Women's Review of Books Volume 28, Issue 3 (PDF)

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May/June 2011

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The Judicial Temperament In Defense of Women: Memoirs of an Unrepentant Advocate By Nancy Gertner
Reviewed by Renée Loth

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Making the Agony Visible Diary Drawings: Mental Illness and Me By Bobby Baker (with Dora Whittuck)
Reviewed by Gail A. Hornstein

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Women Win On and Off the Court Game, Set, Match: Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women’s Sports By Susan Ware
Reviewed by Laura Pappano

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A Law Named After A Woman Pink Pirates: Contemporary Women Writers and Copyright By Caren Irr
Review by Carole DeSanti

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Discovering a Meaningful Life The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth By Lillian Nayder
Reviewed by Lisa Rodensky

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Good Reads “A Book Is An Axe”: Indian Feminist Publisher, Mandira Sen
By Trish Crapo

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Love and Delusion The Pleasure Seekers By Tishani Doshi
Reviewed by Mandira Sen

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Poetry By Christina Hutchins

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Photography Amy Thompson Avishai: Revealing A Hidden World By Leslie K. Brown Photos by Amy Thompson Avishai

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Big Voices The Sensual World Re-Emerges By Eleanor Lerman
No Surrender By Ai
Reviewed by Kate Daniels

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Unreality Television Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV By Jennifer L. Pozner
Reviewed by Michelle Dean

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Danticat’s Dialogues Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work By Edwidge Danticat
Reviewed by Danielle Georges

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No “True Womanhood” For Her Harriet Hosmer: A Cultural Biography By Kate Culkin
Reviewed by Marilyn Richardson

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Unruly Women Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography By Susan Cheever;
Jane Addams: Spirit in Action By Louise W. Knight
Reviewed by Emily Toth

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The Irreducible History I Hotel By Karen Tei Yamashita
Reviewed by Mako Yoshikawa