Feminist Studies articles from March 1999

Feminist Studies archives from March 1999

Cherished classifications: bathrooms and the construction of gender/race on the Pennsylvania railroad during World War II.
March 22, 1999... In short, our pollution behaviour is the reaction which condemns any object or idea likely to confuse or contradict cherished classifications. - Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo, 1966 On...

The hidden history of affirmative action: working women's struggles in the 1970s and the gender of class.
March 22, 1999... There is a great deal to be learned by turning our minds to the obvious. For it is often what seems most apparent which goes unrecorded and is forgotten. Movements for radical change face considerable odds and can do with remembering themselves...

Closing in on the "plantation": coalition building and the role of Black women's grievances in Duke University labor disputes, 1965-1968.
March 22, 1999... In the spring of 1998, Duke University's student newspaper, the Chronicle, celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of the largest demonstration in the university's history, known as the "silent vigil." Following Martin Luther King Jr.'s...

Proposition 209 and the affirmative action debate on the University of California campuses.
March 22, 1999... When the University of California Board of Regents voted to abolish affirmative action on July 20, 1995, a new wave of activists rose up to fight this blatant display of partisan politics. Although California Governor and UC Board of Regents...

Making equity a priority: anatomy of the York University strike of 1997.
March 22, 1999... On March 20, 1997, an eight-week faculty strike began at York University in Toronto (the third largest university in Canada with 45,000 students) - the longest faculty strike in English Canada to date. It was the culmination of sixteen months...

Through my lens: a video project about women of color faculty at the University of Michigan.
March 22, 1999... To the memory of Lora Romero To Carol Hollenshead and Lynne Dumas, in appreciation For some time now, the media, state legislatures, and the legal system have questioned the rationale behind affirmative action and, thus, have aimed to...

48.(poem)
March 22, 1999... You tell the interviewer, They didn't have computers the last time I took these tests. She stares. The last time you took these tests, she wasn't even born. How far we all have come. Gee-whiz color graphics. Your graduate degree. An ex-husband...

First day.(poem)
March 22, 1999... You remember the women's names: Wiry Kay, in tough polyester, who sprinkles your training with "ain'ts"; Jill, the Promotions Director, in makeup and tailored silk; Marge, out on Funeral Leave. But all those moon-faced farmboys-turned...

"But she can't find her [V.O.] key.".(title of song; lack of insight into the role of gender and race in Southern history)
March 22, 1999... Each time we sit down to write, we yearn for the impossible: to clear our minds, to focus sharply, to be transported into our material and transformed into a person who can do justice to the passions and peculiarities of people in the past....

My grandmother's dance.(poem)
March 22, 1999... My grandmother arrives in Harrison, New Jersey. She is appalled by the ugliness. The relatives call her greenhorn. The aunt and uncle had promised in their letter that she would go to college in America but now they tell her the college is only...

In the bargain basement.(poem)
March 22, 1999... My grandmother goes to Macy's. She is married now, with three children. My grandfather has already made and lost a fortune. This is the bargain basement. She is in lingerie, looking at the petticoats. At the exact moment she realizes her purse...

Interlopers.(poem)
March 22, 1999... My grandmother and grandfather packed their three children, their clothing, and a suitcase full of smoked fish into the car and they drove seven hours to the mountains. Sometimes the car couldn't make it up the last hill to the bungalow colony....

Artist's statement.
March 22, 1999... At age five, I discovered what it meant to have been born female, when my younger brother was born. As the baby, he always was the cutest, so it is understandable that my parents favored him. But I also remember grasping at some point the...

The European Union's policy on the equality of women.
March 22, 1999... As the European Union (EU) moves toward greater market integration, its progress toward women's equality has been a disappointment to many European women and feminists, although in forty years, actions of the European Community (EC) had led to...

Sexual difference and politics in France today.
March 22, 1999... "Liberte, Egalite, Parite ou les femmes ne sont pas des hommes comme les autres" (Liberty, Equality, Parity or women are not men like other men) The moment a new theory engenders practice, it also engenders revolution or reform, whether in...

Mothers of Buddhas, mothers of nations: Kumaranatunga and her meteoric rise to power in Sri Lanka.(Prime Minister Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaranatunga)
March 22, 1999... In a deeply poignant scene in the Apadana,(1) an important text in Buddhist commentarial literature, the Buddha's widowed foster mother, the nun Mahapajapati Gotami, who (tradition maintains) was the first woman initiated into the Buddha's...

Homeworkers in global perspective.
March 22, 1999... Edited by Eileen Boris and Elisabeth Prugl. New York and London: Routledge, 1996. Homework is an ancient form of labor lately renamed flexible specialization in managerial studies. The four books reviewed here offer reports from widely...

Homeworking Women: Gender, Racism, and Class at Work.(Review)
March 22, 1999... By Annie Phizacklea and Carol Wolkowitz. London: Sage, 1995. Homework is an ancient form of labor lately renamed flexible specialization in managerial studies. The four books reviewed here offer reports from widely distant fronts on the...

Hidden in the Home: The Role of Waged Homework in the Modern World Economy.(Review)
March 22, 1999... By Jamie Faricellia Dangler. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. Homework is an ancient form of labor lately renamed flexible specialization in managerial studies. The four books reviewed here offer reports from widely...

Homeworkers and Rural Economic Development.(Review)
March 22, 1999... By Christina E. Gringeri. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1994. Homework is an ancient form of labor lately renamed flexible specialization in managerial studies. The four books reviewed here offer reports from widely distant fronts...

Homeworkers in Global Perspective.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Homework is an ancient form of labor lately renamed flexible specialization in managerial studies. The four books reviewed here offer reports from widely distant fronts on the struggles of homeworkers to earn a living. They date from the 1980s'...