Feminist Studies articles from September 2004

Feminist Studies archives from September 2004

Preface.(Editorial)
September 22, 2004... MARY ANN HUDSON TITLES THE POEM we publish in this issue: "I don't know what your father told you, but you don't have the whole story." This idea of incompletion and omission dominates the articles and essays in this issue. All our authors are...

A postcolonial women's law? Domestic violence and the Ontario Liquor Board's "Indian list," 1950-1990.
September 22, 2004... A WELL-KNOWN STORY IN NORTH AMERICAN women's history is that, around the turn of the twentieth century, temperance activists addressed domestic violence both directly and indirectly in the course of their campaigns against (male) excessive...

Luck.(Poem)
September 22, 2004... Who says Luck is a lady? I hear she's blind, too, as if a woman seer cannot have eyes. I know one thing about Luck-- he's a man and he keeps running like a goddam rabbit. Even if he's standing still he's hiding, all hunched over...

Historicizing the harem: the challenge of a princess's memoir.
September 22, 2004... AFTER THE BATTLE OF PANIPAT in 1526, which gave Babur, the first Mughal king, a foothold in India, his close friend, Khvajeh Kilan, expressed a desire to return to his home in Kabul. As Babur (reluctantly) gave him permission to go, he asked...

I'm Too Big.(Poem)
September 22, 2004... and I'd love to shrink it all, diet my personality, sick of blubbering through my life heart-broken, but ox-strong, clench-toothed, sure-footed, swollen solid like the ugly cactus plant storing up lonely sips of water. If I...

Between two worlds: an interview with Shirin Neshat.(Interview)(Cover Story)
September 22, 2004... A NATIVE OF QAZVIN, IRAN, Shirin Neshat finished high school and attended college in the United States and once the Islamic Revolution had transformed Iran, decided to remain in this country. She now lives in New York City, where she is...

Locating the feminist voice: the debate on the Zina Ordinance.
September 22, 2004... WOMEN'S INCARCERATION IS OFTEN PRECEDED by physical and sexual abuse in the home. For example, the majority of the women in Indian prisons are rape victims who have been placed in "protective custody" in prison to ensure that they will be...

I don't know what your father told you, but you don't have the whole story.(Brief Article)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... Maybe now you could understand how young I was, but it wouldn't be like you to try to get that. Can you imagine--the fast cars, the small town, the way I was coming out of my skin? I ended up there like a beer can on a windy day, and...

You're just tired and think I'm being selfish.(Poem)
September 22, 2004... You looked through everything I didn't lock up, and sometimes stole, not so much that you thought I would notice, but I did. There is a yellow topaz ring, fake pearl earrings, an expired passport, a roll of candy, and a half pack of...

I'm just not interested in being your mother anymore, so I guess God still has plans for me yet.(Brief Article)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... You're waiting to tell me all the things you think I can't remember but isn't that crazy? I came from a good family, we had the biggest house in town and my father was a doctor, my mother had help that came in every day. That's what I...

Graphic stories: representing the status of female faculty.
September 22, 2004... TALES ABOUT THE HIRING, PROMOTION, and retention of female faculty abound in academia. Most point to individual successes in the wake of affirmative action but also highlight how much remains to be done. The report first published in the March...

The Speech of the Creature.(Poem)
September 22, 2004... The night before you were born I was sitting on a Berkeley floor drinking wine, Playing a game of scrabble with the ones Who soon were going to be your parents And losing badly, but before I went to bed I told them to wake me if...

Baby Carriages.(Poem)
September 22, 2004... In the photograph there are two of them, and a stroller. The women sit on a park bench, wearing their usual day clothes, That thin stooped one wears a flowered rayon dress, This one has dark lipstick on, a third is older and has a perm....

Recent feminist art history: an American sampler.
September 22, 2004... AS LINDA NOCHLIN HOPED when she wrote her pathbreaking essay, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" in 1971, the impact of feminism on the histories of art written during the ensuing decades has been enormous. This is amply demonstrated...

Chico's Tacos.(Short Story)
September 22, 2004... Everyone in El Paso knows Chico's--it would gross most out, like menudo, like tamales for breakfast year after year. Here is my story. Chico's tacos in El Paso, Texas--the lines will keep you waiting. Chico's tacos, slimy, green chili'd...

Why is buying a "Madras" cotton shirt a political act? A feminist commodity chain analysis.
September 22, 2004... "Sometimes I think about the people in America who will wear it. I wish always a good relationship between India and America." "Mudaliar," Lands' End catalog, April 1995. FLIPPING THROUGH THE PAGES of a Lands' End catalog that arrived...

News and views.
September 22, 2004... THE RECENT REELECTION of George Bush to a second term coupled with the increase number of Republicans in Congress devastated feminists around the U.S. and indeed the world. As feminists and progressives assess the ramifications of this loss and...

Publications received.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2004... The information for annotations was provided by the publisher. Addams, Jane, Emily G. Balch, and Alice Hamilton. Women at the Hague: The International Congress of Women and Its Results. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Pp. 91....