Pub Date : 2006-06-26DOI: 10.2979/NWS.2006.18.2.148
S. Ferguson, T. King
The following article reports the preliminary research findings of a phenomenological assessment of the experiences of African American women ages 35 to 64, providing individual and collective advocacy supports for elder family members besieged by the contemporary forms of economic terrorism that include community redlining, predatory lending, financial fraud, housing piracy, and home foreclosure. The impetus and precedents for the actions of our African American women clients who have experienced economic terrorism are discussed through the lenses of African American womanist leadership theory, black feminist thought, and adult development theory. This mid-life generation saga traverses the underworld of institutionalized legal and financial discrimination aimed at disabling personal agency and obstructing the restoration of these African American women's elder family members' financial credit, home equity, and home sites. Provided is a discussion of: (1) the macro and micro implications of predatory lending and financial discrimination in the context of patriarchy; (2) the issues of co-victimization for the African American women serving as elder advocates; (3) the process of regaining voice and reclaiming purpose; and (4) the actualizing phases of leadership as evidenced by sustained social action.
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{"title":"Divorce in Japan: Family, Gender, and the State 1600-2000, and: Gender and Human Rights Politics in Japan (review)","authors":"K. Broadbent","doi":"10.1353/NWSA.2006.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/NWSA.2006.0026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"18 1","pages":"244 - 248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/NWSA.2006.0026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66454160","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}
affect the ability of women to choose to enact their voices (or be heard once they’ve done so). Second, administrators, faculty, and student affairs professionals would benefit from actively engaging with these texts and reflecting on how their programs and services facilitate or impede all students’ participation in campus life. Third, scholars who wish to better understand women’s multi-faceted experiences in social institutions, and especially in colleges and universities, would benefit from these texts. Finally, stakeholders in women’s education will gain understanding and strategy from this text about how to truly make our institutions of higher learning women-centered.
{"title":"Matricide in Language: Writing Theory in Kristeva and Woolf (review)","authors":"J. Sayers","doi":"10.1353/NWSA.2006.0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/NWSA.2006.0040","url":null,"abstract":"affect the ability of women to choose to enact their voices (or be heard once they’ve done so). Second, administrators, faculty, and student affairs professionals would benefit from actively engaging with these texts and reflecting on how their programs and services facilitate or impede all students’ participation in campus life. Third, scholars who wish to better understand women’s multi-faceted experiences in social institutions, and especially in colleges and universities, would benefit from these texts. Finally, stakeholders in women’s education will gain understanding and strategy from this text about how to truly make our institutions of higher learning women-centered.","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"18 1","pages":"226 - 228"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/NWSA.2006.0040","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66454221","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}
difference, the correspondence business simply would not exist, at least not in its present form. American men are aware of this reality and, for the most part, are as defensive about the pragmatic aspects of their relationships as they are about the market analogy that underlies the very notion of a mail-order bride. Their desire for wanting to enter into some kind of long-term emotional relationship suggests, however, that it is a yearning for intimacy with a nubile female and not erotica that is the more paramount motivation. In sum, this is a solid ethnographic critique that starts with the participants’ native point of view and discovers it at odds with prevalent popular and scholarly American and European interpretation. Constable’s analysis of mail-order correspondences is one of the first ethnographic efforts to focus on both men and women to understand the motivational force that guides human yearning for intimacy. In focusing on this motive, she provides a conceptual model and methodological tool that other researchers will find useful as the field addresses the messy, imprecise, and ultimately more rewarding domain of human intimacy.
