This article explores the meaning of woman space, woman centered space, and woman friendly space in Ontario feminist restaurants and cafes. Embodied in their creation and
demolition, these spaces ...spoke to larger issues within the women’s movements, lesbian activism, and other social issues regarding language differences, nationalism, economics,
governmental policy, and mobility from 1974-1982. The changing views on the need for woman only space restaurants and cafes matched with a constant tension with the male dominated
systems of the local government and capitalism caused many woman spaces to ultimately disappear.
While gender has emerged as an important research subject, the development of a feminist theory has been slow. This paper calls for a commitment to the development of a feminist theory of public ...administration. As part of this development, the author argues that the field also must embrace research focused on the intersection of multiple identity categories such as race and class.
The hostility that met feminist ideas and gender equality issues in east central Europe (ECE) after the demise of the Communist regimes was accompanied by a notion that feminism was imported to these ...societies after 1989. In the Czech Republic, the record of the publishing output by feminist scholars in the 1990s, however, speaks against this myth. Drawing on existing scholarship and the author's own research on cultural discourses of gender and on socialist state science policies and censorship, this article argues that there has been a long tradition of gender critique that was present in a variety of discourses even during late state socialism. It proposes that the feminist impulse began in the 19th century and continued in some form throughout the 20th century. It then examines how the myth of the feminist import came to exist and what were the possible sources of the hostility toward feminism in the 1990s.
The women's movement in the United States has a long and complex history, incorporating a variety of contexts, issues and identities. Often conceptualized as a series of waves of mobilization that ...grow, peak and decline, the U.S. women's movement is broadly divided into a first (1860s-1920), second (1960s-‘80s) and third (1990s and beyond) wave. However, feminist scholars find the wave metaphor problematic, a critique taught in many Women and Gender Studies classrooms. Analyzing interviews with self-identified contemporary feminists, I argue that the wave metaphor is a discursive legacy that is used to locate contemporary feminists' place in history, while at the same time emerging feminists are taught to critique it. The result is both a rejection of the wave metaphor and an acceptance of many aspects of history it provides and the adoption of a “wave” vocabulary. Consequentially, the past becoming a problem to be corrected by contemporary feminists and a yardstick by which to measure and identify their own feminism. Overall, this discursive legacy of “wave” talk encourages feminist generations to view each other through a lens of opposition and difference and influences their view of the viability of the movement.
Anchoring Clara Sereni's autobiographical novelIl gioco dei regni(The game of kingdoms, 1993) inaffidamento, the concept of interdependency and mutual reliance that informed the identity politics of ...Italian feminists in the 1980s, this paper focuses on the depiction of Sereni's aunt by marriage, Ada Sereni, in the novel. As Clara develops the bond between her narrated self and Ada in the spirit ofaffidamento, she infuses our knowledge of the historical Ada with her unique portrayal as a woman who inspires healing and inclusivity across generations. Clara's bond with Ada allows her to establish for herself a place within the female genealogy of the Sereni family and emerge as an agent of memory for the Serenis and as a Jewish woman who is non-religious and assimilated by destiny and choice. Offering her own adaptations of a hasidic tale and midrashic legends in the opening and closing segments of the novel, Sereni claims for her female voice a place within a line of master Jewish storytellers, a position that assumes the desire and ability to impact the cultures of the multiple communities to which she belongs. The boundaries of these communities are further expanded in Sereni's preface to the Hebrew translation of her novel (Misḥak hamamlakhot, 1995), where she lays a similar claim for a place within the Israeli lore of the Sereni family.
“Moored Metamorphoses” presents a retrospective on the development of feminist science studies as well as reflections on the current configurations and future possibilities of the field. I argue that ...the field began primarily with women scientists who made a strong critique of the cultural and professional practices of science and who developed a foundational body of work, the feminist critiques of science. These critiques argued for an understanding of science as a socially, culturally, and politically embedded set of practices.
The feminist critiques of science, which later came to ground the field of feminist science studies, took on science's claims of value neutrality and argued that biological determinism has always supported the status quo and those individuals in power. Exploring the science of difference (sex, race, class, sexuality, nation, etc.) and its political consequences, this early work demonstrated the social embedded nature of science. In “Moored Metmorphoses” I note some of the critical contributions of feminist science studies, which include analyses of scientific objectivity and value neutrality, reproduction and the labor of women, gendered images and language, the binaries of nature and culture, the role of capitalism, and, finally, knowledge and its production. I argue that in the past three decades the field has exploded in exciting and multiple directions yet remains moored to the early formulations of the feminist critiques of science. I then suggest some of the ways unmooring the field will open up new possibilities for a future of feminist science studies, possibilities that are urgent for both feminism and science in our contemporary globalized and transnational world.
This assessment of the field explores a confluence of feminist thinking about the 20th-century Great Acceleration in the United States: post-World-War II projects of modernization made the security ...of white nuclear families global models of well-being, while banishing the work of their securitization to non-white sacrifice zones—which eventually came to encompass most of the earth. “Anthropocene” is thus a project of making race and gender as much as making capital. The essay continues into feminist arguments for limiting the Anthropocene to maintain spaces of more-than-human livability. We end with work of emerging scholars.
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