{"id":9612,"date":"2025-12-29T18:43:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewrb.org\/?page_id=9612"},"modified":"2025-12-29T18:43:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:43:30","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thewrb.org\/?page_id=9612","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Women\u2019s Review of Books<\/em> has provided a forum for serious, informed discussion of new writing by and about women since 1983. <em>Women\u2019s Review of Books<\/em> provides a unique perspective on today\u2019s literary landscape and features essays and in-depth reviews of new books by and about women.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"688\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thewrb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WRB-pilot-issue-cover-Summer-1983-688x1024.png\" alt=\"WRB pilot issue cover, summer 1983\" class=\"wp-image-9603 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewrb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WRB-pilot-issue-cover-Summer-1983-688x1024.png 688w, https:\/\/thewrb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WRB-pilot-issue-cover-Summer-1983-202x300.png 202w, https:\/\/thewrb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WRB-pilot-issue-cover-Summer-1983-768x1143.png 768w, https:\/\/thewrb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WRB-pilot-issue-cover-Summer-1983-1032x1536.png 1032w, https:\/\/thewrb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WRB-pilot-issue-cover-Summer-1983-1376x2048.png 1376w, https:\/\/thewrb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WRB-pilot-issue-cover-Summer-1983-1000x1488.png 1000w, https:\/\/thewrb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WRB-pilot-issue-cover-Summer-1983-376x560.png 376w, https:\/\/thewrb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WRB-pilot-issue-cover-Summer-1983-600x893.png 600w, https:\/\/thewrb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WRB-pilot-issue-cover-Summer-1983.png 1638w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Women\u2019s Review of Books<\/em>\u00a0(WRB) began publishing in October 1983, with a goal of spreading the news about the scholarship emerging from the then new field of women\u2019s studies and about creative writing\u2014fiction, memoir, poetry\u2014that examined women\u2019s experiences. At the time, it was just about possible for\u00a0WRB\u00a0to cover every book that fit under these broad guidelines; and it was not always easy for those interested in such writings to track them down. Mainstream book review publications, newspapers, and even scholarly journals did not cover them; a network of women\u2019s and gay bookstores was just emerging; and of course there was no Internet. Feminist and gay publications came and went and often did not devote much space to book reviews.\u00a0WRB\u00a0became essential reading for feminists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women\u2019s Review of Books has provided a forum for serious, informed discussion of new writing by and about women since 1983. Women\u2019s Review of Books provides a unique perspective on today\u2019s literary landscape and features essays and in-depth reviews of new books by and about women. Women\u2019s Review of Books\u00a0(WRB) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","inspiro_page_layout":"narrow","inspiro_hide_title":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9612","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewrb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewrb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewrb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewrb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewrb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9612"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thewrb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9616,"href":"https:\/\/thewrb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9612\/revisions\/9616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewrb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}