: Routledge, 2001, 294 pp., $19.95 hardcover. Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare By Dorothy Roberts. New York: Basic...

Rearguard action.
June 1, 2002... Biology at Work: Rethinking Sexual Equality by Kingsley R. Browne. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002, 288 pp., $28.00 hardcover. Like the ever-regenerating heads of Hydra, the beast of biological determinism persists. In...

Mixed messages.
June 1, 2002... Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture by Sarah Projansky. New York: New York University Press, 2001, 310 pp., $18.50 paper. Color of Rape: Gender and Race in Television's Public Sphere by Sujata Moorti. Albany, NY:...

The bookshelf.(Bibliography)
June 1, 2002... Each month we list the recently published books received during the preceding month or so which we think readers of the Women's Review will want to know about. This is, however, a very partial selection of the books by and about women published...

New from.
June 1, 2002... THE PAINTINGS OF JOAN MITCHELL Jane Livingston With Essays by Linda Nochlin and Yvette Lee Mitchell (1926-1992) was one of the few women among the first-rank Abstract Expressionist painters, but her achievement has never received...

University of Virginia Press.
June 1, 2002... Now in paperback PARLOR POLITICS In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government Catherine Allgor "For those whose knowledge of early Washington and its politics is in need of repair, Parlor Politics...

University of Nebraska Press.
June 1, 2002... The Getaway and Other Stories By Dorothy Thomas Edited by Christine Pappas Despite the rustic charm of their settings, the bitingly humorous short stories of Dorothy Thomas (1898-1990) challenge stereotypes of good-hearted country...

The University of Tennessee Press.
June 1, 2002... new from tennessee Journal of a Georgia Woman, 1870-1872 Eliza Frances Andrews Edited, with on Introduction, by S. Kittrell Rushing Born into the southern artistocracy, "Fanny" Andrews became a journalist, writer, teacher, and...

Michelle Yasmine Valladares.(Poem)
June 1, 2002... Conversion It is late summer. The guava tree is ripe. They came in large ships the soldiers, their priests. We were hungry, the monsoons had ruined the rice crops. They burnt our fields. The skies were red. For one sack of...