Cultural and Gender Focus

Al Hussein, Queen Noor. Leap of Faith (reviewed by Mary Welker-Haddock) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Relationships Al-Baz, Rania. Disfigured: A Saudi Woman's Story of Triumph over Violence (reviewed by Rhonda Esakov) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus Arnett, Marvin V. Pieces from Life's Crazy Quilt (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Memoir; Relationships; Cultural/Gender Focus Atwood, Margaret. Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Auker, Amy Hale. Rightful Place (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Cultural/Gender Focus Beath, Mary. Hiking Alone: Trails Out, Trails Home (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Cultural/Gender Focus Bell-Scott, Patricia, editor. Flat-Footed Truths: Telling Black Women's Lives (reviewed by Jazz Jaeschke) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Anthologies/Collections Bhatnagar, Supriya. and then there were three... (reviewed by Carol Smallwood) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus Bin Laden, Carmen. Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia (reviewed by Rhonda Esakov) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Blair, Pamela. The Next Fifty Years (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Life Lessons; Cultural/Gender Focus Boylan, Jennifer Finney. I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted: A Memoir (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus Brown, Monica. Side by Side/Lado a Lado (reviewed by Judy Miller) Younger Readers; Cultural/Gender Focus; History/Current Events Butler, Matilda and Kendra Bonnett. Rosie's Daughters (reviewed by Karen Ryan) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Chisholm, Shirley. Unbought and Unbossed (reviewed by Martha Meacham) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; History/Current Events Cooper, Helene. The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Cooper, Helene. The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood (reviewed by Mary Jo Doig) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Counihan, Carole M. A Tortilla is Like Life: Food and Culture in the San Luis Valley of Colorado (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Coyote, Ivan E. & Zena Sharman, editors. Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Anthologies/Collections; Cultural/Gender Focus; Lesbian/Bisexual/Transexual Crough, Sandra. Memoirs of a Brown-Skin Gyal (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus Crysdale, Joy. Fearless Female Journalists (reviewed by Jennifer Melville) Culberson, Sarah and Tracy Trivas. A Princess Found: An American Family, an African Chiefdom, and the Daughter Who Connected Them All (reviewed by Penny Leisch) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Daniels, Lucy. with a woman's voice: a writer's struggle for emotional freedom (reviewed by Gloria Cordova) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Body Language De La Peña, Carolyn. Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Cultural/Gender Focus; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Dollah-Said, Sarah. Focus (reviewed by Peggy Talley) Poetry; Relationships; Cultural/Gender Focus Donnelly, Liza. When Do They Serve the Wine? (reviewed by Diana Nolan) Relationships; Cultural/Gender Focus Dumas, Firoozeh. Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Relationships Durack, Katherine. Unmentionables: A Woman's Journey, Body to Soul (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Body Language Dychtwald, Maddy & Christine Larson. Influence: How Women's Soaring Economic Power Will Transform Our World for the Better (reviewed by Trilla Pando) History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Ehrlich, Elizabeth. Miriam's Kitchen (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Food/Cooking/Kitchen; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Cultural/Gender Focus; Relationships Farmanfarmaian, Monir Shahroudy and Zara Houshmand. A Mirror Garden: A Memoir (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; Creative Life; Cultural/Gender Focus Feldt, Gloria. No Excuses (reviewed by Judy Miller) Cultural/Gender Focus; Active Life Flammang, Janet A. The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics, and Civil Society (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Cultural/Gender Focus; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Forman-Brunell, Miriam. Babysitter: An American History (reviewed by Diana Nolan) History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Fragoso, Margaux. Tiger, Tiger (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus Fuentes, Sonia Pressman. Eat First—You Don't Know What They'll Give You (reviewed by Linda Wisniewski) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Active Life; Relationships Funderburg, Lise. Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home (reviewed by Linda Wisniewski) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus Ganahl, Jane. Single Women of a Certain Age: Romantic Escapades, Shifting Shapers, and Serene Independence (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Anthologies/Collections; Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus Gillespie, Spike. Pissed Off: On Women and Anger (reviewed by Stephanie Barko) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Relationships Gregory, Philippa, David Baldwin, & Michael Jones. The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen, and the King's Mother (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Biography; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Hanner, Eloise. Letters from Afghanistan (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Travel/Adventure; Cultural/Gender Focus Hart, Melissa. Gringa (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus Hensley, Marcia Meredith. Staking Her Claim: Women Homesteading the West (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Biography; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Horn, Janet, M.D. and Robin Miller, M.D. The Smart Woman's Guide to Midlife and Beyond (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Active Life; Elders; Cultural/Gender Focus Howard-Oglesby, Pamela and Brenda L. Roberts. Savannah's Black "First Ladies," Vol. 1: The Past, Present, and Future (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Biography; Cultural/Gender Focus Jaeschke, S. Jazz. Significance: Life Drawn From a Naturalized Poet (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Poetry; Nature/Place/Environment; Cultural/Gender Focus Joseph, Sharon Simpson. And How My Spirit Soars: Learning to Pack for an Extraordinary Journey (reviewed by Paulette Rees-Denis) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Cultural/Gender Focus Kai, Irene. Golden Mountain (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Relationships Kassem, Fatma. Palestinian Women: Narrative Histories and Gendered Memory (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Kennedy, Miranda. Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India (reviewed by Barbara Heming) Memoir; History/Current Events; Travel/Adventure; Cultural/Gender Focus Kirk, Martha. Green Sands: My Five Years in the Saudi Desert (reviewed by Rhonda Esakov) Memoir; Travel/Adventure; Cultural/Gender Focus Konigsberg, Ruth Davis. The Truth About Grief (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Life Lessons; Cultural/Gender Focus Krishnan, Shobha S., M.D. The HPV Vaccine Controversy: Sex, Cancer, God, and Politics (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Body Language; Cultural/Gender Focus; Relationships Lanier, Carlotta Walls & Lisa Frazier Page. A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School (reviewed by Penny Leisch) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Lee, Jid. To Kill a Tiger: A Memoir of Korea (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Lyall, Sarah. The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British (reviewed by Jennifer Melville) Lynch-Brennan, Margaret. The Irish Bridget: Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic Service in America, 1840-1930 (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Biography; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Mankiller, Wilma. Every Day is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women (reviewed by Khadijah Lacina) Life Lessons; Nature/Place/Environment; Cultural/Gender Focus; Anthologies/Collections Mann, Reva. The Rabbi's Daughter (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Cultural/Gender Focus Mann, Reva. The Rabbi's Daughter (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Cultural/Gender Focus Martin, Courtney E. Martin & J. Courtney Sullivan, editors. Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists (reviewed by B. Lynn Goodwin) Anthologies/Collections; Cultural/Gender Focus Meehan, Norma Lu and Mei Campbell. Victorian Wedding Dress in the United States: A History Through Paper Dolls (reviewed by Diana Nolan) History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Miller, Amie Klempnauer. She Looks Just Like You: A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; Life Lessons; Cultural/Gender Focus Monosson, Emily, editor. Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory: Women Scientists Speak Out (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Anthologies/Collections; Cultural/Gender Focus; Memoir Monroe, Debra. On the Outskirts of Normal: Forging a Family Against the Grain (reviewed by Judy Alter) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus Monroe, Debra. On the Outskirts of Normal: Forging a Family Against the Grain (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus Morano, Michele. Grammar Lessons: Translating a Life in Spain (reviewed by Sharon Blumberg) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Travel/Adventure Morin, Karen M. Frontiers of Femininity: A New Historical Geography of the Nineteenth-Century American West (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) History/Current Events; Nature/Place/Environment; Cultural/Gender Focus Moss, Barbara R. Change Me Into Zeus's Daughter (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Relationships; Cultural/Gender Focus Nafisi, Azar. Things I've Been Silent About: Memories (reviewed by Rhonda Esakov) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Namu, Yang Erche & Christine Mathieu. Leaving Mother Lake: a Girlhood at the Edge of the World (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus Nathan, Debbie. Sybil Exposed (reviewed by Sherry Wachter) Biography; Relationships; Cultural/Gender Focus Nomani, Asra Q. Standing Alone in Mecca (reviewed by Marti Weisbrich) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Ofri, Danielle. Medicine in Translation: Journeys with My Patients (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; Life Lessons; Cultural/Gender Focus Omar, Manal M. Barefoot in Baghdad (reviewed by Rhonda