WMST-L LOG9401B ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 8 Jan 1994 09:26:02 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Fanne In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 6 Jan 1994 14:23:00 -0500 from A journalist looking for a summer internship in New York might contact The Newspaper Fund, which sponsors journalism internships all over the US. I think it works out of the Columbia Journalism School. Someone there would know about it, I think. Good luck. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 8 Jan 1994 08:12:58 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Alison Leigh Brown Subject: Help with Beauvoir I am looking for recent critical work on Beauvoir, particularly her notion of freedom. I have not been successful looking in my library or on CARL. Thanks for any help I can get! Please reply privately and I will post the results to the net. ****************************************************************************** *** Alison Leigh Brown alb@nauvax.ucc.nau.edu *** ****************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 8 Jan 1994 10:21:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L Digest and Index (User's Guide) 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 five, dealing with the WMST-L digest (which is different from the standard listserv digest and much better) and the Index option; people who find themselves overwhelmed with the volume of mail on WMST-L may wish to give one of these options a try: 5) "DOES WMST-L EXIST IN A DIGEST OR INDEX FORMAT?" Yes. If you choose the digest option, each day you will receive 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. 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It is send out shortly after midnight (Maryland time) and looks something like this: Index Date Size Poster and subject ----- ---- ---- ------------------ 06154 02/26 8 From: JLONG@SUVM.BITNET Subject: lesbian reference work 06155 02/26 7 From: Amy Kastely Subject: Women's Centers 06156 02/26 40 From: dklein@TRITON.UNM.EDU Subject: Menopause refs 06157 02/26 19 From: Phyllis Holman Weisbard Subject: menopause 06158 02/26 17 From: P_CAPLAN@UTOROISE.BITNET Subject: library research vs asking the list Suppose you decide that you're interested in seeing the two menopause messages. You can tell listserv to send just those two messages, which are numbered (in the left-hand column) 06156 and 06157. To get these two messages, you have to FORWARD the entire index back to LISTSERV, with one line changed. 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To arrange to get the INDEX rather than individual mail messages (you can't get both--it's an either/or arrangement), simply send a message to LISTSERV@UMDD (if you receive WMST-L at a Bitnet address) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (if you receive WMST-L at an Internet address) that says SET WMST-L INDEX . If you decide at some point that you want to stop the index, send a message that says SET WMST-L MAIL (if you want to go back to individual mail messages) or SET WMST-L NOMAIL (if you want no mail at all from the list). Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 8 Jan 1994 11:05:38 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lucy Candib MD Subject: violence among college age students I have been asked to do a talk at the New England College Health Assoc. meeting next fall on violence against women. I am familiar with the sexual assault literature in this population, but I have limited information on physical assault, and much of the sexual assault literature does not discuss this dimension. Of course they are related, but often the research is about "rape" or "courtship violence" and does not make any connection. I would be interested in recent research in this area. I will compile what I find for the list. Thank you in advance. 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, 8 Jan 1994 11:45:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christine Smith Subject: Re: Basic readings in feminist theory I'm taking a feminist theory class this semester (just got the syllabus), so I'll mention theorists not already mentioned. Iris Young Emily Martin Luce Irigaray Judth Butler Glori Anzaldua Joan Scott Gayatri Spivak Just read Susan Bordo's "Unbearable Weight" and would highly reccommend it. Also, no feminist theory reading list would be complete without Adrienne Rich's "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence". ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 8 Jan 1994 12:05:54 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jeri Carter Subject: Re: violence among college age students In-Reply-To: <199401081614.LAA03359@umd5.umd.edu>; from "Lucy Candib MD" at Jan 8, 94 11:05 am As a beginning point in your search, I can recommend Carolyn Wilson's VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. Jeri Carter jcarter@james.psych.runet.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 8 Jan 1994 13:42:37 EDT 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 ADDED: Shadowlands On Saturday, January 8, 1994 I reviewed "Shadowlands" on The Women's Show" a weekly feminist radio program on station WMNF-FM (88.5) in Tampa, Florida. To obtain a copy of the list send the following command to Listserv GET FILM REV98 FILM To obtain a list of all the film reviews available, send a message to the same listserv address that says: INDEX FILM To get more than one review, put each command on a separate line: GET FILM REV6 FILM GET FILM REV14 FILM GET FILM REV39 FILM 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 2200 subscribers to WMST-L so there are probably 2199 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. I have appreciated the feedback I've received. Thanks. Linda ****Linda Lopez McAlister ****HYPATIA: A JOURNAL OF FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY ****University of South Florida. SOC 107 ****Tampa, FL 33620 (813) 974-5531 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 8 Jan 1994 10:25:39 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Myers, Joann" Subject: Re: Gender-based violence In-Reply-To: In reply to your message of THU 06 JAN 1994 10:02:19 EST Another book is Gary Comstock's Violence Against Lesbians and Gay Men, Columbia University Press 1991. Includes empirical data on perpetra tors and victims, historical and social overviews. excellent. Hope this helps. Happy '94! ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 8 Jan 1994 16:49:49 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Stacy Garber Subject: looking for MLA presenter A friend who is not on the list has asked me to post this query. Can anyone provide the name of Elizabeth Meese's partner, who did a performance piece at the recent MLA panel on lesbian erotics? Please respond privately to Erin Carlston: carlston@leland.stanford.edu Thank you, Linda Garber ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 00:20:58 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beatrice Kachuck Subject: Re: Basic readings in feminist theory In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 7 Jan 1994 08:02:00 PST from guenther, anya loomba's 1989 race, gender, renaissance drama. manchester: manchester u. press has excelnt critq shakespeare. also, chris weedon's 1987 feminst practice and poststructuralist theory. london: blackwell is very good critical rev social, psychoanalysis for her proposal for a feminist poststructl beatrice beabc@cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 00:34:17 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beatrice Kachuck Subject: Re: Looking for a book In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 7 Jan 1994 12:20:35 -0500 from see my suggestion to geoffrey on anya loomba's race, gender and renaissance drama. beatrice beabc@cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 00:45:17 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beatrice Kachuck Subject: Re: bell hooks In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 7 Jan 1994 12:42:30 -0800 from how wonderful to know you've "read them all" of a category of scholars, elliot. then, go back for a more careful look at michele wallace, patricia collins, and johnetta cole at the least. of course, there's a strand of thoght that rules on who is, is not a scholar; good reading is missed if you're not critical about who recommends whom and you just might not read every african american and othe rs who've cited bell hooks. beatrice beabc@cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 14:28:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: What to do if WMST-L mail stops (User's Guide) 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 six, dealing with what you should do if mail from WMST-L suddenly stops: ************************ 6) "WHAT SHOULD I DO IF MAIL FROM WMST-L SUDDENLY STOPS?" Note: if you've arranged to receive WMST-L in digest form, skip to section C below. Otherwise, read on. A) If you receive a message from LISTSERV informing you that your WMST-L options have been set to NOMAIL, that means that mail from the list was repeatedly returned as undeliverable, probably because of a mail problem on your system. The fact that LISTSERV's notification reached you indicates that the problem was probably short-lived and is now resolved. You can set yourself back to MAIL by sending the message SET WMST-L MAIL to LISTSERV@UMDD (if you subscribed under a Bitnet address) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (if you subscribed under an Internet address). If one address doesn't work, try the other. 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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 at KORENMAN@UMBC (Bitnet) or KORENMAN@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU (Internet). If the reply from LISTSERV 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 or my assistant set your subscription to NOMAIL but the notification from LISTSERV bounced, too. In that case, contact your system's computer support staff to find out whether the problem has been solved. If it has, you can set yourself back to MAIL (see section A above). If they aren't aware of a problem, your best bet is to contact me privately. If you have questions or encounter problems, please write to me privately at KORENMAN@UMBC (Bitnet) or KORENMAN@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU (Internet). However, PLEASE TRY THE ABOVE STEPS FIRST!! Under NO circumstances should you send messages about your subscription to WMST-L. C) If you have arranged to get the WMST-L digest and you suddenly stop receiving copies, please write to Ira Gold at IGOLD@UMDD (Bitnet) or IGOLD@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet). In your message, tell him whether you receive your digests as files or as e-mail, and try to pinpoint as precisely as possible when you stopped receiving the digests. DO NOT SEND MAIL TO IRA GOLD UNLESS IT SPECIFICALLY CONCERNS A DIGEST PROBLEM! Messages about other problems should be sent to KORENMAN@UMBC (Bitnet) or KORENMAN@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU (Internet). ************************ Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 17:20:44 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: nijole Benokraitis Subject: Re: bell hooks That white feminist scholars endorse bell hooks' work and black feminist scholars do not is an overgeneralization. Many of the former still rarely cite hooks, for example, while Patricia Hill Collins (in BLACK FEMINIST THOUGHT) uses a number of hooks' books as springboards for her own arguments. If my observations are correct, it has been only recently-- the last few years--that white feminist scholars have become more conscious of and interested in black feminist contributions. niki Benokraitis ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 17:55:05 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Harrison-Pepper Sally Subject: Re: Basic readings in feminist theory Re Guenther Krueger's request for suggestions on what to read: I think this is a question you should _first_ ask your instructor. Surely s/he has office hours -- use them! ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 23:09:46 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christy Woodward Subject: Re: Basic readings in feminist theory Thought I would suggest a few titles for wost students. _The War against Women_ Marilyn French and _The Chalice and the Blade_ Riane Eisler. Enjoyed them both but particularly the latter. Best wishes for a wonderful semester, Christy Christy Woodward, Political Science, POL_CAW2s christy woodward, Policial Science, POL_CAW@SHSU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 22:43:04 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Stacy Garber Subject: intertextuality bibliography Before winter break I asked for suggested readings on the literary critical concept of "intertextuality," particularly in the context of women's/lesbian studies. A few excellent suggestions led me on a three-week research tangent; below are listed the handful of readings that seem particularly relevant to my original interest. Thank you to all who responded to my query. Linda Garber lglg@leland.stanford.edu Culler, Jonathan. "Presupposition and Intertextuality," in Culler, _The Pursuit of Signs._ Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1981, 100-118. Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. "Color Me Zora: Alice Walker's (Re)Writing of the Speakerly Text," in O'Donnell and Davis (see below), 144-167; not so much an explanation as an example of intertextuality, this is an intertextual reading of _The Color Purple_ and _Their Eyes Were Watching God._ Hutcheon, Linda. _A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction._ New York and London: Routledge, 1988. or Hutcheon, "Historiographic Metafiction: Parody and the Intertextuality of History," in O'Donnell and Davis (see below), 3-32. Marks, Elaine. "Lesbian Intertextuality," (1979), in Susan J. Wolfe and Julia Penelope, eds., _Sexual Practice, Textual Theory._ London: Blackwell, 1993; this is the essay that originally got me interested in the topic. McDowell, Deborah E. "'The Changing Same': General Connections and Black Women Novelists," in Henry Louis Gates, Jr., ed., _Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology._ New York: Penguin, 1990, 91-115. Morgan, Thais. "The Space of Intertextuality," in O'Donnell and Davis (see below), 239-279. O'Donnell, Patrick and Robert Con Davis. "Introduction," in O'Donnell and Davis, _Intertextuality and Contemporary American Fiction._ Baltimore and London: Johns Hopins UP, 1989, ix-xxii. Suleiman, Susan Rubin. _Subversive Intent: Gender, Politics, and the Avant-Garde._ Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1990. According to Suleiman, Kristeva coined the term "intertextuality" in the essay "Po sie et n gativit ," in Kristeva, _S m iotik: Recherches pour une s manalyse_ (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1969), 246-277. "The notion of intertextuality, first elaborated (though not named as such) by the Russian critic Mikhail Bakhtin (see especially Rabelais and His World, trans. Helen Iswolsky [Cambridge: MIT Press, 1968]), was introduced into contemporary critical theory by Julia Kristeva (see _S m iotik: Recherches pour une s manalyse_ [Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1969], pp. 115, 133-137, 255-257, and passim). Intertextuality may be defined as the presence, either explicit (as in direct quotation, identified as such) or implicit (as in allusion, parody, imitation) of one text in another. In the case of an implicit intertext, the perception of the intertext depends on the literary experience and competence of the reader" (Suleiman, 218 n.7). PS - sorry about the garbage characters above. The Kristeva is titled "Poesie et Negativite," in Semiotike: Recherches pour une semanalyse. LG ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 10:01:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Getting a list of subscribers (User's Guide) 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, dealing with how you can find out who else is subscribed to WMST-L and what their e-mail addresses are: ************************ 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: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 09:14:54 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ann Weinstone Subject: Re: bell hooks I'm one of those white feminists who has been moved and influenced by bell hooks. I came to academia after a life as a full-time activist, mostly in the tenant rights movement in NYC. So, I am always wanting to find scholar/activists, such as hooks, who write about the intersection of theory and activism. I am also appreciative of the fact that hooks calls for the theorizing of "whiteness" and that she critiques the "othering" that proceeds from the "center" to the "margin." I don't know about hook's significance or insignificance vis-a-vis other African-American scholars. I'd like to hear more about this. Also, like hooks, I seem to get scholarly writing published while my fiction writing sits on the proverbial shelf. My current obsession is to develop a language, rhetoric, and writing process in my academic writing that enthralls me as much as fiction writing does. I appreciate hooks' obvious passion for language. Just some thoughts. Ann Weinstone Mills College syd@igc.apc.org ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 12:36:03 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ethel Tobach Subject: Re: Gender-based violence In-Reply-To: Message of Sat, 8 Jan 1994 10:25:39 EST from Also: Violence against women: a critique of the sociobiology of rape. Editors: Sunday & Tobach, The Gordian Press, Staten Island, NY. Ethel Tob ach ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 14:54:10 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Liz Cramer Subject: Educational techniques re: lesbian identity I am a doctoral candidate at University of South Carolina. My dissertation research will be assessing the impact of an educational unit about lesbian identity development and self-disclosure in a social work course. I have reviewed a large amount of material on lesbian identity development and self-disclosure. I have found little on educational interventions focusing on reducing homophobia and increasing knowledge about lesbian identity I would appreciate any leads/ideas/suggestions. I know the empirical research in this area is minimal. Therefore, any unpublished studies or even your experiences in teaching in this area would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your assistance. LIZCRAM@UNIVSCVM Liz Cramer ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 15:02:34 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Gaea Honeycutt, WEEA Pub. Ctr." Subject: Gender fair voc. ed. software Does anyone know of sources for gender fair vocational education software? Please contact: Rick Jones Vocational Director Thomasville City Schools P.O. Box 548 Thomasville, NC 27361 910/475-1386 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 15:31:48 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paula Gaber Subject: inforM update The following directories and/or files have been added to the inforM Online Women's Studies Database: Educational Resources/Women's Studies/Gender Issues/ Women in the Workforce/federal reserve employment practices This report from the House Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs details the status of equal employment opportunities at the federal reserve. Educational Resources/Women's Studies/Gender Issues/ Statement on the Equal Rights Amendment A 1978 report from the United States Commission on Civil Rights discusses the need for and effects of an ERA. To access the inforM database, telnet or gopher to INFORM.UMD.EDU. (If you do not know how to telnet or gopher, contact a local computer wizard, or try typing "telnet inform.umd.edu" or "gopher inform.umd.edu" at the main prompt of your computer account). Hit return to set the default terminal type or type "?" for a list of choices. Use either your arrow keys or number keys to select -> 4. Educational Resources 16. Women's Studies The Gopher interface has a feature that allows users to send files to their e-mail accounts. Scroll to the end of the file and type "m", or at any time press "q" (for quit), then "m". The inforM system is also accessible by anonymous ftp. FTP to INFORM.UMD.EDU. Login as "anonymous", and use your mail address as a password. Choose the "inforM" directory by typing "cd inforM". The command "cd [directory name]" will change the directory. The commands "dir" or "ls" will display a list of files in that directory. Use the command "get [filename]" to download a file into your account. The directory pathname for the Women's Studies Database is "inforM/Educational_Resources/WomensStudies". Your local Gopher System may be set up to automatically link to the Women's Studies Database. Check the "Other Systems" or "Other Gophers" directory or ask your system administrator for help. Even if you do not have real Internet access, it is still possible to get files from inforM. If you are interested in this option, please email me and I will forward a file written by Mark Whitis that explains how to do this. Please remember that the system is case sensitive. Anything that appears in quotes must be typed exactly as it is here. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Paula Gaber inforM, Room 4343 Coordinator, Women's Studies Database Computer Science Center gaber@inform.umd.edu University of Maryland (301) 405-2939 College Park, Maryland 20742 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 17:50:41 +0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: May Cohen Subject: Re: violence among college age students In-Reply-To: <199401081617.LAA03624@umd5.umd.edu> Dear Lucy I noticed your memo on e-mail. I do have many references on violence against women.With specific reference to college-aged women I was going to suggest that you may wish to contact the AMA as they; have established a National Coalition of Physicians Against Family Vionence and probably have an extensive bibliography. In Canada the federal dept of heallth maintains the National Clearing House on Family Violence and may be of help to you. Their address is National Clearinghouse on Family Violence Family Violence Prevention Branch National Health and Welfare Ottawa,Ontario K1A 1B5 I have many other references but dont know if they will be of specific help to you. Best wishes for the New Year, Love May ao health maintains On Sat, 8 Jan 1994, Lucy Candib MD wrote: > I have been asked to do a talk at the New England College Health Assoc. meeting > next fall on violence against women. I am familiar with the sexual assault > literature in this population, but I have limited information on physical > assault, and much of the sexual assault literature does not discuss this > dimension. Of course they are related, but often the research is about > "rape" or "courtship violence" and does not make any connection. I would > be interested in recent research in this area. I will compile what I find > for the list. Thank you in advance. > 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, 10 Jan 1994 17:05:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Robert W. Jensen" Subject: defamation query for a work-in-progress on feminism and the first amendment, i am interested in cases in which women who speak up about rape, incest, or sexual harassment have been sued for libel or slander, or threatened with sanctions of other kinds. i am thinking of situations in which a rapist might try to silence the surivor through defamation law. traditional research channels haven't turned up much yet. thanks, bob jensen dept. of journalism university of texas at austin rjensen@utxvm.cc.utexas.