Women's Review of Books Volume 27, Issue 6 (PDF)

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November/December 2010 

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Living Out Loud Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life By Bill Minutaglio and W. Michael Smith
Reviewed by Laura Flanders

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Branding Jane Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World By Claire Harman
Reviewed by Audrey Bilger

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Reading, Writing, and Rehabilitation By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives By Judith Tannenbaum and Spoon Jackson
Reading is My Window: Books and the Art of Reading in Women’s Prisons By Megan Sweeney
Reviewed Bell Gale Chevigny

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Women and the War Nimo’s War, Emma’s War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War By Cynthia Enlow
Reviewed by Lynne Hanley

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Abigail Adams, Capitalist Abigail Adams By Woody Holton
Reviewed by Martha Saxton

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The Power of Activism DES Daughters: Embodies Knowledge and the Transformation of Women’s Health Politics By Susan E. Bell
Reviewed by Wendy Kline

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Field Notes Birds of a Feather: The Themed Anthology By Robin Becker

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Poetry By Irene Willis

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Cartoon By Paige Braddock

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Outside the Statistics Flexible Bones By Maria Melendez
Flamenco Hips and Mud Red Feet By Dixie Salazar
Reviewed by Marie-Elise Wheatwind

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Beauty Culture and Racial Uplift Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry By Tiffany M. Gill
Reviewed by Francesca Gamber

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Memory, Identity, Secrets, and Lies Day After Night By Anita Diamant
Reviewed by Rochelle G. Ruthchild

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That Saved a Kvetch Lie Me Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness By Ariel Gore
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America By Barbara Ehrenreich
Reviewed by Emily Toth

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They Know We Know They Know A Mountain of Crumbs By Elena Gorokhova
Street without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria By Kapka Kassabova
Reviewed by Marta Bladek

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One at a Time Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing By Lydia Peelle
Triple Time By Anne Sanow
Reviewed by Mako Yoshikawa

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Gilmania Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Biography By Cynthia J. Davis
The Feminism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Sexualities, Histories, Progressivism By Judith A. Allen
Reviewed by Louise W. Knight