I am frequently called upon to write reviews of books about women's activism in the Americas. Here are those currently in print.
- Young, Well-Educated, and Adaptable: Chilean Exiles in Ontario and Quebec, 1973-2010 by Francis Peddie. University of Manitoba Press, 2014. In Pacific Historical Review. 86(3): 565-567. Aug 2017.
- For a Proper Home: Housing Rights in the Margins of Urban Chile, 1960-2010 by Edward Murphy. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015. In Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 47(1): 125-127. Summer 2016.
- Gender and Violence in Haiti: Women's Path from Victims to Agents by Benedetta Faedi Duramy. Rutgers University Press. 2014. In Gender & Society. 29(4): 603-605. Aug 2015.
- Women in War: The Micro-processes of Mobilization in El Salvador by Jocelyn Viterna. Oxford University Press. 2013. In American Journal of Sociology. 121(5): 1576-1578. March 2015.
- Women's Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean: Engendering Social Justice, Democratizing Citizenship edited by Elizabeth Maier and Nathalie Lebon. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.2010. In Gender & Society. 26(1): 157-158. Feb 2012.
- The Politics of Motherhood: Maternity and Women's Rights in Twentieth-Century Chile by Jadwiga E. Piper Mooney. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009. In Contemporary Sociology. 39(6): 733-735. Nov 2010.
- To Change the World: My Years in Cuba by Margaret Randall. Rutgers University Press, 2009. In A Contracorriente: A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America. 8(1): 518-525. Fall 2010.
- Gender and Democracy in Cuba by Ilja Luciak. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007. In Politics & Gender. 5(1): 113-116. Mar 2009.
- Dissident Women: Gender and Cultural Politics in Chiapas edited by Shannon Speed, R. Aida Hernández Castillo, and Lynn M. Stephen. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. In The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History. 64(3): 443-444, Jan 2008.
- Feminism and the Legacy of Revolution: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas by Karen Kampwirth. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2004. In the Journal of Latin American Studies. 37(4): 830-831, Nov 2005.
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