Journal of International Women's Studies articles from March 2004

Journal of International Women's Studies archives from March 2004

New writings in women's studies: selected essays from the first women's studies network (U.K.) association essay contest.
March 1, 2004... Introduction The aim of this special issue of the Journal of International Women's Studies (JIWS) is to showcase the winning and shortlisted entries for the 1st Annual Essay Competition, run by the Women's Studies Network (UK) Association...

In spite of challenges by "black" and "third world" women, do mainstream feminist theories still reflect the concerns of white women?
March 1, 2004... Abstract This paper examines the extent to which, despite challenges by "black" and "third world" women, mainstream feminist theory continues to be dominated by the concerns of white women. It considers the problematic nature of categories...

The prisoner of gender: Foucault and the disciplining of the female body.
March 1, 2004... Abstract The work of Michel Foucault has been extremely influential amongst feminist scholars and for good reason; his meditations on discipline, power, sexuality and subjectivity are particularly pertinent to feminist analysis. Yet...

An illimitable field: a practice-based investigation into the writing process.
March 1, 2004... Abstract This essay will be presented in two parts. The first part contains the opening chapter of my novel, Cork Dolls. This novel, as yet unpublished, has been written as part of a practice-based PhD looking at contemporary women's...

My, is that cyborg a little bit queer?
March 1, 2004... Abstract This piece of work is a response to the following question: 'Critically assess the importance, or otherwise, of Donna Haraway's "manifesto" for early twenty-first century feminists'. Based on Stein and Plummer's outline of queer...

Reading as act of queer love: the role of intimacy in the "readerly" contract.
March 1, 2004... Abstract The following paper has been revised from my 2001 MA thesis, which asked 'Is it possible to define a strategy for reading queer?' This includes an investigation of how the traditionally stable categories of reader/text/author may...

An exploration of quaker women's writing between 1650 and 1700.
March 1, 2004... Abstract Throughout the tumultuous period that was the English Civil War, there was a great change in society's values and beliefs resulting in the establishment of many new political and religious groups. Quakerism, established in the...