========================================================================= Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1992 08:45:54 LCL Reply-To: RGINZBERG@EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruth Ginzberg Subject: Responses to "Re: Teaching Evaluations" Dear All; Thanks for the (dozens & dozens!) of thoughtful responses I received via private e-mail to my Rant re. Teaching Evaluations (last week). I appreciate both those who wrote in support of what I said and those who wrote to disagree. I think this is the sort of dialogue that makes us eventually become more aware of others' perspectives, which can't but help to make us better teachers Quite a few folks mentioned an interest in continuing this discussion off-list; maybe we could get an off-list feminist pedagogy conversation going. E-mail me if you're interested (but note: if I get really swamped with responses, as did michelle murrain, re feminism & science, I don't really have the time to set up a whole fancy e-list apparatus; sorry). Those interested in issues of feminist pedagogy might find interesting the upcoming conference at the Center for Twentieth Century Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee April 15-17, 1993 "PEDAGOGY: THE QUESTION OF THE PERSONAL" Jane Gallop, Conference Organizer. (414) 229-4141. I don't know any more about it, except that the deadline for the Call for Papers is Dec. 1, 1992. Contact Jane Gallop (above) for more info about this conference. Contact me if you're interested in a small off-list e-mail discussion re issues of feminist pedagogy. -ruth ------------------------ Ruth Ginzberg Philosophy Department;Wesleyan University;USA ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1992 10:57:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Format for WMST-L Messages (User's Guide) At the start of each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Here is section one: 1) "IS THERE A PREFERRED FORMAT TO USE FOR MESSAGES SENT TO THE LIST (I.E., TO WMST-L@UMDD OR WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU)?" Yes. First of all, ALWAYS put your name and e-mail address at the end of every posting. (It is important that people be able to contact you privately if they wish, and some mail systems do not identify the writer anywhere in the header.) Also, please include a meaningful subject heading, so that people will know whether your message deals with a topic of interest to them. Finally, if you are replying to someone else's posting, briefly quote or summarize that posting before you offer your reply. Doing so will make your message clearer and avoid confusion. (New subscribers are continually joining the list; they may not have read the original message. And since a number of topics are often being discussed on the list at any given moment, even long-time subscribers may not remember what prompted your remarks unless you remind them.) ******************* Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1992 13:06:37 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "(Bryan Strong: Psychology / UC-Santa Cruz)" Subject: Re: female picaresque? Erica Jong's FANNY (1979) is a wonderful picaresque novel written in the style of Moll Flanders and Tom Jones - but with a female heroine. Bryan Strong Psychology Board of Studies University of California-Santa Cruz bartleby@cats.UCSC.EDU or bartleby@cats.UCSC.BITNET ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1992 17:38:54 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: RBUDDEBE@UCS.INDIANA.EDU Subject: cost of domestic violence As part of my undergrad education in economics I can write an honors thesis. I would like to research teh Economic Cost of Domestic Violence. Even though I think the costs are huge and that there should be some research on this out there, I have not found anything so far. I am looking for data on: (1) scope of domestic violence (how many women are abused, in what classes are they ...) (2) what costs are there for the individual woman due to hospital stays, depression, lack of sleep, energy or support (3) and of course what are the costs for society as a whole how much productivity/creativity is lost by disabeling, dis- couraging women from living up to their potential (after all this is part of what domestic violence does) Domestic violence includes here all forms of violence within a heterosexual relationship: physical, emotional and sexual abuse. Any and all hints, references, ideas where to look and so on will be greatly appreciated! Thanks a lot. Rachel A. Buddeberg e-mail: Rbuddebe@ucs.indiana.edu (internet) Rbuddebe@iubacs snail mail: 908 Redbud Hill Apts. Bloomington, Indiana 47406 phone: (812) 857-9049 There are so many ways to communicate.... ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1992 19:26:47 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: STRETCH OR DROWN/ EVOLVE OR DIE Subject: Re: female picaresque? Some other examples of female picaresque-- Charlotte Lennox's *The Female Quixote* and Fanny Burney's *Evelina*, both from the eighteenth century, both quite hilarious. Students generally like Burney (usually more than Austin). I've never taught Lennox, but I enjoyed reading it. More contemporary,Kathy Acker's *Don Quixote*. Laurie Finke Women's and Gender Studies Kenyon College finkel@kenyon.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1992 20:26:40 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "All Hail the Great and Mighty OTIS!" <75FURLONG@CUA.EDU> Subject: Re: Frats Another suggestion for "whittling away" at frat privileges is to push the housing office for support. For instance, if freshmen and sophomores are required to live in on-campus housing (read: dormitory), there is less of a temptation to join a frat so you can live in the frat house. Once students have gotten through freshman year without pledging, they are less likely to later. -Alison 75furlong@cua.edu *********************************************************** * Alison Furlong ---- * "I have been deceived" * * 75furlong@cua.edu \bi/ * "No - you have been refused" * * \/ * - G. Stein * *********************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1992 22:19:35 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Helen Tafoya-Barraza Subject: Re: Frats In-Reply-To: Message of Sun, 1 Nov 1992 20:26:40 -0500 from <75FURLONG@CUA.EDU> There has been a suggestion to push university housing offices to require on-campus housing for freshmen and sophmores,to discourage the joining of frats. Of course, this practice would result in discriminatory practices for lower SES students not to mention the havoc it would cause for the non-traditional students with children. If we "require" people to live certain places, what is to stop the powers that be from also infringing on other liberties and freedoms? I have never been a fan of university "Greek systems", but, certainly there are better ways... * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Helen M. Tafoya-Barraza, AGHMT@ASUACAD.bitnet "If Bush gets re-elected, I'll leave. I'll just leave... " * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1992 22:37:07 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: wasserle@SFU.CA Subject: Re: womyn's e-mail communities/thesis topic In-Reply-To: <9210311723.AA22790@whistler.sfu.ca>; from "BHGEWANT@SUVM.BITNET" at Oct 30, 92 8:04 pm I missed a couple days mail because of a problem here at SFU - so I'm not certai n where this request originated, or what the original question was, but you may want to know about Ellen Balka's PhD dissertation on women, social change networks and computer e-mail/BBS connections. She analyzed messages from several of the lists, I can't recall right now which ones. Her PhD was granted in 1992, from Simon Fraser University, and her dissertation is no doubt available from the usual sources on microfilm. She's in Women's Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland. e-mail = ebalka@kean.cus.mun.ca Hope this is useful, and I'll be embarassed if Ellen originated the request ... Frances_Wasserlein@sfu.ca -- ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1992 02:17:52 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Allan Hunter Subject: Re: Frats In-Reply-To: Message of Sun, 1 Nov 1992 22:19:35 MST from One of my favorite solutions to the "Greeks" policy is an administrative ban on the use of any campus funding, building use, or other forms of institutional cooperation with any student social or service clubs that are not open to both sexes. A great deal of what makes a fraternity what it so often tends to be is that it is an exclusively male thing. So far as I know, on campuses that have taken this route, there have been "coed fraternities" but no "coed sororities". Sororities have traditionally existed as Women's Auxiliaries to specific fraternities, I think; although it would be reasonable and possible for a feminist group to operate as a "sorority", they don't tend to. A parallel approach is a mandatory orientation-to-campus program that introduced incoming freshmen to the concepts of sexual harassment, rape, and relationship violence, and establishes what is and is not a crime and/or an infringement on students' rights that will not be tolerated on campus. Just because frats exist and perpetuate ugly myths and ideologies that bolster sexist practices doesn't mean that alternative perspectives cannot be formally presented as part of the curriculum. -allan hunter ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1992 09:58:00 EST Reply-To: MKISSIL@DREW.BITNET Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mia T Subject: Query on Modern Canadian Fiction by Women Date: 02-Nov-1992 09:50am EST From: Kissil, Mia T MKISSIL Dept: Tel No: (201)-408-8209 TO: Remote INTERNET Address ( _IN%WMST-L@UMDD.BITNET ) Subject: Query on Modern Canadian Fiction by Women I am a graduate student in English and am attempting to put together a tutorial on Modern Canadian Fiction. My goal is to track down a dissertation topic in this field. I would like to use an anthology of short stories and 3 novels, preferably by women. I am looking for works that set Canadian lit. apart from either British or American, and with that in mind, would appreciate any suggestions as to which novels I should consider. I'm trying to stay away from Atwood, as she is practically old hat by now, but don't want to rule anyone out completely. For anthologies I have looked at Michael Ondaajte's _From Ink Lake_ and Atwood and Weaver's _Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English_. At the moment I like the former better, but if anyone can convince me otherwise, or has any other suggestions, I would be glad to hear them. Please respond privately, and if there is any interest, I will post a list of my responses to the list. Thanks in advance, Mia Tatiana Kissil MKISSIL@DREW.BITNET MKISSIL@DREW.DREW.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1992 10:23:11 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sharon Jacobson HPERD Subject: lesbian fiction I am a graduate student in recreation and leisure studies and am attempting to compile a list of lesbian fiction, poetry, music, films, photographs, and artwork from the 1920's forward. I am familiar with most of the current works in these areas but am unfamiliar with the very early works. My goal is to examine the cultural representation of leisure in the lives of older lesbians. I would appreciate any assistance or suggestions in identifying earlier publication sources, bibliographies, or anthologies. Please respond privately, and if there is any interest, I will post a list of my responses to the list. Thanks Sharon Jacobson Jacobson@moe.coe.uga.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1992 12:42:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ARG4@PSUVM.BITNET Subject: cancel subscription Please cancel my subscription ot wsm-l. I halve found that I don't have the time to make good use of it. Thanks, ANgela R. Gillem ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1992 12:42:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Where to send messages (User's Guide) At the start of each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Here is section two: 2) "WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LISTSERV@UMDD AND WMST-L@UMDD? HOW DO I TELL WHICH ADDRESS TO USE?" WMST-L@UMDD (or WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU on Internet) should be used ONLY for messages that you wish to send to all WMST-L subscribers. Messages concerning your WMST-L subscription should be sent to LISTSERV@UMDD (or, on Internet, LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU). For example, send messages to LISTSERV, not WMST-L, when you wish to Cancel your subscription: UNSUB WMST-L Stop receiving mail temporarily: SET WMST-L NOMAIL Start receiving mail again: SET WMST-L MAIL See who is subscribed to WMST-L: REVIEW WMST-L NOTE: If you subscribed under a Bitnet address and sent your subscription request to LISTSERV's Bitnet address (LISTSERV@UMDD), you must send ALL subsequent mail to the list's Bitnet addresses. Similarly, if you subscribed under an Internet address and sent your subscription request to LISTSERV's Internet address (LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU), you must send ALL subsequent mail the the list's Internet addresses. If you try to set your subscription to NOMAIL or you try to signoff and are told you don't have a subscription, chances are you are sending your request to the wrong address for LISTSERV. Simply try the other address. (See also section 3) v For more extensive information about LISTSERV commands, send LISTSERV the following two-word message: INFO GENINTRO. You'll receive a file entitled LISTSERV.MEMO. (See section 11 for how to retrieve files sent to you in Netdata format.) If you have a question about your subscription that you want a human being to read, do not send it to either WMST-L or LISTSERV. Instead, send it to the list owner, Joan Korenman [KORENMAN@UMBC (Bitnet) or KORENMAN@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU (Internet)]. ****************** Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1992 13:41:35 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Diana H. Scully" Subject: NWSA I have been a member of the NWSA Coordinating Council since 1990 and would like to respond to the questions raised on the list about NWSA. NWSA continues to survive despite extreme financial problems. In August, 1992, most of the national office staff had to be laid off. Currently, the office is open and being staffed by office manager, Loretta Younger, who keeps basic services going. The mailing for voting on the new constitution, recommended at the 1992 Texas conference, will go out this week. The Coordinating Council had an emergency meeting in October, 1992 and it was decided to go forward with a 1993 conference that will be held in the DC area, June 16-20. Members of the Coordinating Council and volunteers will perform the functions formerly performed by the Conference Coordinator and office staff. A call for papers and scholarship applications will go out later this month. Our problems at this point are financial and we hope that members will join us in our commitment to keep NWSA alive by renewing memberships. Donations also gratefully accepted. Diana Scully dscully@Cabell.VCU.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1992 18:48:00 GMT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "K.QUINN" Subject: Women in Northern Ireland A strange idea has been insinuating itself into my consciousness, and I wonder if anyone has seen any studies on similar ideas. I am an American doing research in Belfast this year. As you probably know, Northern Ireland is the scene of sectarian clashes, occasionally violent ones--guns, bombs, and so on. To my surprise, I feel safer here than I have in any other large city in the States or elsewhere. I can walk home at midnight without fear of muggings or rape. MEN are the targets of sectarian attacks; women are not. Could it be possible that the Troubles in Northern Ireland appear in the media because when men are not safe on the streets--that's news? Could the Troubles be publicised because it's not "natural" for women to be safer than men? If you have seen any studies on similar situations, please reply privately. e-mail: K.QUINN@V2.QUB.AC.UK snail-mail: Kathleen Quinn The Institute of Irish Studies The Queen's University of Belfast 8 Fitzwilliam Street Belfast BT9 6AH Northern Ireland ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1992 14:17:17 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kerry Ashby Subject: Women writers/Anne Howard (Lady Irwin) I am searching for research regarding an 18th century British woman writer named Anne Howard (Lady Irwin); as literature studies and women's studies often overlap, I am hoping that someone on this list may be able to offer suggestions. (I already have the Roger Lonsdale anthology but need more information, particularly regarding criticism of her work.) I am particularly interested in critical opinion regarding her feminist views. (Please respond privately.) Thank you. Kerry L. Walter Ashby C594148@MIZZOU1.BITNET ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1992 20:30:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 3 job openings I have received the following job announcements: 1) Asst. Prof. of History inc. Women's History (St. Mary's Coll.) 2) Two positions in Women's Studies (Oberlin College) For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc) *********************************************************** ASST. PROF. of HISTORY - SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA St. Mary's College of California seeks to make a tenure-track appointment at the level of assistant professor, beginning fall 1993, for a candidate in U.S. history with a specialty in one or more of the following fields: African-American history; American ethnic groups; women's history. Responsibilities will consist of the U.S. history survey, upper-division courses in U.S. history, and participation in the College's Great Books seminar. It is also expected that candidates will commit themselves to an across-the-curriculum effort to improve student writing. Applicants must have the Ph.D. by September 1993. Teaching experience is required. The salary range for the 1992-93 academic year for assistant professors is $32,387 - $40,770, with an increase expected for 1993-94. St. Mary's College is a Catholic, coeducational, liberal arts college in the Bay Area, with an undergraduate enrollment of approximately 2200 students. The College is located in Contra Costa County, 10 miles east of Berkeley and 45 miles from Stanford. The recently published College Guide 1992 in "U.S. News & World Report" lists St. Mary's College of California as sixth among the top regional universities of the west. Interested applicants should submit a letter of application, resume, and dossier by NOVEMBER 20, 1992, for review prior to possible interview at the AHA convention in Washington, D.C. in DECEMBER to: Ronald Isetti, F.S.C., Chair History Department P.O. Box 3412 St. Mary's College of California Moraga, CA 94575. ************************************************************************* Two Women's Studies positions available at Oberlin College: 1) FACULTY POSITION IN WOMEN'S STUDIES The Women's Studies Program at Oberlin College invites applications for a full-time, continuing faculty position in the College of Arts and Sciences. The position, which has been authorized as a tenure-track position, beginning in Fall 1993, will carry the rank of Assistant Professor or higher, depending on qualifications. The incumbent should command a background in and ability to teach inter- disciplinary Women's Studies and will teach over the academic year a maximum of five undergraduate courses. Offerings will include the introductory course in Women's Studies, intermediate or advanced level courses dependent upon the incumbent's specialization, a senior seminar in feminist theory, and the supervision of a colloquium coordinating student practica. Applicants should integrate the foundational cate- gories of Women's Studies--gender, race, ethnicity, class, and sexualities --throughout their course designs and pedagogies. Preference is for candidates with a social science background who focus on some or all of the following: (a)international feminisms; (b)women of color internationally and/or in the U.S.; (c)lesbian and gay studies. The incumbent will be expected to participate in the normal range of faculty responsibilities, including academic advising, service on committees, and sustained scholarly research, and may be asked to assume the directorship of the program (with appropriate course release) when tenure is achieved. Among the qualifications required for appointment is the Ph.D. degree in hand (or expected by August, 1993) and demonstrated interest and potential excellence in undergraduate teaching. Successful teaching experience at the college level is desirable, and applied experience would be an additional asset. To be assured of consideration, letters of application, including a curriculum vitae, academic transcripts, writing sample, course syllabi, and (if possible) copies of evaluations of teaching, and at least three letters of reference, should be sent to Linda Silver, Coordinator, Women's Studies Program, Rice Hall, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 44074 by November 30, 1992. Application materials received after that date may be considered until the position is filled but cannot be guaranteed attention. The salary will depend on qualifications and experience. As an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity employer, Oberlin strongly encourages applications from female and minority candidates. 2) FACUTLY POSITION IN WOMEN'S STUDIES The Women's Studies Program at Oberlin College invites applications for a full-time, non-continuing faculty position in the College of Arts and Sciences. The position, which has been authorized as a one year position, beginning in Fall 1993, will carry the rank of Assistant Professor or higher, depending on qualifications. The incumbent should command a background in and ability to teach interdisciplinary Women's Studies and will teach over the academic year five undergraduate courses. Offerings will include the introductory course in Women's Studies, intermediate or advanced level courses dependent upon the incumbent's specialization, and a senior seminar in feminist theory. Applicants should integrate the foundational categories of Women's Studies-- gender, race, ethnicity, class, and sexualities--throughout their course designs and pedagogies. Preference is for candidates with a social science background whou focus on some or all of the following: (a) international feminisms; (b) women of color internationally and/or in the US; (c) lesbian and gay studies. An interest in feminist methodologies in the social sciences will be an asset. The incumbent will be expected to participate in the normal range of faculty responsibilities including sustained scholarly research. Among the qualifications required for appointment is the Ph.D. degree in hand (or expected by August, 1993) and demonstrated interest and potential excellence in undergraduate teaching. Successful teaching experience at the college level is desirable and applied experience would be an additional asset. To be assured of consideration, letters of application, including a curriculum vitae, academic transcripts, writing sample, course syllabi, and (if possible) copies of evaluations of teaching, and at least three letters of reference, should be sent to Linda Silver, Coordinator, Women's Studies Program, Rice Hall, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 44074 by January 30, 1993. Application materials received after that date may be considered until the position is filled but cannot be guaranteed attention. The salary will depend on qualifications and experience. Anyone who applied for the previously advertized full-time, permanent position who would also like to apply for this position may do so by sending a letter to that effect. As an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity employer, Oberlin strongly encourages applications from female and minority candidates. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1992 22:18:53 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "(Lucy Candib MD)" Subject: cost of violence against women Mary P. Koss has two papers on the medical costs of "criminal victimization." She interveiwed working women members of an HMO for history of various crimes (burglary, rape, assault) in the previous 12 months, looked at medical utiliza- tion before and after, and, not surprisingly, found increased numbers of visits, not including whatever emergency care they might have required. This is not much of an argument, except for medical audiences, that violence against women is expensive. Nevertheless, she does offer a methodology, very well worked out, on how to measure medical costs in one precise location. These could no doubt be extrapolated to give some minimal estimate of the medical part of economic costs caused by violence against women. The paper I have is: Koss MP, Koss PG, Woodruff WJ. Delterious Effects of Criminal Victimization on WOmen's Health and Medical Utilization. Archives of INternal Medicine Feb 1991; 151:342-347. The follow up paper is in Archives of Family Medicine, or Journal of the American Board of Family Practice. Koss is very approachable. She is at the Dept of Psychiatry, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson AZ 85724. Lucy M. Candib, M.D. Family Health and Social Service Center 875 Main St. Worcester, Massachusetts 01610 508-756-3528 lcandib@umassmed.ummed.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1992 09:51:47 +0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marie-Anne Poussart Subject: Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press I am looking for the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press's postal address. Could someone please send it to me? I would greatly appreciate it. Please respond privately, Marie-Anne Poussart Universite de Moncton, Moncton, New-Brunswick, Canada email: e8902119@umoncton.ca ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1992 07:34:38 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: NANCY FELIPE RUSSO Subject: ALBANIA I am seeking ways to verify an anecdote about gender roles in Albania, but so far no luck. The anecdote is that someplace in Albania it is possible for a woman (even a married woman) to declare herself a "holy virgin" and became a "man". She can then hunt with the men, go around with the men, and the men accept her (so the story goes). But once she does this there's no going back and if she has sex with a man she will be shot for being a traitor to the male sex. This is attributed to Lillian T. Mowrer in the Encyclopedia of women's wit, anecdotes and stories by Cathy Handley. I've written to the author via the publisher, but I'm hoping that there will be someone on the list who may know something about Albania as I'm working on a deadline and would love to use this as an example of variation in gender roles if by some miracle it is actually true. Nancy Felipe Russo, Ph.D. Director, Women's Studies ASU, Tempe, AZ 85287-1801 (602)965-2358 FAX:(602)965-2357 BITNET: ATNFR@ASUACAD ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1992 09:57:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: KEGART@ANTIOC.ANTIOCH.EDU set wmst-l nomail ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1992 11:52:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "(dl81)" Subject: NWSA To say that "the problem" facing NWSA is financial, is like saying "the problem" facing the country is financial. It's a gross (and misleading) oversimplification which deflects attention from the causes--and therefore thoughtful assessment of alternative approaches to solution--of the overt manifestations of dysfunction. Such as (renewed) financial distress. As in national government, to look at a consequence without careful analysis of what produced it, what options were available to policymakers, whose interests are served by alternative approaches, and the underlying values and ideology which have driven the process, are as salient to understanding the "objective" present reality as is the concrete description of what that is. And they are MORE salient to developing an intelligent, informed, effective response to it that can realistically be expected to achieve ultimate, common goals. The conflict in experience, perception, and objectives which has polarized NWSA for years, indeed leading to its commitment as an organization to "open" its governing structure to reflect and benefit from this diversity, remains alive and well. Having met the big challenges as a whole membership group, with inspiring success, in Austin, it was left to the old structure, rules, and habits, as exercised by a handful of individuals, to complete the transition process. Strategic planning that had (miraculously) gotten us to and through Austin, with the support and sacrifice of the membership as a whole, was chucked in its final phase by new executive board members. The National Office staff was laid off. Processes and projects restored after a year and a half of hard work came to a standstill once again. Regular and pending income was substantially interrupted. New financial liabilities were incurred by breaking contracts to reduce immediate expenditures. More than that, the credibility and good faith that had been painstakingly ressestablished with members, associates and supporting institutions may now be permanently impaired. NWSA's "problem" is not financial, nor is it unique to NWSA. But until we begin, as a feminist community, to thrash out underlying issues of ego, power, inexperience and fear, we will continue to defeat ourselves in both our organizations and our lives. DEB LOUIS (DL81@umail.umd.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1992 16:34:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Authorization to post messages (User's Guide) At the start of each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Here is section three: 3) "I'VE TRIED TO POST A MESSAGE TO THE LIST, BUT I RECEIVED A MESSAGE BACK SAYING THAT I'M NOT AUTHORIZED TO DO SO. I'M A SUBSCRIBER--WHY WAS I TOLD I'M NOT AUTHORIZED?" Most of the time, this problem occurs when someone subscribes under one address and then tries to post under a different address (e.g., she/he subscribes under a Bitnet address and then tries to post from an Internet address). The WMST-L software recognizes subscribers by their e-mail address. If you subscribe under a Bitnet [or Internet] address, you have to send all messages to LISTSERV and WMST-L from that same address. If you are unsuccessful posting a message to the list's Bitnet address, try sending the message to the list's Internet address. ****************** Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1992 15:30:29 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stephanie Riger Subject: mental health of nuns The textbook we are reading for my psych of women course mentions that "single women have fewer disorders and problems than single men," and that married wom en have more mental disorders than other groups of women and men. A student in my class asked about rates of psychological disorders and mental adjustment problems among nuns. I haven't been able to find any research on this subject. Does anyone out there know of anything? Note that I am not looking for genera l studies of nuns, but specific research on their mental health. Thanks in ad vance for your help, and please reply privately. By the way, the textbook is Rhoda Unger and Mary Crawford's Women and Gender: A Feminist Psychology, McGraw-Hill 1992. I recommend it highly. Stephanie Riger Univ of Il at Chicago u29322@UICVM.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1992 18:03:55 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Diane M. Samdahl" Subject: gay/lesbian camps A doctoral student is interested in studying gays-lesbians in summer camps. Her view is that gays and lesbians are often excluded, or have their "deviance" reinforced, if they are campers or counselors in a summer camp. Since camps are important arenas for reinforcing identity and self-esteem, she eventually would like to study a gay-lesbian summer camp to see if it can be an effective means for helping gay-lesbian adolescents become comfortable with their identities and to find a shared sense of community. We know of a few feminist camps in the north east that have lesbians on the staff. Can anyone direct us towards literature on gay-lesbian camping experiences or help identify gay-lesbian summer camps? Please reply directly to me, address below. ********************************************************************** DIANE M. SAMDAHL BITNET: DSAMDAHL@UGA Recreation & Leisure Studies INTERNET: DSAMDAHL@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU 228 Hardman Hall OFFICE: 706-542-5064 University of Georgia FAX: 706-542-7917 Athens, GA 30602-2302 HOME: 706-613-2406 ********************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 02:08:08 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Helen Tafoya-Barraza Subject: Domestic Violence Stats A colleague and I are looking for a reference we once had (but now can't find) on domestic violence stats. It's that 40% of the mortality rate for women is due to domestic violence. It may be that this is death due to unnatural causes. Does anyone have the stat and the citation? * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Helen M. Tafoya-Barraza, AGHMT@ASUACAD.bitnet . . .we must continue to speak . . . * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 08:47:00 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JDMANDLE@COLGATEU.BITNET Subject: NWSA As someone who has been following the NWSA experience since its inception, I continue to be saddened by its inability to do what it should be organized to do: provide a forum for teachers and scholars of Women's Studies. To the extent that NWSA tried, and continues to try, to be everything to everyone it necessarily will fail. Meanwhile, those of us who direct and teach in Women's Studies Programs continue to need a forum for exchanging curricular, organizational, and scholarly ideas. NWSA should not be a national women's festival or get together. We have important work to do as teachers and scholars and we need help from one another. Let's get NWSA back to a clear focus that both can provide a forum for teachers and scholars and avoid the bitter internal splits and wrangling which have destroyed the organization and threatened the vilability of functioning Women's Studies Programs. Joan Mandle Director of Women's Studies Colgate University Hamilton, NY JDMANDLE @COLGATEU ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 06:59:00 MDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "JANIS BOHAN (556-3088/3205, MSC BOX 54)" Subject: Oregon and Colorado: the good news and the bad Yesterday, Oregon voters defeated Proposition 9, which would have declared homosexuality an abomination, likened it to pedophilia, and made homosexual activity illegal. That's the good news, worth discussing in classes -- both why so extreme a position could appear in this presumably enlightened age and why it failed. Yesterday, Colorado voters - my state - passed Amendment 2, which forbids any unit of government in the state from passing legislation that guarantees equality of rights to lesbians, gays, and bisexuals. That's the bad news, also worth discussing. It's clearly a backlash - and a chilling one. It came after a few local governments had passed legislation protecting lesbians, gays, & bisexuals in housing, employment, health care, etc. Those laws were struck down by this amendment, as well. My only hope this cold morning is that this may have an "Anita effect," galvanizing the lesbian/gay/bisexual community - and their supporters. For the first time, I am seriously considering taking a step I've long felt both drawn to and terrified by, a personal-is-political, educational step of coming out in my classes. "Here," I want to say, "is who this state is so afraid of." Maybe money talks. If people boycotted Colorado's skiing industry (and made it clear why), dollars to donuts legislation rescinding this move would pass with flying collors (green, mostly). Since the movement to pass Amendment 2 was led by Bill McCartney, head coach of the Colorado Buffaloes football team and outspoken anti-choice, homophobic (obviously) advocate for "family values" (the sponsoring group, led by him, was called "Coloradoans for Family Values"), boycotting their events and/or letters to CU president Judith Albino might make some waves, too. My apologies if this political venting is inapproriate to this list. I really DO think this stuff is worthy of class discussion ... and my equally strong motive is my need to share the collective pain of lesbians, gays, and bisexuals in this state with what I believe to be an understanding audience. I hope this is an isolated event; I fear it won't be. Janis Bohan BITNET%"BOHAN@MSCD" ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 10:26:43 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "(Abbie Basile)" Subject: NWSA problems/answers I'm a bit bewildered about what the scoop is on NWSA. I was going to join the assn. right before the big fallout at the conference where many people walked out in protest. Since then, I've heard many stories and opinions on what is wrong NWSA, if anything, and how it should be fixed. The recent postings have not helped to clear things up, but, rather, add to the conflicting viewpoints on the situation. I guess I just wonder how things stand now. How does the general membership feel about the problems, the way they're being handled, etc.? If people want to post directly to me, and not the list, that's fine. Thanks for helping me to understand this better - abbie basile graduate library reference univ. of michigan abbie.basile@um.cc.umich.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 10:49:20 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Daphne.Patai@SPANPORT.UMASS.EDU Subject: Forward of Undeliverable mail I was trying to respond to JMandle's message earlier, but I guess her address is incomplete, so I'm sending this out over the List. If anyone else would like to communicate with me on this subject, I'd be most grateful. Thanks. Daphne Message id: RFC-822 To: Personal name: Daphne Patai Organization name: SPANPORT Private domain: umass Administrative domain: umassmail Country: us From: Personal name: SMTP-MAILER Organization unit: saturn Organization name: ucc Private domain: umass Administrative domain: umassmail Country: us Subject: Undeliverable mail ------------ Letter Body Part 1 - Text ------------ Your message to JDMANDLE@COLGATEU was not delivered. Host tethys.ucc.umass.edu gave this reason: 553 unknown host or domain: JDMANDLE@COLGATEU ----- Undeliverable message ----- Received: from US*UMASSMAIL*UMASS by saturn.ucc.umass.edu via QTFS with X.400; Wed, 4 Nov 92 10:43:36 -0500 X400-Trace: US*UMASSMAIL*UMASS; arrival Wed, 4 Nov 92 10:43:27 -0500 action Relayed Date: Wed, 4 Nov 92 10:43:27 -0500 Message-Id: <921104103715880-MTASATURN*Daphne.Patai@SPANPORT.umass.edu> P1-Message-ID: US*UMASSMAIL*UMASS; 921104103715880-MTASATURN UA-Content-ID: 921104103715880- From: Daphne.Patai@SPANPORT.umass.edu Subject: NWSA etc. To: JDMANDLE@COLGATEU I was very interested in your message, and agree with you about the need to refocus if we are to survive. Together with my friend Noretta Koertge, a philosopher of science at Indiana University, I'm working on a book thatt attempts to analyze the problems that have arisen in Women's STudies circles. I'd be very grateful if you could expand on the E-mail note - in terms of what you see these problems as being, why you think they've unfolded as they have. We are looking for ideas/anecdotal material from a variety of settings, to give substance to the theoretical analysis we're trying to develop. If regular mail or a phone call would suit you better, just let me know. Daphne.Patai@spanport.umass.edu (snail mail: Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, Herter Hall 416, UMass, Amherst, MA. 01003; phones: home: 413 - 549-1157; off: 545-4992. I have a joint appt. in WoSt and Span&Port, and was Acting Director of WoSt last fall. You may have seen an article I wrote in the Chronicle of Higher Edu., Feb. 5, 1992, which they labeled" The struggle for feminist purity threatens the goals of feminism"). I hope you'll respond; Noretta and I are naturally very wary of generalizing from our own particular experiences and hence depend on other feminists concerned about what has been going wrong and why. Thanks. Daphne. ** END OF MESSAGE ** ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 10:57:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "(dl81)" Subject: Re: Domestic Violence Stats In-Reply-To: <9211041232.AA00516@umd5.umd.edu> You may be interested in related stat: according to last March of Dimes report, domestic violence (vs. pregnant women) is now responsible for more birth defects than all other causes combined. Personally strikes me as the most disgusting piece of data I've seen in a long while... DEB (DL81@umail.umd.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 09:28:28 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: NANCY FELIPE RUSSO Subject: Re: mental health of nuns In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 3 Nov 1992 15:30:29 CST from I want to clarify the information in Stephanie Riger's text about the relative rates of disorder for women and men of varying marital status. People who are married have lower rates of mental disorder, whether or not they are men or women. However, the *relative* rate of mental disorder differs with marital status. Married women have *higher rates* of disorder than married men. The gender difference is *reversed* (men's higher than women's) for other marital status categories. The "other groups" mentioned in Riger's message is within the context of categories of marital status, not other kinds of groups (I have never seen a study on relative rates of mental disorder in nuns vs. others, but the way and I look for such things) . Be aware that merely looking at marital status categories can lead to misleading conclusions, for happiness of marriage makes a big difference. Women are much more likely to be depressed in unhappy marriages with almost half of women in unhappy marriages found to be depressed. See Weissman, M. (1987). Advances in psychiatry epidemiology: Rates and risks for major depression. American Journal of Public Health, 77, 445-451. Nancy Felipe Russo, Ph.D. Director, Women's Studies ASU, Tempe, AZ 85287-1801 (602)965-2358 FAX:(602)965-2357 BITNET: ATNFR@ASUACAD ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 11:40:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PARKER@UMBC.BITNET Subject: Re: Domestic Violence Stats As a nurse researcher in the area of violence against pregnant woman I am personally very concerned about abuse in pregnancy and have published several articles on the issue. I am very concerned however when people quote Statistics saying that the March of Dimes says that domestic violence causes more birth defects than any other cause. It is simply not true and I have a hard time believing that the March of Dimes would say it. Violence against women is a major problem but we loose our credability if we perpetuate these gross exagerations. Barbara Parker PARKER@UMBC (Bitnet) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 11:49:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "(dl81)" Subject: Re: Re: Domestic Violence Stats In-Reply-To: <9211041641.AA06736@umd5.umd.edu> Got it from CBS News feature when report was released a couple of months ago. I assume you have actual report. If CBS got it wrong, would be grateful for actual proportions presented. I agree with you. DEB (DL81@umail.umd.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 12:02:57 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ethel tobach Subject: Re: mental health of nuns In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 3 Nov 1992 15:30:29 CST from Seeing this message from Stephanie Riger reminded me that she should be congratulated for a getting a letter into the New York Times criticizing Helen Fisher's article on the value of menopause for women's effective engagement in political activity because of high levels of testosterone (H.F. says that is why men are effective);... this exchange, the article by Fisher and Riger's response should be in all syllabi in Women's Studies Programs. Ethel Tobach ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 13:34:32 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: lin collette Subject: Re: NWSA problems/answers In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 4 Nov 1992 10:26:43 EST from I was a member of NWSA, but had to let my membership lapse when they raised it beyond what my grad student income could afford. I told them the reason why I was leaving--I didn't want them to think it was over the Ruby Sales controversy --& said that more women might belong if the dues weren't so high, especially since you don't get much for your money anyway. I got a snotty letter back from one of the assistants who said that women don't join groups like NWSA be- cause they spend too much money on cosmetics. We got into a rather heated de- bate over this because, having worked in an office where costmetics were defin= itely almost required to "fit in", I felt the pressure of having to conform to a dress code and understanding why women might feel compelled to do this in or- der to keep their jobs. The assistant then attacked the "feminism" of these women, etc. etc. etc. You get the idea. I finally gave up. The problem, I think, with NWSA is that they've lost siight of the "real world" where little things like cosmetics and good clothes do matter in the working world if you want to get anywhere. Yes, systems must be changed, but you must also accomod- ate those who need to work within the system to survive. I am always offended by people who think they have all the answers, and my experience with NWSA was that they thought they did have all the answers and didn't want to listen to anyone else's. I would like to be part of NSWSA, but it works counter to the needs of women in some ways. I recognize NWSA's purpose--to be a resource for women working in the area of women's studies--but I also recognize that under- lying attitudes affect scholarship, and I sense that NWSA has some work to do on its attitudes toward women in general and toward working women in particular Lin Collette BI599128@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU or BI599128@BROWNVM ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 13:43:25 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: info-25@INFO.UMD.EDU Subject: iowa era can anyone out there in iowa tell me what happened with the ERA? the local media didn't carry anything. thanks! paula info-25@info.umd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 14:50:49 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sherry Linkon Subject: NWSA I just want to second the comments that NWSA has tried to do too much. While I support the existence of organizations to make connections between academic women and non-academic women, I would also like to see an organization devoted to the kinds of concerns this list addresses: course and program development, feminist pedagogy, research in Women's Studies, professional concerns of acad- emic women. In trying to include teachers on all levels and in trying to cover so much ground, NWSA did not do that. I don't belong any more, because I felt that the organization didn't meet my needs and didn't give me much for my money except the knowledge that I had supported a good cause. It's not that I don't support the good cause, but I'd rather support an organization that focussed on concerns of college-level teachers and scholars of Women's Studies. I'm glad to see this discussion here, because I've felt that my position was somehow not kosher in Women's Studies circles. I'm glad to know I'm not alone. Sherry Linkon FR122601 AT YSUB.YSU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 15:20:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Stopping mail temporarily (User's Guide) At the start of each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Here is section four: ****************** 4) "I'M GOING ON VACATION FOR SEVERAL WEEKS. CAN I STOP MAIL WHILE I'M AWAY, OR DO I HAVE TO UNSUBSCRIBE?" You can stop mail temporarily by sending the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (if you subscribed on Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (if you subscribed on Internet): SET WMST-L NOMAIL When you want mail to start arriving again, send the following message to the same address: SET WMST-L MAIL Note: BE SURE TO SEND THESE MESSAGES TO LISTSERV, NOT TO WMST-L! ****************** Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 15:33:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 3 job openings I have received the following three job announcements: 1) African American Women's Literature (Ohio State Univ.) 2) Director of Women's STudies (U. of Nevada, Las Vegas) 3) Feminist Theory (Univ. of Iowa) For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc) *********************************************************************** AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S LITERATURE POSITION: Associate/Assistant Professor, Department of Black Studies and Center for Women's Studies, Ohio State Univ. Starting Date: September, 1993 Applications Accepted: Applications accepted through January 8, 1993. Deadline will be extended, if necessary, until position is filled. Job Description: The Ohio State University Department of Black Studies and Center for Women's Studies invite applications and nominations for a tenure-track joint appointment at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor with Black Studies as the tenure home. Teaching responsibilities are divided equally between the department and center, and include undergraduate and graduate instruction. The position calls for specialization in African American Literature, specifically women's literature, and Black womanist/feminist theory. Desirable sub-specialties could include Black women's drama/theater and/or film and women's writing of the diaspora. Qualifications: Completion of Ph.D. requirements by September 1, 1993 and evidence of potential for excellence in teaching and scholarship are required. Salary and benefits are highly competitive. Candidates should submit letter or application, curriculum vitae, and three letters of recommendation by January 8, 1993 to: Professor Abiola Irele, Chair African American Literature Search Committee Department of Black Studies The Ohio State University 486 University Hall 230 N. Oval Mall Columbus, Ohio 43210-1367 614-292-3700 AA/EOE ******************************************************************* DIRECTOR OF THE WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAM The Women's Studies Program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, invites applications for the position of Director to begin Fall 1993. The Director will hold a tenure-track Associate Professor appointment in an academic department with release time given for Women's Studies responsibilities. Candidates must have an earned terminal degree, a strong record in Women's Studies scholarship and teaching, a commitment to curricular development, and an ability to work effectively with administrators, faculty, and students. Established in 1978, the Women's Studies program offers an undergraduate major and minor. Women's Studies at UNLV has recently been expanded to a university-wide program from its former interdisciplinary status within the College of Liberal Arts, reflecting growth and support for academic diversity on campus. Salary is competitive and negotiable based upon qualifications and experience. Candidates should send a curriculum vitae, a letter describing their approach to women's studies as well as scholarly and teaching interest, and three letters of recommendation to: Catherine G. Bellver Chair of the Search Committee c/o Office of Senior Vice-President and Provost University of Nevada, Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV 89154-1002 Review of applications will begin JANUARY 29, 1993. Position subject to legislative funding. The University of Nevada, Las Vegas is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer. *************************************************************************** FEMINIST THEORY POSITION The PROGRAMS OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND WOMEN'S STUDIES are pleased to announce a joint tenure track position in Feminist Critical Theory: We are looking for a promising or established scholar capable of making an original contribution to theorizing gender and representation. Applicants must be prepared to teach undergraduate courses in feminist theory and the history of feminist thought, and to design imaginative graduate seminars. A commitment to work in at least one language and literature/culture other than the Anglo-American is essential. Although we expect to make this appointment at the Assistant Professor level, we will consider exceptional candidates at any rank. Candidates must have Ph.D. in hand by AUGUST 1993. Please send a letter describing current research and teaching interests and a curriculum vitae with names and addresses of three references to: Margery Wolf, Women's Studies Program, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242. Screening will begin on DECEMBER 1, 1992, and continue until the position is filled. Minority women are encouraged to apply. The University of Iowa is an equal opportunity employer. ******************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 16:06:18 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pam Austin Subject: syllabi Hello, My name is Pam Austin, I am the graduate assistant in the women's studies program at Temple University. One of our co-directors is in the process of trying to establish a graduate certificate in the program, as we don't yet have our own grad program. We would be interested in receiving syllabi for grad level intro courses, so that we'd have some idea of where to start. We have any number of gender issue upper level grad courses in any number of departments but nothing introductory. If you have anything to share it would be much appreciated. Please respond privately to: Rebecca Alpert REBECCA@TEMPLEVM.BITNET or REBECCA@VM.TEMPLE.EDU Thanks in advance, Pam ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 13:27:58 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ann Weinstone Subject: Re: iowa era Unfortunately, the ERA did not pass. I heard it on the news here in San Francisco. Ann Weinstone syd@igc.apc.org ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 13:07:28 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was williasa@MILTON.U.WASHINGTON.EDU From: Sarah Williams Subject: Prostitution, Lesbian Soldiers: rdgs? In-Reply-To: <9211042036.AA07168@milton.u.washington.edu> I'm putting together asyllabus for a course on women and society and would like to include sections on prostitution and lesbians in the military. Specifically, regarding prostitution I would appreciate suggestions for readings (articles and books) on: the history of prostitution, sex tourism, prostitution and the military, prostitution and women's health care. Regarding lesbians in the military, andy suggestions for scholary articles, case studies, etc. that would complement L. Faderman's chapter in Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers? Please respond to me directly at: williasa@u.washington.