Recently added articles from Frontiers:
Contemporary Women's Roles through Hmong, Vietnamese, and American Eyes
Jan 01, 2008; Long, Lisa A ... For many Americans, Southeast Asia and its inhabitants-particularly the Vietnamese and transnational ethnic groups such as the Hmong-become visible only through the lens of the Vietnam War. At the same time, contemporary Vietnamese tend to see that war as only one of the many imperialist ...
Introduction
Jan 01, 2008; Gray, Susan E; Gullett, Gayle ... Dear Readers, In this issue of Frontiers, we are pleased to inaugurate two new features. The first is an interactive column, "Feminist Currents," by Eileen Boris, Hull Professor and Chair of the Women's Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Boris and your ...
Misplaced Bodies: Probing Racial and Gender Signifiers in Ngozi Onwurah's The Body Beautiful
Jan 01, 2008; Mafe, Diana Adesola ... Exalted by poets, painters and sculptors, the female body, often reduced to its isolated parts, has been mankind's most popular subject for adoration and myth, and also for judgment, ridicule, esthetic alteration and violent abuse. Susan Brownmiller, Femininity1 In her seminal ...
Subversive Sexualities: Revolutionizing Gendered Identities
Jan 01, 2008; Chancy, Myriam J A ... To remember is to live. Ruth Behar, Bridges to Cuba REVOLUTION THROUGH THE BODY Although Caribbean women of all racial backgrounds have been redefining traditionally gendered roles over the past several decades, sexuality presents the last frontier to pervasive, ...
Retail Therapy
Jan 01, 2008; Ferber, Audrey ... Three months after Diane died of lung cancer at age fifty-seven her husband, Jim, called and asked if I'd like to take her daughter, Chloe, shopping. "Shopping?" Cereal sprayed from my mouth. I was still in my pajamas at three in the afternoon, downing another bowl of the soggy ...
Rediscovering Female Voice and Authority: The Revival of Female Artists in Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles
Jan 01, 2008; Barko, Cortney Cronberg ... The existing body of criticism on Wendy Wasserstein's play The Heidi Chronicles largely ignores the significance of the female artists and paintings Heidi Holland names in the prologues that begin both acts of the play. Likewise, critics only briefly address Heidi s profession as an art ...
The Creative Process and Artistic Intersections with Social Research: Narrative Portraits of Recovery from Homelessness
Jan 01, 2008; Fulmer, Mara Jevera ... Vulnerability. It is an essential part of the creative process and integral to the artwork I recently completed as part of a challenge handed to me by professors Olivia G.M. Washington and David P. Moxley of Wayne State University, in connection with a research project for which they served as ...
Civilization and Her Discontents: The Unsettling Nature of Ma in Little House in the Big Woods
Jan 01, 2008; Blackford, Holly ... When I was a child, I read and reread the Little House series. My sister and I had our own bonnets to pretend we were Laura and Mary, and we reenacted stories from the series and the television shows popular at the time. My sister took the role of Mary, both because she was older and, I think ...
FEMINIST CURRENTS
Jan 01, 2008; Boris, Eileen ... We at Frontiers are delighted to introduce our readers to a new interactive column, "Feminist Currents," by Eileen Boris, Hull Professor and chair of the Women's Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In the paragraph below Boris poses a question to our readers and all ...