WMST-L LOG9401D ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 12:44:44 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lida Osecka Subject: Re: Help re Women's Mysteries/Detective Novels In-Reply-To: <199401220339.AA12533@aragorn.ics.muni.cz> from "Jane Hannigan" at Jan 21, 94 10:38:03 pm > I am a newcomer - excuse my dull question: dorothy-l, but which listserv? Lida Osecka, czech republic, osecka@arwen.ics.muni.cz > Probably the best person to start with is Amanda Cross (she is Carolyn > Heibrun) and I would suggest you place the message on Dorothy-L which > is a listserv devoted to mysteries. They are a very responsive group > and should provide you with sound guidance. Jane ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 09:18:32 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: DOROTHYL Earlier today, Lida Osecka asked: > dorothy-l, but which listserv? DOROTHYL (there's no hyphen before the L) is, as the earlier message said, a list devoted to mystery literature. The name comes from mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers. To subscribe, send the usual subscription message (SUB DOROTHYL Your Name) to LISTSERV@KENTVM (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@KENTVM.KENT.EDU (Internet). Messages for distribution should go to DOROTHYL@KENTVM or KENTVM.KENT.EDU. I'm posting this to the list rather than replying privately to Lida because there seems to be a lot of interest in feminist mystery literature and thus this information may be of interest to many WMST-L readers. By the way, I don't subscribe to DOROTHYL; please don't send questions about it to me or to WMST-L. If you have questions, the information I have says that among the listowners are Kara Robinson (KROBINSO@KENTVM or KENTVM.KENT.EDU), Diane Kovacs (DKOVACS@KENTVM or KENTVM.KENT.EDU) and Judith Hopkins (ULCJH@UBVMS [bitnet]). Any of them should be able to help you. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 11:25:14 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: CX89000 Dear Sir or Madam: I am looking at this list and realizing that it is not quite right for me. I am looking for a list specifically on women and work -- eg. sex segregation in the labour market. Does anyone have any info on listings on this topic? I would appreciate it very much if someone would contact me with this. Sincerely, Jasper Moiseiwitsch ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 12:16:43 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Hannigan Subject: Re: Help re Women's Mysteries/Detective Novels Sorry not to provide correct data but Joan has now atended to that. Jane ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 13:56:02 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: Ruby in Paradise On Saturday, January 22, 1994 I reviewed "Ruby in Paradise" 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 @UMDD (Bitnet) or UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): GET FILM REV100 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 ****University of South Florida. SOC 107 ****Tampa, FL 33620 (813) 974-5531 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 14:43:26 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ellen Subject: Women's History Month at Trenton State College In-Reply-To: <199401211352.IAA22291@umd5.umd.edu> Alexandra Juhasz Mon. 2/28 l2:30 Community Commons 113 "Aids TV" Adrienne Munich Wed. 3/2 3:30, Forcina Hall 132 "Queen Victoria's Secrets" Naomi Wolf Tues. 3/8 7:30 Student Center 202 "Fire With Fire" Marcia Ann Gillespie 3/23 3:30 Forcina Hall 134 "Male/Female Relationships" Beverly Greene Mon. 3/28 3:30 Community Commons 113 "Psychotherapy with African-American Women" Becky Birtha Tues.4/19 3:30 Student Center 202 Poetry Reading* Fee$5 Tama Janowitz Tues. 4/19 4:30 Student Center 202 Reading and Lecture* Fee$5 *One fee covers both events. Except as noted, events are free. Women's History Month at Trenton State College, Trenton, NJ 08648 Contact: Ellen G. Friedman Friedman@TSCVM.Trenton.Edu, 609 7712539 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 16:29:34 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Joan D. Mandle" Subject: Guilty If Charged The January 13, l994 New York Review of Books carries an article by Richard Bernstein, a New York Times reporter, on an incident this fall at the University of New Hampshire. The article, titled "Guilty if Charged" makes a number of what I find to be very disturbing claims about the absence f acade c freed at the absence of academic freedom at that institution. Charges were brought against a tenured English professor on grounds of sexual harassment, But the article reports that the evidence against him was very weak and focused largely on words he used in class which made student "feel uncomfortable." Nonetheless he was "convicted" and punished by the institution. I would like to have information concerning this case sent to the list by anyone who knows more about what happened at UNH. If Bernstein is correct in his interpretation, we are all at risk of censure by "uncomfortable" students and academic freedom has little meaning. I am planning on discus- sing John MOney's research next week in my class based on twin boys, one of whose penis was destroyed during circumcision. Will I offend my male students who are sure to be made "uncomfortable" by this discussion. When I discuss lesbian patterns of sexuality will I be offending others because I have used the word "sex" or "lesbian" for that matter. Sexual harassment is serious and should be prevented and/or punished by colleges and universities as by other institutions, but we must be VERY clear what we mean by such terms. Discomfort of some kinds (but not others) in a classroom is not only legitimate but necessary for learning to go on. I am worried about what looks like the opening salvo of a new McCarthyism with some of my comrades perhaps on the wrong side. I welcome discussion of this issue, this article, and any additional information list members may provide. Joan D. Mandle Director of Women's Studies Colgate UNiversity jdmandle@colgateu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 16:21:40 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "MARY E. FISCHER" Subject: Re: Guilty If Charged Here at the University of Iowa we have been wrestling over the use of materials which may be objectionable to students. The last iteration of policy is that material of a sexual nature should be preceded by a statement that the students have a right to leave if they find the subject objectionable. The medical school is having fits. (So are many others, of course.) One incident was a claim filed by a female student that she was _forced_ to watch a movie containing homosexual material. Both incidents involved homosexual material so the situation is very cloudy. Are we talking about academic freedom, homophobia, or harassment? I'd like to hear from others on this subject. ---:---:---:---:---:---:---:---:---:---:---: Mary E. Fischer Mary-Fischer@uiowa.edu ---:---:---:---:---:---:---:---:---:---:---; ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 22:35:58 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Grainne Matthews Subject: Women College Student Retention This is a repeat request: I am Assistant Director of a Minority Student Retention program. We are planning to expend our focus from ethnic minority at risk students to all students facing challenges to retention and graduation. I would like to see a much greater emphasis on women, given the multiple obstacles they/we must overcome to stay in college once admitted. I need two things: 1. Information to document the obstacles faced by women students 2. Leads on funding sources. OUr current grant is from teh State Education department and we are exploring the federal DOEducation. Please respond privately to x92matthew11wmich.edu Many thanks Grainne ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 22:54:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: {Beth Horlitz} Subject: Judy Chicago Judy Chicago has a new installation, The Holocaust Project, that is touring the U.S. right now. Does anyone know if she has produced an accompanying book for it and , if so , how I might get it? Is there a list that deals specifically with the topic of art history from a feminist perspective? Thanks, Beth Horlitz Horlitz@Hartford.Bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 21:02:00 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Wendy Burton Subject: discussion lists for classes In-Reply-To: <199401211915.OAA04369@umd5.umd.edu> I recently telnetted to inform.umd.edu and downloaded an article by AKahn and SO'Hare "A computer bulletin board in women's studies courses". It's in the email/womensstudies/reading room (I think). You might find this useful. There are two or three recent notes about using listservs for classes, made on wmst-l, and if those folks don't respond in the next little while, e-mail me and I'll patch the references to you. Wendy Burton (burton@fvc.bc.ca) ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 23 Jan 1994 18:22:56 +0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Tea Berndtson Subject: contacts in Peru I would be very happy if I could get in touch with feminist scholars and researchers in Peru. My Spanish isn't very good yet so I wish to get in touch with somebody who speaks English but I appreciate any information you can give me. I'm going to be in Lima from the beginning of March. Please, answer privately. I wish sunny spring to all of you! Tea Berndtson University of Helsinki, Department of Sociology e-mail: Tea.Berndtson@Helsinki.Fi ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 23 Jan 1994 09:26:22 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Ariel Subject: Re: Judy Chicago In-Reply-To: <199401230401.XAA19577@umd5.umd.edu> Yes, Viking Penguin has published Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light by Judy Chicago with photographs by Donald Woodman (husband). $40 hardcover; $22.50 paperback. jariel@uci.edu On Sat, 22 Jan 1994, {Beth Horlitz} wrote: > Judy Chicago has a new installation, The Holocaust Project, that is touring > the U.S. right now. Does anyone know if she has produced an accompanying > book for it and , if so , how I might get it? > > Is there a list that deals specifically with the topic of art history from > a feminist perspective? > > Thanks, > > Beth Horlitz Horlitz@Hartford.Bitnet > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 23 Jan 1994 12:34:20 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kate Kelly Subject: Re: WMST-L Digest - 21 Jan 1994 to 22 Jan 1994 I am responding to the discussion of what constitutes sexually offen- sive material. I teach at a university attended by many conservative Christian students, also by ROTC students, and by a growing population of Hispanic and African-American students. When I have taught materials that could, given this population, be construed as "offensive," I always preface the materials with a "warning": this material is sometimes con- sidered controversial. You are free to leave for this period if you wish, and will, without penalty, be provided substitute materials. In this way, students are warned and I am, in some loose way, protected. However, this entire issue has chilled the presentation of controversial subjects and has undoubtedly had a negative effect on academic freedom. When I taught D. W. Griffiths' film, "Birth of a Nation" a couple of years ago, I prefaced it with the warning that it was offensively racist. Nevertheless, the predominately white audience snickered at the portrayall of Blacks in the film (most of them white actors in black face), which led to one Af-Amer student walking out and dropping the class. We are all sensitive but unequally so: standards for offense vary from group to group, so how are we to proceed? Perhaps the use of "sensitivity" as an index for proper behavior in these contexts needs to be replaced by the hypothetical (not to mention mythical) "reasonable person" standard. But this hardly solves the problem. I am swinging towards greater tol- erance to "insensitivity" (a la W. Goldberg--right on, I say!) bc it represents the least evil. Amen. Kate E. Kelly KEK941A@VENUS.TAMU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 23 Jan 1994 23:25:35 +0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: harriet hartman Subject: SIROW conference Does anyone have any information about the SIROW conference March 10-13 at Ariz. State? I believe I have something to contribute and would like to know who to contact. Please respond privately. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 23 Jan 1994 16:41:29 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jennifer Ting Subject: Feminist Art History panels I'm posting this to the list, since a couple of people have asked about feminist art history in the past few months. The 82nd Annual Conference of the College Art Association (16-19 February, NYC) features a number of panels on this topic (including "Gender Issues in Indian Art and Art History," "The Female Grotesque," and "Daughters of Feminism: Feminism as a Passage out of Art History"), as well as panels which don't specifically thematize feminism but include feminist speakers. For registration info, contact CAA, Dept. A, 275 Seventh Avenue, NY NY 10001 (sorry, I have no phone #). I would also be happy to copy the program I have for those who are primarily interested in identifying feminist scholars within this discipline. Jennifer Ting Department of American Civilization Brown University jen <--> st403328@brownvm <--> st403328@brownvm.brown.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 23 Jan 1994 17:00:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christine Smith Subject: Re: WMST-L Digest - 21 Jan 1994 to 22 Jan 1994 The subject of what consistutes offensive material has struck a cord with me, and I would like to know how others have handled it, both before teaching the materials, and after students have complained. I am currently teaching "Female Sexuality". After the 2nd class I was reported to the Dean by a few students, who seemed to be offended by my "liberalism" regarding sexuality. The complaints were extremely vague, so I am not even sure what they specifically had a problem with. However, I did teach theories by MacKinnon and Dworkin (along with Amber Hollibaugh), so my guess is that they found this stuff "too radical"(and "male bashing"). The Dean has no problem with what I am teaching, but she wants the students to leave her alone. I have no intention of lightening up (and I have heard from other faculty that many students have been raving about the course), but I do want to address the problems of the small minority of students that have taken offense with some of the theories, and will no doubt continue to do so. If anyone has any suggestions, I would appreciate them. You can responde privately, unless you feel that responses may be of general interest to the List. Christine Smith csmith@vms.cis.pitt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 23 Jan 1994 23:03:12 -0800 Reply-To: Angela Ginorio Sender: Women's Studies List From: Angela Ginorio Subject: Reference for text on women and violence In-Reply-To: <9401212355.AA02500@walker.u.washington.edu> I'll be teaching a course on Women and Violence to advanced undergradutes in an evening program. This means that they will be mostly full-time working people doing a degree in the evening--with very varied backgrounds (both experiential and course-wise). What kind of textbook would you suggest? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 23 Jan 1994 23:35:59 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Carol Edelman Subject: Re: Judy Chicago How does one find out more about Judy Chicago's traveling Holocaust tour? Carol cedelman@oavax.csuchico.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 00:04:45 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Harold Frank Subject: Black Women in Search of Themselves 1894-1994 re: MIT Conference: Black Women in Search of Themselves 1894-1994 This conference was held during the past week or so. I was not able to attend but am interested in the subject matter and would appreciate hearing from anyone who did. I would think a commentary on the conference would be of interest to WMST-L but please respond to me privately if you are in doubt. Hal Frank -- end++++++end++++++end++++++end++++++end++++++end++++++end++++++end+++ + Dr. Hal Frank hfrank@mizar.usc.edu + + University of Southern California hfrank@bcf.usc.edu + + P.O. Box 41992 Phone: (213) 254-1022 + + Los Angeles, CA 90041-0992 FAX: (213) 740-0001 + ****Happy New Year********Seasons Greetings********Peace************* ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 06:05:25 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo Freeman Subject: article search I'm looking for an article or book chapter on feminsm and Asian American or Native American women written within the last three years. I need something basic, with lots of explanation, some data, and no jargon. If anyone knows of pieces fitting this description, please send cite (not just author's name) so I can find it. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 07:06:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: A Deborah Malmud Subject: judy chicago Judy Chicago presented a slide talk on her Holocaust Project at the recent conference sponsored by Tikkun Magazine in New York City. Tikkun can be reached at 251 West 100th St, 5th floor, New York City, 10025. phone: 212-864-4110; fax 212-864-4137. Someone there can probably give you contact information for Chicago. A. Deborah Malmud adm1@columbia.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 08:55:37 -500 Reply-To: "Giavanna J. Munafo" Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Giavanna J. Munafo" Subject: afr.-american studies list I learned recently of an African-American Studies list to which interested scholars can subscribe that is similar to this one. If anyone has the information re: subscribing, please send it to me privately. Thanks-- Giavanna Munafo gjm9u@darwin.clas.virginia.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 09:00:09 GMT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC From: SHERIDAN HARVEY Subject: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC I have a friend who is going to the Dominican Republic in April . She is not on email, and so asked me to ask if any of you kn ow women in that country who are involved in women's issues. M y friend does speak reasonable Spanish and would like to meet s ome interesting people there.//Please reply to me privately at: Harvey2@mail.loc.gov//Thank you. Sheridan Harvey ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 09:22:14 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Kathleen Marszycki." Subject: Re: Request for Info >I am trying to locate additional scholarly references to the "crone" >as a concept used in feminism. I have located the books by Babrara >Walker but am seeking additional titles. This is for a colleague >doing some research involving the concept of the crone. Jane >Please reply to: Hannigan@Zodiac.rutgers.edu Jane-- am sending my reply over the WMST-L because in the past I myself have received "negative" comments about responding privately on a subject that may be of interest to many on the list. So here goes -- I'm interested in investigating the stereotyping of the "spinster" or, as you term it, the "crone" within literature. Two books I would highly recommend would be NEVER MARRIED WOMEN by Barbara Levy Simon (Temple UP 1987) and OLD MAIDS TO RADICAL SPINSTERS IN THE NOVEL edited by Laura Doan with an excellent intro my Nina Auerbach (1991). Good luck and I would like to see what you compile from your query. Kelly kathleen.marszycki@mail.trincoll.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 09:47:54 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: d000wgsp@LEO.BSUVC.BSU.EDU Subject: research on violent children Hi-- For the umpteenth time yesterday I encountered someone who charged career women who refuse to stay home with the degeneration of the family and increased violence among children. What I'd like to know is, has anyone done any research to see what % of violent crimes are done by children of women who have CAREERS, women who go out of the home to work in JOBS, and women who stay home? If not, does this sound like a good kind of research project? (I'm in literature, not the social sciences, so I'm not a good judge of what is a plausible subject). Thanks. Irene Goldman 00ICGOLDMAN@BSUVC.BSU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 09:50:42 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: d000wgsp@LEO.BSUVC.BSU.EDU Subject: Re: WMST-L Digest - 21 Jan 1994 to 22 Jan 1994 Regarding teaching potentially objectionable material, what has always worked for me is bringing up the topic in the classroom and allowing students to discuss the potential of the material to offend. If you invite that kind of conversation and agree that some people might be made uncomfortable by the material, but you have good reason to teach it anyway, usually the talk remains in the classroom rather than going above your head. Good luck! Irene Goldman 00ICGOLDMAN@BSUVC.BSU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 09:51:52 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: d000wgsp@LEO.BSUVC.BSU.EDU Subject: Re: Request for Info Please note--crones are not always spinsters. The idea is that women gain wisdom when they age past their childbearing years. Many a crone has children and grandchildren. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 17:42:17 LCL Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kirsch Vicki L Subject: article search The anthology MAKING FACE, MAKING SOUL/HACIENDO CARAS by Gloria Anzaldua has numerous recent articles by Native American women and Asian American women and feminism. Vicki Kirsch vlkirs@wm.mail.edu College of William and Mary ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 10:07:29 -500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Giavanna J. Munafo" Subject: PC in the classroom In-Reply-To: <199401231837.NAA24900@umd5.umd.edu> The recent string of queries and suggestions re: what is ok to say/do in the classroom contributes to a wide-ranging and often much too polarizing debate about what some critics have called "the PC movement". Women's Studies classrooms are often attacked under the guise of protecting students from the "PC" indoctrination that supposedly goes on under the guise of inclusiveness or sensitivity to differences. As may be obvious, I object to such objections, for the most part, because I believe that most of the instructors out there doing this so-called indoctrinating are doing no such thing. Anti-PC invectives posit a unified, coherent "movement" determined to police students' attitudes and language. No such "movement" exists. What does exist is a large number of more or less affiliated or intellectually congenial teachers trying to undo the real work of thought-police: ignorance and intolerance. Anyway, to add my two cents, although a statement that students who find material 'offensive' may, without penalty, absent themselves from the classroom may solve the institutional issue of culpability, it may may not best serve our students. Rather, attempting to create an environment where students who do disagree or feel uncomfortable can voice their concerns safely and be supported in them--however strongly we as individuals may disagree with them--may enable a much more productive dialogue and keep those students involved (instead of allowing them to opt out). This is a difficult task. I'd be interested in hearing from others about success stories in this arena. Giavanna Munafo gjm9u@darwin.clas.virginia.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 09:28:45 CST6CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jyotsna Vaid Organization: tamu/psycdept Subject: ws survey reminder I want to thank all of you who have sent in your survey replies (for the women's studies survey on programs administration/budget etc. I circulated last week). Since I need to summarize the responses by next week I would urge anyone else who hasn't replied to do so by this Saturday (Jan 29). If you deleted the survey - write me and I can send another copy. Thanks again. Jyotsna Vaid (Psychology/Texas A&M/College Station, TX. 409-845-2576). e-mail: jxv@psyc.tamu.edu Jyotsna Vaid Dept. of Psychology Texas A & M University College Station, TX 77845-4235 (409) 845-2576 (409) 845-4727 (fax) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 10:25:29 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Margaret Susan Thompson Subject: Supreme Court RICO ruling According to an announcement I just heard on the news (c. 10:20 a.m., e.s.t.), the US Supreme Court just issued a unanimous ruling that RICO statutes CAN be used against anti-abortion groups like "Operation Rescue." This was described as a "tremendous victory" for groups like NOW and NARAL, and a "devastating defeat" for groups like "Rescue." Peggy Margaret Susan Thompson thompson@maxwell.syr.edu Dept. of History, 145 Eggers Hall Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 13244-1090 315-443-5882, 443-2210 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 10:42:31 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Janet E. McAdams" Subject: Re: article search In-Reply-To: <9401241109.AA00787@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> You might look at "American Indian Women: At the Center of Indigenous Resistance in North America" in THE STATE OF NATIVE AMERICA, M. Annette Jaimes, ed. Boston: South End Press, 1992. A couple of older articles are Rayna Green, "Native American Women,"SIGNS Winter 1980 and Rayna Green, "The Pocahontas Perplex: The Image of Indian Women in Anerican Culture," MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW 16, #4 (1975). On Mon, 24 Jan 1994, Jo Freeman wrote: > I'm looking for an article or book chapter on feminsm and Asian American or > Native American women written within the last three years. I need something > basic, with lots of explanation, some data, and no jargon. If anyone knows of > pieces fitting this description, please send cite (not just author's name) so I > can find it. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 09:57:06 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Todd Subject: Re: Judy Chicago In-Reply-To: Message of Sun, 23 Jan 1994 23:35:59 -0700 from You might contact the Spertus College of Judaica in Chicago, where the echibit will be until sometime in April, for information on where it will go from there. Sorry I don't have a phone #, but Spertus is located on Michigan Avenue. Mary Todd Women's Studies The University of Illinois at Chicago u24930@uicvm >How does one find out more about Judy Chicago's traveling Holocaust tour? > Carol >cedelman@oavax.csuchico.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 10:05:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Holman Weisbard Subject: Reference source on women's detective novels There's a new annotated bibliography on female detectives: DellaCava, Frances A. and Madeline H. Engel FEMALE DETECTIVES IN AMERICAN NOVELS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ANALYSIS OF SERIALIZED FEMALE SLEUTHS. NY: Garland, 1993. There's an historical/analytic essay and bibliography of 636 novels featuring 161 sleuths, representing the work of 147 authors (some male) going back to the 1890s "lady detectives." Note that to be included there has to be more than one novel featuring the same character. Phyllis Holman Weisbard pweis@macc.wisc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 12:28:34 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sarah Elizabeth Chinn Subject: Re: judy chicago In-Reply-To: <199401241355.AA08813@mailhub.cc.columbia.edu> There was a long and very interesting article in the _Village Voice_ about a month or two ago about the Holocaust Project. It was critical of Chicago in general and the project in particular, and was written from an explicitly Jewish feminist perspective. Definitely worth taking a look at. Sarah Chinn sec8@columbia.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 12:09:13 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: blake debra j Subject: Re: Chicano and Chicana literature In-Reply-To: <199401212030.PAA14254@umd5.umd.edu> Two writers who have best addressed these issues are Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua. Moraga's works are: Loving in the War Years and The Last Generation. Anzaldua's work: Borderlands/La Frontera. These texts also address lesbian issues within the Chicano culture, especially Moraga's works. Occupied America: A History of Chicanos by Rodolfo Acuna and Aztlan: Essays on the homeland (I think that's the title) are also interesting perspectives. Also, a great deal of Chicano/a literature deals with these topics. Debbie Blake djblake@umaxc.uiowa.edu On Fri, 21 Jan 1994, AMY KASTELY wrote: > For a student who is a Mexican-American man from El Paso, I would > be grateful for references to work by Chicano and Chicana writers > that would help him think about marginalization, cultural imperialism, > double vision, and related notions. > Please send messages to me and I will compile a list for a general > posting. > Thank you, > Amy Kastely > amy@vax.stmarytx.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 12:35:46 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Deb Morrow THE WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAM AT SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY AT CARBONDALE (SIUC) IS INTERESTED IN YOUR INDIVIDUAL AND/OR UNIVERSITY'S APPROACHES TO THE FOLLOWING FOUR CONCERNS. (1) DOES YOUR UNIVERSITY/DEPARTMENT/COLLEGE OFFER SPLIT TENURE POSITIONS FOR DUAL-CAREER COUPLES WHO ARE IN THE SAME FIELD? (2) DOES YOUR UNIVERSITY/DEPARTMENT/COLLEGE OFFER HELP IN FINDING PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS FOR DUAL-CAREER COUPLES WHO MAY NOT BE IN THE SAME FIELD, OR WHO DO NOT WANT A SPLIT-TENURE POSITION? (3) DOES YOUR UNIVERSITY/DEPARTMENT/COLLEGE ALLOW A WOMAN TO DELAY THE TENURE CLOCK FOR PREGNANCY? (4) DOES YOUR UNIVERSITY/DEPARTMENT/COLLEGE HAVE A MECHANISM TO HIRE SOMEONE TO TAKE A FACULTY MEMBER'S CLASSES DURING HER MATERNITY LEAVE SO THAT WOMEN ARE NOT SEEN AS A UNIQUE CLASS IMPOSING ON THEIR COLLEAGUES? ALTHOUGH CURRENT POLICY OFTEN ALLOWS LEAVE, IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE IF THE BABY IS BORN DURING THE SEMESTER. THESE ARE SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT OUR HIGHER ADMINISTRATION IS LOOKING INTO, AND ASKED OUR INPUT. THIS SEEMED TO BE A LOGICAL STARTING PLACE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND EFFORT. PLEASE RESPOND PRIVATELY TO: CORZINES@SIUCVMB.SIU.EDU; OR IF YOU WISH TO RESPOND IN WRITING, DEBBIE MORROW, WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAM, MAILSTOP #6518, SIUC, CARBONDALE IL 6290 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 10:39:42 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Marilyn P. Safir" Subject: Re: research on violent children In-Reply-To: <9401241448.AA00530@walker.u.washington.edu> This Blaming of mother's with careers smacks of "backlash". In the Late '50's-60's there were attacks on working mothers and what were called their latch key kids who wer "terribly nreeglected" and "out on the streets juvinal delinquents". Lois Hoffman ( and coauthor whose name I have forgotten and date of publication - I am on sabbatical without most of my books) analyzed the data that "proved that mothers working out of the were responsible for the increase incrime" and showed that low SES - Poverty was cause. Infact it was found that the children who "suffered" tended to be those whose mothers who wanted to work but stayed home "to be with the Kids" or those that had to work but didn't want to "suffered" equally ie if mother was unhappy it efects the kids- Generally speaking the only difference between kids whose mothers worked or didn't work out of the home was that kids in the first group were more indepandent than those whose mothers were homemakers. according to todays statistics only about 10% of US families are tradition with the father the only bread winner and obviously those families are primarily in the higher income brackets. Marilyn ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 14:05:52 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Kathleen Marszycki." Subject: Re: Request for Info >Please note--crones are not always spinsters. The idea is that women >gain wisdom when they age past their childbearing years. Many a crone >has children and grandchildren. I wasn't implying that crones = spinsters. However, as I'm trying to clarify these "categorizations" that have been with us women for centuries, I would like to suggest that the negative definition of crone as "a withered, witchlike old woman" may have eventually linked the spinster to the crone in the eye of the male, especially within the context of "withered" implying "not (or no longer) fertile" and therefore superfluous to them? I believe Auerbach makes a good connection of these images we're all familiar with through folktales, fairytales, etc. to the present with the notorious witchlike spinster figure of Glenn Close in "Fatal Attraction." More importantly, how do we read these continuing negative connotations? If I'm off base here, I'd like to know. Kathleen.Marszycki@mail.trincoll.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 14:13:54 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Myers, Joann" Subject: Re: Request for Info In-Reply-To: In reply to your message of MON 24 JAN 1994 09:22:14 EST Am I wrong? I've always thought CRONE was used to describe a woman of a certain age (past menopause) who was wise; while SPINSTER was any unmarried woman past the nubile (marriagable) age... JoAnne ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 14:28:09 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shelley Haley Subject: Black women in the academy This is in reference to Hal Frank's query about the recent conference at MIT. First of all, the title of the conference was Black Women in the Academy Defending Our Name, 1894-1994--not "in search of ourselves." I went both as a presenter and a participant;it was an incredibily empowering, but sometimes frustrating experience. There were 2010 attendees and I suffered serious culture shock returning to the overwhelming whiteness of central NY. Shelley Haley Dept of Classics Hamilton College shaley@itsmail1.hamilton.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 14:31:41 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Myers, Joann" Subject: Re: Request for Info In-Reply-To: In reply to your message of MON 24 JAN 1994 14:05:52 EST Kathleen just posted something else that stimulated the recesses of my brain: re:'the negative definition of crone as "a withered, witchl ike old woman"...linked..in eye of the male...implying "not (or no longer) fertile" and therefore superfluos to them?' Awhile back I was talking with a colleague who is a behavioral biologist who mentioned that 'witches' were usually women past their childbearing years, who were either widowed or not married who had property, skills, etc., and therefore did not need a male, and were,thus, threatening to males. The way to remove these women of independent means was to accuse them of being witches, and either they died provingthey were not witches, or they died because they were (drowning, burning, hanging) Have any of you come across a citation for the above? JoAnne ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 14:20:32 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Pershing Subject: Locating Paula Rothenberg I am trying to locate a phone number or email address for Paula Rothenberg. I know that she is affiliated with the New Jersey Project, but need something more specific. Please respond privately. Thanks, Linda Pershing, Dept. of Women's Studies, SUNY Albany LLP@uacsc1.albany.edu or LLP@ALBNYVMS.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 12:12:31 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Brenda Brasher Subject: Crones, et al. In-Reply-To: <9401241921.AB11925@chaph.usc.edu> from "Kathleen Marszycki." at Jan 24, 94 02:05:52 pm There has been a lot of work on crones & so forth by Mary Daly [see GynEcology, for example] and in the Goddess movement in general -- trying to work to reclaim this and similar language as words of power & wisdom for mature power and wisdom for women. Brenda E. Brasher University of Southern California brasher@usc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 15:40:37 -500 Reply-To: "Giavanna J. Munafo" Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Giavanna J. Munafo" Subject: Native-Am. Women & Feminism In-Reply-To: <199401241927.OAA09828@umd5.umd.edu> Here's another reference that Jo Freeman and others on the list may find helpful re: Native American Women and Feminism: "Who is Your Mother?: Red Roots of White Feminism," Paula Gunn Allen in _Multi-Cultural Literacy_, eds. Rick Simonson and Scott Walker (Graywolf, 1988). ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 16:08:44 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: martha ecker Subject: World Philosophy Course Does anyone have a syllabus for a "World Philosophy" course? I need a few examples as soon as possible. Please respond privately. Thanks. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 16:34:56 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Kathleen Marszycki." Subject: Re: Request for Info >Am I wrong? I've always thought CRONE was used to describe a >woman of a certain age (past menopause) who was wise; while >SPINSTER was any unmarried woman past the nubile (marriagable) >age... >JoAnne This is very interesting -- then why do some (obviously not all) dictionaries NOT mention the crone's wisdom? rather selective defining, wouldn't you say? kathleen.marszycki@mail.trincoll.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 16:22:22 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathy Feltey Subject: Re: Request for Info In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 24 Jan 1994 14:05:52 EST from I am asking for this information for a student who is doing research on women involved in anti-feminist social movements. She is aware of Dworkin's Right-Wing Women and Kristin Luker's The Politics of Motherhood. Are there other sources she can reference as she develops her research agenda? Please answer privately to Kathy Feltey (R1KMF@AKRONVM). I will post what I get if folks are interested. Thanks in advance! ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 16:01:47 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "JENNIFER R. SCANLON" Organization: SUNY at Plattsburgh, New York, USA Subject: feminist/pop culture research in Mexico I will be in Mexico this summer, conducting research on popular magazines for adolescent girls. If anyone on this list has any contacts who work on feminist/popular culture issues in Mexico, I would appreciate receiving their names and addresses. I plan to be there during the month of July. Thanks, Jennifer Scanlon ______ Women's Studies Program / *| State University of New York | | Plattsburgh, New York 12901 _________ / | > | / | BITNET: SCANLOJR@SNYPLAVA.BITNET |_______________ | Telephone: (518) 564-4228 \_ | FAX: (518) 564-3932 \ | `__| === ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 17:10:11 +119304128 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Smith Subject: Re: research on violent children In-Reply-To: from "d000wgsp@LEO.BSUVC.BSU.EDU" at Jan 24, 94 09:47:54 am Regarding violence in children, I would suggest a book entitled Boys Will Be Boys by Myriam Miedzian. She makes the point that we do not have violent children, we have violent boys. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 17:13:15 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Elza Subject: Re: Request for Info In-Reply-To: <199401241710.MAA21926@umd5.umd.edu> i just read a science fiction short story in a book entitled the hotel andromeda in which crones were infertile older women who were eaten because they secreted a hormone younger women needed to become fertile. this probably doesn't help you, but i thought i'd throw that in since crone is not a word currently used much. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 17:15:49 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: martha ecker Subject: World Philosophy Program I'm sorry, I really need information about the requirements for a World Philosophy program or major, not a single course. Thanks. Please respond privately. Martha Ecker mecker@ultrix.ramapo.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 16:31:37 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Todd Subject: Re: Request for Info In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 24 Jan 1994 14:31:41 EST from Joann Meyers asked about witches being women who had property but no men in their lives. Carol Karlsen's _The Devil in the Shape of a Woman_ supports that theory with regard to the witchcraft episodes in colonial New England. Mary Todd Women's Studies The University of Illniois at Chicago u24930@uicvm >Awhile back I was talking with a colleague who is a behavioral biologist >who mentioned that 'witches' were usually women past their childbearing >years, who were either widowed or not married who had property, skills, >etc., and therefore did not need a male, and were,thus, threatening to >males. The way to remove these women of independent means was to >accuse them of being witches, and either they died provingthey were >not witches, or they died because they were (drowning, burning, hanging) >Have any of you come across a citation for the above? >JoAnne ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 17:36:51 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dorothy Dean Subject: crones Ursula LeGuin has written some nice fiction about crones. One story I recall particularly is about who would make the best representative of humanity to send into space. A crone is what she proposes. Nicely done story. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 19:14:23 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gary Daily Subject: Re: Request for Info You might take a look at Carol F. Karlsen, _The Devil in the Shape of a Woman_ and John Demos, _Entertaining Satan_. gary daily Indiana State Univ. hidaily@ruby.indstate.edu > Kathleen just posted something else that stimulated the recesses > of my brain: re:'the negative definition of crone as "a withered, witchl > ike old woman"...linked..in eye of the male...implying "not (or no > longer) fertile" and therefore superfluos to them?' > Awhile back I was talking with a colleague who is a behavioral biologist > who mentioned that 'witches' were usually women past their childbearing > years, who were either widowed or not married who had property, skills, > etc., and therefore did not need a male, and were,thus, threatening to > males. The way to remove these women of independent means was to > accuse them of being witches, and either they died provingthey were > not witches, or they died because they were (drowning, burning, hanging) > Have any of you come across a citation for the above? > JoAnne > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 19:19:25 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jesse Lemisch Subject: Womanism Various nets have recently posted notice of a journal on "Womanism." What is womanism? How is it like/unlike feminism? Jesse Lemisch ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 16:49:10 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elizabeth S Reis Subject: Re: Request for Info Regarding the request for information on accused witches and property: see Carol Karlsen, __The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England__ (New York, 1987). Karlsen argues that accused witches in New England held substantial property or unusual economic power (because they didn't have fathers, brothers, or sons) and thus challenged the traditional notions of women's place. It's a great book and works very well in the classroom. Lizzie Reis, Dept. of History, University of Oregon email: lzreis@oregon.uoregon.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 20:04:28 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kamini Grahame Subject: Re: Black Women in Search of Themselves 1894-1994 This week's Chronicle of Higher Ed has some coverage of the MIT conference. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 20:08:31 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kamini Grahame Subject: Re: article search The anthology Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings by and ABout Asian American Women has a section on Activism. Published by Beacon Press, 1989. Yes I do realize that it's a little older than you might want. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 19:17:08 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Michelle Segar Subject: help! Please take me off your list. It was an error that I joined. I really need to sign off. If you have any questions please call me at 313-764-2767. Thank you very much. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 21:22:23 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Margaret Hobart Subject: Re: research on violent children In-Reply-To: <9401241903.AA01652@walker.u.washington.edu> what is interesting to me about this discourse about career women being to blame for violent children/boys is the way in which race is so present and yet so unmarked. We must contrast this with the equally vehement arguments that "welfare mothers" (in the cultural imagination, young black women) must go to _work_. As Patricia Hill Collins argues, a lively discourse exists blaming welfare mothers for the problems of the inner city, including crime and violence. Apparently women of color staying home to be with their children constitute a bad influence, while career women (read: white women) going to work destroy their children's lives. hmmmm. Margaret Hobart mhobart@carson.u.washington.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 21:40:44 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Margaret Hobart Subject: race, gender and battering In-Reply-To: <9401241903.AA01598@walker.u.washington.edu> I am pursuing a couple of questions regarding woman battering and would appreciate feedback and resources. I would be happy to converse with anyone who has similar interests: -I am looking for feminist works and or theory which would help me explore the ways in which constructions of battering, , violence, and "victim" hold unmarked assumptions re: race and sexuality as well as gender. I am particularly (but not exclusively) interested in how these understandings operate in the criminal justice system. -I am also interested in feminist theory re battering. Catherine MacKinnon poses the argument that in this Patriarchal culture, rape is sex, and women are defined primarily by their vulnerability to being raped. Is there a similar theory re battering? ie, if sex is rape, is marriage (or being in a relationship) enslavement? or abuse? If there is not a clear parallel argument, why not? Some theorists have discussed the history of the marriage liscence in relationship to property concerns, but is anyone familiar with work that takes this idea further? Please respond privately, Margaret Hobart mhobart@carson.u.washington.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 13:38:32 +0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Eileen Boris Subject: Re: research on violent children In-Reply-To: <199401250531.HAA16223@kruuna.Helsinki.FI> from "Margaret Hobart" at Jan 24, 94 09:22:23 pm Margaret Hobert makes an important point in reminding us of Patricia Hill Collins observation. As Nancy Fraser and Linda Gordon point out in their fine article in the latest signs on "Dependency", the dependency of poor women on welfare is bad, but that of other women on husbands was good. Now in the 1990s this is shifting in some quarters with the acceptance or recognition of the wage earning of married women but the continual degradation of solo mothers on welfare who are paid to stay home while other women must leave the home for wage earning--it appears that we have some contradictory discourses even about married women working outside of the home in jobs that perhaps in the case of so-called career women challenge male hierarchies. . . Eileen.Boris Howard Univ.| 1993-94 at Renvall Institute, Univ. of Helsinki Finland Eileen.Boris@Helsinki.Fi ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 09:23:37 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: STRETCH OR DROWN/ EVOLVE OR DIE Subject: Re: Request for Info Two sources might be helpful. Zillah Eisenstein did some stuff on the right-wing agenda in an article that appeared in Signs in the early 80s. I don't have the exact reference in front of me. Also see Susan Faludi's Backlash which has a fair amount on women of the new right. Laurie Finke finkel@kenyon.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 09:00:16 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Bixby Subject: Re: Sandra Harding's address I am trying to reach Prof. Harding for a speaking engagement in the fall-does anyone have an office number/address where she can be reached. Many thanks. Barbara Bixby Chair Dept. of Political Science Carthage College Kenosha, WI 53140 brb@cns.carthage.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 08:59:18 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JOSEPHME@SLUVCA.SLU.EDU Organization: SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY St. Louis, MO Subject: Query for Librarians re:1994 NWSA Meeting I'm in the process of requesting travel funds from my library director for professional development and I'm planning to request support for attendance at the 1994 NWSA meeting in Iowa City since I'm the liaison librarian for Women's Studies. Since this isn't a library-type meeting, I think my cause would be helped if I could say that other women's studies librarians plan to attend. So, if you're an academic librarian with WST duties and think you may attend NWSA, I'd appreciate hearing from you. Please reply PRIVATELY and let me know if you mind if I share your name with any others who may also be interested. I'll reply privately to anyone I hear from. Thanks. Miriam Joseph Pius XII Memorial Library Saint Louis University Josephme@sluvca.slu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 09:55:20 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Pauline B. Bart" Subject: Judy Chicago Judy Chicago's Holocaust show is currently in Chicago at the Spertus Museum till the end of January. "Our" public radio critic let loose with kla misgynist blast at her calling her man hating and homophobic, soo kshe reallymust say something here as she has in her other shows. You can call Spertus Museum in CHiago for other information or contact Pat Murphy at the Center for theStudyoof WOmen and Gender at the Univ of Illinois, kChicago lwhoi knows udy and how to reach her. Judy elicits as lmuch rage as Kitty MacKinnon does. Pauline B. Bart U17334@UICVM.UIC.EDU (University of Illinois at Chicago) Everything is data, but data isn't everything... Don't kill the messenger! ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 11:11:33 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Harrison-Pepper Sally Subject: Poetry re Mother/Daughter A colleague in dance is looking for a poem or perhaps a section of a short story that deals with a Mother/Daughter relationship, or even a Grandmother/Granddaughter relationship, to which she can stage a dance. She would especially like material that is, as she put it, "tempestuous." This list was very helpful the last time I put out such a request for her (that time for an eco-feminist poem), and I am hopeful that we'll be able to help her again. Thank you and please reply privately to: Sally Harrison-Pepper, School of Interdisciplinary Studies Miami University, Oxford OH fax: 513-529-5849 e: Harrison-Pepper_Sally@msmail.muohio.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 12:00:39 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Nancy Garner, History, Wright State. Univ., Dayton" Subject: Re: Request for Info On Jan. 24th, JoAnn Myers wrote: >Awhile back I was talking with a colleague who is a behavioral biologist >who mentioned that 'witches' were usually women past their childbearing >years, who were either widowed or not married who had property, skills, >etc., and therefore did not need a male, and were, thus, threatening to >males. The way to remove these women of independent means was to >accuse them of being witches, and either they died proving they were >not witches, or they died because they were (drowning, burning, hanging) >Have any of you come across a citation for the above? a good citation for this interpretation is Carol F. Karlsen, The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England. New York: Norton, 1987. Nancy Garner ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 10:57:47 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Karen Baird Subject: gender/pub. policy Someone recently asked for studies re: gender and public policy, and specifically on implementation. (I erased the message or I would have sent this privately.) I came across a reference to _Women and Men of the States. Public Administration at the State Level._ Ed. by Mary Guy, 1992. It might be useful. Karen Baird POLS1JH@UHUPVM1.UH.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 12:32:16 -500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Giavanna J. Munafo" Subject: NWSA Conference Not long ago the NWSA office posted an announcement re: their email address and how to reach them during an interim period. I'd like information about contacting them to request conference information and renew my membership, if anyone has it. Thanks-- Giavanna Munafo gjm9u@darwin.clas.virginia.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 11:30:49 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Barbara J. Peters" Subject: Re: research on violent children Date sent: 25-JAN-1994 11:04:18 >what is interesting to me about this discourse about career women being >to blame for violent children/boys is the way in which race is so >present and yet so unmarked. We must contrast this with the equally >vehement arguments that "welfare mothers" (in the cultural imagination, >young black women) must go to _work_. As Patricia Hill Collins argues, a >lively discourse exists blaming welfare mothers for the problems of the >inner city, including crime and violence. Apparently women of color >staying home to be with their children constitute a bad influence, while >career women (read: white women) going to work destroy their children's >lives. hmmmm. > >Margaret Hobart >mhobart@carson.u.washington.edu In the heart of white bread America the anti-welfare sentiment is so strong it is palpable. Career women are a threat because they upset the power boat. Welfare women (here in the McCarthy valley they are mainly white) are great scapegoats because they are powerless and by virtue of being alone and mothers, it means they were sexually active. It doesn't matter whether they were sexual in a marriage. It does also not matter that for every welfare mother, there is a father somewhere not bearing the brunt of any public outrage. It is very frustrating. We even have a man in McCarthy's hometown who is petitioning to do away with welfare altogether. If you have children, you take care of them. Never mind what happens to the children. This is also the land where a state legislator just proposed to publish the names of parents of juvenile delinquents in the newspaper. He has since recanted. Teaching about this in classes elicits strong reaction and response. I put the students through a budget exercise in which they have to pay for the needs of their "families" including child care. They never have enough money left to pay for child care. Then, they begin to understand. Some one (so far it's always been a man) always asks... "Well, then, why do they have children?" Aargh! BARBARA PETERS University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Dept. of Sociology Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901 (414) 424-0848 Bitnet Address peters@oshkoshw.bitnet Internet Address peters@vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 13:25:12 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Diana H. Scully" Subject: Re: NWSA's new address & phone #'s In-Reply-To: <01H7LF76B6DE99DQAO@Gems.VCU.EDU>; from "ly15" at Jan 12, 94 12:11 pm > > 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: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 14:05:16 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Deborah A. Curry, University at Albany" Subject: THE WOMANIST From: ALBANY::HAROBED "Deborah A. Curry, University at Albany" 20-JAN-199 4 15:18:00.17 To: AFAS IN%"AFAM-L@MIZZOU1.BITNET" CC: HAROBED Subj: THE WOMANIST I have been asked by Layli Phillips to disseminate this information on appropriate listservs. If you need more information, please contact her directly. deborah *********************************** THE WOMANIST: A NEWSLETTER FOR AFROCENTRIC FEMINIST RESEARCHERS Statement of purpose: _The Womanist_ is meant to be a gathering place for Afrocentric feminist researchers who are struggling to devise, develop, and disseminate womanist methodologies within traditional (or non-traditional) academic disciplines. Many of us find ourselves working alone in situations where womanist perspectives are considered foreign or even unaccceptable, and many of us are not aware of other womanist researchers we can turn to for information and corroboration. _The Womanist_ is meant to be a place where we can share ideas, ask questions, and engage in supportive criticism, in order to strengthen our mission, de-marginalize our activities, and provide wider access to our perspectives. THE WOMANIST c/o Prof. Layli Phillips, Editor Institute for African American Studies University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602-3012 bitnet: LDPHLLPS@UGA *******END******* ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 11:38:26 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dawn Atkins Subject: Re: Request for Info The is a book , "The Crone: Woman of Age, Wisdome and Power" by Barbara G. Walker (Harper & Row, 1985). I haven't read it yet, but it looks really interesting. My mother enjoyed it quite a bit. Dawn Atkisn BITF spirit@armory.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 13:39:57 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: blake debra j Subject: Re: race, gender and battering In-Reply-To: <199401250620.BAA16990@umd5.umd.edu> I'm interested in some of the same issues regarding race, sexuality and violence, however I'm just at the beginning of my research too. I would appreciate knowing what you come across. thanks Debbie Blake djblake@umaxc.uiowa.edu On Mon, 24 Jan 1994, Margaret Hobart wrote: > I am pursuing a couple of questions regarding woman battering and would > appreciate feedback and resources. I would be happy to converse with > anyone who has similar interests: > > -I am looking for feminist works and or theory which would help me > explore the ways in which constructions of battering, > , violence, and "victim" hold unmarked assumptions re: race > and sexuality as well as gender. I am particularly (but not exclusively) > interested in how these understandings operate in the criminal justice > system. > > -I am also interested in feminist theory re battering. Catherine > MacKinnon poses the argument that in this Patriarchal culture, rape is > sex, and women are defined primarily by their vulnerability to being > raped. Is there a similar theory re battering? ie, if sex is rape, is > marriage (or being in a relationship) enslavement? or abuse? If there is > not a clear parallel argument, why not? Some theorists have discussed > the history of the marriage liscence in relationship to property > concerns, but is anyone familiar with work that takes this idea further? > > Please respond privately, > > Margaret Hobart > > mhobart@carson.u.washington.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 11:57:39 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dawn Atkins Subject: Re: Request for Info Yes, I have several references on crones and the burning times. I study as much as I can find on the subject and have yet to see a feminist analysis of the witch burnings that didn't bring up this point. Older women are dangerous to patriarchy, they have the time, energy and often the experience to become leaders among women in their communities, many were herbalists and midwives, so as such were a target of the Christian churches and the new male medical establishment. Chapters on this are included in the following books: Gyn/Ecology by Mary Daly Beacon Press, 1978 The Great Cosmic Mother by Monica Sjoo & Barbara Mor Harper & Row, 1987 Dreaming the Dark by Starhawk Beacon Press, 1982 The Gospel According to Woman by Karen Armstrong Anchor Press, 1987 The Devil in the Shape of a Woman by Carol F. Karlsen ww Norton, 1987 Femicide by Jill Radcliff & Diana E.H. Russell Twayne Publishers, 1992 Each as a chapter devoted to the " Sorry, screen messed up. ...devoted to the "witch-craze." Anyone wanted more information is welcome to call or e-mail me directly. Dawn Atkins Body Image Task Force P.O. Box 934 Santa Cruz, CA 95061-0934 (408) 426-1821 spirit@armory.com Oh, it is my opinion that much of the distain for older women and portrayal of them as ugly and dangerous is direc tly linked to this period in history. We not only continue to live with the legacy, we pass is on thru many f ^?orms, but especially thru our fairy tales. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 13:57:48 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Caroline Brettell Subject: Re: Mother/Daughter Relationships In-Reply-To: <199401251953.OAA22302@umd5.umd.edu> I would be interested in poems about mother/daughter relationships too so post them to the general mailing or would the person who is receiving them please post a list at the end. On the same subject, I am thinking about a course on mothers and daughters and would be interested in suggestions for course materials--works of literature, but also historical and social scientific analyses that focus on the relationship (positive and negative). I have the impression that this relationship is much maligned--it is a source of problems. Is this the case? Cross-cultural and multicultural material must also be included. Thank you to everyone for their help. If you reply privately I will post a list at the end. Caroline Brettell, Southern Methodist University cbrettel@sun.cis.smu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 15:14:05 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jennifer Hammer Subject: Re: Mother/Daughter Relationships For the person thinking about a course on mothers and daughters, you may be interested in THE ANCHOR OF MY LIFE: MIDDLE CLASS AMERICAN MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS, 1880-1920, by Linda W. Rosenzweig. This book is published by NYU Press, and is part of our History of the Emotions series. This book specifically addresses your question about the nature of this relationship, challenging the late- twentieth century assumption that the mother-daughter relationship is necessarily defined by hostility, guilt, and antagonism. If you'd like more information, please contact our offices at NYU Press, 70 Washington Square South, NY, NY 10012 (phone: 212-998- 2575/fax: 212-995-3833), or e-mail me at the address below. I hope you find this information helpful. With best wishes, Jennifer Hammer Assistant Editor New York University Press HammerJ@elmer1.bobst.nyu.edu >I would be interested in poems about mother/daughter relationships too so post them to the general mailing or would the person who is receiving them please post a list at the end. On the same subject, I am thinking about a course on mothers and daughters and would be interested in suggestions for course materials--works of literature, but also historical and social scientific analyses that focus on the relationship (positive and negative). I have the impression that this relationship is much maligned--it is a source of problems. Is this the case? Cross-cultural and multicultural material must also be included. Thank you to everyone for their help. If you reply privately I will post a list at the end. Caroline Brettell, Southern Methodist University cbrettel@sun.cis.smu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 15:25:49 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathe Davis Subject: Re: Poetry re Mother/Daughter In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 25 Jan 1994 11:11:33 -0500 from For a poem to dance to, I recommend "SHE" by Catherine Davis (no relation), in earlier editions of Mary Anne Ferguson's IMAGES OF WOMEN. It is in any case a great presentation of a beloved "bad" mother. k.d. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 12:42:14 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: SUE MANSFIELD Subject: Re: NWSA Conference The NWSA national office is still off e-mail. You can call Loretta Younger, the national office manager, at 301-403-0524, however. Sue Mansfield SMANSFIELD@BENSON.CLAREMONT.