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Reviewed by Carol McPhee
Sarah Smith's The Knowledge of Water
Reviewed by Carol McPhee (Q4 1996)
Reviewed by E. Daniels
Miriam Hope's Meeting the "IS"
Reviewed by E. Daniels (Q2 1996) (NF) (P)
Reviewed by Elliott
Babette Cole's Princess Smartypants
Reviewed by Elliott (Q2 1996)
Barbara Deming's Review of I Change, I Change: Poems
Reviewed by Elliott (Q1 1998) (P)
Carolyn Gage's Meditations for Women Leaving Patriarchy
Reviewed by Elliott Q1 1998) (NF)
Debra Riggin Waugh's Ex-Lover Weird Shit: Short Fiction, Poetry, and Cartoons by Lesbians and Gay Men
Reviewed by Elliott (Q2 1996)
Djura's The Veil of Silence
Reviewed by Elliott (Q2 1996) (NF)
Ellen Orleans'The Butches of Madison County
Reviewed by Elliott (Q1 1998) (F)
Ellen Orleans' Can't Keep a Straight Face
Reviewed by Elliott (Q1 1998) (F)
Ellen Orleans' Who Cares If It's a Choice
Reviewed by Elliott (Q1 1998) (F)
The Guerrilla Girls' Confessions of the Guerrilla Girls
Reviewed by Elliott (Q2 1996) (NF)
Julia Penelope's Crossword Puzzles for Women
Reviewed by Elliott (Q2 1996) (NF)
Lierre Keith's Conditions of War
Reviewed by Elliott (Q2 1996)
Lierre Keith's Skyler Gabriel
Reviewed by Elliott (Q2 1996)
Mary A. Bufwack's Finding Her Voice: The Saga of Women in Country Music
Reviewed by Elliott (Q2 1996) (NF)
Ruthann Robson's Another Mother
Reviewed by Elliott (Q2 1996)
Susan Fox Rogers', ed. Close Calls: New Lesbian Fiction
Reviewed by Elliott (Q1 1998) (F/NF)
Susan Johnson's When Women Played Hardball
Reviewed by Elliott (Q2 1996) (NF)
Various Author's Great Summer Reads
Reviewed by Elliott (Q2 1996)
Reviewed by Karen Sloan
Diane Salvatore's Paxton Court
Reviewed by Karen Sloan (Q4 1995)
Elizabeth Pincus' The Hangdog Hustle
Reviewed by Karen Sloan (Q1 1996)
Lauren Wright Douglas' Death At Lavender Bay
Reviewed by Karen Sloan (Q4 1996)
Linda Hill's Never Say Never
Reviewed by Karen Sloan (Q4 1996)
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips
A.S. Byatt's Possession
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q4 1995)
Adrienne Rich's Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q4 1995) (P)
Ann Copeland's Season of Apples
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q4 1996)
Ann DuCille's Skin Trade
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q4 1996) NF
Barbara F. Graham's Snow Job
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1996)
Beatrice Stone's The Sensual Thread
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q4 1995)
B. Reece Johnson's The Woman Who Knew Too Much
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1-2, 1999) (F)
Caitlin Sullivan and Kate Bornstein's Nearly Roadkill:
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q3 1996)
Carol Guess' Seeing Dell
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q2 1996)
Coll Ela Goetz' The Day Cinderella Died
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1996)
Deborah L. Rhode's Speaking of Sex: The Denial of Gender Inequality
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1998) (NF)
Diane Davidson's Deadly Gamble
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1998) (F)
Diane Salvatore's Paxton Court
Reviewed by Karen Sloan (Q4 1995)
Dodici Azpadu's Saturday Night in the Prime of Life
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1-2, 1999) (F)
Edith Forbes' Alma Rose
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q4 1995)
Elizabeth Pincus' The Hangdog Hustle
Reviewed by Karen Sloan (Q1 1996)
Emma Donoghue's Passions Between Women
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1996) (NF)
Erica Fischer's Aimée and Jaguar
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q4 1995) (NF)
Helen Humphreys' The Perils of Geography
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q2 1996) (P)
Helen Zahavi's Dirty Weekend
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q4 1995)
Isabell Williams' Laurel
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q4 1996)
Jaeda DeWalt's Haunting Hands A Photographic Essay and Collection of Poems
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q 1-2, 1999) (NF)
Karen Marie Christa Minns'Bloodsong
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1998) (F)
Janet Mason's When I Was Straight: Poems
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q2 1996) (P)
Janice Gould's Beneath My Heart
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q4 1995) (P)
Jeanette Belliveau Beau's An Amateur's Guide to the Planet
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q4 1996) NF
Jennifer Fulton's Greener Than Grass
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1996)
Jo Ann Kay McNamara's Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns Through Two Millennia
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1998) (NF)
Judith Hillman Patterson's Sweet Mystery: A Book of Remembering
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q2 1996) (NF)
Katherine E. Kreuter's Cloud Nine Affair
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1998) (F)
Keri Bowers' Single Pregnancy - Single Parenting
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1998) (NF)
Laura Adams' Night Vision
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1998) (F)
Leslie Feinberg's Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Ru Paul
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q3 1996) (NF)
Linda Smuckler's Home in three days. Don't wash.
