Women's Review of Books Volume 25, Issue 2

March/April 2008

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Gender, Caring, and Money The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics By Riane Eisler
Reviewed by Susan F. Feiner and Drucilla K. Barker

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Origins of Sex The Cleft By Doris Lessing
Reviewed by Roberta Rubenstein

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Bicultural Before There Was A Word For It The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Nohnston Schoolcraft Edited by Robert Dale Parker
Reviewed by Margaret Noori

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Essay Book Reviewing: Do It Yourself By Gail Pool

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Poems Including History–And More A is for Anne: Mistress Hutchinson Disturbs the Commonwealth By Penelope Scambly Schott
The Resurrection of Trade By Leslie Adrienne Miller
The Logan Topographies By Alena Hairston
Blue Front By Martha Collins
Reviewed by Wendy Vardaman

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No More Tea Pouring Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women Are Changing Their Nation By Veronica Chambers
Reviewed by Kimberly Palmer

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Field Notes The Roll of Small Presses
Interpretive Work Elizabeth Bradfield
By Robin Becker

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Poetry By Hilda Raz

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Cartoon By Diane DiMassa

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Essay Ms. Captivity By Jean Trounstine

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The Search for Healing Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resistance By Alice Rothchild
Reviewed by Sherry Gorelick

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An Account of Things of the Yucatan Peregrina: Love and Death in Mexico Edited and with an introduction by Michael K. Schuessler; Foreward by Elena Poniatowska
Reviewed by Martha Gies

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The Power of Words Liberating Shahrazad: Feminism, Postcolonialism, and Islam By Suzanne Gauch
Reviewed by Nadia Boudidah Faloul

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Emotion Overflowing The Wind from the East By Almudena Grandes; Translated from the Spanish by Sonia Soto
Reviewed by Inmaculada Pertusa

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The New “Yiddishe Mama” You Never Call You Never Write! A History of the Jewish MotherBy Joyce Antler
Reviewed by Debra Spark

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Remembering Our Health, Forgetting Our Pain Just Breath Normally By Peggy Schumaker
I Heard the Vultures Singing: Notes on Poetry, Illness, and Nature By Lucia Perillo
Reviewed by Nina Murray