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The illegitimate child of the sexual revolution
How the US religious Right used sex to get to power
The US religious Right has learned more from the sexual revolution than the liberal Centre, which it has forced onto the defensive in matters of sexuality. But despite its condemnation of hyper-sexualized culture, the Right is far from prude, writes Dagmar Herzog. [more]
Intimate strangers
Migrants as household workers in western Europe
Since the traditional division of labour between the sexes was questioned in the 1970s, the number of employed women in the industrial nations has increased considerably. Nonetheless, the reallocation of household work to female migrants disappoints the feminist hope that the redistribution of employment would be mirrored in the domestic sphere. [more]
Shopping town USA
Victor Gruen, the Cold War, and the shopping mall
Victor Gruen's "shopping towns" were supposed to strengthen civic life and alleviate women's lives. But within a decade they had become the architectural expression of the policy of gender segregation underlying the US postwar consumer utopia. [Lithuanian version added] [more]
"Ageing is a dance on uneven ground..."
Gerda Lerner in interview with Ingrid Bauer and Christa Hämmerle
"Ageing is a dance on uneven ground with weakened limbs, trying out various steps, occasionally gathering momentum and experiencing the dance as it used to be, and, better still, as it is now." [more]
"Denying the coloured mother": Gender and race in South Africa
Krotoa-Eva, the first indigenous woman to marry into South African colonial settler society, has been the subject of a resurgence of interest in post-apartheid South Africa. However, discourses of "racial difference" and "racial mixing" in the formation of "the nation" must be seen in an historical perspective that takes account of gender as an axis of experience with relation to "race". [more]
Silences and parodies in the East-West feminist dialogue
Identity as problem
In parodying Western feminism, eastern European feminist discourse becomes a subversive response to a reality felt to be absurd. But whose interests does this subversion serve? [more]