Feminist Studies articles from March 2008

Feminist Studies archives from March 2008

Art.
March 22, 2008... Favianna Rodriguez, "Xicana Power," 1999. Postcard design. Designed for the Xicana Moratorium Coalition. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Preface.(Editorial)
March 22, 2008... FEMINIST STUDIES IS PROUD TO PRESENT its first double issue in over three decades of publication with this volume devoted to contemporary Chicana studies. The essays in this issue mark significant new developments in Chicana studies and in...

"Ongoing missionary labor": building, maintaining, and expanding Chicana studies/history: an interview with Vicki L. Ruiz.(Interview)
March 22, 2008... Vicki L. Ruiz is the dean of the School of Humanities and a professor of Chicano/Latino studies and history at the University of California, Irvine. Ruiz is one of the most prolific scholars of and fiercest advocates for Chicana/Latina studies...

The Jane season.(Poem)(Brief article)
March 22, 2008... Jane Russell shimmering in a yellow pantsuit. Bud of spring on State Street, sweeter than all the town's April gardens. Jane Jane Jane Russell, senior citizen of the squared shoulders and easy gait, swinging her hair in the...

The wedding feast.(Poem)(Brief article)
March 22, 2008... She went down to the radio station Where Juan Portillo's scented hands held the microphone too close to her lips. She cleared her throat and invited everyone in town. There wasn't enough grilled steak, and when the beer ran out...

The apricot tree.(Poem)(Brief article)
March 22, 2008... In January the apricot tree is a cloud of splinters she is drawn to, pushing her wheelchair under the branches to have a smoke. This morning the sky is brittle, like a letter unfolded from a shoe box. I drag the lawn chair over the...

Supermarket.(Poem)(Brief article)
March 22, 2008... An old man collapses against a display- of what, potato chips? The smell of it ripples through the crowd at the checkout stands. A woman turns and quotes to her husband the old man's last plea. And the woman behind the...

Art.(Poster)
March 22, 2008... Favianna Rodriguez, "Decolonizing Creativity," February 2008. Color poster. This poster was a commissioned for the 23rd Annual Empowering Women of Color Conference, which took place on Saturday, March 8, 2008. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

"I'm a citizen of the universe": Gloria Anzaldua's spiritual activism as catalyst for social change.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... With awe and wonder you look around, recognizing the preciousness of the earth, the sanctity of every human being on the planet, the ultimate unity and interdependence of all beings-somos todos un pais. Love swells in your chest and shoots out...

Resistance.(Poem)(Brief article)
March 22, 2008... Your hands were private, Tia, veined rivers whose blue mysteries I stroked and stroked, in another time, in another place. Easter streets lined with ornamental pears, exuberantly wear the bride gleam you resisted. In this...

The best-loved bones: spirit and history in Anzaldua's "Entering into the Serpent".(Gloria Anzaldua)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... IN THE FOREWORD to the second edition of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Gloria Anzaldua exhorts her readers to make the world "luminosa y activa," luminous and active, through their own activity--and yet--she...

Goddess of the Americas in the decolonial imaginary: beyond the virtuous virgen/pagan puta dichotomy.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... THE VIRGIN/WHORE DICHOTOMY, largely represented in the Americas by La Virgen de Guadalupe as spiritually pure mother and La Malinche as physically defiled concubine, is a foundational theme in Chicana feminist thought, along with this...

La Llorona considers the state of tortillas.(Poem)(Brief article)
March 22, 2008... She knows they sell them in neat packages Cellophaned and counted. They come in whole wheat, yellow, or white corn, Even red tinted and crisp ready for tostadas or chalupas Too easy it seems to her for the truth to be told She...

Icons of love and devotion: Alma Lopez's art.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... KNOWN FOR HER STUNNING digital montages as well as for her feminist reconceptualization of traditional Mexican iconography, Chicana artist Alma Lopez has emerged as one of the leading voices in the Chicana/o art scene who addresses the perilous...

Sin Verguenza: Chicana feminist theorizing.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... MY FIRST ATTEMPT TO PUBLISH in an academic journal healed a deep and painful wound I had received during my graduate training. In the classic, social science convention, I was taught to write with so-called objectivity or distance and to...

Art.(Poster)
March 22, 2008... Favianna Rodriguez. "The Women of Juarez Demand Justice," July 2004. Offset poster. This poster was developed as part of an organizing delegation that traveled to Juarez, Mexico, in July 2004. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Borderland bolerista: the licentious lyricism of Chelo Silva.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... IN MEXICO AND THE U.S. -MEXICO borderlands in the mid-1950s, Chelo Silva was everywhere. Her boleros circulated in jukeboxes and along radio waves throughout greater Mexico, marking the emergence of a new and significant bolerista (bolero...

