Feminist Studies articles from June 2003

Feminist Studies archives from June 2003

Preface.
June 22, 2003... The production, suppression, and exploitation of emotions play roles in two clusters of articles in this issue of Feminist Studies. The first cluster consists of three essays focusing on early modern European women. Together, these three pieces...

Battered women, petty traitors, and the legacy of coverture.
June 22, 2003... In the 1998 film A Perfect Murder, a woman who is beautiful, brilliant, and heiress to 100 million dollars kills her sinister husband--who has hired someone to kill her so he can get her money--in the midst of a struggle in which she has struck...

Architecture and sexual identity: Jeanne de Jussie's narrative of the reformation of Geneva.
June 22, 2003... Recent critical theory has made much of connections between architecture and sexuality. In the first volume of his History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault argues that sexuality was a significant, but unstated, concern of eighteenth-century French...

Undoing the double tress: Scotland, early modern women's writing, and the location of critical desires.
June 22, 2003... "[W]omen more often than men-they are immediately asked in whose name and from what theoretical standpoint they are speaking, who is their master, and where they are coming from: they have, in short, to salute... and show their identity...

The museum of tragedy.(Short Story)
June 22, 2003... "It looks too much like Kentucky Fried," Darla said, pointing to the small bones strewn around three figures kneeling in mounds of confectioner's sugar and boric acid. "You're getting to be an expert critic around here," Mr. Pearsall said....

Birthing and bureaucratic women: needs talk and the definitional legacy of the Sheppard-Towner Act.
June 22, 2003... I am to be a mother in July.... Are there any spacil things that i should eat? If so, what? Any what kind of exercices should i take? And how often? What kind of clothes should i buy and make for the baby and my self? And how much of...

From hazard to blessing to tragedy: representations of miscarriage in twentieth-century America.
June 22, 2003... My miscarriage was a physical event, one that I found frightening and painful but also--as a scholar of reproduction who had read and written about pregnancy for years--interesting. It was a personal event, which saddened me because my husband...

Wonderful words of life.(Short Story)
June 22, 2003... After the last notes of the organ postlude and the pastor's amen, Mrs. Rosser stops Alice in the church vestibule. She waits until the other worshippers have filed outside. Mrs. Rosser clutches her tattered coat around her. There's no one else...

Caring about care.
June 22, 2003... Who cares about care? Feminist scholars and activists have long highlighted the importance of care, as well as gender inequalities in the provision of care. Nevertheless, mainstream scholarship has often ignored the centrality of care in...

Poetry.(Poem)
June 22, 2003... You will want the spoon rimmed with teeth marks; you will want the eyeglasses worn to death, the barometer tapped dry, the loaves of bread whose hearts you stirred. You will want to sit at the table and wait for...

A Wonder.(Poem)
June 22, 2003... I hand my mother's glasses to the young technician who is used to senior citizens' stories of ice, or the cupboard opened too quickly, or the grandchild's hand thrust up without warning. She can feel the warmth of my...

Graduate education in women's studies: paradoxes and challenges.(Forum)
June 22, 2003... The proliferation of graduate programs in women's studies over the past decade creates a number of challenges-intellectual, methodological, pedagogical, and administrative--for women's studies programs and scholars. Four years ago, Feminist...

Paradoxes of empowerment: interdisciplinary graduate pedagogy in women's studies.
June 22, 2003... When women's studies began at the University of Illinois at Chicago, one of the students in the first teaching collective proposed that all group members pool their incomes and live together in a commune. As a newly salaried assistant professor...

Professional identity politics.
June 22, 2003... Professionalism is a suspect concept in this era of interdisciplinary hopes. --Stanley Fish, Professional Correctness If we are to manage interdisciplinarity, I suggest we must begin by being more, not less, explicit in presenting our...

Ph.D. programs and the research mission of women's studies: the case for interdisciplinarity.
June 22, 2003... The development of Ph.D. programs in women's studies marks a watershed moment in the history of the field, a dramatic shift from the days of teaching collectives described by Judith Kegan Gardiner. That ten programs are now preparing and...

The number one question about feminism.
June 22, 2003... "I consider myself a hard-core feminist," said a twenty-year-old women's studies major at Tulane University in New Orleans. "But is it okay that I wear thong underwear?" We laughed--in recognition primarily--when we heard this "feminist in...

Interventions: an all-woman first year college seminar.
June 22, 2003... For all the talk about universities as ivory towers somehow removed from the world, we--students and faculty alike--carry with us the prejudices and expectations of our cultures and help both to create and reproduce those expectations in...

What You Can't Tell Just By Looking at a Girl (After Her Mother Leaves).(Poem)
June 22, 2003... Don't feel sorry for her-- she doesn't mind standing. She takes this bus a lot on Saturdays. She's on her way home and will get off the bus at the Seven Mile stop. Sometimes the sun shines on the glass...

There is a river in painting that flows infinitely toward us: the art of Agnes Thurnauer.
June 22, 2003... A succession of pale lines suggests a room with two walls and a floor. Uneven and fragile, the walls contain windows sketchily painted in empty squares. The floor is transparent, bathed in pools of liquid color applied to the back of the canvas...

Publications received.(Bibliography)
June 22, 2003... The information for annotations was provided by the publisher. Acosta, Teresa Paloma, and Ruthe Winegarten. Los Tejanas: Three Hundred Years of History. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. Pp. 456. Paper $22.95. Alban, Gillian...