Women's Review of Books Volume 23, Issue 1

January/February 2006

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A Passion For Equality The Solitude of Self: Thinking about Elizabeth Cady Stanton By Vivian Gornick
Reviewed by Linda Gordon

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Plot vs. Character An Atomic Romance By Bobbie Ann Mason
Reviewed by Dorothy Allison

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The Incomparable Lady Day With Billie By Julia Blackburn
Reviewed by Farah Jasmine Griffin

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Other Orders of Intimacy Eudora Welty: A Biography By Suzanne Marrs
Reviewed by Trish Crapo

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Living the Undead Life Fledgling By Octavia E. Butler
The Historian By Elizabeth Kostova
Reviewed by Susanna J. Sturgis

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Interview Doha Boraki: Moroccan Feminist, Translator, Novelist By Suzanne Ruta

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Field Notes Zeppo’s First Wife: New and Selected Poems By Gail Mazur
Reviewed by Robin Becker

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Poetry “Suite for Elanor” By Alicia Ostriker
“On Reading The Age of Innocence in the Year 2005″ “First Thing in the Morning” “Waterboarding” By Maxine Kumin

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Essay Pulp And Circumstance By Carol Seajay

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Photography The Double Vision of Karen Davis Commentary by Ellen Feldman

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On My Bookshelf By Jennifer L. Pozner

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All Things Peabody The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American RomanticismBy Megan Marshall
Reviewed by Rebecca Steinitz

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Catching Courage Other Lands Have Dreams: From Baghdad to Pekin Prison By Kathy Kelly
Reviewed by Erika Munk

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A Woman of Ordinary Splendor Watercolor Women, Opaque Men: a novel in verse By Ana Castillo
Reviewed by AnaLouise Keating

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Finding Afghanistan A Bed of Red Flowers: In Search of My Afghanistan By Nelofer Pazira
Reviewed by Jasmin Darznik

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Essay Why You’ll Never Hear, “Heeeeeeere’s Katey!” By Kate Clinton

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Love and Marriage (or Not) The New Single Woman By E. Kay Trimberger
Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage By Stephanie Coontz
Reviewed by Andi Zeisler