Women's Review of Books Volume 34, Issue 1 (PDF)

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January/February 2017

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The House of Difference Audre Lorde’s Transnational Legacies Edited By Stella Bolaki and Sabine Broeck
The Wind Is Spirit: The Life, Love and Legacy of Audre Lorde By Gloria I. Joseph
Reviewed by Jan Clausen

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What Are You Wearing? Threadbare: Clothes, Sex, and Trafficking By Anne Elizabeth Moore and the Ladydrawers
Reviewed by Wendy Gamber

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Trouser Roles Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema By Laura Horak
Reviewed by Erin Trahan

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Stories Matter
Homegoing By Yaa Gyasi
Under the Udala Trees By Chinelo Okparanta; The Book of Memory By Petina Gappah
Reviewed by Heather Hewett

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Bringing the President to the People and the People to the President A Feminist in the White House: Midge Costanza, the Carter Years, and America’s Culture Wars By Doreen Mattingly
Reviewed by Ruth Rosen

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Poetry By Jan Freeman

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Photography Born in Chiapas By Janet Jarman

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Putting a Ring on it Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality: How African Americans and Gays Mistakenly Thought the Right to Marry Would Set Them Free By Katherine Franke
Reviewed by Amber Moulton

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Field Notes In Memoriam, 2016 By Robin Becker

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The Heisenberg of Feminism The Feminism of Uncertainty: A Gender Diary
Reviewed by Paula Rabinowitz

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Testing the Human Spirit Forty Rooms By Olga Grushin
Reviewed by Jessica Jernigan

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The Less-Than-Scientific Science Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict By Heather Boushey
Reviewed by Kate Bahn

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House Love and Human Love A House Full of Daughters: A Memoir of Seven Generations By Juliet Nicolson
Reviewed by Roberta Rubenstein

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Reproductive Rights, Human Rights Reproductive States: Global Perspectives on the Invention and Implementation of Population Policy Edited by Rickie Solinger and Mie Nakachi
Reviewed by Mindy Jane Roseman

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This Place Needs a New Language The Bones of Grace By Tahmima Anam
Reviewed by Mandira Sen