2003

Introduction[1] Drawing upon oral histories and official records, recent feminist studies by Ritu Menon, Kamla Bhasin, Urvashi Butalia, and Veena Das document Hindu and Sikh families’ and communities’ refusal to accept women subjected to sexual

[1] For more than twenty years now, as I’m sure you know, scholars, theorists, and historians of sexuality have been engaged in a heated debate over the relationship between homosexuality, history, and society. Commonly referred to as the

If one wishes to deceive a man, what one presents to him is the painting of a veil, that is to say, something that incites him to ask what is behind it.  –Jacques Lacan, “What Is a Picture?”Ignorance, far more than knowledge, is what can never

[1]  In the 1950s, Elaine de Kooning used the Abstract Expressionist style of “action painting” to create sexually- charged images of men.  For example, in Fairfield Porter #1, 1954, de Kooning pushes the seated faceless figure to the

Introduction[1] What happens when a child is born, and the attending physicians look to declare, Its a boy! or Its a girl!, but cannot clearly decide? What happens when a girl at 18 still has not reached menarche, and after a bit of research, it is

“Popular culture is the politics of the 21st Century”Gale Weathers, Scream 31] The 1990s might well be remembered as the decade of Girl Culture and Girl Power. New phrases began sounding in the air and new images surfacing in our media,

[1] Farmer: The affinities between gay male cultures and the Broadway musical are so widely acknowledged that, in popular imaginings, one has become all but indexical of the other. The primary objective—and, in so small measure, the value—of your

Gender and the American Ideology of War[1]   At the huge peace demonstration in London on February 15, one of the larger signs appropriately urged, “Stop Mad Cowboy Disease!” Both liberals and leftists in the U.S. have had difficulty in

Dynamos are womenRound with the first sweet swellingOf a new mother’s milk.— Macknight Black, “New Mother,” 1929[1]   In 1940, Clarence Holbrook Carter produced a painting that disturbed him. In fact, War Bride (figure 1)was so

Introduction[1]   Both the movements and the settlements of the tremendous populations who live outside their country of origin, estimated at 150 million, have been of worldwide concern, as displaced groups exert striking influence well