The Women's Review of Books articles from March 2001

The Women's Review of Books archives from March 2001

Independence days.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Fanny Kemble's Journals edited by Catherine Clinton. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000, 204 pp., $26.00 paper. Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars: The Story of America's Most Unlikely Abolitionist by Catherine Clinton. New York: Simon &...

Getting a life.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Life Prints: A Memoir of Healing and Discovery by Mary Grimley Mason. New York: The Feminist Press, 2000, 240 pp., $19.95 hardcover. On Thanksgiving Day, 1934, Mary Grimley sat next to President Franklin D. Roosevelt at an elaborately...

Hungry for passion.(Review)
March 1, 2001... My Dream of You by Nuala O'Faolain. New York: Riverhead Books, 2001, 512 pp., $25.95 hardcover. Nuala O'Faolain's first book, the affecting 1998 memoir Are You Somebody, established her as a writer with both popular appeal and a...

Maisie the musician.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Swing Shift: "All-Girl" Bands of the 1940s by Sherrie Tucker. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000, 413 pp., $29.95 hardcover. As a jazz historian, biographer and critic, I was delighted to discover that Sherrie Tucker's book taught...

Early Spring.(Poem)
March 1, 2001... March is a dangerous month. For two weeks it's all tooth and tirade; for two more, it's tongue-tied like a girl worshipping her mirror with moistened lips. Flesh and reflex wrestle daily at its frozen altar, davening to...

Kiss kiss, bane bang.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Women and Guns: Politics and the Culture of Firearms in America by Deborah Homsher. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2001, 246 pp., $32.95 hardcover. Gun Women: Firearms and Feminism in Contemporary America by Mary Zeiss Stange and Carol Oyster....

Defying the Emperor.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Ten Years of Exile by Germaine de Stael, translated by Avriel H. Goldberger. Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000, 308 pp., $45.00 hardcover. While harboring deep suspicion of all intellectuals, Napoleon Bonaparte singled...

The Bookshelf.
March 1, 2001... 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...

Tongueless in Toronto.(Review)
March 1, 2001... The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2000, 521 pp., $26.00 hardcover. On a science-fiction planet, in a society with a wide gulf between haves and have-nots, a virgin is being sacrificed. She has been trained for...

Putting Woolf in her place.
March 1, 2001... Virginia Woolf's reputation among her compatriots takes a turn for the better English critics and biographers are contributing to a revival of interest in Virginia Woolf from all perspectives, from the highbrow to the lowbrow, to use those...

Only in America?(Review)
March 1, 2001... Becoming American: Personal Essays by First Generation Immigrant Women edited by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah. New York: Hyperion, 2000, 236 pp., $23.95 hardcover. What does it mean to become American? This question has haunted Meri Nana-Ama...

Disturbances in memory.(Review)
March 1, 2001... The Gospel of Barbecue by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2000, 76 Pp., $12.00 paper. The Island of Lost Luggage by Janet McAdams. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2000, 74 pp.,. $13.95...

Unmarried mother.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America Elliot J. Gorn. New York: Hill and Wang, 2001, 352 pp., $27.00 hardcover. Just why is it that men are so enamored of Mother Jones? The fiery radical organizer and self-described hell...

Women or children first?(Review)
March 1, 2001... The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: A 25 Year Landmark Study by Judith S. Wallerstein, Julia M. Lewis and Sandra Blakeslee. New York: Hyperion, 2000, 337 pp., $24.95 hardcover. Marriage in a Culture of Divorce by Karla B. Hackstaff....

Social diseas.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic edited by Anne S. Kasper and Susan Ferguson. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000, 388 pp., $27.95 hardcover. A persistent myth of the last decade was that breast cancer would bring women together...