The Women's Review of Books articles from March 1999

The Women's Review of Books archives from March 1999

The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women's Liberation.(Review)
March 1, 1999... edited by Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Ann Snitow. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1998, 531 pp., $20.00 paper. Probably ever since there have been origin stories, there have been feminists trying to seize control of the interested narrative of...

How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America.(Review)
March 1, 1999... by Karen Brodkin. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999, 226 pp., $48.00 hardcover, $18.00 paper. Little more than a decade ago, studying whiteness struck me as absurd: Isn't whiteness studied all the time? Isn't whiteness the...

White Man Falling: Race, Gender and White Supremacy.(Review)
March 1, 1999... by Abby L. Ferber. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998, 177 pp., $24.95 hardcover. Little more than a decade ago, studying whiteness struck me as absurd: Isn't whiteness studied all the time? Isn't whiteness the center of virtually...

White, whiter, whitest.
March 1, 1999... Little more than a decade ago, studying whiteness struck me as absurd: Isn't whiteness studied all the time? Isn't whiteness the center of virtually every curriculum in the United States? And then I read an early version of Peggy McIntosh's now...

The Silent Duchess.(Review)
March 1, 1999... by Dacia Maraini, translated by Dick Kitto and Elspeth Spottiswood. New York: The Feminist Press, 1998, 264 pp., $19.95 hardcover. Women's access to discourse involves submission to phallocentricity, to the masculine and the symbolic:...

The Crime of Sheila McGough.(Review)
March 1, 1999... by Janet Malcolm. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999, 164 pp., $22.00 hardcover. I remember sitting in an uncomfortable seat on the first day of law school, listening to interminable welcome messages, when the dean himself walked into the...

Mosquito.(Review)
March 1, 1999... by Gayl Jones. Boston: Beacon Press, 1999, 616 pp., $28.50 hardcover. When Gayl Jones published The Healing last year - her first novel in 22 years - reviewers celebrated its departure from the shocking and horrifying subjects of her early...

From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games.(Review)
March 1, 1999... edited by Justine Cassell and Henry Jenkins. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998, 341 pp., $35.00 hardcover. When I was ten years old I loved the woods, exploring the seemingly endless expanses behind my suburban backyard. From the moment I saw...

Global obscenities: Patriarchy, Capitalism and the Lure of Cyberfantasy.(Review)
March 1, 1999... by Zillah Eisenstein. New York: New York University Press, 1998, 208 pp., $50.00 hardcover, $17.95 paper. Six years ago, I sat in a cafe in Prague with Jirina Siklova, a dissident Czech in her sixties who had amassed a feminist library in...

The Edges of the Civilized World: A Journey in Nature and Culture.(Review)
March 1, 1999... by Alison Hawthorne Deming. New York: Picador, 1998, 240 pp., $23.00 hardcover. Alison Hawthorne Deming is a poet and essayist, an ardent traveler willing to look at the meaning of travel and the harm it causes. In The Edges of the...

Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence.(Review)
March 1, 1999... by Martha Minow. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998, 199 pp., $23.00 hardcover. As I write, two leaders of the 1970s forced evacuation of Cambodia's cities - a policy that resulted in the torture and deaths of nearly a quarter of the population -...

Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler.(Review)
March 1, 1999... by Thylias Moss. New York: Persea Books, 1998, 117 pp., $24.00 hardcover. Both Thylias Moss in her sixth volume of poetry and Angela Sorby in her first open with images of music and reveal exactingly accurate ears for sound and speech....

Distance Learning.(Review)
March 1, 1999... by Angela Sorby. Kalamazoo, MI: Western Michigan University/New Issues Press, 1998, 77 pp., $12.00 paper. Both Thylias Moss in her sixth volume of poetry and Angela Sorby in her first open with images of music and reveal exactingly accurate...

The Climate of the Country.(Review)
March 1, 1999... by Marnie Mueller. Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1999, 308 pp., $24.95 hardcover. How many serious American political novels have you read lately? It's not hard to find novels set against a particular historical or political background...

Mary Baker Eddy.(Review)
March 1, 1999... by Gillian Gill. Reading, MA: Perseus Books, 1998, 752 pp., $35.00 hardcover. It is thirteen hundred years since the world has produced anyone who could reach up to Mrs. Eddy s waistbelt. In several ways she is the most interesting woman...

The Resurgence of the Real: Body, Nature, and Place in a Hypermodern World.(Review)
March 1, 1999... by Charlene Spretnak. Reading, MA: Perseus, 1997, 256 pp., $22.00 hardcover. I remember the effect Mary Daly's Gyn/Ecology had on me when I first read it some eighteen years ago. The truths she was naming were unbearably grim - yet the...

Quintessence ... Realizing the Archaic Future: A Radical Elemental Feminist Manifesto.(Review)
March 1, 1999... by Mary Daly. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998, 288 pp., $24.00 hardcover. I remember the effect Mary Daly's Gyn/Ecology had on me when I first read it some eighteen years ago. The truths she was naming were unbearably grim - yet the naming made...

Leaps of faith.
March 1, 1999... I remember the effect Mary Daly's Gyn/Ecology had on me when I first read it some eighteen years ago. The truths she was naming were unbearably grim - yet the naming made me feel something akin to joy. I suspect this is because my body had...