Journal of International Women's Studies articles from May 2004

Journal of International Women's Studies archives from May 2004

Crossing boundaries.
May 1, 2004... Introduction to this edition It was with mixed feelings that I offered to host a conference in the summer of 2003 for the Women's Studies Network (UK) Association. Whilst I have been committed to the Network for several years now, and have...

Out of the frying pan into the viva.
May 1, 2004... Abstract Women today are making clear inroads into the academy and, at undergraduate level at least, are engaging in greater numbers than men. However, at postgraduate level the picture changes, especially at doctoral level, and fewer...

Perverse pleasures--identity work and the paradoxes of greedy institutions.
May 1, 2004... Abstract (ii) Women's studies struggle for a location in the academy has always involved feelings of deep ambiguity. The outsider/insider relation is a peculiarly vexed one in times when the demands on professional identity appear to erase...

Crossing the border: locating heterosexuality as a boundary for lesbian and disabled women.
May 1, 2004... Abstract This article draws on my personal experience, and on the separate experiences of 'leaving heterosexuality' and of 'being disabled. I have attempted to find common ground for action between these two groups by interrogating the...

Women's constructions of women: on entering the front door.
May 1, 2004... Abstract Despite the vast volume of scholarly work on Mediterranean and the Near East the region, issues of marginalisation, discrimination, racism, and ethnic-gender groups as well as the implications of these within the context of...

Heresy and orthodoxy: challenging established paradigms and disciplines.
May 1, 2004... Abstract A brief survey of the literature on interdisciplinary work and a discussion of issues relating to orthodoxy and heresy are presented to introduce a questionnaire on current interdisciplinary practice and the effects of engaging in...

Crossing borders: the extent to which the voices of exiled and refugee women have adapted to their new Western diasporic space.
May 1, 2004... Abstract In this article I will consider the extent to which the voices of exiled and refugee women have adapted to their new Western diasporic space. I will examine whether women writers consider exile to be a safe place in which to...

Ain't I a woman? Revisiting intersectionality.
May 1, 2004... Abstract In the context of the second Gulf war and US and the British occupation of Iraq, many 'old' debates about the category 'woman' have assumed a new critical urgency. This paper revisits debates on intersectionality in order to show...

Empowering women? Engaging a technology grant for social change.
May 15, 2004... Abstract This paper examines and exposes the writing and implementation of a project, funded by a federal government grant that worked to increase the technological literacy levels of women at an urban working-class university in the...

Gender, context, and physics assessment.
May 15, 2004... Abstract A persistent gender gap exists on one of the most commonly-used physics conceptual tests, the Force Concept Inventory. The test includes many stereotypically male contexts such as hockey, rockets, and cannonballs. A revised...

Judith Merril and Rachel Carson: reflections on their "potent fictions" of science.
May 15, 2004... Abstract Donna Haraway has argued that women's engagement with the masculine domain of science and modern culture usually occurs at the peripheries and from the depths, not from the platform of the powerful. This paper considers the...

Re-visioning science education.
May 15, 2004... Abstract Science education is crucial for shaping the culture of science and its practitioners. Boundaries currently limit ties between natural and social science education structures, exposing the public to a one-dimensional science and...

Preface to poems.(Poem)
May 15, 2004... Marguerite Porete was executed as a heretic in France in the early 1300s. Her book, Le Mirouer Des Simples Ames Anienties Et Qui Seulement Demourent En Vouloir Et Desir D Amour, has been the source of three recent writing projects. The second...