Women's Review of Books Volume 28, Issue 4 (PDF)

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July/August 2011

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Freedom’s Architects At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance: A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power By Nancy Gertner
Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC Edited By Faith S. Holsaert, Martha Prescod, Norman Noonan, Judy Richardson, Betty Garman Robinson, Jean Smith Young, and Dorothy M. Zellner
Reviewed by Bettina Aptheker

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Radical Hotness Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers: Staging the Unimaginable at the WOW Café Theatre By Kate Davy 
Reviewed by Robin Bernstein

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Music or Noise Pink Noises: Women on Electric Music and Sound
By Tara Rodgers
Reviewed by Deborah Frost

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Adult Education A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s By Stephanie Coontz
Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life By Stephanie Staal
Reviewed by Lori E. Rotskoff

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The Women Of Juárez Making a Killing: Femicide, Free Trade, and La Frontera Edited by Alicia Gaspar de Alba, with Georgina Guzmán
Reviewed by Margaret Randall

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Good Reads The Half-Life of Violence
Trespass By Rose Tremain
True Things About Me By Deborah Kay Davies
Once Upon A River By Bonnie Jo Campbell
Displaced Persons By Ghita Schwarz
Reviewed by Trish Crapo

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Poetry By Katherine Sonia

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Cartoon Gender Revolution By Elisha Lim

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Get Out Your Speculums Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women’s Health in the Second Wave By Wendy Kline
Reviewed by Amy Kesselman

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The Missing Middle, Found Reshaping the Work-Family Debate By Joan C. William
Reviewed by Jean Hardisty

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No Blank Slates Brainstorm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences By Rebecca M. Jordan-Young
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference By Cordelia Fine
Reviewed by Rosalind Barnett and Caryl Rivers

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The Sludge of Ageism Facing Age: Women Growing Older in Anti-Aging Culture By Laura Hurd Clark
Agewise: Fighting the New Ageism in America By Margaret Gullett
Reviewed by Margaret Cruikshank

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“We Couldn’t Do What You Do Here” The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life By Jasmin Darznik
Reviewed by Persis Karim

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Essay Founding The Feminist Press By Florence Howe