An Ethnography of Fresh Fields
The ethnographic research that I studied took place in a specialty food store. The store's name is Fresh Fields. This Grocery store specializes in organic and healthy foods. The location of the site is upper Wisconsin in Georgetown. This is a very affluent area, and the patronage reflects its neighborhood. Part of the idea behind the store, Fresh Fields, is an attempt to do community outreach. (more)

How (not) to Become Plant:
A Deleuzeoguattarian Analysis of Human/Plant Assemblages
The model of Becoming that Deleuze and Guattari posit in their essay "Becoming-Intense, Becoming Animal, Becoming-Imperceptible," is a radically non-subjective view of the alliances that people may form with women, animals, vegetables, molecules, ad infinitum. This wholly dynamic model of non-subjective becoming is offered as a less restrictive framework than the traditional psychoanalytic one, within which the infinitely complex relations humans form with other creatures and other objects can be conceptualized. (more)

Intellectual Women Work Through the Theories of the Talented Tenth
The purpose of this research is to do a comparison of the female intellectuals during reconstruction with contemporary female intellectuals. In this way, we will look at the work of Anna Julia Cooper specifically, and how this work intersects with the theory of the Talented Tenth. We will then look at contemporary intellectuals bell hooks and Patricia Hill Collins to locate a similar intersection with the philosophies mandated through the Talented Tenth. In each case these women may be seen as carrying on the work of the Talented Tenth to varying degrees. I will explore these degrees and explain the method of each intellectual as well as the intended result. (more)

Stripping: Empowerment or Objectification?
For centuries, psychologists, sociologists,academics, historians, and filmmakers have devoted themselves to the exploration and dissection of sex and power. All dancers talk about their work as being something they enjoy. The financial independence gives them control over their lives and their ability to transfix a room full of men with a simple glance, further confirms their desirability. But how far will it stretch before they fall victims to their own universe? (DC One, 37). (more)

The Fate of Sexual Power
Sex debases men. They begin to struggle when they feel they are losing control of their emotions in any way. For a woman to easily change the way a man feels or the way he acts just by being female and attractive is enough to drive men insane. William Shakespeare's plays, Othello and Hamlet, demonstrate on paper, on film, and in other art forms that female sexuality and beauty are a threat to patriarchal society and that they must be controlled. (more)

Gendered Language of War
The ways in which we have come to understand, explain and react to the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 are coded by our linguistic system and the meanings it constructs. Words mediate between internal, cognitive responses to war and external, behavioral responses...(more)

Minimum Wage
Women's labor has shaped the very backbone of the U.S. economy. The diversity and multiplicity of women's work contributions, both paid and unpaid, in the formal and informal sectors, have paved the foundation of America's unique economic history. Currently, women compromise 46% of the total labor force and this number is expected to grow to 48% by 2008 (more)

 

The Year of the Woman
Reporters portray female and male candidates differently when covering campaigns for political office. In order to counteract the biased coverage in the papers the women of the 1992 Senate race used 30-second advertising spots to assert their key issue stances and strengths. Though this was not the sole purpose of their ads, they were very much geared toward compensating for the lack of fair coverage they were receiving in the new...(more)

Shifting the Medical Gaze:
Towards a Feminist Ethic of Childbirth
The term "reproductive rights" has become synonymous with abortion rights, birth control access, and issues surrounding reproductive technologies, yet the struggle for a woman's right to choose when and how to become pregnant often overshadows a woman's right to choose where and how to give birth. The lack of feminist discourse and activism surrounding issues of childbirth may attest to the hegemony in the modern American birth ritual of increasing medical intervention from obstetricians in hospital settings. (more)

Reproductive Choice
In 1992, a young Black woman named Mary received the results of her pregnancy test at a federally funded family planning clinic in her neighborhood: she was pregnant. She knew that she did not want to have the baby. She was grateful to be able to turn to the clinic for help because she had no health insurance (more)

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