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1998) (F)
M. Cathy Angell's My Spirit Flies: Portraits and Prose of Women in their Power
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1998) (NF)
Mabel Maney's The Nancy Clue Series
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q4 1995)
Maia Dzielska's Hypatia of Alexandria
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q3 1996) (NF)
Martha Shelley's Haggadah: A Celebration of Freedom
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q 1-2, 1999) (NF)
Marybeth Bond's A Woman's World
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q4 1995) (NF)
Nancy Garden's Annie On My Mind
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1996)
Nancy Sanra's No Escape
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q 1-2, 1999) (F)
Nisa Donnelly's The Love Songs of Phoenix Bay
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1996)
Nanci Little's Grass Widow
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q3 1996)
Nanci Little's Thin Fire
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q3 1996)
Pamela Ketz's The Tao of Women
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q4 1995) (NF)
Patricia Mellencamp's A Fine Romance:
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q3 1996) (NF)
Paula Martinac's Chicken
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1998) (F)
Paula Martinac's Out of Time
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q4 1995)
Penny Hayes' Kathleen O'Donald
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q4 1995)
Recommended Holiday Reading:
Ten Short Reviews by Lee Anne Phillips (Q4 1995)
Robin Morgan's The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q4 1995) (NF)
Rochelle Hollander Schwab's In A Family Way
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q3 1996)
Sarah Van Arsdale's Toward Amnesia
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1998) (F)
Shauna Singh Baldwin's English Lessons and Other Stories
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q2 1996)
Stella Duffy's Wavewalker
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q4 1996)
Stevie Rios' Playing For Keeps
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1996)
Susan Johnson's When Women Played Hardball
Reviewed by Elliott (Q2 1996) (NF)
Suzanne M. Marilley's Woman Suffrage and the Origins of Liberal Feminism in the United States: 1820-1920
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1998) (NF)
Suzy McKee Charnas's The Furies
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q3 1996)
Vanna Bonta's Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q2 1996)
Valentine's Day Lesbian Romances:
Five Short Reviews by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1996)
Virginia G. Drachman's Sisters In Law: Women Lawyers in Modern American History
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q 1-2, 1999) (NF)
Reviewed by Lee Lawton
Alice Munroe's The Progress of Love
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1996)
Alix Berenzy's A Frog Prince
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998) (F)
Amy Clampitt's A Silence Opens
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q3 1996) (P)
Ann Linnea's Deep Water Passage:
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q3 1996) (NF)
Anna Quindlen's One True Thing
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q4 1996)
Anne Perry's The Face of a Stranger
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1996)
Anne Tyler's Ladder of Years
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q4 1996)
April Smith's North of Montana
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q2 1996)
Audrey Wood's The Napping House
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998) (F)
Barbara G. Walker's Amazon
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1996)
Barbara Helen Berger's Grandfather Twilight
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998) (F)
Barbara Helen Berger's When the Sun Rose
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998) (F)
Barbara Quick's Northern Edge
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q4 1996)
Bonnie Pryor's The Dream Jar
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998) (F)
C. Sue Furman's Turning Point: The Myths and Realities of Menopause
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1996) (NF)
Carol Anshaw's Aquamarine
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998) (F)
Carol Heyer's Illus. of Rapunzel
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998) (F)
Carol Queen's Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture
Reviewed by Lee Anne Phillips (Q1 1998) (NF)
Cynthia Ryland's Missing May
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998) (F)
Deborah Hopkinson's Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998) (F)
Dervla Murphy's Full Tilt: Ireland to India With A Bicycle
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998) (NF)
Diana Kappel-Smith's Night Life: Nature from Dusk to Dawn
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998) (NF)
E. Annie Proulx's Postcards
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1996)
Elizabeth Berg's Talk Before Sleep
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q4 1996)
Emily Arnold McCully's Mirette on the High Wire
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998) (F)
Eve Bunting's Secret Place
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998) (F)
Eve Bunting's Smokey Night
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998) (F)
Helena Maria Viramontes' Under the Feet of Jesus
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q3 1996) (NF)
Holly H. Kwon's The Moles and the Mireux