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 16:56:42 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: info-25@INFO.UMD.EDU Subject: Re: syllabi request I'd just like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that the Information Online System at the University of Maryland has a Women's Studies data base. This includes a directory of syllabi, which are available to anyone with telnet access. Also available are job announcements, conference announcements, calls for papers, a reading room, and lots of other things. Directions to access the system follow: Telnet to INFO.UMD.EDU login as GOPHER go to the TEACHING directory go to the WOMENSSTUDIES directory look around, have fun the system will allow you to mail things directly to your own account Also, we are happy to recieve submissions of material or proposals for the database. We request that it be in electronic format, however. For more information, reply to me directly. Paula Gaber info-25@info.umd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 17:03:46 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Virginia R Boynton Subject: Re: Prostitution, Lesbian Soldiers: rdgs? In-Reply-To: <9211042145.AA22496@quark.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>; from "Sarah Williams" at Nov 4, 92 1:07 pm A wonderful (and brief) book on the history of prostitution in the Progressive Era is Ruth Rosen's The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1900-1918 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982). ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 16:04:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: LINDA@GACVAX1.BITNET Subject: syllabi get Gibbons syllabi get Kahn syllabi get Kellerjh syllabi get Morgan syllabi ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 18:01:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: syllabi request I'd like to offer a correction to the message that Paula Gaber sent recently about syllabi and the Women's Studies data base. The procedure that Janet McLeod (who set up the Women's Studies data base) and I have established is that Women's Studies syllabi should be sent to me (in electronic form, please, not on paper). I will add them to the WMST-L syllabi file and let WMST-L subscribers know of their availability. Janet and Paula will then add the syllabi to the Women's Studies data base. The same procedure holds true for job and conference announcements and calls for papers. If you haven't yet had a look at the wonderful assortment of materials that Janet and Paula have amassed in this data base, and if you have telnet access, do follow Paula's instructions and take a look. I might add that the data base offers a particularly useful and easy way to find job and conference announcements that you may have missed when they appeared on WMST-L. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 17:12:22 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "(Eleanor Midkiff)" Subject: Menopause and testosterone In-Reply-To: <9211041853.AA24969@ux1.cts.eiu.edu>; from "ethel tobach" at Nov 4, 92 12:02 pm > Seeing this message from Stephanie Riger reminded me that she should > be congratulated for a getting a letter into the New York Times > criticizing Helen Fisher's article on the value of menopause for > women's effective engagement in political activity because of high > levels of testosterone (H.F. says that is why men are effective);... > this exchange, the article by Fisher and Riger's response should > be in all syllabi in Women's Studies Programs. Ethel Tobach > Could someone forward this information for those of us out in the hinterlands who don't scan the NY Times? The citation for both the article and response, if possible? Thank you very much. -- Eleanor Midkiff (cfeem@eiu.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 18:27:53 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Daphne.Patai@SPANPORT.UMASS.EDU Subject: Reply to Re: NWSA problems/answers Lin C., at Brown. I can't reply to your message - it keeps coming back as undeliverable. Please send correct E-mail address to: Daphne.Patai@spanport.Umass.edu Thanks. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 16:22:19 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: CHELLEY@HUP.UCLA.EDU Subject: autobiography I spoke with a friend of mine last night who teaches English at a Canadian university. He is planning to teach a class on autobiography next year and would like to include material from women writers. He is particularly interested in autobiographical views on coming of age, identity formation, and maturation. Does anyone have any suggestions? He has tentatively planned to use Maxine Hong Kingston's book "China Men," and needs to expand his repetoire. Thank you. Chelley@hup.ucla.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 17:32:14 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "JANIS BOHAN (556-3088/3205, MSC BOX 54)" Subject: Re: iowa era The Iowas ERA was defeated. One more for the bad guys. Janis Bohan BITNET%"BOHAN@MSCD" ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 16:35:35 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "(Jacquelyn Marie)" Subject: Indigenous women's meeting in New Zealand I am inquiring for a native Hawaiian scholar about a possible indigenous women's conference to be held in New Zealand in Feb. 1993. Does anyone have any information? Thanks. Jacquelyn Marie, UC Santa Cruz, CAl. 95064 E-mail: jmarie@scilibx.ucsc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 19:31:36 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "(Sheila Martineau)" Subject: any great grad programs? HELP!! I'm completing my four-year undergrad degree at the University of Toronto with a double specialist program in Women's Studies and Sociology. I have spent many months looking for good graduate and post-grad programs and have come up with only a few (concentrating on east and west coasts, Canada and the States). I am DESPERATE to find a really great graduate program/department in Sociology, Social Sciences, Social Policy, Public Policy, Women's Studies, Liberal Studies -- whatever it may be called -- where I can pursue doctoral studies as a sociologist committed to feminist theory and feminist methodology and where I can conduct interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research. I don't want to be unnecessarily stigmatized or ghettoized or caught up in intra-departmental political factions over positivism, feminism, etc. where the feminist faculty themselves are embattled and embittered. DREAM ON! I'm prepared to fight but I also want support, funding, etc. I've read through many calendars and programs and most Sociology Departments seem hopelessly traditional and most Women's Studies Departments/Programs seem hopelessly non-existent. I VERY MUCH WANT TO BE PART OF CHANGING THIS STATE OF AFFAIRS. My area(s) of interest are child abuse, family violence, and gender relations (all interconnected) and placing these issues in a social and political context that focuses on social, cultural and structural change. I have selected a few programs in Canada (at YORK & OISE in Toronto, at SFU & UBC in Vancouver) and a few "prestige" schools in the States. I would love to hear directly from graduate students and faculty with any recommendations (whether positive or negative). THANKS!! Sheila Martineau sheilam@epas.utoronto.ca ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 19:20:40 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: montgome@SONOMA.EDU Subject: List from Wmn on Prairie Refs I received these references for my upcoming class, Nineteenth Century Women on the American Prairie. I've added a few I've found, too. Thanks for your ideas! Kris Montgomery MONTGOME@SONOMA.EDU Non-Fiction ---Western women : their land, their lives / edited by Lillian Schlissel, Vicki L. Ruiz, and Janice Monk. 1st ed. Albuquerqe : University of New Mexico Press, c1988. Subjects: Women -- West (U.S.) -- History -- Congresses. Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) -- Women -- History --Congresses. Mexican American women -- West (U.S.) -- History -- Congresses. Women, Mormon -- West (U.S.) -- History -- Congresses. Interracial marriage -- West (U.S.) -- History -- Congresses. ---Stewart, Eleanor Pruitt, LETTERS OF A WOMAN HOMESTEADER ---Julie Roy Jeffrey, Frontier Women:the trans-mississippi west 1840-1880 (1979). ---Sally Roesch Wagner has edited a series of books entitled _Daughters_of_ Dakota_. Volume 1: A Sampler Volume 2: Stories from the Attic Volume 3: Stories of Friendship Between Settlers and the Dakota Indians Volume 4: Schooled in Privation: German, German-Russian and Scandinavian Immigrants in South Dakota Volume 5: The Long Stories. You can more information about these by writing to "Daughters of Dakota" Box 349 Yankton, SD 57078 ---Women and Their Families on the Overland Trail to California and Oregon, 1842-1867. Johnny Faragher and Christine Stansell ---Cooper, Patricia, and Norma Bradley Buferd, _The Quilters: Women and Domestic Art_ (New York: Doubleday, 1978), has oral histories with early twentieth century women on quilting. ---Schlissel, Lillian, _Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey_ (New York: Schocken Books, 1982) ---Susan Armitage, _The Women's West_ ---Mollie: The Journal of Mollie Dorsey Sanford in Nebraska and Colorado Territories, 1857-1866. ---A large microform set called AMERICAN WOMEN'S DIARIES from Readex. There are three segments, available separarately: New England Women, Southern Women, and Western Women. The Western part alone was about $6000. Contact Readex at 800-762-8182. ---Books by Elizabeth Hampsten, a North Dakota author: "Read this only to yourself: the private writings of midwestern women, 1880-1910", Bloomington, Indiana U. Pr., 1982 and "To all inquiring friends, letters, diaries, and essays in North Dakota" Grand Forks: University of North Dakota, 1979. ---Bachelor Bess, the homesteading letters of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919 (homesteading in South Dakota) Ed. by Philip L. Gerber, U. of Iowa Press, 1990 ---Nothing to do but Stay, My Pioneer Mother (Norwegian Americans in North Dakota), by Carrie Young U. of Iowa Press 1991 ---Indian captivity narratives ---Carol Fairbanks, Prairie Women: Images in American and Canadian Fiction (1986) ---Zitkala-Sa, Impressions of an Indian Childhood Fiction ---Margaret Laurence, THE STONE ANGEL (canadian) ---The Little House on the Prairie books--particularly The Long Winter ---Ella Cara Deloria's *Waterlily*, a fictional account of Dakota Indian women. ---"The Homesman" by Glendon Swarthout (NY: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988) ---Agnes Smedley's novel, "Daughter of Earth" ---Wila Cather, My Antonia and O, Pioneers! ---Beth Streeter Aldrich, A Lantern in Her Hand and The Song of Years ---Mourning Dove, Co-ge-wea--The Half Blood. ---Susan Glaspell, "A Jury of Her Peers" or the play, "Trifles." ---Selections from: Four Masterworks of American Indian Literature ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 21:58:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MATKOVIC@SASK.USASK.CA Subject: Re: ALBANIA I am sorry to use the network to post this for Nancy Russo but my ditributor did not like the bitnet address so this is the only way. There is an article by someone whose name escapes me now in a collection of works entitled "From Sappho to De Sade" ?1989 which deals with th subject of women-turned-men form an anthro/psychological perspective. The cases the authorthere studied come from Monte Negro and the Kosovo region of Yugoslavia and trace the lives of several women from the 19th and early 20th centuries. There is hardly any analysis, but there is lots of documentary evidence. iva matkovic@sask.usask.ca ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 23:18:19 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "(Andreas N Alexandrou)" Subject: Re: autobiography What about Zami, by Audre Lorde? And Maya Angelou's books? There's also an essay called "IN the First Generation" by Diana Abu-Jaber in the Seattle Review Vol XIII No. 1 (Spring/ Summer 1990) which is about growing up Arab-American. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 23:49:33 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Vicky Harrison Subject: Re: Where to send messages (User's Guide) In-Reply-To: <9211021719.AA05762@ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu> set wmst-l nomail ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 16:04:03 WST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: yku@CC.NCTU.EDU.TW Subject: Re: any great grad programs? In-Reply-To: <9211050111.AB21886@cc.nctu.edu.tw>; from "@TWNMOE10.EDU.TW:WMST-L@UMDD.BITNET" at Nov 4, 92 7:31 pm Dear Sheila, Did you have any look with your search for a great graduate program? I'm a women's studies scholar and teacher in Taiwan. As I'm having one year's leave from my job, I'm also interested in looking for a graduate program where I can pursue a PhD degree in women's studies. Do you mind sharing your information with me? I'll appreciate it very much. Yenlin Ku Address: yku@cc.nctu.edu.tw ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 11:10:00 GMT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: KLLLNGTN@VAX1.TCD.IE Subject: Re: Menopause and testosterone For people who are outside North America, a reprint of the testosterone/ politics/women NY Times article ran on the back page of the Internat'l Herald Tribune about a week or so ago. I thought its reasoning was completely off the wall--glad to see some response to it. Karlin Lillington Dept. of Modern English Trinity College, Dublin Ireland ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 08:35:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: EAKAUF@INDSVAX1.INDSTATE.EDU Subject: Dreamvisions I know that several of you have offered opinions regarding this MTV video .... however, I was away for a week and missed some of your discussion. Having been asked to lead a discussion on DREAMVISIONS after a viewing of it next week, I'd like some suggestions from anyone willing to offer them on methods that might be used, and any other thoughts you might have. P Please respond to me privately. You can do so at any of three addresses: eakauf@indsvax1.bitnet or eakauf@indsvax1.indstate.edu or cfsjk@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu Thanks ... Susan Kaufman Eastern Illinois University ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 09:47:10 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Patricia Summers" Subject: Re: autobiography In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 4 Nov 1992 23:18:19 EST from Regarding a multicultural/multisexual society: How about Marian Zimmer Bradley? Ok, so its fiction, and yes it happens on Darkover... but many of the social constructions are hauntingly familiar... that's the point after all... for instance the book Oath of the Renunciates... are there any other MZB fans out there?? or didn't you realize she's talking about women, now? Patricia Summers@VTVM2.BITNET ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 10:17:24 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Virginia R Boynton Subject: Graduate programs In-Reply-To: <9211050104.AA28681@quark.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>; from "WMST-L@UMDD.BITNET" at Nov 4, 92 7:31 pm Ohio State University has a Ph.D. program in sociology with some excellent feminist faculty, as well as a Women's Studies Program that offers a Masters degree (so it has graduate courses that you can take and count toward your degree in sociology). ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 10:26:34 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "(Elizabeth Tobin)" Subject: Re: NWSA In-Reply-To: ; from "Sherry Linkon" at Nov 4, 92 2:50 pm I am a Director of Women's Studies at a small liberal arts college and I still belong to the NWSA. I recognize the problems NWSA faces, some of its own making, but I still support the organization. I still need it and it still needs me. During the year I don't get that much for my money. Communication with members is clearly a problem area. But meeting with other women's studies directors, faculty and activists at annual conferences has been invaluable to me as I've worked on setting up a new program here in the last three years. I am also not convinced that an organization like NWSA could remain uninvolved with activist women or the controversies about women's politics. We deal with these issues regularly in our courses; how could it be other wise in our organization? How can we urge our students to consider problems of class and gender if we are unwilling to consider their impact on our organization? Elizabeth Tobin Bates College etobin@abacus.bates.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 09:21:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Virginia Sapiro Subject: Women in the election I am supposed to do a talk next week on the wrap-up of the "year of the woman" in the election. I would appreciate receiving any information on poll results on the senatorial and house races where women ran that can help me figure out who voted for whom. I get the NYTIMES every day, so what I really need are locally-done or state-wide exit polls or other polls that can tell me more about how the voters were reacting in races with women running. Also, if anyone has seen poll data on other interesting (relevant) races or the relevant referenda, I would appreciate that too. Please respond privately, and include a citation (or else I can't use it). Thanks for your help. Virginia Sapiro Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin - Madison Madison, Wisconsin 53706 sapiro@polisci.wisc.edu FAX 608-265-2663 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 11:14:36 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "(Cheryl Ann Dougherty)" Subject: Re: autobiography I would recommend Mary Ellen Crow Dog's _Lakota_Woman_. I am discussing her text in my dissertation with regard to identity as a social construct and to autobiography as a means of ordering and re-constructing identity. Cheryl Dougherty cad3@lehigh.ns1.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 10:51:58 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stephanie Riger Subject: NYTimes letter Thanks to Ethel Tobach for her praise of my letter and to others for their inquiries. On Wed, Oct. 21, 1992, Helen Fisher, an anthropologist at the American History Museum of Natural History, wrote an op-ed piece in the NYTimes that claimed that "the change in female biology will certainly contribute to women's rise to political power." She argues that the decline in estrogen with menopause "unmasked" women's testosterone, and that testosterone "is linked with assertiveness in animals and people." "The biological changes wrought by menopause will bolster their interest in power and increase their ability to use it." My reaction on reading this was probably the same as yours - what a bunch of baloney! I translated my reaction into calm reasonable prose, sent a letter to the editor of the NYTimes, and saw it printed on Sunday, Nov. 1 in the letters to the editor section. I made the following points:a)A few scientific studies have found a relationship between elevated testosterone levels and positions of dominance but it is not clear from those studies whether the testosterone levels were the cause or effect of the social position; b) Ms. Fisher doesn't attribute men's interest in politics to testosterone, nor does she expect their interest to decline as their testosterone levels decrease with age; and c) attributing women's political interest to hormones ignores the years of effort that women like Carol Moseley Braun, Dianne Feinstein etc have put into politics even while they were menstruating. I signed the letter Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies; the NYTimes lopped off the last three words. (Of course, I'm sending them another letter about this.) I am happy to send you a copy of the op-ed piece and my letter if you send me a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Stephanie Riger Women's Studies Program (M/C 360) Univ of Il at Chicago 1022 BSB 1007 W. Harrison Chicago, Il. 60607-7137 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 12:10:37 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ethel tobach Subject: NY Times Please excuse my arrogant sectionalism! Mighty Menopause by Helen E. Fisher, NEW York Times, l0/21/92, P. A23 (Op-Ed page) Menopause has no part in year of the woman. Headline on letter by Stephanie Riger, 11/1/92, Editorial Page (sorry...did not record page #) How these ideas lead to money: In the Financial Section of the NY Times (!!!), P. D2, ll/2/92: A skin patch to increase testosterone. Alza Corp. in Palo Alto, Cal., the patch is for males who suffer from a shortage of the male hormone associated with everything from sexual activity to compe- titive instincts. Women! Arise! We too should get patches!! ethel ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 11:19:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: LINDA@GACVAX1.BITNET Subject: Re: autobiography For autobiographical work, esp. coming of age, May Sarton is a must. Her journals are very personal statements of her coming of age, both as a writer, and as a woman. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 10:59:11 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: rudydors@ACS.UCALGARY.CA Subject: Re: autobiography In-Reply-To: <9211050405.AA12355@acs1.acs.ucalgary.ca>; from "CHELLEY@HUP.UCLA.E I have some suggestions for your friend who wants information on Canadian women writing autobiographically. I think in some sense much Canadian women's writing is always autobiographical, in that it draws on the writer's own, or other women's, experiences. So in case he wants this sense of autobiography, the obvious choices are of course Margaret Atwood, in both her novels and poems, and Margaret Laurence, Alice Munro, and Carol Shields. Other writers whose work is even more overtly autobiographical include Joy Kogawa, Audrey Thomas, Daphne Marlatt, Sky Lee, Marlene Nourbese Philip, and Kristjana Gunnars. There's a starter list at least. If your friend needs more specific or further information about texts, he could contact me directly. Good luck! Susan Rudy Dorscht rudydors@acs.ucalgary.ca ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 13:07:22 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lauraine LeBlanc Subject: GRAD PROGRAMS Hi. I thought I'd put this on the list, since a couple of you have asked. I'm a first-year PhD student in the Institute of Women's Studies at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. The program presents an opportunity to do interdisciplinary work on women and/or feminism in a variety of fields. Although the degree is in Women's Studies, there is emphasis on having a concentration in another discipline. We don't have a master's program (yet), although one can get a master's on the way to the PhD. We also have a certificate program. To contact the Institute and get some more information, write to: Institute for Women's Studies Emory University 210 Physics Building Atlanta, Georgia 30322 I hope this helps. Lauraine Leblanc GRCJ056@EMUVM1 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 12:31:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: LINDA@GACVAX1.BITNET Subject: Syllabi I am writing on behalf of the Women's Studies program at Gustavus Adolphus College, a small,rural, liberal arts college that has had a program or just four years. The program offes a five-course minor, with one required course, Introduction to Women's Studies. So far, this course has been taught as a "January Term" course (one month long, intensive), but we have hope that we will soon be getting institutional support to make it a semester-long course. To that end, we would like information about other intro to WS courses. Specifically: --syllabi for such courses (while I realize there are some in the bank-any other suggestions, etc. would be appreciated) --text suggestions --descriptions of how your intro course fits into the overall WS program --discussions of how to make such a course genuinely interdisciplinary --discussions of how to connect theory to practice through work projects outside the classroom --anything else you can tell us about what you think an intro course ought to be and why it is important. Please respond privately to me: Linda@gacvax1.gac.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 13:27:05 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Diana H. Scully" Subject: Re: any great grad programs? In-Reply-To: <9211050104.AA07075@cabell.vcu.edu>; from "@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU:WMST-L@UMDD.BITNET" at Nov 4, 92 7:31 pm I just realized I sent what I mean't to be a private reply to Shelia Martineau regarding graduate programs to the whole list. I apologize. Diana Scully ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 13:19:27 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Diana H. Scully" Subject: Re: any great grad programs? In-Reply-To: <9211050104.AA07075@cabell.vcu.edu>; from "@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU:WMST-L@UMDD.BITNET" at Nov 4, 92 7:31 pm Shelia, One way to choose a grad program is to choose a faculty member(s) with whom your interests are compatable and you would like to work. I would like you to consider my university, Virginia commonwealth University, located in Richmond, Virginia. We offer an MA but not a Ph.D., however, our students do enter good universities after completing our program. You may know my work on sexual violence (Understanding sexual Violence: A Study of Convicted Rapists, Routledge, 1990). I am also Director of the Women's Studies Program (which offers an undergraduate minor) and associate professor of Sociology. I teach Intro to Women's Studies, Soc of Women, and Soc Ant/WST of the Family. If you were to come to VCU, there is a high probability that you would receive support and, given your interests, might well be my teaching assistant. In this department, you would not suffer because you are a feminist. Needless-to-say, I would enjoy working with someone like you on a thesis related to our mutual interests. Diana Scully, (804)367-6641, Box 2040, VCU, Richmond, Va. 23284 dscully@Cabell.VCU.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 13:14:16 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Kay Schleiter Subject: Re: autobiography Suggestions for autobiographies in an English class: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody Black Ice by Lorene Cary -- all written by African American women Mary Kay Schleiter mks@cs.uwp.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 06:36:23 +1100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Richard Scott Subject: Re: autobiography In-Reply-To: <9211051548.AA01736@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au> AussieVamp AussieMan, Neophyte Vampire and DarkWolf (Eric Clapton is God!!!) [ and there is Bobby Fischer... ;-) ] (Walter Payton, Mike Singletary and Neal Anderson form the Holy Trinity!) On Thu, 5 Nov 1992, Patricia Summers wrote: > Regarding a multicultural/multisexual society: How about Marian Zimmer > Bradley? Ok, so its fiction, and yes it happens on Darkover... but many > of the social constructions are hauntingly familiar... that's the point > after all... > for instance the book Oath of the Renunciates... > are there any other MZB fans out there?? > or didn't you realize she's talking about women, now? > > Patricia Summers@VTVM2.BITNET Well, I have read some MZB, and wasn't particularly impressed, but it wasn't bad. It was a few years ago, so my tastes may have changed since the teenager days. I might have to re-read some. Richard ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 15:21:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L's Digest Version (User's Guide) With the list in the throes of verbal exuberance, some of you may be particularly interested in today's posting from the WMST-L User's Guide. It describes the digest version of WMST-L: 5) "DOES WMST-L EXIST IN A DIGEST FORMAT?" Yes. Since the end of January, 1992, WMST-L has had a digest option. If you choose this option, you will receive each day one large file containing most of the WMST-L messages of the past day (messages that should not have been sent to the list to begin with are omitted). On days when the mail volume warrants it, I'll break the digest into several files rather than one; you'll automatically receive them all. If you would like to receive the daily digest file rather than individual mail messages, you should send the following 2-line e-mail message to LISTSERV@UMDD (if your WMST-L subscription is under your Bitnet address) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (if your subscription is under your Internet address): AFD ADD WMST-L PACKAGE SET WMST-L NOMAIL Note: If you've subscribed on Bitnet, the digest may arrive as a file rather than as an e-mail message. If you don't know how to receive a file, see section 11 of the WMST-L User's Guide or ask the computer support people at your institution. If you'd prefer to receive the digest(s) inside mail message(s), alter the abovementioned AFD ADD statement to read as follows: AFD ADD WMST-L PACKAGE F=MAIL . Also, LISTSERV may ask you to set up an AFD password. You're best off not doing so. Finally, if at some point you wish to stop receiving the digest, simply send LISTSERV a message that says AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE. If you do that, you may also wish to set your subscription back to MAIL. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 14:22:29 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: lin collette Subject: Re: autobiography In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 5 Nov 1992 09:47:10 EST from Re Marion Zimmer Bradley Yes, Darkover is a multicultural society, but I see a lot of class issues es- pecially in the interaction between the Comyn and the "common folk." Also, there is a bit of a racial issue in the conflict between the Terrans and the Darkovans--there is a societal difference anyway because many Darkovans think the Terrans are uncouth and certainly shameless in their dress. I agree that it's a good example of the stresses and conflicts that take place in such a society, but I wouldn't have it as a stellar example. However, the Renunciates are REALLY marvelous. Is there a Darkover list somewhere? On the subject of witchcraft/occult powers etc. has anyone on this list ever read the Camber/Kelson series on the Deryni? Comments to me privately since I wonder if this is a topic germane to the list. Lin Collette BI599128@BROWNVM or BI599128@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 15:35:47 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: STARKEY@WVNVM.BITNET Subject: Re: Domestic Violence Stats In-Reply-To: Message of 11/04/92 at 11:40:00 from PARKER@UMBC.BITNET I would like more information on the domestic violence stats. What are the stats and where are they available? I teach Human Development and am intereste d in the areas of domestic violence and child abuse. If there are stats on birth defects and domestic violence, I would very much like to know what they are or where I may find the information. Thank anyone who can answer for their help. Sandra L. Starkey, Ph.D. West Virginia Graduate College Starkey@WVNVM Starkey@WVNVM.WVNET.edu Voice: (304) 766-1999 FAX: (304) 766-1949 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:03:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 5 job announcements I have received the following five job announcements: 1) Asst. Prof., Contemporary Critical Theory (U. Rhode Island) 2) Asst. Director, Women's Research & Resource Ctr (Spelman College) 3) Asst.Prof., Mod. European History/Women's Hist. (Franklin&Marshall) 4) Dean, Office for Women's Affairs (Indiana Univ.) 5) Sexual Harassment Services Coordinator (Duke Univ.) For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc) ******************************************************************* UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND Assistant Professor: Contemporary Critical Theory ASSISTANT PROFESSOR: Anticipated opening for an Assistant Professor specializing in Contemporary Critical Theory. The English Department has active M.A. and Ph.D. programs. Preference will be given to candidates whose fields of interest include at least one of the following: cultural studies, rhetorical studies, gender studies, media studies, folklore, or linguistics. Evidence of effective teaching and scholarship required: experience working with a culturally diverse population desirable. Ph.D. in English must be confirmed by September 1, 1993. Review of application will begin on November 2, 1992, and continue until the position is filled. We will not be going to MLA. All candidates must submit a letter of application, curriculum vita, three current letters of recommendation, at least one course syllabus, and a sample of recent scholarly writing to: David Stineback Search Committee Chair Position # 021170 University of Rhode Island P.O. Box G Kingston, RI 02881 AA/EOE ************************************************************************** Assistant Director, Women's Research and Resource Center SPELMAN COLLEGE Atlanta, Georgia This position is responsible for assisting in the overall operations of the Women's Research and Resource Center which include the Spelman Archives and the SAGE student internship program. Will also assist with ongoing activities and special projects of the Center such as faculty and curriculum development activities, lecture series, co-sponsored events, program newsletter and other publications. May teach one (1) course in Women's Studies when appropriate and/or as needed. Ph.D. in Women's Studies or related discipline required. Five years' experience in Women's Studies or Women's Center activities and programming necessary. Previous teaching experience preferred. Letter of application and three current letters of professional reference should be forwarded to: Spelman College Office of Human Resources 350 Spelman lane, S.W. Box 1133 Atlanta, GA 30314-4399 EEO/AA Title IX Institution *************************************************************** FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY: The Department of History invites applications for an entry-level, tenure-track position. Commitment to undergraduate teaching and evidence of scholarship required; experienced candidates preferred. Ph.D. by July 1 expected. Appointee will teach 19th-century and 20th-century surveys in European history as well as upper-level courses and seminars in the modern period. Specialization in continental Europe excluding Russia and the former Soviet republics with teaching and research fields in social, women's, cultural-intellectual, political history, or economic history most desirable. Founded in 1787, the college is a highly selective, private liberal arts college with a demonstrated commitment to cultural pluralism through the hiring of women and minorities, and it encourages all interested individuals to apply. Deadline NOVEMBER 25. Prearranged interviews at the AHA. Send application, c.v., three letters of recommendation, and transcripts to: Louise Stevenson History Department Franklin and Marshall College Lancaster, PA 17604-3003 EOE/AA *********************************************************************** DEAN, OFFICE FOR WOMEN'S AFFAIRS - Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington is seeking applications and nominations for a senior administrator to serve in the position of Dean for Women's Affairs, to begin July 1, 1993. The appointment is 3/4 time, with 1/4 time teaching in an existing academic discipline in the University. The Dean reports directly to the Chancellor/Vice President of Indiana University, Bloomington and serves as an advocate in matters of equity. Issues that appropriately fall under the Office for Women's Affairs, in cooperation with other campus offices, include mentoring, sexual harassment, rape awareness, personal safety, salary equity, and general advocacy. Candidates should have an earned doctorate or equivalent terminal degree; administrative experience; a demonstrated commitment to principles of equality in the university with particular reference to women; demonstrated ability to work effectively with diverse groups--faculty, staff, students, administrators and the general public as well as persons of diverse racial and ethnic membership within those groups; demonstrated ability to create and implement innovative programs; and an established research record. Nominations or letters of application accompanied by a curriculum vitae should be sent to: Mary L. Remley, Chair Search Committee, Dean for Women's Affairs HPER 179E Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 Review of applications will begin DECEMBER 15, 1992 and will continue until the position is filled. AA/EOE ************************************************************** SEXUAL HARASSMENT SERVICES COORDINATOR: Duke University Duke University seeks an individual who will provide leadership in the prevention and resolution of sexual harassment complaints. This new position affirms our commitment to a community in which indivduals can work and learn in an environment which fosters dignity and mutual respect. The position reports to the President of the University and is responsible for the implementation of the University's sexual harassment policy and procedures. Qualifications include excellent organizational and communication skills; experience in educational programming and problem solving; demonstrated expertise in higher education administration; demonstrated ability to work sensitively and judiciously with gender and multicultural issues; and an advanced postbaccalaureate study or commensurate work experience in law or other relevant discipline. Interested persons should send a cover letter, current resume or vita, and the name, address and telephone number of three professional references by NOVEMBER 30, 1992 to: Coordinator Search P.O. Box 40001 Duke University Durham, NC 27706 AA/EOE ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 19:46:16 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Polly Thistlethwaite Subject: Valerie Solanas Leslie Kahn and Janet Prolman from the Lesbian Herstory Archives librarian network found a report that "on April 25, 1988 in San Francisco, Solanas' landlord found her dead in her apartment of pneumonia. She was buried in Virginia, near the home of her mother who recalls "she had a terrific sense of humor." From: Gaither, Rowan. "Andy Warhol's Feminist Nightmare," New York Magazine. January 14, 1991, p. 35. Polly Thistlethwaite pjthc@cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 20:19:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BLWIESNE@OWUCOMCN.BITNET Subject: Re: autobiography women The original request did not specify Canadian writers. If it meant to only the first book on this list would apply. Woodman, Marion _Leaving my Father's House_ (written with Kate Danson, Mary Hamilton, Rita Greer Allen Rita's section is mostly in the form of a journal) Dillard, Annie _Pilgrim at Tinker Creek_ _An American Childhood_ Dinesen, Isak _Out of Africa_ Hellman, Lillian _An Unfinished Woman_ Huxley, Elspeth _Flame Trees of Thika_ Koller, Alice _An Unknown Woman_ Lindbergh, Anne Morrow _Bring me a Unicorn_ Markham, Beryl _West with the Night_ I second May Sarton and it comes to mind that Helen Keller wrote her story. I forget the title possibly _My Life_. Much of the writings I enjoy are in the form of journals and letters. Much of the writings I enjoy are in the form of journals and letters. If these forms are acceptable to your friend then there is a wealth of material out there George Eliot, Virginia Woolf...... barbara wiesner blwiesne@cc.owu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:11:03 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: allen@SONOMA.EDU Subject: Re: autobiography See Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography by Mourning Dove, written in the early part of this century, published in 1990. Julie allen@sonoma.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:41:54 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "(Lucy Candib MD)" Subject: Catholic childhood I have a patient who is an Adult Survivor of a Catholic Childhood. She is interested in readings (autobiographical or novels would probably be best) that deal with issues of repressed sexuality, guilt over childhood masturbation, and the struggle of becoming a sexually functioning adult carrying that past. I hope this is of interest to a wider audience than me and the patient. Thanks. Lucy M. Candib, M.D. Family Health and Social Service Center 875 Main St. Worcester, Massachusetts 01610 508-756-3528 lcandib@umassmed.ummed.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:03:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: RE: Catholic childhood > I have a patient who is an Adult Survivor of a Catholic Childhood. > She is interested in readings (autobiographical or novels would probably be > best) that deal with issues of repressed sexuality, guilt over childhood > masturbation, and the struggle of becoming a sexually functioning adult > carrying that past. One title that comes immediately to mind (though since I haven't read it, it may turn out not to be as appropriate as it sounds) is Mary McCarthy's MEMORIES OF A CATHOLIC GIRLHOOD. When I was checking the library catalogue for the exact title, I also came upon a work that may prove useful in helping you find others: Ada Elizabeth Neely's GIRLHOOD IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: SPANISH, FRENCH, AND AMERICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHIES, 1902-1978. It's a 1981 doctoral dissertation (U. of Wisconsin, Madison) available from University Microfilm in Ann Arbor. ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County Bitnet: korenman@umbc * * Baltimore, MD 21228-5398 * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 01:35:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MFF1@PSUVM.BITNET Subject: Re: Catholic childhood In-Reply-To: lcandib AT UMASSMED.UMMED.EDU -- Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:41:54 -0500 For many feminists, a 'Catholic childhood' is not a matter of survivorship--it is a positive experience and a positive, feminist heritage. Particularly for those who were educated by nuns and in academies administered by nuns, the educational and early life- experiences were ones with women as models and women as leaders. Many feminists cherish this background and the culture of women it represented. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 08:49:32 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: lin Subject: Re: Catholic childhood In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 6 Nov 1992 01:35:00 EST from THANK YOU!!!! I frequently feel as if I'm an anomaly--I did not have any nega- tive experiences as a Catholic child and even went to parochial school where my dreams were usually nurtured and where I was supported by the nuns and lay teachers in what I wanted to do. When I arrived in public school (junior high) my dreams were ridiculed because I came from a working class family. Truth- fully, I still think about becoming a nun. Are there truly any others who have had positive experiences as Catholic children? I'd like to hear from them. lin collette (BI599128@brownvm or BI599128@Brownvm.brown.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 08:56:56 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara.Winkler@UM.CC.UMICH.EDU Subject: autobiography Other coming of age/identity formation texts can include Mary McCarthy, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood; Margaret Mead, Blackberry Winter. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 09:09:14 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ANNETTE CHAPPELL Subject: CATHOLIC_GIRLHOOD I can't remember the author, but _Aphrodite_at_Mid-Century_ is also an autobiography about a Catholic girlhood. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 09:38:32 EST Reply-To: jkorenma@umdd.BITNET Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: Catholic childhood In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 6 Nov 1992 08:49:32 EST from On Fri, 6 Nov 1992 08:49:32 EST lin collette said (in part): >I still think about becoming a nun. Are there truly any others who have >had positive experiences as Catholic children? I'd like to hear from them. > >lin collette (BI599128@brownvm or BI599128@Brownvm.brown.edu) [that's bi599128, not bl or b1] I'd like to remind those who wish to reply to Lin to do so PRIVATELY at the e-mail addresses she provides above. The mail volume on WMST-L has been very heavy lately, and it is thus all the more important to reserve WMST-L for messages that fall within the list's focus: women's studies teaching, research, and program administration. I'm not trying to devalue personal experience--I'm merely reminding people that WMST-L is not an all-purpose women's studies list, and that some important aspects of women's studies are more appropriate for lists like FEMAIL, WOMEN, GENDER, and soc.feminism. Information about all these lists is to be found in section 12 of the WMST-L User's Guide. If you need another copy of the guide, send the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU: GET GUIDE WMST-L If you want just a copy of section 12, say GET OTHER LISTS WMST-L Thank you for your understanding and cooperation. Joan Korenman (normally korenman@umbc or korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu today jkorenma@umdd [since UMBC is down]) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 10:02:39 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: If WMST-L Mail Suddenly Stops (User's Guide) At the start of each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If a change has been made since last month, the subject line will begin "Revision:". Here is section six: 6) "WHAT SHOULD I DO IF MAIL FROM WMST-L SUDDENLY STOPS?" Occasionally, mail sent from WMST-L may fail to reach you. If you notice that you haven't received any WMST-L mail for at least 24 hours, you should do the following: A) Send the following two-word message to LISTSERV@UMDD (if you subscribed under a Bitnet address) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (if you subscribed under an Internet address): QUERY WMST-L If you get back a message saying that you're not subscribed to WMST-L, send the QUERY WMST-L message to the other LISTSERV address (i.e., if you sent the message to LISTSERV@UMDD, try sending the same message to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU). If your message is successful, you should get back a message from LISTSERV telling you how your "options" are set. The key part will look something like this: > > query wmst-l > Distribution options for Jane Doe , > list WMST-L: Ack= Yes, Mail= Yes, Files= Yes, > Repro= No, Header= Short, Conceal= No Your options may vary; the important part is Mail=Yes. If it says Mail=No, that means your subscription has been set to NOMAIL. The most likely explanation for its being set to NOMAIL is that mail started to bounce and so I set your subscription to NOMAIL. If you've been receiving other mail, the problem was probably shortlived and you can set your subscription back to MAIL (for instructions, see B below). If the reply from LISTSERV says Mail=Yes, contact your computer support staff to find out whether they're aware of a mail problem. If they don't know of any problem, contact me privately (NOT VIA WMST-L). B) To set your subscription back to MAIL, simply send the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (if one doesn't work, try the other): SET WMST-L MAIL If you have questions or encounter problems, please write to me privately at KORENMAN@UMBC (Bitnet) or KORENMAN@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU (Internet). Under NO circumstances should you send messages about your subscription to WMST-L. Joan Korenman (jkorenma@umdd or jkorenma@umdd.umd.edu - for today) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 10:11:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ALAN YOSHIOKA Subject: Re: Catholic childhood There's a collection of autobiographical stories which deals with both repressive aspects of growing uk Catholic and the supportive community of women. Curb, Rosemary and Nancy Manahan, eds.u!w3kO{1985) _Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence_. Naiad Press. Hope this is of interest{5~{ Alan Yoshioka es051204@orion.yorku.ca ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 10:28:23 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BANKSJ@IPFWCVAX.BITNET Subject: Re: Catholic childhood I did not grow up Catholic, but have many friends who did. What I really envy about their backgrounds is the enormous cultural heritage that comes with it. For many of my friends, some of the stricter ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 11:00:22 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Siang-Cheng Lim Subject: Requesting Assistance in Project About Women's Communications I am currently working on a political science project about global communication s between women in industrialized countries and women in developing countries via organizations, international conferences, women's press and e-mail. Howe ver, I need help in gathering all these information for the next three weeks. Please, please, should anyone have any data pertaining to the above-mentione d, please direct it to my attention. Thank you so much. You don't know how mu ch I appreciate this. Mabel Lim, University of California, Irvine easu281@orion.oac.uci.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 11:41:57 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: allen@SONOMA.EDU Subject: re: Catholic childhood For a novel on Catholic girlhood see Frost in May by Antonia White available from Dial Press. Julie allen@sonoma.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 15:09:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Fernanda Perrone Subject: Re: Catholic childhood A view of a British woman's Catholic childhood is given in Antonia White's autobiographical novels -Frost in May- and -The Lost Traveller-. There are also two biographies of her written by her two daughters, one of whom I think is named Lyndall Hopkinson. Although I agree with Joan Korenman that the pros and cons of growing up Catholic are not a suitable subject for this list, I was a little disturbed by the implication that a Catholic childhood is necessarily psychologically damaging. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 14:23:00 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: mamlin@BOSSHOG.ARTS.UWO.CA Subject: Re: autobiography Julie (allen?) suggested Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography by Mourning Dove as an autobiography to look at. It is indeed interesting in a number of ways additional to its status as "autobiography." The editor/author of this text is questionable. I believe the editor's name is Miller (I do not have the book with me nor do I have the paper in which I refer to it, at this time). Miller has compiled Mouring Doves writings/memoirs and edited them into an autobiography. This raises questions of voice, appropriation, editorship, authorship, etcetera. Most important, in the context of the request for autobiography it puts the very genre in question. There are many more interesting facts surrounding this text and other writings by Mourning Dove which I can quickly put my hands on if needed. I specifically looked at the book, among others co-authored, authored, voiced, and so on, to explore these issues in the framework of what gets "claimed" as ethnographic in recent antropological research and writing. The "revival" and "reclaiming" of Zora Neale Hurston's writing as ethnographical prompted my exploration of these texts. Anyway, before I get too long winded. Respond to me privately if intesested. Michelle Amlin at mamlin@bosshog.arts.uwo.ca that's the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 14:14:46 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nancy Whitt Subject: Re: Catholic childhood In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 6 Nov 1992 15:09:00 EDT from A novel about a child who happens to be Catholic (and African American) is Toni McElroy Ansa's The Baby of the Family.. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 15:29:30 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: CYNTHIA GOTTSHALL Subject: Need Information on Summer Programs I am the Acting Director of the Women's & Gender Studies Program at Mercer Univ., a small liberal arts institution. The WGS program was just started on our campus this year. As a new program, this is a good possibility that I can get some support money for faculty development. I would like any information about summer workshops, Institutes, or seminars that would provide me with some background in the area of Women's Studies. Thank you. Please reply to: Cynthia Gottshall at CGOTTSHA@UGA or CGOTTSHA@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 08:49:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: POHLHAUS@VUVAXCOM.BITNET Subject: Re: Catholic childhood I, too, would like to affirm the positive role models I had and have during my life as a Roman Catholic. Although I went to Sunday School through grammar school and then went to Catholic schools until my PhD I never encountered the rigidity some others have truly experienced. In any case, Andrew Greeley's novels certainly give a very positive presentation of sex and sexuality. Mary Gordon's work also comes to mind. Gaile M. Pohlhaus Pohlhaus@VUVAXCOM ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 15:49:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 3 announcements I have received the following three announcements: 1) Rockefeller Fellowship: Afro-American Identity and Cultural Diversity in the Americas 2) CFP: Making Worlds: Metaphor and Materiality in the Production of Feminist Texts (SIROW) 3) CFP: Opportunity in Jewish Feminist Education For more information, contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc) ************************************************************* Rockefeller Foundation Resident Fellowships University of Florida, 1993-1996 Afro-American Identity and Cultural Diversity in the Americas The Center for Latin American Studies and the Center for African Studies invite junior and senior fellows in the humanities to spend a semester or an academic year in a three year interdisciplinary program on Afro-American identity and cultural diversity in the Americas, including the Caribbean, Brazil, and the U.S. as well as the sending areas of Africa. In 1993-94, the focus will be on the intersection of race, class, and gender in studies on slavery and race relations, women and the family, social movements, and migration. Application deadline FEBRUARY 3, 1993. Contact: Dr. Helen Safa Center for Latin American Studies 319 Grinter Hall University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 FAX (904) 392-7682 ************************************************************************** MAKING WORLDS: METAPHOR AND MATERIALITY IN THE PRODUCTION OF FEMINIST TEXTS Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW) SIROW invites proposals for papers on the theoretical development of the concept of "context" as it is addressed in contemporary feminist scholarship. Particularly welcome are papers that explore the use of spatial metaphors, such as borders, colony, location, territory, and maps to produce a geographical construction of diversity and difference. Planned for October 1993, the conference will be the final event of SIROW's five year Rockefeller Humanist-in-Residence project. An edited volume including conference papers and related creative works (poetry, art) will be prepared from conference materials. Please send 1-2 page proposals to Janice Monk, SIROW, 102 Douglass Building, University of Arizona, by JANUARY 15, 1993. (602) 6221-7338; FAX (602) 621-9424. ************************************************************* Call for Proposals: Opportunity in Jewish Feminist Education The past 15 years have seen the growth and development of a wide range of feminist work, including Jewish women's history, rereadings of classic texts, creation of feminist liturgies, and new approaches to theology and ethics. Very little of this work, however, has found its way into the curricula of Jewish schools. We seek to encourage the development of material for Jewish education that goes beyond the "great Jewish women" approach to integrate the history, experiences, and contributions of women into every area of the curriculum. We are interested in curricu- la that both introduce this new material and encourage students to look critically at what's missing in Jewish history and contemporary practice. We seek proposals for the integration of such materials and perspectives into Hebrew school or Jewish day school curricula on any subject and at any level. This would include, for example, curricula for teaching Bible, midrash, and other classical texts; standard Jewish history courses; courses on religious, theo- logical, and ethical questions; courses on holidays, life cycles, and ritual and liturgy; and courses on Jewish literature, cul- ture, and contemporary issues. We are more interested in curri- cula that integrate material on women into traditional courses than in proposals for courses specifically on women's experience. Teachers or principals who have already developed such materials and seek help in distributing them to others are also encouraged to apply. For information about deadlines, application procedures, etc. contact The Shefa Fund, 7318 Germantown Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19119. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 17:59:47 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: VILLERS@OUACCVMB.BITNET Subject: catholic girlhood Some of the memoirs of Simone de Beauvoir and Mary McCarthy may be of interest. Several years ago, there was a film (available on video I think) called in English Peppermint Soda. I do not remember the title in French. It is a French film and semi autobiographical. It looks at the coming of age of a young girl and her friends. Much of it takes place in a private catholic school. Very close to what I experienced at my school. Not at all the kindly nuns. Tyranny was more like it. Hope you can find it. Greetings, Anne Villers Villers@ouaccvmb.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 11:08:52 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosemary Feal Subject: Rockefeller Fellowships The Univ. of Rochester Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Studies and Comparative Arts Program announce the Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship Program in Feminism and Visual Culture (1992-95) Two resident fellowships per year to visiting scholars working in the field of Feminism and Visual Culture. We invite proposals from scholars, theorists, and producers of visual culture who wish to pursue original research informed by feminist thinking and attentive to the particular claims of race, ethnicity, and sexuality in the work of visual irepresentation. Stipends: $32,000/yr. Application deadline: January 15, 1993. For more information and application contact: Sharon Willis, Director Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Studies 538 Lattimore Hall Univ of Rochester, NY 14627 email: SWLS@db1.cc.rochester.edu **** Rosemary G. Feal rsfl@troi.cc.rochester.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 17:18:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Getting a list of subscribers (User's Guide) At the start of each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Here is section seven: ************************ 7) "HOW CAN I GET A LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS TO WMST-L?" To get a current list of WMST-L subscribers, send the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): REVIEW WMST-L. You'll get back either a mail message with the subject heading "File: 'WMST-L LIST' being sent to you" or a message telling you that the list is being sent as a Netdata file (not a mail file); listserv apparently chooses which method to use. (See section 11 below for instructions on how to retrieve files sent in Netdata format.) Either way, the file contains a list of subscribers, arranged alphabetically by e-mail node (the part of the e-mail address after the "@" sign), not by subscriber's name. If you prefer to receive the list sorted more or less alphabetically by subscriber's last name, send the following command: REVIEW WMST-L BY NAME. ****************** Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 20:40:22 EST Reply-To: unger@apollo.montclair.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Psych of Women Survey I am posting the following message for WMST-L subscriber Rhoda Unger and have rigged things so that replies should automatically go back to her. (In rare cases, replies may come back to me; I'll then forward them to Rhoda.) Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc) *************************************************************** I am involved in a task force of Division 35 of APA (Psych of Women) that is looking at the relationship between feminist psychology and women's studies. We have realized that we have no idea about the number of psycho- logists who identify with women's studies, and we would like to use WMST-L (as a representative collection of feminists in academia) to get some rough estimates. Therefore, we would appreciate it if people on the network would answer the questions below and send them back to me. I will gladly share our findings with the list. Rhoda Unger unger@apollo.montclair.edu (Internet) 1. What is your institutional affiliation? 2. With what discipline or profession (besides women's studies) do you identify yourself? 3. What is your level of training or occupational status (e.g., undergraduate or graduate student, instructor thru professor, computer specialist, administrator, etc.)? 4. If your institution has a women's studies program, what is the disciplinary affiliation of its director or coordinator? 5. Please estimate the number of psychologists involved in women's studies at your institution relative to the total number of people involved (e.g., 2 out of 10 or 40 out of 60). Thank you very much. Rhoda Unger unger@apollo.montclair.edu (Internet) ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 22:42:27 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: CSPRINGF@UCS.INDIANA.EDU Subject: Re: autobiography Puerto RIcan women are too often left out of literature courses. Judith Ortiz Cofer's Silent Dancing, an autobiography of growing up in Jersey as a Puerto RIcan kid, is great. I also like the mother-daughter "autobiography" Getting Home Alive. COnsuelo Lopez Springfield Indiana University cspringf@iubacs. bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 22:54:44 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: CSPRINGF@UCS.INDIANA.EDU Subject: RE: catholic girlhood Rosario Ferre, a leading Puerto Rican writer, addresses what it was like to be in an elitist Catholic school in several of her works (Sacred HEart nuns, by the way). They are in English translation. COnsuelo Lopez Springfield INdiana University cspringf@iubacs.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 09:47:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: copies of your postings (User's Guide) At the start of each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Here is section eight: 8) "HOW CAN I STOP RECEIVING COPIES OF MY MESSAGES TO THE LIST?" WMST-L is now set up so that people receive copies of the messages they post to the list. If you do not wish to receive such copies, simply send the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (if you subscribed under your Bitnet address) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (if you subscribed under your Internet address): SET WMST-L NOREPRO . If you would like to receive a mail acknowledgement of your posting but not a copy, add a second line that says SET WMST-L ACK . ****************** Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 10:01:29 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: U17334@UICVM.BITNET Subject: prostititution readings I originally sent the following to the person who requested the information, but I thought others should be familiar with the data available: There was a conference Oct. 30-31 re: pornography and prostitution at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. You can get a selected bibliography on prostitution by contacting Margaret A. Leary at the Law Library there (zip 48109). It focuses on how to access materials available there, but I'm sure much of the information (books and articles cited) will be helpful. Pauline B. Bart U17334@UICVM.UIC.EDU (University of Illinois at Chicago) Everything is data, but data isn't everything... Don't kill the messenger! ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 11:28:44 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Liz McMahon Subject: FLAG? My college recently received the dubious distinction of being rated #1 in homophobia in the Princeton Review (for what that's worth). Many of us here have been concerned about the attitudes we see here for some time anyway, so this merely proved a catalyst for action. (Not coincidentally, frats are big here, so this provides a nice parallel to that recent discussion.) I am interested in forming a group, perhaps a chapter of the national group Friends of Lesbians and Gays (FLAG). I am having trouble locating phone numbers, addresses, etc. If anyone out there has such info, could they send it to me PRIVATELY? If anyone else is interested in what I get, let me know (also privately) and I'll send it along. Thanks!! Liz McMahon, Math Department, Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042 ME#0@LAFAYACS.BITNET P.S. Hope this isn't off the scope of the list.... ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 16:22:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Donna M. Hughes" Subject: Conference: Speech, Equality and Harm SPEECH, EQUALITY, AND HARM: FEMINIST LEGAL PERSPECTIVES ON PORNOGRAPHY AND HATE PROPAGANDA March 5-7, 1993 University of Chicago Law School A conference for scholars, practitioners, and activists that brings together for the first time the foremost critical race theorists, feminist legal theorists, and constitutional law scholars. The speakers will examine the impact of pornography and hate speech on the status, safety, and well-being of women and people of color and explore legal responses to this problem. Confirmed speakers include: Kathleen Mahoney "The Canadian Supreme Court's View of Pornography" Patricia Williams "The Law's Response to Racial and Sexual Exploitation" Catharine MacKinnon "A Civil Rights Approach to Pornography" Mari Matsuda "Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment" Kathleen Barry "Sexual Exploitation as a Human Rights Violation" John Powell "Mediating the Different Languages of Speech and Equality" Cass Sunstein "On Speech and Conduct" Burke Marshall "On Freedom of Expression" Charles Lawrence "Words that Wound" Frank Michelman "Harmful Speech and the First Amendment" Richard Delgado "Racism, Hate Crimes and Pornography" Gerald Torres "Tort-based Approaches to Harmful Speech" Frederick Schauer "Pornography and the First Amendment" For more information write the Coalition to End Violence Against Women, 1255 West North Shore, #2, Chicago, IL 60626 h82, Donna Hughes ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 20:57:30 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Leslie Bender Subject: FLAG? In-Reply-To: Your MAIL dated Sun, 8 Nov 1992 11:28:44 EDT Liz Mahon, I couldn't respond privately tothe address you gave, but please forward info on FLAG to me too. Thanks. Leslie Bender, College of Law, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244-1030; lbender@suvm ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 22:17:27 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "(Lucy Candib MD)" Subject: apology I apologize if I offended people with my remark about surviving a Catholic Childhood. My patient reported to me her early discovery of masturbation, her learning in communion classes that she would burn in hell for eternity for touching herself in "impure places" unless she confessed, and her continuing to masturbate nevertheless. She attributes long term sexual conflicts to these early experiences. For her growing up Catholic was not salubrious. I have known her for many years and have delivered two of her five children. She is comfortable talking to me about a wide range of concerns. We were able to joke about this, and it was in that spirit that we were able to talk about her having survived a Catholic childhood. Without adequate introduction or transition, I brought her interest in reading relevant materials into my query to the list. I have assumed that the suffering and damages (whatever their origin) that women have sustained and are healing from are legitimate areas for women's studies and for discussion on the list. Lucy M. Candib, M.D. Family Health and Social Service Center 875 Main St. Worcester, Massachusetts 01610 508-756-3528 lcandib@umassmed.ummed.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 09:47:19 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: STRETCH OR DROWN/ EVOLVE OR DIE Subject: beauty I have a somewhat odd query, but I'd like to send it out just on the off chance that someone might be able to help me out. I've been working with a student on the so-called "beauty myth." She want to think about cosmetic surgury and about arguments against cosmetic surgery that would go beyond simply arguing that it's "unnatural." Our discussions have led us to the question,which we are playing with both facetiously and seriously, "What's beauty for?" What I would like to know is whether or not anyone has every heard of anything that addresses this question--either from a feminist perspective (preferably) or not. I know that there is a huge philosophical literature on beauty that goes back to the eighteenth century, but in terms of the questions I'm trying to ask I'M not sure that would be helpful, since the argument for beauty there seems ultimately theological (beauty is moral and good). I also know that there is a biological, or at least sociobiological argument that beauty is somehow adaptive. I would be interested in some brief references to that. But what Iguess I am looking for are other kinds of explanations for beauty's purpose. I hope I haven't been too vague about what I'm asking. I have often found that historicizing what have often in the past been seen as constants and universals (love,pain, beauty, etc.) can lead to some pretty exciting research. I would appreciate any responses;you can, of course, respond privately. Thank you, Laurie Finke Women's and Gender Studies Kenyon College finkel@kenyon.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 11:27:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "IRENE HANSON FRIEZE. PSYCHOLOGY" Subject: Re: beauty The issue of beauty is an interesting one that psychologists have done a lot of work on. People do tend to marry those of similar attractiveness (and if they don't, the marriages are unstable). We also stereotype attractive people as somehow "better". Our research has also shown in a sample of business managers that attractive people (especially men) make more money. Finally, it seems that men value attractiveness more than women do, although both sexes have the stereotypes. Irene Frieze Psychology and Women's Studies University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 FRIEZE@PITTVMS.BITNET ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 11:32:10 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sharon Jacobson HPERD Subject: call for papers The Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Serives is going to print a special edition related to the subject of doing research with lesbians and gays. Papers should be related to the following topics and follow the attached format: Literature Reviews - *What exists in the field of gay and lesbian research to date * framing relevant research questions * why research is needed * what topics need to be covered. Methodological Issues: - How to really conduct research with lesbians and gays * sampling procedures and problems * getting representative samples * ethics * confidentiality * respondent anonymity * research instruments and implementation - what works * data collection and researcher bias - who should do the research * appropriate data analysis techniques * how can the closet door be opened for analysis * gathering data on all invisible, culturally diverse groups of gays and lesbians Findings - how representative are current data * how can the knowledge in the field be expanded Etcetera - other topics that will make the task of conducting research with lesbians and gays easier for other researchers Due Date: 1/1/93 Mail to : Dr. Carol T. Tully, School of Social Work, 101 Tucker Hall, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602 or call 706-542-5419 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 12:02:20 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nancy Seale Osborne Subject: Re: autobiography In-Reply-To: <9211052202.AA24009@oswego-gw> Linda, Thanks for suggesting May Sarton, an obvious choice for the request for autobiographical possibilities. I have written a bio-bibliographical essay on May for an upcoming (Garland, I think) publication, edited by Sandra Pollack, Tompkins Cortland Community College. Tell me how you discovered May's work! The first I read was (darn, I don't know how to do italics or underlining) JOURNAL OF A SOLITUDE. I presented on it at Modern Language Association in the 70s and have been immersed in Sarton ever since... Best, Nancy Seale Osborne SUNY College at Oswego Oswego NY 13126 On Thu, 5 Nov 1992 LINDA%GACVAX1.BitNet@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU wrote: > For autobiographical work, esp. coming of age, May Sarton is a must. Her > journals are very personal statements of her coming of age, both as a writer, > and as a woman. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 12:51:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Revision: Replying to WMST-L messages (User's Guide) At the start of each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Here is section nine; it's the section scheduled for today, but it seems particularly timely: ******************* 9) "WHEN SHOULD I REPLY PRIVATELY RATHER THAN TO WMST-L?" WMST-L is set up so that replies will normally be sent to all subscribers. If you respond to a WMST-L message by hitting a reply key or typing "reply," everyone will read your response. This is appropriate when the contents are likely to be of interest to a number of subscribers (most suggestions for reading lists and teaching strategies fall into this category). However, if you are writing to request a copy of a paper someone has mentioned, please send your request PRIVATELY, NOT to WMST-L. Similarly, comments directed at a particular person (e.g., "Right on, Rhoda. Good point," or "Thanks for the info," or "What a horrendous experience that must have been. I don't know why people do such things," or "Hi, Jane, I'm glad to see you've joined the list. Write to me," etc.) should be sent PRIVATELY, NOT to WMST-L. Also, short general statements of approval or disapproval (e.g., "Hooray! I'm glad someone finally said that!" or "I can't imagine how anyone can believe such nonsense") should NOT be sent to WMST-L. ******************* Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 12:58:04 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: STRETCH OR DROWN/ EVOLVE OR DIE Subject: Re: beauty This is in response to Irene Frieze's response to my query just to make clearer the question I am pursuing. I understand that beauty has all the effects that she outlined. Psychology has indeed shown that, for instance, attractiveness can often play a part in job hiring, that teachers often find better behaved children who aremore attractive (there's the theological dimension rearing its head again). My question is slightly different though. I'm curious about what purpose beauty serves, since all these things seem to me an outcome of being beautiful. Perhaps the answer is that since beauty is in fact a social construction rather than biological given, that it can only serve those functions socially created for it. Even that thought helps direct my thinking somewhat. Thanks for all of you who have sent me responses. I am getting some fascinating stuff and may in fact getting more interested in this question than my student is. Laurie Finke WGS Kenyon College finkel@kenyon.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 10:37:47 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "(Margo Okazawa-Rey)" Subject: Dreamvision If anyone has the address of the distributor of Dreamvisions (video about violence against women on MTV), please send to me directly Margo Okazawa-Rey mor@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu Thanks! ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 13:21:42 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: rudydors@ACS.UCALGARY.CA Subject: Re: beauty In-Reply-To: <9211091903.AA15805@acs1.acs.ucalgary.ca>; from "STRETCH OR DROWN/ I've just received a notice that Susan Rubin Suleiman is giving a paper here (Calgary) this week called "Alternatives to Beauty: Now You See It, Now You Don't." Unfortunately, I'll be in Toronto! Anyway, you might watch for the article, sounds like just what you're looking for. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 13:53:23 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JSCHNEIDERMA@POMONA.CLAREMONT.EDU Subject: new feminist book on representations of mothers and daughters I've just finished reading a great new book on representations of the mother/daughter relationship that i think will be of interest to subscribers. Anyone teaching an intro women's studies class or a cultural studies class with a feminist focus might also find the book appropriate. It's called Lives Together/World's Apart: Mothers and Daughters in Popular Culture and is written by Suzanna Walters (Univ. of california press, 1992). It focusses on how the mother/daughter relationship has been represented in TV, film, women's magazines and literature since 1930. It is well written, engaging and provides a feminist framework for the reevaluation of this very significant relationship in women's lives. Jill Schneiderman, Assistant Professor, Pomona College JSCHNEIDERMA@Pomona.claremont.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 15:13:32 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: U17334@UICVM.BITNET Subject: Heilbrun The Sunday N.Y.Times ,11.8.92 had a good article on why Prof.Carolyn Heilbrun's Resignation from Columbia University Dept. of English called "Rage in a Tenured Position"[a take off on her mystery Death in a Tenured Position written under her pseudonym Amanda Blake. It is must reading for feminist women studies teachers (no, not a tautology). I have noticed in response to news of my dismissal from Letters and Science by the Dean so that I may no longer teach sociology and/or women's studies. Many women who wrote me were full rpofessors with distinguished careers who m their departments were marginalizing and trying to get them to leave. They had no graduate students, except those others didn't want. These women had obtained grants, published widely etc. just as Professor Heilbrun did. Several factors seemed relevant to me. First, distinction outside one's field or university is held against one. These women are not being harassed in spite of their fame but BECAUSE of their fame. I suspect many of their alleged colleagues are jealous. there are some particularly relevantquotes from the article for those of you unable to obtain the Times. Heilbrun is quoted as saying "in my experience, confidentiality means complicity, useful cheifly for protecting old-boy secrets." "I found Heilbrun smart, principled and funny. Naturally, that makes her an object of fear and loathing in the academy," said a female graduate student. With all due modesty one could say that I have similar characteristics--the principled seems to be the bone in everyone's craw. Heilbrun also was nice to a graduate student when no one else was including his major field examiner who refused to meet with him even an hour a month. I was told I was maternal, therapeutic, and overidentified with students (or perhaps it was overinvolved). I should remind you this was a criticism. Carolyn Heilbrun "resisted socialization, never acquiring or appreciating basic academic skills like reverence for tradition, teamwork and lying low." If one is a feminist it is impossible to meet those criteria. Further she was criticized , after speaking of her distinguished career that whe was uncollegial, getting on in years, quite out of control where women's issues are concern, rather frustrated, trribly frustrated, deeply frustrated." Carolyn pointecd out that they would add something else were she not married and a mother. I am just a mother so the something else was added. Carolyn Heilbrun quotes Dorothy Sayers "time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force." Well yes and no. I believed all that upbeat stuff about how when you are old (I'm 62) you have more freedom. But the University came down on me like a ton of pricks. (that is not a typo) I agree with Andrea Dworkin that once you are neither reproducing nor sexually desirable by traditional standards you are even more vulnerable to being discarded. It appears as if what I call the first wave of the second wave is being picked off, coerced into retirement (what they tried to do to me) or their lives are made so unpleasant that if they have enough money they do leave the scene of the crimes. Aside for your support, which I thanked you for in a previous E Mail communication, I have survived because I understand radical feminist theory, especially the work of Catharine Mackinnon. She addresses the nmisobyny and female complicity that are bringing us down. Carolyn Heilbrun says "female isnot feminist". I am fortunate to have this analysis so I am like the Polish Jews in the Conetration Camps who at least understood why this was happenning to them, unlike the German Jews who thought they were good Germans, had assimilated, and fought in World War I for the German Army and that would save them. I have always been unassimilable and uncooptable and am paying the price. Asd long as I stay angry andkeep fighting back and have so much support I and Carolyn and people like us will survive, from the outside if need be. Oned of my male students, a Chilean refugee, and his wife just had a baby. They named him Paolo, after me, because his father fought back and was tortured under Pinochet and he sees me carrying on in that tradition. Much Love Pauline B. Bart U17334@UICVM.UIC.EDU (University of Illinois at Chicago) Everything is data, but data isn't everything... Don't kill the messenger! ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 18:02:08 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Arnie Kahn Subject: revictimization In women's studies classes the consensus is that all rape, including acquaintance rape, should be reported. We often discuss the hardships women go through with the police, hospital, and judicial system. The victim can be revictimized by the police, hospital, and judicial system, and chances are the perpetuator is likely to be found innocent. All of the above recently happened to one of my advisees--an acquaintance rape by a former faculty member. He was found innocent two weeks ago today. I received an email message from the student last night explaining why she hasn't been in class on Wednesday or Friday--"It seems that I am officially being sued in Civil Court for well we all know what." Talk about victimization and revictimization. I feel so bad for her. I somehow feel the need to share this. I'm very upset. Arnie ******************************************************************************** Arnie Kahn, Psychology, JMU, Harrisonburg, VA 22807 (703) 568-3963 - day fac_askahn@vax1.acs.jmu.edu (preferred) (703) 434-0225 - night fac_askahn@jmuvax (703) 568-3322 - fax ******************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 16:30:01 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: hbuss@ACS.UCALGARY.CA Subject: Re: autobiography In-Reply-To: <9211050405.AA12355@acs1.acs.ucalgary.ca>; from "CHELLEY@HUP.UCLA.E If the message regarding autobiography is interested in women's autobiography in a canadian context you might like to look at my "canadian women's autobiography in english: an introductory guide for researchers and teachers," a 50 page paper and annotated bibliography published as a monograph and available from CRIAW 151 Slater Street, Ottawa Ontario, K1P 5H3. My book Mapping Our Selves: Canadian Women's Autobiography in English, a more extensive and theorized coverage of many women's autobiographical texts from 1796to the present will be out in the spring of 1993 from McGill-Queens University Press, 3430 Mctavish St. Montreal, Quebed, H3A1X9. Helen Buss hbuss@acs.ucalgary.ca ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 18:54:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: KUMIKO Subject: woman's studies in Japan Hello, I am an intermational student. I come from Japan almost three years ago. I took Woman's Studies" course last summer. It was a fascinating study to me. I realized that I did not know about the woman. I am ashamed to say that I had never heard Woman's Studies in Japan, and I did not know feminism in Japan. I think that Japan is so conservative country to the woman. I'd like to know about woman's studies in Japan. Since when did Japanese feminism start? What kind of people did stand up for the movement at that tiem? What's the difference between American's and Japan's feminism? And if you have some information about these, please would you let me know about it? Thank you very much, Kumiko Karita SUNY at Plattsburgh ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 09:15:17 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: U17334@UICVM.BITNET Subject: revictimization After studying non-stranger rape for years in a state, Illinois, that has a supurb statute that should make prosecuting known rapists not difficult, I have sadly come to the conclusion that the chances of finding any justice are slim. I never encourage anyone to report or prosecute even though it's in my research interest to do so. I lay out a continuum. The "best" cases to work with the prosecution on are those in which your assailant is a stranger, and a felon on parole, i.e. a "real "criminal. The most difficult are the ones where the raped woman went to the man's apartment "willingly," i.e. was tricked into going, was coerced but no physical struggle took place. If fraud was used to get money that would be much easier, but as I have said women are not property. We should be so lucky. Other variables in reporting and working with the prosecution should they deign to consider the case "real rape" which means winnable, are how much time you can take off from work, how much support you have, and do you understand that there is no justice so that "losing" has nothing to do with whether or not you have been raped. I have had cases where there was immediate outcry, where everything was done "right", where the woman was injured, and even when felony review approved the case as prosecutable, and the judge found "no probable cause" and refused to send it to trial. You might want to read Lisa Frohmann's article in Social Problems on decisions in those cases "Discrediting Victims' Allegations of Sexual Assault" 38,2, May l99 1. And Arnie--I'm sorry you feel bad but people generally too optimistic about rape reform. Pauline B. Bart U17334@UICVM.UIC.EDU (University of Illinois at Chicago) Everything is data, but data isn't everything... Don't kill the messenger! ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 12:40:34 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Allan Hunter Subject: Re: revictimization In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 10 Nov 1992 09:15:17 CST from Pauline Bart's report is troubling yet not entirely surprising. Okay, if utilizing the legal system as a response to rape is (even at best) a strategy not likely to work, then what alternative strategies might women turn to? Any ideas? - allan hunter ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 14:21:14 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sherry M Lidaka Subject: Re: woman's studies in Japan In-Reply-To: <9211100008.AA13461@quark.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>; from "KUMIKO" at Nov 9, 92 6:54 pm This is a message for Kumiko, but in case other people may be interested, I am sending it out through REPLY. There is a short sketch of the development of women's history in Japan in an anthology edited by Karen Offen, Ruth Roach Pierson, and Jane Rendall, called WRITING WOMEN'S HISTORY (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1991). The 3-page note section may provide you with more helpful information. The anthology also includes discussions of women's history writing in Nigeria, Denmark, Netherlands, the two Germans (before the reunification), Brazil, Yugoslavia, etc. ============================================================== Sherry Mou Lidaka BITNET: Lidaka.1@ohstmail INTERNET: slidaka@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu =============================================================== ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:16:00 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "LYONS H (WOMEN'S STUDIES)" Can anyone recommend any recent sources for a graduate student in philosophy about controversies over gender differences in moral development, arising from the controversies over Gilligan's work, or taking new directions in this general area? Please respond to me privately at hlyons@watdcs.uwaterloo.ca. Harriet Lyons, U. of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:24:02 AST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: <10NOV92.17721751.0214.MUSIC@UNB.CA> From: REIM000 Subject: Learner-centred course evaluations In-Reply-To: In reply to your message of MON 09 NOV 1992 11:51:00 EST I am trying to locate a course evaluation form that would focus on some of the ways in which an instructor had attempted to create learning experiences of the kind where the students are in the 'active learner' mode. While the traditional evaluation forms often reward the good lecturer, or a more traditional style of teaching -- and are thus referred to as 'teacher centered' forms -- I am looking for an alternative, quantitatively based evaluation. Does anyone have such a creature? If so, I would appreciate seeing yours -- either on e-mail or by fax (506-450-9615) as soon as possible. I need this for a meeting on Thursday of this week, early afternoon, and have had difficulty getting 'on' the network. My snail mail address is Marilee Reimer, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 5W3 CANADA. Thanks, M. Reimer (Reim@unb.ca) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:33:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "(dl81)" Subject: Re: Re: revictimization In-Reply-To: <9211101748.AA13513@umd5.umd.edu> Self defense and collective defense. Informal but effective sanctions against violence against women. Law and ideology eventually follow suit. Slow, agonizing, public death (or worse) of perpetrators. Only way any group--through history and across cultures--has ever done it. DEB (DL81@umail.umd.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:33:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L Logfiles (User's Guide) At the start of each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Here is section ten: 10) "I'VE BEEN AWAY FOR TWO WEEKS. I'D LIKE TO SEE WHAT I'VE MISSED ON WMST-L DURING THE TIME I'VE BEEN GONE. IS IT POSSIBLE TO ACCESS PREVIOUS MESSAGES?" [also useful for new subscribers] Yes. All WMST-L messages are automatically archived. The 1991 archives are arranged in monthly logs; beginning in Jan., 1992, the logs were changed to a weekly format. To find out what logs are available, you can send LISTSERV the following command: INDEX WMST-L . You'll then receive a list of the available logs. To obtain the logs, send LISTSERV the following command: GET WMST-L [filename] where [filename] is the name of the log file you want. For example: GET WMST-L LOG9105 will get you the May '91 log (9105 refers to the 5th month of 1991). LOG9106 is the June log, LOG9107 the July log, etc. (It's possible that the wording of your request may take a slightly different form, depending on your mail system, but what you want is WMST-L LOGxxxx.) Warning: some of these logs are LARGE. The June '91 log is almost 500K. (Fortunately, things calmed down in July, but even so the log is about 250K.) As a result, you may not be permitted to get more than one log per day. Because of the logs' unwieldy size, the format was changed to weekly beginning in 1992: WMST-L LOG9201A is the log for the first week in January '92, WMST-L LOG9201B is for the second week, etc. ******************* Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 13:02:47 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: castro@SONOMA.EDU Subject: RESPONSE TO P. BART'S COMMENT ON CAROLYN HEILBRUN I'm a secretary at Sonoma State University and have been reading WMST-L with interest these last two months. It is both enlightening and disturbing. Pauline Bart's comment on Carolyn Heilbrun struck a nerve because I'm also a writer and from time to time I wonder whether it is a good idea to use my name or take on a pen name. Most of the time I write fiction and poetry, but a couple of years ago I began to write a series of articles called Beyond Survival which dealt with my experiences in recovery from childhood sexual abuse. I decided to use my name because I felt that frank discussion on this subject required that I be as honest as possible. These articles were published in a small women's newspaper and haven't caused any trouble for me at work. But sometimes I wonder what the long range effects of these articles will have on my career as a writer? I'll just have to wait and see. Are there other writers out there who have wrestled with writing about some- thing important to them, but haven't done it because of their job? Or are there writers who have changed their names in order to write about what they want to write about? As a woman in a community of women writers the idea of taking on a man's name in order to have an easier time publishing comes up from time to time, especially in the science fiction field. Would James Tiptree, Jr. have done as well if she used her real "female" name? I'd love to hear from other women who have struggled with this problem. Please let me know privately, how you resolved this, if at all? Diana Castro CASTRO@SONOMA.EDU or 294 E. Cotati Ave., #15 Cotati, CA 94931 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:34:30 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "DORIS G. DIXON" Subject: History Senior Queries Dear WMST-L and SOCHIST subscribers, Today in my History Senior Seminar at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tn there was a storm of interest about just what one can and cannot do through e-mail. Several of us subscribe to discussion lists such as this one and were trying to enlighten the rest of the cornbread-heads- I say that lovingly- about what they are missing. Anyway, as the professor attempted to bring the class discussion to the actual assignment, he asked that we e-mail send out a few queries about subjects that have been puzzling the class. 1. Our class deals with the 1960's and contemporary interpreatations of its significance. None of our readings satisfasctorily discuss details of Jane Fonda's trip to Hanoi. We would apprecaite anyone who could enlighten us, either throught personal knowledge or by calling our attention to sources. 2. One student is doing his paper on Medgar Evers and can find little that does not center on his death. Any ideas? Thanks, Doris G. Dixon, Dixdg@Rhodes.bitnet. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:04:41 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "(Jacquelyn Marie)" Subject: Masters/Phd in Psychology of women A student is requesting information on any programs in Women's Studies with a psychology emphasis or Psychology with a women's studies emphasis which include both a masters and a Phd. She did her BA in Psychology with an emphasis on Women. Thanks. Jacquelyn Marie Library Un. of California Santa Cruz, CA 95064 jmarie@scilibx.ucsc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:11:20 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PHILDON@MOREKYPR.BITNET Subject: We need advice Can a department chair in a different unit 'reasonably' tell faculty members that crosslisting a course in Women's Studies denies the department control over its courses? The reason being given is that it is an 'administrative problem' because the department designed the course and now someone is making it into something else. Therefore, the department no longer has control over what is being taught in its classes - Women's Studies does. The faculty member brought up issues of autonomy, cultural diversity, minority viewpoints (supported by the university) but the chair person says those are not the issues, the issue is now Women's Studies has control over another dept's classes. He also said students should not be forced to take a W.S. course and if crosslisted course is only section offered on a required course, then students will complain. Feedback please! Thanks! Donna C. Phillips phildon@morekypr ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:19:44 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beth Goldstein Subject: research query First, thanks to all of you who responded to my first request for references on consciousness raising groups. I write now for another student who is looking for research on the classroom experiences of male students in female dominated fields such as nursing or early childhood education. Her lit searches have mostly turned up research on men in the workplace or about men's decisions to enter traditionally female fields but not on classroom dynamics. Any suggestions? Beth Goldstein Educational Policy Studies University of Kentucky cdpbethg@ukcc.uky.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:34:48 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "(Kimberly J. Cook)" Subject: RE: RESPONSE TO P. BART'S COMMENT ON CAROLYN HEILBRUN >Are there other writers out there who have wrestled with writing about some- >thing important to them, but haven't done it because of their job? >Diana Castro >CASTRO@SONOMA.EDU I am not a writer as such, but I do teach about women and women's experiences in all of my classes, none of which are strictly women's studies classes. I have struggled with a parallel issue, and that is how much self-disclosure is appropriate in a classroom. As a formerly battered woman, I feel that my survival can be an inspiration to other students in my classes who have had similar experiences with abuse. As a single mother and full time ph.d. student i feel that i can be a good a role model to my students. However, when/if I decide to disclose personal information to the class I must be totally comfortable with doing so... as I would recommend my students to be when they disclose personal experience in the class. sometimes I do and sometimes I don't. The issue for me is that as a "protected" graduate student teaching for the last two and half years, I am not worried directly about the promotion and tenure effects of my teaching style -- my evaluations from students are consistently very positive at this early stage. I am uneasy with the idea of self-disclosure in the class room once I am in a tenure track position. On the other hand, I deeply believe that the personal is political and I like to inform my students that "experiential" learning/studying is as valid as "objective" research... so, though i have been dealing with this dilemma over the last two years, I too worry about the longer term consequences should I decide to be open in the classroom. if there is anyone else out there with this kind of experience/concern and who could shed light on the matter I would certainly appreciate to hear more about the politics of experiential teaching. thanks in advance! Kimberly J. Cook, k_cook@unhh.unh.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:47:34 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DAVIDSET@SNYONEVA.CC.ONEONTA.EDU Subject: Advice requested Women's Studies at SUNY/Oneonta is reorganizing. We have just received department status. We need some fresh thoughts on the following: 1) recruitment of students for our courses; 2) mentoring of women faculty who are not in Women's Studies, and in the process, increasing our base of support; 3) ideas for intern projects; and 4) development of a major in Women's Studies. Thanks for this, and for all the other information I have been receiving through the list. Terry Davidson, Professor of English and Women's Studies, SUNY/Oneonta, Oneonta NY 13820. DAVIDSET@SNYONEVA.CC.ONEONTA.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:09:00 EST Reply-To: MKISSIL@DREW.BITNET Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mia T Subject: Canadian Authors - A Summary Date: 10-Nov-1992 08:13pm EST From: Kissil, Mia T MKISSIL Dept: Tel No: (201)-408-8209 TO: Remote INTERNET Address ( _IN%LITERARY@UCF1VM.BITNET ) TO: Remote Addressee ( _in%WMST-L@UMDD.BITNET ) Subject: Canadian Authors - A Summary To all on both lists who responded to my query about Canadian authors last week, many, many thanks. I finally found two professors who are willing to do a tutorial with me on Modern Canadian Fiction. Most of the people claimed they didn't know anything about it, so therefore didn't want to take the time to learn! (I'm not bitter, really...) Here's a list of the suggestions people sent, since a few of you asked to see what I came up with. I don't have the time or the knowledge to break it up into esoteric categories, so it's going to have to be alphabetical. Jeanette Armstrong, _Slash_ Margaret Atwood, _Cat's Eye_ Mary Claire Blais, _Mad Shadows_ and _Season in the Life of Emmanuel_ Maria Campbell, _Halfbreed_ and _The Book of Jessica_ (with Linda Griffiths) Emily Carr, short stories Marian Engel, _Bear_ Timothy Findley, _Not Wanted on the Voyage_, _Famous Last Words_, _The Wars_, _The Butterfly Plague__ Isabel Huggan, _The Elizabeth Tales_ Basi Johnston, _Indian School Days_ Thomas King W.P. Kinsella, short stories Joy Kogawa, _Obasan Margaret Laurence, _The Olden Days Coat_, _The Diviners_, The Stone Angel_ Stephen Leacock, _Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town_ Sky Lee, _The Disappearing Moon Cafe_ Robert MacNeil (of MacNeil/Lehrer Report Fame!), _Burden of Desire_ Lee Maracle, short stories and novels Alice Munro, short stories and _Lives of Women and Girls_ Michael Ondaatje, _Coming Through Slaughter_, _In the Skin of a Lion_ Mordechi Richler, _Son of a Smaller Hero_, _Joshua Then and Now_, _Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz_ Jane Rule, _The Memory Board_ Ruby Slipperjack, _Honour the Sun_, _Silent Words_ Guy Vanderhaugh (sp?), short stories Aritha Van Herk, _Tent Peg_, _No Fixed Address_ Ethel Wilson, _Swamp Angel_ Also, the two anthologies edited by Rosemary Sullivan, _Stories by Canadian Women_ and _More Stories by Canadian Women_ were recommended. Once again, thanks to all who responded! Mia Tatiana Kissil MKISSIL@DREW.BITNET MKISSIL@DREW.DREW.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:12:46 HST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jean Grossholtz Subject: violence against women I have been teaching a course on violene agsint women at Mount Holyoke College for 15 years. In hat time we have tried a number of suggestoins for how to deal with the violence. Women ahve had great ideas.. wwe hve put much pain and effort collectively into trying to figure out what to do to make men change their behavior.. it is obvious that men think they have the right to act violently against women.. here in Hawaii the papers are full of cases that are at last begin brought to the courts of actors, and state senators and n soldiers beating women...how turn that behavior around? Most men will express horror at the acts, tell us how to protect ourselves, remind' us we need male escorts... but few (none in my experience) ever offer to think about how they and other men can change their behavior. Thats the issue we need to put our heads together on.. jean ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 06:29:08 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "JANIS BOHAN (556-3088/3205, MSC BOX 54)" Subject: Re: We need advice Donna Phillips wonders how to negotiate cross-listing courses between Women's Studies (WMS) and other departments. My department, which suffers from what I fear is a terminal case of elitism, has always resisted cross-listing with WMS, one argument being that we have no control over the "quality" of the course. We have recently been able to resolve this by a) the psychology department's participating in selecting faculty to teach the courses -- actually, only a handful of people bother, but it makes them feel in control, and b) the psychology department's curriculum committee reviewing/approving the syllabus before the course is offered. Using this method we now cross-list several courses and have even negotiated a joint PSY-WMS appointment. Perhaps it is relevant that we have a new department chair - a woman, not a feminist but more amenable to the persuasive efforts of some of us in the department who are. Janis Bohan Metropolitan State College of Denver BITNET%"BOHAN@MSCD" ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 07:43:14 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "(Jonelle DePetro)" Subject: revictimization In-Reply-To: <9211102000.AA32558@ux1.cts.eiu.edu>; from "Allan Hunter" at Nov 10, 92 12:40 pm One (controversial) alternative strategy that has been tried by women recently is 'naming' their attackers - that is writing the names of their attackers on bathroom walls, and other places. jonelle depetro eastern illinois university cfjmd1@ux1.cts.eiu.edu -- ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 09:40:12 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: STRETCH OR DROWN/ EVOLVE OR DIE Subject: Re: We need advice in reply to Donna PHilips' query about negotiating cross-listing courses with department. This is undoubtedly a dilemma for all of us who direct programs and who struggle with developing a sufficient curriculum for our students. It seems to me that one tack to take with departments who claim they have no control over cross-listed WS courses is to argue that cross-listing is a voluntary state of affairs. That is no course is ever cross-listed from any department without that departments at least tacit agreement to doso. The department doesn't lose any control over its curriculum because it has already approved a course (presumably if the course exists). Women's Studies may have its own set of requirements. If the course meets them fine. If not then the course isn't cross-listed. But cross-listing seems to me always to be a mutual agreement that a course sufficiently meets the requirements of a course in more than one discipline. There is plenty of institutional precedent for this,for instance in the English department I was previously affliated with we routinely cross-listed literature courses in translation from the Modern Language department. We didn't complain (at least not much ;-) about our own autonomy. I do think this issue is an important one,especially as women's studies programs attempt to get some control over their own curriculum. I know I am now looking very hard at the mechanisms we have here for cross-listing courses so that I can decide what courses should and shouldn't be cross listed. Sorry for the diatribe. Laurie Finke Women's and Gender Studies Kenyon College finkel@kenyon.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 10:14:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Fernanda Perrone Subject: Re: woman's studies in Japan Dear Kumiko, A useful study of the women's movement in Japan over the past hundred years is Dorothy Robins-Mowry, -The Hidden Sun: Women of Modern Japan- Boulder, Colo: Westview Press, 1983. Hope this is helpful! Best wishes, Fernanda Perrone ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 10:36:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "IRENE HANSON FRIEZE. PSYCHOLOGY" Subject: Re: We need advice I find the arguments about cross listing in women's studies odd, but perhaps we need to know more about what cross-listing means at various institutions. At the University of Pittsburgh, most faculty and departments seek cross-listing from Women's Studies because it usually increases enrollments. The women's Studies Steering Committee reviews the courses submitted to us for academic content and feminist orientation and then cross lists the courses we feel are good courses. They are still listed in the department they originated in. My Psych course, Human Sexuality, is cross-listed and is very popular. Some students know about the cross-listing, but others do not, and simply take the course as a Psychology elective. Irene Frieze FRIEZE@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 10:41:28 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PHILDON@MOREKYPR.BITNET Subject: Irene's Response to my request Irene's response to my request for help outlines exactly how our women's studies crosslising works. In fact, I believe we borrowed the method from irene who responded early last spring to a previous call for assist from me. The problem is a particular dept char believes that any women's studies course has a 'slant' that may be offensive to students who enrolled in the crosslisted course. I believe that we MAY have satisfied him by agreeing to run the proposal to crosslist through departmental faculty before it goes to the W.S. Pgm. Advisory Council. This did not seem to be an option for him yesterday, but I have heard that today he seems more agreeable. I appreciate the feedback I have gotten both on the list and personnally. I would welcome any further comments, also. Thanks Donna C. Phillips phildon@morekypr ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 03:24:18 +1100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Richard Scott Subject: Re: violence against women In-Reply-To: <9211110713.AA29081@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au> .. > it is obvious that men think they have the right to act violently > against women.. While I agree with most of what she has said, I do think that that phrase is somewhat over-generalising. here in Hawaii the papers are full of cases that > are at last begin brought to the courts of actors, and state senators and n > soldiers beating women...how turn that behavior around? Most men will > express horror at the acts, tell us how to protect ourselves, remind' > us we need male escorts... but few (none in my experience) ever offer to > think about how they and other men can change their behavior. > Now, just wondering, but for the men that express these things, perhaps it is the other part of the male population that needs their behaviour changed? I would hazard a guess that this may be the case. Now, do you have ideas about how men can get other men to change? I can't see it as being an easy thing to do, and could possibly provoke male-male violence, as well. What types of things have you been discussing about this side? > Thats the issue we need to put our heads together on.. > jean Very true!!! Richard ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 11:30:28 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Diana H. Scully" Subject: Re: We need advice In-Reply-To: <9211111545.AA27098@cabell.vcu.edu>; from "IRENE HANSON FRIEZE. PSYCHOLOGY" at Nov 11, 92 10:36 am My situation is similar to Irene Frieze in that departments want to cross list courses with Women's Studies because it generally increases enrollments. However, there is another problem and I'd like to know if anyone has found a solution. One a course has gone through the various curriculum committees of the university to make it cross listed, every time the course is scheduled the computer sytem will automatically cross list it--regardless of who is teaching it. Thus, our problem is that we have no control over the instructor and consequently no control over course content. So far, this hasn't been a problem but in an age of backlash, PC, etc. I worry. Of course the ultimate solution is to make Women's Studies a department with its own faculty but until then, any ideas? Diana Scully Virginia Commonwealth University dscully@Cabell.VCU.