Women's Review of Books Volume 33, Issue 3 (PDF)

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May/June 2016

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Gifts from the Goddess of Jurisprudence Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World By Linda Hirshman
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Reviewed by Ruthann Robson

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Radical Mamas Mamas of Dada: Women of the European Avant-Garde By Paula K. Kamenish
Reviewed by Irene Gammel

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Achievement. Invulnerability. Comportment Negroland By Margo Jefferson
Oreo By Fran Ross
Reviewed by Marilyn Richardson

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The Interminable Abortion Wars Abortion After Roe By Johanna Schoen
After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate By Mary Ziegler
Reviewed by Rickie Solinger

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Attention Must Be Paid On Becoming a Teen Mom: Life Before Pregnancy By Mary Patrice Erdmans and Timothy Black
System Kids: Adolescent Mothers and the Politics of Regulation By Lauren J. Silver
Reviewed by Ruth Sidel

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Mental Illness Then And Now White Matter: A Memoir of Family and Medicine By Janet Sternburg
The Last Asylum: A History of Madness in Our Times By Barbara Taylor
Reviewed by Katherine Hayes

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Photography Photos Like Jazz: Twenty-First Century Street Photography By Ellen Feldman

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Possessed By Demons The Strange Case of Ermine de Reims: A Medieval Woman Between Demons and Saints By Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
Reviewed by Christina Stern

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Claiming An Identity The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle By Lillian Faderman
Reviewed by Audrey Bilger

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Poetry By Dina Coe

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Field Notes Across The Generations By Robin Becker

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Searching For Home Fanny Says By Nickole Brown; My Crooked House By Teresa Carson 
The Republics By Nathalie Handal
Reviewed by Carol Bere

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Delayed, But Not Forgotten In Certain Circles By Elizabeth Harrower
Reviewed by Jessica Jernigan

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Complacency Or Peril The Complete Stories By Clarice Lispector, translated by Katrina Dobson, edited by Benjamin Moser
Reviewed by Marguerite Itamar Harrison

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Plan A And Plan B Love’s Promises: How Formal and Informal Contracts Shape All Kinds of Families By Martha Ertman
Reviewed by Dana Rudolph