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{"title":"'Growing the Size of the Black Woman': Feminist Activism in Havana Hip Hop","authors":"Ronni Armstead","doi":"10.2979/NWS.2007.19.1.106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/NWS.2007.19.1.106","url":null,"abstract":"This essay focuses on the music of the Black, all-female Cuban hip-hop group Las Krudas as a form of feminist activist art. Analyzing the group's lyrics and its members' self-conscious identification as feminists reveals insight into the role of music as a public forum that makes visible the social, sexual, and economic oppression of African-descended women in Cuban society.","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"19 1","pages":"106 - 117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69200529","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":"Feminist Activist Art: Losing the Edge?","authors":"E. Lauter","doi":"10.2979/NWS.2007.19.1.156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/NWS.2007.19.1.156","url":null,"abstract":"Not only does the phrase \"feminist activist art\" not appear in these three books about the visual and performing arts at the turn of the twenty-first century, but, except for a handful of essays in Goodman and de Gay and a scattering of images from the 1960s through the 1990s in McQuiston, feminist thought is not prominent and feminist artworks are not reproduced. While not overtly feminist, most, though not all, of the texts collected in these volumes, do show signs of having been influenced by feminist theory and feminist achievements in the arts but, in general, the feminist movement in art of the past 30 years is a ghostly presence. Although this lack of emphasis in books purporting to address art and social change is troubling, there are aspects of each book that could be useful to teachers and students of Women's Studies who want to consider activism in conjunction with both feminism and the practice of art. Lizbeth Goodman and Jane de Gay's The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance is intended to complement Goodman's earlier anthology, Reader in Gender and Performance (1998), which directly and extensively addressed feminist approaches to performance. Billed as the first comprehensive collection of selected texts that range across politics, ideology, and performance, the reader begins with the writings of early twentiethcentury theater giants such as Artaud, Grotoski, Stanislavski, and Brecht. The book then traces seven currents in theater, performance art, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, sexuality, and gender studies through the mid-1990s (the book went to press in 1999). Goodman, Director of the Institute for New Media Performance Studies at the University of Surrey and author of Contemporary Feminist Theatres (1993), invited eight practitioner-scholars to edit and introduce the texts within thematic sections","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"19 1","pages":"156 - 165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69200595","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":"Code Pink, Raging Grannies, and the Missile Dick Chicks: Feminist Performance Activism in the Contemporary Anti-War Movement","authors":"Rachel V. Kutz-Flamenbaum","doi":"10.2979/NWS.2007.19.1.89","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/NWS.2007.19.1.89","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines feminist performance activism in the context of the contemporary anti-war movement. Using data gathered through ethnographic participant observation, formal and informal interviews, and content analysis from October 2002 through January 2005, this article describes and analyzes the use of performance activism by three women's anti-war groups as an activist repertoire used to challenge cultural assumptions about gender. This paper argues that these groups used a combination of norm-embracing and norm-challenging performance elements to integrate gender into the anti-war agenda and promote a feminist ideology among fellow protesters and suggests that different combinations were more or less effective.","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"19 1","pages":"105 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69200304","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":"Profile: Beverly Naidus's Feminist Activist Art Pedagogy: Unleashed and Engaged","authors":"Beverly Naidus","doi":"10.2979/NWS.2007.19.1.137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/NWS.2007.19.1.137","url":null,"abstract":"Various approaches to bringing a feminist and activist perspective to teaching art are explored. The author draws on both the writings and work of other artists and educators and her own development as a feminist and socially engaged artist and teacher in order to highlight crucial elements of this perspective. Practical suggestions are presented for curricula and teaching methods that may be adapted to a wide variety of educational contexts. The author concludes that the feminist critique of patriarchy and multiple systems of oppression have profoundly shaped her art-making and teaching and that art pedagogy can provide an effective means of engaging those who have not previously included such a critique or perspective in their world view.","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"19 1","pages":"137 - 155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69200574","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":"Modernity and the Renegotiation of Gendered Space: A Review