Women's Review of Books Volume 26, Issue 2

March/April 2009

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The Art of Interrogation A Field Guide for Female Interrogators By Coco Fusco
Reviewed by Jill Dolan

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Gamer Girls Rising Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New Perspectives on Gender and Gaming Edited By Yasmin B. Kafai, Carrie Heeter, Jill Denner, and Jennifer Y. Sun
Reviewed by Latoya Peterson

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Woman Suffrage Revised The Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Women’s Rights and the American Political Traditions By Sue Davis
Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement By Sally G. McMillen
Suffragists in an Imperial Age: US Expansion and the Woman Question, 1870-1929 By Allison L. Sneider
Reviewed by Kathi Kern

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Rewriting Normal Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word) By Thea Hillman
Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience By Katrina A. Karkazis
Reviewed by Monica J. Casper

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Sex on the Inside – And the Outside Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality By Regina Kunzel
Reviewed by Leila J. Rupp

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Song, Myth, Epic Poem The Amputated Memory By Werewere Liking, translated by Marjolijn de Jager
Reviewed by Heather Hewett

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Poetry By Alison Townsend

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Cartoon That Pesky Process By Monica Gallergher

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Field Notes Small Chapbooks Make a Big Impression
Investigations: The Mystery of the Girl Sleuth By Kathleen Aguero
A Thirst That’s Partly Mine By Liz Ahl
Lost Lands By Judith Barrington
Mom’s Canoe By Rebecca Foust
By Robin Becker

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What Great Art Removes New Collected Poems By Eavan Boland
Domestic Violence By Eavan Boland
Reviewed by Jody Allen Randolph

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I Kissed a Girl Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love and Desire By Lisa M. Diamond
Reviewed by Ellyn Ruthstrom

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Pedagogy of the Transnational Not Born a Refugee Woman: Contesting Identities, Rethinking Practices Edited by Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed, Nazilla Khanlou, and Helene Moussa
Reviewed by Katarzyna Marciniak

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Street Theater for Social Change Teatro Chicana: A Collective Memoir and Selected Plays Edited By Laura E. Garcia, Sandra M. Gutierrez, and Felicitas Nunez
Reviewed by AnaLouise Keating

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A Universalist Life Lillian Wald: A Biography By Marjorie N. Feld
Reviewed by Louise W. Knight

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Everybody’s Oprah Embracing Sisterhood: Class, Identity, and Contemporary Black WomenBy Katrina Bell McDonald
Reviewed by Audrey Elisa Kerr