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 09:32:00 MDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "IMELDA C. MULHOLLAND (303)866-0642" Subject: Reply to Women in Northern Ireland Kathleen Quinn writes: >>A strange idea has been insinuating itself into my consciousness, and I >>wonder if anyone has seen any studies on similar ideas. I am an American >>doing research in Belfast this year. As you probably know, Northern Ireland >>is the scene of sectarian clashes, occasionally violent ones--guns, bombs, >>and so on. To my surprise, I feel safer here than I have in any other large >>city in the States or elsewhere. I can walk home at midnight without fear >>of muggings or rape. MEN are the targets of sectarian attacks; women are not. >>Could it be possible that the Troubles in Northern Ireland appear in the media >>because when men are not safe on the streets--that's news? Could the Troubles >>be publicised because it's not "natural" for women to be safer than men? If >>you have seen any studies on similar situations, please reply privately. Many sleepless nights have led me to reluctantly address this post. My reason for sending it to the list is to attempt to dispell the illusion created by Kathleen and to re-place women's contributions to N. Ireland. Kathleen stated that men are the targets of sectarian attacks; women are not. This statement perpetuates a consistant tendancy within Irish nationalism and protestantism to ignore and marginalize women's roles and contributions to the 'troubles' in Ireland, where women have often been refered to as the 'slaves of slaves'. On a larger scale it is evidence of the confluence of historical, cultural and religous forces that generally constrict the role of women and bury any evidence to the contrary (psychologist and sociologist Rona M. Fields and Margaret Ward have contributed excellent studies in this area). Until recently scholars have neglected to examine women's roles as well as the impact of the conflict on their lives. Northern Irish women hae responded energetically, courageously and with acute political intelligence to the economic, political and judicial issues that have plagued their communities. From breaking crufews to get food for their children to starting the Civil Rights movement in N. Ireland women have paid a huge price. The facts are that sectarian murder of women is the fate of those who crossed the lines to date; torture of women in interrogation in many places features rape in an attempt to emphasize women's sterotypical 'weakness'; under the Detention of Terrorists Act women were jailed as terrorists without civil trial; visible and vocal women like Marie Drumm and Marium Daly, members of Sinn Fein were assasinated; terrorist Mairead Farrell was killed by the SAS in Gibraltar; in the 1980's the Cumann Na mBan (womens wing of the IRA) numbered over 5000, a number of these women have been killed and all are potential targets; numerous women and childern have been killed in bombings and burned alive in their homes. Sectarian attacks on women are numerous. The evidence is burried beneath the subordination of women exacerbated within groups that are oppressed groups within a larger society (another topic!). It is no surprise that domestic violence and spouse rape is commonplace as well as a host of similar 'side effects;' * 24% of homicides are women * the percentage of violent deaths of women campared to those in the U.S. were 21% to 18% in 1987 * the rate of alcoholism rose 88% over the past 5 years * the suicide rate for women compared to the U.S. is 3/2 * 78% of psyc. patients are women (*Schmittroth, Linda. [1991]. Statistical Record of Women Worldwide. Gale Research:London) To say that women are not targets is clearly erroneous. The Linenhall Library in Belfast has an exhaustive collection of women's work, letters writing, etc. that will support the evidence of their contributions. On a personal note, I abhor violence in any form for any reason. The physical scars I carry from living in Ireland are minor compared to the scars I carry in my soul. My hope is that this post will help re-place the Northern Irish women in your minds and that one day they will be afforded their proper place in history. Imelda C. Mulholland IN%MULHOLLANI.ZENO.MSCD.BITNET ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 11:35:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BLAKEMOR@IPFWCVAX.BITNET Subject: CO-DEPEDENCY GROUPS This question is directed to clinical psychologists or other mental health professionals: Do you know of any research on the benefits of self-help groups that operate using such terminology as co-dependency, or children of dysfunctional families (My biases make me cringe a bit using this terminology)? My particular questions concern whether there is any evidence that such groups are helpful. I am also wondering whether they are likely to do harm? Is there evidence that the training of the facilitator/leader is relevant to outcome? If you don't know of research, do you have any clinical expereince that might be useful in answering my question. Thank you. PLEASE REPLY PRIVATELY. Elaine Blakemore Department of Psychology Indiana-Purdue University Fort Wayne, IN BLAKEMOR@IPFWCVAX (Bitnet) BLAKEMOR@CVAX.IPFW.INDIANA.EDU (Internet) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 13:32:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dallas Busch Subject: measure9 Date sent: 11-NOV-1992 13:24:45 This message is directed for anyone who wishes to reply. I have been on the list for a couple of months and have been trying as hard as possible to keep up with the heavy load of messages that I recieve every week. I was wondering if anyone had any new information or knows of where I can go to obtain more information on measure 9. For those of you on the list who are not aware of what this is it is a pending legislation in Oregon that would make homosexuality illegal, criminal and perverse. There have already been acts of violence against homosexuals in Oregon. A lesbian woman and a gay man were killed in a bombing. I am against measure 9 and think if will just increase the gap and hate between people. I just recently heard of this as maybe some of you did and I was wondering if I could get a response either of conversation or of new information about this pending legislation. Thank you, I enjoy being part of the list. I will be will be waiting for your replies.\ Dallas Busch ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:10:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dallas Busch Subject: Need Info Women Church Date sent: 11-NOV-1992 14:06:15 Hello, I have recently began looking into and studying women's theology and spirituallity in the church. A feminists view towards the church and its practices. I would really appreciate it if anyone could recommend any books , films or other sources of information so that I could continue learning. I would appreciate a reply of conversation or information thank you. Dallas Busch ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:39:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gail Wood Subject: reply to women in the church There are bunches of stuff out there. The Feminine Face of God is a series of interviews with women practicing many traditional and some nontraditional spirituality. Anything by Rosemary Reuther. The Private Lives of Minister's Wives is fascinating. Mary Daly, of course. The Absence of the Mother (I think that's the title), I'll check tonight at home. If you want things on nontraditional or pagan spirituality, let me know. Also, Carol Christ, Charlene Spretnak, Merlin Stone, The Goddesses in Everywoman, Z. Budapest, and on and on ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:44:18 GMT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X Comments: Resent-From: Linda Lopez McAlister From: Linda Lopez McAlister Subject: Call for Papers Linda Lopez McAlister/HYPATIA: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Women's Studies Dept. Internet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU Univ. of South Florida Bitnet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM Tampa, FL 33620 (813) 974-5531 *** Forwarding note from DLLAFAA --CFRVM 11/11/92 14:43 *** To: SWIP-L --CFRVM From: Linda Lopez McAlister Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Subject: Call for Papers Third Annual Philosophy, Interpretation, Culture Conference, entitled "Nature, Truth, and Culture" to be held April 16-17, 1993 sponsored by PIC, Dept. of Philosophy, SUNY Binghamton. (PIC is a Ph.D. specialization addressing the ways in which the cultural forms that influence how we understand our natural and human surroundings shape and are shaped by human practices and experience.) Papers and proposals are invited in or crossing any of PIC's major areas, recent developments in continental philosophy, feminist philosophy, pragmatism, cultural critique, and multicultural studies: also crossing disciplinary boundaries between philosophy and disciplines such as anthropology, art history, history, literary theory and criticism, political science, sociology, etc. Papers are invited from graduate students, either at a special session or incorporated into general sessions, but should be identified as such. Deadline: January 10, 1993. Send papers to: PIC Conference, Department of Philosophy, Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000. (607) 777-2734 Linda Lopez McAlister/HYPATIA: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Women's Studies Dept. Internet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU Univ. of South Florida Bitnet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM Tampa, FL 33620 (813) 974-5531 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:46:56 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: STRETCH OR DROWN/ EVOLVE OR DIE Subject: Re: violence against women IN reply to Richard Scott who wondered how men might get other men to rethink their violence,I would recommend taking a look at Michael Kimmel and Michael Messner, Men's Lives, particularly those essays like Kaufman's and Pleck's that deal the the interrelationships between male-male violence and men's violence toward women. Laurie Finke finkel@kenyon.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:56:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BMARSHALL@TRENTU.CA Subject: Canadian Women's Studies Association Does anyone know if a call for papers and/or session organizers has gone out yet for the 1993 CWSA meetings in Ottawa? I haven't received anything from CWSA recently, nor have any of my colleagues. If you know who I should contact regarding the meetings, please reply privately to: bmarshall@trentu.ca thanks -- Barb Marshall. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:20:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: LINDA@GACVAX1.BITNET Subject: Re: Need Info Women Church read the work of Mary Daly. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:43:40 EST Reply-To: korenman@umbc.BITNET Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Inappropriate Messages PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE remember that WMST-L is NOT the appropriate place to discuss violence against women, male/female relations, politics, and most other gender-related societal issues. There are a number of other lists that exist for such purposes, among them FEMAIL, WOMEN, GENDER, and soc.feminism. See Section 12 of the WMST-L User's Guide for more information about these and other lists. (For another copy of Section 12, send the message GET OTHER LISTS WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet).) The volume of mail on WMST-L is already heavy. Broadening the list's focus would substantially increase that volume, and the list would cease to be so useful for many subscribers. Thus, the list's focus is not going to change. If this focus (on Women's Studies teaching, research, and program administration) makes WMST-L not the right list for you, you can unsubscribe by sending the message SIGNOFF WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD (if you subscribed under your Bitnet address) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (if you subscribed under your Internet address). If one address doesn't work, try the other. DO NOT send your signoff message to WMST-L. Thanks for your understanding and cooperation. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc or korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 12:58:03 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christine Morton Subject: pregnant women & ultrasound Hi I'm a graduate student in sociology at UCLA. I'm working on my master's paper in which I hope to explore the meanings women attach to the ultrasound procedure and how this affects their relationship to their fetus/baby. I'm probably only going to talk to women who are experiencing a normal, healthy pregnancy... a lot of work has been/is being done with amnio, cvs, etc. in which difficult decisions have to be made about what to do in the event of a "problem". My research will focus on two things (1): the nature of the social relationship between the pregnant woman and her fetus/baby. How does she actually "do" this relationship, ie., how does she imagine the baby, does she talk to it, name it, sing to it, hold it, etc. What kind of relationing work does she do in her everyday life. How does she interpret the baby's movements, how does she communicate with the baby....etc., how do others relate to her and to her baby/belly and (2): what is the impact of the ultrasound, the image and the information it yields (ie., sex) on this relationship. I will interview women who are currently pregnant, preferably with their first child. Hopefully, before and after an ultrasound, but not necessarily. Esp. since most ultrasounds are done early in the second trimester, often before movement is felt, and this might also affect the woman's relationship with the baby. I have looked at alot of literature on reproductive technologies, but there is surprisingly little in the social science literature about ultrasound itself that is not also tied in with amniocentesis. The biomedical literature is mostly about the feasibility of doing routine ultrasounds, (there is no clear consensus) and they don't usually take into account what I'm interested in. There is also a lot out there about mothering and child birth, but I've not seen too much about pregnancy (although the part 1 of my project was recommended to me by my advisor just last week so I'm just beginning that specific search). Also, I'm not too sure the psychological stuff on maternal-infant bonding is what I want, but it might be a place to start...and I don't know that literature at all. If anyone can refer me to anything that you think might be helpful please do so! Either privately or posting to the list is ok with me. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 13:00:17 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christine Morton Subject: pregnant woman & ultrasound pt2 Sorry, I forgot my name in the excitement of posting my request! Thanks! christine morton UCLA Sociologymorton@math.ucla.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 16:30:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L Files (User's Guide) At the start of each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Here is section eleven: 11) "HOW DO I FIND OUT WHAT FILES ARE AVAILABLE FROM WMST-L, AND HOW DO I OBTAIN THE FILES I WANT?" To find out what files are available, send LISTSERV the same command mentioned in the previous section: INDEX WMST-L. The list you'll receive from LISTSERV includes files as well as logs. To obtain the file(s) you want, send LISTSERV the following command: GET [filename] WMST-L where [filename] is the name of the file you want. For example: GET USSR WOMEN WMST-L Note that [filename] consists of two words separated by a space and not a period. (Adding WMST-L after the two-word filename is optional; it simply makes sure that if two lists have a file with the same name, you'll get the right one.) NOTE: women's studies syllabi are contained in a subdirectory called SYLLABI, while feminist film reviews are to be found in a subdirectory called FILM. To find out what syllabi (or film reviews) the subdirectory contains, send LISTSERV the command INDEX SYLLABI (or INDEX FILM). To obtain the file(s) you want, send LISTERV the following command: GET [filename] SYLLABI or GET [filename] FILM If you are requesting a film review, be aware that the filename always takes the form FILM REVx (e.g., FILM REV25); the name of the film is NOT the filename! You can request more than one file at once; just be sure to put each request on a separate line. LISTSERV will then send the file(s) to you either in a mail message or in Netdata format. To retrieve files sent by LISTSERV in Netdata format, follow these instructions: If your e-mail address is on a VAX/VMS machine, when you get a message that one or more files have arrived at your e-mail address, you should type "RECEIVE *" (do not include the quotation marks) at the $ prompt. This command will put the file(s) into your main directory. You can then type "TYPE filename" (replace "filename" with the actual name of the file) to read the file. If it's a long file, you can read it more effectively by typing "TYPE/PAGE filename." If your e-mail address is on an IBM VM/CMS machine, either use your mailer front end or type RLIST and RECEIVE the file into your FLIST. Go into your FLIST to look at the file. If your e-mail address is on a different kind of machine OR you are using Profs or some other kind of similar mailing system, go ahead and try the above commands. If they do not work, CALL YOUR COMPUTER SERVICES OFFICE. The people there should be able to help you and/or give you a manual for your mailing system commands. ******************* Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 16:16:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lynn Schlesinger Subject: Re: Canadian Women's Studies Association Date sent: 11-NOV-1992 16:15:54 > >Does anyone know if a call for papers and/or session organizers has gone >out yet for the 1993 CWSA meetings in Ottawa? I haven't received anything >from CWSA recently, nor have any of my colleagues. If you know who I >should contact regarding the meetings, please reply privately to: >bmarshall@trentu.ca > >thanks -- Barb Marshall. Actually, I am interested in this information too, and imagine that others might like to know about the meetings and possibly submit material, so perhaps this information could be posted to the list. Lynn Schlesinger ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:23:19 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was fraiberg@CARSON.U.WASHINGTON.EDU From: Allison Fraiberg Subject: women stand-up comics Hello, I am teaching a course on Comedy next spring and want to teach a unit on women and stand-up. I want to look at mainstream comedians--specifically Paula Poundstone, Ellen DeGeneres, Ellen Cleghorne, and Roseanne Arnold. Of course, there's lots of stuff on Roseanne (she has written a book, has a weekly show, and has been the subject of several academic articles). I'm wondering if anyone has information--primary or secondary--on the others. Does anyone know of upcoming appearances on HBO or Lifetime? Does anyone know of obtainable videos? I have some Poundstone and DeGeneres on tape, but need more. Any ideas? Is this information obtainable through their management companies? If so, how do I get in toch with these companies? What about addresses for the comedians themselves? I'm looking to scrounge as much information as I can for this course, and any help would be greatly appreciated. If you have other suggestions that would fall under the "Women and Comedy" title in a lit and culture course, that would be great too. I would be happy to post the list of titles, texts, movies, etc. when I get them, if there is interest. PLEASE RESPOND PRIVATELY at fraiberg@u.washington.edu (Internet) Thanks, Allison Fraiberg English, GN-30 University of Washington ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 16:27:41 -0800 Reply-To: Fran Michel Sender: Women's Studies List From: Fran Michel Subject: Re: measure9 In-Reply-To: <9211112240.AB29694@Willamette.EDU> To Dallas Busch and others interested in Measure 9, Measure 9 was defeated 57%-43%. This is a fairly narrow margin; over half a million people voted in favor of the measure. The measure was sponsored by the Oregon Citizens Alliance [OCA] a rightwing Christian fundamentalist organization with ties to the Heritage foundation, the Eagle forum, and, more recently, the Republican party. The OCA has previously sponsored a successful measure in 1988 repealing statewide law preventing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, and in 1990 sponsored an unsuccessful anti-abortion measure. They have vowed that they will be back next election with a modified version of this year's measure 9. Measure 9 would have amended the Oregon state constitution; the full text of the measure was: ***This state shall not recognize any categorical provision such as "sexual orientation," "sexual preference," and similar phrases that includes homosexuality, pedophilia, sadism, or masochism. Quotas, minority status, affirmative action, or any similar concepts, shall not apply to these forms of conduct, nor shall government promote these behaviors. State, regional, local governments and their properties and monies shall not be used to promote, encourage, or facilitate homosexuality, pedophilia, sadism, or masochism. State, regional and local governments and their departments, agencies, and other entities, including specig specifically the State Department of Higher Education and the public schools, shall assisst in setting a standard for Oregon's youth that recognizes homosexuality, pedophilia, sadism and masochism as abnormal, wrong, unnatural, and perverse and that these behaviors are to be discouraged and avoided. It shall be considered that it is the intent of the people in enacting this section that if any part thereof is held unconstitutional, the remaining parts shall be held in force.*** A similar measure passed in Springfield, OR, in May 92, and there have been increased reports of bias crimes there and throughout OR, as well as attempts to ban gay-positive children's books from the Springfield public library. The arson-murder case in Salem, OR is being prosecuted as a hate crime. Combatting the measure has lead to a greater cohesion among left-liberal groups, and new coalitions that many hope will hold together through future challenges. I should add that discussing the measure in women's studies classes works very well as part of examinations of the relations among compulsory heterosexuality, patriarchal family structures, and other mechanisms of social control. Anyone who wants to discuss this further can write to me at: willamu!fmichel@uunet.uu.net --Frann Michel Willamette University Department of English Salem, Oregon 97301 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 17:35:32 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: SMITHD@CGSVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU Subject: Re: reply to women in the church There's also a Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. SmithD@clargrad ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:43:30 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: STRETCH OR DROWN/ EVOLVE OR DIE Subject: RE: measure9 Measure 9 was defeated by the voters of Oregon who finally got some sense. While it is not likely that we have seen the end of Lon Mabon's Oregon Citizen's Alliance which has been making everyone's life in Oregon miserable, it seems as if the voters have sent them a message that their brand of hate will not be tolerated. Laurie Finke finkel@kenyon.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:25:34 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 Subject: women stand-up comics In-Reply-To: note of 11/11/92 18:35 There's quite a good documentary film about women stand-upcomics done by Canadian feminist filmmaker Gail Singer. It's called "Wisecracks" and is currently making the rounds of art film houses around the country. It may be available on video by the time of your class. I've written a review of it, but haven't posted it to the FILM FILELIST of WMST-L yet; I'll try to do that in the next day or two. Linda Lopez McAlister/HYPATIA: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Women's Studies Dept. Internet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU Univ. of South Florida Bitnet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM Tampa, FL 33620 (813) 974-5531 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 23:07:44 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Chris Delbes Subject: porn and social policy sorry if you have seen this message before...having trouble sending... i need info on the history/current status of the push by some U.S. feminists to legally classify porn as gender discrimination and/or the history of the current Canadian law prohibiting porn on these grounds. If you have any leads, please send them directly to me (and not to chris or the list) at: much appreciated- johanna e.foster ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:12:43 HST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jean Grossholtz Subject: various DOes anyone have a comprehensive biblio on AIDS including dissertations and serials. There isaction afoot to organize a boycott of COlorado until they overturn their anti-gay amendment. This includes refusing to h ave meeting sof professional orgs in Colorado until it is reversed. Further info write me direct. jgrossho@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.edu For the woman workingon stand up comedianes.. don't forget Lea Deloria and Kate CLinton. jean , ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 01:26:24 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara.Winkler@UM.CC.UMICH.EDU Subject: Info on women church I would also recommend In Memory of Her by Elizabeth Schlusser-Fiorenza, and work by Carter Heyward, who is an ordained Episcopal priest teaching at the Episcopal Divinity School and an out lesbian. See: Our Passion for Justice and Touching Our Strength: The Erotic as Power and the Love of God. For an African-American theologian see Katie Cannon, Black Womanist Ethics. And if you are interested in Jewish feminist theology as well I recommend Judith Plaskow, particularly Standing at Sinai. Enjoy! ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:47:55 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: NAME Subject: Re: pregnant woman & ultrasound pt2 If you haven't already seen it, Barbara Katz Rothman's work (_In Labor: Women and Power in the Birthplace_; also _Recreating Motherhood: Ideology and Technology in a Patriarchal Society_) might be useful. For a nonsociological view of pregnancy, you might try Jane Lazarre's _The Mother Knot_. Good luck with your thesis. Kristin Esterberg (kesterberg@vax1.umkc.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 08:02:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "(dl81)" Subject: Re: Re: We need advice In-Reply-To: <9211111330.AA18615@umd5.umd.edu> I just encountered a cross-listing process, this one at the University of Maryland/Baltimore County. Who "controls" the courses is not even an issue. I had designed a new core course at the request of the Political Science Department which will hopefully become a foundation for the development of more specialized POLISCI courses which address gender variables as an essential element of the curriculum, entitled Women and Politics. I was invited to submit a variety of specific information on the course, my teaching style, etc., to the Women's Studies Program for consideration by its own curriculum committee for cross-listing. If the (Women's Studies) committee feels that a course is appropriate for its majors, it is cross-listed. If it is "just another course on women," it is not. The Political Science Department recognizes the value of cross-listing in attracting a broader range (and higher number) of students and in enhancing inter-departmental communication and partnership--but there was never a question of Women's Studies "altering" or "deflecting" the substance of the course. I also just completed some consulting with Muhlenburg College in Pennsylvania, which is at the stage of moving from a group of Women's Studies courses to the definition of a Minor and establishment of a Program. The curriculum/coordinating committee engaged in this process is also determining more concrete criteria for cross-listing (as UMBC already has). Up to now, however, they have invited course proposals from faculty across established disciplinary units, and the committee determines which are "Women's Studies" as a distinct analytical/theoretical framework. Again, there are no imposed constraints by Women's Studies except insofar as Women's Studies personnel decide whether a particular course legitimately falls within the Women's Studies classification. It seems to me the same conditions would prevail in the converse situation, of another department deciding whether to cross-list a Women's Studies course--either the course (as designed and taught by WS faculty) meets the curriculum criteria of that department or not. Why is there a problem? DEB (DL81@umail.umd.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 08:41:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Virginia Sapiro Subject: Re: We need advice The questions of cross-listing and control issues is often a difficulty for women's studies programs. In the program here at Wisconsin - Madison we have had important issues of this sort raised a number of times -- but I remember more issues raised in terms of the control Women's Studies might lose if we cross-list out to another department, and they offered the course in a manner that our own curriculum committee might not see as suitable. We have also had hesitations sometimes about cross-listing courses from other departments when we have no idea who might be the instructors in the long term (the title of a course doesn't tell all). Finally, there are issues of which department gets "credit" for the enrollment. Our solution has been to move slowly and carefully about cross-listing. But also, I believe we have used the convention that cross-listing is done with the understanding that the originating unit maintaining the basic control over the course. I do not remember a case in which a department kept anyone from cross-listing her course with women's studies in the end; I think the greatest worries on their part has been enrollment credit for the department. Virginia Sapiro Dept of Political Science, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison sapiro@polisci.wisc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 09:59:18 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara.Winkler@UM.CC.UMICH.EDU Subject: cross-listing Quite similar to the cross-listing procedures described by Deb Louis are the ones developed by the University of Missouri-Columbia's Women Studies Program. The additional 'wrinkle' is that departmental courses could be submitted for one of two categories: 'women studies' and 'women related.' Criteria involved course content and the behavioral aspects of teaching. 'Women Studies' courses were those grounded in feminist methodology and scholarship and pedagogy, while 'women related' focused specific class time on the study of women and were taught from an anti-sexist perspective. Faculty who wished to have their departmentally based courses cross- listed with Women Studies would voluntarily undergo screening for one of the two categories. If a course were not cross-listed by the Program that didn't mean it wasn't taught - it still had departmental standing. I should point out that these criteria, developed in the mid-eighties caused a fair amount of controversy in the Program's governance committee, especially the pedagogical aspect. Also, programs which are just establishing themselves have often tread lightly on the cross-listing issues so as not to alienate influential and powerful faculty/departments. Controversies about cross-listing often coincide with programs attempting to define the 'field,' assert some control over the nature and quality of offerings rather than just accepting any course with 'women' in the title - and often in response to students' - especially majors, concentrators, etc. complaints. This can be threatening to male-dominated departments because women's studies is setting up a different standard or criteria for knowledge. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 10:45:35 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Thomas Sullivan Sociology Subject: reference on pregnancy For Christine Morton, I just read a review of a book by Robbie E. Davis-Floyd, BIRTH AS AN AMERICAN RIGHT OF PASSAGE (University of California Press) in the New York Times Book Review section. It is a view of the birthing process in terms of how the procedures reflect our mysogynistic technocratic values system. It sounds like it could be of interest to you. Thomas J. Sullivan Department of Sociology and Social Work Northern Michigan University Marquette, Michigan 49855 bitnet: FATJ@NMUMUS ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 11:35:27 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: lin collette Subject: Re: reference on pregnancy In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 12 Nov 1992 10:45:35 EST from I recently read an interview with Jessica Mitford (of AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH and KIND AND USUAL PUNISHMENT fame), and I understand that she is doing a sort of "american way of birth" book that concentrates on how midwives are treated by the medical establishment. I think that, knowing Mitford's work, this would be an excellent resource for research on midwives and pregnancy. lin collette bi599128@brown vm or bi599128@brownvm.brown.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 11:57:44 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PHILDON@MOREKYPR.BITNET Subject: Endowments for Women's Programs Thank you to all who shared their insights on crosslisting. Our proposed solution is to add a signature line to the "proposal to crosslist a course". The individual dept chair will then have discretionary rights to route the proposal to appropriate faculty as s/he sees fit. We have been struggling with the issues of how to get our program funded and also, our annual symposium. We had thought that grants would be the best source of funding. However, this weekend I met a women's studies faculty member from another institution and she said that they had raised an endowment so that their program will never have to worry about funding again. What a _wonderful_ idea! I would like to carry the idea of an endowment to the Women's Studies Program Advisory Council on our campus. I would also like to be prepared to offer suggestions regarding professional fund raisers who could potentially raise that money for us. Have any of you had experience with feminist or (women's programs) fund raisers? Can you offer names and locations of persons whom we could contact as professional fund raisers? Can you advise us as to the method of payment for such services? Reply to me and I will share with all other interested persons. I believe this method of financing women's programs has much merit. Donna C. Phillips, Director Women's Studies Program Advisory Council ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 11:50:21 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: CYNTHIA GOTTSHALL Subject: Need Advice on Summer Programs I would like some advice on what summer programs are available in the area of Women's Studies. I was just appointed the Acting Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program which was just begun this quarter here at Mercer University. Since this is a new progam, there is an excellent chance that I can get support money for faculty development if I can get the request in ASAP. I need advice on what summer workshops, seminars, or Summer Institutes might be available that wuold provide me with some background in the area of Women's Studies. I know that the university will not be hiring a Director of the Program for at least a another year. So in order to keep the program alive until we do hire I have agreed to be the Acting Director but I don't have a background in the field of Women's Studies . So any information about summer programs will be greatly appreciated. Please reply to: Cynthia Gottshall at CGOTTSHA@UGA OR CGOTTSHA@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 13:08:54 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: mmurrain@HAMP.HAMPSHIRE.EDU Subject: Re: measure9 >Date sent: 11-NOV-1992 13:24:45 >This message is directed for anyone who wishes to reply. I have been on >the list for a couple of months and have been trying as hard as possible to >keep up with the heavy load of messages that I recieve every week. I was >wondering if anyone had any new information or knows of where I can go to >obtain more information on measure 9. For those of you on the list who >are not aware of what this is it is a pending legislation in Oregon that >would make homosexuality illegal, criminal and perverse. There have >already been acts of violence against homosexuals in Oregon. A lesbian >woman and a gay man were killed in a bombing. I am against measure 9 and >think if will just increase the gap and hate between people. I just >recently heard of this as maybe some of you did and I was wondering if I >could get a response either of conversation or of new information about >this pending legislation. Thank you, I enjoy being part of the list. >I will be will be waiting for your replies.\ This is a forwarded message which might help you get info. There also has been a list started on the CO/OR stuff - amend2-info@cs.colorado.edu ------- Blind-Carbon-Copy To: soc.motss.usenet@decwrl.dec.com, alt.politics.homosexuality.usenet@decwrl.dec.com cc: gaynet@gallifrey.kent.edu, qn@queernet.org, amend2-info@cs.colorado.edu Subject: QRD: Colorado Directory created Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 01:31:42 EST From: Ron Buckmire I have created a directory on the QRD [anonymous ftp /pub/QRD on nifty.andrew. cmu.edu] in the rights directory [full path: /pub/QRD/qrd/rights/colorado] that contains a list of addresses that people can write to expressing their reaction about the Colorado Constitution #2. There are also newspaper articles on Amendment 2 and copies of the Colorado Voters Guide and a bunch of stuff. The idea is to use the /pub/QRD/qrd/rights/colorado directory as a resource to help people get info about the Colorado situation dispersed. If you have anything to add either send it to me by email, or upload it into /pub/QRD/incoming. - --- RON BUCKMIRE, 11 Colvin Circle, Troy, NY 12180-3735. ***Clinton-Gore 92!*** vox:(518)-276-8910 fax:(518)-276-6920 buckmr@rpi.edu buckmr@rpitsmts.bitnet "A visceral recoil from homosexuality is the natural reaction of a healthy society wishing to preserve itself." Pat Buchanan, March 27, 1991, N.Y. POST ------- End of Blind-Carbon-Copy __________________________________________ Michelle Murrain Hampshire College Amherst, MA 01002 (413) 549-4600 x688 email: mmurrain@hamp.hampshire.edu __________________________________________ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 14:18:21 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PERCIVAL@UPEI.CA Subject: Re: Need Advice on Summer Programs I think others on the WMST-L would be interested in summer programs, seminars, and/or institutes. How about replying to the list with information? Beth Percival Psychology Department UPEI ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 13:38:08 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PHILDON@MOREKYPR.BITNET Subject: Endowments (addition) A thousand apologies! i forgot to add my bitnet address to the post about endowment. Donna C. Phillips phildon@morekypr ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 14:45:11 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nancy Seale Osborne Subject: Re: woman's studies in Japan In-Reply-To: <9211100247.AB23201@oswego-gw> Kumiko, My colleague, Joan Loveridge-Sanbonmatsu, Professor of Communication Studies, are writing an article about teaching Women's Studies Introduction to Feminism course. It will appear in the first Women's Studies textbook in Japan. Dr. Sanbonmatsu is not on e-mail; perhaps you would like to write a letter to her: SUNY Oswego, Oswego, New York 13126. Regards, Nancy Seale Osborne SUNY Oswego On Mon, 9 Nov 1992, KUMIKO wrote: > Hello, I am an intermational student. I come from Japan almost > three years ago. I took Woman's Studies" course last summer. It was a > fascinating study to me. I realized that I did not know about the woman. > I am ashamed to say that I had never heard Woman's Studies in Japan, and I > did not know feminism in Japan. I think that Japan is so conservative > country to the woman. I'd like to know about woman's studies in Japan. > Since when did Japanese feminism start? What kind of people did stand up > for the movement at that tiem? What's the difference between American's > and Japan's feminism? And if you have some information about these, please > would you let me know about it? > Thank you very much, > Kumiko Karita > SUNY at Plattsburgh ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:33:03 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ellen Comeau Subject: Thanks Hi there! This is Ellen Comeau, the Chemistry student at the university with no Women's Studies program! I must say that I greatly enjoy reading the mail on this list. It is all very informative and really interesting. All you people out there at universities with a Women's Studies program are very fortunate. You all worked so hard to establish the programs and now they really seem to be flourishing. Kudos! I am writing with a two-fold purpose. I posted a message about a month ago asking for info on statistics about violence against women, and things we could do here (at Saint Francis-Xavier University) to protest and raise the student body's awareness. I got a lot of helpful and informative replies. Thanks to everyone who sent something along. Your suggestions were all really good. I am sorry that I was not able to reply to you all personally to thank you. So THANK YOU! Also, some news: for the first time in its three-year existence, Women for Social Awareness (Women's group at X) was officially made a Society. Our Constitution was finally ratified last night at a Student Union meeting. It hadn't been ratified until then because the Student Union had a problem with the fact that we were an exclusive society. In fact, last year, they weren't even convinced that women were a disadvantaged group in society. Anyway, it's done, we did it, YAY! Possibly the first step towards establishing a Women's Studies program! Now for the second purpose: I sometimes get the impression that women scientists (or rather students in the sciences) are rather conservative when it comes to feminist issues. I am usually one of few Science students at WFSA meetings. Has anyone out there ever studied this? Also, I get the rather nasty impression that there are some very negative attitudes about science in feminist circles. I could be mistaken; like I said, it's just an impression. I know that there are lists like FIST around, so it's not everyone, but I would like to know what you think. So if you know of any studies that have been done on this, or have some info of your own, please let me know. I am curious to hear what you have to say. Please e-mail personally to: pham@px1.stfx.ca Thank you very much! Ellen Comeau ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:02:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Holman Weisbard Subject: women/feminism in Japan Kumiko asked about the history of the women's movement in Japan. I have found some helpful sounding citations in a new bibliography WOMEN IN JAPANESE SOCIETY, by Kristina Ruth Huber (Greenwood P., 1992), such as "The development of feminism in modern Japan," by Junko Kuninobu in FEMINIST ISSUES 4(2) Fall, 1984:3-21. The annotation mentions by name some of the women who were associated with what Kuninobu describes as four waves of feminism since the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Also: A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT IN MODERN JAPAN, by Kazuko Tanaka (Tokyo: Femintern Press, 1977). The bibliography is itself is a fully annotated 484 p. work covering all aspects of Japanese women's lives, the status of women as reflected in the spoken language, and an extensive survey of Japanese women artists, performers and writers. Phyllis Holman Weisbard (608) 263-5754 Acting Women's Studies Librarian pweis@wiscmacc (Bitnet) University of Wisconsin System pweis@macc.wisc.edu (Internet) Room 430 Memorial Library 728 State Street Madison, WI 53706 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:05:58 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sharon Jacobson HPERD Subject: Re: research assistance In-Reply-To: <9211021523.AA13905@moe.coe.uga.edu>; from "Sharon Jacobson HPERD" at Nov 2, 92 10:23 am I am a doctoral student at the University of Georgia, Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies. Currently, I am working on a number of projects with which I could use some assistance. First, I am trying to identify any organizations for lesbians, gays, or bisexuals with hearing impairments. A faculty member and myself are interested in examining the social support systems of this group of individuals. If you are aware of any groups, organizations, or individuals to whom we could send our survey please respond to the address listed below. Secondly, I am also trying to identify women only campsites in the United States. I am wanting to interview the owners of these sites to understand their motivations for starting the campsite and the women who camp their to understand how the experience of camping at a women only site is different than camping at a co-ed site. Finally, I am trying to identify lesbian art, photos, music, plays, films, poetry, prose, fiction, etc from the 1920's to the present. I am familiar with quite a few of the more recent works and the two archives, but am looking for some of the older earlier works. I am interested in both mainstream and underground publications. If you have information on any of these areas please contact me at jacobson@moe.coe.uga.edu Thanks, Sharon ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 19:52:12 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lydia Hamessley Subject: Re: Learner-centred course evaluations In-Reply-To: <9211102359.AA01554@itsmail1.hamilton.edu>; from "REIM000" at Nov 10, 92 4:24 pm Hi. Would you forward any evals or info you get? I'd also be interested. Thanks. Lydia Hamessley Music Dept. Hamilton College Clinton, NY 13323 lhamessl@itsmail1.hamilton.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 14:47:00 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Roberts Subject: Re: Thanks Anybody know anything about attempts to grapple with the issue of policy re men in WS classes, women-only enrolments, classroom comportment to avoid domination by members of a dominant minority? With reference to credit courses in a regular WS programme (not noncredit or workshop offerings). Thanks. Barbara Roberts, Women's Studies, Athabasca University, barbarar.cs.athabasacau.ca ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 17:53:00 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Roberts Subject: Re: women/feminism in Japan Sharon Sievers, Flowers in salt: the beginnings of feminist consciousness in modern Japan, Stanford Univ Press , 1983 Mikiso Hane transl and ed, Reflections on the way to the gallows: rebel women in prewar Japan, Univ California Press 1988 Patricia Tsurumi, book on textile workers the title of which I don't have on hand but it came out in 1991 Vera mackie, "Feminist politics in Japan", New Left Review, 167 (Jan/Feb 1988) 53-76. Sharon Sievers, "Feminist criticism in Japanese politics in the 1880s", Signs, 6.4 (Summer 1981) 602=616. Patricia Tsurumi, "Serving in Japan's industrial army: female textile workers 1868-1930," Canadian Journal of History, 12 (August 1988) 155-76.. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 07:15:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: dl81 Subject: Re: Thanks In-Reply-To: <9211122036.AA29022@umd5.umd.edu> Hi Ellen! I was surprised during my tenure at NWSA to find a great deal of tension, bias, even hostility towards "women in science" among some "designated" Women's Studies practitioners. Feminist scholars/educators in scientific disciplines consistently reported that they had gotten a clear message over a period of years that they were not welcome in the "Women's Studies" forum, and that the general Women's Studies focus in relation to "science" was wholly in terms of how scientific (mainly biological) information was presented in standard Women's Studies courses. Hence, virtual withdrawal of feminist scientists from NWSA membership and Science and Technology Task Force participation. At the same time, there are many Women's Studies practitioners who recognize that more of our colleagues teach in other disciplines than under the Women's Studies label, and who are very clear about the need for closer partnership with feminists in the scientific community--as feminist scientists are in tremendous need of support and interaction with the community of feminist educators as a whole. The conceptual division that seems to prevail has been, as far as I can see, destructive and limiting on all sides. Are women scientists, as opposed to feminist scientists, a relatively conservative lot? Definitely. For a lot of reasons. So are men scientists in general. So are institutional academics across disciplines. In general. The rest of us need to become far more aware of our feminist colleagues in the "natural" sciences, the incredible impact they have had on national research policies, on the new generation of scientists, on growing cognizance of gender as a relevant variable in the individual scientific disciplines, and the entry and success of larger numbers of women into these fields. Like many of the rest of us, they have had to battle to survive every step of the way, in a working environment in which they have been often ignored and devalued. Their strength, and our strength, ultimately rest with each other. Fopr heavens sake, we walk into classrooms every day and teach the connectedness of the human enterprise... Okay, there are even more dimensions to this issue, which I am currently involved in, which have to do with discomfort with science, which is particularly characteristic of women, Women's Studies practitioners included. As everyone on this network has probably encountered, even e-mail technology is invoking classic avoidance syndromes among many of our colleagues! Some of us are working on changing this at its root, but we will be confronting the end results in science-phobic adults for some time to come. Glad this has come up on the network. DEB LOUIS (DL81@umail.umd.