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Paloma Martinez-Cruz Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2012. Reviewed by E.A. Polanco Women and Knowledge in Mesoamerica: From East L.A. to Anahuac maps an ethnohistorical journey through Mesoamerican time and space in order to understand why Latinas in …

 Serena Nanda and Joan Gregg Maryland: AltaMira Press, 2009 Reviewed by Sharla Blank   The purpose of this book, The Gift of a Bride: A Tale of Anthropology, Matrimony and Murder, is to introduce readers to gendered relations in India …

Rosemary Radford Ruether, University of California Press, 2005 Reviewed by Lori Eldridge Rosemary Radford Ruether, in her book Goddesses and the Divine Feminine, traces the appearances of feminine expressions of the divine throughout Western history. In an ambitious project, she …

Karen Ashcraft and Dennis Mumby Sage Publications, 2003 Reviewed by Mimi Saunders, socio-cultural anthropologist Ashcraft and Mumby contend that gender is “a basic constitutive feature of organizations” (96). Reworking Gender explores the multi-faceted relationship between gender and work through a …

Jennifer Robertson (ed.), Blackwell Publishers, 2004 Reviewed by Sarah Luna, graduate student in anthropology at the University of Chicago The key purpose of this volume is to problematize terms and concepts like “homosexual” that anthropologists have historically imposed upon situations …

Miriam G. Reumann University of California Press, 2005 Reviewed by Joy Scott As the title of her book suggests, Miriam Reumann explores the development of sexual character specific to the United States in the post WWII era of the late …

Barbara Katz Rothman, W.W. Norton & Co., 1998 Reviewed by Karen-Sue Taussig This intensely personal foray into social aspects of genetics is alternately fascinating and frustrating. Barbara Katz Rothman tells us that “[a]ll knowledge is knowledge from somewhere. Every way …

Jackie J. Kim and Sonia Ryang, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004 Reviewed by Lisa S. Chaudhari Author Jackie Kim in Hidden Treasures: Lives of First-Generation Korean Women in Japan presents a rare perspective on the lives Korean women who have …

Marie “Keta” Miranda University of Texas Press, 2003 Reviewed by Ramona Lee Pérez, doctoral candidate in Cultural Anthropology at New York University Why did you show them fighting like that? Throwing down over a boy? Uh-uh, we don’t do that. …

Ellen Reese, University of California Press, 2005 Reviewed by Lilyan Kay, MS MPH Midwives listen to women, so the saying goes, but many of us have done so with a growing sense of alarm and rage since welfare reform was …