Feminist Studies articles from September 2003

Feminist Studies archives from September 2003

Preface.
September 22, 2003... The arrival of democracy in South Africa in the early 1990s began an era of hope and expectation for millions of South Africans, who during the previous few decades had endured the violent and unequal regime of apartheid. The new Constitution,...

The gender pact and democratic consolidation: institutionalizing gender equality in the South African state.
September 22, 2003... The transition to democracy in South Africa ushered in a formal institutional framework and a government that has been held up as a model of serious commitment to the ideal of gender equality. The new context of a democracy changed the terms of...

"African Dream": the imaginary of nation, race, and gender in South African intercultural dance.
September 22, 2003... An African drum beats a slow, contagious rhythm as the sensuous voice of South African pop sensation Vicky Sampson swells in the background. Four Indian women, jingles at their ankles, glittering gold and colorful silks, swivel onto the stage,...

Drought.(Poem)
September 22, 2003... Dedicated to Steve Bantu Biko, who set our souls on fire. Still, his voice and not the apartheid-killed-body inspires our memory, which knows freedom instinctively now, that "the most potent weapon in the hand of the oppressor is the mind of...

Heritage day (24/09/00).(Poem)
September 22, 2003... The previously oppressed crowd the City Centre, defying the thin spring rain and dysfunctional public transport system, children tucked under flowering umbrellas solemnly observe the rituals celebrating our triumph over the brutish...

Institutional dilemmas: representation versus mobilization in the South African Gender Commission.
September 22, 2003... When South Africa's first democratically elected government came to power in 1994, its rhetoric was explicitly feminist. While the country's new leaders promised above all to address the racial inequalities inherited from centuries of white...

Born in africa but.(Poem)
September 22, 2003... born in africa but breastfed another mother tongue put to sleep on foreign lullabies praying for a jesus-heaven when i die born in africa but into a designated cultivated patch flung far from the indigenous tree strategy for...

Lydia in the Wind: dedicated to the spirit of Lydia "Ou Tamaletjie" Williams who died 16 June 1910.(Poem)
September 22, 2003... this wind is a wounded witness she will not be still not until we are listening are we listening will we recognize her circling the crevice between two worlds our reality and hers howling around the empty plot this hole in...

Representivity: false sisterhood or universal women's interests? The South African experience.
September 22, 2003... It is important from the onset to define and identify myself, especially as this Special Issue discusses, among other things, the complex issue of identity. I am not an academic and my article will not reflect academic requirements, whatever...

WEAVEing identities.(Women's Education and Artistic Voice Expression)
September 22, 2003... "Your silence will not protect you.... What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say?" --Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider South African women, black and white, know only too well the truth of...

Tribute to Sara Baartman (written in Holland, June 1998).(Diana Ferrus)(Poem)
September 22, 2003... I have come to take you home-- home! Remember the veld? The lush green grass beneath the big oak trees? The air is cool there and the sun does not burn. I have made your bed at the foot of the hill, your blankets are covered in buchu...

The neverending story--1810-2002.(Diana Ferrus)(Poem)
September 22, 2003... You didn't want my story-- you saw only my breasts and remembered what was between my legs. You made me a cocktail of lies and deceit and played the hero redeeming the fallen. You scripted my story fixed your gaze on my...

Contesting democracy: HIV/AIDS and the achievement of gender equality in South Africa.
September 22, 2003... In April 1994, political power in South Africa shifted from the white minority government to one elected by all South Africans. This peaceful transition of power was the direct result of political negotiation between the apartheid government...

An unforgiving poem.(Roshila Nair)(Poem)
September 22, 2003... truth and forgiveness are political epics bigger and lonelier than words, today I watched an old woman recoil from the contrite hands of patriot men who murdered her son many years ago, some say he lived long after his flesh...

Aluta continua.(Roshila Nair)(Poem)
September 22, 2003... let's say it out loud about the other day how we were talking about that Comrade X who went home and gave his wife a blue eye, and we'd all clapped an hour before for the liberation speech he gave with such conviction.

The Philani Printing Project: women's art and activism in Crossroads, South Africa.
September 22, 2003... "There is a good change while working here." --Nolwando Fani, Philani artist "Yes, Lady. Philani has helped women to be strong." -- Tonono Nomqo, Philani artist In the township of Crossroads, South Africa, a group...

Cinnamon.(Poem)
September 22, 2003... I fall outside the warm stole of history. Eyes run down my skin like a single finger. I find you open as a tent. You are cinnamon curved around me.

Play, or, watching a film about muslim boys.(Poem)
September 22, 2003... Even when they do not move, there is a different stillness to bodies when they are together. The writer tells us about the boys he spoke to, wrote about, who abseiled from him in every conversation. But his boys are thin. If...

Contemporary architecture.(Poem)
September 22, 2003... We are in a place where the gardener comes from a long way off. In winter we are walled in by wind. It rained. I left my shoes outside because there's no mat to permit a polite rasping of mud. There are places where you...

Midi and Theresa: lesbian activism in South Africa.(Excerpt)
September 22, 2003... Introduction by Rachel Holmes Taghmeda (Midi) Achmat and Theresa Raizenberg are two of South Africa's best known lesbian activists. They have lived for the last decade at the forefront of the struggles that are building South Africa's new...

Gender and masculinity in South African nationalist discourse, 1912-1950.
September 22, 2003... In 1935, Alfred Bitini Xuma, African National Congress (ANC) president from 1940 to 1947, wrote a paper expressing confidence in the ability of Africans to participate responsibly in governmental politics because of their having come to the...

