Women's Review of Books Volume 37, Issue 1 (PDF)

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January / February 2020

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Questions And Answers
Found Her: Interview with Florence Howe
By Jennifer Baumgardner

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XX-Istentialist
Females By Andrea Long Chu
Reviewed by Madeleine Monson-Rosen

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Cage the Elephant
Uproarious: How Feminists and Other Subversive Comics Speak Truth By Cynthia and Julie Willett
Reviewed by Maeve Higgins

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Duty to Repair
Love WITH Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse By Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Reviewed by Jamia Wilson

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Pleasure in Times of Darkness
A Death in Harlem By Karla FC Holloway; Side Chick Nation By Aya de León
Reviewed by Rochelle Spencer

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Poetry
Pink Etiquette By Leslie McGrath; Not in this Lifetime By Jo-Ann Mort:
Commentary by Katha Pollitt

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Woman as Subject. Discuss.
Topics of Conversation By Miranda Popkey
Reviewed by Hagar Scher

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The Image
Making Comics By Lynda Barry
Reviewed by Anastasia Higginbotham

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The Great Suppression
For the Love of Men: A New Vision of Mindful Masculinity By Liz Plank
Reviewed by Carol Blair

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Flux Factory
Three Poems By Hannah Sullivan
Reviewed by Laurie Stone

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Found In Translation
Me & Other Writing By Marguerite Duras; Made in Saturn By Rita Indiana
Reviewed by Lindsay Semel

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A Thousand Words
The Shadow King By Maaza Mengiste
Reviewed by Naomi Elias

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Survival
Weather By Jenny Offill
Reviewed by Erica Jong

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She Said
Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung By Nina MacLaughlin
Reviewed by Noelle McManus

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Blurred Lines
My Dark Vanessa By Kate Elizabeth Russell
Reviewed by Kimberly Cutter

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Code Red
Uncanny Valley By Anna Wiener
Reviewed by Jacqueline Zeisloft

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More Q&A
The Writer’s Writer: Questions and Answers with Michelle Tea
By Kait Heacock