The Barnard Center for Research on Women hosted a panel discussion, “Doing It All? Young Feminists Take on Work, Family, and the Meaning of Success,” as part of its Feminist Futures series, on September 18, 2003. “Exhaustion, panic, and rage”—these are the words, according to moderator Deborah Siegel (co-editor of the Scholar and Feminist Online), that … Read more
Overview From George Bush’s insistence that the two-parent family still provides the best environment for building civic stability, responsibility and character to Hillary Clinton’s claim that it takes a village, family values has become an indispensable catchword of both parties. But what exactly does the term mean? When pressed to answer the obvious questions – … Read more
Changing Shape of America’s Families Bianchi, Suzanne, et al. Changing Rhythms of the American Family. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, forthcoming. Casper, Lynne, and Suzanne M. Bianchi. Continuity and Change in the American Family. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 2001. Coontz, Stephanie. The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap. New York: Basic Books, 1992. … Read more
Changing Shape of America’s Families Council on Contemporary Families Family Diversity Projects PAARC: Polyamory Awareness and Acceptance Ribbon Campaign The Polyamory Society: Serving the Polyamorous Community Work/Family Conflict Families and Work Institute Mothers and More: The Network for Sequencing Women National Work and Family Month: The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 Senate Resolution … Read more
What began as a panel at the Barnard Center for Research on Women in February 2003 has morphed into this issue of the Scholar and Feminist Online. We, Jen and Amy, first proposed the panel because we saw our friends and colleagues—our peers—beginning to create families and expose their (good and bad) experiences in books, articles, and conversations. … Read more
I’m pleased to present to you the sixth issue of The Scholar & Feminist Online, titled “Young Feminists Take on the Family” and guest edited by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards (co-authors of ManifestA: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future and the forthcoming Grassroots: A Field Guide to Feminist Activism). The issue brings together the essays, poetry, and artwork … Read more
*Reprinted with permission from Marjorie Agosín, ed., Miriam’s Daughters: Jewish Latin American Women Poets, Santa Fe: Sherman Asher Publishing, 2001. I am a childof so many placesleft behind:Siliviri, TurkeyGoworowo, PolandLinka, ByelorussiaHavana, CubaKibbutz Gash, Israel141-41 85th Street,Jamaica, New York,sixth floor corner apartmentnext door to a boy from Indiawho leaned out the windowto catch a butterflyand died oozing … Read more
*Reprinted with permission from Marjorie Agosín, ed., Miriam’s Daughters: Jewish Latin American Women Poets, Santa Fe: Sherman Asher Publishing, 2001. my mother,who dressed me in hand-me-down dogmashreds cabbage over the kitchen sink: “We could have saved the child, saved the world, saved the Rosenbergs.” … Read more
*Reprinted with permission from Marjorie Agosín, ed., Miriam’s Daughters: Jewish Latin American Women Poets, Santa Fe: Sherman Asher Publishing, 2001. In a clearingof the forestnear the precipicesof the crestfallen nightand absences,there wasa small girl’straveling bag.It could have beenlike that of your daughter,full of charmes,small and wildpebbles,imagined jewels.It could have beenthe bride’s valisewith her mauve clotheslike loveor … Read more
*Reprinted with permission from Marjorie Agosín, ed., Miriam’s Daughters: Jewish Latin American Women Poets, Santa Fe: Sherman Asher Publishing, 2001. My brother and Iwere God’s witnessesin the desert.He inscribed lifeon the rocks,and I played at imaginingwater on the sand,bitter and dark. My brother was the chosen onehe received the gift of language.His demeanor andcourage pleased God. … Read more
