In any case, people seem really excited about the encylopedia on gender studies listservs–although maybe this is just second-wave women trying to teach third-wave women and struggling with knowing what anyone is talking about, and glad for a codification of things. I’m glad to know they’re pulling things from Yentl’s Revenge, though, and if they asked for entries on Islamic feminism, etc, they’re probably pulling writings by Islamic feminists, and so are getting a broad grouping of things… so we can hope it’ll be good. Who knows.

ciao,
Emily

Congrats on the contributor thang. What did you write about?

They told me it was for the ca. 1/05 pub, so maybe it is going in the first volume? Or maybe I’m just confused? I don’t know.

Anyway, thanks for coming by this way, please keep commenting and such…

d

So I’m a contributor to volume 1, and what they’ve just told me is that they’re about to send it out to be turned into galleys. So I think they’re just being way unclear about what stage they’re in. As far as I know publication, like on-paper publication, is next Jan. Unless they’re planning on putting out vol 2 before vol 1, which would be wack.

I also started visiting b/c of the Bitch article–really excellent piece–

peace,
emily

Thanks for your nice words! Yeah, getting dressed can be a complicated thing in this world. Lucky for some of us, it’s also a great form of entertainment.
As for the contributor q, I’ll make sure to answer it in my post about getting one’s writing out there, as soon as I’m not being swallowed whole by finals…

This is rather irrelevant to your blog entry, but I recently read your article in “Bitch” magazine’s Winter 2005 issue and I wanted to say I was really impressed. It was interesting to hear about your experiences and also to consider the ways in which dress, particularly religious dress, is understood so differently depending on where one goes. As you pointed out by saying that wearing pants in Jerusalem marked you as secular while wearing a skirt made people think you were Orthodox, we tend to have very strong cultural messages about who someone is based just on her outfit. As a non-religious person who dresses in modest clothes due to my upbringing by Muslim nannies and the like, I am often asked if I am either fundamentalist Christian or Muslim. Funny the way we attempt to categorise people, hmmm?

I found your point about feeling your heart “unfolds and opens” when you untuck your tzitzit to be especially interesting. I do think that how we dress is an expression of who we are and being asked to stifle that, in any situation, does not usually yield happy results.

As a side note, how did you come to be a contributor to the magazine? I notice that “Bitch” has a wide variety of people who write and articles they feature, which is one of the main reasons I buy the publication. Anyway, I appreciated your article and thought I ought to tell you so.

Ivy
ivy {at} tm(.)net

Thanks. And totally understand about the finals. Just had my last one and now I have papers to write. Oh yay. I don’tthink I’ll be leaving my apartment besides on Shabbat for a while. But then again, what’s new?