The Women's Review of Books articles from October 2000

The Women's Review of Books archives from October 2000

Alive and kicking.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000, 240 pp., $15.00 paper. Feminist movement--as in action and energy that moves us in the direction of...

On the screen where you live.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Katie.Com by Katherine Tarbox. New York: Dutton, 2000, 196 pp., $19.95 hardcover. Katie and Mark first met in an online chat room. With real identities concealed under screen names ("ATARBOX" and "VALLLEYGUY," with 3 Ls), their friendship...

Lies, secrets and silence.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Half Jew: A Daughter's Search for Her Family's Buried Past by Susan Jacoby. New York: Scribner, 2000, 291 pp., $25.00 hardcover. Susan Jacoby, a noted journalist and author of Wild Justice: The Evolution of Revenge, has written a book...

Reality check.(Review)
October 1, 2000... What is a Woman? And Other Essays by Toril Moi. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 517 pp., $35.00 hardcover. What we need today more than ever is a feminism committed to seeking justice and equality for women, in the most ordinary...

Stating the obvious.(Review)
October 1, 2000... FLUX: Women on Sex, Work, Love, Kids, and Life in a Half-Changed World by Peggy Orenstein. New York: Doubleday, 2000, 324 pp., $25.00 hardcover. My friend Jane and I have an ongoing contest over who can be the worst mother. Last week Jane...

Unequal exchange.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Full Circles, Overlapping Lives: Culture and Generation in Transition by Mary Catherine Bateson. New York: Random House, 2000, 262 pp., $25.00 hardcover. Full Circles, Overlapping Lives grew out of a seminar that Mary Catherine Bateson, a...

When identity meets diversity.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Words Matter: Conversations with Asian American Writers edited by King-Kok Cheung. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2000, 386 pp., $58.00 hardcover, $27.95 paper. Lately I have been sampling interviews with writers. I do so with a...

Helen at Kiska, 1936 & Helen at Atka, 1937.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Helen at Kiska, 1936 When I left my students in New Mexico at the end of the term, I taught them what departure meant. My husband waited in the Aleutians. His letters, grimy and creased, hid among...

Guilty pleasures.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Daphne du Maurier, Haunted Heiress by Nina Auerbach. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000, 192 pp., $24.95 hardcover. Haunting is a powerful metaphor for this book. Nina Auerbach argues that Daphne du Maurier's spooky...

We all fall down.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir by Lauren Slater. New York: Random House, 2000, 221 pp., $21.95 hardcover. I exaggerate." So begins--and ends--the first chapter of Lauren Slater's third memoir, Lying. In the final sentence of the afterword,...

Forced labor.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy by Grace Chang. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2000, 250 pp., $18.00 paper. In April 1997, less than a year after the passage of the Personal Responsibility Act (aka...

Hungry for the world.(Review)
October 1, 2000... The Horse Fair: Poems by Robin Becker. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000, 96 PP., $12.95 paper. If poetry came in flavors, Robin Becker's fourth book, The Horse Fair, I would be tutti-frutti, a pungent melange of all the...

Inaccurate deception?(Review)
October 1, 2000... Empress and Handmaid: On Nature and Gender in the Cult of the Virgin Mary by Sarah Jane Boss. New York: Cassell, 2000, 253 pp., $57.95 hardcover, $24.95 paper. Lourdes: Body and Spirit in the Secular Age by Ruth Harris. New York: Viking...

The Empire strikes back.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... White Teeth by Zadie Smith. New York: Random House, 2000, 448 pp., $24.95 hardcover. When the renowned Andrew Wylie literary agency secured a rumored $400,000 advance for a first-time author, based on only a plot synopsis and two completed...

Past imperfect.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... Challenging Boundaries: Gender and Periodization edited by Joyce W. Warren and Margaret Dickie. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2000, 304 Pp., $50.00 hardcover, $25.00 paper. Colonial, Early National, Antebellum, Postbellum,...