The Women's Review of Books articles from September 2000

The Women's Review of Books archives from September 2000

Couch potatoes.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Last Good Freudian by Brenda Webster. New York: Holmes and Meier, 2000, 208 pp., $24.95 hardcover. Mockingbird Years: A Life in and out of Therapy by Emily Fox Gordon. New York: Basic Books, 2000, 243 pp., $24.00 hardcover. I have...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 2000... To the editor: I very much enjoyed reading Elayne Rapping's "You've come which way, baby?" in the July issue. I'm afraid that I must agree with her general assessment of television's treatment of women since the 1980s--much as I'd like not...

La musa de la patria.(Review)
September 1, 2000... In the Name of Salome by Julia Alvarez. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2000, 357 pp., $23.95 hardcover. After the well-deserved success of her second novel, In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez has become the chief literary...

Chairman Jane.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Command Performance: An Actress in the Theater of Politics by Jane Alexander. New York: PublicAffairs, 2000, 335 pp., $25.00 hardcover. Within its genre--the inside-the-Beltway memoir--Jane Alexander's story of her tenure as chairman (not...

Losing ground.
September 1, 2000... Where do feminists go when their gathering places vanish? We've come together for a conference, a huge crowd of women, many familiar faces from my past... I walk into a living room where women are sitting in a circle, talking intensely,...

Village voices.(Review)
September 1, 2000... American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century by Christine Stansell. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2000, 420 pp., $30.00 hardcover. My friend Ellen once thought FATE would intervene in her love life, matching her...

Bad net, good net.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High-Tech by Paulina Borsook. New York: Public Affairs, 2000, 276 pp., $24.00 hardcover. CyberFeminism: Connectivity, Critique, Creativity edited by Susan...

Free speech movement.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Disguised as a Poem: My Years Teaching Poetry at San Quentin by Judith Tannenbaum. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000, 217 pp., $42.50 hardcover, $15.95 paper. Say how ya doing Outside world? Do you remember me? I'm...

Songs of the South.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Farewell, My Lovelies by Diann Blakely. Ashland, OR: Story Line Press, 2000, 73 pp., $12.95 paper. The Never Wife by Cynthia Hogue. DuBois, PA: Mammoth Books, 1999, 78 pp., $12.95 paper. Castaway by Yvette Christianse. Durham, NC: Duke...

Enfant terrible.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Queen Silver: The Godless Girl by Wendy McElroy. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2000, 285 pp., $28.95 hardcover. This life of a "child wonder" has the narrative shape we usually associate with lives of prodigies: early brilliance and...

The end of work.
September 1, 2000... What happens when employment dries up? Karen Rosenberg asks what Europe's job crisis can teach us. Americans enjoying their longest post-war economic boom generally don't know about the high anxiety in continental Europe. Persistent...

The sisters' war?(Review)
September 1, 2000... All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies by Elizabeth D. Leonard. New York: W. W. Norton, 1999, 368 pp., $27.95 hardcover. Disarming the Nation: Women's Writing and the American Civil War by Elizabeth Young. Chicago:...

A childhood in hell.(Review)
September 1, 2000... When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge by Chanrithy Him. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000, 330 pp., $23.95 hardcover. April 15, 2000, was the final day of the three-day Cambodian New Year celebration, also. called the "Time...

Wayang.(Poem)
September 1, 2000... On the train across Java we slept in a knot: my head in your lap, your head on my back, two hundred miles through the tropical dark in shuddering third class. At every major stop, a skirmish of shouted...

CORRECTION.(Correction Notice)
September 1, 2000... Two factual errors crept into our July 2000 issue. In Indira Karamcheti's review of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Anita Loos' novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was referred to inaccurately as Blondes Have More Fun. In Kathy...