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 07:55:34 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: lin collette Subject: Re: research assistance In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:05:58 EST from Re: hearing impaired lesbigays I too am hearing impaired, so would be interested in any information that is given out on this as well. Please reply privately. Thanks lin collette (BI599128@BROWNVM (bitnet)) or (BI599128@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (internet)) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 09:58:53 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MDUNCOMBE@CCNODE.COLORADO.EDU Subject: Journals interested in Feminism and Science In the spring semester 1991, nine science faculty (6 natural science, 3 social science) received a grant that bought us some release time to read together the feminist critique of science and consider what that critique meant for our work as scholars and teachers. Each of us wrote a paper; the rewriting and editing of these papers is almost finished. Originally we intended to submit the package of papers to WOMEN STUDIES QUARTERLY, but with a change in editorship (or whatever) they have decided WSQ will not consider them as a group. Does anyone on the list have suggestions about another journal that might be interested in such a collection of papers? The content is quite varied, ranging from epistemological arguments to histories of women in a discipline, or ranging from papers focused on what constitutes evidence in a discipline to how the introductory course might be reconceived. Also there is an introductory paper that describes the project and what we think it might have accomplished; we hope our work might serve as one possibility for how faculty development takes place. I would appreciate any suggestions list subscribers have about possible journals. Be respond to me privately. Margaret Duncombe Sociology--Colorado College "mduncombe%ccnode@vaxf.colorado.edu" ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 13:19:27 GMT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X Comments: Resent-From: Linda Lopez McAlister From: Linda Lopez McAlister Subject: Call for Articles Linda Lopez McAlister/HYPATIA: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Women's Studies Dept. Internet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU Univ. of South Florida Bitnet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM Tampa, FL 33620 (813) 974-5531 *** Forwarding note from DLLAFAA --CFRVM 11/13/92 13:18 *** To: SWIP-L --CFRVM From: Linda Lopez McAlister Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Subject: Call for Articles For an anthology with the working title: POSITIVE IDENTIEIES OF MIXED RACE being edited by Naomi Zack, Dept. of Philosophy HU 257, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, Albany, NY 12222. Background: My forthcoming monograph, RACE AND MIXED RACE (Temple University Press, Fall, 1993) is a strong criticism of American black and white racial identity and identification, based on the scientific nd moral inadequacy of the concept of race. I conclude this book with a pessimistic analysis about the good faith of any racial identity in the American bi-racial system, including identities of mixed black and white race. However, this position may be narrowly theoretical. There are people of mixed race who reflect upon and resist the disjunctive imperatives of bi-racism and who also have positive identities of mixed race, at least in thinking and writing about themselves. It would be timely to assemble some of those voices. The resulting anthology would be interdisciplinary (with a philosophic "spin") and suitable for classroom as well as research use. Publisher interest has been expressed; a contract will depend on outside evaluation of the manuscript (in the usual way). Paper topics: Autogiographical and/or theoretical articles on mixed race self-identification and identity. Catefores: racial complexities "of color" and "of white" including black, white, Asian, Native American, Hispanic and any combinations hereof, as well as self-definitions of racelessness which have resulted from struggles with contradictions. Guidelines for articles: Submissions must be all new material, 10-15 pages, double spaced, including endnotes; indicate availablilty on IBM-compatible disk. Please include a c.v. Query by abstract welcome. Date Due: As soon as possible, no later than July 1, 1993. Send papers and abstracts to the address above. Linda Lopez McAlister/HYPATIA: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Women's Studies Dept. Internet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU Univ. of South Florida Bitnet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM Tampa, FL 33620 (813) 974-5531 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 13:41:27 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nancy Seale Osborne Subject: Re: women/feminism in Japan In-Reply-To: <9211130113.AA01446@oswego-gw> Phyllis, It was great to read the information you sent to Kumiko. My colleague Joan Loveridge-Sanbonmatsu and I have been asked to write a chapter for the first (that I know of) Women's Studies textbook in Japan on teaching the Women's Studies foundation course at SUNY Oswego, Introduction to Feminism. So of course, your information is very helpful to both of us. Best, Nancy Osborne SUNY Oswego On Thu, 12 Nov 1992, Phyllis Holman Weisbard wrote: > Kumiko asked about the history of the women's movement in Japan. I have found > some helpful sounding citations in a new bibliography WOMEN IN JAPANESE SOCIETY, > by Kristina Ruth Huber (Greenwood P., 1992), such as > > "The development of feminism in modern Japan," by Junko Kuninobu > in FEMINIST ISSUES 4(2) Fall, 1984:3-21. The > annotation mentions by name some of the women who were associated with what > Kuninobu describes as four waves of feminism since the Meiji Restoration in > 1868. > > Also: A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT IN MODERN JAPAN, by Kazuko > Tanaka (Tokyo: Femintern Press, 1977). > > The bibliography is itself is a fully annotated 484 p. work covering all > aspects of Japanese women's lives, the status of women as > reflected in the spoken language, and an extensive survey of Japanese women > artists, performers and writers. > > > Phyllis Holman Weisbard (608) 263-5754 > Acting Women's Studies Librarian pweis@wiscmacc (Bitnet) > University of Wisconsin System pweis@macc.wisc.edu (Internet) > Room 430 Memorial Library > 728 State Street > Madison, WI 53706 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 13:08:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: LINDA@GACVAX1.BITNET Subject: Re: WMST-L Files (User's Guide) Joan, I am having problems with getting syllabi information from the files. I am sending the message, I think, as indicated in the information for that purpose i.e. get Kellerjh syllabi. The message I receive back is Kellerjh unknown to LISTSERV. What am I doing wrong? Linda ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:16:23 AST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: <13NOV92.16512450.0191.MUSIC@UNB.CA> From: REIM000 Subject: Reply: Learner centered course evaluations In-Reply-To: In reply to your message of THU 12 NOV 1992 19:52:12 EST Lydia: I haven't yet received an example of a quantitatively based course evaluation that could be characterized as 'learner centered', but I will send you a revised version of the evaluation used at the University of New Brunswick. We have attempted to emphasize the evaluation of the learning experience rather than of the teacher,per se. Has anyone else attempted to modify her course evaluation form in order to reflect the emphases of feminist pedogogy or other independent learning models? ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 16:38:41 EST Reply-To: BUTLER@BUCKNEL.BITNET Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cindy Bilger Subject: Witch trials Where are the witches films? We know that articles have been written about the 300th anniversary of the Salem witch trials, but are there any films or videos? If you know where we might be able to rent or borrow a good documentary or critical analysis of this period, please let us know. The Women's Resource Center at Bucknell University would like to include it in our film and discussion series. Thanks for your help. Please respond privately to: ======================================================================= Janice Butler, Director Women's Resource Center Bucknell University Internet: butler@bucknell.edu Lewisburg, PA 17837 phone: (717)-524-1375 USA ======================================================================= ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 16:36:29 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JDMANDLE@COLGATEU.BITNET Subject: Chinese-American women I would appreciate help with a few basic references to research (not fiction) concerning Chinese-American women in the United States - especially first generation women. I am especially interested in fairly recent migrants and their relationships to their daughters. Thanks for your help. Joan Mandle jdmandle@colgateu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:03:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Holman Weisbard Subject: Re: Chinese-American women Joan asked about Chinese-American mother-daughter relationships. I checked the annotated bibliography WOMEN, RACE & ETHNICITY, which was compiled in my office last year. There are several listings indexed under mother-daughter relationships--Chinese-American, but interestingly, they are all for films. One, for example is CHINA: LAND OF MY FATHER, by Felicia Lowe (New Day Films, 1979). An American-born Chinese woman journeys to China, meets her grandmother for the first time, and compares her life to that of a Chinese working mother. DIM SUM, by Wayne Wang (Pacific Arts Video, 1987) portrays the relaitonships in a Chinese Am. family, with particular focus on the mother and her second-generation American-born daughter. An article indexed under mothers--Chinese-Am. is "Child-rearing attitudes of Chinese, Chinese-Am, and Anglo-Am. mothers," by Lian-Hwang Chiu. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY 22 (1987): 409-419. Anyone interested in more info/purchasing WOMEN, RACE, AND ETHNICITY, a 202 p. annotated bibliography of books and articles on American women of various races and ethnicities, should email me directly. Price=$7.00. Phyllis Holman Weisbard (608) 263-5754 Acting Women's Studies Librarian pweis@wiscmacc (Bitnet) University of Wisconsin System pweis@macc.wisc.edu (Internet) Room 430 Memorial Library 728 State Street Madison, WI 53706 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 18:58:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Amy Wajda Subject: American Women as Orchestral Conductors I'm doing research on the history of women as conductors of orchestral music in the United States and would appreciate any leads, especially from outside standard music sources. Women have broken ground as instrumentalists in every section of the orchestra, but women as conductors are still a great rarity--I'm interested in why this field of music is still particularly difficult for women to break into. I'm a music grad student and not familiar with sources where this might be dealt with from a WS angle. Thanks. Amy Wajda Please respond privately to: awajda@macc.wisc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 21:25:12 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Arnie Kahn Subject: WS devaluation of science Deb Louis writes: >I was surprised during my tenure at NWSA to find a great deal of tension, >bias, even hostility towards "women in science" among some "designated" >Women's Studies practitioners. Feminist scholars/educators in scientific >disciplines consistently reported that they had gotten a clear message over a >period of years that they were not welcome in the "Women's Studies" forum, and >that the general Women's Studies focus in relation to "science" was wholly in ... [much deleted]. This has been discussed fitfully on this list over the past couple of years. Let me ask a question that is related: How can we integrate ideology and scientific evidence? On a practical level, I'm on our Women's Studies Advisory Committee which is charged with deciding whether a course should be included in the WS minor. Course A is proposed which is clearly feminist, but which completely ignores scientific research relevant to women and gender on the topic. Course B is proposed which is up-to-date scientifically on the relevant gender issues, but does not appear to be feminist in nature (the bias of research is not explored, for example). I think our tendency is to accept course A, reluctantly, and to not accept course B. Am I correct? Is this the way to go? I would hope NWSA could move towards the incorporation of science and ideology. Arnie ******************************************************************************** Arnie Kahn, Psychology, JMU, Harrisonburg, VA 22807 (703) 568-3963 - day fac_askahn@vax1.acs.jmu.edu (preferred) (703) 434-0225 - night fac_askahn@jmuvax (703) 568-3322 - fax ******************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 22:06:14 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara.Winkler@UM.CC.UMICH.EDU Subject: Chinese-American women I would also be interested in references to fairly recent migrants and their relationships with their daughters. I know Amy Tan's novels, Joy Luck Club and Kitchen God's Wife, but would like to know more. Would you be willing to post to the whole list? ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 10:04:20 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: CSPRINGF@UCS.INDIANA.EDU Subject: Re: Thanks What I have seen among women scientists recently is very promising. Indiana University and CIC (Big 10 plus Penn State) sponsored a large Women in Science and Engineering Conference that brought together undergrad, graduate students, staff, and faculty in a non-hierarchical way to discuss a wide range of issues I was thrilled with their activism, their deep concern for bringing about changes in our sexist environment, of changing the climate at universities, at introducing major changes in the educational system. Many of these scientists are going beyond the university in attempts to engage the community "at large." Somehow, we have to get together, learn from them, and build the bridges that will help us move ahead. I think that Women's Studies can help by offering Women in Science classes, assisting in events planning and promotion, etc. Consuelo Lopez Springfield WoSt, Indiana cspring@ucs.indiana.edu or cspringf@iubacs.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 10:53:43 EST Reply-To: korenman@umbc.BITNET Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Misleading Subject Headers: A Request Recently, more people seem to be sending messages to WMST-L with misleading subject headers. I'd like to remind everyone that many subscribers use the subject header as a way of deciding whether or not to read the message. Messages that don't bear subject headers relevant to their concerns are often deleted sight unseen. (That's also true for messages bearing NO subject header.) In addition, I tend to use subject headers as a way to sort items for the daily digest. By using inappropriate subject headers or none at all, you make life more difficult for me and for the many people who receive WMST-L in digest form. So please, do not hit or type "reply" unless the subject header accurately describes your message. Those of you on VAX/VMS systems may be able to reply AND change the subject header by typing REPLY/SUB="NEW SUBJECT" where NEW SUBJECT is whatever subject header more accurately describes your message. Be sure to include the quotation marks. Those of you on other systems should consult the computer support staff at your in- stitutuion about how to do something similar. If you can't change the sub- ject header, then simply start a new message that you address to WMST-L. Many thanks. ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County Bitnet: korenman@umbc * * Baltimore, MD 21228-5398 * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 11:50:18 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 Subject: New Film Review Added A review of the film "Claire of the Moon" was broadcast today on "The Women's Show" (WMNF-FM in Tampa) and is now available on the FILM FILELIST. To obtain a copy of this review send the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): GET FILM REV49 FILM To obtain a list of all available film reviews, send a message to the same Listserv address that says: INDEX FILM . To get more than one file, put each command on a separate line: GET FILM REV6 FILM GET FILM REV14 FILM GET FILM REV39 FILM The number of files you can request on any calendar day is limited to twenty. The opinions expressed in these reviews were mine when I wrote the review and represent just one woman's opinion at a particular time. We have 1300 subscribers to WMST-L so there are probably 1299 other views. If you would like to share yours, please do NOT do so on the WMST-L itself, but send your messages to me personally at the addresses below. Thanks. Linda Linda Lopez McAlister/HYPATIA: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Women's Studies Dept. Internet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU Univ. of South Florida Bitnet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM Tampa, FL 33620 (813) 974-5531 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 11:56:25 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 Subject: Correction: Two NEW Film Reviews Added Two new film reviews have just been added to the FILM FILELIST. They are "Wisecracks" which is FILM REV52 and "Salaam, Bombay" FILM REV53. To obtain copies of these reviews send the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): GET FILM REV52 FILM GET FILM REV53 FILM To obtain a list of all available film reviews, send a message to the same Listserv address that says: INDEX FILM . The number of files you can request on any calendar day is limited to twenty. The opinions expressed in these reviews were mine when I wrote the review and represent just one woman's opinion at a particular time. We have 1300 subscribers to WMST-L so there are probably 1299 other views. If you would like to share yours, please do NOT do so on the WMST-L itself, but send your messages to me personally at the addresses below. Thanks. Linda Linda Lopez McAlister/HYPATIA: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Women's Studies Dept. Internet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU Univ. of South Florida Bitnet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM Tampa, FL 33620 (813) 974-5531 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 21:54:40 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BHGEWANT@SUVM.BITNET Subject: women stand-up comics In-Reply-To: Your MAIL dated Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:23:19 -0800 If you are going to be considering the feminist comics/humorists, what Kate Clinton calls "fumerists," then you need to look at Robin Tyler. Robin was the first fumerist, the first womon to risk doing womyn-centered and lesbian-centered comedy. She was a trailblazer in womyn's comedy, and continues to be an active force in womyn's performance culture ... You might get valuable info. and perspective by talking with her. She has a production company in California. If you would like me to give you her contact info please e-mail me privately. PS - I realize that I could have done the whole message to Allison privately, but once other comics had been mentioned on the list with out mentioning Robin Tyler, I felt that it was important to recognize her contribution. - Barrie Gewanter Dept. of Sociology Syracuse University BHGEWANT@suvm.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 22:56:05 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BHGEWANT@SUVM.BITNET Subject: The Science Fiction/Fantasy World of Darkover In-Reply-To: Your MAIL dated Thu, 5 Nov 1992 09:47:10 EST I think that Darkover, the world that Marion Zimmer Bradley has created is fascinating. How wonderful to see a reference to it on the list. I am most fascinated with the idea of unique norms for a telepathic society or at least among that admitedly elitist subgroup in that world. Admitting my fascination may show that this usually super-serious sociologist is subject to flights of fancy, but oh well. As a womyn's studies enthusiast the norms of a telepathic society are interesting to me because 1) you must take great care with emotions in that world. Emotions would be a particularly delicate subject without any barriers to shared thought. Womyn, in our society at least, are socialized to be the caretakers of emotion. Does this mean that Darkovan telepath norms would be based on a feminine ethic, or that Darkovan comyn males could not be socialized to shun their emotions? Wierd questions but maybe someone out there would find them interesting. Its also interesting to me because 2) the concept of harm takes on a whole new meaning in a telepathic society. "Thought- crime" becomes real, there is a kind of violation that can occur with a moment of thought (rape of the mind????), and people would directly feel pain they inflicted on others. There has been a dialogue on the list about what to do about men who perpetrate violence against womyn (or against anyone for that matter). I know I'm off on a far limb here, but would such violence be reduced to a rarity in a society were people, especially womyn, could not be objectified because another's thoughts would be felt? Do these flights of fancy help us understand anything in the often regrettably real world? .... I don't expect anyone to get into this on this list. Its too way out, but it would be fun to dialogue about this privately. Feel free to drop me a message. Barrie Gewanter BHGEWANT@SUVM.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 20:28:37 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BHGEWANT@SUVM.BITNET Subject: Self-Disclosure in the Classroom In-Reply-To: K.Cook Mail dated Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:34:48 -0500 Kimberly Cook addressed the question of self-disclosure in the classroom when to? when not to? how much? how little? is it safe? etc ..... This really hit a nerve for me for a couple of reasons. Firstly I have a very active and engaged teaching style. I ask the students to consider how the the the information I present (in Intro. Soc. and Sociology of Gender classes) relates to them personally. I encourage discussion and dialogue in class and try to validate personal experiences. I try to get them to understand that learning isn't something that affects you on the outside. But if I ask them to share information and insights from their lives (in papers as well as in class discussions), isn't only fair that I offer them a certain openness in return? I have shared some aspects of my childhood and adult experiences at times in class, and it has usally worked out ok, but sometimes I worry that it is not safe to speak honestly. On some levels it makes me more human, but it also makes me more vulnerable. I also wonder if it doesn't make me, particularly as a womon, less authoritative in their eyes. I mean I don't share sports stories. Sometimes we are talking about fear and lonlieness and anger and disapointment, or victimization, and while I do take usually take the plunge I'm not always comfortable with it. There is also another wrinkle to this. Childhood stories are fairly innocuous (sp?), but when I speak from adult experience I speak not only as a womon but also as a lesbian. It is difficult sometimes to talk about adult relationships without bursting out of the closet, and it it has been almost painful to speak with a layer of silence in my words. I have "come out" in the classroom before, but only in small classes (less than 10). What is interesting is that when students share personal experiences in a class of that size, I have felt it necessary to "come out" because to do otherwise seemed almost dishonest. What is nice is is that this has worked out well. Suprisingly, the two classes became more relaxed and it became acceptable for them to ask about gay/lesbian issues in the class. These students, however, were all womyn. I don't know if it would have worked so well in a mixed class... Larger classes, however, are a different story entirely. It has never felt safe to come out in a larger class before, particularly as a part-timer/adjunct prof. I would say that it feels even less safe now that I am a grad student/teaching assistant again in a large university (with lots of frats and a elaborate athletic program). I really hope that I ccareer. It really goes agains my otherwise fairly radical outlook. (I'm very out with colleagues, but not with students.) Still, I don't see myself saying "we" on a regular basis for a long time. I would imagine that womyn (or men) like myself that have some degree of a dual identity, or those who have survived traumatic experiences in the past would have to deal with a similar dilemma about "coming out" in class. I'm a little behind in my e-mail, so I may encounter more about this as I read on, but I really lookfoward to hearing/seeing what others have done around all levels of this issue. - Barrie Gewanter Department of Sociology Syracuse University BHGEWANT@suvm.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 17:57:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: K2OJ@VAX5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU Subject: Request: Lesbian Anti-Racism Groups I am working on my dissertation at Cornell University on lesbian race relations in the United States from 1965-1985. Any information pertaining to the topic would be received gladly, but I am very interested in references to White Women Against Racism and Dykes Against Racism Everywhere. If you know of any contacts, records, or citations, please respond privately. Thank you. Cynthia Nieb k2oj@vax5.cit.cornell.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 18:20:12 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 Subject: Self-Disclosure in the Classroom In-Reply-To: note of 11/14/92 12:53 There's an interesting piece on a professor coming out as a lesbian to her class in the new HYPATIA, a special issue on lesbian philosophy guest edited by Claudia Card (plug!). The piece is by Tangren Alexander and it's called "2:00 A.M., Valentine's Morning." Linda Lopez McAlister/HYPATIA: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Women's Studies Dept. Internet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU Univ. of South Florida Bitnet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM Tampa, FL 33620 (813) 974-5531 ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 13:16:29 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lucy Candib MD Subject: prenatal ultrasound Recently someone requested information about prenatal ultrasound and maternal- infant attachment. This topic has received some attention in the medical literature. I did a brief search and came up with the following items. I did not specifically look at the nursing or midwifery literature where there might be even more. I suggest that the student interested in this topic approach a librarian in a medical library (or even library of a large hospital). The entire medical literature is easily accessible by computer-modem through a variety of services to which most medical libraries and hospitals subscribe. It seems important to me that we not only offer resources to each other but also teach each other how to use what is already out there. P.S. The abstracts from the journals; they are not my summaries. Sparling-Joyce-W. Seeds-John-W. Farran-Dale-C. The Relationship of Obstetric Ultrasound to Parent and Infant Behavior. Obstetrics and Gynecology. 1988 Dec. 72(6). pp 902-907. Abstract: There is inconsistency in the obstetric literature regarding the relationship between the mother's knowledge of fetal health gained by ultrasound and maternal psychological attachment to the fetus. To evaluate the relationship more precisely, this study assessed variables of physician-patient interaction, parental mental health in pregnancy and infancy, and 3-month infant and parent behavior. The results show that maternal mental health scores increased as a function of the stress associated with an "at risk" pregnancy necessitating ultrasound assessment. As the parent received more definitive information, scores on measures of anxiety, depression, and hostility decreased. There was no significant relationship, however, between definitive information gained through ultrasound and later parent and infant behavior in play interaction. Shifts in fetal and neonatal health status and the positive interaction between physician and parent suggest the need for further analysis. (Obstet Gynecol 72:902, 1988). Hobbins-John-C. Editorial: Determination of Fetal Sex in Early Pregnancy. The New England Journal of Medicine. 1983 October 20. 309 (16). pp. 979-980. Grace-Jeanne-T. Correspondence: Prenatal Ultrasound Examinations and Mother- Infant Bonding. The New England Journal of Medicine. 1983 September 1. 309 (9). p 561. Spencer-John-W. Cox-David-N. Clinical Articles: Emotional responses of pregnant women to chorionic villi sampling or amniocentesis. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 1987 Nov. 157(5). pp 1155-1160. AB Seventy-four 'high-risk' pregnant women interested in participating in a clinical trial comparing chorionic villi sampling and amniocentesis were initially assessed on five background measures and for anxiety, depression, hostility, and concern about abortion. The 61 women who then agreed to be randomized into the chorionic villi sampling and amniocentesis groups were assessed three additional times between 9 and 22 weeks' gestational age. Physical discomfort experienced during the diagnostic procedure was also assessed. Women in the chorionic villi sampling group underwent a reduction in anxiety up to 10 weeks earlier and reported less procedure-related discomfort than women in the amniocentesis group. The group x time interaction for depression was also significant, with women undergoing chorionic villi sampling reporting an earlier decrease in depression than women undergoing amniocentesis. No differences were found between the two groups in hostility or concern about abortion. Findings were discussed in the context of evidence linking prenatal maternal emotionality to an increased risk of obstetric complications. Lucy M. Candib, M.D. Family Health and Social Service Center 875 Main St. Worcester, Massachusetts 01610 508-756-3528 lcandib@umassmed.ummed.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 16:13:13 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: U17334@UICVM.BITNET Subject: disclosure in the classroom In response to the issues surrounding disclosure in the classroom, I have to present a cautionary note. (I know I sent this to someone on the list but I don't think I did to the list generally). At the beginning of the Gender and Society class I taught last Spring, a former student, now a machinist, was invited to speak about sexual harassment of women in non-traditional jobs, for the women and work section. She spoke of her lawsuit with other women against her company, the danger of such harassment when personal safety depends on cooperation on the job, the use of pornography as sexual harassment and disclosed that she was a lesbian. She also said that she was currently unemployed as retaliation for her lawsuit. When she was called back to work, everyone knew what she had said in my class a nd told her. One student had a brother who was a plumber where she worked and what she said was repeated to the brother who told his buddies. I just called her to check and she said the harassment including the use of pornograph y was worse and she again complained to her union, without much hope of anythin g being done. So it is not simply a question of our disclosing or our students disclosing--we have to worry about our speakers. As a sixties person, I have always "let it all hang out" which increased my teaching ability immeasurably. When only a very few people in the class (ironically two of whom were gay men and one a lesbian) started complaining about me to the administration and "affirmative action," I held myself back, censored myself, was very careful about what I said, and told the class that it wasn't a safe place to talk (when I learned that my guest's employer and her co-workers were told). I also learned that I should never assume that anything I say, whether during m y office hours or in small meetings, would not be used against me. In fact, I would be blamed for "having brought it on myself" for dis- closing information I thought other women should know. I don't know how to solve the conflict between good teaching, which for me means disclosure, and the personal is the political, and personal safety. Sadly I must agree with one of the sexually assaulted women I studied-she said it was guerilla warfare on the streets. It also can be in the classroom. In this time of extraordinary male defensiveness and more blatant misogyny, my advice, which I don't know if I myself will be able to follow since I hate teaching that way, especially in feminist courses, is to watch your back, and never say anything you wouldn't if in court being cross examined. Perhaps in small seminars where the group has bonded, this rule can be ignored, but in large classes, assume that some students want to "get" you and anyone else who threatens their traditional privilege. Such students will find many powerful people supporting them, because if you are a feminist, and thus agree with Marilyn Frye and see Women's Studies as a course critical of established beliefs and ways of being in the world, you have probably already made lots of enemies among people in power, who will take what you say and use it against you. For those of you who have not been following my discussions on this list, I am no longer allowed to teach in the College of Liberal Arts and Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Fortunately, I have found other colleges at the Univ Ill. where I can. I hope I have the willpower to follow my own advice. Pauline B. Bart U17334@UICVM.UIC.EDU (University of Illinois at Chicago) Everything is data, but data isn't everything... Don't kill the messenger. . . ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 17:48:25 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Allan Hunter Subject: Re: WS devaluation of science In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 13 Nov 1992 21:25:12 -0500 from On Fri, 13 Nov 1992 21:25:12 -0500 Arnie Kahn said in response to posting by Deb Louis: > Let me ask a question that is > related: How can we integrate ideology and scientific evidence? > On a practical level, I'm on our Women's Studies Advisory > Committee which is charged with deciding whether a course should > be included in the WS minor. Course A is proposed which is > clearly feminist, but which completely ignores scientific research > relevant to women and gender on the topic. Course B is proposed > which is up-to-date scientifically on the relevant gender issues, > but does not appear to be feminist in nature (the bias of research > is not explored, for example). > > I think our tendency is to accept course A, reluctantly, and to > not accept course B. > > Am I correct? Is this the way to go? I would hope NWSA could > move towards the incorporation of science and ideology. >******************************************************************************* Not that I'm in any position to propose NWSA policy, but I've got a strong feeling that a conceptual breakthrough, one which allows us to reconcile free will/ agency versus determinism (esp. social determinism) through the incorporation of spontaneity, is somehow available through further pursuit of existing feminist-theoretical understandings. God, that sounds opaque... Sorry, if I saw it more clearly I could put it into words better, but in pratice it would somehow include the researcher's own split-second RIGHT NOW participatory role in the very social milieu being studied. Somehow as part and parcel of the same premise, it would incorporate the idea that social realities don't have their meaning located out there somewhere OUTSIDE of what they mean TO US (i.e., "objectively") even though it also isn't a case of social reality being totally within our individual imaginitive control, (i.e., completely lacking any non-"subjective" meaning), as in "Well, reality is whatever you conceive it to be, you control it, it doesn't control you". - allan hunter ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 18:33:18 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Eric Plutzer Subject: Query RE harassment of sportswriters In the last couple of years there were several well-publicized incidents of harassment of women journalists in locker rooms of male professional sports teams. I am wondering if anybody can refer me to thorough journalistic, editorial, or scholarly accounts/analyses of these incidents. Please reply privately to Eric Plutzer: S1.EXP@ISUMVS.BITNET or S1.EXP@ISUMVS.IASTATE.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 18:58:02 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: nancy felipe russo Subject: Re: Self-Disclosure in the Classroom In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 13 Nov 1992 20:28:37 EST from Self-disclosure and discussion of feelings in the classroom is a very complex subject. Professors that talk about their personal experiences, particularl y traumatic ones can be seen as "laying their emotions" on the students; self-disclosure invites self-disclosure, and may bring up events and feeling that the professor is not trained to deal with (I personally do not believe one should dredge up feelings of rape, incest, and other deep psychic traum unless one is a qualified mental health professional or has immediate and free access to one for the students). Students may self disclose material the leads them into difficulties with peers having no idea what they were in for but following their professors lead. Finally, self-disclosure is a technique to increase intimacy in interpersonal relationships, and while it may do that and may the professor and students feel "bonded", it makes for difficulties in maintaining a professional teacher-student relationship. There is unequal status and power in a professor student relationship and pretending it doesn't exist can lead to ethical problems. I have no answers or solutions, but very deep concerns, and would advise erring on the side of keeping one's emotions and experience to oneself rather than perhaps damaging students though inappropriate and forced intimacy that comes through inappropriate self disclosure. Nancy Felipe Russo, Ph.D. Director, Women's Studies ASU, Tempe, AZ 85287-1801 (602)965-2358 FAX:(602)965-2357 BITNET: ATNFR@ASUACAD ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 07:54:51 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: lin collette Subject: Re: Reply: Learner centered course evaluations In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:16:23 AST from I do not have copies of these forms now, but when I was a student at the Adult Degree Programs at both Vermont and Goddard Colleges, we used learner-cnetered evaluation forms. I would suggest that anyone interested in seeing how these forms are set up and used should contact these schools. One note: when con- tacting Vermont College, make sure you address your inquiry to the Adult Degree Program as the traditional side of the school uses traditional evaluations. If anyone is interested in info and insights on these two programs, please con- tact me privately. lin collette bi599128@brownvm or bi599128@brownvm.brown.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 08:58:51 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ethel Tobach Subject: Re: prenatal ultrasound In-Reply-To: Message of Sun, 15 Nov 1992 13:16:29 -0500 from Good sources also in the psychological and comparative psychologic- al literature. Perhaps one could start with William Fifer and Myron Hofer at Columbia University in a literature search using Psychscan. Good luck. Ethel ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 10:21:24 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: mmurrain@HAMP.HAMPSHIRE.EDU Subject: WS and Feminist Scientists (was RE: Thanks) Deb Louis writes: >I was surprised during my tenure at NWSA to find a great deal of tension, >bias, even hostility towards "women in science" among some "designated" >Women's Studies practitioners. Feminist scholars/educators in scientific >disciplines consistently reported that they had gotten a clear message over a >period of years that they were not welcome in the "Women's Studies" forum, and >that the general Women's Studies focus in relation to "science" was wholly in >terms of how scientific (mainly biological) information was presented in >standard Women's Studies courses. Hence, virtual withdrawal of feminist >scientists from NWSA membership and Science and Technology Task Force >participation. IMHO, much of that withdrawal did indeed come from the perception that NWSA was not meeting the needs of feminist scientists. At the same time, many of us I think feel that traditional women and science organizations (like AWIS) don't meet our needs either. (an interesting side note which really applies: when I got on-line in internet, I signed up to WMST-L and WISENET (women in science and engineering net) and felt that neither was my best electronic "home" so I started a feminism and science list - which a lot of us IMHO feel meets our needs better. But I still stay connected to the others (obviously :-) ) >At the same time, there are many Women's Studies practitioners who recognize >that more of our colleagues teach in other disciplines than under the >Women's Studies label, and who are very clear about the need for closer >partnership with feminists in the scientific community--as feminist >scientists are in tremendous need of support and interaction with the >community of feminist educators as a whole. The conceptual division that >seems to prevail has been, as far as I can see, destructive and limiting on >all sides. At some level, this kind of interaction needs to start college by college and university by university. I teach in a situation where there is a lot of cross fertilization, and one of the focus points for our Feminist Studies Program is science. >Are women scientists, as opposed to feminist scientists, a relatively >conservative lot? Definitely. For a lot of reasons. So are men scientists >in general. So are institutional academics across disciplines. In general. >The rest of us need to become far more aware of our feminist colleagues in >the "natural" sciences, the incredible impact they have had on national >research policies, on the new generation of scientists, on growing cognizance >of gender as a relevant variable in the individual scientific disciplines, and >the entry and success of larger numbers of women into these fields. Like many >of the rest of us, they have had to battle to survive every step of the way, >in a working environment in which they have been often ignored and devalued. >Their strength, and our strength, ultimately rest with each other. Then Arnie Kahn wrote: > Let me ask a question that is > related: How can we integrate ideology and scientific evidence? The most important thing to remember when you talk about scientific evidence in a classroom situation is what we all know - science is not objective or infallable, but can provide useful information. I have taught a section in our Feminist studies "101" course which is titled "Women's Bodies/Women's Lives". We introduce students to primary scientific literature, have them critique it, and talk about the ways in which scientists have looked at women. So we talk about gender bias, but also talk about health care etc... I think that sometimes feminists (unconciously) buy some of the same construction of science as scientists do, that is science as objective and superior form of knowledge. Thus, when science is shown to not be that, some tend to throw it *all* out (ie the baby with the bathwater phenomenon). I think that a good look at the limitations and strengths of science will lead to a more balanced perspective. Michelle __________________________________________ Michelle Murrain Hampshire College Amherst, MA 01002 (413) 549-4600 x688 email: mmurrain@hamp.hampshire.edu __________________________________________ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 10:41:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: LAURA KRAMER Subject: PMS in Sassy magazine Sassy magazine, december 1992, has an article by Tracy Anderson (identified as a 15 year old from Schenectady, NY) entitled PMS: misogynist propaganda? It is an accessible, two page piece which i think would be useful for classroom discussion - pretty much jargon free but quite sophisticated. (a lesson to us all on the possibility to be intellectually sophisticated w/out jargon) Useful also for discussion of the impact of presentation and context on our reactions to arguments...this is a "slick" magazine for adolescent girls - but often with progressive pieces other articles in this issue include"From eco-chick to biker chick, What Kind of a Beauty ARe You?" and "7 rock stars on their geekiest teenage moments" the mother of a subscriber kramer@apollo.montclair.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 10:57:26 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Vicki Kirsch Subject: Homophobia workshop I am wondering if anyone on the list has participated in or is familiar with what they considered a successful and dynamic homophobia workshop facilitated by a woman professional on the east coast. We are interested in having a workshop for our intro Women's Studies class, "Perspectives on Women and Culture," in which we have a two hour forum once each week in which the students from all of the sections come together for a film, lecture, etc. Thank you in advance for your assistance. Vicki Kirsch Women's Studies Program College of William and Mary vlkirs@wmvm1 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 11:41:53 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JMURPHY@MAINE.BITNET Subject: Re: Oregon and Colorado: the good news and the bad To add to the good news, the city of Portland (MAINE) defeated a measure that would have struck down the new gays rights bill there! Unfortunately, (to add to the bad news), the city of Tampa (FL) passed a similar measure jeopardizing their recent gay rights bill. Yesterday's (SUNDAY) New York Times had some good coverage on the legal responses already underway on the Colorado amendment. Also, for those who are bringing gay politics into the classroom, I would suggest interweaving the above issues with the CLinton's agenda to lift the ban on gays in the military. Even today, at Clinton's newsconference, he is taking a bit of heat on this one. Sam Nunn for instance, is opposing this. JMURPHY@MAINE Julien Murphy ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 10:11:59 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Bryan Strong: Psychology / UC-Santa Cruz" Subject: lesbian/gay gender roles For the new edition on my human sexuality textbook I am trying to find research on gender roles and lesbians and gay men but have had no success. How do lesbian/gay gender role conceptions differ from heterosexual gender role conceptions, etc. Thanks for your help. Bryan Strong Psychology Board of Studies University of California-Santa Cruz bartleby@cats.UCSC.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 13:23:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Donna M. Hughes" Subject: Re: Homophobia workshop In-Reply-To: VLKIRS AT WMVM1.BITNET -- Mon, 16 Nov 1992 10:57:26 EST Suzanne Pharr, author of _Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism_ does an excellent homophobia workshop. She places homophobia in a context of oppressions, in which all oppressions are linked. She is director of the Women's Center in Little Rock, Arkansas. I don't know if she is still there or not. Donna M. Hughes Bitnet: h82@psuvm 13 Sparks Building Internet: h82@psuvm.psu.edu Pennsylvania State University Phone: 814-865-7093 University Park, PA 16802 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 12:50:32 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Myla Carpio Subject: involuntary sterilization I am a graduate student a Arizona State University and am working on a paper on involuntary sterilization. I am coming up short on source and would appreciate any info anybody has. The paper is cross cultural covering Native Americans, African-Americans and Chicanas. Thanks Please reply privately to asmfc@asuacad (bitnet) or asmfc@asuvm.inre.asu.edu (internet) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:19:55 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Patt" Subject: Re: involuntary sterilization In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 16 Nov 1992 12:50:32 MST from I wish I had the specific references and am sorry that I don't, but you might try looking at hospitals and mental institutions in the Deep South during the 1920s-1950s where mandatory sterilization was undertaken. There might have been others in other regions..I just don't know about that one. How broad is your concept? That is to say would this include only *forced* sterilizations which are they kind I just pointed you to or would it also include steriliza- tions as a result of over-recommending of hysterectomies. Patricia McRae PATMCRA@UNIVSCVM ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:43:49 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JIGNA@UMNACVX.BITNET Subject: Re: Thanks I resisted participating in this discussion only for so long. My name is jigna desai and i have a background in astronomy and english. i attended M.I.T. which does have an excellent women studies program. At M.I.T. there were many students who were interested in women studies courses and science but did not always find that there was information/research that was geared to our personal experiences. But in some ways, I believe that the physical sciences are the exact place for feminism to occur. There is a great need for women to examine ideology and political nature of science and its role in a academia. There are a lot of conferences going on but it seems that there is still a lack of information -- especially about minorities and gender and class in science. Perhaps I rambled a bit but I am sincerely interested in communication about this topic. thanks jigna desai jigna@vx.cis.umn.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:11:45 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Ariel x4970 Subject: Re: Homophobia workshop In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Nov 92 10:57:26 EST." <9211161731.AA14055@cpl2.ns.nts.uci.edu> Regarding the question about homophobia workshops. I do not know of anyone on the East Coast off hand, but do highly recommend the video entitled "A Little Respect" produced in 1990 by Rutgers University, Office of TV and Video and Rutgers Student Health Service. Telephone 201/648-1236 for info on purchasing (or renting?) the video and the viewing guide which includes a sample workshop outline. We have used this very successfully here at UC Irvine in classes and training sessions; it is especially good for student audiences and is very good in its representation of many cultures and perspectives. Joan Ariel Women's Studies Librarian and Academic Coordinator UC Irvine jariel@uci.edu > I am wondering if anyone on the list has participated in or is familiar > with what they considered a successful and dynamic homophobia workshop > facilitated by a woman professional on the east coast. We are interested > in having a workshop for our intro Women's Studies class, "Perspectives > on Women and Culture," in which we have a two hour forum once each week > in which the students from all of the sections come together for a film, > lecture, etc. Thank you in advance for your assistance. > > Vicki Kirsch > Women's Studies Program > College of William and Mary > vlkirs@wmvm1 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:53:52 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sharon Jacobson HPERD Subject: Re: hearing impaired In-Reply-To: <9211131343.AA17961@moe.coe.uga.edu>; from "lin collette" at Nov 13, 92 7:55 am Lin, We anticipate having humans subjects review approval the beginning of De cember on the study of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals with hearing impairements. Were you interested in the results of the study or participating in the study. Please clarify this for me. Sharon ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:30:54 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kimberly Fern Balsam Subject: feminism in counseling and psychotherapy Hi folks. I am new to the list. My name is Kim Balsam and I am a graduate student and graduate teaching fellow in the Counseling Psychology department at the University of Oregon in Eugene. I am also pursuing a 28-credit Graduate Certificate in Women's studies ( this program just began this year!). Since there are no classes offered on psychology of women, feminist theories of counseling, or any of that good stuff, I am planning to do an independent study Winter term. Do any of you out there have any interesting, stimulating or informative reading materials to suggest? Also, I would like to hear from any other women graduate students in counseling, psychology or related fields. Ciao. KFBALSAM@oregon.uoregon.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:36:15 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paula Rust Subject: Re: violence against women In-Reply-To: <9211111911.AA14039@itsmail1.hamilton.edu>; from "Richard Scott" at Nov 12, 92 3:24 am Someone in this conversation about violence against women mentioned Michael Kimmel's book Men's Lives. He also has a book called Men Confront Pornography, 1990. Michael also speaks at colleges about men's roles. I have not heard him speak myself, but I have heard very, very good things about his ability to reach men.- -Paula Rust, PRUST@ITSMAIL1.HAMILTON.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 01:05:55 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paula Rust Subject: Re: lesbian/gay gender roles In-Reply-To: <9211161934.AA29017@itsmail1.hamilton.edu>; from "Bryan Strong: Psychology / UC-Santa Cruz" at Nov 16, 92 10:11 am Faderman discusses historical changes in gender roles among lesbians, as does Joan Nestle in her work. There's also an article that is a decade old and, as far as I know, not very well known, although I currently use it in my course on "Psychosexual Diversity" Cardell, Mona; Stephen Finn; and Jeanne Marecek. 1981. "Sex-role identity, sex-role behavior, and satisfaction in heterosexual, lesbian, and gay male couples," PSychology of Women Quarterly, Vol 5(3), Spring. It is based on statistical analysis, and is not about lesbians'/gays' own conceptions of gender roles, but the degree to which these various types of couples conform to traditionally defined gender roles and identity (BSRI). Whenever I discuss gender roles in same-sex relationships with my class, I make a point of explicitly making the comparison to heterosexual couples. Otherwise, any indication that lesbians/gays could or might ever have played any kind of gender roles immediately begins to sound like a criticism or a stereotype. The truth is, heterosexuals do it all the time; making the comparison puts the statement about lesbians/gays in proper perspective. The article I cited above helps me do this, because that is exactly what it is about. -- paula rust, prust@itsmail1.hamilton.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 06:26:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: dl81 Subject: Sabbatical retreat Four bedroom/two bath house with backyard on ocean, front yard full of fruit trees at Kihei, Maui available January through March (April negotiable). A therapeutic and inspiring place. If interested, respond privately. DEB (DL81@umail.umd.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 07:39:56 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JLONG@SUVM.BITNET Subject: Re: lesbian/gay gender roles In-Reply-To: Your MAIL dated Tue, 17 Nov 1992 01:05:55 EST I also use an article by Kurdick and Schmitt from JPSP 51, 2 (365-370) that compares het. married couples, het. cohabiting couples, gay male couples and le sbian couples (roughly matched) in terms of relationship quality as a function of relationship beliefs and sex role (not sexual) orientation. Try it! --JUDY LONG, SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY -- --103 SIMS IV, SYRACUSE, NY 13244-1230, USA (315)443-4580 -- --Bitnet: JLONG@SUVM Internet: JLONG@SUVM.ACS.SYR.EDU -- ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 08:54:34 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lucy Candib MD Subject: sterilization abuse Information about sterilization abuse can be obtained from CESA, the committee to End Sterilization Abuse, located in New York. Address could be obtained from Boston WOmen's Health Book Collective or even from American Public Health Association. Current President of APHA is Helen Rodriguez-Trias who has been very active in CESA over the years. Film on sterilization abuse in Puerto Rico is L'Operacion, still relevant. Good pan-American perspective in book form is Population Target by Bonnie Mass, 1976, Canadian Women's Press. Another approach would be to subject the consent forms for sterilization to readability tests. My hunch is that they would test out far above the reading level of the women who have the surgery. --Lucy Candib -- Login name: lcandib In real life: Lucy Candib MD Office: F + C Medic, (508)7563528 Directory: /resh/lcandib E-Mail Address: lcandib@UMASSMED.UMMED.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 09:02:22 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Libbie Chute Subject: Re: violence against women In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:36:15 EST from Michael Kimmel is a professor at SUSB in the department where I am a (too long term) graduate student. He has not spoken specifically about violence against women in the department, but was present and related an interesting incident during a talk by Beverly Birns (who has worked extensively in this area). What he said is that while counseling a man who was an abuser, the man was explaining how he hit his wife because he lost control. Michael asked him if he hit her with his fist opened or closed. "Open" he said and was asked why. "I didn't want to kill her" was the response and then the realization that he had, in fact been "under control" when he hit her. I'm sure these kinds of stories are very effective for an audience of people being introduced to the problem. Libbie Chute LIBBIECH@CCVM.sunysb.