Women's Review of Books Volume 27, Issue 4

July/August 2010

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Tilted on her Pedestal Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles By Panthea Reid
Reviewed by Carol Hurd Green

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The Race and Gender Factory What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America  By Peggy Pascoe
Reviewed by Sandra F. VanBurkleo

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The Young Woman The Novel By Nawal El Saadawi, translated by Omnia Amin and Rick London
Reviewed by Marilyn Booth

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The Cosmopolitan Bushwoman Her Brilliant Career: The Life of Stella Miles Franklin By Jill Roe
Reviewed by Kerryn Higgs

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The Marching Days The Red Squad By E.M. Broner
Risk By Elana Dykewomon
The Labrys Reunion By Terry Wolverton
The Love Children By Marilyn French
Reviewed by Andrea Freud Loewenstein

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Both Central and Marginal Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life By Lori D. Ginzberg
Reviewed by Allison L. Sneider

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Cartoon By Marguerite Dabaie

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Poetry By Jehanne Dubrow

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The Poet in Wartime Names By Marilyn Hacker
Nettles By Venus Khoury-Ghata
Reviewed by Marilyn Krysl

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Age-struck and Seeing Strong The Book of Seventy By Alicia Suskin Ostriker
A Village Life By Louise Glück
Reviewed by Donna Krolik Hollenberg

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Putting the Reader to Work The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis By Lydia Davis
Reviewed by Jessica Jernigan

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Mostly Grieving, Occasionally Pleasing And The World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women Edited by Muneeza Shamsie
Reviewed by Gayatri Devi

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The Other of Others Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector By Benjamin Moser
Reviewed by Marguerite Itamar Harrison

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The Constraints of Gender Secret Son By Laila Lalami
The Pistachio Seller By Reem Bassiouney, translated by Osman Nusairi
Reviewed by Valerie Miner

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Who’s Wearing the Pants When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American
Women from 1960 to the Present By Gail Collins
Reviewed by Emily Toth

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Making Sense of an Iranian Past The Age of Orphans By Laleh Khadivi
Bone Worship By Elizabeth Eslami
Reviewed by Persis Karim