NWSA Journal articles from June 2003

NWSA Journal archives from June 2003

Oracle.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... J.Mac's Oracle (27" H x 30" W x 27" D) was inspired by the Pythoness of Delphi, a famed Greek mystic. She holds a green sphere that is representative of the tool the Pythoness used for scrying. This ball is also a pod, which symbolizes growth...

Women and war, women and peace.(Introduction)(Editorial)
June 22, 2003... The present worldwide protests against the U.S.-led war with Iraq, protests in which women are playing a leading and essential part, are not new. We can look back into the past and remember what women have done in ancient Sumer, Egypt, and...

Fractured borders: women's cancer and feminist theatre.
June 22, 2003... I have stage four metastatic ovarian cancer. There is no stage five. Oh, and I have to be very tough. It appears to be a matter, as the saying goes, of life and death. --Margaret Edson, Wit (1999, 12) I am a One-Breasted, Menopausal,...

Women of one or many bonnets?: Quaker women and the role of religion in trans-Appalachian settlement.
June 22, 2003... It was spring 1793 and another busy day had almost come to a close for Esther Hunt. But before she could lie down for the night, she wanted to write a letter to her brother-in-law. That morning she had become aware that a...

Pleasure, pain, and the power of being thin: female sexuality in Young Adult literature.
June 22, 2003... While many fictional texts marketed for young adults address sexuality, few acknowledge the intersection of sexuality and body image. In fact, many Young Adult narratives that are liberating in terms of sexuality are regressive in terms of...

Representing domestic violence: ambivalence and difference in What's Love Got to Do with It.
June 22, 2003... Does it seem late in the day to be writing about abused women? Hasn't the subject filled our newspapers and magazines and talk shows? Haven't we seen enough battered women, enough psychologists, enough lawyers, on "Donahue"...

The self is not gendered: Sulabha's debate with King Janaka.
June 22, 2003... Who is Sulabha? Not many people, not even many Sanskrit scholars, recognize the name at once. She is a single woman, a learned renunciant, who, in the ancient epic, the Mahabharata, wins a debate with philosopher-king Janaka in the presence...

The State of NWSA: NWSA presidential address.(National Women's Studies Association )(Transcript)
June 22, 2003... The presidential address given at the National Women's Studies Association Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2002. Today we celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) at the...

Feminists protest war with Iraq.(Reports)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... The National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) has joined hundreds of thousands of Americans in an unprecedented historic grassroots movement by sending a message to President George W. Bush and other elected officials urging the U.S....

Open statement by the National Women's Studies Association.(against US military action in Iraq)
June 22, 2003... The National Women's Studies Association is committed to resolving local and global conflicts through negotiation; hence, it urges the U.S. government to refrain from using military force to effect social and political change in Iraq. NWSA...

Feminists around the world protest war with Iraq--photo essay.
June 22, 2003... As this issue was being prepared for publication, the attack on Iraq by the U.S. and British military began on 19 March 2003. The NWSA Journal staff, in consonance with NWSA, continues the call for a peaceful resolution of the conflict with...

Laws against domestic violence: underused or abused?(Voices from the Economic South)(From Manushi, A Journal About Women and Society, No. 120, September-October 2000, p. 17-24)(Reprint)
June 22, 2003... From Manushi, A Journal About Women and Society, No. 120, September-October 2000, 17-24, New Delhi, India The birth of Manushi in 1978 coincided with the unfortunate rise in reported cases of domestic violence and murder. Some of these...

American Indian women: nurturing American Indian cultural and political continuance.(six books)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary edited by Gretchen M. Bataille and Laurie Lisa, 2nd edition. New York: Routledge Press, 2001, 396 pp., $90.00 hardcover. Sifters: Native American Women's Lives edited by Theda Perdue. New...

Rethinking feminism and visual culture.(four books)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Art and Feminism edited by Helena Reckitt and surveyed by Peggy Phelan. New York: Phaidon Press, 2001, 304 pp., $ 69.95 hardcover. Feminism-Art-Theory: An Anthology, 1968-2000 edited by Hilary Robinson. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2001, 706...

Gender and medicine in nineteenth-century America.(four books)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940 by Emily K. Abel. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000, 326 pp., $49.95 hardcover. Nymphomania: A History by Carol Groneman. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000, 238 pp., $24.95...

Retrieving Experience: Subjectivity and Recognition in Feminist Politics & Political Theory and Feminist Social Criticism.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... by Sonia Kruks. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001, 200 pp., $35.00 hardcover. Political Theory and Feminist Social Criticism by Brooke A. Ackerly. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 234 pp., $60.00 hardcover, $22.00...

Has Liberalism Failed Women? Assuring Equal Representation in Europe and the U.S. & Debating Women's Equality: Toward a Feminist Theory of Law from a European Perspective.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Has Liberalism Failed Women? Assuring Equal Representation in Europe and the U.S. edited by Jytte Klausen and Charles S. Maier. New York: Palgrave, 2001, 243 pp., $39.95 hardcover. Debating Women's Equality: Toward a Feminist Theory of...

Remembering the Darkness: Women in Soviet Prisons & Till My Tale Is Told: Women's Memoirs of the Gulag.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Remembering the Darkness: Women in Soviet Prisons edited and translated by Veronica Shapovalov. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001, 384 pp., $75.00 hardcover. Till My Tale Is Told: Women's Memoirs of the Gulag edited by Simeon...

Such News of the Land: U.S. Women Nature Writers & In Nature's Name: An Anthology of Women's Writing and Illustrations, 1780-1930.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Such News of the Land: U.S. Women Nature Writers edited by Thomas S. Edwards and Elizabeth A. DeWolfe. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2001, 300 pp., $55.00 hardcover, $24.95 paper. In Nature's Name: An Anthology of Women's...

A Promise and a Way of Life: White Antiracist Activism & Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... A Promise and a Way of Life: White Antiracist Activism by Becky Thompson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001, 482 pp., $34.95 hardcover, $19.95 paper. Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement edited by...

"My Heart Is a Large Kingdom": Selected Letters of Margaret Fuller & Transfiguring America: Myth, Ideology, and Mourning in Margaret Fuller's Writing.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... "My Heart Is a Large Kingdom": Selected Letters of Margaret Fuller edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001, 336 pp., $29.95 hardcover. Transfiguring America: Myth, Ideology, and Mourning in Margaret...

Women in Argentina: Early Travel Narratives; Women at Sea: Travel Writing and the Margins of Caribbean Discourse; In Praise of New Travelers: Reading Caribbean Migrant Women's Writing.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Women in Argentina: Early Travel Narratives by Monica Szurmuk. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001, 145 pp., $55.00 hardcover. Women at Sea: Travel Writing and the Margins of Caribbean Discourse edited by Lizabeth...

An Anthology: Life-Writings by British Women, 1660-1815; Plotting Women: Gender and Narration in the Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century British Novel; Revising Women: Eighteenth-Century Women's Fiction and Social Engagement; Hungry Heart: The Literary Emergence of Julia Ward Howe.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... An Anthology: Life-Writings by British Women, 1660-1815 edited by Carolyn A. Barros and Johanna M. Smith. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000, 417 pp., $50.00 hardcover, $20.00 paper. Plotting Women: Gender and Narration in the...

Women and Spiritual Equality in Christian Tradition; Women in the Church: Moving Toward Equality; Women and World Religions; Women, Gender, Religion: A Reader.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Women and Spiritual Equality in Christian Tradition by Patricia Ranft. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998, 306 pp., $55.00 hardcover, $21.95 paper. Women in the Church: Moving Toward Equality by Lesly F. Massey. Jefferson, NC: McFarland...

