Springing Forward: Women's Studies

Edited by Dick Donahue and Lauren Joyce -- Publishers Weekly, 1/22/2007

CONARI PRESS

This Is Not the Life I Ordered: 50 Ways to Keep Your Head Above Water When Life Keeps Dragging You Down (Mar., $19.95) by Deborah Collins Stephens et al. Four friends share advice on work, family and love.

NEW YORK UNIV. PRESS

Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women (Mar., $22.95) by Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting explores the complexities of these women's engagement with an often masculine and misogynistic culture.

UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home (June, $24.95) by Pamela Stone ponders the issue of women's ambition from the perspective of women themselves.

UNIV. PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI

Katrina: Mississippi Women Remember (May, $32), edited by Sally Pfister, offers firsthand accounts and photographs of the storm's aftermath.