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NEW BOOK: Denise Roman, Fragmented Identities: Popular Culture, Sex, and Everyday Life in Postcommunist Romania (Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2003) US $ 70 (cloth) Drawing mainly from the tumult of everyday life experiences, Fragmented Identities discusses some of the discourses, identities, experiences, and practices in postcommunist Romania providing an undulating and vivid picture of what constitutes identity construction and identity politics there, all on a background of a fluid civil society. The book focuses on issues of popular culture--and the way aesthetics, youth identity, and hate speech (anti-Semitism) emerge from it--as well as on gender and sexuality--in the form of women and queer identities and politics. Employing the methodology of Critical Cultural Studies and Feminist Theory, Fragmented Identities explores the politics of everyday life in Romania while also providing a context for understanding other similar Eastern European experiences of identity construction and identity politics, gender, and popular culture as the region enters the twenty-first century. Denise Roman is a Visiting Scholar with the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and has published articles on Eastern European identity construction and identity politics in various North American, French, and Romanian journals. Fragmented Identities is available from Lexington Books: www.lexingtonbooks.com (discounted) or www.amazon.com.