Esakov) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Otowa, Rebecca. At Home in Japan: A Foreign Woman's Journey of Discovery (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; Life Lessons; Cultural/Gender Focus Peavy, Linda and Ursula Smith. Full-Court Quest: The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School: Basketball Champions of the World (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Biography; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Ray, Sondra. Rock Your World with the Divine Mother: Bringing the Sacred Power of the Divine Mother into Our Lives (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Cultural/Gender Focus Reed, Julia. Queen of the Turtle Derby (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Reich, Deb. No More Enemies (reviewed by Khadijah Lacina) History/Current Events; Active Life; Cultural/Gender Focus Reynolds, Margaret C. Plain Women: Gender and Ritual in the Old Order River Brethren (reviewed by Laurie Park) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Cultural/Gender Focus Robinson, Katy. A Single Square Picture: A Korean Adoptee's Search for Her Roots (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Travel/Adventure Rowe, Kathleen. The Unruly Woman: Gender and the Genres of Laughter (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Rymer, Ruth. Susannah, A Lawyer: From Tragedy to Triumph (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) History/Current Events; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Cultural/Gender Focus Santana, Deborah. Space Between The Stars: My Journey to an Open Heart (reviewed by Marti Weisbrich) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus Santiago, Esmeralda. Almost a Woman (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Teen/Girls; Cultural/Gender Focus Santiago, Esmeralda. When I was Puerto Rican (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Teen/Girls; Cultural/Gender Focus Schenone, Laura. The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken: A Search for Food and Family (reviewed by Linda Wisniewski) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Scott, Anne. Women, Wisdom and Dreams: The Light of the Feminine Soul (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Creative Life; Cultural/Gender Focus Senna, Danzy. Where Did You Sleep Last Night? A Personal History (reviewed by Judy Miller) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus Shannon, Lisa. A Thousand Sisters: My Journey Into the Worst Place on Earth to be a Woman (reviewed by B. Lynn Goodwin) Memoir; Life Lessons; Cultural/Gender Focus Shell, Ellen Ruppel. Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) History/Current Events; Nature/Place/Environment; Cultural/Gender Focus Shepard, Judy. The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Singer, Thea. Stress Less: The New Science That Shows Women How to Rejuvenate the Body and the Mind (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Elders; Cultural/Gender Focus; Body Language Sperlich, Mickey, MA, CPM, and Julia S. Seng, Ph.D., CNM. Survivor Moms: Women's Stories of Birthing, Mothering and Healing after Sexual Abuse (reviewed by Mary Jo Doig) Staal, Stephanie. Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life (reviewed by Laura Strathman Hulka) Memoir; Life Lessons; Cultural/Gender Focus Steinbach, Alice. Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Travel/Adventure Straub, Gail. Returning to My Mother's House: Taking Back the Wisdom of the Feminine (reviewed by Kathy Waller) Memoir; Life Lessons; Cultural/Gender Focus Straub, Gail. Returning to My Mother's House: Taking Back the Wisdom of the Feminine (reviewed by Lisa Shirah-Hiers) Memoir; Life Lessons; Cultural/Gender Focus Swiss, Deborah J. The Tin Ticket (reviewed by Judy Miller) History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Terzian, Mary. The Immigrants' Daughter: A Private Battle to Earn the Right to Self-Actualization (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Relationships Thompson-Cannino, Jennifer and Ronald Cotton with Erin Torneo. Picking Cotton (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; Life Lessons; Cultural/Gender Focus Thorpe, Helen. Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Biography; History/Current Events; Cultural/Gender Focus Ung, Loung. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (reviewed by Juanita Johnson) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Relationships Van Luven, Lynne. Nobody's Mother: Life Without Kids (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus Waggoner, Linda M. Fire Light: The Life of Angel De Cora, Winnebago Artist (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Biography; Creative Life; Cultural/Gender Focus Watson, Irene. The Sitting Swing (reviewed by Peggy Talley) Memoir; Body Language; Cultural/Gender Focus Watson, Irene. The Sitting Swing: Finding Wisdom to Know the Difference (reviewed by Janet Grace Riehl) Memoir; Body Language; Cultural/Gender Focus Wicklund, Susan (with Alan Kesselheim). This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Body Language Wiles, Sara. Arapaho Journeys: Photographs and Stories from the Wind River Reservation (reviewed by Khadijah Lacina) Yen Mah, Adeline. Watching the Tree: A Chinese Daughter Reflects on Happiness, Tradition, and Spiritual Wisdom (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Life Lessons; Cultural/Gender Focus Ziegelman, Jane. 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Cultural/Gender Focus; Food/Cooking/Kitchen