The Women's Review of Books articles from March 2008

The Women's Review of Books archives from March 2008

Correction.(Correction notice)
March 1, 2008... The word "poses" should have been "posses" in the following sentence in Margaret Morganroth Gullette's essay, "Then and Now: What Have the Sexual "Revolutions" Wrought?" [WRB, Jan/Feb 2008]: "Maybe, despite the data. a vast sensible...

Gender, caring, and money.(The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics By Riane Eisler San Francisco: Berrett-Kohler Publications, 2007, 318 pp., $24.95, hardcover Feminists have a long history of objecting to the division of labor that assigns...

The origins of sex.(The Cleft)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... The Cleft By Doris Lessing New York: HarperCollins, 2007, 260 pp. $25.95, hardcover [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For many years, Doris Lessing was mentioned as a fitting recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 2007, she was...

Bicultural before there was a word for it.(The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft Edited by Robert Dale Parker Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007, 292 pp., $34.95, hardcover Nidaanisens e / My little...

Book reviewing: do it yourself.(Essay)(Viewpoint essay)
March 1, 2008... Book reviewing has experienced some fierce turbulence in recent years, as newspapers have reduced their book sections, literary blogs have proliferated on the web and readers, once the critic's audience, have metamorphosed into active players,...

Poems including history--and more.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... A is for Anne: Mistress Hutchinson Disturbs the Commonwealth By Penelope Scambly Schott Cincinnati, OH: Turning Point Books, 2007, 140 pp., $17.00, paperback The Resurrection Trade By Leslie Adrienne Miller St. Paul, MN:...

No more tea pouring.(Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women Are Changing Their Nation)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women are Changing Their Nation By Veronica Chambers Free Press, New York, 2007, $25.00, 288 pages, hardcover [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The title of Veronica Chambers' new book, Kickboxing...

The roll of the small presses.(Field Notes)
March 1, 2008... Publishing high quality literary work in which conglomerates have little interest, independent presses continue to thrive. How do they stay alert to literary trends, responsive to readers, vibrant within their communities? Based in Los Angeles,...

Her Dream.(Poetry)(Poem)
March 1, 2008... Her Dream Hyped on steroids for her lungs, Laura dreams: the Commedia jester, my younger son, transforms himself into the King; alone, austere, his power evident in his posture, conservative we might guess from...

Coma.(Poetry)(Poem)
March 1, 2008... Coma By dying she comes closer to peace or peach, the color of her skin, a message from the future when her eyes the color of the respirator open on a mad world where she'll dwell a while. We watch her settle...

Interview.(Cartoon)
March 1, 2008... SO, DAPHNE, HOW IS IT PUBLISHING POETRY? THE POET DON MARQUIS SAID IT WAS LIKE DROPPING A ROSE PETAL INTO THE GRAND CANYON AND LISTENING FOR THE ECHO. I'M AT MY DAY JOB WONDERING WHY I COULDN'T BE IN LOVE WITH ACCOUNTING INSTEAD OF...

Ms. Captivity.(Essay)
March 1, 2008... Picture this: a prison camp in Siberia with 2,000 inmates, twenty miles outside of Novosibirsk, the third largest city in Russia. The women wake at 5:45 for eight hours of sewing police uniforms in the textile factory They walk across the yard,...

The search for healing.(Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resistance)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resistance By Alice Rothchild London and Ann Arbor, Ml: Pluto Press, 2007, 280 pp., $24.95, paperback Alice Rothschild, an assistant professor of...

An account of things of the Yucatan.(Peregrina: Love and Death in Mexico)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Peregrina: Love and Death in Mexico Edited and with an Introduction by Michael K. Schuessler, Foreword by Elena Poniatowska Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007, 347 pp., $40.00, paperback There's a tradition in Mexico of...

The power of words.(Liberating Shahrazad: Feminism, Postcolanialism, and Islam)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Liberating Shahrazad: Feminism, Postcolanialism, and Islam By Suzanne Gauch Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007, 174 pp., $20.00, paperback From the first lines of Liberating Shahrazad, Suzanne Gauch is clear about...

Emotion overflowing.(The Wind from the East)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... The Wind from the East By Almudena Grandes, translated from the Spanish by Sonia Soto New York: Seven Stories Press, 2007, 542 pp., $27.95, hardcover [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Almudena Grandes started her literary career in 1989...

The new "Yiddishe Mama".(You Never Call! You Never Write! A History of the Jewish Mother)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... You Never Call! You Never Write! A History of the Jewish Mother By Joyce Antler New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, 321 pp., $24.95, hardcover I showed my copy of Joyce Antler's You Never Call! You Never Write! to a...

Remembering our health forgetting our plan.('Just Breathe Normally' and 'I Heard the Vultures Singing: Notes on Poetry, Illness, and Nature')(Book review)
March 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Just Breathe Normally By Peggy Shumaker Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007, 236 pp., $24.95, hardcover I Heard the Vultures Singing: Notes on Poetry, Illness, and Nature By Lucia Perillo...