Women's Review of Books Volume 36, Issue 6

November / December 2019

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I’m 100% That Witch
The Witches are Coming By Lindy West; Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy and the Fear of Female Power By Sady Doyle
Reviewed by Jessica Baumgardner

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Back to Gilead
The Testaments By Margaret Atwood
Reviewed by Jessica Jernigan

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Doubleness
Frankissstein: A Love Story By Jeanette Winterson
Reviewed by Morgan M Page

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The Stars, O Poet
Cantoras By Carolina De Robertis
Reviewed by Noelle McManus

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Interview
Take This Crown and… Interview with Alix Kates Shulman
By Jennifer Baumgardner, with Alice Stewart and Kayla Bert

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You Rise
Red at the Bone By Jacqueline Woodson
Reviewed by LaToya Council

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Rebel Publishing
The Riot Grrrl Collection Edited by Lisa Darms; Original Plumbing: The Best of Ten Years of Trans Male Culture Edited by Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos
Reviewed by Jolie Braun

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Poetry
“Red Sky at Night,” “Work Songs” By Rae Armantrout
Commentary by Katha Pollitt

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Egg Theory
The Oocyte Economy: The Changing Meaning of Human Eggs By Catherine Waldby
Reviewed by Claire Horn

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The Empath
Make It Scream, Make It Burn By Leslie Jamison
Reviewed by Lorraine Berry

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Questions and Answers
Pain Pal: Q and A with Amy Long
By Kait Heacock

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In and Out
A Fist or a Heart By Kristín Eiríksdóttir, translated by Larissa Kyzer
Reviewed by Katharine Coldiron

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Mistresses of the Market
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South By Stephanie Rogers-Jones
Reviewed by Kristin Hall

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The Book of Laughter and Not Forgetting
Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement Edited by Shelley Oria
Reviewed by Andi Zeisler

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I Believe You
In the Dream House By Carmen Maria Machado
Reviewed by Larissa Pienkowski

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Those Were the Days
The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars By Meghan Daum
Reviewed by Hanne Blank

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Listen Up
Fact-Checking Feminism
By Sally Roesch Wagner