Journal of International Women's Studies articles from June 2005

Journal of International Women's Studies archives from June 2005

Volumes: notes from the editors.(Editorial)
June 1, 2005... This special issue of the JIWS seeks to examine the topic of gendered constructions of space(s). How does space structure our understanding of gender? How does it participate in cultural constructions of race, class, and sexuality? What are the...

Dirty spaces: communication and contamination in men's public toilets (1).
June 1, 2005... Abstract This paper examines the spatiality of men's public toilets in Australia. It considers public toilets as cultural sites whose work involves not only the literal elimination of waste but also a form of cultural purification. Men's...

From sociability to spectacle: interracial sexuality and the ideological uses of space in New York City, 1900-1930.(Essay)
June 1, 2005... Abstract This paper addresses inter-racial sociability and sexuality in New York City before and after the Great Migration of African-Americans from the rural South to northern US cities. Using space and the arrangements of objects in...

The communal apartment in the works of Irina Grekova and Nina Sadur.(Essay)
June 1, 2005... Abstract While a good deal of recent scholarly attention has been paid to the Soviet communal apartment, the current literature has not specifically addressed how women are affected by living in such a space. Russian women have a...

The Royal Abbey of Fontevrault: religious women & the shaping of gendered space.(Essay)
June 1, 2005... Abstract This article examines the religious and architectural history of the Royal Abbey of Fontevrault, in the French province of Anjou, investigating the active and deliberate role women played in shaping the physical and symbolic space...

Researching female public toilets: gendered spaces, disciplinary limits.(Interview)
June 1, 2005... Abstract I have always been drawn to study intimate yet public spaces--most notably Victorian ladies' public lavatories and American honeymoon suites. Such research raises larger questions concerning the legitimacy of certain objects of...

The political economy of desire: geographies of female sex work in Havana, Cuba (1).(Case study)(Essay)
June 1, 2005... Abstract The global political economy of desire influences the construction of gendered spaces in Cuba. One of the results of increasing global linkages has been the rise in sex tourism throughout the world. This is particularly salient in...

Your humble servant shows himself: Don Saltero and public coffeehouse space.(Essay)
June 1, 2005... Abstract In 1695, James Salter, who fashioned himself as "Don Saltero," opened a coffeehouse on a respectable corner in Chelsea. The chief attraction of the coffeehouse, from Salter's point of view, was the array of natural science...

Absent homosexuality: the mediated discourses of masculinity on the design and construction of the Sydney Opera House.(Essay)
June 1, 2005... Abstract This paper examines the controversy surrounding the construction of the Sydney Opera House at mid-century, and the role of "absent" homosexuality in shaping the new ideals of the country as a modern nation. Australian popular...

The Gendered Pulpit: Preaching in American Protestant Spaces.(Book review)
June 1, 2005... The Gendered Pulpit: Preaching in American Protestant Spaces. Roxanne Mountford. 2003. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. pp. 194. Includes index. $45.00, hardcover. The Gendered Pulpit: Preaching in American Protestant Spaces...

Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London's West End.(Book review)
June 1, 2005... Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London's West End. Erika Diane Rappaport. 2000. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 323 pp. $24.95 paperback. Women and shopping have often been linked in the literature on...

Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work, and Family Life.(Book review)
June 1, 2005... Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work, and Family Life. Revised and Expanded. Delores Hayden. 2002. New York: W.W. Norton and Company. 286 pp. Includes illustrations, photographs, appendix, and index. $15.95 paperback. ...

Maps of Women's Goings and Stayings.(In Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences series)(Book review)
June 1, 2005... Maps of Women's Goings and Stayings. Rela Mazali. In Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences (Series). Eds. Daniel Boyarin, Chana Kronfeld and Naomi Seidman. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2001. 382 pp. Illustrated. $24.95...

Domestic Violence and the Politics of Privacy.(Book review)
June 1, 2005... Domestic Violence and the Politics of Privacy. Kristin A. Kelly. 2003. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 209 pp. Includes endnotes and bibliography. $17.95 (paperback). As a committed activist/academic, I frequently encounter individuals...

Black Body: Women, Colonialism, and Space.(Book review)
June 1, 2005... Black Body: Women, Colonialism, and Space. Radhika Mohanram. 1999. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota. 250 pages. Three photos; index included. $18.95 paperback. In Black Body: Women, Colonialism, and Space, Radhika Mohanram interrogates...

Embodied Utopias: Gender, Social Change, and the Modern Metropolis.(Book review)
June 1, 2005... Embodied Utopias: Gender, Social Change, and the Modern Metropolis. Edited by Amy Bingaman, Lise Sanders and Rebecca Zorach. 2002. London: Routledge. 316 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography and index are included. $39.95 (paperback)....

Performing the Border.("Writings Desire" , " Performing the Border", Remote Sensing", anD "Europlex" by Ursula Biemann)
June 1, 2005... Performing the Border. 42 minutes, VHS, color, 1999. Writing Desire, 25 minutes, VHS, color, 2000. Remote Sensing. 53 minutes, VHS, color, 2001. Filmmaker Ursula Biemann, Switzerland. Distributed by Women Make Movies, 462 Broadway, New York,...

Behind the Gates: Life, Security, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America.(Book review)
June 1, 2005... Behind the Gates: Life, Security, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America. Setha Low. 2003. New York: Routledge. 275 pp. Illustrations, photographs, appendices, index. $27.95 (hardback). $18.95 (paperback). When I was a child,...

Outsiders Inside: Whiteness, Place and Irish Women (Gender, Racism, Ethnicity).(Book review)
June 1, 2005... Outsiders Inside: Whiteness, Place and Irish Women (Gender, Racism, Ethnicity). Bronwen Walter. London: Routledge. 2000. 320 pp., $36.95, paperback. Over the last twenty years Irish women's studies has grown into a veritable industry as...

Father's Kitchen.(Poem)
June 1, 2005... FATHER'S KITCHEN In some way it had always been my father's kitchen. Even when I was in my teens he'd walk in, sit in his chair and ask our mother or whichever daughter was there to make coffee. "Why don't you make...

Memories in Vacuum and Western Beach: questioning the nature of space in the Israeli context.(Merav Ezer and Yahezkel Lazarov at the Baalil/Evident show)(Critical essay)
June 1, 2005... Keywords: Ezer, Lazarov, Isreal, home I am interested in the ways in which artists explore spatial meanings--cultural, social, and political--and the ways in which spaces can carry both personal and shared meanings. I recently curated a...

The view from the street: La Goutte d'Or.(Essay)
June 1, 2005... Abstract: This photo essay is about a multiethnic urban immigrant neighborhood in central Paris called the Goutte d'Or. The text and the selection of photographs foreground the author's exploration of women's spaces in the neighborhood and...