Essay","authors":"E. Birmingham","doi":"10.2979/NWS.2007.19.1.201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/NWS.2007.19.1.201","url":null,"abstract":"In fall 2003, NWSA Journal's special issue \"Gender and Modernism Between the Wars, 1918-1939,\" Margaret McFadden noted in her editor's introduction, \"Making the Modern,\" that at the Modernist Studies Association conference of 2003 only about 8 percent of the sessions dealt with women or gender. She draws from that evidence the conclusion that \"gender questions have not yet made it to the academic mainstream of modernist studies\" (ix). That same issue of the journal included the review essay, \"Feminist Relocations of Gender and Modernism,\" by Bonnie Kime Scott. Scott reviewed seven books published from 1997 to 2001 in order to consider the intersections of gender and modernism. And since 2003, interest in modernity (and gender) has continued to fuel interdisciplinary scholarship and shape contemporary perceptions of the modern and how it was made. But despite the number of books on gender and modernity published in the past ten years, these books are underreviewed except in feminist journals like this one, suggesting that gender questions still are not making it into the mainstream of modernist studies, though modernist studies have found their way into the mainstream of feminist conversation. The three books with which this review concerns itself share a set of preoccupations with issues of not only gender and modernity but also of space (both literal and metaphoric) as a factor shaping and defining both. Liz Conor's book, The Spectacular Modern Woman, argues that Australian women who had the power to do so-usually white women-actively cultivated modern images of themselves to present in public spaces, reshaping notions of femininity by and against the figure of the \"modern appearing woman.\" Lucy Fischer also considers the image of the modern woman, but in Designing Women: Cinema, Art Deco, and the Female Form, she focuses instead on the stylistic and aesthetic aspects of cinematic space","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"19 1","pages":"201 - 210"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69200690","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":"Adrienne Rich: The Moment of Change (review)","authors":"Helen V. Emmitt","doi":"10.2979/NWS.2007.19.1.226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/NWS.2007.19.1.226","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"19 1","pages":"226 - 227"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69200704","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":"An Interview with the Guerrilla Girls, Dyke Action Machine (DAM!), and the Toxic Titties","authors":"K. Raizada, Guerrilla Girls (Group of artists), DAM! : Dyke Action Machine (Organization), Toxic Titties (Group of artists)","doi":"10.2979/NWS.2007.19.1.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/NWS.2007.19.1.39","url":null,"abstract":"In 1970, in an unsuspecting rural community in central California, Judy Chicago married feminist studies with art-making at Fresno State University, promising future generations of women new, expressive forms of art with activist aims. Since then, activist strategies and aesthetic concerns have metamorphosed as each new generation of feminist artists puts feminist theory into practice. Recently, I had the pleasure of engaging three feminist activist art groups-the Guerrilla Girls, Dyke Action Machine (DAM!), and the Toxic Titties-in a discussion regarding their practices. In this interview, the women addressed their methodologies, the challenges each collective faces today, and the future of feminist activist art practices. For all three groups, a strong visual language, subversive wit, and collective identity serve as key weapons for their interventions into the worlds of art, politics, and the media, exposing domains where gender, racial, and sexual injustice still lurk. Of the three groups, the Guerrilla Girls has the longest history, bursting onto the art scene in the early 1980s. By that time, the headiness of the first wave of the feminist art movement was long gone; feminism was no longer \"in,\" if it ever had been in commercial galleries and museums. Instead, the 1980s were characterized by record-breaking prices for works created by a select group of young, male art stars, effectively marginalizing the conceptual and activist practices that dominated the previous decade. And, despite years of feminist agitation, museums continued to organize large, group exhibitions of contemporary art with virtually no women artists represented. In June 1984, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) opened one such blockbuster exhibition in which only ten percent of the 169 artists chosen were women (Guerrilla Girls 1995, 13). The message was clear: the art world was still a male-dominated arena of culture. MoMA's gross oversight was the impetus for the Guerrilla Girls' most famous campaign on the streets of New York City, where the group surreptitiously plastered the walls, kiosks, and construction fences of SoHo and the East Village with provocative posters that exposed the sexist practices of the art world. In straightforward, bold, block letters, the posters questioned What do these artists have in common? and blatantly listed every prestigious art gallery that showed less than ten percent of women artists' work along with the names of the male artists whom the galleries represented (Guerrilla Girls 1995, 8) (Fig. 1). Over the ensuing two decades, the Guerrilla Girls have continued to unabashedly parry and thrust with the art world, wielding their sassy","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"19 