The Women's Review of Books articles from November 2002

The Women's Review of Books archives from November 2002

The high cost of progress.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case that Changed Sexual Harassment Law by Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler. New York: Doubleday, 2002, 390 pp., $27.50 hardcover. A widely used guide to employment...

Improbable heroine.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... The Courage of Strangers: Coming of Age with the Human Rights Movement by Jeri Laber. New York: Public Affairs, 2002, 405 pp., $27.50 hardcover. One day in December 1973, in an Upper West Side apartment in New York City, a 42-year-old...

Hiding in plain sight.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters edited by Carla Kaplan. New York: Doubleday, 2002, 848 pp., $35.00 hardcover. I've written twice before about Zora Neale Hurston, but it is only now that I begin to see how very complex was the...

Life after loss.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Three Junes by Julia Glass. New York: Pantheon, 2002, 353 pp., $25.00 hardcover. The cliche of the autobiographical first novel is too often true. There's the quirky family story, the abusive family story, the coming-of-age story, the...

Restoring a reputation.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox. New York: HarperCollins, 2002, 380 pp., $29.95 hardcover. The practice of science becomes high drama in Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA. Brenda Maddox presents a...

The white child's burden.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Before the Knife: Memories of an African Childhood by Carolyn Slaughter. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002, 222 pp., $32.00 hardcover. Memoirs have been an important genre for white women in Africa: Karen Blixen, Doris Lessing, Kuki...

Examined lives.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Anecdotal Theory by Jane Gallop. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002, 171 pp., $18.95 paper. But Enough About Me: Why We Read Other People's Lives by Nancy K. Miller. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002, 145 pp., $49.00...

Light reading.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Catching Light: Poems by Kathryn Stripling Byer. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2002, 62 PP., $22.95 hardcover, $15.95 paper. The opening line of Kathryn Stripling Byer's first book, The Girl in the Midst of the...

Dark and Satanic.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 by Mary Beth Norton. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002, 432 pp., $30.00 hardcover. If Mary Beth Norton's intriguing new book, In the Devil's Snare, were the only available...

Landscape artists.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Art / Women / California, 1950-2000: Parallels and Intersections edited by Diana Burgess Fuller and Daniela Salvioni. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press/San Jose Museum of Art, 2002, 388 pp., $65.00 hardcover, $35.00 paper. The...

Strength in obscurity.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Feminism in the Heartland by Judith Ezekiel. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2002, 399 pp., $24.95 hardcover. Women's Liberation: Call Cheryl 278-6271." This one-line ad, appearing in the radical newsletter Minority Report in...

Downward mobility.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia: Puerto Rican Workers and Postwar Economies by Carmen Teresa Whalen. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2001, 309 pp., $24.95 hardcover. Some of the most consistently radical work these days is...

They Fled North.(Poem)
November 1, 2002... They Fled North Could I do that or would my legs be too sore to carry me running barefoot for weeks in the dark, the trees like bounty hunters lurking sometimes there, sometimes in shadows? Could I run in a straight line...

The meaning of mean.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls by Rachel Simmons. New York: Harcourt, 2002, 320 pp., $25.00 hardcover. The Secret Lives of Girls: What Good Girls Really Do--Sex Play, Aggression, and Their Guilt by Sharon Lamb....

The bookshelf.
November 1, 2002... Each month we list the recently published books received during the preceding month or so which we think readers of the Women's Review will want to know about. This is, however, a very partial selection of the books by and about women...

A River I Knew.(Poem)
November 1, 2002... A River I Knew Thick rope of a river, the Hudson wrapped our lives like a long, loose lasso. Not a simple flow she was weather, mood and mood swing: her brows could furrow, eyes darken, wide concrete lips spit high/low...