Women in Action articles from August 2003

Women in Action archives from August 2003

Grrl power and third wave feminism.(editorial)(Editorial)
August 1, 2003... She's cool, smart, confident, and independent. She can also be bold, rebellious, and daring. This seems to be the dominant image of young women today--an image manufactured through the eyes of advertisers. This ubiquitous image hyped in the...

Divorced women fight financial woes, stigma.(clips)
August 1, 2003... Sue Nagashima, 57, recalls her days as a single mother of two young sons as a "terrifying struggle for survival." "Financially I was dependent on my parents, my two part-time jobs, and a paltry government allowance," she says. "At the end...

Girls Go Global: how do you see global feminism?(clips)
August 1, 2003... The "Girls Go Global" project is an international initiative to bring together contemporary and pop culture images of global feminism from women and girls across the globe. Women and girls are encouraged to send essays (not more than 3,000...

No place yet for women in reconstruction.(clips)
August 1, 2003... Early this month, U.S. President George W. Bush proclaimed from the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln that, "the United States and our allies have prevailed... And now our coalition is engaged in securing and reconstructing" Iraq. ...

DC crimes highlight violence against transgenders.(clips)
August 1, 2003... Washington DC Police Chief Charles Ramsey placed the district under a crime emergency, following the recent onslaught of violence, including the murder of two trangendered women this week. The heightened status waives the two-week notice...

CEDAW rejected in Iran.(clips)
August 1, 2003... Iran's ultra-conservative Guardian Council rejected last week three bills approved by Parliament, foremost among which is the International Women's Treaty, the Convention to Eliminate all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). The other...

The voice behind the speech: young women in UN Conventions.(young women)
August 1, 2003... The youth are caught in a definition-overlap. The 1985 International Youth Year promoted the idea that youth are 'persons between 15-24 years old.' The Convention on the Rights of the Child considers children as those in the 0-18 age bracket....

Young women's participation in international conferences the new information society.(young women)
August 1, 2003... The information society, driven by the "new" information and communication technologies (ICTs), has a dangerous potential to further marginalise young women from voicing their concerns. For example, ICTs are key to international conferences for...

Beyond age: young women and diversity.(young women)
August 1, 2003... I am always amazed at the consequence of my attempts toward self-introspection to create a portrait depicting who I am. Very likely I would discover, as has always been the case, that I become more than the singular person that emerges from a...

Young women: on the line.(young women)
August 1, 2003... Two years since its initial attempt to bring a group of Southern feminists to an online discussion, Isis International Manila organised another such virtual meeting of six articulate young women from Indonesia, Philippines, United States and...

Bombing the patriarchy or outfitting a cab: challenges facing the next generation of feminist activists (1).(young women)
August 1, 2003... The very different concerns of two young women's groups in Australia today are the focus of this article. The first group is the Cross Campus Women's Network (CCWN), a network of feminist students belonging to women's collectives across the...

Sparking revolutions in minds and hearts: in conversation with Grrrl Zine editors from around the world.(young women)
August 1, 2003... As a creative form of resistance, zines reflect the unfiltered personal voices of young women and queer youth fighting against the societal and patriarchal corset. In zines, they challenge the conventional meanings and expectations of...

My personal, your political, our lesbianism.(young women)
August 1, 2003... The feminist phrase "what is personal is political" applies not only to feminists but to lesbians as well. The phrase has come to mean that distinctions between the personal and the public realms are fallacious (Humm 204). But can the phrase...

Youth rave: 'talk to us about our rights but let us have our say, too'.(young women)
August 1, 2003... CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- Because they know least about their rights, the young adults here want to know about these intrinsic rights more. And, yes, they will listen to in-depth discussions on youth rights over the airlanes, on their favorite FM...

The reproductive health of young women in Argentina: an unsettled issue.(young women)
August 1, 2003... Ask today a young Argentine woman about her sexual and reproductive rights, and the most likely response is silence or a shrug to mean she doesn't know what you are talking about. The lack of information is alarming: the adolescents don't see...

A call for young women to get mad!(young women)
August 1, 2003... I want to believe in the revolution, I need to know it can happen. As I look around me, to my generation, I feel disillusioned and alone. They say we are in a post-feminist era, which seems true if we look at popular culture. There is not much...

Philippines: empowering zone.(young women)
August 1, 2003... Cebu City (WFS) -- At Youth Zone, the youngsters of Cebu don't just make friends, they also get empowered. Located in the busy Colonnade Mall in downtown Cebu, where many young people hang out, Youth Zone looks like a posh Internet cafe with...

Locating youth fervour and misgivings in the sustainable-development map.(young women)
August 1, 2003... To young people sustainable development is simple--it's a world where they want to live in forty years. As many have discovered, to make sustainable development work, you have to involve the people directly affected and those traditionally...

Bare Your Soul: the Thinking Girl's Guide to Enlightenment (Live Girls Series).(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Edited by Angela Watrous Whether raised within a specific belief system or warned against all things religious, young women today have been left with questions that dating guides and pop feminist theory cannot answer. Bare Your Soul...

