Feminist Studies articles from June 1994

Feminist Studies archives from June 1994

Left popular politics in Canadian feminist abortion organizing, 1982-1991.
June 22, 1994... During the 1980s a wide variety of contemporary social and political theorists in critical theory, postmodernism, and poststructuralism began to postulate the existence of "new social movements." This resulting body of work by people as diverse...

Challenges of success: stages of growth in feminist organizations.
June 22, 1994... 81. Greiner; Quinn and Cameron. 82. John Child and Alfred Kieser, "Development of Organizations Over Time," in Handbook of Organizational Design, vol. 1: Adapting Organizations to Their Environments, ed. Paul Nystrom and William H. Starbuck...

Art essay: two women on the street. (history of mural movement in Chicago, Illinois)
June 22, 1994... In the following conversation, veteran muralist Olivia Gude passes on to emerging muralist Beatriz Santiago Munoz some of the history of the contemporary mural movement in Chicago, and they talk about women muralists and making and seeing...

Picking fruit: Mary Cassatt's 'Modern Woman' and the Woman's Building of 1893. (painter, women's exhibit at the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893)
June 22, 1994... If... we accept the Darwinian theory, that the race has been a gradual growth from a lower to a higher form of life, and that the story of the fall is a myth, we can exonerate the snake, emancipate the woman, and reconstruct a more rational...

Writing Women in Jacobean England.
June 22, 1994... Jacob Burckhardt's view that Renaissance women "stood on a footing of perfect equality" with Renaissance men has been repeatedly cited by feminists both as a prelude to the marshaling of rich historical evidence of women's inequality and as a...

Sexual abuse of daughters-in-law in Qing China: cases from the 'Xing'an huilan.' (Chinese history 1644-1912, Conspectus of criminal cases)
June 22, 1994... When I began this project several years ago, I envisioned it to be no more than a sequel to my work on rape laws in Qing China.(1) I saw the presentation of rape and sexual assault cases involving daughters-in-law as victims as an opportunity for...

Trying to return. (bodywork as therapy for survivor of childhood sexual abuse)
June 22, 1994... I was trying to return to my body.(*) I am a survivor of childhood sex abuse, and my body to me had been a machine I didn't want to live within. An out-of-the-body experience I couldn't control. Couldn't. Wouldn't. Who knows? I don't know. But I...

Erasing the music box. (poem)
June 22, 1994... The baby is in the water with her father. She is deep in love. As he is. She's lived with him both years of her life, and he smells nice, so this is good. The shower's blue and green, sea horses sing, and soft towels are there waiting. The...

Dream babies. (poem)
June 22, 1994... They are palm-size, pocket-size, as small as the chicken eggs they used to use in "Parenting for Teens," when each girl and each boy was given an egg as baby for a week. I guess it was a real success if they took their eggs seriously (egg...