The Women’s Review of Books Vol. XXI, No. 1 October 2003 74035 $4.00 I In This Issue I In Zelda Fitzgerald, biographer Sally Cline argues that it is as a visual artist in her own right that Zelda should be remembered—and cer- tainly not as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s crazy wife. Cover story D I What you’ve suspected all along is true, says essayist Laura Zimmerman—there really aren’t any feminist news commentators. p. 5 I “Was it really all ‘Resilience and Courage’?” asks reviewer Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild of Nehama Tec’s revealing new study of the role of gender during the Nazi Holocaust. But generalization is impossible. As survivor Dina Abramowicz told Tec, “It’s good that God did not test me. I don’t know what I would have done.” p. 9 I No One Will See Me Cry, Zelda (Sayre) Fitzgerald aged around 18 in dance costume in her mother's garden in Mont- Cristina Rivera-Garza’s haunting gomery. From Zelda Fitzgerald. novel set during the Mexican Revolution, focuses not on troop movements but on love, art, and madness, says reviewer Martha Gies. p. 11 Zelda comes into her own by Nancy Gray I Johnnetta B. Cole and Beverly Guy-Sheftall’s Gender Talk is the Zelda Fitzgerald: Her Voice in Paradise by Sally Cline. book of the year about gender and New York: Arcade, 2002, 492 pp., $27.95 hardcover. race in the African American com- I munity, says reviewer Michele Faith ne of the most enduring, and writers of her day, the flapper who jumped Wallace. p. 26 romanticized, images we have of into fountains and got her picture in the O early 20th-century art and culture is papers, the woman who had it all and then that of the Jazz Age. Consider the artists, went famously mad. Her story is paradig- I and more... writers, and dancers whose works we contin- matic of the era, or at least it has seemed so. ue to revere. Think of the stories and And it is here, in the tensions between what 10> exploits, the heady tales of living high and seems and what is, that biographer Sally dying young, the image of expatriates Cline has found her richest material. Her aim squeezing every last drop of experience out is to set the record straight, “to give Zelda a of the years between the two world wars. life of her own,” separate from as well as 0374470 74035 There in the midst of it all is Zelda intertwined with Scott Fitzgerald’s and their Fitzgerald, icon extraordinaire—a Southern “golden couple” image. The structuring PRINTED IN THE USA belle married to one of the most celebrated continued on page three The Women’s Review Contents of Books Wellesley College Center for Research on Women 1 Nancy Gray I Zelda Fitzgerald: Her Voice in Paradise by Sally Cline Wellesley, MA 02481 (781) 283-2087/ (888) 283-8044 4 Letters www.wellesley.edu/WomensReview Volume XXI, No. 1 5 Laura Zimmerman I WHERE ARE THE WOMEN? The strange case of the missing feminists. October 2003 When was the last time you saw one on TV? EDITOR IN CHIEF: Amy Hoffman 6 Rebecca Steinitz I A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Bird; Letters to Henrietta [email protected] by Isabella Bird, edited by Kay Chubbuck; The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt PRODUCTION EDITOR: Amanda Nash by Isabelle Eberhardt, edited by Elizabeth Kershaw; Travels in West Africa by Mary Kingsley [email protected] I CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: Martha Nichols, 8 Gretchen A. Case Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences: Cultural Studies on Cosmetic Jan Zita Grover Surgery by Kathy Davis POETRY EDITOR: Robin Becker 9 Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild I Resilience and Courage: Women, Men, and the Holocaust by Nehama Tec ADVERTISING MANAGER: Anita D. 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