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‘To Say The Same Thing In Different Words’: Politics And Poetics In Late Victorian Translation From Modern Greek, Semele Assinder
‘To Say The Same Thing In Different Words’: Politics And Poetics In Late Victorian Translation From Modern Greek, Semele Assinder
Journal of International Women's Studies
Against a backdrop of Victorian academic gender politics, the woman warrior from War of Independence folk songs emerged in British women’s writings. After a close reading of a translation by Elizabeth Edmonds, Modern Greek is reviewed as a contender for the New Woman’s Classics.
“A Key Area Of Knowledge Delivered By Someone Knowledgeable”: Feminist Expectations And Explorations Of A One-Off Economics Lecture On Gender, Emily Henderson
“A Key Area Of Knowledge Delivered By Someone Knowledgeable”: Feminist Expectations And Explorations Of A One-Off Economics Lecture On Gender, Emily Henderson
Journal of International Women's Studies
This paper explores the action of attending a visiting academic’s one-off lecture, whether in the lecture theatre or on the Internet, in order to gain knowledge from a recognised expert of an unfamiliar but relevant field of research. The actions of entering the theatre and sitting for an hour, or of clicking “play,” appear to be simple gestures for the acquisition of knowledge; this paper explores the complexity of the processes surrounding the lecture, and the way in which the lecture constructs a passive listening position for the audience. The exploration takes place in the frame of one such lecture: …
Non-Binary Gender Concepts And The Evolving Legal Treatment Of Uk Transsexed Individuals: A Practical Consideration Of The Possibilities Of Butler, Alex Harris
Journal of International Women's Studies
This essay seeks to bridge the gap between the UK legal system’s treatment of transsexuals and post-structuralist gender theory. It argues that whilst the greater representation of transsexuals in UK legal discourse embodied in the Gender Recognition Act is a positive move forward in terms of classic liberal notions of human rights and in its acceptance of transsexuals as proper subjects before the law, it nonetheless represents an essentialist conception of transsexuals; requiring them to ‘fit’ within binary categories of male and female. It is argued that post-structuralist thought regarding gender can illuminate some of the problems inherent within the …
Quite Contrary: Mary Daly Within And Without Women’S Studies, Kathryn Telling
Quite Contrary: Mary Daly Within And Without Women’S Studies, Kathryn Telling
Journal of International Women's Studies
Recent scholarship in the historiography of feminism has sought to challenge certain received histories of the movement which seem likely to obscure the social, intellectual and political complexity of the past, and indeed of the present. With good reason, such research has often preferred to focus on general intellectual currents rather than individual cases. This paper, however, focuses on some common constructions of one feminist in particular: philosopher and theologian Mary Daly (1928-2010). I hope to demonstrate that an analysis of one individual’s positioning within feminism’s history, as well as in relation to a conception of correct intellectual practice for …
‘The Rose Of No Man’S Land [?]’: Femininity, Female Identity, And Women On The Western Front, Nancy Martin
‘The Rose Of No Man’S Land [?]’: Femininity, Female Identity, And Women On The Western Front, Nancy Martin
Journal of International Women's Studies
This article provides an analysis of a range literary texts and memoirs written by, and about, women who served as nurses, VADs, and ambulance drivers on the Western Front. It explores how these texts represent “feminine” identity in relation to the war’s emotional and physical trauma and focuses, in particular, on moments where conventional notions are challenged, or made impossible, by the war’s chaos. In addition, this article explores how these women understood, articulated, and represented the men they sought to aid. Fundamental to this discussion is an exploration of the period’s propaganda and iconography and how these women writers …
Understanding Antiwar Activism As A Gendering Activity: A Look At The U.S.’S Anti-Vietnam War Movement, Say Burgin
Understanding Antiwar Activism As A Gendering Activity: A Look At The U.S.’S Anti-Vietnam War Movement, Say Burgin
Journal of International Women's Studies
Research into the gendered nature of war experiences has provided rich ways of understanding how gender constructs society and the nation. Scholarship on peace activism and gender has deepened our knowledge of women’s roles within warring societies and the ways women have understood themselves as promoters of peace. While much of this research asks how antiwar activities and war are predicated upon dominant gender ideals and focuses in particular on women’s experiences, this article aims to explore how some wartime events, specifically antiwar activism, constitutes or reconstitutes gender. Focusing on the United States’ anti-Vietnam War history, I examine how activists …
Introduction: New Writings In Feminist And Women’S Studies, Trishima Mitra-Kahn, Maud Perrier
Introduction: New Writings In Feminist And Women’S Studies, Trishima Mitra-Kahn, Maud Perrier
Journal of International Women's Studies
No abstract provided.
Book Review: Migration, Domestic Work And Affect: A Decolonial Approach On Value And The Feminization Of Labor, Ronnie Mmotlane
Book Review: Migration, Domestic Work And Affect: A Decolonial Approach On Value And The Feminization Of Labor, Ronnie Mmotlane
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Migration, Domestic Work and Affect: a Decolonial Approach on Value and the Feminization of Labor, edited by Encarnacion Gutierrez-Rodriguez
Book Review: Microfinance And Its Discontents: Women In Debt In Bangladesh, Adlai S. Davids
Book Review: Microfinance And Its Discontents: Women In Debt In Bangladesh, Adlai S. Davids
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Microfinance and its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh by Lamia Karim
Book Review: Girls Of The Factory: A Year With The Garment Workers Of Morocco, Catherine Ogunmefun
Book Review: Girls Of The Factory: A Year With The Garment Workers Of Morocco, Catherine Ogunmefun
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Girls of the Factory: A Year with the Garment Workers of Morocco by Cairoli Laetitia
Book Review: Women Writing On Family: Tips On Writing, Teaching And Publishing, Vera Gubnikskaia
Book Review: Women Writing On Family: Tips On Writing, Teaching And Publishing, Vera Gubnikskaia
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Women Writing on Family: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing, Carol Smallwood and Suzann Holland, editors.
Book Review: Strike! The Insurrections Of Ellen Dawson, Mvuselelo Mgeyane
Book Review: Strike! The Insurrections Of Ellen Dawson, Mvuselelo Mgeyane
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Strike! The Insurrections of Ellen Dawson by David Lee McMullen
Book Review: Feminist Epistemology And Philosophy Of Science: Power In Knowledge, Susanne Pohlmann
Book Review: Feminist Epistemology And Philosophy Of Science: Power In Knowledge, Susanne Pohlmann
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Power in Knowledge, edited by Heidi E. Grasswick
Book Review: Contemporary American Women: Our Defining Passages, Annarina Koivu
Book Review: Contemporary American Women: Our Defining Passages, Annarina Koivu
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Contemporary American Women: Our Defining Passages, compiled and edited by Carol Smallwood and Cynthia Brackett-Vincent
Book Review: Palestinian Women: Narrative Histories And Gendered Memory, Desire Chilwane
Book Review: Palestinian Women: Narrative Histories And Gendered Memory, Desire Chilwane
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Palestinian Women: Narrative histories and gendered memory by Fatma Kassem
Identity, Hospital, And Cancer: The Story Of Lucy Grealy, Florina Catalina Florescu
Identity, Hospital, And Cancer: The Story Of Lucy Grealy, Florina Catalina Florescu
Journal of International Women's Studies
No abstract provided.
Book Review: Women Of The Conquest Dynasties: Gender And Identity In Liao And Jin China, Elmé Vivier
Book Review: Women Of The Conquest Dynasties: Gender And Identity In Liao And Jin China, Elmé Vivier
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Women of the Conquest Dynasties: Gender and Identity in Liao and Jin China by Linda Cooke Johnson.
