Feminist Strategies Research Articles

Gendering transitional justice processes in Africa: a feminist advocacy approach to truth commissions

Highlighting the place and role of women in transitional justice processes draws attention to two main aspects: the need for a holistic approach to transitional justice processes, and paying attention to the sensitive nature of gender-based violence in the whole cycle of truth commissions from articulation of the mandate of the commission, composition of the commissioners, categorisation of crimes, to the writing and implementation of the final report. A feminist advocacy approach to transitional justice is framed under a critical feminist strategy that draws attention to diverse forms of human rights violations against women in situations of conflict; structures of exclusion of women�s concerns; the agency and presence of women in truth commission processes. Hence, discourse on gendering transitional justice processes has recently emerged, especially given that women have been targeted in conflict situations, giving rise to sexual and gender-based violence, and indiscriminate killing of women despite their non-combatant role. This article discusses the extent of marginalisation of cases of women�s gross human rights violations in truth commission processes, while acknowledging positive attempts made so far, through critical feminism, to include women�s concerns in these processes.

The Arts of Urgency: textile practices and truth-telling

To think of the arts of urgency is to think about tactics for making public realities and ‘truths’. It is to ask how art and artists can express horror, suffering, collective and individual trauma with intelligence, rigour, truthfulness, integrity and ethics? In this paper I explore the role of textile as a set of practices deployed as acts of resistance, focusing on the work of Chinese artist Lin Tianmiao and the US artist collective behind the Pussyhat Project (Jayna Zweimann, Krista Suh and Kat Doyle). Both deploy a tactics of spatiality and collaborative action to produce discourse around female disempowerment and negation. I suggest that these are acts of truth-telling through textiles which purposefully use feminine intimacy as a feminist strategy to produce an inviting spacious rubric. This is a form of visual activism that strategically locates textile practices in applying pressure on the histories and urges an answer to the question: what are the politics of reckoning?

What Your Country Can Do for You: A Typology of Religious Feminist Strategies

What Your Country Can Do for You: A Typology of Religious Feminist Strategies

Editorial Introduction

Editorial Introduction Patti Duncan It is exciting to introduce our winter 2021 issue, featuring a special dossier on #MeToo and Transnational Gender Justice, curated by Chaitanya Lakkimsetti and Vanita Reddy. This dossier engages an important set of questions regarding the transnational dimension of #MeToo, as authors reflect both on how it poses a critique of the notion of "global sisterhood" as well as how it reproduces normalizing discourses of gender and sexuality. This exciting collection includes an introduction by Lakkimsetti and Reddy, eight essays, and an afterword by Ashwini Tambe. As part of the dossier, our Poesía for this issue features two powerful poems by Choi Young-Mi, "Monster" and "To The Pigs." As Lakkimsetti and Reddy discuss in their introduction to the dossier, "Monster" has been credited with igniting the #MeToo movement in South Korea. They write, "Choi's poem calls attention to the power of cultural representation not only in igniting social movements, but also its power in reimagining feminist strategies for addressing sexual violence." And it is this process—the reimagining of feminist strategies for addressing sexual violence—that comes to life throughout the dossier. Alongside the dossier, we include eight timely articles, beginning with "Abolishing the Broom Closets in Omelas: Feminist Disability Analysis of Crisis and Precarity" by Jess Whatcott and Liat Ben-Moshe. Whatcott and Ben-Moshe take as their point of departure Ursula K. Le Guin's well-known story, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," to argue that attending to disability and the carceral institutionalization of disabled people is critical to our understanding of precarity under gendered racial settler capitalism. Within capitalist systems that devalue gendered, racialized, and Indigenous populations, Whatcott and Ben-Moshe write that "disability is key to understanding the capitalist crisis because disablement and the construction of the ability/disability binary has been a key mechanism for constructing disposability in the crisis of capitalism." In her article, "Political Times: The Multiple Temporalities of Activism in Feminist Print Culture," Agatha Beins examines the 1970s feminist publication Distaff as an artifact to help us understand how different textual forms shape political transformation and possibilities in feminist activism. Through a study of temporal shifts, Beins demonstrates how imagining different futures is intertwined with temporality, writing: "Because most social movement activism [End Page ix] takes linear-time politics as its basis, considering another form of time in which politics operate potentially broadens our revolutionary repertoires." Alana Bock also engages temporality in "Out of Place and Out of Time: Andrew Cunanan, Darren Criss, and Queer Filipinx Haunting," in order to trouble the temporal paradigm that places some queer Filipinx figures (in this case, Andrew Cunanan) in a distant "primitive" past and others (here, Darren Criss) in a "multicultural" present without recognizing the ways that we continue to be haunted by the violence of US empire. Relying on a queer of color critique, Bock explores "what these queer Filipinx ghosts always already desire and speak in excess of imperial forms of knowledge production." Kristen Kolenz, in "A Central American Mestiza Consciousness: Rebeca Lane, Interruptive Choreography, and Rehearsing Change in the Borderlands," discusses the music of Guatemalan queer feminist hip-hop activist, Rebeca Lane, through the writings of Gloria Anzaldúa, demonstrating how Lane claims her Indigenous ancestry and spirituality through engagement with Anzaldúa's theories of the borderlands and mestiza consciousness. Through an analysis of Lane's songs, Kolenz suggests that she revises Anzaldúa's mestiza consciousness "to generate a liberatory and creative vision for Central Americans who build coalition through their shared histories, contemporary struggles, and tireless, decolonizing resistance." And in "'Anyone can be Pussy Riot': Exploring the Possibilities of Transnational Digital Feminism," Jessica Gokhberg considers the work of Russian feminist punk rock performance art group Pussy Riot to explore what is at stake in mobilizing transnational, anti-authoritarian, queer feminist art and activism, especially when using social media as a movement platform. They argue that Pussy Riot creates a "digestible feminism" and critique of state violence, often by mobilizing whiteness and familiar tropes of liberalism, while also enacting possibilities for coalition. Through analysis of a live performance and two online videos, Gokhberg aims "to bring the group's legitimate and...

