...Mary Lydon Calling Yourself a Woman: Marguerite Yourcenar and Colette MARY LYDON Frederic: "Comment vous-appelez vous mademoiselle?" Garance: "Moi, je ne m'appelle jamais, mais les autres m 'appellent Garance. " (Frederic: "What do you call yourself miss?" Garance: "Personally, I never call myself...

... of the Jews in Europe, 1789-1939 . Oxford: Oxford up, 1999 . Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman . Ed. Carol H. Poston. 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 1988 . wendy brown Tolerance and/or Equality...

... articles and anthologized essays. She teaches anthropology at Tufts. Abul-Fadl, Mona. “Revisiting the Woman's Question: An Islamic Perspective.” Chicago Theological Seminary Register 83 ( 1993 ): 28 -64. Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa. “Revisiting Feminist Discourses on Infibulation: Responses...

... . elizabeth a. povinelli The Woman on the Other Side of the Wall: Archiving the Otherwise in Postcolonial Digital Archives Prologue This essay was conceptualized as a moment in a long conver- sation with Dicle Kog...

...' Women and Postnational Feminism.” Transitions: New Australian Feminisms . Ed. Barbara Caine and Rosemary Pringle. New York: St. Martin's, 1995 . 57 –73. Barlow, Tani, ed. Gender Politics in Modern China:Writing and Feminism . Durham: Duke UP, 1993 . ———. “Theorizing Woman: Funu, Guojia,Jiating...

... . “ Imitation and Gender Insubordination .” Fuss , 13 – 31 . Castle Terry . “ The Female Thermometer .” Representations 17 ( Winter 1987 ): 1 – 27 . Cleland John . Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure . Ed. Sabor Peter . Oxford : Oxford UP , 1985 . A Conference about...

...Nazan Üstündağ This article addresses the question of what epistemic spaces women can occupy to produce truths other than that at the limit between life and death occupied by Antigone, a figure of truth widely celebrated in feminism and beyond. It reflects in particular on the mother, the woman...

...Tani E. Barlow This essay solders together a historical case study of advertising on the China mainland in the early twentieth century with a series of generalizable appraisals and determinations to establish how the catachresis woman is evental. The event of women emerged historically in part...

..., recognized an incongruity between their revolutionary insurgency and the conditions of possibility for its memorialization. This essay follows Pritilata Waddedar, the first woman to die in the commission of an anticolonial terrorist attack, as she is incarnated into legal, historical, and cultural evidence...

.... But there has been little attention to the once popular figure of the strong woman who takes up sword and spear to avenge a wrong done to a family member by killing the guilty party. The avenging woman is a key figure in the Eastern Han (25-220 ce ), a formative period in the development of Chinese political...

...Robert Hughes This essay illuminates the recent philosophy of Luce Irigaray by following how she develops her key trope of home . Thus, it elaborates her critique of a certain closed “homely” formation of man’s subjectivity and advances her thesis that woman might function as the salutary advent...

...Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud This essay describes how women’s genitalia came to be symbolized in the hybrid beast-woman form of the “octopussy,” tracking its origins to Victor Hugo’s novel, Les travailleurs de la mer (1866). Highlighting the centrality and sensationalism of an octopus attack on a sailor...

...; and that of Mrs. B, a woman who suffers from amnesia and wears a camera in the hope of leading a normal life in which she can share the past with loved ones. The author discusses how new recording technologies are both a symptom of, and a cure for, anxieties about time, arguing that prototypical recording...

...Dicle Koğacioğlu This article begins with the observation that the honor crime (the murder of a woman by her family because of actual or deemed sexual acts that are considered an offense to the culturally defined terms of family honor) has received increasing attention in Turkey during the last...

...Andrea Long Chu This essay argues that feminism is impossible. After examining a recent #MeToo episode—a bad sexual encounter between actor Aziz Ansari and a woman named Grace—as a case study in feminist disappointment, the essay turns to several key seventies feminist texts to reconstruct...

... to portray a woman whose life was defined and derailed by exile. © 2015 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2015 Hannah Arendt Margarethe von Trotta Eichmann trial Eichmann in Jerusalem It all began in the fall of 2003. Margarethe von Trotta and I were...

...Elizabeth A. Povinelli This essay examines the relevance of the concept of biopower and its four seminal figures (the hysterical woman, the Malthusian couple, the masturbating child, and the perverse adult) to our understanding of current formations of late liberal power. Through the example...

... for such an analysis in its tendency to dramatize the division of sound and image as in film: the image of the beautiful woman entails the use of voice through dubbing. © 2016 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2016 synesthesia hierarchy of senses music video female...

... a visual origin or point of reference. The inherent uncanniness of the voice—whether it be the dog’s absent master, man’s distant lover, or woman’s internalized other—is normalized by digital technologies such as MP3 compression. Depending on the conditions of production, distribution, and reception...

... woman as an invisible category whose individual agency and distinct, complex subjectivities are sacrificed to the patriarchal state’s priorities and socialist ideology. As a case study for alternative ways to reflect on women’s struggles during the Mao era, the essay analyzes several stories...