Women's Review of Books Volume 31, Issue 1

January/February 2014

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Emboldened Actors on the World Stage The Dinner Party: Judy Chicago and the Power of Popular Feminism, 1970-2000 By Jane Gerhard
Reviewed by Elissa Auther

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Jane Franklin Beats Through Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin By Jill Lepore
Reviewed by Martha Saxton

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The Partners Passionate Commitments: The Lives of Anna Rochester and Grace Hutchins By Julia M. Allen
Reviewed by Bettina Aptheker

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With Just a Little More Time… The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code By Margalit Fox
Reviewed by Susanna J. Sturgis

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Success and its Failures Rape is Rape: How Denial, Distortion, and Victim Blaming are Fueling a Hidden Acquaintance Rape Crisis By Jody Raphael
Up Against a Wall: Rape Reform and the Failure of Success By Rose Corrigan
Reviewed by Marianne Wesson

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Women Power and Politics Women in the Club: Gender and Policy Making in the Senate By Michele L. Swers
Women and Executive Office: Pathways and Performance Edited by Melody Rose
Contagious Representation: Women’s Political Representation in Democracies Around the World By Frank C. Thames and Margaret S. Williams
Reviewed by Glenna Matthews

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Photography Unembedding War Photography: An Interview with Kael Alford

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A Complicated Life Denise Levertov: A Poet’s Life By Dana Greene
A Poet’s Revolution: The Life of Denise Levertov By Donna Krolik Hollenberg
Reviewed by Kate Daniels

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Field Notes Conversations Recollected and Invented By Robin Becker

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Poetry By Chana Bloch

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Linked Stories of Love’s Difficulties Horse People By Cary Holladay
The News from Spain: Seven Variations on a Love Story By Joan Wickersham
Reviewed by Mako Yoshikawa

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The Real Camille The Girl Who Loved Camellias: The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis By Julie Kavanagh
Reviewed by Carole DeSanti

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The Reclusive Revolutionary One Day in December: Celia Sanchez and the Cuban Revolution By Nancy Stout
Reviewed by Margaret Randall

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Friends But Not Equals My Dear Governess: The Letters of Edith Wharton to Anna Bahlmann Edited by Irene Goldman-Price
Reviewed by Carol J. Singley

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Streams and Undercurrents Groundswell: Grassroots Feminist Activism in Postwar America By Stephanie Gilmore
Reviewed by Amy Kesselman