The Women's Review of Books articles from November 2007

The Women's Review of Books archives from November 2007

The missing chapters.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... I read with appreciation and interest Emily Toth's review of Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause (March/April 2007). I did wish that Toth had referred at some point to Ourselves, Growing Older (1987), The New Ourselves, Growing Older (1994) and...

Getting personal.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... I am grateful that Women's Review of Books chose to review our book What Becomes You. However, the reviewer seriously misrepresents us and the book's intent. Feminism teaches the danger of giving authority only to depersonalized...

Correction.(Letters)(Correction notice)
November 1, 2007... Both photographs on page 28 of the September/October issue of WRB are of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. The one on the right, erroneously captioned "Ted Hughes with Assia Wevill," is of Plath and Hughes on their honeymoon in Paris in 1956.

A new vision.(WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution Organized by Cornelia Butler and edited by Lisa Gabrielle Mark Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art and Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007, 512 pp., $59.95, hardcover [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Rudimentary.(The Maytrees)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Maytrees By Annie Dillard New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007, 224 pp., $24.95, hardcover [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] You do not want to play Scrabble with Annie Dillard. Not that she'd invite you to. But if she did,...

Veiled bestsellers.(Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit)(Let Me Tell You Where I Have Been: New Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit By Gillian Whitlock Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007, 216 pp., $20.00 paperback Let Me Tell You Where I Have Been: New Writing By Women of the Iranian Diaspora Edited by...

Not saying, but doing.(Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham By Carolyn Brown New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007, 656 pp., $37.50, hardcover [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I never saw Carolyn Brown dance live. Principal dancer of the...

The politics of the table.(Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life )(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Politics of the Table Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life By Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver New York: HarperCollins, 2007, 370 pp., $26.95, hardcover [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] ...

Love and marriage.(Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Love and Marriage Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England By Sharon Marcus Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007, 356 pp., $19.95, paperback I'm a blurb skeptic. Fully aware of the...

Reluctant revolutionaries.(Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women Are Choosing Parenthood Without Marriage and Creating the New American Family)(Naked on the Page: The Misadventures of My Unmarried Midlife)(Single Mom Seeking: Playdates, Blind Dates, and Other Dispatches from the Dating World)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Reluctant Revolutionaries Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood without Marriage and Creating the New American Family By Rosanna Hertz New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, 273 pp., $26,...

Memoirs in words and pictures.(Essay)(We Are on Our Own)(Escape from "Special")(Jobnik, Issues 1-6)(Bernie! The Wackiest Jewlipino on Earth!)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... We Are On Our Own By Miriam Katin Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2006, 136 pp., $24.95, hardcover Escape from "Special" By Miss Lasko-Gross Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2006, 176 pp., $16.95, paperback Jobnik,...

That Ring, That Veil.(POETRY)(Poem)
November 1, 2007... That Ring, That Veil Smoke came out of them as if they grew it. My father, my brother, my first husband announced themselves with smoke, perfumed themselves with it and I danced in it, sang in it,...

The Burning of the Books.(POETRY)(Poem)
November 1, 2007... The Burning of the Books I didn't see it happen; I only knew it did. I pictured flame. I pictured smoke and ash. I pictured pages curling up from all my books: Bible Stories for Children, A Sawdust Doll, A Child's...

The islands project: poems for Sappho.(Field Notes)
November 1, 2007... with the publication of her seventh collection of poems, Eloise Klein Healy joins the ongoing conversation about Sappho that continues to engage critics, poets, scholars, and translators. Who was the historical Sappho? What do we make of the...

The life and times of Scarlet Rose Drake.(Cartoon)(Cartoon)
November 1, 2007... Scarlet Rose Drake was born in a vacation cottage on a year possibly similar to 1900. As a child she was fond of dramatic operas acted out by her paper dates and tea sets. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Her performances gained the attention of...

Monstrous beings in need of a hair wash.(The Blue of Her Body )(Incubation: A Space for Monsters)(The Revisionist)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Blue of Her Body By Sara Greenslit Buffalo, NY: Starcherone Books, 2007, 134 pp., $16.00, paperback Incubation: A Space for Monsters By Bhanu Kapil New York: Leon Works, 2006, 95 pp, $14.95, paperback ...

Found in translation.(Four from Japan: Contemporary Poetry and Essays by Women)(Inside and Other Short Fiction: Japanese Women by Japanese Women)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Four from Japan: Contemporary Poetry & Essays by Women Introduction & translations by Sawako Nakayasu New York: Litmus Press/Belladonna Books, 2006, 100 pp., $14.00, paperback Inside and Other Short Fiction: Japanese...

Art and resistance.(Michelangelo in Ravensbruck: One Woman's War against the Nazis )(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Michelangelo in Ravensbruck: One Woman's War Against the Nazis By Countess Karolina Lanckoronska Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2007, 341 pp., $26.00, hardcover The catchy title of this engrossing memoir by Polish intellectual and...

No media, no progress.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Women and Media: A Critical Introduction By Carolyn M. Byerly and Karen Ross Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006, 304 pp., $34.95, paperback [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As an activist who has worked in the trenches of women's...

The truths within.(Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection By Katharine Park New York: Zone Books, 2006, 419 pp., $36.95, hardcover When the abbess Chiara of Montefalco died in 1308, her fellow nuns immediately...

Disoriginated.(Recyclopedia: Trimmings, S*PeRM**K*T and Muse and Drudge )(Innovative Women Poets: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and Interviews)(The Incognito Body: Poems)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Recyclopedia: Trimmings, S*PeRM**K*T and Muse & Drudge By Harryette Mullen St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2006, 176 pp., $15.00, paperback Innovative Women Poets: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and Interviews Edited...

Feeling like a 2,000-year-old lesbian.(Amy Hoffman )(Interview)
November 1, 2007... WRB editor Amy Hoffman talks about the alternative press, Women's Review of Books, and her new memoir, An Army of Ex-Lovers: My Life at the Gay Community News (2007). Dear Readers, I've been at a loss about how to cover my own book in...