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Gloves Off: Women’S Self-Defense, Wendy Rouse
Gloves Off: Women’S Self-Defense, Wendy Rouse
Faculty Publications, Social Sciences
Editor’s note: Wendy L. Rouse is the author of the recent book Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Women’s Self-Defense Movement (New York University Press). Most of the research from this article below comes from that work.
Women Approaching Death And Dying, Victoria Rue
Women Approaching Death And Dying, Victoria Rue
Faculty Publications, Social Sciences
My mother died in 2008 at the age of 84 surrounded by her eight children and our father. As I turn 68, I wonder about the length of my own life and about how I will face my own death. In a feminist body-affirming theology, how do I embrace fear and my body in the death and dying process?At the bedside of hospice patients, I saw the gap in Christian feminist theology between affirming the body and embracing its decay. From these narratives, I suggest that what is needed is a Christian feminist approach to death and dying focused on …
Rehearsing Justice: Theatre, Sexuality And The Sacred, Victoria Rue
Rehearsing Justice: Theatre, Sexuality And The Sacred, Victoria Rue
Faculty Publications, Social Sciences
The theatre actor’s process in a rehearsal hall is reality and metaphor. It can be a rehearsal for justice, where we can live freely. In this laboratory the actor becomes all of us. Like the actor, we inhabit our bodies and our sexualities, sometimes as spiritual practice, or as sacred and creative, even as incarnations. In particular, women’s bodies remember what it is like to be no-body and what it is like to be a some-body. The texts of women’s bodies contain their history of pain, wellness and illness.In creating a character, the actor creates a biography, an inner life, …
Review Of Clare Sears, Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, And Fascination In Nineteenth-Century San Francisco (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015), Wendy Rouse
Faculty Publications, Social Sciences
A review of Clare Sears' monograph Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015).