Women's Review of Books Volume 26, Issue 4 (PDF)

After payment has been processed for your order of a digital copy (PDF) of a journal issue, you will see a download link on your completed order page and also receive an email containing a download link. The links will expire after 24 hours.

July/August 2009

p. 3
Our Great Man Reborn: Journals & Notebooks 1947-1963 By Susan Sontag, edited by David Rieff
Reviewed by Jan Clausen

p. 5
Scribbling Women A Jury Of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx By Elaine Showalter
Reviewed by Carole DeSanti

p. 8
Today’s Rosies Sisters in the Brotherhoods: Working Women Organizing for Equality In New York City By Jane Latour
Reviewed by Brigid O’Farrell

p. 10
Camp Women Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe By John A. Lynn II
Reviewed by Jennifer G. Mathers

p. 12
Cake Walk, Shimmy, and Charleston Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern By Jayna Brown
Reviewed by Farah Jasmine Griffin

p. 13
The Rhetoric and the Reality What Kind of Liberation?: Women and the Occupation of Iraq By Nadje Al-Ali and Nicola Pratt;
City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman’s Account of War and Resistance By Haifa Zangana
Reviewed by Kerryn Higgs

p. 16
Into Other Claws A Mercy By Toni Morrison
Reviewed by Elizabeth McHenry

p. 18
Cartoon By Jen Sorensen

p. 19
Field Notes Recollected, But Not in Tranquility
Slamming Open the Door Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno
By Robin Becker

p. 20
Choruses of Experience Blood Dazzler By Patricia Smith
Voices By Lucille Clifton
Reviewed by Ginny Kaczmarek

p. 22
Poetry By Andrea Potos

p. 23
Women Doing Science Sciences from Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities By Sandra Harding
Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory Edited by Emily Monosson
Reviewed by Emily R. Grosholz

p. 24
Gossip, History, and Life-History Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante By Lily Tuck
Reviewed by Rosalind Delmar

p. 26
Young, Hip, and Iranian Passionate Uprisings: Iran’s Sexual Revolution By Pardis Mahdavi
Reviewed by Persis M. Karim

p. 28
The Ladies’ Entrance The Girl I Left Behind: A Narrative History of the Sixties By Judith Niles
Reviewed by Suzanne McCormack

p. 29
Tintinnabulation England’s Child: The Carillon and the Casting of Big Bells By Jill Johnston
Reviewed by Joseph Davis