The Women's Review of Books articles from September 2007

The Women's Review of Books archives from September 2007

Read like a girl.(Publishing Notes)(Interview)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Interviewed in the Kansas City Star, novelists Jennifer Weiner and Laura Moriarty discuss the audiences for their books. "'Certainly what I'm seeing at fiction readings, and not just mine, are audiences made up almost entirely of women," Weiner...

Clark Kent, adoptee.(adoption)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption Edited by Julia Chinyere Oparah, Sun Yung Shin and Jane Jeong Trenka Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2006, 318 pp., $20.00, paperback Beyond Good Intentions: A...

Reinterpreting the ancients.(Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece By Joan Breton Connelly Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007, 415 pp., $39.50, hardcover In his landmark text Greek Religion, written in 1977...

The Bush countdown.(George W. Bush and the War on Women: Turning Back the Clock on Progress)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... George W. Bush and the War on Women: Turning Back the Clock on Progress By Barbara Finlay London & New York: Zed Books, 2006, 268 pp., $25.00, paperback My "Backwards Bush" countdown clock says there are 586 days left to the Bush...

Equity and difference.(The Constitution as Social Design: Gender and Civic Membership in the American Constitutional Order )(Book review)
September 1, 2007... The Constitution as Social Design: Gender and Civic Membership in the American Constitutional Order By Gretchen Ritter Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006, 381 pp., $29.95, paperback After two readings of political scientist...

"Do you know who you are?" The Grandmothers of the Plaza De Mayo.(Essay)(Essay)
September 1, 2007... In March 1976, a military junta took power in Argentina. But this was not just one more coup, of which there have been many in my country. The coup opened the door to the bloodiest regime Argentina had ever known. The military considered any...

Settling for a fever.(Baghdad Burning)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq By Riverbend New York: The Feminist Press, 2005, 286 pp., $14.95, paperback Baghdad Burning II: More Girl Blog from Iraq By Riverbend New York: The Feminist Press, 2006, 190...

Heir to the throne.(Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech, and Became a Feminist Rebel )(Book review)
September 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech, and Became a Feminist Rebel By Bettina F. Aptheker Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2006, 549 pp., $16.95, paperback Memoirs are often judged more...

Selective vision.(Leni Riefenstahl: A Life)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Leni Riefenstahl: A Life By Jurgen Trimborn, translated by Edna McCown New York: Faber and Faber, Inc., 2007, 351 pp., $30.00, hardcover The title Leni Riefenstahl: A Life is so austere that it is almost a...

Madame X: the recent work of Carrie Mae Weems.(Photography)
September 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Her back to the camera, Carrie Mae Weems seems at first like an incidental tourist or an extra. Her place in the photographs appears secondary, her long black dress a consistent icon in each image. She is John Singer...

The Isle of Echo Park.(Poetry)(Poem)
September 1, 2007... The Isle of Echo Park Rainstorm, nowhere to go. I've got a husband at home. She and I meet at Berrigan's and walk a half a block in the rain to my car, outpost or haven, who knew then. It felt ...

My Mothers.(Poetry)(Poem)
September 1, 2007... My Mothers My voice has two mothers, my own mother, Carmen, and Sappho, both lost in history for different reasons and both preserved in me I heard in my mother's voice the inflections of her family,...

Downwinders.(Book review)
September 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Road of Five Churches By Stephanie Dickinson, with New York: Rain Mountain Karma and Other Stories By Rishi Reddi New York: Harper Perennial, The Rope Walk By Carrie Brown New York: Pantheon Books, 2007, 323...

"At your service, my Lord, here I come".(muslim women)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Living Islam Out Loud: American Muslim Women Edited by Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur Boston: Beacon Press, 2005, 209pp., $15.00 paperback Muslim Women in America: The Challenge of Islamic Identity Today By Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Jane I. Smith and...

"Harder days are coming".(Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems By Ingeborg Bachmann. Translated and introduced by Peter Filkins Brookline, MA: Zephyr Press, 2006, 644 pp., $24.95, paperback Ingeborg Bachmann's writing shows that "there is...

The other woman.(Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes's Doomed Love)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes's Doomed Love By Eilat Negev and Yehuda Koren New York: Carroll and Graf, 2006, 280 pp., $27.95, hardcover "The biographer at work, indeed, is like the professional...

The fires at home.(family of soldiers)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... While They're at War: The True Story of American Families on the Homefront By Kristin Henderson New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006, 317 pp., $23.00, hardcover Under the Sabers: The Unwritten Code of Army Wives By Tanya Biank New...