Journal of International Women's Studies articles from November 2005

Journal of International Women's Studies archives from November 2005

Women, Migration, and the Body-Less Spirit of Capitalist Patriarchy Women, Migration, and the Body-Less Spirit of Patriarchal Capitalism
November 15, 2005... Abstract The continuously expanding global free trade in domestic and sex workers intensifies old capitalist-patriarchal forms of extracting women's emotional, physical, and sexual labor. The patriarchal dream of seizing control of impure,...

"Of Course They Claim They Were Coerced": On Voluntary Prostitution, Contingent Consent, and the Modified Whore Stigma
November 15, 2005... Abstract (2) This paper starts with a reflection on the main tactic adopted during the Taipei prostitutes' movement, namely, the "poverty as force" rationale, and argues that a campaign strategy that focuses on the justification of...

Configurations: Encountering Ancient Athenian Spaces of Rhetoric, Democracy, and Woman
November 15, 2005... Abstract This essay encounters configurations of "woman" in the space of rhetoric and democracy. By "configuration" we mean how a woman is postured and positioned in this space. We deal in ancient Athens recognizing that an ancient conceptual...

Women World Leaders: Comparative Analysis and Gender Experiences
November 15, 2005... Abstract Research suggests that executive political office poses additional and different political challenges for women than legislative office. Yet, a few dozen women have attained their nations' highest executive office. Surprisingly...

Legal Injustices: The Zina Hudood Ordinance of Pakistan and Its Implications for Women
November 15, 2005... Abstract During recent decades the women of Pakistan have been the most vulnerable and convenient targets of social, domestic and sexual violence. This paper will examine the trend of sexual violence against women that emerged in Pakistan...

Gender: Kosova's Other Challenge
November 15, 2005... Abstract The extent of differences in roles between the genders in Kosova is examined. Kosovar men, on average, devote 57 percent of their non-rest time to earned income activities (i.e., agriculture, other self-employed, and hired), and only...

Prostitution in Bangladesh: An Empirical Profile of Sex Workers
November 15, 2005... Abstract The paper explores the profile of the Sex Workers (SW) in Bangladesh; and the ordeals faced by them. 221 randomly selected respondents from three categories of sex workers (Hotel, brothel and floating) were interviewed using both...

Empowerment beyond Numbers: Substantiating Women's Political Participation
November 15, 2005... Abstract (6) From our households and into our communities, from independent States to international governing bodies, gender operates as a construct of evolving aspects of women's identities and is a medium through which expectations are...

Influences of Global Human Trafficking Issues on Nigeria: A Gender Perspective
November 15, 2005... This paper focuses on the socio-economic conditions that force women and girls into the human trafficking industry. Poverty is shown to be one of the major root causes of this phenomenon. The relationship between poverty and other socio-economic...

Weight Control Behavior and Women: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
November 15, 2005... Abstract (2) The objective of this study was to seek directly from culturally diverse women information on their weight control behavior. Specific questions were: What types of weight control behavior are practiced by women? 2) What factors...

Jordanian Working Women's Perception of Life Difficulties
November 15, 2005... Abstract This study is an attempt to identify Jordanian working-women's perception of their life difficulties. Areas of life's difficulties include: psychological, social, political and career. Such difficulties were investigated across five...

Extent and Causes of Gender and Poverty in India: A Case Study of Rural Hayana
November 15, 2005... Abstract In spite of the enshrining anti-poverty programs and objectives of the poverty eradication programs contained in India's five year plans, women's poverty in India, even after 58 years of independence, is glaring. This paper, based on...

Oral History, Identity, and the Italian Women's Movement in the Future of the Contemporary Past
November 15, 2005... Abstract In this essay, I reflect on the use of oral history and participant observation as tools for researchers of the contemporary past. I want to argue that these approaches must, as Nietzsche has stated, "serve life" by pushing...

Gender Studies: Terms and Debates.(Book review)
November 15, 2005... Gender Studies: Terms and Debates. Ann Cranny-Francis et al. 2003. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, xii + 276 pp. $29.95 paperback. Books written or edited by Ann Cranny-Francis, either collaboratively or independently, such as...

Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in America.(Book review)
November 15, 2005... Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in America. 2002. Ji-Yeon Yuh. New York: New York University Press. pp. 283. $25.95, hardcover. $19.00, paperback. With an increasing demand to globalize our undergraduate curriculum,...

Women and the Nazi East: Agents and Witnesses of Germanization.(Book review)
November 15, 2005... Women and the Nazi East: Agents and Witnesses of Germanization. Elizabeth Harvey. 2003. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 384. $40.00, hardcover. Women and the Nazi East is a masterful account of the "womanly task" within the Nazi...

Canadian and American Women: Moving from Private to Public Experiences in the Atlantic World.(Book review)
November 15, 2005... Canadian and American Women: Moving from Private to Public Experiences in the Atlantic World. Valeria Gennara Lerda and Roberto Maccarini, eds. 2002. Milan: Selene Edizione. pp.329. $20.00, paperback. The papers included in this volume...

The Science Glass Ceiling: Academic Women Scientists and the Struggle to Succeed.(Book review)
November 15, 2005... The Science Glass Ceiling: Academic Women Scientists and the Struggle to Succeed. Sue V. Rosser, Routledge, 2004, pp 165, pbk 15.99 U.K Pounds This book is a collection of Sue Rosser's work with women scientists and engineers done over a...

