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Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan Janice Boddy Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007 Reviewed by Rebecca Henriksen Janice Boddy’s Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan critically examines how British colonial health and education projects altered modes of embodiment …

Nadine T. Fernandez New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2010 Reviewed by Erica Lorraine Williams In this insightful and well-written ethnography, Nadine Fernandez explores a central paradox: if mestizaje (racial mixing) is the “essence” of the Cuban nation, then why are …

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 …

Christa Craven Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010 Reviewed by Jennifer Aengst In her new book, Pushing for Midwives: Homebirth Mothers and the Reproductive Rights Movement, Christa Craven contributes to the feminist analyses of midwifery through her discussion of the ways …

 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …