Women's Review of Books Volume 33, Issue 2 (PDF)

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March/April 2016

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Women As Symbol and Reality Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan By Julie Billaud
Reviewed by Jennifer G. Mathers

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One in Two, Two in One The Story of the Lost Child By Elena Ferrante
Reviewed by Lisa Mullenneaux

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“Moses Married a Colored Woman” The Fight for Interracial Marriage Rights in Antebellum Massachusetts By Amber D. Moulton
Reviewed by Sandra F. VanBurkleo

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Both Victims and Perpetrators Addicted. Pregnant. Poor. By Kelly Ray Knight
Reviewed by Andrea Grimes

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Cartoon In Reference To By Whit Taylor

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Good Reads Unconventional Characters By Trish Crapo

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Poetry By Jayne Benjullan
Reviewed by Jennifer G. Mathers

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To the Reader in Chief Some of our favorite feminists recommend books for the next US president’s reading list By Alicia Ostriker, AnaLouise Keating, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Callie Crossley, Courtney E. Martin, Ellen Feldman, Jennifer Camper, Kate Clinton, Katie Grover, Layli Maparyan, Yi-Chun Tricia Lin, Marjorie Agosin, Martha Nichols, Moya Bailey, Robin Becker, and Rochelle Ruthchild
Illustrations by Jennifer Camper

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Stepford Wives and Sexbots My Fair Ladies: Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves By Julie Wosk
Reviewed by Madeleine Monson-Rosen

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Singing for the Revolution A Radical Life in Song: A Memoir By Ronnie Gilbert
Reviewed by Alix Dobkin

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New Chinese Poetry Something Crosses My Mind By Wang Xiaoni, translated by Eleanor Goodman
Salsa By Hsia Yü, translated by Steve Bradbury
Reviewed by Marthine Satris

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The Politics of Forgetting – And Remembering Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women Edited by Mia Bay, Farah J. Griffin, Martha S. Jones, and Barbara D. Savage
Reviewed by Kellie Carter Jackson

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The History of Violence The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America By Sarah Deer
Reviewed by Jody Raphael