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Elly Teman Berkley: University of California Press, 2010 Reviewed by Megan McCullough Elly Teman’s Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self elegantly and aptly illustrates Ginsburg and Rapp’s (1995) classic yet cogent point that reproduction is at …

Maria Cattell and Marjorie Schweitzer (eds.), Left Coast Press, 2006 Reviewed by Tiffany Worboy Doctoral Candidate in Women’s Studies, Emory University In February 1992, Maria Cattell and Marjorie Schweitzer were both attending an annual conference in Santa Fe when they …

Niels Teunis and Gilbert Herdt (Eds.) Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007 Reviewed by Stephanie R. Medley-Rath Doctoral Student, Department of Sociology at Georgia State University Niels Teunis and Gilbert Herdt have edited a diverse set of readings regarding sexual …

Janelle Taylor New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2008 Reviewed by: Lauren Fordyce, PhD Janelle Taylor contributes to the growing field of feminist analyses of technoscience with her new book, The Public Life of the Fetal Sonogram, which examines how obstetrical …

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 …

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 & …

Marlene Zuk, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002 Reviewed by Mimi Saunders, University of California Irvine Zuk is a feminist behavioral biologist who writes to bridge the opposition between feminists and Darwinian biology. She is most successful when illustrating how …

Fadéla Amara & Sylvia Zappi, University of California Press, 2006 Translated by Helen Harden Chenut Reviewed by Vanessa Agard-Jones, New York University On the evening of October 4 2002, a young Muslim woman lost her life. That night Sohane Benziane, …

Pamela Stone University of California Press, 2007 Reviewed by Kimberly Clum, Ph.D. On the recent cover of a best-selling U.S. women’s interest magazine, a headline queried: “Too busy to live?” Inside the magazine, the headline linked to a series of …

Marilyn Yalom & Laura L. Carstensen (eds.), California: University of California Press, 2002 Reviewed by Ida Fadzillah, Assistant Professor, Anthropology (Middle Tennessee State University) Inside the American Couple provides much-needed insight into the social construction of intimate partnering, or couplehood, …