Women's Review of Books Volume 30, Issue 2 (PDF)

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March/April 2013

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Rosie-Colored Glasses Beyond Rosie the Riveter: Women of World War II in American Popular Graphic Art By Donna B. Knaff
Reviewed by Ardis Cameron

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WRB Celebrating 30 Years Anniversary Tribute from Anita Diamant

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“Is Marriage Good for Women?” From the Closet to the Altar: Courts, Backlash, and the Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage By Michael Klarman
Debating Same-Sex Marriage By John Corvino and Maggie Gallagher
Here Come the Brides!: Reflections on Lesbian Love and Marriage Edited by Audrey Bilger and Michele Kort
A Marriage Agreement and Other Essays: Four Decades of Feminist Writing By Alix Kates Shulman
Not the Marrying Kind  By Nicola Barker
Reviewed by Nicola Barker

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Who Was Anne Frank? Who is She Now? Anne Frank Unbound: Media, Imagination, Memory Edited by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Jeffrey Shandler
Reviewed by Marianne Hirsch

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Divided We Stand All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s By Robert Self
Reviewed by Felicia Kornbluh

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Normal No More Gaga Feminism: Gender, Sex, and the End of Normal By J. Jack Halberstam
Reviewed by Cressida J. Heyes

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Que(e)ring Sex, Disability, and Feminism Feminist Disability Studies Edited by Kim Q. Hall; Sex and Disability Edited by Robert McRuer and Anna Mollow
Reviewed by Lauri Umansky

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Good Reads Passionate Strangers By Trish Crapo

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Poetry By Dorian Kotsiopoulos

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Seeing and Not Seeing Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White By Lila Quintero Weaver
Reviewed by Meisha Rosenberg

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A Journey That is Not Straightforward Mother & Child By Carole Maso
Reviewed by Roseanne Giannini Quinn

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See Jane Read The Woman Reader By Belinda Jack
Reviewed by Leah price

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Comic By Leela Corman

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The Value of Care Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State By Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein
Reviewed by Karen Kahn

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Cuba’s Changing Attitudes Sexual Revolution in Cuba: Passion, Politics, and Memory By Carrie Hamilton
Reviewed by Margaret Randall

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Which One Would You Be? Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis By Alice Kaplan
Anonymous in Their Own Names: Doris E. Fleischman, Ruth Hale, and Jane Grant By Susan Henry
All We Know: Three Lives By Lisa Cohen
Reviewed by Emily Toth

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Messing with Texas Let The People In: The Life and Times of Ann Richards By Jan Reid
As Texas Goes: How The Lone Star State Hijacked the American Agenda By Gail Collins
Reviewed by Judith Nies