The Women's Review of Books articles from November 2003

The Women's Review of Books archives from November 2003

Art and autobiography: three books examine the career of artist Louise Bourgeois.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... On Christmas day 2003, the artist Louise Bourgeois will turn 92. Her vitality, wit, and ability to fuse excess with elegance continue to rival the works of artists one-third her age. In a career spanning over 60 years, she seems to have been...

Letters.
November 1, 2003... Dear Editor: Kathy Davis' review (Women's Review, September 2003) of Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium contains serious errors. If only Davis had read this Sisterhood as attentively as the previous two: she...

Narrative without a bang.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... The Fifth Book of Peace by Maxine Hong Kingston. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003, 402 pp., $26.00 hardcover. Maxine Hong Kingston, whose honors include (a biographical note in her new book informs us) the "rare title of 'Living Treasure of...

Fashion and politics.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Reforming Women's Fashion, 1850-1920: Polities, Health, and Art by Patricia A. Cunningham. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2003, 250 pp., $45.00 hardcover. In 1851, in one of the most famous episodes in the history of dress,...

Radical royalty.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left by Susan Braudy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003, 460 pp., $27.95 hardcover. No event was as shocking to the American left during the early 1980s as the daylight robbery of an...

The scavenger ideology.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy and the Science of Nationalism by Nancy Ordover. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2003, 297 pp., $18.95 paper. In American Eugenics, Nancy Ordover examines our national obsession with...

Unsettling sex.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... 3 by Julie Hilden. New York: Plume, 2003, 218 pp., $13.00 paper. At the risk of sounding either depraved or pretentious I will say that I've read a formidable quantity of smut. I use the word affectionately. But despite my affection for it...

3: a conversation with Julie Hilden.
November 1, 2003... While reading 3 I became so involved with the characters that when I finished the novel I couldn't quite let go of them. Curious to know more about them and about the person who created them, I contacted Julie Hilden in New York. What ensued...

The care deficit.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... The Commercialization of Intimate Life: Notes from Home and Work by Arlie Russell Hochschild. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003, 313 pp., $16.95 paper. Reading Arlie Hochschild's new book of essays, The Commercialization...

Ms. President.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003, 562 pp., $28.00 hardcover. Women Transforming Congress edited by Cindy Simon Rosenthal. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002, 448 pp., $44.95 hardcover,...

Alternative universes.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Changing Planes: Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin, illustrated by Eric Beddows. New York: Harcourt, 2003, 256 pp., $22.00 hardcover. Ursula K. Le Guin has been at the top of her form for so long that it's easy to forget just how "top" that form...

Between two languages.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Here There Was Once a Country by Venus Khoury-Ghata, translated by Marilyn Hacker. Oberlin, OH: Oberlin College Press, 2001, 103 pp., $14.95 paper. She Says by Venus Khoury-Ghata, translated by Marilyn Hacker. Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf...

Cycling.(Poem)
November 1, 2003... Cycling Bridal and umbilical, she walked beside then behind him. Glass-kernel woman, gold seed of a child caught in a heartbeat; her fontanel, like the past, slow to close. For moments she'd assemble to...

Sleeping Alone.(Poem)
November 1, 2003... Sleeping Alone After lunch in the mountains I was sleepy; long drinks of stream water and beneath, the mica's blurred silver. Though it was noon an owl breezed by with a snake, and I lay in the shallows of nudging...

Untold stories told.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Eclipse: Stories by Jeanne Bryner. Huron, OH: Bottom Dog Press, 2003, 149 pp., $12.95 paper. Eclipse is a collection of short fictional stories that take as their subject the troubles of working-class life. Narrative voices include Lucy,...