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Feminist Teacher needs book reviewers. 
If you would like to review one of the books listed below or if you know of another book you think we should review, please contact:

Monica Barron
Book Review Editor, Feminist Teacher
Division of Language and Literature
Truman State University
100 East Normal
Kirksville, MO 63501

or email: mbarron@truman.edu

 

Feminist Teacher Books Available for Review:
(updated 6/6/05)

Anderlini-D’Onofrio, Serena.  The “Weak” Subject:  On Modernity, Eros, and Women’s
        Playwriting.  Cranbury, NJ:  Associated University Presses, 1998.

Babcock, Linda, and Sara Laschever.  Women Don’t Ask:  Negotiation and the Gender
        Divide.  Princeton, N.J.:  Princeton University Press, 2003.

Bloch, Avital H., and Lauri Umansky, eds.  Impossible to Hold:  Women and Culture in
        the 1960s.  New York:  New York University Press, 2005.

Braithwaite, Ann, Susan Heald, Susanne Luhmann, and Sharon Rosenberg.  Troubling
        Women’s Studies:  Pasts, Presents and Possibilities.  Canada:  Sumach Press,
        2004.

Brownley, Martine Watson and Allison B. Kimmich, eds.  Women and Autobiography
        Wilmington, Del.:  Scholarly Resources Inc., 1999.

Clark, Beverly Lyon.  Kiddie Lit:  The Cultural Construction of Children’s Literature in
        America.  London:  Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Clough, Sharyn.  Beyond Epistemology:  A Pragmatist Approach to Feminist Science
        Studies.  New York:  Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003.

De Beauvoir, Simone.  Simone de Beauvoir:  Philosophical Writings.  Margaret A.
        Simons, ed.  Chicago:  University of Illinois Press, 2005.

Des Jardins, Julie.  Women and the Historical Enterprise in America:  Gender, Race, and
        the Politics of Memory, 1880-1945.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina
        Press, 2003.

Enns, Carolyn Zerbe, and Ada L. Sinacore, eds.  Teaching and Social Justice: 
        Integrating Multicultural and Feminist Theories in the Classroom.  Washington, D.C.: 
       American Psychological Association, 2005.

Fainstein, Susan S., and Lisa J. Servon, eds.  Gender and Planning:  A Reader.  New
        Brunswick, N.J.:  Rutgers University Press, 2005.

Fels, Anna.  Necessary Dreams:  Ambition in Women’s Changing Lives.  New York: 
        Pantheon Books, 2004.

Folbre, Nancy, and Michael Bittman, eds.  Family Time:  The Social Organization of
        Care.  New York:   Routledge, 2004.

Ginsberg, Alice E., Joan Poliner Shapiro and Shirley P. Brown, eds.  Gender in Urban
        Education:  Strategies for Student Achievement.  New Hampshire:  Heinemann,
        2004.

Gozenbach, Laura.  Beautiful Angolia.  New York:  Routledge, 2004.

Huhndorf, Shari M.  Going Native:  Indians in the American Cultural Imagination
        London:  Cornell University Press, 2001.

Hull, N.E. H., William James Hoffer, and Peter Charles, eds.  The Abortion Rights
        Controversy in America:  A Legal Reader.  Chapel Hill:  University of North
        Carolina Press, 2004.

Janiewski, Dolores, and Lois W. Banner.  Reading Benedict/Reading MeadFeminism,
        Race, and Imperial Visions.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

Labaton, Vivien, and Dawn Lundy Martin, ed.  The Fire This Time:  Young Activists and
        the New Feminism.  New York:  Anchor Books, 2004.

Lang, Amy Schrager.  The Syntax of Class:  Writing Inequality in Nineteenth-Century
        America.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 2003.

Mayberry, Maralee, Banu Subramaniam, and Lisa H. Weasel.  Feminist Science Studies: 
        A New Generation.  New York:  Routledge, 2001.

McBride-Stetson, Dorothy.  Women’s Rights in the USA:  Policy Debates and Gender <
        Roles.  3d ed.  New York:  Routledge, 2004.

McClure, Laura K.  Courtesans at Table.  New York:  Routledge, 2003.

