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Feminists of the Right and Left Before the Revolution: Women’s Rights and Right-Wing Politics in Nicaragua, 1821-1979 By Victoria González-Rivera
Reviewed by Florence E. Babb
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Poverty, Gospel, Revolution The Journey of a Tzotzil-Maya Woman of Chiapas, Mexico: Pass Well Over the Earth By Christine Eber and “Antonia”
Reviewed by Martha Gies
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The Adaptable Brain The Truth About Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children By Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett
Reviewed by Susan McGee Bailey
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From War on Poverty to War on Poor People The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America By Marissa Chappell
Cheating Welfare: Public Assistance and the Criminalization of Poverty By Kaaryn Gustafson
Poverty, Battered Women and Work in US Public Policy By Lisa Brush
Reviewed by Annelise Orleck
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The Index of the Mind The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America By Kate Haulman
Reviewed by Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell
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Good Reads Real Books
Adios, Happy Homeland! By Ana Menéndez
Greasewood Creek By Pamela Steele
Birds of Paradise By Diana Abu-Jaber
Reviewed by Trish Crapo
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Poetry By Sheila Squillante
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From Sixteen Personalities to One Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case By Debbie Nathan
Reviewed by Paula J. Caplan
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Cartoon By JD Glass
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Not Ready to Lie Down Traveling Light: Poems By Linda Pastan
Aftermath: Poems By Sandra M. Gilbert
Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010 By Adrienne Rich
Reviewed by Donna Krolik Hollenberg
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All Fur Coat and No Knickers The Forgotten Waltz By Anne Enright
Reviewed by Valerie Miner
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The Ethics of Bioethics Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics By Karla FC Holloway
Reviewed by Charlene Galarneau
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On With the Show Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical By Stacy Wolf
Reviewed by Deborah Jannerson
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Harem Fantasy and Reality Harem Histories: Envisioning Places and Living Spaces Edited by Marilyn Booth
Reviewed by M. Lynx Qualey
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Open Up White Space Out on Assignment: Newspaper Women and the Making of Modern Public Space By Alice Fahs
Uncovering Race: A Black Journalist’s Story of Reporting and Reinvention By Amy Alexander
Reviewed by Carol Sternhell