Women's Review of Books Volume 30, Issue 1

January/February 2013

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Now We Are Thirty Editorial By Amy Hoffman, Editor in Chief

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Women vs. Women Battling Miss Bolsheviki: The Origins of Female Conservatism in the United States  By Kirsten Marie Delegard
Reviewed by Kim Phillips-Fein

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Women Who Want to Be Women Delirium: How the Sexual Counterrevolution Is Polarizing America By Nancy L. Cohen
Reviewed by Kathryn Joyce

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Playground Proselytizing The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children By Katherine Stewart
Reviewed by Veronica I. Arreola

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The New Jim Crow for Women Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation By Beth Richie
Reviewed by Jean Hardisty

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Bridging Past and Present Hearing Sappho in New Orleans: The Call of Poetry from Congo Square to the Ninth Ward By Ruth Salvaggio
Reviewed by Ginny Kaczmarek

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Reintroducing Rachel Carson On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson By William Souder
Reviewed by Joni Seager

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Poetry By Suzanne Carey

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Photography: Refusing to Be Intimidated Photographs by Stephanie Sinclair Commentary by Edie Gross

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Saving the Children Somebody’s Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption By Laura Briggs
Finding Fernanda: Two Mothers, One Child, and a Cross-Border Search for Truth By Erin Siegel
Reviewed by Martha Nichols

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The Passport to Hell Sex and the Office: A History of Gender, Power, and Desire By Julie Berebitsky
Reviewed by Priscilla Murolo

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Field Notes: Stranger to Nothing Vinculum By Alice Friman
Reviewed by Robin Becker

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Gym Class Blues Active Bodies: A History of Women’s Physical Education in Twentieth-Century America By Martha H. Verbrugge
Reviewed by Laura Pappano

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Voices from the Margins Walking Backwards By Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Spirit Birds They Told Me By Mary Oishi
Reviewed by Maria Melendez

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All Things Marylin Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox By Lois Banner
Reviewed by Diana Postlethwaite

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An Ode to Women’s Review of Books on the Occasion of Her 30th Anniversary By Kate Clinton

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TV Heroines Those Girls: Single Women in Sixties and Seventies Popular Culture By Katherine J. Lehman
Reviewed by Lori Rotskoff