Archive - Year - 2001

[1] The continual recurrence of liberal visual and textual representations of Afghan women sensationalize their plight and conflate third world women “over there” with third world women “over here.” Such presentations compel me to reiterate critiques put forward by Chandra Mohanty (1991), Gayatri Spivak (1999), Umma Narayan (1997), and Lata...

[1] JAGOSE: Your book on gay male spectatorships notes the cultural persistence, both homophobic and anti-homophobic, in reading the movie fan and the male homosexual in terms of each other. (figure 1) Indeed, a couple of times you offer incidents from your childhood – your grandmother’s gift to you, aged...

(part of a series in Issue 33: First Ladies? Political Wives in Seventeenth-century England) [1] In the past eight years, Hillary Rodham Clinton moved through a range of roles: she took up a highly controversial and ultimately doomed position as her husband’s “two for the price of one” partner in...

(part of a series in Issue 33: First Ladies? Political Wives in Seventeenth-century England) [1] In the course of exhaustively documenting the life and times of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Interregnum Protectorate, historians have taken virtually no interest in his wife, Elizabeth. They report that Elizabeth married Oliver...

(part of a series in Issue 33: First Ladies? Political Wives in Seventeenth-century England) [1] Until Diana Spencer’s death on August 31, 1997, the conjunction of England’s queen consorts and populism was far from obvious. Yet this was exactly the ideological intersection her death foregrounded for those who watched and...