Feminist Studies articles from March 2007

Feminist Studies archives from March 2007

Preface.
March 22, 2007... GLOBAL FEMINISM IS NOT MERELY expanding feminist knowledge, it is altering feminist theories and reshaping what feminism means around the world. This issue of Feminist Studies illustrates the new global scholarship on women and gender, with...

Ser y tener: black women's activism, development, and ethnicity in the Pacific Lowlands of Colombia.
March 22, 2007... From the window of the CoopMujeres office, I had a clear view of the Guapi River that gave the town its name. In the middle of the river, men were punting long rafts of logs (hand-hewn with axes, lashed together with vines) to be sold...

Considering Words.(Poem)(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... When I yelled into the house a simple question about how to spell a certain word, faster than I could predict, she came out to check what I was up to. Simply a letter, written in thick lead pencil, to my father, to forgive us for being...

Mockingbird.(Poem)(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... He bought me dinner and this impressed my mother. She is a simple woman and I want to take in her hope that a total stranger can be reasonable while I sit outside for the first time in winter. The sky is clear and red berries hang...

Self-Portrait with Red Bird.(Poem)(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... An immaculate old woman stands at the mirror of the cafe bathroom, holding her heart in place as if it were making its final escape. She drops her hands to reveal a thin wound of raspberry sauce down her white shirt. She stares at herself...

Transnational feminisms in a globalized world: challenges, analysis, and resistance.(books on feminism)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Global Women's Movement: Origins, Issues, and Strategies. By Peggy Antrobus. London: Zed Books, 2004. Women, Development, and the U.N.: A Sixty-Year Quest for Equality and Justice. By Devaki Jain. Bloomington: Indiana University Press,...

Ferminist visions for women in a New Era: an interview with Peggy Antrobus.(Interview)
March 22, 2007... Epiphany In a land of shadows Herring-boned with memory, The great stone-bird mother Sweet-balmed with honey Drops her daughters From her open beak --Like pebbles Pebbles of blood and stone; The cyclamen girl returns To her own...

Ella Tulin: Fully Empowered.
March 22, 2007... "ELLA TULIN SCULPTOR-CELEBRATED FEMINIST" reads the headline of her obituary in the Washington Post, February 3, 2006, asserting in its first paragraph that "Tulin's art underscores the strength, beauty, and power of women." Tulin's daughter,...

Women in the Oaxaca teachers' strike and citizens' uprising.
March 22, 2007... Padhiushi, ravatu, inelu utute yesii loo yuu caa veene (Greetings! We ask that you speak on our behalf throughout the world.) ALL OVER MEXICO, the great majority of people suffer the obscenity of poverty. It is where indigenous cultures...

Attacking the Washington "femmocracy": antifeminism in the cold war campaign against "Communists in government".(Essay)
March 22, 2007... IN 1951, TWO HEARST TABLOID journalists published Washington Confidential, a racy, sensationalistic account of life in the nation's capital that within weeks topped the New York Times bestseller list. The authors portrayed the home of the...

Considering Her Answer to a Letter Sent by Emigrant, Addressed Catherine Sager, Somewhere in Oregon, Catherine Sager Pringle, Age 19, December 21, 1854, Salem, O.T.(Poem)
March 22, 2007... Uncle, the feathery leaves of the news of you --posted last year--sit in my lap like a tropical bird. Herein I enclose a lock of my hair, a lock from each of my three remaining sisters. Uncle, have we cousins? When and where were...

The Gift of Granny Wintersteen, New Harmony, Kansas 1869.(Poem)
March 22, 2007... No matter what finery she's married in, my instructions--how to put it to good use-- the same. That gown, a wealth of fabric, lace, buttons, baleen--even the hem thread can be reused, hand-stitching the first layette: little vests made...

On the Second Through Train, Sarah Ann Givens Recalls Her Honeymoon, May 10. 1869.(Poem)
March 22, 2007... According to family lore Father came to Indiana to attend a friend's wedding, and seeing a girl descend the stairs twined in a crocheted shawl blue as the wisteria veiling grandmother's veranda, he said, that's the one--my mother,...

Permission to rebel: Arab Bedouin women's changing negotiation of social roles.
March 22, 2007... MOST STUDIES ANALYZING the Bedouin women of the Negev in Israel describe this population as marginalized and powerless, blaming the traditional nature of Bedouin society. (1) This body of literature describes the Bedouin woman as a victim...

Scholarly autobiography: an alternative intellectual practice.(Essay)
March 22, 2007... OVER THE LAST FIFTEEN YEARS, in fields ranging from English studies to anthropology to law, approaches to writing that incorporate autobiography and personal narrative are being used by scholars not simply as means for meditating on lived...

Simone de Beauvoir and lesbian lived experience.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... There is a large family of things we know and need to know about ourselves and each other with which we have, as far as I can see, so far created for ourselves almost no theoretical room to deal. --Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the...

Feminist Studies Award winner.(announcements)(Rebecca Scott )(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... Rebecca Scott is the winner of the 2006 Feminist Studies Award for her article, "Dependent Masculinity and Political Culture in Pro-Mountaintop Removal Discourse," which will be published in the Fall 2007 issue of Feminist Studies. The article...

Other Academic Awards.(announcements)
March 22, 2007... Announcing three prizes to be given by the Women's Caucus of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies: the Catherine Macaulay Prize for the best graduate student paper on a feminist or women's studies subject presented at ASECS or...

Publications received.
March 22, 2007... The information for annotations was provided by the publisher. Accampo, Elinor. Blessed Motherhood, Bitter Fruit: Nelly Roussel and the Politics of Female Pain in Third Republic France. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006....