The Women's Review of Books articles from May 2003

The Women's Review of Books archives from May 2003

Good women.(Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America by Martha Saxton. New York: Hill & Wang, 2003, 380 pp., $30.00 hardcover. In Being Good, Martha Saxton explores the ways in which various American societies have defined morality, in...

The way we were.
May 1, 2003... Founding editor Linda Gardiner looks back at twenty years in the editor's chair As I hand over the Women's Review to its new editor in chief, Amy Hoffman, I've been thinking back to our early days and the changes we've seen over the years....

Still not talking.(The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk: Why I Refused to Testify Against the Clintons and What I Learned in Jail)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk: Why I Refused to Testify Against the Clintons and What I Learned in Jail by Susan McDougal with Pat Harris. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2003, 384 pp., $25.00 hardcover. As anyone who has studied law will tell you,...

Bad seeds.(All Over Creation)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki. New York: Viking, 2003, 417 pp., $ 24.95 hardcover. Given the multitude of worries that confront us, the dangers posed by genetically engineered plants may escape the attention of most readers, but Ruth...

Exploitation as cool.(Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers )(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers by Alissa Quart. New York: Perseus Publishing, 2003, 239 pages, $25.00 hardcover. There has never been a propaganda effort as prolonged and successful as that of advertising in the past fifty...

Iconography.(Wrapped In Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Wrapped In Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston by Valerie Boyd. New York: Scribner, 2003, 528 pp., $30.00 hardcover. The critic is wise, upon receiving a book for review, to toss the cover of that book aside: thoughtfully Out...

Dystopian dreams.(The Slynx )(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya, translated by Jamey Gambrell. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003, 278 pp., $24.00 hardcover. Pushkin's Children: Writings on Russia and Russians by Tatyana Tolstaya, translated by Jamey Gambrell. New...

Horse play.(Report to the Men's Club and Other Stories )(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Report to the Men's Club and Other Stories by Carol Emshwiller. Brooklyn, NY: Small Beer Press, 2002, 270 PP., $16.00 paper. The Mount by Carol Emshwiller. Brooklyn, NY: Small Beer Press, 2002, 232 pp., $16.00 paper. Some science fiction...

Less celebration, more trauma.(An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures by Anne Cvetkovich. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003, 400 pp., $22.95 paper. If you are gay or lesbian, you learn early on how to dodge particular kinds of...

The most prominent suffragette.(Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography )(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography by June Purvis. New York: Routledge, 2002, 448 pp., $30.00 hardcover. Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928), the leader of England's militant suffragette movement before World War One, has joined the pantheon of...

Rediscovering Gabriela mistral.(Selected Prose and Prose-Poems by Gabriela Mistral)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Selected Prose and Prose-Poems by Gabriela Mistral, edited and translated by Stephen Tapscott. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2002, 246 pp., $34.95 hardcover. A Queer Mother for the Nation by Licia Fiol-Matta. Minneapolis, MN:...

Gritty and alive.(The Unswept Room)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... The Unswept Room by Sharon Olds. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002, 123 PP., $25.00 hardcover, $15.00 paper. When I was a child, my best friend's family occasionally took me with them to visit some elderly relatives who lived on a small,...

Gumbo for the soul.(Swamp Songs: The Making of an Unruly Woman)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Swamp Songs: The Making of an Unruly Woman by Sheryl St. Germain. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2003, 227 pp., $21.95 hardcover. Many visitors to New Orleans--especially sour academics, nice bright Midwesterners, and orderly...

The Lesson.(Poem)
May 1, 2003... The Lesson That was Edena's mother, whizzing the mixer, eggs, butter, pulled down into its vortex, like a demonstration while other mothers whipped and whipped a spoon. Her hair was neat in the nest of a bun, oh, maybe one...

Her Stories.(Poem)
May 1, 2003... Her Stories My mother loved to cry. Oh, how had I thought she cried for me? I see now it was for my father, what he said, or the time he left without a word. And she cried as she listened to her stories. The fifteen...

Beyond springfield.(What Night Brings)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... What Night Brings by Carla Trujillo. Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 2003, 242 pp., $15.95 paper. Reading Carla Trujillo's What Night Brings, I was often reminded of my own adolescence in the 1960s. Trujillo brings back the parallels...