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The Lobbyist No. 25 (May 1999), Maine Women's Lobby Staff May 1999

The Lobbyist No. 25 (May 1999), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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Coercing Privacy, Anita L. Allen Mar 1999

Coercing Privacy, Anita L. Allen

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


The Lobbyist No. 24 (February 1999), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Feb 1999

The Lobbyist No. 24 (February 1999), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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Clags Forms New Advocacy Committee, Elizabeth Freeman Jan 1999

Clags Forms New Advocacy Committee, Elizabeth Freeman

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

During the 1990s, attacks on the arts and higher education have demonized Women's Studies and Gay/Lesbian Studies, as well as those courses designed to make higher education available to academically underprivileged students. The CLAGS Board of Directors has come to feel that CLAGS should be taking a leading role in debates that use homophobia, racism, and sexism to justify cuts in funding for the arts and education, restrictions on freedom of academic and artistic expression, and policies that restrict access to higher learning. For this reason, we have formed a Board committee for advocacy in the arts and education.


The Lobbyist No. 27 (Fall 1999), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Jan 1999

The Lobbyist No. 27 (Fall 1999), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Globalization, Migration And Class Struggles: Ngo Mobilization For Filipino Domestic Workers, Lisa Law, Kathy Nadeau Jan 1999

Globalization, Migration And Class Struggles: Ngo Mobilization For Filipino Domestic Workers, Lisa Law, Kathy Nadeau

Anthropology Faculty Publications

This paper contributes to post-Marxist discussions on the relevance of class as a social category in a postmodern world. Rather than marginalize this issue of social positioning, the authors explore the relevance of an Althusserian perspective which acknowledges the importance of class as it articulates with other social/identity issues such as gender and ethnicity. The substantive context for this discussion is gendered labor migration from the Philippines, and the advocacy work conducted by Filipino non-government organizations (NGOs) working with migrants in Pacific Rim countries. It focuses on NGOs in Hong Kong and Vancouver, and their efforts to contest the gendered …


Questions Of Race And Gender: Evangelina Cisneros And The Spanish-Cuban-American War, Anne Fountain Jan 1999

Questions Of Race And Gender: Evangelina Cisneros And The Spanish-Cuban-American War, Anne Fountain

Faculty Publications

At the turn of the century, the name "Evangelina Cisneros" (known in Cuba as Evangelina Cossio) was a household term throughout the United States. Newspapers and books described her daring escape from a Havana prison, and pleas on her behalf flourished--including a request for clemency by Queen Victoria and an eloquent letter from the wife of Jefferson Davis. Although the Cisneros saga has all but disappeared in the general historical references to the eighteen nineties, her prison predicament and her prominence in the press of the times reflect fundamental issues of race and gender that are part of the socio­-political …