Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism New York University Press, fall 2009
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Review by Leslie Heywood, editor of The Women's Movement Today:
"Piepmeier's careful study of the zine movement in girl culture is a powerful and convincing articulation of the ways women's and girls' activism has developed, and the creative forms it has taken."
Review by Jessica Clark in American Prospect:
"Overall, Piepmeier's analysis about the political role that grrrl zines played is dead on. They were central to the evolution of my own feminist development in college in the early 1990s, speaking directly to my feelings of exclusion, disgust with pop culture, and surliness about the lingering sexism that second-wave feminism had failed to abolish."
Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century
Review by Kimberly Springer in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, volume 31 (2006):
"Rory Dicker and Alison Piepmeier edited the book they wanted to read and teach, constructing it around the consciousness-raising model to reflect the progression from self-discovery to feminist identification and collective political action. This organization makes Catching a Wave a unique primer for people new to feminism and its ideals. Its chapters also reawaken those of us who need a reminder of the connections among our personal lives, the hegemonic social order, and superstructures."
Review by Janni Aragon in Transformations (Spring 2005):
"Unlike some books that present a problem, but do not follow up with a solution, virtually each section details an action or resolution for the author. This is not merely an anecdotal anthology; it provides a testament to the political work of Third Wave feminists."
Out in Public: Configurations of Women's Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America
Review by Sharon Harris in American Literature (March 2006):
"Piepmeier's broader discussions of nationalizing discourses (the chapter on Wells) and scientizing discourses (the chapter on Eddy) are both compelling and useful for understanding disputes about citizenship and science–then as now."
Review by Marlis Schweizer in Journal of Women's History, Volume 18, Number 4, 2006:
"In Out in Public, Alison Piepmeier moves beyond traditional readings of female bodies as either active agents or passive victims by demonstrating that nineteenth-century women managed to occupy a multitude of subject positions simultaneously. This elegant, persuasive, and thoroughly engaging book is in line with recent scholarship that reinvestigates assumptions about nineteenth-century domesticity and identifies previously overlooked sites of collision between the public and private realms."