Klassen discusses the question of feminism's analytical concept of agency, gender equality, and celebratory embodiment present in the books of Dyan Elliott, R. Marie Griffith, Saba Mahmood, Carolyn ...Moxley Rouse, and Mary Keller. Among other things, she states that the books take a variety of approaches to the need for persistent attention to the assumptions within the categories. Despite shortcomings, she recommends reading the books comparatively to exemplify the theoretical and methodological benefits, not to mention the sheer wealth of fascinating content inherent in exploring the nexus of women and religion.
This response seeks to pick up on the key questions and concerns raised by Nancy C. M. Hartsock and Karen Houle in their critiques of The Spectacle of Violence. I mold my response around two emotions ...that are never far from the question of violence: fear and hope. Is it fear of ambiguity that stops us from delicately blending the experiential with the discursive, the nodal with the circular, the corporeal with the epistemic, or the oppressive with the constitutive? If so, we can only hope that the power of such ambivalence lies in its ability to unsettle these treasured lines of force.
Fuchs questions why feminist biblical criticism seems to depend on the support of male scholars, and helps people face the fact that despite all post-feminist claims to the contrary, the university, ...theological schools and the media are all still under elite white Western male control She shows how feminist work is still often thoroughly diluted, trivialized, and misrepresented.
What is it about public administration that has made it so impervious to feminist inroads? In the mid-1980s, when feminist ferment was patent in neighboring fields like organizational sociology and ...political philosophy, I could find only one issue of Public Administration Review that included anything dealing with women. The situation is better today, but not that much better. One can find articles on women in the practice of public administration, but still very little that takes seriously the question of how feminism of any kind requires us to think differently about central questions in the field. I know of few elements in our culture as resistant to change as the ones that have to do with gender. Many of the taboos associated with it seem to me similar to the Norse refusal to consume fish when the alternative was extinction.
This essay is a feminist, historical exploration of body parts in short science fiction stories by women. In early-twentieth-century stories about prostheses, blood transfusion, and radioactive ...experiments, Clare Winger Harris, Kathleen Ludwick, and Judith Merril use body parts to explore fears of damage to masculine identity by war, of alienation of men from women, and of racial pollution. In stories from the last quarter of the twentieth century, the South American author Angélica Gorodischer depicts a housewife's escape from oppressive domestic technology through time travel in which she murders male leaders, while Eileen Gunn offers a critique of bioengineering and sociobiology, satirizing fears of women in modern business and of erasure of identity in global corporate structures. An end-of-the-century fiction by the African American Akua Lezli Hope imagines a black woman altered through cosmetic surgery to become a tenor sax and critiques technologies that transform women's bodies into cultural signifiers of social function and class.
An attempt to define feminism is made. The differences between the public conception of feminism and the original meaning of the word and movement are described.
Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Back Plaskow, Judith
Nashim : a journal of Jewish women's studies & gender issues,
04/2005, Volume:
9, Issue:
9
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
The vitality of Jewish feminism as a movement and field is obvious at the Association for Jewish Studies Conference, not just in the sessions dedicated specifically to gender issues, but also in the ...many papers on gender throughout the program.
“The story had held us, round the fire”: With this classic lure, Henry James inaugurates bothThe Turn of the Screwand the large conundrum that his small novel poses for the project of narrative. For ...James’s homage to the power of story is complicated almost immediately when the text disclaims its ostensible purpose: we’re about to get a story, but “the storywon’ttell,” or at least “not in any literal, vulgar way” (8). In a more than trivial sense, this gesture reminds us that, as my graduate professor David Hayman was fond of saying, narrative is the art
This paper discusses academic research as a means of empowerment for people in marginalized groups, using the example of homeless women. Issues connected to the position of the researcher in relation ...to both the agencies dealing with homeless people and the homeless women themselves are discussed. Many agencies have underlying ideologies and overt practices that reinforce hierarchical relations and certain gendered expectations. The paper considers the difficulties this creates when working with and presenting findings to agencies whose principles are in conflict with one's own, and also discusses the social relations of conducting empowering doctoral research.