Art.(Poster)
March 22, 2008... Favianna Rodriguez, "We Resist Colonization," April 2003. Offset poster. This poster was developed for INCITE, Women of Color Against Violence, to highlight that war and colonial violence impact women disproportionately, leading to...

The fiction of solidarity: transfronterista feminisms and anti-imperialist struggles in Central American transnational narratives.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... IN THE 1980S AND 1990S, Chicana/Latina feminist cultural activists who were critical of U.S. intervention and imperialism in Central America engaged in the production of what I have called "solidarity fictions," or "fictions of solidarity."...

Landscape of a marriage.(Poem)(Brief article)
March 22, 2008... Each night they watch the war missiles floating like christmas angels, buildings cracking open like sweet melons and skinny dogs wandering the streets like flies He tells her he knows how to end it all He knows how to fix things...

"They are testing you all the time": negotiating dual femininities among Chicana attorneys.(Report)
March 22, 2008... "I think they always want to see if you really are a lawyer... they are testing you all the time." --Yvette Garcia A SMALL BUT GROWING NUMBER of Chicanas are entering highly prestigious and male-dominated legal professions. This...

Babies under the house.(Poem)(Brief article)
March 22, 2008... When you open your eyes again, Sariyah, this'll just be one of those things--like rice and bean tacos every night, having to go to the free clinic, buying gas with food stamps at Ben's Ice House at the corner of Pleasanton and...

Babies under the skin.(Poem)(Brief article)
March 22, 2008... Like numbness, biting and immobilizing you come constant, with no explanation, no where else to be. I am your mother. You do not burst metamorphic, or come fast from a man I love. You do not swell ...

Remembering las cartoneras.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... DURING THE LAST YEAR of the twentieth century, it seemed that people everywhere were making plans to travel to a place that was meaningful to them--a place that would ground them on the planet, heighten their sense of being, make them feel...

Art.(Poster)
March 22, 2008... Favianna Rodriguez, "Legalizaiton Now!" April 2006. Offset poster. Translation: "We are here and we won't leave! And if they throw us out, we'll just come back!" This poster, which was printed in a run of 5,000 and distributed free to the...

Sophia's choice problems faced by female asylum-seekers and their U.S.-citizen children.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... THE UNITED STATES IS A BEACON of hope for many who seek refuge from persecution in their home countries. As the plaque on the Statue of Liberty reads, "Give me your tired, your poor, / your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free, / the...

Chopper! Chopper!(Poem)
March 22, 2008... A yellow stream of light entered the cracked cortinas waking Xochitl up Outside her window behind her bunk bed she could hear the Saturday morning ritual "Pop, pop, pop" breaking open the silence like a hand slapping, punching the air...

Red light, green light.(Poem)(Brief article)
March 22, 2008... Night in the valley softens edges. Heat and tempers cool, noises fade. One by one, we drift from living rooms and bedrooms to our front yards. Helen and Jack; Satch, Shorty, PeeWee; me and my two brothers. Sometimes we huddle at the...

Still life with killdeers.(Poem)(Brief article)
March 22, 2008... Startled, a killdeer rises, its call a chuckle, a ripped chord. The tide rides high tonight, sea snails dribbling past sprinklers. None of us belongs here or we all belong. Pre-dawn, parents enter the lettuce, the strawberry, the...

Mobilizing motherhood (and fatherhood): civic empowerment in the quake zones of China.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... A POWERFUL FRONT-PAGE PHOTOGRAPH in the New York Times pictured Jiang Guohua, a Communist Party secretary in Mianzhun, kneeling before two angry mothers. With his arms outstretched and eyes gazing deferentially downward, Jiang was caught in an...

A women's history report card on Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential primary campaign, 2008.
March 22, 2008... HOW CAN WE BEST PLACE Hillary Clinton's primary campaign in historical perspective--what were its precedents and what might unfold from it (1)? Of course it's impossible to speak about her candidacy without also thinking about Barack...

News and Views.(Daisy Hernandez)(Interview)
March 22, 2008... In our News and Views section, Feminist Studies has been bringing to the attention of our readers a variety of activist feminist publications and organizations. For this issue, Karla Mantilla, Feminist Studies' managing editor, interviewed...

News and Views.(Interview)
March 22, 2008... Iranian feminist activist, Jelve Javaheri, was interviewed by Nahid Keshavarz in October 2007. On December 1, 2007, Javaheri was imprisoned; in order to publicize her arrest, Mahsa Shekarloo translated the interview into English and posted it...

Publications received.
March 22, 2008... The information for annotations was provided by the. publisher. Alaimo, Stacy, and Susan Heckman, eds. Material Feminisms. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008, Pp. 448. Paper $24.95. Chapters by Alaimo, Karen Berad, Susan Bordo,...