{"title":"From Madness to Mutiny: Why Mothers Are Running from the Family Courts and What Can Be Done about It (review)","authors":"H. Pepinsky","doi":"10.1353/NWSA.2006.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/NWSA.2006.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"18 1","pages":"230 - 232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/NWSA.2006.0017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66454505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2006-03-22DOI: 10.2979/NWS.2006.18.1.138
Cynthia Port
This article investigates an explosion of media interest in "women's ages" and the corresponding idealization of youth in Britain during the 1920s and '30s. In this period, the social implications of aging came to be seen as particularly vexed, especially for women, who were considered social commodities. Various contexts are identified in which the obsession with gendered age emerged, including changing economic theories of accumulation and consumption, shifts in population, the emergence of gerontology as a discipline, and the evolving status of women. Examining how both high literary works and popular magazines produced at the time articulated and responded to these new attitudes, the article concludes by considering Rose Macaulay's novels, Dangerous Ages and Keeping up Appearances. These novels reveal that economic dependence and restricted life choices contribute to women's keen sense of loss over time, and that these serious psychological costs are often disguised behind what is feared and mourned as the "loss" of youth. Ultimately, the anxieties about aging projected by early-twentieth-century culture served to deflect women's attention from personal and professional development that began to seem within reach after World War I.
{"title":"\"Ages are the Stuff!\": The Traffic in Ages in Interwar Britain","authors":"Cynthia Port","doi":"10.2979/NWS.2006.18.1.138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/NWS.2006.18.1.138","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates an explosion of media interest in \"women's ages\" and the corresponding idealization of youth in Britain during the 1920s and '30s. In this period, the social implications of aging came to be seen as particularly vexed, especially for women, who were considered social commodities. Various contexts are identified in which the obsession with gendered age emerged, including changing economic theories of accumulation and consumption, shifts in population, the emergence of gerontology as a discipline, and the evolving status of women. Examining how both high literary works and popular magazines produced at the time articulated and responded to these new attitudes, the article concludes by considering Rose Macaulay's novels, Dangerous Ages and Keeping up Appearances. These novels reveal that economic dependence and restricted life choices contribute to women's keen sense of loss over time, and that these serious psychological costs are often disguised behind what is feared and mourned as the \"loss\" of youth. Ultimately, the anxieties about aging projected by early-twentieth-century culture served to deflect women's attention from personal and professional development that began to seem within reach after World War I.","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"18 1","pages":"138 - 161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69199599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2006-03-22DOI: 10.2979/NWS.2006.18.1.31
Heather Dillaway
Despite the growth of biomedical and feminist research on menopause, we still lack a comprehensive definition of what reproductive aging is, when it begins, how long it lasts, and how women experience different menopausal stages. Likewise, while aging scholars have made strides in understanding age identities and the meanings attributable to various chronological ages, we lack an understanding of how chronological age figures into individuals' experiences, medical treatment, and academic research. The gaps in knowledge about chronological age are particularly glaring in regard to women's experiences. In this article I use data from 61 in-depth interviews with menopausal women to explore the ways in which chronological age appears in their discussions of menopause experiences and their interactions with doctors about this reproductive transition. I also describe how chronological age shaped recruitment efforts for my own study. I conclude that, despite unclear information about the age and time boundaries of reproductive aging, we still use chronological age as a way to diagnose and operationalize women's experiences at midlife. I argue that reliance on chronological age hinders understandings of menopause, women's midlife, and women's overall well being. Even though feminist research exists on the topics of menopause and aging already, feminist scholars need to work toward broader conceptualizations of menopause, women's midlife experiences, and aging processes and challenge existing definitions of menopause more directly.
{"title":"When Does Menopause Occur, and How Long Does It Last? Wrestling with Age and Time-Based Conceptualizations of Reproductive Aging","authors":"Heather Dillaway","doi":"10.2979/NWS.2006.18.1.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/NWS.2006.18.1.31","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the growth of biomedical and feminist research on menopause, we still lack a comprehensive definition of what reproductive aging is, when it begins, how long it lasts, and how women experience different menopausal stages. Likewise, while aging scholars have made strides in understanding age identities and the meanings attributable to various chronological ages, we lack an understanding of how chronological age figures into individuals' experiences, medical treatment, and academic research. The gaps in knowledge about chronological age are particularly glaring in regard to women's experiences. In this article I use data from 61 in-depth interviews with menopausal women to explore the ways in which chronological age appears in their discussions of menopause experiences and their interactions with doctors about this reproductive transition. I also describe how chronological age shaped recruitment efforts for my own study. I conclude that, despite unclear information about the age and time boundaries of reproductive aging, we still use chronological age as a way to diagnose and operationalize women's experiences at midlife. I argue that reliance on chronological age hinders understandings of menopause, women's midlife, and women's overall well being. Even though feminist research exists on the topics of menopause and aging already, feminist scholars need to work toward broader conceptualizations of menopause, women's midlife experiences, and aging processes and challenge existing definitions of menopause more directly.","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"18 1","pages":"31 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69199689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2006-03-22DOI: 10.2979/NWS.2006.18.1.106
S. Henneberg
As a comparative look at the works of May Sarton and Adrienne Rich shows, literature can contribute to the development of age studies in a variety of ways, some of which may not be obvious. Sarton's direct treatment of aging provides a key to the less apparent approaches Rich takes in her later career to further our understanding of age. Employing radically different strategies, the two writers constitute an odd couple of "creative crones" whose combined efforts have begun to generate a critique of aging that we as feminists and human beings desperately need as we confront the future.
