Women's Review of Books Volume 24, Issue 2 (PDF)

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March/April 2007

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Feminism’s Big Idea The Trouble Between Us: An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement By Winifred Breines
Reviewed by Ellen Willis

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Kidnapped in Iraq Friendly Fire By Giuliana Sgrena, translated by Lesley Freeman Riva
The Jill Carroll Story By Jill Carroll with contextual narrative by Peter Grier
Reviewed by Kerryn Higgs

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The Tyranny of Cheerfulness Pink Ribbons, Inc.: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy By Samantha King
Reviewed By Ellen Leopold

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The Truths of Dirty Fingernails A Mile in Her Boots: Women Who Work in the Wild By Jennifer Bové
Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in America By Laura Browder
Reviewed by Mary Zeiss Stange

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Interview Katha Pollitt–Because Things are Worse, People are Paying Attention By Jaclyn Friedman

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Dishing with the Girls… Oops, the Women Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause By The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective
I Feel Bad About My Neck, and Other Thoughts about Being a Woman By Nora Ephron
Reviewed by Emily Toth

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The Poet-Sculptor Domain of Perfect Affection By Robin Becker
Reviewed by Mary Cappello

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Poetry “Intertidal” “On the 13th Annual July 4 Reading of ‘Song of Myself'” By Liz Ahl

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Field Notes The Poetic Sequence By Robin Becker

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Cartoon Mitzi’s Blog: A Cautionary Tale By Jennifer Camper

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Waging Peace Elise Boulding: A Life in the Cause of Peace By Mary Lee Morrison
Reviewed by Judith Nies

p. 23 The Brazil of the Imagination Samba Dreamers By Kathleen de Azevedo
Reviewed by Marguerite Itamar Harrison

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The Making of the Female Self This Changes Everything: The Relational Revolution in Psychology By Christina Robb
Reviewed by Ellen Herman

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Bitch–The Noun, the Verb, the Magazine Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine Edited by Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler
Reviewed by Michelle Humphrey

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Obituary The Politics of Passion – Ellen Willis, 1941-2006 By Ann Snitow

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Obituary Making the Case for Socialist-Feminism – Lillian Robinson, 1941-2006 By Clarissa Atkinson

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The Patron Saint Of Creepy Dudes Rose of No Man’s Land By Michelle Tea
Reviewed by Jennifer Mattson

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On My Bookshelf Worlds in Despair By Nancy Mairs