The Women's Review of Books articles from March 2009

The Women's Review of Books archives from March 2009

Careless art.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2009... As an art historian, I was startled to read in the Nov/Dec issue of Women's Review of Books that Rubens's Three Graces depicts the female body ideal of the fifteenth century. If Rubens could be shown to have been looking two centuries back in...

The art of interrogation.(A Field Guide For Female Interrogators)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... A Field Guide For Female Interrogators By Coco Fusco New York: Seven Stories Press, 2008, 144 pp. $16.95, paperback Coco Fusco's A Field Guide for Female Interrogators is a project for the moment. Fusco uses a variety of styles and...

Gamer girls rising.(Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New Perspectives on Gender and Gaming)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New Perspectives on Gender and Gaming Edited by Yasmin B. Kafai, Carrie Heeter, Jill Denner, and Jennifer Y. Sun Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008, 350 pp., $29.95, hardcover I was shocked...

Woman suffrage revised.(The Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Women's Rights and the American Political Traditions; Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement; Suffragists in an Imperial Age: US Expansion and the Woman Question, 1870-1929)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... The Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Women's Rights and the American Political Traditions By Sue Davis New York: New York University Press, 2008, 298 pp., $49.00, hardcover Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's...

Rewriting normal.(Intersex: For Lack of a Better Word; Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word) By Thea Hillman San Francisco: Manic D Press, 2008, 160 pp., $14.95, paperback Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience By Katrina A. Karkazis Durham, NC: Duke...

Sex on the inside--and the outside.(Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality By Regina Kunzel Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2008, 371 pp., $29.00, hardcover In 1982, Margot Sims published a delightful satire on sex...

Song, myth, epic poem.(The Amputated Memory)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... The Amputated Memory By Werewere Liking, translated by Marjolijn de Jager New York: Feminist Press, 2007, 445 pp, $24.95, paperback [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Amputated Memory is the fifth novel by Werewere Liking, a...

Mother-Daughter Portrait.(Poetry)(Poem)
March 1, 2009... Mother-Daughter Portrait "A woman is her mother, that's the main thing." --Anne Sexton After the anthology of stories and poems by women who were girls when their mothers died was published, complete with...

A Winter's Tale.(Poetry)(Poem)
March 1, 2009... A Winter's Tale All semester, the young woman whose mother has been sent home with terminal ovarian cancer comes faithfully to my 3:45 section of Freshman English. She never says much, but sits quietly in the...

That pesky process.(Cartoon)
March 1, 2009... My scriptwriting teacher in college told me that for a while everything I wrote would be pretty bad. But as long as I kept writing, it could only get better. Ideas only come to me in the car. OH! Or in the bathtub. OH! ...

Small chapbooks make a big impression.(Field Notes)(poetry chapbooks)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Four new poetry chapbooks published in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas prove that this appealing, enduring form thrives. Independent, micro, small, and university presses continue to produce original work, sometimes introducing...

What great art removes.(Domestic Violence and New Collected Poems by Eavan Boland)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... New Collected Poems By Eavan Boland New York: W.W. Norton, 2008, 320 pp., $27.95, hardcover Domestic Violence By Eavan Boland New York: W.W. Norton, 2007, 79 pp., $13.95, paperback A volume of collected poems often...

I kissed a girl.(Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women's Love and Desire)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women's Love And Desire. By Lisa M. Diamond Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008, 333 pp., $27.95, hardcover [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In a culture most comfortable analyzing important...

Pedagogy of the transnational.(Not Born a Refugee Woman: Contesting Identities, Rethinking Practices)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Not Born a Refugee Woman: Contesting Identities, Rethinking Practices Edited by Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed, Nazilla Khanlou, and Helene Moussa New York: Berghan Books, 2008, 323 pp., $90.00, hardcover Evoking Simone de Beauvoir's...

Street theater for social change.(Teatro Chicana: A Collective Memoir and Selected Plays)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Teatro Chicana: A Collective Memoir and Selected Plays Edited by Laura E. Garcia, Sandra M. Gutierrez, and Felicitas Nunez Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2008, 271 pp., $27.95, paperback [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Teatro...

A universalist life.(Lillian Wald: A Biography)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Lillian Wald: A Biography By Marjorie N. Feld Chapel Hill; University of North Carolina Press, 2009, 285 pp., $35.00, hardcover [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] How does the daughter of Jewish immigrants both understand herself and...

Everybody's Oprah.(Embracing Sisterhood: Class, Identity, and Contemporary Black Women)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Embracing Sisterhood: Class, Identity, and Contemporary Black Women By Katrina Bell McDonald Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007, 211 pp., $27.95, paperback While watching a commercial for the Oprah Winfrey Show in the lobby...