Feminist Studies articles from September 2002

Feminist Studies archives from September 2002

Preface.
September 22, 2002... For centuries, one of the feminist movement's most visible struggles has been for the right to participate equally in the civic, legal, and political institutions that shape women's and men's lives. If women's experience has been largely one of...

Women in the British Museum Reading Room during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries: from quasi-to counterpublic.
September 22, 2002... In a wonderful if familiar passage from her 1929 A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf describes herself entering the British Museum Reading Room: "The swing doors swung open, and there one stood under the vast dome, as if one were a thought in...

Black mulberry.(Poem)
September 22, 2002... Black Mulberry Zan Gay The tree shades his hounds and Jesse on a mule, we hunt luna moths putting sugar on the bark, his skin sweating old lard. Yard geraniums bloom in a rusted toilet, he grabs my wrist, watching the...

Behind the scenes of black labor: Elizabeth Keckley and the scandal of publicity.
September 22, 2002... When Elizabeth Keckley concluded her 1868 autobiography, Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House, her parting words made clear to her readers what she had emphasized throughout: she defined success in the...

Shopping for identities: gender and consumer culture.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping. By Rachel Bowlby. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London's West End. By Erika Diane Rappaport. Princeton: Princeton University Press,...

In the garden: Persephone contemplates what women lose in marriage.(Poem)
September 22, 2002... In the Garden: Persephone Contemplates What Women Lose in Marriage. Alison Townsend Whenever he goes away I feel the tight, bald-headed peony bud of myself begin to open and unfurl, the small black ants of industry and solitude...

Valuing "postmaternity" as a revolutionary feminist concept.
September 22, 2002... Progress in any aspect is a movement through changes of terminology. --Wallace Stevens To resist the endless condescension of our culture toward women-who-raise-children (1) at the time of their lives when their children become...

Always rinse twice.(Short Story)
September 22, 2002... I take the stairs two at a time--quietly, on tiptoe, so I won't have to hear Mommy holler, "That's how seven-year-olds kill themselves!" I hurry to the den, bite off my mittens, pull off my scarf. My jacket zipper sticks as I glance at the...

Creating a place for women in a socialist brotherhood: class and gender politics in the Workmen's Circle, 1892-1930.
September 22, 2002... In 1939 Yeta Golding described how "years and years ago" when she was a young woman living in New York City she decided to attend meetings of the Arbeter Ring, or Workmen's Circle, a socialist mutual aid organization serving the radical Jewish...

Technologies of pregnancy and birth.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America. By Rayna Rapp. New York: Routledge, 1999. A Colonial Lexicon of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo. By Nancy Rose Hunt. Durham, N.C.: Duke...

F ---.(Short Story)
September 22, 2002... There is no dialogue but with myself. I talk to myself to deliver encouragement when I am weary, when I am in pain. "Come now," I say, "it's only a few more blocks. You can walk it easily. Being a little out of breath is good for you, increases...

Challenging the gendered categories of art and art therapy: the paintings of Jane Orleman.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2002... How can childhood sexual assault be represented? Can it be represented at all? Is the art of trauma an oxymoron? Holocaust theory elucidates the position of mimesis, which problematizes the relationship between the palpability of events and the...

Topic sentences.(Poem)
September 22, 2002... Topic Sentences Kelley Jean White With an intake of breath she lifted her glasses and pressed thumb and finger against her eyes. Rocking, the child wraps his mother's sweater around his shoulders, watching the night. ...

Late.(Poem)
September 22, 2002... Late Kelly Jean White I did not expect to find your things, forgotten, mixed in with mine. They are in my hands now, a few moments: the worn white towels, the larger green; ten white socks, five pair, smooth from so...

Beyond recovery: feminism and the future of eighteenth-century literary studies. (Commentary).(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2002... When I consider the future of feminist English literary studies in the eighteenth century, I'm led to contemplate the legacy--both good and bad--of its most significant accomplishment: the project to "recover" women's texts. This retrieval of...

Keeping score.(Poem)
September 22, 2002... Keeping Score Christopher Brisson I. My great-grandmother Florida moved from her three bedroom apartment at age 84 because none of her four children wanted to take responsibility for her sudden insulin requirements, the...

Commitment.(Poem)
September 22, 2002... Commitment Christopher Brisson Florence loved the mason from Portugal who wooed her evenings with suggestive trinkets carved from sandstone. Yes, Dear, both loved to dance. They knew the exciting steps, performed rumba in the...

Thinking gender with sexuality in 1790s' feminist thought.
September 22, 2002... I want to challenge the assumption that feminism is or should be the privileged site of a theory of sexuality. Feminism is the theory of gender oppression. To automatically assume that this makes it the theory of sexual oppression is to fail to...

Does parity work? Results from French elections. (News and Views).
September 22, 2002... Karen Bird With the ratification of a new parity law on June 6, 2000, France became the first country to require by law an equal number of female and male candidates for virtually all elections. The parity law was preceded by a 1999...

Interview with Marcia Freedman. (News and Views).(Interview)
September 22, 2002... Sharon Groves In the previous issue's "News and Views," we ran a number of stories by Palestinian and Israeli women's peace activists. What became clear to me as I worked on that issue was that women were the vanguard of peace work in the...

Julia Cherry Spruill Prize. (Announcements).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... Nancy Hewitt, one of our editors, has won the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize for her book, Southern Discomfort: Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2001). The Spruill prize is awarded by the...

Elizabeth Taylor Prize. (Announcements).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... Stacy Braukman won the Elizabeth Taylor Prize for her essay, "Nothing Else Matters But Sex": Cold War Narratives of Deviance and the Search for Lesbian Teachers in Florida, 1959-1963." The prize is awarded annually by the Southern Association...

Irene Peslikis. (Announcements).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... Irene Peslikis, 59, died on 28 Nov. 2002. Peslikis was a feminist artist who was one of the principal founders of the women's art movement (especially on the East Coast). She organized the first show of Second Wave women artists, taught the...

Publications received.
September 22, 2002... The information for annotations was provided by the publisher. Abdo, Nahla, and Ronit Lentin, eds. Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation. New York: Bergham Books, 2002....