How can social integration of African-American women into American society be realistic, meaningfull and substantive achieved is the basic question for this research. The focus is on feminist intellectual and scholarly pursuits and the integration of African-American women into American society.
The essays that feature here are the winning and short-listed entries for the 2005 FWSA annual essay competition–a competition designed specifically to encourage and give voice to a new generation of academics whose work is anchored in feminist theory and practice. The winning essay is Corinne Fowler's examination of gender and journalistic praxis in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom. With the following articles: Journalists in Feminist Clothing: Men and Women Reporting Afghan Women during Operation Enduring Freedom, 2001 by Corinne Fowler : The Missing Rhetoric of Gender in Responses to Abu Ghraib by Alexandra Murphy : As You Wear: Cross-dressing and Identity Politics in Jackie Kay's Trumpet by Alice Walker : The Lady in the Looking-Glass: Reflections on the Self in Virginia Woolf by Stephen Howard : Cyberqueers in Taiwan: Locating Histories of the Margins by Terri He : and Feminism and the Politics of Representation: Towards a Critical and Ethical Encounter with 'Others' by Amy Hinterberger.