Resources for Feminist Research articles from September 2001

Resources for Feminist Research archives from September 2001

Break-Throughs, Break-Ins and Break-Ups: The Impact of Gender Studies Across the Disciplines. (Introduction).
September 22, 2001... The articles in this special issue of RFR/DRF recognize the tension between the positive, productive side of erecting borders around feminist scholarship through the development of women's studies and gender studies programs and the goal of...

Where the Body is a Battleground: materializing gender in the humanities (1). (Articles).
September 22, 2001... In this article, the author investigates the insights that attention to research in neuropsychiatry might offer feminist theorizing about the body and subjectivity in the humanities. Her argument incorporates both the writings of Judith Buffer...

Studying men and masculinity. (Articles).
September 22, 2001... Feminism has challenged existing gender arrangements and intellectual orthodoxies. However, there is a strong tendency to assume that "gender" issues are issues about women. Feminist thought has sometimes reinforced this tendency, because...

Gendered reading tactics: public intellectuals and community in diaspora. (Articles).
September 22, 2001... In this article, the author discusses two Asia-Pacific diasporic narratives of children of immigrants: Shirley Geok-tin Lim's Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homeland and Garrett Hongo's Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'i, She...

The painter/her dilemma: visualizing uncertainty in a territory of visual art. (Articles).
September 22, 2001... To present visual art within the confines of a scholarly journal and as part of a discussion on the impact of gender on the academic disciplines is not straightforward. I do not consider myself to be an academic, even though I work in the...

Philosophy and the protection of the personal. (Articles).
September 22, 2001... This article is concerned with mapping out what has all too often been excluded from knowledge, everyday experience and its interpretation. The author argues that attention to experience is particularly necessary for "disciplines that depend on...

L'interdisciplinarite: mode d'emploi? (Articles).
September 22, 2001... Ces extraits des [much less than] memoires [much greater than] d'une experience en interdisciplinarite relatent l'etape premiere d'une recherche commune qu'explicite l'article de Marie-Andree Bertrand dans ce meme numero. Le jumelage de nos...

La difficile pratique de la recherche feministe interdisciplinaire. (Articles).(text in French)
September 22, 2001... Dans un autre article du present numero, Olivette Genest relate l'experience vecue par une equipe de professeures de l'Universite de Montreal ayant anime pendant dix ans un seminaire pluridisciplinaire sur les theories teministes. Cette...

Reflections on feminist activism within two distinct universities: timing and location for transformational activities. (Reports/Rapports).
September 22, 2001... Constance Backhause (1) This text is a slightly revised, written version of remarks delivered on September 29, 2000 at York University; on the occasion of the launch of York Stories: Women in Higher Education, edited by The York Stories...

In but not at home: women of colour in the academy *. (Reports/Rapports).
September 22, 2001... Twelve years ago, in 1990, I published a short story called "The Summer Job." In it, the narrator, a contract faculty member hired at the last moment to teach a summer course, sends out job applications and papers to refereed journals on...

Out in the cold: surviving graduate school as a woman of colour. (Reports/Rapports).
September 22, 2001... [The following article is adapted from introductory remarks made on the occasion of the launch of York Stories: Women in Higher Education at York University, on September 29, 2000,] I have come to believe over and over again that what is...

A Feminist I: Reflections from Academia. (Book Reviews: Comptes Rendus).
September 22, 2001... Christine Overall Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 1998; 214 pp. As Christine Overall explains, A Feminist I: Reflections from Academia is an effort in "theoretical autobiography" (p. 15). The book documents her personal experiences...

Des droits a reconnaitre: Les lesbiennes face a la discrimination. (Book Reviews: Comptes Rendus).
September 22, 2001... Sous la direction d'Irene Demczuk Montreal, Editions du remue-menage, 1998, 214 pp. Cet ouvrage est inspire des demarches entreprises en 1993 afin d'assurer une plus grande visibilite des lesbiennes aux audiences de la Commission...

Journeying Forward: Dreaming First Nations' Independence. (Book Reviews: Comptes Rendus).
September 22, 2001... Patricia A. Monture-Angus Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 1999; 175 pp. The law is not only a framework for ordering social life but also a process of creating meaning, and thus is a crucial dimension of culture. In her book, Journeying...

Medias et feminismes. (Book Reviews: Comptes Rendus).
September 22, 2001... Myriame El Yamani Paris/Montreal: L'Harmattan, 1998, 268 pp. Paru en 1998, le livre Medias et feminismes, de Myriame El Yamani, vient combler un vide dans les publications feministes de langue francaise sur la communication sociale....

Books Received/Livres Recus.
September 22, 2001... Allen, Carolyn and Judith A. Howard, eds. Provoking Feminisms. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2000. Angelides, Steven. A History of Bisexuality. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2001. Baker,...