{"title":"Virtuous Cuts: Female Genital Circumcision in an African Ontology","authors":"Rogia Mustafa Abusharaf","doi":"10.1215/10407391-12-1-112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-12-1-112","url":null,"abstract":"Much has been written on gender violence in Africa. In this burgeoning literature, African women are repeatedly painted as downtrodden, forlorn, helpless casualties of male dominance. Their confi nement in antiquated customs and cultural practices is viewed as puissant testimony to their eternal vassalage to patriarchy and, consequently, of their subjugation within both the so-called “public” and “private” spheres. This view is exemplifi ed in the following passage from the Hosken Report: Genital and Sexual Mutilation of Females :","PeriodicalId":46313,"journal":{"name":"Differences-A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"112 - 140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2001-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84856989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Twenty-First-Century University and the Market: What Price Economic Viability?","authors":"M. Poovey","doi":"10.1215/10407391-12-1-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-12-1-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46313,"journal":{"name":"Differences-A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies","volume":"51 1","pages":"1 - 16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2001-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73994395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who's Afraid of the Cultural Turn?","authors":"Nancy A. Armstrong","doi":"10.1215/10407391-12-1-17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-12-1-17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46313,"journal":{"name":"Differences-A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies","volume":"5 1","pages":"17 - 49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2001-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90673329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"American Nationhood as Eugenic Romance","authors":"Susan Koshy","doi":"10.1215/10407391-12-1-50","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-12-1-50","url":null,"abstract":"Far from proceeding . . . from ethnocentric scorn, the occultation takes the form of an hyperbolical admiration. We have not fi nished demonstrating the necessity of this pattern. Our century is not free from it; each time that ethnocentrism is precipitately and ostentatiously reversed, some effort silently hides behind all the spectacular effects to consolidate an inside and to draw from it some domestic benefi t. (Derrida 80)","PeriodicalId":46313,"journal":{"name":"Differences-A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies","volume":"40 1","pages":"50 - 78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2001-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79783407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"No Cold or Empty Heart\": Polygenesis, Scientific Professionalization, and the Unfinished Business of Male Sentimentalism","authors":"Dana D. Nelson","doi":"10.1215/10407391-11-3-29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-11-3-29","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46313,"journal":{"name":"Differences-A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies","volume":"93 1","pages":"29 - 56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"1999-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88932384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When Whiteness Feminizes ...: Some Consequences of a Supplementary Logic","authors":"Rey Chow","doi":"10.1215/10407391-11-3-137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-11-3-137","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46313,"journal":{"name":"Differences-A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"137 - 168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"1999-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75216993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Child’s Play","authors":"Gillian Brown","doi":"10.1215/10407391-11-3-76","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-11-3-76","url":null,"abstract":"Many UK fire brigades have introduced intervention programmes to address firesetting behaviour in children. The paper describes Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service's involvement with young firesetters.","PeriodicalId":46313,"journal":{"name":"Differences-A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies","volume":"6 1","pages":"106 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"1999-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89287257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feminism, Institutionalism, and the Idiom of Failure","authors":"Robyn Wiegman","doi":"10.1215/10407391-11-3-107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-11-3-107","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46313,"journal":{"name":"Differences-A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies","volume":"74 1","pages":"107 - 136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"1999-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83981825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revisiting the \"Feminization\" of American Culture. Introduction.","authors":"P. Gould","doi":"10.1215/10407391-11-3-I","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-11-3-I","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46313,"journal":{"name":"Differences-A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies","volume":"86 1","pages":"i - xii"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"1999-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85841433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}