Feminist Studies articles from June 2007

Feminist Studies archives from June 2007

Preface.
June 22, 2007... IS THERE SUCH A THING as feminism in the mass media? What does it look like? These are some of the questions explored in this volume. Covering texts as diverse as Hollywood movies, Taiwanese women's magazines, the HBO series The Sopranos, and...

Gangster feminism: the feminist cultural work of HBO's "The Sopranos".
June 22, 2007... ALTHOUGH NOT A SHOW "that goes in for 'very special episodes' about abortion or bulimia," following reviewer Rebecca Traister's phrasing, The Sopranos has tackled some women's issues that may be even more uncomfortable." (1) Given the...

Song.(Poem)
June 22, 2007... When Mr. Smithers killed his daughter, we daughters walked the town, tracing in the air our fingers the black iron S on the white brick chimney of the house would stay forever empty beyond our knowing. No one would buy, people...

The Book of Love.(Poem)
June 22, 2007... When first I bled, my blood a red Rorschach on the butt of my white miniskirt (1965: homeroom: 7th grade) my mother handed me a faded pink book, some plumber's dog-eared manual. llustration 3: My black-and-white vagina the...

Husband.(Poem)
June 22, 2007... This is my husband. If you flay his skin & fix it to crossbars & tie on a tail, you can fly him so high he will be digested by clouds. This is my husband. Unhitch his bones, & line them up like a xylophone, you can play...

A matter of hydraulics.(Short story)
June 22, 2007... IT HAS RAINED ON AND OFF the whole summer. It has rained so much the Moskva River has become a churning stew of mud and sticks and cigarette butts and fallen leaves. The bird inside her jacket pecks at the button of her shirt. She takes the...

"If My Husband Calls I'm Not Here": the beauty parlor as real and representational female space.
June 22, 2007... You have no ease of manner. Why? Because you're never sure about your personal appearance. When a girl feels that she's perfectly groomed and dressed, she can forget that part of her. That's charm. The more parts of yourself you can...

Rolling Out the Dough.(Poem)
June 22, 2007... You rock in your apron east to west, stove to sink, round ingrown toe to arthritic instep, left hand forgotten across your chest spilling over heart too big for its own cup, strawberry jam on the cotton of your sleeve. Tell me, I beg,...

Performance Artist.(Poem)
June 22, 2007... Fingertips glowing, her famished eyes use the moon as a lamp. She just can't dim her appetite. Master in her field, a crossover artist, the girl is so polite, she would never make a scene. Her father likes to tinker. Her...

The voyage out: transacting sex under globalization.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... IF THERE IS A SEA-CHANGE that has marked queer/sexuality studies in the past decades, it has been the turn to globalization, variously understood through rubrics such as the transnational, geopolitical, international, global, and diasporic....

Coming to Jones Road.
June 22, 2007... INTRODUCTION I moved to Jones Road in Englewood, New Jersey, on November 23, 1992, with the dream of constructing a studio and creating a garden. Soon after I came to live on Jones Road and began to pursue my dream, I discovered that I...

Beautiful-and-bad woman: media feminism and the politics of its construction.
June 22, 2007... Virtuous women belong to history. Women of the present are independent and beautiful.... Some men say that they do not love women who are not bad. --"Bad Girls," Marie Claire, May 2000 IN SHAMPOO COMMERCIALS, NATIONAL...

The Wonder.(Poem)
June 22, 2007... how he was a terrible kisser how he was small but you lied and really he tasted like piss his greasy hair swinging malodorous and the sweat on his red swelling face how the man drove out the man how he stood by and let it go forward...

Octavia Butler: a retrospective.
June 22, 2007... THE ONLY SCIENCE FICTION WRITER to have received a prestigious "genius" grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, acclaimed author Octavia E. Butler is often described as having written stories about "racial and sexual and...

The cyborg goddess: social myths of women as goddesses of technologized otherworlds.
June 22, 2007... THE HUMAN SENSE-MAKING PROCESS, argued Claude Levi-Strauss, has developed within "relations, posed ideologically, between two series, one natural, the other cultural." (1) Driven by the essentializing symmetry of polar opposites derived from...

Book Announcement.(announcements)
June 22, 2007... In Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would Be President, prize-winning legal historian Jill Norgren recounts, for the first time, the life story of one of the nineteenth-century's most surprising and accomplished advocates for women's rights. As...

Conferences.(announcements)(Conference news)(Brief article)
June 22, 2007... Fifth Annual (Net)Working Conference on Women & Literacy, March 7-8, 2008, at Fordham University at Lincoln Center in New York City, sponsored by WE LEARN (Women Expanding Literacy Education Action Resource Network) with Fordham University....

Publications received.
June 22, 2007... The information for annotations was provided by the publisher. Aikau, Hokulani K., Karla A. Erickson, and Jennifer L. Pierce, eds. Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations: Life Stories from the Academy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota...