Resources for Feminist Research articles from March 2004

Resources for Feminist Research archives from March 2004

Women in a world of war and militarization.(Introduction)
March 22, 2004... These are difficult times for feminist journals, when the very project of social justice has come up for questioning from many academic and non-academic quarters, and notions such as "democracy" and "freedom" have become ruses for conducting...

Reconstruction in post-Taliban Afghanistan: women and education.
March 22, 2004... This paper examines the postwar needs and priorities of women and the reconstruction of the ruined education system in post-Taliban Afghanistan. The country's reconstruction and short- and long-term development profoundly depend on the ability...

Trading aprons for arms: feminist resistance in the North of Ireland.
March 22, 2004... This article examines women's feminist resistance under the rubric of nationalism. It challenges the commonly held assumption that participation in nationalist movements is not self-serving for women, that fighting in a national liberation...

Afghan refugee women's organizations in Pakistan (1980-2001): struggles in adversity.
March 22, 2004... This paper presents an historical overview of Afghan women's refugee organizations in Pakistan from 1980 to 2001. It demonstrates the individual and collective responses of Afghan women in challenging war and the violation of women's rights,...

Across divides, against the grain: on "negotiations: from a piece of land to a land of peace".(Discussions)
March 22, 2004... The current Palestinian Intifada is not simply a localized nalionalist response to the repressive Israeli occupation and its war machine. Rather, it is local, regional, and global in its dimensions and implications. It is important to rethink...

Demography and democracy: reflections on violence against women in or ethnic cleansing.
March 22, 2004... This paper discusses the violence against women, and the genocide or "ethnic cleansing" of Muslim populations, employed or encouraged by the State in India to uphold a Hindu way of life. It looks particularly at the massacres in Gujarat in...

Globalization, militarism and terrorism: making connections with patriarchy and colonization (1).
March 22, 2004... This article explores the relationship of "militarism" and what the author calls "family terrorism" and theorizes a multiplicity of forms of violence in terms of relations between individualized, familial, public, nationalized and globalized...

Palestinian women's emancipation and the uprising for independence.
March 22, 2004... This paper examines Palestinian women's participation in the second Palestinian Intifada. It emphasizes the important role of Palestinian women in the first Intifada, and examines how that role decreased in the second Intifada? This paper...

I curl up into myself.(Reflections)
March 22, 2004... I curl up into myself, and place my hands on my ears in an attempt to shut down the sound of the bombardment. I refuse to witness any further destruction, so I close my eyes and become one with the darkness I see inside my eyelid. Deaf and...

Kan yama kan (1).(Reflections)
March 22, 2004... These were the opening lines to all of her stories. Night after night, I waited for her to repeat them. They marked the continuation of our story-telling ritual, a ritual whose memories I kept alive within me, recalling them on those occasions...

I love America so much.(Poem)
March 22, 2004... I LOVE AMERICA SO MUCH I love America so much That I want to name myself Hamed Karzai I call all American dogs 'Sir' I put my children to bed day and night with the National Anthem of America I even feel pity...

Uncle Sam's Strike-Tease.(Brief Article)(Poem)(Illustration)
March 22, 2004... UNCLE SAM'S STRIKE-TEASE True, in the Good Book, war--like shame, clothes, sweat and death--enters at the fall, once Eden is lost. But now it comes with the territory. It is the breath of life. Not to rely on...

The Sound of Peace in Two Voices (Two Women).(Poem)
March 22, 2004... Part I voice 1: Out of this haunted land words rise up voice 2: maspik, enough, kefaya v1: kefaya, enough, maspik v2: In this land, the ground is haunted and each wind has a name v1: shard, rih teqil, maltam (pause) shard...