Update: January Appointment Postponed.(Three Poems)(Poem)
November 15, 2005... Update: January Appointment Postponed My annual visit to that place, so common for all women, postponed, first by the holiday, the Immaculate Conception, then by a visit to my lover's mother, struggling to survive without...

I've Been Here Before.(Three Poems)(Poem)
November 15, 2005... I've Been Here Before After the fourth grade winter excursion to Divcibare I peed in my pants in the elevator heading home. Embarrassed, 1 cried in my mother's soothing arms. The bus driver hadn't stopped to let us...

Safe in the US of A.(Three Poems)(Poem)
November 15, 2005... Safe in the US of A The Dead Christ by Albrecht Durer I. Strolling around the Cleveland Museum of Art 1 didn't see any of Durer's paintings or etchings, yet they had postcards of The Riders of the Apocalypse at...

Macro Promises of Microcredit-A Case of a Local eSusu in Rural Ghana
November 1, 2005... Abstract Microcredit's three big promises are one, to reduce poverty; two, to empower women; and three, to enhance family planning knowledge, attitudes and practices. Using a mixed-method approach, this study examines 204 women members and...

Mainstreaming Gender in HIV/AIDS Programs: Ongoing Challenges and New Opportunities in Malawi
November 1, 2005... Abstract Numerous efforts are in place in Malawi to address the high rates of HIV/AIDS in the country. Furthermore, several successes in HIV/AIDS prevention and mitigation (including free antiretroviral drugs to people living with AIDS) have...

"Nowadays Who Wants Many Children?" Balancing Tradition and Modernity in Narratives Surrounding Contraception Use among Poorer Women in West Bengal, India
November 1, 2005... Abstract This paper investigates how poorer women in West Bengal, India balance the ideas of modernization and tradition in their choices to use birth control. Ideologically, Indian women have traditionally been placed within the context of...

Planting the Seeds of Change: Im/migrant Life Writings
November 1, 2005... Abstract The subject of land, working it and owning it, is an inherent part of Chicano/a autobiography, as exemplified by the life writings of Elva Trevinio Hart. The term "im/migrant" connotes transition and mobility, crossing borders,...

An International Perspective of Privatization and Women Workers
November 1, 2005... Abstract Authors provide a comparative international perspective of the relationship of privatization and women in the context of the work force. The methodology is a synthesis and critical evaluation of the impact of privatization on women...

Women's Role in the German Democratic Republic and the State's Policy toward Women
November 1, 2005... Abstract According to the theories of Marx, Engels, Bebel, and the political leaders of the GDR, the emancipation of women would be accomplished when the emancipation of the working class was realized. They further clarify the general view...

"'Starving Children in Africa': Who Cares?"
November 1, 2005... Abstract The current state of global poverty presents citizens in the Global North with a moral crisis: Do we care? In this essay, I examine two competing moral accounts of why those in the North should or should not give care (in the form of...

Domesticity Transformed
November 1, 2005... Abstract This project begins with an interest in the female space as active within the domestic sphere. It involves issues of place-making and hopes to understand both the processes leading to and consequences following the alteration and...

Gabriela Mistral: The Audacious Traveler.(Book review)
November 1, 2005... Gabriela Mistral: The Audacious Traveler. Marjorie Agosin, ed. 2003. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 304 pp. (+ Index). $26.95, paperback. While not as well known in the United States, Gabriela Mistral is well known throughout Latin...

Gender in the Hindu Nation: RSS women as Ideologues.(Book review)
November 1, 2005... Gender in the Hindu Nation: RSS women as Ideologues. Paola Bacchetta. 2004. New Delhi: Women Unlimited (an associate of Kali for Women (1)). pp. 144. $10.00 hardcover. Recent years have seen an increasingly sophisticated scholarship on...

Children of the Eagle.(Book review)
November 1, 2005... Children of the Eagle. Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo. 2002. Lagos: Vista Books. pp. 397. $4.00, paperback. I told myself that I would go in search of a female Okorigwe (the hero of Umuga) because I was convinced she existed. If she did...

Critical Chatter: Women and Human Rights in South East Asia.(Book review)
November 1, 2005... Critical Chatter: Women and Human Rights in South East Asia. Caroline Lambert, Sharon Picketing and Christine Alder. 2003. North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press. pp. 193. Includes bibliographical references and index. $23.00, paperback. ...

Trying To Make Sense of Motherhood.(Three Poems)(Poem)
November 1, 2005... Trying To Make Sense of Motherhood Everything has been done right. Baby bed, rocking chair, little cabinet. Open the wee door. See tiny hangers, sweet dresses, delicate sweaters. On top of the cabinet, a little...

Weekend in the Woods.(Three Poems)(Poem)
November 1, 2005... Weekend In The Woods Her son and daughter, old enough to vote, sprawl on couches in the cabin. Country flies buzz by. Progeny sleep in the appropriately soporific heat of August. Hazy. Sophomoric behavior stirs, peaks....

Hot Dog.(Three Poems)(Poem)
November 1, 2005... Hot Dog Listen up, teen-age nannies in training. Here's how to earn a buck, with luck. I too earned dough, baby sitting. Nearly every Saturday night. All through high school's sexy summers. My client list...