Feminist Studies articles from June 1996

Feminist Studies archives from June 1996

Death and the mainstream: lesbian detective fiction and the killing of the coming-out story.
June 22, 1996... A sudden spate of lesbian detective fiction began appearing in 1984. Since the publication of Barbara Wilson's Murder in the Collective, Sarah Schulman's The Sophie Horowitz Story, and Katherine Forrest's Amateur City, the form has become a...

"This evil extends especially ... to the feminine sex": negotiating captivity in the New Mexico borderlands.
June 22, 1996... Late in the summer of 1760, a large Comanche raiding party besieged the fortified home of Pablo Villalpando in the village of Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico. After a daylong fight, the Comanches breached the walls and killed most of the male...

Joyce J. Scott's Mammy/Nanny series.
June 22, 1996... Since about 1970, internationally acclaimed Baltimore artist Joyce J. Scott has been presenting ideas and images that make us laugh, cry, cringe, and rejoice. She also captivates us with the beautiful colors, textures, and shapes of the objects...

Theorizing difference from multiracial feminism.
June 22, 1996... Women of color have long challenged the hegemony of feminisms constructed primarily around the lives of white middle-class women. Since the late 1960s, U.S. women of color have taken issue with unitary theories of gender. Our critiques grew out...

In celebration and remembrance. (short story)
June 22, 1996... Rosemary had two dishes. One, for cold weather gatherings, was a sweet potato and cranberry quiche from the Vegetarian Epicure, Book Two, and the other, for summer, was something called Spinach Roll-ups with Lime Chutney. Rosemary not only...

"This past was waiting for me when I came": the contextualization of Black women's history.
June 22, 1996... i am accused of tending to the past/as if i made it./ as if i sculpted it/with my own hands. i did not./ this past was waiting for me when i came, . . . - Lucille Clifton, "I am accused of tending to the past," 1991 The poet Lucille Clifton...

Living In, Living Out: African American Domestics in Washington, D.C., 1910-1940.
June 22, 1996... i am accused of tending to the past/as if i made it./ as if i sculpted it/with my own hands. i did not./ this past was waiting for me when i came, . . . - Lucille Clifton, "I am accused of tending to the past," 1991 The poet Lucille Clifton...

The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells: An Intimate Portrait of the Activist as a Young Woman.
June 22, 1996... i am accused of tending to the past/as if i made it./ as if i sculpted it/with my own hands. i did not./ this past was waiting for me when i came, . . . - Lucille Clifton, "I am accused of tending to the past," 1991 The poet Lucille Clifton...

Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, 2 vols.
June 22, 1996... i am accused of tending to the past/as if i made it./ as if i sculpted it/with my own hands. i did not./ this past was waiting for me when i came, . . . - Lucille Clifton, "I am accused of tending to the past," 1991 The poet Lucille Clifton...

Hine Sight: Black Women and the Re-Construction of American History.
June 22, 1996... i am accused of tending to the past/as if i made it./ as if i sculpted it/with my own hands. i did not./ this past was waiting for me when i came, . . . - Lucille Clifton, "I am accused of tending to the past," 1991 The poet Lucille Clifton...

'We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible': A Reader in Black Women's History.
June 22, 1996... i am accused of tending to the past/as if i made it./ as if i sculpted it/with my own hands. i did not./ this past was waiting for me when i came, . . . - Lucille Clifton, "I am accused of tending to the past," 1991 The poet Lucille Clifton...

Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920.
June 22, 1996... i am accused of tending to the past/as if i made it./ as if i sculpted it/with my own hands. i did not./ this past was waiting for me when i came, . . . - Lucille Clifton, "I am accused of tending to the past," 1991 The poet Lucille Clifton...

The disappearance of Susan Daniel and Henderson Cooper: gender and narratives in the Reconstruction-era U.S. south.
June 22, 1996... Late in 1864, Susan Daniel, the wife of a landless white man, accused two slaves, William and Henderson Cooper, of rape. A few months later, on the eve of southern surrender, the Granville (N.C.) County Superior Court convicted and sentenced both...

Soldiers and sailors. (short story)
June 22, 1996... A reasonable person does not accost a newly minted lawyer with a pair of scissors and hold his $800 suit hostage for a bagel, not on Public Square, not in broad daylight. And K.B. was known to be a reasonable person, had taken classes on how to...

The prison lesbian: race, class, and the construction of the aggressive female homosexual, 1915-1965.
June 22, 1996... In the mid-twentieth century, the subject of lesbians in prison began to attract both scholarly and popular attention in the United States.(1) After World War II, criminologists depicted lesbian inmates as menacing social types. In popular...

Women at Farah revisited: political mobilization and its aftermath among Chicana workers in El Paso, Texas, 1972-1992.
June 22, 1996... Union activism and participation in labor strikes are often portrayed as pivotal events in the lives of women workers. In films from Salt of the Earth to Norma Rae, previously isolated, passive victims of oppressive work environments band...