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 14:12:48 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Boris DeWiel Subject: Jean Bethke Elshtain In-Reply-To: <199401252036.PAA28705@umd5.umd.edu>; from "Dawn Atkins" at Jan 25, 94 11:38 am I've just read Jean Bethke Elshtain's *Democracy on Trial*, the transcript of her Massey lectures broadcast on CBC radio (up here in Canada, eh). I was surprised by her perspective, which seemed liberal in the classical sense. Is she considered an apostate from academic feminism? Are her books considered suitable for WMST classrooms? Boris DeWiel borisdew@acs.ucalgary.ca ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 23:39:35 +0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Eileen Boris Subject: Re: research on violent children In-Reply-To: <199401251821.UAA06488@kruuna.Helsinki.FI> from "Barbara J. Peters" at Jan 25, 94 11:30:49 am Margaret Hobart's comments interested me as well as others who have replied to her on the list. Patricia Hill Collins makes an important point that illuminates the ways that racialized gender informs public policy even when silent. For another superb analysis of the shifting meanings of dependency--how women on welfare are dependent because they are not going out and getting a job like married women with children increasingly are (how the rising labor force participation of married mothers is shifting the discourse on women's wage earning and further denigrating women's mother work), see Nancy Fraser and Linda Gordon, "A Genealogy of Dependency: Tracing a Keyword of the U.S. Welfare State," SIGNS, 19 (Winter 1994): 309-36. Perhaps the trend towards accepting mothers necessary wage labor assumes that women are laboring in women's jobs and so "career" women--higher status employees presumingly--appear invaders into men's work and aspirations and thus dangerous in ways that women with just a job are not. Has anyone done empirical work on greater acceptance of wage earning mothers? Is there a shift in the discussion of the "work and family dilemma" that so haunted the 1980s? In Finland where I am this academic year, over 70% of women are in the paid labor force, almost all in full time labor. Cutbacks in social provision are threatening the services, though, that women depend on: child and elder care, school lunches, health care availabililty in hours, etc. (This is not to idealize a system where occupational segmentation by sex reigns and where the social partners in the welfare state--labor and capital--are dominated by men.) Eileen Boris Howard University but at Univ. of Helsinki for 93-94 Eileen.Boris@Helsinki.Fi ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 17:50:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Hints for Reducing Mail Volume Hi. Mail volume on WMST-L seems to be increasing. If WMST-L is to continue to serve as a useful professional tool, the mail volume cannot be permitted to get out of hand. Thus, I'd like to offer a few suggestions for sending messages: 1) Read through ALL your messages before you reply, especially if you're replying to the list. You may find that someone else has already supplied the same information and you needn't bother. 2) If you send a message to WMST-L, please use an APPROPRIATE subject header--don't send a message without a header and don't just use a random message as a way to address mail to WMST-L. MANY subscribers use the subject header as a way to decide whether or not to read a message; they may skip or miss yours unless your subject header is appropriate. 3) Be sure to include your name AND your e-mail address at the end of your message. DON'T DEPEND ON THE HEADERS to supply that information: some mail systems don't let people see the headers. Including your name and e-mail address makes it possible for people to reply privately if they wish, thus cutting down on the number of messages that get sent to the list. 4) Don't send replies to the list unless you think they will genuinely be of interest to a number of subscribers. Send other replies PRIVATELY. And please don't send messages like "If you get any responses, I'd like to know, too" to the list; instead, send them to the person who made the initial inquiry. 5) Please keep your messages focused on Women's Studies teaching, research, and program administration. Messages about most gender-related societal issues should be sent to other lists. For a compilation of other gender-related lists, send the message GET OTHER LISTS to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet). You'll be sent the file OTHER LISTS. (Please be sure to send this message to LISTSERV, not WMST-L!) Thanks for your help. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 15:51:59 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Ruth Dickstein, University of Arizona Main Library" Subject: "Step" salaray systems I have been asked to post the query. We at the University of Arizona Association for Women Faculty are being asked to endorse a salary "step" system that our Provost Paul Sypher used at UC Irvine. He feels that it is more equitable towards women than our current merit system. Calfornia faculty women, what do you think? We are meeting with the Provost Feb. 7 and need some information before our meeting with him. Please respond to Maureen Kelly mekelly@ccit.arizona.edu Thank you Ruth Dickstein ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 16:07:43 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacquelyn Marie Subject: Women's seminar in the Crimea There will be an international grassroots Women's Seminar, "Women's Rights in the Home and in the World" from April 20-25, 1994 in Alushta, the Crimea, Ukraine. This will also be a sub regional meeting toward the UN World Conf. on Women in Beijing, China in Sept 1995. For more information, write Sister to Sister Network, PO Box 1710 Carmel Valley, Cal. 93924 USA or Hope Center for the Defense of Women's Rights, 18, Vinogradnaya Str., Apt 12, Alushta 334270, Crimea, Ukraine. FAX 0656034790 Local phone number is 408/475-2879 in California. Incidentally I was at the first conference in Alushta and found it very interesting, Alushta beautiful and the women full of energy and ready for feminism. Jacquelyn Marie, McHenry Library, Un. of Cal, Santa Cruz 95064 jmarie@scilibx.ucsc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 20:00:59 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane I Olmsted-1 Subject: Re: Mother/Daughter Relationships In-Reply-To: <01H840IUZYASDF7OZA@VX.CIS.UMN.EDU> Has anyone mentioned Susan Koppelman Cornillon's collection of short stories, Mothers and Daughters? She's the editor, and the stories are all by women. Jane Olmsted University of Minnesota ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 21:31:21 +0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Keri L. Ellis" Subject: Paula Giddings I am currently reading Paula Giddings's book _When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America_ (I think that's the title, I don't have the book with me). I haven't gotten very far yet, so before I continue, I'd like to know if anyone on the list has any opinions of this book or any suggestions for other reading in African-American women's history. Please respond privately to clellis@mtu.edu. Thanks in advance! Keri Ellis (clellis@mtu.edu) "La colere peut etre folle et absurde; on peut etre irrite a tort; on n'est indigne que lorsqu'on a raison au fond par quelque cote."--Victor Hugo ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 21:31:19 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Felicia Bender Subject: Re: Womanism In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 24 Jan 1994 19:19:25 EST from It is my impression that womanism is a term associated primarily with Alice Walker. She has written a short paragraph defining womanism (womanism is to feminism as lavendar is to purple)...the main difference between womanism and feminism, as I understand it, is of course its focus on Black women. But it parts also in that it is non-seperatist (except occasionally,"for health") and includes men in a very basic way--men being instrumental in a womanist ideology as the locus of Black survival working with Black women for the struggle for the the Black family to survive. This is, needless to say, a "reader's digest condensed version" of womanism. Other facets of womanism in- clude Clenora hudson-Weems' _Africana Womanism_, of which I regret I know little about at the moment. Felicia Bender c391738@MIZZOU1 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 20:35:51 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Margaret Hobart Subject: Re: Mother/Daughter Relationships In-Reply-To: <9401252022.AA17603@tolstoy.u.washington.edu> Another take on Mother Daughter relationships is a book called _Loss of the Groundnote: women writing about the loss of their mothers_ edited by Helen Vozenilek. these are narratives, not scholarly pieces, but they do illuminate some of the tensions and feelings and potentials in the relationship. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 00:52:50 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathleen Barker Subject: Re: research on violent children In-Reply-To: <199401251147.GAA27104@umd5.umd.edu> In response to Hobart and Boris: 1) I think it is really interesting that just at the point that jobs are being created that are less and less stable, we find an opposition to welfare. Indeed, it is welfare that supports corporate notions of motherhood-dependency and contingent jobs. 2) That argument is rather far afield from the ideological persistence of the right-wing and their churches (sorry for any offence, but perhaps it is an insensitivity which encourages rather than discourages discourse) which castmo mothers, not fathers, in the primary care-taking role -- so moms are responsible, etc. I strongly recommend reading L.B. Silverstein: "Transforming the debate about child care and maternal employment" in the American Psychologist, #46, 1025-1032. She got alot of flack for this article, but to me, and my students, she appropriates the traditional arguments about women's work in the home and negates current paradigms and suggests new ones. Most useful about this article: she takes apart retrograde child-working mom research. Read this article. ********************************************************************* * Kathleen Barker * * Internet: barker@levy.bard.edu * * Bard College * * Work: (914) 758-6822 X 225 * ********************************************************************* ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 22:55:48 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ellen Cronan Rose Subject: Re: Mother/Daughter Relationships In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 25 Jan 94 13:57:48 -0600. <199401260159.RAA26406@post-office.nevada.edu> I suggest you get in touch with Elaine Hansen at Haverford College, who is writing a book about mothering in contemporary women's fiction, using African-American, Native American, and lesbian texts, among other more expectable, and couching her study in feminist mothering theory. You can reach her on the net at ehansen@haverford.edu. And you can mention my name as entree. Best wishes, Ellen Rose ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 08:30:06 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathy Feltey Subject: Re: Mother/Daughter Relationships In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 25 Jan 1994 13:57:48 -0600 from There's a wonderful book of poetry by an Irish lesbian feminist writer (her name escapes me at this moment) called "Moving Into the Space Cleared by Our Mothers." Many of the poems are about her relationship with her mother at different points in their relationship. Kathy Feltey (R1KMF@AKRONVM) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 08:44:37 -500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Giavanna J. Munafo" Subject: mother/daughter Sorry to send this to the list, but I've deleted all the previous messages already. Try looking at Adrienne Rich's _Of Woman Born_, a text that I used to use in my composition classes (excerpts) to get a rise out of students who'd never considered how a mother might experience childbirth and parenting as both a joy and a nightmare. Rich, as always, is excruciatingly direct and compelling. Giavanna Munafo gjm9u@darwin.clas.virginia.eduu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 08:07:52 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kate Kelly Subject: Mysteries by Women of Color Dear WMST Readers: Thanks to all from this list and from DOROTHYL who contributed suggestions for contemporary mysteries by women of color and lesbians. The list is evolving, but I am becoming too busy to research it properly. Therefore, I've decided simply to post what I have recev'd without full information: Nikki Baker IN THE GAME (lesbian mystery; of color??) Eleanor Taylor Bland, DEAD TIME, SLOW BURN (Afroam, I think) Lucha Corpi, DELIA'S SONG, Arte Publico Press, Houston (Chicana detetctive?) Linda Hogan, MEAN SPIRIT (Chickasaw Indian) often sold in bkstores as a mystery, but apparently not entirely conventional Dolores Komo (titles? racial identity?) Mercedes Lambert, DOGTOWN (white lawyer works with Chicana pros- titute to solve cases) Barbara Neely, BLANCHE ON THE LAM (wins the "most posted" award) (and it received several awards); she has written another novel as well. Afroam. Susan Moody, the "Penny Series." Apparently Moody herself is white but has created a detective of color. Some readers don't care much for this series. British. This is all for now. Will keep you posted. Kate E. Kelly KEK941A@ VENUS.TAMU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 09:37:11 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Robyn R. Warhol" Subject: feminist theory anthologies Of the many interdisciplinary anthologies of feminist theory now available, which are the best ones to use in womens' studies courses (I mean classes that are not cross-listed with another department or discipline)? I am interested in hearing from instructors who have taught such courses at introductory and/or senior levels. Thanks for replying to: Robyn Warhol rwarhol@moose.uvm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 09:57:38 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marjanne Gooze' Subject: Re: feminist theory anthologies In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 26 Jan 1994 09:37:11 -0500 from Although there are many fine anthologies, none seem complete to me and we in Wo men's Studies are always supplementing the ones we use with other texts and xer oxed text pakets. We have found it necessary to do this for inclusivity: women of color, lesbians, women and aging. For the past several years we have used, Richardson & Taylor Feminist Frontiers (II now III), sometimes with Johnetta Cole's All American Women. This is for the Intro. course. For the senior, gra udate level course in Theory, I and several others have used: Jagger and Rothen berg, Feminist Frameworks (new edition), Tong's Feminist Thought, Collins' Blac k Feminist Thought, and a reading packet since one of these really include psyc holanalytic or postmodern (Cornell, Butler, etc.) feminisms. I would like to h ear what others are using. Marjanne E. Gooze' Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Langs. University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602 Telephone: Office: (706) 542-2450; Home: (706) 549-2831 E-Mail: MGOOZE@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 10:25:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Holman Weisbard Subject: mothers and daughters There are two bibliographies that are very useful in reviewing the literature and fiction on mothers and daughters: MOTHERS & MOTHERING: AN ANNOTATED FEMINIST BIBLIOGRAPHY, by Penelope Dixon (Garland Pub., 1991) covers the research on the mother-daughter relationship especially in chapter 2: "Mothers and Daughters: Together and Apart." There are also chapters on "Lesbian and Black Mothers, Daughters and Sons: Additional Burdens," "Mothers and Sons," "Feminism: A Framework for Mothering," and "Psychoanalysis: A Feminist Tool." For a thematically arranged guide to mothers and daughters in short fiction, see MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS IN AMERICAN SHORT FICTION: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY WOMEN'S LITERATURE, compiled by Susanne Carter. (Greenwood P., 1993.) 242 stories are covered, divided into seven thematic chapters: abuse and neglect, aging, alienation, death, expectations, nurturance, and portraits. A critical summary is provided for each story. ***************** Phyllis Holman Weisbard (608) 263-5754 Acting Women's Studies Librarian pweis@wiscmacc (Bitnet) University of Wisconsin System pweis@macc.wisc.edu (Internet) Room 430 Memorial Library 728 State Street Madison, WI 53706 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 08:24:19 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Theresa <60840883@WSUVM1.BITNET> Subject: Re: Womanism In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 24 Jan 1994 19:19:25 EST from Re:"womanism" you should see Alice Walker's book, _In Search of Our Mothers' Ga rdens_ which begins with a definition of womanism. I can't quote it exactly, b ut that is, I believe, the first reference to it, and the difference, I believe , is that womanism is more inclusive of all women than feminism is perceived to be. Theresa ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 11:54:13 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Leslie Regan Shade Subject: GENDER and COMMUNITY I'm quickly looking for sources re gender and community, and/or gender and the civic arena, or even of social theorists who have dealt with the notion of community (and deserve some critical feminist analysis!) I'm pretty vague with what I'm designating as "community"--what I've collected so far spans sociological to geographical treatments. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Here's what I've come up with so far. Please email me privately and I'll compile a list of collected sources later for posting on WMST. Thanks in advance for your suggestions. Leslie Shade McGill University Graduate Program in Communications [shade@ice.cc.mcgill.ca] Bellah, Robert N., et.al. The Good Society. NY: Vintage Books, 1992. Bellah, Robert N., et.al. Habits of the Heart: individualism and commitment in American life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. Benhabib, Seyla. Situating the self: gender, community and postmodernism in contemporary ethics. Oxfiord: Polity Press, 1992/Routledge, 1993. Boulding, Elise. Building a Global Civic Culture: education for an interdependent world. NY: Teacher's College Press/Columbia University, 1988. Frazer, Elizabeth; Nicola Lacey. The Politics of Community: a feminist critique of the liberal-communitarian debate. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. Rose, Gillian. Feminism and geography : the limits of geographical knowledge. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1993. Young, Iris Marion. "The ideal of community and the politics of difference:, pp. 300-323 in Feminsim/Postmodernism, ed. Linds J. Nicholson. Routledge: 1990. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 12:15:12 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elizabeth Mazur Subject: Mother/daughter relationships I strongly recommend the book Double Stitch, a collection of essays, poems, and stories by Black women, all about mothers and daughters. (1991, Beacon Press). It should be in soft cover now. Elizabeth Mazur psymazur@acs.eku.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 09:21:33 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ann Weinstone Subject: African-American Studies LIst A student of mine would like to subscribe to the African-American studies list. If anyone has the address, please send it to me privately. Thank you. Ann Weinstone Mills College syd@igc.apc.org ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 13:00:41 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jeri Carter Subject: Request for info, Middle-East A graduate student here at Radford is doing her thesis research on U.S. corporate women working in the middle east, looking at cultural issues, barriers (or lack of) to their ability to represent their companies, work with middle-eastern colleagues, provide supervision and leadership, etc. She and I would appreciate any references, resources, and suggestions you might have. We are familiar with Nancy Adler's work. Please respond privately. Jeri Carter Radford University jcarter@james.psych.runet.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 13:17:33 +119304128 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Smith Subject: Re: violent boys In-Reply-To: from "Barbara J. Peters" at Jan 25, 94 11:30:49 am Miedzian (Boys Will Be Boys) states that, " the single factor most highly linked to empathetic concern (of boys) is the level of paternal involvement in child care." ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 14:14:28 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: VALERIE WAGONER Subject: Re: info on witches and crones In-Reply-To: <199401260514.AAA16567@umd5.umd.edu>; from "Automatic digest processor" at Jan 26, 94 12:00 (midnight) Hi all, Information regarding crones and women healers being labeled as witches can also be found in Ehrenriech and English's book "For Her Own Good". I believe Thomas Szaz touches on it in "The Manufacture of Madness" also. I don't have ready access to these books, so I don't have the dates or citations handy. If JoAnn or anyone else would like more specifics, I'll ferret the info out for you. See ya, Valerie v.wagone@msuacad.morehead.st.edu P. S. I have also read "The Crone..." Excellent book! > > Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 12:00:39 -0500 > From: "Nancy Garner, History, Wright State. Univ., > Dayton" > Subject: Re: Request for Info > > On Jan. 24th, JoAnn Myers wrote: > >Awhile back I was talking with a colleague who is a behavioral biologist > >who mentioned that 'witches' were usually women past their childbearing > >years, who were either widowed or not married who had property, skills, > >etc., and therefore did not need a male, and were, thus, threatening to > >males. The way to remove these women of independent means was to > >accuse them of being witches, and either they died proving they were > >not witches, or they died because they were (drowning, burning, hanging) > >Have any of you come across a citation for the above? > > a good citation for this interpretation is Carol F. Karlsen, The Devil > in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England. New York: > Norton, 1987. > Nancy Garner ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 14:47:20 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Heather L. Alderman" Organization: The American University Subject: No subject tell listserv signoff wmst-l ha7570a@auvm.american.edu Heather Alderman ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 19:44:00 GMT0 Reply-To: dbailey@cix.compulink.co.uk Sender: Women's Studies List From: Diane Bailey Subject: Boston Women's Health Book Collective Does anyone have a direct phone number for the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, apart from 617-625 0271 which is only an answer tape giving their helpline hours? One of my colleagues has sent them four faxes over the past two weeks and has received no response, so we're desperate for another way to reach them. We're about to make a documentary on sex selection, and we understand they have issued a paper that is highly relevant, but we haven't seen it. Or does anyone have a copy of what they have issued on the subject. We are feminist film makers. Reply directly, rather than to the list, please. Diane Bailey dbailey@cix.compulink.co.uk ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 19:44:00 GMT0 Reply-To: dbailey@cix.compulink.co.uk Sender: Women's Studies List From: Diane Bailey Subject: Sex Selection Another angle on my other message, for those who read by Subject line. We're about to make a documentary on sex selection, and we understand the Boston Women's Health Book Collective have issued a paper that is highly relevant, but we haven't seen it. Since we're having great difficulty contacting the Collective, does anyone here have a copy of what they have issued on the subject? Or recall other material illustrative of Women's Movement attitudes to this issue. We are feminist film makers. Reply directly, rather than to the list, please. Diane Bailey dbailey@cix.compulink.co.uk ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 04:01:54 LCL Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kirsch Vicki L Subject: Feminist Theory Anthologies I have finally realized that anthologies are probably the "best buy" in the book buying market these days -- and with a little push from students I have shifted my Feminist Theory readings in that direction -- This is our Women's Studies capstone course (405) and it also attracts students majoring in other areas as well as graduate and law students. This semester, my syllabus includes: THEORIZING BLACK FEMINISMS, ed. Stanlie M. James & Abena P.A. Busia AMERICAN FEMINIST THOUGHT AT CENTURY'S END, ed. Linda S. Kauffman MAKING FACE, MAKING SOUL/HACIENDO CARAS, ed. Gloria Anzaldua FEMINIST LITERARY THEORY, ed. Mary Eagleton We are also reading Rosemary Tong's FEMINIST THOUGHT, Betty Friedan's THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE, Judith Roof's A LURE OF KNOWLEDGE: LESBIAN SEXUALITY AND THEORY, Mary Daly's OUTERCOURSE and Helene Cixous & Catherine Clement's THE NEWLY BORN WOMAN. Needless to say, we will not be reading every essay in these books, but the students will have an excellent collection of resources. As several of these books are new adoptions, I'm very excited to see how the semester goes... Vicki Kirsch vlkirs@mail.wm.edu College of William and Mary ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 15:16:01 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Katy Milligan Subject: Re: Womanism In-Reply-To: <199401260541.AAA20133@umd5.umd.edu> from "Felicia Bender" at Jan 25, 94 09:31:19 pm According to Felicia Bender: > Alice Walker...has written a short paragraph defining womanism (womanism is to > to feminism as lavendar is to purple)... > This is from the beginning of _In Search Of Our Mother's Garderns_. Walker gives four definitions. The fourth reads "Womanist is to feminist as purple to lavender." Katy Milligan ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 15:44:38 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ginny Daley Subject: Re: feminist theory anthologies FYI this is taken from a proposal for a new women's studies anthology that is in the works: On the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Duke Women's Studies Program, the Council on Women's Studies [at Duke] is undertaking a project to produce a new basic text for Women's Studies studients, both at Duke and across academia. A HISTORY OF FEMINIST THOUGHT, edited by Eugenia DeLamotte and Jean O'Barr, is intended to meet the need for an international mulitcultural anthology that surveys what Gerda Lerner calls 'the creation of feminist consciousness' from Antiquity to the present. It will fill gaps for feminist scholars who need broader historical contexts for their research, and for teachers who need a textbook that does not have to be supplemented with multicultural and international materials.... The anthology is intended to break new ground in its scope, content, and methodology. No other collection of historical feminist documents, for example, invites comparison of Chinese and Western feminism, or of Scandinavian, Indian, and American feminists in the twentieth century. This will also be the first such collection to include documents in Russian feminist history, such as the writings of a medieval peasant and of Nadezhda Durova, a cross-dresser who fought in the War of 1812....Readings will be selected for their relevance to contemporary feminist inquiry about such issues as women and sexuality, motherhood, racism, knowledge, violence, militarism, lesbianism, and aging. the proposal goes on for several more paragraphs. i don't anticipate that we will see the book in print before 1995. if you are interested in more info about the project, you may e-mail me and i will send you a copy of the proposal or pass your questions on to the WS program. ginny daley vld@mail.lib.duke.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 15:52:32 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: judy long Dear colleagues, I just spent two stimulating days in Albany dealing with issues of women's heal th, reproductive rights and related topics. The only downer was when a US Congressmember, in accepting the Margaret Sanger Award, drew an unflattering comparison between herself and Sanger, portraying Sanger as a bad woman, bad mother, etc. She quoted from Halberstam's book on the fifties (!!). I would like to write her one of my loving, sisterly letters. When I do, i would like to suggest other sources on Sanger she (or her staff) could draw on. Can you suggest a list of feminist biographies and/or other research on Sanger? Many thanx for this help. --JUDY LONG, SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY -- --103 SIMS IV, SYRACUSE, NY 13244-1230, USA (315)443-4580 -- --Bitnet: JLONG@SUVM Internet: JLONG@SUVM.ACS.SYR.EDU -- ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 15:16:44 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "tonight, tonight, won't be just any night..." <0231722@NORTHWEST.MISSOURI.EDU> Subject: scholarship seeker As a junior undergrad at Northwest (maryville, MO), I am looking for any scholarships that might be available for my senior year. Here is some info about me... if you know of or come across a scholarship which I would be qualified for, please respond privately. Name: Natalie E. Banks Status: Junior, will have 95 credit hours at end of semester. Pyschology major, philosophy minor. Wish to pursue Ph.D. in psychology, preferably at University of Colorado @ Boulder. Military dependent of active duty Army Nat'l Guard. Female, age 19. Interests: Psychology, philosophy, creative writing, women's studies, and parapsychology. I will be happy to receive info about ANY scholarship, so even if there is a question, send it on in! Thank you for your efforts-- Natalie E. Banks 0231772 Northwest MO St. Univ. Maryville, MO 64468-6009 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 14:18:38 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gretchen T Legler-1 Subject: Test I am new to the Women's Studies List and am only sending test. No need to respond. Gretchen Legler University of Minnesota legle002@maroon.tc.umn.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 21:31:20 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lucy Candib MD Subject: Harsh supervision by women Can anyone refer me to feminist discussions of the occasional problem of the woman supervisor or teacher who is harsher or more critical of the women she supervises or teaches than of male trainees or students? I would like to sort out some of the factors that might set up such a phenomenon--isolation, tokenism, desperation--and wonder if anyone has written about it, in any field. Thanks. Lucy M. Candib, M.D. Family Health and Social Service Center 875 Main St. Worcester, Massachusetts 01610 508-756-3528 lcandib@umassmed.ummed.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 21:47:27 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: lin3@HUSC.HARVARD.EDU Subject: Asian American feminism The South End Press just published The_State_of_Asian_America:_Activism 116 St. Botolph St. and Resistance in the 1990s Boston, MA 02115 Edited by K. Aguilar-San Juan (617) 266-0629 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 20:50:10 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ann_Hall@MTS.UCS.UALBERTA.CA Subject: Lisa Moore Is there anyone out there who would have the e-mail address for Lisa Moore at the University of Texas, Austin? If so, please respond privately to USERMAHA@mts.ucs.ualberta.ca ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 23:12:53 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Iana Pattatucci Subject: dominant groups I am interested in locating researchers and/or published articles specifically addressing how heterosexism and homophobia constrain the lives of those in the dominant group(s). This topic has been dealt with peripherally in several articles. However, is there anyone working on this directly? iana luciana%bchem.dnet@dxi.nih.gov" iana@glib.org ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 00:26:10 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Arnie Kahn Subject: electronic women's studies There have been some postings lately about using electronic communications in WS classes. As someone mentioned, I have a paper on the InformM gopher at the U. of Maryland gopher on this topic. My experience is that electronic bulletin boards and email work best wen (1) students have some incentive for posting, and (2) formal, at-the-computer training is given at the start of the semester. My class of 25 in Psych of Women are posting 30+ messages per week on the bb--really. It becomes a safe, women-space for students to discuss what's on their minds as they go through the course. The results are quite phenomenal. Arnie Arnie Kahn fac_askahn@vax1.acs.jmu.edu fac_askahn@jmuvax ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 06:45:11 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Allan Hunter Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Subject: Re: dominant groups In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 26 Jan 1994 23:12:53 -0500 Unabashed plug for my own work! Same Door, Different Closet: A Heterosexual sissy's Coming-Out Party in feminism and psychology 2(3): 367-85 and reprinted in HETEROSEUXALITY [a fem and psych reader] Ed. Wilkinson and Kitzinger (Sage 1993), 150-168 (for a theory of what patriarchy, heterosexism, and homophobia do to males, esp. those attracted to women). -Allan Hunter ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 08:49:55 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Marsha E. Hass" Organization: College of Charleston Subject: Re: Harsh supervision by women In management, this has been characterized as part of the "Queen Bee" Syndromne. I hope this helps. This is in respone to query on women being more critical of female trainees, etc. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 09:21:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: RHODA UNGER Subject: Re: Harsh supervision by women There hasn't been much discussion of this issue since the early 70's when there was some work on the Queen Bee Syndrome. The only more recent source I can think of is some of the chapters in a book called Competition which was published by the SUNY Press. One of the editors was Valerie Minor, but that's the best I can do. Hope it helps. Rhoda Unger unger@apollo.montclair.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 08:47:24 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Edwards, J. Michele" Subject: Re: Harsh supervision by women Lucy, See Competition: A Feminist Taboo? edited by Valerie Miner and Helen E. Longino, especially the 1st essay, "Competition: A Problem for Academic Women," by Evelyn Fox Keller and Helene Moglen. The last several essays are clustered under the heading "Feminist Transformations" and may be of interest too. J. Michele Edwards (Music Dept.) 612/696-6521 Bitnet: edwards@macalstr Macalester College, St. Paul, MN 55105 Internet: edwards@macalstr.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 16:38:00 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Pirjo Elovaara." Subject: request to info Hello dear wmst-l readers! I am writing on behalf of our head. She is looking for contacts with scholars h ho are (=who are) doing some research about women in Switzerland. It would be great to find some Swiss scholar in Lausanne or Geneve. Can anybody help. Please answer privately: kvivet@gemimi.ldc.lu.se. Thanks for help! Please answer as soon as possible!!! Pirjo Elovaara kvivet@gemini.ldc.lu.se ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 10:51:13 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jesse Lemisch Subject: Re: Harsh supervision by women In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 27 Jan 1994 09:21:00 EST from re: Queen Bee Syndrome, note the flourishing of such themes as part of back- lash in the mass media, eg, the Sigourney Weaver character in "Working Girls" (?) and apparently the new Michael Crichton novel, in which the "Queen Bee" coerces her mail empoyees into sex. Jesse Lemisch lemjj@cunyvm ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 10:55:35 EDT Reply-To: Jean.L.Potuchek@cc.gettysburg.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jean Potuchek Subject: Re: Harsh supervision by women Rosabeth Moss Kanter's mid-1970s book, *Men and Women of the Corporation,* included a discussion of this phenomenon. Kanter focused on the *structural* issues -- the ways that women supervisors were often granted less discretion by their supervisors than were men, were more likely to be blamed if something went wrong, and therefore were much less tolerant of errors by those they supervised. - - - - - Jean L. Potuchek Women's Studies Coordinator Gettysburg College jpotuche@gettysburg.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 11:13:54 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Mr. Kenneth Ehrensal" Subject: Apple Computer, Inc. (fwd) I am fowarding this message which I received from another discussion list. I thought that it would be of interest to others on this list. ------------------------ Forwarded Message ------------------------ Dear Colleagues, I received the following e-mail message on an INTERNET conference that I am part of. I am passing it on to you and hope that you may take this small action in support of lesbian and gay rights. Don McCormick Core Faculty, BA Program in Liberal Studies Antioch University Los Angeles --------------------------------------------------------------- I am sending you this because I think that it is important. Please read this message and decide whether you think that your contribution can make a difference. Then ACT! Apple Computer is under a well organized phone-fax-mail attack by the Religious Right, demanding that Apple Computer drop its pro-human rights policy of non-discrimination against lesbian and gay employees. Basically, far right groups including religous fundamentalists are pressuring the company to "see the light" and discriminate. Right now there are about 500 callers in opposition to every 1 in support of current policies. Let's change this! You can send an electronic mail message to this e-mail address murphy.s@applelink.apple.com You can also write or call Michael Spindler, President Apple Computer 20525 Mariani Avenue Cupertino, CA 95014 (408) 996-1010 and say that you support the company's non-discrimination policy, which includes sexual orientation and benefits for partners of lesbian and gay employees. Thanks, and PLEASE forward this to anyone you know who might support this cause. P.S. If you don't have the time to write something, copy this and send it out, and maybe add something about how you own a Mac, or are Mac-dependent (you know you are!). -----------------cut here--------------------------------------- I strongly support your current non-discrimination policy, especially in regard to lesbian and gay employees, as well as benefits for partners of those employees. I also would like to recognize Apple's brave role as a pioneer in the search for equal opportunity, and hope that more companies will follow and not be pressured by the far right to discriminate against people based on who they are. With my sincerest thanks and hopes that you will receive more support for your actions, -----------------cut here--------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 12:13:06 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Caroline Brettell Subject: Re: research on violent children In-Reply-To: <199401241958.OAA13704@umd5.umd.edu> On Mon, 24 Jan 1994, Marilyn P. Safir wrote: Infact it was found that the children who "suffered" > tended to be those whose mothers who wanted to work but stayed home "to > be with the Kids" or those that had to work but didn't want to "suffered" > equally ie if mother was unhappy it efects the kids- Generally speaking > the only difference between kids whose mothers worked or didn't work out > of the home was that kids in the first group were more indepandent than > those whose mothers were homemakers. I find this extremely interesting. It is my impression that one of the major goals of working mothers is to make their children independent--to teach them how to make decisions for themselves and to have a certain degree of responsibility for their own actions. My mother was a working journalist in the 1950s--in fact, I was the only child with a working mother in my class. She interviewed other women (singers, theatrical people, etc) and from my reexamination of many of her articles it seems that many women then stressed independence in their children as highly desirable. I think my mother was searching for kindred spirits in these interviews--some affirmation of her own goals and values. Just a comment Caroline Brettell ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 14:13:06 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: GaeaH@EDC.ORG Subject: Job Announcement and Inquiry FIRST MESSAGE *Received this in the mail.* Bloomburg University Temporary Postition Fall 1994 Semester Date of Notice: November 23, 1993 Job Title/Rank: Instructor/Assistant Professor of Chemistry Description: Temporary Position, One-semester replacement in ACS-approved Chemistry Department beginning late _August 1994_. Instructional responsibilities will be in introductory inorganic chemistry. Twelve contact hour average per semester. Qualifications/Experience: A minimum of MS/Ph.D preferred, specialization in inorganic chemistry. Quality teaching experience, or potential in general/inorganic chemistry is expected. Appointment Date: Classes begin on August 28, 1994 Salary: Dependent on qualifications and experience. Application Process: Send letter of application, three letters of reference, resume, statement outlining teaching philosophy and interests, copies of all transcripts to Dr. L. L. Mack, Department of Chemistry, Bloomsburg, PA 17815. For more information, call 717/389-4107. Bloomsburg University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Persons of color, women, and all other protected class members are especially urged to apply. Application Deadline: Application letters must be postmarked no later than Monday, February 21, 1994. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SECOND MESSAGE The Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA) Publishing Center is looking for samples of evaluation tools and information on evaluation techniques for the '93-'94 WEEA Program Grant recipients. If you have any information, please contact: Katherine Hanson (KatherinH@edc.org) Director WEEA Publishing Center Education Development Center, Inc. 55 Chapel Street Newton, MA 02158-1060 800/225-3088; in MA, 617/969-7100 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 14:44:55 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: STRETCH OR DROWN/ EVOLVE OR DIE Subject: modest suggestion about requests Can I make a modest suggestion about how we handle requests for information? Given that we have had discussions lately about the list's volume, and that Jean has broken in to remind us of the problem of volume, would it be possible to initiate a general policy that when someone makes a request we all respond _privately_ even if it is something of interest to the whole list and that, if there is enough interest, the requester agree to post a summary to the whole list? Let me suggest that there are other reasons why this might simply be a good policy. I admister a program in which I often get requests for information about things I know little about. I try to save as much information as I think might at some point be useful to someone. If answers to requests keep dribbling in one by one, it's very difficult for me to archive material in a way I can retrieve it. However, if I can get all the responses at once I can save them neatly in one message and retrieve them easily when I want them. I am referring here primarily to requests for bibliographic information and short responses of that nature. Discussions of pedagogy, for instance, might be handled differently. Anyway it's a suggestion. ,,, (o o) +-------------------------------oOOo-(_)-oOOo--------------------------------+ | Laurie Finke, Women's and Gender Studies, Kenyon College | | Gambier, OH 43022 phone: 614-427-5276 | | home: 614-427-3428, P.O. Box 731 mail: FinkeL@Kenyon.Edu | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ () () ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 14:48:40 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: GaeaH@EDC.ORG Subject: Films: First of Five Several weeks ago, I began gathering women's film titles for postings on HandsNet. Those who responded asked that I share the lists on WMST-L. This lists mainstream films, the second lists documentaries and non-popular, the third lists WEEA films, the forth lists WEEA films distributed by others, and the fifth lists organizations that distribute women's films. Gaea Honeycutt GaeaH@edc.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mainstream Women's Films The following is a listing of mainstream/popular films with strong and/or memorable female characters found at your local video store or theater. HOME VIDEO Baghdad Cafe Beaches Camille Claudel Coal Miners Daughter The Color Purple Daughters of the Dust Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart Entre Nous Fried Green Tomatoes Gas, Food and Lodging The Getting of Wisdom The Handmaid's Tale Heartland I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings I've Heard the Mermaids Singing Lady Sings the Blues A League of Their Own Lianna Little Vera Little Women The Long Walk Home Marilyn Mermaids My Brilliant Career The Nasty Girl Norma Rae One Sings, the Other Doesn't Passion Fish Places in the Heart Prince of Tides A Room of One's Own Shame She's Gotta Have It Silkwood Steele Magnolias Stella Strangers in Good Company Tell Me a Riddle Terms of Endearment Thelma and Louise What's Love Got to Do with It Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown CURRENTLY AT LOCAL THEATERS Farewell My Concubine Heaven and Earth The Joy Luck Club Like Water for Chocolate The Pelican Brief The Piano Shadowlands Summerhouse ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 14:49:37 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: GaeaH@EDC.ORG Subject: Films: Two of Five Women's Documentary Films Many of the following women's documentary films may be obtained through your local video store or an independent video distributor. Judy Chicago: The Birth Project Killing Us Softly Maxine Hong Kingston: Talking Story Maya Angelou: Rainbow in the Clouds Slaying the Dragon (images of Asian American women in film) Speaking Our Peace (women in peace movements) Still Killing Us Softly Taking Our Bodies Back OTHER FILMS Gay Youth (40 minutes with accompanying study guide) Wolfe Video P.O. Box 64 New Almaden, CA 95042 800/642-5247 Running Mate: Gender and Politics in the Editorial Cartoons (47 minutes) First Run Icarus Films 153 Waverly Place Sixth Floor New York, NY 10014 800/876-1710 Fax: 212/989-7649 Women Seen on Television (10 minutes, 50 seconds) Letting Go Foundation, Inc. 02000 SW Palatine Hill Road Portland, OR 97219 503/635-7511 Gaea Honeycutt GaeaH@edc.org ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 14:49:37 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: GaeaH@EDC.ORG Subject: Films: Three of Five WEEA Videos on Women The following is a listing of videos about women created and developed by Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA) Program grant recipients. DISTRIBUTED BY WEEA PUBLISHING CENTER Sandra, Zella, Dee and Clare: Four Women in Science (19 mins.), $43.00 purchase, $7.00 rental Dr. Lenore Blum Part of EXPANDING YOUR HORIZONS IN MATH AND SCIENCE, a comprehensive program that helps educators and parents encourage young women consider careers in science and technology, this video takes a look at the careers of four women-- an astronomer, a veterinarian, a laser physicist, and an engineer. It's Her Future (17 mins.), $43.00 purchase, $7.00 rental Marilyn Levin A winner of LEARNING magazine's award for audiovisual excellence, IT'S HER FUTURE encourages young women, their parents, and their teachers to explore the range of training opportunities and benefits available in nontraditional careers. The film delves into the advantages and disadvantages of nontraditional career programs and thus helps students make timely and realistic decisions. Accompanying decision guide. Don't Go to Your Room . . . And Other Affirmations of Empowerment for Women with Disabilities (60 mins.), captioned or non captioned, 63.00 purchase, $7.00 rental Access Oregon This one-hour videotape addresses the double barrier of being a woman and having a disability. 