Turning fear into pleasure: feminist resistance against online violence in the Global South

ABSTRACT Gender-based online violence is pervasive, particularly affecting women, feminized bodies, and other marginalized communities. In this essay, I ask: What forms of political agency are flourishing amid increasing technological violence? I argue that feminist strategies of contestation to online violence in the Global South embody decolonial thought by re-appropriating and fostering the right of marginalized communities to express sexual pleasure online. The research is based on interviews with associates and collaborators of the transnational organization Women’s Rights Programme of the Association for Progressive Communications, participant observation, and textual analysis of organizational literature. I find that activists problematize online violence through two main strategies: first, by anchoring themselves in a southern epistemology that makes explicit the connections between gender-based online violence and broader sociotechnical, historical, and political contexts, and, second, by using activism against online violence, including threats of violence, to advocate for novel forms of online sexual agency and pleasure. I show how feminist activists reimagine a technological future that is truly emancipatory.

Gendering Foreign Policy: A Comparative Framework for Analysis

AbstractThis article seeks to explain the rise of pro-gender norms and feminist strategies in foreign policy, which are increasingly salient in global politics. How can this trend be theorized? In what ways is this development resisted and contested by other states and international actors? To what extent can we trace continuity and change in regard to gender and foreign policy? To address these major research questions and to spur cross-national comparative studies, this article advances a theoretical framework on gendering foreign policy. It draws on two strands of research, which rarely engage with one another: international feminist theory (IFT) and foreign policy analysis (FPA). We identify three ways in which comparative analysis of gender in foreign policy can be advanced: first, by highlighting the variations of pro-gender norms and enhancing the analytical assessment of cross-national trends; second, by generating a more robust explanation of the rise, embeddedness, and continuity of, as well as resistance to, pro-gender norms in foreign policy in similar and diverse contexts; and third, by examining both continuity and change in pro-gender norms in order to reveal the contestation around gender, which is at the heart of foreign policy.

