In Search of Portrayals of Valiant Women in the Hebrew Narratives

Naomi and Ruth

Naomi, I Moan

In this quiz the answer to each clue is a palindrome; to aid in the solution, word-divisions and all vowels are given. The first letters of all thirteen palindromes will spell out another palindrome when read from top to bottom. Answers are given in Answers and Solutions at the end of the issue

Women of Color and Philosophy

Book Review of Naomi Zack's Women of Color and Philosoph

No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need

Review of Naomi Klein, No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2017)

The Ethics and Politics of Breastfeeding: Power, Pleasure, Poetics by Robyn Lee AND Wild Child: Intensive Parenting and Posthumanist Ethics by Naomi Morgenstern

Book Review of: The Ethics and Politics of Breastfeeding: Power, Pleasure, Poeticsby ROBYN LEE and Wild Child: Intensive Parenting and Posthumanist Ethicsby NAOMI MORGENSTER

Becoming Western: A Postcolonial Reading of Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s Naomi

A novel represents a lot of meanings. Naomi is a novel which portrays westernization in 1920’s Japan. This study attempts to analyze the issue of mimicry in a central character, Naomi, in Junichiro Tanizaki’sNaomi and how mimicry affects the characterization in the process of character development. To investigate mimicry in this novel, this study employed a qualitative method which focuses on providing the portrait of Naomi, and her transformation on becoming westernized modern girl. The analysis began by identifying ambivalence from Naomi’s practice of mimicry, then, categorizing the ambivalence based on the meanings. The analysis reveals that the process of mimicry acted by Naomi can be seen in four aspects: physical resemblance, materialism and consumerism, intelligence, and etiquette. The findings suggest that mimicry shapes Naomi into an in-between moga (modern girl) that is caught between two cultures, Japanese and Western cultures, as evidenced in her ways of being and acting. From the analysis, it can be concluded that Naomi is a representation of Japanese’s moga or modern girl who mimics the Westerners’ way of acting, but fails to be equal with Westerners in their way of being.;--- Sebuah novel merepresentasikanbanyakmakna.Naomi adalah novel yang menggambarkanwesternisasi di Jepangpadatahun 1920.Penelitianinimencobamenganalisisisumengenaimimkripadakaraktersentral, Naomi, dalam novel Naomi yang ditulisoleh Junichiro Tan’izaki and bagaimanamimikrimemengaruhi proses pengembangankarakternya. Untukmenelitimimikri, penelitianinimenggunakanmetodekualitatif yang berfokuspadapenggambaran Naomi danperubahannyasaatterkenadampakwesternisasimenjadigadismoderen.Analisisdimulaidenganmengidentifikasiambivalensidaripraktikmimikri yang dilakukan Naomi, lalu, mengkategorikanmimikritersebutberdasarkanmaknanya.Hasilanalisismenunjukanbahwa proses mimkri yang dilakukan Naomi bisadilhatdalamempataspek, yaitu: kemiripanfisik, materialism dankonsumerisme, kepandaian, danetika. Hasilpenelitianmenunjukanbahwamimikrimembentuk Naomi menjadimoga(gadismoderen) “in-between” (berlawanan) yang terjebak di antaraduabudaya, Jepangdan Barat, yang dibuktikanmelaluicaranyaberlakudanbertingkah. Dari analisistersebut, dapatdisimpulkanbahwa Naomi adalahrepresentasigadis modern Jepangataumoga yang dengansempuradalammenirucara orang-orang Barat bertingkah, namungagaluntukmenyamaicarauntukmenjadi orang-orang Barat

Letters to Roger Voisin

Letters to Voisin praising a performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1955. One is from Russell L. Riley, Director of the International Education Exchange Service, Department of State; and the other is from Naomi Huber, Cultural Affairs Officer, United States Foreign Service