Archives: Book Reviews

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Review of Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt By Orisanmi Burton, Oakland: University of California Press. 2023. 328 pp.

Fabian Fernandez

June 29, 2024

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Review of Single Mothers and the State's Embrace: Reproductive Agency in Vietnam By Harriet M. Phinney, Seattle: Washington University Press. 2022. 219 pp.

Tine M. Gammeltoft

June 29, 2024

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Review of My Girls: The Power of Friendship in a Poor Neighborhood By Jasmin Sandelson, Oakland CA: University of California Press. 2023. 311 pp.

Erin V. Moore

June 29, 2024

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Review of Archiving Medical Violence: Consent and the Carceral State By Christopher Perreira, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2023. 170 pp.

Aisha Khan

June 29, 2024

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Review of Gut Anthro: An Experiment in Thinking with Microbes By Amber Benezra. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2023. 282 pp.

Andrew Flachs

June 29, 2024

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Review of Abortion Pills Go Global: Reproductive Freedom Across Borders By Sydney Calkin, Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 2023. 278 pp.

Elise Andaya

June 27, 2024

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Review of The New Death: Mortality and Death Care in the Twenty‐First Century By Shannon Lee Dawdy and Tamara Kneese (Eds.), Santa Fe, NM: SAR Press. 2022. 352 pp.

Sofia Pinedo‐Padoch

June 27, 2024

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Review of Unexpected: Parenting, Prenatal Testing, and Down Syndrome By Alison Piepmeier, with George Estreich and Rachel Adams. New York: NYU Press. 2021. 200 pp.

Christine Sargent

June 27, 2024

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Review of Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife By Tonia Sutherland, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 2023. 214 pp.

Akil Fletcher

June 27, 2024

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Review of Families on the Edge: Experiences of Homelessness and Care in Rural New England By Elizabeth Carpenter‐Song, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2023. 176 pp.

Claudia Strauss

June 27, 2024