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 09:19:14 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Diane M. Samdahl" Subject: sex role/gender role A woman student in my graduate class was offended when a guest speaker spoke consistently about "sex roles." The student thought this term was old-fashioned and restrictive, and wanted us to replace it with "gender roles." This led to an interesting discussion: If people respond to you or have expectations about you only on the basis of your sex, doesn't that reflect actual sex roles? And doesn't the concept of gender pull us so far from stereotypes that the idea of a "gender role" becomes meaningless? The class went in circles on this one, not liking the traditions reflected in stereotypical sex roles, but also understanding (somewhat) the utility in using that phrase to reflect real world experiences. CAN SOMEONE DIRECT ME TO A REFERENCE where I can find a discussion of this issue to share with my class? Thanks. ********************************************************************** DIANE M. SAMDAHL BITNET: DSAMDAHL@UGA Recreation & Leisure Studies INTERNET: DSAMDAHL@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU 228 Hardman Hall OFFICE: 706-542-5064 University of Georgia FAX: 706-542-7917 Athens, GA 30602-2302 HOME: 706-613-2406 ********************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 08:43:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: SAWIN@UWSTOUT.BITNET Subject: Re: sterilization abuse I would like to stop my subscription to this list. I do not seem to be able to do it. Word the list editor please assist me in stopping the list. Thanks ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 10:16:30 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Eric Plutzer Subject: sex roles and gender roles Diane Samdahl writes about the distinction between gender and sex roles. This is often confusing for my students because the difference is an academic one, not an essential one and because the interchangability of sex and gender in day to day conversation. While sex roles and gender roles refer to the same phenomena, the former term was used in a time when the consensus outside of academia, and perhaps within, was that roles followed naturally from biological differences of sex. When this view was challenged, the term gender roles was used to emphasize the belief that the roles derived from patterns of culture, from power relations in society, and differed over time and place. If they differed in a comparative sense, the of culture must be far more important than biology. When individuals are self reflective, they may ask: "What does it mean to be a woman?" or "What does it mean to be feminine." Though the answers may be the same, the former implies a biological role where the latter does not. The latter also implies that men can be feminine and women masculine as the culture defines them at a particular time and place. Otherwise we could not be simultaneously engaged in a discussion of gay and lesbian gender roles on this list. So the term sex roles _is_ old fashioned in the sense of its origins and connotations. For better or worse, the academic movement to replace theories of sex roles with those of gender roles has lead to a substitution of the word gender for sex in all realms of life. Sex is politically incorrect on surveys, government forms, statistics, etc. For many social scientists, however, there is a tendency to view sex as a dichotomous biological variable and gender as a complex variable of culture and identity. Naturally, this is confusing for students who don't realize the the phrase sex-roles is part of an ongoing conflict among those who are part of the scholarly dialogue. Eric Plutzer Iowa State U ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 11:45:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: AA0383@UOKMVSA.BITNET Subject: request for info I am working in mother/daughter communication--particularly the role shifts from the general to the particular. Conversation analysis hasn't looked at this factor and I will try to use it for my dissertation....considering Chodorow's last chapter...if we can isolate the sociatal role of the mother in preparing her child for her role/or his role, then we ought to begin at this point where we construct our reality. Is there someone out there working in this area? I would appreciate your input. Jane Quaid Rickman, U of OK Women's Studies aa0383@UOKMVSA.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:09:33 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: gallivan@CAD.UCCB.NS.CA Subject: Homosexuals & Child Care I have had an urgent request from a lawyer for information sources relevant to a case in which a woman lost custody of her 4-year-old son (with custody going to the father). The judge's decision appears to have been based in large part on the fact that the woman's father, who is homosexual, has frequent contact with the child, often babysitting him in the mother's absence. In the brief concerning this case, the mother's lawyer argues that "there is no reason for the ... Judge to assume that a homosexual grandfather who cares for a male child will expose the child to pornography or sexual relationships or will sexually assault the child". The lawyer goes on to point out that paedophilia by males is far more likely to emanate from heterosexual males than homosexual males and that the assumption that male homosexuals molest young boys is a result of stereotyping. What the lawyer needs is clear sources of evidence from research to back up these arguments. My role in this will be to assist her in interpreting and summarizing this information. The brief to which this information will be appended must be submitted by Nov. 27, so the available is short. If anyone can provide references for data specifically on the issues raised by the lawyer in her arguments, I would appreciate receiving the information as soon as possible. Thanks in advance and apologies to those who see this request as outside the scope of this list, but this is the best source I could think of for quickly reaching people who might know of appropriate info. Joanne Gallivan gallivan@cad.uccb.ns.ca ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:10:39 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Diane Maluso Subject: Your help requested for research Dear folk- My student, Pam Chin, is conducting a Senior Honors Thesis research project examining women's preferences for intimate partners. She will be surveying college women in the Los Angeles area between December 28 and January 15. If you have access to a group of students (perhaps your class) and would be willing to let her include them as participants, please contact me via e-mail (address below) or by phone (also below). Participation entails completing a 45 item questionnaire and should take students no longer than 20 minutes. We are especially in need of Asian American and Hispanic American women as respondents. Please pass this request on to colleagues who may be able to help. Thanks in advance for your help. Feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns. Sincerely, Diane Maluso Mount Holyoke College =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= = = = The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of other things. = = = = Diane Maluso INTERNET: dmaluso@mhc.mtholyoke.edu = = Department of Psychology and Education = = Mount Holyoke College = = South Hadley, MA 01075 = = (413) 538-2107 = =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:00:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: UAHNXF01@UAHVAX1.BITNET Subject: ENDOWMENTS In addition to information about fund raisers, we would like to know if anyone knows of a good list of possible grant sources for developing women's studies programs. Any of you established programs have any ideas for those of us looking for funds to develop programs? Nancy Finley UAHNXF01@UAHVAX1 University of Alabama in Huntsville ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 10:54:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: John Kellermeier Subject: Re: Homophobia workshop >Suzanne Pharr, author of _Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism_ does an excellent >homophobia workshop. She places homophobia in a context of oppressions, in >which all oppressions are linked. She is director of the Women's Center in >Little Rock, Arkansas. I don't know if she is still there or not. > >Donna M. Hughes Bitnet: h82@psuvm >13 Sparks Building Internet: h82@psuvm.psu.edu >Pennsylvania State University Phone: 814-865-7093 >University Park, PA 16802 I agree with Donna. I have participated one of Suzanne Pharr's workshops. It was quite powerful. She has recently been spending time in Oregon working with the No on 9 campaign. However, she is still based at the Women's Center. Their address and phone number are: Women's Center 2224 Main Little Rock, AR 72206 (501) 372-5113 - - - - - - - John Kellermeier +----------+ + + + + + + + - Department of Mathematics | STOP the | + Bisexual - SUNY Plattsburgh | War | + - + - Plattsburgh, New York 12901 | Against | + Pride - (518) 564-4134 | Women | + + - - +----------+ + + - BITNET: kellerjh@snyplava + INTERNET: kellerjh@splava.cc.plattsburgh.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:54:45 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Arnie Kahn Subject: Re: lesbian/gay gender roles >I also use an article by Kurdick and Schmitt from JPSP 51, 2 (365-370) that For those who are not psychologists or sociologists, JPSP is Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Arnie ******************************************************************************** Arnie Kahn, Psychology, JMU, Harrisonburg, VA 22807 (703) 568-3963 - day fac_askahn@vax1.acs.jmu.edu (preferred) (703) 434-0225 - night fac_askahn@jmuvax (703) 568-3322 - fax ******************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:52:28 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ethel tobach Subject: Re: sex roles and gender roles In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 17 Nov 1992 10:16:30 CST from On the discussion by Putzer and the suggestion that this is confus- ing to students...I think that that is one of the great contributions that a women's studies program can make...giving people a chance to see the historical process that informs the way we think about things. I also have been trying to get scientists (especially psychologists and biologists) to stop referring to their animals in terms of "gender dif- ferences." I have tried writing to people who do this, but have never gotten a response. One of the problems that we have on this score is that the early biologists (l9th century) didnot want to use the word "sex" (I wonder about that...) so they used the term gender and this stayed in the biological literature in some fields of research to this day. But I am a firm believer that people can learn...so we have to keep putting the issue before them...and students are exposed to this problem all the time...so getting the idea straight is important. et ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:07:11 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ethel tobach Subject: Re: sex roles and gender roles In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:52:28 EST from My apologies for the typo on Dr. Plutzer's name. Ethel Tobach ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:37:04 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Diane M. Samdahl" Subject: Re: sex roles and gender roles In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 17 Nov 1992 10:16:30 CST from In response to my question about sex/gender roles, Eric Plutzer submitted a nice discussion of sex and gender. His comments suggest that sex roles and gender roles refer to the same thing, but that "gender roles" is the more inclusive phrase because it reflects the cultural framework that shapes expectations about behavior. That is to say, men's and women's behaviors are shaped by cultural expectations more so than by biological determinism. We have no disagreement with that, but I think he misinterpreted my question and the issue my class was attempting to understand. We understand the difference between sex and gender, but when those concepts are paired with the term "role" they reflect a somewhat different meaning. Many of the expectations, barriers, and acts of discrimination that confront women ARE initiated simply because they are women-- biologically. For example, lack of promotion in the work place is sex discrimination, not gender discrimination. While our decision to de-value women's work is culturally based, the ramifications and judgements that stem from this confront all women regardless of personal gender socialization. That seems to make it an issue of sex, not gender. So the issue the class was debating, and which I was at a loss to answer, is whether sex role is perhaps the more appropriate phrase when sex is the sole critera by which roles and expectations are placed upon you. While the concept of gender is indisputably fruitful for reflecting the complexity of cultural socialization that shapes us, it doesn't fit nicely into the phrase "gender ROLE." Behaviors (roles) are culturally assigned on the basis of sex, and learning them becomes an important part of gender socialization. Thus, while I agree with the core of Eric's response, I am reluctant to so easily substitute gender roles for sex roles and consider them equivalent. My students are indeed sensitive to the distinction between sex and gender, which is why this issue first came up. Also, that sensitization itself is what made them reluctant to use the phrase "sex roles" instead of "gender roles" even though the argument seemed strong that the behavioral expectations were based on sex. And it led us to question whether gender could be substituted for sex in any/all phrases or if indeed the phrase "sex role" was most appropriate even though it grates against our feminist sensitivities. I'm not sure Eric's comments left us with answers. ********************************************************************** DIANE M. SAMDAHL BITNET: DSAMDAHL@UGA Recreation & Leisure Studies INTERNET: DSAMDAHL@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU 228 Hardman Hall OFFICE: 706-542-5064 University of Georgia FAX: 706-542-7917 Athens, GA 30602-2302 HOME: 706-613-2406 ********************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:32:44 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DWALLEN@WVNVM.BITNET Subject: Belsey Seminar A colleague has asked me to post the following announcement: Catherine Belsey, Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at the University of Wales, will hold a seminar on "Shakespeare and the Sexual Relation" for graduate students and faculty interested in current work on gender and sexuality in the Renaissance. The seminar will be held at West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV on June 10-13, 1993. For further information, please contact: David Stewart Bitnet: DCSTEWA@WVNVM Internet: DCSTEWA@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU Snail Mail: Professor David Stewart English Department West Virginia University Morgantown, WV 26506 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:45:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Updated Women & Science Bibliography Phyllis Holman Weisbard, the Acting Women's Studies Librarian for the University of Wisconsin System, has just sent me a slightly updated version of the WOMEN AND SCIENCE: ISSUES AND RESOURCES bibliography in the WISCONSIN BIBLIOGRAPHIES IN WOMEN'S STUDIES series. It contains about 30 new citations. I have replaced the earlier version in the WMST-L files with the updated one under the title WISCON BIBLIO1. To obtain it, send the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU: GET WISCON BIBLIO1 WMST-L [Please note that the last character in BIBLIO1 is the number "1," not the capital letter "I"] To obtain a list of all files available from the WMST-L filelist, send the following message to LISTSERV: INDEX WMST-L To obtain a list of all syllabi available from the SYLLABI filelist, send the following message to LISTSERV: INDEX SYLLABI To obtain a list of all feminist film reviews available from the FILM filelist, send the following message to LISTSERV: INDEX FILM These commands can be sent in one mail message; just be sure to put each on a separate line. See the WMST-L User's Guide, sections 10 & 11, for more information about files. If you've misplaced your copy of this font of all wisdom, you can get another copy by sending the following message to LISTSERV: GET GUIDE WMST-L. Please be sure to send all the above messages to LISTSERV, not to WMST-L. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:12:42 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paula Rust Subject: Re: Homosexuals & Child Care In-Reply-To: <9211172222.AA18382@itsmail1.hamilton.edu>; from "gallivan@CAD.UCCB.NS.CA" at Nov 17, 92 4:09 pm You requested information about studies that would be useful in a case involving a woman fighting for custody and a judge who is concerned about a homosexual grandfather. The following book by Bozett can function as a collection of literature reviews on various related topics, e.g., some of the chapters are: "Gay Fathers" "Children of Gay Fathers," "Psychosocial Development of Children of Lesbian Mothers," etc. etc. FREDERICK W. BOZETT (ED.) GAY AND LESBIAN PARENTS, NEW YORK; WESTPORT,CT; LONDON: PRAEGER 1987. Each chapter discusses the literature (empirical studies) pertaining to its topic, with references listed at the end of each chapter as well as a list of "Additional References" at the end of the book. RICHARD GREEN also published a book SEXUAL SCIENCE AND THE LAW, CAMBRIDGE, MA: HARVARD UNIV. PRESS, 1992 that includes a chapter titled "Child Custody and Homosexual Parents" that is 32 pages long. Most of the chapter focuses on the law and court cases, but 4 pages discuss research findings. I'm sending this message both to the List and to you privately --to make sure that you get it. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:09:13 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paula Rust Subject: Re: sex roles and gender roles In-Reply-To: <9211180350.AA23366@itsmail1.hamilton.edu>; from "Diane M. Samdahl" at Nov 17, 92 8:37 pm > different meaning. Many of the expectations, barriers, and acts of > discrimination that confront women ARE initiated simply because they are > women-- biologically. For example, lack of promotion in the work place > is sex discrimination, not gender discrimination. While our decision to > I think that this is an example of gender discrimination, not sex discrimination. My "test" that I use to decide whether something is sex or gender is to consider the case of crossgendered individuals, e.g., a male (penis-person) who appears to be a woman (crossdressing, crossmannerisms, etc). If this person were truly crossgendered, she would have male sex but woman gender (let's assume for the sake of simplicity of the argument that this person passes as a woman effectively) and I submit that she would experience discrimination as a woman. She is being discriminated against because of her gender, not because of her sex (this is aside from the question of whether she might encounter discrimination because of her crossgenderism, it is to eliminate this possibility that I argue that this person passes effectively.) It is true that women differ among themselves in terms of gender socialization and gender enactment, and that the same is true for men. However, to use this point to argue that discrimination against someone who appears to be a woman is not therefore gender discrimination is to presuppose a very narrow definition of woman-gender. I would argue that if we can look at a clothed person (no physical sex characteristics showing; outward appearances can be falsified as long as the body is clothed) and perceive a "woman," then this person is exhibiting woman-gender. The person's sex is concealed. -- --paula rust ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:51:52 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Allan Hunter]" Subject: Re: sex roles and gender roles In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 17 Nov 1992 10:16:30 CST from On Tue, 17 Nov 1992 10:16:30 CST Eric Plutzer said: >Diane Samdahl writes about the distinction between gender and sex >roles. This is often confusing for my students because the >difference is an academic one, not an essential one and because the >interchangability of sex and gender in day to day conversation. > >When individuals are self reflective, they may ask: "What does it >mean to be a woman?" or "What does it mean to be feminine." >Though the answers may be the same, the former implies a biological >role where the latter does not. The latter also implies that men >can be feminine and women masculine as the culture defines them at a >particular time and place. Otherwise we could not be simultaneously >engaged in a discussion of gay and lesbian gender roles on this >list. Huh? Are you saying that the issue of "feminine" men or "masculine" women is necessarily connected with the issues of gay men and lesbians? As a heterosexual sissy, I kinda resent the conflation, and I bet a lot of nonfeminine gay men wouldn't appreciate it, nor would non- masculine lesbians, or strong "butchy" women of heterosexual in- clination. -- allan hunter ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 09:11:40 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ethel tobach Subject: Re: sex roles and gender roles In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:37:04 EST from I amnot presuming to have any answers...my bias is that the answers will come as society changes...and I guess for me that is the most im- portant issue for women's studies to discuss...how we can bring about a change in policy, attitude and understanding. I call upon the philos- ophers who have been writing us somewhat lately to clarify the issue I think is being presented by Diane Samdahl's class: how do the concepts of sex and gender change when they are related to societal and social practice and policy? I think the students have raised an important question for me. My approach (perhaps simplistic) is that when a woman is denied a pro- motion, the boss is not interested in what her reproductive status is... ; unless he uses the excuse that she may become pregnant and have to take parental leave. (If Clinton passes that law, this would no longer be a problem, as both men and women would be able to get parental leave...this is an example to me of how the meaning of terms changes with societal changes in policy...the roles are no longer tied to reproductive function specifically but to the process regardless of genitalia, hormones, etc.) For me the important issue is that in none of these policies of discrimin- ation does anyone do an examination of the reproductive status of the per- son...rather assumptions are made based on what society has decreed the "role" of the person is...people who cross dress have relied on this for a long time...I do not have to spell out all the ramifications of the political aspect of the use of the term sex/gender...bringing up the question of the difference between the concepts brings about a need to consider the assumptions being made...another way to change thinking? Ethel ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 09:30:14 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: STRETCH OR DROWN/ EVOLVE OR DIE Subject: Re: sex roles and gender roles One of the things that strikes me in this recent discussion of sex and gender roles is the extent to which the distinction in feminist theory between sex and gender is itself problematic (which several theorists have recently called our attention to). It may not be as hard and fast a distinction as we had assumed and that may be the source of our confusion. I too have been going around and around this point with my classes in recent weeks, also without much in the way of resolution. Laurie Finke finkel@kenyon.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 08:30:33 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: NAME Subject: Re: Homosexuals & Child Care A good legal resource is Sexual Orientation and the Law (by the Editors of the Harvard Law Review, Cambridge, Mass: 1989). You might also try Nancy Polikoff's article in the Georgetown Law Journal (vol. 78 no. 3, Feb. 1990), "This Child Does Have Two Mothers: Redefining Parenthood to Meet the Needs of Children in Lesbian-Mother and Other Nontraditional Families." Good luck with the case. Kristin Esterberg (kesterberg@vax1.umkc.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 10:26:09 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ACS_JENNI@JMUVAX.BITNET Subject: trying to post a message Hello, I have been on the list for a while but haven't been able to post any messages. Just checking to see if this message is posted. Jenni ACS_JENNI@VAX1.ACS.JMU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 09:48:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: UAHMLD01@UAHVAX1.BITNET Subject: Re: sex roles and gender roles I agree that the distinction is a tough one. I've been using one that I developed from a "defensive" position vis-a-vis my research. I study differences between male persons and female persons in sustained attention (the ability of observers to maintain their focus of attention and to remain alert to specified stimuli over long periods of time -- experimental psych). I started by calling these "sex differences", as did the experimental psych literature. Then I began to insert footnotes in papers, indicating that as far as I could tell, the differences which were emerging (under highly specific circumstances) had to do with the fact that one group was male and the other group was female -- but that the cultural assignment of behaviors and roles on the basis of sex was a powerful shaper of human performance in other settings, so I couldn't rule out "gender" differences. Now, I have data suggesting that attributions that people make about themselves which are "feminine" and "masculine" may predict sustained attention (vigilance) performance on this task. The upshot? As an experimentalist and a feminist, I can't pull apart the effects of biological sex with those of differential experience on the basis of gender assignment. I tell my students that "sex" refers to biological sex and "gender" is the aggregate of behaviors, roles, attitudes, characteristic s, etc., which result from social shaping in this regard. In my neck of the woods, I am pleased if I see them "going around" about this, because that means (to me) that they are expressing directly the confusion and struggle involved in this distinction; a struggle which feminists continue to be engaged in and which, from the viewpoint of this experimental psych person, is probably not resolvable at its base. It's the AWARENESS of the impact of biological determinism at its worst -- awareness of the powerful impact of dimorphizing sex and then assigning rigid characteristics to individuals on that basis -- that seems to me to be crucial to feminism and to feminist research and to women's studies. Struggle on! Mary Lynne Dittmar RADICAL@UAHVAX1 (bitnet) UAHMLD01@ASNUAH.ASN.NET (internet) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 09:42:38 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ECO_GXC@SHSU.BITNET Subject: Re: sex roles and gender roles My recollection is that the leading case in sex discrimination within partnership firms involved a woman who did not get promoted to partner (at a public accounting firm) because her at work behavior and dress was not sufficeintly feminane. i.e. her failure to get promoted was not because she was a woman but because she didn't behave the way the senior partners thought a woman was supposed to behave. She was judged against different standards than was a man. By most of y'all's definitions I think you would call this gender discrimination. But, the law calls it sex discrimination (I think). Maybe its sex discrimination based on percieved gender roles. The distinction seems kinda murky to me. -- gary carson ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 10:56:50 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JCCHR@CONNCOLL.BITNET Subject: Re: Sabbatical retreat I would be very interested in the house on Maui for next year - Spring 1994. If it's available then, please do send some details. Joan Chrisler, Connecticut College jcchr@conncoll ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 10:51:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: AA0383@UOKMVSA.BITNET Subject: e-mail addresses I have a message to send to Women's Studies programs/departments listed below. I have tried to glean them through the list of wmst-l members--I just can't get what I need there. Please check the list below and if your institution's name is listed there, send me your e-mail address so that I can complete my task. Thanks. Iowa State University, Ames Kansas State University, Manhattan Michigan State University Ohio State University, main champus Purdue, Main campus University of Colorado University of Illinois Urbana University of Iowa University of Kansas University of Michigan, Ann ARbor University of Minnesota Minneapolis University of Nebraska University of Missouri, columbia Oklahoma State University I appreciate your help. Thank you Jane Quaid Rickman, Women's Studies Program, U of OK, Norman ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 12:38:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: RHODA UNGER Subject: Re: sex roles and gender roles I have been following this discussion of sex and gender roles with great interest because I have attempted to make the distinction many times both in class and in published articles. Therefore, I would like to "throw" in a few more points to be considered. I think some of the earlier comments make it clear that we need both terms. For example, the Price-Waterhouse case referred to was a result of some of the partners' judgment that a person of a particular sex was not behaving in a gender-appropriate manner. No one made any statements about her genitalia or sexual functioning. Second, people with gender dysphoria (or transsexuals) are trying to pass themselves off as a member of a particular sex. It is quite true that we make judgments about sex based on gender-related information (attire, body postures, voice, etc.), but male-to-female transsexuals, in particular, are the targets of sex discrimina- tion. One of the best examples of this (which I always tell my classes) is that the same individuals who may change their names and sex, but keep their work histories and resumes (albeit with a change from a masculine to a femi- nine name) often receive lower salaries when they are "women," than when they were employed as "men." Finally, there are major problems with the term "sex role" which were very cogently raised by the late Carolyn Sherif. She pointed out that we are combining a biological distinction sex with a socio- logical concept "roles" in a way that we do in no other area. We do not talk about race or age roles for example. Rhoda Unger unger@apollo.montclair.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 12:59:35 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Karen Asquith Subject: Need Ref. on the History of Women in Psychology and Physics Help, I am having trouble finding the following information which I need for my research. First I am trying to determine the percentage (an actual number) of women versus men in the fields of psychology & physics at three periods in history: presently, 50 years ago, and 100 years ago. I recognise that different sources will give different figures, so feel free to include any qualms you have about the validity of the figures. Also, while I have several books on the history of women in psychology, I am having difficulty locating similar sources for physics. If anyone could recommend references for the history of women in physics, including both names and biographies, I would be most grateful. If anyone has any information to share please respond to me privately at: Bitnet: Asquith@VTVM1 Internet: asquith@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu Many Thanks, Karen Asuith Asquith@VTVM1 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:06:02 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: STRETCH OR DROWN/ EVOLVE OR DIE Subject: Re: sex roles and gender roles Mary Lynne Dittmar put very eloquently what I was struggling to say about the sex/gender distinction. Ultimately I think it will be unresolvable, but the even sometimes pointless seeming conflict it seems to engender is useful in getting us to think about it. It seems to me that gender (or the socialconstruction of dimorphous sex) is already at work in the decision that one will study how male persons and female persons do anything. The implications of that decision was brought home to me recently in an article in the Nation by Darrell Rist. He was speaking of Simon LeVay's research on homosexuality and noted that one might dissect the brains of dead Republicans and Democrats and find differences in them which then would one attribute to party choice? Gender or sex are powerful organizers of our social spheres, of our perceptions of personhood and we should never simply take them for granted as already solved problems or "black boxes." Laurie Finke finkel@kenyon.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:17:58 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ZIRKEL@HLYCROSS.BITNET Subject: Re: sex roles and gender roles Whoah! Are you meaning to imply that race is a biological and not a social category? Sabrina Zirkel zirkel@hcacad.holycross.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:07:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: LINDA@GACVAX1.BITNET Subject: syllabi and other information My first request for information, etc., failed to garner much response, so I will try again. I am writing on behalf of the Women's Studies program at Gustavus Adolphus College, a small, rural, liberal arts college that has had a program for just four years. The program offers a five-course minor, with one required course, Introduction to Women's Studies. So far, this course has been taught as a "January Term" course (one month long, intensive), but we have hope that we will soon be getting institutional support to make it a semester-long course. To that end, we would like information about other intro to WS courses. Specifically: --syllabi for such courses --text suggestions --descriptions of how your intro course fits into the overall WS program --discussions of how to make such a course genuinely interdisciplinary --Discussions of how to connect theory to practice through work projects outside the classroom --anything else you can tell us about what you think an intro course ought to be and why it is important Please respond privately to me: LINDA@gacvx1.gac.edu Thank you. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 12:34:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Holman Weisbard Subject: Re: Need Ref. on the History of Women in Psychology and Physics I'm posting this to the list instead of privately because at least the first reference below is VERY useful for statistics on women (and minorities) in all disciplines currently and going back varying periods of time/table. Since the book also provides sources for each table, it is possible that someone needing earlier stats. could consult earlier editions of the sources. This book is PROFESSIONAL WOMEN AND MINORITIES: A TOTAL HUMAN RESOURCE DATA COMPENDIUM. Washington, DC: Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology, 1992 (10th ed.) Price of this ed. is $100. Contact the Commission at 1500 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Suite 831, Wash., CD 20005; (202) 223-6995. Contents include applicants, enrollments and degrees by field (in some cases, including psych. by sub-field), broken down by sex, race/ethnicity, citizenship, and sometimes age. Between editions the Commission publishes new data 9 times/yr in its digest, SCIENTIFIC, ENGINEERING, TECHNICAL MANPOWER COMMENTS. As for citations on the history of women in physics, try Grinstein, Louise S. "Women in Physics and Astronomy: a Selected Bibliography," SCHOOL SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS 80, no. 5 (May/June 1980):384-398. Brush, Stephen. "Women in Physical Science: From Drudges to Discoverers," PHYSICS TEACHER 24 (Jan. 1985): 11-19 Keller, Evelyn Fox. "The Anomaly of a woman in Physics," in WORKING IT OUT: 23 WOMEN WRITERS, ARTISTS, SCIENTISTS, AND SCHOLARS TALK ABOUT THEIR LIVES AND WORK. (1977), PP. 77-91. Kistiakowsky, Vera. "Women in Physics and Astronomy," in EXPANDING THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE SCIENCES (1979): 35-47. I took these citations from the bibliography THE HISTORY OF WOMEN AND SCIENCE, HEALTH, AND TECHNOLOGY: A BIBLIOGRAPHIC GUIDE TO THE PROFESSIONS AND THE DISCIPLINES, edited by Susan Searing with the assistance of Rima Apple, published in my office in 1988. We are now actively involved in preparing an updated version. I would like to get citations to recent articles (I think we're o.k. on books) on the history of women in/and these fields. Please send citations to me privately. Thanks. Phyllis Holman Weisbard (608) 263-5754 Acting Women's Studies Librarian pweis@wiscmacc (Bitnet) University of Wisconsin System pweis@macc.wisc.edu (Internet) Room 430 Memorial Library 728 State Street Madison, WI 53706 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:47:15 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: nancy felipe russo Subject: Re: sex role/gender role In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 17 Nov 1992 09:19:14 EST from The new *Psychology of Women Handbook* edited by Florence Denmark and Michele Paludi (Greenwood Press--should come out any time now hopefully) has a number of chapter that talk about sex & gender roles. I have a chapter with my student Beth Green which presents the discussion from my viewpoint (I like to have sex roles refer to all roles assigned by sex, with masculine and feminine gender roles being one type of sex role and wife, mother, sister, etc. examples of others. Nancy Felipe Russo, Ph.D. Director, Women's Studies ASU, Tempe, AZ 85287-1801 (602)965-2358 FAX:(602)965-2357 BITNET: ATNFR@ASUACAD ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:51:36 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: nancy felipe russo Subject: Re: Homosexuals & Child Care In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:09:33 EST from The American Psychological Association has prepared briefs related to sexual orientation and custody cases and might be a useful resource on this issue. Nancy Felipe Russo, Ph.D. Director, Women's Studies ASU, Tempe, AZ 85287-1801 (602)965-2358 FAX:(602)965-2357 BITNET: ATNFR@ASUACAD ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:59:20 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: nancy felipe russo Subject: Re: sex roles and gender roles In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 18 Nov 1992 12:38:00 EST from Comment on Unger's message on sex/gender roles: I think that a number of people have written about age norms and roles, including Bernice Neugarten; also a lot of the work on ethnic identity is very similar to gender identity, I would not be surprised to find out there are papers that have made the extention to ethnic roles--when we read about the role of the black women, etc. is that not talking about gender/race role (a role that is a racial role as well as a gender role?) I would not like to accept the statement about us not talking about race roles or age roles without more thought. Sherif wrote that some time ago. Nancy Felipe Russo, Ph.D. Director, Women's Studies ASU, Tempe, AZ 85287-1801 (602)965-2358 FAX:(602)965-2357 BITNET: ATNFR@ASUACAD ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:49:42 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: SMANSFIELD@BENSON.CLAREMONT.EDU Subject: WOMAN IN THE MOON PRESS I'm trying to get in touch with the people at Woman in the Moon Press. My old address is Turlock, CA - but the phone company has no number for the press or for SDian Bogus in the Turlock area. Does anyone have a more recent address or phone number - or know anything about their recent activities. "SMANSFIELD@BENSON.CLAREMONT.EDU" ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:40:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: RHODA UNGER Subject: Re: sex roles and gender roles Of course race is a social category, but like sex it is assumed to have biological components. Some people would prefer dual labels in the same way we deal with sex and gender such as race and ethnicity with race having cue functions and ethnicity being seen as the social construct. I'm not sure this is clear, but I think these distinctions are important. They are not merely terminological, but represent the way we conceptualize phenomena. I will try to find Carolyn Sherif's own words in this area as I remember them as being very cogent. Rhoda Unger unger@apollo.montclair.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:44:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: RHODA UNGER Subject: Re: sex roles and gender roles Just one more response about sex roles--this one the quote from Carolyn Sherif: "...that curious concept 'sex roles', which has become a boxcar caarrying an assortment of sociological and psychological data along with an explosive mixture of myth and untested assumptions. This concept is curious in several ways. First, it is one of the few, if not the only, concept that uncri- ticallycouples a biological concept (sex) WITH a sociological concept (role) . Thus, the concept suffers double jeopardy from myths about sex smuggled in uncritically and from denotative confusions in the sociological concepts of roles." (p. 392) From: C. W. Sherif (1982). Needed concepts in the study of gender identity. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 6, 375 - 398. I recommend this article for its knowledgeable discussion of many of the problems and pitfalls in studying sex and gender. Although it was written over 10 years ago, I am not sure we have resolved many of the problems outlined. Rhoda Unger unger@apollo.montclair.edu INTERNET ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:04:17 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paula Rust Subject: Re: sex roles and gender roles In-Reply-To: <9211181927.AA02859@itsmail1.hamilton.edu>; from "RHODA UNGER" at Nov 18, 92 12:38 pm > made any statements about her genitalia or sexual functioning. Second, people > with gender dysphoria (or transsexuals) are trying to pass themselves off as a > member of a particular sex. It is quite true that we make judgments about sex > based on gender-related information (attire, body postures, voice, etc.), but > male-to-female transsexuals, in particular, are the targets of sex discrimina- > tion. One of the best examples of this (which I always tell my classes) is > that the same individuals who may change their names and sex, but keep their > work histories and resumes (albeit with a change from a masculine to a femi- > nine name) often receive lower salaries when they are "women," than when they > were employed as "men." Finally, there are major problems with the term You argue that male-to-female transsexuals are targets of sex discrimination. Since transsexuals change both their biological sex and their gender, they cannot be used to distinguish sex discrimination from gender discrimination. If a male man becomes a female woman and then experiences a loss of income or downward mobility, it could *either* be due to the male->female change, or to the man-> woman change. Most TSs undergo the real life test before surgery, i.e., the gender change precedes the sex change (of course, the gender change has generally begun to take place before the real life test). It would be instructive, therefore, to know whether the downward mobility began following the gender change, or did not happen until the sex change. I suspect the former, since that change is more dramatic in terms of outward appearances; by the time the TS has the actual Sex Reassignment Surgery, s/he already appears to be a member of the chosen gender. Unfortunately, this question would be difficult to answer because by that time many transsexuals have lost their jobs altogether because of *transsexual discrimination.* This is why, in my previous message, I used the example of the crossgenderist rather than the transsexual; since the crossgenderist changes gender but not sex, the crossgenderist is the appropriate test case. --paula rust -- ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:30:04 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Allan Hunter Subject: Re: sex roles and gender roles In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:37:04 EST from Part of the problem with the "gender roles versus sex roles" argument may become more obvious if you imagine a serious discussion of "race roles". Yeah, right...we DON'T use such a phrase because it implies a bit too much of a voluntarily taken-on set of behaviors and personalities in a place where we understand a relationship of coercion and destructive power relationships to be located. Gender itself is, perhaps in its entirety, a set of scripts which are made mandatory for people, and those scripts are assigned on the basis of sex. Gender, in other words, is the scripted roles themselves, which are forced upon (not simply adopted by) the sexes. The roles are OF the sexes in that sense of the word, but they don't exist because sex exists; they exist because a coercive system of "genderization" exists and non-conformists are subjected to painful social penalties. (a tip of the theoretical hat goes to Margrit Eichler, author of THE DOUBLE STANDARD, for the critique of the notion of sex (or gender) roles -- it's a worthy read). - allan hunter ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 23:42:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: List for South Asian Women The following announcement appeared a few days ago on soc.feminism. For more information, please contact the person named in the announcement, not WMST-L or me. (For more information on soc.feminism, see section 12 of the WMST-L User's Guide.) Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc) ************************************************************ From: usubrama@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Uma M Subramanian) Description: email discussion group for south asian women There is an email discussion group for south asian women which has been set up recently. Women from the south asian countries as well as women from other parts of the world interested in the issues that concern south asian women are welcome to join this discussion group. This group is not open to men as it is set up now. Women who would like to join this mailing list should send mail to usubrama@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu OR susanc@helix.nih.gov Uma Subramanian ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 02:24:41 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jeannie Pekelny Subject: women's lists? Hello again. A propos my earlier (much earlier) posting about doing my senior thesis on women's email lists: I am currently looking for women's lists to focus on. There are, of course lists of lists and such, but many of them don't seem to list women only lists and they don't really tell me much about the lists and tend to be very bulky. I thought it might be more effective to go right to the source. So, if you currently subscribe or have subscribed to a list that meets the following conditions, and you think this list might be a good potential focus for a study, plase email me privately. Incidentally, to allay any possible fears that you would open your pet list up to unwanted scrutiny, any research I do on that list (beyond subscribing to it and reporting my impressions) will be done in the open (to the members of the list) only with those members who volunteer, and with as much anonymity as the participants and the moderator (given that the moderator is a human being) wish. The conditions are: -- The list must be explicitly women-only -- I would like the list to *not* have sexual orientation as its stated main subject. I plan to focus on four lists of which I have selected two, and both of them are queer lists so I would like to get some diversity. Of course a list may have les/gay/bi subscribers. -- Preferably, the list will have some sort of cohesion or sense of community. It is not necessary that it have particularly high volume, but it can't be a "dead" list and should be a list on which the subscribers have a sense of being a group, even if a precarious or loosely-knit one. Thanks in advance for any input Jeannie finder@deeptht.armory.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 08:45:13 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Leslie Bender I accidently discarded the address of the people looking for resources on involuntary sterilization. Did anyone mention Philip Reilly, The Surgical Solution--A History of Involuntary Sterilization in the U.S. (Johns Hopkins Press, 1991). I haven't read it, but it might have information you need. Sorry not to know who to address this to. --------------------------------------------------- | PROFESSOR LESLIE BENDER | | COLLEGE OF LAW--E.I. WHITE BLDG. | | SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | | SYRACUSE, NY 13244-1030 | | PHONE: (315) 443-4462 OR FAX:(315) 443-5394 | | E-MAIL: LBENDER@SUVM.BITNET | --------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 09:09:49 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Libbie Subject: Re: sex roles and gender roles In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 18 Nov 1992 12:38:00 EST from This discourse on sex roles and gender roles has been fascinating, to say the least! As a sociologist with a symbolic interactionist theoretical background, I tend to see a tie-in between social roles and personal, social, perceived, hierarchical, etc. identity. If I had the time I would love to code all the different perceptions people have of roles. I think the meaning is slightly different depending upon one's academic perspective. But for me, race is socially constructed, because there is biologically one race, the human race, but because we have constructed physically inherited characteristics as socially meaningful we "see" different races and have aligning social role expectations for people of different "races." Age, too, has roles attached. Isn't it important that we act our ages? I think the concept of role is difficult for today's college students to understand because they grew up in a much less rigid social structure than we (I) did. When I discuss gender/sex roles with students I try to bring in cross-cultural (Margaret Mead and more modern stuff) differences between expectations for men and women and their historical development. Libbie Chute libbiech@ccvm.sunysb.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 11:18:21 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nancy Seale Osborne Subject: Re: trying to post a message In-Reply-To: <9211181633.AB12317@oswego-gw> I don't know if anybody "out there" tells you that you're posted, so I thought I would do so! Cheers, Nancy On Wed, 18 Nov 1992 ACS_JENNI%JMUVAX.BitNet@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU wrote: > Hello, I have been on the list for a while but haven't been able to post any > messages. Just checking to see if this message is posted. > > Jenni > ACS_JENNI@VAX1.ACS.JMU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 11:20:35 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nancy Seale Osborne Subject: Re: syllabi and other information In-Reply-To: <9211182309.AB17094@oswego-gw> Linda, if you'll post your address, I'd be glad to send you my WST200 Introduction to Feminism course outline. WST200 is our foundation course for Women's Studies. We have 25 students in our WS program minor. Course outline and syllabus list the three texts I and my colleague, Joan Loveridge-Sanbonmatsu (team teaching this semester) are using this semester. Regards, Nancy Osborne SUNY Oswego Oswego NY 13126 On Wed, 18 Nov 1992 LINDA%GACVAX1.BitNet@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU wrote: > My first request for information, etc., failed to garner much response, so I > will try again. I am writing on behalf of the Women's Studies program at > Gustavus Adolphus College, a small, rural, liberal arts college that has had a > program for just four years. The program offers a five-course minor, with one > required course, Introduction to Women's Studies. So far, this course has been > taught as a "January Term" course (one month long, intensive), but we have hope > that we will soon be getting institutional support to make it a semester-long > course. > To that end, we would like information about other intro to WS courses. > Specifically: > --syllabi for such courses > --text suggestions > --descriptions of how your intro course fits into the overall WS program > --discussions of how to make such a course genuinely interdisciplinary > --Discussions of how to connect theory to practice through work projects > outside the classroom > --anything else you can tell us about what you think an intro course ought to > be and why it is important > Please respond privately to me: LINDA@gacvx1.gac.edu Thank you. