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Interview: Of Cultural Deference. A Conversation with Rabbi Tanya Segal, Poland\u27s First Female Rabbi — Warsaw, 12 July 2008
No full textRabbi Tanya Segal leads the progressive reform congregation Beit Warszawa and is currently engaged in rebuilding the infrastructure for the renewal of progressive Judaism in Poland. She also works as a travelling Rabbi in other cities in Poland, determined to help develop a meaningful dialogue in the revival of Polish-Jewish culture. Rabbi Tanya Segal, the first female Rabbi in the entire history of Poland, shares her life’s experiences and work in an interview with Rohee Dasgupta. Beginning as a dramatist and actor in Moscow’s Yiddish theatre she talks about the transitions in her own Jewish identity as she ‘made Aliyah’ to Israel for seventeen years and her motivation behind combining education, religion and culture to create value in society
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But some of us are brave: all the women are white, all the blacks are men - this anthology title for the collection edited by Gloria T. Hull, Patricia Bell Scott and the late Barbara Smith, first published in 1982, summed up the concerns black women\u27s writing in the 1970s and 1980s had put on the political, cultural and literary agenda, ever since the groundbreaking publication of Toni Cade Bambara\u27s The Black Woman in 1970. Pointing to the suppressions and negations of both, white feminism and black liberation and their discursive constructions of subjectivity, agency and a potential for resistance, writing by black women had created a powerful moment of social and cultural awareness which reverberates - even though in many contexts rather as an underground existence - until today and has been resurfacing in the contemporary interest in and attraction of theories of intersectionality. However, despite the noticeable current regard for the crossroads or interconnected axes of analysis framed by race, class, gender and sexuality though, the particular generative power of black women\u27s writing as the crucial impulse to that critical development has, beyond the African-American context, gone missing. With a selection of contemporary criticism, this issue of gender forum wants to draw attention to the manifold contributions of black women\u27s writing both to a cosmopolitan literary and cultural heritage of women, as well as to international Gender Studies
"We Can Learn to Mother Ourselves": A Dialogically Produced Audience and Black Feminist Publishing 1979 to the "Present"
Get PDFIn 1979, black lesbian feminist writers and scholars Barbara and Beverly Smith wrote, "There is...no guarantee that we or our movement will survive long enough to become safely historical. We must document ourselves now." In order to make themselves "present" black feminists (especially lesbian and bisexual feminists) operating in literary collectives from 1979 to 1990 stole the key term "motherhood" out of its heteronormativized function and instead used it to create a shared space and time of co-production. In 1983, when Audre Lorde suggested "[w]e can mother ourselves," she was explicitly suggesting the possibility of a co-productive relationship between black women of the same generation, countering the presumption that a black woman could only expect unconditional love from her mother. In addition, Lorde\u27s statement implicitly requires a complete transformation of the mode through which black female subjectivity is produced, invoking a politics of presence which both frames the political practice of black feminist publishing and scholarship in the 1980\u27s and provides a framework for how black feminist scholars, writers and publishers today can engage a legacy that will still be in the making
Male Gaze and Racism
Get PDFI would like to present some considerations for a re-positioning of the concept of the male gaze that could lead to a decentering of this much-used construction. In a second move I will try to transfer these reflections onto the concept of racism, thereby aiming at a more thorough understanding of what intersectionality actually means
Historicizing the Emergence of Sexual Freedom: The Medical Knowledge of Psychiatry and the Scientific Power of Sexology, 1880-1920
Get PDFThis paper develops an historical analysis of the turn-of-the-twentieth- century discourse of sexology that accounts for its heterogeneity, attending to the complex interactions and distinctions between medicine and science. Between 1880 and 1920, I argue, the conceptual possibilities for the articulation of a modern notion of sexual freedom emerged from two stages of historical development: first, the psychiatric implantation of sexual psychopathology around the 1880s and 1890s that gave sexuality for the first time in history both a psychological and a pathological character under the name of medicine; and second, the subsequent sexological impulse in the 1900s and 1910s to deploy the existing vocabularies of perverse sexuality in a new system of normalizing and liberalizing scholarly endeavors under the name of science. It was not until this transition from the "psychiatrization" of sex to a more general "scientification" of sex around the turn of the twentieth century did people gradually adopt and participate in the making of a modern notion of sexual freedom that demarcated sexual desire from heterosexual obligations. This new sense of sexual self, positioned in a constant political struggle with its cultural legitimacy and intelligibility, would remain central to the concept of sexual freedom throughout the rest of the century