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“Terrorism” has become a catchall term for the enemy who challenges U.S. imperialism. Viewed by the likes of George Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz, terrorism is the activity of terrorists; and terrorists are not us, nor are they like us—terrorists are those who hate “our” freedom/democracy, modernity/secularism, and hard-won success. “Terrorism” has now fully replaced communism as the globe’s scourge. “Our” enemies, the enemies of democracy and freedom, exist everywhere and anywhere. Yet much of the rest of the world thinks that President Bush is more of a threat to the world than Saddam Hussein. (Eisenstein 2004, 8)
{"title":"States of Insecurity and the Gendered Politics of Fear","authors":"C. Stabile, Carrie A Rentschler","doi":"10.1353/NWSA.2005.0072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/NWSA.2005.0072","url":null,"abstract":"“Terrorism” has become a catchall term for the enemy who challenges U.S. imperialism. Viewed by the likes of George Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz, terrorism is the activity of terrorists; and terrorists are not us, nor are they like us—terrorists are those who hate “our” freedom/democracy, modernity/secularism, and hard-won success. “Terrorism” has now fully replaced communism as the globe’s scourge. “Our” enemies, the enemies of democracy and freedom, exist everywhere and anywhere. Yet much of the rest of the world thinks that President Bush is more of a threat to the world than Saddam Hussein. (Eisenstein 2004, 8)","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"17 1","pages":"vii - xxv"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/NWSA.2005.0072","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66453808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bodies in a Broken World: Women Novelists of Color and the Politics of Medicine (review)","authors":"D. Wear","doi":"10.1353/NWSA.2005.0075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/NWSA.2005.0075","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"17 1","pages":"205 - 206"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/NWSA.2005.0075","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66453864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2005-11-03DOI: 10.2979/NWS.2005.17.3.157
R. Braidotti, M. Vos
y the context in which new efforts in graduate e ducation in Women’s Stu dies take place in Euro pe. For t hese purposes, we will sketch a genera l picture—tricky territor y given the many differences in higher education in Europe but nevertheless wort h doing for purposes of this artic le. In the last ten to fi fteen years, man y changes in gra duate e ducation in Euro pe have taken place. One im portant chan ge is that graduate students ten d to spen d time in coursewor k, whereas previous ly they spent their time so lely on researc hing an d writing t he dissertation, large ly in isolation. This general trend has been accelerated by the 1999 Bologna Declaration w hich intro duces the Angl o-Saxon structure—wit h bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degrees—into t he European universit y system, enabling a model of relatively quick, targeted degree training also at the Ph.D. level. In or der to provi de structures wit hin which gra duate stu dents can do coursework rather than isolated work on the dissertation, many new organizations have emerge d. In France, for instance, inter disciplinary doctora l schools (ecoles doctorales) were founded while in the Netherlands national (largely disciplinary ) research schools emerged. These organizations provi de doctora l training an d simultaneous ly often serve, either at t he local or nationa l level, as organizations in w hich both new
{"title":"The Women's Studies Ph.D. in Europe: An Archive","authors":"R. Braidotti, M. Vos","doi":"10.2979/NWS.2005.17.3.157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/NWS.2005.17.3.157","url":null,"abstract":"y the context in which new efforts in graduate e ducation in Women’s Stu dies take place in Euro pe. For t hese purposes, we will sketch a genera l picture—tricky territor y given the many differences in higher education in Europe but nevertheless wort h doing for purposes of this artic le. In the last ten to fi fteen years, man y changes in gra duate e ducation in Euro pe have taken place. One im portant chan ge is that graduate students ten d to spen d time in coursewor k, whereas previous ly they spent their time so lely on researc hing an d writing t he dissertation, large ly in isolation. This general trend has been accelerated by the 1999 Bologna Declaration w hich intro duces the Angl o-Saxon structure—wit h bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degrees—into t he European universit y system, enabling a model of relatively quick, targeted degree training also at the Ph.D. level. In or der to provi de structures wit hin which gra duate stu dents can do coursework rather than isolated work on the dissertation, many new organizations have emerge d. In France, for instance, inter disciplinary doctora l schools (ecoles doctorales) were founded while in the Netherlands national (largely disciplinary ) research schools emerged. These organizations provi de doctora l training an d simultaneous ly often serve, either at t he local or nationa l level, as organizations in w hich both new","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"17 1","pages":"157 - 172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69199469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2005-11-03DOI: 10.2979/NWS.2005.17.3.189
Hannah Bellwoar
{"title":"Orienting, Disorienting, and Reorienting: Multiple Perspectives on Poststrcturnalist Feminist Pedagogies","authors":"Hannah Bellwoar","doi":"10.2979/NWS.2005.17.3.189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/NWS.2005.17.3.189","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"17 1","pages":"189 - 194"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69199495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2005-11-03DOI: 10.2979/NWS.2005.17.3.39
Carol Mason
The dichotomous images of Jessica Lynch, a West Virginia soldier who was rescued from an Iraqi hospital in 2003, and Lynndie England, another West Virginia soldier whose picture became synonymous with prison abuse in Iraq in 2004, have necessitated a feminist contribution to the theorizing of the hillbilly as a cultural icon. This article examines historical, political, and literary contexts for diverting attention to the hillbilly as a defense against criticism of America as an uncivilized nation, connecting the narratives of Lynch and England with accounts of Eric Rudolph, a supposed mountaineer survivalist who in 2005 was convicted of bombing abortion clinics, a lesbian bar, and an Olympic celebration. In each case, the hillbilly—that liminal, primitive white icon of ambivalence about modernity's "progress" and its American discontents—is deployed culturally to mediate American military extremism, religious retribution, and terror.
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{"title":"Homegirls in the Public Sphere (review)","authors":"N. Cantú","doi":"10.1353/NWSA.2005.0058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/NWSA.2005.0058","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"17 1","pages":"217 - 219"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/NWSA.2005.0058","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66454111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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