========================================================================= Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1991 10:34:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: WPSADGV@WMMVS.BITNET Subject: Women for College Presidency The College of William & Mary is currently seeking a new president. The initial call for applicants will end December 1st and we hope to have many women candidates. The College has an undergraduate liberal arts program and professional schools in Business, Education, Law and Marine Science. Contrary to popular belief, William and Mary is a state-supported institution. I would appreciate receiving suggestions or inquiries at my BITNET address WPSADGV@WMMVS in hopes that some of you will BITNET address: WPSADGV@WMMVS in hopes that some of you willknow of women who w ould be interested in applying. Thank you, Deborah G. Ventis, Coordinator of Women's Studies, College of William and Mary ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1991 11:34:24 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: nancy felipe russo Subject: Re: Anita Hill In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 31 Oct 1991 16:39:52 CST from While it is true there is no way a university could fire Prof. Hill and be respected, they could make her life miserable, warn students against working with her (they could be tainted!), not approve travel, not provide support for the school so that her colleagues feel oppressed (gee, we could have gott en the new building if Anita weren't on the faculty) and all in all use her as a scapegoat/excuse for every bad thing that happens to the place from now on . (Gee, we didn't get salary raises this year folks, not because of the state budget crisis or other problesm but because the univ. is not supported beca use of Anita, etc.). I have seen it happen before, and I can imagine it now. Nancy Felipe Russo Director, Women's Studies ASU, Tempe, AZ 85287-1801 (602)965-2358 FAX:(602)965-2357 BITNET: ATNFR@ASUACAD ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1991 17:46:21 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Julien S. Murphy" Subject: Request: the Women in Technology Network userid In-Reply-To: fellowships, jobs, awards If anyone has the correct address for subscribing to the Women in Technology Network would you please post it? Thanks. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1991 17:28:55 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stephanie Riger Subject: resource request I would appreciate receiving citations for articles appearing in the last five years that critique research on biology and gender. That is, I am looking for critiques such as Fausto-Sterling's book Myths of Gender, but that have been written more recently. Thanks in advance for your help. Stephanie Riger, Director Women's Studies Program University of Illinois at Chicago (M/C 360) Box 4348 Chicago, IL. 60680 BITNET:u29322@UICVM ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1991 15:40:14 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Ervin-Tripp Subject: helping women's studies scholar In the 2000 degree fire that destroyed hundreds of houses and apartments here, many faculty lost their homes and books. Elaine Kim, of Asian-American studies, lost all her library of books and preprints. Her interests are in women of color, Asian women, Korean women. I am sure she would appreciate bibliographies, preprint or reprint copies, any extra books you might have. Professor Elaine Kim Chancellor's Assistant on the Status of Women Asian American Studies University of California, Berkeley 94720 Sent by ervin-tr@cogsci.berkeley.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1991 20:04:41 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Michael Walsh Subject: austen list A digest for readers of Jane Austen. If you enjoy the novels of Jane Austen and those of contemporary women writers such Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth and Mary Wollstonecraft you might want to exchange views with others on any aspect of her work and time. Owner: Dr. Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, Faculty of Education, McGill University, Montreal. To subscribe: Send the following e-mail message to LISTSERV@MCGILL1 subscribe austen-L your name ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1991 20:56:46 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Resent-From: Diane Kovacs Comments: Originally-From: Diane Kovacs From: Diane Kovacs Subject: Re: Women and Technology e-conference EDUCOM-W@BITNIC; Technology and Education Issues of Interest to Women EDUCOM-W is a moderated list to facilitate discussion of issues in technology and education that are of interest to women. The list is intended to promote discussion of how EDUCOM can help address those issues in its services to members. Bitnet: LISTSERV@BITNIC Internet: LISTSERV@BITNIC.EDUCOM.ORG Co-Moderators: Betty Johnson (Bitnet) BETTYJ@MAINE Eloise Kleban (Bitnet) eloise@maine Sally Laughon (Bitnet) laughon@vtvm1 Margaret Cheney (Bitnet) miltonq@ouaccvmb Jeannie Dixon (Bitnet)jd5553@panam Karla Saari Kitalong (Internet) KITALONG@MTUS5.cts.mtu.edu Pat Huylsey (Bitnet) HAP@OKCU Diane Kovacs (Bitnet) Dkovacs@kentvm (Internet) dkovacs@kentvm.kent.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1991 21:19:52 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda FELDMAN <42161_655@UWOVAX.UWO.CA> Subject: help for questionnaire I am currently part of a committee formed to raise the visibility of women arts faculty members at the University of Windsor. My particular task is to draw up a questionnaire which would provide the following information: a)educational background and/or other training of women faculty members career history c)factors deterring and enhancing career development My aim is to identify the ways in which the backgrounds of women faculty members differ from the conventional (male!) progression, isolate those factors which play a critical role in the advancement or non-advancement of women in the academy, and use the information gained from this study to suggest policies and strategies which will result in a long-term in- crease in visibility oarts faculty women. Since I do not have a social science background, and since I have (excruci- ating) experience in working on questionnaires, I hope to expedite my task by appealing to readers of the list for sample questions, questionnaires, formats, and bibliographical references. I can be reached by E-mail at the signature address which theoretically appears below this letter. By ordinary mail, please write to: Linda Feldman Department of Classical and Modern Languages University of Windsor Windsor, Ont. Canada N9B 3P4. Linda Feldman Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3K7 Bitnet address: LEFELD@UWOVAX.UWO.CA ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1991 14:26:34 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ethel Tobach Subject: Re: resource request In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 1 Nov 1991 17:28:55 CST from I don't have the exact reference here for Bernice Lott's book, but it is in books in print; although it covers other issues, her section on biology is use- ful. Also, the more recent Genes & Gender books always have some material on the issue. Also, check books in print. Sorry, but I am in a bit of a hurry right now and no time to check...ethel tobach ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1991 16:40:39 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Allyn Lord I'm looking for information on available traveling exhibits (preferably in the lower price ranges of under $5000) which deal with women's topics to use during women's history month (March). They can deal with women's history, art, etc. Any suggestions? Allyn Lord The University Museum Fayetteville, AR AL24363@UAFSYSB ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1991 20:01:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Gatti Subject: VAN VORSTS HELLO. I AM SEEKING INFORMATION ABOUT MARIE AND BESSIE VAN VORST. DOES ANYONE KNOW OF MARIE'S SON OR ANY GRANDCHILDREN WHO MAY BE LIVING? BIOGRAPHICAL DATA IS HARD TO COME BY. WOULD APPRECIATE ANY LEADS FOR RESEARCH. SUSAN GATTI IUP ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1991 20:45:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BENTLEPW@SNYPLAVA.BITNET Subject: Women's History month/women's exhibits Just in case, contact the SITES program at the Smithsonian (Smith- sonian Institutions Traveling ExhibitS). They had a catalgot a few years ago which included one or two on women. Also the relatively new National Museum of Women, in Wash. D.C. may have some traveling exhibits or a small rentable, and available one. The National Women's History Project in Monterey (Ithink) California has good source information. Your college library can give you the addresses for the above (Encyclopedia of Associations, Directory of Museums). Bothe the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe and the Sophia 'Smith Collection at Smith College have mounted good displays over the last several years which may be available for loan/rent/purchase. Good luck. Patty Bentley, SUNY College at Plattsburgh. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1991 08:26:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Gatti Subject: VANVORSTS ON NOVEMBER 3 I SENT OUT A QUERY CONCERNING INFORMATIONABOUT MARIE AND BESSIE VAN VORST. I AM INTERESTED IN LOCATING ANY DESCENDANTS OR ANYONE DOING RESEARCH, ESPECIALLY ON MARIE. I FORGOT MY USER ID. SIGN ME SIGATTI@IUPCP6. THANKS. SUSAN GATTI IUP ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1991 08:54:28 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Nancy M. Theriot" Subject: women and music In-Reply-To: note of 10/30/91 18:53 For the person looking for "women and music" info: Do you know about ARS FEMINA? It is a group of musicians in Louisville devoted to performance of the music of women of the 17th-18th centuries.. They research the music and perform it. They are in the process of making their first CD. For more information, contact William Bauer, Artistic Director, ARS FEMINA, P.O. Box 7692, Louisville, KY 40257-0692. Phone: (502) 897-5719. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1991 06:18:33 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ANTHONY SHARON Subject: Institutionalized Discrimination Dear Folks, I need help locating sources on institutionalized racism, sexism, homophobia [institutionalized discrimination]. I am particularly interested in organizational structure/culture and the relationship to institutionalized discrimination. Please respond to me at SLA@PCCCP6.BITNET. If there is interest, I will place the resulting recomendations on this list. Thank you in advance for all of your help. Sharon L. Anthony Sharon Anthony [Portland Community College] ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1991 11:27:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: RHODA UNGER Subject: RE: fellowships, jobs, awards Montclair State has a position of Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences available. Applications will be reviewed beginning November 15th. The position involves being the chief executive office for the largest of our schools with 160 full-time faculty. The Dean reports to the Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs and will provide initiative and leadership in strategic planning and curriculum development on the graduate and under- graduate levels; fund-raising; budget, personnel, and facilities management; representation of the School both on campus and to external constituencies; faculty recruitment, retention, and development, and the enhancement of campus life. Candidates should have a Ph.D. in a discipline represented in the School; a strong record of successful teaching, scholarship, and publica- tion lsufficient to warrant concurrant appointment to full professor; at least three years of administrative experience as department chairperson or the equivalent, and evidence of leadrship ability and strong interpersonal skills. If you are interested in further information please send a message to Laura Kramer kramer@apollo.montclair.edu who is chair of the search committeeor to me unger@apollo.montclair.edu. We are both on the wmst network if you cannot get through on an individual basis. Rhoda Unger ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1991 19:18:42 ARG Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Carlos Reynoso Subject: Presentation My name is Monica Tarducci. I'm an anthropologist specialized in Women Studies. My actual research is entitled "Fundamentalism and Economic Crisis: The Impact of Pentecostalism on Poor Women in Urban Contexts". I'm interested on receiving critical reviews on new religious movements (pentecostalism and others); I would like to contact scientists working in any subject related to religion, specially from a gender point of view. Thanks in advance. Monica Tarducci atina!pccp!reynoso@uunet.UU.NET (try also: reynoso@pccp.com.ar) Carlos Reynoso reynoso@pccp.com.ar ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1991 18:02:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Dr. Judy Gibbons, Psychology, St. Louis University" Subject: readings for intro course We are revising our "introduction to women's studies" course to correspond with our core. That is, there will be sections on 1) natural and social sciences, 2) history and literature, and 3) philosophy and theology. The course is a freshman level course and a major theme is the diversity of women's experience. None of the major textbooks has adequate readings for each of these areas. Could anyone suggest articles, book chapters that would be appropriate for students with no background in women's studies? Thank you for your help. If these issues have been discussed previously, I apologize. I am a new subscriber. Judy Gibbons, Director of Women's Studies Saint Louis University GIBBONSJL@SLUVCA ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1991 19:35:45 TZONE Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: K_COOK@UNHH.UNH.EDU Subject: RE: readings for intro course To Judy Gibbons (and anyone else who's interested) Re: Intoro books I really enjoy using Elizabeth Dodson Gray's book PATRIARCHY AS A CONCEPTUAL TRAP. It is extremely easy reading, full of funny cartoons and such. She talks about the major issues for feminist theory---reality as hierarchy, moral development (the Gilligan and Kohlberg studies), socialization (Chodorow and Dinnerstein), etc... The student's do not have a hard time following her arguments and quite enjoy the humorous style she uses to communicate some very important issues. One of my favorite lines refers to the phallic nature of computer-ese, when a computer is running it is "up" and when it is not, it is "down", etc... She connects the exploitation of women to the exploitation of "Mother" nature, the appropriate target for exploitation is female or feminine. I have used it several times, once in my Soc of the Family and three times in my Social Problems class and the students generally like it. Also, you may consider using Audre Lorde's book SISTER OUTSIDER which is a good series of essays on the issues related specifically to women of color. It too is easily read and very engaging. I love it, though i have not used it. I will use it this summer when i teach a course in Feminist Theory (at an affluent elitist private school!). Kim Cook K_COOK@UNHH.UNH.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1991 21:05:56 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: The Perpetual Undergraduate Subject: readings for novice students of WS I post my reply to Dr. Gibbons' request for a reading list for novice women's studies pupils because I think the perspective of a college senior majoring in women's studies might be useful to the professors on this discussion list In none of my classes did we ever read anything of a history or even a definition of Women's Studies programs/depts. It was only at a speech given by a Director of Women's Studies did I get a sense of its place in the academy and its importance to the university, and its role in a liberal education. Nearly every 101 class at Emory gives this kind of background about its discipline (or program in the case of interdisciplinary majors). Perhaps if you could find an article or two that offer a chronology of the development of Women's Studies and an apologia of it would be a good idea. Alas, I can't recommend anything to you, except for my notes of Dr. Fox-Genovese's speech. I would recommend using Rosemarie Tong's FEMINIST THOUGHT: A COMPREHENSIVE INTRODUCTION as a main text. I wouldn't have them read it all at once, but bit by bit during the semester. I also recommend Betty Friedan's THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE and Nancy wolloch's WOMEN IN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE and Mary Wollstonecraft's A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN. Friedan's book will offer opportunities for lively discussion and is the book my undergrad fem. theory course began with. Wolloch's book is a good example of how historical periods in American history look from the perspective of women. And I don't have to tell you about Wollstonecraft. Additionally, I recommend selected articles from Harding,ed., FEMINISM AND METHODOLOGY (history and social sciences); from Boston Lesbian Psych. Collective, LESBIAN PSYCHOLOGIES (psych); and from MacKinnon, FEMINISM UNMODIFIED (law). For black history, try Giddings, WHEN AND WHERE I ENTER. And to cover the natural sciences, try SCIENCE AND GENDER by Ruth Bleier. She blows biological determinist theories away, and she does a good job of pointing out androcentric, ethnocentric, and anthropocentric bias in science, biology in particular. Oh, and Evelyn Fox Keller wrote an article... I'll check for that... For theology or spirituality, try Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza (the book's title escapes me) for Christian feminist work, and Starhawk's THE SPIRAL dance for alternative women's spritualities. for philosophy/political science try Okin's WOMEN IN WESTERN THOUGHT, a critique of Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, and J.S. Mill. Gilligan's A DIFFERENT VOICE is sort of a blend of philosophy and pscyhology, and it's an easy read. I would also recommend Alice Rossi's THE FEMINIST PAPERS, an anthology of selections on all sorts of subjects by feminist writers from John Adams' wife to contemporary writers. Some novels that demonstrate the diversity of women's experience include: Audre Lorde, ZAMI (black lesbian); Yezierska, THE BREADGIVERS (Jewish immigrant); Maxine Hong Kingston, THE WOMAN WARRIOR (Chinese-American); THE SHELTERED LIFE (Southern belle); Wharton, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH (upper class Northeast); Toni Morrison, THE BLUEST EYE (black) Oh, and take a look at Miller and Swfit's THE HANDBOOK OF NONSEXIST WRITING. Well, it's back to the old salt mines for me. . ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1991 22:20:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: HENKING@HWS.BITNET Subject: Re: readings for intro course for the theology section of the intro to women's studies course, i would think that plaskow and christ's weaving the visions might be a possibility. it has a range of material, including a useful intro which, when compared with the intr o to their womanspirit rising reveals the issues over the past few years in feminist and womanist theology. i would love to see a syllabus for the course as it is and as its revised.. direct mail can reach me at henking@hws (via bitnet) susan ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1991 22:29:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: HENKING@HWS.BITNET Subject: Re: readings for novice students of WS on the intro to women's studies course again, i just purchased a collection of papers entitled A READER IN FEMINIST KNOWLEDGE edited by Sneja Gunew and published by routledge. Its table of contents includes: part 1 : feminist knowledge: critique and construct (with material on black women, aboriginal women and sisterhood) part 2: feminist knowledge and women's studies (locating feminist studies in the academy as per the student who wrote -- whose name, unfortunately, espapes me....mea culpa) part 3: male theories of power part 4: feminism and subjectivity part 4: feminism and philosophy (with stuff by genevieve lloyd and moira gatens) art 6: psychoanalysis and feminism part 7: biology and feminism with stuff by susan leigh starr and ruth bleier part 8: religion a good range of stuff by fiorenza, ruether and christ; though a bit loaded toward christian and postchristian stuff; they seem to have forgot ten that women are involved in lots of other religions....even in amerika part 9: radical feminism part 10: socialist feminist interventions overall it looks useful.... aqnd attends to some of the questions initially aske d.... has anyone used it in class? susan (henking@hws) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1991 23:45:46 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: The Perpetual Undergraduate Subject: Re: readings for novice students of WS Who publishes A READER IN FEMINIST KNOWLEDGE? ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1991 10:09:35 GMT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: Linda Lopez McAlister/Hypatia Subject: Re: readings for novice students of WS In-Reply-To: note of 11/04/91 23:49 A READER IN FEMINIST KNOWLEDGE is published by Routledge. LINDA LOPEZ McALISTER DLLAFAA@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU (Internet) Women's Studies Dept. DLLAFAA@CFRVM_(Bitnet) University of South Florida, Tampa 33620 (813)974-5531 #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*# ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1991 10:18:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JOHN KELLERMEIER Subject: Re: Readings for intor course Some of the books I have used (or considered) as a main text for my introductory women's studies course are: _Women: A Feminist Perspective_ by Jo Freeman _Women in American Society_ by Virginia Sapiro _Issues in Feminism_ by Sheila Ruth All three of these are published by Mayfield Publishing Co. I have also used Suzanne Pharr's _Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism_ in particular for discussing the common elements of oppression. Next semester I intend to use _Changing Our Power: An Introduction to Women's Studies, 2nd Ed_ by Cochran, Langston and Woodward as my main text. This book is published by Kendall/Hunt. At the moment it is out of print with an expected printing in December or January. As for fiction, I have used Ursula LeGuin's _Left Hand of Darkness_ with not too much success and _Egalia's Daughters_ (The author's name is Gerd .. something. I can't recall exactly.) I've also had much success using what I call "Story of the Week." Each week I assign a short story which usually ties in with the topic being discussed. This gives students a taste of many different authors and depictions of women's lives and experiences. The following is the list of stories I am using this semester 1. "X", Lois Gould, from _MS_, May 1980 2. "Seventeen Syllables", Hisaye Yamamoto, from _The Third Woman_, Dexter Fisher, ed. 3. "Harmonic Conception", Nona M. Caspers, from _Memories and Visions: Women's Fantasy & Science Fiction_, Susanna J. Sturgis, ed. 4. "The Woman Who Loved the Moon", Elizabeth A. Lynn, from _Kindred Spirits_, Jeffrey M. Elliot, ed. 5. "Storyteller", Leslie Marmon Silko, from _The Third Woman_, Dexter Fisher, ed. 6. "Only a Phase", Leslea Newman, from _A Letter to Harvey Milk_ 7. "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?", James Triptree, Jr., from _Worlds Apart_, Camilla Decarnin, Eric Garber and Lyn Paleo, ed. 8. "The Yellow Wallpaper", Charlotte Perkins Gilman, from _Images of Women in American Popular Culture_, Angela G. Dorenkamp, John F. McClymer, Mary M. Moynihan and Arlene C. Vadum, ed. 9. "Morality Meat", Racoona Sheldon, from _Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind_, Jen Green and Sarah Lefanu, ed. 10. "Jesse", Katherine V. Forrest, from _Dreams and Swords_ 11. "Recuerdo", Guadalupe Valdes Fallis, from _The Third Woman_, Dexter Fisher, ed. 12. "The Revenge of Hannah Kemhuff", Alice Walker, from _The Third Woman_, Dexter Fisher, ed. 13. "Nuclear Fission", Paul Novitski, from _Kindred Spirits_, Jeffrey M. Elliot, ed. 14. "The Chipko", Sally Miller Gearheart, from _Love, Struggle & Change: Stories by Women_, Irene Zahava, ed. 15. "Three Strong Women", Japanese fairytale, from _Tatterhood and Other Tales_, Ethel Johnston Phelps, ed. If you are familiar with feminist science fiction you will recognize some of these stories from that genre. I would be interested in knowing if anyone lese uses fem sci fi in a women's studies class. ############################################################### # John Kellermeier, SUNY Plattsubrgh # A man of quality # # kellerjh@snyplava.bitnet # supports women # # kellerjh@splava.cc.plattsburgh.edu # seeking equality. # ############################################################### ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1991 10:20:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: HENKING@HWS.BITNET Subject: Re: readings for novice students of WS A READER IN FEMINIST KNOWLEDGE is published by routledge susan (henking@hws) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1991 10:20:11 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Vicki Kirsch Subject: Readings for Intro Class For additional readings for the "Intro" class, I would also recommend using one of Susan Griffin's books - either WOMAN AND NATURE or PORNOGRAPHY AND SILENCE as a part of the feminist spirituality/religion section. This could be complemented with several readings from Plaskow & Christ's WEAVING THE VISIONS such as articles by Ellen Umansky or Carter Heyward to provide ways of being religious and feminist from alternative and Jewish and Christian perspectives. A chapter from Paula Gunn Allen's THE SACRED HOOP along with some poetry by Joy Harjo or Wendy Rose would enhance the section as well. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1991 10:40:22 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Vicki Kirsch Subject: readings for intro class I thought of yet another addition for the "women & religion" section of the course. There are several articles in Adams & Apostolos-Cappadona's anthology DANCE AS RELIGIOUS STUDIES which really add another perspective to women's celebration of the religious: "Martha Graham and the Quest for the Feminine in Eve, Lilith and Judith" by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona "Ruth St. Denis: Sacred Dance Explorations in America" by Neil Douglas-Klotz Vicki Kirsch (vlkirs@wmvm1) Women's Studies Program College of William and Mary ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1991 13:45:27 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Martha Subject: RE: Resource info request In-Reply-To: Message of Sat, 26 Oct 1991 21:49:00 EDT from I'm sorry to post to the entire list, but I was unable to reach Amy Johnston at the address she posted. So will AMY JOHNSTON please contact me personally at EINERSON@ukcc.uky.edu regarding her request for info. on women and rap. I have some great sources that I think will be of help. Thanks. --Martha J. Einerson Einerson@ukcc.uky.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1991 14:58:19 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: The Perpetual Undergraduate Subject: Readings for intro course Ah yes! J. Kellermeier's posting reminded me of a good piece of feminist fantasy/sci-fi, namely, THE FEMALE MAN by Joanna Russ. I might also suggest feminist readings/critiques of ancient Greek texts. After having taken a classics course by a womanizing loudmouth, such stuff would have been a breath of fresh air. g. (temp: 99.4 degrees and rising) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1991 13:31:47 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Ariel x4970 Subject: why women's studies? i have been asked to address the question "why women's studies?" on a panel for a course on the social psychology of higher education on wednesday, november 13th. i would like to include voices/thoughts/reflections other than my own and would very much appreciate anything list subscribers might offer. want a range of perspectives but certainly want to include those of students. why has WS been important to you? what have it given you that you don't get in other disciplines? courses? research areas? etc. etc. also, any thoughts or information about careers and women's studies might be useful. many thanks in advance. joan ariel, academic coordinator for women's studies, university of california irvine. jariel@uci.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1991 17:05:48 TZONE Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: K_COOK@UNHH.UNH.EDU Subject: re: why women's studies? BECAUSE IT IS EMPOWERING!! understanding that i was not the only woman in the world who had ever been battered and raped by the man who "loved" me gave me a feeling of connection to other women (even women who had not gone through the same experience). also, and equally important, the feminist perspective gave me the tools to STOP BLAMING MYSELF for the battering and rapes that i have experienced. beyond the personal.... women's studies offers to me the "3-Dimensional" lenses through which i can identify the oppressive forces in society and the power to do something about it! instead of the flat 2-dimensional patriarchal world (classic occidental dualistic rationality is 2-d) women's studies enlightens the vast richness and texture of the world, the sensuality of life! as women are life-giving, women's studies is life affirming!!!! hope this helps you in your panel, let us all know how it goes. kimberly j. cook k_cook@unhh.unh.edu (incidentally, the androcentric english language emphasises the first person pronoun "I", no other language to my knowlege capitalizes the first person pronoun, and i do not in english because i oppose the quest for superiority) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1991 17:05:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: WELLINGH@EARLHAM.BITNET Subject: Re: why women's studies? How about an understanding of why I was so completely alienated by my non-women's studies graduate training that I could barely remember why I was in academia yet here I was...? ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1991 16:28:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Angela Secrest, Academic Services Coordinator" Subject: Electronic networking I'm giving a "brown-bag" luncheon to the Women's Studies Project here at Drake on Nov. 13th--the subject is how the online discussion groups can help them. I need to present the special benefits of networking online, and would also like to present them with a list of discussion groups that would be of special interest and help to them as we build the Women's Studies Program here. I would greatly appreciate any help any of you can offer! Thanks. Angela Secrest Academic Services Coordinator Dial Computer Center Drake University Bitnet: as4671s@drake ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1991 15:50:46 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ATNFR@ASUACAD.BITNET Subject: Re: Readings for intor course In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 5 Nov 1991 10:18:00 EST from There is a lot of interest in feminist science fiction and I'm sure we all have our favorites--but my vote for the all time classic is "Houston Houston Can you Read" by James Tiptree aka Alice Sheldon, a feminist psychologist. Nancy Felipe Russo Director, Women's Studies ASU, Tempe, AZ 85287-1801 (602)965-2358 FAX:(602)965-2357 BITNET: ATNFR@ASUACAD ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1991 15:55:01 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ATNFR@ASUACAD.BITNET Subject: Re: why women's studies? In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 5 Nov 1991 13:31:47 -0800 from In developing talks on why women's studies, people might want to include findings on research on the impact of women's studies on classes, on the goals of women's studies courses, etc. The Psychology of Women Quarterly has had a number of articles on these issues in the last few years (say, 5 years). Look for Jayne Stake, Agnes O'Connell, Margaret Matlin and Ellen Kimmel for starters. Nancy Felipe Russo Director, Women's Studies ASU, Tempe, AZ 85287-1801 (602)965-2358 FAX:(602)965-2357 BITNET: ATNFR@ASUACAD ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1991 19:51:29 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Allan Hunter Subject: Re: why women's studies? In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 5 Nov 1991 15:55:01 MST from Question: why ordinary patriarchal studies? Answer: to understand life, the universe, everything Question: why women's studies? Answer: better answers, clearer understandings of life, universe, etc. -- allan hunter ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1991 20:56:01 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Frank Dane Subject: Re: why women's studies? In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 5 Nov 1991 13:31:47 -0800 from I, too, would greatly appreciate responses to Joan Ariel's question. We are in the process of proposing a WS minor (a little late, but...) and I anticipate some degree of resistance, particularly because we are proposing a new program at a time when budgets a reeling from being beaten into mush. I will need a considerable amount of "extra-university" information on the benefits of such a program _*to the student*_ (as opposed to a few of us being able to teach what we want) for supporting documentation. Francis C. Dane, Assoc. Prof. & Chair Department of Pschology, Mercer University Macon, GA 31207-0001 USA FDANE@UGA.BITNET ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1991 18:39:26 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: arnie stoper HELP! HOUSING IN JAKARTA NEEDED My friend Roberta Johnson, a professor at the University of San Francisco, has a Fulbright to teach "Women in American Society" and "American Politics" at the University of Indonesia in Jakarta. She needs to find a small apartment or pavillion or private living quarters in an Indonesian home, preferably in the Mentang or Kemang areas, for the period mid-January to mid or late July 1992. Do you have information or contacts that could help her find such a place? She is leaving Nov 19. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1991 22:43:38 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: The Perpetual Undergraduate Subject: Re: why women's studies? Women's Studies allowed me to retain my sanity in college. I'm not crazy, I learned; the world is. G. Palazzolo ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1991 22:49:40 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: The Perpetual Undergraduate Subject: re: why women's studies? K. Cook raises a good point: English, unlike many other languages, capitalizes the first person singular, but not the second. I know that Spanish, Italian, and German all capitalize the formal second persond singular/plural, the form used in addressing strangers and elders and superiors. None of those others ever capitalizes the first p. sing. I suspect that Swedish capitalizes first person singular because I have a Swedish pen pal who consistently capitalizes You, even when I send him letters in which you is not capitalized. G. Palazzolo ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1991 00:02:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: LENTZ61@SNYPOTVA.BITNET Subject: Women and music (cont.)... Thank you to all of you who have been so helpful with your suggestions about resources that are available on women and music. I have now a further question to ask (please keep sending info if you have it though!) which is: Does anyone know of any graduate programs which combine women studies and music/musicology? For those of you who don't know me, I am a flute performance undergraduate at the Crane School of Music in Potsdam, New York (way up by Canada) and am in the process of gathering research so that a women in music course may be added to the curriculum. I am interested in continuing my education on women and music and would appreciate any information available. Thank you in advance!! Laura R. Lentz P.O. Box 985 Potsdam, NY 13676 (315) 265-7624 lentz61@snypotva ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1991 15:14:07 GMT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: SLD14@PHOENIX.CAMBRIDGE.AC.UK Subject: Re: readings for novice students of WS In-Reply-To: -unspecified- A Reader in Feminist Knowledge is published by Routledge (edited by Sneja Gunew) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1991 11:20:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Candice Feldt Subject: Re: Women and music (cont.)... Laura--you should post your request to the Women in Music Librarianship listserv, address: wiml-l@iubvm.ucs.indiana.edu, and perhaps also the Music Library Association listserv: mla-l@iubvm.ucs.indiana.edu. Good luck!! Candy Feldt Tufts University Library cfeldt@pearl.tufts.