Escrevendo em terra de homem nenhum: questões de gênero e tradução

Este artigo centra-se em questões de gênero e tradução levantas por teóricas/osfeministas e dos Estudos da Tradução, na década de 1970. Susan Bassnett discute osargumentos apresentados pela crítica feminista – no que tange o modo como asociedade marginaliza as mulheres e seus processos criativos – e por teóricas/os detradução – em relação ao processo manipulativo envolvido na suposta “inocente”transferência de textos de uma cultura para outra – e como essas áreas têm sidoconectadas. Seguindo a perspectiva de Bassnett, esta tradução almeja ser uma atividadepolítica na qual são eleitas estratégias feministas de tradução a fim de tornar o próprioconteúdo do texto visível na tradução.

Focus E15: performing nuisance as a feminist narrative of property

ABSTRACTIn 2014 the Focus E15 campaign resisted the evictions of young carers in Stratford, London and in doing so, drew attention to the precarity of the UK housing crisis (2010-). The campaign’s visible occupations against urban cleansing in the area of Newham won them the right to stay put locally. Thereupon, Focus E15 mounted a musical and verbatim theatre project staging the narrative of their protest entitled, The Land of the Three Towers (2016). The production, I argue, revealed how the political and feminist voices of the campaign emerged not only as the metaphorical ‘voices’ for the mothers' self-representation but also as the material means through which they laid claim to property. More broadly, I discuss how Focus E15 challenged UK property regimes by deploying voice as a feminist strategy of resistance, showing how property rights are tethered to the performance of vocal claims. Initially, the young carer’s vocal claims were received as a nuisance but in persevering, I argue, the carers usefully politicised this nuisance as a tactic to address their displacement. Finally, I read how a feminist narrative of property, one that is reliant on female vocal nuisance, unfolded across the political campaign and in its subsequent theatrical staging.

Revolutionary Domesticity: The Feminist Strategies of Anglo-Italian Mazzinian Nationalists

Revolutionary Domesticity: The Feminist Strategies of Anglo-Italian Mazzinian Nationalists

The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature ed. by Dennis Denisoff and Talia Schaffer

Reviewed by: The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature ed. by Dennis Denisoff and Talia Schaffer Kaylee N. Henderson (bio) Dennis Denisoff and Talia Schaffer, eds., The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature (New York: Routledge, 2020), pp. xii + 540, $224 hardcover. This extensive collection, carefully compiled by Dennis Denisoff and Talia Schaffer, provides an ample overview of the theoretical frameworks and topics pertaining to the study of Victorian literature. The companion's forty-five chapters are organized into six themed sections: "Genres and Movements," "Media Histories," "Victorian Discourses," "Formulations of Identity," "Science and Spirit," and "Spatiality and Environment." Each section contains chapters written by top scholars from around the globe, often the very scholars who wrote the foundational texts for their subjects. Each chapter provides a thorough overview of the topic, discussing both [End Page 462] pioneering texts and the most recent scholarship. Additionally, each chapter details the current challenges facing scholars and outlines directions for future research, often in relation to other topics and disciplines. Denisoff explains in the introduction, "We asked our authors not to write encyclopedic summaries of their subject but instead to use their own voices and styles to consider what somebody new to a field should know about the history of scholarship on the particular subject" (7). The authors represented in this collection clearly were mindful of this request, and despite the many voices, it never feels disjointed. Rather, the companion is an accessible and invaluable tool for scholars of Victorian literature. Denisoff notes the driving questions behind this collection: "What does Victorian studies engage with today, and how is it doing so?" (7). While he admits there are myriad responses to these compelling queries, the editors have worked to ensure that "in addition to addressing nineteenth-century values and concerns, it is a collection of twenty-first-century issues, critically positioning Victorian studies within the current social and political climate" (8). For example, in "Victorian Digital Humanities," Karen Bourrier explains that "new technologies were often first developed as aids to the disabled, only afterward finding broader use among the general population" (129). She notes that "the exchange also worked in reverse, with technologies for the able-bodied being adapted by the disabled," highlighting the influence of disability studies on the digital humanities through a shared goal of accessibility (129). Lynn Voskuil, in "Why Victorian Ecocriticism Matters," draws on the Victorian garden to introduce prevalent issues in Victorian ecocriticism, including "the role of empire in prompting both ecological innovation and environmental degradation; the acceleration of anthropogenic climate change during the nineteenth century; and the emergence of global perspectives to grasp the planetary scale of the ecological legacy we inherited from our Victorian forebears and the challenges we continue to share with them" (506). Linda K. Hughes's chapter on "Periodical Studies," the only one to focus solely on Victorian periodicals, details three major phases of periodical studies and the ongoing evolution of research methods and challenges within the subject. However, nearly every chapter in the collection touches on periodical studies and print culture in some way. For example, in "Short Forms: Serialization and Short Fiction," Susan David Bernstein proposes that "studying excerpts and abridged editions of long Victorian novels, to evaluate the experience of reading and design of writing short formats, even if one form—the serial installment or a chapter—is part of a larger text," can help us to avoid fetishizing wholeness and lead to "a theory and practice of Victorian short forms" (43). In "Feminism and the Canon," Talia Schaffer details the decades-long dominance of the canon wars and feminist criticism and their subsequent absence in work on Victorian [End Page 463] literary studies. She posits that "the feminist/noncanonical victory meant that its precepts could be taken for granted, its core assumptions remaining stubbornly unarticulated" (278). Arguing that critics must move beyond recovery work focused on biological females to instead "aim for feminist goals that benefit everyone regardless of their relation to female identity," Schaffer asserts, "'Feminism' ought to name our method, not our objects" (281). She explicitly points to the ways we can apply this "feminist strategy for reading" to areas like digital humanities and periodical studies. Andrew M. Stauffer...

