Feminist Studies articles from June 1995

Feminist Studies archives from June 1995

Inventing the "postmaternal" woman, 1898-1927: idle, unwanted and out of a job.
June 22, 1995... A NEW MIDLIFE CHARACTER IN THE SOCIAL TEXT Early in the twentieth century, a problematical new midlife female "character" appeared in Anglo-American cultural representation.(1) This was the postmaternal woman, understood as a mother who,...

Clitoral conventions and transgressions: graphic representations in anatomy texts, c1900-1991.
June 22, 1995... The body is what it is perceived to be; it could be otherwise if perception were different. David Armstrong, "Bodies of Knowledge: Foucault and the Problem of Human Anatomy," in Sociological Theory and Medical Sociology, ed. Graham Scrambler...

The Book of Life. (Poem)
June 22, 1995... Everything very hardy. Irises one surprise after another - the florist Gave me the bulbs cheap, he didn't know their colors, Big lavender with rustly Victorian edges, Pansies, then pinks, gaillardias, yellow with maroon edges and Maroon centers,...

Romantic friends or a "different race of creatures"? The representation of lesbian pathology in nineteenth-century America.
June 22, 1995... The acceptability of intimate and erotic relationships between women prior to the twentieth century has long been a topic of critical debate. In 1975, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg's "Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in...

The ambulance men. (short story)
June 22, 1995... I was fifteen the year Alice died, and it was on Thanksgiving Day that she went to the hospital for the last time. We, all of us, family and friends, had been having a party at our house (we usually did have the parties at our house). She had...

Going to the source: women reclaim menopause.
June 22, 1995... These books offer a refreshing, deeply textured, feminist view of menopause based upon women's experiences. Like Rosetta Reitz in 1977, Lafern Page gathered women together to share stories, analyzed them, and presented various ways women...

Menopause and Emotions: Making Sense of Your Feelings When Your Feelings Make No Sense.
June 22, 1995... These books offer a refreshing, deeply textured, feminist view of menopause based upon women's experiences. Like Rosetta Reitz in 1977, Lafern Page gathered women together to share stories, analyzed them, and presented various ways women...

Women of the Fourteenth Moon: Writings on Menopause.
June 22, 1995... These books offer a refreshing, deeply textured, feminist view of menopause based upon women's experiences. Like Rosetta Reitz in 1977, Lafern Page gathered women together to share stories, analyzed them, and presented various ways women...

From 'Burning the Photographs.' (Poem)
June 22, 1995... BODY PARTS A toast: to many body parts, too many body parts burning in the blaze where she is torching decades of her history, tossing bellies and hips toward the flame, watching hands and fingers sizzle into char. Her right breast burns,...

She is the photograph she is burning. (Poem)
June 22, 1995... It is like any other fire, wood or precious papers, real flesh crackling into the bone chips of past warmings. Imperative that no one escape the conflagration, no image blow across the beach to arrive, a spot of white on the brown lawn of the...

You know a symbol when you see one. (Poem)
June 22, 1995... It would have been a different fire had he been there with her. She thought he understood, he said, Love, let's burn them together, you and me, here in our house. They'd destroy what hurt them, stroking their damaged places with long and mutual...

I tell you this as a friend. (Poem)
June 22, 1995... The last image she sees igniting is not anonymous, not body parts, it's his face, a photo she clearly took, that smile the one he wore for her, his blond hair still a boy's sweet wisps in middle age. She can see his father and his son in his...

Feminism and cultural studies.
June 22, 1995... Feminism is, in Meaghan Morris's words, "minimally, a movement of discontent with the everyday and with wide-eyed definitions of the everyday as the 'way things are.'"(1) Minimally, feminism's discontent is gender inequality, but Morris's...

Off-Centre: Feminism and Cultural Studies.
June 22, 1995... Feminism is, in Meaghan Morris's words, "minimally, a movement of discontent with the everyday and with wide-eyed definitions of the everyday as the 'way things are.'"(1) Minimally, feminism's discontent is gender inequality, but Morris's...

Cultural Studies.
June 22, 1995... Feminism is, in Meaghan Morris's words, "minimally, a movement of discontent with the everyday and with wide-eyed definitions of the everyday as the 'way things are.'"(1) Minimally, feminism's discontent is gender inequality, but Morris's...

The Cultural Studies Reader.
June 22, 1995... Feminism is, in Meaghan Morris's words, "minimally, a movement of discontent with the everyday and with wide-eyed definitions of the everyday as the 'way things are.'"(1) Minimally, feminism's discontent is gender inequality, but Morris's...

Sexing the Self: Gendered Positions in Cultural Studies.
June 22, 1995... Feminism is, in Meaghan Morris's words, "minimally, a movement of discontent with the everyday and with wide-eyed definitions of the everyday as the 'way things are.'"(1) Minimally, feminism's discontent is gender inequality, but Morris's...

The Central Eye. (Poem)
June 22, 1995... Mother, should you come back again, long after your pain has finished its feast, after we've placed your porous bones within the cache of earth, I would wish for you some barbarous splendor, some pride outrageous as the peacock's eyes trailing...

Live sex acts (parental advisory: explicit material).
June 22, 1995... I am a citizen of the United States, and in this country where I live, every year millions of pictures are being made of women with our legs spread. We are called beaver, we are called pussy, our genitals are tied up, they are pasted, makeup is...

African feminism: toward a new politics of representation.
June 22, 1995... I am convinced that I am observing the birth of feminism on the African continent - a feminism that is political, pragmatic, reflexive, and group oriented.(1) These observations have grown out of my work in various parts of West Africa, in the...