Women's Review of Books Volume 35, Issue 5 (PDF)

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September / October 2018

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Isn’t It Rich? Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry By Adrienne Rich; edited and with an introduction by Sandra Gilbert
Reviewed by E.J. Graff

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Where Is My Mind? Severance By Ling Ma
Reviewed by Jessica Baumgardner

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The Bodies God Created Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture By Tamura Lomax
Reviewed by Mariam Williams

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Future Tense Girls Write Now: Two Decades of True Stories from Young Female Voices By Girls Write Now
Reviewed by Ana Castillo

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Profile Slitting Open the Sack
Profiled by Laurie Stone

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Red Herrings And White Liberals Maggie Terry By Sarah Schulman
Reviewed by Nino Testa

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Off The Hook Consent on Campus: A Manifesto By Donna Freitas
Reviewed by Jordan Allyn

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Writers Of Conscience Women of Resistance: Poetry from 50 Activists Edited by Danielle Barnhart and Iris Mahan
Reviewed by Ana Castillo

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Afterlives Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation Adapted by Ari Folman, Illustrations by David Polonsky; A Bubble By Geneviève Castrée
Reviewed by Tahneer Oksman

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Not A Muse Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchel, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art By Mary Gabriel
Reviewed by Margaret Randall

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Shame Theory Pure By Linda Kay Klein
Reviewed by Kait Heacock

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Feature “I Couldn’t Do What I Do Without This Book”

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The Year Of The Woman, Again International Women’s Year: The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History By Jocelyn Olcott
Reviewed by Ellen Chesler

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Identity And Action Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements By Charlene A. Carruthers
Reviewed by Susana Morris

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Poison Books Silent Spring & Other Writings on the Environment By Rachel Carson, edited by Sandra Steingraber; Living Downstream By Sandra Steingraber
Reviewed by Judith Chelius Stark

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Listen Up The Linguistics Of Texting An essay by Noelle McManus