Decolonizing my hair,unshackling my curls: an autoethnography on what makes my natural hair journey a Black feminist statement

ABSTRACT

There is unquestionably a buzz in US Black women’s communities about a trending “natural” phenomenon. Sales of chemical relaxers (sometimes dubbed “creamy crack” among the US Black community) have dropped 34 percent since 2009, while sales of “natural” hair care products that promise to non-chemically enhance or beautify “natural” curls are up exponentially. Corresponding to the rise in sales of “natural” hair care products are beauty blogs, YouTube instructional videos and supportive social groups—such as “natural hair” meet-ups, which have organically emerged for, and been mostly created by, Black women as a tool to support and nurture women as they take this journey. In this article, I use Black feminist P.H. Collins’s work because her understanding of the relationship between knowledge, consciousness and empowerment provides a framework or point of departure for grasping my own lived experience of going “natural” with regards to modes of oppression and methods of resistance.     

一个熟悉的陌生人——新论多丽丝·莱辛以及《金色笔记》

《金色笔记》是当今英国著名的女作家,当今世界文坛大师级人物多丽丝.莱辛发表于1962的作品,该作品被普遍认为是莱辛最重要、最具影响力的作品。以莱辛的多种人生经历为切入点,多角度剖析了《金色笔记》这部奇特而新颖的作品,也涉及了该作品所引发的争议,并对莱辛及其作品做出了新的认识。     

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF TIME IN THE INTERNET ERA: FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES AND CHALLENGES

This paper examines the gender matrix of time, arguing for cross-disciplinary consideration of political economy, globalization and technology to achieve a detailed understanding of gendered hierarchies of time and the ways in which public/private identifications of social space and time have variously constructed and maintained them. It is argued that women are alienated from their own time, which is identified as most legitimately allocated to the service of others both in the home and at work. The inter-relationship of technologies and gendered identities is explored in relation to public/private divisions and the political-economic and scientific-technological knowledge processes that contribute to upholding them. ICTs reflect these historically established gendered patterns, but international projects such as 'Women on the Net' also demonstrate the capacities of these technologies for disrupting the gender matrix of time through their use by women for women.     

视野期待：双性同体策略的本土翻译实践

本土女性话语资源的分析表明．西方女性主义及其翻译观在本土语境中集体缺失．因此．西方女性主义翻译中所采取的双性同体纠偏策略在我国目前的翻译批评中尚属视野的期待。交往行为理论为双性同体的翻译策略提供了实践的可操作性。     

FEMINISM, TECHNOLOGY AND THE INFORMATION SOCIETY Learning from the past, imagining the future

This article examines second wave and post-second wave feminist writing about the possibilities of (contemporaneously) new information and communication technologies. A number of texts by key authors, including Shulamith Firestone, Valerie Solanas, Cynthia Cockburn, Donna Haraway and Sadie Plant, are examined in light of the social and political context of their time of writing as well as in relation to 'mainstream' information society theorists such as Daniel Bell and Manuel Castells. The main focus is on how these authors understand the transformative potential of technologies, and attention is drawn to the swings between optimism and pessimism about the role of technology for a feminist political agenda. The role and nature of manifestos are also explored, and the question of whether it is time for another feminist technology manifesto is raised. The article concludes by posing some methodological and theoretical challenges of developing an anti-essentialist (in relation to both gender and technology), politically engaged and relevant feminist research agenda that takes seriously both lived experience and structures of power. The footnotes are an experiment in autobiographical writing in which I make explicit my own connection to this literature and the politics of these debates.     

女性主义社会工作的渊源和发展——对传统的批判及其专业性的重塑

女性主义起源于19世纪的法国,女性主义者透过实践诉求两性平权的社会,试图让女性从"父权制"中解脱出来。1970至1980年代开始,社会工作者将女性主义观点应用到实务工作中,从而产生了女性主义社会工作。女性主义社会工作通过对传统社会工作的批判,对其专业性进行了重塑,让实务者不仅使女性在能力建设、心理调适和社会支持等方面得到了提高,也使女性在宏观的社会关系变革中得到了发展。     

新女性主义的先声——评伍尔夫的小说《一个协会》

英国女作家弗吉尼亚*伍尔夫1921年发表的小说<一个协会>,以一群中、上层阶级妇女对传统性别观念进行反思作为主要情节,探讨了一个极为深刻的主题--女性对男性神话的批评和质疑.作者从女性的视角出发,对统治人类几千年的男性中心社会的政治、文化和历史进行了激烈批判,突出体现了一种20世纪60年代末才开始在西方广为流传的新女性主义思想,使这篇小说成为新女性主义的先声.     

从虚假的女性到真正的女性——伊丽格蕾女性主义哲学基础之探析

伊丽格蕾在继承之前精神分析学家和女性主义者关于性别理论的基础上,深入地分析了西方在单一性父权文化传统中女性被遗忘的状态及其内在原因,认为根本原因在于女性始终被作为男性同一性文化的反射镜,而没有获得自身独特的话语体制,因此,女性只是虚假的位格,真正的女性被遮蔽了。以此为契机伊丽格蕾将肯定性别差异作为自己的理论基点,认为只有在界定了女性独特的身体和性体验的基础上女性才能真正获得主体地位和独特的话语模式,从而与男性在有差异的平等中和谐共生。     

The Never‐ending Shift: A feminist reflection on living and organizing academic lives during the coronavirus pandemic

This article offers a feminist reflection written as a nocturnal stream of consciousness exposing the embodied, emotional and professional experience of living and working during a pandemic outbreak. Framed within a feminist approach, this personal narrative provides an example of the effects of such unexpected and unprecedented circumstances on personal and professional academic lives. Developed during the first stage of the (inter)national coronavirus pandemic, my reflections address issues of privilege; emotional labour; the virtual invasion of the home space within the current increasingly ambiguous space of ‘the workplace'; workload; and wellbeing. Further, I consider how the newly enforced flexible work measures based on online tools have turned current work–life dynamics into a ‘Never‐ending Shift'.     

从本质主义的走向发生学的——女性文学研究之我见

浮出历史地表之前这一命题的提出和展开,意味着在发生学意义上对中国近现代女性文学进行考察。这一思路非常重要。较之用西方女权主义文学理论直接阐释和分析中国现代文学作品的女性文学研究,它更多地离开了本质主义的考察,而进入到中国现代女性文学自身生成与发展的历史性的描述之中。中国近现代女性文学带有鲜明的女学生的文化特征。迄今为止,中国女性解放运动和中国现代女性文学的发展道路与西方有着根本不同的路向和特征。因此,中国的女性文学研究不能仅仅依靠西方女权主义文学理论的本质主义的规定,而必须回到中国的社会现实和文化现实中来,在中国社会现实和文化现实的基础上感受和理解中国女性的解放之路,感受、理解和阐释中国的女性文学作品。