Hecate articles from November 2007

Hecate archives from November 2007

Why should feminists read the Bible?
November 1, 2007... When in the early part of the nineteenth century, women began to protest against their civil and political degradation, they were referred to the Bible for an answer. When they protested against their unequal position in the church, they were...

Loving Yusuf: a story of taboos.(misogyny)
November 1, 2007... Distance and Proximity: Reading Against the Grain of Ourselves The story known as 'Joseph and Potiphar's wife' (Gen. 39; Qur'an 12) is a classical site of misogyny, specifically, of women's unreliability and betrayal. However, this story...

Eve and the bad girls club.(female identity)
November 1, 2007... Eve was sitting under an apricot tree in the cool of the day and pondering what had happened to her in all the aeons of days that had passed since she and Adam had left the Garden of Eden, following God's tissy fit at the thought that they...

A clever Queen learns the wisdom of God: the Queen of Sheba in the Hebrew scriptures and the Qur'an.
November 1, 2007... The story of the Queen of Sheba, who comes to the court of King Solomon of Israel, is found in 1 Kings 10:1-14 and 2 Chronicles 9:1-12 of the Hebrew Scriptures and sura 27:23-44 of the Qur'an. The Queen remains unnamed throughout the story in...

Wittig's lesbian and the Corinthian men: problematising categories of sex in 1 Cor 11.2-16.(Monique Wittig)
November 1, 2007... Monique Wittig burst onto the French literary scene in 1964 with the publication of her first novel, L'opoponax, at the age of 29, for which she was awarded the Prix Medicis, one of the most prestigious literary awards in France. With her...

Crying baby.(Short story)
November 1, 2007... A neatly groomed teacher on maternity leave consults me because her two month old baby screams and screams for no apparent reason. She sits in the chair, fighting back tears, handling her infant with that peculiar tentativeness that comes from...

The flood.(Short story)
November 1, 2007... 'On your mark... get ready... get set... go!' The corgi wagged its stump of a tail but didn't get up. He was too old for chasing games now. 'Come on Yogi,' Nell called. 'Come on.' The dog lifted his head from his paws and...

Bodies of de/composition: leprosy and tattooing in Beatrice Grimshaw's fiction and travel writing.
November 1, 2007... Footprints runnin' cross the silver sand Steps goin' down into tattoo land I met the sons of darkness and the sons of light In the bordertowns of despair Bob Dylan (Dignity) (1) Introduction When Irish travel writer and novelist...

Beds.(Short story)
November 1, 2007... 1. The wet. The cold. In the middle of a winter Sunday everyone has gotten into their beds, like bears, to hibernate for the winter months. They lie in bed with cups of tea and books and talk through the walls. 'I would like,' says...

Patchwork Quilt.(Second Person as Subject: Artistic Heterosexual Collaborations)(Poem)
November 1, 2007... Patchwork Quilt: Sonia Delaunay 1885-1979: Robert Delaunay 1885-1941 The most productive artistic exchange of the twentieth century? Dressed in bright yellow, blue, red and green, strident juxtapositions of colour, you...

Action Painters.(Second Person as Subject: Artistic Heterosexual Collaborations)(Poem)
November 1, 2007... Action Painters Lee Krasner (1908-1984) Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) Pollack-Krasner, Krasner-Pollack, all the critics wrote, the hyphenated quote, their modern art handcuff or bridle? You were 'Action widow'...

blue.(Second Person as Subject: Artistic Heterosexual Collaborations)(Poem)
November 1, 2007... blue Last night we painted our fingernails blue; first my daughter and then me. The first coat was streaky and translucent rippled shallow water sky shot with cloud kindergarten paintbrush...

A Doll's House.(Second Person as Subject: Artistic Heterosexual Collaborations)(Poem)
November 1, 2007... A Doll's House Mother when I was a little girl I wanted a doll's house 6 storeys of miniature rooms housing miniature lives a place where Action Man could hang with Barbie then drive off somewhere...

