Feminist Studies articles from March 2001

Feminist Studies archives from March 2001

PREFACE.
March 22, 2001... This issue of Feminist Studies offers two distinct clusters of work: on Middle Eastern women and on U.S. feminism. But it also discusses themes that cross these regional divides and extend to China and Latin America as well. These shared...

CALL ME QINGNIAN BUT NOT FUNU: A MAOIST YOUTH IN RETROSPECT.
March 22, 2001... A few days before Women's Day of March 8, 1978, my five roommates and I were in our college dorm after class. [1] Each of us had just received a movie ticket from the administration. To celebrate Women's Day, our college was showing a movie...

A PRAISE FOR DOROTHY PARKER & THE CRISIS.(Poem)
March 22, 2001... A PRAISE FOR DOROTHY PARKER Because she was my role model: only girl at the Algonquin Round Table, scattering wit like the Lord God scattering hoarfrost; reviewing books and plays for the old New Yorker, tongue ...

DISCOURSES ON WOMEN'S BIOGRAPHIES AND CULTURAL IDENTITY: TWENTIETH-CENTURY REPRESENTATIONS OF THE LIFE OF THE LIFE OF 'A'ISHA BINT ABI BAKR.
March 22, 2001... Representations of Arab women have been at the heart of contemporary political debates over issues of cultural identity, the relationship between Arab states and the West, tradition and authenticity, cultural specificity and globalism....

THE "HONOR" OF THE STATE: VIRGINITY EXAMINATIONS IN TURKEY.
March 22, 2001... In 1992, the tragedy of the fifteen-year-old G. made headlines in the Turkish press, in a typically stylized, melodramatic narrative. The principal of the high school G. attended called her father for a private meeting. When her father arrived,...

WOMEN IN IRAN: NOTES ON FILM AND FROM THE FIELD.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... In the twenty years since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, an entire society has been transformed and politicized. In this process, no group's experience has been more drastically altered than that of urban, middle-class Iranian women. This is...

ORIENTALISM AND MIDDLE EAST FEMINIST STUDIES.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... The events marking the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Edward Said's 1978 Orientalism provide an excellent occasion to reflect on the book's impact on Middle East gender and women's studies. In some ways Orientalism and feminist...

ART ESSAY.(artist Huda Lutfi)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... ARTIST'S STATEMENT [Huda Lutfi, born in Cairo, is both a medieval historian specializing in gender relations, sexuality, and culture in the Arab-Muslim world, and, since 1992, a painter. She has taught Arab-Muslim history at the American...

UNVEILING SCHEHERAZADE: FEMINIST ORIENTALISM IN THE INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF WOMEN, 1911-1950.
March 22, 2001... In an article published in 1982, Leila Ahmed chastised Western feminists for their "docility toward the received ideas of their culture" regarding Muslim women in the Middle East. [1] She pointed to their complicity in perpetuating an image of...

ROSE.(Poem)
March 22, 2001... I was a rose of rhetoric, lovesick in verbiage; I was a rose spun seasick out of glass and swirled dye; I was a porcelain rose with dry edges in unglazed bisque; I was a wild rose given place in the hair of an odalisque...

MEMOIRS OF THE FEMINIST FILM MOVEMENT
March 22, 2001... Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement. By Ruby Rich. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998. Home Movies and Other Necessary Fictions. By Michelle Citron. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998. ...

SHOOTING SOLANAS: RADICAL FEMINIST HISTORY AND THE TECHNOLOGY OF FAILURE.
March 22, 2001... On June 3, 1968, Valerie Solanas, self-proclaimed revolutionary and author of the radical feminist document, the SCUM Manifesto, was catapulted from relative obscurity to media notoriety when she shot and nearly killed the pop artist Andy...

RADICAL FEMINISM, LESBIAN SEPARATISM, AND QUEER THEORY.
March 22, 2001... Lesbianism is a constantly shifting construction in the women's movement. There is not "lesbianism but rather many "lesbianism" and similarly many "lesbians." The one word situates a number of constructions, each bound in a specific moment, a...

SUGAR RIVER & IN THE GARDEN WITH MY DAUGHTER.(Poem)
March 22, 2001... Keep from me all that I might comprehend! O God, I ripen toward you in my unknowing. -Rachel Kom (translated from Yiddish by Carolyn Kizer) Not my daughter they found, arms flung out as though in sleep, as though she'd...

RE-VISIONING THE WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT'S NARRATIVE: EARLY SECOND WAVE AFRICAN AMERICAN FEMINISTS.
March 22, 2001... It is remembering that marks... the difference between bestiality and humanity, between culture and merely physical nature. John Dewey The struggle of man (and woman) against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. ...