The Women's Review of Books articles from May 2000

The Women's Review of Books archives from May 2000

The courage of their convictions.(Review)
May 1, 2000... The Wall Between by Anne Braden. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1999, 376 pp., $40.00 hardcover, $19.95 paper. Written mostly in the stolen, quiet hours between four and six AM before her children woke in the home in...

Letters.
May 1, 2000... Dear Editors, Joanna Russ's letter [March 2000] presented an interesting discourse on the increased exploitation of middle-class women during the 1950s when they lost the services of working class women, as housekeepers, nannies, and other...

"You're so full on".(Australian author Dorothy Hewett)
May 1, 2000... A portrait of Australian playwright, poet and novelist Dorothy Hewett Love was a mystery[ldots]coming and going and nobody could be blamed for it. Marriage was something else, a rich bleak boredom and those who opted for it had to learn to...

Talkin' 'bout their generation.(Review)
May 1, 2000... Rebels in White Gloves: Coming of Age with Hillary's Class--Wellesley '69 by Miriam Horn. New York: Times Books, 1999, 328 pp., $24.00 hardcover. Reunion: The Girls We Used to Be, the Women We Became by Elizabeth Fishel. New York: Random...

Real places.(Review)
May 1, 2000... Bone Deep in Landscape: Writing, Reading, and Place by Mary Clearman Blew. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999, 197 pp., $22.95 hardcover. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 1999,...

Public relations.
May 1, 2000... Why the rush to same-sex marriage? And who stands to benefit? I grew up in a world in which girls were less valued than boys. Educating girls was understood to be a wasteful proposition--after all, they would just get married. The only...

Geography lesson.(Review)
May 1, 2000... Women and the City: Gender, Power, and Space in Boston, 1870-1940 by Sarah Deutsch. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 402 pp., $35.00 hardcover. Woman's place" is more than a dot on a map. In the literature of gender, it is a...

Wake-up caller.(Review)
May 1, 2000... Stepping Up to Power: The Political Journey of American Women by Harriett Woods. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000, 252 pp., $25.00 hardcover. The adventure began with a loose manhole cover. Its banging kept waking up the three small Sons...

Pariahs and parvenus.(Review)
May 1, 2000... Coming of Age in Academe: Rekindling Women's Hopes and Reforming the Academy by Jane Roland Martin. New York: Routledge, 1999, 202 Pp., $18.95 paper. A Feminist I: Reflections from Academe by Christine Overall. Peterborough, Ontario:...

Unmarried mother.(Review)
May 1, 2000... Eve: A Biography by Pamela Norris. New York: New York University Press, 1999, 496 pp., $29.95 hardcover. Frankly, I never expected to lose any sleep over the Great Goddess. I am emphatically not in the goddess business. As a professor of...

Snapshots of Zoe.(Poem)
May 1, 2000... for Eithne Jordon 1. Three thousand miles removed from your baby charts and graphs you grow without measure. We're on our own. Sure as animals, Sunday we found a cave above, climbing the canyon out of town ...

Mother knows best.(Review)
May 1, 2000... Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy. New York: Random House, 1999, 690 pp., $35.00 hardcover. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy is a feminist sociobiologist. That undoubtedly sounds like a...

Supporting cast.(Review)
May 1, 2000... Inside the Glitter: Lives of Casino Workers by Kit Miller. Carson City, NV: Great Basin Publishing, 2000, 100 pp., $24.95 paper. The lights of Las Vegas have long fascinated photographers. From the 1950s, when visitors to Vegas were...

Making it new.(Review)
May 1, 2000... The Wake Forest Book of Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry 1967-2000 edited by Peggy O'Brien. Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 1999, 313 pp., $17.95 paper. One of the great strengths of modern Irish poetry has been its...