Feminist Studies articles from June 2002

Feminist Studies archives from June 2002

Preface.(feminist criticism)
June 22, 2002... Finding one's voice, a familiar refrain of 1970S feminism, takes a new twist in recently published memoirs and movement histories. Casting a retrospective eye in order to gain a more expansive vision, Sara M. Evans begins the discussion in our...

Early Intifada.(Poem)
June 22, 2002... Early Intifada. Elizabeth Rees In Afula black flies buzz over garbage oozing out of broken, rolling bins. By four in the afternoon, the wind smells of something dead. In Afula the world is rotting. Over and over, a...

Re-viewing the Second Wave.
June 22, 2002... Scholars of, and participants in, the early years of the "Second Wave" U.S. women's movement--after the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century First Wave-effort to gain suffrage for women--have struggled for decades to find the words with...

Circus.(Poem)
June 22, 2002... Circus. Eileen Moeller Once they set up Clyde Beatty's Big Top at the foot of Sandy Hill, in the empty lot where projects used o rise in long barracks rows housing the soldiers and their wives after the war and then...

Expanding the boundaries of the women's movement: Black feminism and the struggle for welfare rights.
June 22, 2002... The recent dismantling of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), the federal safety net for poor women and children, has taken place with relatively minimal protest and outrage. Local welfare rights organizations planned...

Handstand.(Poem)
June 22, 2002... Handstand. Elizabeth Crowell August, the girl stands on her hands, head close to the grass, grazing where her father has just mowed. Her house is now roof-last, her feet bare, ankles click, legs swing heavily as the deep...

Living a feminist lifestyle: the intersection of theory and action in a lesbian feminist collective.
June 22, 2002... In a 1972 memo to the Furies, member Charlotte Bunch articulated her dream for fifty years in the future. Bunch foresaw that "women will have taken power in many regions in the US, [and] are governing and beginning to create a new feminist...

Iris & Fern.(Poem)
June 22, 2002... Iris. Melissa Kwasny whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice -Louise Gluck The iris bulbs huddle, their brown rags sopped, yet above, the light green flumes have barely...

Multiracial feminism: recasting the chronology of Second Wave feminism.
June 22, 2002... In the last several years, a number of histories have been published that chronicle the emergence and contributions of Second Wave feminism. (1) Although initially eager to read and teach from these histories, I have found myself increasingly...

Family ghosts.(Short Story)
June 22, 2002... There were ten million dollars in bank notes, inscribed with "Currency of Hell" and issued by the Bank of Hell. There were four ladies seated around a mah-jong table, and the latest model Mercedes and mobile phone. There was a television set, a...

Alice Neel's feminist and leftist portraits of women.
June 22, 2002... I don't give a damn. I was women's lib before there was women's lib. Alice Neel Alice Neel appeared to burst on the scene in the 1970s with her riveting portraits of public figures like a bare-chested and bandaged Andy Warhol after he...

Hanging "The Yellow Wall-Paper": feminism and textual studies.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... Among the literary works recovered a generation ago, in the widespread cultural feminist movement that fostered the reemergence of women's voices in society, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper" is undoubtedly prominent. In...

Grandmother Sausages.(Poem)
June 22, 2002... Grandmother Sausages. Susanna Rich She stroked the salty lamb guts onto her finger like a long blue stocking in a wrinkle of rings and pulled them inside out to stretch onto the maw of the grinder screwed to the...

Re-viewing the First Wave.
June 22, 2002... For the past twenty years or so, women's historians have looked to the political arena for clues to women's experience in the nineteenth-century United States. Having long heeded Gerda Lerner's advice about the limitations of focusing only on...

Report on Bat Shalom and the Jerusalem link. (News and Views).
June 22, 2002... On May 7, 2002, Terry Greenblatt--long-time Israeli feminist, peace activist, and director of Bat Shalom (an Israeli feminist peace organization)--spoke to the United Nations Security Council. Her speech began with a reminder to U.N. members of...

Palestinian and Israeli women demand immediate end to occupation. (News and Views).
June 22, 2002... Israel has launched a war against defenseless Palestinian communities. The terrorization of innocent civilians, the unlawful killings and arrests, the siege imposed upon President Arafat, and the destruction of property, infrastructures and...

Report from the Jerusalem Center for Women. (News and Views).
June 22, 2002... [Amneh Badran is the acting director of the Jerusalem Center for Women (JCW), which has been at the forefront of establishing a Palestinian women's movement for peace and justice. Badran also directs numerous activities concerning the struggle...

The Canadian context: Nahla Abdo. (News and Views).(Interview)
June 22, 2002... [This report is based on a phone interview and follow-up e-mail with Nahla Abdo, an Arab feminist, Palestinian activist, and professor of sociology at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Abdo has published extensively on women and the Middle...

A visitor's view: Penny Rosenwasser. (News and Views).(Jewish American peace activist)
June 22, 2002... [Penny Rosenwasser, author of Voices from a Promised Land: Palestinian and Israeli Peace Activists Speak Their Hearts (Curbstone Press, 1992), is a Jewish American peace activist who has very recently returned from a trip to the Middle East...

In memoriam.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... June Jordan, 66, Professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, died on 14 June 2002 of breast cancer. She was a world-renowned writer and an extraordinary poet. Known perhaps most widely for her eleven books...

Publications received.
June 22, 2002... The information for annotations was provided by the publisher. Accomando, Christina. "The Regulations of Robbers": Legal Fictions of Slavery and Resistance. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2001. Pp. 257. Adam, Christina. Any...