The Women's Review of Books articles from March 2007

The Women's Review of Books archives from March 2007

Ideal vs. reality.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2007... In her review of Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America (November/December 2006), Kim E. Nielsen discusses which women have had control over reproduction and which women have not. It's important that we...

Feminism's big idea.(The Trouble Between Us: An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... The Trouble Between Us: An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement By Winifred Breines New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, 269 pp., $29.95, hardcover [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dear Readers, This...

Kidnapped in Iraq.(Friendly Fire )(The Jill Carroll Story)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Friendly Fire By Giuliana Sgrena. Translated by Lesley Freeman Riva Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2006, 215 pp., $20 hardcover "The Jill Carroll Story" "By Jill Carroll with contextual narrative by Peter Grief" The...

The tyranny of cheerfulness.(Pink Ribbons, Inc.: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Pink Ribbons, Inc.: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy By Samantha King Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2006, 157 pp., $24.95, hardcover Twenty-one years after the launch of Breast Cancer Awareness...

The truths of dirty fingernails.(A Mile in Her Boots: Women Who Work in the Wild )(Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in America)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... A Mile in Her Boots: Women Who Work in the Wild By Jennifer Bove Palo Alto, CA: Solas House, 2006, 302 pp., $16.95, paperback Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in America By Laura Browder Chapel Hill: University of North...

Because things are worse, people are paying attention.(Katha Pollitt)(Interview)
March 1, 2007... Katha Pollitt, author of Virginity or Death! And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time (New York: Random House, 2006, 259 pp., $13.95, paperback) With an intellect as sharp as her manner is forthright, Katha Pollitt is no to...

Dishing with the girls ... oops, the women.(Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause)(I Feel Bad About My Neck, and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause The Boston Women's Health Book Collective New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 2006, 352 pp., $15.00, paperback I Feel Bad About My Neck, and Other Thoughts about Being a Woman By Nora Ephron...

The poet-sculptor.(Domain of Perfect Affection )(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Domain of Perfect Affection By Robin Becker Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006, 78 pages, $14.00, paperback You don't turn casually or forgetfully away from a collection of Robin Becker's poems; each turn of a...

Intertidal.(Poetry)(Poem)
March 1, 2007... Intertidal Twice daily, the moon draws its ragged signature along this crescent of cobble shore. Its name is kelp--burnt orange spansules, green fringe, and rubbery cords. Its name is rope--frayed nylon fragments from...

On the 13th Annual July 4 Reading of "Song of Myself".(Poetry)(Poem)
March 1, 2007... On the 13th Annual July 4 Reading of "Song of Myself" (Ashfield, MA, 2005) The sun is high and hot. Our heads are bowed over the loveworn pages: Leaves of Grass. The catbird cries when Whitman's read aloud, but we...

The poetic sequence.(Field Notes)
March 1, 2007... The single-themed collection or book-length sequence of poems makes unique demands on reader and writer. A narrative "through line" builds connections among the poems. Lyrical and prosodic elements sustain sonic interest poem-by-poem. Finally,...

Mitzi's blog: a cautionary tale.(Cartoon)
March 1, 2007... ONE DAY, AS MITZI WAS READING YET ANOTHER BLOG... HMM... THESE ARE FUN. I COULD DO THIS! [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I'LL WRITE ABOUT MY VACATION. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] NEXT WEEK. WOW! MY SISTER ADDED A COMMENT ON...

Waging peace.(Elise Boulding: A Life in the Cause of Peace)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Elise Boulding: A Life in the Cause of Peace By Mary Lee Morrison Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2005, 228 pp., $35.00, paperback [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On the morning of August 21, 1968, Elise Boulding convened an...

The Brazil of the imagination.(Samba Dreamers)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Samba Dreamers By Kathleen de Azevedo Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2006, 304 pp., $17.95, paperback [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Despite its wistful title, Samba Dreamers is a dark tale of endurance and survival, at...

The making of the female self.(This Changes Everything: The Relational Revolution in Psychology)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... This Changes Everything: The Relational Revolution in Psychology By Christina Robb New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006, 454 pp., $30.00, hardcover [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Christina Robb's admiring book about relational...

Bitch--the noun, the verb, the magazine.(Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine )(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine Edited by Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006, 372 pp., $16.00, paperback [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It's taken three...

The politics of passion: Ellen Willis, 1941-2006.(Obituary)(Obituary)
March 1, 2007... What it all comes down to for me--as a Velvets fan, a lover of rock-and-roll, a New Yorker, an aesthete, a punk, a sinner, a sometime seeker of enlightenment (and love) (and sex)--is this: I believe that we are all, openly or secretly,...

Making the case for socialist-feminism: Lillian Robinson, 1941-2006.(Obituary)(Obituary)
March 1, 2007... Lillian Robinson, feminist scholar and activist, died of ovarian cancer on September 23, 2006, at the age of 65. At the time of her death, Robinson was principal of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute and professor of Women s Studies at Concordia...

The patron saint of creepy dudes.(Rose of No Man's Land)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Rose of No Man's Land By Michelle Tea New York: Harvest Books, 2007, 320 pp., $14.00, paperback [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] At 35, with four memoirs and a poetry collection behind her, Michelle Tea has now published her first...

Worlds in despair: Women's Review writers and readers let us know what they're reading in their spare time.(On My Bookshelf)
March 1, 2007... My bookshelves are a shambles. Time was, although I had many more books, they were all categorized and then alphabetized within the categories, so that I could tell you exactly where each book was shelved. Now, thanks to multiple sclerosis,...