Feminist Studies articles from September 1996

Feminist Studies archives from September 1996

What are Chinese women faced with after Beijing? (holding of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Sep. 1995 in Beijing)
September 22, 1996... The United Nations Fourth World Congress on Women has had a great impact on the Chinese women's movement. NGOs, Non-Governmental Organizations, were quite a new idea in China before the preparations for the World Conference on Women started....

When girls grow up they have to get married.... (inequalities between men and women)
September 22, 1996... When I was just starting to grow up, my mother, too busy at work, took me to stay with my grandparents in Shanghai. I lived with them and a grandaunt who had remained single all her life. Naturally, these two older women shouldered the...

The women of China are taking action.
September 22, 1996... Early in October 1994, autumn had arrived in Beijing. The sky was clear and the air crisp. What pleasant weather. One day, I went to work as usual. We had a very heavy work load, as the UN Fourth World Conference on Women was going to be held...

Enlightenment. (non-governmental organization fora)
September 22, 1996... What is an NGO Forum? How is it organized? When I first started preparatory activities for the NGO Forum on Women and the Environment for the Fourth World Conference on Women, I felt both curious and ignorant. After I had read materials and...

'Our Bodies, Ourselves' in Beijing: breaking the silences.
September 22, 1996... Last September, at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing, China, women from many different countries met to share their experiences, their visions for the future, and their demands for a present that will pave the...

Some reflections on U.S. women of color and the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women and NGO Forum in Beijing, China.
September 22, 1996... Over a year has passed since 40,000 women gathered at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. A watershed event in the history of global women's movements, Beijing had an important impact on women's movements in the United...

In search of a new economic order: women's agenda for the next millenium.
September 22, 1996... Economic issues have become an important part of the agenda of women's organizations and feminist study worldwide. At the Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) Forum of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Huairou, China, many...

Women as sherpas: are global summits useful for women? (excerpt from a talk at the 1996 International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women)
September 22, 1996... Since 1990 the United Nations has organized seven major global forums on a variety of issues: the World Summit for Children held in New York in 1990; the Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992; the Second World...

The fortune-teller. (poem)
September 22, 1996... When the old man and his crow picked the long folded parchment to tell my fortune at five, they never told about leaving, the burning tarmac and giant wheels. Or arriving-why immigrants fear the malice of citizens and dull shutterings of those...

"Big companies don't hire us, married women": exploitation and empowerment among women workers in South Korea.
September 22, 1996... "LET'S WRAP UP THE COMPANY PRESIDENT AND EXPORT HIM" Workers at Soyo Enterprise in Masan, South Korea,(1) arrived at their factory on the morning of August 24, 1987, to find that they were locked out. A poster hanging on the door announced that...

"Bad women": Asian American visual artists Hanh Thi Pham, Hung Liu, and Yong Soon Min.
September 22, 1996... Names. Names imposed by slaveowners and immigration officials who could not and would not pronounce a person's given name. Names changed or adopted for use in a new land. Names taken on as part of an effort to forge a new self, a new life....

The problem of silence in feminist psychology.
September 22, 1996... This article reassesses the meaning of silence and voice in feminist psychologies of women. Just as "voice" has been seen by some feminist writers - most notably Carol Gilligan - as central to women's experience and exercise of power, I suggest...

"Auctoritee" and "experience": feminist epistemology and the assessment of experiential learning.
September 22, 1996... Experience, though noon auctoritee Were in this world, is right ynough for me To speke. - Wife of Bath's Prologue, Chaucer Out of the academy and into the world with Carolyn Heilbrun - Conference flier AN EXPERIENTIAL INTRODUCTION In...

A document of roses. (poem)
September 22, 1996... "Embroidery consists in remembering." - Gertrude Stein THE BRIDE TO BE I want to hold Anna the way branches hold fresh fallen snow, lending their form to the whirling white while the strokes of white along the limbs illuminate the trees...

"From a World Beyond": women in the Holocaust.
September 22, 1996... Millions of pages in dozens of languages have described, reported, and analyzed the twelve years that comprise the Nazi period. Far fewer pages document the experiences of women than of men. The handful of women's survivor memoirs published in...