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 19:44:48 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Campbell Subject: Shakespeare R&J/Jung Shakespeare's R&J/Jung I seek additional quotations from Jung which support the idea that a father can realize the feminine aspects of his identity through his daughter. I am familiar with the opening of Aion, specifically Syzygy; Anima and Animus. I want to know if Jung discusses this in greater detail somewhere else. This is for a possible paper growing out of Act IV, Scene V, line 62 of Romeo and Juliet where Capulet says, "O child! O child! My soul and not my child! Other references not unwelcome, but Jung references most welcome. Sampbell@Delphi.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 21:59:00 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Wendy Burton Subject: qualitative research list I am trying to track down information on a list dealing with qualitative research issues. Someone recently mentioned this on wmst-l, but I don't know how to get onto usenet, so I wasn't able to follow that lead. I am presently teaching qual. research methods in an intro class, and I would like to get the students on-line, if possible. Complete info (including how to get to the host site) would be much appreciated. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 09:48:42 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ethel Tobach Subject: Re: defamation query In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 10 Jan 1994 17:05:00 CDT from See latest issue of Ms magazine for story on people who supported Anita Hill. This is a very rich issue in general for use in Women's Studies... Gillespie is making a real difference in the content of the magazine.. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 10:10:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: "Romanticism & Gender" seminar and 3 job announcements The following four announcements may be of interest to WMST-L readers: 1) "Romanticism and Gender" - NEH Summer Seminar (UCLA) 2) Chair in Women's Studies (Griffith Univ., Australia) 3) Director of Women's Studies (Purdue U., Calumet) 4) Women's Center Director (Texas A&M) For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc) **************************************************************** 1) ROMANTICISM AND GENDER National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers Professor Anne K. Mellor, Director 20 June 1994 - 12 August 1994 University of California, Los Angeles This seminar will explore the difference that gender makes in the construction and interpretation of major literary texts in the English Romantic period. By combining theoretical strategies gleaned from new historicism, feminism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and thematic criticism, we shall study poetry, fiction, drama and prose by Blake, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Byron, Keats, Mary and Percy Shelley, Hemans, Landon, Charlotte Smith, Wollstonecraft, Edgeworth, Austen, Opie, Radcliffe and Baillie to analyze the different rhetorical forms and ideological positions employed by male and female romantic writers. The seminar will provide an overview of recent scholarship and criticism of the English Romantic canon in the light of current theoretical debates. FOR INFORMATION AND APPLICATIONS, PLEASE WRITE: Professor Anne K. Mellor UCLA English Department 405 Hilgard Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90024-1530 E-mail address: MELLOR@humnet.ucla.edu *********************************************************** 2) Position: Chair in Women's Studies Institution: Griffith University Location: Australia Faculty of Humanities Applications are invited for the Chair in Women's Studies within the Faculty of Humanities. The position, Australia's first Chair in Women's Studies, has become vacant following the appointment of Professor Judith Allen to Indiana University. The University seeks to appoint a person with a distinguished research record in women's studies as well as a substantial record in teaching. Applicants with experience in policy work are encouraged to apply. The Professor will take a leadership role in the development of women's studies in the Faculty and the University. In addition to its undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in women's studies, the Faculty currently hosts the inter-Faculty research centre, the Australian Institute for Women's Research and Policy (AIWRAP). It is expected that the Professor will serve as Director of AIWRAP, developing an outreach strategy both within and beyond the University, building on the relevance of women's studies in vocational, policy and research contexts and forming connections with policy forming agencies and networks. The Chair appointment is tenurable, while appointments to administrative positions and as Director of AIWRAP are on a fixed term basis. Women's studies are currently offered by the Women, Gender and Society teaching team as a major in the Faculty's undergraduate degree programmes. A Master of Arts in Women's Studies is offered as a coursework programme with a research component addressing issues such as public policy, administration and community based occupations, as well as academic research agendas. The Faculty has a substantial record in the area of honours and postgraduate research in gender studies. Teaching and research in women's studies is included in all of the Faculty's Schools - Australian and Comparative Studies, Cultural and Historical Studies, Contemporary European Studies, and Film and Media, as well as in the Inter-Faculty Schools of Applied Ethics and Theology. As a leading member of the Women, Gender and Society teaching team, the appointee will provide a developmental role in furthering women's studies in the Faculty at all levels. It is expected that the appointee, as a senior member of staff, will contribute to the overall management of the Faculty. Professorial salary is A$77,900 per annum. Interested applicants should first request further information from Mr Greg Burns, the Administrative Officer (Staffing), Faculty of Humanities, phone +617 875 7574 or facsimile +617 875 7848. Applications should be forwarded to the Administrative Officer (Staffing), Faculty of Humanities and must be received by 11 February 1994. Griffith University Queensland 4111 AUSTRALIA AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 5, 1994 *************************************************************************** 3) Purdue University - Calumet WOMEN`S STUDIES/ENGLISH: Director of Women's Studies and Assistant Professor of English. Ph.D. in rhetoric/composition studies or British literature before 1798; or Ph.D. in Women's Studies with rhetoric/composition or British literature credentials required. Candidate must have strong record of feminist teaching and scholarship and administrative expertise in traditional or non-traditional setting. Responsibilities include: (1) Half-time rhetoric/composition or British literature, teaching two courses in English per semester; (2) Half-time Director of Women's Studies, to include occasional teaching assignment in Women's Studies. Responsibilities also include working with Women's Studies Advisory Committee and providing leadership in program and curriculum assessment and development; engaging in promotional activities on behalf of the program with appropriate campus and community groups; working with appropriate agencies in an effort to secure outside funding in support of the program. The Director of Women's Studies reports to the Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Established in 1976, the Women's Studies Program offers the Associate of Arts and a minor in Women's Studies. The Department of English and Philosophy offers BA degrees in Philosophy, English teaching, literature, and writing and the MA degree in English. Deadline: Review of applications will begin February 15, 1994, and will continue until the position is filled. Contact: Dr. Jane Campbell, Women's Studies Search Committee, Department of English and Philosophy. Submit: A letter of application, CV, and names and phone numbers of five references. Applications from women and minorities are especially encouraged. Send application materials to the person and department indicated at: Purdue University Calumet Hammond, IN 46323 From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 5, 1994 *************************************************************************** 4) TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-KINGSVILLE Women's Center Director Position: A full-time director to develop and coordinate a comprehensive, on-campus women's center at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Texas. The center will encompass three primary components: (1) academic programs, (2) research, and (3) university/community services. A women's center council has been established and will serve in an advisory capacity to a director. Minimum Qualifications: Master's Degree; experience in an academic setting, fund raising and/or grant writing; knowledge of available social services; evidence of program development expertise; managerial/administrative abilities, and effective communication skills. Preferred Qualifications: Doctorate; prior experience in a women's center; also prefer experience in a higher education setting; and public relations skills. Salary: Negotiable. Applications will be reviewed beginning February 1, 1994, and continue until the position is filled. Candidates should submit a resume, current transcript(s), three letters of recommendation, and letter of application to: Office of Personnel ATTN: Women's Center Screening Committee Texas A&M University-Kingsville Campus Box 107 Kingsville, Texas 78363 Position requires physical activities supportive of the above job duties; reasonable accommodations will be made as needed. Texas A&M University-Kingsville is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. Applications from women and minority group members are especially encouraged. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 5, 1994 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 10:23:14 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elisabeth Gruner Subject: women's job search Thanks to all who responded to my calls in the fall for information on women's experiences with the academic job search. I gave a paper at the MLA in Toronto entitled "Feminists Face the Job Market: Q&A (Questions and Anecdotes)" which drew liberally on the anecdotes shared by fellow listmembers. The paper was part of a panel sponsored by the Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages, entitled "Equipment for Survival I: Getting a Job." Most of the papers from the panel will be published in an upcoming issue of *Concerns*, the journal of the WCML (which I encourage all women in modern languages to join!). Those of you who asked for copies of the paper--I still have your names, but would prefer that you get the printed copy when it comes out. If you don't have access to *Concerns*, of course, please let me know and I'll mail you a copy. But I don't at the moment have the capability of sending etexts to remote addresses, and can't right now justify copying and mailing many copies if you can get the paper at your library. Thanks again for everyone's help and interest in this project. Elisabeth Gruner University of Richmond, English gruner@urvax.urich.