Feminist Studies articles from September 1998

Feminist Studies archives from September 1998

Sex before gender: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the evolutionary paradigm of utopia.
September 22, 1998... In a 1989 article published in Australian Feminist Studies, Anne Edwards suggests that feminists need to "find new ways of conceptualising sexual difference, that would avoid repeating the logical and philosophical mistakes of previous modes of...

True transgressions: refusal and recolonization in the narrative of a Papuan migrant `bighead.'.
September 22, 1998... Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. - C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination, 1959 As C. Wright Mills has written, to make sense of an individual life it...

Disciplined subjects and docile bodies in the work of contemporary artist Jana Sterbak.
September 22, 1998... The human body pervades the work of contemporary Czech/Canadian artist Jana Sterbak. It asserts its presence even when physically absent. Sterbak explores how individual subjectivity is constructed in and through the body, in and through those...

The mom of my dreams.
September 22, 1998... Trained to see ourselves as objects and to be positioned as the Other, estranged to ourselves, we have a story that by definition cannot be self-present to us, a stow that, in other words, is not a story, but must become a story. -...

Vow.(poem)
September 22, 1998... Mothers You gave what You got. I shall not Honey Hush daughters God-privilege sons You gave What you got Fathers. I shall not Rachel Bagby is a poet, vocalist, composer and essayist whose works about relationships between nature...

White guys.(includes bibliography)
September 22, 1998... "We, as feminists, need your work." - Lisa Jardine, Men in Feminism, 1987. TERRITORY AHEAD In 1991 my colleague Judith Stacey and I began a study of progressive, academic men,(1) some of whom were in the reading audience which...

In search of black men's masculinities.(includes bibliography)
September 22, 1998... Everywhere we turn, we see images of Black men. With a visibility far greater than their actual numbers in the national population, Black men's images-to borrow a phrase from Virginia Woolf-have become a fantastical mirror with the capacity to...

Violent love: hunting, heterosexuality, and the erotics of men's predation.
September 22, 1998... "It will require a courageous grasp of the politics and economics, as well as the cultural propaganda, of heterosexuality to carry us beyond individual cases or diversified group situations into the complex kind of overview needed to undo the...

What she thinks about when she thinks about love.(short story)
September 22, 1998... It's a Saturday afternoon and she's sitting on her bed waiting for her father to leave. She's waiting for him to get up from his chair, to go to the hall closet and put on his coat. She's waiting for the front door to close or to bang shut. She...

Passing fashions: reading female masculinities in the 1920s.
September 22, 1998... In March of 1929, just three months after the banning of The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall, a woman many of us assume to be the supreme embodiment of female masculinity, complained to her literary agent about one Colonel Victor Barker,...