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Nadine Gordimer's Fictional Selves: Can A White Woman Be At Home In Black South Africa?, Nancy Topping Bazin
Nadine Gordimer's Fictional Selves: Can A White Woman Be At Home In Black South Africa?, Nancy Topping Bazin
Women's & Gender Studies Faculty Publications
(First paragraph) Growing up in South Africa where only 5.6 million people are white out of a population of 37.9 million, Nadine Gordimer became increasingly conscious of her whiteness1. The colour of her skin instantly signaled 'oppressor' to black South Africans. Her whiteness imposed upon her a social and political identity that she rejected; yet, it was like a face she could not wash off, a mask she could not take off. As she said in a 1978 interview, 'In South Africa one wears one's skin like a uniform. White equals guilt' (Bazin & Seymour 1990:94). She often …
Why Are Those Women So Angry? (Alienating People Of Good Will), Janet Bing
Why Are Those Women So Angry? (Alienating People Of Good Will), Janet Bing
English Faculty Publications
(First paragraph) Until quite recently, I dismissed criticisms of "angry feminists" as a sexist stereotype. I was tired of hearing people say, "I believe in equal pay for equal work, but I dislike those bra-burning feminists!" Perhaps I'm too young, but almost all of my friends are feminists, and I have yet to meet anyone who has burned her bra, so this comment always strikes me as bizarre. However, recently I have begun to think seriously about the power of stereotypes and the ability of people to disregard messages they do not want to hear. I now realize that feminists …
Smoke, Rénee Olander
What Does That Mean?, Carolyn Rhodes
What Does That Mean?, Carolyn Rhodes
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Decision, Edith White
The Gender Revolution, Nancy Topping Bazin
The Gender Revolution, Nancy Topping Bazin
Women's & Gender Studies Faculty Publications
(First paragraph) In the fall of 1958, when I arrived at Stanford University to begin a Ph.D., the all-male faculty of the English department were still grumbling in the corridors about the last woman they had hired. They had found her too assertive, so they did not want to repeat that mistake. Later, at a session on getting jobs, the department chair told us that females would be hired "at one level of university lower than what they deserved." In 1960, like the other silent students, I accepted that pattern as the way the world worked. Yet the injustice of …
Songs Of A Turning Body, Luisa A. Igloria
Songs Of A Turning Body, Luisa A. Igloria
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Cover Girl Run For Cover, Rénee Olander
Cover Girl Run For Cover, Rénee Olander
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Why Are Those Women So Angry?, Janet Bing
Why Are Those Women So Angry?, Janet Bing
English Faculty Publications
(First paragraph) Until quite recently, I dismissed criticisms of "angry femini sts" as a sexist stereotype. I was tired of hearing people say, "I believe in equal pay for equal work, but I dislike those bra-burning feminists!" Perhaps I'm too young, but almost all of my friends are feminists, and I have yet to meet anyone who has burned her bra, so this comment always strikes me as bizarre. However, recently I have begun to think seriously about the power of stereotypes and the ability of people to disregard messages they do not want to hear. I now realize that …
Two Birds On A Postcard, Farideh Dayanim Goldin
Two Birds On A Postcard, Farideh Dayanim Goldin
English Faculty Publications
(First paragraph)My sister, Nahid, is four years younger than me. She suffers from osteomyelitis, which began from an infected umbilicus at birth, the result of unsanitary conditions at Morsalin hospital in Iran. She was given massive doses of antibiotics to help fight the infection, followed by surgery at the age of one to drain the affected area. Despite these efforts, the top of Nahid 's right femur was eroded by the infection. It left her with a hanging hip and a severe limp.
Pai Dos Burros, Luisa A. Igloria
Excerpts From "Death Journal", Nancy Olthoff
Excerpts From "Death Journal", Nancy Olthoff
English Faculty Publications
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White Women, Black Revolutionaries: Sex And Politics In Four Novels By Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin
White Women, Black Revolutionaries: Sex And Politics In Four Novels By Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin
English Faculty Publications
As early as 1959, the white South African novelist, essayist, and short story writer Nadine Gordimer wrote an essay, "Where Do Whites Fit In?" As the black struggle for power intensified and finally achieved its primary goal of black majority rule in 1994, Gordimer continued to reflect upon this question. Her eighth novel, July's People (1981), is a psychological and political fable. It celebrates a white woman's readiness to reject the relationships and privileges that bind her to the white world and her readiness to embrace the new South Africa of an emancipated black majority. The novels written before July's …