Feminist Studies articles from March 2003

Feminist Studies archives from March 2003

Preface.
March 22, 2003... Where is a woman at home? In her body, her household, her country, her family, her marriage, her job? And what rights and responsibilities, what subjectivities and sensibilities, what protections and dangers come with being at home, between...

Come out, come out whatever you've got! or, still crazy after all these years.(sexual orientation)
March 22, 2003... When I came out as a lesbian in 1975, psychiatrists had just voted to declassify homosexuality from its status as a mental disorder.' After nearly a century of being a mental illness, homosexuality had gotten better. A miracle of modern...

An ex-charmer gone in the chest.(Poem)
March 22, 2003... an ex-charmer gone in the chest When the charming woman shows herself... the greatest wonder of all: under her tinted hair, the forest murmur becomes a thought and words issue from her breasts. Simone...

Working in a neon cage: bodily labor of cosmetics saleswomen in Taiwan.
March 22, 2003... Contemporary capitalism is characterized by its obsession with and anxiety about the body. With a never-ending expansion of commodities and services in dieting, slimming, and skin care, consumer culture encourages individuals to combat the...

Dollar Store.(Poem)
March 22, 2003... Dollar Store Since her daughter's suicide attempt she remembers bad taste with nostalgia: a lime green acrylic blanket, wooden shoes that weren't wooden but painted china salt and pepper shakers-- salt in a shoe might be lucky-or...

What I Found at the Corner of Willis and Third.(Poem)
March 22, 2003... What I Found at the Corner of Willis and Third. For truly I tell you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you bear the name of Christ will by no means lose the reward. Mark 9.41 I'm sure when Jesus said the gift of...

My sister and I: whose voice are we making?
March 22, 2003... One afternoon in the late 1970s, my sixth-grade Chinese teacher told me to go to my eldest sister's house immediately; an emergency of some sort called for my being there. My eldest sister was twelve years older than I and quite motherly to me....

Sweater, Daughter.(Poem)
March 22, 2003... Sweater, Daughter 'When I clacked it off the needles, finished, and darned its dangling strands into the hidden seams, it was gorilla big. It sleeved to my knees. I flopped in it for days. Now, no water is cold enough. I...

Photo.(Poem)
March 22, 2003... Photo Do you remember, Jessica the July day before you moved 3,000 miles away, we had stories behind our faces. A night in April, we stretched out to bless ourselves under the cold, wet stars and wished on planes,...

Subaltern cosmopolitanism: community and transnational mobility in Caribbean postcolonial feminist writings.
March 22, 2003... The question of home, and the rewriting of home and nation in the diaspora, is a fundamental topos in Puerto Rican women's writings. Writing in the context of more than a century of imperial relations, patriarchal nationalism, and circular...

Freedom.(Poem)
March 22, 2003... Freedom I ironed my anger into your clothes at 2:00 AM while your mother slept in the spare bedroom and you in ours, unaware. I ironed shirt after shirt, trouser after trouser leg, towels and sheets. I ironed your...

Dad Skins Muskrats When I Turn Six.(Poem)
March 22, 2003... Dad Skins Muskrats When I Turn Six Muskrats were full of stuff, I discovered, looking at naked faces and the shiny film under their glossy hides. Four big pelts stretched paw to paw on the basement wall. Dad could unzip rat...

Gender, race, and citizenship rights: new views of an ambivalent history.
March 22, 2003... In the grief and hysteria that followed the attacks of September 11, 2001, many Americans radically altered their views about the federal government's role in the lives of ordinary people. Waves of fear swept away what little remained of...

Evolution.(Poem)
March 22, 2003... Evolution. You take the house. You keep your paycheck; i can survive. I'll take the house. You keep your retirement. i can survive. I'll take the house. I'll take my half of your retirement; you can survive. Nancy...

"Women who have no men to work for them": gender and homelessness in the Great Depression, 1930-1934.
March 22, 2003... Drear were the streets - More dreary her reflections: Cold was the night wind, Drifting fast the snow fell: She had no home - The world was all before her: She had no shelter Channels, April 1934 In the late-twentieth...

Elly Simmons: An Appreciation.(Poem)
March 22, 2003... Elly Simmons: An Appreciation This woman, who takes things as they come, and as they come has developed from her first emergences twenty-three years ago --the same year that Ronald Reagan came to power--a powerful engagement...

Cecil Charity House, 1977, Overnight.(Poem)
March 22, 2003... Cecil Charity House, 1977, Overnight. The night breathes dry. How the curtains collect the tobacco The women thread brown, so brown in this light. Tea steeps ware, once white, Brown as old hose The night breathes dry. Tubs...

Hard choices at 1801 Vine: poor women's legal actions against men in post-World War II Philadelphia.
March 22, 2003... In a Philadelphia criminal courtroom on November i8, 1947, Judge Gay Gordon called Janice Carson, an African American woman in her early twenties, to take the stand. (1) Mrs. Carson walked to the podium to testify in an assault and battery case...

Hunger Report #117.(Poem)
March 22, 2003... Hunger Report #117 It was when he stopped the car and shouted that I could get out and walk the rest of the way home, there on Mohawk Street, which was miles away, that I started craving cream cheese. Cream cheese with bacon and...

What the Waitress Was Thinking.(Poem)
March 22, 2003... What the Waitress Was Thinking I starched this white cotton shirtwaist last night and ironed carefully around all twenty buttons. I dabbed my spongy soled waitress shoes with a chalky applicator full of polish the color of milk. ...

Six Girls without Pants.(Poem)
March 22, 2003... Six Girls without Pants There is enough to warn us. Like this one in the waiting room with its drapes pinned as two blue lids. Her head is stapled and all the fingers crushed, the nails like drupelets in a blackberry. I work...

Women's power in sex radical challenges to marriage in the early-twentieth-century United States.
March 22, 2003... "Sexuality as a term of power belongs to the empowered." --Hortense Spillers, "Interstices" The potent interaction of socialist, feminist, and antiracist radicalism converged with new conceptions of sexuality from the 1910s to the...

How to Treat a Woman.(Poem)
March 22, 2003... How to Treat a Woman hips, thighs, hindquarters grapefruits in grocery bags skin cells osteoporosis, presbyopia estrogen Snow won't fall in that crystal ball memory hair, fur, face, chin spots poundage A peep...

News and views.(Interview)
March 22, 2003... As I write this piece the U.S. military invasion of Iraq is coming to a close, massive looting is occurring throughout the country, and many fear that Syria will be the Bush administration's next military target. For many of us in the United...

Publications received.(Bibliography)
March 22, 2003... The information for annotations was provided by the publisher. Abbas, Shemeem Bumey. The Female Voice in Sufi Ritual: Devotional Practices of Pakistan and India. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. Pp. 239. $45.00. Foreword by...