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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 93, Issue 4)You remind me of last year when so many women stood up on paddleboards in the center of clear metropolitan lakes and sailed forward on the breath of their own sighing. Oh, oh, oh, the state of things as they fracture,...
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From:Social Justice (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBut how can we agree to let [woman] express herself when our whole way of life is a mask designed to hide our intimate feelings?--Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude Women's writing and women's art, like women's...
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From:Woman's Art Journal (Vol. 27, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn the winter of 1977, Alice Neel painted me (front cover). When I came to her apartment and studio on West 107th Street in New York, I walked in the door, fresh from the cold, snowy street, and before I could take off...
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From:Outskirts: feminisms along the edge (Vol. 29) Peer-ReviewedThis article is both a reflection on what drew me to feminism as a young woman and also what creates blindness within the area. Obscurities of vision can leave feminism open to being seen as outdated, 'uncool',...
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From:Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe stereotypical image of the Latino gangster or criminal persists in all imaginable types of media. From portrayals in Hollywood films like Traffic to the enshrining of past criminals, real or fictional, such as Pablo...
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From:Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences (Vol. 33, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedByline: Aamir Hanif Raja Abstract:This paper deals in the context that role of women be set in a way to make around half of population active in the society as to make the accumulative progress possible. For this...
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From:Outskirts: feminisms along the edge (Vol. 31) Peer-ReviewedThis article explores 'the Man Question' in Australian feminism during the 1970s and attempts to complicate the popular notion that men are 'outsiders' to its history (Henderson 2008). I will provide empirical evidence...
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From:Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article introduces textual intervention as a reading strategy to examine whether interpretations of supposedly gender-inclusive biblical passages are actually inclusive. A detailed reading of Mark 7:14-23 with a...
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From:Feminist Teacher (Vol. 24, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction This essay argues for new pedagogies of "women of color" courses in light of the "transnational turn" (1) of women's, gender, and sexuality studies (WGS) departments in the U.S. (2) I use the...
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From:Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies: Alam-e-Niswan (Vol. 19, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn the late 1980s the Indonesian government founded Centres for Women's Studies/PSW/Pusat Studi Wanita or Centres for Gender Studies/ PSG/Pusat Studi Gender), to promote women and gender equality and feminist advocacy...
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From:Canadian Journal of History (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminism Travels Across Borders, by Kathy Davis. New Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2007. xii, 277 pp. $22.95 US (paper)....
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From:Feminist Teacher (Vol. 20, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFor a conference on feminist pedagogies at the Graduate Center at CUNY in February 2006 (see Baiada and Jensen-Moulton), we organized a presentation on a course, Women and Class, we had taught at Vassar College. We...
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From:Journal of International Women's Studies (Vol. 11, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This essay examines contemporary Algerian women's condition, as it is articulated in Djebar's autobiographical novel, Vaste est la prison (1995). After giving an overview of modern Algerian history, I offer...
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From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 36, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn the late 1970s, a group of young feminists, speculums in hand, gathered in each other's living rooms in the city of Recife, in northeast Brazil. Together they conducted gynecological self-exams, studied herbal...
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From:Hecate (Vol. 36, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedAll human life on the planet is born of a woman. The one unifying, incontrovertible experience shared by all women and men is that months-long period we spent unfolding inside a woman's body. Because young humans remain...
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From:Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation (Vol. 50, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed
From the female gothic to a feminist theory of history: Ann Radcliffe and the Scottish enlightenment
After the phrase "female gothic" entered feminist consciousness thirty years ago with the publication of Ellen Moer's Literary Women, readings of Ann Radcliffe's fiction began to focus almost exclusively on the absent... -
From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 35, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"The Death of Feminism at British Universities." Telegraph, February 8. 2008 "Last Woman Standing," Times Higher Education, January 31, 2008 "Farewell to 'Predictable, Tiresome and Dreary' women's studies."...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 41, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOnly the Black Woman can say 'when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.'...
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From:Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion (Vol. 23, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAs I am writing this editorial in December 2006, thinking about how best to describe recent scholarship and local activism in the field of feminist studies in religion in the Pacific region, there has just been another...
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From:Journal of International Women's Studies (Vol. 8, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract The World Social Forum is only one in the worldwide process of social fora, (2) which mark a new phase in the era of globalisation. This critical form of globalisation from below challenges neoliberal...