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1991 10:50:58 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Wayne J. Villemez" Subject: Re: Presentation In-Reply-To: Message of Sat, 2 Nov 1991 19:18:42 ARG from Re: the request for names of those working on religion/gender issues. One of my doctoral students did her M.A. (and subsequently published an article) on the relationship between religious fundamentalism and sexist attitudes. She continues to do work in the area. She is not on this list, but is Sue Williams, LSWILLI at UCONNVM. wjv ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1991 08:12:05 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Betty J Glass Subject: women's studies resource book A new book is out by Beacon Press: Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women's Spirituality. The editor is Marilyn Sewell, a Unitarian Universalist minister and a doctoral student of theology. She has brought together an anthology of poetry and prose which addresses feminine aspects of the sacred. Many well known modern women writers are included, from Eudora Welty to Alice Walker. More historical writers are also represented. Sewell envisions the book as a resource for public worship, but it would also provide sample readings for general women's studies courses, literature courses, and women's spirituality courses. Betty Glass Instructional Services Librarian University of Nevada, Reno ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1991 13:09:41 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Carolyn M. Kotlas" Subject: Women travellers bibliography I'm reading the following book just for pleasure, but it occurred to me that it could be very useful for source materials for women's studies courses and research. Robinson, Jane. WAYWARD WOMEN: A GUIDE TO WOMEN TRAVELLERS. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. >From the dust jacket: "WAYWARD WOMEN recounts the adventures of some 400 of these travellers, together with full bibliographical details of all the books they produced between them. These writings, many of which are brought to light here for the first time in generations, form a significan and previously neglected body of literature, full of insight, courage, and humour." I realize that not many people enjoy curling up with an annotated bibliography for fun reading, but Robinson has done an excellent job of livening up the citations with her comments. She says she couldn't "resist the temptation to commit the bibliographer's cardinal sin and actually read what they had written." The result is both a valuable reference tool and a book that will make you want to start hunting down these neglected works. -c- -- Carolyn M. Kotlas Librarian & Manager of Information Resources UNC Chapel Hill Institute for Academic Technology 919/560-5031 carolynk.iat@mhs.unc.edu -- kotlas@uncecs.edu -- kotlas@ecsvax.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1991 13:18:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: RHODA UNGER Subject: Re: Presentation I would be most interested in a complete reference to the article by Sue Williams on the relationship between religious fundamentalism and sexist attitudes. I have published several articles and have others in the pipeline on the connection between positivist epistemology and religious and political conservatism. The most general reference is Unger, R.K., Draper, R., & Pen- dergrass, M. (1986). Personal epistemology and personal experience. Journal of Social Issues, 42, 67 - 79. I continued this research in Israel and find a similar connection for religious Jews and Moslem and Christian Arabs as for Christians in the U. S. (I have presented this material but not yet published it). Part of the delay is that I am looking for some theoretical material that helps to explain the connections. If anyone would like to dialogue on the subject, I can be reached via unger@apollo.montclair.edu (internet) Hope to hear from some of you. Rhoda Unger ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1991 10:21:53 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: joneskf@CCVAX.CCS.CSUS.EDU Subject: Why Women's Studies? Joan, I agree with all the reasons you have already received on "Why Women's Studies?", but I'd like to add that I believe Women's Studies courses are necessary to provide balance. The rest of the curriculum is male centered and the study of women (and minorities) is necessary to make visible the majority which is ignored by patriarchial, traditional courses. Kay Jones (joneskf@csus.edu) P.S. When is the Publications Committee meeting at San Antonio? ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1991 12:32:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: UAHMLD01@UAHVAX1.BITNET Subject: Why women's studies? I have two responses: (1) Political -- because it is personally empowering, promotes growth of the individual and the community, emphasizes personal responsibility and validates personal perspectives, creates the basis for an activist, creative perspective. (2) Academic -- all of the above, PLUS a major philosophical issue. Each discipline carries with it its own epistemology and should spend some time educating students as to that epistemology in order to facilitate their comprehension of the "area content". However, the epistemology of all academic disciplines which exist in a patriarchal society are themselves derived from a patriarchal perspective, and thus incorporate assumptions which spring from what I shall loosely and inadequately refer to as "patriarchal thought". Women's studies -- and the feminist perspective -- provide a counterpoint and more -- seeking to make the assumptions in the culture and in specific epistemologies conscious, to examine them from as "outside" as is possible, and to explore the development of alternate or complementary (depending upon your perspective) models. THAT's why! Mary Lynne Dittmar Dept. of Psychology University of Alabama -- Huntsville RADICAL@UAHVAX1 P.S. I guess the "assumption" inherent in the above is that all of this is valuable -- and from the "why women's studies" position, it may be important to make that assumption clear. As I read my post, I realize that my own emphatic devotion to the importance of women's studies and the philosophical issues underlying that devotion created a rather strong post! MLD ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1991 10:40:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: why women's studies? On Nov. 5, Frank Dane wrote: > I, too, would greatly appreciate responses to Joan Ariel's question. > We are in the process of proposing a WS minor (a little late, but...) > and I anticipate some degree of resistance, particularly because we > are proposing a new program at a time when budgets a reeling from > being beaten into mush. I will need a considerable amount of > "extra-university" information on the benefits of such a program > _*to the student*_ (as opposed to a few of us being able to teach > what we want) for supporting documentation. > Francis C. Dane, Assoc. Prof. & Chair > Department of Pschology, Mercer University > Macon, GA 31207-0001 USA > FDANE@UGA.BITNET Dane poses two arguments--benefits to the students and teaching what we want--but there's also a third: intellectual legitimacy. Geography courses no longer use pre-World War II maps, and physics courses no longer teach that the most fundamental unit of matter is the atom. Similarly, in the past twenty years, many if not most areas of inquiry have been profoundly altered by Women's Studies approaches to knowledge. No respectable university can afford to ignore these developments. There are a number of books that address the impact of Women's Studies on various academic disciplines. Among the works one might look at to support such an argument are MEN'S STUDIES MODIFIED: THE IMPACT OF FEMINISM ON THE ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES, ed. Dale Spender (Pergamon Press, 1981); THE IMPACT OF FEMINIST RESEARCH IN THE ACADEMY, ed. Christie Farnham (Indiana Univ. Press, 1987); GENDER BIAS IN SCHOLARSHIP: THE PERVASIVE PREJUDICE, ed. Winnifred Tomm and Gordon Hamilton (Calgary Institute for the Humanities, Wilfred Laurier Univ. Press, 1988); and special issues of SOUNDINGS (vol. LXIV, no. 4, Winter, 1981: "A Feminist Perspective in the Academy: The Difference it Makes") and DAEDALUS (Fall, 1987: "Learning About Women: Gender, Politics, and Power"). Good luck! Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1991 14:22:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: KINTZ@GENESEO.BITNET Subject: Re: readings for intro class Irene Silverblatt, Sun, Moon and Witches on Colonial Peruvian Women is an intere sting account. Also I, Rigoberto Menchu on Guatemalan women and Let Me Speak - on Bolivian Tin Miners and women. These are good intro texts for intro to women the world over. Any other areas - esp. Africa and Asia on women would be appreciated - please add to the discussion by including women the world over. Ellen Kintz/SUNY College, Geneseo, NY ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1991 14:17:28 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "allan (with warm smiles)" Subject: THE POLITICS OF 1ST PERSON SINGULAR CAPS In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 5 Nov 1991 22:49:40 EST from A difficult distinction needs to be made between valuing connectedness and interdependent participation, on the one hand, and devaluing the self-centered me of individuality, on the other. Oftentimes the latter attitude is justified by reference to the former project, as if the reason that people do not behave and interact as sharing loving equals in harmony, etc., is that the individuals are all too overly concerned with their own self-importance. It's a creepy, dangerous equivocation. Membership in the collectivity at the expense of one's individual importance and autonomy is the basis of fascism. It is the principle of "male bonding" as observed in the military, in college fraternities, in Star Trek's hypothetical machine- operated world where everyone must be "of the body" (Landru). Mary Daly gives good criticism to this version of connectedness and belong- ingness and contrasts it to the feminist liberationist project of having a social system based on reconciling independence and inter- dependence. Patriarchy, despite its current pretenses at valuing individual freedom and self-sufficiency, is and has always been a conformity-dependent system in which individual interpretations, impressions, and feelings are relegated to the discard pile of blasphemy or subjectivity or whatever the current disparaging term may be. I like the implications of the capital first person singular. There may be problems with the lower case second person article, but de- valuing the individual does not strike me as politically wonderful. -- Allan Hunter AHUNTER@ccvm.sunysb.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1991 12:53:03 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: nancy felipe russo Subject: Re: why women's studies? In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 6 Nov 1991 10:40:00 EST from In addition to the resources on the impact of feminism on the diciplines that Joan Korenman provides, watch out for the December issue of the Psychology of Women Quarterly edited by Agnes O'Connell and myself that has some terrific essays on the impact of feminism on various fields of psychology. It's a special centennial issue and people put a lot of work into thinking about the topic; it has a particularly fine piece by Lillian Comas-Diaz on feminist women of color and their impact on feminist psychology as well. Nancy Felipe Russo Director, Women's Studies ASU, Tempe, AZ 85287-1801 (602)965-2358 FAX:(602)965-2357 BITNET: ATNFR@ASUACAD ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1991 15:58:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: WELLINGH@EARLHAM.BITNET Subject: Re: THE POLITICS OF 1ST PERSON SINGULAR CAPS Apropos of nothing in particular but inspired by the discussion of the politics or pronouns, are folks aware that the Finnish language has no separate words for "he" and "she"... just a neuter third person? This is the sum total of my knowledge of Finnish. ****************************************************************************** B. Welling Hall Department of Politics Earlham College Richmond, IN 47374 USA E-mail: WELLINGH@EARLHAM.BITNET Work Telephone: 317-983-1208 FAX: 317-983-1553 TELEX: 20210 EARLHAM BK RIC ****************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1991 16:20:55 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: KMARCH@MAINE.BITNET Subject: women's studies list I agree completely with the plea that women from all countries be considered fo r women's studies classes. As professor of Spanish, I often find my best and b est-intentioned feminist students are not very aware of third world women, and particularly those from Latin America. Rigoberta has inspired many of many cla sses, and I would add that there are some good anthologies, in Egnlish, of Lati n American women writers, particularly short stories. There are also bilingual anthologies, such as 'The Defiant Muse', in versions for German, French and Sp anish language texts. Any one intersted in more info on these areas? I'm alwa ys looking for more texts myself. One last note: Curbstone Press has some thin gs, especially by Salvadoran Claribel Alegria and Nicaraguan Gioconda Belli. T hey're worth the read! Kathleen ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1991 18:35:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: WITCHY Subject: call for papers (sexual harrassment) believing that this deserves wider distribution: originally posted on crtnet: = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Date: Wed, 6 Nov 91 11:30 CST [from] Bill Eadie Subject: Call for Stories and Papers on Sexual Harassment APPLIED PUBLICATIONS CALL FOR STORIES, PAPERS ON SEXUAL HARASSMENT The Journal of Applied Communication Research and the Speech Communication Association's Publication Series in Applied Communication are calling for submissions for two related projects on sexual harassment and sexism. JACR is calling for members of the discipline to submit stories detailing an episode of sexual harassment the writer has experienced. Accounts of these episodes should be no more than three pages, double spaced, and may be submitted anonymously or with the author's name included. The collected stories will be forwarded without identification to a team of analysts headed by Professor Julia Wood, University of North Carolina. JACR will publish representative examples of the submitted stories, along with the essays produced by the analysis team. Listed on a separate page in that issue will be the names of individuals who submitted stories, whether or not their stories were published, and who wished their names to appear. The names of authors who requested anonymity will not be published. The Publication Series in Applied Communication is calling for proposals for essays to appear in an edited volume on sexual harassment and sexism in the workplace. Both conceptual and empirical studies are sought, and all methodologies are appropriate. Proposals should include a detailed abstract of the paper and an indication of the timeline the author will need to conduct the research and produce a finished manuscript. Prospective authors are encouraged to contact the series editor before mailing their proposals for more detailed information. The deadline for submission of both the stories and the proposals is February 15, 1992. Submit stories to: William F. Eadie, Editor, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Department of Speech Communication (SPCH), California State University, Northridge, Northridge, California 91330 (E-MAIL: WEADIE@VAX.CSUN.EDU). Submit paper proposals to Gary Kreps, Editor, SCA Applied Communication Publication Series, Department of Communication Studies, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois 60115 (E-MAIL: TM0GLK1@NIU.BITNET). Questions on either of these projects may be addressed to the editors or to Julia Wood, Department of Speech Communication, CB# 3285, 212 Bingham Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3285 (E-MAIL: WOOD@UNC.BITNET). =========================================================== ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1991 16:59:51 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: nancy felipe russo Subject: Re: women's studies list In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 6 Nov 1991 16:20:55 EST from Maureen Ahern (Ohio State U). has a wonderful translation of the work of Rosario Castellanos (U. Texas Press -1988) with very helpful editorial notes--it's a wonderful addition to courses on Latin American women writers. Nancy Felipe Russo Director, Women's Studies ASU, Tempe, AZ 85287-1801 (602)965-2358 FAX:(602)965-2357 BITNET: ATNFR@ASUACAD ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1991 19:49:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: 219 G Margaret Porter 239-7620 Subject: Re: women's studies list Landscapes of a New Land: fiction by Latin American women (Buffalo, NY:White Plains Press); You can't drpwn in the fire; (Buffalo, NY:White Plains Press); You can't drown the fire: Latin American women writing in exile (Pittsburgh: Cleis Press, 1988); Other fires: short fiction by Latin American women (New York: C N Potter, 1986) are three anthologies of Latin American women's writing in English. Margaret Porter/Gender Studies Liaison lfjq7x@irishmvs ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1991 19:02:10 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bonnie Vegiard Subject: why women's studies? I've been thinking a lot about women's studies and gender studies lately. I distinguish the two by saying that women's studies is about women, exclusively. Gender studies can investigate gender roles of both men and women under patriarchy; specifically, the harm patriarchy causes to both genders. I know others don't agree with this distinction, and I would like to see reactions. But in answering "Why Women's Studies?" I would say that it is impreitive in this thoroughly patriarchal culture to have a place where women can have a voice entirely of their own. Women's studies should be a place where women can say anything they need to say without fear of defensive reactions from men/administration. What empowers me/keeps my sanity is having this place where I can go. Women are allowed to follow the inquiries that give meaning to their lives; isn't this or shouldn't this be what research and academia are about? The balance issue is important, too. Obviously, we are not coming near the real picture is the history we are taught never mentions women, the literature we read is never written by women and does not understand women's experience. Academia is also about understanding life/ the universe, as someone already said. How can we do this without women's studies? One (grad) student's perspective. Binnie Vegiard University of Missouri, Columbia ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1991 10:47:43 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marsha Miller Subject: Book Review With the current discussion on texts for intro courses, I thought I'd share a book review that appeared in the Library Journal 9-15-91 issue that sounds intriguing: Faludi, Susan. BACKLASH: THE UNDECLARED WAR AGAINST AMERICAN WOMEN. Crown, 1991. 90-29172. ISBN 0517576988. $24.00 "Faludi, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the -Wall Street Journal-, marshals in a sustained and excoriating 500-plus pages what many thoughtful women already know: it isn't that the goals of the feminist movement have failed, but that they have not yet been tried. Placing the current backlash against women squarely in a historical context (in the 19th century so-called experts told women that education would atrophy their wombs), she debunks the shoddy scholarship and half-truths that produced the myths we hear today: that women are fleeing the workplace to stay home and "cocoon"; that their chances of marrying diminish greatly if they don't marry young; that their lack of advancement is their own fault. She argues that women's anger and resentment are not due to their feminism, but occur because women have not yet been the beneficiaries of the justice, fairness, and equity they deserve. Along the way, Faludi demolishes the anti-feminist agendas of Robert Bly's "wild men", Allan Bloom ("Closing of the American Mind") and George Gilder ("Sexual Suicide"), among others. This is a most important book. [reviewer: GraceAnne A. DeCandido, School Library Journal] from: Marsha Miller, Instruction Librarian, Indiana State University, Terre Haute IN libmill at indst ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1991 07:05:36 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lisa Suhair Majaj Subject: Re: women's studies list Arab women are frequently ignored in women's studies classes; an anthology whichjust came out and which might usefully provide perspective and a good variety of materials is Opening the Gates:A Century of Arab Feminist Writing, edited by Margot Badran and Miriam Cooke (Virago Press, 1990). This has material from the 1860s to the present, and includes journalistic writing, speeches, essays, memoirs, short stories, poetry by women from Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Iraq, Morocco, Sudan, Yemen. There are also a number of novels available in English. Lisa Majaj andalexa@wpi.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1991 08:10:14 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Vicki Kirsch Subject: Women's Communities Next semester I am teaching a course "Women's Communities: Real and Imaginary" in which we will read current theoretical works on women and community (Janice Raymond, Sarah L. Hoagland) followed by studies of women at various "locals" (the harem, sacred space, the salon, on strike) and conclude with various utopian novels (Les Guerilleres,Herland, et al). I am wondering if anyone has any suggestions for works on women in prison from the "communual perspective" - the book I originally was going to use by Constance Lytton has gone out of print...or any other suggestions of works that MUST by included. Vicki Kirsch vlkirs@wmvm1 Women's Studies Program College of William and Mary ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1991 09:40:18 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: srb@ARETHA.JAX.ORG Subject: Re: Women's Communities Vicki, _The Gate to Women's Country_ by Sherri S. Tepper _The Mists of Avalon_ by Marion Zimmer Bradley _The Female Man_ by Joanna Russ Susan Dewey srb@aretha.jax.org ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1991 09:49:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: YABATCHAVA@VAXSAR.VASSAR.EDU Subject: anthology about Jewish Israeli, Arab, and Palestinian women I am posting this messgae on behalf of a collegue who is not on the network. SUMBISSIONS ARE SOLICITED for a anthology about the impact of the Israeli military occupation on Jewish Israeli, Arab, and Palestianin women in Israel/Palestine. The anthology will present women's social, political, and economic lives as affected by the Israeli occupation. If you are currently working on these issues or you know someone who does, please send abstracts to: Tamar Mayer Geography Department Middlebury College Middlebury, VT 05753 Bitnet: Mayer@Midd tel: (802)388-3711, extension 5568. thanks! Yael Bat-Chava at Vassar College ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1991 09:58:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: RHODA UNGER Subject: RE: anthology about Jewish Israeli, Arab, and Palestinian women There is a new anthology in the Athene series (Macmillan) on a related topic. It is called "Calling the equality bluff" and has been edited by Barbara Swirsky and Marilyn Safir. It includes articles on a variety of topics of interest to feminists by Jewish and Arab Israeli women (I am not sure whether or not there are any Palestinian contributors). In addition, those of you who are interested in the women's studies rationales and new developments in psychology may want to look at the special issue of the Psychology of Women Quarterly edited by Jeanne Marecek entitled Theory and method in feminist psychology (Volume 13, #4, December, 1989. I particularly re- commend the article by Anne Peplau and Eva Conrad on feminist methodology. The issue also includes an extensive bibliography on feminist epistemology. You may also be interested in an article in an earlier issue of the same journal by Mary Crawford and Jeanne Marecek called psychology reconstructs the female, 1968 - 1988 (vol. 13, #2, pp. 147 - 166). In this article the authors examine psychological research in terms of Peggy Macintosh's para- digm of the stages in the development of feminist scholarship. Rhoda Unger unger@apollo.montclair.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1991 10:13:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DONNA Subject: Graduate work in Jewish Women's Studies To the List Is anyone aware of graduate programs when one could effectively integrate a program in Jewish Women's Studies. Please RSVP directly to me and not to the list.. Donna Jacques jacques@binah.cc.brandeis.edu Brandeis University Libraries Waltham, MA 02254 (617)736-4679 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1991 10:59:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Lesbian syllabiSEND; internat. conference I have received two messages recently that may be of interest to WMST-L readers. I've held off sending them, waiting for the mail volume to subside a bit, but I think I'd better not wait any longer. For more information, contact the people named in the messages, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc *************************************************************** 1) Syllabi Sought for Course on Lesbianism The Women's Studies Program at Sangamon State University in Springfield, Illinois, is gathering syllabi on lesbian courses, as we plan to offer such a course next year. We will focus mainly on the cultural and political aspects of lesbianism. If your program has offered such courses, we would appreciate receiving copies of the syllabi. Thank you for your cooperation and assistance. If you have any questions about the type of information we are looking for, please do not hesitate to give me a call at (217) 786-6789, otherwise please send information to: Carrie McCrary WMS Graduate Assistant Sangamon State University Brookens 474 Springfield, Illinois 62794-9243 ****************************************************************** 2) Fifth International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women In case you haven't already seen or announced it, I recently received a pamphlet for the Fifth International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women to be hosted by PRIEG (Programa Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Genero) at the University of Costa Rica. The coordinator is Prof. Mirta Gonzalez-Suarez V Congreso Internatcioual e Interdisciplinario de la Mujer PRIEG- Escuela de Psicologia Universidad de Costa Rica Aodo. 2060, San Pedro, Costa Rica, America Central The telephone is (506) 34-1495, FAX (506) 53-4601. The theme of the conference is Mujeres, Busqueda Participacion Cambio Women, Search Participation Change Abstracts of proposals are due April 1, 1992 and may be written in Spanish or English. That's all I know. Sincerely, Judy Gibbons, Director of Women's Studies Saint Louis University ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1991 08:59:14 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Betty J Glass Subject: Arab Women A new book is out by Indiana University Press called "Both Right and Left Handed" by Bouthaina Shaaban, who interviewed Arab women of Syria, Lebanon, Algeria and displaced Palestinians in refugee camps. Shaaban made an effort to meet with women of different ages and social classes to get a representative sampling, but acknowledges the group is too small for statistical validity. This was a very enlightening book for me. It is true. Arab women are almost invisible in the curriculum. Betty Glass University of NV, Reno ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1991 12:55:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda LaDuc Date: Thu, 7 Nov 91 10:56:44 -0500 From: laduc (Linda LaDuc) Message-Id: <9111071556.AA03347@eagle.tc.clarkson.edu> To: jariel%ORION.OAC.UCI.EDU@clvm.clarkson.edu Subject: Re: why women's studies? Cc: mbox As a single mom in the 70's I had no voice. One course, modern American women authors, gave me a chance to speak. Suddenly reading "she" in real books, written by real people. If this sounds inane, well, perhaps it is, but I grew up submerged in patriarchy so thick I couldn't hear any women's voices -- Adirondacks, hunting culture, Catholicism, women, barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen. More women's studies, more freedom. A new life opening up in front of me -- all from one women's studies course. Now, as an academic, twenty years later women's studies allows me a critical vantage point from which to examine the embeddedness of assumptions in approaches to knowledge. In this knowledge-production process I can make my and other women's voices heard. Feminist perspectives as critical theory. FeminismS as examples of cultural diversity. Feminist Rhetorics included in the multiplicity of voices. Women's studies to me is about voices, about story-telling --about stories in which women get to be the main characters, about critical thinking, about recovering our history -- that which was stolen, forgotten or mislaid. Or as Adrienne Rich said -- about "diving into the wreck" and re-surfacing with that which was lost, submerged. I cry for all my sisters who have not had the opportunity to look through that window on the world that women's studies offers. Reading this I wonder how usefully it answers a question posed in such a way as to gather arguments for "rational groups" who want justification offered for women's studies programs. Ultimately, pathos-based arguments are mostly what I have to offer you....except to say that women's studies empowers women to be more than we thought we could be -- and both women and men are intellectually impoverished if only men's voices are empowered. much luck in your efforts. laduc@clutx.clarkson.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1991 13:12:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Katherine Egerton Subject: palestinian women also on the subject of Palestinian women - Robin Morgan's _The Demon Lover: The Sexuality of Terrorism_ has a couple of chapters in which Morgan recounts her experience interviewing Palestinian women in the refugee camps on health, education, sexuality, gender roles, etc., which are very accessible and might profitably be incorporated into an intro ws class. Katy Egerton University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill bitnet: egerton@unc ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1991 11:17:20 PDT Reply-To: susannah@descarte.ucsb.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susannah Subject: RE: anthology about Jewish Israeli, Arab, and Palestinian women Are there many Arab women in Israel that don't consider themselves Palestinian? I realize this is a politically laden question, but referring to them all as Arab Israelis is also politically laden. Is there a neutral term? It would be a shame to not be able to have a dialogue, but I have to admit that your terminology seems very strange to me. Susannah de la Cruz College of Letters & Science UCSB e-mail: susannah@descarte.ucsb.edu phone: (805) 893-2781 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1991 15:09:03 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Nancy M. Theriot" Subject: Curriculum integration project Although a historian by training (women's history, 19th-century, U.S.), I'm currently coordinating a faculty development project aimed at encouraging and facilitating the integration of analyses of race and gender into already existing courses, as well as supporting the creation of courses specifically on race and gender. I am interested in syllabi, bibliography, and whatever else people have to offer. I maintain a resource center for faculty at the University of Louisville, and offer workshops and a few course development/revision grants each year. Faculty are very interested in models of integration. Are you currently teaching a course in introductory sociology, communication, philosophy, history, etc..... in which you have really integrated (rather than added on) race and gender in the course? Please send any materials you think might be useful to: Nancy M. Theriot, Faculty Development, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292. nmther01@ulkyvm. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1991 17:37:45 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: nancy felipe russo Subject: Re: why women's studies? In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 6 Nov 1991 19:02:10 CST from To me the distinction of women's studies vs. gender studies in not that the former is exclusively on women, but that the former is women-centered. The same material has a different meaning in a women-centered context. Also, women's bodies can be studies from a women-centered rather than gender-cente red perspective. There's more to menstruation than gender! Nancy Felipe Russo Director, Women's Studies ASU, Tempe, AZ 85287-1801 (602)965-2358 FAX:(602)965-2357 BITNET: ATNFR@ASUACAD ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1991 17:42:05 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: nancy felipe russo Subject: Re: Book Review In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 6 Nov 1991 10:47:43 EST from The Women's Review of Books has an excellent review of Faludi's Backlash and Naomi Wolfs the Beauty Myth that people might want to read before recommendi ng these books. Nancy Felipe Russo Director, Women's Studies ASU, Tempe, AZ 85287-1801 (602)965-2358 FAX:(602)965-2357 BITNET: ATNFR@ASUACAD ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1991 20:01:34 -0500 Reply-To: schipper@kean.ucs.mun.ca Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bill Schipper Subject: Ideology of Domesticity I'm preparing a course on the ideology of domesticity. Can anyone suggest any text? * Barbara Rose ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1991 22:04:11 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: cliff staples Subject: _Yearning_ for reviews I'm trying to track down all the book reviews I can find of _Yearning: Race, Gender and Cultural Politics_ by bell hooks. As of now I have the following citations: Barbara Burford in "New Statesman and Society" Nov. 1990 Someone in "Harvard Educational Review" May 1990 Someone in "Queens Quarterly" Summer 1990 Ruth Conniff in the "Progressive" March 1991 P. Gabrielle Forman in "Women's Review of Books" Rebecca Walker in "Ms." If you have run across any book reviews of _Yearning_ not listed above and have the citation handy I'd appreciate it if you would send it to me private mail. Thanks, Cliff Staples ud153289@ndsuvm1 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1991 13:11:32 GMT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JJ107@PHOENIX.CAMBRIDGE.AC.UK Please post the following job advertisement, and if people know about other women's networks which would be appropriate could they please let me know. I could serve as an informal contact for people wanting information about this job. Jennifer Jarman jj107@uk.ac.cambridge.phx UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE Faculty of Social and Political Sciences University Lectureship or Assistant Lectureship in the Politics of Western Europe Applications are invited for a University Lectureship or Assistant Lectureship starting as soon as possible. The successful candidate will be the Faculty's principal teacher of the politics of Western Europe, but will be encouraged to contribute to other parts of the Faculty's teaching in which s/he has an interest. The range of specialist papers in politics at present offered in the Tripos examination are: The Analysis of the Modern State; History of Political Thought to 1750; History of Political Thought since 1750; Political Philosophy; Revolution; Politics and Society in the USSR since 1917; Sociology and Politics of Latin America; Sociology and Politics of South Asia; Politics of North America since 1900; War, Peace and Global Security; State and Society in Developing Countries. The vacant Lectureship (or Assistant Lectureship) is a consequence of the appointment of Dr Paul Ginsborg to a chair at the University of Florence. He taught a specialist paper on the Politics of France and Italy since 1940. This will be replaced from 1992-93 by a paper on Western European Politics, the rubric of which is as follows. "The development of national and supranational institutions and policies. The overall context of European politics with particular reference to one or two selected political systems. State structures and bureaucracies; the European Economic Community; defence policies; autonomy and dependence. The nature of political and economic change. City and countryside; religion and society; internal emigration and urbanisation; industrialisation and the tertiary sector; class, structure and social inequality; women and society; family and collectivity; culture and the mass media; regionalism; environmental issues; ethnicity, immigration and racism." The new lecturer will be expected to make a substantial contribution to the teaching of this paper. The Faculty is in essence a medium-sized interdisciplinary department which teaches a three year course in Social and Political Sciences. This permits undergraduates to pursue either broadly based interdisciplinary degrees or relatively specialised degrees in Politics, Psychology and Sociology. At present there are approximately 330 undergraduates, 30 M.Phil. students and 75 Ph.D. students in the Faculty, there having been considerable expansion in the past three years. Suitably qualified applicants, at any stage in their academic careers, who have backgrounds in the politics of any Western European country, including the United Kingdom and Scandinavia, are encouraged to apply. The Faculty is strongly committed to the University's equal opportunities policy. The appointment will be for three years in the first instance with, in the case of a University Lectureship, the likelihood of reappointment to the age of retirement, which is 67 in Cambridge. The pensionable scale of stipends for a University Lecturer, not ordinarily resident in College, is 16,216 a year, rising by eleven annual increments to 25,010. There is no grade of Senior Lecturer. The Appointments Committee reserves the right to appoint at the University Assistant Lecturer level, in which case there is the possibility of reappointment at that level for a further two years. All University Assistant Lecturers are now considered for possible appointment to the office of University Lecturer during the course of their tenure. The pensionable scale of stipends for a University Assistant Lecturer, not ordinarily resident in College, is 12,690 a year rising by seven annual increments to 17,593. The University may in certain circumstances award a recruitment incentive payment to a person newly appointed to a University Office. Such a payment would be additional to any reimbursement of travelling expenses or of the cost of removal of household and personal effects. Further information on the recruitment incentive payment scheme may be obtained from the Head of Department, Dr John Barber. In Cambridge, appointments to College Fellowships are somewhat unpredictable and are completely independent of appointments to University Lectureships. In view, however, of the past history of College appointments in SPS and of the recent expansion of student numbers in SPS, the successful candidate may be reasonably optimistic of being approached, in due course, by a College. Applications, and any further enquiries, should be made to Dr B. Burchell, Secretary of the Appointments Committee, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge, CB2 3RQ (Tel. 0223-334538/334521). Applications should include 10 copies of a curriculum vitae and the names and addresses of three referees. The closing date for applications is 18 November 1991. Short-listed candidates will be contacted shortly after the closing date and will be asked to send samples of their published works. Interviews are likely to be held on 9 and 10 January 1992. On 9 January each candidate will be asked to speak and answer questions about his or her work at a meeting of about an hour which any member of the Faculty may attend. There may also be informal meetings with members of the Faculty on the same day. The Appointments Committee will interview candidates the following morning. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1991 08:20:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Chris Africa Subject: Re: Book Review There is a longer, and more critical, review of Faludi's book and Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women in the October 1991 Women's Review of Books by Elayne Rapping. Chris Africa, Univ. of Iowa cadcalts@uiamvs.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1991 09:47:26 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Janet Wright Starner Subject: RE: call for papers (sexual harrassment) Ed - Can't remember if I already redirected this to you. A timely call for papers. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1991 12:25:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Women of South Asia I'm posting the following message for Sudha Shreeniwas, who sent it to me, though I think it was meant for WMST-L. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ******************************************************** Just adding my voice to the "don't ignore us" list. Women from South Asia tend to fall between the cracks, and disappear, whether in discussions on ethnic or on feminist issues. I've often felt frustrated during discussions with American (or other Western) scholars since I have to explain "where I'm coming from" in tiresome detail. We don't fit into the stereotypical Asian mould, which is more familiar with those from the "Far" East - China, Japan, etc. Nor are we part of the "Middle" Eastern group. Since these groups are at the forefront of contemporary American consciousness on Asia, we're largely invisible. Surprising, but true. However, since people from South Asia (taken together - Pakistan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh) are currently among the largest immigrant groups, and the fastest growing minorities, this hopefully will change. However, some consciousness-raising seems indicated. To this end, I'd like to recommend publications from "Kali for Women" founded in 1984 and India's (possibly South Asia's) first feminist publishing house. Currently their publications can be acquired from The Feminist Press at the City University of New York. As far as I'm aware, there are several anthologies of short stories by 20th century women writers, in English, and translations from the original regional languages into English. There's also an anthology of Indian women writers from 600 BC to the current times. Several local bookstores also carry titles. Sudha Shreeniwas Population Studies/Sociology University of Michigan, Ann Arbor sudha@ub.cc.umich.edu userid=6hyp@umichub PS, I'd also personally like to recommend Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club", which speaks in the voices of two generations of Asian-American women. Wide variety of experiences. Great book! ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1991 13:56:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jim Wilderotter -- Georgetown Center for Text and Technology Subject: Center for Text and Technology Electronic Text Project Catalogue Since April 1989, the Center for Text and Technology of the Academic Computer Center at Georgetown University has been compiling information about projects in electronic text in the humanities. Currently we have details on over 300 projects in 27 countries. Because this information is constantly being updated, any printing would be obsolescent. Consequently, we have created an on-line Catalogue that is searchable through Internet and dial-in access. Thus far, response has been gratifying; last month we logged over 100 inquiries. An illustrated User's Guide to the Catalogue of Projects in Electronic Text is available free of charge through surface mail. In addition, a public-domain version of KERMIT and a keyboard- mapping program can be obtained through file transfer protocol (ftp). For further information, please contact me personally at the address below, rather than sending to the list. James A. Wilderotter II Project Assistant Center for Text and Technology Academic Computer Center Reiss Science Building, Room 238 Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057 Tel. (202) 687-6096 BITNET: Wilder@Guvax Internet: Edu%"Wilder@Guvax.Georgetown.Edu" ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1991 15:22:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: KILATTA@VAXSAR.VASSAR.EDU Subject: Subject for study I am interested in completing my doctorate (begun in Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley) in either anthropology, women's studies, or religious studies. I have become very interested in ancient and contemporary goddess worship in Europe. Could anyone recommend any texts on this subject or programs at north eastern universities for future study? I should also mention that I am especially interested in re-reading mythology and folklore from a point of view that takes into account recent scholarship about ancient gylanic societies. Kimberly Latta Vassar College ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1991 17:31:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Janie Johnson Subject: Re: Subject for study >I am interested in completing my doctorate (begun in Comparative Literature >at UC Berkeley) in either anthropology, women's studies, or religious studies. >I have become very interested in ancient and contemporary goddess worship >in Europe. Could anyone recommend any texts on this subject or programs ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >at north eastern universities for future study? I should also mention >that I am especially interested in re-reading mythology and folklore >from a point of view that takes into account recent scholarship about >ancient gylanic societies. >Kimberly Latta >Vassar College > Marija Gimbutas, *The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe* (1982) Marija Gimbutas, *The Language of the Goddess* (1989) Merlin Stone, *When God Was a Woman* ((1976) Merlin Stone, *Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood* (1979) Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor, *The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth* (1987) Zsuzsanna Budapest, *The Holy Book of Women's Mysteries* (1986) Mary Condren, *The Serpent and the Goddess: Women, Religion, and Power in Celtic Ireland* (1989) Rachel Levy, *The Gate of Horn: A Study of the Religious Conceptions of the Stone Age and Their Influences upon European Thought* (1946,1963) Riane Eisler, *The Chalice and the Blade* (1988) Barbara G. Walker, *The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets* (1983) Barbara G. Walker, *The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects* (1988) Elinor W. Gadon, *The Once and Future Goddess* (1989) Carl Olsen (ed.), *The Book of the Goddess: Past and Present* (1983) Pamela Berger, *The Goddess Obscured: Transformation of the Grain Protectress to Saint* (1985) Michael Dames, *Silbury Treasure: The Great Goddess Rediscovered* (1976) Laurence Durdin-Robertson, *The Cult of the Goddess* (1974) Janie Johnson jxjohnson@ualr.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1991 01:19:25 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: KMARCH@MAINE.BITNET Subject: Re: Goddess study In-Reply-To: Re: Subject for study Kimberly, please contact my colleague Kristina Passman She is a classicist and can give you many insights. Kathleen March ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1991 09:00:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Madeline Subject: Re: Subject for study Sorry, but I am having difficulty signing off this list. Please help me. bitnet%"slvnzlwm@nyuacf" in%"slvnzlwm@acfcluster.nyu.edu" thanks, Madeline Slovenz-Low ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1991 13:41:25 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cathy Quick Subject: Request for Info Does anyone know of any feminist readings of the story of Jezebel? I have been able to find good feminist studies on nearly all of the major female characters in the Old Testament except for her. Please reply to C497487@UMCVMB. Thank you. Cathy Quick University of Missouri-Columbia. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1991 15:56:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Answering received message From: GCARR@BUCKNELL.BITNET Subject: intro course In-Reply-To: <01GCK8ZKMMFK000HJ4@coral.bucknell.edu> the NWSA, in conjunction with AAC, has just published a great report, "Liberal Learning and the Women's Studies Major." It has many syllabi for both intro and capstone courses, as well as descriptions of intern- ship programs and how to handle cross-listing procedures. Also great bibliographies on feminist pedagogy. I hate this phrase, but the book is a "must read." ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1991 16:21:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: GCARR@BUCKNELL.BITNET Subject: domesticity NOVELS!!!! Especially those wonderful 19th century ones when domesticity reigned supreme! Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harper's Iola LeRoy, etc. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1991 16:37:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: HENKING@HWS.BITNET Subject: Re: Subject for study for the person interested in ancient and contemporary goddess wqorship: texts include (in barying l;evels ogf seriousness) the work of merlin stone, marija gimbutas, carol christ (laugher of aphrodite), pamela berger (the goddess obscured: transformation of the grain protectress from goddess to saint); and etcetera. for people interested in women's studies in religion i would also recommend the journal for the feminist study of religion. schools which might (?) be interestuing include: harvard divinity school there is a women's theological institute in Boston claremont theological school has a women and religion m.a. susan (my address via bitnet is henking@hws) ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1991 19:22:34 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phillip Scott <70304.427@COMPUSERVE.COM> Subject: TOO MUCH JUNK MAIL MAIL OFF ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1991 13:05:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: REID@ACUVAX.BITNET Subject: RE: Women and music (cont.)... Laura ! Would you like to have your query re: women studies and music/musicology programs included in the ILWC Journal? Have you received any good responses? I Got FAX and other materials from Spain. Will send these from office, hopefully tomorrow. Best wishes. Sally Reid ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1991 15:56:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "NAME'Janice M. Bogstad'" Subject: Re: Women travellers bibliography Carolyn, thanks so much for the reference on women travellers. While I was at a seminar for librarians at Oxford last summer (1990) one of my colleagues was working on 17th century women travellers and ran into some good material which I didn't have time to read. I am tried to do some research earlier on western women in china but there isn't much available except about missionaries and I am really looking forward to the book you've cited. have you read the book of collected stories called, something like, "With Pen and Parosal"? Travel for women previous to the 20th century appears to be fraught with problems - it is even so now and is something that infurior- ates me more than many of the other restrictions we find ourselves under so i love reading about women who have somehow gotten around them. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1991 15:57:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "NAME'Janice M. Bogstad'" Subject: Re: Women travellers bibliography sorry, i forgot to include my email address again. And i will get the correct citation form the parasol book tomorrow. It is BOGSTAJM@UWEC.EDU. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1991 17:39:55 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: VILLERS@OUACCVMB.BITNET Subject: women and travel There was a book written by a Belgian woman entitled "Deux Femmes au Hogar". It was (is) written by Gabrielle D'Ieteren (I think that's the correct spelling). She and the other woman undertook a long trek through Africa and wrote about their experiences. I knew the author. She was a resourceful and independent person. She was also independently wealthy, which was useful. If anyone is interested I'll try to get the details. I don't think it really is all that bad for women who want to travel. Anymore than it is for men. The major hassles are airlines and banks, I found out. Not much worse than venturing out of ones own territory in Southern Ohio. Greetings. Anne Villers ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1991 18:17:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: HENKING@HWS.BITNET Subject: Re: Women and music (cont.)... does anyone know any good materials on race and opera? i have a friend who is thinking of doing a course (a first year seminar) using la traviata as a focus .... this will allow lots of gender/feminist focus; but she wants to address issues of race too. she's got some ideas but needs any further ideas you might have. please send replies directly to me via bitnet (henking@hws) or internet. thanks susan ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1991 20:43:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "BETH VANFOSSEN, INSTITUTE TEACHING/RESEARCH ON WOMEN, (301)830-2334" Subject: messages are interesting, but I can't spend the time mail off ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1991 21:18:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: how to stop mail (and how NOT to) In spite of my sending everyone that lucid, scintillating, gracefully written Guide for the Perplexed, also known as the WMST-L User's Guide, some people still seem not to know how to stop mail from WMST-L. The proper way to stop mail is to send the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (if you subscribed via Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (if you subscribed via Internet): SET WMST-L NOMAIL If you wish to sign off the list rather than just stop your mail, send the following message to one of the above LISTSERV addresses: SIGNOFF WMST-L Sending the message "mail off" will accomplish nothing. Sending any of the above messages to WMST-L rather than to LISTSERV will merely clutter 535 people's email accounts with a piece of unwanted mail. Please be considerate of your fellow subscribers. Read the User's Guide and follow its directions. If you have questions, write to me privately. Thanks for your understanding and cooperation. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1991 00:46:50 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: The Perpetual Undergraduate Subject: witchcraft in the Tudor/Stuart period or thereabouts I am looking for some hard information about witchraft in the Tudor/Stuart period. Specifically, I am trying to compare political/religious discourse on female rulership with political/religious discourse on witchcraft. I am trying to show that the misogyny expressed in each is all of a piece and is tied to social upheaval and the birth of modern science. Locating useful primary sources, however, has proven quite a challenge. Collections of early modern English writings tend not to be cross-referenced by subject. And even when they are done, "women" and "misogyny" and "gynecocracy" and "female rulership" tend not to be subjects listed. Any suggestions/sources/tips would be appreciated. Please respond privately to labgvp@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu (I am setting my options to nomail due to piled up work.) Gratefully yours, G. Vinton Palazzolo ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1991 21:52:04 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MESSAGE AGENT Subject: Re: witchcraft in the Tudor/Stuart period or thereabouts Dear Women's Studies List, This is an automatic reply. Feel free to send additional mail, as only this one notice will be generated. The following is a prerecorded message, sent for Alfred Bork I will be in Atlanta from Thursday afternoon until Sunday afternoon. I can be reached at the Ritz Carlton in Buckhead. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1991 08:50:52 GMT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: Linda Lopez McAlister/Hypatia Subject: witchcraft in the Tudor/Stuart period or thereabouts In-Reply-To: note of 11/11/91 00:51 A person who might be helpful to you on this is Nancy Tuana (TUANA@UTDALLAS) who has a new book coming out from Indiana University Press that looks at the intertwining of myth, metaphysics, religion, and science in Western thought and has some things to say about the connections you're interested in re: misgyny social upheval and the birth of modern science. LINDA LOPEZ McALISTER DLLAFAA@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU (Internet) Women's Studies Dept. DLLAFAA@CFRVM_(Bitnet) University of South Florida, Tampa 33620 (813)974-5531 #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*# ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1991 11:27:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: RSOLIE@SMITH.BITNET Subject: Re: domesticity There is a particularly grim novel about domesticity by Stowe--in which she takes an uncomfortably ambiguous position--called "Pink and White Tyranny." Ruth Solie Smith College RSOLIE@SMITH ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1991 10:03:43 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bernice Lacks Subject: Women of South Asia In answer to the request for information on women of South Asia, I wondered if those who are interested know about the COMMITTEE ON SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN BULLETIN. It cost $16/year for individuals and $25/year for libraries. The address is: COSAW, Psychology Department Texas A & M University College Station, TX 77843 The BULLETIN publishes essays, reports, interviews, reviews, and creative work by and about South Asian women. It also lists scholar's addresses with their areas of research, announcements of conferences and new publications, addresses of organizations and it occasionally has bibliographies. Bernice Lacks California State University, Fresno Henry Madden Library Bernicel@zimmer.CSUFresno.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1991 12:26:01 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Spike I am looking for any references on feminist critics of television doing gender. Or any articles of television doing gender Thanks wende ************************************************************************ Wende S. Pusch Graduate Student on the Loose Pretty scary, eh? Syracuse University Bitnet: WENDEP@SUVM ************************************************************************ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1991 13:51:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BHOWARD@COLGATEU.BITNET Subject: Sources on hierarchy I am involved in research that indicates that a significant number of college seniors, both male and female, describe themselves as writers by repeating their professors' evaluations of their papers: their grades, their skills compared to other writers, and free-form qualitative rankings such as "good," "average," and "weak." Applied to this phenomenon, Gerda Lerner's assertion--that the creation of patriarchy and its ongoing subordination of women and other minus-power groups depends upon perceiving and reifying difference--suggests to me that at least for these students, writing in the academy has served primarily as a cross-beam in the patriarchal superstructure, providing an identification of self in terms of sub- and superordinate difference and pitting the subordinated self in a struggle against--or capitulation to--the superordinate professorial authority. Several people outside Women's Studies with whom I have speculated about the significance of this particular preliminary research finding have responded by asking, "What's wrong with that?" Specifically, they can see nothing "wrong" with hierarchy as a organizing principle of the academy. In December I will be giving a preliminary report of my research in a Modern Language Association session, "Rereading Feminism: Addressing Issues of Gender and Authority in Writing Courses." In that report I would like to address the question of hierarchy directly, rather than stipulating it as a shared assumption--since many members of my audience will probably be from Rhetoric but not from Women's Studies. Can you help me locate sources that examine hierarchy as an cultural problem? (Carol Gilligan's IN A DIFFERENT VOICE is typical in that for the most part she takes it as a shared assumption.) THE CREATION OF PATRIARCHY is the only source I know of that addresses the "problem" of hierarchy directly. Can you tell me others? If you wish, you may respond to me at my E-Mail address: BHOWARD@COLGATEU.BITNET. Becky Howard Director, Interdisciplinary Writing Program Colgate University 13 Oak Drive Hamilton, New York 13346 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1991 20:43:50 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Frank Dane Subject: Re: Sources on hierarchy In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 11 Nov 1991 13:51:00 EDT from Becky Howard's request for information re: hierarchy seems to presuppose that hierarchy in academia is inherently based upon, or inculcates, subordination of minus-power individuals/groups. She notes reactions from colleagues of the form "What's wrong with that?". There is, of course, a great deal wrong with that, but I'm not sure that a hier- archy in academia is something that can be avoided. A course instructor presumably does have more knowledge about the topic than students--an inherent hierarchy. I know more about social psychology than the students in my sophomore course on social psychology; were that not so, I should not be the instructor. (That, of course, does not presuppose that I necessarily know more about anything else than any of the students.) Comparisons, too, are inherent in the learning process; students should know more about the course topic at the end of the course than they knew at the beginning. How much more? Whatever amount is determined by the instructor as sufficient to merit whatever labels are used for grades or other types of feedback. Comparisons between students are not necessary, and perhaps should best be avoided, but comparisons between each student and the instructor (or the instructor's standard for acquired knowledge) are necessary if the instructor is to provide any feedback to the students. None of the above precludes an atmosphere of shared learning or co-education in which instructor learns from student and vice versa. However, the concept of instructor/class leader does require the imposition of a hierarchy in academia. Thus, there may be both good and not-so-good hierarchies. Francis C. Dane, Assoc. Prof. & Chair Department of Pschology, Mercer University Macon, GA 31207-0001 USA FDANE@UGA.BITNET ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1991 00:32:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Seven calls for papers I have received word of the following seven calls for papers. For more information, contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ************************************************************** 1) "Childless by Choice," a feminist anthology, locates women's decisions not to have children within the context of their struggle for reproductive freedom and the right to self-determination. The editors are interested in hearing from women who have decided not to have children and who see this as a positive life choice. The anthology will consider the pressures that women experience in choosing childlessness and how race/ethnicity, culture, or sexual orientation affect this choice. Women of all races, classes, ages, and occupations are encouraged to respond. Contributions can take any creative form, not to exceed twenty pages. Those whose work is accepted will receive two copies of the anthology and a 40 percent discount on additional copies. Send contributions with a selfaddressed, stamped envelope by December 1, 1991 to Herbooks, P.O. Box 7467, Santa Cruz, California 95061. 2) Papers are invited for "Alice in Wonderland, First International Conference on Girls and Girlhood: Transitions and Dilemmas," to be held June 16-19, 1992, in Amsterdam. Papers should relate girlhood to one of the following: eros, sexuality, and the body; policy-making and the state; imagination and representation; education and upbringing; youth culture and life-world; employment and schooling; theory and epistemology. For further information, write to Alice in Wonderland, First International Conference on Girls and Girlhood, Conference Service Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelann 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 3) Articles are invited for a proposed anthology of theoretical explorations in the area of feminism and animal rights. History (such as the role of women in the antivivisection movement), critiques of science and medicine, anthropology, literary criticism, aesthetics, religion, ethical theory, "rights theory," and the interconnections among the social constructions of race, gender, class, and species are possible issues of interest, along with issues related to ecofeminism, popular culture, the Third World, persons of color, lesbians, and the differently abled. Please send two copies of articles, by June 30, 1992, to Carol Adams, 814 Grinnell Drive, Richardson, Texas 75081; Josephine Donovan, English Department, 304 Neville Hall, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469; or Susanne Kappelier, Flat 13, 92/94 Upper St., Giles, Norwich NR2 1LT, England. 4) The editors of "Connections and Disconnections: Mothers, Daughters, and Death," a collection of essays, invite submissions for a multidisciplinary collection of feminist perspectives on adult daughters' experience with the death of their mothers. Writers of poetry and short fiction, as well as creative and scholarly prose in the areas of philosophy, religious studies, critical and literary theory, developmental and clinical psychology, and related fields, are invited to submit their work. Send submissions by June 30, 1992, to Editors, Disconnections, Philosophy Department, De Paul University, 802 W. Belden, Chicago, Illinois 60614. For further information, call Mary Larrabee at 312-362-8224. 5) The first International Conference on Women in Africa and African Diaspora: Bridges across Activism and the Academy, will be held in Nigeria, West Africa, in June 1992. Papers and activities will reflect every discipline in the academy as well as the contributions of practitioners and activists outside the academy. This will be an opportunity for researchers and activists inside and outside Africa to discuss mutual collective interests and plan collaborative work. The deadline for submission of proposals and abstracts is December 31, 1991; send to Organizing Committee, Women in Africa and African Diaspora, 1992, c/o Professor Obioma Nnaemeka, Department of French, The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio 44691. 6) SIGNS: JOURNAL OF WOMEN IN CULTURE AND SOCIETY seeks submission for a special issue, "Feminism and the Law," slated for publication in 1993. Feminist jurisprudence is challenging traditional legal analysis as little more than a celebration of rules that disrespect differences and privilege a particular class. The editorial board believes it is important to provide a forum for further exploration of this development in legal scholarship and to encourage transformative approaches to legal issues. The special issue editors, who include Mary Louise Fellows and Patricia Williams, welcome theoretical, historical, and empirical approaches and are particularly interested in inter- or multidisciplinary research that considers gender, rase/ethnicity, class, and sexual orientation as central to an analysis of jurisprudential questions. Please submit articles no later than September 1, 1992, to SIGNS, 495 Ford Hall, University of Minnesota, 224 Church Street S.E., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455. For further information about this special issue, contact Mary Louise Fellows, 338 Law School, University of Minnesota, 229 19th Avenue, S., Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 (612-626-0264). 7) The ninth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, "Transformations: Women, Gender, Power," will take place June 11 - 13, 1993, at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. The program committee welcomes proposals for complete panels, roundtables, or individual papers addressing the relations between feminist history and social and political practice and/or taking an interdisciplinary or comparative approach crossing national, cultural, racial, or ethnic lines. Please submit proposals in triplicate by February 1, 1992, and include panel title; title and one-page abstract for each paper; and one-page vita for each par- ticipant with address and telephone number. Enclose self-addressed, stamped postcard. Send proposals on U.S. topics to Elaine Abelson, New School for Social Research, Eugene Lang College, 65 West 11th Street, New York, New York 10011; on other than U.S. topics to Margaret Hunt, Amherst College 2254, P.O. Box 5000, Amherst, Massachusetts 01002; comparative U.S.-non U.S. topics to either address. Mark correspondence "ATTN: Berkshire Conference." ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1991 00:40:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Two announcements Here are two miscellaneous announcements that didn't seem to fit with the calls for papers that I just sent to the list. Again, for more information, contact the people mentioned below, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc **************************************************************** 1) "Learning Together/Working Together: A South-North Dialogue" is the topic of the Fifth International Forum of the Association for Women in Development, to take place November 21-24, 1991, in Washington, D.C. The conference intends to bring together scholars, practitioners, and policymakers from both the southern and northern hemispheres and to examine women's political, economic, educational, and cultural empowerment and promote international organizing around common agendas. For more information, contact Conference Office, Division of Continuing Education, College Court Building, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506-6006 (913-532-5575). 2) A data base of Third World women's literary works is being compiled at Gustavus Adolphus College. The data base lists over six hundred novels, collections of short stories, plays, poetry collections, and personal narratives, and many entries are annotated. The data base can be searched by author, title, region, country, and to some extent by genre and key words. Information about new publications is welcome. For search information, contact Barbara Fister, Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota 56082 (telephone 507-933-7553; internet address fister@gacvx.1.gac.edu). ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1991 21:42:00 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: SUEELLEN@MAX.U.WASHINGTON.EDU Subject: Re: why women's studies? PLEASE TAKE ME OFF THE LIST FOR THE TIME BEING - NEED INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO BE TEMPORARILY REMOVED. THANKS. SUE-ELLEN JACOBS SUEELLEN@MAX.U.WASHINGTON.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1991 14:33:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: KILATTA@VAXSAR.VASSAR.EDU Subject: Re: Women travellers bibliography For the person interested in women traveling: Journal of a Lady of Quality, Being the Narrative of a Journey >From Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Protugal, in the years 1774 to 1776, Ed. Evangeline Walker Andrews, in collaberation with Charles McLean Andrews, (New Haven: Yale U. P., 1921) I've got it on my shelf and have never gotten around to reading it. It looks great, however. Kimberly Latta KILATTA@vassar.edu. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1991 07:25:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: LAURA KRAMER Subject: RE: fellowships, jobs, awards kkklkkkkooijjuh ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1991 08:55:59 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathleen Blee In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 11 Nov 1991 12:26:01 EST from Sorry, it's too far afield from my work to give you any help. -KB ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1991 09:04:12 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Julien S. Murphy" In-Reply-To: Re: Readings for intor course I'm using RACE,CLASS, and Gender (Andersen, Collins) (Wadsworth) I've used MOTHERING: Essays in Feminist Theory by Trebilcot Sister Outsider (lorde), Femininity and Domination (Bartky) THe Politics of Reality (Frye), and an anth ology, RACISM and Sexism (Rothenberg). Anyone have experiences with the first entry? Please let me know. JMURPHY@MAINE (Julien S. Murphy) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1991 08:52:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: WELLINGH@EARLHAM.BITNET Subject: Re: Sources on hierarchy Be sure to look at Elizabeth Minnich's book, *Transforming Knowledge*. Also Sandra Harding's *Whose Science, Whose Knowledge*. ****************************************************************************** B. Welling Hall Department of Politics Earlham College Richmond, IN 47374 USA E-mail: WELLINGH@EARLHAM.BITNET Work Telephone: 317-983-1208 FAX: 317-983-1553 TELEX: 20210 EARLHAM BK RIC ****************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1991 08:53:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: WELLINGH@EARLHAM.BITNET Subject: Re: Sources on hierarchy To add to may earlier comment, you might also want to look at Kenneth Boulding's book, *The Three Faces of Power*. WellingH@Earlham ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1991 16:55:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "PATRICIA W. BENTLEY" Subject: Re: Request for Info While Tom Robbins may well disagree, Jezebel is the focus of his latest novel, SKINNY LEGS AND ALL. I would recommend it for the use of language and an engaging analysis of middle-eastern, especially Jerusa- lem politics and history. Patty Bentley, SUNY Plattsburgh BENTLEPW@SNYPLAVA ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1991 17:54:39 GMT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: Linda Lopez McAlister/Hypatia Subject: Job Listing UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAM (pending approval) is seeking an additional full-time faculty member (Ass't. Prof.) to teach the literature component of a new concentration on women of color (at the under- graduate level) and both undergraduate and graduate courses in related areas such as feminist theory, literature, or creative writing. This is a tenure-earning position in an established program (this is our 20th anniversary year) with 7 full-time W.S. faculty members and many affiliated faculty members in other departments. Send cv, letter describing research and teaching interests, samples of work and 3 letters of recommendation by 3/23/92 to: Prof. Linda Lopez McAlister, Chair, Women's Studies Search Committe, University of South Florida, HMS 413, Tampa, FL 33620. AA/EEO Employer. Pursuant to Florida law, applications and meetings regarding same are open to the public. We will be doing preliminary interviewing at the MLA meetings in San Francisco (Marriott). LINDA LOPEZ McALISTER DLLAFAA@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU (Internet) Women's Studies Dept. DLLAFAA@CFRVM_(Bitnet) University of South Florida, Tampa 33620 (813)974-5531 #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*# ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1991 12:04:28 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Myrna Goldenberg BI46999 Subject: Poetry Reading Carolyn Forche will read her poetry on Wednesday, Nov 20, noon at Montgomery College, Rockville campus, room 205 library. Reception to follow on the 5th floor, English Dept office, Campus Tower. Call 301 251 7417 for more information. Everyone is welcome. If you wish or expect to bring a class let Myrna Goldenberg know: BI46999@MONTCOLC Thanks. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1991 11:52:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Jean L. Potuchek jupiter.cc.gettysburg.edu" Subject: Graduate Programs in Feminist Art History I have just had an inquiry from a former student who is applying to graduate programs in art history and would like to go somewhere where she could do a concentration in feminist art history. I am a sociologist and not up to date on what's happening where in art history. Help! What are the best places for her to apply? Thanks. --------------- Jean L. Potuchek Women's Studies Bitnet: jpotuche@gburg Gettysburg College Internet:jpotuche@cc.gettysburg.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1991 13:55:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: KBECKWITH@WOOSTER.BITNET Subject: Graduate Programs in Women and Politics Several of my students have expressed interest in doing graduate work in Women's Studies or in Political Science, with a focus on Women and Politics; some are interested primarily in feminist political theory, others in empirical political research on institutions, behavior, etc. I would very much appreciate receiving information identifying such programs. Thanks! Karen Beckwith, Department of Political Science, The College of Wooster BITNET: kbeckwith@wooster ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1991 14:17:49 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Thomas Sullivan Sociology Subject: GRAD PROG WOMENST/SOCIOLOGY I have a student who is interested in graduate school in sociology with an emphasis on gender and women's studies. However, she is limited geographically to the Great Lakes region, from Ohio-Indian- Illinois up through Wisconsin, Minnesota, and possibly the Dakotas. (Quite a bit of territory at that!.) I would be interested in hearing of sociology programs in that region that have a significant gender/women's studies program or is linked into such a program. How much commitment is there to the program? How many faculty/courses? Is there a research or other center that does women's studies stuff at the university. Answer to me or the list. Thomas J. Sullivan Department of Sociology and Social Work Northern Michigan University Marquette, Michigan 49855 bitnet: FATJ@NMUMUS ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1991 14:28:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: UAHNXF01@UAHVAX1.BITNET Subject: RE: Sources on hierarchy I think that Anne Wilson Schaef's *Women's Reality* is still a good source about hierarchy and about "levels of truth". Nancy Finley UAHNXF01@UAHVAX1 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1991 14:45:00 MDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Imelda Mulholland (303)556-3538" Subject: thought this might interest you folks? From: BITNET%"FISC-L@NDSUVM1.BITNET" "FISC-L Fee-Based Info Serv Centers in A cademic Libraries" 13-NOV-1991 10:33:19.92 To: Imelda Mulholland , Mara Sprain CC: Subj: Center for Text and Technology Electronic Text Project Catalogue Return-path: Received: from cmsa.Berkeley.EDU (MAILER@UCBCMSA) by cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu with PMDF#10051; Wed, 13 Nov 1991 10:33 MST Received: by UCBCMSA (Mailer R2.08 R208004) id 7099; Wed, 13 Nov 91 09:31:28 PST Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1991 10:58:36 CST From: Jim Wilderotter -- Georgetown Center for Text and Technology Subject: Center for Text and Technology Electronic Text Project Catalogue Sender: FISC-L Fee-Based Info Serv Centers in Academic Libraries To: Imelda Mulholland , Mara Sprain Reply-to: FISC-L Fee-Based Info Serv Centers in Academic Libraries Message-id: <2CD61814F4011A03@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu> X-Envelope-to: IMULHOLLAND, MSPRAIN Since April 1989, the Center for Text and Technology of the Academic Computer Center at Georgetown University has been compiling information about projects in electronic text in the humanities. Currently we have details on over 300 projects in 27 countries. Because this information is constantly being updated, any printing would be obsolescent. Consequently, we have created an on-line Catalogue that is searchable through Internet and dial-in access. Thus far, response has been gratifying; last month we logged over 100 inquiries. An illustrated User's Guide to the Catalogue of Projects in Electronic Text is available free of charge through surface mail. In addition, a public-domain version of KERMIT and a keyboard- mapping program can be obtained through file transfer protocol (ftp). For further information, please contact me personally at the address below, rather than sending to the list. James A. Wilderotter II Project Assistant Center for Text and Technology Academic Computer Center Reiss Science Building, Room 238 Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057 Tel. (202) 687-6096 BITNET: Wilder@Guvax Internet: Edu%"Wilder@Guvax.Georgetown.Edu" ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1991 16:39:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BHOWARD@COLGATEU.BITNET Subject: Re: Sources on hierarchy Thank you for your help! I'm receiving responses giving me sources from economics, education, critical theory, political science--in other words, you and others have provided tremendous assistance in my effort to focus in on theory of hierarchy. I'll look at the Schaef source right away. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1991 17:40:41 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Ariel x4970 Subject: thanks thanks to everyone who sent me comments in response to "Why Women's Studies?" the panel session went very well and it was wonderful to be able to speak at times voices other than my own and your comments were always thought-provoking, stimulating further reflection on my part. needless to say, ten minutes was completely inadequate, but it was a start and perhaps we actually reached some of the 200 students. again, my thanks. p.s. to ginny daley: it was wonderful of you to send the materials by mail, they arrived yesterday, just in time to help me frame some of my comments. what's your email address?? hope you're well and look forward to seeing you in san antonio in january! ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1991 00:14:37 -0900 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nancy K Subject: drop drop ftnkk@alaska.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1991 11:39:13 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Slide Subject: women composers I am interested in finding some music composed by women for trombones (either solo or multiple). If you know of some names I could look up, please reply to my e-mail address. Thanks very much, Internet: kingspam@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1991 13:02:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: LENTZ61@SNYPOTVA.BITNET Subject: Re: women composers I'm sorry to post to the entire list, but to the person who inquired about women composers and music for the trombone...check aaron cohen's International encyclopedia of women composers/2nd ed.--it has listings by instrument. You might also try Judith Zaimont's Contemporary concert music by women: a directory of the composers and their works/ Westport, Conn. Greenwood Press: 1981. The Cohen copyright is 1987. Check your music library at your university-and i'll also get back to you with more specifics. good luck!! laura lentz p.o. box 985 potsdam, ny 13676 lentz61@snypotva p.s. i need your bitnet address to write to you privately. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1991 11:06:00 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Emily Horning Subject: (COPY) Is there anyone out there? Have any of you WMST-Lers out there heard of this outrageous game? Emily Horning ECZ5EJH@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU -------------------------TEXT-OF-FORWARDED-MAIL-------------------------------- Received: (from MITVMA.MIT.EDU for via BSMTP) Received: (from MAILER@MITVMA for MAILER@UCLAMVS via NJE) (UCLA/Mail V1.500 M-RSCS2073-2073-25); Thu, 14 Nov 91 08:32:34 PST Received: by MITVMA (Mailer R2.08 R208004) id 2857; Thu, 14 Nov 91 11:24:47 EST Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1991 08:19:20 PST Reply-To: ALA Feminist Task Force Discussion List Sender: ALA Feminist Task Force Discussion List From: golphenee <3715P@NAVPGS.BITNET> Subject: Is there anyone out there? To: "Emily J. Horning" , Melissa Silvestre I recently signed on the the network, but I have not seen any communication. Is anyone out there, is the network still active. Did anyone seen the article about the new board game in Japan called "Human Trash". Players gamble with card representing different women. "A pregnancy card earns you a lost turn; a virgin card is worth a lot; and unwanted females can be sold to Hong Kong." Are we losing ground, or what? ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1991 14:32:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: POHLHAUS%VUVAXCOM.BITNET@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU Subject: "is there anybody out there?" I have been on this list since September and it has helped me to survive the Hill-Thomas hearings. I do not take part in the dialogue as yet but perhaps this inquiry will help me to do this. I am appalled by the game mentioned. I am intriqued by the various references to all sorts of subjects that show up in my mail. Thank you all!! pohlhaus@vuvaxcom.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1991 16:08:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Freda B. Birnbaum" Subject: Reading recommendation, religious fundamentalism/feminism EDU%"unger@APOLLO.MONTCLAIR.EDU" "RHODA UNGER" wrote, a few days ago, about her interest in ... the relationship between religious fundamentalism and sexist attitudes... and other good stuff. You're probably aware of the recently published _Rachel's Daughters: Newly Orthodox Jewish Women_ by Debra Renee Kaufman, Rutgers U. Press. ISBN 0-8135-1638-2 (pbk); BM726.K38 1991; 305.48'696-dc20. She's a sociologist; sees them as a subset of "patriarchal women". (I haven't finished it yet, but looks good.) Freda B. Birnbaum (not an academic, "just" an interested lay person taking advantage of our BITNET connection! +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Freda Birnbaum, Sr. Programmer/Analyst Teachers College, Columbia University | | BITNET: JNET%"FBBIRNBAUM@CUTCV2" CCIMS, Box 43 | | 212-678-3491 (Eastern time) New York, NY 10027 USA | +------------- Call on God, but row away from the rocks -----------------------+ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1991 15:02:22 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: nancy felipe russo Subject: Whence the 2nd wave? Question: what ever happened to Anne Moody, Shulamith Firestone, and Kate Millett? The inquiring minds of my students (and me too) want to know...... Nancy Felipe Russo Director, Women's Studies ASU, Tempe, AZ 85287-1801 (602)965-2358 FAX:(602)965-2357 BITNET: ATNFR@ASUACAD ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1991 17:54:24 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Allan Hunter Subject: Re: Whence the 2nd wave? In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 14 Nov 1991 15:02:22 MST from In response to questions... What happened to Shulamith Firestone: she has been having a bit of a tough time in Manhattan, sort of withdrawing and becoming psychiatric- ally labeled at one time; is on the receiving end of good supportive interest and so forth by Redstockings persons such as Kathie Sarachild. What happened to Kate Millett: similar run-ins with psychiatric oppres- sion, including involuntary lockup in Ireland and being betrayed by some well-intentioned feminists who believed in the myth of mental illness and the right of the system to demand that she take their drugs and be "sane" (read: uncreative, emotionally flattened). See Millett's new book on this subject, *The Loony Bin Trip*. Anne Moody: not sure. Good question! Incidentally, it is about time that the feminist movement acknowledged what the psychiatric inmates' liberation front has been saying for the last twenty years! The converse acknow- ledgement has long since occurred in a big way: feminism is almost a taken-for-granted world-view within the anti-psychiatric movement, including the guys. As a political theory, it is so much better on feelings issues and consciousness issues than alternatives such as Marxism. PS -- Does anyone out there know whatever happened to Valerie Solanis? She did SCUM Manifesto at the age of 24 back in 1971 and I've always wondered what her later concepts of patriarchy and liberation might be; but she seems to have disappeared entirely. -- allan hunter ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1991 18:09:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: HENKING@HWS.BITNET Subject: Re: Whence the 2nd wave? millett. of course, continues to publish. see her book the looney bin trip ....a rea susan henking@hws) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1991 20:45:06 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stuart Schmidt Subject: Socialization I am looking for material that discusses our nonconscious, subliminal gender socialization.....how we are subliminally taught male and female stereotypes. I appreciate any help you can give me. Stuart Schmidt V5149e @ TempleVM ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1991 21:13:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BMARANTZ@SNYESCVA.BITNET Subject: RE: Socialization Re Stuart Schmidt's request on socialization experiences: You might want to look at Daniel Stern's THE INTERPERSONAL WORLD OF THE INFANT. While not directly addressing the subject, there's much in his discussion of "tuning" in the mother/infant dialogue that I believe you will find relevant. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1991 22:26:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: W. S. Departments (please respond privately) On p. A21 of the current issue (Nov. 13, 1991) of the Chronicle of Higher Education, there's a brief note about the University of California at Berkeley elevating its Women's Studies Program to departmental status. The note concludes: "Berkeley is the fourth campus in the country to establish a women's studies department, according to the National Women's Studies Association. More than 600 colleges have non-departmental programs." Surely this isn't correct, is it? My guess is that perhaps someone said or meant that Berkeley was the fourth campus in the *Univ. of California system* to gain departmental status, not the fourth campus in the country. If Women's Studies on your campus has departmental status, or you're absolutely sure about the departmental status of programs elsewhere, I'd appreciate it if you'd send me a message, PREFERABLY PRIVATELY, NOT TO WMST-L. I will then send a message to WMST-L summarizing the responses. Thanks. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1991 07:06:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BURNET@ZODIAC.RUTGERS.EDU Subject: Re: drop I am desperate! I can no longer afford the time to deal with this list, but when I followed the recent instructions to "SET WMST-L NO MAIL" (addressing LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU" I received a reply which indicated that the NO command is no longer valid. Help! ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1991 09:33:53 -0500 Reply-To: schipper@kean.ucs.mun.ca Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bill Schipper Subject: Women and Crafts I have suddenly been given the assignment to interview and write a feature article about a woman very deeply involved in women's crafts in rural Newfoundland. Because I know relatively little about the subject of crafts, can anyone usggest any books or articles I might read ?? Thanks.-- Barbara Rose (schipper@kean.ucs.mun.ca) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1991 10:47:30 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Jean L. Potuchek jupiter.cc.gettysburg.edu" Subject: RE:Whence the 2nd wave? In Message Thu, 14 Nov 1991 15:02:22 MST, nancy felipe russo writes: > Question: what ever happened to Anne Moody, Shulamith Firestone, and > Kate Millett? The inquiring minds of my students (and me too) want to > know...... > I don't know about Anne Moody and Shulamith Firestone, but Kate Millett is still out there struggling for change. Her recent book, The Loony Trip Bin takes up where Phyllis Chesler's Women and Madness left off twenty years ago -- but in a much more personal and horrific way. --------------- Jean L. Potuchek Women's Studies Bitnet: jpotuche@gburg Gettysburg College Internet:jpotuche@cc.gettysburg.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1991 17:09:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: WELLINGH@EARLHAM.BITNET Subject: Re: Socialization I don't know if it is subliminal enough, but you might be interested in Nancy Hartsock's work. See her essay: "Masculinity, Heroism, and War" in *Rocking the Ship of STate*. ****************************************************************************** B. Welling Hall Department of Politics Earlham College Richmond, IN 47374 USA E-mail: WELLINGH@EARLHAM.BITNET Work Telephone: 317-983-1208 FAX: 317-983-1553 TELEX: 20210 EARLHAM BK RIC ****************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1991 17:27:25 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: VILLERS@OUACCVMB.BITNET Subject: psychiatric drugs In response to "what ever happened to...", I feel a little uncomfortable when people discuss mental illness without knowledge or experience. Antianxiety agents and antispychotic drugs do work, some better than others. People who are suffering from deep depression should be encouraged to seek help rather than read phoney advice. Major depression can wreck a human life and lead to suicide. With the correct diagnosis and pharmacology, aperson can begin to function again and be productive. True, there can be some misdiagnosing and, therefore, clients should always be encouraged to seek a second opinion. There is also a condition called manic depression (bi-polar) where the drug of choice is lithium. It works extremelly well with few side effects. If these writers had problems, received helped, lets not critize the modalities without knowing the entire story. I work with men and women who are afflicted with mental illness,and drugs do work. 25 years from now, we may have some wonder drugs for depression, delusions and psychotic episodes.If we can prevent one suicide until then, I think the treatment is worthwhile, don't you? ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1991 17:20:09 -0900 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: the Eternal Student Subject: Re: women composers I think that Carla Bley has composed some short pieces for trombones, but I don't recall the names of the pieces or the albums that they are on. Carla is not a composer in the European "art-music" tradition. She is an experimental jazz compose/arrange/musician. I think I have an album that contains trombone compositions by her, so I'll let you know the name of it when I find it. (Eric,K aren's friend) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1991 22:56:48 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Allan Hunter Subject: Re: psychiatric drugs In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 15 Nov 1991 17:27:25 EST from I disagree totally and vehemently with VILLERS@ouaccvmb. I regard my- self as thoroughly experienced and knowledgeable of the subject of so- called "mental illness" (an ideology-laden metaphor riddled with untrue claims), but my perspective differs from that of this person. May I safely assume that this is a forum in which differences of perspective can be aired with a token gesture from disagreeing parties to the old truth that any of us might be wrong about something? I will admit the possibility that I have been misguided or do not see things as they actually are, and that maybe psychiatrists are actually doing some good for people who actually suffer from real physical brain disorders that are legitimately called "bipolar disorder", "depression", or "schizophrenia". But I don't think so. I am firmly convinced that there is no such thing as "mental illness". The legend of mental illness began in the early days of medical advancement, when physiological conditions such as epilepsy and syphilis were proven to cause aberrant states of mind and emotion and behavior, which were previously thought of as moral depravity or something like that. And, at that time, the legend was a legitimate theory. But with only a few exceptions, the ensuing decades gave medical science little reason to continue to believe that human deviance (oddness, profound unhappiness, "madness" [incomprehensibly disordered thinking], and other human mental/emotional states of being that were considered problematic) was a symptom of a brain pathology. But during that early his- torical period, it became utterly expedient for society to put the socially inconvenient into "places" and to treat their behav- ior as if it -- a. had no external causes, such as social conditions, whether in the large impersonal sense such as the effects of poverty or racism or in the smaller and more personal sense such as being badly treated in an emotional relationship or being incessantly teased and jeered at by the neighbors who don't like them; instead, it is all a matter of brain pathology and the behaviors have neither intent nor meaning in the usual sense of the words; b. was therefore not to be thought of in the same way as human behavior generally, in other words governed by existing laws that set necessary constraints on behavior outside of which one is free to behave as one wishes; and, when deemed by those who enforce laws to be in violation of them, such behavior to be judged in a formal situation in which one is allowed to defend one's actions against the charges, be defended by a lawyer, and so forth. Instead, these behaviors, whether legal or not, became reason for involun- tary incarceration; and, by declaration of the designated expert, became symptoms without any other meaning, whether meaningful or not. This is not to say that psychiatric practice was only used as a social control weapon against nonconformists or people with unpopular politics, although it was certainly used in that manner and still is. In fact, it is certainly true that many of those who were diagnosed as "mentally ill" were unhappy people seeking help or, at least, willing to accept that they needed help when it was offered. Whatever else madness and emotional volatility may or may not be, they don't tend to be especially pleasant conditions to be in. I ought to know. I've been that way. I speak from direct experience. And I've been in the bin. I'm an escaped paranoid schizophrenic who might still be receiving involuntary treatment if I hadn't escaped. But one cannot readily move from that observation to the claim that the hypothesis about brain disfunction (which, in its modern incarnation, makes many references to dopamine receptors in various parts of the brain, especially the cingulum, the frontal lobes, and the amygdala) has been validated. It hasn't. The empirical evidence concerning the existence of brain pathology or difference between those labeled "men- tally ill" and those who have not is pathetic and would be laughed out of the methodology classroom. There is as much hard evidence in support of ESP as there is in support of "mental illness" as brain- based pathology. In the 1950s, in search of a better way to control the wards of mental "hospitals", psychiatrists obtained a drug that was essentially a sub- type of antihistame but with stronger side-effects, on account of which it had been set aside as useless as an antihistamine. This subcategory of drugs, phenothiazines, soon yielded several drugs (Thorazine being first and most famous) which work to slow down *ALL* human nerve pro- cesses by interfering with what nerve cells do: synapse. It does this in a non-specific way, not targeting any behavior-related or feeling- related nerve clusters in particular (in fact, it tends to hit the motor control areas in the brain hardest, thus causing the permanent form of brain damage that results in the side effect called tardive dyskinesia). Then, after having adopted these drugs BECAUSE OF THE WAY THAT THEY MADE IT EASIER TO CONTROL THE WARDS, the psychiatrists decided that these drugs must be STOPPING THE DISEASE PROCESS that they had never been able to identify in dissections or tomography scans, etc., so they checked to see what Thorazine and its cousins actually do in the brain and found out that their function is a neuroleptic ("nerve-seizing") one, by interfering with dopamine metabolism. Aha, say the shrinks with the quieter wards full of zombies, that must mean that the mentally ill have too many dopa- mine receptors up there! Yeah, right. Take that logic into a course on logical inference if you want to see some giggling people. They say that Thorazine is like insulin for diabetics, it doesn't cure you but it makes up for your pathology! But have "normal" (not diagnosed "mentally ill") people been clinically shown to have fewer dopamine receptors, or less dopamine, than the designated "mentally ill"? Uh uh. The few studies that have demonstrated any kind of brain or biochemistry differences between those diagnosed "mentally ill" and those who have not been so diagnosed have used for their "mentally ill" test group mental patients who have been drugged with neuroleptic drugs for many years prior to testing; in some cases, they were taken off the drugs for test purposes, in other cases not. In either case, given chemicals that have been so thoroughly proven to be destructive of body tissues as the neuroleptics are, it is im- possible to demonstrate that the differences they've found are not caused by their own poisons. (The material that the phar- maceutical companies themselves put out in the Physicians' Desk Reference about the side effects & dangers of psychiatric drugs is vividly chilling). Scientific accuracy depends on reliability in the identification of one's variables, too. Psychiatrists' ability to specify and define terms such as "schizophrenic" (the oldest still in use) or "bipolar disorder", and to repeatedly recognize the same person's same behaviors as symptomatic of the same "disease" and to concur with each other's diagnosis is ridiculously low. It isn't quite as random as you'd get if you drew diagnoses (including normal) out of a hat, but it isn't much better. For example, in Britain, if you were a person who had been diagnosed "manic-depressive" by an English shrink, and we had to predict your most likely di- agnosis by an American psychiatrist doing an independent exam, the best guess according to statistics is "schizophrenic", be- cause the highest correlation of all the variables mentioned is between country and type of diagnosis: the Brits favor using manic dep and the American shrinks like to call us schizzy. And they'd rather you believe that they had this down to a science! This is so long I'm stopping before telling you the nightmare tales that so many of us have about being on the receiving end of psychiatric treatment, whether initially "voluntary" or coerced right from the start. But if further arguments about how MUCH those wonderful shrinks have done to help all those poor suffering "mentally ill", I'll have to reply to that, too. It ain't that way for oh so many of us. For further reading and as supportive bibliography for everything I'm saying here: The Politics of Schizophrenia - David Hill Psychiatric Drugs: Hazards to the Brain - Peter Breggin, M. D. Asylums - Erving Goffman Psychiatric Drugs: What You Should Know - "Dr. Caligari" [pen name for David Richman, M. D.] On Our Own: Patient-Controlled Alternatives to the Mental Health System - Judi Chamberlin Too Much Anger, Too Many Tears: A Personal Triumph over Psychiatry - Janet and Paul Gotkin "On Being Sane in Insane Places" - D. L. Rosenhan, article in ........deviance textbook; sorry, don't have my stuff in front of me at the moment. The Myth of Mental Illness - Thomas Szasz The Loony Bin Trip - Kate Millett allan hunter ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1991 01:25:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: mixed sports teams & gender roles Nancy Luikart has asked me to post this for her. Joan Korenman ****************************************************************** Professor Elizabeth Hall, HPER, is studying a unique basketball team in a very small Texas town. It's so small that they have combined the girl's and boy's basketball teams and the authorities are allowing them to compete against regional boy's teams. I've directed her to the usual references on gender roles and psyc tests. Does anyone have suggestions on questionnaires/scales/measures of girl's attitudes towards boys and boy's attitudes towards girls for before and after attitude changes? She is videoing the games. Any references to research or researchers would be appreciated. ***********************************Nancy Luikart, Librarian Texas Tech University linbl@ttacs1.bitnet linbl@ttacs.ttu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1991 08:32:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: UAHMLD01@UAHVAX1.BITNET Subject: Psychiatric treatment I'm going to foray into this one because of what I see as a tendency to polarize around the issue of psychiatric treatment of so-called "chronic" disorders. First of all, I generally disagree with Allan Hunter's analysis of psychiatry as unscientific and dangerous. I also disagree with some of his statements about the research findings regarding, for example, schizophrenia. The "dopamine hypothesis" has not been current for some time, although I suppose there are still some researchers around who are looking at it. There remains considerable interest in synaptic dysfunction and in the neural connections between the limbic system and the frontal cortex -- the latter primarily because recent, autopsy-based research has discovered atrophy of those connections and of the entire cortex in patients who, because our health system is so pitifully inadequate, have not received ANY care for their disorders. This of course is a chicken-egg question; does the gross disorganization present in chronic schizophrenia have a "ripple" effect on brain functioning, or is it the physiological deterioration which leads to the disorganization? Secondly, although his point about diagnostic reliability (or lack of it) is well taken, it points to the difficulties inherent in understanding the vast array of symptoms which are "collected" in disorders such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder (manic-depression). I would vehemently disagree with ANY psychiatrist who claims to have a handle on this; those that do are engaged in malpractice. However, this does not mean that such disorders DO NOT EXIST, whatever the difficulty of understanding them. Hunter disregards the genetic studies which have found a very high degree of "heritability" of some of these disorders as compared to the general population, even in twins who are raised apart. The real issue here is one of power. I have known, worked with and put up with a broad array of psychiatrists -- a family member is schizophrenic and it took several tries to find someone without a god complex; also I've done a great deal of clinical work and, being a psychologist rather than a psychiatrist, have needed to do referrals from time to time. I know several psychiatrists who will admit outright that our understanding of most "disorders" is pitifully inadequate, that the entire field has been too quick to label and to dole out medication -- much of which has awful side effects -- and that there is a tendency to dehumanize. Where I agree completely with Hunter is in his point that psychiatric labels are often used to control people who make other people uncomfortable. Thus, it can be used as a political tool -- and I mean "political" here in a broad sense -- with all of the attendant "treatment" as an extension of the diagnosis. In this regard, psychiatry is simply an extension of traditional, patriarchal, authoritarian medical models, which saw patients as labels and developed "treatment" essentially designed to make "the problem" go away. In many cases, the mere label of a mental/emotional illness has been enough to result in the abrogation of civil rights and patient rights, which include being advised of the consequences of drugging and other treatments, the availability of "alternate" treatments, and freedom to accept or reject such treatment. Because psychiatry is firmly rooted in this "tradition", it is ripe for abuse of power. As always, power relationships work to further disadvantage the already disadvantaged, so psychiatry has been used as a method of "control" against women, minorities, the economically disenfranchised, and individuals who choose not to fit the "system". I believe that this is still the rule within psychiatry. But, increasingly, there is a "new breed", many of whom are sincerely interested in discovering what is going on with each client and who try to work with people, rather than dictate to them, control them, make them "go away". Medicine is the same; the rule still seems to be that when you enter a physician's office, you are expected to hand over decisions about your body to this "authority"; however many physicians are now being trained to resist this and to work with clients; presenting them with information and impressions, discussing treatment options and letting the client make his or her own decisions. Power politics are the same, no matter what the setting. Some settings (for example, psychiatry, medicine, politicians) have the *potential* for inflicting much more harm than do others. Although psychiatry is one of those, I think it is important to recognize the problem is about power and not to brand an entire field and/or all of its practitioners negatively. Mary Lynne Dittmar RADICAL@UAHVAX1 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1991 12:15:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: WILL0001@SNYPLAVA.BITNET Subject: Re: Socialization Date sent: 16-NOV-1991 12:11:38 >From: IN%"WMST-L@UMDD.BITNET" "Women's Studies List" 15-NOV-1991 17:12:58.49 >To: luanne williams >CC: >Subj: RE: Socialization > >Return-path: >Received: from JNET-DAEMON by splava.cc.plattsburgh.edu with PMDF#10360; Fri, > 15 Nov 1991 17:12 EST >Received: From UMDD($MAILER) by SNYPLAVA with Jnet id 7511 for > WILL0001@SNYPLAVA; Fri, 15 Nov 91 17:12 EDT >Received: by UMDD (Mailer R2.03B) id 1761; Fri, 15 Nov 91 17:12:19 EST >Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1991 17:09:00 EST >From: WELLINGH@EARLHAM.BITNET >Subject: RE: Socialization >Sender: Women's Studies List >To: luanne williams >Reply-to: Women's Studies List >Message-id: >X-Envelope-to: WILL0001 > >John Money has done alot of work on gender studies at John Hopkins Hospital. I don't know if it is subliminal enough, but you might be interested in >it. I will look for more information... I did some research for a psychology class and I will forward the bibliography in a couple of days. Luanne Williams ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1991 13:33:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: UAHEBP01@UAHVAX1.BITNET Subject: Re: psychiatric drugs I am not knowledgable about psychiatry, from either professional's or patient's viewpoint, but I am an insulin-dependent diabetic, and I resent the analogy made to insulin. Believe me, insulin does not make up for the pathology; it only allows other pathologies time to take over your body, such as neuropathy, hypertension, blindness from retinopathy, or death from an untreated insulin reaction. In any case, it seems to me this discussion belongs on some other list. Elizabeth Pollard, Univ. of Ala. in Huntsville Bitnet: uahebp01@uahvax1 Internet: uahebp01@asnuah.asn.net ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1991 13:33:02 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rose Weitz Subject: deconstructionism I teach an undergrad course on feminist theory. I keep hoping that deconstructionism will just go away, but it hasn't yet. Any suggestions for an article I could use that would make sense to my students and me? ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1991 14:52:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Rodman, Barbara" Subject: deconstruction I recommend a very brief book (less than 70 pages) by Sharon Crowley: A Teacher's Introduction to Deconstruction. It's available from National council of Teachers of English, 1111 Kenyon Rd., Urbana IL 61801 for less than $10. It's readable, insightful and very helpful. I've recommended it to a number of my own grad students who said it was just what they needed. Barb ditbr@ttacs1 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1991 16:38:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: cultural diversity I just received the following message from COMSERVE. I thought it might be of interest to some readers of WMST-L. Please respond to the person named in the message, not to WMST-L or to me. If you have trouble reaching her, ask your computer support people for help. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ To: Communication Scholars & Professionals on College & University Campuses From: Sherry Bowen (SPBRISE at VILLVM.Bitnet) Communication Arts, Villanova University (215)645-4788 As part of our ongoing work at Villanova, we are interested in identifying schools, programs and individuals who are currently working on assessing attitudes and perceptions regarding CULTURAL DIVERSITY on college campuses. We are also seeking information about how the collected data is being used on the campuses. Possible interests in discussions or programs at ECA or SCA 1992 and potential for publication. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1991 16:15:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Rodman, Barbara" Subject: stories about women writers I have a student who is looking for short stories or novellas (no novels, please) about women who are writers or artists. Other than Chopin's The Awakening, I'm having trouble coming up with a list. There are plenty of novels and poems--I'd like to come up with some short fiction, too. Send your suggestions along. Barb R DITBR@TTACS1 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1991 23:47:29 cdt Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Johnston,Amy" Subject: Re: Psychiatric drugs I missed the beginning of the posts about psychiatric drugs, and am wondering exactly what time periods and what psychiatric drugs Mr. Hunter is refering to. He states that he is firmly convinced that there is no such thing as "mental illness." Is he saying that all the people who are being successfully treated for mental illness today are really not inflicted with anything? Is he aware of other psychiatric drugs that do not sedate or cause effects he discussed? What about people who are taking such drugs as Prozac, which are actually _helping_? I know someone from my old high school who is on Prozac now. When asked if it worked, she stated, "Well, I'm not suicidal anymore." Her story is not the only story I've heard. I have heard positive stories about others, and have experience with this myself. Within the last year, I was diagnosed with having major depression. Since then, I have been taking anti-depressants, none of which sedate me or affect my mind or intellect negatively, and have finally begun to experience what it feels like to live without depression. By saying that mental illness doesn't exist, you seem to be determining that they (we) are not inflicted with a valid illness. There is a thin line, if any, between the body and the mind. There are complicated interactions that we may never be able to understand. I am the way I am because of the genes I inherited from my parents, _and_ because of the experiences I have had throughout my life--I am not an automated body totally dependent upon my hormone levels, but also am not consciously able to control certain aspects of my body, such as some of my moods. It is dangerous to assume either extreme. People diagnosed with mental illness are definitely in a vulnerable situation. But denying the existence of mental illness is not the way to deal with the problem. Instead, we need to be aware of the problems and issues concerned with diagnosis and treatment, and try to prevent abuse of the system. There are people out there like me, who have never known what it's like to live without feeling depressed. Because my illness is not due just to inherited characteristics, all my problems are not taken away by the drugs, but the medication does make an immense amount of difference. I am not bothered about some of Mr. Hunter's comments about the problems, past and present, within psychiatry, but I disagree with his dismissal of all psychiatry, psychiatrists, and psychiatric drugs. Amy Johnston johnstoa@grin1.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1991 09:55:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: KILATTA@VAXSAR.VASSAR.EDU Subject: Re: stories about women writers Charlotte Perkins Gillman, "The Yellow Wallpaper" Katherine Mansfield, "From a German Pension" (collection) Should read : "In a German Pension" also see her other stories ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1991 10:27:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: The focus of WMST-L I think the recent discussion of the pros and cons of psychiatric drugs/treatments has been interesting, but much of it really lies outside WMST-L's focus (Women's Studies teaching, research, and program administration). I would urge those people who wish to continue the discussion to do so privately. I recognize, of course, that there are important ways in which the use of psychiatric drugs is a gender-related issue, but that has not for the most part been the focus of the discussion, and even had it been, there are other lists (e.g., FEMAIL, and GENDER when the issue relates to communication) that already exist for discussion of gender-related societal problems (see section 10 of the WMST-L User's Guide for addresses of these and other lists). WMST-L has been set up to fill a need not met by other lists. My thinking about this has been influenced by the large number of messages I continue to get from people urging me to find more ways to reduce the number of postings to the list, especially tangential postings. I am acutely aware, too, that each time the number of messages to the list goes up, so too do the signoffs. Many people have written to tell me how reluctant they are to sign off but that they simply can't deal with the mail volume. (Some of these people have access to email only at work; some are expected to use email for all work-related correspondence, and they find it difficult to find what they need if there are large numbers of messages from WMST-L.) I know that no solution can please everyone, but I'm trying to steer a middle course. Thus, I would urge those who wish to continue the discussion of psychiatric drugs/treatments to do so privately or on another list. If anyone has questions about what I've said, please write to me privately, not on WMST-L. Many thanks for your understanding and cooperation. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1991 10:03:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: NAME 'Helen Eberle' Subject: Re: stories about women writers An excellent book,"Utrillo's Mother" by Sarah Baylis, is based on the life of Suzanne Valadon. It is more fiction than fact, as little is know of Valadon's life. Helen Eberle EBERLEHB@SLUVCA ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1991 15:56:06 GMT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: Linda Lopez McAlister/Hypatia Subject: Re: stories about women writers In-Reply-To: note of 11/17/91 11:42 *** Resending note of 11/17/91 15:36 To: WMST-L --CMSNAMES From: Linda Lopez McAlister/Hypatia This is not a short story, but I've just seen Jane Campion's new film ANGEL AT MY TABLE which is a film version on New Zealand writer Janet Frame's autobiographical trilogy. It is brilliant filmmaking and speaks eloquently about this writer's life (and is also pertinent to the recent discussions about mental illness; Frame was institutionalized for schzophrenia it later turned out she didn't have and received 200electros hock treatments before she was released). Anyway, I recommend the film to your student and to everyone else on the list, and it's making me run out to look for Frame's books. LINDA LOPEZ McALISTER DLLAFAA@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU (Internet) Women's Studies Dept. DLLAFAA@CFRVM_(Bitnet) University of South Florida, Tampa 33620 (813)974-5531 #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*# ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1991 09:02:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: KILATTA@VAXSAR.VASSAR.EDU Subject: Re: The focus of WMST-L I agree with you that the large volume of mail encourages people to sign off the list. I've found this network to be extremely helpful to me professionally. Is there any way you could tell those who wish to carry on the interesting debates on feminist issues how to subscribe to FEMAIL and GENDER? Kimberly Latta KILATTA@vassar.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1991 09:37:45 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Julien S. Murphy" In-Reply-To: deconstructionism I would suggest that you read Jonathan Culler's book, On Deconstruction, also, a small little book that is a survey of the key male theorists in this area, POST-STRUCTURALISM AND SINCE? (If that's not the one, that too is well worth reading. The small anthology I'm thinking of is editted by Sturrock). A wonderful feminist application of deconstruction can be found in Luce Irigaray's SPECULUM OF THE OTHER WOMAN. As for the wish that deconstruction would simply go away, -- much of deconstruction theory questions the notion of "absence," the idea that if it or anything went away, it would no longer be exerting an influence. Absence is frequently replaced by "repression" in this discourse. Good Luck! ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1991 08:51:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: UAHEBP01@UAHVAX1.BITNET Subject: Long, but representative of an interesting trend among our native american sisters From: us%"nn.general@gnosys.svle.ma.us" 17-NOV-1991 19:12:12.95 To: Elizabeth Pollard CC: Subj: ips: indigenous women denounce sexism Received: From GITVM1(MAILER) by UAHVAX1 with Jnet id 5254 for UAHEBP01@UAHVAX1; Sun, 17 Nov 1991 19:12 CST Received: by GITVM1 (Mailer R2.08) id 5250; Sun, 17 Nov 91 20:10:35 EST Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1991 23:29:00 PST Reply-To: nn.general@gnosys.svle.ma.us Sender: NATIVE-L Issues Pertaining to Aboriginal Peoples From: NativeNet@gnosys.svle.ma.us Subject: ips: indigenous women denounce sexism X-To: nn.general@gnosys.svle.ma.us To: Elizabeth Pollard Original-Sender: cscheiner@igc.org (Charles Scheiner) /* Written 5:55 pm Nov 15, 1991 by newsdesk in cdp:ips.englibrary */ /* ---------- "CANADA: AMERINDIAN WOMEN DENOUNCE D" ---------- */ Copyright Inter Press Service 1991, all rights reserved. Permission to re- print within 7 days of original date only with permission from 'newsdesk'. Area: Europe, eastern Reference: North America Title: CANADA: AMERINDIAN WOMEN DENOUNCE DISCRIMINATION BY THEIR MEN hull, quebec (ips/ lyng-hou ramirez) -- indigenous women of the americas are saying a loud ''no'' to the domination and discrimination to which they are subjected by their menfolk. women of all ages from 22 countries of the americas analsying their situation within traditional social, cultural and political frameworks established by european colonisers at the first conference of indigenous nations of the americas pointed on the additional load they bear as female members of their societies. their linguistic differences, seen by some as an obstacle to a smooth flow of ideas at the nov. 11-13 conference organised by the ''indigenous woman 500'' committee of canada, did not prevent the women from exchanging personal and community experiences. not least among these experiences is the struggle to regain the leadership position women once enjoyed in amerindian societies. ''before the arrival of the colonisers, our society was eminently matriarchal. women always had the last word in the assemblies. their word was as sacred as the earth,'' the coordinator of the women and indigenous education group of brazil, elaine potiguara explained. colonisation forced the indigenous woman to devalue her traditional role and submit her authority in reaction to slavery, sexual abuse and death, she said. however, the hardest blow is discovering that the men of their ethnic groups have now absorbed the values of domination and discrimination against women and apply them even in the home, passing them on to future generations. as a result, the possibility of preserving the waning indigenous traditions is becoming increasingly more remote. potiguara's opinions were echoed by indigenous north americans like pauline busch, a manitoba indian from canada, who said the imposition of negative canons in their society was forcing many manitoba women to abandon their husbands. she said the women of this canadian ethnic group have reacted in the last few decades to the oppression which prevents them from gaining education and living according to their ancestral customs. this oppression, she said, stems from the struggle waged by the men to survive in the world of the ''white man''. this has given rise to a form of colonisation which is more cruel because it is suffered at the hands of ''the man we have borne, the one we love,'' she said. (more/ips) ---- canada: amerindian (2) busch said that canada's native women, united in the indigenous women's council, were working at restoring to the role of women the value it once had in manitoba, inuit (eskimo), ojibway and mohawk communities as well as other ethnic groups which are going through the same process. representing the wayuu indians of the gulf of venezuela, noeli pocaterra explained that the economic and political dominance of women in her community has been replaced by a breakdown in moral values, partly under the influence of so-called modern education. the western educational model, which separates boys and girls from their families for long hours each day, broke the wayuu custom of training women to head families and determine the course of inter-tribal relations, she pointed out. ''now we are like beheaded hens'', pocaterra said, explaining that while, in the olden days, a girl's first menstruation marked a moment of joy, education and preparation for adulthood, nowadays it has become a mere signal for the men that she is ''ready for the taking''. struggles against discrimination and male abuse in their communities is for wayuu women like pocaterra a painful experience, added to which are the illnesses, malnutrition and illiteracy which prevail among venezuela's amerinidians. the conference's themes include political rights, environmental protection and the participation of women in economic processes. a second meeting is scheduled for mexico in 1992. (end/ips/pr/lr/ls/kb) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1991 11:24:27 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marie Farr Subject: Whence the 2nd wave? *** Reply to note of 11/14/91 17:06 Last I heard (in the old MS magazine), Kate Millett was in upstate NY, inviting women to apply to work and live communally on her tree farm. Does anybody have any more specific information? Marie Farr --wsfarr@ecuvm1 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1991 11:29:21 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Allan Hunter Subject: Re: Psychiatry, etc In-Reply-To: Message of Sat, 16 Nov 1991 23:47:29 cdt from In response to Amy Johnston & others who say that there is indeed such a thing as "mental illness" because there are indeed differences that some evidence says is based in physiology (inherited or otherwise) -- If you choose to think of your difference as an illness, fine. My brain seems to have the same difference, if in fact it exists at the physical level (I'm far from convinced but I might be wrong). For the sake of argument, let's assume that there are indeed such differences, spread throughout the population. We act differently. We feel things differ- ently. We think differently. And so forth. I got the diagnoses of bipolar disorder (also called manic-depressive psychosis) and of para- noid schizophrenia on the basis of my behavior and the thoughts and feelings that I expressed to people, as most of us do. Therefore, I have this difference and we're assuming that it is rooted in my bio- chemistry and genetic inheritance. What makes it an illness? Some of us experience extremes of misery and pain all our lives. I can see why they'd call it an illness. Some of us, though, find a way of coming to terms with the incredible intensity of our feelings and the funny rhythms they beat to, and the ways our thoughts go around left-hand corners without signaling to listeners before they make the turn (communication can be so difficult) and so forth, and we come to appreciate our differences and accept them for their pos- itives and well as their negatives. What positives, you ask? Statistically, those labeled mentally ill are more intelligent (if you believe the Stanford-Binet things have any relevant meaning). We are also less violent to other people. Less measurable in any empirical way, our creativity and innovative brilliance has been noted and commented upon by people throughout the ages. To be a madman or madwoman is often to be a genius, sometimes a warm and loving one with visionary ideals and theories and sentiments and concern for others in an all-inclusive way. In short, if this difference exists as a physical one, I'm proud of it and somewhat inclined towards being an insane chauvinist about it. Poor sane normal people! Low intensity minds! (Hey, don't we get some affirmative action around here? Equal employ- ment opportunities without discrimination for schizzies and bipolar pulsar people? Fairness for the "differently minded"?) I do not object if psychiatry exists, and people turn to it of their own free will. I object to the state-granted police power of psychiatry to call my head an illness and "treat" it with chemicals that I don't appreciate, and/or to lock me in a cage to protect people (or the social system that is in their poor ruined normal heads?) from me. And I think the notion that diagnosis on the basis of behavior is so cleanly tied to brain pathology (despite what we know about society and contextualized interaction) is a dangerous form of social con- servatism. Maybe there is such a thing as built-in difference between those with schizzy or bipolar behavior, just as maybe there is such a thing as built-in (psychological) difference between men and women. Does anyone on this list not under- stand why I think it is important to admit that we do not know for sure? -- Allan Hunter ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1991 11:55:54 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Marie Farr(WSFARR@ECUVM1)" Subject: Re: Socialization *** Reply to note of 11/16/91 12:17 I'd be very careful about recommending Money's gender studies if this is the same Money who did a study with Ehrhardt on tomboyism in 1967. Ruth Bleier in FEMINIST APPROACHES TO SCIENCE exposes how the results of a study of 25 girls changed from their first and second papers where they urge caution and more study, to their book, 4 yrs later, in which they conclude--without further studies-- that "the most likely hypothesis to explain the various features of tomboyism in fetal masculinized genetic females is that their tomboyism is a sequel to a masculinizing effect on the fetal brain" (quoted in Bleier:151). --Marie Farr, East Carolina U (WSFARR@ECUVM1) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1991 11:59:11 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MARIE FARR Subject: deconstructionism *** Reply to note of 11/16/91 15:36 I'd like to have a reference that would be useful for my students too. Send to WSFARR@ECUVM1. Thanks. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1991 12:25:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: RHODA UNGER Subject: Re: Socialization I would also like to add a note of caution on using anything from John Money to support any position on the socialization of femaleness and/or maleness. There is good reason to believe that he has not published all the available information from his studies; cf. Milton Diamond's article on Money's twins that was published in the 1982 volume of the Archives of Sexual Behavior. One of the best books I know of on the socialization of gender is by Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Wendy Mathews entitled "He and she." It is, unfortunately, out of print, but your library may have it. Rhoda Unger unger@apollo.montclair.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1991 12:54:02 -0900 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: the Eternal Student Subject: Re: Anita Hill read216 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1991 16:32:05 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: AD1YIVS Subject: Re: Anita Hill In-Reply-To: In reply to your message of SUN 17 NOV 1991 21:54:02 CST what does read216 mean? ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1991 18:58:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: HENKING@HWS.BITNET Subject: Re: Socialization i would like to suggest that people replying to messages wait until they have read through their mail and make one mega reply (with an appropriately complex subject heading) -- that would help decrease the amount of mail coming through each persons mail system.... please.... susan (henking@hws) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1991 20:03:04 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: nancy felipe russo Subject: Re: psychiatric drugs In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 15 Nov 1991 22:56:48 EST from For information on the research on women and depression that does some evaluation of the merits of pharmacology vs. other treatments and that also deals with misdiagnosis issues a bit, see Women and depression: Risk factors and treatment issues (McGrath, E., Keita, G., Strickland, B. and Russo, N. F. eds) Wash Dc: American Psychological Association, 1990. Nancy Felipe Russo Director, Women's Studies ASU, Tempe, AZ 85287-1801 (602)965-2358 FAX:(602)965-2357 BITNET: ATNFR@ASUACAD ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1991 23:18:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "DAN FONTAINE-O'CONNELL[COMM.STUD.]CONCORDIA U,MONTREAL, CA" Subject: Re: Socialization Stuart I'm not sure this will be of specific interest to you because I would not necessarily consider her approach subliminal but the last chapter of Holly Devor's book "Gender Blenders" presents an interesting model of gender socializ- Devor's book "Gender Blenders" presents an interesting model of gender socializ- ation. Sorry about this line duplication. Also the title, I correct myself is "Gender Blending:Confronting the Limits of Duality" Indiana University Press Bloomington, 1989 Dan F-O ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1991 09:15:51 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kristin Strohmeyer Subject: Re: drop In-Reply-To: <9111151208.AA21419@umd5.UMD.EDU>; from "BURNET@zodiac.rutgers.edu" at Nov 15, 91 7:06 am Try NOMAIL. One Word. -Kristin Strohmeyer kstrohme@itsmail1.hamilton.edu > > I am desperate! I can no longer afford the time to deal with this list, but > when I followed the recent instructions to "SET WMST-L NO MAIL" (addressing > LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU" I received a reply which indicated that the NO command > is no longer valid. Help! > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1991 10:11:14 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Amanda Goldrick-Jones Subject: Stereotypical Toys I realize that this subject verges on the non-academic, but its implications are , I believe, important for Women's Studies. The following is part of an article from the Globe and Mail, Sat. Nov. 16. I'd be interested to hear from other WMST-L subscribers on this issue. You can also send mail to me personally: Amanda_Goldrick-Jones@mts.rpi.edu. "A new nostalgia for tradition, wrapped up in old-fashioned ideas of the differences between girls and boys, is determining what kind of toys will be under Christmas trees this year. High on the list of what retailers and manufacturers believe will be the big hits in the $1.2 billion Canadian toy industry this year: cuddly dolls for girls and warlike heroes for boys. ******** Toy manufacturers and retailers make no bones about the fact that some toys are for girls and other, very different ones, are for boys. Some retailers even have two sets of toy buyers: one for girls' toys and a separate one for boys'. Walk onto the toy floor of the downtown Toronto Eaton's store and face a section rigidly divided. There are even two cash registers. One is at a pink counter, the other is at a blue. The girls' side is a riot of pink and lavender. Promo videos with peppy theme songs dominate the landscape, featuring enthralled little girls saying "Wow" to bikini-clad Barbies or running to admire Go-Go My Walking Pup. The more dour boys' side is the land of trains, fire engines, Robin Hood heroes and Toxic Crusaders. Where the girls have the Deluxe Beauty Set, boys have the new battery-operated Turbo remote-control Speedster with two driving headlights and four-wheel independent suspension. ********* Manufacturers said they just produce toys that parents want to buy and that mirror larger social trends. "Maybe men are more masculine and women more feminine these days," said a manufacturer. "Maybe that's what's reflected in the child's world." {Another manufacturer said the industry is obliged to follow the patterns it perceives in society and should not be a trend- setter on its own. "We don't lead, we follow. We should not re-invent the world." But others said this move back to the basics--or back to 1950s-style values--is at least partly sponsored by the manufacturers, who are not inclined to spend much money on research. Instead, they rely on the old, rigidly sex-defined standards. . . ." There was more, but space does not permit. I'm sure you get the idea. None of this is new, but what I think is dismaying is the fact that feminist projects still seem to have very little impact on the larger, "commercial" world. What might the role of Women's Studies be in this situation? Can we create stronger links between theory in the academic, and practice in the everyday, worlds? ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1991 11:05:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: HENKING@HWS.BITNET Subject: Re: Stereotypical Toys maybe a group of people with kids should go and buy the "wrong" toys or . . .. . susan (henking@hws) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1991 08:27:36 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sandy Shreve Subject: Netherlands contacts Does anyone have e-mail addresses for any Women's Studies contacts in the Netherlands? Or, regular addresses for any contacts? If so, could you please send me the info privately? One of our instructors hopes to go there in a year or so and would like to make some connections ahead of time. - Sandy Shreve: reply to me at sandra_shreve@sfu.ca ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1991 13:23:48 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: allan hunter Subject: Re: Stereotypical Toys In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 19 Nov 1991 10:11:14 EST from Teach your children feminist theories about gender and equality, rather than trying to keep them "pure" and insulated from the sexist world. I think it may be true that young children would be very body-curious at certain ages in a postpatriarchal world as well as the one we've got, and that boy/girl morphological differences would be very much on their minds (along with bathroom functions and other body-based interests). Children's tendencies to pick up on the socially maintained codes for gender (trucks vs. dolls, etc) despite attempts at non-sexist child- rearing have been commented on many times. I think that early ex- posure to feminist thought that says it isn't WRONG to do/be/etc. anything that is okay for the other gender will go far to prevent the rigidity problems of later years that we know so well. As for the toy business, I'd concentrate on the toy stores first. Meanwhile, there is a problem if (as I have reason to suspect) many of the liberal-feminist mothers and fathers who favor sexual equality and freeom from sexist restrictions for adults look at their kids in a very gendered way, with a bone-deep worry about sexual preference issues (i.e., homophobia) having a lot to do with it. How many feminists do you know who are ready to raise ungendered children, children for whom gender is not a central part of identity? And isn't genderedness in its entirety just more of that pink and blue dolls and trucks stuff? Chorodow ways we were born woman-identified, so in the absence of a process of engenderment, we would be "the race of woman" (not the race of man). Logic or intuition tells me that in such a world of women (male and female), sexual preference might still revolve around a preference for "innies" or "outies" (to borrow from belly button terminology) for some people, and for some, maybe not. Isn't it an unexamined fear of non-heterosexuality in one's children that fuels the process of emphasizing gender as identity? -- Allan Hunter ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1991 15:40:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: HENKING@HWS.BITNET Subject: Re: Stereotypical Toys i am writing in response to Allan Hunter's questin, "Isn't it an unexamined fear of non-heterosexuality in one's children that fuels the process of emphasizing gender as identity?" while i am sympathetic with this view (and indeed with Chodorow's views -- though she avoids, as her critics have noted, her own conclusion -- viz., that all women are initially lesbian and heterosexuality needs to be created....) i wonder which came first, the chicekn or the egg, so to speak.... couldn't fear of nonheterosexuality also be a product of the process of emphasizing gender as identity? (certainly the emphasis on sexual identities can be linked historically to the emphasis on gender as identity....) susan (henking@hws) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1991 18:30:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PLAUTER@TRINCC.BITNET Subject: graduate sociology + gender programs One of our students (Soc major/ women's studies minor) would like to enroll in a graduate sociology program with a strong gender studies/ women's studies component. Would appreciate any suggestions. Send to me, Paul Lauter, via bitnet (plauter@tncc), or directly to her, Kimberly Simmons, Box 1922, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 06106. Thanks. One piece of cheerful news: over 300 students and faculty turned out tonight on 2 hours notice for a candlelight vigil protesting Bush's veto of the anti gag-rule legislation. Since Trinity has only about 1,800 students, that's quite a group. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1991 08:51:55 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: daniels@HG.ULETH.CA Subject: RE: Stereotypical Toys this topic is hardly bordering on non-academic!! socialization of girls and boys is a major part of many women's studies and sociology classes. ( also anthropology and psychology and some philosophy, i suppose!). toys and games are central to the learning and reinforcement of sex-roles. appropriate and non-appropripriate behaviors are learned more quickly through toys, games, and sports that almost any other factor. there is a large body of research on toy/games/sports and socialization that can be used in the presentation of materials on socialization. students relate very quickly to this approach to gender role socialization because many of the men remember being punished or at least scolded for wanting to/or playing with 'girl' toys - especially dolls. women remember the disappointment of not getting the baseball and glove - but instead another doll, or being unable to play with her brother's truck or racing car track (that was my biggie!!). students with children can also easily relate to this topic by observing their children's wants and what kids will do with siblings that they would not be caught doing in public! boy toys and girl toys contribute to a number of factors that can be addressed. boy toys are generally more social, require more physical space and motor ability. boy games generally have more 'roles to play or parts' that keep boredom away. they also have a high skill ceiling - meaning that the game can be played and the players improve their skills - sometimes for years. girl toys are generally more solitary, require turn-taking as opposed to parallel or head-to-head competition, require little space or motor ability. girl games have a low skill ceiling and it is easy to get bored quickly playing gilr games/toys. also, when boys play boy games, because they require more people, little boys learn to develop skills quickly because they are force to 'play up' to the bigger boys' skill level or be left behind. girls have a tendency to 'play down' to younger children thus limiting their own skill development (except possibly in child-care activities) and the development of the younger children. solving disputes between children takes a different tack to for boys and girls. this relates directly to the toys and games they play. boys fight and argue about rules and calls, but generally 'do it over' after a while so the game can continue. girls fight - and the game breaks up. generally this is because girl games get boring quickly - there is no excitement - so there is little need or desire to fight for the contination of the game. when i write of girl toys/games or boy toys/games, i am not necessarily suggesting that these are exclusively what boys and girls do. these are just some of the characteristic of 'gender appropriate' toys/games. the toy manufacturers and the advertisers develop and push toys specifically for boys and for girls. they understand peer pressure and parental bias! consumer action has worked in the past to get some changes. for a while war toys were less available and certainly less lethal! but since the gulf war was so popular - war toys are back and probably will be for some time to come. those of us who teach gender should look very carefully at the research on toys and games. this is a very important and academic topic. it goes along well with studies on popular culture, media studies, sport sociology, etc. as well. this is a good time of the year to discuss this in classes. i can guarentee the discussions will be lively and the biases regarding sex-roles and appropriate behaviors will be clearly evidient to almost everyone!! dayna daniels co-ordinator: women's studies university of lethbridge DANIELS@HG.ULETH.CA ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1991 22:47:28 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: KMARCH@MAINE.BITNET Subject: Re: Stereotypical toys In-Reply-To: RE: Stereotypical Toys A professor of History here at the University of Maine has been doing very inte resting research on toys and gender, from 19th century to 20th. I believe her e mail address would be Petrik@Maine if anyone on this list cares to pursue thi s personally. Kathleen March ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1991 00:42:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: John Kellermeier Subject: Starting an anti-sexist men's group In response to a conversation with a student of mine, we are forming a new group on our campus for men who want to confront sexism in their lives. Our announcement of this is as follows: Announcing an organizational meeting of a GROUP FOR MEN CONFRONTING SEXISM This group will be pro-feminist, male-positive and gay- affirmative. It will not be a group to debate whether women are oppressed but rather takes the oppression of women as a given. It will, then, be a group for men who recognize this and want to confront male power. The group will exist to enable the participants to confront sexism on a personal, community and societal level. Does anyone have any experience with starting up such a group? I've read in our student newspaper recently that such groups are forming on other campuses. Since we are just getting started we could use any suggestions or ideas any one has. John ############################################################### # John Kellermeier, SUNY Plattsburgh # A man of quality # # Plattsburgh, New York 12901 # will support # # kellerjh@snyplava.bitnet # womyn who are # # kellerjh@splava.cc.plattsburgh.edu # seeking equality. # ############################################################### ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1991 08:28:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: GCARR@FLINT.BUCKNELL.EDU Subject: prisons I am thinking about developing an introductory women's studies course to teach at the Muncy State Correctional Institute for women here in central Pennsylvania. I'm hoping that others on the list have had experience in this kind of work and can give me advice on what to teach, how to teach it, writing assignments, etc. The group would be small, mostly composed of black and hispanic women, and I'm tol to expect great variety of levels of literacy. It seems to me important work to undertake now--as more and more women are being incarcerated and services to them are being reduced. I have much excitement, but little experience and expertise. Anybody out there with wisdom to share? Glynis Carr Department of English Bucknell University Lewisburg, PA 17837 GCARR@BUCKNELL.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1991 09:47:23 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: cliff staples Subject: Re: Starting an anti-sexist men's group In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 20 Nov 1991 00:42:00 EST from John: You should contact NOMAS (National Organization of Changing Men in Madison, WI) and see their magazine _Changing Men_. They will be having their convention next summer in Chicago. This group is gay-affirmative, pro-feminist, and anti-racist. They are not Bly Guys. Cliff Staples p.s. If you want to kick-off your group, see if you can't get John Stoltenberg (_Refusing to Be A Man: Essays on Sex and Justice_) to come give a talk. He can be contacted via NOMAS. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1991 11:46:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Arnie Kahn Subject: RE: Starting an anti-sexist men's group I've decided to send this to the list rather than to John, because I think the topic might be of general interest. We started a men's group at Iowa State U. in the mid-1970s. It may still be ongoing. It is a very positive experience, especially if you meet in peoples homes. The men became very good at sharing experiences and reactions, but it was very difficult to focus the group on fighting sexism. I left when the group became a self-help, personal growth focused, touchy-feely group. In other words, it was men relating to one another and not men fighting sexism. The focus was only on the personal and the political got lost. Arnie Kahn fac_askahn@jmuvax @vax1.acs.jmu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1991 18:03:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: W.S. departments (summary) At the end of last week, I sent a message to WMST-L asking about the accuracy of a report in the _Chronicle of Higher Education_ claiming that UC Berkeley was one of only four institutions in the country to have a Women's Studies department (in contrast to a program). I received responses from nineteen people about how Women's Studies is organized at a twenty-three different institutions. One person informed me that Simon Fraser University in Canada has a department, but I think the piece in the _Chronicle_ was looking only at U.S. institutions. Of the remaining twenty-two, ten were identified as having departments: U. of Kansas Calif. State U. at San Diego SUNY Buffalo SUNY Albany SUNY College at Oneonta U. of Minnesota, Twin Cities U. of New Hampshire (3 of 4 people said it was a dept.) U. of Wisconsin - LaCrosse U. of Wisconsin - Whitewater Old Dominion University (person reporting wasn't sure) The following institutions were reported as having programs: Trinity College (CT) U. of Wisconsin - Madison U. of Maryland - College Park U. of Maryland - Baltimore County U. of California - Davis U. of California - Santa Barbara College of Wooster Earlham College St. Louis University SUNY Geneseo Morehead State University In addition, Emory University was reported to have an Institute rather than either a department or a program. I should note that in some cases, the people responding were not directly affiliated with the institution about which they were reporting, so there's the possibility that some of the above information may be inaccurate. Even so, the information strongly suggests that there are far more than four Women's Studies departments in the country. A number of people pointed out that the difference between a department and a program isn't clear-cut. Some of the abovementioned programs have their own tenured and tenure track faculty (not joint appointments) and offer majors in Women's Studies and in some cases graduate work, while some of the departments offer only a minor. Nonetheless, I suspect that an institution's willingness to grant departmental status may often signal a greater acceptance of and commitment to Women's Studies (though clearly this is not always the case). Many thanks to everyone who responded. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1991 19:08:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DONNA Subject: Re: Whence the 2nd wave? Yes..I would also be interested. But wasn't that the "Third Wave" of Feminism? I understand the second wasve to have been the suffrage issues in the early 1900's and the first to have revolved around emancipation in the 1800's. Am I incorrect? Also, what happened to Redstockings? Donna Jacques jacques@binah.cc.brandeis ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1991 17:48:51 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: 50306000 Subject: Re: W.S. departments (summary) University of California at Santa Cruz also has a program but soon to be come a board (our word for department). We have 3 tenured faculty and are in the process of hiring one more, possibly two. We have 60-80 majors so we are thriving. Jacquelyn Marie, UCSC Women's Studies Librarian. jam@ucscm.ucsc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1991 21:27:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 1992 NEH Summer Seminars I recently received via email a very long list (900+ lines) of Summer Seminars for College Teachers sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. I have drastically abridged it; the version below includes for the most part those seminars that seemed in some way specifically relevant to Women's Studies. However, the longer list includes a number of very interesting seminars, and so I am making the full list available in the WMST-L filelist. To retrieve it, send the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (if you subscribed via Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (if you subscribed via Internet): GET NEH SEMINARS WMST-L. If you're unsure how to receive a file once it's sent to you, see section 9 of the WMST-L User's Guide. If you write to the NEH for more information, please say that you saw the announcement through electronic mail. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc **************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ELECTRONIC MAIL USERS: So that the Endowment may evaluate this method of publicity, please indicate whether you have seen this announcement through electronic mail when requesting seminar information. ________________________________________________________________________ National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars for College Teachers 1992 (Seminars last from five to eight weeks. Participants receive a stipend between $2,825 and $4,000, depending on the length of the seminar.) Application deadline: March 2, 1992 ANTHROPOLOGY AND FOLKLORE WILLIAM FERRIS Center for the Study of Southern Culture University of Mississippi University, Mississippi 38677 Blues as History, Literature, and Culture Origin and development of the blues, and its relation to other music and literature June 15 to August 7, 1992 (eight weeks) ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE MASON I. LOWANCE, Jr. Department of English University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ante-Bellum American Culture: The Puritan Sermon, the Slave Narrative, and the Captivity Narrative How several American literary traditions culminate in the rhetorical strategies of Stowe's novel Location: Newberry Library, Chicago June 15 to August 7, 1992 (eight weeks) MARTHA VICINUS Department of English University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1045 The Construction of the "New Woman" and the "New Man" in the 1890s Public discussions and literary representations of masculinity and femininity in late Victorian England June 15 to August 7, 1992 (eight weeks) FOREIGN AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE LILIAN FURST c/o Karen Rezendes Comparative Literature Stanford University Stanford, California 94305-2087 Rereading Realist Fiction: Balzac, Eliot, Mann Critical approaches to the means, devices, and artifices of the 19th-century realist novel June 22 to August 14, 1992 (eight weeks) CANDACE SLATER Department of Spanish and Portuguese University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California 94720 Images of Amazonia The symbolic transformation of historic and geographic realities into works of the imagination June 8 to July 31, 1992 (eight weeks) HISTORY LOIS BANNER Program for the Study of Women and Men Social Sciences B15 University of Southern California Los Angeles, California 90089-0036 The New Gender Scholarship: Women and Men in U.S. History Rethinking historical texts and issues in terms of gender and other human differences June 22 to August 14, 1992 (eight weeks) RICHARD HERR Department of History University of California Berkeley, California 94720 Group Identity and Loyalty in Europe and the Americas from 1700 Nationalism compared with class, ethnic, racial, and gender bases for group identification June 15 to August 7, 1992 (eight weeks) KAREN OFFEN Institute for Research on Women and Gender Serra House Stanford University Stanford, California 94305-8640 The Woman Question in Western Thought, 1750-1950 The controversy over women's status in relation to political and intellectual developments June 22 to August 14, 1992 (eight weeks) 1992 SUMMER SEMINARS FOR COLLEGE TEACHERS [Following program title: "Seminars Open to: College Teachers, Independent Scholars, and other Scholars such as Archivists, Curators, Editors, and Librarians."] Purpose of the Program The Summer Seminars for College Teachers Program, offered by the National Endowment for the Humanities, provides college teachers, independent scholars, and other scholars, such as archivists, curators, editors, and librarians, with a unique opportunity for advanced study or research in their own fields or in fields related to their interests. During the summer, the twelve scholars selected to participate in each of the seminars will work together on a topic of mutual interest under the direction of a distinguished scholar and teacher. Seminar participants, who will have access to the collections of a major library or museum, will discuss a body of common readings with their colleagues in the program, prepare written work, and, outside the seminar, pursue individual research or study projects of their own choosing and design. Through research, reflection, and frequent formal and informal discussions with the seminar director and with other scholars from across the country, seminar participants will increase their knowledge of the subjects they teach and enhance their ability to impart to others an understanding of their disciplines and of the humanities in general. The seminars are especially designed for the Summer Seminars for College Teachers Program and are not intended to be identical to courses normally offered by graduate departments; nor will graduate credit be given for them. Seminar topics are broad enough to accommodate a wide range of interests while remaining central to the major ideas, texts, critical concerns, and approaches of the humanities. The focus of each seminar is substantive rather than pedagogical, reinforcing the participants' commitments to teaching and research. In many cases the seminar is designed to be interdisciplinary, and participants need not be specialists in the particular subject of the seminar. Seminars are five, six, seven, or eight weeks in length. Individual Projects Beyond the work of the group, each participant will undertake an individual research project or a program of intensive reading under the guidance of the director. This project may or may not be directly related to the seminar topic. A tentative plan of research or study for the seminar is a required part of the application, but participants will be able to change or amend their projects with the guidance of the director once the seminar has begun. In many cases, the individual projects will tie into the work of the seminar and serve as bases for discussion and written assignments. Particular seminars will vary in their research emphases, some focusing on individual reading or research projects, others concentrating more exclusively on the work of the seminar itself. Stipend and Tenure Participants in the program's eight-week seminars will receive a stipend of $4,000; participants in seven-week seminars will receive $3,600; participants in six-week seminars will receive $3,200; and those in the five-week seminar will receive $2,825. The stipend is intended to help cover travel expenses to and from the seminar location, books and other research expenses, and living expenses for the tenure period. Participants are required to remain at the seminar location until the final meeting of the group and to spend full time on individual study for the entire tenure period. Eligibility The program is intended to serve those whose primary duties involve teaching undergraduates, but others who are qualified to do the work of the seminar and contribute to it (such as independent scholars and scholars employed by museums, libraries, historical societies, and like organizations) are also eligible and encouraged to apply. Preference is given to those who have not recently had the opportunity to use the resources of a major library or who have not had significant released time for independent study and professional development. Applications from members of Ph.D.-granting departments are normally not eligible. The Endowment encourages applications from faculty at historically black colleges and universities and from two-year colleges. Applicants must have completed their professional training by March 2, 1992. Although an applicant need not have an advanced degree in order to qualify, neither candidates for degrees nor persons seeking support for work leading toward a degree are eligible. Individuals should not apply to seminars directed by either their dissertation advisers or faculty at their own institutions. An individual may apply to no more than two seminars in any one year. Persons found to have applied to more than two will not be awarded a place in any seminar. College teachers who participated in NEH Summer Seminars in 1989 or earlier are eligible to apply for 1992, but those who attended seminars in 1990 or 1991 are not eligible. How to Apply For detailed information about the requirements and subject matter of individual seminars, the availability of housing, and for application instructions and forms, please write to the seminar directors at the addresses indicated below their names. The application deadline is March 2, 1992, and the announcement of awards will take place on March 26, 1992. Equal Opportunity Endowment programs do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, handicap, or age. For further information, write to the director, Office of Equal Opportunity, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20506. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1991 20:10:21 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rose Weitz Subject: graphics I have a vga mono monitor with a vga color card. I can pull up a wp graphics file, and print it on my computer, but I can't see it on my screen. Any suggestions? Also, does anyone know of a bitnet/listserv number I can call for help with procomm? ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1991 23:14:18 GMT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: Linda Lopez McAlister/Hypatia Subject: More NEH Summer Seminars Amelie Rorty is repeating her NEH Summer Seminar entitled Virtues and their Vicissitudes again next summer but this time at Santa Cruz instead of at Radcliffe. I did it two years ago and found it to be quite wonderful. She picks her participants on the basis of their specialties and definitely will want a few feminists in the mix who have a background in ethics. I recommend it. LINDA LOPEZ McALISTER DLLAFAA@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU (Internet) Women's Studies Dept. DLLAFAA@CFRVM_(Bitnet) University of South Florida, Tampa 33620 (813)974-5531 #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*# ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1991 07:13:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: RSOLIE@SMITH.BITNET Subject: Re: W.S. departments (summary) As an addendum to Joan's survey, I'd comment that not all programs WANT to become departments, so it isn't entirely a matter of an institution's willingness to grant departmental status. Here at Smith, we have so far remained a program quite deliberately. Perhaps we'll change our minds in the future, perhaps not. Ruth Solie rsolie@smith ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1991 08:32:46 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rhonda Subject: Re: Whence the 2nd wave? In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 18 Nov 1991 11:24:27 -0500 from I thought Susan Griffin was the one with the tree farm -- anyone know? Rhonda at University of Kansas, RHONDAR@UKANVM.BITNET ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1991 10:17:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Shawn_T.Lock" <22331MOM@MSU.BITNET> Subject: ECOFEMINISM, WID RESOURCES I would like to know of any suggestions on institutions conducting research on issues of ecofeminism both in the U.S. and overseas. Any resource people that may be of help would also be appreciated. Thanks Shawn_T.Lock 22331MOM@MSU.BITNET ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1991 11:00:53 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Sarah M. Pritchard" Subject: women's studies programs The NWSA directory of women's studies programs, women's centers, and women's research centers last came out in 1990 but is still very useful. It does not describe subject strengths of particular departments, but it does have an index by level of degree granted (i.e. undergrad major, undergrad minor, graduate work). I think you get it free if you join or renew NWSA membership (do it today!). 187 institutions offer a women's studies major, according to this source. At the graduate level, 6 offer a full degree in women's studies and 102 offer a minor or concentration. NWSA headquarters are still at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-1325. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Sarah M. Pritchard Associate Executive Director Association of Research Libraries 1527 New Hampshire Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 PHONE: 202-232-2466 FAX: 202-462-7849 BITNET: PRITCHAR@UMDC INTERNET: PRITCHAR@UMDC.UMD.EDU (This message does not necessarily reflect the programs or policies of ARL or its member libraries.) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1991 11:19:03 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cheryl Ann Dougherty Subject: RE: Starting an anti-sexist men's group Now I'm forwarding form letters to you. Anyway, I just thought that this concept might interest you. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1991 14:49:17 GMT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: Linda Lopez McAlister/Hypatia Subject: Ecofeminism Resources HYPATIA did a special issue on ecological feminism Spring, 1991--vol.6 no. 1--guest edited by Karen Warren of Macalester College in St. Paul MN. The notes on contributors section should give lots of leads on people working in the area. Back copies of HYPATIA are available for $12.50 from Indiana University Press. LINDA LOPEZ McALISTER DLLAFAA@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU (Internet) Women's Studies Dept. DLLAFAA@CFRVM_(Bitnet) University of South Florida, Tampa 33620 (813)974-5531 #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*# ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1991 09:39:00 AEDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: HTDIAMOND@UQVAX.CC.UQ.OZ.AU Subject: women's studies in Canada and Britain Hello everybody - I'm writing from the History Dept., University of Queensland, Australia, just before I set out for Canada on a research trip. I'm working on a biography of Maria Susan Rye, who was a member of the Langham Place Group who started the Englishwoman's Journal in London in the 1850s. She then became involved with emigration - first of women to New Zealand and Australia - and later children, mostly girls, to Canada. I'll be in Canada from 1-26 December, and Britain from 27Dec to 30 January, researching Rye and her associates, and would be very interested to meet anyone working in a similar area. I'd also be interested in more generally meeting people working in 19C women's history. I'll be mainly in Toronto and Ottawa, then London and all over in England during January. Thanks, and best wishes Marion Diamond, History Department, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072 Australia +61 7 365 6334; +61 7 371 7587 e-mail: htdiamond@uqvax.cc.uq.oz.au ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1991 07:53:42 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: KARLA TONELLA Subject: RE: prisons I would recommend a book of short stories by Alice Walker: _You_Can't_ Keep_A_Good_Woman_Down_. Each story deals with an issue, such as pornography in a compelling and emotionally involving way and they are easy to read. I'd also look at some of the poetry anthologies -- but since my books are all packed away in boxes I can't give you any titles. Karla KDTonell@vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu or KDToneVA@uiamvs.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1991 07:47:31 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: KARLA TONELLA Subject: development of sex differences Regarding sex differences -- here is a bibliography from a paper on "The Early Construction of Gender: The Role of Communication." Keep in mind that this bib. is 3 years old and was done at the University of Alaska Fairbanks where the library was considerably less than adequate. %*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*% % Karla Tonella University of Iowa % % P.O.Box 1794 Bitnet = KDTONEVA@UIAMVS % % Iowa City IA 52244 Internet = KDTONELL@VAXA.WEEG.UIOWA.EDU % %*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*% Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne & Matthews, Wendy Schempp. (1979). He & she: How children develop their sex-role identity. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. Chodorow, Nancy. (1980). Gender, relation, and difference in psychoanalytic perspective. In Hester Eisenstein & Alice Jardine (Eds.). The future of difference, (pp. 3-19). Boston: G. K. Hall. Faver, Chatherine A. (1984). Women, achievement, and life satisfaction: The work and family context. In C. A. Faver, Women in transition: Career, family, and life satisfaction in three cohorts, (pp. 1-26). New York: Prager. Haviland, Jeannette Jones & Malatesta, Carol Zander. (1981). The development of sex differences in nonverbal signals: Fallacies, facts, and fantasies. In C. Mayo & N. M. Henley (Eds.), Gender and nonverbal behavior, (pp. 183-208). New York: Springer-Verlag. Henley, Nancy M. (1985). Psychology and gender. Signs, 11, 101-119. Hoffman, Lois Wladis. (1975). Early childhood experiences and women's achievement motives. In M. T. S. Mednik, S. S. Tangri & L. W. Hoffman (Eds.), Women and achievement: Social and motivational analyses, (pp. 129-150). New York: Hemisphere Publishing. [Also in: M. Grewe-Partsch & G. J. Robinson (Eds.), Women, communication, and careers, (pp.10-35). New York: K. G. Saur.] Maccoby, Eleanor Emmons & Jacklin, Carol Nagy (1974). On the origins of psychological sex differences. In E. Maccoby & C. Jacklin The psychology of sex differences, (pp. 275-391). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Matlin, Margaret W. (1987). The psychology of women. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Nielsen, Joyce McCarl. (1978). Social learning explanations. In J. M. Nielsen, Sex in society: Perspectives on stratification, (pp. 110-121). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing. Rubin, Jeffrey Z., Provenzano, Frank J., & Luria, Zella. (1974). The eye of the beholder: Parents views on sex of newborns. In A. Kaplan & J. Bean (Eds.) Beyond sex-role stereotypes: Readings toward a psychology of androgyny, (pp. 179-186). Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Spence, Janet T. (1984). Gender identity and its implications for the concepts of masculinity and feminity. In T. B. Sonderegger (Ed.) Nebraska symposium on motivation 1984: Psychology and Gender, (Volume 32, pp.59-95). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Stein, Aletha H. & Bailey, Margaret M. (1975). The socialization of achievement motivation in females. In M. T. S. Mednik, S. S. Tangri & L. W. Hoffman (Eds.), Women and achievement: Social and motivational analyses, (pp. 151-155). New York: Hemisphere Publishing. [And In A. Kaplan & J. Bean (Eds.) Beyond sex-role stereotypes: Readings toward a psychology of androgyny, (pp. 179-186). Boston: Little, Brown and Company.] Stockard, Jean & Johnson Miriam M. (1980). Sex role development. In J. Stockard & M. M. Johnson. Sex roles: Sex inequality and sex role development, (pp. 115-252). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. Tudiver, Judith G. (1980). Parents and the sex-role development of the preschool child. In Cannie Stark-Adameck (Ed.), Sex roles: Origins, influences, and implications for women, (pp. 33-49). Montreal, Canada: Eden Press Women's Publications. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1991 17:11:12 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Betty J Glass Subject: FYI > From stevenz Thu Nov 21 13:48:19 1991 > Received: by equinox.unr.edu (4.1/1.34) > id AA02469; Thu, 21 Nov 91 13:48:04 PST > Received: by equinox.unr.edu (4.1/1.34) > id AA01172; Thu, 21 Nov 91 13:24:32 PST > From: stevenz (Steven D. Zink) > Message-Id: <9111212124.AA01172@equinox.unr.edu> > Subject: Faculty Senate Notes > To: Library Faculty > Date: Thu, 21 Nov 91 13:24:25 GMT > X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.2 PL16] > > > > SSSSS EEEEE N N A TTTTT EEEEE > S E NN N A A T E > SSSSS EEE N N N A A T EEE > S E N NN AAAAA T E > SSSSS EEEEE N N A A T EEEEE > > N N OOOOO TTTTT EEEEE SSSSS > NN N O O T E S > N N N O O T EEE SSSSS > N NN O O T E S > N N OOOOO T EEEEE SSSSS > > > AN INFORMAL, UNOFFICIAL, AND GREATLY SUMMARIZED REPORT > ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE UNR FACULTY SENATE > > Faculty Senate Meeting 11/20/91 > > by > > Steve Zink > (stevenz@equinox) > > > REPORT FROM THE CHAIR > > New Senate Member > > Colette Dollarhide is the new member of the Faculty Senate. She is > taking the Component I seat (Administrative Faculty) vacated by Jim > Kidder, who had a change in title to Assistant Vice-President, and was > therefore ineligible to serve on the Faculty Senate. > > University Merit Review Committee > > A call for nominations for the University Merit Review Committee will be > sent out around December 2. If you do not receive a ballot, contact the > Faculty Senate office (4025). > > Reorganization of the Orvis School of Nursing? > > The Chair recognized Thelma Hostetter of Nursing for her explanation of > the ongoing status of the Orvis School of Nursing. Hostetter explained > that last spring an evaluation of several different organizational plans > for the School of Nursing was undertaken. The University administration > posed two options: 1) that the Orvis School of Nursing be maintained as > a free-standing school with a dean or 2) become a part of the College of > Human and Community Sciences, with a Director of Nursing. A committee > consisting of faculty, administrators, alumni, and people from the > community studied the various proposals. Two outside consultants were > also brought to campus to evaluate the situation. Last week the faculty > of the School of Nursing voted on the whether to remain a separate > school and a report and the results of the voting were sent to the Vice > President for Academic Affairs. President Crowley is to make a final > decision on the matter, perhaps by the end of the week. If a change is > suggested that Nursing no longer be a free-standing college, the > proposed organizational change will go through the normal channels for > faculty input, etc. > > Crowley Evaluation > > A questionnaire seeking input on the evaluation of President Joe Crowley > was recently sent to all faculty via campus mail. The questionnaire > must be turned in by December 6. As I mentioned in an earlier email > message there is a typographical error on the ballot. Question 12 > should read as follows: "12. establishes reasonable and appropriate > long-term goals for the institution and assists in their attainment." > Please make this correction on the evaluation form and answer the > question accordingly. > > Merit Pay > > A review of last year's merit review process is soon to begin. A 16 > member committee consisting of various faculty, three department chairs, > two deans, and two vice-presidents will undertake an evaluation of last > year's method of allocating merit money. The first meeting of the > committee is to be on December 9. Carol Parkhurst from the Library, as > chair of the Salary and Benefits Committee, will serve on this > committee. > > Internationalization of Campus > > The Chair announced that there is a new standing committee on > international activities on campus. All faculty should have received a > memo noting that this new committee has been allocated $20,000 for > distribution to assist in projects designed to internationalize the > university. For further information, contact Lee Thomas (1467). > > GRADUATE SCHOOL AND VP OF RESEARCH > > Ken Hunter, Dean of the Graduate School and Associate Vice-President for > Research, presented an overview of his office's mission, budget, > operations, and objectives for 1991-1993. He made the following points: > * Sponsored research on campus last year exceeded $40 million and will > be significantly higher in the future. > * The Graduate School receives $250,000 in state funds for its operation > and must make up the other $250,000 required by using indirect costs > from grants; this is in contrast to a similar operation at UNLV, which > is entirely state-funded. > > Faculty Travel Money > > * On the issue of travel money, Hunter noted that $75,000 had been > budgeted for faculty travel for the current academic year and that an > additional $20,000 of travel money from the UNR Foundation is being > managed by his office. Hunter noted that last year his office went far > over its budget to support faculty travel. To avoid a repeat of last > year's overspending for faculty travel, Hunter explained that, in > concert with the Executive Board of the Faculty Senate, he had developed > a new travel policy, which divided available travel money into two > segments--60% was allocated for fall semester travel and 40% was > allocated for spring semester travel. Contention for the money is on a > first-come first-served basis. He noted that approximately 25 faculty > members failed to receive requested travel funds from the Graduate > School in the fall semester because the School ran out of money. > > To ease his office's budget squeeze and to possibly release additional > monies for faculty travel, Hunter is attempting to change the funding of > his office in two significant ways: > * Hunter is seeking, in future budgets, to have his office fully funded > by the state (as is presently the case for the similar function on the > Las Vegas campus) and > * Hunter is proposing the idea that UNR should be able to retain the 50% > of the indirect costs derived from grant funding that is currently > turned over to the state. He had documentation to show that few other > states require their universities to turn over a portion of indirect > costs brought in by grants. > > In response to a question as to why the Graduate School last year spent > $20,000 for a magazine highlighting research being conducted on the UNR > campus, Hunter noted that another issue of this publication is > forthcoming, but that the forthcoming issue would be the last one. > While defending the publication as positive and worthwhile, he noted > that in the future one issue each year of SILVER AND BLUE will highlight > research and that a separate publication from his office would no longer > be produced. > > NCAA PILOT PROJECT > > Ellen Pillard explained that she was serving on a campus committee > involved in a National Collegiate Athletic Association pilot project to > map out a way to "certify" or "accredit" college athletic programs. UNR > is one of 40 campuses that the NCAA has selected for this pilot project. > UNR's President Joe Crowley is chair of the NCAA committee charged with > carrying out this experiment. > > SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND THE ROTC > > Barbara Scott introduced a resolution to condemn a Department of Defense > and ROTC policy that excludes homosexual students from participation in > the ROTC program. The resolution called on the Faculty Senate to > undertake a number of actions to encourage a change in this federal > policy, including requesting that Nevada's U.S. congressional delegation > meet personally with the Secretary of Defense to ask that the policy be > changed and that a letter be sent directly to the Secretary of Defense > urging a change in the policy. Also, a letter is to be sent to other > faculty senates at ROTC institutions asking that they lobby for a change > in the policy. > > UN CODE AND HANDBOOK CHANGES ON DISCIPLINARY HEARINGS > > Chair Elizabeth Raymond led a discussion of proposed changes in the UNS > Code intended to expedite hearings on grievances against faculty. > Several senators noted that various sections of the proposed changes > were contradictory and confusing. There was considerable discussion > about a provision to "immediately" remove a faculty member from their > usual environment "...while allegations of sexual harassment are > investigated or heard." Specific concern was also expressed about a > provision that "All findings of fact, recommendations, reports and > decisions reached after hearings or appeals held under this chapter are > declared to be public records subject to the provisions or exclusions of > the public records laws of the Nevada Revised Statutes as they may be > interpreted by the courts." Elizabeth Raymond is meeting with other > system faculty senate chairs in Las Vegas on November 21 to discuss the > proposed changes. > > ACTING ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT FOR DIVERSITY > > Michael Coray, Acting Assistant Vice President for Diversity, explained > that he is in charge of formulating a means to ensure cultural diversity > on campus. He noted that his formulations were only one part of an > ongoing university-wide strategic planning function. Coray noted that > diversity meant something much broader than affirmative action and that > deans would be asked to make diversity goals as part of the strategic > planning process. > > When questioned about the establishment of his vice-presidential > position, Coray noted that he was only acting in the position. His > current half-time position, along with the other half-time Assistant > Vice-President positions, presently filled by Brent Bowman and Carol > Ort, would be the subject of a national search in the spring. When > asked if the positions would remain half-time, Coray reported that the > positions will be advertised as only half-time positions since there are > insufficient funds to make the positions full-time. > > The above was forwarded to me from another e-list. Just thought you'd appreciate a late afternoon pick-me-up. Betty Glass, University of Nevada, Reno glass@equinox.unr.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1991 17:16:09 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Betty J Glass Subject: Sorry about that ... If you are now wondering WHY you were blessed with the faculty senate notes from UNR, it just goes to show what one wrong number can do in an electronic environment. Fascinating as they are, the message I wanted to share with you is below: > From zipkin Tue Sep 3 10:42:06 1991 > Received: by equinox.unr.edu (4.1/1.34) > id AA07518; Tue, 3 Sep 91 10:42:03 PDT > From: zipkin (Diana Zipkin) > Message-Id: <9109031742.AA07518@equinox.unr.edu> > Subject: disappearance of "suggestions" > To: glass (Betty J Glass) > Date: Tue, 3 Sep 91 10:42:02 GMT > X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.2 PL16] > Status: ORr > > Betty > I restored "suggestions" to the main screen by doing what we > discussed earlier. Hope this works. I told Steve, and added > that we may want to "re-think" some of the choices. Let me know > how it works out. > Diana > > Betty ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1991 17:23:32 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Betty J Glass Subject: 3rd Time is Charm? If the following isn't about Martina Navratolova, I won't attempt to forward any other mail to this list. That is a promise. `m 291 > From milam Thu Nov 21 13:47:21 1991 > Received: by equinox.unr.edu (4.1/1.34) > id AA02420; Thu, 21 Nov 91 13:47:15 PST > From: milam (Sheila A Milam) > Message-Id: <9111212147.AA02420@equinox.unr.edu> > Subject: Navratilova slams AIDS double standard (fwd) > To: glass (Betty J Glass) > Date: Thu, 21 Nov 91 13:47:10 GMT > X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.2 PL16] > > Betty, Woman's work is never done...have to dismantle these standards. > > > > Reply-To: act-up@world.std.com > > To: act-up@world.std.com > > Subject: Navratilova slams AIDS double standard > > > > Sad, but true... > > > > [forwards deleted] > > > > NEW YORK (UPI) -- Tennis star Martina Navratilova says the public > > would have been far less supportive if she disclosed she had the AIDS > > virus. > > ``If I had the AIDS virus, would people be understanding?'' > > Navratilova said in Wednesday's editions of the New York Post. ``No, > > because they'd say I'm gay -- I had it coming. That's why they're > > accepting it with (Magic Johnson) because supposedly he got it through > > heterosexual contact. > > ``There have been other athletes who died from AIDS and they were > > pushed aside because they either got it from drugs or they were gay.'' > > Navratilova spoke after practice Tuesday for the season-ending > > Virginia Slims Championships at Madison Square Garden. > > Johnson, the Los Angeles Lakers star, retired Nov. 7 after saying he > > was HIV-positive, a disclosure that triggered a nationwide outpouring of > > support. He denied being gay but acknowledged he had an active sex life > > with many partners. > > ``That's pretty scary,'' Navratilova told the Post. ``If it had > > happened to a heterosexual woman who had been with 100 or 200 men, > > they'd call her a whore and a slut and the corporations would drop her > > like a lead balloon. And she'd never get another job in her life. > > ``It's a very big-time double standard, and it's frightening because > > it's happening. When it comes to promiscuity, it's very much accepted > > (among men). And women are banished. > > ``Magic says he was just trying to accommodate these women. That is > > just terrible. Just think about the word. He's preaching the wrong > > message. He's saying it's OK to be promiscuous as long as you use a > > condom. That's not good.'' > > Navratilova believes the public is starting to accept her way of > > life. > > ``I think the general public is, but the corporations certainly are > > not,'' she said. ``I don't have one damn endorsement outside of rackets > > and shoes. > > ``I had a very good endorsement possibility -- this is about five, > > six, seven years ago -- and everything was going great. Yes, we're going > > to do it. And it finally came up to the president, and he says, 'No > > because she's gay -- no go.''' > > > > > > > > > > > > Betty ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1991 20:25:44 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: KARLA TONELLA Subject: Re: Whence the 2nd wave? Susan Griffin was NOT the one with the tree farm. She lives in the Berkeley hills, or at least she did until the recent fire. I don't know if she was affected by the fire or not. Kate Millett had a farm - and was accepting apprentices last I heard -- but it is doubtful that she is stil trying to make a go of that. Karla Tonella - KDTonell@vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu or KDToneVA@uiamvs ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1991 19:36:35 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: nancy felipe russo Subject: Re: Whence the 2nd wave? In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 21 Nov 1991 20:25:44 CST from What about the whereabouts of Ti-Grace Atkinson? Nancy Felipe Russo Director, Women's Studies ASU, Tempe, AZ 85287-1801 (602)965-2358 FAX:(602)965-2357 BITNET: ATNFR@ASUACAD ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1991 23:59:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ASHELDON@UMNACVX.BITNET Subject: Re: Stereotypical Toys This is in response to Dayna Daniels message, which made a number of claims about the differences between girls' and boys' games and toys. Please tell us what the source of your claims are and what evidence you are basing these statements on. My own research is investigating the ways girls and boys conduct disputes. I find no evidence to support your asserti on (modeled after Lever's apparently) that "girls fight and the game breaks up." What I am finding with preschool girls (3-5) is that just the opposie it true. Girls have learned elaborate linguistic skills that mitigate conflict. This allows them to assert their own interests at the same time that they orient to the addressee's interests. (I call this "double-voice discourse".) The effect of mitigating tactics is to keep the conflict from escalating to the point where it totally disrupts or "breaks up" their play. Boys also can engage in double-voice discourse, but theu do so less often. Their style is more confrontational, and can lead to escalated conflict and disruption of group harmony. Play disruption can occur in a more nuanced fashion, where play theme is abandoned and another one takes its place. On the other hand, I have observed numerous conflicts in girls groups during which engagement in play doesn't miss a beat. I also doubt other claims you made, such as "boys toys are more social, and require a high skill ceiling". Girls' known preferences for doll play and family themes is very social, and requires a high linguistic skill ceiling with social forms of language, one of which is a linguistically mitigated form of speech. As for the contention that "girls' games get boring quickly, and quickly lose excitement", I will ask: 1) if it is so boring to play house, then why do girls do it continually for years in early childhood?; 2) take a look at girls' jump rope. A nice videotape on double-dutch jumprope competitions called "Black Magic", the name of a US team that were national winners, shows the extremely high--and socially coordinated -- skill levels involved in this game/sport. 