The Women's Review of Books articles from November 1996

The Women's Review of Books archives from November 1996

Push.
November 1, 1996... "For women, then, poetry is not a luxury," wrote Audre Lorde. "It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then...

She Works/He Works: How Two-Income Families are Happier, Healthier, and Better Off.
November 1, 1996... Lately I've been spending a lot of time thinking about how work and family fit together, or more precisely, how they ought to fit together. By now it's painfully obvious that work and family responsibilities don't so much fit together as grind...

Family Man: Fatherhood, Housework, and Gender Equity.
November 1, 1996... Lately I've been spending a lot of time thinking about how work and family fit together, or more precisely, how they ought to fit together. By now it's painfully obvious that work and family responsibilities don't so much fit together as grind...

Home and Work: Negotiating Boundaries Through Everyday Life.
November 1, 1996... Lately I've been spending a lot of time thinking about how work and family fit together, or more precisely, how they ought to fit together. By now it's painfully obvious that work and family responsibilities don't so much fit together as grind...

Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health.
November 1, 1996... Driving to work one day, I listened to a radio segment about a prostitute with AIDS. After an arrest and brief period of confinement she was released with an order to give up her work. She didn't, and officials rearrested her and were...

Days of Masquerade: Life Stories of Lesbians During the Third Reich.
November 1, 1996... When a young student in my class on lesbian, bisexual and trans-gender issues learned that the pink triangle had its origin in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany she was horrified. It upset her to think that this familiar, cheery emblem of...

Aimee and Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943.
November 1, 1996... When a young student in my class on lesbian, bisexual and trans-gender issues learned that the pink triangle had its origin in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany she was horrified. It upset her to think that this familiar, cheery emblem of...

Dubious Conceptions: The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy.
November 1, 1996... Americans have long been uneasy about sex. During the last decades, historians and sociologists have demonstrated how powerful sexual anxieties have fueled moral panics in our national past. Worried about young men who left their homes to work...

Our Mothers: Portraits by 72 Women Photographers.
November 1, 1996... At the same time that so much of the photography scene is obsessed with the offbeat, the weird, the body-pierced, a less prominent strand addresses the family, construed traditionally or loosely, as friends, partners, colleagues, children....

Mother.
November 1, 1996... At the same time that so much of the photography scene is obsessed with the offbeat, the weird, the body-pierced, a less prominent strand addresses the family, construed traditionally or loosely, as friends, partners, colleagues, children....

Mothers and Sons in Their Own Words.
November 1, 1996... At the same time that so much of the photography scene is obsessed with the offbeat, the weird, the body-pierced, a less prominent strand addresses the family, construed traditionally or loosely, as friends, partners, colleagues, children....

Are Girls Necessary? Lesbian Writing and Modern Histories.
November 1, 1996... Lesbians need stories, but stories as we know them aren't hospitable to lesbians: this is the shared premise of Are Girls Necessary? and Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives. Both Julie Abraham and Marilyn Farwell start from the axiom...

Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives.
November 1, 1996... Lesbians need stories, but stories as we know them aren't hospitable to lesbians: this is the shared premise of Are Girls Necessary? and Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives. Both Julie Abraham and Marilyn Farwell start from the axiom...

Hunting Down Home.
November 1, 1996... I confess that I began Jean McNeil's Hunting Down Home with something like dread after reading the book jacket and realizing that I was in the company of yet another young, first-time novelist bent on telling a story of childhood that - at...

Nattering on the Net: Women, Power and Cyberspace.
November 1, 1996... Enthusiasts about the Internet are given to extravagant claims - the new communication technology is as revolutionary as the printing press - and Dale Spender is no exception. As a writer and a user of e-mail to communicate internationally,...

Forgotten Promise: Race and Gender Wars on a Small College Campus.
November 1, 1996... Getting personal is currently a la mode in academia - and it certainly reads better than getting theoretical. These two books are best when they're most human, most engaged and most cunning. At their best, they show us that women can burrow,...

Antifeminism in the Academy.
November 1, 1996... Getting personal is currently a la mode in academia - and it certainly reads better than getting theoretical. These two books are best when they're most human, most engaged and most cunning. At their best, they show us that women can burrow,...

An Accidental Autobiography.
November 1, 1996... Most autobiographies are narratives, getting you from here to there in the author's life. As such, they are implied explanations of how it all came to pass. An Accidental Autobiography gives no such account of Barbara Grizzuti Harrison's sixty...

Love Across the Color Line: The Letters of Alice Hanley to Channing Lewis.
November 1, 1996... It is a story of hidden treasure. In the spring of 1992, while renovating their I house in Northampton, Massachusetts, Pamela See and her husband discovered a small bundle when it fell from the ceiling. Carefully wrapped inside a black lace...

"What Happened to You?" Writings by Disabled Women.
November 1, 1996... Surely feminist/women's creative writing doesn't all have to be overtly militant, explicitly angry with strong heroines and neatly wrapped up triumphant endings," writes Maria Jastrzebska to editor Lois Keith, in the process of revising a...

Meadowlands.
November 1, 1996... If love is among the themes women writers have traditionally embraced, outright passion is far riskier. But these three poets explore not fulfilled desire but spiritual and erotic absence - home life gone awry, prayers unanswered. Unweaving the...

Glass, Irony and God.
November 1, 1996... If love is among the themes women writers have traditionally embraced, outright passion is far riskier. But these three poets explore not fulfilled desire but spiritual and erotic absence - home life gone awry, prayers unanswered. Unweaving the...

The Master Letters.
November 1, 1996... If love is among the themes women writers have traditionally embraced, outright passion is far riskier. But these three poets explore not fulfilled desire but spiritual and erotic absence - home life gone awry, prayers unanswered. Unweaving the...

The Cloister Walk.
November 1, 1996... Kathleen Norris and Deborah Boliver Boehm have each written books that track their personal experiences as women residing in male monasteries. But that's the only thing they have in common. They are, in their essence, worlds apart. In The...

A Zen Romance.
November 1, 1996... Kathleen Norris and Deborah Boliver Boehm have each written books that track their personal experiences as women residing in male monasteries. But that's the only thing they have in common. They are, in their essence, worlds apart. In The...