Feminist Studies

Preface

Analyzing the support of coal miners in Appalachian West Virginia for the environmentally destructive practice of "mountaintop removal" or MTR coal mining, Scott makes an elegant and complex argument about the ways in which gendered constructions of work-embodied in the image of the heterosexual white male breadwinner-intersect with, exemplify, and rearticulate understandings of freedom, citizenship, and belonging in the United States.

The Construction of Military Prostitution in South Korea During the U.S. Military Rule, 1945-1948

The presence of U.S. troops contributed 25 percent of South Korea's GNP, playing an especially important role during the 1960s, and prostitution and related business supported over half of the U.S. camptowns' economy.5 The Korean government has demarcated these spaces as open only to U.S. military personnel and foreign tourists; the two largest gijichon, Dongducheon and Pyeongtaek, were designated as Special Tourism Districts in 1997.6 Women working in the entertainment industry of these area...

Dependent Masculinity and Political Culture in Pro-Mountaintop Removal Discourse: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dragline

After the mine closure at Blair, the coal industry threatened coal mining communities with massive job losses if environmental regulations were to be strictly enforced.

The Tab

More time for staying up late, playing cards, and reading comic books at Hin-Hwa Bookstore. "Dead," Father snarled, glaring at Ling with red, puffy eyes as he searched his back pocket twice for his wallet. Opened gunny sacks of white Buddha jasmine rice, flour, potatoes, and chicken feed with prices listed per kilo were displayed for sale.\n Evil spirits leaped across, down the moonlight into her dark room.

Feminist Studies of Asian American Literary/Cultural Studies

The rubric Asian American literary/cultural studies also points to how the three texts I will discuss can be situated as part of a growing body of works that investigate the relationship of Asian American studies not just to the established disciplines but to other interdisciplinary fields such as Asian studies, critical legal studies, and transnational studies (Chuh); women's studies, visual studies, and American studies (Creef); and queer studies, diaspora studies, South Asian studies, and ...

Identity, Performance, and Secrecy: Gendered Life and the 'Modern' in Northern Nigeria

Some of this international scrutiny has been strikingly inaccurate, unhelpful, and anti-Muslim: as the northern Nigerian scholar and human rights activist Ayesha Imam has argued, [H]uman rights are not the exclusive province of international human rights law or international human rights organizations.

Vestiges of New Battles: Linda Stein's Sculpture After 9/11

Women shied away from the impending war, supporting the project 20 percent less than their male counterparts.5 But the news media didn't stop telling them they needed a hero with testosterone and bulging muscles, at the very least keeping watch in their local firehouse or excavating the ruins of Ground Zero.6 Stein's sculpture gives the lie to these narratives from a stunned news media in the thrall of a presidency bent on more wars. Art historian Linda Nochlin has argued that women's recent...

A Woman's Ambition

A lawn care service keeps her grass free of creeping Charlie and dandelions, but she roots for the inevitable victory of the weeds so she can fill the beds with rocks and create a Zen garden. [...] despite her excuse of education, her downright refusal to respect her grandmother's constant communication with great Uncle Lester, Bettye can't deny that all signs affirm the beribboned little girl jumping double-dutch amidst ropes twirled by invisible hands is probably not among the living. The...

Shaping the Spanish Modern Man: The Conflict of Masculine Ideals Through a Court Case in the 1920s

Fifty years after the English ladies visited Spain, to piropear was still a common practice among men, and was usually associated with images of a man who was always sexually motivated, lascivious, blasphemous, and prone to donjuanism; possessing a deep sense of male "honor" and also male privilege; disrespectful to women, ready to quarrel, reluctant to work, and a great friend of the festa.

'Vive 'Mademoiselle'!' the Politics of Singleness in Early Twentieth-Century French Feminism

Emphasizing the relevance of celibate singleness for the French women's movement, Ly affirmed that "more and more, we will recruit the elite of our adepts and militants from these noble freethinkers, these inspiring rebels" who were not legally "under their husbands' authority" or otherwise restricted by familial obligations.1 Given the early twentieth-century context of heightened national fears about France's flagging birth rate and the degeneration of the French "race," Ly's argument for p...

News and Views

In the process, a large number of young and dedicated reporters have been trained not to approach gender issues ideologically and through empty slogans but with an eye on revealing problems social, political, and cultural actors are missing or ignoring; discussing them with and encouraging dialogue among a variety of actors, including politicians, social workers, clerics, lawyers, public intellectuals, and specialists in search of solutions; and reporting on the many women who are doing chall...

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East-West comparative philosophy and feminist philosophy already share much in terms of methodology: a hermeneutic of openness and respect for difference, a crossing of philosophical boundaries and traditions, a rejection of the dichotomy of theory and practice, and the pursuit of new ways of looking at the world. Culture, Race, Tradition, Sexuality, etc.; Embodied Epistemologies; Conceptions of Moral Agents and Actions; Theories of Emotion; Persons, Communities, and the State; Liberatory Ae...