Recently added articles from Feminist Studies:
Preface.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... IN THIS ISSUE, we reexamine the 1970s, when, in Marge Piercy's words, "the movement opened up." As we write this preface, the nation is awaiting the inauguration of President-Elect Barack Obama, and we hope that his presidency will be the catalyst for the next wave of the civil rights ...
Barred from the Barroom: Second Wave Feminists and Public Accommodations in U.S. Cities.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... IN 1968, WOMEN COULD NOT lunch in the Oak Room of the Plaza Hotel in New York City. Nor could they drink at the bar of the famous Russian Tea Room. Other eating and drinking establishments in cities around the country excluded women altogether or served them only if escorted by a man ....
Growing Up Female in the '50s.(Poem)
Sep 22, 2008; ... <Pre> A whistling girl and a crowing hen Both will come to no good end My mother was Jewish; Betty's Irish yet they both recited that same damned ditty to hem us into woman's place because outside of that narrow walled path they walked, burden heavy on their rounded ...
When the Movement Opened Up.(Poem)
Sep 22, 2008; ... <Pre> The seventies were a tangerine sunrise for women like me, even women unlike me. We felt unblinded. Our super eyes saw through walls and clothing. We were suddenly sisters, sisters in every town and mountaintop and polluted valley. Oh, we were often silly. There was such ...
Historical Life Stories.(Viewpoint essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... I TEACH A U.S. HISTORY course in which I assign autobiographies of the most varied kinds. We look at classics like Benjamin Franklin's, already accepted in the historical canon, along with a range of other accounts that reveal differing slants on the past of the United States, including ...
A Matter of Fact.(abortion)(Personal account)
Sep 22, 2008; ... What? Ah. Ah. Well, as a matter of fact, yes. I have. I did. I mean, I did have an abortion, younger than you are now, about six months after my fifteenth birthday. And I never did tell your grandma and grandpa--that's how I know there's things you don't tell me. I kept thinking I would ...
U.S. government surveillance and the women's liberation movement, 1968-1973: a case study.(Case study)
Sep 22, 2008; ... SOMETIME IN 1981 in Washington, D.C., a friend suggested I take advantage of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to see if I had a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) file. My friend, an attorney, specialized in litigating FOIA requests for journalists, authors, and academics, so when ...
All Representation Is Political: Feminist Art Past and Present.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... THE YEAR 2008 IS AN EXHILARATING and challenging moment to be reflecting on feminist art, feminist artists, their impact on our culture, and their place at the table. In the past two years, two major exhibitions circulated in Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, D.C., museums, assessing ...
One pink, one black.(Short story)
Sep 22, 2008; ... HOLLY MCGRATH WAS fourteen years old the summer that her half brother Jackson began spending all his time in their parents' car. The car was a salmon-colored '78 Monte Carlo with steel gray leather seats that stuck to their thighs like a bandaid. For the most part, it sat roasting in the ...
Socialist Feminism: What Difference Did It Make to the History of Women's Studies?(Viewpoint essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... IN RECENT WRITING ON THE HISTORY and potential of women's studies, socialist feminism is rarely mentioned, leading Judith Gardiner to ask: "What happened to socialist feminist women's studies programs" of the 1970s? (1) This question leads to two additional kinds of questions. First, what ...
Looking for Feminism: Racial Dynamics and Generational Investments in the Second Wave.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... IN AN IMPORTANT 1998 ESSAY, "Whose Feminism, Whose History?" Sherna Berger Gluck pointed to "the deep investment on the part of the participants in the early days of the women's liberation movement in preserving the primacy of our particular experience and analysis." In her view, the ...
Click Click.(Short story)
Sep 22, 2008; ... CLACK CLACK THE CLASS REPEATS what the professor says African Storyteller supposedly a hard class but I'm acing it clickety clickety clackety clackety I never repeat after the professor I have enough problems speaking in my own language he runs around the stage hunched over in his ...
What happened to socialist feminist women's studies programs? A case history and some speculations.(Viewpoint essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... I HELPED FOUND WHAT WE considered a socialist feminist women's studies program over thirty years ago at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). I'm still there, but I recently realized that my junior colleagues were not aware of our program's history. As we founders of women's studies ...
Andrea Dworkin and Me.(In memoriam)
Sep 22, 2008; ... I MET ANDREA DWORKIN for the first time at the Madison airport in 1991. I was not entirely sure what she looked like, and I was worried that I would not recognize her when she got off the airplane. Earlier that morning, I'd grabbed one of her books off the shelf at A Room of One's Own and ...
The radical possibilities of Valerie Solanas.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... "Read my manifesto and it will tell you what I am." --Valerie Solanas IN 1966, VALERIE SOLANAS PENNED her first play, Up Your Ass (technically titled Up Your Ass or From the Cradle to the Boat or The Big Suck or Up from the Slime), a text that would later catalyze her ...
News and Views.(Haiti storms)
Sep 22, 2008; ... This issue of News and Views focuses on work being done to raise awareness and provide aid to areas affected by the onslaught of tropical storms in Haiti and the massive 6.5 magnitude earthquake that recently hit Pakistan, taking lives and displacing many women, children, and families ....
Publications received.
Sep 22, 2008 ... Abel, Emily K., and Saskia K. Subramanian. After the Cure: The Untold Stories of Breast Cancer Survivors. New York University Press, 2008. Pp. 183. $22.95. Ackerly, Brooke A. Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. 373 ....
Art.
Mar 22, 2008; ... Favianna Rodriguez, "Xicana Power," 1999. Postcard design. ...
Preface.(Editorial)
Mar 22, 2008; ... FEMINIST STUDIES IS PROUD TO PRESENT its first double issue in over three decades of publication with this volume devoted to contemporary Chicana studies. The essays in this issue mark significant new developments in Chicana studies and in feminist studies more generally. Gathered from ...
"Ongoing missionary labor": building, maintaining, and expanding Chicana studies/history: an interview with Vicki L. Ruiz.(Interview)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Vicki L. Ruiz is the dean of the School of Humanities and a professor of Chicano/Latino studies and history at the University of California, Irvine. Ruiz is one of the most prolific scholars of and fiercest advocates for Chicana/Latina studies and history. While at Florida State University ...