Feminist Studies articles from September 2005

Feminist Studies archives from September 2005

Preface.
September 22, 2005... BEGINNING THIS ISSUE is a cluster of essays that explore the politics of class in relation to women's work, state formation, and feminism. Other essays, commentary, art, and creative offerings address feminist conceptualizations of collective...

Constant conversations: agitators in the league of women in Poland during the Stalinist period.(feminist studies)
September 22, 2005... An agitator... enlightens women, educates and mobilizes them,... understands all current issues and knows how to explain them precisely, fully recognizes the assignment that agitational work places on her, and......

"State feminism"? Gender and socialist state formation in Maoist China.(research)
September 22, 2005... ALTHOUGH THE COMPOUND PHRASE "state feminism" has a relatively short history, it has acquired various meanings in its transnational usage. Evolving from an early usage of "state feminists," referring to feminists employed as bureaucrats in...

Making whirligigs.(Poem)
September 22, 2005... Seagulls and pelicans spin their wooden wings on the fence. Hunters always take the pheasant, but no one picks the cop, blue arms flailing stop, stop. The whirligig man says, I know why, but I'll never tell. He hunches forward. He says...

Ordering paperclips.(Poem)
September 22, 2005... She's got a desk in an office, dark wood panelled like a hand-crafted box, inside old stone walls, inside, quiet as a church except when she's making her calls. Her mother in the box factory folded symmetry. She stood all day on dirt...

Scrubbing floors.(Poem)
September 22, 2005... At 11 p.m., no exit through the subway back station. Exasperated, me and the last of ten thousand people traveling through this day go up the escalator, the long way around. The metal stairs rise, then disappear, like water sliding our...

The dissolution of old ideas keeps pace.(Poem)
September 22, 2005... Last night I walked my street home in almost-full moonlight. The crabapple trees cloistered the churchyard, blossom-flakes fell, piled into snow drifts against the iron fence. Their color in day is hot pink, a slush of debris, gutter...

Visualize academic labor in the 1990s: inventing an activist archive in Santa Barbara.(feminist studies)(graduate student teaching assistants )
September 22, 2005... IN 1997, PRO-LABOR POSTERS and flyers appeared overnight throughout the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) campus. "VISUALIZE," they admonished. "VISUALIZE... A CONTRACT." "VISUALIZE... A STRIKE." "VISUALIZE... HEALTHCARE."...

White trash: manifesting the bisexual.(feminist studies)
September 22, 2005... THIS IS WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE BISEXUAL. You're sixteen and your newest friend has brown hair and brown eyes and you don't know why but you hope she likes you more than your other friends do. She does. You glide through your sophomore...

Class absences: cutting class in feminist studies.(research )
September 22, 2005... Until the missing story of ourselves is told, nothing besides told can suffice us/We shall go on quietly craving it/In the missing story of ourselves can be found all other missing stories. --Laura Riding Jackson...

Art essay.(feminist studies)(paintings by Callie Danae Hirsch)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... ARTIST'S STATEMENT My career as an artist began at a very young age, with my interest in creating and the exploration of ideas. The paintings are created as stylized pathways, stories told through intricate designs that reveal and...

Make room for a new feller hand.(Poem)
September 22, 2005... hunchbacked on a stool felling coats for fourteen hours sitting so close to each other she smells their breath on her face she feels the heat of their bodies hands too numb to know the prick of a needle eyes so close to the coat...

Eyewitness.(Poem)
September 22, 2005... trapped behind a locked factory door so they wouldn't leave with a shirtwaist in their pocketbook when they finished their workday leaping from sewing table to sewing table across the floor choking in a smoky cloakroom as...

Identified.(Poem)
September 22, 2005... Sophie Salemi by the stitched knee of her stocking mama darned the day before Ignatzia Bellotta the heel of her shoe the cobbler repaired with a metal plate Mary Levanthal the gold cap Dr. Zaharia set on...

Girl talk.(Poem)
September 22, 2005... The Triangle girls say to the Chinese girls, the Indonesian girls, the Vietnamese, the Taiwanese girls girls, take your 16-hour work day and glue it to the sole of the shoe, take your 20...

Valuing woman-only spaces.(Commentary)(feminist studies)
September 22, 2005... A raft of lesbian and feminist critics have called the term queer a false generic that erases the existence of lesbians and the insights of feminism. It is worth noting that the activist group the Lesbian Avengers organized at...

Publications: received.(feminist studies)(Bibliography)
September 22, 2005... The information for annotations was provided by the publisher. Afray, Janet, and Kevin B. Anderson. Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 346. Paper...

Lessons from the archive: Sylvia Plath and the politics of memory.(poet)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2005... IN THE CHRISTINE JEFFS/JOHN BROWNLOW film Sylvia, there is a scene in which newlyweds Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, in a small boat off the waters of "beautiful Nauset" on the eastern shores of Massachusetts, are tipped overboard. The camera...

Problems and promise in Middle East and North Africa gender research.(feminist studies)
September 22, 2005... IN THIS ARTICLE I SURVEY several themes in Middle East and North Africa gender-related studies that have emerged as important for me as a student, teacher, and researcher: the operations and fracturing of binary frameworks (e.g., West/East,...

News and views.(feminist studies)(international emergency relief organizations listings)
September 22, 2005... DISASTER RELIEF It turns out that like most things, disasters--natural and otherwise--are gendered phenomena. Women are disproportionately disadvantaged when faced with disasters: in the South Asian tsunami last December, women died at...

Book publication.(announcements)(Daughters of Kerala)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Daughters of Kerala by Achamma C. Chandersekaran. This book is a collection of 25 short stories by award-winning Malayalam authors translated into English. Kerala is the southwestern coastal state of India with only about 32 million people, but...

Study tour.(announcements)
September 22, 2005... Two-week Mother Goddess Study Tour in India, 18-31 May 2006. The Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) is delighted to invite participants for a two-week study tour on the Mother Goddess facilitated by Dr. Andrea O'Reilly, Director of...

Publications received.(book listing)(Bibliography)
September 22, 2005... The information for annotations was provided by the publisher. Afray, Janet, and Kevin B. Anderson. Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 346. Paper...