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 16:43:30 GMT0BST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PETER MOULDING Organization: Edge Hill College of HE Subject: re bell hooks and white feminists I have only been reading about feminism for the last three years (but this year the option has not been given me on my undergraduate course :-( I'd just like to say that bell hooks book 'feminist theory:from margin to centre' is the most inspiring I have read and put everything else I had learned about feminism taught by middle-class white women into context and made it all make sense on a practical level. Peter Moulding ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 08:57:22 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Julie Schrader Subject: bicultural identity in Asian American Literature In-Reply-To: <9401100643.AA29788@tolstoy.u.washington.edu> I am putting together a bibliography on mixed blood in Asian American literature. I am specifically interested in gender differences/similarities of bicultural identity. I am also looking across ethnicities. This is what I have so far: Cherrie Moraga. Loving in the War Years Diana Chang. The Frontiers of Love Nella Larson. Passing Jean Toomer. Cane Louise Erdrich. Love Medicine Gary Crestser. Intermarriage in the United States. I would appreciate help in extending this bibliography. Thank you! Julie S. Villegas villegas@u.washington.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 14:20:40 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Pershing Subject: Request for current references in feminist anthropology I am working on updating a bibliography of sources in anthropology that address how women in many patriarchal or male-dominant cultures still exercise various degrees of power and influence in their societies. This type of feminist anthropology emphasizes women as active agents and describes how women attempt to have some control over their lives and the social orders in which they live, despite the fact that they or their activities may be devalued in the general society. I have earlier references, including Lamphere (1974), Fernea (1965), Leacock (1981), Ortner and Whitehead (1981), Reiter (1975), Shostak (1981), Stack (1974), and Wolf (1974). But I'd like to add some more current articles and books and haven't taught a course about this in several years. I'd appreciate learning about more updated materials. Please contact me privately. Thanks, Linda Pershing University at Albany LLP@ALBNYVMS.bitnet LL P@uacsLLP@uacsc1.albany.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 14:27:28 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Georgia NeSmith Subject: Gender and violence On Jan 5, Gaea Hunnycutt requested citations on the politics of gender and violence against women. I'd like to make a recommendation that other members of the list are likely to be interested in. This is _Femicide: The Politics of Woman Killing_, ed. Jill Radford and Diana E.H. Russell (NY: Twayne 1992). This book offers historical, cross-cultural, and contemporary analyses of woman-killing, and the cultural supports for it. I used the introduction and an article by Jane Caputi & Russell, "Femicide: Sexist Terrorism against Women" in both my Intro to WMS and my Mass Comm & Society courses last fall. Students reported having been profoundly affected by these articles -- particularly MEN, who previously had resisted feminist criticisms of media content involving violence against women. Georgia NeSmith Assistant Professor Communication Dept. SUNY Brockport Brockport NY 14420 gnesmith@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 13:50:40 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DIANE KOBRYNOWICZ Subject: Videos and Other Teaching Materials A dream come true! Our Women's Studies program has received a LARGE sum of money to spend on teaching materials. We are looking for suggestions for videos, films, and other teaching resources that would complement the Women's Studies curriculum. Do you have a favorite video that students respond well to? Any suggestions for use in introductory courses through advanced seminars would be appreciated. Please respond privately and we'll post a list of responses. Diane Kobrynowicz & Sharon Danoff-Burg University of Kansas DKOBRYNO@UKANVM.BITNET or SHARONDB@UKANVM.BITNET ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 15:33:23 EST Reply-To: ALA Feminist Task Force Discussion List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Resent-From: Margaret Porter Comments: Originally-From: Margaret Porter From: Margaret Porter Organization: University Libraries of Notre Dame Subject: Collection development policies ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Does anyone have a collection development policy for Gender Studies? I have a copy of the "Women's Studies Collection Development Policies" published by the ACRL/WSS, but would like some examples that are somewhat broader. If possible please respond by fax or e-mail, but snail mail will also be appreciated. Thanks. Margaret Porter 117 Hesburgh Library University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556 FAX: 219-631-8887 e-mail: porter.2@nd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 14:44:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Cecilia Manrique, Political Science, UWLaCrosse, (608)785-6642" Subject: CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS APPLY NOW! NSF SPONSORED WORKSHOPS AT WELLESLEY AND ARIZONA STATE QUANTITATIVE INSTRUCTION IN AMERICAN SOCIETY The Program: An interdisciplinary program to enhance Quantitative Instruction on American Society (QIAS) has been funded for two years by the National Science Foundation. The QIAS Program makes available recent developments in quantitative research in Sociology, Political Science, American History, American Studies and related social science disciplines, to undergraduate faculty who are interested in utilizing the computer in their teaching. The QIAS Program: The program consists of two workshops to be held in 1994-95. Twenty faculty will be selected to meet at Wellesley College (just outside of Boston) for an intensive introductory workshop June 15-21, 1994. The workshop will be led by James A. Davis, who created the General Social Survey (GSS), and developed micro-computer programs which make these data accessible to undergraduates. Participating faculty will cover the major findings from the GSS and the National Election Study (NES), as well as learn data analysis and teaching techniques using personal computer programs. Following this initial workshop, faculty participants will prepare instructional materials adapting to their own individual teaching situations. Participants will return in January for a three day demonstration workshop at Arizona State University where they will discuss the teaching innovations they have made and up-date their knowledge. Workshop staff include: James A. Davis (Harvard, Sociology); Sandra Peterson-Hardt (Russell Sage College, Sociology); Carol Mueller (ASU West Campus, Arts and Sciences); Jere Bruner (Oberlin, Political Science) and Karen Frederick (St. Anselm, Sociology). Stipends, Expenses: Faculty participants will receive $25 per day stipend as well as room, board, and all materials at the two workshops. TRAVEL EXPENSES MUST BE COVERED BY THE PARTICIPANT'S HOME INSTITUTION (This is a NSF regulation). Interested faculty may apply by submitting a vita and letter indicating the nature of your interest, previous experience with and extent of institutional support you have using microcomputers in the curriculum. Deadline is February 10, 1994. Send materials to: Sandra Peterson-Hardt, QIAS Director, Dept. of Sociology, Russell Sage College, Troy, NY 12180. Fax number (518) 271-4545. Any questions call: (518) 270-2282. E-Mail: Pethardt@ALBNYVMS.Bitnet. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 17:32:42 -0500 Reply-To: korenman@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Plagiarism re Toni Morrison? This past semester, I was fortunate enough to teach a seminar for senior English majors on the work of Toni Morrison. Alas, one of the students has submitted a final paper that doesn't sound at all like her earlier work. It's more polished and has an unusual command of literary jargon; moreover, it's not on the topic she had said she was planning to write about. It's called "The Trope of the Talking Book: The Oral-Literary Tension in Toni Morrison's JAZZ" and includes sentences like "As a result, a chiasmal shift gradually occurs, and accompanies the character's growing independence from the narrative, as the narrator's heterodiegetic status is diminished" (the writer explains the term heterodiegetic, along with homodiegetic and autodiegetic). In addition to the student's surprising command of jargon, I'm also suspicious of skillful phrases like "invade the narrator's text" in the following: "Thinking in the drug store about the nature of Dorcas' attraction to Joe, Violet is able to invade the narrator's text, which shifts from the narrator's voice to her thoughts without 'tags' or markers, such as 'she thought,' 'she wondered,' etc." The paper makes repeated reference to the introduction to Davis and Gates' THE SLAVE'S NARRATIVE and, especially, to Susan Sniader Lanser's THE NARRATIVE ACT; SOMEONE has used these texts quite skillfully, but I have strong doubts that that someone is my student. I've searched the MLA Bibliography, UnCover, and the Essay and General Literature Index, all without success. Obviously, I'll have to have a long talk with the student, but my task would be a lot easier if I could offer more compelling evidence than just my suspicions. If anyone recognizes the above paper, I'd be most grateful if you'd let me know. I've set a "reply-to" header so that replies will automatically come to me rather than to WMST-L. Many thanks for your help. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 18:44:58 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "We are all born naked...everything else is drag" Subject: Unsubscribe women's studies list Please unsubscribe me from this list...I am leaving school for the semester. Thank you. Nicole Kramer ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 13:17:11 +1300 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Adele Fletcher Organization: University of Canterbury, NZ Subject: References on gender & power; colonization. I've recently read The Gender of Power (eds) K.Davis et al. Could anyone recommend other books/articles which articulate concepts of power and relate these to gender? Any historical, anthropological,or sociological refs which discuss constructions of gender and power in relation to colonization would also be welcome. Please reply privately, if others are interested I will post these refs. Adele Fletcher, phil024@csc.canterbury.nz. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 19:56:38 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lucy Candib MD Subject: qualitative reseach bulletin board A friend of mine told me about this one. I do not subscribe but here is the reference: University of Georgia is accessed by "QUALRS-L@UGA-BITNET" - heavily oriented towards educational research and evaluation, has some interesting questions and answers from time to time. 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: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 00:11:20 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Consuelo Lopez Springfield Subject: Vanity Fair Article For the longest time, I have had to grit my teeth as Christopher Hitchens churns out endless, self-absorbed, snotty essays in THE NATION. Then, he turned (in the post-Tina Brown era, I believe) to VANITY FAIR. Now, he's published a smug little piece--"Radical Pique" (on Betsy and Gene Genovese)--disdaining "p.c." What emerges, all too clearly, is Hitchens' unwavering misogyny in this tirade against Women's Studies (which he links to fascism and to "self pity" ... along with "diversity"). Check the February issue. I would hope for more analysis, less vitriol (someday??) Consuelo Lopez Springfield CLACS, Indiana cspringf@ucs.indiana.