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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: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: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: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:Canadian Woman Studies (Vol. 29, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedFeminists have never had an easy relationship with state policy. Linguistic barriers complicate sharing our learning across contexts. But in the spring of 2010, a number of feminist researchers, graduate students, and...
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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: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 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...
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From:Resources for Feminist Research (Vol. 32, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedIn sum, for one who loves it, culture will always be more free, more complex and more mysterious than any political or historical reflection on it. --Dacia Maraini Introduction The main question addressed in...
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From:Resources for Feminist Research (Vol. 32, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedExamining works by three artists, this article discusses whether their sensationalist strategies and transgressions reflect a postfeminist misrecognition of privilege and evasion of identity politics--or a third-wave...
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From:Resources for Feminist Research (Vol. 32, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedThis submission highlights the key feminist inroads into the protection of refugee women fleeing persecution over the past twenty years--the moment in which Canadian state machinery formally engaged the fact that women...
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From:Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources (Vol. 25, Issue 2)BRIARPATCH: A PROGRESSIVE CANADIAN NEWSMAGAZINE v. 32, no. 2, March 2003: "The Regina Monologues: A Candid Look at Society's Impact on Women's Sexual Expression"; and v. 33, no. 2, March 2004: "Voices of the Sisters."...
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From:Journal of Women's History (Vol. 16, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed"Feminism history" has several plot lines, all aimed at coming to terms with the vexing question: What future, if any, for feminist history? Vexing because, as Scott notes, discussions about "the future," whether of...
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From:Hecate (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Before I begin, I would like to give a brief explanation for this paper's title. It is borrowed from a Canadian play called Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God. Written by Djanet Sears, this play...
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From:Canadian Woman Studies (Vol. 20, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe author describes her experience with DanceHall, a recent form of reggae music. She discusses her feelings of comfort in a predominantly heterosexual, black space despite being a white lesbian, and notes that...
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From:Canadian Woman Studies (Vol. 20, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe author quotes the Canadian national anthem to demonstrate how it rarely applies to Chinese immigrants. Her experiences of racism and the need to confront it openly is the only path to stop racist erosion. L'auteure...
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From:Canadian Woman Studies (Vol. 20, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedOver 200 undergraduate college students were asked their choices if they could choose in what historical period, where, and as what gender they would live. Three-fourths preferred to retain their gender, almost half...
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From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 27, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFeminist studies of science and technology are a vibrant edge of feminist scholarship today In elucidating and elaborating the relationship of gender and science, this body of work forces us to interrogate and redefine...