The Women's Review of Books articles from March 2000

The Women's Review of Books archives from March 2000

No place like home.(Review)
March 1, 2000... S.: A Novel About the Balkans, by Slavenka Drakulic, translated by Marko Ivic. New York: Viking, 2000, 216 pp., $22.95 hardcover. The Museum of Unconditional Surrender, by Dubravka Ugresic, translated by Celia Hawkesworth. New York: New...

LETTERS.(Review)
March 1, 2000... To the Editors: Thank you for printing Lillian Robinson's review of Stiffed [January 2000]. I haven't yet read the book, so this isn't a comment on Faludi's work but on the pattern of thinking Robinson condemns, that all too familiar, all...

Growing pleasures.(Review)
March 1, 2000... My Garden (Book), by Jamaica Kincaid. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999, 224pp., $23.00 hardcover. JAMAICA KINCAID'S PASSION for growing things, hovering over them with encouraging words, cursing the withered failures, is one I...

Life of the party.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America, by Alison J. Clarke. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999, 230 pp., $24.95 hardcover. TUPPERWARE, THE HOOK, is pink. Possibly even the pink of the specially hybridized...

Heroes of our time.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Till My Tale is Told: Women's Memoirs of the Gulag, edited by Simeon Vilensky, various translators. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1999, 338 pp., $35.00 hardcover. Stalin raised us on fidelity to the people... --from the...

Moonlight in Vermont.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Working Hard and Making Do: Surviving in Small Town America, by Margaret K. Nelson and Joan Smith. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 251 pp., $45.00 hardcover, $16.95 paper. The Missing Middle: Working Families and the Future of...

Beyond inclusion.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation, by Eli Clare. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 1999, 138 pp., $14.00 paper. Restricted Access: Lesbians on Disability, edited by Victoria A. Brownworth and Susan Raffo. Seattle, WA:...

Subversive obedience.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Doing What Had to Be Done: The Life Narrative of Dora Yum Kim, by Soo-Young Chin. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999,229 pp., $65.50 hardcover, $21.95 paper. IN A TELLING MOMENT of Doing What Had to Be Done, Dora Yum Kim, a...

Rhythm and blues.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Morning Glory: A Biography of Mary Lou Williams, by Linda Dahl. New York: Pantheon Books, 2000, 480 pp., $30.00 hardcover. YEARS AGO, WHEN only men played in the great jazz bands, Duke Ellington invented the name "Madame Zajj" for the...

Doubts and certainties.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Bearing Life: Women's Writing on Childlessness, edited by Rochelle Ratner. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2000, 244 pp., $23.95 hardcover. THERE IS MUCH TO LOVE in this collection. It has scads of great...

Mortal combats.(Review)
March 1, 2000... How to Have Theory in an Epidemic: Cultural Chronicles of AIDS, by Paula A. Treichler. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999, 386 PP., $64.95 hardcover, $22.95 paper. IT'S BEEN NEARLY two decades now that Paula Treichler has been...

In contested territory.(Review)
March 1, 2000... The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History by Emma Perez. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1999, 199 pp., $35.00 hardcover, $16.95 paper. THE DECOLONIAL IMAGINARY is a smart, challenging book that disrupts a great...

When sisterhood was powerful.(Review)
March 1, 2000... The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America, by Ruth Rosen. New York: Penguin Putnam, 2000, 420 pp., $34.95 hardcover. FLASH TO THE SAN FRANCISCO Bay Area in 1967: In January, hippies and radicals jammed Golden...