Women's Review of Books Volume 32, Issue 5

September/October 2015

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Thirty Ounces of Death in a Feathered Jacket H Is for Hawk By Helen Macdonald
Reviewed by Mary Zeiss Stange

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No Empire Without Collaborators Chinese Comfort Women: Testimonies From Imperial Japan’s Sex Slaves By Peipei Qiu with Su Zhiliang and Chen Lifei
Reviewed by Lihua Wang

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Putin Performs Masculinity Sex, Politics, & Putin: Political Legitimacy in Russia By Valerie Sperling
Reviewed by Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild

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Protected and Policed Regulating Desire: From the Virtuous Maiden to the Purity Princess By J. Shoshanna Ehrlich
Policing Sexuality: The Mann Act and the Making of the FBI By Jessica R. Pliley
Reviewed by Anne Gray Fischer

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Uncaring Health Care Reproductive Justice: The Politics of Health Care for Native American Women By Barbara Gurr
Reviewed by Andrea Smith

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Not A Feminist But Cora Du Bois: Anthropologist, Diplomat, Agent By Susan C. Seymour
Reviewed by Lois Banner

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Poetry By Amy Dyansky

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Photography Beyond Stereotype Photography by Anne Rearick and Commentary by Ellen Feldman

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Field Notes Recollecting in Tranquility By Robin Becker

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A Nation Founded On Genocide An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Reviewed by Brook Colley

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Serious Daring Dollhouse By Elaine Terranova
Blue Hanuman By Joan Larkin
Otherwise Unseeable By Betsy Sholl
Reviewed by Charlotte Holmes

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A Boy On the Run Little Bastards in Springtime By Katja Rudolph
Reviewed by Kelly Cherry

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NGOs: Soft Power Turning the Gears Theorizing NGOs: States, Feminisms, and Neoliberalism Edited by Victoria Bernal and Inderpal Grewal
Reviewed by Miranda Joseph

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Finding Her Life Path Love and Liberation: Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro By Sarah H. Jacoby
Reviewed by Serinity Young

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Colonialist Dreams of Lesbianism The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830 By Susan S. Lanser
Reviewed by Lisa L. Moore

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Pleasure and Performance A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography By Mireille Miller-Young
The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography By Jennifer C. Nash
Reviewed by Svati P. Shah