Feminist Studies articles

Recent articles from Feminist Studies

Preface.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... IN THIS ISSUE, we reexamine the 1970s, when, in Marge Piercy's words, "the movement opened up." As we write this preface, the nation is awaiting the inauguration of President-Elect Barack Obama, and we hope that his presidency will be the catalyst for the next wave of the civil rights...

Barred from the Barroom: Second Wave Feminists and Public Accommodations in U.S. Cities.(Report)
September 22, 2008... IN 1968, WOMEN COULD NOT lunch in the Oak Room of the Plaza Hotel in New York City. Nor could they drink at the bar of the famous Russian Tea Room. Other eating and drinking establishments in cities around the country excluded women altogether or served them only if escorted by a man. Common...

Growing Up Female in the '50s.(Poem)
September 22, 2008... A whistling girl and a crowing hen Both will come to no good end My mother was Jewish; Betty's Irish yet they both recited that same damned ditty to hem us into woman's place because outside of that narrow walled path they walked, burden heavy on their rounded shoulders,...

When the Movement Opened Up.(Poem)
September 22, 2008... The seventies were a tangerine sunrise for women like me, even women unlike me. We felt unblinded. Our super eyes saw through walls and clothing. We were suddenly sisters, sisters in every town and mountaintop and polluted valley. Oh, we were often silly. There was such pressure...

Historical Life Stories.(Viewpoint essay)
September 22, 2008... I TEACH A U.S. HISTORY course in which I assign autobiographies of the most varied kinds. We look at classics like Benjamin Franklin's, already accepted in the historical canon, along with a range of other accounts that reveal differing slants on the past of the United States, including slave...