Journal of International Women's Studies articles from May 2003

Journal of International Women's Studies archives from May 2003

A history of women in Afghanistan: lessons learnt for the future or yesterdays and tomorrow: women in Afghanistan.
May 1, 2003... Abstract In this paper, through the history of women in Afghanistan, I want to locate the position of women in the future by lessons learnt from the past. Given Afghanistan's current situation of poverty, political disenfranchisement and...

An ideal unionist: the political career of Theresa, Marchioness of Londonderry, 1911-1919.
May 1, 2003... Abstract The most prominent unionist woman in the early twentieth century was Theresa, Marchioness of Londonderry. During the Third Home Rule Crisis and its aftermath, Lady Londonderry worked tirelessly against Irish self-government. She...

The Ground Beneath Her Feet: "third world" feminisms.
May 1, 2003... Abstract This paper advances the argument that third world feminism calls for a re-orienting of our critical energies from merely taking sides in a debate, to questioning the material and ideological lens that interpolates the debate,...

Cape Verde's Empresarias: image and reality.
May 1, 2003... Abstract The West African Republic of Cape Verde was under socialist governance from the time of independence in 1975 until its first multi-party government initiated privatization in 1991. The study examines, as of the mid-90s, the...

Maria Stewart and the rhetoric of mobility.
May 1, 2003... Abstract Formulating a black feminist rhetoric, a counter-narrative that joins rather than separates the church with politics, Maria Stewart, in the meditations and political speeches of the Productions of Mrs. Maria Stewart (1835) calls...

Separating from violent male partners: a resistant act in the midst of power relations.
May 1, 2003... Abstract This article draws on Foucauldian feminist theory to conceptualize separating from violent male partners by women as an act of resistance. Thus conceptualized, leaving takes on a new meaning as a strategy used by women to disrupt...

"Word made flesh": Czech women's writing from communism to post-communism.(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2003... Abstract This article explores the changes in Czech women's fiction from communism to post- communism, focusing in particular on Czech women writers' relationship to literary discourse and feminism. It contends that women writers' rapport...

Seeing battle, knowing war: feminist re-visioning in Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu's "The Man Whose Heart They Could See".(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2003... Abstract As an exploration of the themes of disillusionment and the failure of language, Romanian writer Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu's "The Man Whose Heart They Could See" would seem to share much with better-known men's writing on the war...

Family obligations or cultural contraints? Obstacles in the path of professional women.
May 1, 2003... Abstract This paper provides an account of our research on balancing private life and work among highly qualified information technology (IT) professionals. The authors basically present the findings of an empirical research on balancing...

The gender blindness of good theorists: an Israeli case study.
May 1, 2003... Abstract In this article I use Swirski's book (1) as a sounding board for a theoretical discussion about issues of marginality and gender in Israeli society. My aim is to discuss a number of issues connected with gender blindness that are...

Identifying indigenous health technologies used by women in a rural community in Nigeria on the cord stumps of newborns: a decrease in cord infections and neonatal tetanus?
May 1, 2003... Abstract About two-thirds of births in developing countries take place outside health facilities and almost half of the women are delivered by untrained traditional birth attendants (TBAs), family members or deliver on their own. A wide...

Maternalism in mistress-maid relations: the Philippine experience.
May 1, 2003... Abstract The mistress-maid relationship, grounded in maternalism, provides a glaring example of the class inequality among women. Contextualized in the Third World, this paper examines maternalism both as a complex, hierarchical system...

Irish women: uncovering their language of power.
May 1, 2003... Abstract In this paper I discuss my experience as an older student studying in Ireland. I connect my encounter in Ireland with a preeminent female Irish poet, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, to research I was conducting on the social evolution of...

Using imagination to create new roles: Diane Wakoski's poetry.(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2003... In 2001, as my "Women In America" class drew to a close, my freshman students had a complaint so compelling that they risked offending me just before I calculated final grades. They announced that the women's movement seemed a failure to them...

Too Much to Ask: Black Women in the Era of Integration.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Elizabeth Higginbotham. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC. 2001, 290 pp. (paperback) US$19.95. Elizabeth Higginbotham's Too Much to Ask: Black Women in the Era of Integration (2001) provides a powerful and enlightening...

Afternoon in Paleo Faliron.(Brief Article)(Poem)
May 1, 2003... Afternoon in Paleo Faliron I determine the number of blocks, decide to walk to the kafenion on the coast. I know there I will have the option of crossing the highway, putting my face to the sea. If the gods ...

Up the mountain.(Brief Article)(Poem)
May 1, 2003... Up the Mountain On a steep cobblestone street, a woman who wears winter on her face sweeps her doorstep once again, returning the dirt outside. She cannot straighten from years that have found their home in the...