Women's Review of Books Volume 34, Issue 5 (PDF)

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September/October 2017

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Determinedly Optimistic Staying With the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene By Donna J. Haraway
Reviewed by Kelly Alexander

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Women’s Movements Without Feminism Soft Force: Women in Egypt’s Islamic Awakening By Ellen Anne McLarney Resistance, Revolt, and Gender Justice in Egypt
By Mariz Tadros
Reviewed by Marilyn Booth

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The Woman Who Broke the Comedy Club Cellar Ceiling Last Girl Before Freeway: The Life, Loves, Losses, and Liberation of Joan Rivers By Leslie Bennetts
Reviewed by Kate Clinton

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Not Quite Gone The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture By Bonnie J. Morris
Reviewed by Jen Manion

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The Persona That Became a Reality Indomitable: The Life of Barbara Grier By Joanne Passet
Reviewed by Susanna J. Sturgis

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Coerced “Choice” China’s Hidden Children: Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child PolicyBy Kay Ann Johnson
Reviewed by Lihua Wang

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Good Reads Those Who Wait Outside the Door By Trish Crapo

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Courage and Fierce Love The Complete Works of Pat Parker Edited by Julie R. Enszer
Reviewed by Kate Rushin

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Failure to Launch Swing Time By Zadie Smith
Reviewed by Natania Rosenfeld

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Poetry By Jennifer Markell

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The Journey into the Unknown The Dark Flood Rises By Margaret Drabble
Reviewed By Valerie Miner

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Does the Sex Offender Exist? Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent By Joseph J. Fischel
Reviewed by Sara Matthiesen

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Masked Avengers Un/Masked: Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl on Tour By Donna Kaz, aka Aphra Behn
Reviewed by Debra Cash

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Building up and Knocking Down Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear … and Why By Sady Doyle
Reviewed by Erin Matson

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The Glacial Pace of Change Equality on Trial: Gender Rights in the Modern American Workplace By Katherine Turk
Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women’s Lives at Work By Gillian Thomas
Reviewed by Karen Pastorello