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 06:32:00 GMT0 Reply-To: dbailey@cix.compulink.co.uk Sender: Women's Studies List From: Diane Bailey Subject: Dowries Does anyone have anything on the disappearance of the dowry as a practice/institution in English/British society? Expertise, references? I'm working on a possible documentary which might include something on the factors which lead to some British people with South Asian connections prefering not to have female children. The demand for dowries seems to be one such factor. Clearly dowries were once demanded amongst certain classes in England, and presumably in other parts of Great Britain and continental Europe in passed times, but I'm having some problems finding anyone who knows when or exactly why this stopped. I've been interested to find that Magna Carta included some regulation of dowries, to the benefit of the wife/widow. I'm not yet clear as to whether these are still in force. Diane Bailey dbailey@cix.compulink.co.uk ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 18:35:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Allan Johnson Subject: John Stoltenberg I would appreciate hearing from anyone who can help me get in touch with John Stoltenberg. Allan Johnson (aljohnson@uhavax.hartford.edu) Department of Sociology Hartford College for Women ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 10:38:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ly15 Subject: NWSA'S PARTICIPATION ON UMAIL Since NWSA moved at the beginning of September, we have not had time to access our umail messages. Until we have a modem hooked up to the office we are unsubscribing temporarily. Hopefully we'll resubscribe within the next few weeks. But we will send a message to the list. Sorry for any inconvenience. I am getting old messages from the UMD Women's Studies dept. and sending out any request that have been sent. Again, sorry for any problem that this has created. Loretta Younger, Office Manager ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 09:10:00 MDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "IMELDA C. MULHOLLAND (303)866-0642" Subject: Qualitative Research List For folks interested in a qualitative research list - there is one that exists as an email discussion group. You can sign on through Bitnet by sending the message SUBSCRIBE QUALRS-L (YOUR NAME) to LISTSERV@UGA. The list is called Qualitative Research for the Human Sciences. Hope this helps! Imelda Mulholland mulhollani@mscd ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 08:42:20 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shirley Lim Subject: Re: 19 new syllabi available! In-Reply-To: <9312191806.AA18572@ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu> Another reminder in case you missed the first notice. The conference, "The Politics and Poetics of the Body: Pacific Rim Triangulations," will be held at the University of California, Santa Barabra. Please send abstracts by Feb. 1st to Shirley Geok-lin Lim, English, UCSB, Santa Barbara, Ca. 93106. The conference is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Stony Brook Humanities Research Institute, Josai University, East-West Center, and UCSB. Among the speakers already scheduled are Ann Kaplan, Marilyn Yalom, Myra Strober, Iris Litt, Abe Hideko, Koh Tai Ann, Elena Tajima Creef, Leslie Bow, Sau-ling Wong, Wimal Disanayake, Larry Smith, and others.Please contact me for further information on registration, program, lodging, etc.at: slim@humanitas.ucsb.ed Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Englsh, UCSB, Santa Barbara, Ca. 93106 Fax: (805) 893-4622 Tel: (805)893-8584 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 12:11:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ly15 Subject: NWSA's new address & phone #'s NWSA moved in September, 1993. New address: 7100 Baltimore Ave., Suite 301, College Park, MD 20740. New Phone #'s: 301-403-0424 or 403-0525. We are still part of the Univ. of MD. Loretta Younger, Office Manager ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 11:14:32 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Caroline Brettell Subject: Re: Dowries In-Reply-To: <199401120648.BAA15036@umd5.umd.edu> Parminder Bhachu has done some work on South Asians and dowries in England. Last I heard she was at the Thomas Coram Research Institute at the University of London. On the history of the dowry, there is a book called the Marriage Bargain with five excellent essays. I forget the author. I do think you need to distinguish Western practices from that in Asia, and particularly India. There is a huge literature on the dowry in India--good place to start is S.J. Tambiah; also Jack Goody's work (and he discusses the dowry as a Eurasian phenomenon (by contrast with bridewealth in Africa). I am not sure why the practice declined among the upper classes in England but I suspect that it has something to do with a change in inheritance laws giving women more equitable access to property. I hope this helps. Caroline Brettell/Southern Methodist Univeristy ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 14:51:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gail Wood Subject: New listserv This might be of interest to this list! Thanks Gail =+=+=================================================================+=+= WMSPRT-L on LISTSERV@UBVM.BITNET or LISTSERV@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU WMSPRT-L is an open discussion for women and men interested in goddess spirituality, feminism and the incorporation of the feminine/feminist idea in the study and worship of the divine. To subscribe to the list, send mail to LISTSERV@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU or on bitnet to LISTSERV@UBVM. Leave the subject line blank and have the body of your message read: subscribe wmsprt-l FirstName LastName for example: subscribe WMSPRT-L Athena McShush If you have trouble signing on, contact the listowner, Gail Wood. To post messages to the list, send submissions to the list address, wmsprt-l@ubvm (bitnet) or wmsprt-l@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu (internet). Owner: Gail Wood woodg@snyalfva woodg@snyalfva.cc.alfredtech.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 14:29:08 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sharon Goodwin Subject: Re: Gender-based violence This is probably a stupid question, but I will ask it anyway. Why are gay women called lesbians and gay men called 'gay men'? Is there not a name for the men or is it that they prefer just being called gay men? (I told you it was stupid!) Sharon SGOODWIN@BEACH.UTMB.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 17:28:43 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ethel Subject: Re: Vanity Fair Article In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 12 Jan 1994 00:11:20 EST from Let's start a campaign to get The Nation (which is usually good) to drop him...ethel ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 17:31:02 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ethel Subject: Re: Gender-based violence In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 12 Jan 1994 14:29:08 -0500 from There is no stupid question...it is for me a question I have been discussing with many...I proposed "homophilia" to contrast with "homophobia" but people thought it was too close to the blood disease. We should think about this...I think there should be no distinction made for people with an orientation to people like themselves. Ethel Tobach ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 17:33:57 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sherry Linkon Subject: Re: Videos and Other Teaching Materials In-Reply-To: <199401112021.AA20349@cc.ysu.edu> from "DIANE KOBRYNOWICZ" at Jan 11, 94 01:50:40 pm Diane--You asked for suggestions of videos, etc. I just showed a video called "Adventures in the Gender Trade" in class yesterday. The film mostly contains a set of interviews with transsexuals and scenes from a stage play one transsexual woman wrote. There were some problems with sound quality, but it provoked great discussion in class about how we define gender roles & the relationship between gender and sex (the body). I recommend it.--Sherry Linkon, Youngstown State University > money to spend on teaching materials. We are looking for suggestions > for videos, films, and other teaching resources that would complement > the Women's Studies curriculum. Do you have a favorite video that > students respond well to? Any suggestions for use in introductory > courses through advanced seminars would be appreciated. > > Please respond privately and we'll post a list of responses. > > Diane Kobrynowicz & Sharon Danoff-Burg > University of Kansas > DKOBRYNO@UKANVM.BITNET or SHARONDB@UKANVM.BITNET > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 18:46:24 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Brooke Fredericksen Subject: looking for Trinh T. Minh-ha's films I'm teaching an upper division English course on Women in Literature and I'm having my students read quite a bit of feminist literary criticism and feminist theory. We're reading Trinh T. Minh-ha's Woman, Native, Other and I'd like to include some of her film work. However, I have no idea where to look to see if I can even get hold of anything she's done. I don't know what I'm looking for and I don't know where to look. If anyone can help, please let me know privately. Thanks. Brooke Fredericksen fredericksen@vax1.umkc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 19:33:16 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stephanie Riger Subject: Shula Reinharz's methodology book Shula Reinharz asked me to post this. Please reply directly to her. ======================================================================== 60 Shulamit Reinharz is preparing a second edition of Feminist Methods in Social Research (due out in 1996) and would like to hear from anyone who has suggestions for revisions, particularly themes that they would like to see covered and additional citations that should be incoporated. Please sendmessages directly to her at bitnet%"reinharz@brandeis" ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 19:44:38 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: casey williamson Subject: Re: Gender-based violence In-Reply-To: <199401122214.RAA23023@umd5.umd.edu> some lesbians felt that the conflation of lesbians and gay men under one word "gay" negated, or at least hid, the existance of lesbians. the thought is that when people say "gay" they really think gay male, and that the inclusion of lesbians should be made explicit. casey williamson cwillia@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu > Why are gay women called lesbians and gay men > called 'gay men'? Is there not a name for the men or is it that > they prefer just being called gay men? > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 21:43:24 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Arnie Kahn Subject: terminology >some lesbians felt that the conflation of lesbians and gay men under one word >"gay" negated, or at least hid, the existance of lesbians. the thought >is that when people say "gay" they really think gay male, and that >the inclusion of lesbians should be made explicit. > >casey williamson >cwillia@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu As in "The gay culture in San Francisco." What comes to mind? Versus "The lesbian culture in San Francisco." Arnie Kahn fac_askahn@vax1.acs.jmu.edu fac_askahn@jmuvax ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 00:56:30 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jesse Subject: Re: Vanity Fair Article In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 12 Jan 1994 17:28:43 EST from I agree with Ethel Tobach about Hitchens's monstrosity in VANITY FAIR. But I think her view of THE NATION -"which is usually good [on feminist issues]" -- is too optimistic. With the exception of Katha Politt and a few others, I think it remains an old boys club and continues the old tradition on the left of low priority for feminist issues. (Remember when Elshtain was their anointed femi- nist?) Maybe it will be better under vanden Heuvel. NAOMI WEISSTEIN says: THE NATION is so out of it that it doesn't even realize that feminism is one of the few struggles for social justice that has something like a mass base in these brutal times. It trivializes women's issues, ignores them, ridicules them, and in general its writers and editors act like a group of cigar-smoking poker-playing backroom pols who, in response to charges of sexism, leer, "Whaddya mean 'sexism? I love the ladies." ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 01:02:05 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beatrice Kachuck Subject: Re: Shula Reinharz's methodology book In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 12 Jan 1994 19:33:16 CST from i would like to respond to the request for comment to shulamit reinharz for her second edition of feminist research methods in the social sciences. the address given for private replies to her was not usable for me. maybe because i'm on internet, not bitnet. and i'll be out of the country for two weeks, am shutting down my wmst-l mail tonite. therefore, please give a better address and relay this message to shulamith: i used the book in a graduate seminar at cuny last semester. much appreciated: the impressive vast coverage of research. sorely missed: a theoretical sensibility. there was no distinctio n between methodology, an application of a general theory, e.g., marxist, neo- marxist, positivism, and method, the techniques for collecting data. and there was no critical discussion of either methodologies or methods. thus, students who didn't know a particular study, and the point of the book is to introduce studies, couldn't tell, e.g., that tho the belenky et al. study was based on interviews, its design is positivistic in that findings from 139 women were generalized to all women. controversies in the field and limitations and strengths of various methodologies and methods were not discussed. thus, students who were not well grounded in feminist theories had no compass for assistance in moving toward their own research projects, a purpose of the course, and, i believe, the book. what they got, and this was very valuable, was a description of topics and some how-to. beatrice beabc@cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 01:34:21 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beatrice Kachuck Subject: Re: Vanity Fair Article In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 13 Jan 1994 00:56:30 EST from jesse's comment on the Nation merits seconding. i think we must critically scrutinize so-called friends of feminist thought - on the "left" and the "right" beatrice beabc@cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 08:27:39 AST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: paula.chegwidden@ACADIAU.CA Organization: Acadia University Subject: dowry The reference is The Marriage Bargain; Women and Dowries in European History ed. by Marion A Kaplan Haworth Press, 1985. My impression, which oculd certainly stand correction, is that dowries in Europe were the entitlement of female children who did not inherit a share of the father's land. That is, sons got land, daughters got a dowry. A daughter without dowry could not expect to be able to marry, just as a landless son could not. Dowries disappear as Europeans gradually move (or are moved) off the land with the origins of industrialization. The upper class equivalent certainly continues to be important well into the nineteenth century. While I'm on the line. Does anyone out there have any suggestions for readings I should be doing to learn about the increasing international casualization of work? I think I know the more obvious sources such as Swasti Mitter. I am also interested in new research on clerical work. Paula Chegwidden Chegwid@ace.acadiau.ca ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 08:29:09 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sharon Goodwin Subject: Re: Gender-based violence Thanks for your response to my 'stupid' question. It would be nice if we could do away with labels of all kinds for each other - unfortunately, that is an unrealistic expectation. Labels for people of all kinds seem to be a basic part of our society (homosexual, heterosexual, obese, Black, Hispanic, retarded, handicapped, etc.). Sharon ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 10:08:54 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathryn E Wilson Subject: Re: looking for Trinh T. Minh-ha's films In-Reply-To: <199401130202.VAA23117@umd5.umd.edu>; from "Brooke Fredericksen" at Jan 12, 94 6:46 pm Tin Minh Ha's films can be rented from a company called Women Make Movies, Inc. Their address:462 Broadway, Suite 501 New York, NY 10013. Telephone: (212) 925-0606. The films of hers that they carry are: "Naked Spaces," "Reassemblage," "Shoot for the Contents," and "Surname Viet, Given Name Nam." WMM's catalog is a great resource for women's films in general. I've seen "Reassemblage" and it's great. Kate Wilson kwilson@sas.upenn.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 10:44:15 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Chrys Ingraham Subject: Req for Resources on poverty/sexuality I have a colleague who needs assistance locating sources on poverty and poverty-related issues among lesbians and gay men. If anyone has any suggestions could you please forward them to me privately at INGRAHAM@ALBNYVMS Thank you for your assistance! Chrys Ingraham Russell Sage College ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 10:48:38 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: logoff Subject: qualitative research I passed along the node for the qualitative discussion group to a colleague who lost it. Could the person (or people) who have information please send it to knappf@pace.vm thank you Ken Norz ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 11:04:17 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Consuelo Lopez Springfield Subject: looking for Carol Hardy-Fanta I am trying to locate Carol Hardy-Fanta, author of LATINA POLITICS/ LATINO POLITICS. Does anyone know where she is now located? Thanks for any assistance. Consuelo Lopez Springfield CLACS, Indiana cspringf@ucs.indiana.edu or cspringf@iubacs.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 12:38:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Shula Reinharz's address (correction) Stephanie Riger provided an address for Shula Reinharz that will only work from some systems. Those of you who wish to provide Shula with feedback for the proposed second edition of her feminist methodology book should send messages to REINHARZ@BRANDEIS (her bitnet address--some may have to address this as REINHARZ@BRANDEIS.BITNET) or REINHARZ@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU (her Internet address). Some of you may have to use prefixes like IN%, SMTP%, JNET%, etc., but when you give people your address, don't include the prefix. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 12:43:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: When to post privately (User's Guide) 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--one of the most important sections--on when to post replies privately rather than to the list: ******************* 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. One further note: the above sorts of messages are OMITTED from the WMST-L digest. If the person you're trying to reach is one of the hundreds who reads WMST-L in digest form, she/he will not see the message if you send it to WMST-L. ******************* Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 12:24:53 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Patti Self Subject: Women/Minority Distributors of Scientific Equipment Two of my colleagues are interested in coming up with sellers/distributors for scientific equipment who are female and/or minority group members. Does such a list exist? If you have names to propose or suggestions on where to find such a list, please let me know. Patti Self frcdpas@vms.ucc.okstate.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 13:42:44 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "G. Vinton Palazzolo" Subject: Re: Gender-based violence Before the Stonewall incident there was a "homophile" movement in the 50s and 60s in the US. In fact, here at Cornell, as a result of that movement a lesbian and gay organization was formed 25 years ago or more.. So, "homophilia" is not out of the realm of possibility. Grace V. Palazzolo Science & Technology Studies Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14850 ******************************************************************* * gvp1@crux2.cit.cornell.edu Beware of raccoons and other * * politicians. * ******************************************************************* On Wed, 12 Jan 1994, ethel wrote: > There is no stupid question...it is for me a question I have been > discussing with many...I proposed "homophilia" to contrast with > "homophobia" but people thought it was too close to the blood > disease. We should think about this...I think there should be no > distinction made for people with an orientation to people like > themselves. Ethel Tobach > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 13:00:53 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bob Bender Subject: Re: Gender-based violence In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 12 Jan 1994 14:29:08 -0500 from On Wed, 12 Jan 1994 14:29:08 -0500 Sharon Goodwin said: >This is probably a stupid question, but I >will ask it anyway. Why are gay women called lesbians and gay men >called 'gay men'? Is there not a name for the men or is it that >they prefer just being called gay men? I've always assumed this distinction is necessary because of our extreme con- cern with "difference" (not to mention language), and also in part because patriarchy does not easily allow us to imagine anything other than "male" and "female" positions in relationships. Bob Bender Engbob@mizzou1 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 15:13:52 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Debbie Anderson Subject: Gershwin I have a student working with me who has a paper to do in Neuropsychology and is looking for any references that take a feminist or social psychological perspective to Gershwin's theory of testosterone and the brain. Thanks in advance. Please respond privately to the address below. Debbie Anderson e-mail danderso@ccs.carleton.ca ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 14:12:07 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: A Montage of works Subject: Re: women=lesbian? Sharon Goodwin: In response to your question about why women are called lesbians, and men are called gay men, relates to ancient Greece. There is a Greek island called Lesbos in the Aegean Sea. The island was inhabited by Greek women who followed Sappho, six century lyric poet. Men were not allowed to come to the island, and the women protected it vigilantly-most men were killed if they step foot on the island. Also any women who was pregnant was not allowed on the island until they gave birth. The dictionary definition of lesbian means person of Lesbos. As to why there is no name for gay men, I can only speculate is because that man wrote history and in his own eyes he wouldn't want to label himself. I hope some of this helps. David ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 17:41:44 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Reba Henderson Subject: Usage of the term "lesbian" In-Reply-To: <199401131442.JAA04890@umd5.umd.edu>; from "Sharon Goodwin" at