Feminist Studies articles from September 2007

Feminist Studies archives from September 2007

Preface.
September 22, 2007... THIS ISSUE OF Feminist Studies explores constructions of gender and sexuality evident in the negotiation of life in regions as far apart as South Korea, the Appalachian United States, Nigeria, Spain, and France. The articles examine the...

The construction of military prostitution in South Korea during the U.S. military rule, 1945-1948.
September 22, 2007... SINCE SEPTEMBER 1945 when the 24th Army Corps, consisting of some 70,000 soldiers and led by General John R. Hodge, arrived to accept the transfer of power over Korea from the Japanese empire, U.S. soldiers stationed on military bases have had...

Her Geography.(Poem)
September 22, 2007... Her Geography after Luce Irigaray Her sex is not one. It is two lips pressed, pleated. All day they answer subtle questions. What touches, what is being touched? She is plural--one landscape of freckle and hair,...

His daughter.(Poem)
September 22, 2007... His daughter keeps mace in the kitchen, sharpens the knives. Says cocksucker, fuckface. Wears her hair like a cape, wears her heart like a bra. Needs the right tools for the job: hacksaw, spade, stranded stripper. Plays...

Dependent masculinity and political culture in pro-mountaintop removal discourse: or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the dragline.
September 22, 2007... THE SMALL COMMUNITY OF BLAIR, West Virginia, has a violent history as the site of a famous battle in the Mine Wars of the 1920s, when U.S. armed forces fought unionizing coal miners. More recently, Blair was again the site of a mine war, this...

The tab.(Short story)
September 22, 2007... IT HAD BEEN ONE OR perhaps two hours since Mother went away. Ling retraced her steps down Huoping Road before midnight. For a long time, Mother had threatened to leave for good whenever she had fights with Father. This was the first time she...

Feminist studies of Asian American literary/cultural studies.
September 22, 2007... WHAT ARE THE VARIOUS FIGURATIONS of relating the fields of Asian American studies and women's studies/feminist studies? Beyond certain obvious points of commonality and overlap, such as studies of Asian American women and analytical concepts...

Identity, performance, and secrecy: gendered life and the "modern" in northern Nigeria.
September 22, 2007... THE RECENT REIMPOSITION OF Islamic criminal law in northern Nigeria has forcefully brought gender issues in the region to international attention. Sentences of death by stoning handed down to Safiya Hussaini and Amina Lawal and the sentence of...

Eviction Sequence.(Poem)
September 22, 2007... Eviction Sequence 1 No Dogs Allowed I say to myself more than some can bear then disconnected the water flunk off-key buzz saws better than other saws. going around so that I cannot. yet. still. hell. disconnect the faucet, the...

Vestiges of new battles: Linda Stein's sculpture after 9/11.(Cover story)
September 22, 2007... WHEN NEW FIREFIGHTERS WERE HIRED in New York in the months following September 11, out of six hundred recruits, only one was a woman. (1) The sculpture of Linda Stein imagines a corrective to the peculiar masculinization of protection that...

A woman's ambition.(Fictional work)
September 22, 2007... BETTYE HOLT STANDS IN HER formal dining room watching a squirrel swing back and forth as it pilfers birdseed from the feeder in her neighbors' yard. Although her yard abounds with cardinals, thrush, and in the spring, hummingbirds, her feeders,...

Shaping the Spanish modern man: the conflict of masculine ideals through a court case in the 1920s.
September 22, 2007... IN 1872, TWO ENGLISH "ladies" visited Biscay, in the north of Spain. When they attempted to go for a walk down the central streets of the city unaccompanied, they were disappointed to discover that it was impossible. In their travel notes they...

"Vive 'Mademoiselle'!" the politics of singleness in early twentieth-century French feminism.
September 22, 2007... IN 1911, THE FEMINIST JOURNALIST and activist Arria Ly generated extensive controversy in the French national press with the publication of her article "Vive 'Mademoiselle!'" Ly's piece quickly became the subject of public opinion surveys in a...

News and views.(Interview)
September 22, 2007... This issue brings alarming news from Iran that the feminist journal Zanan has been closed down. Below is a report sent to me by Farideh Farhi of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Farhi writes frequently on contemporary Iranian...

Feminist Studies Award winner.(announcements)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... Andrea Mansker is the winner of the 2007 Feminist Studies Award for her article, "'Vive Madamoiselle'! The Politics of Singleness in Early Twentieth-Century French Feminism," which is published in the current issue of Feminist Studies. ...

Call for submissions.(announcements)
September 22, 2007... Liberating Traditions: Essays in Feminist Comparative Philosophy, edited by Ashby Butnor and Jen McWeeny. Feminist Comparative Philosophy is the practice of integrating feminist and non-Western philosophical traditions in an innovative way,...

Book announcement.(announcements)(Multiple Meanings of Gender Equality: A Critical Frame Analysis of Gender Policies in Europe)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Multiple Meanings of Gender Equality: A Critical Frame Analysis of Gender Policies in Europe (CEU Press, Budapest-New York). This book, edited by Mieke Verloo, aims to map the diversity of meanings of gender equality across Europe and reflects...

Call for proposals.(announcements)
September 22, 2007... Southern Association for Women Historians Eighth Southern Conference on Women's History, June 4-6, 2009, Columbia, SC, CFP in all areas of women's history. Proposals for panels include: (a) a cover sheet with the session title, paper titles,...

Publications received.
September 22, 2007... The information for annotations was provided by the publisher. Ablow, Rachel. The Marriage of the Minds: Reading Sympathy in the Victorian Marriage Plot. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007. Pp. 248. $55.00. Abusharaf,...