Women's Review of Books Volume 27, Issue 3 (PDF)

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May/June 2010

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The Meaning of Marilyn
The Genius & the Goddess: Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe By Jeffrey Meyers
Marilyn Revealed: The Ambitious Life of an American Idol By Ted Schwartz
The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe By J. Randy Taraborrelli
Reviewed by Lois Banner

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Incest and Epidemiology Unspeakable: Father-Daughter Incest in American History By Lynn Sacco
Reviewed by Mary Hamer

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Stand Tall! Justice Older Than the Law: The Life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree By Katie McCabe and Dovey Johnson Roundtree
Moisture of the Earth: Mary Robinson, Civil Rights and Textile Union Activist By Katie McCabe
Boycotts, Buses, and Passes: Black Women’s Resistance in the US South and South Africa By Pamela E. Brooks
Reviewed by Eileen Boris

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Biology ≠ Destiny Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps – And What We Can Do About It By Lise Eliot
Reviewed by Rosalind C. Barnett and Caryl Rivers

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Sexual Behavior in the Human Sex Researcher Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love By Thomas Maier
Reviewed by Janice Irvine

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The Photographer of Democracy Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits By Linda Gordon
Reviewed by Dalia Habib Linssen

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Good Reads Hearing Voices
Shadow Tag By Louise Erdrich
Bloodroot By Amy Greene
How to Paint a Dead Man By Sarah Hall
By Trish Crapo

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Photography Foreign Objects Photographs by Shadi Ghadirian Commentary by Ellen Feldman

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Poetry By Julie R. Enszer

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Looking for Lesbians in the City Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities By Julie Abraham
Reviewed by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Rowena Kennedy-Epstein

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Interview The City and the Homosexual: Interview with Julie Abraham
by Robin Becker

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Transformational Feminism Living with History/Making Social Change By Gerda Lerner
Reviewed by Joanne M. Braxton

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The Personal and the Political The Lacuna By Barbara Kingsolver
Reviewed by Margaret Randall

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Expectations about Expecting Make Room for Daddy: The Journey from Waiting Room to Birthing Room By Judith Walzer Leavitt
Deliver Me from Pain: Anesthesia and Birth in America By Jacqueline H. Wolf
Reviewed by Randi Epstein

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Obituary Mary Daly, Revolting Hag
By Susanna J. Sturgis