...Pamela Butler; Jigna Desai Abstract Critical readings of “chick lit” are typically limited to a framework that understands the popular fiction genre as a sign or symptom of “postfeminism” in the U.S. In its readings of chick lit in general, and of South Asian American chick lit as a particular...

...Tamara Wong-Morrison Copyright © 2000 by Wesleyan University Press 2000 CHICKEN FEET, CHICKEN TamaraWong-Morrison SOUP Samantha -that was her name, my Easter chick, one of those dyed purple or pink chicks that chirp around the Easter bunnies displayed at the store. Somehow I ended up with her...

... the essay, "Manolos, Marriage, and Mantras: Chick-LitCriticism and Transnational Feminism." Its authors, Jigna Desai and Pamela Butler, provide an alternative to the paradigm that accompanies the readings ofU.S. chick-lit-readings that usually include a post-feminist, apolitical thesis. Desai and Butler...

... naked to get heard while thinking they are challenging the status quo. Following Natalie Maines's comment during a March 2003 concert in London about being ashamed that President Bush was from Texas, the Dixie Chicks countered widespread criticism by appearing on the cover of Entertainment...

... interdisciplinary courses on globalization, film, and writing. FRANCIS M. BEAL, see page 457. PAMELA BUTLER is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of American Studies, with a minor in Feminist Studies, at the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation-in-progress, "Global Chicks: Neoliberal Feminism and Cosmopolitan...

..., back them up in criminal activity, and protect them from danger. Ms. Sancha is a sexual fantasy and "gangsta chick" in one petite package; or as she claims on "She's Dirty": she's into "shootin', suckin' and fuckin' ." Moreover, compact-disc imagery, lyrics, and information found on the Low Profile...

... the alarm! I’ll be damned if I see another chick on your arm!” remind us less of Michael Douglas’s misogynistic oeuvre and more of not only the powerful Black women who have been chastised and punished for “misbehaving” in recent years, but also of the growing number of Black women who are or have been...

... leg-crossing moment in Basiclnstinct.3Knowles is no Hollywood femme fatale, though, and these images that catalogue her in severe distress and entrapment while staring the camera down and calling for someone to "ring the alarm! I'll be damned ifI see another chick on your arm!" remind us less...

... himself an “Italian stallion” and was rumored to have “bit a chick on the tit.” The teen had nothing to say about his gynecological queries or his perverted penchants. She knew that Lorenzo had asked a classmate named Bettie Pinsent out and Bettie had accepted, assuming perhaps that he admired her...

.... Their best efforts are as cheering and comforting to the soul of a child in comparison with the welcoming smile of the mother when it comes from school as the machinelike warmth of an incubator is to the chick after the downy comfort of a clucking hen. Incubators are an essential for the mass production...

... scamper homeward to perform an almost robotic succession of chores: they “fed the chicks / and sewed and milked the cow and trimmed the wicks” (18). Routine and obligation reign in their sylvan leisure, rendering them a formidable troupe (or herd) of industrious young domestics. The literary technique...

...-4B41C4FA345834295oC1. Accessed June 1, 2oo4. Mann, Christian. 2002. Personal Interview. November 27. McBride, Dwight A. 1998. "Can the Queen Speak? Racial Essentialism, Sexuality and the Problem of Authority." Callaloo21, no. 2: 363-79. Miller-Young, Mireille. 2007. "Let Me Tell Ya 'Bout Black Chicks: Black Women...

... that will generate some warmth, heal, then resume the journey to the mountaintop, together. And a groovy black chick like you can radiate enough estrogen to embrace our estranged girls, love them back to themselves, strong, high, looking out on tomorrow" (Roberts and Ulen 2000, 71). Working from the writings of hip...