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Book Review


The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture. By Lauren Berlant. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. xiv, 353 pp. Cloth, $84.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4184-0. Paper, $23.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4202-1.)
When I told a friend the title of Lauren Berlant's book, he quipped, "Wow! That must be the longest book ever." He was implying, of course, that female complaints are familiar, ubiquitous, and never-ending. Berlant would not dispute this belief; in fact, it serves as the basis for this nuanced, comprehensive analysis of American women's culture and its relation not only to sentimentality and gender formation, but to politics and history as well. . . .
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