Fall 2026
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Editorial
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Women and Cinema
Beyond “Script Girls”: Women’s Roles Behind the Camera in Early Argentine Cinema
By Ela Mertnoff
p. 8
Writing New Selves into Existence
A Stone Thrown in a Pond: Essays and Poems on the Enigma of Leaving
Edited by Ritu Menon
Reviewed by Farah Ali
p. 9
Lyrical Expressionism
Alice Baber, An Artist’s Triumph Over Tragedy
By Gail Levin
Reviewed by Susan Ossman
p. 10
The Glass Bubble: Dismantling the Performance of the Perfect Mother
What Kind of Mother: A Reckoning
By Judy Sandler
Reviewed by Sally Jane Brown
p. 11
Cultivating Happiness
Faithful Transformations: Islamic Self-help in Contemporary Singapore
By Nurhaizatul Jamil
Reviewed by Shahana Munazir
p. 12
On Gender: Gender Thinking in the Archive
Modernity, Labor and Intimacy in Family Photographs
By Özge Baykan Calafato
p. 16
Photo Portfolio
Sisters
Photography by Nadia Benchallal
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Time and Meaning
My Infinity
By Didi Jackson
Reviewed by Kathleen Volk Miller
p. 19
Challenging Histories
The Present Colonizes the Past: The Future Forsaken?
By Romila Thapar
Reviewed by Sabin Muzaffar
p. 20
Writers on Writing
Recovering Women Writers
By Iris Jamahl Dunkle
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Writers on Writing
A Mauritian Interlude
By Sabyn Javeri
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Pauses in Transit
Nothing to Declare
By Mags Webster
Reviewed by Marion Wrenn
p. 25
Migration and Deportation as Normal Violence
Leave If You Can: Migration and Violence in Bordered Worlds
By Amelia Frank-Vitale
Reviewed by Kathy Powell
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Connections
Naked in the Medina: Looking for Connection with Jane Bowles
By Piia Mustamäki
p. 28
Not a Subject for Women
Intrepid Women: Adventures in Anthropology
Edited by Julia Nicholson
Reviewed by Marzia Balzani
p. 29
No Hand to Hold
Then Flew My Caw Away
By Mary Meriam
Review by Jennifer A Sutherland
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When Women Take Up Space
Terrestre
By Cristina Rivera Garza
Reviewed by Vanessa Medina Vazquez
p. 30
Legacy
The Now of Persepolis
By Mahnaz Yousefzadeh
p. 32
Art Matters
Artwork by Ellen June Wright
