... in-depth feminist interviews to reveal second-generation Afghan-Canadian women’s gendered negotiations of partner-selection practices and marital ceremonies, including their resistance and conformity to these practices through the mobilization of their hybrid diasporic identities. Overall, the study design...

... their right to define themselves as women and as sexual beings. This research also establishes the presence of African feminist ideals in their music. African feminist scholars have for decades provided frameworks for studies of gender in Africa. Through their scholarship, we understand that gender...

...Sudarat Musikawong Abstract Masculinity and nationalisms in Thailand during the 1970s served to enable gendered violence against activist women. Archival research and fieldwork reveal how feminist epistemologies and methods for studying memory are always gendered. Both conservative and leftist...

..., the women finding themselves evicted from their homes when they return. 12 Very little study or reporting has occurred on violence against other gendered peoples within Indian communities throughout North America. 13 Read about NWAC’s Sisters In Spirit Campaign at http...

...). Gender and feminist analyses of hip-hop are expanding the discourse not only of hip-hop studies but of broader critiques on black sexual politics, masculinity, queer subjectivities, and feminism (Cheney 2005; Collins 2005; Clay 2007). Gwendolyn Pough's (2004) historiography of black women in hip-hop...

... variable in some recent turns in the study of African gender systems. The critique of feminism as an overarching position has already come from a variety of locations, all challenging the assumption that women experience oppression in the same way or have similar access to power. But often this critique...

...Shiriki Kumanyika Abstract This special issue of Meridians offers a unique opportunity to reflect on the complexity of black women’s racialized and gendered health landscapes in light of relevant social and political contexts and conventions about: a) what constitutes research excellence, and b...

... to suggest that men may also be suffering bi-gender role strain. Rhea Almeida's Cultural Context Model (CCM) has been used to teach men to recognize that misogyny and sexism negatively influence men's as well as women's lives (Almeida 1999). Future studies should therefore investigate men's constructions...

... among the NGOs as a result of the Beijing Conference; 2) international donors' active economic cultivation of anti-gender violence activism among local women's NGOs; 3) participant activists' rationalization of the project as a worthwhile cause for their political commitment with their “vocabularies...

... that framed gender as the primary axis of oppression and white women as the primary representatives of feminism. Rather than welcoming this critique as a necessary tool for crafting a more capacious feminist practice, many white feminists perceived the emergence of intersectionality as a loss of power...

... of East Los Angeles .” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 11 : 1 – 7 . Parker Richard , Barbosa Regina Maria , and Aggleton Peter , eds. 2000 . Framing the Sexual Subject: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Power . Berkeley : University of California Press...

...Kimberly A. Scott; Patricia Garcia Abstract Discourse about girls and women of color in technology has followed the familiar path of using a single-unit analysis to explain disparity. Consequently, approaches to “motivate” girls of color overemphasize gender and engage in technological...

...-Kum Bhavnani, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Inderpal Grewal. I teach ethnic and gender studies courses concerning Asian women predominantly to White students on the east coast, and have found that most of them find it very difficult to comprehend how both race and gender oppression continue...

... College. All rights reserved. 141 I teach ethnic and gender studies courses concerning Asian women predominantly to white students on the east coast, and have found that most of them find it very difficult to comprehend how both race and gender oppression continue to influence them on a daily basis. Many...

... or not, whose rhetorical exigency and authority comes from her husband's inability to speak. This case study demonstrates that although the rhetorical use of traditional gender roles, such as widowhood, provides an elevated platform from which women can speak, it also transforms women from credible individuals...

... LenaPalaciosis an assistant professor in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Lena's research and teaching focuses on critical prison studies, Black, Indigenous, Chicana/Latina queer and trans feminisms, girls' and girlhood studies, transformative justice, media...

... hair has been both overdetermined and underexplored as a site of intellectual inquiry. This essay aims to offer a critical examination of natural black hair as a central site of interpersonal negotiation for black women in the United States. Drawing on performance studies, cultural studies, and black...

... Diary No. 47. 2008. (Kullu Fast Track). Taussig, Michael T. 1999. Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Himika Bhattacharya is an assistant professor of Women's & Gender Studies at Syracuse University. Her work explores meanings...

... in college. We want to model that this kind of work can and should begin in a young person's earliest school years through high school and continue into their higher education. In writing this paper together, we also want to disrupt the notion that the teaching of women's and gender studies happens only...

... in Women & Gender Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder for their input on this essay. I'm also thankful to Laura Brueck, Antoinette Burton, Jed Esty, Ania Loomba, and Simona Sawhney for responses to drafts of this article, and to the journal's anonymous reviewers for useful suggestions...