Copyright (c) 2008 Salve Regina University All rights reserved. http://escholar.salve.edu Recent documents in eScholar@Salve Regina en-us Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:43:03 PST 3600 http://escholar.salve.edu/jift/vol3/iss1/10 http://escholar.salve.edu/jift/vol3/iss1/10 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:50:59 PDT http://escholar.salve.edu/jift/vol3/iss1/8 http://escholar.salve.edu/jift/vol3/iss1/8 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:46:27 PDT Barbara A. Macaulay women learners, injustice, multiple roles http://escholar.salve.edu/jift/vol3/iss1/7 http://escholar.salve.edu/jift/vol3/iss1/7 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:34:37 PDT Kristen Hague England, Reform Bill 1832, Reform Bill 1867, citizenship http://escholar.salve.edu/jift/vol3/iss1/9 http://escholar.salve.edu/jift/vol3/iss1/9 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:24:35 PDT http://escholar.salve.edu/jift/vol3/iss1/6 http://escholar.salve.edu/jift/vol3/iss1/6 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:24:33 PDT Johnelle Luciani globalization, feminism, marginalities http://escholar.salve.edu/jift/vol3/iss1/5 http://escholar.salve.edu/jift/vol3/iss1/5 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:24:32 PDT Barbara A. Sylvia Hilary Clinton, politics, feminist movement http://escholar.salve.edu/jift/vol3/iss1/4 http://escholar.salve.edu/jift/vol3/iss1/4 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:24:29 PDT A growing trend in population movement is transnationalism in which immigrants move between communities in host and home countries. Most research on transnationalists has focused on affluent immigrants engaging in global economy from the above and in the North. Transnational feminist narrative of agency allows that both licit and illegal activities practiced by marginalized communities of the South make a significant contribution to the global economy from below. A case study of Afghan refugee families in Iran revealed that their movement into Iran, another less developed country, resembles the immigration and integration of ethnic workers into advanced industrial countries. Their narratives uncovered a pattern of transnationalism crossing townships in Iran, refugee camps in Pakistan, and communities in Afghanistan. Transnational feminist's interrogation of global capitalism delivers analytical flexibility to investigate multi-dimensional aspects of border crossing. It alerts us to many ways that globalism exploits; and verity of ways that people of the South maneuver and subvert its forces to claim identity and agency. Shahin Gerami transnationalism, immigration, Afghan refugee, Iran http://escholar.salve.edu/jift/vol3/iss1/3 http://escholar.salve.edu/jift/vol3/iss1/3 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:24:28 PDT This article presents data on noncustodial mothers who perceive they have faced a number of social inequities. Moreover, this paper identifies the reasons mothers are no longer living with their children, children's current living arrangements, the dollar amount of child support awards, the actual dollar amount of child support payments being made, and the rate of compliance with those payments. Catalina Herrerías social work, noncostodial mothers http://escholar.salve.edu/jift/vol3/iss1/2 http://escholar.salve.edu/jift/vol3/iss1/2 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:24:25 PDT Jane Austen's writings are often interpreted as socially conservative, whereas the Marquis de Sade claimed to be revolutionary. However, Sade's Philosophy in the Boudoir (1795) proposes to perpetuate male aristocratic privilege at the expense of other classes, especially women. Conversely, Austen's Mansfield Park (1814) challenges patriarchal structures through Fanny Price's confrontation with Sir Thomas Bertram and the system he represents. Sade endorses ancient inequalities while Austen demands a new social justice. Paula Zeuge literature, feminism, inequalities, Jane Austen, Marquis de Sade http://escholar.salve.edu/jift/vol3/iss1/1 http://escholar.salve.edu/jift/vol3/iss1/1 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:24:22 PDT This paper examines the representation of femicide and impunity in contemporary detective novels set in Guatemala. The Long Night of White Chickens by Francisco Goldman (1992), Body of Truth (1992) by David Lindsey, and Grave Secrets (2002) by Kathy Reichs portray Guatemala in the 1980s and 1990s as a distressing crime scene. The novels depict Guatemala as a dark, frightening place, plagued with inefficient bureaucracy, a chaotic legal system, and a crippled sense of justice where there are dangerous repercussions for searching for and revealing the truth. U.S. journalists, CIA agents, Peace Corps volunteers, forensic scientists, and private investigators navigate the dangerous terrain between lies and truth while grappling to understand the root causes of violence and impunity. By presenting an array of North American characters who travel to Guatemala with complex and often conflicted allegiances, these works of fiction provide a lens through which to view current discussions of gendered violence and impunity. It is my contention that reading these representations of Guatemalan violence in light of our current globalized climate of fear turns a critical eye on the silence and complicity in the U.S. and abroad that allow these grisly murders to remain unpunished - in fiction and in real life. Susana S. Martínez literature, women studies, Guatemala, violence