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Article: Class absences: cutting class in feminist studies.(research )
- Article from:
- Feminist Studies
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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Until the missing story of ourselves is told, nothing besides told
can suffice us/We shall go on quietly craving it/In the missing
story of ourselves can be found all other missing stories.
--Laura Riding Jackson
In "Disappearing Acts: The State and Violence against Women," Michelle Fine and Lois Weis compare the fate of poor women at the end of the twentieth century in the United States to the sleight of hand that erases women "on the edge" in traditional circus disappearing acts. Fine and Weis observe that similar to the awestruck, hoodwinked, and immobilized audiences under the big top, "we witness poor and working class women shoved ...