The Women's Review of Books articles from May 2007

The Women's Review of Books archives from May 2007

How does she do it?(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2007... I was disturbed by Rebecca Steinitz's suggestion that Sandra Gilbert doesn't have the right to move on, in Death "s Door, to another subject, that she, as a "mother of feminist criticism," is abandoning feminism by writing a book about death....

Correction.(Letters)(Correction notice)
May 1, 2007... In the March/April issue of WRB, the pull-quote in the review of Robin Becker's book of poetry, Domain of Perfect Affection, should have read "The Horse Fair is framed by two long poems, complex tributes to the women painters Rosa Bonheur and...

"Persons of Japanese ancestry".(Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment )(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment Edited by Linda Gordon and Gary Y. Okihiro New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006, 205 pp., $29.95, hardcover Dorothea Lange's pictures from the...

At war with desire.(Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement )(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement By Tanya Erzen Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2006, 293 pp., $19.95, paperback [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In December 2002, in the middle...

Consider the alternatives.(Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico By Camilla Townsend Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006, 287 pp., $23.95, paperback Someone new to the observation of Mexican politics might imagine,...

While the world watched.(Half of a Yellow Sun )(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Half of a Yellow Sun By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006, 435 pp., $24.95, hardcover [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Starvation was a Nigerian weapon of war. Starvation broke Biafra and brought Biafra fame and...

"Free to commercial fisherwoman".(Essay)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Today, most jobs plunk you in front of a computer for forty hours, exercising your fingers and mind, not your body. But imagine a job that takes you out on the open sea, where instead of navigating Microsoft Office...

2005 tanner crab strike snapshot.(DRAW)
May 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The zine covers in detail the years 1996 to 2005, and more broadly, the nearly twenty years of Bowstern's fishing career and union activism. Issue number one is lush with nautical art as well as tales, songs, and a...

The Victorian Martha Stewart.(The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton: The First Domestic Goddess )(Book review)
May 1, 2007... The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton: The First Domestic Goddess By Kathryn Hughes New York: Knopf, 2006, 480 pp., $29.95, hardcover In January of 1865, things were looking up for 28-year-old Isabella Beeton. Married to...

Children of war.(The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys )(Book review)
May 1, 2007... The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys By Dao Strom New York: Counterpoint, 2006, 341 pp., $24.00, hardcover The troubled legacy of the Vietnam War has given birth to some great American literature--Tim O'Brien instantly springs to...

Knocking on the gate.(On Shifting Ground: Muslim Women in the Global Era )(Inside the Gender Jihad: Women's Reform in Islam )(Book review)
May 1, 2007... On Shifting Ground: Muslim Women in the Global Era Edited by Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone New York: The Feminist Press, 2005, 312 pp., $18.95, paperback Inside the Gender Jihad: Women's Reform in Islam By Amina Wadud Oxford,...

Necessary stories.(Good Reads)(Moral Disorder and Other Stories )(The Thirteenth Tale )(The Other Side of You )(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Moral Disorder and Other Stories By Margaret Atwood New York: Doubleday, 2006, 225 pp., $23.95 hardcover The Thirteenth Tale By Diane Setterfield New York: Atria Books, 2006, 406 pp., $26.00, hardcover The Other Side...

Song of Woo with a Hole in It.(Poetry)(Poem)
May 1, 2007... Song of Woo with a Hole in It When you leave, take the embalmed summer squash you sent through the mail as a sign of affection, the apricot pit you sucked to the bone then thrust in my mouth ...

P.S.(Poetry)(Poem)
May 1, 2007... P.S. The end is not near. We've passed the end, and it's so far back it's like the tit of a cow in a field of poppies, a dot in a field of many dots in a painting a myopic man is straining to see in a village museum near...

Up and down the generations.(Judith Black )
May 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Judith Black made her professional reputation with images of the moments and moods of her growing children. She has represented her family and self in traditional silver gelatin photographs for over 25 years and has...

The Dickensian world of microfinance: Grameen may not be so good for women after all.(Essay)(Essay)
May 1, 2007... The 2006 Nobel Committee was absolutely right when it declared, Lasting peace can not be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty... Economic growth and political democracy cannot achieve their full...

The reverse garden party.(The Heart to Artemis: A Writer's Memoir)(The Player's Boy )(Women Together/Women Apart: Portraits of Lesbian Paris)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... The Heart to Artemis: A Writer's Memoir By Bryher Ashfield, MA: Paris Press, 2006, 374 pp., $19.95, paperback The player's boy By Bryher Ashfield, MA: Paris Press, 2006, 208 pp., $15.00, paperback Women Together/Women...

Grrrls and Womyn.(Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture )(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture By Maria Elena Buszek Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006, 445 pp., $24.95, paperback Depending on your age, the title of Maria Elena Buszek's new book will conjure up...

The original style queen.(Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution By Caroline Weber New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2006, 412 pp., $27.50, hardcover The French see Marie Antoinette in extreme terms: she is either revered or reviled....

Unruly differences.(Dialogue and Difference: Feminisms Challenge Globalization )(Just Advocacy? Women's Human Rights, Transnational Feminisms, and the Politics of Representation )(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Dialogue and Difference: Feminisms Challenge Globalization Edited by Marguerite Waller and Sylvia Marcos New York: Palgrave, 2005, 259 pp., $24.95, paperback Just Advocacy? Women's Human Rights, Transnational Feminisms, and the...

Reading to re-imagine: women's review writers and readers let us know what they're reading in their spare lime.(On My Bookshelf)(Column)
May 1, 2007... My many bookshelves in Houston, Texas, are full of novels, history, and the miscellany of a life. Here, 15,000 miles away in Antananarivo, Madagascar, my modest collection of books is spread out on a long, narrow, two-tiered, bamboo table in...