The Women's Review of Books articles from November 2001

The Women's Review of Books archives from November 2001

Phantom towers.(feminist perspective on capitalism and fundamentalism)(Column)
November 1, 2001... Feminist reflections on the battle between global capitalism and fundamentalist terrorism These are trying times, hard times to know where we are from one day to the next. The attack on the World Trade Center has left many kinds of damage...

Letters.
November 1, 2001... Dear Women's Review: How breezy Jane DeLynn is-"For me history also stops at the Holocaust and other exterminations seem mere afterthoughts; been there, done that" [reviewing Sonia Pilcer's The Holocaust Kid, September 2001 issue]. If...

From democracy to demagogy.(Review)
November 1, 2001... Political Fictions by an Didion. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001, 342 pp., $25.00 hardcover. The attack that smashed the New York skyline and the continuity of American life also tore abruptly political into our political conversation....

Labor of love.(Review)
November 1, 2001... Love and Honor in the Himalayas: Coming to Know Another Culture by Ernestine McHugh. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001, 184 pp., $19.95 paper. This is not the Nepal of today's newspapers. It is not the Nepal of...

Unhappily ever after.(Review)
November 1, 2001... Dangerous Muse: The Life of Lady Caroline Blackwood by Nancy Schoenberger. New York: Doubleday, 2001, 377 pp., $27.50 hardcover. In Lucian Freud's painting "Hotel Bedroom," a blonde woman lies on her back amidst crumpled white sheets and...

Poetic patchworks.(three books of poetry)(Review)
November 1, 2001... Humanophone by Janet Holmes. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001, 88 pp., $15.00 paper. The Paintings of Our Lives by Grace Schulman. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001, 79 pp., $22.00 hardcover. Alluvial by Katherine...

War without end?(The Politics of Breast Cancer; The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America)(Review)
November 1, 2001... The Politics of Breast Cancer by Maureen Hogan Casamayou. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2001, 191 pp., $19.95 paper. The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America by Barron H....

Good hair days.(Tenderheaded: A Comb-Bending Collection of Hair Stories)(Review)
November 1, 2001... Tenderheaded: A Comb-Bending Collection of Hair Stories edited by Juliette Harris and Pamela Johnson. New York: Pocket Books, 2001, 302 pp., $25.95 hardcover. As black women, we take our hair very seriously. Perhaps even more than skin...

The things the carried.(Review)
November 1, 2001... The Burden of Time: Photographs from the Highlands of Chiapas by Marcey Jacobson, edited by Carol Karasik, translated into Spanish by Francisco Alvarez Quinones. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001, 148 pp., $39.50 hardcover. ...

Choosing choice.(Review)
November 1, 2001... Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States by Rickie Solinger. New York: Hill and Wang, 2001, 284 pp., $25.00 hardcover. The contemporary language of choice promises dignity...

Is primatology destiny?(Review)
November 1, 2001... Beauty and the Beasts: Woman, Ape and Evolution by Carole Jahme. New York: Soho Press, 2001, 416 pp., $25.00 hardcover. In graduate school, my roommate Penny, a PhD candidate in psychology, often ruminated about the public's general lack of...

Ahead of her time.(Review)
November 1, 2001... History and the Texture of Modern Life: Selected Essays by Lucy Maynard Salmon, edited by Nicholas Adams and Bonnie G. Smith. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001, 264 pp., $39.95 hardcover. The late nineteenth century y...

Sustenance and subtlety.(Review)
November 1, 2001... Ash by Sharan Strange. Boston: Beacon Press, 2001, 68 pp., $14.00 paper. She Didn't Mean to Do It by Daisy Fried. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000, 69 pp., $12.95 paper. I was sent six first books of...

Pioneers in the pulpit.(Review)
November 1, 2001... Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation edited by Rebecca T. Alpert, Sue Levi Elwell and Shirley Idelson. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001, 252 pp., $24.00 paper. Linda Eber's photograph on the cover of Lesbian Rabbis depicts...