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As the introduction to this special issue makes clear, our analysis of dozens of essay proposals suggests that the work of feminist community/campus collaboration is vibrant, necessary, and challenging. Although [...]

'We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or class; but we have [...]

Community-university partnerships are places where universities are trying to create reciprocal relationships that are publicly responsive to localized people and priorities. Yet prominent and pervasive patterns for community-university partnerships that [...]

The call for a recognition of cultural diversity, a rethinking of ways of knowing, a deconstruction of old epistemologies, and the concomitant demand that there be a transformation in our [...]

As an instructor at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) and USAFA Preparatory School, where the male-to-female ratio is generally around eight to one, I find that feminist ideals [...]

At the outset, I wish to thank Mary Hunt and Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza for the opportunity to participate in this discussion. They continue to serve as powerful models for the [...]

Abstract This article explores the connection of class dynamics to the moral agency of sex workers and their clients. It revisits the analyses of several contemporary feminist theorists, placing these [...]

In the end I come to the allegory of my own authorship. I began this project out of the desire to articulate connections between social action and literary expression and [...]

Abstract Today's college students are a lot like Peter Pan--they are in no hurry to grow up. Young people are staying in school longer, and taking longer to become economically [...]

This article addresses the reception in text and cinema of the story told of the biblical character Bathsheba in 2 Samuel 11; specifically, it addresses the scholarly interpretations of Bathsheba and the portrayals of her story in the films David and Bathsheba (1951) and King David (1985), and in the NBC mini-series Kings (2009). I shall examine the ways in which each medium fills the gaps left by 2 Samuel 11 and investigate how the rise of feminism and feminist biblical scholarship has changed the reception of Bathsheba's story. Recognizing that people participate in a reading that speaks to them on a personal level, the article concludes with a post-feminist interpretation of 2 Samuel 11, one that represents Bathsheba as an 'ancient' Bridget Jones. Such a reading is missing, as made clear by the review of scholarship and film. This new interpretation is important, because it has the potential to resonate with today's generation of young women., Introduction The biblical character of Bathsheba is what detectives call 'a person of interest,' someone whose actions require close investigation in order to condemn or exonerate her of a crime. [...]

Hannah Semer broke through the glass ceiling and glass walls of her profession in a way no other Israeli female journalist had done before. This paper seeks to examine Semer's dual identities as a woman and a journalist and to analyze the nature of these two identities as evidenced in her work, by considering the following questions: What obstacles did Semer face as a woman in her profession and, more specifically, in positions assumed to be within exclusively male domains? How did she cope with these obstacles? Did she experience significant tension between the cultural definitions of femininity and of professionalism? And if she did, how did this sense of discord find expression in her work, and how did she resolve the tension and disharmony inherent in being a woman journalist? These questions are relevant to the discussion of relations between women and journalism both in Israel and worldwide., Hannah Semer broke through the glass ceiling and glass walls of her profession in a way no other Israeli female journalist had done before. Indeed, her groundbreaking work as a [...]

YEARS AGO I WAS SEATED in a darkened theater trying to watch a film. All The Pretty Horses (2000) was pretty enough, with good production values and appealing music by [...]

The Hebrew midwives in Egypt are the subject of the midrashic anthology comprising Exodus rabbah 1. The redactor explores their identity, professional activity, personal courage and religious faith in a strongly positive light, illuminating their heroism as more than a rebellion against a cruel foreign king. The midwives represent the feminine moral imperative to give and nurture life, in the struggle against the hegemonic male framework, whose moral imperative is more abstract and may countenance--and even command--the taking of life., A review of Exodus rabbah 1, with its collection of traditions concerning the Hebrew midwives whose actions introduce the story of the Exodus from Egypt, illuminates from a unique perspective [...]

Abstract The formation of a feminist consciousness in Egypt ran parallel with the country's rapid development as a modern state at the start of the 19th century. Technological advancements within [...]

Summary In a comment that is perhaps representative of new voices in contemporary feminist criticism, Natasha Walter states that in the 1970s '[a]ll treatments of sexuality in culture were forced [...]

Mayra Santos-Febres's 2006 novel, Nuestra senora de la noche, is based on the life of the Puerto Rican madam, Isabel la Negra, a legendary figure in Puerto Rican culture. Using both Mervin Alleyne's theory of racial discrimination and Aida Hurtado's theory of racially-based gender discrimination, which shows how the reactions of white and black females are governed by their relation of dependency on or rejection by the white male, this study illustrates how the character Isabel la Negra evolves as a postmodern, feminist character who opposes racism and gender subordination in Puerto Rico through her role as a prostitute. Conversely, the study also illustrates how madness, associated with both white (Cristina Rangel) and black (Montse) females in the novel, is a powerless rather than feminist strategy, into which women descend due to their mistreatment by patriarchal society. The study illustrates how Fernando Fornaris, the white male protagonist, serves as the narrative axis for the development of women's polarized reactions to patriarchal domination in the novel., Isabel Luberza Oppenheimer is a legendary figure in Puerto Rican culture who has served as the subject of at least two short stories, a film, and a novel. In the [...]

Invisibility is costly. Recognition, on the other hand, can inspire action. Nirmala Erevelles, 'The Color of Violence' This essay will not be an overview of all the exciting work going [...]

In Emma May Buckingham's little-known 1873 novel, A Self-Made Woman; or, Mary Idyl's Trials and Triumphs, a young girl embarks on a program of self-construction common to legions of nineteenth-century [...]

The death of Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo in 2006 was bound to bring on a renewed level of interest in his filmography and his approach to filmmaking. A recent article [...]

Abstract Research into the gendered nature of war experiences has provided rich ways of understanding how gender constructs society and the nation. Scholarship on peace activism and gender has deepened [...]

Alexander the Great: Audience(s) and Public Image(s). Jeffrey Easlick, Saginaw Valley State University, Department of Philosophy Alexander scholars hold diametrically opposed opinions about such fundamentals as his moral character, the [...]

How do U.S. women immigrants remember their experiences of World War II? In what ways do these women choose to transmit their memories to the next generation? These are the [...]

This article makes the case that The Twilight Saga is a fairy tale, structured by pairs of binary oppositions, which traces the ideal pattern of feminine psychological development as set forth in Jungian psychology. To enter Forks is to enter the archetypal realm of the unconscious. Edward and Jacob are animus-figures; Victoria is Bella's shadow. Bella's eventual psychological wholeness (individuation) is symbolized in the stable 'quaternio' with which the novel ends: Bella married to Edward and her daughter (a 'younger' Bella) paired with Jacob. The Saga's conclusion shows the relationship of the individuated person to her community, as Bella saves the Cullen clan., The Controversy The blockbuster Twilight Saga has produced deeply divided reactions among the female reading public. Multitudes of girls and women have swooned over the series and its portrayal of [...]

In the 'Autobiographical Postscript' to a collection of her ghost stories, Edith Wharton recounts an inscrutable terror that plagued her for seven years as a child, when she was recovering [...]

This essay seeks to engage the narrative art of the book of Joshua in ways that may prove valuable for contemporary communities of faith. The argument draws on the feminist and postcolonial critical tradition for defining insights about the construction of the subject, the interrogation of power dynamics, and the reformation of community. The essay then explores Joshua's representations of authority and its use of criminal moments in Israel's narrative of conquest in order to suggest possible avenues of appropriation by contemporary readers. Keywords Joshua, Joshua 2-12, Narrative, Hermeneutic, Feminist Analysis, Postcolonial Analysis, Power, Introduction The rhetoric of divinely commanded brutality in the book of Joshua presents complicated interpretive challenges for readers who cherish the Hebrew Scriptures as sacred. Christian and other readers who [...]

A principios del siglo XXI Mexico es un escenario abigarrado, donde aumenta a diario el reclamo de las mujeres por ocupar espacios de participacion en el desarrollo nacional.... At the [...]

In her 1960 essay, 'The Human Situation: A Feminine View,' Valerie Saiving responded to a brand of traditional theologizing that had rendered most women's experiences anomalous, insignificant, and invisible. She [...]

OUR INTRODUCTION AND WARH UP ACT Do you know the joke about the man who couldn't find the humor section in the feminist bookstore? Probably. Because feminists don't have a [...]

Abstract In this article I question the wholeness of the agency of white, feminist activists. Drawing on intersectional theory, I problematise the multiplicative character of their location in order to [...]

I. Introduction Murray ROTHBARD'S contribution to libertarian ethics was to outline a theory prohibiting aggressive violence (1978, p. 27-30). The influence of Rothbard's ethics, (1) combined with a decades-long political [...]

ABSTRACT Conversation as a means to social, intellectual, and spiritual self-culture was advocated during the American Romantic period by members of the Transcendental movement. Margaret Fuller was a transcendental conversationalist [...]

VICTORIA PIEHOWSKI In the beginning of Spike Lee's 2000 film Bamboozled lead female character Sloan Hopkins is an articulate and promising young professional. Critic Ray Black has called Sloan the [...]

La feminite dans l'ecriture je la sens passer d'abord par: un privilege de la voix: ecriture et voix se tressent, se trament et s'echangent, continuite de l'ecriture/rythme de la voix, [...]

In this paper I offer a close reading of the 1956 autobiography of the Zionist suffragist Sara Azaryahu, in an attempt to illuminate some of the tensions that complicate Zionist women's position within the network of gender, ethnic and national power-relations produced by Zionism. Highlighting the sharp East-West dichotomies sustaining Azaryahu's emancipatory narrative, and tracing the text's various gestures of erasure and exclusion, I show how discourses of racial, ethnic and national difference inform and shape the Zionist feminist self. At the same time, I claim that the text produces an analogy between the exclusion of Palestinian and Mizrahi women from Zionist feminist emancipatory projects and the self-erasure of 'everything feminine' and 'everything Jewish' that accompanies Azaryahu's self-constitution both as an autobiographer and as a democratic subject. In this sense, I argue, the text contains a potential subversion of the clear-cut East-West dichotomy that, on the surface, it strives to maintain., Introduction: Zionist Feminism in an International Frame (1) I speak here of the Jewish women, and the Jewish women only. The Moslem and Christian Arab women are politically unborn, and [...]

Much documentation gathered on Native American women's activities originated in the journals of European male missionaries and explorers. These first visitors observed Native societies through the eyes of their own [...]

Intro Analysis Summation Notes 'From a Life that was Taken a New Life will be Born!'--Movie Trailer If the goal of Western feminism's first wave was to gain recognition that [...]

Like many feminist biblical scholars, I am challenged by the metaphor of Israel as God's sexually promiscuous wife as developed throughout the prophetic literature. (1) Much recent scholarship addresses the [...]