Feminist Studies articles from March 2004

Feminist Studies archives from March 2004

Preface.(Editorial)
March 22, 2004... Feminists in the United States and beyond have always imagined themselves to be defiantly resistant, agents of transformation. Yet, precisely because feminist practices inevitably arise out of the very cultural and political modalities they...

Race, class, and sexual harassment in the 1970s.
March 22, 2004... Many have credited Catharine MacKinnon with creating the law of sexual harassment in the United States. She has been described as the "prime architect of sexual harassment jurisprudence" (1) and has been given credit for proposing and...

Man with a candle and rope.
March 22, 2004... I told my sister that I was dead once, and she took another drink of Johnny Walker Red and called me a liar. Actually, she said, "Would my dead sister like a drink? It sounds like she needs one." "No thanks," I said, "no drinks, but it's...

Draft 49: Turns and Turns, an Interpretation.(Poem)
March 22, 2004... Turns I was walking through woods spring-strewn green sodden to follow a spry, disabled woman. It's clear from the tone a dream of climbing backward on a trestle over stressed woods. History and class turn up in films as smudges on,...

Numbers game.(Poem)
March 22, 2004... Hiroshima Museum, Peace Park, 1992 The caption reads: 100,000 millibars pressure 8:15 a.m. the 6th of August, 1945 The survivor says: In the sky a huge sea slug the world turned black when I came to around me my...

Yellow ribbons.(Poem)
March 22, 2004... The Marine Corps is exploring How the Persian Gulf War and its lessons apply to future generations of American fighting men and women. L.A. Times, March 1991. Please, not on my tree I im plore our neighbors, trees down the...

Love and death.(Poem)
March 22, 2004... Two poems are sung in Israel. Everyone knows them by heart. The love poem croons: Even if a plane whisks her body away, her longing will never leave. The death poem rattles: Capture that lover, punish the spy! Up on Mount...

"I Don't Know How You Will Feel When I Get Through": Racial Difference, Woman's Rights, and Sojourner Truth.
March 22, 2004... My friends, I am rejoiced that you are glad, but I don't know how you will feel when I get through. I come from another field--the country of the slave. --Sojourner Truth, 9 May 1867, First Annual American Equal...

Reclaiming histories: Betye and Alison Saar, feminism, and the representation of black womanhood.
March 22, 2004... The feminist movement has given me more professional exposure. But I resist that now, just like I resist exhibiting in African American artists' shows. I've always worked the same way, and haven't done anything I would consider "feminist...

Mushrooms.(Poem)
March 22, 2004... My father only washed his sweater once a year and after all winter on his body it would smell like mushrooms. Cramped in the Chevy to Brooklyn my sister and I would catch whiffs of it when he raised his arms or reached an elbow out the...

Immodest witnessing: the epistemology of vaginal self-examination in the U.S. feminist self-help movement.
March 22, 2004... On April 7, 1971, abortion was still illegal in forty-four of the fifty states; Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that would override state laws and legalize first-trimester abortions nationally, was still two years away. Meanwhile,...

My mother's car.
March 22, 2004... The seniors jostle one another on the steps of the Drama Building across the black river of street. I lean against the window of the pizza place shut down for the night. Marco wraps his scarf around Marianne's neck and pretends to strangle her....

Reading the scar in breast cancer poetry.
March 22, 2004... Although AIDS has proven rich material for prominent literary and cultural critics, so far breast cancer, another threatening illness around which multiple meanings proliferate, has attracted more corporate sponsorship than scholarly interest....

Shame and the search for home.
March 22, 2004... Worse, as a lesbian, I found myself confronted with a society that seemed to see only one social issue at a time. This meant I could talk about poverty and class but not about sexuality and gender identity. I know that everything I have...

Tracey lies fetal.(Poem)
March 22, 2004... Tracey lies fetal on the mattress dragged down the hall and left just outside the nurses' station door I haven't met her yet she hasn't spoken and the scars on her round face frighten me fresh burns from a curling iron bubble open...

Survival training.(Poem)
March 22, 2004... I don't know her name never did I don't think she knew it either I called her Perky but she could have been Rachelle or Michelle or any other girl except that she wrote poetry on her body and scraps of paper she folded her heart...

The wal-mart in Tioga County.(Poem)
March 22, 2004... The checkout is a sort of Pearly Gates where desire is weighed against limitation. Behind me waits a couple that looks too old to be the parents of the small children in their care. The girl--three, maybe--wanders to where I stand,...

Our lady of Guadalupe appears to me at wal-mart.(Poem)
March 22, 2004... I'm flipping through teapot and teddy bear toss pillows, when suddenly she's there, floating before me in her fiery bubble, feet resting on the crescent moon as though it were her Universe canoe. For just a tick I think she might be...

Watching sea lions with my mother.(Poem)
March 22, 2004... Here love is a thing without hands, a matter of sleek muscle curving herself nearly in half to follow her pup on the rock. It is a nose to nose affair-- an uncoiling and a stretching of the greater toward the lesser, a matter of...

Gender and citizenship: a review of recent works.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... From Subjects to Citizens: Honor, Gender, and Politics in Arequipa, Peru, 1780-1854. By Sarah C. Chambers. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. Gendered Compromises: Political Cultures and the State in Chile,...

Happy heterogeneity? Feminism, development, and the grassroots women's movement in Peru.
March 22, 2004... Snapshot of the Comedores Populares It is five-thirty in the morning, and Marisol squints her eyes almost shut, pretending she is still in bed. The peaks of sandy mountains protrude through the low blanket of fog, but the thatch and...

First amendment rights under attack.(News and Views)
March 22, 2004... The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has issued an administrative ruling concerning the treatment of informational materials that originate in countries currently subject to U.S. trade embargo (at present Iran,...

Conferences and call for papers.(Announcements)(Calendar)
March 22, 2004... The Conference, "Racisms, Sexisms, and Contemporary Politics of Belonging/s" will be held in London, UK, 25-27 August, 2004. Contact Nira Yuval-Davis for application forms at n.yuval-davis@uel.ac.uk. The 9th International Interdisciplinary...

Events.(Announcements)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... Women's Rights History Tour, will be riding through women's history. Join a bicycle expedition, tracing significant historical sites of the Women's Rights Movement in upstate New York. This is an exploration of the history of women's efforts to...