Flirting with Danger: Young Women's Reflections on Sexuality and Domination.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Lynn M. Phillips In Flirting with Danger, Lynn M. Phillips explores how young women make sense of, resist, and negotiate conflicting cultural messages about sexual agency, responsibility, aggression and desire. How do women develop...

From Girls to Grrrlz: a History of Women's Comics from Teens to Zines.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Trina Robbins, Introduction by Carla Sinclair This book is an art-packed compendium of chronicles of more than fifty years of girl comics authors, artists, trends and characters. From Girls to Grrrlz takes the readers on a tour of...

Body Outlaws: Young Women Write about Body Image and Identity.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Edited by Ophira Edut; Foreword by Rebecca Walker Body Outlaws compiles a range of essays that give collective voice to the first feminist generation's conscious repudiation of the dominant beauty standard and insistence to feel at home in...

Almost Touching the Skies: Women's Coming of Age Stories.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Edited by Florence Howe and Jean Casella; Introduction by Marilyn French Assembled in honour of The Feminist Press's 30th anniversary, this anthology brings together the work of 22 exceptional American woman authors from the nineteenth and...

Young-Women and the Body: a Feminist Sociology.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Liz Frost This book examines why Western young women suffer alienation from their bodies. It first looks at the currently recognised body disorders: eating disorders, self-harm and dysmorphic disorder, and finds that these are primarily...

Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards Young women today live by feminism's goals, yet feminism itself is undeniably at a cross-roads: "Girl power" feminists appear to be obsessed with personal empowerment at the expense of politics,...

Feminism and Youth Culture.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Angela McRobbie A specialist in young women and British popular culture, McRobbie (communication, Goldsmith College) carries over six essays from her 1991 edition, most of which were written while she was with the Birmingham Centre for...

Letters to a Young Feminist.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Phyllis Chesler In Letters to a Young Feminist, Phyllis Chesler challenges youthful feminists to stop thinking of "feminism" as a word from the dusty past and reclaim it for their own lives. Indicting the contradictions between...

Voicing Chicana Feminisms (Qualitative Studies in Psychology): Young Women Speak out on Sexuality and Identity.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Written by Aida Hurtado; Edited by Michelle Fine and Jeanne Marecek Though "Chicana feminisms" have only recently been enumerated, a feminist perspective has long existed in Chicano communities without it being explicitly named such....

Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Edited by Rory Cooke Dicker and Alison Piepmeier Young women today have benefited from the strides made by grassroots social activists in the 1960s and 1970s, yet they are hesitant to identify themselves as feminists and seem apathetic...

Bad Girls: the Media, Sex and Feminism in the 90s.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Catharine Lumby Bad Girls gives the readers a controversial and exciting new take on debates surrounding pornography, censorship and the media, arguing that the complaints of sexism often levelled at popular culture and media are...

Wild Words/Dangerous Desires: High School Girls and Feminist Writing Practices.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Helen J. Harper Wild Words/Dangerous Desires explores the struggles of young women trying to define themselves with, and against, the pleasures, premises and practices that mark the female subject in feminist avant-garde writing....

Web resources.(isis resources)
August 1, 2003... 1. Women's Studies Center (WSC) The Women's Studies Center (WSC) is an independent, Palestinian non-governmental organisation that strives for the realisation of equality between women and men. It seeks to mobilise the efforts of all women...

Dream of the Walled City.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... author: Fleischman, Lisa Huang publication details: Washington Square Press, New York, 2000 416 pages How does one balance one's idealism and the need for stability? Are these mutually exclusive states? How does a woman cope with a rapidly...

My Forbidden Face, Growing Up Under the Taliban: a Young Woman's Story.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... author: Latifa, translated by Linda Coverdale publication details: New York, Talk Miramax Books, 2001 210 pages This autobiographical narrative, written under a pseudonym by a 21-year-old woman now living in exile in Paris with her parents,...

Behind the Great Wall: China's population policies.(health section)
August 1, 2003... In the early 1970s, when China was more than two decades into its Stalinist experiment, its leaders took stock of the country's soaring population and concluded that they were headed for disaster. Between 1962 and 1972 alone, the country had...

Hormone therapy: health protection lessons from the Women's Health Initiative.(health section)
August 1, 2003... In July 2002, the American researchers conducting the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) halted their large clinical trial to evaluate menopausal hormone therapy (HT). Rather than preventing diseases in ageing women, as many had claimed, the study...

Genderplay: successes and failures in character designs for videogames.(ict section)
August 1, 2003... As a woman who plays video games, I've had to think about gender in videogames, be cause it's so obvious that I'm playing in a boys' world. The late Dr. Anita Borg taught that technology isn't neutral; tools are shaped by the values and...

A critique of Candy magazine.(media section)(Critical Essay)
August 1, 2003... Candy magazine, a teen-consumer monthly publication published by the Summit Media Company, a member of the Gokongwei Group of Companies, is aimed at 13- to 16-year-old girls from the AB and upper C economic strata . It is available in...

Isis Clip Art: images now available online and in CDs.
August 1, 2003... Isis-International Manila would like to announce the online availability of the images from the Isis Clip Art collection. Isis is hoping to share these positive images of women as rendered by chosen Filipino artists Free for anyone to use...