Women's Review of Books Volume 33, Issue 1 (PDF)

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January/February 2016

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Building Radical Bridges Florynce “Flo” Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical By Sherie M. Randolph
Reviewed by Benita Roth

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The Woman You’ve Never Heard of Who’s The Reason You Practice Yoga The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West By Michelle Goldberg
Reviewed by Heather Hewett

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The Mess They Leave Behind Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham By Emily Bingham
Reviewed by Carla Kaplan

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Puerto Rican, New Yorker, Latina Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon By Vanessa Pérez Rosario
Reviewed by Lorgia García Peña

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Lost and Found M Train By Patti Smith
Reviewed by Lisa L. Moore

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Becoming One of Them The Lioness in Winter: Writing an Old Woman’s Life By Ann Burack-Weiss
Reviewed by Ruth Ray Karpen

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Are Scientists Human? The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science is Still a Boys’ Club By Eileen Pollack
Reviewed by Allie Rubin

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Photography Images of Transition Photography by Claudine Doury and Commentary by Marie-Christine Guyot
Translated by Ellen Feldman.

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Disintegrations and Transformations Two Faint Lines in the Violet By Lissa Kiernan
Bloom in Reverse By Teresa Leo
Beauty Mark By Suzanne Cleary
Reviewed by Judith Vollmer

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Rewilding The Wolf Border By Sarah Hall
Reviewed by Valerie Miner

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Field Notes A Novel in Verse with the Strengths of Each By Robin Becker

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Poetry By Lauren K. Alleyne

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Spanning Class and Country The Story of My Teeth By Valeria Luiselli, translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney
Reviewed by Martha Gies

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Revealing Ourselves to Ourselves A House of My Own: Stories from My Life By Sandra Cisneros
Reviewed by Miroslava Chávez-García

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Capacious Feminism Revolutionizing Expectations: Women’s Organizations, Feminism and American Politics 1965-1980By Melissa Estes Blair
Watching Women’s Liberation 1970: Feminism’s Pivotal Year on the Network News By Bonnie Dow
Reviewed by Amy Kesselman

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Keep It Real Falling in Love with Hominids By Nalo Hopkinson
Reviewed by Rochelle Spencer

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The Age of Curie Making Marie Curie: Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information By Eva Hemmungs Wirten
Reviewed by Sally Gregory Kohlstedt