Figurations of the Feminine in the Early French Women's Press, 1758-1848 by Siobhán McIlvanney

MLR, .,   Figurations of the Feminine in the Early French Women’s Press, –. By S MI. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. .  pp.£. ISBN ––––. In this volume Siobhán McIlvanney traces the evolution of the early women’s press in France over a period of ninety years from its beginnings in  to the revolution of . She bridges a significant gap in scholarship by synthesizing a rich array of previous work on specific authors, periodicals, and historical contexts in a finely craed comparative study subtended by strong theoretical readings of the ways in which the women’s press, consisting for the most part of women journalists, gave voice to the concerns of their gender. e book examines representations of womanhood, both conventional and radical, in women’s journals, as well as the extratextual realities of women’s lives. e author is especially attentive to the implied readers of these journals, including their contributions in letters and articles. McIlvanney defines the term ‘feminist’ capaciously as that which challenges the pre-eminence of the masculine in culture and society. Aer an Introduction to the volume, a preliminary chapter provides socio-political context, tracing the roles ascribed to women as well as women’s actions to improve their position in what was a period of political volatility. e volume then focuses more specifically on the rise of the women’s press from its elitist origins to a medium with increasingly broader appeal and more diverse readership. Since the period from  to  was one of the most turbulent in French political and intellectual history, this chapter necessarily presents it using broad strokes. However, despite a certain unevenness, the focus on social class, gender, and journalism lends coherence to this historical overview and prepares the ground for subsequent chapters. e author structures the remaining chapters to reflect the multiple feminist strategies used in these journals, highlighting particular characteristics in various kinds of journal, from the first publications targeted at an elite group of wealthy, educated women to reformist journals such as the single issue of Les Étrennes Nationales des Dames (), La Femme Libre (–) associated with Saint-Simonian women, or La Voix des Femmes (), with its calls for cross-class solidarity. e volume unfolds in large part chronologically, reflecting fluctuations in the political and social climate, although it also highlights common projects, such as the interpellation of women readers to enter into dialogue and thus become textual producers, beginning with Le Journal des Dames (–). ere are also common themes, in particular the call for better education for girls and women, although the journals that appealed to working-class readers in the nineteenth century figured education as a means to a woman’s financial independence as well as an important component in her self-worth or when serving as a moral role model. McIlvanney’s analyses reveal that early fashion journals heightened the reader’s consciousness of herself as a consumer contributing to the national economy as well as a ‘sujet en devenir’ (p. ), active in her own self-construction. e author signals that the seemingly conservative turn to marriage and motherhood in the early domestic press included a feminist thrust: within the private sphere, letter writers could  Reviews express their feelings about their personal lives and marriages. As McIlvanney points out, ‘the radicalness of providing women readers with the opportunity to construct their own intimate subjectivities textually for the first time should not be underestimated’ (p. ). Ultimately, the dichotomy of private and public spheres breaks down in the liminal space of these journals, which offered readers a gendered community and raised awareness of women’s civic contributions to French society. B C M R-DF Writing the Landscape: Exposing Nature in French Women’s Fiction –. By C M. Cambridge: Legenda. .  pp. £. ISBN – –––. Recovering the works of women writers from the past and incorporating them into an established field of scholarship happens in stages. It begins with the crucial excavation work that leads to the publication of modern editions of texts, thereby increasing their accessibility. Next comes a period in which synthesizing overviews appear, introducing these new names, their lives and texts to wider audiences. In the final stage scholars...

