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WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly

Volume 36, Numbers 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 2008

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E-ISSN: 1934-1520 Print ISSN: 0732-1562

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Editors’ Note
pp. 10-12
Introduction: Witness
pp. 13-27

Part I - Articles

Configuring Narratives of Witness

The Things We Cannot Say: Witnessing the Trauma-tization of Abortion in the United States
pp. 28-41
Nou Mande Jistis! (We Demand Justice!) : Reconstituting Community and Victimhood in Raboteau, Haiti
pp. 42-57
Subversive Witnessing: Mediating Indigenous Testimony in Australian Cultural and Legal Institutions
pp. 58-75
Family Model and Mystical Body: Witnessing Gender through Political Metaphor in the Early Modern Nation-State
pp. 76-91

Graphic Narrative of Witness

The Texture of Retracing in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis
pp. 92-110
Drawing the Archive in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home
pp. 111-128
Closing the Gap in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home
pp. 129-140

Object Lessons

The Tile Stove
pp. 141-150
Emmett Till’s Ring
pp. 151-161
Family Hair Looms
pp. 162-168
Transmissions
pp. 169-173
The Knitting Lesson
pp. 174-180
Fault Lines
pp. 181-187

Acts of Witness

Everyday Atrocities and Ordinary Miracles, or Why I (Still) Bear Witness to Sexual Violence (But Not Too Often)
pp. 188-198
“From the Mouth of the Raped Woman Rivka Schiff,” Kishinev, 1903
pp. 199-207
Henya Pekelman: An Injured Witness of Socialist Zionist Settlement in Mandatory Palestine
pp. 208-213
Capturing Creswell
pp. 214-220
Bearing Witness to Birth
pp. 221-226

Part II - Art

Daughter, Father, Fiction

The Day We Exist Again
pp. 227-235
Remember the Time
pp. 236-248

"What I Saw": Poetry of Witness

To Soldier
pp. 249-250

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De Septiembre, Capítulo 3 from September, Chapter 3
pp. 251-254

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Debris
pp. 255-255

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What I Saw
pp. 256-257

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How Do Quilts Become Missing?
pp. 258-260

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“The Book of Hours ” And “ The Ways They Silence Women ”
pp. 261-264

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Part III - Feminist Classics: Judith Herman's Trauma and Recovery

Looking Back / Looking Forward
pp. 265-268
Revisiting Trauma and Recovery
pp. 269-271
Trauma and Research: Bearing Responsibility and Witness
pp. 272-275
Judith Herman and Contemporary Trauma Theory
pp. 276-281

Part IV - Reviews

Classics Revisited, Commentary
pp. 282-284
Susan Suleiman Responds to Judith Herman
pp. 285-286
The Era of the Witness (review)
pp. 287-291
Crises of Memory and the Second World War (review)
pp. 292-296
Unwanted Beauty: Aesthetic Pleasure in Holocaust Representation (review)
pp. 297-301
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (review)
pp. 302-305
The Witnesses: War Crimes and the Promise of Justice in The Hague (review)
pp. 306-309
Rooms of Our Own (review)
pp. 310-314
Transgender Rights, and: Whipping Girl : A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity (review)
pp. 315-319
I Do but I Don’t: Why the Way We Marry Matters (review)
pp. 320-323

Part V - Pedagogies

Destinations of Feminist Art: Past, Present, and Future
pp. 324-330

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Law and the Emotions: A Conference Report
pp. 331-338

Part VI - Alerts and Provocations :A Feminist Sphere for Debate and Action

Alerts and Provocations Moving American Mores: From Women’s Education to Torture
pp. 339-346

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