Feminist Studies articles from March 2000

Feminist Studies archives from March 2000

PREFACE.
March 22, 2000... In this issue of Feminist Studies we are proud to publish the winners of the Feminist Studies Award for the best graduate student essay submissions received in the last year: Victoria Rosner, Gillian M. Goslinga-Roy, and Ednie Kaeh Garrison....

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS CHILD? CAROLYN K. STEEDMAN AND THE WRITING OF FANTASY MOTHERHOOD.
March 22, 2000... "No; people never pities me in the street-excepting one gentleman, and he says, says he, 'What do you do out so soon in the morning?' but he gave me nothink-he only walked away." Watercress Girl On a cold morning in London sometime in...

MAKING UP FOR WAR: SEXUALITY AND CITIZENSHIP IN WARTIME CULTURE.
March 22, 2000... "Too much lipstick.' --Ann Petry, "In Darkness and Confusion," Cross Section, 1947 "A fresh application of makeup, my helmet at a jaunty angle, and I was ready for anything." --Nurse Ruth Haskell, Helmets and Lipstick, 1944 ...

FRENCH WOMEN OPERA COMPOSERS AND THE AESTHETICS OF ROUSSEAU.
March 22, 2000... When you can devote yourself to a work you love, it is an intense pleasure; but if you have chosen a vocation, for which every possible obstacle stands in your way, the simple desire to work becomes a tormenting passion, a torture of every...

ON WAITING TO EXHALE: OR WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU'RE FEELING BLACK AND BLUE, A REVIEW OF RECENT BLACK FEMINIST CRITICISM.
March 22, 2000... [T]he women teach, the men preach, the women follow, the men lead, the women nurture, the men posture, the women do good, the men do well, just as the men drive rather elegant cars, they think, while the women take the unbearable ugliness of...

BODY BOUNDARIES, FICTION OF THE FEMALE SELF: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE ON POWER, FEMINISM, AND THE REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES.
March 22, 2000... Our bodies; ourselves; bodies are maps of power and identity. Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto," 1991 A common theme in the feminist literature on the reproductive technologies has been that their advent has disarticulated...

U.S. FEMINISM-GRRRL STYLE! YOUTH (SUB)CULTURES AND THE TECHNOLOGICS OF THE THIRD WAVE.
March 22, 2000... "Grrrl," a word coined by Bikini Kill singer and activist Kathleen Hanna, is a spontaneous young-feminist reclamation of the word "girl." It has proud analogies among many groups of women; in fact, "grrrl" was at least partially derived from a...

VISIONARY POLITICS? FEMINIST INTERVENTIONS IN THE CULTURE OF IMAGES.(Review)
March 22, 2000... The Threshold of the Visible World. By Kaja Silverman. New York and London: Routledge, 1996. Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies. By bell hooks. New York and London: Routledge, 1996. One might suppose that Kaja Silverman's...

LITERATURE IN ENGLISH BY FILIPINO WOMEN.
March 22, 2000... In the late 1930s, a young Filipino woman named Trinidad Tarrosa Subido (1912-93) wrote the following lines in a poem entitled "Muted Cry": They took away the language of my blood, giving me one "more widely understood." More widely...

"TO WIDEN THE REACH OF OUR LOVE": AUTOBIOGRAPHY HISTORY, AND DESIRE.
March 22, 2000... The past has no beginnings and endings, but the stories we tell about it must and do. Our plots depend on where we choose to start and stop the tale. This commentary is about my own desire to understand how identities first emerge and then...