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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 …

 Nupur Chaudhuri, Sherry Katz, and Mary Elizabeth Perry, eds. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010 Reviewed by Traci Yoder Contesting Archives: Finding Women in the Sources examines the role of archival materials in the creation of feminist histories. In this …

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 …

Diane P. Freedman and Martha Stoddard Holmes (eds.) SUNY Press, 2003 Reviewed by Susan Racine Passmore, Ph.D. The Teacher’s Body is a large collection of engaging and well-written, short autobiographical essays that explore the ways in which the body intersects …

Rae Bridgman, University of Toronto Press, 2003 Reviewed by Karen Coen Flynn, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Akron Homeless women in cities worldwide are pushed repeatedly to the margins of society, but they do not linger there …

Parin Dossa Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009 Reviewed by Onur Kovanci Dr. Parin Dossa, a Professor of Anthropology at Simon Fraser University, British Colombia treats her readers to another intriguing and insightful book after her first book, Politics and …

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 …

Linda L. Layne New York: Routledge, 2003 Reviewed by Susan E. Bell, A. Myrick Freeman Professor of Social Sciences, Bowdoin College Motherhood Lost is an ambitious and richly rewarding book that makes visible and meaningful a subject that, as Linda …

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, …