Jan 13, 94 8:29 am I don't consider the term "lesbian" to be a matter of labels. We have fought hard to have lesbian scholars and lesbian studies included within the framework of women's studies. Don't negate that effort by trying to say it is an inappropriate use of a label. I am proud to be lesbian and very few who know me well would call me "gay". In my opinion, using the term "gay" when referring to the gay and lesbian community contributes to our invisibility just as women are made invisible with the use of the term "mankind". Lesbian defines us as women who love women. Its use ensures that we are included when the gay community is mentioned. It is the "gay and lesbian community" -- and sometimes much more -- "gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual, transgendered,...". All of this naming is an attempt to make visible who we are, so we don't have to hide anymore, so the power of those who have silenced us in the past is nullified. I recommend that those of you who don't understand this read as much of Judy Grahn's work as you can find (Her book "The Work of a Common Woman" [ISBN 0-89594-155-4] is a good place to start). Follow it up with Jeffner Allen, especially her 1986 book, "Lesbian Philosophy: Explorations" (ISBN 0-934903-86-7). Both are very good at conveying what it means to be a part of any "invisible" minority. Thanks. Diane Henderson <> ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 22:03:48 -0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cecilia Maria B Sardenberg Subject: hello from Brazil I've just joined WMST-L and want to take this opportunity to say hello to everybody in the network. I am a feminist anthropologist at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. At the moment I am coordinating a research project on menstruation entitled "Blood, Destiny and Power: A study of practices and representations on menstruation in Salvador, Bahia", and would be glad to get bibliography suggestions. Ten years ago we created NEIM - the Nucleous of Interdisciplinary Studies on Women which congregates today a group of feminist scholars (teachers, graduate and undergraduate students) working on many different feminist/women studies issues. We are open to visiting feminist scholars wishing to do research in Bahia. This past year we had four 'gringas' working with us (3 from the US and one from Canada). Due to Brazilian Federal University system regulations (and to the chronic lack of funding we have to live with), we cannot offer more than official institutional support (for visas), office space and access to library facilities. But I guarantee that we are a 'fun bunch' to work with...Two years ago we were able to gather here in Salvador representatives from Women Studies Centers from different universities throughout Brazil's northeastern states and created REDOR, a regional network of women's studies centers, of which I am presently coordinator. If anybody is interested in getting further information regarding NEIM or REDOR, feel free to write to me at the address posted below. We welcome contributions (books, articles, papers, etc) to our documentation center ! Cecilia Sardenberg NEIM/FFCH/UFBA Est. de Sao Lazaro, 197 - Federacao 40.210 - Salvador, Bahia BRAZIL fAX: (071) 247-2800 E-MAIL: cecisard@sunrnp.ufba.br ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 19:46:46 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan T Rimkus Subject: Re: "Gay" and "Lesbian" (was: Gender-based violence) In-Reply-To: <199401132102.QAA26127@umd5.umd.edu> On Thu, 13 Jan 1994, Bob Bender wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jan 1994 14:29:08 -0500 Sharon Goodwin said: > Why are gay women called lesbians and gay men > called 'gay men'? Is there not a name for the men or is it that > they prefer just being called gay men? > > I've always assumed this distinction is necessary because of our extreme con- > cern with "difference" (not to mention language), and also in part because > patriarchy does not easily allow us to imagine anything other than "male" > and "female" positions in relationships. > The thing that strikes me is that "gay" is used as an umbrella term to refer to both sexes, while "lesbian" is gender-specific...why is the male term applied in the general sense to females also - like "mankind" refering to men and women? ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 17:13:53 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ellen Cronan Rose Subject: info about law schools One of our January graduates (major sociology, minor women's studies) would like recommendations of law schools with feminist programs and/or feminist faculty. If you have recommendations or suggestions, please send them to me personally. Thanks, Ellen Rose ecrose@nevada.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 20:22:42 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Myers, Joann" Subject: Re: "Gay" and "Lesbian" (was: Gender-based violence) In-Reply-To: In reply to your message of THU 13 JAN 1994 10:46:46 EST To add to the discussion on Gays as "umbrella" term, while lesbian is gender specific: Could it possibly be that as with almost everything the male is considered the (unspoken) " norm", and that this holds true even when discussing the "other" --the male is still considered the norm? Language is one way of maintaining "norms," we need to examine and modify our use of language for the many insiduous ways that it helps to maintain the (white) male dominant socio-economic and political culture. If you look how the term lesbian has been used as a derogatory term hurled at feminists (lesbian or not), the term seems to try to place women in a category further out than "other"--women who are independent seem to scare (some) men--whether or not they are women identified women ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 21:08:55 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathe Davis Subject: Re: Gender-based violence In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 12 Jan 1994 14:29:08 -0500 from The only stupid question is the one that is not asked. Answer to why gay women are called lesbians and gay men are called gay men: there was no male Sappho. kathe davis ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 08:17:11 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Mary E. Kite" <00MEKITE@BSUVAX1.BITNET> Subject: Re: "Gay" and "Lesbian" (was: Gender-based violence) Interested persons might look at the guidelines provided by the Committee on Lesbian and Gay Concerns of the American Psychological Association. (_American Psychologist_, _46_, 973-974. They advocate avoiding both the term 'gay' and 'homosexual' when because they often imply (or are taken to mean) gay men only. Mary Kite 00mekite@bsuvax1 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 08:37:33 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Robert S. Holzman" Organization: NYU Medical Center, 550 First Ave., New York, NY 10016 Subject: Refrences wanted on native americans/sexual abuse Does anyone know of references on Native American women and rape, including, but not limited to sexual abuse in boarding schools? The information is for an paper entitled "Counseling adult women rape survivors: issues of race, culture, class, and sexual orientation." Thanks Clare G. Holzman Reply by email to holzman@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu (note that's mcclb0 [zero] not mcclbo [letter o] ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 09:08:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: lc22 Subject: Re: "Gay" and "Lesbian" (was: Gender-based violence) In-Reply-To: <199401140114.UAA23716@umd5.umd.edu> >> On Wed, 12 Jan 1994 14:29:08 -0500 Sharon Goodwin said: >> Why are gay women called lesbians and gay men >> called 'gay men'? Is there not a name for the men or is it that >> they prefer just being called gay men? Susan Rimkus' reply pretty much covers it: > The thing that strikes me is that "gay" is used as an umbrella >term to refer to both sexes, while "lesbian" is gender-specific...why is >the male term applied in the general sense to females also - like "mankind" >refering to men and women? One could go a step further, though. The pattern of one term ("man", "gay", "Marine", "Frenchman" as in "fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong") referring sometimes to both sexes and sometimes to males only, so that females have to be specified in addition, to make sure the hearers mentally include them, and of another term ("woman", "lesbian", "woman Marine", "Frenchwoman") referring only to females is, as these examples show, fairly predominant in Western culture, at least. (I don't know enough about non-European languages to be able to say much about their use of generics, except that in at least one dialect of Ojibwa the word for "man/men" is also the word for "people", so perhaps it's not just European.) It works the other way for terms that are perceived as referring to mostly female groups. We have "secretary" and "nurse" and people usually specify "male secretary" and "male nurse" but not "female secretary" and "female nurse". What this says, alas, is that for gays as for people, Frenchmen and Marines, the male is viewed as normative and the female is a sometimes-invisible subset. And the use of the terms "gay" and "lesbian" fit right into the rest of American cultural patterns of sex reference. I haven't been able to find out how long the word "lesbian" has been in use to refer to a gay woman, but I have a feeling it predates "gay". And if that's the case, one might suspect it would have been, if not for sexism, the most natural choice for the generic. BTW, it's interesting that "gay" is divided into "gay" and "lesbian", but there isn't a separate term for bisexuals or heterosexuals of one sex or the other. All of this strikes me as potentially fertile ground for class discussion. If anyone does that sort of thing, I'd be interested in knowing what your students come up with. Reply privately, of course. Linda Coleman Linda Coleman Department of English University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 LC22@umail.umd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 09:39:45 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: trisha franzen Subject: videos I am posting for a colleague who is teaching "Women in the Ecomony." The request is for videos on two subjects. First are there any good videos on women in the Victorian Era? Secondly are there any videos on the utopian communities of the nineteenth century? I have already looked at Women Made Movies and WAVE. Please reply privately to TFRANZEN@ALBION.BITNET. Thank you. Trisha Franzen Women's Studies Albion College ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 09:01:24 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Caroline Brettell Subject: Re: "Gay" and "Lesbian" (was: Gender-based violence) In-Reply-To: <199401140148.UAA27354@umd5.umd.edu> JoAnn Myers wrote that "women who are independent seem to scare men." To broaden out the gay/lesbian discussion have a look at a review in the Arts section of today's NY Times--what it says about the Sally Field character in Mrs. Doubtfire--what a horrible mother she is; Michael Crichton's new book--which disturbs me in the sense that it highlights the less common case of a powerful female employer harassing a subordinate male employee; and Hilary (the evil involvement with whitewater). That and JoAnn's comments about fear of Lesbians (because they are not interested in men and independent of them?) are all part of the same phenomenon to my mind. Caroline Brettell Southern Methodist University ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 10:53:10 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Elza Subject: Re: When to post privately (User's Guide) In-Reply-To: <199401131923.OAA12961@umd5.umd.edu> This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --553662287-470536176-758562790:#2991 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII --553662287-470536176-758562790:#2991-- ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 10:54:25 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Elza Subject: Re: When to post privately (User's Guide) In-Reply-To: <199401131923.OAA12961@umd5.umd.edu> a student is looking for information on lesbians and battered women's shelters if you know of any please respond privately jelza@grits.valdosta.peachnet.