Women's Review of Books Volume 24, Issue 6 (PDF)

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November/December 2007

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A New Vision WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution Organized By Cornelia Butler and edited by Lisa Gabrielle Mark
Reviewed by Elissa Auther

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Rudimentary The Maytrees By Annie Dillard
Reviewed by Kate Clinton

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Veiled Bestsellers Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit By Gillian Whitlock
Let Me Tell You Where I Have Been: New Writing By Women of the Iranian Diaspora Edited by Persis Karim
Reviewed by Jasmin Darznik

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Not Saying, But Doing Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham By Carolyn Brown
Reviewed by Debra Cash

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The Politics of the Table Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life By Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver
Reviewed by Jan Zita Grover

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Love and Marriage Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England By Sharon Marcus
Reviewed by Rebecca Steinitz

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Reluctant Revolutionaries Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood without Marriage and Creating the New American Family By Rosanna Hertz
Naked on the Page: The Misadventures of My Unmarried Midlife By Jane Ganahl
Single Mom Seeking: Playdates, Blind Dates, and Other Dispatches from the Dating World By Rachel Sarah
Reviewed by E. Kay Trimberger

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Essay Memoirs in Words and Pictures By Karen Karin Rosenberg

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Poetry “That Ring, That Veil” and “The Burning of the Books” By Irene Willis

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Field Notes The Islands Project: Poems for Sappho
The Islands Project By Eloise Klein Healy
Reviewed by Robin Becker

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Cartoon By Jamaica Dyer

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Monstrous Beings In Need of a Hairwash The Blue of Her Body By Sarah Greenslit
Incubation: A Space for Monsters By Bhanu Kapil
The Revisionist By Miranda Melis
Reviewed by Mary Cappello

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Found In Translation Four From Japan: Contemporary Poetry and Essays by WomenIntroduction and Translations by Sawako Nakayasu
Inside and Other Short Fiction: Japanese Women by Japanese Women Compiled by Cathy Layne
Reviewed by Daniela Hurezanu

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Art and Resistance Michelangelo in Ravensbruck: One Woman’s War Against the Nazis By Countess Karolina Lanckororiska
Reviewed By Rochelle G. Saidel

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No Media, No Progress Women and Media: A Critical Introduction By Carolyn M. Byerly and Karen Ross
Reviewed By Ariel Dougherty

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The Truths Within Secrets of Women: Gender, Generations, and the Origin of Human Dissection By Katharine Park
Reviewed By Tara Nummedal

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Disoriginated Recyclopedia Trimmings, S*PeRM**K*T, and Muse & Drudge By Harryette Mullen
Innovative Women Poets: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and Interviews Edited by Elisabeth A. Frost and Cynthia Hogue
The Incognito Body: Poems By Cynthia Hogue
Reviewed By Rebecca Meacham

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Interview Feeling Like a 2,000-Year-Old Lesbian: WRB editor Amy Hoffman talks about the alternative press, Women’s Review of Books, and her new memoir, An Army of Ex-Lovers: My Life at the Gay Community News (2007).