3) Boring for whom? Amy Sheldon Linguistics U of Minnesota asheldon@umnacvx ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1991 00:29:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ASHELDON@UMNACVX.BITNET Subject: resend address for U Maine Historian Will the person who reported the address for her colleague in History at the U of Maine who is studying toys and gender please send me her email address again? The address I sent it to is not working. Thanks. Amy Sheldon ASHELDON@UMNACVX (bitnet) ASHELDON@VX.ACS.UMN.EDU (internet) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1991 09:33:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PLAUTER@TRINCC.BITNET Subject: men's groups My experience in the mid-70's matched Arnie Kahns, except that I didn't find it a positive experience. I think the key is moving both discussion and action toward actual feminist work. Otherwise, and especially among young men, the focus almost invariably gets to be "identity" in one or another sense of that term. Here at Trinity, we did not hve a very good experience with a speaker from the Madison group. He seemed to think that speaking softly and being non-directive was appropriately feminist. As a result, most of the fairly large number of men who came to a session that had been organized left frustrated and, I suspect, with negative feelings about the whole effort. I guess it's my puritan/ Jewish heritage, but I really believe that people's consciousness changes mainly through work--in this case, for example, work on women's studies committees, on efforts to change courses, on organizing on-campus groups for choice and against sexual harrassment, and the like. Paul Lauter ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1991 08:31:57 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: daniels@HG.ULETH.CA Subject: Re: Stereotypical Toys In response to Amy Sheldon... Lever and Coakley were the main sources of what I discussed. Although it is apparent that there is much more to the cultural differernces, which I did not really address. Jump rope, for example, especially the new forms, are very exciting with a high skill ceiling. However, boy games are more social in that they require more players for many of the games. When I wrote of skill ceiling, I was referring to motor skills - primarily gross motor skills. Girl gMES (that's games) and activities are generally very low in motor skills - except some fine motor skill practices. Certainly things are changing. But if one observes the advertisements and types of toys directed toward girls and boys, and if girls and boys follow the direction of the ads, then the play patterns have not changed much and may even be more stereotypical. It is good to learn that young girls are learning new conflict management skills. Is there any research in this area that you know about? Dayna Daniels DANIELS@HG.ULETH.CA ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1991 15:57:16 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: cliff staples Subject: Re: men's groups In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 21 Nov 1991 09:33:00 EST from For Paul Lauter and interested others: Hard to disagree with the idea that consciousness emerges (and therefore changes) as a result of social activity, whether or not we call it work. Marx (among others) taught us that. But the question is: as opposed to what? Has anyone really suggested that all men need to do is form "support groups" and "the problem" will be solved? I doubt it. I would much rather think of such groups as a part of a more long-term process of education for feminist consciousness. My experience has been a little different. About two years ago I participated in the formation of a support group. And I came with a particular political agenda that went somewhat beyond emotional support and so forth. I left after awhile because the group didn't go where I wanted it to go. I should have stayed long enough to encourage those men, and myself, to do the political work that I now do (serve on WS exectuive committee; teach the occasional lecture; work with local women's shelter, etc. etc.). Only now I don't have the support group and sometimes I miss it. In a cultural that's continously instructing us in male supremacy it's important to create alternative environments where counterhegemonic self-conceptions can flourish. It worked for women, after all. So, I think the question of whether male support groups are or not politically useful for feminism is a good one. My own feeling is that they can be useful when seen within the context of political strategy that has as its goal the abolishment of male supremacy, the institutions that support it, and the identities sustained by it. If they aren't about that, then we may as well just head down to the pool hall (or faculty lounge), get into some misogyny, and just feel good about bein' guys. A few questions: What are women's experiences with men they know who belong to support groups? Does anyone see a role for WOmen's Studies/Women's Center support for such activities? What issues are involved here? (my Center has offered me space whenever I want to use it) Does male involvement in WS et al. inevitably run the risk of depoliticizing WS? Cliff Staples ###################################### CLIFFORD L. STAPLES # DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY # BOX 8192 UNIVERSITY STATION # GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA 58202 # OFFICE 701-777-4417 # BITNET: UD153289@NDSUVM1 # ###################################### ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1991 16:43:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Rodman, Barbara" Subject: RE: men's groups Paul- Re: how attitudes are changed--my concern, and I suspect perhaps the other "tired" women's, is that the work to be done on all those committees, changing course descriptions, explaining hiring policies, etc. ad infinitum--is done almost entirely by women. Only two men regularly participate in the women's studies council (open to all) on my campus, and none have volunteered to participate on the AAUP committee W here. Less than half a dozen offer courses cross-listed as women's studies...and I too am tired of sparring with tenured full professors (I'm in no way their match) when they trivialize issues such as suggesting that because of the pressure from feminists we'll have to re-name Masterpieces of Lit. (There are plenty of things we ought to do with that old chestnut of patriarchal thinking, but re-naming is not high on the list of any serious feminist that I know.) Maybe some of us (to go back to Liz's and Valerie's comments) are hesitant to enter into this discussion because it seems to go nowhere, partly because many of the men involved seem to engage in it as a sort of amusing game, and it is very serious business to many of the females whose private and professional lives are hindered and worse every day because of the attitudes we're discussing. And then once we're drawn into the fray, we're criticized for being humourless, or denied tenure because our service was to organizations (such as womens studies) that are not respected, our research had to do with issues they Old Male Guard doesn/t think important, etc. But a male who takes up the issue may be rewarded--even when it's not clear he's doing anything more than being another obstacle. Some of us are frustrated...and exhausted... sorry if this turned into another diatribe. Barb R ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1991 17:06:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ASHELDON@UMNACVX.BITNET Subject: girls toys and games This is a followup to Dayna Daniels' reply to my message about girls' toys and games, and conflict behavior. First, can you give us the full reference to Coakley? Second, you say: "girls games and activities are generally very low in motor skills (you acknowledge exceptions like double-dutch jump rope), except some fine motor skill practices". What is wrong with fine motor skill practices? Are they less important than large motor skills? Using language is a fine motor skill practice that is quite complex because it also recruits knowledge of not only motor production, but also general abstract language principles, as well as cognitive, social and other competencies. Third, you say: it is "good to learn that young girls are learning new conflict management skills." I wouldn'y characterize young girls in that fashion. Young girls have probably *always* known the same range of conflict management skills as young boys. They have not been deficit in verbal conflict skills. The deficit lies in the theories that researchers have been using to describe girls' conflict skills. This is because the norm for (good) conflict management skills is presumed to be one followed by boys (and men). Girls' styles are seen as a deficit if they are different. The same holds true for descriptions of other behaviors, like how girls' games or toys differ from boys'. We need to examine our tacit assumptions about whose behaviors/toys/games/activities we think are best examples/para- digmatic, and whose are nonparadigmatic, and why whatever boys do is often seen as exemplary.There is a lot that girls do in play, in conflict behavior, in games, etc. that we *don't* see if we use boys as our point of reference. Fourth, as for references to research on gender and play or gender and conflict, you could start by looking in the Child development Abstracts. I have a paper that will appear in Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, vol. 38, no.1, January, 1992 that discusses these issues. It is called "Sociolinguistic challenges to self-assertion and how young girls meet them". Amy Sheldon ASHELDON@UMNACVX ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1991 16:19:00 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sara Brownmiller Subject: Womens Studies Programs in Britain Is anyone aware of a current directory that lists graduate programs in women's studies in England? The only one that I've been able to locate is a 1981. Thanks for the help! Sara Brownmiller Women's Studies Librarian University of Oregon Library snb@oregon snb@oregon.uoregon.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1991 16:35:43 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Ariel x4970 Subject: Re: Womens Studies Programs in Britain In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 22 Nov 91 16:19:00 -0800. <9111221625.aa12589@orion.oac.uci.edu> to sara and others regarding women's studies in britain. uc irvine has had several students on education abroad at university of sussex in women's studies and quite pleased with the program. also, an article from the guardian dated 7/25/89 entitled "making the grade towards academic respectability" re women's studies mentions Lancaster University and further notes "as a self-contained discipline at postgraduate level it is only on offer at the universities of Kent at Canterbury; York; Bradford and Cardiff and at Sheffield Polytechnic. York University is the only institution which offers the opportunity of PhDs." I wish there was a directory to know about, but I don't think one exists (yet?). jariel@uci.edu > Is anyone aware of a current directory that lists graduate programs in > women's studies in England? The only one that I've been able to locate > is a 1981. > > Thanks for the help! > > Sara Brownmiller > Women's Studies Librarian > University of Oregon Library > snb@oregon > snb@oregon.uoregon.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1991 23:01:02 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: mcdom@AUGUSTANA.AB.CA Subject: women's studies at small institutions First of all, greetings to others on the list. I am new to the list and what I have seen so far looks great. First of all, a question. We are a small liberal arts institution (undergrad only) in a rural area. The institution has not been successful in recruiting women: only 6 women out of 58 full time faculty. Our student body, of course, is not atypical in gender breakdown. I am new on staff here, but there seems to be some recognition of the needs. We are proposing establishing a division to be some recognition of the needs. We are proposing establishing a division of interdisciplinary studies and housing women's studies majors in this division with only one full time faculty member who's training is in women's studies. I would appreciate your reactions and recommendations based on your experiences.We are trying to make decisions in a vacuum here, and the few of us with any background in the area are concerned that this interdisciplinary studies model ["paracollege" style] would water down the women's studies curriculum. A second, obvious concern is the lack of staffing. With only one new person hired we would have to depend on current, predominantly male, staff. Moreover, only part of the faculty take women's studies seriously. For example, in a recent meeting, a current faculty member was recommending decreasing the requirements for "women's issues" in the core of the new curriculum and prefaced his remarks by saying "I don't want to be accused of not being 'political correct', but..." [have any of the rest of you run into this particular strategy for trivializing women's issues?] In short we have an uphill battle. The overall question is whether it is possible to do a disservice to the long term intentions of some of us to ground an adequate women's studies program by starting at such minimal levels. Is there a beginning that is too small, that would compromise the long term battle for such minimal, but more immediate, gain? My background in a previous, equally small, institution was that we were thankful for the small beginnings, but that we needed to network with other small institutions to make it viable, especially since, in a few instances, we had to rely on men to teach some courses in a few locations (and I was one such man). Thanks for you thoughts/reactions. Marvin McDonald MCDOM@AUGUSTANA.AB.CA ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1991 12:08:09 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rose Weitz Subject: Czech contacts I am trying to arrange a trip to Czechoslovakia next year under IREX sponsorship. Does anyone know of any women's studies programs or faculty there? Rose Weitz atrxw@asuacad (Arizona State University) ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1991 15:24:17 GMT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: Linda Lopez McAlister/Hypatia Subject: Czech contacts In-Reply-To: note of 11/23/91 14:10 *** Resending note of 11/23/91 15:21 To: WMST-L --CMSNAMES From: Linda Lopez McAlister/Hypatia Rose, I'd suggest you contact: Dr. Jirina Smejkalova Women's Studies Project Coordinator European Center for Human Rights Education Jilska 1 110 00 Prague 1 Czechoslovakia tel. 26 20 78 She'll know what's going on; my sense is, not too much, but her center is trying to get something started. She wrote me last January and said that the Center (sponsored by UNESCO and known until January, 1991 as the European Center for Leisure and Education--apparently a necessary euphemism under the old regime) intends "to open a project on women studies, to found a base for introduction and development of feminist discourse to both theoretical and public debates in East European countries. The...profound isolation from current western feminist discussions was not only a characterist ic of totalitarian regimes but also for their opposition, and this situation seems likely in different but related forms to continue even in the post-revolu tionary period. "We start the first feminist discussion group in Czechoslovakia, prepare the documentation centre including the current journals and conference final reports concentrated on women's problems issues. We also organize the first international conference "Women and Democracy in Countries of Central and East Europe" coordinated by UNESCO in August, 1991. "Under the circumstances of very low level of public information, lack of educational programmes and very limited access to current world's publications (there is no library in Prague having any single issue of Women's Studies or feminist periodical) we would appreciate any kind of intellectual and material assistance." [They're now getting a free subscription to HYPATIA through our Hypatia World Fund paid for by the Society for Women in Philosophy and individuals who make tax deductible contributions to the fund for this purpose.] I hope this is helpful. Linda LINDA LOPEZ McALISTER DLLAFAA@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU (Internet) Women's Studies Dept. DLLAFAA@CFRVM_(Bitnet) University of South Florida, Tampa 33620 (813)974-5531 #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*# ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1991 16:32:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Rodman, Barbara" Subject: Re: men's groups Regarding Cliff Staples' thoughtful posting-- I appreciate his delicacy and sensitivity--and would like to respond to some of his questions. I think the involvement of men who have and are struggling to understand themselves and society is welcomed by many women (myself included). There are practical, theoretical, and personal reasons, I think. One is, on most campuses women's studies needs the support of tenured faculty, esp. full profs, and few of those are women. In addition, I think it helps break the way for other men to begin to question their own assumptions about feminism, male oppression, etc. The men who are involved on my campus are received as peers and seem to be given no more or less respect than the women involved. They work hard, can be counted on to volunteer for boring as well as interesting projects, and don't seem to want to take over control or hog the spotlight. Many of them teach courses that make vital and unique contributions to the program. My own experience with the men who are involved with feminist groups (in NOW or elsewhere) is that they are people I have been glad to know and to work with. I don't see how we well ever accomplish our ends if men don't get involved. I just wish there were more men who saw the issues as being relevant to both men and women. Barb R ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1991 22:16:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Arnie Kahn Subject: Re: men's groups >I just wish there were more men who saw the issues as being >relevant to both men and women. >Barb R I do too. But as someone who's been around a while, I think things have changed for the better. I remember when we started the Women's Studies program at Iowa State in the mid-1970s, I was the only man involved at a very large university. Now I'm at a university that is much smaller (11,000 students vs. 26,000) and there are at least six or seven men teaching courses from a feminist perspective and involved with women's studies and the faculty women's caucus. Some men continue to be a barrier. The Faculty Senate C & I committee met to approve our Intro and Capstone courses. I agreed to attend the meeting and respond to questions. Only one male member of the C & I committee attended the meeting (women do do most of the service), and he nitpicked (word choices, comma placements) and challenged ("Can you guarentee that men will not be discriminated against if they sign up for these courses?" "How do you justify the existence of a Women's Studies program?"). I spent 30 minutes responding to questions from him, but it was nothing like 17 or so years ago when the comparable committee was almost entirely male. I had feminist allies on the committee this time! Arnie Kahn James Madison U. fac_askahn@jmuvax or fac_askahn@vax1.acs.jmu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1991 19:06:04 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: KARLA TONELLA Get WMST-L LOG9111 index WMST-L ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1991 11:09:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: RE: women's studies at small institutions A day or so ago, Marvin McDonald (MCDOM@AUGUSTANA.AB.CA) sent a message to WMST-L asking about establishing a Women's Studies major at a small institution. I drafted a reply that I was going to send just to him, but I decided that perhaps some of what I had to say might be of more general interest, so I am going to post it here instead. **************************** Hi. I saw your very interesting message on WMST-L about women's studies in small institutions. I hesitated to reply, because I have no experience with small institutions (UMBC has about 10,000 students, most of whom are undergraduates). But I do have some thoughts that I'll send your way for what they're worth. My impulse is to say that you don't have the faculty (and hence probably not the curriculum) needed to offer a Women's Studies major, even through Interdisciplinary Studies. I say that based on my experience at UMBC. We have more than twenty full-time faculty who teach in the Women's Studies Program. However, none of them has an official appointment in Women's Studies: the program has no faculty lines. Thus, the courses the faculty members teach and the scheduling of those courses are outside our control. If the History Department decides that it needs the person who normally teaches the two-semester "History of Women in America" to teach something else instead, there's nothing we can do. Because we have so little control over these matters, we felt we could not guarantee the integrity of the Women's Studies curriculum sufficiently to offer an official major. We offer an 18-credit minor that includes three required courses and three electives. The required courses are "Introduction to Women's Studies," "Black Women: Cross-Cultural Perspectives," and "Theories of Feminism." Students CAN major in "Women's Studies" by constructing an individualized major through Interdisciplinary Studies, but we have somewhat less control over what they do. It's far from an ideal situation. But at least we DO have control over what counts as a Women's Studies course. At UMBC, all Women's Studies courses carry a WMST acronym, either by itself or as a cross-listing (as in ENGL/WMST or AFAM/WMST). To get that WMST acronym, a course must be examined and approved by the Women's Studies Coordinating Committee. Instructors are asked to submit a syllabus, a description of their teaching method, and answers to three questions: a) is the central focus of the course gender roles, women's issues, and/or the status of or portrayal of women in history, the arts, or the sciences? Please explain. b) how does the course material reflect knowledge of contemporary feminist scholarship about women? c) why do you feel that this is a Women's Studies course rather than just a course about women? I'm saying all this as a long-winded way of addressing the questions you raised about staffing. I don't think that your having to depend on men to teach many of the courses is a reason not to offer them. Indeed, I think it's healthy for students to see that men as well as women know about, care about, and are affected by Women's Studies issues. What IS important is that the instructors, male and female, be knowledgeable about Women's Studies (this needn't be a matter of formal training--I am one of many people whose formal training preceded the flowering of Women's Studies). That's why we ask questions b) and c) above. From what you said in your message to WMST-L, it doesn't sound to me as if you have sufficient numbers of knowledgeable faculty members and appropriate courses to offer a major, even through Interdisciplinary Studies. I would think you'd be better off offering a minor and working toward building the faculty and the curriculum. At UMBC, small departments (5 people) have a hard time covering all the bases for a major even when the five people are able to devote all their teaching to that field. Presumably, at your school, the few faculty interested in Women's Studies would have to devote much of their teaching to courses outside Women's Studies. Under those circumstances, I would strongly advise against trying to offer a major. I hope some of this proves helpful. I hope, too, that you get some responses from people who have experience with Women's Studies at small schools--they're really in a better position to address these issues than I am. Good luck! Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1991 11:35:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: RSOLIE@SMITH.BITNET Subject: Request To help a colleague update course readings, I'm looking for a good social history essay (accessible to undergraduates) on women of color, preferably not in the U.S. and--even better--before the 19th century. Does anyone know of any interesting candidates? Thanks for your help! Ruth Solie Smith College rsolie@smith.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1991 16:00:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: LENTZ61@SNYPOTVA.BITNET Subject: women in james bay Hello everyone!! I am wondering if anyone has any information pertaining to women and the James Bay/Hydroquebec issue. I have a friend who is doing a paper and is having trouble finding resources. Please contact me! Thank you.... laura lentz po box 985 potsdam, ny 13676 (315)265-7624 lentz61@snypotva ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1991 16:15:50 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Allan Hunter Subject: Name This Problem; or, liberating men In-Reply-To: Message of Sat, 23 Nov 1991 16:32:00 CST from I am just returning from a provocative theater piece here at SUNY@Stony Brook titled "The Unclean", which consists in large part of actual autobiographical experiences with dehumanization (violence, being made fun of, shunned for being different, outsider-ness, etc.). Cast members gave monologues from their own lives. Included were the experiences of being on the receiving end of racism and homophobia. Perhaps because of the strengh with which this honest outlaying of how it felt has affected me, I am more than usually aware of my own stories and my own need to break the silence, even though it is difficult for me to do so. It is a strange closet and I must get out of it. This talk of men's lib or men's groups enables me to claim that my story is relevant here (even though I'm always scared that people won't get it or won't care). Skip this if you aren't in the mood for personal stories, but with deep breath & chanting "the personal is political", I begin... Although male, and heterosexual (of course I didn't always KNOW that), I was always one of the boys who was harassed by people for not being like boys were supposed to be, for being too much like the girls. The taunts and physical violence of childhood were painful. Everyone assumed I wanted to be masculine and tough and was merely failing at it (actually I never wanted to be like the other boys). Since I was proud of not being like the other boys, it hurt to be treated as if all boys are the same and that therefore I was (of course) aggressive, insensitive, crude, and so forth. And whenever I was treated as if I was NOT like the other boys, the treatment was hostile, disrespectful, contemptuous, and full of hidden notions that I didn't understand (as if I were doing something very filthy). "Sissy, faggot, queer-bait, homo", they called me. "Baby, retard, shithead", they also said; it took awhile before I saw the pat- tern. Homophobia? Sissy-phobia? You know. Not being "right" for be- ing a guy. I just didn't realize how intolerable this difference was by itself. I didn't know the reason for all the hostility. Adolescence and sexuality were worse. I'd hear girls complaining of male sexual behavior ("only after one thing" / "has a hands problem") and I'd be glad that I wasn't like the other guys and I'd think that the girls were going to like me because of that. But the only script for how to hook up as heterosexuals is written with the male in the appetite / con- sumer / sexual aggressor role. Years go by. I'm strongly attracted to girls, scared to say so for fear that the girls will say contemptuous things about me (assuming that I'm like the other guys), and nothing is happening. Still being called homosexual fairly often. Long-lasting virginity, misery, feeling like a Martian. What am I? If gay, I should be attracted to guys, right? (I'd know if I was, wouldn't I? I ask myself...) But I'm different from the other guys, I'm like the girls, that's always been who I am to myself and other people say it, too. Transsexual? But I don't mind being male, my BODY isn't the prob- lem! I meet a nice gay guy who wants to pick me up: "Have you ever tried gay sex?", he asks. Try: interesting word! He's nice. I learn. This isn't for me. Ick. Nothing against you personally, dude. Now what? What the hell AM I? Ludicrous idea pops up: I'm a transsexual (sort of) except that I want to be a lesbian. That is, I want to be like women and be with women, except that I'm not really a transsexual because the body is not the problem. Next creep that asks me if I'm a faggot I'll say no I'm a dyke. Sure thing. This is ridiculous. But something persists in it. Hits me suddenly, like CLICK! This is all sounding familiar except that I only hear it from women. I'm talking feminism here! The way guys are (masculinity) is a political thing that has nothing to do with the body OR with one's sexual preference: I've heard feminist women describe how they get called dyke for not being "feminine" enough, and how that's used to keep them down. Whoa! Okay, move over, show me where to start pitching in, this is my struggle, too. I've got a personal "bone to pick" with this here patriarchal system. So do I call myself "feminist"? What does that tell people? Mainly they get the idea that I've got this mile-wide Sir Galahad streak and want to help women with their women's issues (but of course it has nothing to do with me). Some feminists say "You can't be a feminist, all you can be is a 'pro-feminist', you aren't a woman." Many folks say (in essence), "Oh, so you think women are all going to like you so much better because you're going around declaring yourself to be oh so DIFFERENT from the other men? Get real!" Meanwhile, there is this ugly nasty process of MASCULINIZATION going on out there. It gets most of the guys because they see horrible things happen to the few sissified guys like me, so they're glad it isn't them. It gets most of the guys quite young, because sissy be- havior isn't tolerated in little boys. It gets many more of them in later years due to the "heterosexual eligibility" thing: okay, you can be THAT WAY, but we all know it means you want to have sex with guys. All the guys who want intimacy with women who have resisted masculinization that far get pressured to internalize it at last. That's your patriarchy. That's how it reproduces itself. Until there is a concept of what guys like me are, a word or label, (hell, even a damn CARICATURE would be an improvement), no boy who likes girls is going to succeed in growing up without being polar- ized into masculinization or away from sexual intimacy with women. That keeps heterosexuality tied to patriarchy. (although I think everyone has the capacity to enjoy sexual expression with people of either sex under some circumstances, I also think that for many of us a tendency towards heterosexual desire is a powerful and natural part of who we are; the mere fact that we also get heterosexuality in its ugly institutional form shoved down our throats doesn't mean that there is no natural desire for sexual intimacy with the other sex for people, and for many of us I think there truly is). I'm tired of being stuck in an identity closet just because there is no name for "how I am". I'm also tired of caring and participating in the global effort to end patriarchy and bring into being the fem- inist future and then having the validity of my own personal polit- ical struggle dismissed simply because, in general, women have even more to gain by those accomplishments and have been doing most of the work. I'd love to participate in consciousness-raising intimate talk sessions with males OR females (do you realize how rare it is for women to engage in this comparative-experience tactic in any- thing other than a women-only format?), but no Iron John / Fire in the Belly stuff, no lamenting the corporate ulcer or how sad it is that we can't cry, etc, please! In the mean time, this list and an occasional women's studies class is the best that I've got. -- Allan Hunter ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1991 18:16:10 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sandra Basgall Subject: Re: Whence the 2nd wave? Most feminist scholars believe that there were only two waves of feminism with the first wave having its roots in the abolitionist movement and starting with the Senica Falls meeting July 20, 1848 and ending with the adoption of the 19th amendment in 1920. And that the second movement had its roots in the Civil Rights/student/anti-war movements and started with , unofficially, the 1965 White House Conference on Equal Opportunity, but officially with the birth of NOW in 1966. Other scholars such as Lauren Kessler in _The Dissident Press_ argue that the "first feminist movement emerged with the crusade against slavery" in the Abolitionist movement and ended with the Civil War when they believed "that when peace came, they along with Blacks, would be enfranchised." When the 14th and 15th amendments did not include voting rights for women, Kessler argues that the second wave began which ended with the 19th amendment and that the third wave began with the modern feminist movement. I, and I think most other feminist scholars, prefer the first explaination as I believe women really began to "get their consciousness raised" when they attended the World Anti-Slavery convention in London in 1840 and were not allowed to participate. Women had also been baned from public speaking in some areas as it was proper. This inferiated many of the very good women Abolitionist speakers. I really think the declaration for women's rights at Senica was the beginnings! O=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-O + Sandra Basgall sbasgall@vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu (internet) + O School of Journalism sbasgava@uiamvs (bitnet) O + and Mass Communication + O The University of Iowa voice: (319) 337-5552 O + Iowa City, IA 52242 + O-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=O ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1991 19:55:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: WITCHY Subject: Re: Name This Problem; or, liberating men allan: i, for one, wish to thank you for sharing your story ... i would have responded privately, but felt you deserved public response for acted on the meaning behind the 'personal is political' which we all preach ... patriarchal gender socializations have marginalized individuals of both sexes. for those who do not conform to the rigid stereotypes ... (those blueprints whose following spells success, but whose modification [in even the least little detail] spells failure) it can be difficult to place one's beliefs and/or 'realities' in opposition/challenge to the dominant social order ... by not adhering to the standard, such individuals create anomalous social categories with