Women's Review of Books Volume 23, Issue 4

July/August 2006

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Dreams Fulfilled And Betrayed Children of the New World: A Novel of the Algerian War By Assia Djebar
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits By Laila Lalami
Reviewed by Nadia Boudidah Falfoul

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Women – Deconstructed But Still Here Women’s Studies for the Future: Foundations, Interrogations, Politics Edited by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Agatha Beins
Reviewed by Karin Aguilar-San Juan

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Solidarity’s Disappearing Women Solidarity’s Secret: The Women Who Defeated Communism in Poland By Shana Penn
Reviewed by Jean C. Robinson

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The Moral Imagination The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser Edited by Janet E. Kaufman & Anne F. Herzog, with Jan Heller Levi
Reviewed by Suzanne Gardinier

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The Stuff Of Wonder Willful Creatures: Stories By Aimee Bender
Magic For Beginners By Kelly Link
Nice Big American Baby By Judy Budnitz
Reviewed by Rebecca Meacham

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The Priests Were Women The Woman in the Shaman’s Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine By Barbara Tedlock
Reviewed by Serinity Young

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Interview The Rebel’s Daughter: Algerian Novelist Maissa Bey By Suzanne Ruta

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Field Notes Poetry And Poetry
May Sarton to Valeria Knapp: Letters and Poems to a Secret Muse Edited with an Introduction by Mary Chenoweth Stratton
Reviewed by Michelle Boisseau

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Cartoon “The Ghostwriter” By Joan Hilty

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New Dreams, New Faces Defending Our Dreams: Global Feminist Voices for a New Generation Edited by Shamillah Wilson, Anasuya Sengupta, and Kristy Evans
Reviewed by Michelle Humphrey

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The Male Obsession Hung: A Meditation on the Measurement of Black Men in America By Scott Poulson-Bryant
Reviewed by Deborah Bolling

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A Becky Sharpe Kind Of Life The Story of Chicago May By Nuala O’Faolain
Reviewed by Lauren Byrne

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Gender And Everything Else Their Right to Speak: Women’s Activism in the Indian and Slave Debates By Alisse Portnoy
Reviewed by Jacqueline Bacon

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Our Computing Kin My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts By N. Katherine Hayles
Reviewed by Mara Mills

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Recovering Cultural Knowledge Holding Yawulyu: White Culture and Black Women’s LawBy Zohl de Ishtar
Reviewed by Batya Weinbaum

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The First Feminist Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft By Lyndall Gordon
Reviewed by Kimberly Palmer