{"title":"Divided Lives: The Untold Stories of Jewish-Christian Women in Nazi Germany (review)","authors":"Lyra Totten-Naylor","doi":"10.1353/NWSA.2005.0074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/NWSA.2005.0074","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"17 1","pages":"201 - 202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/NWSA.2005.0074","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66453856","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":"In Whose Name? Crime Victim Policy and the Punishing Power of Protection","authors":"Jennifer K. Wood","doi":"10.1353/NWSA.2005.0076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/NWSA.2005.0076","url":null,"abstract":"This essay analyzes crime policies enacted on behalf of, and often named for, particular victims of crime. This article argues that this naming reinforces a persistent and troubling image of the crime victim as young, white, female, and middle class. This image of victimization has so dominated and distorted discourse about crime in the United States that it is almost impossible to recognize and even harder to discuss how punishing these policies are not only for those accused and convicted of crime, but for most crime victims as well. As this essay argues, these crime victim policies often harm the very people they are supposed to protect.","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"17 1","pages":"1 - 17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/NWSA.2005.0076","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66453877","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":"Medieval Narratives of Accused Queens (review)","authors":"J. Dietrich","doi":"10.1353/NWSA.2005.0059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/NWSA.2005.0059","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"17 1","pages":"207 - 208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/NWSA.2005.0059","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66454122","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":"Securing Afghan Women: Neocolonialism, Epistemic Violence, and the Rhetoric of the Veil","authors":"K. Ayotte, M. Husain","doi":"10.2979/NWS.2005.17.3.112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/NWS.2005.17.3.112","url":null,"abstract":"In the wake of the \"war on terrorism,\" feminist analyses of international relations must broaden the concept of security to consider forms of violence beyond the statist security framework of realpolitik. This article argues that U.S. representations of the burqa rhetorically construct the women of Afghanistan as gendered slaves in need of \"saving\" by the West, increasing women's insecurity by promoting various forms of neocolonial violence. In negotiating a middle ground between poststructuralist and materialist methods, this essay also argues for a feminist postcolonial criticism that will provide a more nuanced understanding of the nature of gender insecurity in the post-cold war world.","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"17 1","pages":"112 - 133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69199427","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":"Ideology and Women's Studies Programs in Ukraine","authors":"M. Shymchyshyn","doi":"10.2979/NWS.2005.17.3.173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/NWS.2005.17.3.173","url":null,"abstract":"Introducing and teaching women's studies courses at Ukrainian universities (at least as they function in the United States) is complicated and even impossible today. Every beginning has its obstacles. In the following article I will describe what work has been done in Women's Studies in Ukraine, what problems feminist scholars encounter, and the roots of these problems.","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"17 1","pages":"173 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69199475","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":"Protectors and Victims in the Gender Regime of Asylum","authors":"Connie Oxford","doi":"10.2979/NWS.2005.17.3.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/NWS.2005.17.3.18","url":null,"abstract":"Gender-based persecution is one way that immigrant women can seek political asylum and gain legal entry into the United States. Gender-based persecution includes harm such as female circumcision, rape, domestic violence, coercive family planning, honor killings, forced marriage, and repressive social norms. Legal scholars and immigrant advocates herald gender-based persecution laws and policies for advancing female asylum seekers' ability to gain asylum based on gendered harm. While gender-based persecution laws and policies offer optimism for women fleeing gendered harm, the implementation of these laws and policies may reproduce victimization for migrant women. A study of the implementation of gender-based persecution laws and policies makes visible assumptions about masculinity, femininity, sexuality, essentialism, women's agency, and authority that asylum seekers, immigration attorneys, service providers, immigration judges, and asylum officers engage. In this article, I find that protectionism and victimization, based on insecurity and fear, structure the legal institution of asylum.","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"17 1","pages":"18 - 38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69199483","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":"Women on War: An International Anthology of Writings from to Present (review)","authors":"B. Griech-Polelle","doi":"10.1353/NWSA.2005.0062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/NWSA.2005.0062","url":null,"abstract":"Clifford, James. 1988. The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Hagedorn, John, with Perry Macon. 1988. People and Folks: Gangs, Crime, and the Underclass in a Rustbelt City. Chicago: Lake View Press. Perez, Emma. 1999. The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press Rosaldo, Renato. 1989. Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis. Boston: Beacon Press. Sandoval, Chela. 2000. Methodology of the Oppressed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota. Vigil, James Diego. 1988. Barrio Gangs: Street Life and Identity in Southern California. Austin: University of Texas Press.","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"17 1","pages":"219 - 220"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/NWSA.2005.0062","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66453717","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":"Anti-Trafficking Rhetoric and the Making of a Global Apartheid","authors":"Nandita Sharma","doi":"10.2979/NWS.2005.17.3.88","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/NWS.2005.17.3.88","url":null,"abstract":"This essay critically examines the historical and contemporary discursive practices of anti-trafficking campaigns. I argue that such campaigns within the global North, often led by feminists, constitute the moral reform arm of contemporary anti-immigrant politics that targets negatively racialized migrants. As in the past, current campaigns collude with a state-backed international security agenda aimed at criminalizing self-determined migrations of people who have ever-less access to legal channels of migration. I argue that only by recognizing the agency, however constrained, of illegalized migrants can we come to understand how processes of capitalist globalization and the consequent effects of dislocation and dispersal shape the mobility of illegalized migrants. Within the current global circuits of capital, goods, and people, I argue that along with a call to end practices of displacement, a demand to eliminate immigration controls is necessary if feminists are to act in solidarity with the dispossessed in their search for new livelihoods and homes.","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"17 1","pages":"111 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69199542","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":"Recognition Struggles and Social Movements: Contested Identities, Agency and Power (review)","authors":"A. Viladrich","doi":"10.1353/nwsa.2005.0048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nwsa.2005.0048","url":null,"abstract":"“fi nding themselves” to portrayals of gay life post-coming out and sans anguish. Further, the multiple meanings of gay marriage represent a story of “simultaneous victory and retrenchment” (212) and her analysis in this section could not be timelier. Although Walters is rarely prescriptive in this text, her conclusion does call for a third way beyond the closet and the spectacle, a “conscious, conscientious integration” (24) where that integration fundamentally alters culture. Given her consistent refusal of the polarities of progress and backlash, Walters’s conclusion resists a tidy ending but does suggest reasons for optimism, gesturing toward “possibilities unimaginable in previous eras” (299). Those possibilities include powerful implications for heterosexuality (“seeing [hetero]sexuality in less fi nite and tandem ways” [299]), for notions of the family, and for intimacy more broadly construed. Although Walters’s argument is a simple one and the examples begin to feel somewhat repetitive, this accessible, engaging text makes an important contribution to popular cultural studies and to a number of contemporary debates in the GLBT community.","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"17 1","pages":"241 - 243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/nwsa.2005.0048","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66454067","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":"Special Forum: Women's Studies in \"Other\" Locations","authors":"D. Lichtenstein, Catherine M. Orr","doi":"10.2979/NWS.2005.17.2.140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/NWS.2005.17.2.140","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"17 1","pages":"140 - 141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69198780","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}