Women's Review of Books Volume 23, Issue 6 (PDF)

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November/December 2006

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The Man Who Didn’t Exist James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon By Julie Phillips
Reviewed by Susanna J. Sturgis

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“You’re Next” The Caged Virgin By Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Reviewed by Kathy Davis

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Sweating It Out Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine and Menopause in Modern America By Judith A. Houck
Reviewed by Susan E. Bell and Susan M. Reverby

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A Conservative in Liberal’s Clothing When Sex Goes to School: Warring Views on Sex Since the Sixties By Kristin Luker
Reviewed by Janice Irvine

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Essay Sappho’s Lost Sessions By Meryl Altman

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Crossing The Divide The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide By Susan Nathan
Reviewed by Sherna Berger Gluck

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Whose Choice? Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America By Rickie Solinger
Reviewed by Kim E. Nielsen

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Cartoon “My Isadora” By Sabrina Jones

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Poetry “Charlotte Brontë, Student Roe Head School 1831” and “At The Mall Cineplex” By Andrea Potos

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Field Notes In Memoriam: Patricia Goedicke (1931–2006) and Jean Pedrick (1923–2006) By Robin Becker

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Essay Forugh Farrokhzad: Her Poetry, Life, and Legacy By Jasmin Darznik

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“The End is Far, and Time is Short” Suite Française By Irène Némirovsky, translated by Sandra Smith
Reviewed by Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild

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The Given Life and the Chosen Life Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for DemocracyBy Louise W. Knight
Reviewed by Rima Lunin Schultz

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The Wisdom of Myth Bellini in Istanbul By Lillias Bever
Five Terraces By Ann Fisher-Wirth
Reviewed by Claire Keyes

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The Long Version Mara and Dann: An Adventure By Doris Lessing
The Story of General Dann and Mara’s Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog By Doris Lessing
Reviewed by Ann Snitow

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On Wives and Prostitutes? The Purchase of Intimacy By Viviana A. Zelizer
Reviewed by Barbara R. Bergmann

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The History of Torture That Inferno: Conversations of Five Women Survivors of an Argentine Torture Camp By Munú Actis, Cristina Aldini, Liliana Gardella, Miriam Lewin, and Elisa Tokar
Truth, Torture, and the American Way By Jennifer Harbury
Reviewed by Pamela Crossland

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On My Bookshelf The Shelves of Good Intentions By Urvashi Vaid