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 10:13:55 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Liz Birkholz Subject: Aletta Jacobs I have been attempting to do research on Aletta Henriette Jacobs (1854-1929), the Dutch woman physician who opened, as I understand it, the first birth control clinic in the world. So far I have located a four page biography on her in _Politics and Friendship: Letters from the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, 1902-1942_, edited by Mineke Bosch with Annemarie Kloosterman. I am also aware of her book, _Herinnerigen_ (Amsterdam: Van Holkema en Waren- dorf, 1924). Does anyone know of other sources of information on her (large or small)? I am particularly interested in finding photographs. Also, if my understanding that she started the first birth control clinic (of modern times) is wrong, please correct me. As I have currently set my WMST-L options to No-Mail due to my inability at this time to read its many entries, please respond to me privately. Liz Birkholz Arizona State University School of Art bitnet: asecb@asuacad internet: asecb@asuvm.inre.asu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:09:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BBOETTC@OPIE.BGSU.EDU Subject: Audre Lorde I received this from a friend who asked me to post it to WMST-L. Bonna Boettcher Bowling Green State University bboettc@opie.bgsu.edu Audre Lorde died on Tuesday evening, November 17, 1992, in St. Croix, the Virgin Islands, after a lengthy battle with cancer. She lived the last years of her life with her partner, Gloria Joseph. A memorial service is being planned for sometime in December, to be held in New York City. I'll pass along details as I get them. Could you please pass the word along to your library and feminist colleagues? Thanks ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:52:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: KRUSE@XAVIER.BITNET Subject: Overkill I am posting this message for a colleague who is not on the list. She would like to locate a video copy of the movie "Overkill," which aired on CBS this past Tuesday evening (11/17). The film is about Aileen Wuornos, the I-75 serial killer. Please reply to me privately, and I will forward messages to her. Felicia Kruse (for Carol Winkelmann) Xavier University Cincinnati, OH 45207-4443 (513)745-3755 KRUSE@XAVIER.BITNET ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:39:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: syllabi and other information Earlier today, Nancy Osborne (osborne@oswego.oswego.edu) wrote: > Linda, if you'll post your address, I'd be glad to send you my WST200 > Introduction to Feminism course outline. WST200 is our foundation course > for Women's Studies. I'd like to take this opportunity to remind Nancy and others with Women's Studies syllabi in electronic format that WMST-L has a syllabi file and would welcome adding syllabi to that file. The list welcomes both core courses like "Intro to W.S." and "Feminist Theory" and also any other Women's Studies courses you think would be of interest to others: "Psychology of Women," "History of Women," "Women and Law," "Women and Health," "Women and Philosophy," "Women and Art," "Women and Science," "Women and Economics," "Women and Sexuality," "Women in Literature," "Women and the Media," courses that focus on "minority" women, etc. etc. I need to receive these syllabi in electronic form, not on paper. You can send them in two ways: either via e-mail as an ASCII file (i.e., a plain text file with no wordprocessing codes), or via the regular mail on a computer disk (in which case you can send it in its wordprocessing format). If your syllabus is currently in wordprocessing format, you can convert it into an ASCII file by following the instructions in your wordprocessing manual. (For Wordperfect files, use CTL-F5 [Text In/Out] to retrieve the file as a DOS text file. Other word processing programs have similar conversion features.) The file should also have no line longer than 75 characters, and each line must end in a carriage return (line feeds don't count). Once you've got your syllabus into ASCII format, the safest thing to do would be to send it to me in an e-mail message (send to KORENMAN@UMBC [Bitnet] or KORENMAN@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU [Internet]). If you don't feel able to convert your wordprocessing file into an ASCII file, you can mail WMST-L subscriber Janet McLeod a computer disk (which will not be returned) with the file in wordprocessing format. Janet has very generously offered to help convert these to ASCII format. If you do this, BE SURE TO INCLUDE A NOTE SAYING WHAT WORDPROCESSING PROGRAM THE FILE USES! She would prefer your sending a 3 1/2" disk, but she can also accept 5 1/4" disks. Send the disks to: Janet McLeod Computer Science Center University of Maryland at College Park College Park, MD 20742-2411 Two more things: 1) PLEASE BE SURE THE SYLLABUS INCLUDES YOUR NAME, THE NAME OF THE INSTITUTION WHERE THE COURSE WAS TAUGHT, AND THE YEAR THE SYLLABUS WAS USED; and 2) if you can, it would be especially desirable if you'd append to the end of your syllabus any projects, assignments, etc. that you used in the course and that worked well. Note: PLEASE DO NOT SEND ME PAPER COPIES OF THE SYLLABUS. I HAVE NEITHER THE TIME NOR A GOOD ENOUGH SCANNER TO CONVERT THEM TO AN ELECTRONIC FORMAT. If you have questions, please write to me PRIVATELY, not via WMST-L. ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County Bitnet: korenman@umbc * * Baltimore, MD 21228-5398 * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:15:13 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Kimberly J. Cook" Subject: RE: Aletta Jacobs >Does anyone know of other sources of information on her (large or small)? >I am particularly interested in finding photographs. She is mentioned twice in Ellen Chesler's book: WOMAN OF VALOR: MARGARET SANGER AND THE BIRTH CONTROL MOVEMENT IN AMERICA. see pages 145, and 236. Apparently, Sanger lobbied for birth control information to be distributed through medical (i.e. respected) professionals in order to allay the fears that it would be considered "obscene" under the Comstock statutes. In this attempt, Sanger travelled to Holland to meet with Dr. Jacobs and seek her counsel on implementing such a "Dutch Model" of birth control information distribution. Chesler writes: "When she [Sanger] first visted there in 1915, the imperious Dr. Aletta Jacobs, who had founded the country's network of birth control clinics, would not deign to meet her, because even though she traveled with Ellis' introduction, she was not herself a doctor." [p. 145] and "The 1925 gathering in New York then drew more than 1000 delegates, produced four volumes of papers, was covered extensively by the press and amde a significant impression on professional, scholarly, and political audiences. Among the participants from Europe was Aletta Jacobs, M.D., and from the United States, the Freudian A.A. Brill, the Socialist Norman Thomas, and the flamboyant feminist and pacifist Rosika Schwimmer, who would be denied United States citizenship in 1929 in a historic Supreme Court case challenging her refusal to promise to bear arms in defense of her country. Also attending were numbers of professionals from medicine and the social sciences who were less controversial but perhaps more influential. Having hosted this event and been left with the responsibility of perpetuating international contacts and cooperation, Margaret was enjoying new prominence in what was becoming a movement of worldwide interest." [p. 236] >Also, if my understanding that she started the first birth control clinic >(of modern times) is wrong, please correct me. seems to me like you're correct. I am sending this to the list and to you privately, thinking that others out there might be interested to read it. Kimberly J. Cook, K_Cook@unhh.unh.edu p.s. this is a 1992 Simon and Schuster publication. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:22:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: CFP: Brave New Worlds for Women Connie Koppelman, who is not yet a WMST-L subscriber, has asked me to post the following call for papers. Please send all inquiries to her, not to WMST-L or to me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc) ************************************************************************* The N.Y. Women's Studies Association annual conference will be held at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, March 26,27,28, 1993. The title of the conference is BRAVE NEW WORLDS FOR WOMEN. All proposals are welcome; however, our main interests cluster on the topic of women and science, math and technology; e.g., humanist, social, political and economic contexts of technological change; computer learning; virtual realities; reproductive technology; employment; computer games; feminist futures; utopias and dystopias: historical and literary etc. One page proposals are due Dec. 1 Call Connie Koppelman at 516-632-9176 for more info, or send to CKoppelman, Women's Studies Old Chem. 105, SUNY at Stony Brook, 11794-3456. Fax# 516-632-9023. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:47:37 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Kimberly J. Cook" Subject: help for grad programs info This evening I was chatting with one of my former students who is soon to graduate with a B.A. in English from UNH. she asked me about graduate programs in English/Poetry which were closely tied to Women's Studies programs and/or with a major emphasis on women poets... Being a sociologist, I know next to nothing about this issue, and I told her I would send out a request on the net asking people to send suggestions to me (PRIVATELY). She is not constrained by geography. Thanks in advance for what I know will be very helpful information for Kara... Kimberly J. Cook, K_Cook@unhh.unh.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:55:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PGRAHAME@BENTLEY.BITNET Subject: Re: femininity and toys Can anyone help me with references to recent or classic studies of the use of toys by girls in constructing gender identities? I would like to provide a student of mine with a basic bibliography in this area. She hasn't been able to find much using the limited bibliographic resources we have. Thanks, P Grahame To avoid cluttering the list, suggestions can be sent privately to: pgrahame@bentley.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:16:17 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bonnie McElhinny Subject: gender and the state I'm currently writing a dissertation on the interactional patterns of male and female police officers in Pittsburgh. In the course of doing that I've begun thinking about the ways that ideologies of masculinity change along with changes in state structures. In Connell's GENDER AND POWER: SOCIETY, THE PERSON AND SEXUAL POLITICS (1987) he makes some interesting claims about how this works, but then cites an unpublished manuscript. He argues that the construction of the system of industrial capitalism was linked as much to a shift in masculinities as it is to developing class dynamics. Specifically, tradition-centered patrimonial patriarchal authority was replaced by masculinities organized more around technical rationality and calculation. Does anyone know of any other works that develop this kind of argument? Doesn't need to agree with Connell of course. (Another work that is somewhat along the lines of what I'm looking for here are some of the sections in Mary Poovey's UNEVEN DEVELOPMENTS where she talks about how aspects of the state are gendered.) Please respond privately to: mcelhinn@csli.stanford.edu OR Bonnie McEhinny Dept. of Linguistics Stanford University Stanford CA 94305-2150 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 11:29:38 +0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "NAME \"Harriet Silius\"" Subject: menstruation I have a student working on a MA-thesis in sociology on different con- ceptions of menstruation in Finland. She has been going through medical literature, textbooks for nursing schools, women's magazines etc. All this material has shown her a dominant discourse based on traditional medical conceptions on menstruation. In order to have different voices, she has beeen interviewing women. She has asked them what menstruation means to them, how they experience it, whther they change behavior when menstruating, how they organize their everyday life a.s.o. Her problem is that a) most women don't very much like to talk about menstruation b) most have negative feelings about it. Does anybody have any suggestions on how to have alseo postive feelings expressed? How to do more interviews, some relevant refs, or any other suggestions? Harriet Silius Institute for women's studies at ]bo Akademi University Finland e-mail: hsilius@finabo (bitnet) hsilius@abo.fi (internet) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:13:00 GMT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: EMSISSON@VAX1.TCD.IE Subject: Jeanette Winterson I am looking for some critical writing about the novels of Jeanette Winterson. She is the author of *Oranges are not the only fruit*, *Passion*, *Sexing the Cherry*, and *Written on the Body*. There seems to be very little critical material available except for book reviews. If you have come across any criticism of her work, or indeed if you have written some yourself, would you pass it on? Thank You. Elaine Sisson EMSISSON@VAX1.TCD.IE ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 09:47:15 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MEGMCLAU@VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU Subject: gender and the state Could answers to this query be directed to the list? I (and I assume others) would be interested too. Megan McLaughlin, Dept. of History, U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Bitnet: megmclau@uiuc.vmd Internet: megmclau@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu This NOTE is a reply to: ------------------------ >Received: from UIUCVMD by VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 3918; > Fri, 20 Nov 92 01:20:38 CST >Received: from MIZZOU1.missouri.edu by vmd.cso.uiuc.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) > with TCP; Fri, 20 Nov 92 01:20:37 CST >Received: from MIZZOU1 by MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R1) > with BSMTP id 0310; Fri, 20 Nov 92 01:18:42 CST >Received: from MIZZOU1.BITNET by MIZZOU1 (Mailer R2.08) with BSMTP id 7281; > Fri, 20 Nov 92 01:18:42 CST >Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:16:17 PST >Reply-To: Women's Studies List >Sender: Women's Studies List >From: Bonnie McElhinny Subject: gender and the state >To: Multiple recipients of list WMST-L > >I'm currently writing a dissertation on the interactional patterns of >male and female police officers in Pittsburgh. In the course of doing >that I've begun thinking about the ways that ideologies of masculinity >change along with changes in state structures. In Connell's GENDER AND >POWER: SOCIETY, THE PERSON AND SEXUAL POLITICS (1987) he makes some >interesting claims about how this works, but then cites an unpublished >manuscript. He argues that the construction of the system of industrial >capitalism was linked as much to a shift in masculinities as it is >to developing class dynamics. Specifically, tradition-centered >patrimonial patriarchal authority was replaced by masculinities >organized more around technical rationality and calculation. > >Does anyone know of any other works that develop this kind of >argument? Doesn't need to agree with Connell of course. (Another >work that is somewhat along the lines of what I'm looking for >here are some of the sections in Mary Poovey's UNEVEN DEVELOPMENTS >where she talks about how aspects of the state are gendered.) > >Please respond privately to: >mcelhinn@csli.stanford.edu > >OR >Bonnie McEhinny >Dept. of Linguistics >Stanford University >Stanford CA 94305-2150 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 11:13:06 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lydia Hamessley Subject: Re: Audre Lorde In-Reply-To: <9211192350.AA11532@itsmail1.hamilton.edu>; from "BBOETTC@OPIE.BGSU.EDU" at Nov 19, 92 2:09 pm The students here at Hamilton (mostly women) organized and led a brief memorial service for Audre Lorde here yesterday. Works of hers were read, and people spoke of the impact that she and her work and struggles had on their lives. Although it was a small and simple gathering, I believe it did much to remind our students here that we all can come together, despite our many differences, to work toward change. Perhaps people at other institutions might want to remember Audre in this way as well. Pax. Lydia Hamessley Music Dept. Hamilton College Clinton, NY 13323 lhamessl@itsmail1.hamilton.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 11:21:42 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Daphne.Patai@SPANPORT.UMASS.EDU Subject: Reply to gender and the state I'm not sure this responds to the query about gender and capitalism, but you might have a look at Peter Stearns's book BE A MAN, which is about industrialization in England and the development of an appropriate masculinity complex - e.g., the image of a Big Man Working a Big Machine, and exercising greater power at home to compensate for the loss of power in the work place. I found it very interesting when I read it (years ago), in connection with work I was then doing on Orwell. Daphne. Patai@spanport.umass.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 13:04:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MMW9@PSUVM.BITNET Subject: Re: femininity and toys In-Reply-To: PGRAHAME AT BENTLEY.BITNET -- Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:55:00 EDT I would also be interested in the literature on toys and gender, especially now with Christmas around the corner. Could responses to P. Grahame's request for classic studies in this area be posted to the whole list? mmw9@psuvm ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 12:38:17 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline.Ross%VPAcad%VH@TOPNET.UWSA.EDU REQUEST FOR NOMINATIONS FOR DISTINGUISHED VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS "SCIENCE, DIVERSITY, AND COMMUNITY: REVITALIZING INTRODUCTORY CURRICULA" The National Science Foundation-funded Women and Science Program of the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Consortium solicits nominations and applications for Distinguished Visiting Professors of Women and Science for the 1993-94 academic year. Distinguished Visiting Professors will visit a host campus in the University of Wisconsin System for one semester. They will teach one undergraduate course and work closely with host faculty on curricular change conducive to attracting and retaining female and minority students in math, science, engineering, and computer science. Please send names and vitae to Joann Eisberg, Women and Science Program, Women's Studies Consortium, 4145 Helen C. White Hall, 600 N.Park St., Madison, WI 53706, by December 11, 1992. If you have questions, call her at 608-262-1434 or me at 608-262-3056. Jacqueline.Ross%vpacad%vh@topnet.uwsa.edu Director UW System Women's Studies Consortium 1636 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive Madison, WI 53706 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 12:53:05 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline.Ross%VPAcad%VH@TOPNET.UWSA.EDU Would someone please send me the address of the Women and Science email list. I would like to post a message on it. Jacqueline.Ross%vpacad%vh@topnet.uwsa.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:01:08 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: NADELHFT@MAINE.BITNET Subject: Re: femininity and toys Perhaps the list in general would be interested. For the most recent historic treatment of childhood in America which includes material on toys, etc., see Elliott West & Paula Petrik, eds., Small Worlds: Children & Adolescents in America, 1850-1950 (University Press of Kansas, 1992). ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:39:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Holman Weisbard Subject: DREAMWORLDS video I just received a brochure with a new address for the distributor of the video DREAMWORLDS. Contact Foundation for Media Educatin 26 Center Street Northampton, MA 01060 Tel.: 413-586-4170 Prices: Institutions/Orgs.: $100 Individuals: $ 50 There is also a free 15 day on-approval preview for institutions/orgs. only. Phyllis Holman Weisbard (608) 263-5754 Acting Women's Studies Librarian pweis@wiscmacc (Bitnet) University of Wisconsin System pweis@macc.wisc.edu (Internet) Room 430 Memorial Library 728 State Street Madison, WI 53706 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 12:49:29 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "E. Butler-Evans" Subject: Re: Relaying misaddressed info In-Reply-To: <9211201954.AA21159@ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu> On Fri, 20 Nov 1992, Revised List Processor wrote: > You are not authorized to mail to list WMST-L from your > ebevans@HUMANITAS.UCSB.EDU account. You might be authorized to post to the list > from another of your accounts or under a slightly different address, but > LISTSERV has no way to associate this other account or address with you and is > thus rejecting your message. Your message is being returned to you unprocessed. > If you have any question regarding authorization to use the WMST-L list, please > contact one of the list owners, whose names and addresses are listed below: > > Joan Korenman > Joan Korenman > amanda cross > KORENMAN@UMBC4.UMBC.EDU > > ------------------------- Rejected message (42 lines) -------------------- > From: "E. Butler-Evans" Subject: Re: help for grad programs info > To: Women's Studies List > Cc: Multiple recipients of list WMST-L > In-Reply-To: <9211200352.AA15421@ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu> > Message-Id: > > You might have her look into the program on my campus. It is possible to > do a literature PHD here with a Women Studies emphasis. The program is > developed through a cooperative venture by the English and Women Studies > Department. For more information you might want to e-mail Professor > Patricia Cohen, who is Chair of the Women Studies Program. > > > Elliott Butler-Evans > Departmet of English > University of California, Santa Barbara > Santa Barbara, CA 93106 > > On Thu, 19 Nov 1992, Kimberly J. Cook wrote: > > > This evening I was chatting with one of my former students who is > > soon to graduate with a B.A. in English from UNH. she asked me > > about graduate programs in English/Poetry which were closely > > tied to Women's Studies programs and/or with a major emphasis on > > women poets... Being a sociologist, I know next to nothing about > > this issue, and I told her I would send out a request on the net > > asking people to send suggestions to me (PRIVATELY). She is not > > constrained by geography. Thanks in advance for what I know will > > be very helpful information for Kara... > > > > Kimberly J. Cook, K_Cook@unhh.unh.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 12:52:00 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: qym@CATS.UCSC.EDU Subject: Re: femininity and toys see refs Weinraub, Clemens, Sockloff, Etheridge, Gracely & Myers 1984 Child Development, 1493-1503. Caldera, Huston, & O'brien 1989 Child Development, 70-76. Etaugh, 1983 Social and Cognitive Skills (Ed) M. Liss 1-19. My understanding of the the literature (at least part of it) is that parents buy their children different types of toys (& room furnishings) this structures the way they play and interact with their children - differently for girls and boys - and thus sets in motion patterns of interaction which each gender is more comfortable with (sort of personality).In other words the structure, at the micro-level affects the individual. Is this what you were interested in? What do you think? ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:54:35 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: STARKEY@WVNVM.BITNET Subject: Re: femininity and toys In-Reply-To: Message of 11/19/92 at 22:55:00 from PGRAHAME@BENTLEY.BITNET Start with the work of Brian Sutton-Smith. He is probably the leading expert on play and includes some male/female differences. Most interesting is that over the years girls choice of toys has grown larger while boys choices have becomne increasingly more restructive. Janet Lever's dissertation was in this area and she had an article published from it, but I'm not sure about the journal. Try Child Development, but Sex Roles has also had some interesting articles on toys and play. I did a paper on females, toys, and play a few years ago, but all of my sources and books are at home. I know there were other very good sources, but they don't come to mind right now. I will check them out and send you more over the weekend or Monday. Another Journal to try is the Psychology of Women Quarterly. Hope this will get her started. Sandra L. Starkey, Ph.D. West Virginia Graduate College Starkey@WVNVM Starkey@WVNVM.WVNET.edu Voice: (304) 766-1999 FAX: (304) 766-1949 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:23:50 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Daphne.Patai@SPANPORT.UMASS.EDU Subject: call for papers I am posting this message for a colleague: CALL FOR PAPERS ON WOMEN PHYSICIANS/HEALERS. Lilian R. Furst invites proposals for a collection of essays on women physicians/ healers. Brief proposals for 25 page essays are welcome in any national literature, any period, as well as in film, folklore, history, or the visual arts. Topics may be on a single text, a group of texts, a theme or an issue, including non-traditional healers (but not nurses). Publication will be by a university press, but essays should be accessible to general readers. Send proposal, with a vita, to Lilian R. Furst, Curriculum of Comparative Literature, 341 Dey Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C. 27599-3150. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:28:06 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Resent-From: Wendy Thomas Comments: Originally-From: Wendy Thomas From: Wendy Thomas Subject: Women's Libraries Conference ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- FYI: Please post or publish this notice: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S LIBRARY CONFERENCE SCHLESINGER LIBRARY, RADCLIFFE COLLEGE June 1994 The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America , Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A., as part of the celebration of its 50th anni versary, is planning an international women's library conference for mid-June 1 994. If you would like to be on the mailing list for conference information, s end your name and address, and a FAX number if you have one, to: International Women's Library Conference Schlesinger Library Radcliffe College 10 Garden Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 U.S.A. ******************************************************************************* Wendy Thomas Public Service Librarian Schlesinger Library WENDY@HARVARDA.HARVARD.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:26:09 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Suzanne K Damarin Subject: Re: femininity and toys In-Reply-To: <9211200357.AA19415@quark.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>; from "PGRAHAME%BENTLEY.BITNET@OHSTVMA.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU" at Nov 19, 92 10:55 pm I would be interested in this topic as well. There is a paper by Dyanne Tracy in *sex roles* (the journal) around 1987 as I recall; as I recall, Tracy does not discuss femininity per se, but documents the prevalence of various types of toys in the homes of young girls and young boys. Suzanne sdamari@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:12:53 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Siang-Cheng Lim Subject: Need Help! Hi folks! I'm currently working on a political science project that deals with global communications between women in industrialized and developing countries. I need some info as to the names and actions of some international organizations or cooperations which are attempting to assist women development in Third World countries, apart from international conferences that they hold. I do have some data though but they are not sufficient and not up-to-date. I also need info on whether there is email communication occurring between the women in these countries. I really need some help with this project! I thank everyone who has read this and I hope that they pass this "cry-for-help" message around! Thanks so much. Mabel Lim easu281@orion.oac.uci.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 10:02:34 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: J.BERG@ACAD.SUFFOLK.EDU Subject: Re: femininity and toys I like that: "over the years girls choice of toys has grown larger while boys choices have become increasingly more restructive"-- "restructive", I take it, is short for "restricted and destructive"-- Good word! --John Berg j.berg@acad.suffolk.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 10:10:21 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PHIL7@JETSON.UH.EDU Subject: Criteria for cross-listed courses/need advice From: Cynthia Freeland/Dir. of WS, Univ. of Houston Can anyone offer us advice on developing criteria for accepting other Department's proposed cross-listed courses as counting toward our WS minor? We have a problem, for example, with Shakespeare, sometimes being taught by a feminist and sometimes being taught by a "dinosaur." Has anyone else developed criteria to be used in general or on an ad-hoc, course-by-course, basis? Part of our motivation is to solve the Shakespeare problem, but we are also working with a cultural div- ersity committee to write criteria for accepting other Departments' courses as counting toward a proposed cultural diversity requirement (which would be a revision in our core curriculum). Thanks for any advice or examples. Cynthia Freeland phil7@jetson.uh.edu (Internet) ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 13:37:28 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 Subject: Film Review of "Malcolm X" Added A review of the film "Malcolm X" was broadcast today on "The Women's Show" (WMNF-FM in Tampa) and is now available on the FILM FILELIST. To obtain a copy of this review send the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): GET FILM REV54 FILM To obtain a list of all available film reviews, send a message to the same Listserv address that says: INDEX FILM To get more than one file, put each command on a separate line: GET FILM REV6 FILM GET FILM REV14 FILM GET FILM REV39 FILM The number of files you can request on any calendar day is limited to twenty. The opinions expressed in these reviews were mine when I wrote the review and represent one woman's opinion at a particular time.We have over 1300 subscribers to WMST-L so there are probably 1299 other views. If you would like to share yours, please do NOT do so on the WMST-L itself, but send your messages to me personally at the addresses below. Thanks. Linda Linda Lopez McAlister/HYPATIA: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Women's Studies Dept. Internet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU Univ. of South Florida Bitnet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM Tampa, FL 33620 (813) 974-5531 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 13:47:20 EST Reply-To: korenman@umbc.BITNET Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Crosslisting Criteria File Earlier today, Cynthia Freeland asked about criteria for accepting courses for inclusion in the Women's Studies minor. This question has been asked several times before, and it's likely to be asked again. I'm thus thinking that it might be a good idea for me to compile a collection of policies, etc. and make them available as a WMST-L file. My school (UMBC) has such a policy (I've posted it several times on WMST-L in response to similar questions in the past), and I know that some time ago Jean Potuchek at Gettysburg posted her school's policy. If others also have policies or pieces of advice that they think might be useful for inclusion in the proposed file, please send them to me. I've rigged the reply-to header on this message so that replies should automatically come to me at UMBC (or in some cases, to me at UMDD). As soon as I have the file ready, I'll add it to the WMST-L filelist and post a notice on WMST-L letting people know how to access it. Many thanks. ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County Bitnet: korenman@umbc * * Baltimore, MD 21228-5398 * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 14:24:39 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Libbie Chute Subject: Re: Domestic Violence Stats In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 4 Nov 1992 02:08:08 MST from I just found out that I will be teaching a course on Domestic Violence next semester. The last time I was involved with the course we used Dobash and Dobash, Violence against wives, and another text I think by Williams and Money. I know Dobash and Dobash have a new book and wonder if anyone has seen or used it. I would appreciate any suggestions for texts on spouse and/or child abuse from a feminist perspective. Please answer privately unless you think others would benefit from your response. Thank you. Libbie Chute LIBBIECH@SBCCVM LIBBIECH@CCVM.SUNYSB.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 17:27:47 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: CSPRINGF@UCS.INDIANA.EDU Subject: RE: Criteria for cross-listed courses/need advice I would also like to see examples of guidelines for cross-listing. Consuelo Lopez Springfield Indiana University cspring@iubacs.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 09:28:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Gatti Subject: women's mentoring I was wondering if anyone can suggest titles on the subject of women's mentoring. Specifically, I am interested in texts focusing on women handing down domestic, social, practical lore and advice to younger generations of women or less experienced women. I would appreciate any help in this area. Susan Gatti, English Indiana University of PA, Indiana PA 15701 : SIGATTI@IUP.BITNET ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 15:39:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "ESPOSITO, JACKIE" Subject: Women's Mentoring To piggyback on Susan Gatti's request, if anyone has specific references to mentoring in higher education, I'd appreciate hearing about it. Jackie Esposito Penn State University JRE@PSULIAS.BITNET ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 15:23:50 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MEGMCLAU@UIUCVMD.BITNET Subject: French Books A friend of mine in France has asked me to post this. She is looking for books in French and available in France on incest and child sexual abuse in general. She is interested both in books for children, and in self-help and general audience books for adults, along the lines of The Courage to Heal. She knows of some books from Quebec, but they don't seem to be available in France. Please respond privately to me. Megan McLaughlin, Dept. of History, U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Bitnet: megmclau@uiuc.vmd Internet: megmclau@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 17:23:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: RHODA UNGER Subject: Survey results This is for all of you who wanted to know the results of the survey on the participation of wo feminist psychologists in women's studies. I received responses from people at 49 different institutions (thank you all) which is probably about 5% of the people on the network so please don't assumed this is a representative sample. Because it was about psychology (or because I didn't word the questions well), 23 of the people responding were psychologists (if anyone wants an email list of feminist psychologists I can probably supply it). The other disciplines represented were: physical educ. (1), librarians (2), sociology (3), English (3), philosophy (2), education (2), m nursing (1), history (3), and communications, anthropology, political science, religion, and urban planning (1 each). There were a wide range of institutions including a number in Canada, many universitities and some small colleges. Email techanology appears to cut across academic ranks. 13 of the respondents were assistant professors, 9 associate professors, 16 professors, 2 deans, 2 instructors, and 5 graduate students. They reported that 10 women's studies coordinators were from psychology, 8 from soiology, 5 from English, 4 from history, 3 from comparative literature, 2 from anthropology, 2 from political science, with 1 each from a number of other disciplines including phys. ed., religion, ecoonomics (2), education, art, communications, biology, criminal justice, German, and philosophy. Most people reported few members of psychology de- partments involved in women's studies at their institution (which leads me to believe I had a biased sample in terms of the total number of psychologists who responded). 4 people responded that no psychologists were involved, 16 said 1 was involved, 16 said 2 were involved, 5 reported 3, and only 3 respondents (one from a consortium of more than 10 institutions and one from one of the largest universities in the U.S.) indicated 5 or more psychologists were involved. Considering the large number of psychologists in academia and the large number of women psychologists, this is not a high level of involve- ment, but I do not really have a good basis of comparison. Hope this is helpful and not too long. Thanks again, Rhoda Unger unger@apollo.montclair.edu INTERNET ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 19:04:20 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara.Winkler@UM.CC.UMICH.EDU Subject: women's mentoring I'm also interested in references to mentoring in higher education. If people have citations could you please post them to the list? Thanks. Barbara Scott Winkler ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 19:14:52 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stephanie Riger Subject: shareware for Mac Can anyone give me the name, address, and phone of a shareware source for the M acIntosh? Thanks in advance, and please reply privately, Stephanie Riger u29322@UICVM.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 09:03:40 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 Subject: Re: femininity and toys In-Reply-To: note of 11/20/92 17:28 There's a documentary film put out by the National Film Board of Canada called, I think, *Playing with our Future* that deals with the construction of masculinity and femininity through toys and with the horrifying way the toy companies market them. Linda Lopez McAlister/HYPATIA: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Women's Studies Dept. Internet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU Univ. of South Florida Bitnet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM Tampa, FL 33620 (813) 974-5531 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 11:05:35 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Anne Carson Subject: women's relationships I am interested in material dealing with women's personal relationships to other women--not friendships or family relationships, but along the lines of models, images, and fandom. I am particularly interested in the areas of per- sonal heroines, admiration for other women, and fandom. Let me know if this is not stated clearly enough. Thanks. Anne Carson Olin Library Cornell University ac3x@cornellc (bitnet) ac3x@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (internet) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 09:00:29 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was fraiberg@CARSON.U.WASHINGTON.EDU From: Allison Fraiberg Subject: list of women and comedy The following is a list of comedians, titles, and texts suggested by members of the list in response to my request re:women and comedy. Many people requested a posting of the list when completed so I am sending this general posting to WMST-L rather than sending to each individual who requested a copy. I would like to thank all who offered suggestions--they were very helpful. To those who requested a copy of the syllabus when it is complete, I will keep your addresses and send it along. Thanks. Allison Fraiberg U of Washington fraiberg@u.washigton.edu Comedians: Vidoes and Sources: Lea Deloria _Wisecracks_ (Gail Singer, NFB of Canada) Kate Clinton _Women of the Night_ (HBO Video) Carol Leifer Kathy and Mo special on HBO Sue Kolinsky _Evening at the Improv_ & _Caroline's Comedy Hour_ Judy Behar on Arts & Entertainment channel Kathy & Mo Paula Poundstone's 4-week series on HBO Rita Rudner Judy Tenuta Texts: Robin Tyler Regina Barecca _They Used to Call Me Snow White... Ellen DeGeneres But I Drifted_ (Penguin, 1991?). She also Rhonda Hanson has another book on women and comedy Margaret Cho Nancy A. Walker _A Very Serious THing: WOmen's Ellen Cleghorn Humor and American Culture (Minn., 1988) Paula Poundstone ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:24:21 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Vicki Kirsch Subject: women's relationships I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for - but in the two videos produced by Olivia Records (THE CHANGER and OLIVIA'S 15TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT) there are interviews which descibe the relationships between the fans and both Chris and the Olivia Collective. Vicki Kirsch College of William and Mary vlkirs@wmvm1 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:14:43 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Erin C. Hewitt" Subject: Lesbian/Gay course I am preparing a new course that has been titled "The Psychology of Sexual Orientation". It's being offered in a psychology department and will be cross-listed in Women's Studies. I also teach a Psychology of Women that is cross-listed. I am looking for suggestions for texts/ readings for this course. Students taking this course are only required to have an Introductory Psychology course (or an intro sociology or women's studies). As well, any discussion of handling the issue of 'outness' would be appreciated. I'm a somewhat out lesbian faculty member and am doing a lot of thinking about how out to be (and how to be out) in this context. I suppose it makes a difference that I'm recently tenured and got tenure as a "known" lesbian. Erin C. Hewitt ECHEWITT@VM1.YORKU.CA ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:08:43 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: STARKEY@WVNVM.BITNET Subject: Re: femininity and toys In-Reply-To: Message of 11/19/92 at 22:55:00 from PGRAHAME@BENTLEY.BITNET The following is a list of references on toys and gender to add to the names previously sent. Sorry for the typo on "restructive", but I think you are corr ect it is both restrictive and destructive for both males and females. I am sending this to the list because a couple of others asked for references. They are not recent since it has been awhile since I wrote the paper, but they will provide historical info and names to get the student started. Herron, R. E. & Sutton-Smith, B. Child's Play (1971). Good collection of artic les on children and play. d'Heurle, A. (1979) Play and the development of the person. The Elementray Sch ool Journal, 79, p.224-234. Downs, A.C. (1983) Letters to Santa Claus: Eelementary school-age children's sex-typed toy preference in a natural setting. Sex Roles, 9, 159-163. Fagot, B.I. & Littman, I. (1975) Stability of sex role and play interests from preschool to elementary school. The Journal of Psychology, 89, 285-292. Karpoe, K.P. & Olney, R.L. (1983) The effect of boys' and girls' toys on sex-t yped play in preadolescents. Sex Roles, 9, 507-518. Lever, Janet. (1976) Sex differences in the games children play. Social Problems, 23, 478-488. Olejnik, A. B. (1979) Sex appropriate toy preferences and the bility to concept ualize toys as sex-role related. Developmental Psychology, 15, 339-340. Rheingold, H.L. & Cook, K.V. (1975) The contents of boys' and girls' rooms as an index of parents' behavior. Child Development, 46, 459-463. Richardson, J.G. & Simpson, C.H. (1982) Children, gender, and social structure An analysis of the contents of letters to Santa Claus. Child Development,53, 429-436. Liss, M. B. (1981) Patterns of toy play: An analysis of sex differences. SexRoles, 7, 1143-1150. Rosenberg, B.G. & Sutton-Smith, B. A revised conception of masculine-feminine differences in play activities. The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 96,165-170. Sutton-Smith, B. & Rosenberg, B.G. (1961) Sixty years of historical change in the game perferences of American Children. Journal of American Folklore, 74, 17-46. Sutton-Smith, B. & Rosenberg, B.G. (1963) Development of sex differences in pla y choices during adolescence. Child Development, 34, 119-126. Also suggest your student look at some of the women and science literature. There is some research to indicate that children learn science outside of the classroom. This is important because sciencists tend to chose their careers by the age of 12! Therefore, play and toys appear to contribute to their choice. Hope this is helpful. Please contact me if you need more help. Sandra L. Starkey, Ph.D. West Virginia Graduate College Starkey@WVNVM Starkey@WVNVM.WVNET.edu Voice: (304) 766-1999 FAX: (304) 766-1949 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:05:32 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Allan Hunter Subject: Yay! I'm in print! Some time in summer of 1991, Arnie Kahn posted a call for papers on this list for a forthcoming Special Issue on Heterosexuality to be published by PSYCHOLOGY AND FEMINISM, a relatively new feminist journal. I am pleased (some of my friends might be ready to say disgustingly pleased) to announce that as a result of that posting and its intersection with my interests, I'M IN PRINT! [Allan Hunter. "Same Door, Different Closet: A Heterosexual Sissy's Coming-out Party". _Feminism and Psychology_ 2 (3), October 1992] -- it's out now, a little later than the official publication date. I'm holding it in my hands and I still can't believe it's not just a figment of my imagination... My first professional article is in very good company. It's about time feminist theory problematized heterosexuality rather than taking it for granted or dismissing it one-dimensionally. I'm gonna spend the evening reading the other theorists and feminists describing their personal experiences with heterosexuality and how it has impacted on their feminism and vice versa. This is such an honor. (Because of the content and the theoretical company, not just because I'm a published person; I'm sufficiently cynical about privilege to be able to feel less than honored if that were all there were to it). Thank you, list. Thank you, Arnie Kahn. - allan hunter ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:11:51 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sharon Jacobson HPERD Subject: Re: Yay! In-Reply-To: <9211240005.AA28262@moe.coe.uga.edu>; from "Allan Hunter" at Nov 23, 92 7:05 pm Congratulations!!!!! I know the feeling. I just got my first professional article accepted i nto the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services. They are doing a special issue on methodological issues in research on gays and lesbians. They are still accepting papers through the end of December if you are interested. Two copies of the paper should be sent to Carol Tully, The University of Georgia, School of Social Work, Tucker Hall, Athens, GA 30602 Congratulations again and best of luck in the future. Sharon Jacobson jacobson@moe.coe.uga.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:51:45 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lucy Candib MD Subject: mentoring A very early article on the subject in Signs, perhaps the first or second volume, maybe 10 years ago, by Jean Speizer. Casting doubt on the subject. Lucy M. Candib, M.D. Family Health and Social Service Center 875 Main St. Worcester, Massachusetts 01610 508-756-3528 lcandib@umassmed.ummed.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 16:20:00 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Roberts Subject: RE: Criteria for cross-listed courses/need advice I too would like to have info re how this is handled and see written policies. Barbara Roberts, AThabasca University barbarar@cs.athabascau.ca ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 08:18:12 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sharon Jacobson HPERD Subject: hearing impaired I am trying to obtain information about a national support organization that exists for gays and lesbians with hearing impairments. Is anyone familiar with this group and how I can contact them? Please respond privately to jacobson@moe.coe.uga.edu. p.s. Does anyone know if there is a group for lesbians and gays at Gallaudet University? ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 07:35:27 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jonelle DePetro Subject: patriarchal defense Dear List Members: Perhaps you can help me point a student to the appropriate sources. The student is looking for a DEFENSE of patriarchy or patriarchal institutions. I am still pretty unfamiliar with the literature in this area. My guess would be that most 'defenses' consist in a denial that social institutions ARE patriarchal. Are there general reasons why one might want to defend patriarchal institutions? The student has suggested that maybe World War II wouldn't have been won had the U.S. military not been 'patriarchal' in nature - as an example. Does anyone know of a good source that might discuss such issues? He is interested in both 'extremist' positions and the most reasonable defenses possible. Thank you in advance for your help. Please reply privately if you think this is not appropriate list discussion. Jonelle DePetro Eastern Illinois University Department of Philosophy cfjmd1@ux1.cts.eiu.edu -- ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 08:43:01 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Kimberly J. Cook" Subject: RE: patriarchal defense >Please reply privately if you think this >is not appropriate list discussion. I would be very interested to have these references as well... please share with the list! Thanks! Kimberly J. Cook, K_Cook@unhh.unh.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 08:59:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: SHAVER@DENISON.BITNET Subject: Women's Studies Position ************************************************************ DENISON UNIVERSITY Director of Women's Studies Assistant/Associate Professor to serve as Director of Women's Studies. Beginning August 1993. Three-year renewable appointment; teaching faculty; tenurable. Responsible for operation of interdepartmental academic program in Women's Studies, including coordination of departmental offerings and consultation on hiring of faculty. The progrm offers a major and a minor. Ph.D. required; degree in traditional discipline or in Women's Studies. Teaching experience and demonstrated commitment to feminist scholarship required, with teaching experience in Women's Studies preferred. Teach two courses per semester including one interdisciplinary introduction to Women's Studies. Chair Women's Studies Committee. Strong teaching, advising, adminsitrative and interpersonal skills essential. Salary competitive. Rank dependent on credentials. Send letter of interest, curriculum vitae, transcripts, and three letters of reference to Professor Anne Shaver, Chair, Search Committee for the Director of Women's Studies, Denison University, Granville, OH 43023 by February 1, 1993. Consideration of applications will begin on that date and continue until position is filled. Denison is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Denison University is a private, liberal arts college located in a scenic village 30 minutes from Columbus, Ohio. The Women's Studies program is among the oldest in the nation and Denison was the first institution to adopt a Minority Studies/Women's Studies General Education requirement for graduation. A Ford Foundation study conducted by Formative Evaluation Research Associates recognized Denison as a leader in mainstreaming Women's Studies throughout the curriculum. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 09:01:18 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MFIALA@UMKCVAX1.BITNET Subject: Defense of the Patriarchy What about Camille Paglia's _Sexual Personae_? That seems to be her basic thesis? Mindy Fiala mfiala@Vax1.UMKC.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 10:08:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: RHODA UNGER Subject: Some helpful information and a query Alan's comment about his first publication and Erin's questions about reading material on the psychology of lesbian identity reminded me that no one on the list (as far as I know) has offered list readers info on the new journal Feminism & Psychology. I have just received a flyer offering new subscribers a 1993 subscription for 19 pounds (reduced from its usual 26) and back sub- scriptions to the first two years at 12 pounds each (sorry, I do not know what the current rate of exchange is for U.S. and Canadians subscribers). You can order from: Sage Publications Ltd. 6 Bonhill St., London EC2A 4PU, UK. This journal should be of interest to people outside of psychology since it is less empirically driven and more informally written (without sacrificing important ideas) than U. S. journals. Celia Kitzinger (one of the editors) has written several important articles on lesbian and heterosexual identity issues that I would recommend as readings for a course as well as her award winning book "The social construction of lesbianism." Finally, to get to my query, I have collected about 25 email addresses of feminist psychologists on the list plus some others that are "personal" email correspondents. I rashly offered to share these, but I am now concerned that this has the possibility of becoming a "mailing list" over which we have no control. Does anyone know the ettiquette or policies involved in this kind of situation? Thanks, Rhoda Unger unger@apollo.montclair.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 10:15:37 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ACS_JENNI@JMUVAX.BITNET Subject: Finding a fact I saw this fact on wmst a month or so ago but counldn't reply at the time-my computer and I were fighting. Does anyone know where this fact came from? I'd really love a source--I'd like to use it in an upcoming presentation. thanks in advance. Statement: Full-time working women earn just 71% as much income as their male counterparts. You can respond to be privately. Thanks. Jenni Leister ACS_JENNI@JMUVAX ACS_JENNI@VAX1.ACS.JMU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 10:10:23 LCL Reply-To: RGINZBERG@EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruth Ginzberg Subject: Re: patriarchal defense For a philosophical perspective, try Leo Strauss, ON TYRANNY. Leo Strauss was the teacher & mentor of Allan Bloom & other so-called "Strausseans" (whose pt of view was articulated most clearly for the unanointed masses by Mr. Bloom in THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND). Strauss's original argument is interesting & scarey, partly because Strauss was, himself, a thoughtful & intelligent political philosopher (though WRONG, but *INTERESTINGLY* wrong, not *STUPIDLY* wrong). ------------------------ Ruth Ginzberg Philosophy Department;Wesleyan University;USA ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 10:12:28 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Wayne J. Villemez" Subject: defense of patriarchy While certainly not intended as such (I think), David Gilmore's Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity (Yale, 1990) could easily be read as/developed into a defense of patriarchy. It is an anthropological cross-cultural study of "manhood as an achieved status" and concludes (among many other things): "The data show a strong connection between the social organization of production and the intensity of the male image. That is, manhood ideologies are adaptations to social environments, not simply autonomous mental projections or psychic fantasies writ large. The harsher the environment and the scarcer the resources the more manhood is stressed as inspiration and goal. This correlation could not be more clear, concrete, or compelling....a systemic relationship in which gender ideology reflects the material conditions of life." (pp224-225) I've not seen any "defenses" but it seems that any academic defense developed would have to start with this sort of study, so it may be a good beginning for your student. wjv +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | Wayne J. Villemez | | Dept. of Sociology University of Connecticut | | BITNET: VILLEMEZ@UCONNVM INTERNET: UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU | | PHONE: 203 (486-0394) FAX: 203 (486-6356) | +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 08:50:29 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Bryan Strong: Psychology / UC-Santa Cruz" Subject: Re: Lesbian/Gay course For sexual orientation course, David McWhirter et al., Homosexuality/ Heterosexuality: Concepts of Sexual Orientation, NY: Oxford University Press, 1990 is excellent. Henry Minton, ed., Gay and Lesbian Studies: The Emergence of a Discipline has just been published by Harrington Park Press and may be of interest. Regarding women's psychology class, Hilary Lips, Sex & Gender: An Intro- duction, has just come out in its second editon, published by Mayfield Publishing Co. It is excellent, written with an engaging style. Bryan Strong Psychology Board of Studies University of California-Santa Cruz bartleby@cats.UCSC.