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998) (F)
Jacqueline Woodson's Autobiography of a Family Photo
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1996)
Jane Hamilton's A Map of the World
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q4 1996)
Jane Mendelsohn I Was Amelia Earhart
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q2 1998) (F)
Jane Smiley's At Paradise Gate
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q4 1996)
Jane Smiley's Barn Blind
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q2 1996)
Jane Smiley's Moo
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q4 1996)
Jane Yolen's Owl Moon
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998) (F)
Janell Cannon's Stellaluna
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998) (F)
Janell Cannon's Trupp
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998) (F)
Janet Bukovinskyl's Women of Words: A Personal Introduction to Thirty-Five Important Writers
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q3 1996) (NF)
Janet Lee James' One Particular Harbor
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q4 1995)
Janet Robertson's The Magnificent Mountain Women
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1996) (NF)
Jo Dereske's Miss Zukas and the Library Murders
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998) (F)
Joyce Carol Oates' Foxfire
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998) (F)
Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1996) (NF)
Karen Saum's I Never Read Thoreau
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998) (F)
Kate Allen's Takes One to Know One
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998) (F)
Kathryn Phillips' Tracking the Vanishing Frogs
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998) (F)
Linda Hogan's Mean Spirit
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q4 1996)
Lois Lowry's The Giver
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998) (F)
Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorksogian Series
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1996)
Marcie Hershman's Tales of the Master Race
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998) (F)
Ntozake Shange's Sassafras, Cypress & Indigo
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q2 1996)
Octavia Butler's Dawn
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1996)
Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1996)
Pat Murphy's Nadya
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998) (F)
Pat Murphy's Points of Departure
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998) (F)
Rebecca Bartholomew 's Lost Heroines: Little Known Women Who Changed Their World
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998) (F)
Robin Mather's A Garden of Unearthly Delights: Bioengineering and the Future of Food
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q2 1998) (F)
Rosellen Brown's Before and After
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q4 1996)
Ruth Sanderson's Papa Gatto, An Italian Fairy Tale
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998) (F)
Sara Maitland's Ancestral Truths
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1998) (F)
Sarah Shankman's She Walks in Beauty
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q4 1995)
Sharon Olds' The Gold Cell
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1996) (P)
Sharon Olds' The Wellspring
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q4 1996) P
Sharyn McCrumb's She Walks These Hills
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q4 1996)
Sheri S. Tepper's The Gate to Women's Country
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q3 1996)
Sheri S. Tepper's Raising the Stones
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q3 1996)
Susan Stinson's Fat Girl Dances with Rocks
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q4 1996)
Susan Stinson's Martha Moody
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1996)
Susan Wittig Albert's Witches Bane
Reviewed by Lee Lawton (Q1 1996)
Reviewed by Lynn Kane
B.A. Chepaitis' The Fear Principle
Reviewed by Lynn Kane (Q1-2, 1999) (F)
Janis Appier's Policing Women, The Sexual Politics of Law Enforcement and the LAPD
Reviewed by Lynn Kane (Q 1-2, 1999) (NF)
Leong Liew Geok's More than Half the Sky, Creative Writings by Thirty Singaporean Women
Reviewed by Lynn Kane (Q 1-2, 1999) (F)
Sadia Carone's Circle Words
Reviewed by Lynn Kane (Q 1-2, 1999) (F)
Reviewed by Terre Poppe
Betty Louise Bell's Faces in the Moon
Reviewed by Terre Poppe (Q2 1998) (F)
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough'S The Godmother books:
The Godmother
The Godmother's Apprentice
The Godmother's Web
Reviewed by Terre Poppe (Q2 1998) (F)
Edith Forbes' Nowle's Passing
Reviewed by Terre Poppe (Q1 1998) (F)
Ellen Hart's A Killing Cure, a Jane Lawless Mystery
Reviewed by Terre Poppe (Q2 1998) (F)
Kathleen Alcalá's Spirits of the Ordinary: a tale of Casas Grandes
Reviewed by Terre Poppe (Q2 1998) (F)
Kiana Davenport's Shark Dialogues
Reviewed by Terre Poppe (Q2 1998) (F)
Linda Hogan's Solar Storms
Reviewed by Terre Poppe (Q2 1996)
Linda Hogan, Deena Metzger, and Brenda Peterson's Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals
Reviewed by Terre Poppe (Q2 1998) (F)
Linda Hogan's Power
Reviewed by Terre Poppe (Q2 1998) (F)
Mary Logue's Still Explosion: a Laura Malloy Mystery
Reviewed by Terre Poppe (Q2 1998) (F)
Octavia Butler's Blood Child
Reviewed by Terre Poppe (Q1 1996)
Linda Hogan's Solar Storms
Reviewed by Terre Poppe (Q2 1996)
Octavia Butler's Blood Child
Reviewed by Terre Poppe (Q1 1996)
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