The Women's Review of Books articles from June 2003

The Women's Review of Books archives from June 2003

Looking back.(women's rights)(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century's End by Sara Evans. New York: The Free Press, 2003, 288 PP., $26.00 hardcover. Women, Power and AT&T: Winning Rights in the Workplace by Lois Kathryn Herr. Boston: Northeastern...

Looking around.(Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century )(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century edited by Rory Dicker and Alison Piepmeier. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2003, 320 pp., $50.00 hardcover, $20.00 paper. When the anthologies Listen Up: Voices From the Next...

Letters.
June 1, 2003... To the Editor, Audrey Bilger's review of Katie Whitaker's Mad Madge: The Extraordinary Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, the First Woman to Live by her Pen (March 2003) was both warmly appreciative and mildly critical. It...

Mothering by the book.(Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children)(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children by Ann Hulbert. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2003, 450 pp., $27.50 hardcover. New mothers will be pleased to learn that their angst has been shared by generations of...

Bad rep story.(The Only Girl in the Car: A Memoir)(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... The Only Girl in the Car: A Memoir by Kathy Dobie. New York: Dial, 2003, 225 pp., $23.95 hardcover. I love a good slut story. Don't get me wrong: No one deserves to be called a slut. The word is ferociously ugly and deeply...

Growing up graphic.(Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood )(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi. New York: Pantheon, 2003, 160 pp., $17.95 hardcover. In the second panel of Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi lets her readers know what we can expect from the rest of the book. The...

A Palestinian testimonio.(In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story)(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story by Ghada Karmi. New York: Verso, 2002, 451 pp., $26.00 hardcover. The title of Ghada Karmi's book evokes the terrible sense of loss experienced by most Palestinian refugees, a feeling that is...

Bearing witness.(One Night: Realities of Rape)(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... One Night: Realities of Rape by Cathy Winkler. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2002, 307 Pp., $24.95 paper. When Cathy Winkler decided that One Night: Realities of Rape should be "a case study of me--both the person violated and the...

The Balkans' Balkans.(The Miss Stone Affair: America's First Modern Hostage Crisis)(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... The Miss Stone Affair: America's First Modern Hostage Crisis by Teresa Carpenter. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003, 228 pp., $25.00 hardcover. In her preface to The Miss Stone Affair, Teresa Carpenter says, "[t]o trace the roots of modern...

Family contract.(Mordecai: An Early American Family)(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Mordecai: An Early American Family by Emily Bingham. New York: Hill and Wang, 2003, 332 pp., $26.00 hardcover. With the help of a rich cache of letters, author Emily Bingham invites her readers into three generations of a remarkable...

The withering of their state & In the reminiscence wing.(Poem)
June 1, 2003... And all that believed were together, and had all things common. Acts 2:44 In the end they lose all their chains and ghost and swirl by each other in the dosed bubble of the "reminiscence" wing like flakes of snow in an upended souvenir...

The original Rosie.(Rosie's Mom: Forgotten Women Workers of the First World War)(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Rosie's Mom: Forgotten Women Workers of the First World War by Carrie Brown. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2002, 240 pp., $35.00 hardcover. Many readers are familiar with Rosie the Riveter, the poster girl (literally) for defense...

Seeking control.(Appetites: Why Women Want)(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Appetites: Why Women Want by Caroline Knapp. New York: Counterpoint, 2003, 224 pp., $24.00 hardcover. What do women want? The answer, as intimated in the late Caroline Knapp's new book Appetites, comes in two parts. The first seems to be...

To mono or not to mono.(Singular Women: Writing the Artist)(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Singular Women: Writing the Artist edited by Kristen Frederickson and Sarah E. Webb. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003, 266 pp., $24.95 paper. Becoming the focus of a monograph--a comprehensive, chronological, book-length...

Medicine and humanity.(Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue)(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue by Danielle Ofri. Boston: Beacon Pres, 2002, 240 pp. $24.00 hardcover. Spanish, Tagalog, Bengali and English elbowed for air space as did the smells of coffee, curry and homelessness. The...

New Irish poets.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Like Joy in Season, Like Sorrow by Mary Dorcey. Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland: Salmon Poetry / Dufour Editions, 2001, 80 PP., $12.95 paper. Dharmakaya by Paula Meehan. Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 2002, 52 pp.,...

In the mirror.(When I Look Into the Mirror And See You: Women, Terror, and Resistance)(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... When I Look Into the Mirror And See You: Women, Terror, and Resistance by Margaret Randall. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003, 216 pp., $20.00 paper. On July 26, 1982 Nora Miselem and Maria Suarez, two Central American...