Women's Review of Books Volume 34, Issue 3

May/June 2017

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Unbought, Unbossed, and Unelected The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women’s Quest for the American Presidency
By Ellen Fitzpatrick
Reviewed by Rebecca Steinitz

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No Hiding Place Feminist Surveillance Studies
Edited by Rachel E. Dubrofsky and Shoshana Amielle Magnet
Reviewed by Cindy Cohn and Christine Bannan

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The Lexicon of Labor From Curlers to Chainsaws: Women and Their Machines
Edited by Joyce Dyer, Jennifer Cognard-Black, and Elizabeth MacLeod Walls
Reviewed by Christine Byl

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Purity Vs. Virtue Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America
By April R. Haynes
Reviewed by Rachel Hope Cleves

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Doing it Takes a Village Closer: Notes from the Orgasmic Frontier of Female Sexuality By Sarah Barmak
I Have Devoted My Life to the Clitoris By Elizabeth Hall
Reviewed by Gina Ogden

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State Violence Against Black Women No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity
By Sarah Haley
Reviewed by Jill A. McCorkel

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Photography Becoming Bella By Lauren Smiley Photos by Preston Gannaway

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Writer, Housewife, Witch Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life By Ruth Franklin
Reviewed by Roberta Rubenstein

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Good Reads Difficult Choices By Trish Crapo

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The Lesbian Hero’s Journey Romaine Brooks: A Life By Cassandra Langer
Reviewed by Abe Louise Young

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Beckoning with Dream Life Breaks In: A Mood Almanack
By Mary Cappello
Reviewed by Charlotte Holmes

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Poetry By Virginia Gilbert

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Home to Oneself The Little Red Chairs By Edna O’Brien
Reviewed by Valerie Miner

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Dilemmas of Infertility The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood By Belle Boggs
Avalanche: A Love Story By Julia Leigh
Reviewed by Ashley Nelson

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Figuring Out Gender Balance What Works: Gender Equality by Design By Iris Bohnet
Reviewed by Anne Michaud

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Sex Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns By Valerie Traub
Reviewed by Carla Freccero