The Women's Review of Books articles from March 2003

The Women's Review of Books archives from March 2003

Dead poet's society.(Sylvia and Ted)(Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Sylvia and Ted by Emma Tennant. New York: Henry Holt, 2001, 192 pp., $22.00 hardcover. Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath by Kate Moses. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003, 291 pp., $23.95 hardcover. Aurelia Plath must be spinning...

When I look into the Mirror and See You. (Rutgers University Press).(Women, Terror, and Resistance)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Women, Terror, and Resistance "This powerfully written book allows us to feel deeply the particular as well as the universal situation of women, their ways of survival and refusal to lose their vision of economic and social...

Selected poems of Amy Lowell. (Rutgers University Press).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... "A wise selection of Amy Lowell's poetry has been long overdue, and this attentively edited volume makes the range of her work in verse and patterned prose attractively available." John Hollander PAPER $ 19.00; CLOTH $58.00

Gender in Latin America. (Rutgers University Press).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... In Latin America, gender is a fundamental dimension of virtually every aspect of contemporary social, economic, and political life. Debunking traditional stereotypes, the book charts changes and continuities in gender roles, relations and...

Traces, codes, and clues. (Rutgers University Press).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Reading Race in Crime Fiction "Among the first scholarly texts to concentrate on race and detective fiction, Reddy's book is a welcome addition to the field." Priscilla L. Walton, coauthor of Detective Agency: Women Rewriting the...

Jane Austen. (Rutgers University Press).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... A Companion "The would be novelist, Ross has read the fiction and the surviving correspondence scrupulously and the result is, as its title promises, a lively companion to Austen's life and work and a pleasurable experience for those who...

Modernist women and visual cultures. (Rutgers University Press).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Photography, and Cinema "This book opens new perspectives on the most important artistic movement of the twentieth century."--Shari Benstock, professor of English and associate dean, University of Miami and...

Trading gazes. (Rutgers University Press).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Euro-American Women Photographers and Native North Americans, 1880-1940 AFTERWORD BY LOUIS OWENS "The authors provide us with rich and original insights into the complex relationships of Euro-Americans and Indians."--Lois Rudnick,...

Fantasies of fetishism. (Rutgers University Press).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... From Decadence to the Post-Human "Amanda Fernbach takes on a truly impressive range of discourses and themes--historical, cultural, psychoanalytic, and literary--and significantly advances the study of fetishism as a cultural...

Women Confronting Retirement. (Rutgers University Press).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... A Nontraditional Guide Women Confronting Retirement showcases the voices of thirty-eight women from a wide range of professions, ages, and life situations as they confront the need to redefine who they are when they leave the workplace....

Evangelical identity and gendered family life. (Rutgers University Press).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... "Sally Gallagher does a subtle and convincing job of understanding the 'cultural tool kit' that evangelical Protestants use when understanding and interpreting gender and family."--Rhys H. Williams, editor of Promise Keepers and the New...

Women and workplace discrimination. (Rutgers University Press).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Overcoming Barriers to Gender Equality "Raymond Gregory has written the book that every woman who even thinks she may have been discriminated against must read."--Theodore W. Kheel, of counsel, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker; nationally...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2003... To the Editors: It's a pity to see from Laura Green's review (January 2003) that Janet Theophano's Eat My Words has fallen for Anne Hughes. This alleged eighteenth-century farmer's wife keeping a diary for 1796-97 was actually a fictional...

The masses and the market.(A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America by Lizabeth Cohen. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003, 550 pp., $24.50 hardcover. As activists around the globe frequently remind us, the fabled American lifestyle...

Generation gaps.(Clara Mondschein's Melancholia)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Clara Mondschein's Melancholia by Anne Raeff. San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage, 2002, 258 pp., $25.00 hardcover. Melancholia. It sounds like a piece of music, like a slow movement," says Deborah Gelb to her grandmother Ruth Mondschein at the...

Alone in a crowd.(Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman by Nuala O'Faolain. New York: Riverhead Books, 2003, 272 pp., $24.95 hardcover. At the close of her 1996 book, Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman, Nuala O'Faolain...

Life for art's sake.(Wild Heart, a Life: Natalie Clifford Barney's Journey from Victorian America to the Literary Salons of Paris)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Wild Heart, a Life: Natalie Clifford Barney's Journey from Victorian America to the Literary Salons of Paris by Suzanne Rodriguez. New York: Ecco, 2002, 410 pp., $27.95 hardcover. In 1882 at an exclusive beach resort outside New York City,...

Fighting city hall.(Hands to Work: The Stories of Three Families Racing the Welfare Clock)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Hands to Work: The Stories of Three Families Racing the Welfare Clock by LynNell Hancock. New York: William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2002, 308 pp., $25.95 hardcover. In 1996, when President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and...

A tarnished reputation.(Madame de Pompadour)(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2003... Madame de Pompadour still gets no respect Madame de Pompadour (nee Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson in 1721), the mistress of Louis XV from 1745 to 1764, materialized in the public eye last year abruptly but emphatically. Long review essays...

Crossing Sabarmati.(personal narrative of documenting crimes against humanity)
March 1, 2003... An oasis of peace sits in a city divided by hate September 11, 2002, Ahmedabad. I had traveled north from Tiruvalla in Kerala to visit the relief camps for the survivors of the carnage against Muslims. In February a Muslim mob had torched a...

Pleasure and danger.(Rereading Sex: Battles over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Rereading Sex: Battles over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002, 514 pp., $30.00 hardcover. Since the 1964 publication of Stephen Marcus' landmark...

The Rachel Poems.(Poem)
March 1, 2003... The Rachel Poems. 1. Rachel, Walking To live long is to remember what things are called, not book-names, the Latin, but what your mother taught you or what you used to overhear when they thought you were sleeping, to find...

Heat Spell.(Poem)
March 1, 2003... Heat Spell. Everything has to come to an end doesn't it? long afternoons like this hot as hammered tin on a sunstruck roof stretched out to the edges of the day no real evening too much light too much heat too much...

Handkerchiefes of praise.(Mad Madger: The Extraordinary Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newscastle, the First Woman to Live by Her Pen)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Mad Madger: The Extraordinary Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newscastle, the First Woman to Live by Her Pen by Katie Whitaker. New York: Basic Books, 2002, 416 pp., $31.00 hardcover. In a poems entitled "The Poetesses hasty...

Beauty out of violence.(Sicilian Odyssey)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Sicilian Odyssey by Francine Prose. Washington, DC: National Geographic Directions, 2003, 208 pp., $20.00 hardcover. In publishing an account of her travels in Sicily, Francine Prose has joined company with a long and distinguished list of...

Myth and mystery.(The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene: Legends, Apocrypha, and the Christian Testament)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene: Legends, Apocrypha, and the Christian Testament by Jane Schaberg. New York: Continuum, 2002, 379 pp., $35.00 hardcover. In the last decade, a. virtual flood of books has been written about the New...