Batya Weinbaum
Biographic Data
| ID | 703419 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Batya Weinbaum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Batya |
| FAMILY NAME | Weinbaum |
| SIGNATURE | WEINBAUM B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Worcester State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4108-9518 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Supergirl
The feminist heroine Supergirl aired in the CW Television Network and the series illustrates how a turn to the past or retro look can create new realities, although not necessarily authentically aligned with its original version. This article shows the evolution of the heroine from the pages of DC Action Comics in May 1943 through different mediums to the present day, discussing the impact of the different times and contexts of writers, producers…
Leslie F. Stone
394 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 48 (2021) of tomorrow” (“Pierre Cardin”). Fittingly, these words appear next to a costume by the designer that would blend easily within any number of sciencefiction films (“Cosmos Day Ensemble”). This slogan is as appropriate now as it was in 1990, when first quoted in Pierre Cardin: Past, Present, Future, and as it was in 1971, when Cardin himself “visited NASA and became the first civilian in the world to pu…
Voices from theKibbutz
If there is any social organization that has provided a powerful illustration of the permeable boundaries between social politics—defined by Stephen M. Buechler as “forms of collective action that challenge power relations without an explicit focus on the state”—and social movements, and the role of collective identity in transforming either, as defined for women by Betty Friedan—it would be the Israeli kibbutz movement. The research presented he…
How Sexual Trauma Can Create Obstacles to Transnational Feminism
Obstacles to organizing peace can sometimes emerge because women have suffered previous sexual violence. Consequently, the frame through which they react to contemporary political situations, including peace demonstrations organized by transnational feminists, might at the core have an internal structure derived from previous violation that women then project to identify, modify, and contain controversy in external events. Therefore, closely exam…
The Radicalizing Impact of Children on Mothers' Activism
This article focuses largely on the trajectory of mothers' activism and how it effects their personal and collective identities. The research derives from follow-up with women activists in Palestine/Israel after initial oral history research at the height of the Intifada. The controversial area of children's possibly radicalizing impact on mothers' pre-existing activism is explored, and possible directions of influence of the mothers' activism on…
Lament Ritual Transformed into Literature
Research into the origins of Western classical literature has considered the performance of epic poetry by male performers, but the possibility of women's participation in the creation of the oral literature that gave rise to the classics has not been adequately investigated. Here I look at the role of women chanters in the creation of spontaneous lament, point to similarities in the structure of the poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, and suggest t…
Writing Tricksters
Batya Weinbaum; Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Literature. Jeanne Rosier Smith. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California P
The American Feminist Concept of Motherhood
Batya Weinbaum, The American Feminist Concept of Motherhood: Test Practice in Israel as Evaluated through Oral History Research, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 20, No. 2, Motherhood and Maternalism (1999), pp. 87-101
How the Job Market, Anti-Semitism and Affirmative Action Intersect
This commentary addresses the author's personal experience of the academic job market, an experience which indicates that the current conceptualization of multiculturalism and affirmative action appear inadequate to combat prejudice in American society. To enter into on-going commentary on identity politics and progress, recent issues of The Chronicle of Higher Education have addressed matters facing students and faculty concerning their Jewishne…
Shifting Gears in Life History Research
Superficial identification of interests can exist across borders, lifestyles, and political beliefs. It can also leave those who collect life histories vulnerable to well-spun, innccurate metaphors. An American Jewish feminist scholar examines her own oral history research in Israel to show how, following an initial identification, her categories of analysis
Disney emerge a través de la expresión intercultural de Isla Mujeres, México
Disney emerge a traves de la expresion intercultural de Isla Mujeres, Mexico
Disney-Mediated Images Emerging in Cross-Cultural Expression on Isla Mujeres, Mexico
Disney-Mediated Images Emerging in Cross-Cultural Expression on Isla Mujeres, Mexico
This paper points to appearance of Disney characters in popular expression on an island developed for tourism over last 25 years off coast of Quintana Roo in southeastern Mexico as an illustration of process of appropriation of Disney characters by people for their own sake and ritual, in a folk culture context, as well as for increasing market value to tourists with use of icons and images of international popular culture. Without international …
Sex-Role Reversal in the Thirties
Leslie F. Stone is a little-known woman writer from the early days of science fiction. In the story examined here, “The Conquest of Gola,” she posits a matriarchal planet in which men are kept by women as houseboys and playthings. This planet is invaded by men from another planet who want to colonize it for their own purposes. The women of Gola don’t take these invaders seriously. A war is fought, in which the women use superior technology and th…
Voices from a ‘promised land’
Agnes Smedley
Sex, power, and pleasure
Feminism and the state of Israel
The Chess Game
He stumbled over his pawns and told me about his four wives two of whom he'd married and two, not. One of them he left over the phone calls. I called check and he told me about his desire to mate. First he thought he'd seduce me by telling me about his plan to move to France to buy a castle. I kept having to remind him to make moves. Your turn I said as he pontificated over his viceroys. Oh, yes, he'd say, and break off muttering about his search…
The Curious Courtship of Women's Liberation and Socialism
The Other Side of the Paycheck
The housewife is central to understanding women's position in capitalist societies. Marxists expected that the expropriation of production from the household would radically diminish its social importance. In the face of the household's continuing importance, Marxists have tried to understand it by applying concepts developed in the study of production." Yet obviously, the household is not like a factory, nor are housewives organized in the same …
The Other Side of the Paycheck
