Women's Review of Books Volume 32, Issue 3 (PDF)

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May/June 2015

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Making a Spectacle of Herself Topless Cellist: The Improbable Life of Charlotte Moorman By Joan Rothfuss
Reviewed by Debra Cash

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The Strongest and Wisest Amazon The Secret History of Wonder Woman By Jill Lepore
Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics, 1941-1948 By Noah Berlatsky
Reviewed by Joan Hilty

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Fashion Victims Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco By Clare Sears
Reviewed by Lillian Faderman

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Offending Women Can’t Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility By Susan Starr Sered and Maureen Norton-Hawk
Mean Lives, Mean Laws: Oklahoma’s Women Prisoners By Susan F. Sharp
Reviewed by Rickie Solinger

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Public Women The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation and Institutions By Christopher F. Karpowitz and Tali Mendelberg
Reviewed by Glenna Matthews

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No Tolerance for Easy Answers The Essential Ellen Willis Edited by Nona Willis Aronowitz
Reviewed by Astrid Henry

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The Complexity of Success Relentless Reformer: Josephine Roche and Progressivism in Twentieth Century America  By Robyn Muncy
Reviewed by Alice Kessler-Harris

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How the Little House Was Won Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography Edited by Pamela Smith Hill
Reviewed by Holly Blackford

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Poetry By Beth Enson

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Field Notes Euphoric Stew By Robin Becker

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Labor in Both Senses of the Word Wombs in Labor: Transnational Commercial Surrogacy in India By Amrita Pande
The Last Days of California By Mary Miller
Reviewed by Rajani Bhatia

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All in Her Head Not Tonight: Migraine and the Politics of Gender and Health By Joanna Kempner
Reviewed by Paula Kamen

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“Disarm! Disarm!” Modern Motherhood: An American History By Jodi Vandenberg-Daves
Reviewed by Alicia Ostriker

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Essay Changing Women’s Lives Through Literature By Jean Trounstine

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A Same-Sex Murder Ballad Alice & Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis By Alexis Coe, illustrations by Sally Klann
Reviewed by Susanna J. Sturgis

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Things Underneath How to Be Both By Ali Smith
Reviewed by Rebecca Meacham