differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies articles from March 2001

differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies archives from March 2001

The Twenty-First-Century University and the Market: What Price Economic Viability?
March 22, 2001... In the fall of 1999, I co-taught a graduate course on the future of U.S. universities. We addressed a number of volatile topics in this course--the possible abolition of academic tenure, the challenge that poststructuralism poses to...

Who's Afraid of the Cultural Turn?
March 22, 2001... The soul takes fright at the hard truth of theory, which points up thc necessity of changing an impoverished form of existence. (Marcuse 113) A quarter of a century has come and gone since the American academy experienced what is now...

American Nationhood as Eugenic Romance.(race in film 'Broken Blossoms' by D.W. Griffith)
March 22, 2001... Far from proceeding...from ethnocentric scorn, the occultation takes the form of an hyperbolical admiration. have not finished demonstrating the necessity of this pattern. Our century is not free from it; each time that ethnocentrism is...

Between Maternity and Paternity: Figuring Ethical Subjectivity.
March 22, 2001... L'erection phallique, non toutepuissante, serait alors une version masculine du lien ombilical. (Irigaray, Sexes et parentes 29) Feminists have long argued that the more influential trends in Western thought have tended toward a decided...

Virtuous Cuts: Female Genital Circumcision in an African Ontology.
March 22, 2001... The only basis of power is "virtue." Bourdieu (194) Much has been written on gender violence in Africa. In this burgeoning literature, African women are repeatedly painted as downtrodden, forlorn, helpless casualties of male dominance....