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From:Socialist Lawyer (Issue 70)13: Chinese feminist activists were released by police after being detained for preparing a protest against domestic violence. Haldane's 'Defending Human Rights Defenders' project had called for the women to be released...
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From:Feminist Teacher (Vol. 22, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed"In my previous jobs I was just the hands that did the work; this is the first job where anyone ever valued what I thought. It's been really hard to adjust to doing 'thinking work' rather than physical work."...
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From:Feminist Teacher (Vol. 21, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed"Before words are spoken in the classroom, we come together as bodies. ... Being comes from the body. And if we listen to our bodies inside the classroom and out we learn more ways to relate to one another." (hooks,...
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From:Black Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 22, Issue 6)Dr. Nawal El Saadawi, a leading contemporary Egyptian feminist, physician and dissentient writer, has long been a powerful voice speaking out in support of women's rights, particularly in the Arab world. By 1980, her...
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From:Journal of Women's History (Vol. 14, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMy purpose here is to offer a brief summary of what I take to be some of the major questions before us in the study of women and social movement activism, and to offer some suggestions about how the papers of Frances...
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From:Utopian Studies (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLITTLE WORK HAS BEEN CARRIED OUT on the process of accessing utopian visions through changes in consciousness in feminist utopian literature, yet it has been repeatedly argued that these fictions are engaged in creating...
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From:Women and Language (Vol. 23, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed"The Guerilla Girls' Comic Politics of Subversion," Anne Teresa Demo This essay explores the visual rhetoric of the Guerrilla Girls, a group of feminist art activists based in New York. Kenneth Burke's related...
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From:Canadian Woman Studies (Vol. 18, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAny attempt to sing the heart and spirit of Mary O'Brien is daunting. Singing would be better than speaking, for the composition would contain words and melody, a breath drawn up out of my lungs and blown out to the...
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From:Manitoba History (Issue 35) Peer-ReviewedMontreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996, 416 pp., illus., ISBN 0-7735-1394-9, $55. Barbara Roberts, a Quaker and a peace activist, was looking to link her scholarship with her activism when she saw a letter...
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From:Canadian Woman Studies (Vol. 18, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWhat kind of connections? In some ways my contacts with Mary O'Brien were rather few and far between, not least because of the Atlantic Ocean; in other ways I count her as certainly the most important single...
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From:Hecate (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe life of feminist writer Elza Rozenbergs or Aspazija, as she was known in literary circles, parallels the fate of Latvia. Ambitious yet sensitive, she felt injustices keenly and this was reflected in her plays...
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From:American Behavioral Scientist (Vol. 37, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedA group of feminist thinkers discuss the politics of sexuality. Power relations, most notably the dominance of men, are seen as the main barrier to the acceptance of other forms of caring and intimacy. Polarized sex...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 28, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThree of English feminist writer Stevie Smith's novels are analyzed through the psychoanalytic and linguistic concepts of Jacques Lacan and Julia Kristeva. The novels contain protagonists whose psychosexual development...
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From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 40, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTHE RECENTLY ELECTED BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY (BJP) government in India has once again brought to the foreground an issue that has plagued Indian feminists for decades: that of a uniform civil code (UCC) for all Indian...
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From:European Judaism (Vol. 49, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract In the lecture she gave at the Day of Celebration to mark twenty-five years of ordaining LGBT rabbis by Leo Baeck College on 23 June 2014, Rabbi Dr Rachel Adler spoke persuasively and encouragingly of...
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From:Outskirts: feminisms along the edge (Vol. 36) Peer-ReviewedIn 1988, brilliant New Zealand feminist economist and former politician Marilyn Waring told a story of market dependency on women. In her groundbreaking book, Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and Women are Worth,...
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From:Sister Namibia (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAfter nearly ten years of living, loving and working in Namibia-at the end of 2012, I found myself having to head back to my homeland Kenya. I was in a state of riotous emotions because while technically Namibia was not...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 31, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedArt critics have long investigated the vehicles by which women artists portray themselves in their works beginning with the French feminists. UK woman artist and feminist Dora Carrington's life and her art furnish an...
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From:Yale Law Journal (Vol. 112, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedHuman rights law has a problem with religion. In a postmodern world in which the nation-state has been deconstructed and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century notions of unmediated national sovereignty have been properly...
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From:Canadian Woman Studies (Vol. 25, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedShorona Johnson-Hall, une battante tres aimee de la communaute qui militait pour la justice sociale est decedee le 30 decembre 2006. Elle avait 59 ans. Pendant des decennies on l'a vue organiser des campagnes, se...