The Hassle of Housework: Digitalisation and the Commodification of Domestic Labour

This article revisits materialist second-wave feminist debates about domestic labour in the context of digitalisation. Using a differentiated typology of labour, it looks at how the tasks involved in housework have undergone dramatic changes through commodification, decommodification and recommodification without fundamentally altering the gender division of labour in social reproduction, drawing on recent research on the use of online platforms to deliver social reproductive labour via the market in a context in which reproductive labour sits at the centre of an intense time squeeze. It reflects on the implications of the commodification of domestic labour for feminist strategy. The author points to the inadequacy in this context of traditional feminist strategies—for the socialisation of domestic labour through public services, wages for housework or labour-saving through technological solutions—concluding that new strategies are needed that address the underlying social relations that perpetuate unequal divisions of labour in contemporary capitalism.

Mythmaking as a feminist strategy: Rosi Braidotti’s political myth

This article makes visible some of the premises that underlie Rosi Braidotti’s use of (political) myth. Focusing on some well-known characteristics of postmodernity, as well as the development of a new philosophy of subjectivity, I account for the divergence between Simone de Beauvoir, who thought of myth as a severe hindrance to the subject-becoming of women, and postmodern feminists, such as Donna Haraway and Braidotti, who represent a more affirmative stance. Through pinning down both similarities and differences between Haraway and Braidotti, I demonstrate that postmodern feminists might still promote mythmaking for dissimilar reasons. I argue that Braidotti, in contrast to Haraway, approaches myth from a horizon partly shaped by an anti-rationalist or ‘demonic’ philosophical tradition, whose chief representative is Friedrich Nietzsche. By studying the argument delivered by the latter in defence of myth, I extract a conceptual distinction between the ‘Apolline’ and the ‘Dionysiac’ aspects of mythmaking, by which it becomes possible to further qualify Braidotti’s philosophy of political myth.

Restaging Feminism: The Activist Retrospective

Abstract In the context of retrospective exhibitions, feminist restaging signifies a performative 'redoing' in a circuit of repetition that re-envisions, reinvents and remakes the discriminatory absences in history. In this article, the activism of restaging will be explored through the curatorial methods employed to memorialize Ana Mendieta's artistic legacy. Feminist strategies differ from the norms of canonical practices used in traditional career retrospectives, such as those for Mendieta's husband, Carl Andre. In another example of restaging, the 2011 re-presentation of Judy Chicago's works in Setting the Table created the opportunity to exhibit simultaneously Margarita Cabrera's sewing project in collaboration with Mexican artists. Restaging inaugurates the past and present of feminist collectivities, establishing a transnational activist model for repeat exhibitions.