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 10:14:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Holman Weisbard Subject: Visiting Professorships for Women in Science Program Seeking Nominations/Applications for Distinguished Visiting Professorships The University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Consortium's Women and Science Program, "Science, Diversity, and Community: Revitalizing Introductory Curricula," solicits nominations and applications for Distinguished Visiting Professors (DVP) for the Spring and Fall semesters of 1995. The program--funded by the Department of Under- graduate Education of the National Science Foundation--aims to address the under-representation of women and minorities through gender-related changes in the content, pedagogy, and climate of introductory science courses. The DVP should have successfully implemented such teaching innovations at her home institution. Typical DVP's will teach a model introductory science course for one semester at an institution within the UW-System and participate in intensive faculty development activities with their hosts to promote curricular and pedagogical change that is conducive to attracting and retaining female and minority students in math and science. We are particularly interested in seeking DVP's in Physiology, Computer Science, Engineering, Tropical Biology or Ecology, and Environmental Science; however, we will consider applicants in all science fields. The University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Consortium serves as a formal organization of the Women's Studies Programs of all 26 degree- granting institutions and UW Extension. The Consortium has identified curricular reform as one of its primary goals and, because of the challenges presented by the sciences, has designated Women and Science as a focus area within that goal. Please send names or letter of interest and vitae to Dr. Rebecca D. Armstrong, Director, Women and Science Program, 7133 Helen C. White Hall, 600 N. Park St., Madison, WI 53706 by March 1, 1994. For more information call 608/263-7467. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 11:12:48 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ethel Tobach Subject: Re: Gender-based violence In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 13 Jan 1994 13:42:44 -0500 from I started to reply to Grace Palazzolo primately, *; but when I read discussion started by the question on sexual orientation language I was struck by the fact that the discussion was an excellent ex- ample of language/consciousness. Can this go into a file, Paula? Is this how one asks for that? If Joan has sent out a note on how to do this, I missed it. Sorry. EthelTobach *thanks for the info, Grace. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 12:00:13 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Elza Subject: Re: "Gay" and "Lesbian" (was: Gender-based violence) In-Reply-To: <199401140158.UAA28363@umd5.umd.edu> a student is doing a paper on Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, the first black woman lawyer in pa., first black woman to receive a phd. if you know where he can get info about her, please respond privately. thanks. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 10:31:46 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Carole Leita Subject: Contact Info? I am sending theis request for information to WMST-L and FEMISA. I apologize to those who get two copies (is there a better way?) Can anyone send me contact address information for: 1. Women in German (I've been told it was formed from/at MLA?) 2. Any feminist/s working on Austrian women in literature - particularly anyone/s in California? TIA (Thanks In Advance) -- Carole Leita leita@netcom.com Reference Librarian, Berkeley Public Library ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 13:48:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L logfiles (User's Guide) 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, about the weekly archives of all past WMST-L messages: 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. As a result, you may not be permitted to get more than a few logs on any given day (the current limit is 20 files or 2M - i.e., 2000K). 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. To learn how to search the logfiles for specific subjects, read the file SEARCH LOGFILES (send message GET SEARCH LOGFILES to listserv). ******************* Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 13:59:14 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: d000wgsp@LEO.BSUVC.BSU.EDU Subject: feminist-friendly law schools Would you please post whatever you learn about feminist-friendly law schools to the list? I am occasionally asked that question too and have no idea how to answer. Thanks! Irene Goldman 00icgoldman@bsuvc.bsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 11:24:32 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dawn Atkins Subject: Recommended Videos The two best films out on body image issues are "The Faminine Within" and "Never Too Thin." Both are excellent introductions to the issues of fat-phobia, eatings disorders and they pressures on women to conform to the beauty standard. "The Faminine Within" is available in 60, 90 & 120 min. from Direct Cinema Ltd., P.O. Box 10003, Santa Monica, CA 90410 (310) 396-4774. "Never Too Thin" is available thru WW Productions, 2700 19th St., San Francisco, CA 94110 (415) 647-3773. An excellent film about the impact of the media on violence against women is "Warning: The Media May be Hazardous to Your Health" by Anne Simonton at Media Watch, P.O. Box 618, Santa Cruz, CA 95061-0618 (408) 423-6355. I also have a list of "Goddess" information films, more clinical filsm on women's health issues, and some history films. Oh, there is an excellent film on older women called "Acting Our Age" from Direct Cinema. (address above.) Dawn Atkins, Chair of the Body Image Task Force, a national educational/activist organization based in Calif. I mainatin research files, books and films on all aspects of body image. If you have done research or published work that we might be interested in, please mail us privately. We would welcome e-mail or regular mail. Dawn Atkins spirit@armory.com (internet) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 17:36:36 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pam Wimberly Subject: Re: women=lesbian? I seem to recall seeing a term for a gay man in a dictionary of unusual words. If memory serves, the word was urning. See you at the OED. Pam wimberly@ac.dal.ca ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 15:02:54 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ellen Cronan Rose Subject: feminist-friendly law schools So many people have asked me to share the responses I received to my recent request for recommendations of law schools with feminist programs and/or feminist faculty that I suggest further answers should be posted to the list rather than sent to me personally. So far, the following law schools have been recommended: Columbia Osgood Hall, York U. Toronto Law Center at the University of Houston University of Washington NYU Stanford Georgetown Duke U of Maryland SMU DePaul Lewis and Clark Many thanks to all the people who generously answered my request. I know I speak for my inquiring student, as well as for myself (who will now be better equipped to answer this question the next time it comes up!) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 18:58:13 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Norris Subject: Re: hello from Brazil Dear Cecilia, Welcome to the list. I would like to introduce myself. I am also a feminist anthropologist, and hope to work with indigenous groups in Ecuador and Bolivia this summer. Do you know about the anthropology list? Here's the address: Listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu Your message is simply Subscribe anthro-l your name. If that doesn't work, leave out your name Good luck with your search. I wish I could help. Susan On Thu, 13 Jan 1994, Cecilia Maria B Sardenberg wrote: > I've just joined WMST-L and want to take this opportunity to say hello to > everybody in the network. I am a feminist anthropologist at the Federal > University of Bahia (UFBA) in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. At the moment I am > coordinating a research project on menstruation entitled "Blood, Destiny > and Power: A study of practices and representations on menstruation in > Salvador, Bahia", and would be glad to get bibliography suggestions. > > Ten years ago we created NEIM - the Nucleous of Interdisciplinary > Studies on Women which congregates today a group of feminist scholars > (teachers, graduate and undergraduate students) working on many different > feminist/women studies issues. We are open to visiting feminist scholars > wishing to do research in Bahia. This past year we had four 'gringas' working > with us (3 from the US and one from Canada). Due to Brazilian Federal > University system regulations (and to the chronic lack of funding we have > to live with), we cannot offer more than official institutional support (for > visas), office space and access to library facilities. But I guarantee > that we are a 'fun bunch' to work with...Two years ago we were able to > gather here in Salvador representatives from Women Studies Centers from > different universities throughout Brazil's northeastern states and > created REDOR, a regional network of women's studies centers, of which I > am presently coordinator. If anybody is interested in getting further > information regarding NEIM or REDOR, feel free to write to me at the > address posted below. We welcome contributions (books, articles, papers, > etc) to our documentation center ! > > Cecilia Sardenberg > NEIM/FFCH/UFBA > Est. de Sao Lazaro, 197 - Federacao > 40.210 - Salvador, Bahia > BRAZIL fAX: (071) 247-2800 > E-MAIL: cecisard@sunrnp.ufba.br > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 19:06:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Susan J. Kaufman" Subject: ISIS Address Would someone out there perhaps have the address for Jane Cottingham at ISIS in Geneva, Switzerland? Please forward it to my at cfsjk@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu . . . we are attempting to reach re: her participation in a book project. Susan Kaufman Eastern Illinois University ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 22:36:32 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Myers, Joann" Subject: Re: "Gay" and "Lesbian" (was: Gender-based violence) In-Reply-To: In reply to your message of THU 13 JAN 1994 22:01:24 EST This train of thought has brought me back to Suzanne Pharr's HOMO- PHOBIA, A WEAPON OF SEXISM. (Chardon Press, 1988) 'though every woman is hurt by homophobia by its control of her life through fear and by its effect in limiting social change, lesbians suffer the most damage because we are the double victims of sexism/homophobia:from men and heterosexual women, even feminist or progressive women. A womn who steps outside the rules of patriarchy and threatens its authority expects to be hated and feared by men and those women who find their source of power in men (pharr, p.27) I think that quote (and the book) is more eloquent than I was regarding the use of the term lesbian.