Women's Review of Books Volume 31, Issue 2

March/April 2014

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Incurable Breaking Women: Gender, Race, and The New Politics of Imprisonment By Jill A. McCorkel
Reviewed by Susan Sered

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Growing Up Right Wrapped in the Flag: A Personal History of America’s Radical Right By Claire Conner
Reviewed by Kathleen Blee

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Half Full or Half Empty Out of Time: The Pleasures and the Perils of Aging By Lynne Segal
Reviewed by Alix Kates Shulman

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Speaking Out and Carrying a Big Stick Pink Sari Revolution: A Tale of Women and Power in India By Amana Fontanella-Khan
Reviewed by Smitha Radhakrishnan

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People’s Culture Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II By Farah Jasmine Griffin
The Radical Fiction of Ann Petry By Keith Clark
Reviewed by Cheryl Wall

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Queer Theory and Critical History, Together at Last Disturbing Practices: History, Sexuality, and Women’s Experience of Modern War By Laura Doan
Reviewed by Martha Vicinus

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Curioser and Curiouser Curious Subjects: Women and the Trials of Realism By Hilary M. Schor
Reviewed by Jan Clausen

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Risk-Taking Poets In Broken Latin By Annette Spaulding-Convey
Odessa By Patricia Kirkpatrick
Exit Civilian By Idra Novey
Grand & Arsenal By Kerri Webster
Reviewed by Carol Bere

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Good Reads A Gir Like You By Trish Crapo

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Poetry By Charlotte Holmes

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Cartoon By Becky Hawkins

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Mother/Nature Claire of the Sea Light By Edwidge Danticat
Reviewed by Tiphanie Yanique

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The Militant, His Wife, and His Brother The Lowland By Jhumpa Lahiri
Reviewed by Valerie Miner

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What is Left Out and What is Recorded Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom By Mimi Sheller
Reviewed by A. Lynn Bolles

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Permanence and Flux Fools By Joan Silber
Reviewed by Rachel Somerstein

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The Whispers of Trees and Water, Moths and Mud Beyond Nature’s Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History By Nancy C. Unger
Kissed By a Fox and Other Stories of Friendship in Nature By Priscilla Stuckey
The Forest House: A Year’s Journey Into the Landscape of Love, Loss and Starting Over By Joelle Fraser
Gaining Daylight: Life on Two Islands By Sara Loewen
Reviewed by Gretchen Legler