Chicana Ways: Conversations with Ten Chicana Writers & Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios by the Latina Feminist Group.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Chicana Ways: Conversations with Ten Chicana Writers by Karin Rosa Ikas. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2002, 225 pp., $29.95 hardcover, $19.95 paper. Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios by the Latina Feminist Group. Durham,...

Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration, and Domestic Work & The Kitchen Spoon's Handle: Transnationalism and Sri Lanka's Migrant Housemaids.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration, and Domestic Work by Rhacel Salazar Parrenas. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001, 309 pp., $55.00 hardcover, $18.95 paper. The Kitchen Spoon's Handle: Transnationalism and Sri...

Measuring Up: How Advertising Affects Self-Image; Fashion, Desire, and Anxiety: Image and Morality in the Twentieth Century; Body Work: Beauty and Self-Image in American Culture.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Measuring Up: How Advertising Affects Self-Image by Vickie Rutledge Shields with Dawn Heinecken. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002, 224 pp., $49.95 hardcover, $19.95 paper. Fashion, Desire, and Anxiety: Image and...

Dinner Roles: American Women and Culinary Culture & Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Dinner Roles: American Women and Culinary Culture by Sherrie A. Inness. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2001, 225 pp., $35.95 paper. Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs by Lynn Spigel. Durham, NC: Duke...

Women, Work and Computing & Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Women, Work and Computing by Ruth Woodfield. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001, 209 pp., $55.00 hardcover, $20.00 paper. Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing by Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher. Cambridge, MA: MIT...

Wired to the World. Chained to the Home: Telework in Daily Life.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... by Penny Gurstein. Vancouver, Canada: University of British Columbia Press, 2001, 256 pp., $75.00 hardcover, $27.95 paper. Feminist scholarship has long been exploring technology and its links to gender, race, sexuality, and class issues....

Gender, Power and Organisations: An Introduction & Rethinking Organizational and Managerial Communication from Feminist Perspectives. .(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Gender, Power and Organisations: An Introduction by Susan Halford and Pauline Leonard. New York: Palgrave, 2001, 270 pp., $59.95 hardcover. Rethinking Organizational and Managerial Communication from Feminist Perspectives edited by...

New Millennial Sexstyles & Desiring Revolution: Second-Wave Feminism and the Rewriting of American Sexual Thought, 1920 to 1982.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New Millennial Sexstyles by Carol Siegel. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000, 189 pp., $39.95 hardcover, $17.95 paper. Desiring Revolution: Second-Wave Feminism and the Rewriting of American Sexual Thought, 1920 to 1982 by Jane...

Modeling feminist mentoring: introduction.(graduate student-authored book reviews)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
June 22, 2003... The National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) and NWSA Journal remain committed to feminist activism and mentoring. One way we facilitate this at the Journal is to welcome submissions of graduate student work. It was in such a spirit that...

"Women and the Construction of Knowledge"--student book reviews.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... Students earning a graduate certificate in Women's Studies at the University of Georgia contributed the following book reviews. The students were enrolled in a seminar, "Women and the Construction of Knowledge," the women's studies capstone...

Poignant Relations: Three Modern French Women.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... by James Smith Allen. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000, 270 pp., $42.50 hardcover. James Smith Allen's study brings to our attention the lives and works of three forgotten nineteenth-century French women: Marie...

Feminisms at a Millennium.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... edited by Judith A. Howard and Carolyn Allen. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2000, 318 pp., $39.00 hardcover, $21.00 paper. Feminisms at a Millennium was originally a special issue of the journal Signs: Journal of Women in...

Women, Gender, and Human Rights: A Global Perspective.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... edited by Marjorie Agosin. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001, 339 pp., $25.00 paper. Comprised of essays contributed by authors of diverse backgrounds, from human rights activists and scholars to artists and United Nations...

Framed: Lesbians, Feminists, and Media Culture.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... by Judith Mayne. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000, 224 pp., $18.95 paper. The relationship between feminism and the mass media has long been a tenuous one. Many have documented the problematic representations in film,...