Feminist Studies articles from March 1994

Feminist Studies archives from March 1994

Gender, race, raza.
March 22, 1994... 55. Cherrie Moraga, "The Breakdown of the Bicultural Mind," in The Last Generation, 120. 56. Maria Lugones, "Purity, Impurity, and Separation," Signs, forthcoming. I am grateful to Lugones for so generously allowing me to refer to her...

Punishment, treatment, empowerment: three approaches to policy for pregnant addicts.
March 22, 1994... In this paper I bring some issues and concepts of feminist ethics, post-modernism, and critical theory to reflect on an important women's issue-policy approaches to pregnant women who are habitual drug users. Many people, including many law...

Mother underground. (short story)
March 22, 1994... My mother called last night. I record this fact noting that it sounds reassuringly normal, as if telephone conversations between my mother and me were as habitual and unreflective as swallowing, as if my mother were anybody's mother and I were...

Geometries of race and gender: Eve Sedgwick, Spike Lee, Charlayne Hunter-Gault.
March 22, 1994... Ever since Eve Sedgwick's Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (1985), the erotic triangle in which two men bond over the body of a woman has proved more compelling for literary and cultural critics, and certainly more...

Before the bath. (poem)
March 22, 1994... my son strips flings sneakers jeans sweatshirt they parachute like strange birds dangle from a lamp the desk a sock from the ear of My Pet Monster then he caws some wild geese song high-pitched victorious as he whiffs through the house beating...

Between parents. (poem)
March 22, 1994... The only way I can take you back, Lord is if we agree that you're just another parent: well-intended of course, but flawed like the rest of us. Either you've been too self-important or your nuns just misrepresent you as a cruel God who rejects...

Empathic ways of reading: narcissism, cultural politics, and Russ's 'Female Man.'
March 22, 1994... When I recently reread Joanna Russ's feminist fantasy, The Female Man, I was struck not by how flesh but by how dated it seemed. Published in 1975, it bows cozily to "the shrines of Friedan, Millet, Greer, and Firestone," and its first-person...

The stations of the cross. (short story)
March 22, 1994... The interview had been appalling. We were all requested to be there at 9 A.M. and there we were at twenty to nine in a nervous self-conscious row, looking at our knees. The committee turned up an hour later and walked in and out of the room...

In a charity clinic. (poem)
March 22, 1994... a woman appeared to me her face above mine, in mask of rouge, overdyed hair, skin like a leather bag of water, holding its tears above mine like a cooling olla, a sagging sky. We folded our four hands like prayer in a single fist. A woman...

Cyborg and ecofeminist interventions: challenges for an environmental feminism.
March 22, 1994... The writings of Donna Haraway and the texts of ecofeminism offer radically different approaches to negotiating a feminist environmentalism. Whereas ecofeminism(1) seeks to strengthen the bonds between women and nature by critiquing their parallel...

Rhys, Stead, Lessing, and the Politics of Empathy.
March 22, 1994... Kinship, both as structure and as metaphor, has provided one of feminism's most distinctive and durable themes. Thinking through the family, however hostile or friendly our thoughts on it are, is a leitmotiv of the modern women's movement....