Using oral histories with women born between 1946 and 1980, this article explores experiences memories of infertility pregnancy loss in the post-women’s liberation era. Infertility had a lasting impact on participants’ relationships their bodies, expressed often terms ambivalence towards physical selves an embodied ‘broken-ness’. I historically contextualise these expressions broken-ness to sho...

The Gothic conceit of American womanhood as a nightmarish form perennial childhood assumes new layers meaning when viewed in transnational perspective. Haunting portrayals infantilized women-children give canonical works like Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ an unlikely kinship with postcolonial texts Paz’s La hija de Rappaccini and Césaire’s Une tempête. While echoing critique patriarchal super...

During the last forty years of United States’ fight for woman suffrage, a handful suffragists wrote cookbooks sponsored by suffrage organisations. These created rhetorical space and ethos within through kitchen. Because their activism was grounded in expected feminine actions, this home-bound allowed primarily white, middle-class to simultaneously advocate women's public maintain adherence Cult...

This article looks at some lived experiences of five African women in Mohlakeng township, situated the West Rand District Municipality Gauteng, South Africa, between 1980 and 2018. Four are Pentecostal pastors one is an Evangelical pastor. Their biggest challenge was to demonstrate that they were equally capable as their male counterparts leading a local church functioning pastors. These displa...

This commentary essay is about a personal and professional reflection of the article written by Came et al. (2021)“Smashing patriarchy to address gender health inequities”. While learning how Western feminism impacted on women’s advancement locally internationally, original made my mind wander.with curiosity over few interrelated topics. Those topics are namely Asian in Aotearoa New Zealand, he...

WILLIAM R. PAULSON, Enlightenment, Romanticism and the blind in France, Princeton University Press, 1987, 8vo, pp. ix, 259, £21.00. William Paulson has produced an odd sandwich of a book. It opens with an off-putting 'Introduction' which takes many words to inform us, yet again, how the approach to discourse analysis developed by Michel Foucault transcended the blindness of the traditional 'his...

AIM To elucidate early adolescent girls' attitudes, thoughts and feelings towards menstruation and their bodies. METHODS 309 12-y-old girls answered questionnaires. One part of the questionnaire dealt with thoughts and feelings towards menstruation. The other part dealt with thoughts and feelings towards menstruation and sex and ability to communicate on aspects of womanhood. RESULTS Postme...