The housewife is central to understanding women's position in capitalist societies. Marxists expected that the expropriation of production from the household would radically diminish its social importance. In the face of the household's continuing importance, Marxists have tried to understand it by applying concepts developed in the study of production." Yet obviously, the household is not like a factory, nor are housewives organized in the same …
Disney-Mediated Images Emerging in Cross-Cultural Expression on Isla Mujeres, Mexico
Voices from a ‘promised land’
The Other Side of the Paycheck
The housewife is central to understanding women's position in capitalist societies. Marxists expected that the expropriation of production from the household would radically diminish its social importance. In the face of the household's continuing importance, Marxists have tried to understand it by applying concepts developed in the study of production." Yet obviously, the household is not like a factory, nor are housewives organized in the same …
The Curious Courtship of Women's Liberation and Socialism
Feminism and the state of Israel
The Chess Game
He stumbled over his pawns and told me about his four wives two of whom he'd married and two, not. One of them he left over the phone calls. I called check and he told me about his desire to mate. First he thought he'd seduce me by telling me about his plan to move to France to buy a castle. I kept having to remind him to make moves. Your turn I said as he pontificated over his viceroys. Oh, yes, he'd say, and break off muttering about his search…
Agnes Smedley
Sex, power, and pleasure
Voices from a ‘promised land’
Disney emerge a través de la expresión intercultural de Isla Mujeres, México
Disney emerge a traves de la expresion intercultural de Isla Mujeres, Mexico
Disney-Mediated Images Emerging in Cross-Cultural Expression on Isla Mujeres, Mexico
Disney-Mediated Images Emerging in Cross-Cultural Expression on Isla Mujeres, Mexico
This paper points to appearance of Disney characters in popular expression on an island developed for tourism over last 25 years off coast of Quintana Roo in southeastern Mexico as an illustration of process of appropriation of Disney characters by people for their own sake and ritual, in a folk culture context, as well as for increasing market value to tourists with use of icons and images of international popular culture. Without international …
Sex-Role Reversal in the Thirties
Leslie F. Stone is a little-known woman writer from the early days of science fiction. In the story examined here, “The Conquest of Gola,” she posits a matriarchal planet in which men are kept by women as houseboys and playthings. This planet is invaded by men from another planet who want to colonize it for their own purposes. The women of Gola don’t take these invaders seriously. A war is fought, in which the women use superior technology and th…
How the Job Market, Anti-Semitism and Affirmative Action Intersect
This commentary addresses the author's personal experience of the academic job market, an experience which indicates that the current conceptualization of multiculturalism and affirmative action appear inadequate to combat prejudice in American society. To enter into on-going commentary on identity politics and progress, recent issues of The Chronicle of Higher Education have addressed matters facing students and faculty concerning their Jewishne…
Shifting Gears in Life History Research
Superficial identification of interests can exist across borders, lifestyles, and political beliefs. It can also leave those who collect life histories vulnerable to well-spun, innccurate metaphors. An American Jewish feminist scholar examines her own oral history research in Israel to show how, following an initial identification, her categories of analysis
Writing Tricksters
Batya Weinbaum; Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Literature. Jeanne Rosier Smith. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California P
The American Feminist Concept of Motherhood
Batya Weinbaum, The American Feminist Concept of Motherhood: Test Practice in Israel as Evaluated through Oral History Research, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 20, No. 2, Motherhood and Maternalism (1999), pp. 87-101
Lament Ritual Transformed into Literature
Research into the origins of Western classical literature has considered the performance of epic poetry by male performers, but the possibility of women's participation in the creation of the oral literature that gave rise to the classics has not been adequately investigated. Here I look at the role of women chanters in the creation of spontaneous lament, point to similarities in the structure of the poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, and suggest t…
The Radicalizing Impact of Children on Mothers' Activism
This article focuses largely on the trajectory of mothers' activism and how it effects their personal and collective identities. The research derives from follow-up with women activists in Palestine/Israel after initial oral history research at the height of the Intifada. The controversial area of children's possibly radicalizing impact on mothers' pre-existing activism is explored, and possible directions of influence of the mothers' activism on…
How Sexual Trauma Can Create Obstacles to Transnational Feminism
Obstacles to organizing peace can sometimes emerge because women have suffered previous sexual violence. Consequently, the frame through which they react to contemporary political situations, including peace demonstrations organized by transnational feminists, might at the core have an internal structure derived from previous violation that women then project to identify, modify, and contain controversy in external events. Therefore, closely exam…
Voices from theKibbutz
If there is any social organization that has provided a powerful illustration of the permeable boundaries between social politics—defined by Stephen M. Buechler as “forms of collective action that challenge power relations without an explicit focus on the state”—and social movements, and the role of collective identity in transforming either, as defined for women by Betty Friedan—it would be the Israeli kibbutz movement. The research presented he…
Leslie F. Stone
394 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 48 (2021) of tomorrow” (“Pierre Cardin”). Fittingly, these words appear next to a costume by the designer that would blend easily within any number of sciencefiction films (“Cosmos Day Ensemble”). This slogan is as appropriate now as it was in 1990, when first quoted in Pierre Cardin: Past, Present, Future, and as it was in 1971, when Cardin himself “visited NASA and became the first civilian in the world to pu…
Supergirl
The feminist heroine Supergirl aired in the CW Television Network and the series illustrates how a turn to the past or retro look can create new realities, although not necessarily authentically aligned with its original version. This article shows the evolution of the heroine from the pages of DC Action Comics in May 1943 through different mediums to the present day, discussing the impact of the different times and contexts of writers, producers…
Sociology (16 works) · Art (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · History (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (6 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · History (4 works)