Feminist Studies articles from September 2008

Feminist Studies archives from September 2008

Preface.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... IN THIS ISSUE, we reexamine the 1970s, when, in Marge Piercy's words, "the movement opened up." As we write this preface, the nation is awaiting the inauguration of President-Elect Barack Obama, and we hope that his presidency will be the...

Barred from the Barroom: Second Wave Feminists and Public Accommodations in U.S. Cities.(Report)
September 22, 2008... IN 1968, WOMEN COULD NOT lunch in the Oak Room of the Plaza Hotel in New York City. Nor could they drink at the bar of the famous Russian Tea Room. Other eating and drinking establishments in cities around the country excluded women altogether...

Growing Up Female in the '50s.(Poem)
September 22, 2008... A whistling girl and a crowing hen Both will come to no good end My mother was Jewish; Betty's Irish yet they both recited that same damned ditty to hem us into woman's place because outside of that narrow walled path they...

When the Movement Opened Up.(Poem)
September 22, 2008... The seventies were a tangerine sunrise for women like me, even women unlike me. We felt unblinded. Our super eyes saw through walls and clothing. We were suddenly sisters, sisters in every town and mountaintop and polluted valley....

Historical Life Stories.(Viewpoint essay)
September 22, 2008... I TEACH A U.S. HISTORY course in which I assign autobiographies of the most varied kinds. We look at classics like Benjamin Franklin's, already accepted in the historical canon, along with a range of other accounts that reveal differing slants...

A Matter of Fact.(abortion)(Personal account)
September 22, 2008... What? Ah. Ah. Well, as a matter of fact, yes. I have. I did. I mean, I did have an abortion, younger than you are now, about six months after my fifteenth birthday. And I never did tell your grandma and grandpa--that's how I know there's things...

U.S. government surveillance and the women's liberation movement, 1968-1973: a case study.(Case study)
September 22, 2008... SOMETIME IN 1981 in Washington, D.C., a friend suggested I take advantage of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to see if I had a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) file. My friend, an attorney, specialized in litigating FOIA requests for...

All Representation Is Political: Feminist Art Past and Present.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... THE YEAR 2008 IS AN EXHILARATING and challenging moment to be reflecting on feminist art, feminist artists, their impact on our culture, and their place at the table. In the past two years, two major exhibitions circulated in Los Angeles, New...

One pink, one black.(Short story)
September 22, 2008... HOLLY MCGRATH WAS fourteen years old the summer that her half brother Jackson began spending all his time in their parents' car. The car was a salmon-colored '78 Monte Carlo with steel gray leather seats that stuck to their thighs like a...

Socialist Feminism: What Difference Did It Make to the History of Women's Studies?(Viewpoint essay)
September 22, 2008... IN RECENT WRITING ON THE HISTORY and potential of women's studies, socialist feminism is rarely mentioned, leading Judith Gardiner to ask: "What happened to socialist feminist women's studies programs" of the 1970s? (1) This question leads to...

Looking for Feminism: Racial Dynamics and Generational Investments in the Second Wave.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... IN AN IMPORTANT 1998 ESSAY, "Whose Feminism, Whose History?" Sherna Berger Gluck pointed to "the deep investment on the part of the participants in the early days of the women's liberation movement in preserving the primacy of our particular...

Click Click.(Short story)
September 22, 2008... CLACK CLACK THE CLASS REPEATS what the professor says African Storyteller supposedly a hard class but I'm acing it clickety clickety clackety clackety I never repeat after the professor I have enough problems speaking in my own language he runs...

What happened to socialist feminist women's studies programs? A case history and some speculations.(Viewpoint essay)
September 22, 2008... I HELPED FOUND WHAT WE considered a socialist feminist women's studies program over thirty years ago at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). I'm still there, but I recently realized that my junior colleagues were not aware of our...

Andrea Dworkin and Me.(In memoriam)
September 22, 2008... I MET ANDREA DWORKIN for the first time at the Madison airport in 1991. I was not entirely sure what she looked like, and I was worried that I would not recognize her when she got off the airplane. Earlier that morning, I'd grabbed one of her...

The radical possibilities of Valerie Solanas.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... "Read my manifesto and it will tell you what I am." --Valerie Solanas IN 1966, VALERIE SOLANAS PENNED her first play, Up Your Ass (technically titled Up Your Ass or From the Cradle to the Boat or The Big Suck or Up from the Slime), a...

News and Views.(Haiti storms)
September 22, 2008... This issue of News and Views focuses on work being done to raise awareness and provide aid to areas affected by the onslaught of tropical storms in Haiti and the massive 6.5 magnitude earthquake that recently hit Pakistan, taking lives and...

Publications received.
September 22, 2008... Abel, Emily K., and Saskia K. Subramanian. After the Cure: The Untold Stories of Breast Cancer Survivors. New York University Press, 2008. Pp. 183. $22.95. Ackerly, Brooke A. Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference. New York:...