Feminist Studies articles from September 1997

Feminist Studies archives from September 1997

Decency and democracy: the politics of prostitution in Ponce, Puerto Rico, 1890-1900.
September 22, 1997... The poor count among themselves many highly honorable families, but despite this, the Mayor and the Municipal Council have ordered prostitution among them. The poor have been obliged to accept prostitution as a neighbor. Prostitution now resides...

"Fair ones of a purer caste": white women and colonialism in nineteenth-century British Columbia. (Canada)
September 22, 1997... At a meeting of the Columbia Mission held at the London Tavern in 1861, Samuel Wilberforce, the Bishop of Oxford, called attention to the perilous state of a distant imperial possession, British Columbia. There, he said, "the most reckless of...

Beyond public spaces and private spheres: gender, family, and working-class politics in India.
September 22, 1997... Discourses on the family, appropriate roles of women, and the politics of sexuality remain central to the making of labor politics in the industrial arena in contemporary India. A study of everyday politics in the jute mills(1) in Calcutta...

I need to listen to what she says. (poem)
September 22, 1997... She eats a nectarine and a stream of juice falls from her chin. She is undaunted. I need to listen to her. She continues to talk about some woman years ago wheeling a baby carriage up to the railroad crossing, and how one of those balls that...

From high heels to swathed bodies: gendered meanings under production in Mexico's export-processing industry.
September 22, 1997... In recent decades, young, Third World women have emerged as transnational capital's paradigmatic workers. Managerial manifestos recast women's "natural" affinity for the home as a transferable set of skills and dispositions. These then...

HUITZILOPOCHTLI (diego y yo 1949). (poem)
September 22, 1997... (diego y yo 1949) ... y mas mentira/el amor que arde hasta el hueso/irradiandolo que no puede quemar - anonymous, "palabras masculinas" ... my game's/to live burning but not to feel the pain and not to care if he who causes this/has any...

Sexuality and politics in the early twentieth century: the case of the international women's movement.
September 22, 1997... In her autobiography, Lena Madesin Phillips, U.S. founder of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women, who lived for thirty-three years with a woman to whom she "lost her heart," reported that an Austrian colleague had once...

A queer marketplace: books on lesbian and gay consumers, workers and investors.
September 22, 1997... It doesn't look like a bad life. You graduate from college, attend a prestigious business school, and land a first job offering a compensation package worth close to $100,000. You move up the ranks in a financially and intellectually satisfying...

The Corporate Closet: The Professional Lives of Gay Men in America.
September 22, 1997... It doesn't look like a bad life. You graduate from college, attend a prestigious business school, and land a first job offering a compensation package worth close to $100,000. You move up the ranks in a financially and intellectually satisfying...

Straight Jobs/Gay Lives: Gay and Lesbian Professionals, the Harvard Business School, and the American Workplace.
September 22, 1997... It doesn't look like a bad life. You graduate from college, attend a prestigious business school, and land a first job offering a compensation package worth close to $100,000. You move up the ranks in a financially and intellectually satisfying...

Cracking the Corporate Closet.
September 22, 1997... It doesn't look like a bad life. You graduate from college, attend a prestigious business school, and land a first job offering a compensation package worth close to $100,000. You move up the ranks in a financially and intellectually satisfying...

Untold Millions: Positioning Your Business for the Gay and Lesbian Consumer Revolution.
September 22, 1997... It doesn't look like a bad life. You graduate from college, attend a prestigious business school, and land a first job offering a compensation package worth close to $100,000. You move up the ranks in a financially and intellectually satisfying...

The 100 Best Companies for Gay Men and Lesbians.
September 22, 1997... It doesn't look like a bad life. You graduate from college, attend a prestigious business school, and land a first job offering a compensation package worth close to $100,000. You move up the ranks in a financially and intellectually satisfying...

Straight Talk About Gays in the Workplace.
September 22, 1997... It doesn't look like a bad life. You graduate from college, attend a prestigious business school, and land a first job offering a compensation package worth close to $100,000. You move up the ranks in a financially and intellectually satisfying...

Gay Issues in the Workplace.
September 22, 1997... It doesn't look like a bad life. You graduate from college, attend a prestigious business school, and land a first job offering a compensation package worth close to $100,000. You move up the ranks in a financially and intellectually satisfying...

Artist's statement: confessions of a realist.
September 22, 1997... As I write this essay, I occasionally glance across the room at the nine-by-six-foot bookcase I built a few years ago to house all my books on feminism, gender and cultural theory, and visual culture. I've approached this material haunted by...

Skinny women and good mothers: the rhetoric of risk, control, and culpability in the production of knowledge about breast cancer.
September 22, 1997... The past few years have witnessed an explosive proliferation of information about breast cancer in the popular media. Part of this increased visibility stems from the growing awareness of the number of women affected by this disease - the...