Feminist Studies articles from March 2005

Feminist Studies archives from March 2005

Preface.(Editorial)
March 22, 2005... In this issue of Feminist Studies we offer our readers essays, commentaries, and creative writing that speak to the concept of alterity, the challenges of living/being in (but sometimes not necessarily of) the system, whether in terms of...

What her body taught (or, teaching about and with a disability): a conversation.
March 22, 2005... COMING INTO THE CLASSROOM Georgina: Part of what our bodies teach in the classroom has to do with role modeling. Both students with disabilities and students without disabilities see a person with a disability in a position of authority,...

Toward a full-inclusion feminism: a feminist deployment of disability analysis.
March 22, 2005... Hidden and disregarded for too long, we are demanding not only rights and equal opportunity but are demanding that the academy take on the nettlesome question of why we've been sequestered in the first place. For, in...

Miss Indian America: regulatory gazes and the politics of affiliation.
March 22, 2005... THROUGHOUT ITS EXISTENCE, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) has turned to photography to document interactions between Native Americans and the federal government. By the mid-twentieth century, BIA publicity photographs were using visual...

Contemporary Native American women artists: visual expressions of feminism, the environment, and identity.
March 22, 2005... CENTURIES BEFORE EUROPEAN COLONIZERS ARRIVED on Turtle Island, Native American women were producing art in the form of basketry, pottery, quillwork, weaving, and leather painting. For Native Americans, art, beauty, and spirituality are...

Spectrography.
March 22, 2005... IN GRANDMA'S ANCIENT PHOTO ALBUM, what fun, how spooky, all the aged or passed-on relatives rejuvenated, resurrected, as Grandma, a necromancer, turns pages, into young blades, shimmery misses, spritish children, ghost babies... and, gyrating...

Native American feminism, sovereignty, and social change.
March 22, 2005... WHEN I WORKED as a rape crisis counselor, every Native client I saw said to me at one point, "I wish I wasn't Indian." My training in the mainstream antiviolence movement did not prepare me to address what I was seeing--that sexual violence in...

Asleep.(poem)(Poem)
March 22, 2005... She grows closer to the animal now, to Pity our dog who refused the climb up to our deck until we tore the steps down as if she could smell the damp, soft rot inside the wood. Perhaps, even in her sleep, mother can detect a whiff on...

Rediscovering Christianity after the postmodern turn.
March 22, 2005... A REFORMATION APPEARS TO BE underway in feminist history circles. After decades of both benign and hostile neglect, feminist historians have rediscovered Christianity as an important site in the historical construction of gender. The growing...

Word Problems.(poem)(Poem)
March 22, 2005... The heat of father's flanneled knee against my own obsesses me, and how his callused fingers look pressing against the opened book. "Listen," he says, and reads as one might read aloud to a simpleton: "A speeding train...

A feminist public sphere? Virginia Woolf's revisions of the eighteenth century.
March 22, 2005... SINCE THE HISTORICIST TURN IN SCHOLARSHIP on modernism, critics have focused on the ways that modernist writers marketed themselves. The modernist writers who expressed disdain for mass culture have been shown to have used and depended on the...

The Visit.(poem)(Poem)
March 22, 2005... The neighbor boy forces him into a patch of bracken behind the garage. One hand plunges under the waistband of his jeans as the other grips his neck, lifts, and he wakes. He wakes, summoning the scene again and again. And he can...

Moments Lifted.(poem)(Poem)
March 22, 2005... The child on the Upper West Side has your hair, my freckled skin. I see him standing there on the wrong sidewalk his hand gripped by the wrong father as they disappear into the lower deck of a parking garage. And I, paralyzed...

Ride the Peter Pan.(Short Story)
March 22, 2005... THERE WERE TIMES when it seemed like all the beauty was sucked out of my life. This was one of them. It was cold and damp, early spring, and I was Greyhounding from my old life to my new, from North to South. I was 24, master degreed, unwed,...

No. 25 from "Winter Dreams" (Dirge).(poem)(Poem)
March 22, 2005... ... death and the finite world are perpetually disrupted--they disrupt themselves--with creativity --Lyn Hejinian, The Fatalist We watch war movies I dream of men fighting we watch war movies we are in a time of war we watch war...

News and views.(Interview)
March 22, 2005... BY THE TIME THIS ISSUE goes to press we will have just observed the second anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Given the timing, we thought it would be fitting to run a follow-up interview with one of the most exciting peace and social...

Feminist Studies Award winner.(announcements)(Basia A. Nowak)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2005... Basia A. Nowak is the winner of the 2004 Feminist Studies Award for her article, "Constant Conversations: Agitators in the League of Women in Poland during the Stalinist Period." Her article provides a thoughtful historical analysis of how,...

Resources.(announcements)(Association for the Study of Black Women in Politics)
March 22, 2005... The Association for the Study of Black Women in Politics (ASBWP) announces its formation. What is the ASBWP? The Association for the Study of Black Women in Politics is an organization designed to complement existing professional political...

Publications received.
March 22, 2005... The information for annotations was provided by the publisher. Abbas, Ackbar, and John Nguyet Erni, eds. Internationalizing Cultural Studies: An Anthology. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2005. Pp. 685. Paper $39.95. Abu-Lughod, Lila. Dramas...