Women's Review of Books Volume 32, Issue 6 (PDF)

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November/December 2015

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A Family Recipe Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs By Sally Mann
Reviewed by Trish Crapo

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Becoming Children South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration By Marcia Chatelain
Crescent City Girls: The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans By LaKisha Michelle Simmons
Reviewed by Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant

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An Activist in Her Own Right Eleanor Marx: A Life By Rachel Holmes
Reviewed by Linda Gordon

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Poetry By Alice Friman

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Add These to Your Queue Women’s Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms By Patricia White
Reviewed by Erin Trahan

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Color Politics Remix God Help the Child By Toni Morrison
Reviewed by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

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Cartoon Timebomb, or How I Discovered Sybil Lamb, My New Fave Queer Woman Author & Artist By Cristy C. Road

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The Unrecoverable Recovered The Match Girl and the Heiress By Seth Koven
Reviewed by Lisa Rodensky

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Good Reads Outrunning Sadness By Trish Crapo

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Imagining Alternative Worlds Gaming at the Edge: Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer Culture By Adrienne Shaw
Reviewed by Carmen Maria Machado

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Should a Feminist Dance Tango? Dancing Tango: Passionate Encounters in a Globalizing World By Kathy Davis
The Gods of Tango By Carolina De Robertis
Reviewed by Debra Cash

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The Politics of Hair Plucked: A History of Hair Removal By Rebecca M. Herzig
Reviewed by Rachel Somerstein

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Vigorous Minds Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley By Charlotte Gordon
Reviewed by Gina Luria Walker

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Nothing Wasted Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life By Hermione Lee
Reviewed by Ana Isabel Keilson