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Yasmina Katsulis Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008 Reviewed by Sharla Blank Yasmina Katsulis’ book, Sex Work and the City: The Social Geography of Health and Safety in Tijuana, Mexico describes and analyzes sex work and sex workers in the …

Nandini Gunewardena and Ann Kingsolver (eds) Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research, 2007 Reviewed by Jennifer DeWan, PhD Much of the research and writing on “globalization” that has emerged in the last several decades tends to treat the concept as …

Nancy Holmstrom (ed.) New York: Monthly Review Press, 2002 Reviewed by Karla Momberger, Esq., Arizona State University The Socialist Feminist Project: A Contemporary Reader in Theory and Politics edited by Nancy Holmstrom is just that, a project—something vigorous and alive. …

Margaret Lock and Patricia A. Kaufert (eds.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998 This volume of thirteen essays provides rich ethnographic and theoretical insights into the dynamic ways in which gender and body politics are historically and culturally contextualized and at …

Karen A. Foss, Sonja K. Foss, Cindy L. Griffin (eds.) Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, Inc., 1999 Reviewed by Marilyn Wilt Feminist Rhetorical Theories is a well-crafted “re-visioning” of rhetoric. Taking their cue from Adrienne Rich, the editors offer the reader …

Gesa E. Kirsch, State University Press of New York, 1999 Feminist Dilemmas in Fieldwork Diane L. Wolf, Westview Press, 1996 Reviewed by Anastasia N. Panagakos The authors of Feminist Dilemmas in Fieldwork and Ethical Dilemmas in Feminist Research are on …

Maggie Wykes and Barrie Gunter London: Sage, 2005 Reviewed by Karen McGarry, Lecturer, Trent University In The Media and Body Image: If Looks could Kill, Maggie Wykes and Barrie Gunter adopt an interdisciplinary perspective to explore the relationship between representations …

Marcia C. Inhorn & Frank Van Balen (eds.) Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002 Reviewed by Lisa M. Mitchell, Dept of Anthropology, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada This is one of the most interesting books to come across my …

Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Loïc Wacquant (eds.) Sage Publications, 2003 Reviewed by Margot Weiss, Ph.D. Candidate in Cultural Anthropology at Duke University Commodifying Bodies is a slim collection of nine essays, originally published as volume seven of the journal Body & …

Kelly A. Hays-Gilpin Altamira Press, 2004 Reviewed by Lea McChesney The title of Kelley Hays-Gilpin’s ambitious volume is intentionally provocative. Ambiguous Images challenges us to address ambiguities in particular forms of visual imagery (“rock art”) as gender representations by rethinking …