Feminist Studies articles from September 1995

Feminist Studies archives from September 1995

Gendered medical science: producing a drug for women.
September 22, 1995... With the publication of The Doctor's Case against the Pill; Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers; and Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, feminist scholars and...

Can Ms. Prozac talk back? Feminism, drugs, and social constructionism.
September 22, 1995... I recently attended an interdisciplinary feminist meeting that assumed a consensus about social constructionism and criticized scholarly work that was perceived as "essentialist," because it implied a biological basis for gender attributes....

Listening to Prozac: A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self.
September 22, 1995... Peter D. Kramer. New York: Viking Penguin, 1993. I recently attended an interdisciplinary feminist meeting that assumed a consensus about social constructionism and criticized scholarly work that was perceived as "essentialist," because it...

Talking Back to Prozac: What Doctors Won't Tell You About Today's Most Controversial Drug.
September 22, 1995... Peter R. Breggin, M.D. and Ginger Ross Breggin. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. I recently attended an interdisciplinary feminist meeting that assumed a consensus about social constructionism and criticized scholarly work that was...

Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America.
September 22, 1995... Elizabeth Wurtzel. Boston and New york: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. I recently attended an interdisciplinary feminist meeting that assumed a consensus about social constructionism and criticized scholarly work that was perceived as "essentialist,"...

Four Stories: Search, A Question, A Discovery, Hope. (short story)
September 22, 1995... SEARCH "You are on our records as having adopted Pegasus. We are sorry to bring you this sad news. Pegasus was found dead just off the coast of Cape Cod in 1990." My whale died? "Only recently...

Artist's Statement. (art essay)
September 22, 1995... My work has always been autobiographical, my visual journal. It has dealt with loss and regeneration, anger, grief, and hope. Although coming from my experiences, the pieces have, I hope, universal meaning. In 1986, when I first made torsos...

Reading a woman's death: colonial text and oral tradition in nineteenth-century Ireland.
September 22, 1995... In March 1895, when a twenty-six-year-old woman called Bridget Cleary was burned to death in her own kitchen in rural Tipperary, her body was hastily buried and a story concocted to account for her disappearance. Her family and neighbors, using...

Alternatives to the missionary position: Anna Leonowens as Victorian travel writer.
September 22, 1995... The writings of Anna Harriette Leonowens, a woman of English extraction who lived and worked in Southeast Asia during the period of British imperial consolidation in the 1860s, complicate the current endeavor to understand the connections between...

Born to struggle, learning to write: an interview with Lindiwe Mabuza, poet and chief representative of the African National Congress (of South Africa) in the United States.(Interview)
September 22, 1995... [The interview excerpted here took place at the Headquarters of the African National Congress Office in Washington, D.C., on the morning of October 20, 1992. Since the time of the interview, the first all-race democratic elections has been held...

For Quincy. (poem)
September 22, 1995... Ancestors danced Waves upon waves of liquid joy The mountains caught laughter All streams bubbled back To the forests and our secret gorges Echoes of majestic chorale When every heart tightens The other's...

Story. (poem)
September 22, 1995... there is this story of the african woman you understand who just became bored with her own near perfection she had learned to stand just about anything alligators' snaps from sleep pots...

South Africa/Azania. (poem)
September 22, 1995... I have wanted to love you, wanted to have some place to love. Of you, I have wanted to ask, what is love? What is loving you? I have wanted the courage to live with you, who seem to say that living...

Gendered transitions in Eastern Europe.
September 22, 1995... It has been more than five years since the collapse of communism in Eastern and Central Europe, long enough for the optimism and excitement of the "democratic revolutions" to have been dissipated by other, far less sanguine, scenarios. The costs...

Cinderella Goes to Market: Citizenship, Gender, and Women's Movements in East Central Europe.
September 22, 1995... By Barbara Einhorn. London: Verso, 1993. It has been more than five years since the collapse of communism in Eastern and Central Europe, long enough for the optimism and excitement of the "democratic revolutions" to have been dissipated by...

Gender Politics and Post-Communism: Reflections from Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.
September 22, 1995... Edited by Nanette Funk and Magda Mueller. New York: Routledge, 1993. It has been more than five years since the collapse of communism in Eastern and Central Europe, long enough for the optimism and excitement of the "democratic revolutions" to...

Democratic Reform and the Position of Women in Transitional Economies.
September 22, 1995... Edited by Valentine Moghadam. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. It has been more than five years since the collapse of communism in Eastern and Central Europe, long enough for the optimism and excitement of the "democratic revolutions" to have...

Women in the Politics of PostCommunist Eastern Europe.
September 22, 1995... Edited by Marilyn Rueschemeyer. Armonk, N.Y., and London: M.E. Sharpe, 1994. It has been more than five years since the collapse of communism in Eastern and Central Europe, long enough for the optimism and excitement of the "democratic...

Superwomen and the Double Burden: Women's Experience of Change in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.
September 22, 1995... Edited by Chris Corrin. Toronto: Second Story Press, 1992. It has been more than five years since the collapse of communism in Eastern and Central Europe, long enough for the optimism and excitement of the "democratic revolutions" to have been...

Polish Women, Solidarity, and Feminism.
September 22, 1995... By Anna Reading. London: Macmillan, 1992. It has been more than five years since the collapse of communism in Eastern and Central Europe, long enough for the optimism and excitement of the "democratic revolutions" to have been dissipated by...

Women in Russia: A New Era in Russian Feminism.
September 22, 1995... Edited by Anastasia Posadskaya. London: Verso, 1994. It has been more than five years since the collapse of communism in Eastern and Central Europe, long enough for the optimism and excitement of the "democratic revolutions" to have been...

From stereotype to context: The study of Japanese women's speech.
September 22, 1995... Despite its vast set of rules and regulations, language is interactive; it is constantly negotiated between speech participants. Language belongs not only to the speaker but to the listener as well. And if the speaker and the listener do not...