Present But Absent: Women In Business Leadership In South Africa, Catherine Ndinda, Ufo Okeke-Uzodike
Present But Absent: Women In Business Leadership In South Africa, Catherine Ndinda, Ufo Okeke-Uzodike
Journal of International Women's Studies
Women constitute forty six (46) percent of the economically active population in South Africa. Although both South African, African men and women are well represented in the economically active population, questions arise when it comes to their presence and effective representation at higher decision-making levels. Indeed, while African men and White women are present, White men dominate in top management. Through a gender analysis of current data on the labour force, this paper examines women’s representation in top decision-making for all employers (government and business) in South Africa. In discussing the trends, the paper highlights gender disparities in the advancement …
Fear Of Crime And Victimization: Retracing Women’S Risk Perceptions In Private Spaces In The Urban City Of Kolkata, Piyali Sur
Journal of International Women's Studies
This article uses qualitative methodology to explore women’s fear of crime in intimate relations, an area until now uncharted. The rich scholarship on fear of crime has exclusively dealt with fear of crime on the streets, ignoring the threat of crime within private spaces. The study conducted in Kolkata, capital of West Bengal, India, demonstrates that for women there is a sexualization of risk whereby women participants express their overwhelming fear of sexual harm in public spaces and deny any kind of fear of crime in private spaces. The article argues that women recast the meanings of danger and risk …
A Grounded Theory Investigation Into The Experiences Of African Women Refugees: Effects On Resilience And Identity And Implications For Service Provision, Katie Sherwood, Helen Liebling-Kalifani
A Grounded Theory Investigation Into The Experiences Of African Women Refugees: Effects On Resilience And Identity And Implications For Service Provision, Katie Sherwood, Helen Liebling-Kalifani
Journal of International Women's Studies
The current study aims to explore African women’s experiences of violence during conflict. The research was undertaken in 2009 in part fulfillment for a Doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology. Previous research on women refugees’ experiences has focused on the negative impact on psychological functioning despite indications that they show great strength and resilience. Using qualitative methods the study sought to identify the impact of violence on mental health as well as develop a greater understanding of the roles of resilience, coping and identity. Women from Somalia and Zimbabwe who attended a refugee centre in the UK were interviewed; analysis of …
Women And Post-Conflict Society In Sierra Leone, Hazel M. Mcferson
Women And Post-Conflict Society In Sierra Leone, Hazel M. Mcferson
Journal of International Women's Studies
Gender inequality in Sierra Leone, after colonialism among the worst in Sub-Saharan Africa, has been heightened further by the civil war of 1992-2002—which was related in part to the struggle for control of “blood diamonds” but also to long-standing social and regional disparities, and to collapse of formal institutions and widespread corruption. Sierra Leonean women are today among the most marginalized in the world, socially, economically and politically. However, there are differences among three groups: the better educated, comparatively richer “Krios” (descendants of the original freed slaves); relatively enlightened tribes; and the more traditional patriarchal tribes. The main route to …
Women, Occupation, Collective Loss And Support: The Experience Of “From A Bereaved Woman To Another”, Sohail Hassanein
Women, Occupation, Collective Loss And Support: The Experience Of “From A Bereaved Woman To Another”, Sohail Hassanein
Journal of International Women's Studies
This study derives its force from experiences of Palestinian women, occupation and loss project that aims at describing and understanding the role of holistic intervention based on the mutual support approach “from a bereaved woman to another.” The qualitative method has been utilized, with a view to reaching an integrated description, analysis and explanation of the experience that has been documented in details, through using special documentation forms. The results reveal that changes have taken place to bereaved women and supportive bereaved ones, as a result of participation in support and through training meetings. The findings demonstrate that women have …
The Jamu System In Indonesia: Linking Small-Scale Enterprises, Traditional Knowledge And Social Empowerment Among Women In Indonesia, Maria Costanza Torri
The Jamu System In Indonesia: Linking Small-Scale Enterprises, Traditional Knowledge And Social Empowerment Among Women In Indonesia, Maria Costanza Torri
Journal of International Women's Studies
Medicinal plants have been used extensively in numerous countries, Indonesia included, in the domain of traditional medicine and of natural product industry. Few studies have focused on the commercial aspects of medicinal plants in local communities and on its potential impact on gender development in urban and peri-urban areas. This article aims to analyze the impact of women enterprises active in the traditional herbal sector (jamu) in Indonesia in terms of household revenues and social status. The paper emphasizes how, despite the important socio-economic results of small-scale enterprises in the jamu sector in the city of Jogjakarta, some challenges of …
“I Am An Anarchist”: The Social Anarchism Of Lucy E. Parsons, Willie J. Harrell Jr.
“I Am An Anarchist”: The Social Anarchism Of Lucy E. Parsons, Willie J. Harrell Jr.
