Women's Review of Books Volume 30, Issue 6 (PDF)

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November/December 2013

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WRB Celebrating 30 Years A Profound Absence By Martha Nichols

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Intensive Mothering Home Is Where the School Is: The Logic of Homeschooling and the Emotional Labor of Mothering By Jennifer Lois
Reviewed by Rachel Tabachnick

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The Call of the Almost-Wild Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation By Michael Pollan
Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity By Emily Matchar
Reviewed by Sarah Blustain

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A Deeper Silence Genocide Lives in Us: Women, Memory and Silence in Rwanda By Jennie E. Burnet
Reviewed by Jonneke Koomen

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The Not-So-Great Generation What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France By Mary Louise Roberts
Reviewed by Jennifer G. Mathers

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Revolting Hags and Bereaved Mothers The Witch in the Western Imagination By Lyndal Roper
Reviewed by Margaret Hunt

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Other Anne Franks Helga’s Diary: A Young Girl’s Account of Life in a Concentration Camp By Helga Weiss
Rutka’s Notebook: A Voice from the Holocaust By Rutka Laskier
Reviewed by Harriet Malinowitz

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Good Reads Small and Concentrated We Are Taking Only What We Need By Stephanie Powell Watts
Bobcat and Other Stories By Rebecca Lee
Reviewed by Trish Crapo

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Poetry By Colleen M. Webster

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Cartoon the Lands of My Imagination By L. Nichols

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Trying to Change the World through Sound Collected Poems By Naomi Replansky
Faster Than Light: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011 By Marilyn Nelson
Reviewed by Alicia Ostriker

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Interview “Only Connect”: The Creative Nonfiction of Amy Hoffman By Robin Becker

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From Mexicans to Americans From Coveralls to Zoot Suits: The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front By Elizabeth R. Escobedo
Reviewed by Catherine S. Ramírez

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Serving Her People – And Herself The Life and Times of Mary Musgrove By Steven C. Hahn
Reviewed by Melanie Benson Taylor

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Objects of Salvation The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption By Kathryn Joyce
Reviewed by Ellen Herman