Announcing Feminist Studies Volume 38, Issue 2, Summer 2012

Feminist Studies

V.38 (2) Summer 2012

*Announcing Feminist Studies Volume 38, Issue 2*

Articles range from accounts of ancient Rome to analyses of the ever-shifting present. Many contributors take up classics feminist questions of “recovery:” What role did women play in Ovid’s early life? How did a woman popularize smallpox inoculation? Could digital archives collecting centuries of women’s writings re-frame literary canons? Was the undervalued 1930s artist Mary E Hutchinson queer before her time? A separate cluster of poetry and reviews of books explores “Black women’s sexuality,” the relationship between pleasure and pain, and the goal of moving beyond respectability. And finally, the issue features many highly teachable engagements with “ Contemporary activism:” women’s roles in the occupy movement, responses to Trayvon Martin’s death, how to destigmatize abortion, how spiritual tenets sustain social change work, and critiques of films about sex trafficking.

Contents

The Politics of History and Recovery

Diane Middlebrook

*20 March, 43 BCE: Ovid Is Born

Diana Barnes 

*The Public Life of a Woman of Wit and Quality: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu  and the Vogue for Smallpox Inoculation*

Veronica Alfano         

*Grandmothers in the Archive: Three Digital Collections of Women’s Writing*

Jae Turner     

*Mary E. Hutchinson, Intelligibility, and the Historical Limits of Agency*

The Social Mobilization of Love

Sharon Doetsch-Kidder

*Loving Criticism: A Spiritual Philosophy of Social Change*

Jeannie Ludlow         

*Love and Goodness: Toward a New Abortion Politics*

Black Women's Sexuality

Rickey Laurentiis      

*Stung* (Poetry)

Jennifer C. Nash        

*Theorizing Pleasure: New Directions in Black Feminist Studies* (Review Essay)

R. Flowers Rivera      

*Ode To Sue; Braiding Alexis* (Poetry)

Analyzing Activism

Molly Talcott and Dana Collins

*Building a Complex and Emancipatory Unity: Documenting Decolonial Feminist Interventions within the Occupy Movement*(Photo Essay)

Michelle V. Rowley   

*“It Could Have Been Me” Really? Early Morning Meditations on Trayvon Martin’s Death* (Commentary)

Jamie L. Small           

*Trafficking in Truth: Media, Sexuality,  and Human Rights Evidence*