The Poet Shrugs.(Second Person as Subject: Artistic Heterosexual Collaborations)(Poem)
November 1, 2007... The Poet Shrugs Tonight I am sleeping with a poet and a child. The poet pulls me sideways sets fire to my straw stuffing whispers words like the drops of his soul on my tongue. The child puts out the fire ...

The Mulberry Tree.(Second Person as Subject: Artistic Heterosexual Collaborations)(Poem)
November 1, 2007... The Mulberry Tree In summer... in the yard next door the grass grew wild (Old people just don't mow as much or trim the edges of their paths, nor prune their trees!) and so that tangled garden was a magic world, where ...

Disturbing the dialectics of the public toilet: with the water closet.
November 1, 2007... 1. Outsiders--three encounters in the bathroom Her voice wavered as she answered me. I wondered where this was heading--I'd expected a simple answer. 'Three quarters of the way through the exam, I needed to go to the toilet. I couldn't...

Blue Lake Beans and Others.(Poem)
November 1, 2007... Blue Lake Beans and Others When you look close enough, the grevilleas are tiny puffed vulvas with uncurling tongues poking out from between fat, tissue-paper lips. Pumpkins and zucchini self-seed in the compost; ...

The Frogs Sang Me Back.(Poem)
November 1, 2007... The Frogs Sang Me Back Today I let the music in, and remembered how it softens the cicada-husk of you, the way sleep does; how it quiets the circling animal within the way rutting does; how music makes the borders...

Notebook.(Poem)
November 1, 2007... Notebook I. Go to the newsagent to buy a new notebook: another new start. Spend time wandering up and down the paper stacks worrying: How many pages? Ruled or blank? Margins or not? ...

On Days Like Today.(Poem)
November 1, 2007... On Days Like Today It is so much easier when it rains like this. Things feel right in this kind of light and it doesn't seem to matter that I hardly leave the house. Don't need to think of the ...

Spiderwoman and Snow White Fight It Out.(Poem)
November 1, 2007... Spiderwoman and Snow White Fight It Out I keep myself under my pillow, two of me. One pinky slough of spider skin, legs in can-can, legs in air girl, undie frills for flash and twirl girl. Show off, show off, ...

Blue.(Fictional work)
November 1, 2007... Everyone knows blue, the hue of soul, the waft of smoke. Blue-collar working-class, navy overalls, blue uniforms, a blue-scarved woman finishing work at the ammunitions factory talking to 'one of the girls' on the tram home. The driveway...

Breaking loose.(Short story)
November 1, 2007... 'I'll tell the children not to phone. I'll say I'm going on one of those mysterious trips you don't know the destination of until you arrive,' Heddy McCoy mumbles to herself as she pulls the front door shut behind her. 'No, better to say...

Women's History in academic journals.(Australian Network for Research )
November 1, 2007... The Australian Network for Research in Women's History was established in the early 1990s, as a national committee of the International Federation for Research in Women's History/ Federation Internationale Pour la Recherche en Histoire des...

Assessing the scene: Journal of Women's History, Women's History Review and Gender & History since 2000.(Women's History in Academic Journals)
November 1, 2007... This contribution provides an overview of the work of three major international journals that specialise in gender history and women's history, with a particular interest in the publishing opportunities they offer to young scholars working in...

Flirting with the past: a survey of current work in the history of sexuality.(Women's History in Academic Journals)
November 1, 2007... My brief was to provide a survey of the range of women's, gender or feminist history currently being published in journals on sexuality. This encompasses an enormous historical, geographical and cultural terrain that ranges from female...

Women, colonialism, history: publishing on women's history in race and colonial history journals.(Women's History in Academic Journals)
November 1, 2007... My task in this paper was to take stock of the intersection between women's history and postcolonial studies through the rather partial perspective of journals on race and colonialism. Gender has emerged as one of the primary analytical...

Everywhere and nowhere? Women's history in cultural history and cultural studies journals.(Women's History in Academic Journals)
November 1, 2007... Cultural history, as Hsu-Ming Teo and Richard White recently noted, is 'probably the most fashionable of history's many approaches. It has taken over that role, first from political history and then from social history, as the all-embracing...