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 12:13:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PGRAHAME@BENTLEY.BITNET Subject: Re: patriarchal defense look at Steven Goldberg's "The Inevitability of Patriarchy". the work of Lionel tiger also comes to mind. KGrahame "PGRahame@Bentley" ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 14:15:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: GOLUBAN@VAX2.CONCORDIA.CA Subject: Re: patriarchal defense You might also try George Gilder's Sexual Suicide. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 14:22:32 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: peelle@KENYON.EDU Subject: CITATION ON JUDITH BUTLER A library patron has asked me to locate an article or chapter by Judith Butler that sums up her "Gender Trouble". It was supposedly published in a journal or book titled inside/outside. So far, the only periodical I can find with that title is an Indian design magazine and none of the books with that title in Books in Print seem to be likely candidates. Can anyone help us? THANKS!! I've also checked Women Studies Abstracts, MLA, PsychLit, Academic Index. Jami Peelle Special Collections Librarian/Women's Studies Librarian Kenyon College Internet PEELLE@KENYON.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 13:32:24 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: NAME Subject: Re: CITATION ON JUDITH BUTLER I don't know if Judith Butler's article is printed here, but the book your patron is referring to may be INSIDE/OUT: LESBIAN THEORIES, GAY THEORIES edited by Diana Fuss (Routledge, 1991). Good luck! Kristin Esterberg (kesterberg@vax1.umkc.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 14:52:51 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 Subject: femininity and toys I gave the wrong title for the film about toys. It's "Toying with Their Future" and is indeed distributed by the National Film Board of Canada. It's a 30 min. documentary directed by Claire Nardon. NFBC has an office in New York City and orders for sales/sales previews or rent alsgo to National Film Board of Canada Library, 350 North Pennsylvania Ave.,Bo x 7600. Wilkes-Barre, PA 18773-7600. 1-800-542-2164. Linda Lopez McAlister/HYPATIA: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Women's Studies Dept. Internet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU Univ. of South Florida Bitnet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM Tampa, FL 33620 (813) 974-5531 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 15:50:53 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 Subject: SAGE Does anyone know a telephone number for SAGE: A Scholarly Journal for Black Women? If so please send it to me privately. Thanks. Linda Lopez McAlister/HYPATIA: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Women's Studies Dept. Internet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU Univ. of South Florida Bitnet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM Tampa, FL 33620 (813) 974-5531 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 14:10:06 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ALB@NAUVAX.BITNET Subject: Re: CITATION ON JUDITH BUTLER The book you are looking for is Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories, edited by Diana Fuss(Routledge: 1991). It is an interesting collection, many of the papers are accessible to undergraduate students but it is really good for all of us. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 16:43:11 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Chris Delbes Subject: Feminist Marriage I am starting a study on marriage and feminists and would appreciate any help. The idea is in its very first stage -- brainstorming! I wonder how much, if at all, heterosexual women have to compromise in terms of her feminist ideals once they marry men. I understand compromise is a part of any relations hips, but I am interested specifically if it harder for a married woman to have strong feminist beliefs and values. How much does she have to give in both personally and politically, if at all? If anyone has any ideas fro readings, personal interview, or know of anyone who has experienced difficulties or even divorce, please contact me privately. And if someone out there has left their husbands for another woman and is willing to talk about it, I would certainly appreciate? Thanks in adavnce. Chris Delboni (cdelbes@american.edu) Phone/Fax (202) 363-5694 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 18:42:42 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: STARKEY@WVNVM.BITNET Subject: Re: SAGE In-Reply-To: Message of 11/24/92 at 15:50:53 from DLLAFAA@CFRVM.BITNET Sage's telephone number in Beverly Hills, CA is 213-274-8003. Sandra L. Starkey, Ph.D. West Virginia Graduate College Starkey@WVNVM Starkey@WVNVM.WVNET.edu Voice: (304) 766-1999 FAX: (304) 766-1949 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 18:43:50 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara.Winkler@UM.CC.UMICH.EDU Subject: citation on judith butler Butler has an article "Imitation and Gender Insubordination" in the anthology Inside/Out, Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories edited by Diana Fuss. This may be what you are looking for. Barbara Scott Winkler Ann Arbor ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 18:59:31 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: STRETCH OR DROWN/ EVOLVE OR DIE Subject: Re: patriarchal defense Although if you read Gilder's Sexual Suicide you must read Susan Faludi's critique of it in Backlash. Laurie Finke finkel@kenyon.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 22:56:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: New List: Sexuality Discussion list - SSSSTALK I just received the following announcement about a new sexuality discussion list, SSSSTALK, that may be of interest to some WMST-L subscribers. For more information, please write to the listowner, Betty Harris, whose e-mail addresses are listed at the end of the message. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ************************************************************* SSSSTALK on LISTSERV@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU or LISTSERV@TAMVM1.BITNET You are invited to join the SSSSTALK listserv. The main purpose of this list is to provide a network through which professional researchers, clinicians, educators and students in the field of sexuality can communicate freely, professionally, and efficiently. If you wish to subscribe to the SSSSTALK list, send this command to LISTSERV@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU (on internet) or LISTSERV@TAMVM1 (on bitnet): SUB SSSSTALK Yourfistname Yourlastname If you send it in a mail message, make sure that this is the only text in the mail message. After you have subscribed to the list, mail all postings to either SSSSTALK@TAMVM1.BITNET or SSSSTALK@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU If you need more information on using a listserv, send me a note at BAH6017@TAMVENUS.BITNET or BAH6017@VENUS.TAMU.EDU and I will send you some information to help you get started. Owner: Betty Harris (Listowner) Bitnet: BAH6017@TAMVENUS Internet: BAH6017@VENUS.TAMU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1992 11:11:26 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lauraine LeBlanc Subject: DIRECTOR'S POSITION I have been asked by my program to post the following: DIRECTOR OF WOMEN'S STUDIES, EMORY UNIVERSITY We are seeking a senior level person to direct an innovative, interdisciplinary graduate amd undergraduate program in Women's Studies. Specialization and discipline open, but excellence in scholarship and teaching a must; experience in developing and administering a women's studies, or other interdisciplinary program highly desirable. Please send a letter of application, curriculum vita, materials and three letters of reference to: Search Committee, Women's Studies Program, Emory University Atlanta, Georgia 30322 We will begin considering applications December 1 1992. Emory is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1992 10:20:59 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cheryl Tallan Subject: Jewish women's writings I composed this list of Jewish medieval women's writings for a friend of mine at York, Pauline Head, who is teaching a course in medieval women writers. I thought that other people who teach similar courses might also be interested. If anybody wants more information on Howard Adelman's paper, he can be contacted at hadelman@smith.smith.edu. For articles in Hebrew, contact me. Anybody that has any other articles, I'd love to hear from them. Writings of Jewish Women in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. General Articles Colette Sirat. 1990. "Les femmes juives et l'ecriture au Moyen Age. Les nouveau cahier 101 (ete 1990): 14-23. Howard Adelman. forthcoming. "The Education and Literary Activities of Jewish Women in Italy during the Renaissance and Counter Reformation. Poems Sarah, early seventh century Yemen. In Sondra Henry and Emily Taitz. 1988. Written out of History. Sunnyside: Biblio P., 62-64. The wife of Dunash ibn Labrat, tenth century Spain. In Shelomo Goitein. 1988. A Mediterranean Society. Vol. 5. Berkeley: U. of California P. 468-470. Qasmuna bint Isma'il Nagrilla, eleventh century Spain. In James Nichols. 1981. "The Arabic Verses of Qasmunah bint Isma'il Bagdala. International Journal of Middle East Studies. 13.2. 155-8. Also James Bellamy. 1983. "Qasmunah the Poetess: Who was She?" Journal of the American Oriental Society. 103.2: 423-4. Devora Ascarelli, sixteenth century Italy. In Henry and Taitz, 127-130. Aso in Marsha Spiegel and Deborah Kremsdorf. 1987. Women Speak to God. San Diego: Women's Institute for Continuing Jewish Education. 19. Roselle Fishels, 1586, Poland. in Spiegel and Kremsdorf. 17. Sarra Copia Sullam, 1590, Venice. In Spiegel and Kremsdorf. 18. Letters Malika, eleventh or twelfth century Byzantium. In Franz Kobler, ed. 1953. A Treasury of Jewish Letters. Vol. 1. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society. 145-6. Donna Sarah, probably thirteenth century Italy. In Kobler, vol. 1. 233-4. Anna, 1508, Rome. In Jacob Marcus, ed. 1974. A Jew in the Medieval World. New York: Atheneum. 399-400. Rachel, 1567, Jerusalem. In Kobler, vol. 2. 364-367. Esperanza Malchi, 1599, Constantinople. In Kobler, vol.2. 391-92. Five letters from women in Prague, 1619. In Kobler, vol. 2. 464-474. Sarra Copia Sullam, 1621, Venice. In Kobler, vol. 2. 442-448. Religious Writings Rebecca Tiktiner, early sixteenth century, Prague or Poland. In Henry and Taitz. 92-100. Sarra Copia Sullam, early seventeenth century, Venice. In Henry and Taitz. 130-2. Memoirs Gluckel of Hameln, seventeenth century, Germany. The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln. Trans. Beth-Zion Abrahams. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1963. Articles on women's devotional prayers from the late sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, containing examples, from western and eastern Europe. All of these articles are by Chava Weissler. 1987. "Traditional Piety of Ashkenazic Women." In Jewish Spirituality. Vol. 2. Ed. Arthur Green. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 245-75. 1989. "'For Women and Men who are Like Women': The Construction of Gender in Yiddish Devotional Literature." Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 5.2: 7-24. 1991. "Woman as High Priest: A Kabbalistic Prayer in Yiddish for Lighting Sabbath Candles." Jewish History 5.1: 9-26. 1991. "Prayers in Yiddish and the Religious World of Ashkenazic Women. In Jewish Women in Historical Perspective. Ed. Judith Baskin. Detroit: Wayne State U.P. 159-181. Cheryl Tallan ctallan@epas.utoronto.ca ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1992 11:44:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pat Murphy Subject: Ronnie Steinberg talk Dr. Ronnie Steinberg will be Speaking at SUNY Geneseo (near Rochester) on Thursday Dec 3 on _the Social Construction of Skill: Making Women's Work Visi ble_ Women's Studies scholars in the area are invited to attend and network. Geneseo is an easy drive from Buffalo, Rochester, & Syracuse N.Y. For more information contact pat Murphy. Murphy@geneso.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1992 11:11:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Chris Delbes Subject: Feminist Marriage Thank you very, very much to all of you who have responded to my request on feminist marriage. I have enjoyed very much all of your comments and will contact each of you privately as I go along. I will look into the bias of my statement, as many of you have mentioned. Thanks again. Any other lead or comment will be truly appreciated. Please send it to me directly. Chris Delboni (cdelbes@american.edu) Phone/Fax (202) 363-5694 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1992 09:47:54 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Fran Michel Subject: Re: CITATION ON JUDITH BUTLER In-Reply-To: <9211242127.AB08647@Willamette.EDU> Try INSIDE/OUT ed. Diana Fuss (Routledge) --Frann Michel Willamette U. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1992 10:29:00 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was KLAWITTER@MAX.U.WASHINGTON.EDU From: KLAWITTER@U.WASHINGTON.EDU Subject: Re: patriarchal defense For an economic defense of patriarchy, try Gary Becker's _A Treatise on the Family_ (1981, Harvard U. Press). You can skip most or all of the math and still get his argument (gender differences are efficient). Marieka Klawitter klawitter@u.washington.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1992 15:05:50 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Crow Subject: Introductory texts for Sociology and The Fear that Binds Us Hello - I would like suggestions, sent to me privately please, regarding titles of introductory texts in sociology that incorporate gender, race, and class. Also, I would like to know if anyone has used the film, "The Fear that Binds Us" in your classes. I am interested in how your students responded to the film. Thank you, Barbara Crow BCRHC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1992 08:26:26 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: peelle@KENYON.EDU Subject: Thanks for Butler Citation Thanks to all who responded to Butler question. -Jami Peelle Kenyon College PEELLE@KENYON.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1992 15:58:19 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pamela J Olano-1 Subject: List server addresses In-Reply-To: (null) I am looking for two list server internet addresses: SAPPHO and GAYNET if anyone has these, please send them to me at my personal address olano001@staff.tc.umn.edu Thanks ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1992 14:52:55 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: hcbolak@CATS.UCSC.EDU Subject: Re: Introductory texts for Sociology and The Fear that Binds Us The book titled "Sociology" which recently came out in its fourth edition by Macmillan looks good. It is coauthored by Beth Hess, Elizabeth Markson and Peter Stein. It seems to have a decent focus on the cultural intersections of race, gender, class and sexuality. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1992 15:06:42 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: hcbolak@CATS.UCSC.EDU Subject: Re: Lesbian/Gay course For the class on "The Psychology of Sexual Orientation," I would strongly suggest "Lesbian Psychologies" edited by a collective. It came out in 1987 and I believe won the Div 35 book award. I also like to use experiential pieces to help students understand the experience of being gay or coming out. "Original Coming Out Stories" is a useful anthology. There are also a couple of good pieces in a book of critical/creative writings by women of color titled "Making face/making soul" edited by Gloria Anzaldua (1990). The film "Out in Suburbia" is a decent film that I have used in my Psychology of Women class while talking about lesbianism. On heterosexuality, I use Wendy Hollways's work on sexual discourses. She has a piece in "Changing the Subject" which I believe is co-edited by V.Walkerdine and others. Of course, Adrienne Rich's stuff on compulsory heterosexaulity is always a classic. Finally, I have found Sheila Kitzinger's book "Women's Experience" Sex" to be a very readable book as well. Some students critique it as having a white bias and others because it still priviliges heterosexuality. But she does include useful stuff on lesbianism which I understand was written by her daughter Celia Kitzinger who of course has written on lesbianism elsewhere as well. When I talk about sexuality, I try to get the students to see the difference between an essentializing perspective and social/cultural constructionist perspective. I hope this helps. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1992 09:39:49 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DAVIDSET@SNYONEVA.CC.ONEONTA.EDU Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS: PHOEBE, an Interdisciplinary Journal of Feminist Scholarship, Theory, and Aesthetics, seeks articles for Vol. IV, whose theme is Gender, Nationalism, and Colonialism. Deadline for this issue: Dec. 18, 1992. Deadline for the following issue: April 20, 1993. Submissions on any feminist subject welcome, as well as poetry, short fiction, and reproducible art work. PHOEBE is the official women's studies journal for the State University of New York. Send manuscripts to Kathleen O'Mara, Editor, PHOEBE, Women's Studies Dept., SUNY-Oneonta, Oneonta, NY 13820. Inquiries on e-mail may be addressed to Terry Davidson DAVIDSET@SNYONEVA.CC.ONEONTA.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1992 10:06:43 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosemary Feal Subject: Senior Position in WST THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SUSAN B. ANTHONY CENTER FOR WOMEN'S STUDIES The Susan B. Anthony Center seeks a distinguished senior feminist scholar. Field open. Preference given to scholars whose interdisciplinary work focuses on the interactions of race and ethnicity with gender. Tenured appointment with named chair in Women's Studies. Send letter of application, CV, and names of referees to Susan B. Anthony Center Search Committee 538 Lattimore Hall Univ. of Rochester, NY 14627 Applications due Feb. 1, 1993 WE ESPECIALLY SEEK NOMINATIONS FOR THIS POSITION: We will then contact the nominees directly. Send nomination via e-mail to RSFL@troi.cc.rochester.edu *** Rosemary G. Feal, for the search committee Univ. of ROchester Rochester, NY 14627 RSFL@troi.cc.rochester.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1992 22:43:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PGRAHAME@BENTLEY.BITNET Subject: Thanks To all the subscribers who sent references for books, articles, and films on toys and gender, many many THANKS! It was a great help. You've inspired me to think about including attention to this topic in my course on consumer culture. --Peter pgrahame@bentley.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1992 22:51:33 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: WOMENCTR@MAINE.BITNET Subject: Assistance needed. We are requesting assistance for a student. She is looking for information on the subject of "Feminist Standpoint Theory" as discussed by Sandra Harding in her book "Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?" She seeks references leading to other authors who may have written to this subject. As our library seems to be lacking in this respect, we have decided to post this request to the list. Please respond privately to the Women's Center and not to the list. Thanks very much, University of Southern Maine Women's Center. Note: No flames please, like one instance we remember. We too wish her to do her own work, but she needs to find some- where to look first. USMWC. Womenctr@Maine.Bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1992 23:57:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PGRAHAME@BENTLEY.BITNET Subject: Re: Assistance needed. I urge your student to look at Dorothy E. Smith, "Sociology from Women's Experience: A Reaffirmation," in _Sociological Theory_ 10:1 Spring 1992, for a particularly productive way of dealing with issues of standpoint, and for going beyond seeing this as an epistemological/perspectival issue. -- Peter Grahame pgrahame@bentley.bitnet PS: it's pp. 88 - 98 of that volume ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1992 10:39:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: dl81 Subject: Re: Women's Studies Position In-Reply-To: <9211241357.AA25750@umd5.umd.edu> Denison announcement raises questions of responsibility and solidarity among WS practitioners as feminists--don't know answers, but am certain we need to think about it. How do we feel about posting/applying for positions that arise as a result of current backlash forms, in which vacancies occur because veteran feminist scholars are denied tenure or contract renewals or have been harrassed into leaving? Should we start paying attention to that? How can we know? Are unwitting scabs innocent? Is it our responsibility to find out before posting/applying? Is it a matter of well, somebody's going to get the job, why not me? A classic personal-IS-political scenario... DEB (DL81@umail.umd.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1992 09:55:25 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PHIL7@JETSON.UH.EDU Subject: Re: Assistance needed. Dear U of S.Maine Women's Center: I'm replying to the list because I'm having trouble sending to Bitnet addresses. We have a reading group here on feminist epistemology and are actually having some difficulty ourselves (as faculty, many in philosophy or social sciences) uj understanding feminist standpoint theory. There is more on this in Harding's earlier book The Science Question in Feminism. See the references there to Dorothy Smith and Nancy Harsock. Also see the Hartsock essay in Feminism/ Postmodernism ed. by Linda Nicholson. On this approach we are also reading Donna Haraway's essay "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism an d the Privilege of Partial Perspective," included as Ch. 9 in her book Simian s, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (Routledge: 1991). Sorry for the typos. Regards, Cynthia Freeland/Phil. and W.S. phil7@jetson.uh.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1992 16:30:20 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Daphne.Patai@SPANPORT.UMASS.EDU Subject: query on rape I recently read that one out of every two American women will be raped in her lifetime. Does anyone know where such statistics come from? I would like to have some reliable (?) figures on rape, also on racial/ethnic breakdown both in terms of perpetrators and victims, and any info about sex/age of victims. Can anyone point me to reliable sources? I realize the difficulty of assessing the extent of this particular crime; how, then, are these one-out-of-two (1 out of 4 is another figure I've frequently seen) figures arrived at? thanks very much. Daphne.Patai@spanport.umass.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1992 16:56:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: John Kellermeier Subject: Re: query on rape Daphne, Following is a list of "Statistics for Men" that I borrowed from Brotherpeace for our local Men Confronting Sexsim group. These statistics all have brief references. I hope these are helpful. John ----------------------------------------------------------------- STATISTICS FOR MEN 1) 1 in 4 women in a relationship with a man are beaten regularly by that man. (Gelles 1979) 2) 1/2 to 2/3 of all women in relationships with men are hit on at least one occasion by their partner. (Gelles 1979; Maria Roy, "Abusive Partner") 3) 1 in 3 women are sexually assaullifetime. (U.S. Department of Justice) 4) Battering is the leading cause of injury to women in the United States, exceeding rapes, muggings, and even automobile accidents. (William French Smith, U.S. Attorney General, 1983) 5) From 1,500 to 4,000 women annually are beaten to death by their intimate partner or ex-partner. (Uniform Crime Reports 1987; Time September 1983) 6) 4,375,000 women estimated raped in 1981. That's 12,000 women raped per day, or more than one every eight seconds. (Time, September 1983) 7) Men commit 95% of all assaults on spouses. (National Crime Survey: Department of Justice, Report to the Nation on Crime and Justice) 8) Nine out of ten murdered women are murdered by men. Four out of five are murdered at home. 30% are murdered by husbands or lovers. (Ann Jones, Women Who Kill, 1980; Uniform Crime Reports) 9) In the United States, a woman is more likely to be assaulted, injured, raped, or killed by a male partner than by any other type of assailant. (Browne and Williams, "Resource Availability", 1987) 10) Abusive men who kill their partners serve prison terms averaging two to six years. Women who kill their partners, usually in self-defense, serve an average of fifteen years. (Statistics, National Clearinghouse, 1988) Men! Let's end the war on women now. ------------------------------------------------------------------ * * * * * * * John Kellermeier +----------+ * * * * * * * * Department of Mathematics | Fight | * Bisexual * SUNY Plattsburgh | Racism | * * * * Plattsburgh, New York 12901 | Fight | * Pride * (518) 564-4134 | Rape | * * * * +----------+ * * * BITNET: kellerjh@snyplava * INTERNET: kellerjh@splava.cc.plattsburgh.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1992 17:02:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: John Kellermeier Subject: Re: Query on rape Date sent: 27-NOV-1992 17:01:16 On the list os statistics for men #3 should be 4) 1 in 3 women are sexually assaulted or raped in their lifetime. (U.S. Department of Justice) John kellerjh@snyplava ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1992 19:07:39 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dan Tompkins Subject: March of Dimes A few weeks ago there was a posting to the effect that the March of Dimes reports that wife-beating is a major cause of birth defect. Then some postings disputing this. Then nothing. Is there any new news on whether the March of Dimes made the report, and whether it has any kind of validity? Daniel Tompkins, Dept. of Greek and Roman Classics, Temple U., Phila PA 19122 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1992 19:14:05 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PHIL7@JETSON.UH.EDU Subject: Re: Query on Rape >From the National Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Washington D.C. (202) 438-7165: People from two months to 97 years have been raped. Victimization rates were hi ghest among women aged 16-34. Based on reports to the police, 16 rapes are atte mpted and 10 women are raped every hour (FBI Uniform Crime Report 1989). They give the statistic that one in three women will be raped in her lifetime and credit it to the Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women, 1985. >From another source (U.S> Bureau of Justice; Newsweek, July 23, 1990): Chances that a white victim was raped by a white man: 78% Chances that a black victim was raped by a black man: 70% See especially Robin Warshaw, I Never Called It Rape (1988) for statistics on acquaintance rape. In this category women 18-19 (first semester college freshmen) are at highest risk, and alcohol is a major factor. I have more info, write me if you want. Cynthia Freeland phil7@jetson.uh.edu PS: We are writing a Campus Sexual ASsault Policy for the Univ. of Houston. I would like to hear from anyone else about such policies. Thanks. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1992 12:55:58 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara.Winkler@UM.CC.UMICH.EDU Subject: Feminist Standpoint Theory In addition to article by Nancy Hartsock already mentioned by others, I recommend Patricia Hill Collins, "Toward an Afrocentric Feminist Epistemology," and other articles in her book, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Conciousness and the Politics of Empowerment. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1992 16:42:55 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 Subject: New Film Review Added A double review of "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York" and "Aladdin" was broadcast today on "The Women's Show," a weekly feminist radio magazine on WMNF-FM in Tampa, and can now be retrieved from the FILM FILELIST. To obtain a copy of this review send the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): GET FILM REV55 FILM To obtain a list of all available film reviews, send a message to the same Listserv address that says: INDEX FILM To get more than one file, put each command on a separate line: GET FILM REV6 FILM GET FILM REV14 FILM GET FILM REV39 FILM The number of files you can request on any calendar day is limited to twenty. The opinions expressed in these reviews were mine when I wrote the review and represent one woman's opinion at a particular time.We have over 1300 subscribers to WMST-L so there are probably 1299 other views. If you would like to share yours, please do NOT do so on the WMST-L itself, but send your messages to me personally at the addresses below. Thanks. Linda Linda Lopez McAlister/HYPATIA: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Women's Studies Dept. Internet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU Univ. of South Florida Bitnet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM Tampa, FL 33620 (813) 974-5531 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1992 17:24:31 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BONDURAN@UNCG.BITNET Subject: query on rape The Journal of Social Issues, volume 48, number 1, 1992 is devoted to adult sexual assault. It has many good articles that discuss incidence, race, ethnicity, and prevalence rates. Barrie Bondurant UNCG Bonduran@uncg Bonduran@iris.uncg.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1992 10:57:48 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Bryan Strong: Psychology / UC-Santa Cruz" Subject: Re: sex role/gender role The person most responsible for making the shift from sex roles to gender roles is Rhoda Unger, who wrote "Toward a Redefinition of Sex and Gender." American Psychologist 34 (1979): 1085-1094. Bryan Strong Psychology Board of Studies University of California-Santa Cruz bartleby@cats.UCSC.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1992 13:34:27 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PHIL7@JETSON.UH.EDU Subject: Feminist Law Lists? I am inquiring for a friend whether anyone knows of any electronic lists for feminist legal theorists? Thanks for your help. Cynthia Freeland phil7@jetson.uh.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1992 16:50:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BLAKEMOR@IPFWCVAX.BITNET Subject: psychology articles? I am in the process of constructing a reading list for my Psychology of Women class to be offerred in Spring. I assign original articles, usually from sources like American Psychologist or Psychology of Women Quarterly for students to read and discuss. I am looking for empricially-based review-type articles that are around 10-15 pages in length. Can anyone suggest any recent articles on either of these topics which might be useful to assign to undergraduates: 1. Minority women's experiences, especially those of African-American women. 2. Feminist therapy. Thanks. Elaine Blakemore Associate Professor Psychology Indiana-Purdue University Fort Wayne, IN BLAKEMOR@IPFWCVAX (Bitnet) BLAKEMOR@CVAX.IPFW.INDIANA.EDU (Internet) ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1992 15:02:48 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Ervin-Tripp Subject: colleges Some years back there was a much publicized study showing higher "success" rates of women who went to women's colleges. Does anybody know of a comparison of coed and single-sex outcomes with family socio-economic status controlled? The suspicion was that the women's colleges involved in these studies were Ivy league. Susan Ervin-Tripp ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1992 20:48:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: GV4@PSUVM.PSU.EDU Subject: NH soc constructionist conference Call for papers and participation: Gathering of people doing social constructionist work in any discipline June 3-6 at the New England Conference center at the University of New Hampshire at Durham. Symposiums will encompass a variety of topics related to Women's Studies, including narrative, history, and feminist theory. For more information contact Sheila McNamee, Dept. of Communication, U of NH, 03824-3586, or Mary Gergen, this e-mail address, or 331 Rogers Lane, Wallingford, PA 19086. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1992 22:00:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "IRENE HANSON FRIEZE. PSYCHOLOGY" Subject: Re: query on rape One source of information on stranger rape is the U. S. Department of Justice who publish lot of information based on national surveys about all types of crimes. But, if one is looking at acquaintance rapes, it is very difficult to get good data. You might consult the work of Mary Koss as a starting point. Irene Frieze FRIEZE@vms.cis.pitt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1992 23:03:50 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stacey Shulman HPRED Subject: "fried green tomatoes" film reviews Hi. I am looking for feminist film reviews of the movie "Fried Green Tomatoes". I am having a bit of trouble figuring out the film review file system, so I don't yet know if there are any listed in it. However, if you know of any that have been written, could you please let me know? Thank You! Stacey Beth Shulman Stacey@moe.coe.uga.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1992 21:23:19 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathryn Kerns Subject: coed/women's colleges In response to the following question: Does anybody know of a comparison of coed and single-sex outcomes with family socio-economic status controlled? The suspicion was that the women's colleges involved in these studies were Ivy league. Susan Ervin-Tripp You might want to look at "Coeducation or Women's Education? A Comparison of Alumnae from Two Colleges: 1934-79" by Janet Zollinger Giele in Educating Men and Women Together ed. by Carol Lasser (Urbana: University of Illinois Press in conjunction with Oberlin College, 1987). Kathy Kerns, Stanford University cn.kmk@forsythe.stanford.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1992 09:05:25 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda=Bernhard%LSP%CON@NURSING.CON.OHIO-STATE.EDU Subject: psych of women references To Elaine Blakemore and others: For feminist therapy there are two journals with lots of variety: *Women and Therapy* and *Journal of Feminist Family Therapy* *Women and Therapy* often includes articles on diversity, including African-American women. Linda Bernhard BernhardL@nursing.con.ohio-state.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1992 09:09:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: POHLHAUS@VUVAXCOM.BITNET Subject: RE: colleges I believe the majority of the colleges involved in the study were small Catholic women's colleges whose socio-economic range was middle class. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1992 10:17:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: RHODA UNGER Subject: RE: psychology articles? I would recommend the following articles for concerns about race and class issues in a variety of contexts. Many of these articles include experiential accounts. Michele Fine (1988). Sexuality, schooling, and adolescent females: The missing discourse of desire. Harvard Educational Review, 58, 29 - 53. Ann Phoenix (1991). Mothers under twenty: Outsider and insider views. In A. Phoenix et al. (Eds.). Motherhood: Meanings, practices, and ideologi es. London: Sage. Oliva Espin (1984). Cultural and historical influences on sexuality in Hispanic/Latina women. In C. S. Vance (Ed.). Pleasure and danger: Explo ring female sexuality. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Alice Walker (1977). In search of our mothers' gardens. In S. Ruddick & P. Daniels (Eds.). Working it out. NY: Pantheon. Beverly Greene (1986). When the therapist is White and the patient is Black. In D. Howard (Ed.). The dynamics of feminist therapy. NY: Haworth Pres Lillain Comas-Dias (1987). Feminist therapy with mainland Puerto Rican women. Psychology of Women Quarterly,11, 461 - 474. Julia Boyd (1990). Ethnic and cultural diversity: Keys to power. In L. S. Brown & M. P. P. Root (Eds.). Diversity and complexity in feminist therapy. Binghampton, NY: Harrington Press. The book by Brown and Root contains a number of excellent articles on margi- nalized women and feminist therapy. Finally, I would recommend that your students read some poetry by African American women such as Audre Lorde or Lucille Clifton. Rhoda Unger unger@apollo.montclair.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1992 08:40:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Virginia Sapiro Subject: Re: sex role/gender role For a lot of us originally more influenced by sociology than psychology, Ann Oakley was very influential in convincing us to talk about gender and gender roles rather than sex and sex roles -- especially in her 1972 book, SEX, GENDER, AND SOCIETY. Virginia Sapiro Dept of Political Sci., U. Wisconsin - Madison sapiro@polisci.wisc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1992 13:50:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: dl81 Subject: Re: March of Dimes In-Reply-To: <9211280009.AA28268@umd5.umd.edu> I'm also axious for a reply from the person who challenged the data. Correction in your query is VERY important--not "wife-beating," but BEATING OF PREGNANT WOMEN--i.e. also by boyfriends and fathers (the latter one of the main reasons for opposition to parental notification requirements for abortion in the case of minor women). DEB LOUIS (DL81@umail.umd.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1992 14:52:07 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Doris Rucks Subject: SPEAKER NEEDED Last year we were successful in receiving suggestions of speakers for our March International Women's Month celebration. We need your help again for March, 1993. Grand Valley is thematically targeting multiculturalism this school year. We'd like a minority woman of color who is articulate and has strong academic research credentials. Any suggestions? Doris Rucks Internet: RUCKSD@GVSU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1992 14:50:22 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: lin collette Subject: Re: List server addresses In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 25 Nov 1992 15:58:19 -0600 from I also would be interested in the listserver address for SAPPHO. Thanks. lin collette BI599128@brownvm or BI599128@brownvm.brown.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1992 15:13:19 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sharon Jacobson HPERD Subject: Re: sappho In-Reply-To: <9211301948.AA12657@moe.coe.uga.edu>; from "lin collette" at Nov 30, 92 2:50 pm Lin, If you get this address, will you forward it to me. Thanks Sharon Jacobson jacobson@moe.coe.uga.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1992 15:18:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: List server addresses Earlier today, Lin Collette wrote: > I also would be interested in the listserver address for SAPPHO. The WMST-L User's Guide used to include the e-mail addresses for virtually all gender-related lists. However, there are now too many of them, so the User's Guide that gets sent to new subscribers only includes the addresses of the more general lists like FEMAIL, GENDER, WOMEN, etc. But ALL the lists (including SAPPHO) are included in a file called OTHER LISTS. To get it, send the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): GET OTHER LISTS WMST-L If you want it sent as an e-mail message rather than a file, say GET OTHER LISTS WMST-L (F=MAIL Be sure to send this message to LISTSERV, NOT WMST-L!! <======= ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County Bitnet: korenman@umbc * * Baltimore, MD 21228-5398 * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1992 15:38:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BLWIESNE@OWUCOMCN.BITNET Subject: Re: List server addresses if you send the message: $ send listserv@umdd get other lists you will receive a long list of women and gender related lists and the addresses. barbara wiesner blwiesne@owucomcn blwiesne@cc.owu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1992 15:52:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PARKER@UMBC.BITNET Subject: Re: March of Dimes I am the person who challenged the March of Dimes data regarding birth defects and woman abuse during pregnancy. since then I have re-read all of their publications regarding this issue (I have also done workshops for them and have everything). I can find nothing regarding this statistic. I was also at a conference last week where they had a booth. I asked the representative and she said they had no new information. While we don't know the relationship yet the March of Dimes does not have this in their printed literature. On a related issue, I am working with several groups who are working on the Biden Violence Against Women Act which will be re-submitted this year. As part of last years work they developed a publication "Violence against Women: A Week in the Life of America". Although I have not seen it all, it is a potentially good reference as it will have a degree of crediability ?SP. It is available from the Senate Judiciary Committee 224 Dirksen Building, Washington, D.C. 20510. Phone 202 224-5225. As of last week it was in the printing office but should be available soon. It is free (Part of your tax dollars) I would recommend ordering it and staying alert regarding this bill in the next Legislative session. There is a lot of interest in this bill. It covers not only domestic assault but rape and a provision on campus safety. It will be important to let your congress person know of your interest. I will try to keet the network aware of how it is progressing. Barbara Parker PARKER@UMBC (Bitnet) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1992 15:53:15 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: jill carraway Subject: Asian-American list Could someone please send me the address to subscribe to the list for Asian-American women. Many thanks. Jill Carraway Women's Studies Bibliographer Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC jill@lib.wfunet.wfu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1992 16:03:01 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paula Gaber Subject: Re: March of Dimes Barbara Parker mentioned the Biden report "A Week in the Life of America". This report, as well as statistics from the Judiciary Committee are available from Information On-line's Women's Studies data base. To access the data base, telnet to INFO.UMD.EDU. Login as either GOPHER or INFO. From gopher, select "Info-Gopher Interface", "Teaching", "WomensStudies", then "Violence+Women". You can then mail anything you want to yourself. If you login as info, it will allow you to look, but not download. We are also accesible through anonymous ftp. Simply ftp to INFO.UMD.EDU. If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail me. Paula Gaber Info On-line gaber@info.umd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1992 16:00:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: John Kellermeier Subject: Re: Listserv addresses I have a list addresses for lesbigay lists which includes Sappho and Gaynet that I am willing to pass along to any one who wants. Since it is a long list I would rather not post it to WMST-L. If you would like a copy please reply to me privately. John * * * * * * * John Kellermeier +----------+ * * * * * * * * Department of Mathematics | Fight | * Bisexual * SUNY Plattsburgh | Racism | * * * * Plattsburgh, NY 12901 | Fight | * Pride * (518) 564-4134 | Rape | * * * * +----------+ * * * BITNET: kellerjh@snyplava * INTERNET: kellerjh@splava.cc.plattsburgh.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1992 13:35:43 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ava Rosenblum Subject: Re: March of Dimes Is there any way to get a modified (perhaps by subsubject) version of the woman's studies list...other than the digest, which includes all the listings? I would like to reduce the number of messages I receive, but still have access to the net. Thanks, AvaR ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1992 17:52:08 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Dobscha Subject: Feminist methodology I am a Ph.D. student in consumer research at Virginia Tech. My dissertation chair and I are embarking on a research project that will introduce feminist methodology to our field. We would like to focus on interviewing and how the feminist interview is different from the traditional positivist style. Where should we start? If any of you have any cites or a syllabus for a feminist methodology class, I would greately appreciate it. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE! Susan Dobscha BITNET: DOBSCHA@VTVM1.BITNET INTERNET: DOBSCHA@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1992 19:49:24 EST 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 Subject: Call for Papers - Midwest SWIP *** Resending note of 11/30/92 12:32 To: SWIP-L --CFRVM From: Linda Lopez McAlister The Spring 1993 meeting of Midwest Society for Women in Philosophy will be held April 9-11 at Washington University in St. Louis. We invite papers for review with a reading time of a half hour on any topic in feminist philosophy. We encourage papers from graduate and undergraduate students. Interested SWIPpers are invited to participate on a panel on Marilyn Frye's *The Willful Virgin*. Papers must be postmarked by January 25, 1993. Please send TWO copies of your paper to: Phyllis Rooney, Department of Philosophy, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309. Questions conerning the program should be directed to Phyllis Rooney at (313) 370-3392 or Suzanne Damarin at Ohio State at (614) 292-4872. Marilyn Friedman from Washington University will mail the program and information on local arrangements by early March. Travel Grants: Midwest SWIP subsidizes travel to meeting for members who are students, unemployed, or underemployed. Requests for travel grants should be directed to: Amber L. Katherine, P.O. Box 6016, East Lansing, MI 48826. Linda Lopez McAlister/HYPATIA: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Women's Studies Dept. Internet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU Univ. of South Florida Bitnet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM Tampa, FL 33620 (813) 974-5531 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1992 19:59:50 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Kimberly J. Cook" Subject: Biden Bill Earlier Barbara Parker wrote: >On a related issue, I am working with several groups who are working >on the Biden Violence Against Women Act which will be re-submitted >this year. As part of last years work they developed a publication >"Violence against Women: A Week in the Life of America". Although I >have not seen it all, it is a potentially good reference as it >will have a degree of crediability ?SP. It is available from >the Senate Judiciary Committee 224 Dirksen Building, Washington, D.C. >20510. Phone 202 224-5225. The Biden Bill is a good sentiment in the struggle for women's safety and calls for some vigorous efforts to that end. However, it also calls for a reinstatement of capital punishment for those convicted of rape. Based on this, I would have to urge my congressional representat- ives not to support the Biden Bill. My reasons for this are numerous.. 1. Racism is a continual problem with capital sentencing... between 1930 and 1967 there were 3859 execution in the U.S. and of those 54% were black men, which is incredibly disproportionate to the population. of those executions, 455 were men convicted of rape; 405 of whom were black men convicted of raping white women. Currently, capital punish- ment is allowed in 36 states and racism is still apparent... a black man is three and a half times more likely to be sentenced to death than a white man if his victim is white. 2. Capital punishment is five and half times more costly than Life without parole, and this cost comes from our already limited public coffers. The average death penalty runs up a bill of $3.2 million, whereas the average LWOP costs $600,000. Surely it would be better to spend that much money on victim-based assistance programs, and perpetrator-based treatment programs. 3. There is no evidence that the death penalty offers society any deterrent effect. Over 20 years of social research has shown that capital punishment is not a deterrent to homicide or other capital crimes. In fact, there's some evidence to suggest that the death penalty has a brutalization effect! Paradoxically, it can cause more crime than it cures... in states that use the death penalty there are higher homicide rates, and after publicized executions (publicity is a key element in deterrence theory) homicide rates tend to increase for 2-3 months afterwards. For example, there is a black man on death row in Texas who raped and murdered two white women *in order to get the death penalty*!! He deliberately went to Texas where he knew they used the death penalty, he knew if he raped and murdered white women he would be most likely sentenced to death, he has cooperated and con- fessed to the crimes and has offered the death penalty as his motivation. The man's name is Jermarr Arnold for any of you who want to look it up. 4. Capital punishment is a system of "justice" based on white male authority and power to control "others". I fear that if we resume capital punishment for convicted rapists we will incur far more victimization than we would solve. The purpose of the criminal justice system is to protect law-abiding citizens, and the death penalty offers us no greater protection than life without parole, according to former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. 5. The current criminal justice system is a humanly constructed and therefore imperfect system. In this decade there have been 23 innocent people sentenced to death; this disclosed after states have admitted their errors in prosecution... clearly these kinds of mistakes are not to be taken lightly. There have been 189 innocent people sentenced to death since 1900, 166 of whom escaped death. Some of these men were black men sentenced for "raping" white women, when in fact they were having consenual relationships with these women during a time in our history when it was illegal for "races to mix" and it was especially damaging to a "lady's" reputation to be a known mistress to a black man... Anyway, until the Biden Bill drops its call for the reinstatement of capital punishment for rape, I will not be able to support it in good conscience. Kimberly J. Cook, K_Cook@unhh.unh.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1992 20:22:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PEARSON@LEMOYNE.BITNET Subject: 1)Women's history month support; 2)Pro-life info PLEASE RESPOND TO ME PRIVATELY!!! 1) I would like to hear from people responsible for putting on programs during March, specifically how you are funded, what you have to do to get money, and what kind of support you are experiencing on your campus for these activities. Specifically, I am interested in private colleges (other Jesuit institutions would be perfect!). 2) In a recent pro-life newsletter, the writer stated that feminists should support the pro-life movement because many women chose abortion in order to get rid of a female child. I have done a superficial literature search and can find nothing to support this statement. Does anyone know of any hard evidence for this statement. I suppose interviews? PLEASE respond privately! Thank you very much in advance. Gretchen Pearson Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY pearson@lemoyne.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1992 22:17:27 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Kimberly J. Cook" Subject: RE: Biden Bill errata... sorry! >5. The current criminal justice system is a humanly constructed and >therefore imperfect system. In this decade there have been 23 innocent ^^^^^^ >people sentenced to death; this disclosed after states have admitted >their errors in prosecution... this should read: "In this CENTURY", not this decade... oops. sorry! Kimberly J. Cook, K_Cook@unhh.unh.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1992 22:18:08 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Allan Hunter Subject: Re: Biden Bill In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 30 Nov 1992 19:59:50 -0500 from On Mon, 30 Nov 1992 19:59:50 -0500 Kimberly J. Cook said: >5. The current criminal justice system is a humanly constructed and >therefore imperfect system. That's like saying that nuclear annihilation would be a real drag. The current criminal justice system is one massive disaster, is based on totally false premises (that people commit crimes out of too much freedom and too high an opinion of themselves), and is interwoven with the patriarchal myths of perfection and clinically exact truth (the courtroom escapades being a ceremonial excursion into all that). I don't think that punishment can be defended as a modality, period; but isn't it interesting that we start to reject it mainly when it comes to females as victims? If rape should not be punished by capital punish- ment, should anything be punished by capital punishment? How about imprisonment (personally I'd rather be dead than caged in one of THOSE places). - allan hunter ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 23:40:59 +1200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: laurieaj@MATAI.VUW.AC.NZ Subject: Re: SPEAKER NEEDED Why not go outside the United States for a speaker? Women's Studies in your country seems limited to a focus on your own society and peoples. For starters, I would suggest Dr Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Maori Studies Dept, University of Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand. She is a leading academic and writer in our country. I'm sure there'll be many other suggestions from international subscribers to this list. Alison J.Laurie, Women's Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Alison Laurie Womens Studies Victoria University of Wellington telephone +64 4 472 1000 ext. 8731 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 23:42:56 +1200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: laurieaj@MATAI.VUW.AC.NZ Subject: Re: List server addresses I would also like the listserver address for SAPPHO....Alison J.Laurie Alison Laurie Womens Studies Victoria University of Wellington telephone +64 4 472 1000 ext. 8731 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1992 21:46:13 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "R. CHATTERJEE" Subject: LISABEN Does anyone know the listserve address for LISABEN? Please respond to me privately Thanks, Ranita rchatter@uwovax.uwo.ca Univ. of Western Ontario Dept. of English