Feminist Studies articles from September 2001

Feminist Studies archives from September 2001

Preface.(feminist history)
September 22, 2001... "Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?" Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, 1962 As we...

"Nothing Else Matters But Sex": Cold war narratives of deviance and the search for lesbian teachers in Florida, 1959-1963.
September 22, 2001... Lesbianism, which has been promulgated and perpetuated by many female teachers, has now infiltrated, or is now being practiced by school girls aged 12-18. The situation is of such nature that many parents have become very much aroused....It has...

Making her (in)visible: Cultural representations of lesbianism and the lesbian body in the 1990s.
September 22, 2001... We regularly punish those who fail to do their gender right. -Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, 140 In September 1999, The Jerry Springer Show ran an episode entitled "I'm Having an Affair--With Another Woman!" After a series of...

Odalisques.(Poem)
September 22, 2001... ODALISQUES You and I page through the art book looking for odalisques. I am drawn to Delacroix's mussed red brocade and sheet and how the woman sprawls, transfixed on a pin of indolence with arching breasts and loose, rich...

A pause for Nancy.(Poem)
September 22, 2001... A PAUSE FOR NANCY She kept the symptoms to herself, allowing just one sign: As she was making sandwiches, I saw her pause, holding a tomato on the cutting board under the knife. Her hand cradled the fruit so lightly, I...

Acts of madness: 'Lady Audley' and the meanings of Victorian Femininity.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... A MODEL OPHELIA Sometime in 1878, in preparation for the role of Ophelia, the British actress Ellen Terry visited a lunatic asylum "to study wits astray." At first, Terry confessed, she was "disheartened" because "there was no beauty no...

Red Beans.(Poem)
September 22, 2001... RED BEANS These middle hours cook slowly: first, the pebbly sorting under water for something out-of-kind; then, the heat-fed spring, the fervent beans and what contains them. The small sufficiency of the afternoon, red...

Leavings.(Poem)
September 22, 2001... LEAVINGS The sudden is a coup: tree fallen in the old road, the iced crop, break of a right word. There is an etiquette for disappointment. When you gather expectation into your apron and walk back to the house. There...

Waving, not drowning: Personal narratives, feminist pedagogy, and the gesture in psychoanalysis.
September 22, 2001... The texture of women's experience is one where emotions are recollected very physically. Women are continually diving into emotional waters. Maggie Humm, "Subjects in English: Autobiography, Women, and Education," in Teaching Women, ed....

Burial.(Poem)
September 22, 2001... BURIAL let them fall into the black sea water wrapped in their flags let the long boats ride the surface of the waves as the dead fall slowly to the sand floor each self overtaken in its wooden box each soul with its...

To my widow.(Poem)
September 22, 2001... TO MY WIDOW If I had stayed the rain would have stayed too long. Spring will push the bluets up through hard ground. Everything turns over. I am too tired for the bright subtlety of color or the robin's hungry...

Restoring Feminist Politics to Poststructuralist Critique. (Roundtable).
September 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION by CARLA KAPLAN This roundtable was conceived--or risked--in the belief that, in spite of the many efforts to tell the history of feminism, our dialogue as feminists is still unfolding and that, hence, important questions...

At home in the world? The gendered cartographies of globality.
September 22, 2001... In the last dozen years, scholars of global cultures, institutions, and polities have devoted themselves to two cognate areas/objects of analysis: nations and nationalism, and transnationality, diaspora, and globalization. (1) Benedict...

Received forms.(Poem)
September 22, 2001... RECEIVED FORMS At night she burned the air to eat- The smell of popcorn bloated in her room, The floorboards had to arch to touch her feet. When she walked her fingers pleat A weaving cross between the bones. At night, she...

"Silence, Miss Carson!" Science, gender, and the reception of Silent Spring.
September 22, 2001... The "control of nature" is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man. The concepts and practices of applied entomology for the most...

Afghan women speak out. (News and Views).
September 22, 2001... In a column in The Nation Katha Pollitt asks, "where are the women in the discussion of Afghanistan, the Middle East, the rest of the Muslim world?" Indeed, most people know about the terrible situation for Afghan women under the Taliban, and...