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How the Battle of Memory Was Won The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898 By Lisa Tetrault
Reviewed by Bonnie J. Dow

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Waitressing in the Sky The Jet Sex: Airline Stewardesses and the Making of an American Icon By Victoria Vantoch
Reviewed by Priscilla Murolo

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Becoming Raced and Classed Fannie Barrier Williams: Crossing the Borders of Region By Wanda A. Hendricks
Reviewed by Corinne T. Field

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Not Known Persons Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture By Gaiutra Bahadur
Reviewed by Indira Karamcheti

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The Noble Terrorist The Defiant Life of Vera Figner: Surviving the Russian Revolution By Lynne Ann Hartnett
Reviewed by Lisa A. Kirschenbaum

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The Daughters’ Stories My Mother’s Funeral By Adriana Paramo
My Mother’s Wars By Lillian Faderman
Nothing Holds Back the Night By Delphine de Vigan
You Animal Machine (The Golden Greek) By Eleni Sikelianos
Reviewed by Carol Sternhell

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Photography Mary Ellen Mark’s Long-Term Relationships Photography by Mary Ellen Mark and Commentary by Ellen Feldman

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Communities of Artistic Women In Her Words: Conversations with Composers in the United States By Jennifer Kelly
Five Lives in Music: Women Performers, Composers, and Impresarios from the Baroque to the Present By Cecelia Hopkins Porter
Reviewed by Kate Doyle

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Field Notes Hurtling Ahead By Robin Becker

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Post-Soviet Poetry Paul Klee’s Boat By Anzhelina Polonskaya
Relocations: 3 Contemporary Russian Women Poets Edited by Catherine Ciepiela
Reviewed by Kelly Cherry

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Poetry By Suzanne Gardinier

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“What do we see? What do we not see?” So How’s the Family? and Other Essays By Arlie Russell Hochschild
Reviewed by E.J. Graff

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Doing the Dirty Work Immigrant Women Workers in the Neoliberal Age Edited by Nilda Flores-Gonzalez, Anna Romina Guevara, Maura Toro-Morn, and Grace Chang
Reviewed by Gwendolyn Beetham

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Black and Native Women: Not Quite Sisters Trail Sisters: Freedwomen in Indian Territory, 1850-1890 By Linda Williams Reese
Reviewed by Patricia Penn Hilden

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The Dynamic Dyad Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome By Sarah S. Richardson
Reviewed by Monica J. Casper

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The Banshee’s Wail The Banshees: A Literary History of Irish American Women Writers By Sally Barr Ebest
Reviewed by Mary O’Donoghue