Journal of International Women's Studies
A determined advocate of socialism anarchism, Lucy E. Parsons believed that inequities in society stemmed from unequal power relations between government and the people. Parsons delivered powerful orations and had an enormous influence in world history in general and US labor history in particular. This essay raises two issues: Parsons’ view of human nature and the degree to which her ideas were rooted in a theory of historical progress. She maintained a staunch commitment to establishing and maintaining collective freedom and her allegiance was demonstrated by her perpetual critiques of any form of domination or subordination of the working class …
The Invisible Challenge To Hiv/Aids Prevention: Clandestine Prostitution In Senegal, Gisele Maynard Tucker
The Invisible Challenge To Hiv/Aids Prevention: Clandestine Prostitution In Senegal, Gisele Maynard Tucker
Journal of International Women's Studies
Clandestine prostitution has become a way of survival as many women struggle economically without family or governmental aid. Clandestine or survival sex is practiced when women are facing an economic dilemma. These women are non-literate and have no job skills. Further, they do not see themselves as sex workers because they only “go out” (colloquial for prostituting) occasionally. In light of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, it is important to reach these women as they are exposed to HIV infection and violence. Based on literary research, observations, focus groups and interviews with the personnel working with registered and clandestine sex workers in …
Gendered Performance Performing Gender In The Diy Punk And Hardcore Music Scene, Naomi Griffin
Gendered Performance Performing Gender In The Diy Punk And Hardcore Music Scene, Naomi Griffin
Journal of International Women's Studies
This article considers the relevance of geographical theories about gender roles and how gender is performed, to the situated context of a local DIY (‘Do It Yourself) punk scene. It draws on an auto-ethnographic study carried out by the author between September 2008 and May 2009, which explored the themes of the body, gendered performativity and gendered spatialities. The study was based on the author’s observations, reflections and conversations with other participants at live music events (‘shows’) in a particular region of the UK, but also revealed how DIY punk offers an example of an imagined community, crossing temporal, spatial …
Punching Like A Girl: Embodied Violence And Resistance In The Context Of Women’S Self-Defense, Emilia Aaltonen
Punching Like A Girl: Embodied Violence And Resistance In The Context Of Women’S Self-Defense, Emilia Aaltonen
Journal of International Women's Studies
This essay explores the way discourses of gender and aggression can be combined in the female body. Traditionally, the female body has been seen as that of a victim and the man’s body as that of an aggressor. Although the behaviours are absorbed through learning and repetitive action, these essentialist discourses of the gendered body have become naturalized. I suggest that gendered behaviours are not fixed and, just as they are learned in the first place, they can also be unlearned and replaced by new ones. Using the example of women’s self-defense, the essay investigates how women can train their …
Intersectionality Queer Studies And Hybridity: Methodological Frameworks For Social Research, Aristea Fotopoulou
Intersectionality Queer Studies And Hybridity: Methodological Frameworks For Social Research, Aristea Fotopoulou
Journal of International Women's Studies
This article seeks to draw links between intersectionality and queer studies as epistemological strands by examining their common methodological tasks and by tracing some similar difficulties of translating theory into research methods. Intersectionality is the systematic study of the ways in which differences such as race, gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity and other sociopolitical and cultural identities interrelate. Queer theory, when applied as a distinct methodological approach to the study of gender and sexuality, has sought to denaturalise categories of analysis and make normativity visible. By examining existing research projects framed as ‘queer’ alongside ones that use intersectionality, I consider the …
Healthy Choices And Heavy Burdens: Race, Citizenship And Gender In The ‘Obesity Epidemic’, Jeanne Firth
Healthy Choices And Heavy Burdens: Race, Citizenship And Gender In The ‘Obesity Epidemic’, Jeanne Firth
Journal of International Women's Studies
The ‘obesity epidemic’ is widely accepted as a major public health threat in the United States. This paper provides a critical examination of the White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity’s action plan that is foundational to First Lady Michelle Obama’s ‘Let’s Move!’ campaign. The report reveals ideological anxieties about race, American citizenship, changing gender roles and women’s bodies. The framing of obesity as a personal problem and individual failing reflects the merger of American individualism and neoliberalism. Self-regulation and responsibility (and the mother’s responsibility for her children) are key in prescriptions to manage obesity, reflecting biopolitical techniques of governance …
Tension In Intersectional Agency: A Theoretical Discussion Of The Interior Conflict Of White, Feminist Activists’ Intersectional Location, Dieuwertje Dyi Huijg
Tension In Intersectional Agency: A Theoretical Discussion Of The Interior Conflict Of White, Feminist Activists’ Intersectional Location, Dieuwertje Dyi Huijg
Journal of International Women's Studies
In this article I question the wholeness of the agency of white, feminist activists. Drawing on intersectional theory, I problematise the multiplicative character of their location in order to be able to understand how intersectional agency operates. This location reveals three layers of intersectionality; the junction of axes of social signification (gender and race); the junction of manifestations on these axes (female and white); and the junction of, subsequent, positions in power relations (disadvantaged and advantaged). I argue that this is specifically important and complex when we explore how whiteness can operate intersectionally. This results in three observations. First, this …