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COPYRIGHT 2004 Women's Review of Books
Attentive readers will note that we now have a new format for the Bookshelf, which aims to provide you with a little more information than in the past about books we've received in our office recently. As always, the Bookshelf is only a partial listing of the books by and about women published each month.
Paula Bernat Bennett, Poets in the Public Sphere: The Emancipatory Project of American Women's Poetry, 1800-1900. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003, 264 pp., paper. Through the use of various sources, including regional newspapers, Bennett examines how and why poems by ordinary women involving personal and social injustice, politics, and economics found their way into print. Bennett places these works into the broader historical context of women's poetical works.
Wendy Buonaventura, I Put a Spell on You: Dancing...
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