The Women's Review of Books articles from November 2000

The Women's Review of Books archives from November 2000

Favorite son.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Soldier: A Poet's Childhood by June Jordan. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 2000, 261 pp., $20.00 hardcover. Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age The child is grown, and puts away childish things. ...

Letters.(Review)
November 1, 2000... To the Editor: In her review of Christine Stansell's American Moderns [September 2000] Phyllis Eckhaus unfairly denigrates a marvelous book. She writes as though Stansell's topic were something else and criticizes arguments that Stansell...

Mothers of invention.(Review)
November 1, 2000... The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory: Why an Invented Past Won't Give Women a Future by Cynthia Eller. Boston: Beacon Press, 2000, 276 pp., $26.00 hardcover. In the beginning, God created Woman. And she was happy in the garden, except...

In the global gulag.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Too Much Time: Women in Prison by Jane Evelyn Atwood. Harrisburg, PA and London: Phaidon Press, 2000, 193 pp., $49.95 hardcover. I surprise myself by how frequently I find reasons to mention details from this book to friends. Have you...

Comedy of horrors.(Review)
November 1, 2000... The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000, 352 pp., $25.00 hardcover. In her fourth novel Joy Williams takes a look at living, dying and growing up in contemporary America, a landscape where life is...

Twenty years after.
November 1, 2000... Looking back at The Writer on Her Work In 1978, I went looking for a book. In conversations with other women writers, I'd become aware of a new desire to link our lives and our writing, to connect personal experience with speculative...

Exceptionally normal.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Venus on Wheels: Two Decades of Dialogue on Disability, Biography, and Being Female by Gelya Frank. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000, 299 pp., $50.00 hardcover, $19.95 paper. Studying who you are can be both liberating and...

The sound and the fury.
November 1, 2000... Almost 25 years after her death, why does Maria Callas continue to fascinate fans and biographers? Is any book about opera more startling and acute than Catherine Clement's Opera, or the Undoing of Women (University of Minnesota Press,...

Recollecting in tranquillity.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Kissing the Bread: New and Selected Poems, 1969-1999 by Sandra M. Gilbert. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000, 320 pp., $29.95 hardcover. It isn't often that a major critic produces a body of creative work that rivals the depth and breadth of her...

Off the beaten track.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Mary Wolistonecraft: A Revolutionary Life by Janet Todd. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000, 544 pp., $29.95 hardcover. Frances Burney: A Literary Life by Janice Farrar Thaddeus. New York: St. Martin's, 2000, 254 pp., $39.95...

Workers of the brave new world.(Review)
November 1, 2000... The Globalized Woman: Reports from a Future of Inequality by Christa Wichterich, translated by Patrick Camiller. London and New York: Zed Books, 2000, 180 pp., $59.95 hardcover, $19.95 paper. Feminists Doing Development: A Practical...

True believers.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Deep in the Heart by Sharon Qard Warner. New York: Dial, 2000, 389 pp., $23.95 hardcover. If you liked Middlemarch, you're going to adore Deep in the Heart, the first hovel by short story writer Sharon Oard Warner, who also edited the...

Life at the bottom.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Parenting in Public by Donna Haig Friedman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000, 283 pp., $49.50 hardcover. Saving Bernice: Battered Women, Welfare, and Poverty by Jody Raphael. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000, 184 pp.,...

First Impressions.(Poem)
November 1, 2000... Khomeini's portraits loom everywhere In the baggage claim area of the Tehran airport. They oversee timid tucking of hair Underneath mute head-scarves and chadors And listen to the crunch of hastily lit Cigarettes...

Separate Goodbyes.(Poem)
November 1, 2000... I know that the men sipping chai in the next room and absently watching a rerun of Der Alte, a German detective show dubbed in Farsi, were straining (discreetly) to hear how our voices, female voices forbidden to sing in...