Women's Review of Books Volume 26, Issue 3

May/June 2009

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Feminist Geography Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism By Anne Enke
Reviewed by Ann Snitow

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Biblical Womanhood Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement By Kathryn Joyce
Righting Feminism: Conservative Women and American Politics By Ronnee Schreiber
Reviewed by Abby Scher

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NGO-graphy Women’s Social Activism in the New Ukraine: Development and the Politics of Differentiation By Sarah D. Phillips
Reviewed by Sonia Jaffee Robbins

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Desperate Housemates The Essential Dykes to Watch Our For By Alison Bechdel
Reviewed by Trina Robbins

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Who’s Crazy Now? Mad, Bad, and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors By Lisa Appignanesi
Reviewed by Rebecca Steinitz

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Your Wicked Good Militia The School on Heart’s Content Road By Carolyn Chute
Reviewed by Mary Zeiss Strange

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Engaged Poetry Sea Change By Jorie Graham
Rising, Falling, Hovering By C.D. Wright
One Secret Thing By Sharon Olds
Reviewed by Carol Bere

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Poetry By Kate Daniels

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Good Reads Trapped
Lark and Termite By Jayne Anne Phillips
All the Living By C. E. Morgan
Coventry By Helen Humphreys
By Trish Crapo

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Photography Facing Peace: Families Surviving Violence By Carolyn M. Goldstein Photos by Lisa Kessler

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Reforming the Church Catholic and Feminist: The Surprising History of the American Catholic Feminist Movement By Mary J. Henold
Reviewed by Frances Kissling

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Let The Good Work Go On Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution Edited By Lois Brown
Reviewed by Andrea N. Williams

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B-Movie Aspirations The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture Edited By Lauren Berlant
Reviewed by Heather Love

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The Changing of the Guard Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower Edited by Deborah Gray White Women’s Studies on the Edge Edited by Joan Wallach Scott
Reviewed by Lois Rita Hembol