1","pages":"39 - 58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69200253","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":"Rethinking the F Word: A Review of Activist Art on the Internet","authors":"M. Flanagan, S. Looui","doi":"10.2979/NWS.2007.19.1.181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/NWS.2007.19.1.181","url":null,"abstract":"In an era when new technology and media increasingly infiltrate all facets of our lives, and progress on gender, racial, and other forms of equity appears excruciatingly slow, now seems a critical time to examine new technologies and their potential value for feminist activism. Since its public emergence in the late 1980s, the internet has been simultaneously criticized as oppressive and heralded as empowering for different communities. In this review, we will examine some of the emerging forms that feminist activist art is taking in relation to the internet and consider how technology has contributed to the goals of feminist artists and activists. It is important to contextualize this review by considering the conflicted term \"cyberfeminism\" (Braidotti 1996; Gajjala 1999; Sollfrank 2002). Since the mid-1990s, the term cyberfeminism has been used to investigate the ways in which technology, especially new media and internet technology, and gender interact. Cyberfeminists investigate the celebratory yet contradictory nature of new technologies and work to determine methods of appropriation, intervention, or parallel practice to insert women's issues into the dominant technology discourse. While many women working with technology have regarded this term suspiciously, feminist activist artist Faith Wilding pointed to the possibilities and optimism inherent within it. In her influential article, \"Where is Feminism in Cyberfeminism?\" Wilding asserts that \"cyberfeminists have the chance to create new formations of feminist theory and practice which address the complex new social conditions created by global technologies\" (1 998). Prominent feminist theorist Rosi Braidotti noted that a central aim of cyberfeminism was the breakdown and disintegration of contemporary gender boundaries (1996). Cyberfeminism as a liberatory ideal has not yet achieved its potential, in part because of larger societal pressures surrounding the information technology fields. If a fundamental aim of cyberfeminism is to change and reorganize social and political realities by engaging technology to address gender issues, little progress has been achieved for women. In the United States, for instance, the dearth of women, especially women of color, in computer science and technology studies and professions has been described by researchers as a social justice issue (Wardle, Martin, and Clarke 2004). Female enrollment in information technology academic areas continues to decline, and the current gender imbalance in computing and new technology areas such as game and software development, hinders progress for women in social equity, equal access, and empowerment","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"19 1","pages":"181 - 200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69200654","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":"Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States","authors":"R. Solinger","doi":"10.2979/MER.2007.7.2.63","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2007.7.2.63","url":null,"abstract":"The anti-prison movement in the United States is a growing activist front, partly because the numbers are so shocking and getting worse. It's hard to avoid beginning with the numbers for just that reason. For example, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, in 2001, there were 470 inmates for every 100,000 U.S. residents. Four years later, despite the surge of activism, in 2005, there were 488 inmates per 100,000 residents. Nationally there are now more than eight times as many women incarcerated in state and federal prisons and local jails than there were in 1980. That means there are approximately 200,000 incarcerated women in the United States. But if you count all forms of correctional supervision probation, parole, jail, and state and federal prison, more than one million women are now behind bars or under the control of the criminal justice system. Recently, the Real Cost of Prisons Project (RCPP) reported, \"one out of every 109 women in America is incarcerated, on parole or probation.\" RCPP provides more numbers, figures showing us that incarceration in America is about race. These numbers are stunning and determinative: While African Americans make up 13% of the population, and 13% of the drug users in the United States, 35% of people arrested for drug-related crimes are African Americans, 55% of people convicted for drug-related","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"20 1","pages":"25 - 26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69777234","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":"Narrative of Power: Essays for an Endangered Century, and: Heart Politics Revisited, and: The Feminization of Racism: Promoting World Peace in America (review)","authors":"M. R. Sawyer","doi":"10.1353/NWSA.2006.0060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/NWSA.2006.0060","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88071,"journal":{"name":"NWSA journal : a publication of the National Women's Studies Association","volume":"18 1","pages":"206 - 210"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/NWSA.2006.0060","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66454649","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}