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A Positive Social Good Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights By Katha Pollitt
Reviewed by Marlene Fried

Ten Fingers and Ten Toes Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race By Ellen Samuels
Reviewed by Lauri Umansky

Complicating the story of women in the Nation of Islam A Nation Can Rise No Higher Than Its Women: African American Muslim Women in the Movement for Black Self-Determination, 1950-1975 By Bayyinah S. Jeffries
Women of the Nation: Between Black Protest and Sunni Islam By Dawn-Marie Gibson and Jamillah Karim
Reviewed by Juliane Hammer

Transported Women Harlots, Hussies and Poor Unfortunate Women: Crime, Transportation, and the Servitude of Female Convicts, 1718-1783 By Edith M. Ziegler
Reviewed by Rona L. Holub

Indigenous Rights And Women’S Rights Together Compañeras: Zapatista Women’s Stories By Hilary Klein
Reviewed by Lynn Stephen

Cartoon By Cara Bean

Good Reads ESPIONAGE AND INTRIGUE
Casebook By Mona Simpson
Sedition By Katherine Grant
Euphoria By Lily King
Reviewed by Trish Crapo

Poetry By Jessica Greenbaum

Love As Fierce As Death  A Stranger’s Mirror: New and Selected Poems, 1994-2013 By Marilyn Hacker
Swimming in the Rain: New and Selected Poems, 1980-2015 By Chana Bloch
Reviewed by Alicia Ostriker

Failure To Communicate Pan American Women: US Internationalists and Revolutionary Mexico By Megan Threlkeld
Reviewed by Catia Cecilia Confortini

Splitters, Knitters, And Quitters  School’s Out: Gay and Lesbian Teachers in the Classroom By Catherine Connell
Reviewed by Pam Chamberlain

Her Own Chair Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words Edited by Malka Marom
Reviewed by Joanna Weiss

Staying Home Or Leaving It  Russian Tattoo  By Elena Gorokhova
Waiting for Electricity By Christina Nichol
Reviewed by Marta Bladek

Unencumbered  Unbought and Unbossed: Transgressive Black Women, Sexuality, and Representation By Trimiko Melancon
Reviewed by Rachel Afi Quinn

Black Women Reporters On The White House Beat  Alone Atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press  Edited by Carol McCabe Booker
Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press By James McGrath Morris 
The Presidency in Black and White: My Up-Close View of Three Presidents and Race in America By April Ryan
Reviewed by A. J. Verdelle