Journal of International Women's Studies articles from July 2005

Journal of International Women's Studies archives from July 2005

Introduction.(Essay)
July 1, 2005... This special issue showcases the winning and short listed essays from the second annual essay competition of the Feminist and Women's Studies Association (UK and Ireland) (FWSA). Formerly the Women's Studies Network (UK), the renaming in 2004...

Tussles over gendered spaces and assertions of female presence in Anne Le Marquand Hartigan's play The Secret Game.(Critical essay)
July 1, 2005... Abstract This paper is an extract from the PhD thesis entitled "Self-Imaging /Self-Imagining in the Woman's Writing (and Painting) of Anne Le Marquand Hartigan", submitted to University College, Dublin in 2004. The essay discusses...

Refracting mothertongues: considering mobility through language.(Essay)
July 1, 2005... Abstract In this article I explore the interplay between language and mobility. As the number of debates about mobility and belonging has grown both in the social sciences and in feminist theory, there has been an increasing discussion...

'By heaven and hell': re-evaluating representations of women and the angel/whore dichotomy in Renaissance revenge tragedy.
July 1, 2005... Abstract This essay explores the treatment of female characters in Renaissance revenge tragedy: specifically in Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy and Shakespeare's Hamlet. Revenge tragedy is a dramatic sub-genre that conventionally develops an...

What sort of mental health problems are experienced by women in contemporary British society? What do different feminist perspectives offer as alleviation?(Essay)
July 1, 2005... Abstract This essay argues that by labelling British women's mental health distress and treatment in terms of a purely medical model, underlying contributory social structures and phenomena such as gendered roles, ethnicity and poverty,...

Missy 'Misdemeanor' Elliott: rapping on the frontiers of female identity.(Essay)
July 1, 2005... Abstract This paper provides an analysis of Missy Elliott as a contemporary icon, using the innovation and creativity of two of her music videos (One Minute Man and She's A Bitch), as media texts that both illuminate and disrupt feminist...

The silencing of women: the Irish abortion laws and religion.(Essay)
July 1, 2005... Abstract This essay attempts to look at the unfortunate circumstances that surround women in Ireland in regards to abortion. Rather than looking at the pro- and anti-life arguments which are commonly discussed when approaching abortion...