South Asian feminist engagements with law: Some explorations in the context of violence against women

Though shaped by the distinct historical and political regimes and institutions in each country, women’s movements in South Asian countries have much in common. The struggle for justice in the context of violence against women is one of them. Women’s movements in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have a rich history and tradition of resisting patriarchy and violence by state and non-state actors and pursuing justice and accountability through political struggles and democratic processes. In this article, I examine two decades of South Asian feminist engagements with law in the realm of violence against women. I explore the potential for cross border legal activism, strategy sharing, solidarity, and cooperation. For my analysis, I largely draw upon feminist responses to honor crimes, acid violence, domestic violence and sexual violence. The paper is divided into five parts. In Part I, I introduce the topic and define the parameters of the article. In Part II, I discuss South Asian feminist engagements with law-making and law reform processes. Part III consists of an analysis of judgments that advance gender justice, resulting from feminist advocacy and lawyering. Part IV foregrounds the common journeys, shared experiences and challenges, and common feminist strategies in the annals of law and justice. I conclude this paper, in Part V, with the emerging South Asian feminist jurisprudence on violence against women, and its immense potential in advancing justice in each of the countries in the region.

Writing Desire and History: Collecting as Postcolonial Feminist Methodology in South African Art

This article explores the work of Dineo Seshee Bopape and Stephané E. Conradie through a postcolonial feminist lens by reading it in counterpoint to the literary fiction of Bessie Head. The visual and literary texts are examined through a “surface reading” of the figurations contained therein, whilst attention is paid specifically to the methodology of collecting as a decolonial and feminist strategy which seeks to re-imagine history and memory. Furthermore, it is shown how these two artists, through their engagement with both history and collected materials, move from “being” towards “doing”, thus becoming active agents in constructing their personal and collective histories.

Illustrated Connections

AbstractIn The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam, Ann Marie Fleming creates an illustrated memoir that highlights the connections between generations of diasporic Chinese subjects. Nominally a memoir about her great-grandfather, Fleming uses the politics of vaudeville and her great-grandfather’s career as entry points into an examination of gendered Orientalism, racial exclusion, and nationalism, counterbalanced with depictions of magic, love, family, and creative resistance. The memoir uses three feminist strategies to imaginatively open out the formal and narrative conventions of Chinese diasporic history: it plays with formal timelines and genealogies as memorializing tools to deconstruct history as chronological and teleological; it invents spatial histories to make visible familial relationships; and it explores the power of collaborative memory to open the way for new diasporic forms of history. From these strategies the memoir invokes a feminist interpretation of Chinese diasporic history that emphasizes new configurations of time, space, and bodies in the production of memories for the historical archive.

