Women's Review of Books Volume 34, Issue 4 (PDF)

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July/August 2017

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The Infinite ER Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady By Susan Quinn
Loving Eleanor: The Intimate Friendship of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok By Susan Wittig Albert
Reviewed by Blanche Wiesen Cook

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A Friendship with National Implications The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice By Patricia Bell-Scott
Reviewed by Dayo F. Gore

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Admired and Beloved, Scorned and Reviled Eleanor Roosevelt: World War II and Beyond, 1939-1962 By Blanche Wiesen Cook
Reviewed by Brigid O’Farrell

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Intra-Intersectionality The Crunk Feminist Collection Edited by Brittney C. Cooper, Susana M. Morris, and Robin M. Boylorn
Reviewed by Erin Aubry Kaplan

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Architect Barbie Where are the Women Architects? By Despina Stratigakos
Reviewed by Kathryn H. Anthony

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Ms. MacDonald Had a Farm The Rise of Women Farmers and Sustainable Agriculture
By Carolyn E. Sachs, Mary E. Barbercheck, Kathryn J. Brasier, Nancy Ellen Kiernan, and Anna Rachel Terman
Reviewed by Grey Osterud

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Independent Women in the Economy of God A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870 By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Reviewed by Claudia Bushman

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Field Notes Dreaming Switzerland By Robin Becker

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Poetry By Priscilla Long

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Comic Strip By Katie Fricas

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Repairing the Mind-Body Split This Mortal Coil: The Human Body in History and Culture By Fay Bound Alberti
Reviewed by Susan Zimmerman

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The Territory of Human Disappointment Constance Fenimore Woolson: Portrait of a Lady Novelist By Anne Boyd Rioux
Miss Grief and Other Stories By Constance Fenimore Woolson, edited by Anne Boyd Rioux
Reviewed by Linda Simon

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Marital Rifts Three Ways Over the Plain Houses By Julia Franks
Natural Wonders By Angela Woodward
Problems By Jade Sharma
Reviewed by Anca L. Szilágyi

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Transitioning and Transitioning In the Darkroom By Susan Faludi
Reviewed by Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild