NWSA Journal articles from September 2008

NWSA Journal archives from September 2008

Editor's note.(Correction notice)
September 22, 2008... In response to Devon Smith's review of Whither Justice: Stories of Women in Prison, in NWSAJ Vol. 20, number 2 (Summer 2008), Nandini Oza, the author of the book reviewed, communicated with the reviewer to specify that her time spent in jail was...

New Orleans: a special issue on the gender politics of place and displacement.(INTRODUCTION)(New Orleans, Louisiana)(Essay)
September 22, 2008... In the fall of 2005, the editors of this special NWSAJ issue, like most of the United States and many throughout the world, witnessed via mass media the destruction that was unleashed by Hurricane Katrina on the city and region surrounding New...

a prayer band.(Poem)
September 22, 2008... a prayer band every thing you ever paid for you ever worked on you ever received every thing you ever gave away you ever held on to you ever forgot about every single thing is one of every single thing and all...

Looking for common ground: relief work in post-Katrina New Orleans as an American parable of race and gender violence.(Essay)
September 22, 2008... This article tells a story of race and gender in the context of disaster "recovery" in New Orleans. It is an interdisciplinary case study and, as a discrete example of sexism and violence, it is almost generic. Indeed, its familiarity--white...

Getting out or staying put: an African American women's network in evacuation from Katrina.(Essay)
September 22, 2008... On Wednesday, August 24, 2005, a hurricane warning was issued for the southeastern Florida coast. The next day, Hurricane Katrina hit Florida, killed nine people and progressed into the Gulf of Mexico. On Friday, August 26, the White House...

Battered women, catastrophe, and the context of safety after Hurricane Katrina.(Essay)
September 22, 2008... After both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, one young, female deputy sheriff responded to domestic violence calls in a coastal Louisiana Parish. As she tells it, she replaced her cell phone and computer with a machete and shotgun because snakes and...

Displacement, gender, and the challenges of parenting after Hurricane Katrina.(Report)(Essay)
September 22, 2008... It's almost easier to be here than to actually go back to New Orleans. My heart goes out to those who can't go back. My heart goes out to me because I can go back. But I'm almost afraid. It's not the same. Nothin' is the same any more... So...

Photos by Melody Golding, Andrew Borowiec, and Jane Fulton Alt.(Photograph)
September 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Melody Golding. "Pearlie Goodman." Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, March 2006. www.melodygolding.com [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Melody Golding. Grandmother, with her grandchildren, crabbing along the shoreline after...

Looking back to move forward: Katrina's black women survivors speak.(Hurricane Katrina)(Report)
September 22, 2008... No urban legend I will tell. I know this story very well. I will tell you a story of New Orleans but not of the French Quarter or Cajun Cuisine. I'll tell of a city in deep despair. A once Dancing Queen now confined to a wheel chair. The...

Cultural trauma, memory, and gendered collective action: the case of Women of the Storm following Hurricane Katrina.(Essay)
September 22, 2008... Introduction On December 11, 2005, the New York Times printed an editorial titled "The Death of An American City," which projected a dire outlook for post-Katrina New Orleans: "We are about to lose New Orleans. Whether it is a conscious plan...

Weathering the storm together (torn apart by race, gender, and class).(Essay)
September 22, 2008... It is as if something that seemed inalienable to us, the securest of our possessions, were taken from us, the ability to exchange experiences. --(Benjamin 1969, 83) (1) I do not know how to tell my story. (2) There are too many...

Losing ground but finding the high road: teaching women's studies in post-Katrina New Orleans.(COLLECTIVE WOMEN'S STUDIES ESSAY)(2005 Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana)(Essay)
September 22, 2008... "Did you lose anything in the storm?" Three years after the worst disaster to hit an American city in public memory, this is a question we are still asked when we leave New Orleans. It seems like an awkward, if not unanswerable, question in a...

Still Waiting: Life After Katrina.(DOCUMENTING KATRINA)(Video recording review)
September 22, 2008... Still Waiting: Life After Katrina, 60-minute DVD available for $24.95 (home version) or $125.00 (education license). For ordering information, visit the film's website: http://www.stillwaiting.colostate.edu/ Based on 18 months of intensive...

From the filmmaker, Still Waiting: Life After Katrina.(DOCUMENTING KATRINA)
September 22, 2008... Still Waiting: Life After Katrina leads many viewers to comment on the strength and centrality of women in the 155-member family that we followed. I want to point out, however, that this woman-centered film rises not from a decision to showcase...

Black Women and Music: More Than the Blues.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Black Women and Music: More than the Blues edited by Eileen M. Hayes and Linda F. Williams. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007. 261 pp., $65.00 hardcover, $25.00 paper. Black Women and Music: More than the Blues is more than an...

Latina Activists Across Borders: Women's Grassroots Organizing in Mexico and Texas.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Latina Activists Across Borders: Women's Grassroots Organizing in Mexico and Texas by Milagros Pena. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007, 178 pp. $21.95 paperback. What does Latina women's grassroots activism look like in Texas and...

Everyday Harm: Domestic Violence, Court Rites, and Cultures of Reconciliation.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Everyday Harm: Domestic Violence, Court Rites, and Cultures of Reconciliation by Mindie Lazarus-Black. Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2007, 244 pp., $65.00 hardcover, $22.00 paper. Mindie Lazarus-Black's readable and engaging book...

Girls on the Stand: How Courts Fail Pregnant Minors.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Girls on the Stand: How Courts Fail Pregnant Minors by Helena Silverstein. New York: New York University Press, 2007, 239 pp., $32.00 hardcover. The majority of states in the United States limit access to abortion for minors by requiring...

Resisting History: Gender, Modernity, and Authorship in William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora Welty.(Entitled to the Pedestal: Place, Race, and Progress in White Southern Women's Writing, 1920-1945)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Resisting History: Gender, Modernity, and Authorship in William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora Welty by Barbara Ladd. Southern Literary Studies, Series Ed. Fred Hobson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007, 175 pp.,...

Removing Barriers: Women in Academic Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.('Women, Gender, and Technology' and 'Science and Social Inequality: Feminist and Postcolonial Issues' )(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Removing Barriers: Women in Academic Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, Jill M. Bystydzienski and Sharon R. Bird, eds. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2006, 347 pp., $75 hardcover, $30 paper. Women,...