Women's Review of Books Volume 31, Issue 3 (PDF)

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May/June 2014

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Changing the Definition of Family Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States Since the Second World War By Daniel Winunwe Rivers
Reviewed by Dana Rudolph

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The Complexity of Life in Iran Kissing the Sword: A Prison Memoir By Shahrnush Parsipur
The Book of Fate By Parinoush
The Pomegranate Lady and Her Sons By Goli Taraghi
Reviewed by Amy Montlagh

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“A Prostitution of Her Sex” Rebels at the Bar: The Fascinating, Forgotten Stories of America’s First Women Lawyers By Jill Norgren
Gender and Justice: Why Women in the Judiciary Really Matter By Sally J. Kenney
Reviewed by Sandra F. VanBurkleo

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Sports Bras and Ponytails Qualifying Times: Points of Change in US Women’s Sport By Jamie Schultz
Reviewed by Susan Ware

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The Future of Disability Feminist Queer Crip By Alison Kafer
Reviewed by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

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On the Way, But Not There Yet Intimate Activism: The Struggle for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua By Cymene Howe
Reviewed by Florence Babb

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Late Marriage, Independent Women, and Democracy Household Politics: Conflict in Early Modern England By Don Herzog
Reviewed by Mary S. Hartman

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Going Home Ghana Must Go By Taiye Selasi
We Need New Names By NoViolet Bulawayo
Reviewed by Heather Hewett

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Field Notes The Hard Work of Hope By Robin Becker

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Poetries of Affirmation Women’s Poetry: Poems and Advice By Daisy Fried
Tiger Heron By Robin Becker
Reviewed by Alicia Ostriker

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Poetry By Barbara L. Greenberg

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Opening the Red Gate Shadow Woman: The Extraordinary Career of Pauline Benton By Grant Hayter-Menzies
Reviewed by Debra Cash

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Families and “Alienists” Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in England By Sarah Wise
Reviewed by Gayle Davis

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From Stalin’s Elite to the Gulag Agnessa: From Paradise to Purgatory: A Voice From Stalin’s Russia By Agnessa Ivanovna Mironova-Koroli
Reviewed by Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild

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Autobiografiction The Art of Joy By Goliarda Sapienza
Reviewed by Rosalind Delmar