Feminist Studies articles from June 2001

Feminist Studies archives from June 2001

PREFACE.
June 22, 2001... If one strand of Second Wave feminism was a valorization of motherhood in terms that respected women's capacities, energies, and sheer domestic labor, this issue of Feminist Studies contains evidence of broader and more critical understandings...

WRITING FEMINIST GENEALOGY: CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, RACIAL NATIONALISM, AND THE REPRODUCTION OF MATERNALIST FEMINISM.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... In one of the stranger passages in her autobiography, the famous turn-of-the-century feminist writer, reformer, and activist, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, humorously registers her concerns about wayward reproduction while in the process confessing...

WEANING THE BREAST.(Poem)
June 22, 2001... 1. 4 A.M. the baby throws himself on the breast frantic to make it human again. He knows it's the shortest path to the womb. But no, sweet baby, have a bottle of Gatorade instead. Have a feather pillow. Have a walk ...

MOTHERHOOD, PATRIOTISM, AND ETHNICITY: SOVIET KAZAKHSTAN AND THE 1936 ABORTION BAN.
June 22, 2001... Women's reproductive capacity has long been a terrain for political struggle, linked to causes arid aspirations that often have little to do with the women whose lives and destinies are at stake. The fierce and violent anti-abortion campaign in...

NEAR FOALING.(Poem)
June 22, 2001... A tall weathered man out in all weathers the motion of his hands and arms mixing feeds a laughing little girl with cropped hair swinging on a gate out into the air, the same motion there, the scoop, the lift and drop. ...

THE CHANGING FACE OF CATHOLIC IRELAND: CONSERVATISM AND LIBERALISM IN THE ANN LOVETT AND KERRY BABIES SCANDALS.
June 22, 2001... In September 1983 Irish people went to the polls and voted in favor of a referendum embedding a ban on abortion within the Irish Constitution. Although the success of the referendum may not be surprising in a country where the Catholic Church...

HOMBRE Y MUJER.(Poem)
June 22, 2001... I When a man thinks of his children, he thinks of ten-dollar shoes, Cap'n Crunch, public parks, and how he'd take his boys to work with him, waking them early on Saturday mornings, their curly hair always flat on one...

MOTHERING FROM A DISTANCE: EMOTIONS, GENDER, AND INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS IN FILIPINO TRANSNATIONAL FAMILIES.
June 22, 2001... An increasing number of Filipina migrants are mothering their children from a distance. In order to provide for their families, they must leave them behind in the Philippines arid take advantage of the greater labor market opportunities in...

(RE)CONCEIVING POLITICS? WOMEN'S ACTIVISM AND DEMOCRACY IN A TIME OF RETRENCHMENT.(Bibliography)
June 22, 2001... Grassroots Warriors: Activist Mothering, Community Work, and the War on Poverty. By Nancy A. Naples. New York: Routledge, 1998. Community Activism and Feminist Politics: Organizing across Race, Class, and Gender. Edited by Nancy A. Naples....

DAEG-WEORC (DAY-WORK).(Poem)
June 22, 2001... ... considering the pleasure I myself had reaped from the knowledge I have gained from the Original of our Mother Tongue, and that others of my own Sex, might be capable of the same satisfaction: I resolv'd to give them the Rudiments of that...

ENDURING TRADITIONS AND NEW DIRECTIONS IN FEMINIST ETHNOGRAPHY IN THE CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA.
June 22, 2001... At the dawn of a new millennium, it is hard to resist the inclination to look back and reflect on how far one's field has come with the challenges set out by feminism. Each discipline likely has its own style of reckoning with its past, its...

COMING HOME TO THE SELF.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Caribbean peoples have have been roaming, what I refer to as "contemporary Middle Passages," for several generations. Many of us continue to live in suspension between our island homes and metropolitan cities of the North seeking education,...

RECENT TRANSGENDER THEORY.
June 22, 2001... In the early 1990s, when I was writing my book on transsexualism, Changing Sex: Transsexualism, Technology, and the Idea of Gender, [1] the predominant critical perspective on the phenomenon was a feminist cultural studies analysis that used...

SHOPPING.(Poem)
June 22, 2001... I found myself shopping whenever I had an afternoon free. I should have been working, I should have been reading, I should have been taking care of the children. Leaving the farm behind, leaving the animals back...

CIRCUMSTANCES.(Short Story)
June 22, 2001... I'm facing a felony, introduction of contraband into a penal institution. It carries time. Before Homer and after Homer, that's how I divide my life now. Before Homer, I went to work and came home, nothing in-between. Plain looking and...

DOING FEMINISM IN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONTEXTS.
June 22, 2001... Women's studies was born out of an interdisciplinary mission, a commitment to challenge the limits of the disciplinary production of knowledge, and to expose the blind spots and structures of exclusion within the disciplinary system. Yet...

ACADEMIC FEMINISM AND INTERDISCIPLINARITY.
June 22, 2001... My remarks here extend arguments I made in the Feminist Studies 1998 forum entitled "Disciplining Feminism? The Future of Women's Studies," where I strongly supported the interplay of disciplinary and interdisciplinary feminisms and expressed...

ETHICS OF CARE IN LAW AND SCIENCE.
June 22, 2001... I want to begin by putting both the word "feminist" and the word "interdisciplinary" in quotation marks--to emphasize the provisional status of each and to explore their points of contact as sites for that provisionality. Neither term should be...

WOMEN'S STUDIES: INTERDISCIPLINARY IMPERATIVES, AGAIN.
June 22, 2001... The conference rubric, "Doing Feminism in Interdisciplinary Contexts," that inaugurated this Feminist Studies forum raises for me two important questions. First, what is the relationship between the "doing" of feminism and the already done of...

DISCIPLINING INTERDICIPLINARITY.
June 22, 2001... Interdisciplinarity and interdisciplinary studies have been receiving a lot of attention these days. This phenomenon may simply be part of the incessant stocktaking that turn-of-the-century shifts seem to call forth. But the stocktaking also...

TECHNOSCIENTIFIC IMAGINATIONS.
June 22, 2001... Feminist studies of science and technology are a vibrant edge of feminist scholarship today In elucidating and elaborating the relationship of gender and science, this body of work forces us to interrogate and redefine both "feminism" and...