Women's Review of Books Volume 25, Issue 4

July/August 2008

p. 3
Blasts From The Past Hanoi Journal 1967 By Carol Cohen McEldowney
Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a WeathermanBy Cathy Wilkerson
Reviewed by Alice Echols

p. 6
Never Give In, Never Give Up Bella Abzug: An Oral History By Suzanne Braun Levine and Mary Thom
Reviewed by Ruth Rosen

p. 8
Citizens of the Affluent Society? The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in America By Felicia Kornbluh
Life After Welfare: Reform and the Persistence of Poverty By Laura Lein and Deanna T. Schexnayder with Karen Nanges Douglas and Daniel G. Schroeder
Reviewed by Annelise Orleck

p. 10
Our Bodies, Ourselves Lives! The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminist Knowledge Travels Across Borders By Kathy Davis
Reviewed by Betsy Hartmann

p. 12
Families of Affinity Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families Under The Law By Nancy Polikoff
Reviewed by Ruthann Robson

p. 14
“I Will Tell Everything” The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing Up in the Warsaw Ghetto Edited by S.L. Shneiderman; New edition prepared by Susan Lee Pentlin
Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood By Ibtisam Barakat
Reviewed by Harriet Malinowitz

p. 17
Seeking a Usable Past Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History By Heather Love
Reviewed by Meryl Altman

p. 18
Field Notes Betrayals of the Heart
Rift By Barbara Helfgott Hyett
By Robin Becker

p. 19
Poetry By Jan Freeman

p. 20
Cartoon By Fly

p. 21
The Postfeminist Dilemma Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex, and the Media By Kelly Oliver
From Where We Stand: War, Women’s Activism and Feminist Analysis By Cynthia Cockburn
Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times By Jasbir Puar
Reviewed by Alyson M. Cole

p. 23
Talking About My Generation Sisterhood Interrupted: From Radical Women to Girls Gone Wild By Deborah Siegel
Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters By Jessica Valenti
We Don’t Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists By Melody Berger
Reviewed by Patricia Justine Tumang

p. 25
Brought to Light The Air We Breathe By Andrea Barrett
Signed, Mata Hari By Yannick Murphy
Reviewed by Rebecca Meacham

p. 27
The Universe Was Her Oyster Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, The Public YearsBy Charles Capper
Margaret Fuller: Wandering Pilgrim By Meg McGavran Murray
Reviewed by Bell Gale Chevigny

p. 30
Dying As She Lived Circling My Mother By Mary Gordon
Reviewed by Lauren Byrne

p. 31
Outsiders Who Welcome Us In Pink Harvest: Tales of Happenstance By Toni Mirosevich
Comfort Food For Breakups: The Memoir of a Hungry Girl By Marusya Bociurkiw
Reviewed by Elana Dykewomon