WFN Book Reviews


The following books reviewed by WFN members
address issues of importance to women and society.

Hannah More: The First Victorian
 by Ann Stott.
Oxford University Press, April 2003.
$35.00 Hardcover, 384 pages, ISBN: 0199245320
Book Review , by WFN Staff.
The Price of Motherhood
 by Ann Crittenden.
New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2001.
$25.00 hardcover 320 pages.
$15.00 paperback (2002) 336 pages.
Book Review , by Bruce Kanter.
Women Working It Out:
Career Plans and Business Decisions
by Julianne Nelson.
University Press of America, Inc., 2003.
$30.00 paper 176 pp.; ISBN 0-7618-2493-6.
Book Review , by WFN Staff.
Love & Economics:
Why the Laissez-faire Family Doesn't Work
 by Jennifer Roback Morse.
Spence Publishing Co.: 2001
Book Review , by F. Carolyn Graglia.
Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice
for Women in Academia
 by Emily Toth.
University of Pennsylvania Press: 1997. 240 pp.
Book Review , by Claire Morgan.
The War Against Boys
 by Christina Hoff Sommers.
Simon & Schuster. 251 pp.
Book Review , by Bruce Kanter.
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
 by Amanda Foreman.
Random House: New York. Ill. 454 pp. $22.00
Book Review , by Ingrid Merikoski.
all about love: New Visions
 by bell hooks.
William Morrow & Co., Inc. 239 pp. $22.00
Book Review , by Amanda Printz.
Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man
 by Susan Faludi.
William Morrow & Co.: 1999.
Book Review , by Meri Ann Merikoski.
Ceasefire!: Why Men and Women Must Join Forces
To Achieve True Equality
 by Cathy Young.
The Free Press: 1999.
Book Review , by Bruce Kanter.
Woman: An Intimate Geography
 by Natalie Angiers.
Houghton-Mifflin: 1999. 432 pp.
Book Review , by Andrea Bertone.
Intersecting Voices
Dilemmas of Gender, Political Philosophy and Policy
 by Iris Marion Young.
Book Review , by Anna Kogel.
Rennaissance Women in Science
 by Louise Q. Van der Does and Rita J. Simon.
University Press of America
Book Review , by Rita J. Simon.
The Whole Woman
 by Germaine Greer.
Knopf. 373 pp. $25.00
Book Review , by Donna Laframboise.
Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder:
The Woman Behind the Legend
 by John E. Miller.
University of Missouri Press: Columbia, 1998. 306 pp.
Book Review , by John Moser.
A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue
 by Wendy Shalit.
The Free Press: New York. 291 pp.
Book Review , by Donna Laframboise.
What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us:
Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman
 by Danielle Crittendon.
The Free Press: New York. 291 pp.
Book Review , by Donna Laframboise.
Heterophobia:
Sexual Harassment and the Future of Feminism
 by Daphne Patai.
Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, MD, 1998. $24.95
Book Review , by Wendy McElroy.
Divorced Dads: Shattering the Myths
 by Sanford L. Braver with Diane O'Connell.
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam: New York, 1998.
Book Review , by Stephen Baskerville.
Real Politics: At the Center of Everyday Life
 by Jean Bethke Elshtain.
Johns Hopkins Press: Baltimore, MD, 1997.
Book Review , by Claire Morgan.
Beyond Gender
The New Politics of Work and Family
 by Betty Friedan.
Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1997. 120 pp.
Book Review , by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese.
Reassessing the Sixties:
Debating Their Political and Cultural Legacy
 edited by Stephen Macedo.
W. W. Norton: New York, 1997.
Book Review , by Claire Morgan.
The Princess at the Window: A New Gender Morality
 by Donna Laframboise.
Toronto: Penguin Books, 1996. 370 pp.
Book Review , by Daphne Patai.
The Lipstick Proviso:
Women, Sex, & Power in the Real World
 by Karen Lehrman.
Toronto: Penguin Books, 1996. 370 pp.
Book Review , by Donna Laframboise.
Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womenhood
 by Naomi Wolf
Random House. 370 pp.
Book Review , by Kate Fillion.
The First Stone: Some Questions About Sex and Power
 by Helen Garner
New York: The Free Press, 1997, 237 pp, $24.00
Book Review , by Daphne Patai.
Women of the Far Right: The Mother's Movement and World War II
 by Glen Jeansonne
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996, 255 pages.
Book Review , by John Moser.
Neither Victim Nor Enemy:
Women's Freedom Network Looks at Gender in America
 Founding Principles of the Women's Freedom Network
 Edited by Rita J. Simon
New York: University Press of America, 1995.
$45.00 cloth. ISBN: 0-7618-0058-1.
$26.50 paper. ISBN: 0-7618-0057-3.
Book Review , by Ruth Rosen


Recommended Reading

Who Stole Feminism?
 by Christina Hoff Sommers.
Simon and Schuster.
Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism
 by F. Carolyn Graglia.
Spence Publishing Co: 1998.
Freedom, Feminism, and the State
 Edited by Wendy McElroy.
The Independent Institute.
Sexual Correctness: The Gender-Feminist
Attack on Women.
 by Wendy McElroy.
McFarland & Co, Inc.
(from Laissez Faire Books, 1-800-326-0996).
Paying for the Crime:
The Policies and Possibilities of Crime Victim Reimbursment
 by Dr. Susan Kiss Sarnoff.
Praeger Publications.
A Look Backward and Forward
at American Professional Women
and Their Families
 Edited by Rita J. Simon.
(order from WFN, 1-202-885-6245).
Sexual Traficking: An International Horror Story
 Edited by Rita J. Simon.
(order from WFN, 1-202-885-6245).
Public Policy: Affirmative Action, Sexual Harassment,
Domestic Violence, and Social Welfare
 Edited by Rita J. Simon.
(order from WFN, 1-202-885-6245).