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The article reviews the book "John Calvin, Myth and Reality: Images and Impact of Geneva's Reformer: Papers of the 2009 Calvin Studies Society Colloquium," edited by Amy Nelson Burnett.

Reviews the book 'A Woman on Paper,' by Anita Pollitzer.

Reviews the book "The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger," vol. 1, "The Woman Rebel, 1900-1928," edited by Esther Katz.

Chris Beyrer. War in the Blood: sex, Politics and AIDS in Southeast Asia. Bangkok: White Lotus Books; London and New York: Zed Books, 1998. £42.50, hardcover; £14.95, paper. Christine B. N. Chin. In Service and Servitude: foreign Female Domestic Workers and the Malaysian "Modernity" Project. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. xxiv, 299 pp. US$20.50, paper. Siriporn Skrobanek, Nataya Boonpakdee and Chutima Jantateero. The Traffic in Women: human Realities of the International Sex Trade. London and New York: Zed Books, 1997. vii, 124 pp. £32.95, hardcover. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the short story 'El arroyo de la Llorona' by female Mexican-American writer Sandra Cisneros. In it the main character, Cleófilas, is subject to social, emotional and economic dependence on her husband, according to the cultural constructs on female identity that are still relevant in Latin- American patriarchal societies. Due to her circumstances of complete marginalisation and domestic violence, Cleófilas chooses to avoid reality, and this avoidance not only costs her mental well-being, but also annuls her will to make changes to her suffocating life. Oppressed by a patriarchal system, Cleófilas develops an unusual interest in the Llorona legend and, through the remembrance of this myth, these two female figures become symbols of resistance and liberation. In the story, the Llorona ceases to be the denigrated woman tradition has always made her out to be, and becomes the image of a contemporary heroine capable of challenging radical patriarchal norms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this German import (by way of New Zealand), a lonely, fearful woman named Elise lives alone in her tiny, gray house until a sky-blue paper airplane and a boy named Emil bring changes to her life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this debut novel, a writer attempts to find the perfect girl by first "creating" her on paper, but is he looking for love or just some woman to force into his precast mold? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book `Lady Audley's Secret,' by Mary Elizabeth Braddon.

A review of the book "Rural Women in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia," by Liubov Denisova, edited and translated by Irina Mukhina, is presented.