Feminist Studies articles from March 2006

Feminist Studies archives from March 2006

Preface.
March 22, 2006... THIS ISSUE OF Feminist Studies focuses on sexuality, both in its heightened visibility and its effacement, in local and global contexts. In our first article, Debra B. Bergoffen uses the February 22, 2001, International Criminal Tribunal for...

From genocide to justice: women's bodies as a legal writing pad.
March 22, 2006... ON FEBRUARY 22, 2001, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) convicted three Bosnian Serb soldiers, Dragolijub Kunarac, Radomir Kovac, and Zoran Vukovic, of crimes against humanity. Their offense? The rape and...

Afraid to say.(Short story)
March 22, 2006... TOWARD THE END of my junior year at Boulder High School, I bought a stern dining room chair that barely rested on all four legs. Its last owner had painted it soothingly blue, I suppose to give it an air of comfort. I kept it pushed into a...

Kahlo's world split open.(Frida Kahlo)
March 22, 2006... What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open. --Muriel Rukeyser, "Kathe Kollwitz" Mine was a strange world Of criminal silences Of strangers' watchful eyes Misreading the evil. --Frida...

Two Coins.(Poem)
March 22, 2006... I heard my heart whisper, Adjust, adjust, when I moved out to San Francisco Bay, and there was nothing left for me to trust nor money left to spend. I caught a bus, two coins to get me to the Golden Gate. I heard my heart whisper,...

A Song My Mother Sang to Me.(Poem)
March 22, 2006... The last time I crept into the forest behind our house was the cold morning we moved to Tampa, toward the sun, toward catalysts: hot rods, girls slipping into bikinis. I wanted something small to take with me: a fist of wet soil or two...

Envy.(Poem)
March 22, 2006... Being a twin yourself, you recall the worst part was adolescence: the competitions for love, like your Homecoming Queen win, or my halo when I sang solos in church. You were Cinderella, and I, the first to know: when you sang off-key...

Spike Heels.(Poem)
March 22, 2006... In the fifties I wore spike heels. They were very high, but I was thin then and young and I didn't wobble in them. Instead I walked through hours of my job, my high heels as sparkly as Dorothy's red slippers, high heels with pointy toes,...

At Eleven, My Granddaughter Loves to Read.(Poem)
March 22, 2006... At eleven, my granddaughter loves to read her long, narrow body stretched out on her sofa. a book in her hands. She reads for hours. She takes her hand and gracefully lifts back her thick honey-blonde hair, tucks it behind her ear...

Arab American femininities: beyond Arab virgin/American(ized) whore.
March 22, 2006... It was a typical weeknight at my parents' home. My father was asleep since he wakes up at 4:00 a.m. to open his convenience store in downtown San Francisco. I joined my mother on the couch and we searched for something interesting...

The Seafarer.(Short story)
March 22, 2006... SHE WAS THE KIND OF GIRL who'd invite her mother to watch the sunset, but her mother worked, thanklessly, as a file clerk for the police department, each morning tucking herself into a tight uniform with a belt and, for some reason, a silver...

"Woman Saved from Salad Spinner" (headline never seen in a newspaper).(Poem)
March 22, 2006... I went to see Cold Mountain with my husband. I love going to the movies with Jim. My daughter had a commitment hearing two weeks ago. She said I could come if I wanted. Jim holds my left knee with his right hand during...

Scars.(Poem)
March 22, 2006... the heat radiator set in the floor Mother said don't run don't run, you'll fall and hurt yourself healed in a crisscross scar the burn crossed over her left arm the pain crisscrossed her mind her eyes crossed she wore metal-...

Pornographic voice: critical feminist practices among Sri Lanka's female garment workers.
March 22, 2006... ON A HOT DAY IN February 2000, a tired Dabindu activist blurted out, "It is no use trying to sell important papers to these women. They wouldn't buy our paper for Rs. 2.00 but they gladly pay Rs. 20.00 to buy those filthy, senseless papers such...

A new entity in the history of sexuality: the respectable same-sex couple.
March 22, 2006... In The History of Sexuality: Volume I, Michel Foucault argued that "homosexuality" is a relatively recent invention, distinct from earlier forms of same-sex love and lust. "Homosexuality" could only emerge when European scientific knowledges...

What's sex got to do with it: gender and the new Black freedom movement scholarship.
March 22, 2006... MOST AMERICANS REMAIN STEEPED in a sanitized version of the Black freedom movement, more popularly (and somewhat erroneously) known as the civil rights movement. In this romanticized, triumphalist narrative, a southern Black preacher named...

The Privet Hedge.(Poem)
March 22, 2006... She takes her pruning shears newly bought from Lowes and stares at the hedge that marks the limits of the small front yard. But where to begin? The top, she decides, make that level. So, carefully she trims the wayward stalks,...

Labouring Feminism and Feminist Working-Class History in North America and Beyond.
March 22, 2006... From 29 Sept. to 2 Oct. 2005, a group of laboring feminists and their allies gathered at the University of Toronto's Munk Centre for International Studies to take part in the conference "Labouring Feminism and Feminist Working-Class History in...

Feminist Studies Award winner.(Judy Rohrer )
March 22, 2006... Judy Rohrer is the winner of the 2005 Feminist Studies Award for her article, "Toward a Full-Inclusion Feminism: A Feminist Deployment of Disability Analysis," which was published in the Spring 2005 issue of Feminist Studies. Rohrer's article...

Conference.(announcements)
March 22, 2006... In the 1970s, they said we couldn't be both feminists and Christians. In the 1980s, they said we shouldn't welcome LGBT people as biblical feminists. In the 1990s, they said our Christian egalitarian movement wouldn't survive a new generation....

Publications received.
March 22, 2006... The information for annotations was provided by the publisher. Ackland, Michael. Henry Handel Richardson: A Life. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 326. $75.00. The first complete biography of Richardson (1870-1946), the...