Feminist Studies articles from March 2002

Feminist Studies archives from March 2002

Preface.(Editorial)
March 22, 2002... "Womens Right to Choose" has been one of the most effective slogans not only of the reproductive rights movement but also of late-twentieth-century feminism in the United States more generally. It signaled legislative victories and progressive...

Loose lips sink ships.(labia cosmetic surgery)
March 22, 2002... [They are] two excresences of muscular flesh which hang, and in some women, fall outside the neck of the womb; lengthen and shorten as does the comb of a turkey, principally when they desire.... - Ambroise Pare (1579), quoted in Lisa Jean...

Disarticulating liberal subjectivities: abortion and fetal protection.
March 22, 2002... Reproductive freedom has long been a preoccupation of feminist theorizing and activism. In the long fight to achieve reproductive autonomy for women, feminists have deployed a variety of discourses and rhetorics and advocated a wide range of...

From reproductive rights to reproductive Barbie: Post-Porn modernism and abortion.
March 22, 2002... The weakest, by manipulating inscriptions of all sorts obsessively and exclusively, become the strongest. --Bruno Latour, "Visualization and Cognition" In "The Folk Song Army," Tom Lehrer sings: "Remember the war against Franco; Thats...

Person and place: making meaning of the art of Australian indigenous women.
March 22, 2002... When I moved to the United States in 1989 my longtime friend, teacher, and colleague Topsy Napurrula Nelson (1) gave me a painting (see fig. 1). She said to keep it close by. It would help hold us together despite the distance. I have and it...

Local, global, regional: womens studies in Australia.
March 22, 2002... Metaphors There are many ways in which to figure the nature of the world of higher education and developments within it. All are metaphors, although often they are so embedded in the language we speak every day that we regard them as...

Of men and machines: images of masculinity in boys toys.
March 22, 2002... Many toy stores of the Western world have boys sections dominated by toy representations of cars and weapons, action figures, and, interestingly, since the mid-1980s, a range of toys that blend these categories and locate men as machines. The...

Women and gender in the State of Sympathy.(6 books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... States of Sympathy: Seduction and Democracy in the American Novel. By Elizabeth Barnes. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. The Plight of Feeling: Sympathy and Dissent in the Early American Novel. By Julia A. Stem. Chicago:...

Pastoral Picture.(Poem)
March 22, 2002... Pastoral Picture The jism of that bull stooping over me, I was stupid-eyed cow proud in my bit of pasture, teats hardening, dreaming about little calves and a family, moo, moo, moo in the bliss reserved for the dim-witted. ...

Womens Bibles: biblical interpretation in nineteenth-century American women's poetry.
March 22, 2002... In 1895, Elizabeth Cady Stanton published The Womans Bible dedicated to contesting the "idea of womens subordination [as] reiterated times without number from Genesis to Revelations." (1) Stantons Womans Bible was too radical even for the...

Indigenous Australian art: the case for law reform. (News and Views).
March 22, 2002... Australian Aboriginal art has become big business in Australia and internationally. Aboriginal artists make up at least twenty-five percent and possibly more than fifty percent of the total number of visual artists currently working in...

Publications received.(Bibliography)
March 22, 2002... The information for annotations was provided by the publisher. Agacinski, Sylviane. Parity of the Sexes. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. Pp. 192. Paper. Translated from the French by Lisa Walsh. Andermahr, Sonya, Terry...

Well-Packed Women.(Poem)
March 22, 2002... "Well-Packed Women" Well-packed women, Id say in mothballs, lick immortal ice cream with ripe lips, chocolate-vanilla in forbidden flavors, forest mulberries sprout from their vaginas, wild mulberries drop onto soft soil, in...

The Fall.(Poem)
March 22, 2002... The Fall for Leah The happy dancer picks up an apple on an empty stage. Who asked her to? Perhaps the iguana inside her head nags that she come to its lap and be devoured in a black growl. In the jungles rot, little...

Update: Women in Afghanistan. (News and Views).
March 22, 2002... The post-September 11th period in Afghanistan has seen the installation of the Interim Administration and the creation of the Ministry of Womens Affairs. There have been welcome changes for professional women both within aid agencies and in the...

Nasrine Gross at Kabul University. (News and Views).(women's studies professor from the United States )(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Nasrine Gross, the U.S. representative for Negar-Support of Women of Afghanistan, is at Kabul University teaching the first womens studies course ever taught at the University. The course is offered through the sociology department and is...