NWSA Journal articles from March 2009

NWSA Journal archives from March 2009

Editorial Introduction.(Editorial)
March 22, 2009... This issue of the National Women's Studies Association Journal has been developed during a time of great change and instability. Many nations are struggling economically and, within that struggle, are attempting to determine the best ways to...

Coalescing: the development of girls' studies.(Essay)
March 22, 2009... When I entered graduate school in 1990, Girls' Studies did not exist. No professors taught classes specifically related to female youth, and no one organized conference panels or workshops to promote and expand girl-centered research. Scholars...

Uncle Sam wants you to trade, invest, and shop! Relocating the battlefield in the gendered discourses of the pre- and early post-9/11 period.(Report)
March 22, 2009... The global economy has become the primary battlefield of the first war of the 21st century. The first wave of troops deployed in the new war has been business leaders who are racing to mend the country's horribly scarred confidence. (McNish 2001...

Reading Sex and Temperament in Taiwan: Margaret Mead and postwar Taiwanese feminism.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2009... In 1949, the Chinese Communists defeated the Chinese Nationalists in the civil war and the latter retreated to the island of Taiwan, imposing martial law on the Taiwanese population. In the early 1970s, within the context of the Chinese...

Our Miss Brooks: broadcasting domestic ideals for the female teacher in the postwar United States.(Report)
March 22, 2009... Concerned about a student's unexplained week-long absence, a dedicated high school English teacher visits his home on Sunday to help. The student, fourteen-year-old Eddie Garson, has missed school to care for his three younger siblings while his...

Mother's care? Models of motherhood and their ethical implications in post-WWII German literature.(Report)
March 22, 2009... In the wake of Carol Gilligan's In a Different Voice (1982), feminist theorists from multiple disciplines began to explore the question of morality--both how it was traditionally conceived, represented, and socially circulated in European and...

An introduction to gender studies: pregnancy, parenting, and authority in the university.(WITH/IN THE ACADEMY)(Essay)
March 22, 2009... In a semester fecund with irony, my first experience teaching Introduction to Gender Studies coincided almost exactly with the second trimester of my first pregnancy. As my belly grew, so did my students' awareness of critical issues surrounding...

Not avoiding a "sensitive topic": strategies to teach about women's reproductive rights.(WITH/IN THE ACADEMY)(Report)
March 22, 2009... In August 2006, we gave a presentation to faculty on our experiences teaching about women's reproductive rights. As instructors who teach about reproductive rights, abortion, and women's sexual autonomy, we have encountered students with strong...

What are pro-life feminists doing on campus?(WITH/IN THE ACADEMY)(Report)
March 22, 2009... Since the early 1970s, self-identified pro-life feminists in the United States have argued that a feminist movement in support of abortion rights is not in the best interests of women because abortion condones violence against women and fetuses,...

Women, Power, and Political Change.(Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice / Nancy Cunard: Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist / June Jordan: Her Life and Letters)(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Women, Power, and Political Change by Bonnie G. Mani. New York: Lexington Books, 2007, 314 pp., $80.00 hardcover, $28.95 paper. Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, 229 pp., $25.00 hardcover....

Playing with Fire: Feminist Thought and Activism through Seven Lives in India.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Playing With Fire: Feminist Thought and Activism through Seven Lives in India by Sangtin Writers and Richa Nagar. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006, 181 pp., $60.00 hardcover, $20.00 paper. In Awadhi, a language spoken in parts...

These Winter Sundays: Female Academics and Their Working-Class Parents.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... These Winter Sundays: Female Academics and Their Working-Class Parents edited by Kathleen A. Welsch. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005, 193 pp., $55.00 paper. I am an academic with a working-class background; my legacy in the...

Dietrich Icon.(Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and the Image)(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Dietrich Icon, Eds. Gerd Gemunden and Mary Desjardins. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007, 420 pp., $89.95 hardcover, $24.95 paper. Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and the Image by Benetta Jules-Rosette. Chicago: University of...

Same-Sex Marriage: The Legal and Psychological Evolution in America.(Courting Equality: A Documentary History of America's First Legal Same-Sex Marriages)(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Same-Sex Marriage: The Legal and Psychological Evolution in America by Donald J. Cantor, Elizabeth Cantor, James C. Black, and Campbell D. Barrett. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2006, 191 pp., $24.95 hardcover. Courting...

Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns.(W Stands for Women: How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender )(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns by Erika Falk. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2008, 171 pp., $.19.95 paper. W Stands for Women: How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender edited by Michaele...