Recently added articles from Frontiers - A Journal of Women's Studies:
Foreword.(Work overview)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Dear Readers, This special issue, "Knowledge That Matters: Feminist Epistemology, Methodology, and Science Studies," evolved from a 2007 conference organized by scholars who analyze feminist epistemologies, methodologies, methodologies, metaphysics, and science studies ...
Reconstructing science and technology studies: views from feminist standpoint theory.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Like feminist studies, science and technology studies (STS) emerged from the crucible of social protest. Both arose from the democratic social movements of the 1960s. Proponents of the field that consolidated as interdisciplinary STS took science and technology as objects of political ...
Handmade petrified wood.(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009; ... I wonder about craft-forms considered obsolete or menial and what the devolution of regard for this type of human mastery means. I use my work to present a craft or skill in a hyperbolic, subverted form. I learn a new technical process that I then use on the "wrong" scale for that process ....
Off course.(Off-Course: Interfering with Migratory Songbirds)(Conference news)
Jan 01, 2009; ... On April 18, the Center For Research on the Poetics of Flight hosted "Off-Course: Interfering (facing) with Migratory Songbirds," a presentation by ecologist Dr. Lesley Bulluck. At noon, we met around a picnic basket set atop a cluster of stools on a sidewalk. The adventure ...
Artist's statement.(art appreciation)(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009; ... During a residency at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris, with the time to explore, I created a large series of images titled Slip, some of which are included in this issue of Frontiers. Finding myself with the freedom to be a flaneur in a city famous for flaneurism, I looked ...
Artist's statement.(pottery appreciation)(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Pottery. Ceramics. Clay. I am interested in challenging myself within the boundaries of this material, but not in contempt or denial of its historical weight. I primarily use ceramic to extend its classical sensibility onto a more contemporary locale. It is not my intention to ...
Engineering ignorance: the problem of gender equity in engineering.(Ignorance, Power, and Knowledge)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Men know nothing about the oppression they inflict.(1) INTRODUCTION Feminist politics aims to dismantle women's inequality by naming and challenging sexual oppression and gender disadvantage. In modern Western feminism, work is an important site for this politics. It ...
Double-bound: putting the power back into participatory research.
Jan 01, 2009; ... Oceans of ink have been spilled in recent years on the promise and perils of public participation in scientific and technological policymaking. H. M. Collins and Robert Evans recently argued that studies of experience and expertise, aimed at supporting Science and Technology Studies ...
Etude (on Karma).(Poem)
Jan 01, 2009; ... If you have not done so would you please do so now. Anonymous Airport Announcement <Pre> Words burned on memory simply because there was no before and no after. No what leaning like a wave, but left blank (fill it in!) referring to nothing in particular: If ...
Deborah's story.(Poem)
Jan 01, 2009 ... <Pre> I listened to the wind all night. 5 a.m. my mother hollers, Y'all better move your cars cause the water is coming up and up. Lord have mercy, all we could do was sit and pray. People were taking their mattresses and floating to the Dome with their ...
Malthusian men and demographic transitions: a case study of hegemonic masculinity in mid-twentieth-century population theory.(Case study)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Discourses are not just "words"; they are material-semiotic practices through which objects of attention and knowing subjects are both constituted. Donna Haraway (1) Closer inspection reveals that the numbers work most effectively in a world they have collaborated in ...
Flotation device.(Poem)
Jan 01, 2009; ... <Pre> I dreamt my waist got small overnight. My breasts changed too, seemed perky and new hovering above the slimmer middle of me, a cinched skirt. I was Cocktail Barbie watching TV during hurricane season: aftermath and forecast, in between. Things could not be told apart. ...
A version of her suicide: in the north of Ireland.(Poem)
Jan 01, 2009 ... <Pre> She dreamt her loneliness a loosening flock of starlings over the walled city, and she, a girl again in hard shoes echoing as she passed up Waterloo, through Butcher's Gate, and into the city's heart. Soldiers gone, graffiti fading, peace more or less ...
"Engaging the real is not what it used to be": on Patti Lather's getting lost on the way to "a less comfortable social science".(Author Meets the Critics)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Narrowly considered, Patti Lather's new book, Getting Lost: Feminist Efforts toward a Double(d) Science, is a critique of ethnography.' The reach of that critique, however, is extensive: in her words, it "challenges the social imaginary about research in the human sciences" (6). The ...
Deconstruction and the problematics of social engagement.
Jan 01, 2009; ... Fertile Tensions On Patti Lather, Getting Lost: Feminist Efforts toward a Double(d) Science (suny Press) To situate the position from which this commentary emerges, I speak not as critic but as interlocutor, fellow traveler. I believe that all of us are grappling ...
Getting lost and found and lost and found and lost again with Patti Lather.
Jan 01, 2009; ... Patti Lather calls herself a feminist methodologist. I would say that she is more a feminist theorist of methodology, epistemology, and ontology--in the same senses that Donna Haraway is a feminist theorist of science, technology, and medicine studies (ST&MS). (1) Like Haraway, Lather's ...
Feminist efforts toward a double(d) science.(Getting Lost)
Jan 01, 2009; ... I chose my critics well. All of their comments are helpful. From Lenore Langsdorf, I get a clearer sense of what I did. From Rachel Falmagne, I get a sense of where I might go next in terms of questions that remain. And especially from Adele Clarke, perhaps most difficultly, I get a sense ...
Feminist currents.(women in politics)
Jan 01, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION We at Frontiers are pleased to present to our readers the first full installment of our interactive column, "Feminist Currents," edited by Eileen Boris, Hull Professor and chair, Department of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. Last year ...
Foreword.
Jun 01, 2008; ... Dear Readers, This special double issue of Frontiers had its origins in a session at the 2005 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women devoted to the topic of intermarriage and North American Indians, in which three soon-to-be intrepid guest editors participated. When ...
Introduction.
Jun 01, 2008; ... As a form of conquest, intimate relations in colonial settings have long tantalized observers, but since the 1980s these relationships have gained center stage. Sylvia Van Kirk's Many Tender Ties and Jennifer S. H. Brown's Strangers in Blood--both published in 1980-were pioneering studies ...