News and views.(Periodical Review)
September 22, 2003... For this issue's News and Views, we look at two feminist journals published in South Africa: Agenda and Feminist Africa. Agenda, the oldest feminist journal in South Africa, has had an impressive seventeen-year publishing history, making it one...

Premilla Nadasen.(Announcements)(won the 2002 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians' Annual Article Award for "Expanding the Boundaries of the Women's Movement: Black Feminism and the Struggle for Welfare Rights")(Brief Article)
September 22, 2003... Premilla Nadasen has won the 2002 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians' Annual Article Award for "Expanding the Boundaries of the Women's Movement: Black Feminism and the Struggle for Welfare Rights." The prize is awarded for the best...

The Fourteenth Annual Pacific Southwest Women's Studies Association.(Conferences and Calls for Papers)
September 22, 2003... The Fourteenth Annual Pacific Southwest Women's Studies Association solicits proposals for workshops, panels, papers, presentations, and information tables from women and men who are students, teachers, staff, or friends of women's studies....

Gender Acts! Activism: History, Theory, Practice.(Conferences and Calls for Papers)
September 22, 2003... Gender Acts! Activism: History, Theory, Practice will be held 26-27 Mar. 2004 at Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina. Keynote Speaker: Sarah Weddington, the lawyer who argued Roe v. Wade. Plenary Speaker: the Guerrilla Girls, feminist...

A conference on critical global human rights and democratization issues.(Conferences and Calls for Papers)
September 22, 2003... A conference on critical global human rights and democratization issues: "Women and Postwar Reconstruction: Strategies for Implementing Democracy Building Policies" will bring together Washington and UN policy makers, practitioners from women's...

Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, California.(Conferences and Calls for Papers)
September 22, 2003... Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, California is hosting the annual Western Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature meeting, 25-28 Mar. 2004, http://www.ptloma.edu/ljml/CCL2004/CCL.htm. Conference theme: "Faith in...

The 27th Annual Southeastern Women's Studies Association Conference.(Conferences and Calls for Papers)
September 22, 2003... The 27th Annual Southeastern Women's Studies Association Conference, "Feminist Locations," will be held 26-28 Mar. 2004 at the DeSoto-Hilton Hotel in the heart of the Historic District, Savannah, Georgia. Framed by Chandra Talpade Mohanty's...

You are invited to attend the 2004 Annual Conference of the Western Association of Women Historians.(Conferences and Calls for Papers)
September 22, 2003... You are invited to attend the 2004 Annual Conference of the Western Association of Women Historians. It will be held 21-23 May 2004, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The Western Association of Women Historians was founded in 1969...

Annual Conference of Women's History Network.(Conferences and Calls for Papers)
September 22, 2003... Annual Conference of Women's History Network, "Women, Wealth, and Power," Hull, England, 3-5 Sept. 2004. Proposals should be sent by 19 Apr. 2004. For details visit: www.womenshistorynetwork. org or e-mail:...

Centering Gender History.(Conferences and Calls for Papers)
September 22, 2003... Centering Gender History is the theme of the Women's and Gender Historians of the Midwest Conference to be held at Loyola University (Lakeshore) on 12 June 2004. More information on the program and registration may be found at...

You are invited to celebrate thirty years of inclusive Christian feminism.(Conferences and Calls for Papers)
September 22, 2003... You are invited to celebrate thirty years of inclusive Christian feminism at the biennial conference of the Evangelical and Ecumenical Women's Caucus, "Where Wisdom Calls: Crossroads and Open Gates." Speakers include Phyllis Trible, Rosemary...

The newly-formed International Anchoritic Society.(Conferences and Calls for Papers)
September 22, 2003... The newly-formed International Anchoritic Society announces the second in its exciting series of planned biennial conferences. Rhetorics of the Anchorhold, will be held at Gregynog Hall, Newtown, Powys, Wales on 7-10 July 2005. Plenary: Bella...

Feminist Teacher.(Conferences and Calls for Papers)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2003... Feminist Teacher is now accepting submissions. Since 1984, FT, a peer-reviewed journal, has been at the forefront of discussions about how to fight sexism, racism, homophobia, and other forms of oppression in classrooms and in institutions. FT...

Announcing Summer 2004 Fellowships at the Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston.(Prizes)
September 22, 2003... Announcing Summer 2004 Fellowships at the Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston. Research fellowships for doctoral and postdoctoral scholars, faculty members, and independent researches are available in fields including women's history,...

Fifth Milka Bliznakov Prize, International Archive of Women in Architecture.(Prizes)
September 22, 2003... Fifth Milka Bliznakov Prize, International Archive of Women in Architecture. The Board of Advisors of the International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) presents this Annual Prize of $1,000 following a two stage process. Stage one is an...

The Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender.(Resources)(launched web site)
September 22, 2003... The Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at the State University of New York at Binghamton and Alexander Street Press announce the launching of the reconfigured web resource, Women and Social Movements in the United States,...

Mary Magdalene the Apostle Catholic Gateway.(Resources)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2003... Mary Magdalene the Apostle Catholic Gateway. If you are a Catholic woman... is Christ calling you to the priesthood? Or, do you know any Catholic woman who feels she is being called to ordained ministry? There is a new gateway to information...

Publications received.
September 22, 2003... Adler, K.H. Jews and Gender in Liberation France. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 273. $60.00. Anderson, Kim, and Bonita Lawrence, eds. Strong Women Stories: Native Vision and Community Survival. Toronto: Sumach Press, 2003....