Feminist Studies articles from June 2005

Feminist Studies archives from June 2005

Preface.(feminism)(Editorial)
June 22, 2005... IN 1996, THE OLE MISSISSIPPI Homecoming Queen described her feelings in the campus newspaper, The Daily Mississippian, upon receiving her crown: "After weeks of anticipation, the crowning day is here... I can't believe 47,000 eyes will be...

Queens of academe: campus pageantry and student life.
June 22, 2005... BEGINNING IN THE FIRST DECADES of the twentieth century, the Westernized beauty contest prototype of individuated competition has proliferated in communities and nations across the globe. Such popularity results from the very flexibility of...

Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, lived.(Poem)
June 22, 2005... Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, lived in my neighborhood, across the street and down the way from my girlfriend's family so I always knew the Africa of B-movie fame wasn't anything like life at all. Nobody African ever ran around...

Beauvoir's time/our time: the Renaissance in Simone de Beauvoir Studies.
June 22, 2005... SINCE THE EARLY SECOND WAVE, Simone de Beauvoir and her work have provided something of a Rorschach test for feminist theory, with different generations and genres of feminism each projecting their own pre-occupations upon her. First hailed as...

Man of war.(Short Story)
June 22, 2005... "As early as the 1950's psychoanalysts began to report significant changes in the forms of psychopathology that appear to have emerged in response to a sociocultural situation characterized by metaphysical...

The art of Jehanne-Marie Gavarini.
June 22, 2005... JEHANNE-MARIE GAVARINI BALANCES A DARK GRACE against a sly wink. I am drawn into her play on "economy"--the gamble between dominant strategies and unruly tactics. My daydreams spin around satisfying systems of interacting elements as well as...

Contesting motherhood in the age of AIDS: maternal ideology in the debate over mandatory HIV testing.
June 22, 2005... IN THE MID-1980s, with the licensing of the first Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus (HIV) antibody test, it became possible to identify individuals with HIV infection. Around the same time, it became clear that approximately one out of four...

Factories.(Poem)
June 22, 2005... Until my eighth month in utero, my mother shaped hinges in a Detroit factory, curled their bolts' diameters into snug fists clenching each pin so tractor-trailer doors wouldn't open spontaneously, yield frozen Cornish hens or...

The hysteresis of light.(Poem)
June 22, 2005... 1 Things seemed cleaner and dirtier all at once after Daddy wired each room in our house, and I flipped the switch, set our faces ablaze with light siphoned through our ceiling, like something captured, vibrations humming between...

Geographic theorizations of sexuality: a review of recent works.
June 22, 2005... THE RELATIVELY RECENT DISCOVERY OF GEOGRAPHY by academics writing within women's studies, queer studies, and cultural studies has resulted in the production of numerous texts, often described as geographies or cartographies, that examine the...

Trouble ahead.(Poem)
June 22, 2005... Oh, trouble ahead! My biographer switches to writing haiku.

The evidence.(Short Story)
June 22, 2005... WHEN THE TWO UNIFORMED Public Service officers walked in, Fangmei was more annoyed than scared. Cheapskates. The last time they came, after being fussed over for an hour, they didn't pay a cent. "Just a sec," she said to the officers,...

Constructing the battered woman.
June 22, 2005... IT HAS BEEN MORE THAN thirty years since feminists opened the first battered women's shelter in the United States. Feminist organizing has enhanced the safety of many women. Yet, despite organized and individual resistance by survivor activists...

For the girl child.(Poem)
June 22, 2005... She who was told small and smaller, told less and quiet, told change or be changed-- she has stood by her own side the whole time it has taken to break the telling and its iron hold over her muscles, to heal the strain ...

Sex workers, USAID, and Brazilian resistance.(Brazilian government refuses to take assistance from States Agency for International Development )
June 22, 2005... In May 2005, the Brazilian government made the historic decision to refuse $40 million from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for HIV/AIDS funding. They cited as the reason for their refusal the Bush...

Celebrating "Off Our Backs" 35 years of independent feminist publishing.(news and views)(Karla Mantilla)(Interview)
June 22, 2005... In March 2005 I attended the annual Independent Press Association (IPA) conference where I learned about a couple very positive trends for progressive thought in this country. First, I learned that progressive magazines and news journals are...

Publications received.
June 22, 2005... The information for annotations was provided by the publisher. Aggarwal, Ravina. Beyond Lines of Control: Performance and Politics on the Disputed Borders of Ladakh, India. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. 305. Paper $23.95....