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Bridgewater Review Volume 37 Issue 2 Article 1 11-2018 Bridgewater Review, Vol. 37, No. 2, November 2018 Follow this and additional works at: https://vc.bridgew.edu/br_rev Recommended Citation Bridgewater State University. (2018). Bridgewater Review. 39(1). Available at: http://vc.bridgew.edu/ br_rev/vol37/iss2/1 This item is available as part of Virtual Commons, the open-access institutional repository of Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Bridgewater Review Also in this issue: ASEEM HASNAIM and ABHILASHA SRIVASTAVA on Multigenerational Households in India JAMIE HUFF and SARAH COTE HAMPSON on Title IX Activists JONATHAN SHIRLAND on The Art of Paul Stopforth WILLIAM F. HANNA on Abraham Lincoln and Science Criminal History and Employment: Why We Need to Ban the Box! by JAKARI GRIFFITH TEACHING NOTE Cultural Immersion and Student Perceptions of Jordan by SARAH THOMAS and CHRISTY LYONS GRAHAM and Book Reviews by TODD HARRIS, JEANNE INGLE, and NORMA ANDERSON MEGHAN HEALY-CLANCY ON TEACHING THE LIFE OF WINNIE MADIKIZELA- MANDELA NovemberVolume 37, 2018 Number 2 November 2018 BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY1 Credits for Author Photographs Ellen Scheible (by Mia McIver); Meghan Healy-Clancy (by Michael Benabib); Aseem Hasnaim (by Abhilasha Srivastava); Abhilasha Srivastava (by Aseem Hasnaim); Sarah Cote Hampson (Courtesy of University of Washington at Tacoma); Jonathan Shirland (by Maggie Shirland); Sarah Thomas (by Nigel Hitchings); Christy Lyons Graham (by John Winters); Jeanne Ingle (by Stephen R. Ingle); Norma Anderson (by Linneah Anderson). 2 Bridgewater Review Bridgewater Review Volume 37, Number 2 November 2018 2 Editor’s Notebook EDITORS Ellen Scheible and Norma Anderson Ellen Scheible English & Irish Studies 4 Nomzamo: Teaching Complexity through the Interim, Fall 2018 Life of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Meghan Healy-Clancy Andrew C. Holman History & Canadian Studies 10 Social Norms, Gender Roles and Time Use: On leave, Fall 2018 Multigenerational Households in India ASSOCIATE EDITOR Aseem Hasnain and Abhilasha Srivastava Norma Anderson 15 Title IX Activists: Sociology A First Look at Movement Goals Interim, 2017-18 Jamie Huff and Sarah Cote Hampson EDITORS EMERITUS 19 Suspended: The Art of Paul Stopforth Michael Kryzanek Jonathan Shirland Political Science & Global Studies William C. Levin 25 Something Solid to Rest Upon: Sociology Abraham Lincoln’s Interest in Science William F. Hanna Barbara Apstein English 29 Criminal History and Employment: Why We Need to Ban the Box! Brian Payne Jakari Griffith History DESIGN 31 TEACHING NOTE Philip McCormick’s Design Cultural Immersion and Student Perceptions of Jordan Works, Inc., North Easton, MA Sarah Thomas and Christy Lyons Graham 35 BOOK REVIEWS We Are What We Make, Todd Harris Dignity, Justice and Real Achievement, Jeanne Ingle The One True Universal, Norma Anderson On the Front Cover: Winnie Mandela in New York City, June 20, 1990 (Photo Credit: Luc Novovitch / Alamy Stock Photo). Bridgewater Review is published twice a year by the faculty and librarians of Bridgewater State University. Opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the policies of Bridgewater Review or Bridgewater State University. Letters to the Editor are encouraged and should be sent to: Editor, Bridgewater Review, [email protected] Articles may be reprinted with permission of the Editor. ©2018, Bridgewater State University ISBN 0892-7634 November 2018 1 room full of colleagues, put on the spot EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK to define something that you usually assume speaks for itself, before chaos This is the first occasion in the history of the magazine that Bridgewater Review erupts. It only took me one second to has an all-female editorial staff. say, “My definition of feminism is the personal is political.” The Personal is Political It has occurred to me many times over n April of 2015 I chaired a roundtable at the the past two years, since Gloria Steinem disappointed so many young voters by American Conference for Irish Studies on Irish urging us to vote for Hillary Clinton poet Eavan Boland and her powerful collection, and, simultaneously, reminded so many I middle-aged voters why feminism is Domestic Violence. To many, Boland is rivaled only by an essential part of the work we do Seamus Heaney in her nuanced ability to navigate every day, that students at Bridgewater the Irish experience from a personal perspective that State University tend to live lives that deliberately make the political personal gently and brilliantly overlaps with the Irish national on a regular basis. Sometimes choosing gaze. And in the poetic tradition of Heaney, she is to go to college is a political act for our often quoted as claiming that her poetry is neither students. Sometimes choosing to miss class or settle for a “C” is a personal political nor feminist. Yet, in the wake of the repeal choice made to maintain the political of the Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution, act