Feminist Studies articles from March 1995

Feminist Studies archives from March 1995

The gender closet: lesbian disappearance under the sign "women."
March 22, 1995... Looking at women's studies from my Lesbian perspective and with my Lesbian feminist sensibility, what I see is that women's studies is heterosexual. The predominance of heterosexual perspectives, values, commitments, thought and vision is usually...

Louisiana ladies' watermelon tea - 1890. (poem)
March 22, 1995... The photo holds more than pose, cheating the sepia tone's formal stare, or the proper places and laces that display these unwed female forms like iced cakes. The ladies have shared pieces of themselves the camera will never know, its gaping...

Pleated skirts. (poem)
March 22, 1995... do you remember when you were a girl and time took forever and your mother never understood you and your teachers were only interested that you learned the lesson and you couldn't figure out anything all the talk about being a lady staying clear...

"I'll go the limit and then some": gun molls, desire, and danger in the 1930s.
March 22, 1995... In the spring of 1934 three young women were being held in the county jail in St. Paul, Minnesota. Marie Conforti, Jean Crompton, and Helen Gillis had been captured on April 24 at Little Bohemia, Wisconsin, when federal Division of Investigation...

Dressed for adventure: working women and silent movie serials in the 1910s.
March 22, 1995... In the 1910s, while the middle class thrilled and wept to stories of working-class women tempted and gone wrong in the perilous city, working-class women themselves thrilled to and cheered very different serial stories in magazines, newspapers,...

From Venus to penis.
March 22, 1995... As an art student I looked at a lot of old and new masters' paintings of nude women and I was inspired by them. I frequently depict nude females, and most often it is myself. A male artist uses the nude female as a muse, to demonstrate his...

Then what is the question? (poem)
March 22, 1995... They've computed the planes of her face, which match his exactly. Leonardo painted himself as Woman: a horse of spirit underneath the odd bright dresses. Love child, who bought caged birds to set them free. Who wrote and wrote from right to...

Mery Yagual (secretary). (short story)
March 22, 1995... She gets up every day in order to be Mery Yagual (even though on her identity card it says Maria de las Mercedes Yagual Pozo). She would have preferred to put her second surname first, because Mery Pozo sounds less "Indian" to her (Mercedes Pozo...

"Beyond Miranda's meanings": contemporary critical perspectives on Caribbean women's literatures.
March 22, 1995... The publication of these four anthologies assessing and collecting the literature and criticism of Caribbean women is surely a cause for celebration, for each anthologized work adds a feminist perspective to our understanding of Caribbean...

Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean Women and Literature.
March 22, 1995... The publication of these four anthologies assessing and collecting the literature and criticism of Caribbean women is surely a cause for celebration, for each anthologized work adds a feminist perspective to our understanding of Caribbean...

Green Cane and Juicy Flotsam: Short Stories by Caribbean Women.
March 22, 1995... The publication of these four anthologies assessing and collecting the literature and criticism of Caribbean women is surely a cause for celebration, for each anthologized work adds a feminist perspective to our understanding of Caribbean...

Caribbean Women Writers: Essays from the First International Conference.
March 22, 1995... The publication of these four anthologies assessing and collecting the literature and criticism of Caribbean women is surely a cause for celebration, for each anthologized work adds a feminist perspective to our understanding of Caribbean...

Motherlands: Black Women's Writing from Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia.
March 22, 1995... The publication of these four anthologies assessing and collecting the literature and criticism of Caribbean women is surely a cause for celebration, for each anthologized work adds a feminist perspective to our understanding of Caribbean...

Gender and politics in contemporary Haiti: the Duvalierist state, transnationalism, and the emergence of a new feminism (1980-1990).
March 22, 1995... The September 1991 military coup in Haiti interrupted the process of democratization begun in the mid-1980s and culminating with the uprooting of the thirty-year dictatorship of the Duvalier family and the first democratic election in 1990 with...

Mass murder. (poem)
March 22, 1995... For Janet Was the crack open between the worlds? I never knew the wind of death to blow so strong. That black moth death settled on the wall, those three loud bangs death rattled the china, death the shotgun held like a shield, death the...

The third dance. (poem)
March 22, 1995... Now I am dancing the third dance apropos of nothing, dancing no longer for the happy life or a place in this world, dancing in the dark now, I see the motorcycle rusted, covered with snow - where is its rider, and where is the writer of poems,...