The Women's Review of Books articles from October 2004

The Women's Review of Books archives from October 2004

Gloria Anzaldua (1942-2004): as a "threshold person," a nepantlera, Anzaldua moved among worlds in her art, her politics, and her spirituality.(Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua)(Obituary)
October 1, 2004... Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua--internationally acclaimed feminist author, cultural theorist, and independent scholar--passed away during the week of May 15, 2004, from diabetes-related complications. One of the boldest feminist thinkers and social...

Autobiography of a friendship.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Truth and Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett. New York: HarperCollins, 2004, 257 pp., $23.95 hardcover. Truth and Beauty explores novelist Ann Patchett's long-term relationship with fellow writer Lucy Grealy, whose death in 2002 robbed...

Creating a self.(The Education of Jane Addams)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The Education of Jane Addams by Victoria Bissell Brown. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004, 421 pp., $39.95 hardcover. Jane Addams is such a larger-than-life figure in United States history--particularly in the history of...

The Science War front.(Beyond Epistemology: A Pragmatist Approach to Feminist Science Studies)(Scrutinizing Feminist Epistemology: An Examination of Gender in Science)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Beyond Epistemology: A Pragmatist Approach to Feminist Science Studies by Sharyn Clough. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003, 167 pp., $24.95 paper. Scrutinizing Feminist Epistemology: An Examination of Gender in Science edited by...

Treating infertility: amid a confusing array of resources, how to decide which you can trust.
October 1, 2004... It is common enough. You may have a friend or relative or neighbor who underwent fertility treatments. You yourself may have experienced the painful and costly rounds of pills, injections, egg harvesting, and implantation. There's a lot at...

Border patrol.(Lives Full of Struggle and Triumph: Southern Women, Their Institutions, and Their Communities)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Lives Full of Struggle and Triumph: Southern Women, Their Institutions, and Their Communities edited by Bruce L. Clayton and John A. Salmond. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2003, 323 pp., $55.00 hardcover. Southern Women at...

Bedtime Story.(Poetry)(Poem)
October 1, 2004... Bedtime Story "... now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Goodbye feet!" Alice's Adventures Beyond the Looking Glass Was it before or after the brain tumor that you took to signing...

Angel.(Poetry)(Poem)
October 1, 2004... Angel She won't last forever out there, standing guard over the garden planted in your name but hardly worth your notice, were you here. Flowers hardy as our midwestern accents transplanted to these Pennsylvania...

Solitaries and friends.(Alone! Alone! Lives of Some Outsider Women)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Alone! Alone! Lives of Some Outsider Women by Rosemary Dinnage. New York: New York Review of Books, 2004, 296 pp., $24.95 hardcover. A Chance Meeting: Intertwined lives of American Writers and Artists 1854-1967 by Rachel Cohen. New York:...

Writing women into myth.(Wonder Women: Feminisms and Superheroes)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Wonder Women: Feminisms and Superheroes by Lillian S. Robinson. New York: Routledge, 2004, 148 pp., $17.95 paper. Decoding Gender in Science Fiction by Brian Attebery. New York: Routledge, 2002, 210 pp., $23.95 paper. Girls Who Bite...

Blizzard.(Poetry)(Poem)
October 1, 2004... Blizzard I'd allowed myself to thirst and thirst, and when I drank from the cup of her body, the snow began to fall in flakes as big as feathers, hushing the streets, covering cars. It drew the...

In Arabic.(Poetry)(Poem)
October 1, 2004... In Arabic In her room in my house, a teenage girl speaks a language I don't understand, a language she makes into gravel to fling at her father, across a thousand miles. Like a mood ring set on a stove, she changes color...

Short readers, small rep.(Kiddie Lit: The Cultural Construction of Children's Literature in America)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Kiddie Lit: The Cultural Construction of Children's Literature in America by Beverly Lyon Clark. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003, 257 pp., hardcover. Last fall, at a party for new faculty at my university, I struck up a...

Tumbling days.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Remember Me by Trezza Azzopardi. New York: Grove Press, 2004, 320 pp., $23.00 hardcover. Trezza Azzopardi, who grew up in a Maltese-British family, recently graduated from a writing program at the University of East Anglia. The literary...

Hi, Karen! How's God?(The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness by Karen Armstrong. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004, 336 pp., $24.00 hardcover. As Karen Armstrong began researching the idea and experiences of God in the worlds monotheistic religions, her...

No post-feminists here.(The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism edited by Vivien Labaton and Dawn Lundy Martin. New York: Anchor Books, 2004, 346 pp., 14.95 paper. According to the corporate media, Vivien Labaton and Dawn Lundy Martin don't...

Women making music.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Women's Voices Across Musical Worlds edited by Jane A. Bernstein. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2004, 353 pp., $22.50 paper. Given the number of essay collections that treat aspects of gender, sexuality, and music that have been...