{"title":"The Education of Jane Addams, and: Diva Julia: The Public Romance and Private Agony of Julia Ward Howe, and: Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters (review)","authors":"K. Weiler","doi":"10.1353/nwsa.2006.0042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nwsa.2006.0042","url":null,"abstract":"difference, the correspondence business simply would not exist, at least not in its present form. American men are aware of this reality and, for the most part, are as defensive about the pragmatic aspects of their relationships as they are about the market analogy that underlies the very notion of a mail-order bride. Their desire for wanting to enter into some kind of long-term emotional relationship suggests, however, that it is a yearning for intimacy with a nubile female and not erotica that is the more paramount motivation. In sum, this is a solid ethnographic critique that starts with the participants’ native point of view and discovers it at odds with prevalent popular and scholarly American and European interpretation. Constable’s analysis of mail-order correspondences is one of the first ethnographic efforts to focus on both men and women to understand the motivational force that guides human yearning for intimacy. In focusing on this motive, she provides a conceptual model and methodological tool that other researchers will find useful as the field addresses the messy, imprecise, and ultimately more rewarding domain of human intimacy.","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"18 1","pages":"230 - 234"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/nwsa.2006.0042","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66454260","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":"Writing Out of Place: Regionalism, Women, and American Literary Culture (review)","authors":"Kimberly Crowley","doi":"10.1353/nwsa.2006.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nwsa.2006.0028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"18 1","pages":"237 - 238"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/nwsa.2006.0028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66454561","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 : 2006-06-26DOI: 10.2979/NWS.2006.18.2.123
M. Alston
This article focuses on gender mainstreaming in practice using the example of agriculture departments in Australia. Gender mainstreaming is a policy initiative adopted internationally following the Beijing women's conference in 1995 to address gender inequality. The move represents a policy shift from a focus solely addressing women's disadvantage to a broader attention to gender inequality. This article provides an historical overview of the move toward gender mainstreaming in the international environment, as well as a theoretical critique. Using the Australian case example, the shift of attention from rural women to gender mainstreaming in Australian agricultural departments appears to be taking place with little understanding of the concept of gender mainstreaming or its goals. It is further argued that recent moves by government departments of agriculture toward gender mainstreaming may have disadvantaged women. This article argues that, while in theory mainstreaming is a more successful way of addressing gender inequality, in practice it risks reducing attention to women unless changes occur in departmental cultures and gender mainstreaming accountability measures are introduced at international and national levels.
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Pub Date : 2006-06-26DOI: 10.2979/NWS.2006.18.2.73
Karen Kampwirth
In this article I note that one important result of the last several decades of social upheaval in Nicaragua has been the emergence of active feminist and antifeminist movements. Since there has been significant analysis of feminist organizing, and very little on antifeminist organizing, the focus of this paper is antifeminism. I argue that the emergence of this backlash movement can be explained in terms of both domestic and global politics. From a domestic perspective, the movement can be seen as a reaction against the Sandinista revolution and its aftermath. From a global perspective, it is a response to what antifeminists see as the challenges of globalization such as feminist successes in international development agencies and the loss of sovereignty due to neoliberalism. It is also a response to the opportunities provided by globalization such as the emergence of a global antifeminist movement with strong links to like-minded organizations in other countries. This article analyzes the historical roots of the movement and then considers the worldviews of the participants in the movement.
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Pub Date : 2006-06-26DOI: 10.2979/NWS.2006.18.2.193
Norlisha F. Crawford
In his hard-boiled detective fiction series set in Harlem, Chester Himes created a wide variety of recurring African American female character types. In this essay, I focus on The Crazy Kill (1959/1989), assessing the extremely ambitious, sexually alluring, scheming, and manipulative outlaw female characters. Himes's novels suggest that viewing these female characters as merely immoral or unethical is too simplistic. Context, history, traditions, political, and socioeconomic imperatives count. However, because of genre expectations established for more than 100 years, an assertive female character may be overly determined as merely a femme fatale. Also, because of traditions established depicting African American female characters as wanton, overly sexualized beings, the expectation that a racialized female character is morally objectionable is rooted more in racism than in evidence of the character's conduct. I suggest Himes challenges traditional expectations established by the genre for female characters as well as time-honored popular culture depictions of racialized characters, by offering an affirming critical read of his ambitious Harlem female characters.
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{"title":"The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined Women (review)","authors":"A. Press","doi":"10.1353/NWSA.2006.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/NWSA.2006.0038","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"18 1","pages":"235 - 236"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/NWSA.2006.0038","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66454190","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":"Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan (review)","authors":"T. Fredrick","doi":"10.1353/nwsa.2006.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nwsa.2006.0030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"18 1","pages":"239 - 240"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/nwsa.2006.0030","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66454611","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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