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Current Issue
Volume 42, Issue 1
Spring 2019
Articles
Merkel the Mutti? A Linguistic Analysis of Domestic Language in European News Media Coverage of Angela Merkel
Catherine Van Halsema, Indiana University
All the Woking Women’s Friends: Protective Labor Legislation and the Early ERA Controversy
Kerith Woodyard, Northern Illinois University
Kathryn Cady, Northern Illinois University
Beyond “Good Hair”: Negotiating Hair Politics through African American Language
Kristin Denise Rowe, Michigan State University
Keeping (Light)house: Public Memory Work as Feminine Labor
Shauna M. MacDonald, Villanova University
Media Reviews:
Viewing Black Panther Through a Postcolonial Feminist Lens
Tassabum “Ruhi” Khan, University of California, Riverside
Dolores: The Silenced Cofounder of the United Farm Workers
Rebecca Mercado Jones, Oakland University
Bodies in Flux: Depictions of Gender Fluidity in the Art of Cassils
Bryan Hilley, Duke University
Shirley and Lavada: Refuting the Myths of Aging in Greedy for Life
Phoneshia Wells, University of Southern Indiana
Book Reviews:
Savage Portrayals: Race, Media, and the Central Park Jogger Story by Natalie P. Byfield
Simon Rousset, University of South Florida
Rachel Alicia Griffin, University of Utah
Political Rhetoric: A Presidential Briefings Book by Mary E. Stuckey
Skye de Saint Felix, University of Maryland
Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual Purity in Contemporary Film
by Casey Ryan Kelly
Samentha Sepulveda, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Speaking Up by Allyson Jule
Susan J. Behrens, Marymount Manhattan College
Forum:
Provocation
Intersectional Feminisms and Sexual Violence in the Era of Me Too, Trump, and Kavanaugh
Judy E. Battaglia, Loyola Marymount University
Paige P. Edley, Loyola Marymount University
Victoria Ann Newsom, Olympic College
Responses
A Certain Fidelity to Infidelity: Thinking Against Loyalty in the Academy
Joshua Trey Barnett, University of Minnesota, Duluth
Co-conspiring Against the Fratriarchy
Bernardo Alexander Attias, California State University, Northridge
Intersectional Feminism and Global Activism Against Rape Culture: An Advocacy for the Inclusion of Congolese Victims and Survivors
Gloria Nziba Pindi, California State University, San Marcos
My #MeToos Before the #MeToo
Devika Chawla, Ohio University
A Long Walk Home: Decolonizing #MeToo
Aimee Carrillo Rowe, California State University, Northridge
No More Magic Mirrors: Confronting Reflections of Privileged Feminisms in #MeToo
Sarah Amira de la Garza, Arizona State University
Before and Beyond #MeToo and #TimesUp: Rape as a Colonial and Racist Project
Cristy Dougherty, University of Denver
Bernadette Marie Calafell, University of Denver
Dear Nice White Ladies: A Womanist Response to Intersectional Feminism and Sexual Violence
Toniesha L. Taylor, Prairie View A&M University
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Transcending the Acronym
edited by Leland G. Spencer
Volume 41, Issue 1 - Fall 2018
Volume 40, Issue 2 - Spring 2018
edited by Bernardo A. Attias and Jeanine M. Mingé
On First Lady Michelle Obama
edited by Cerise L. Glenn, Siobhan E.
Smith-Jones, and Karla D. Scott
Volume 40, Issue 1 - Winter 2017/2018
Health, Gender, Sexuality, and Sex
edited by Deborah Ballard-Reisch and
Kimberly Kline
Volume 39, Issue 1 - Fall 2016
Engaged Scholarship
edited by Jimmie Manning and Renée Houston
Volume 38, Issue 1 - Spring 2015
The Value of the “Bad Feminist”
edited by Patty Sotirin
Volume 36, Issue 2 - Fall 2013
Mic Checking the Patriarchy
edited by Mary Vavrus
Volume 35, Issue 1 - Spring 2012
On Humanitarian Crises
edited by Cynthia Weber
Volume 34, Issue 1 - 2011
War, Language, and Gender
edited by Anita Taylor and MJ Hardman
Volume 27, Issue 2 - Fall 2004
Paradoxes
edited by Anita Taylor and Linda Perry
Volume 24, Issue 2 - Fall 2001