Feminist Review: Issue 37 (Feminist Review Journal)

BOOK COVER......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 2
COPYRIGHT......Page 4
Introduction......Page 6
Black women and reproduction......Page 8
Black women and the working of patriarchy......Page 9
The feminist critique of the family......Page 12
The demand for abortion......Page 13
Domestic violence......Page 14
Rape......Page 15
What does the ‘black’ in black feminism stand for?......Page 16
Is black feminism an alternative movement?......Page 17
Conclusion......Page 19
Notes......Page 21
References......Page 22
NURSING HISTORIES: Reviving Life in Abandoned Selves......Page 26
Notes......Page 38
References......Page 39
Introduction......Page 42
National integration and cultural difference: the Pakistan era......Page 43
Bengali women and the Pakistani state......Page 44
The politics of the post-liberation state......Page 45
The Awami League, state secularism and women’s rights......Page 46
Women and developmentalism in the Bangladesh state......Page 47
The limits to developmentalism: social welfare and the moral order......Page 49
The drift to the Islamic state......Page 50
The Islamic community: international support and the internal constituency......Page 51
The struggle for women’s rights......Page 54
Conclusion: women, Islam and the ad hoc state......Page 56
References......Page 57
BORN-AGAIN MOON: Fundamentalism in Christianity and the Feminist Spirituality Movement......Page 60
References......Page 67
Origins......Page 70
State, religion, fundamentalism......Page 71
WAF’s public profile......Page 72
Education Campaign......Page 73
Other constituencies......Page 74
The women’s movement......Page 75
The future......Page 76
References......Page 77
Letter to Christendom Rana Kabbani Virago: London, 1989, £3.99 Pbk, ISBN 1 85381 119 X......Page 80
Note......Page 85
Generations of Memories: Voices of Jewish Women Edited by the Jewish Women in London Group The Women’s Press: London 1989, £6.95 Pbk, ISBN 0 7043 4205 7......Page 88
References......Page 96
Women Living Under Muslim Laws Dossiers 1–6......Page 98
Note......Page 104
In Search of Shadows: Conversations with Egyptian Women......Page 105
LIP Pamphlets......Page 107
‘We Were Making History’. Women and the Telangana Uprising......Page 110
Wild Women in the Whirlwind: Afra-American Culture and the Contemporary Literary Renaissance......Page 112
THE PHOTO IN THE LACKET......Page 116
Note......Page 120
RESPONSE: MORE CAGNEY AND LACEY......Page 122
References......Page 125
LETTERS......Page 126
Calls For Papers......Page 130
Women: A Cultural Review......Page 131
BACK ISSUES......Page 134