Women's Review of Books Volume 31, Issue 6

November/December 2014

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The Fire Will Not Consume Us Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger By Kelly Cogswell
Reviewed by Carmen Maria Machado

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Global Family Making Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America By Catherine Ceniza Choy
Reviewed by Miliann Kang

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The Glass Cliff The New Soft War on Women By Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett
What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know By Joan C. Williams and Rachel Dempsey
Reviewed by Helaine Olen

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Specifically Universal Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? By Roz Chast
Reviewed by Rebecca Steinitz

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Citizenship and Sexual Coercion Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation By Estelle B. Freedman
Reviewed by Danielle L. McGuire

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Virgin Mary, Become a Feminist! Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot By Masha Gessen
Reviewed by Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild

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Women’s Complicity Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields By Wendy Lower
Reviewed by Elizabeth Heineman

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Cartoon Ekphrasis By Amy Martin

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Good Reads Moments of Crisis By Trish Crapo

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Who Am I? Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag By A.K. Summers
Reviewed by Samantha Meler

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Middlemarch and Me My Life in Middlemarch By Rebecca Mead
Reviewed by Martha Gies

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Poetry By Catherine Freeling

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Art and Activism How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement By Ruth Feldstein
Reviewed by Salamishah Tillet

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Ambitious Assemblages Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe By Matthew Pratt Guterl
Reviewed by Florence Ladd

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The Value of History Citizenship and the Origins of Women’s History in the United States By Teresa Anne Murphy
Reviewed by Eileen Ka-May Cheng

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Beyond Rescue Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States By Denise Brennan
Reviewed by Melissa Hope Ditmore