Women's Review of Books Volume 26, Issue 1 (PDF)

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January/February 2009

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Where are the Women? Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns By Erika Falk
Reviewed by Ruth Rosen

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The Practice and The Theory Radical Sisters: Second-Wave Feminism and Black Liberation in Washington, D.C. By Anne M. Valk
Reviewed by Patricia Hill Collins

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Bridging the Chasm The Bishop’s Daughter: A Memoir By Honor Moore
Reviewed by Catherine Mooney

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Essay The Haunted Room By Carole DeSanti

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An Unbalanced and Impossible Relationship White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson By Brenda Wineapple
Reviewed by Mary Loeffelholz

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A Radical Activist, Rediscovered Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones By Carole Boyce Davies
Reviewed by Kate Weigand

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Defamiliarize Yourself The Halo Rule By Teresa Leo
Sister By Nickole Brown
Ordinary Beans By Gwyn McVay
Bonneville By Jenny Mueller
The Gravity Soundtrack By Erin Keane
Reviewed by Wendy Vardaman

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Poetry By Linda A. Roach

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Good Reads The Benefits of Hindsight
Telex from Cuba By Rachel Kushner
The Size of the World By Joan Silber
Our Lady of the Artichokes By Katherine Vaz
Reviewed by Trish Crapo

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Photography In the Tradition of Women Redefining the World: Photographs by Stella Johnson By Magdalen Pierrakos

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Of Her Time and Ahead of It Sex Variant Woman:The Life of Jeannette Howard Foster By Joanne Passet
Reviewed by Martha Vicinus

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Founding Mothers Prodigal Daughters: Susanna Rowson’s Early American Women By Marion Rust
The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation By Nancy Rubin Stuart
Reviewed by Martha Saxton

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Short and Frisky Dinner with Osama By Marilyn Krysl 
Downriver: Short Stories By Jeanne M. Leiby
Remember Love By Jody Lisberger
Reviewed by Marianne Villanueva

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A Dialogue of the Sources Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections Edited by Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker
Reviewed by Sandra Yannone

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The Second-Best Bed and Other Conundrums Shakespeare’s Wife By Germaine Greer
Reviewed by Marilyn Yalom

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Woman’s Best Friend The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics Edited by Josephine Donovan and Carol J. Adams 
When Species Meet By Donna J. Haraway
Reviewed by Kathy Rudy