Naples, Nancy A., and Karen Bojar, eds.  Teaching Feminist Activism:  Strategies from
        the Field.  New York:  Routledge, 2002.

Neuhaus, Jessamyn.  Manly Meals and Mom’s Home Cooking:  Cookbooks and Gender
        in Modern America.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Oldfield, Sybil, Ed.  Afterwords:  Letters on the Death of Virginia Woolf.  New Jersey: 
        Rutgers University Press, 2005.

O’Reilly, Andrea, Ed.  Mother Outlaws:  Theories and Practices of Empowered
        Mothering.  Toronto:  Woman’s Press, 2004.

Ransby, Barbara.  Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement.  Chapel Hill: 
        University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Rhodes, Jacqueline.  Radical Feminism, Writing, and Critical Agency:  From Manifesto
        to Modern.  New York:  State University of New York Press, 2004.

Schaefer, Heike.  Mary Austin’s Regionalism.  Charlottesville:  University Press of
        Virginia, 2004.

Scott, Joan W., and Debra Keates, eds.  Going Public:  Feminism and the Shifting
        Boundaries of the Private Sphere.  Champaign:  University of Illinois Press,
        2004.

Shaktini, Namascar, ed.  On Monique Wittig:  Theoretical, Political, and Literary Essays. 
        Chicago:  Illinois University of Illinois Press, 2005.

Sigel, Lisa Z., ed.  International Exposure:  Perspectives on Modern European
        Pornography 1800-2000.  New Jersey:  Rutgers University Press, 2005.

Smith, Bonnie G., and Beth Hutchinson, eds.  Gendering Disability.  New Brunswick,
        N.J.:  Rutgers University Press, 2004.

Torres, Eden E.  Chicana without Apology:  The New Chicana Cultural Studies.  New
        York:  Routledge, 2003.

Wall, Cheryl A.  Worrying the Line:  Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary
        Tradition.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

Wang, Robin R., ed.  Images of Women in Chinese Thought and Culture:  Writings from
        the Pre-Qin Period through the Song Dynasty.  Indianapolis:  Hackett, 2003.

Wellman, Judith.  The Road to Seneca Falls:  Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First
        Woman’s Rights Convention.  Chicago:  University of Illinois Press, 2004.

West, Traci C.  Wounds of the Spirit:  Black Woman, Violence, and Resistance Ethics
        New York:  New York University Press, 1999.

Zimmerman, Jean.  Made from Scratch:  Reclaiming the Pleasures of the American
        Hearth.  New York:  Free Press, 2003.

Previously Reviewed Books:

Volume 15, Number 1

  • No More Separate Spheres!  Cathy N. Davidson and Jessamyn Hatcher, Eds.  Durham:  Duke UP, 2002.  439 pp.
  • Women Take Care:  Gender, Race, and the Culture of AIDS.  By Katie Hogan.  Ithaca:  Cornell UP, 2001.  178pp. 

Volume 15, Number 2

  •  I Have Been Waiting:  Race and U.S. Higher Education.  By Jennifer S. Simpson.  Toronto:  University of Toronto Press, 2003.  256 pp.
  • Visual Pedagogy:  Media Cultures in and beyond the Classroom.  By Brian Goldfarb.  Durham:  Duke UP, 2002.  263 pp.
  • Feminism without Borders:  Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity.  By Chandra Talpade Mohanty.  Durham:  Duke UP, 2003.  300 pp.

Volume 15, Number 3

  • Wise Women:  Reflections of Teachers at Midlife.  Phyllis R. Freeman and Jan Zlotnik Schmidt, Eds.  New York:  Routledge, 2000.  273 pp.
  • A Group of Their Own:  College Writing Courses and American Women Writers, 1880-1940.  By Katherine H. Adams.  Albany:  State University of New York Press, 2001.  220 pp.
  • Resilience and Courage:  Women, Men, and the Holocaust.  By Nechama Tec.  New Haven:  Yale UP, 2003.  354 pp.
  • Privilege, Power, and Difference.  2d edition.  By Allan G. Johnson.  Mountain View, Calif:  Mayfield, 2005.  197 pp.

 

 


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