Women's Review of Books Volume 25, Issue 3 (PDF)

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May/June 2008

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Female Spoons and Male Forks American Food Writing: An Anthology with Classic Recipes Edited by Molly O’Neill
Reviewed by Sandra M. Gilbert

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The Insanity File The Madness of Mary Todd Lincoln By Jason Emerson
Reviewed by Joan D. Hedrick

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Art Without Balls Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art Edited by Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin
Reviewed by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw

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Sex Without Procreation, Procreation Without Sex Everything Conceivable: How Assisted Reproduction is Changing Men, Women, and the World By Liza Mundy
Queering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience By Laura Marno
Reviewed by Amy Agigian

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The Rescuer of Women Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories By Katha Pollitt
Reviewed by Lisa Jervis

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The Boys Against the Girls Playing with the Boys: Why Separate is Not Equal By Eileen McDonagh and Laura Pappano
Equal Play: Title IX and Social Change Edited by Nancy Hogshead-Makar and Andrew Zimbalist
Reviewed by Pat Griffin

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Good Reads The Resonance of “Quiet” Fiction
The Alice Stories By Jesse Lee Kercheval
Water: Nine Stories By Alyce Miller
Every Last Cuckoo By Kate Maloy
Reviewed by Valerie Miner

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Poetry By Barbara Greenberg

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Detour De Force Awkward: A Detour By Mary Cappello
Reviewed by Jan Clausen

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Photography The Aftermath Photographs by Rania Matar, Article by Rachel Rosenfield Lafo

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Essay Where No Woman Has Gone Before By Victoria Rosner

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Cultural Identity and Multicultural Complexity The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism By Melanie Kaye/Kantowitz
Reviewed by Bettina Aptheker

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Quinceanera Barbie Hijas Americanas: Beauty, Body Image, and Growing Up Latina By Rosie Molinary
Once Upon a Quincañera: Coming of Age in the USA By Julia Alvarez
Reviewed by Marie-Elise Wheatwind

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Handmaidens No More Daring to Care: American Nursing and Second-Wave Feminism By Psusan Gelfand Malka
Reviewed by Peggy Lynch

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All to Mother Household Accounts: Working-Class Family Economies in the Interwar United States By Susan Porter Benson
Reviewed by Alice Kessler-Harris

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Obituary Tender Impiety: Grace Paley, 1922-2007 By Rachel Rubin