Feminist Studies articles from June 2000

Feminist Studies archives from June 2000

PREFACE.
June 22, 2000... In the early 1970s, at the height of Second Wave feminism, critiques of physicians and of gendered assumptions about illness and health flourished in popular as well as scholarly writings. Attempting to provide a countermodel of medical care,...

CASING MY JOINTS: A PRIVATE AND PUBLIC STORY OF ARTHRITIS.
June 22, 2000... HEAT INVERSION Long before morning I wake with a stinging in my shoulders so acute I lie in bed for hours thinking how to drain the acid off; or I get up in the dark--tired, baffled, stiff, and slow. All morning I keep dropping off and...

GRANDMOTHER'S STROKE: JULY 1993.(Poem)
June 22, 2000... The doctor gloved and petroleum jelled asks if she's comfortable, if she understands the routine procedure. She answers the stethoscope with no words, he inserts his fingers, her uterus contracts for the first time in years and the weight...

NEGOTIATING POWER AT THE BEDSIDE: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON NINETEENTH-CENTURY PATIENTS AND THEIR GYNECOLOGISTS.
June 22, 2000... On February 14th, 1889, Ida Hunt, the twenty-six-year-old wife of a printer, checked herself into the Woman's Hospital of Brooklyn. The victim of painful headaches, Hunt had recently consulted Mary Dixon Jones, the institution's resident...

PREGNANT PERSPECTIVE.(Poem)
June 22, 2000... Sometimes I think you're shrinking. There seems no other way to explain it. It's like the first time I sat in the driver's seat of the big moving truck. I pumped the brakes in terror thinking I was moving backwards...

YOU ARE DIFFERENT NOW.(personal narrative of having a brain tumor)
June 22, 2000... After seven straight days of driving back and forth on I-95 and the feeder highways that encircled Baltimore and Washington, I was tired. I had given an examination the previous weekend and on Sunday had attended a meeting at the National...

CROSSING THE BORDER FOR ABORTIONS: CALIFORNIA ACTIVISTS, MEXICAN CLINICS, AND THE CREATION OF A FEMINIST HEALTH AGENCY IN THE 1960S.
June 22, 2000... After five years of organizing for abortion rights, Patricia Maginnis decided to break the law. In June 1966, she passed out a leaflet in San Francisco that named physicians in Mexico and Japan who performed abortions. With this daring act,...

RECONCEIVING ABORTION: MEDICAL PRACTICE, WOMEN'S ACCESS, AND FEMINIST POLITICS BEFORE AND AFTER ROE V. WADE.
June 22, 2000... As I was revising this review essay, my local paper published an editorial that caught my eye. Women's abortion rights, according to the editorial, were "doing nicely." To be sure, the number of abortion providers was dwindling steadily and...

SNAPSHOT.(personal narrative of cancer and death)
June 22, 2000... In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder,. . . over a catastrophe which has already occurred. Whether or not the subject is already dead, every photograph is this catastrophe. Roland...

CIRCLE STORIES: A COLLABORATIVE PROJECT.(paintings depicting disabled artists)
June 22, 2000... Human beings, like most other primates, and in common with wolves and lions, live in packs. We must be able to see, quickly, who belongs to the designated Us and who does not, for the safety and integrity of the Group. If you walk...

OF SONOGRAMS AND BABY PRAMS: PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS, PREGNANCY, AND CONSUMPTION.
June 22, 2000... The transformation of any society should be revealed by the changing relations of persons to objects within it. Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff, "Goodly Beasts and Beastly Goods: Cattle and Commodities in a South African Context,...

THE WAY WE HOLD OUR BODIES.(posture of woman in a coma)
June 22, 2000... I would have expected a person in a coma to look limp and restful, but my mother holds her body strangely at attention although her senses are dulled beyond use. Her hands must be tied because, even in this state of autopilot, they continue...

MATERNAL EDUCATION AND CHILD HEALTH: A FEMINIST DILEMMA.
June 22, 2000... EFFICIENCY VERSUS EQUITY: STRATEGIC CHOICES In recent years, feminist scholarship has transformed the field of international development by articulating a strong case for the inclusion of women in development planning. [1] However, as the...

DEATHWATCH FOR OUR FRIEND.(Poem)
June 22, 2000... Coiled inside us were the seeds of this calling, like those African grasses that hide underground for years until finally the rain. See us now-as sure of what we do as squirrels intent on their gathering and putting by: I...

REVISITING "THE MYTH OF THE VAGINAL ORGASM": THE FEMALE ORGASM IN AMERICAN SEXUAL THOUGHT AND SECOND WAVE FEMINISM.
June 22, 2000... In 1968, Anne Koedt published "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm" in Notes from the First Year, a twenty-nine-page typed journal put out by New York Radical Women. [1] By the time an expanded version appeared in Notes from the Second Year, Koedt's...

LESBIANS IN PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY AND PRACTICE.
June 22, 2000... A major project of lesbian and gay liberation politics has been its response to the pathologizing of homosexuality within classical psychoanalysis and its many revisions (ego psychology, self-psychology, object relations, and most recently,...