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...Elizabeth Parish Smith This essay examines the experiences of three women—one Creole, one black, one white—in New Orleans’s Reconstruction-era demimonde. Enacted just months after the end of the Civil War and surviving in various forms for fifty-two years, a regulatory system governed the sex trade...

... argue that postwar feminism's manifestation as a multiplicity of political movements was made possible through the visual technologies of the mass media. The essay begins by situating the terms women and masses in historical relation, charting their mutual invocation in the mapping of collectivities...

... to the reproductive commons women are constructing in response to the displacements caused by the new expansion of capitalist relations. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 common commons reproductive commons capitalism feminism References Amoore Louise , ed. 2005 . The Global...

... Anti-racist Feminism or Barbarism: Moroccan Women Seasonal Strawberry Workers Let s take a small trip through time, to the height of recent feminist mobi- lizations in Spain. In September 2017, feminist assemblies begin meeting on the eighth of every month to prepare for what will be the rst feminist...

...Julian Kevon Glover This article investigates sex work among Black transgender women in Chicago’s ballroom scene, drawing on ethnographic data to argue that Black transwomen engage in sex work as a practice of self-investment undergirded by an epistemological shift regarding the centrality...

...Kathleen McHugh Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Kathleen McHugh Women in Traffic: L.A. Autobiography To be content with the easy pleasures of the feminine is to lose a fundamental opportunity: an opportunity to precisely use our material experiences to map out the changing...

...Claudia Springer Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Claudia Springer Sex, Memories, and Angry Women One thing is certain: the riddle of mind, long a topic for philosophers, has taken on new urgency. Under pressure from the computer, the question of mind in relation to machine...

...Melissa W. Wright Duke University Press 2006 Melissa W. Wright Public Women, Profit, and Femicide in Northern Mexico Since 2002, a social justice movement called Ni Una Mas has brought international attention...

...Stephen Orgel Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Stephen Orgel Nobody s Perfect: Or Why Did the English Stage Take Boys for Women? My title is the last line of that most Re­ naissance of modern comedies, Some Like It Hot. Joe E. Brown reacts to Jack Lemmon s desperate revelation...

... of All We Hate: English Satires on Women, 1660-1750. By Felicity A. Nussbaum. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1984. Pp. viii, 192. $20.00. With elegance and wit, demonstrating impeccable scholarship and a dispas­ sionate dexterity, Felicity Nussbaum playfully exhausts the reader with what...

...Martine Watson Brownley Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 The Purest and Most Gentle Portion of the Human Species : Gibbon s Portrayals of Women in the Decline and Fall Martine Watson Brownley The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is hardly a woman s world; in the headnotes...

...Lois W. Banner Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Why Women Have Not Been Great Chefs Lois W. Banner From primitive times to the present, women have ruled the hearth and produced the family cuisine; yet it is one of the greatest indi­ cations of women s subordination...

...Marjorie Stratford Mendenhall 1934 SOUTHERN WOMEN OF A LOST GENERATION MARJORIE STRATFORD MENDENHALL A FTER the political maneuvers of the ante-bellum period and the agony of the war the white people of the South stood together united in poverty and in a search for a new way of life...

...Virginia Gearhart Gray Copyright © 1928 by Duke University Press 1928 ACTIVITIES OF SOUTHERN WOMEN: 1840-1860 VIRGINIA GEARHART GRAY New Orleans O THE MAN of the street in the decades just preceding X the Civil War, woman developed into as perplexing a problem as her daughter of today...

...Susan Levine Out to Work: A History of Wage Earning Women in the United States . By Kessler-Harris Alice . New York : Oxford University Press , 1982 . Pp. xiv , 400 . $19.95 . Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 Book Reviews 475 narrowly based, than...

...Harriet Blodgett Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Enduring Ties: Daughters and Mothers in Contemporary English Fiction by Women Harriet Blodgett The memorable Mrs. Bennet and her five daughters aside, consanguine mother-daughter relationships have not been prominent in English...

...Danielle Trudeau Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Danielle Trudeau Socrates Women Socrates, according to his disciples, was a model citizen and at the same time a sort of for­ eign body the State wanted to oust. Plato in large measure exploited this foreignness, partly attrib­...

...Candice Merritt This article contends that present‐day focus of Black feminist anger at white women obscures the old and ongoing Black feminist struggle to name and diagnose Black patriarchy. In effort to redirect attention to the sexual/gendered intramural struggles within Black social life...