Wendy Wasserstein by Jill Dolan

Reviewed by: Wendy Wasserstein by Jill Dolan Carol Martin WENDY WASSERSTEIN. By Jill Dolan. Modern Dramatists series. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017; pp. 206. The second wave of feminism helped usher in new voices, groundbreaking dramatic structures, and little-known subject matter. Among the many playwrights—not to mention performance artists and companies—to emerge during that time were Ntozake Shange, María Irene Fornés, Cherríe Moraga, Megan Terry, Marsha Norman, Emily Mann, Beth Henley, and Wendy Wasserstein. Wasserstein, Jill Dolan writes, wanted to “see people like herself onstage,” but was met with male resistance in the form of comments like “I can’t get into this—it’s about girls” (9). Assertions of the universality of male subjectivity demoralized generations of women. How were women supposed to tell their stories, let alone write them, if men assume that they are the universal subject? How can we understand women’s experiences apart from a disenabling notion of universality? (To be sure, Wasserstein was mostly writing about educated, heterosexual, white, and Jewish women living upper-middle-class lives.) Wasserstein was a mainstream playwright who achieved her aspirations for success with Broadway and regional theatre productions, and a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award, both for The Heidi Chronicles. Popular profiles of Wasserstein and her work, however, often ambivalently noted her appearance (disheveled), body (overweight), voice (too high), and manner (somewhat timid). No matter her achievements, the subject was her personal self: her body, her appearance, her manner. Meanwhile, the feminist strategy at the time for reading the second-wave feminist playwrights included careful attention to how race, gender, and economic realities determine the construction of characters and their experiences. Dolan’s Wendy Wasserstein is a play-by-play consideration of the playwright’s oeuvre that demonstrates the kind of analysis that was integral to the second wave of feminism and beyond. Dolan considers several questions: “What do Wasserstein’s plays and career suggest about the last forty years of U.S. feminism? How does her journey through the most powerful echelons of American theater provide a role model—or, on the other hand, a cautionary tale—for artists who might follow? What can we glean from reading her most significant plays with an eye toward the venues in which they were produced, the directors who mounted them, and the designers who helped bring them to life? What’s revealed by studying the critical response to Wasserstein, as her plays remained for so long among the few titles by women admitted into the canon of American comedy and drama?” (3). In other words, Dolan’s feminist focus is as much about what informs the gender inequities in all areas of American theatre, including higher education—although Dolan wrote this book before the Me Too movement—as it is about Wasserstein’s career and plays. Wasserstein’s oeuvre reads like a cultural history of American progressive feminism: The uncertainties of a career path after graduating college (Uncommon Women, 1977), making romantic decisions that determine the rest of one’s life (Isn’t It Romantic, 1981), navigating career and family ambitions (The Heidi Chronicles, 1989), balancing self-interest and social activism (Sisters Rosensweig, 1993), achieving political power and social status in institutions designed to exclude women (An American Daughter, 1997), and, finally, the fault line between entrenched beliefs and political transformation (Third, 2005) that runs through her work. For those who have read Dolan’s earlier work, the style of the writing will seem familiar. At the same time, she rethinks her previous ideas with regard to Wasserstein’s work as a whole, and lets her readers in on her rethinking. She admits she once thought The Heidi Chronicles was a sellout to dominant [End Page 128] culture (59). Now, Dolan writes, she sees the play as important for themes that echo throughout Wasserstein’s work: “men speaking for women, foretelling their futures, as Scoop does (so presciently) when he first meets Heidi; women striving to ‘have it all,’ to find husbands, bear children, and exceed these traditional achievements with the even more ambitious careers to which women of a certain class, by 1989, could at least presume to aspire; and...

Feministički iskazi u kritičkoj recepciji skupnih izložbi hrvatskih umjetnica

U ovome radu promatrat će se diskurs recepcije tri vala skupnih izložbi hrvatskih umjetnica tijekom XX. stoljeća s fokusom na feminističke strategije zagovaranja i osnaživanja ženske umjetnosti. Razmatrani korpus tekstova obuhvaća likovne kritike koje su pratile prvu skupnu – Intimnu izložbu održanu u okviru Proljetnoga salona 1916., potom izložbe Kluba likovnih umjetnica (1928. –1940.), sve do izložbi u čast Osmoga marta (1960. –1991.). Te su izložbe, iako su se odvijale u različitim uvjetima i društveno-političkim kontekstima, bile generator javne rasprave o umjetničkom stvaralaštvu žena, pa iako su provocirale mizogine i antifeminističke iskaze, kao reakcija na njih javljaju se i otvoreno feministički glasovi. Upravo ti feministički iskazi utjecali su na stvaralačku samosvijest u žena, ali i polako pripitomljavali društvo privikavanjem na prisutnost ženskih umjetnica, čime su sudjelovali u postupnom suzbijanju stereotipa i predrasuda te polaganom rastakanju dominantne patrijarhalne matrice na području hrvatske likovne umjetnosti XX. stoljeća.

A Scoping Review of Feminism in U.S. Social Work Education: Strategies and Implications for the Contemporary Classroom

ABSTRACTPurpose: Feminism has an agenda to advance equal opportunity, inclusivity and justice for women and to reduce gender-based oppression. Though this reflects social work's grand challenges, it is unclear whether feminist teaching strategies are utilized in social work education.Methods: We conducted a scoping review to identify and better understand feminist teaching strategies employed in social work classrooms. We reviewed articles between the years 2000 and 2016 in four databases including U.S. peer-reviewed journal articles.Results: Our review included 27 articles. Though authors presented diverse feminist teaching methods, some common themes were apparent among the articles. Those included empowerment, power/privilege, intersectionality, reflexivity, inclusivity and activism.Discussion: The implication for social work educators was that feminist teaching methods can include and empower women of color in classrooms. Specifically, intersectional feminism helps to set the stage for those students’ future activism in the field of social work.