which the system cannot easily cope ... and draw upon themselves the wrath of the resultant confused culture ... and acknowledging the negative effects of the gender socialization of masculinity, in my opinion, is as important to feminism and women's studies syllabi, as is their primary focus on the women-centered issues that are their primary focus ... because the replication of such gender socialization of masculinity only serves to perpetuate the patriarchical prerogatives against which such epistemologies are framed ... trish ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1991 19:28:17 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rhonda Subject: Gendered sexuality, a taxonomy The recent letter from Allan, and in particular his comment about feeling like a lesbian, brought to mind a talk I heard at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex. Holly Devor, a sociologist in Victoria BC, developed this taxonomy in response to the growing number of people she encounters who do not fit into the labels or categories of sexuality currently in use. With- out going into the merits of employing categories at all, I will briefly des- cribe her idea. She suggests that in categorizing individual's sexuality, we take into account both sex and gender. The labels corresponding to sex are male, female, hetero- sexual, and homosexual; those corresponding to gender are man, woman, straight, and gay/lesbian. Various combinations of these labels, with the sex labels used to reflect biological "reality" (surgical procedures obscure reality at times) and the gender labels used to reflect the person's chosen gender ident- ity, may result. For example, taking Allan's letter (Allan I hope I cause you no offense in citing you as an example), we have the following combination -- if I have understood his letter correctly. He is a biological male. He seeks sexual relations with females, making him heterosexual. He identifies himself as a woman rather than a man as far as his gender. He wants sexual relations with other women, and considering himself a "woman" this does result in the label lesbian. Thus, under the Devor taxonomy, Allan would be a male heterosexual lesbian wo- man. This is of course assuming that he really does identify himself as a woman, otherwise he would be a male heterosexual straight man. I hope this is not too confusing to understand from this one example. I write of it because I find it a useful way in which to think about sexuality. Anyone wishing more information about this system can contact Holly Devor at: Sociology Dept. University of Victoria, Box 3050, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8W 3P5 I am: Rhonda Reinholtz RHONDAR@UKANVM.BITNET (Graduate student in clinical psychology at the University of Kansas) ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1991 20:28:54 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Eric Plutzer Allan Hunter has provided a wonderful, autobiographical account that is also a perceptive piece of analysis/scholarship. I thank him for sharing his experiences and perspective. And yet in reading it one might get the impression that Allan's experience is unique among men. I suspect that to some extent, all men could identify with Allan's account. If a label would help, I'd suggest the "Clark Kent syndrome" (for those of the M*A*S*H TV generation, "Radar" might also be appropriate). The fact that millions of men identify with the Clark Kent persona strikes me as evidence that most men are aware of the fact that when one follows the norms of passive resistance, compassion, and non-dominant heterosexual courtship, you don't receive the attention of the Lois Lanes of the world. Clark Kent is celibate but Superman has a girlfriend. Clark is not a full person until he displays his super powers and solves all the world's problems by brute force. Clark/Superman is a pop icon because men identify with both sides -- Clark shows that anyone can have the same insecurities as consequence of following our "effeminate" instincts; and Superman represents the hope of all men that they have the capacity for male aggressiveness and power. Eric Plutzer Iowa State U s1.exp@isumvs ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1991 22:37:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L's focus (again) Though I, too, found Allan Hunter's discussion of his sexual/gender identity compelling, I would remind WMST-L subscribers that other lists exist for discussion of such issues, and I would urge people to hold such discussions there rather than on WMST-L. WMST-L has been set up to focus on the academic and professional aspects of Women's Studies, not with those aspects already dealt with by other lists. For the issues that Allan has raised, I would suggest people look at FEMAIL, MAIL-MEN, and perhaps the Usenet groups soc.men and conduct further discussions there. I have reproduced below part of section 10 of the WMST-L User's Guide--it offers names and e-mail addresses of these and other gender-related lists. The point is to give people maximum choice and control over their e-mail. Those who wish to receive mail only about the academic and professional aspects of Women's Studies can subscribe to WMST-L and not to other gender-related lists; those who wish for discussions of male/female relations and other gender-related societal issues but not for the academic/professional side of Women's Studies can subscribe to, say, FEMAIL, GENDER, and/or MAIL-MEN and not to WMST-L; and those who want both kinds of discussions can, like me, subscribe to both WMST-L and other gender-related lists. Since one important reason for the limitations on WMST-L's focus is to keep the volume of mail manageable for a maximum number of subscribers, I would ask people who have questions about anything I've said here to respond to me privately, not to WMST-L. Please be considerate of your fellow subscribers, who may not have as much time or e-mail space as you do. Many thanks. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ***************************************************************** SECTION 10 - WMST-L USER'S GUIDE 10) "THE LIST'S WELCOME LETTER MAKES IT CLEAR THAT WMST-L HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED TO DEAL WITH THE ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL SIDE OF WOMEN'S STUDIES, ESPECIALLY WITH ISSUES HAVING TO DO WITH TEACHING, RESEARCH, AND PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION. WHAT ELECTRONIC FORUMS EXIST FOR DISCUSSION OF MALE/FEMALE RELATIONS, WOMEN'S ISSUES, SOCIETAL PROBLEMS, ETC.?" There is a moderated list called GENDER that is devoted especially to "discussion of issues pertaining to the study of communication and gender." To subscribe, send the following message to COMSERVE@RPIECS (Bitnet) or COMSERVE@VM.ECS.RPI.EDU (Internet): SUBSCRIBE GENDER Your Name. [Note that for this list you send subscription requests to COMSERVE rather than to LISTSERV.] Also, the moderated USENET newsgroup soc.feminism (see below) is available in digest form via e-mail for those who either cannot access Usenet or prefer the digest format. To subscribe to the digest, send a request to FEMINISM-DIGEST@NCAR.UCAR.EDU (Internet) or FEMINISM-DIGEST%NCAR.UCAR.EDU@NCARIO (Bitnet). Digest recipients can then respond to postings by sending messages to FEMINISM@NCAR.UCAR.EDU (Internet) or FEMINISM%NCAR.UCAR.EDU@NCARIO (Bitnet). There are, in addition, some lists that have only Internet addresses. (If you don't have Internet access, ask the computer people at your institution how to send mail to these lists through a gateway.) For example, there is a moderated list called FEMAIL that "exists to provide a shared communication channel for feminists around the world." Subscription requests should be sent to FEMAIL-REQUESTS@LUCERNE.ENG.SUN.COM. Both men and women may join. Another list is MAIL-MEN. It describes itself as "a place of openness and support" where men and women can discuss men's issues, which it defines as "those problems or experiences that affect male humans." Send subscription requests to MAIL-MEN-REQUEST@USL.COM. A third list is SAPPHO, a forum and support group for gay and bisexual women. Membership is open to all women and is limited to women. For more information, contact SAPPHO-REQUEST@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU. Another source of electronic forums is Usenet, with its vast array of "newsgroups." Among the hundreds of groups are the following: soc.feminism, soc.women, soc.men, and soc.gender-issues. These newsgroups all carry discussions of male/female relations, as well as other topics. The newsgroups are public, open to both men and women. Soc. feminism is moderated; the others are not and tend to be somewhat wilder and more argumentative. Since methods of accessing Usenet newsgroups vary from system to system, the best thing would be to ask the computer people at your institution how to access these newsgroups on your particular system. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1991 08:24:41 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Robert A. Dunne" Subject: RE: WMST-L's focus (again) Joan-- Bravo! Bob Dunne Lehigh University ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1991 09:37:28 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sandra Basgall Subject: letters needed Date: Sun, 24 Nov 91 19:43 CST From: CLAASSEN@UDLAPVMS.PUE.UDLAP.MX Subject: letters needed This message is from Cheryl Claassen and Marilyn Smith from Appalacian State University who are on sebatical in Mexico. They asked for people who care to send letters. Petition Congress to fund family planning programs---- Citizens of the US can write their Congressfolks protesting a policy of the US Government called ""The Mexico City Policy." Refers to a policy statement on population made by the head of our US delegation at the 1984 UN Population Conference. The statement first declared population growth has no impact on economic development--incredible. The second part of the policy was the requirement, later placed in key Federal grants, private organizations having any involvement with abortion activities. In Mexico, abortion is legal only in the state of Chiapas. Coincidentally, the leading cause of death among 15-year old girls is botched abortion, and botched abortion continues to be the leading killer of Mexican women younger than 39. Private family planning agencies in Mexico which are legally unable to have anything to do with abortion, should have been immune to funding cuts but the Mexico City Policy created so many problems with accounting red tape and interference with amounts of funding were effectively cut off. Out of 30 family planning organizations in Latin America, only eight are still operating today. CASA, in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajanto Mexico is one of the 8 but its director spends 99% of her time raising funding. Mexico Audubon estimates that the 5 year set back due to funding problems CASA faces will affect all San Migueleans in further depleted water supplies, further eroded and unproductive land, more filth and disease in the water, more poverty, other types of habitat loss and all the attendant human suffering. Write letters to the Sender: Women's Studies List From: PLAUTER@TRINCC.BITNET Subject: New organizations Two new organizations designed to support multiculturalism and women's studies and to oppose the attacks on "political correctness" (perhaps better defined as attacks on educational democracy) have recently been formed. One is called Teachers for a Democratic Culture. Contact: Gerry Graff, English, Univ. of Chicago. The other, formally started Saturday, is called Union of Democratic Intellectuals. Contact: Stanley Aronowitz, Cultural Studies, CUNY Graduate Center, NY 10036. Both are interested in developing media responses to the conservative attacks. Both will probably organize local chapter and/or chapters within disciplines. The first is more focused, I think, on maintaining truly open universities, and thus on issues of civil liberties and rights. Their statement focuses on such matters. The second has yet to develop a statement, but will probably be more concerned with the roles of higher education in the global political economy (esp. in light of the fact that the US is now educating most leadership elites and subelites) and perhaps more explicitly with issues of race and gender. One hopes there will NOT be conflicts between them--they may, indeed, work jointly on a spring conference. And also that both will respond to attacks on women's studies and help foster its ideas. They're more likely to if some of us are active in them. Related: I'm one of the editors of a book in progress on "The Multicultural Wars." If any of you are writing/ have written VERY SPECIFICALLY about what has been an essentially political attack on your women's studies program, not the usual academic carping, perhaps you would let us consider the paper. I'm at Trinity College, Hartford, CT 06106. I know this is at the list margins but, I hope, still within them. Paul Lauter [plauter@tncc.bitnet] ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1991 19:36:53 ARG Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Carlos Reynoso Subject: Journal Does anybody know the address of The Journal for The Feminist Study of Religion? I wish to subscribe to it. Thanks in advance, Monica Tarducci B. Sur Mer 279 - 2B (1213) Buenos Aires - Argentina atina!pccp!reynoso@uunet.UU.NET ( try also: reynoso@pccp.com.ar ) Carlos Reynoso reynoso@pccp.com.ar ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1991 16:49:47 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Ariel x4970 Subject: Re: Journal In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 25 Nov 91 19:36:53 -0700. <9111251629.aa01802@orion.oac.uci.edu> if you mean The Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, the address is c/o Scholars Press Customer Services, Box 6525, Ithaca, NY 14851. Subscription address (according to Feminist Periodicals) is Membership Services, Box 15288, Atlanta, GA 30333. > Does anybody know the address of The Journal for The Feminist Study > of Religion? I wish to subscribe to it. > > Thanks in advance, > > Monica Tarducci > B. Sur Mer 279 - 2B > (1213) Buenos Aires - Argentina > > atina!pccp!reynoso@uunet.UU.NET > ( try also: reynoso@pccp.com.ar ) > > > > > Carlos Reynoso > reynoso@pccp.com.ar ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1991 10:25:00 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Donna **THNKUPW** Reiner Subject: women in music I specifically teach music appreciation classes at the community college level. Students continually ask about women composers and/or performers which I make every attempt to oblige them. However, resources are limited at Arizona State especially when it comes to recordings. Therefore, can any one assist me in finding recordings of women composers (particularly American) and women jazz performers. For some peculiar reason, I would prefer the more obscure artists. Secondly, I'm looking for archives which may contain unpublished works (music) of women, especially women of the Harlem Renaissance. I'm interested in g getting such works published. Donna Reiner AODJR@ASUCVAX.BITNET ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1991 17:28:21 TZONE Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: K_COOK@UNHH.UNH.EDU Subject: Violence Against Women the president of the University of New Hampshire has formed a new committee to examine the issue of violence (broadly defined to include sexual harass- ment) against women and formulate (hopefully) effective policy recommendations. i would appreciate hearing from the readership of this list about those policies at your institutions that have been effective AND ineffective, why some have worked and others have not, etc... also, of particular interest to me is how to handle the violence against women perpetrated by faculty members and staff/administrators, etc... also, i am VERY interested in the issue of sexual harassment in academe and would like to hear your perceptions/experiences/solutions and anything else you have to say about the issue. finally, while i have your attention; the chair of my dept (sociology) is looking for information about how people incorporate the feminist perspectives in teaching OUTSIDE of women's studies classes. if you have thoughts on that, i would welcome them and pass them along to her. thank you all in advance for your responses! unless you think your responses would be of general interest to the whole readership, i suggest you send your messages directly to me, not to the list. thanks. Kimberly J. Cook Dept. of Sociology University of New Hampshire Durham, NH 03824 K_COOK@UNHH.UNH.EDU (internet) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1991 17:44:36 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from PROFS to RFC822 format by PUMP V2.2 From: "Leonard P. Hirsch" Subject: Violence Against Women In-Reply-To: note of 11/26/91 17:33 From: Leonard P. Hirsch Office of International Relations/Q-3123 (202) 357-4788 Really, re: incorporating feminist perspectives outside of women's studies. I teach a series of course in International Political Economy and the Environment. In these, I counterpoint traditional models of economy and science with questions on the often hidden hierarchical [read white Victorian male] bases of the model and attempt to develop the necessary discourse to look at these issues more wholistically, skeptically, and structurally. Does it work--for some it is an eye opener, for others, I'm a fag communist or something like that. Overall, the more one can get the students to understand the impact of issues and exchanges on women [for my cases, Third World women], the closer they come to understanding the biases and blind spots in classic perspectives. +-----------------------------------------------------+ | Leonard Hirsch (202) 357-4788/FAX (202)786-2557 | | Smithsonian Institution BITNET INCEM005@SIVM | +-----------------------------------------------------+ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1991 09:27:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BMARSHALL@TRENTU.CA Subject: WOMEN'S STUDIES CURRICULUM WE ARE A SMALL BUT GROWING WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAM AT A SMALL CANADIAN UNIVERSITY. CURRENTLY WE HAVE 3 CORE, REQUIRED COURSES -- AN INTRODUCTORY COURSE AT THE 2ND YEAR LEVEL (WS200), A THIRD-YEAR COURSE IN FEMINIST THEORY (WS300) AND A FOURTR COURSE CALLED FEMINIST PRAXIS (WS400). WE ARE PLANNING TO DEVELOP AN INTRODUCTORY COURSE FOR THE FIRST-YEAR LEVEL, AND ARE IN THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING A SECOND-YEAR COURSE WHICH WILL PROVIDE A BRIDGE FROM THE INTRODUCTORY LEVEL TO THE RATHER DEMANDING THIRD-YEAR FEMINIST THEORY COURSE. WE'RE THINKING ABOUT AN ISSUE-ORIENTED INTRODUCTION TO FEMINIST THEORY AND METHODOLOGY. WE WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE ANY SUGGESTIONS FOR CURRICULUM DESIGN, INCLUDING COPIES OF YOUR WOMEN'S STUDIES CALENDARS, COURSE SYLLA BARB MARSHALL, CHAIR, WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAM TRENT UNIVERSITY, PETERBOROUGH, ONT. CANADA K9J 7B8 BMARSHALL@TRENTU.CA ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1991 14:03:33 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: allan hunter Subject: Re: Violence Against Women In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 26 Nov 1991 17:28:21 TZONE from Hi! I'm a graduate student in Dept of Sociology who teaches Introductory level undergrad Sociology. How do I integrate women's studies into the course? As its backbone! 1. Course revolves around two example issues which can be approached in order to discuss methodology questions (how would we study this here issue?), look at social structure and its relationship to the people as individuals, question the permanence and naturalness of socially constructed and politically woven values and norms, and so forth. My two issues: rape and the structure of intimate (ongoing, sexual) relations. 2. Course also revolves around two overarching theoretical questions, which set the stage for the asking of smaller research questions. The first question is the question of freedom itself: what it is, what it isn't (therefore, what is oppression), and especially what (if any) constraints SHOULD (ideally) be placed on individuals' freedom in order to obtain maximum freedom for everyone in the social context. (This enables major feminist critiques of the patriarchal structure as a series of limits on what would other- wise be anarchistic, informal, trust-and-connectedness-oriented ways of integrating people; it is Gilligan's "care ethic" up against the masculinist "justice ethic" as reflected in formal patriarchal law and law enforcement, etc...). The second ques- tion is the question of origins: after having everyone read Philip Slater's excellent (& decisively feminist) new book _The Dream Deferred_ (democracy versus authoritarianism in America), we ask "How'd we get into this authoritarian, op- pressive power-over-others system anyway?" This opens the stage for the introduction of what sociology calls GRAND THEORY, and the grand theory that is used as an example of that kind of attempt to address and explain society in toto is the radical feminist theories of patriarchal origins as developed in Elizabeth Fisher's _Woman's Creation_ and Marilyn French's _Beyond Power_. -- Allan Hunter ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1991 16:19:12 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathryn Kerns I am sending this for a colleague not on the list. 16:08:46 11/27/91 FROM HF.SAL "Sally Schroeder": NEH Summer Schedule 1992 NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers: "The Woman Question in Western Thought" Director: Karen Offen. Location: Stanford University. Dates: 25 June - 17 August 1992 (eight weeks). This seminar will reconsider Western political/intellectual history from the Enlightenment to the Atomic Age (1750-1950) by focusing on the woman question. Readings will center around Bell and Offen's two-volume interpretative documentary, Women, the Family, and Freedom: The Debate in Documents, plus the latest historical writing. The seminar is intended for college teachers from a variety of disciplinary perspectives (history, political science, law, literature, philosophy, religious studies, sociology, anthropology, psychology, economics, education, biology and health sciences, etc.) who wish to develop a gendered and comparative perspective on the history of Western thought and politics. For further information, please write to: Karen Offen, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Serra House, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-8640. Please mention that you saw this notice on the Women's Studies List. To: CN.KMK@FORSYTHE ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1991 21:50:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Arnie Kahn Subject: _Women at Thirtysomething: Paradoxes of Attainment_ _Women at Thirtysomething: Paradoxes of Attainment_ was written by Clifford Adelman and published by the U.S. Department of Education. It is research based on the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972. It shows that through school women do better than men, but end up benefitting less from education than do men: they make less money and are more likely to be unemployed. I think it costs $3.00. Contact U.S. Department of Education Washington, DC 20208-5647 Thanks to Jan Yoder for bringing this to my attention. Arnie Kahn fac_askahn@jmuvax or fac_askahn@vax1.acs.jmu.edu Happy Thanksgiving ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1991 10:39:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 3 job announcements I have received the following three job announcements. Please address all inquiries to the people named in the announcements, not to WMST-L or to me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc or @umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) Nicholls State University is seeking a Director of the Center for Women and Government at NSU to assume responsibility for day-to-day operations, including fund raising, program development, constituency development, marketing, and working with a Board of Directors and various committees. The scope of the work provided by the Center for Women and Government falls into five distinct areas: Education, Resource Center, Communication, Marketing, and Research. The expected outcome of the Center includes the election and appointment of more women to public office in Louisiana, the improvement of the national image, the positioning of Louisiana as a leader in training women to enter public life, the better preparation of political candidates to seek and hold office, and the improvement of performance of women public managers. A Bachelor's degree is essential. A minimum of three years of experience in fund raising, government relations, working with diverse constituency groups, and knowledge of the governmental process are desired. To apply, send letter of application, resume, and names and addresses of three references to Rebecca Landry, Executive Director of Institutional Advancement, Nicholls State University, P. O. Box 2066, Thibodaux, LA 70310. Interviewing will begin the week of December 2, 1991. Applications will be received until the position is filled. Men, women, and minorities are encouraged to apply. AA/EOE **************************************************************** 2) The Human Development and Psychology Area at the Harvard Graduate School of Education invites applications for a non-tenured faculty position (rank open) for a researcher/scholar who focuses on the development of girls and/or women or issues of gender in development or education. Strengths in the following areas of research on girls and women are especially sought: social-emotional development, cultural diversity, risk and prevention of problems, challenges to girls in schools, or research methods. The position involves teaching and advising graduate students, as well as research. Human Development and Psychology shares an interdisciplinary developmental orientation, including psychology, education, and anthropology. Applications, including a statement of research interests, a statement of teaching experience, curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation, and two publications should be sent to Kurt Fischer, Chair, Development Search Committee, c/o Academic Services, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 122 Longfellow Hall, Cambridge MA 02138. Application deadline is February 3, 1992. Applications from women and minority candidates are especially welcomed. Harvard University upholds a commitment to Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity. **************************************************************** 3) Mount Saint Vincent University invites nominations and applications for appointment to the Nancy Rowell Jackman Chair in Women's Studies. The Chair is designed to bring to the University visiting scholars in Women's Studies or persons in public life who have contributed to the advancement of women, for a term ranging from one to two years, renewable, beginning July 1, 1993 (negotiable). The holder of the Chair should be a distinguished scholar or generalist of stature. Duties associated on and off campus, the teaching of one course in women's studies and conducting stimulating research. [This last sentence has been copied verbatim from the announcement. JK] Nominations and/or applications, the latter accompanied by a curriculum vitae and the names and addresses of three referees, should be sent prior to March 15, 1992 to: RE: Nancy Rowell Jackman Chair Dr. Rosemarie Sampson Chair, Nancy Rowell Jackman Committee Mount Saint Vincent University Halifax, Nova Scotia B3M 2J6 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1991 11:20:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Calls for Papers; Conferences Below are two calls for papers and two conference announcements. Please send all inquiries to the people mentioned in the announcements, not to WMST-L or to me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc or korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ********************************************************** 1) Call for papers: Women & Work. 8th Annual Conference, May 7-8, 1992, La Quinta Inn, Arlington, Texas. The 1992 conference is being held in conjunction with the Texas Women Mayors Conference. Texas Governor Ann Richards has been invited to speak on "Public Office: Women's Work." The conference brings together a mix of women and men from academia, business/professional areas, and the public/ non-profit sectors. Topics must include aspects of both women and work. Suggestions include but are not limited to the following areas: 1) Workforce Issues 2) Workplace Diversity 3) Images of Working Women. Papers/Presentations: 2 presenters will have 30 minutes each, followed by a discussion period. Panel Discussions: the moderator will organize the 90-minute panel. Each panel participant will present an aspect of a specific topic. This will be followed by audience discussion. EXPENSES AND FEES: The registration fees for the Conference are $85 for two days, or $55 for one day. Fees include lunches and coffee breaks. If your paper or presentation is accepted, you will become eligible for the reduced registration fees of $75 for two days, or $45 for one day. These reduced rates are also available to students attending the Conference. GUIDELINES FOR PROPOSALS: 1) Submit 5 copies of a 1-page proposal. Do not identify yourself on the proposal. 2) On a separate page, list the title of the presentation, the names of all of the presenters and their affiliations, the addresses and telephone numbers of all presenters (with the address of the principal correspondent indicated), and the proposed format (panel or paper). 3) Send items 1 & 2 to: Women & Work Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, Division of Continuing Education, Box 19197, Arlington, TX 76019-0197. DEADLINE: December 10, 1991. 4) For further information, contact Sylvia Lesko, Director of Conferences and Institutes, at (817) 273-2581. *********************************************************** 2) From: "Rosanne G. Potter" Subject: Call for Papers: Women's Studies and Computing WOMEN'S STUDIES AND COMPUTING The Clarendon Press (Oxford) plans to issue its first special- topics version of The Humanities Computing Yearbook in 1993. As editor of that collection, I can announce that HCY:3 will be devoted to reports on the use of Computing in the inter- disciplinary field of Women's Studies. My first editorial goal is to gather information about applications of computer technology to the diverse issues faced by scholars in Women's Studies. My second goal is to assign experienced researchers in each of the disciplines to write review essays on the best work in that field. I anticipate essays on Anthropology, Art, Education, History, Literature (in several languages), Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Sociology and . . . (open to other suggestions) To achieve these ends, I request that computing scholars active in Women's Studies PLEASE SEND OFF-PRINTS of the essays they have about research that relied on computational technology. (These need not specifically refer to computers). If the computing connection is not emphasized in the essay, please include a short description of reasons for using computers, and a statement of gains and/or losses realized because of the choice.I am also interested in essays submitted for publication, and statements about work in progress. I plan to choose review-essay writers from those who send their work for inclusion in the collection. There will also be room for essay-length reports on especially important projects. Jargon neither necessary nor encouraged. Clear, non-technical writing sought, especially from anyone who wishes to propose herself as a review-essay writer. PLEASE PASS THIS CALL FOR OFFPRINTS AND REVIEWERS ON: to those whose work should be recognized in this field-defining collection of reports on Women's Studies and Computing. Send offprints, descriptions of research, letters of inquiry, etc. to: Rosanne G. Potter, Chair Women's Studies Program 247 Ross Hall Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 50011 ************************************************************* 3) New Perspectives on Women and Violence: A Symposium. March 6 & 7, 1992. Joe C. Thompson Conference Center, 26th and East Campus Drive, Austin, Texas. Sponsored by The Texas Journal of Women and the Law in conjunction with the University of Texas School of Law, 727 East 26th Street, Austin, Texas. The symposium will bring together a distinguished group of women from across the country--professors of law, practitioners, psychologists, and authors--to reexamine traditional notions of women and violence. The speakers will discuss such topics as rape, pornography, domestic violence, and sexual harassment. For more information or questions, contact the Symposium Committee at (512) 471-3227: Nancy Prosser, Lois Rockefeller, Susan Stegall. ************************************************************* 4) The Fight for Reproductive Freedom. 6th Annual Conference, April 10-12, 1992, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA. The conference dates have been changed to the above so that everyone can also participate in the April 5 "We Won't Go Back" March on Washington sponsored by the National Organization for Women. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1991 09:33:57 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Sarah M. Pritchard" Subject: Re: Violence Against Women In-Reply-To: Message received on Wed, 27 Nov 91 14:19:08 EST For the teaching of introductory sociology, and social science research methods, I recommend a new anthology that is designed as a textbook and will help both with the "big picture" of social science research and feminist critique/philosophy, and gives a series of specific articles as examples of research approaches. It is _Feminist Research Methods: Exemplary Readings in the Social Sciences_, edited by Joyce McCarl Nielsen, published by Westview Press (available in reasonably-priced paperback as well). Her synthesizing introduction is great; and each chapter has a nice head-note putting it in context. It's almost all reprints from earlier articles, so is not going to break new ground for scholars, but I hope it will get wide use in social science methods and philosophy courses as well as in women's studies. Sarah Pritchard Association of Research Libraries pritchar@umdc.umd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1991 13:23:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: UAHEBP01@UAHVAX1.BITNET Subject: Maybe Someone can Help From: us%"nn.general@gnosys.svle.ma.us" 28-NOV-1991 14:42:41.90 To: Elizabeth Pollard CC: Subj: women in James Bay Received: From GITVM1(MAILER) by UAHVAX1 with Jnet id 4134 for UAHEBP01@UAHVAX1; Thu, 28 Nov 1991 14:42 CST Received: by GITVM1 (Mailer R2.08) id 4132; Thu, 28 Nov 91 15:41:10 EST Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1991 18:39:00 EDT Reply-To: nn.general@gnosys.svle.ma.us Sender: NATIVE-L Issues Pertaining to Aboriginal Peoples From: NativeNet@gnosys.svle.ma.us Subject: women in James Bay X-To: nn.general@gnosys.svle.ma.us To: Elizabeth Pollard Original-Sender: lentz61@snypotva.bitnet (Laura Lentz) Hello everyone!! I am a student at SUNY at Potsdam in New York and am looking for resources or contacts on women in James Bay. If you have any information that might be useful please forward it to: lentz61@snypotva Thank you!! Laura Lentz [ That's "lentz61@snypotva.bitnet" - for you Internetters out there. --Gary ] ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1991 16:31:39 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Holly Devor Subject: Job Posting @ UVIC The dept of Sociology at the University of Victoria in Victoria BC Canada will be making a tenure track appointment at the assistant professor level commencing July 1, 1992. Candidates should have specialized expertise in either theory (including feminist theory) or advanced statistics, and they should possess a Ph.D. at the time of appointment. Salary is competitive with other major Canadian universities. In accordance with Canadian immegration requirements, this ad is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. UVIC has an employment equity programme and encourages appkications from all qualified applicants, including women, aboriginal peoples, visible mnorities, and the physically challenged. Appplications, including vitae and three letters of reference, should be sent to Daniel J. Koenig, Chair - Dept. of Sociology, University of Victoria, Box 3050, Victoria BC, Canada V8W 3P5 or FAXED to (604) 721-6217. Non-Canadians who are not permanent residents should send names of references rather than have letters of reference sent. The closing date for applications is Jan 31 '92 Readers of this list may contact me for further info. Holly Devor same address as above or HHDD@UVVM.UVIC.CA ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1991 18:19:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: LENTZ61@SNYPOTVA.BITNET Subject: anti-sexism actionent Hello! I thought this might be of interest since there has been a lot of discussion about men's groups lately on the list. This December 1 through 6, men across Canada will display a white ribbon on their clothing, house or car. The white ribbon symbolizes a call for men to lay down their arms in the war against women. The White Ribbon Campaign is organized by the National Conference to End Men's Violence, Men's Network for Change, the Ottawa-Hull Men's forum Against SExism, and Brother Peace, a continent-wide men's group. The Ottawa coordinator of the Campaign can be reached at 234-5456. This has been reprinted from"Peace and Environment News", December 1991-January 1992, Vol.6, No.10.--174 First ave. Box 4075, Station E, Ottawa K1S 5B1. Phone: 230-4590...open weekdays 12-6 p.m. P.S. Dec. 1 through 6 is the second anniversary of the Montreal massacre. --laura lentz lentz61@snypotva