Feminist Studies articles from September 1994

Feminist Studies archives from September 1994

Feminist misogyny: Mary Wollstonecraft and the paradox of "it takes one to know one."
September 22, 1994... In a self-reflexive essay representative of current feminist thinking, Ann Snitow recalls a memory of the early seventies, a moment when a friend "sympathetic to the [women's] movement but not active [in it] asked what motivated" Snitow's fervor....

Women and power in eighteenth-century France: actresses at the Comedie-Francaise.
September 22, 1994... 21. I am in the process of gathering data on the social origins of actresses based, in part, on the dossiers at the Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal. Much of the information is anecdotal in nature and is impossible to verify. Useful published sources of...

The feminization of madness in visual representation.
September 22, 1994... Recent studies have argued that in nineteenth-century England and France, madness was constructed as a "female malady."(1) By the 1850s, when asylum statistics first confirmed the perception that female inmates were likely to outnumber their male...

Authority and the public display of identity: 'Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands.'
September 22, 1994... Only twenty-four years after the "official" abolition of slavery in the British West Indies, Mary Seacole, "the yellow woman from Jamaica with the cholera medicine,"(1) published Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands. This engaging...

Bathroom Graffiti Series. (poem)
September 22, 1994... I when i send my daughter to college i will tell her to make her first stop the restroom to inscribe all her important thoughts and questions on the walls of the cubicle visit it daily making sure to follow the advise etched under her...

Letter from Laura Cereta: Brescia, 1488. (poem)
September 22, 1994... I sit by my father's sickbed, wringing out cloths in cool water No more useful than my younger sisters, as he is too sick to be read to Tonight he waved away Homer, though I'd been hoping to practice my Greek Later on a burst of hurdy-gurdy music...

Telling It: Women and Language Across Cultures: The Transformation of a Conference.
September 22, 1994... "Research does not do much for us. While we are still living, people like myself are the people with the stories. We are the people with experience. We are the people with the natural skills because the world and everything in it has a story for...

Feminism and Disability.
September 22, 1994... One of contemporary feminism's most significant academic contributions is its mandate to consider gender as a category of difference in all scholarly analyses. Recognizing that gender difference affects all inquiry has, in turn, obliged feminists...