of staying enrolled, of slouching a referendum that will end the constitutional ban toward the Bethlehem of graduation. on abortion in Ireland, and the tremendous vigor Feminism will always be personal and political to me and it will continue to of #wakingthefeminists, an Irish movement similar be the lens through which I best under- to #metoo, it has become impossible to ignore the stand our students. If nothing else, it has given me this perspective because it is a feminist voice, conscious or unconscious, that informs term defined by the pressure it puts on so much of Irish women’s poetry, particularly works a binary. That pressure has increased like Boland’s Domestic Violence. exponentially as women enter more into the political arena in preparation I was surprised by two moments during for me, domestic violence is not only for the next election cycle. Political that 2015 roundtable and often find a marring political act but also always struggle has become openly personal them resurfacing when I teach Boland, one that lays claim, usually to the and the power behind that transition especially when I consider the ques- detriment of the victim, to any per- carries historical momentum and hope- tion of whether any kind of Irish art sonal experience thereafter. In effect, fulness, tools that can tear down even or literature can shirk politics. During I cannot see domestic violence, when- the most rigid of binary oppositions. the opening remarks, our roundtable ever referenced, as anything less than discussed the title of the collection, ask- personally political. ing whether the reference to domestic Toward the end of what turned out violence could be separated from its to be a fiery debate about the politics legislative and physical connotations. of poetry, after I argued ferociously One of my male colleagues argued time and again that Domestic Violence that we must separate it; that the title is a political and, more importantly, is more than a personal reference but feminist book, a female colleague yelled a national imperative and a way for to me from the back of the room, in a the poet to transcend gender politics resentful tone, “What is your defini- by speaking to national history. I was tion of feminism, then?” I would say Ellen Scheible is Associate Professor blindsided by this argument because, that you have maybe five seconds in in the Department of English. that moment, standing in front of a 2 Bridgewater Review and Gina Ortiz-Jones in Texas, who are vocal about representing all people, but who will provide a breadth of per- sonal experience that differs signifi- cantly from some of the representatives they hope to replace. Importantly, LGBTQ candidates are also running in record numbers: Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Sharice Davids of Kansas, for example. By the time this issue is in print, we will know if primary winners have emerged winners in the general elec- tion but regardless, women’s success in the primaries indicates there is openness for new ideas and diverse perspectives which I hope will continue. For most feminists, the personal has long been political: many of the women on the “You Women are All Alike.” The Hard Times Press, Feb. 2, 1972 [BSC student newspaper], ballots this year, whether they consider Archives & Special Collections, Bridgewater State University. themselves feminist or not, are taking their personal public. And while he women’s (or feminist) movement in the “identity politics” is often publicly denigrated, openness about one’s United States has seen numerous iterations, personal narrative and the ways our from early efforts to extend basic rights to personal histories intersect with social T and economic realities may allow (white) women, expanding and changing with time others to find commonality. Thus the to emphasize suffrage, labor and representation rights, personal can help us, but especially contraception and abortion rights, and, more recently, our students, connect with each other, with new ideas, and with a sense of a focus on greater inclusion, the ubiquity of sexual their own potential, personal revela- violence and coercion, and a renewed focus to get tions that can have long-lasting effects. women in positions of political power. Currently, we are witnessing unprec- Republican women are running in edented numbers of women running all races, there is a bipartisan rise in for political office. The Center for women’s candidacy for political office. American Women and Politics found It is impossible to draw unyielding that 53 women (31 Democrats and 22 conclusions about why, but the current Republicans) filed for Senate candidacy uptick in women’s political participa- and 22 won their primaries. Four hun- tion cannot be argued. What may be dred seventy-six women (356 Demo- most exciting about women’s political crats, 120 Republicans) filed to run for moves is that we are seeing newcomers Norma Anderson is Associate Professor the House of Representatives and 234 unseat long-standing incumbents, such in the Department of Sociology.