Recently added articles from Frontiers - A Journal of Women's Studies:
Introduction.
Jun 01, 2009; ... Dear Readers, Frontiers has moved into the twenty-first century. We are in Facebook, and we invite you to visit us there and become our Facebook friends. You can participate in our Facebook discussion board, post a message, or read our announcements. You'll learn that we have ...
Textual migration: self-translation and translation of the self in Leila Abouzeid's Return to Childhood: the Memoir of a Modern Moroccan Woman and Ruju' 'Ila Al-Tufulah.
Jun 01, 2009; ... A comparative examination of the autobiography of Moroccan writer Leila Abouzeid in its self-translated American edition, Return to Childhood: The Memoir of a Modern Moroccan Woman (1) and in the original Arabic, published five years earlier as Ruju' 'Ila Al-Tufulah, (2) shows how and why ...
Destination as destiny: Amelia B. Edwards's travel writing.(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Amelia Blandford Edwards (1831-1892) was a distinguished intellectual and public figure of the Victorian period. As an unmarried woman without independent means or immediate family, the middle-class Edwards had to rely on her personal abilities and enterprise to earn a living. Fortunately, ...
Representations of private/public domains: the feminine ideal and modernist agendas in Egyptian film, mid-1950s-1980s.(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2009; ... While the last decade has certainly witnessed increased research on women in Arab popular culture, there has been limited attention given to the historical evolution of women's portrayal in popular culture, particularly as it relates to state policies vis-a-vis women, the role of women in ...
Requiem for a rosewood marimba.(Poem)
Jun 01, 2009; ... <Pre> In the heat wave, says the blind woman, before heavy rains, red ants come inside, curl into pinpoints, and sting like fire. When I lie down, they bite. I spot them with my magnifying glass and pinch them. Flesh-eating ants. Blood-laden flesh is sweet, yes. Wash your eyes ...