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Nonfiction by, for, and About Women
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Cultural and Gender Focus
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- Al Hussein, Queen Noor. Leap of Faith
(reviewed by Mary Welker-Haddock)
Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Relationships
- Arnett, Marvin V. Pieces from Life's Crazy Quilt
(reviewed by Patricia Pando)
Memoir; Relationships; Cultural/Gender Focus
- Bell-Scott, Patricia (editor). Flat-Footed Truths: Telling Black Women's Lives
(includes book discussion questions)
(reviewed by Jazz Jaeschke)
Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Anthologies/Collections
- Crough, Sandra. Memoirs of a Brown-Skin Gyal
(reviewed by Judith Helburn)
Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus
- Daniels, Lucy. with a woman's voice: a writer's struggle for emotional freedom
(includes book discussion questions)
(reviewed by Gloria Cordova)
Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Body Language
- Dollah-Said, Sarah. Focus
(reviewed by Peggy Talley)
Poetry; Relationships; Cultural/Gender Focus
- Dumas, Firoozeh. Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
(includes book discussion questions)
(reviewed by Lee Ambrose)
Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Relationships
- Ehrlich, Elizabeth. Miriam's Kitchen
(includes book discussion questions)
(reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert)
Memoir; Food/Cooking/Kitchen; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Cultural/Gender Focus; Relationships
- Fuentes, Sonia Pressman. Eat First--You Don't Know What They'll Give You
(reviewed by Linda Wisniewski)
Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Active Life; Relationships
- Gillespie, Spike. Pissed Off: On Women and Anger
(reviewed by Stephanie Barko)
Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Relationships
- Hanner, Eloise. Letters from Afghanistan
(reviewed by Lee Ambrose)
Memoir; Travel/Adventure; Cultural/Gender Focus
- Jaeschke, S. Jazz. Significance: Life Drawn From a Naturalized Poet
(reviewed by Judith Helburn)
Poetry; Nature/Place/Environment; Cultural/Gender Focus
- Joseph, Sharon Simpson. And How My Spirit Soars: Learning to Pack for an Extraordinary Journey
(reviewed by Paulette Rees-Denis)
Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Cultural/Gender Focus
- Kai, Irene. Golden Mountain
(reviewed by Judith Helburn)
Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Relationships
- Moss, Barbara R. Change Me Into Zeus's Daughter
(includes book discussion questions)
(reviewed by Lee Ambrose)
Memoir; Relationships; Cultural/Gender Focus
- Namu, Yang Erche & Christine Mathieu. Leaving Mother Lake: a Girlhood at the Edge of the World
(reviewed by Judith Helburn)
Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus
- Nomani, Asra Q. Standing Alone in Mecca
(reviewed by Marti Weisbrich)
Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration
- Reed, Julia. Queen of the Turtle Derby
(reviewed by Duffie Bart)
- Reynolds, Margaret C. Plain Women: Gender and Ritual in the Old Order River Brethren
(reviewed by Laurie Park)
Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Cultural/Gender Focus
- Robinson, Katy. A Single Square Picture: A Korean Adoptee's Search for Her Roots
(includes book discussion questions)
(reviewed by Lee Ambrose)
Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Travel/Adventure
- Santana, Deborah. Space Between The Stars: My Journey to an Open Heart
(reviewed by Marti Weisbrich)
Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus
- Santiago, Esmeralda. Almost a Woman
(reviewed by Judith Helburn)
Memoir; Teen/Girls; Cultural/Gender Focus
- Santiago, Esmeralda. When I was Puerto Rican
(reviewed by Judith Helburn)
Memoir; Teen/Girls; Cultural/Gender Focus
- Terzian, Mary. The Immigrants' Daughter: A Private Battle to Earn the Right to Self-Actualization
(reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert)
Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Relationships
- Ung, Loung. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
(reviewed by Juanita Johnson)
Memoir; Cultural/Gender Focus; Relationships
- Watson, Irene. The Sitting Swing
(reviewed by Peggy Talley)
Memoir; Body Language; Cultural/Gender Focus
- Yen Mah, Adeline. Watching the Tree: A Chinese Daughter Reflects on Happiness, Tradition, and Spiritual Wisdom
(reviewed by Lee Ambrose)
Life Lessons; Cultural/Gender Focus
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