Feminist Studies articles from September 1999

Feminist Studies archives from September 1999

PREFACE.
September 22, 1999... A division between public and private spheres, with women confined to the latter and men freely dominating the former, is a Victorian myth that feminists have analyzed as well as debunked. This issue of Feminist Studies, focusing on "Activists...

THE "SAVAGELY FATHERED AND UN-MOTHERED WORLD" OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY, U.S.A.: FEMINISM, MATERNALISM, AND "MOTHER BLOOR".
September 22, 1999... Thanking her friend and Communist Party coworker Grace Hutchins for a Mother's Day card sent during the Second World War, Ella Reeve Bloor wrote, "Mother's Day bro't me many letters from my soldier boys some I know well. 3 of them Grandsons....

THE SELFLESS AND THE HELPLESS: MATERNALIST ORIGINS OF THE U.S. WELFARE STATE.
September 22, 1999... The origins of the American welfare state are commonly traced to the Great Depression of the 1930s and the New Deal initiatives of the Roosevelt administration. In recent years, however, a growing number of women's historians have argued that...

Monument Near Luzy.(Poem)
September 22, 1999... "... the world at last a meadow...." The Dancing, Gerald Stern Dark and close, the lower path sweats like a bog after rain. Finches slip between verbena and new green pine. There is no marker. Only camp and a dim...

NATIONAL POLITICS/LOCAL IDENTITIES: ABORTION RIGHTS ACTIVISM IN POST-WALL BERLIN.
September 22, 1999... In March 1990, just a few months after the collapse of the East German state and the opening of the Berlin Wall, the conservative Christian Democratic Party (CDU) headed by Chancellor Helmut Kohl won a resounding electoral victory in East...

ORGANIZING FOR CHANGE: WOMEN'S GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM IN JAPAN.
September 22, 1999... Onna no Nettowakingu--women's networking--in a society where gender is coded in myriad ways inspires an image of mutual help, survival, companionship, and defiance; it promises change at the same time it reinforces gender divisions. Gauging the...

RUTH STONE.(Poem)
September 22, 1999... [Born in Roanoke, Virginia, in 1915, the poet Ruth Stone is a classic American maverick. Author of eleven books and chapbooks of poetry, most recently Ordinary Words (Paris Press, August 1999), she has always written with an irrepressible wry...

GEORGETTE CHEN (1906-1993), A PIONEER ARTIST.
September 22, 1999... Publications on Singapore art are rare and on Singaporean women artists rarer still. Four important and widely available books on Singapore artists are worthy of close examination and analysis in terms of how women are portrayed. In the latest...

MURDER AND MEANINGS IN U.S. HISTORIOGRAPHY.
September 22, 1999... It was a dark and stormy night.... Or was it merely partly cloudy with scattered showers? To poets, painters, novelists, balladeers, playwrights-purveyors of fiction-fact hardly matters. And in the nineteenth century, the age of romance and...

READING LITTLE WOMEN, READING MOTHERHOOD IN JAPAN.
September 22, 1999... Japan has been acknowledged as a traditionally maternal country, with motherly values sanctified and often mythologized. [1] The term for motherhood, bosei (which in literal translation means "nature of motherliness"), was first introduced to...

BLUE.(Short Story)
September 22, 1999... The world is a huge gleaming marble, an unblemished arc of piercing blue. Here facing the lake as I am. The more muted colors of the water lap at the sand, all that blue, it stretches on and on to some distant place as far as I can see. It's...

NON-MOTHERHOOD: AMBIVALENT AUTOBIOGRAPHIES.
September 22, 1999... From the beginning, feminists set out to break two taboos: the taboo on describing the complex and mixed experiences of actual mothers and the taboo on the celebration of a child-free life. But for reasons both inside and beyond the women's...

TRANSRACIAL MOTHERING AND ANTIRACISM: THE CASE OF WHITE BIRTH MOTHERS OF "BLACK" CHILDREN IN BRITAIN.
September 22, 1999... How do white women who have borne "Black" children in Britain bear white supremacist ideologies? An analysis of the 1990 British census reveals that "for two out of five (or 39 percent) of children with a Black Caribbean mother or father the...