12 women in one-on-one interviews discuss employment, relationships, sexuality, abuse, health, parenting, empowerment; and how to confront stereotypes and the manifestation of these myths. Gaea Honeycutt GaeaH@edc.org ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 14:51:55 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: GaeaH@EDC.ORG Subject: Films: Fourth of Five WEEA Films Distributed By Others With Silk Wings: Asian American Women at Work (4 videos) National Asian American Telecommunications Association CrossCurrent Media 346 Ninth Street, Second Floor San Francisco, CA 94103 415/863-0814 Attaining Equity and Excellence in Postsecondary Classroom Interaction of Deaf Students Barbara Bodner Johnson Gallaudet University Washington, DC 20002 202/651-5530 Disabled Women and Girls: Networking across the Generations YWCA/NYC 610 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10022 212/673-4284 Mixed Messages: Teens Talk about Sex Romance, Education and Work Breaking Through: Portraits of Winners The NETWORK, Inc. Publications Department 300 Brickstone Square, Suite 900 Andover, MA 01810 508/470-1080 Competing Voices: The Administrative Interview Competing Voices: The Administrative Challenge Center for Educational Equity American Institutes for Research P.O. Box 1113 Palo Alto, CA 94302 415/493-3550 You Are the Game: Sexual Harassment on Campus Indiana University Field Services Department Bloomington, IN 47405-5901 812-855-8087 Breaking Stereotypes: Teens Talk About Raising Children Educational Equity Concepts, Inc. 114 East 32nd Street, Suite 701 New York, NY 10016 212/725-1803 Nothing But Options Math/Science Network 678 13th Street, Suite 100 Oakland, CA 94612 510/8936284 We All Count in Family Math EQUALS University of California Lawrence Hall of Science Berkeley, CA 94720 510/642-1823 Women in Science Videotape Series Agency Instructional Technology (AIT) Box A 1111 West 17th Street Bloomington, IN 47401 800/457-4509 Ms. 99-128: Theatre Arts for Female Offenders Institution Programs, Inc. P.O. Box 18583 Oklahoma City, OK 73154 405/752-2198 Positive Images: Portraits of Women with Disabilities Women Make Movies 462 Broadway, Suite 501 New York, NY 10013 212/925-0606 Just Between Sisters: Futures Unlimited Consortium for Educational Equity Rutgers University Livingston Campus #4090 New Brunswick, NJ 08903 201/932-2071 The Sooner the Better The Time Has Come Spectrum Media 58 Hovey Street Watertown, MA 02172 617/491-4300 Gaea Honeycutt GaeaH@edc.org ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 14:51:56 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: GaeaH@EDC.ORG Subject: Films: Fifth of Five Organizations with Women's Videos The following are organizations that provide women's videos or information on women's videos. Her Own Words (Women's History, Literature, & Art) P.O. Box 5264 Madison, WI 53705 608/271-70083 National Women's History Project 7738 Bell Road Windsor, CA 95492-8518 Phone: 707/838-6000 Fax: 707/838-0478 WAVE: Women's Audiovisuals in English: A Guide to Non-Print Resources in Women's Studies University of Wisconsin System Room 430 Memorial Library 728 State Street Madison, WI 53706 608/263-5754 Wolfe Video P.O. Box 64 New Almaden, CA 95042 800/6425247 Women Make Movies 462 Broadway, Suite 501 New York, NY 10013 212/925-0606 Fax: 212/925-2052 Gaea Honeycutt GaeaH@edc.org ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 14:57:43 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: VALERIE WAGONER Subject: Re: Harsh women supervisors In-Reply-To: <199401270727.CAA23191@umd5.umd.edu>; from "Automatic digest processor" at Jan 27, 94 12:00 (midnight) To the person requesting info on harsh women superisors: You may want to check in the Nursing literature. I understand this is common in that field, especially in ER Nursing. I also dug out the cites for the books on women healers and crones being treated as witches. Here they are: Ehrenreich and English (sorry forgot to write down their first names (1978). "For Her Own Good". Andover Books/Doubleday: NY. Szaz, Thomas (1970). "The Manufacture of Madness". Harper and Row: NY. Later. Valerie v.wagone@msuacad.morehead.st.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 22:07:18 +0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Eileen Boris Subject: Re: your mail Sanger In-Reply-To: <199401262131.XAA17821@kruuna.Helsinki.FI> from "judy long" at Jan 26, 94 03:52:32 pm I'm responding to the list instead of Judy Long because others might want to know about this resource: for Margaret Sanger there is an entire historical editing project on it: The Margaret Sanger Papers Project located at the Department of History, NYU. Esther Katz is the editor, co-director. The phone is 212 998 8620 Eileen Boris--Howard Univ. but for this academic year, Eileen.Boris@Helsinki.Fi ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 14:28:30 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Caroline Brettell Subject: Thank you everyone re mothers/daughters Just wanted to thank everyone who has sent, privately or publically, suggestions on mother/daughter literature. I have my work cut out for me. This list is wonderful for exchanging information and pooling ideas. Cheers, Caroline ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 16:25:27 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kimberly M Stull Subject: Re: scholarship seeker In-Reply-To: <199401270450.XAA10952@umd5.umd.edu> from "tonight, tonight," at Jan 26, 94 03:16:44 pm Natalie Banks I have some info for army dependents. Will you post your e-mail address and i'll send it along thanks, kim (stullkim@student.msu.edu) > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 11:00:00 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Karen Kidd Subject: Re: Request for Info Jane Hannigan recently requested information about the "crone." I replied to her privately, but thought others might also like to know that one of my colleagues here is an excellent and willing resource person on this topic. I encourage "crone" researchers to contact: Dr Carolyn Harrison/The Claremont Graduate School/ 121 E 10th St/ Claremont, CA 91711/Phone (909)621-8000x3692. Much of Carolyn's research is focused on women and aging, and she has worked with this symbol a lot. --Karen Kidd, Claremont Grad Sch ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 13:41:19 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Diane Price Herndl Subject: Re: discussion lists for classes In-Reply-To: <199401211912.OAA03899@umd5.umd.edu> I've been meaning to respond to this post for a couple of days, and only just found the citation. There is an excellent discussion of using electronic lists in a classroom in the December 1990 issue of _College English_: "Computer Conferences and Learning: Authority, Resistance, and Internally Persuasive Discourse," by Cindy Selfe and Marilyn Cooper (both of Michigan Tech; Cindy is the editor of _Computers and Composition_). I used such a list in a Women Authors class last semester and, though it didn't provoke what I considered earth-shatteringly wonderful discussion, it was useful to the functioning of the class; students who were confused could confess that ahead of time and I knew where to begin our discussions to best address their needs. It seemed to me that the real benefit was that I made women get involved with technology in a way that they had been afraid to before. Over half the women in the class thanked me for introducing them to e-mail, and have remained active on it; four of them even started their own discussion group for work on their writing. A related aside: Cindy Selfe and Marilyn Cooper were here last week to talk about technology, post-modernism, and access to technology. Cindy pointed out something of relevance to this list: Menus on most new "interactive" computer software are formatted as a "desktop," something she points out is explicitly race- and gender-oriented to those in power (those who are familiar with "desktops"). Why, she asked, if we really do want to involve more women with computers are such entry-screens not formatted as something else--say, a kitchen counter or cabinet? Diane Price Herndl NMSU dpherndl@nmsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 15:08:21 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Monica P. Kendel" Subject: feminist opinions of transexuals hello women studies monica kendel here in search of info for dr holly devor at the university of victoria. i am looking for feminist opinion/commentary/debate on transexuals/ transexualism. i realize that much of the commentary would be found in letters to editors, or opinion pages, or e-mail communiques, or other obscure sources...and are therefore not searchable through the usual methods! if you have any leads, know relevant dates and sources of debates, know of key people, i would appreciate your lovely assistance. personal replies would be appreciated. hope to hear from you soon. thanks. monica kendel university of victoria victoria, b.c. kendel@uvvm.uvic.ca ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 21:17:46 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: pat ulbrich Subject: evaluations We are in the process of developing an evaluation form for WS courses. Has any one developed evaluations specifically for WS courses? If so, we'd appreciate hearing from you/getting a copy of the evaluation. Thanks in advance. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 23:49:40 -0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cecilia Maria B Sardenberg Subject: Re: research on violent children In-Reply-To: I have been following the discussions about children of working mothers with great interest. In Brazil it was only in the 1970's that women (middle class women, that is ) began to join the labor market in greater numbers. But the discussions here focus more on the conflicts experienced by the working- mothers, than what the fact that the mother works may do to children. Because domestic service is so cheap here and so easily found, middle-class working mothers can leave their children with full-time (live-in) babysitters. However, most of the women I know have 'guilty' feelings about leaving their children with the sitter, going to work, and enjoying being out of the house... To compensate, they end up spoiling their kids, turning them into real 'brats' (which does not mean that they end up as 'violent children'). Because the 'cult of motherhood' and the 'blame the mother' supermarket-psychology offered are still very strong here, Brazilian working mothers have a heavy 'double day' load to carry, and 'liberation' has only come half-way. Note, however, that I talk about middle-class women. Poor working mothers experience a much different situation: they do have what to be concerned about, since many of them are forced to leave their children alone (usually under the care of the eldest who may be quite young herself), or worse, send them out in streets to work and to be exposed to all kinds of violence. Has any research been done in the US on the problems/conflicts experienced by working mothers ? I'm just curious. Cecilia Sardenberg NEIM/FFCH/UFBA Salvador, Bahia, Brazil cecisard@sunrnp.ufba.br ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 23:47:21 LCL Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kirsch Vicki L Subject: gender and community ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- I tried to send this message privately but received the message "host unknown" I must have transcribed Leslie's address wrong-- Hi, Leslie. Let me first say that I teach an entire course on "Women's Community: Real and Imaginary" and there seems to be more written in this area all of the time. I'm not sure what aspect of "gender and community" you are particularly interested in, but I'm guessing you are interested in theoretical rather than historical perspectives. In this light, I suggest: Janice Raymond's A PASSION FOR FRIENDS Sarah Lucia Hoagland's LESBIAN ETHICS parts of Shari Benstock's WOMEN OF THE LEFT BANK: PARIS, 1900-1940 Starhawk's DREAMING THE DARK both anthologies THIS BRIDGE CALLED MY BACK and MAKING FACE, MAKING SOUL/HACIENDO CARAS by Gloria Anzaldua Let me know if I can be of further assistance. Yours, Vicki Kirsch vlkirs@mail.wm.edu College of William and Mary ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 07:51:37 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Elza Subject: Re: electronic women's studies In-Reply-To: <199401270921.EAA06135@umd5.umd.edu> I am trying to incorporate electronic communications into my classes. In the Intro to women's studies with 8 students, it did not work because I left it up to them to participate and the computers are available only in the library. In my Women and Politics class this quarter, I listed several questions with instructions, including one to brouse the U of Maryland women's studies list for info relevant to their papers, which they can then mail to the class address. I've asked them to find the caucus updates and mail them as an exercise. The computer people changed the menus the day before classes, making my instructions invalid. The new menus, unlike the old, do not list the u of m gopher site, which requires we exit to ga. southern's or go to veronica and type women's studies, then go to u of maryland. we cannot go directly to inform.umdd.umd.edu from a prompt because student use machines are not set up to do that unless they are in the computer science lab which is reserved for computer science courses. Despite these difficulties, students have been interested in using the technology. However, I've tried to get the index to the women's studies at u of m and can't from either their address or mine. sending the request to listserv didn't work. it suggested i say get lists, which led to the lists of electronic bb for women. I did give to l4 students in the class, but i'd really like the index. Does anyone else have these problems? ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 07:59:41 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Von Bakanic Organization: College of Charleston Subject: forwarded posting An undergrad as asked me to post the following request. She is trying to develop a curriculum for high students as part of an independent study: Does anyone know of any Intro to WS anthologies appropriate for high school students? OR does anyone know of any interdisciplinary anthologies about women appropriate for high school students? OR can anyone recommend texts specifically about women's history appropriate for high school students? Please reply privately to: Joyce Carpenter carpenterj@cofc.edu Thanks. Joyce A. Carpenter Philosophy & Women's Studies, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29424; Phone 803-953-7810 e-mail: carpenterj@ashley.cofc.edu _____________________________________________________________________ Von Bakanic (803) 953-7105 Dept. of Sociology internet address: College of Charleston bakanicv@cofc.edu Charleston, S.C. 29424 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 08:13:27 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Elza Subject: Re: evaluations In-Reply-To: <199401280245.VAA25876@umd5.umd.edu> this is the evaluation form i came up with for our 3 hr intro women's studies course. The purposes of this course are to introduce the student to the scope of women's studies, explain the approaches to feminist scholarship, and to provde understanding of the roles women have played in society. Please rate the course on a scale of l-5 with 5 being the highest on the following criteria. Circle the appropriate choice. I. Objectives: I better understand: scale is here A. the roles women have played B. why they have played those roles C. the consequences of thsoe roles D. the variety of feminism E. the various approaches to studying women;. F. the need to study women G. This course was/was not an appropriate intro to ws because (several lines) II. Course: A. the course presented a variety of views fairly B. the use of guest presenters made the course interesting C. the course was too structured/unstructured (circle choice) D. the best aspects of this course were (lines) E. to improve this course I would (lines) III. texts A. the required texts were appropriate B. the required texts were easy to read D. the teacher related the texts to dicussion D. please comment on how useful you found the texts, noting any weaknesses or strengths you found relevant (lines) IV. professor The professor: A. knew the material B. conveyed the material in an understandable manner C. presented the material fairly D. was responsive to the students E. the teachers rates high in comparison to other teachers i have had at vsu F. please comment on any teaching techniques which you found especially useful/unhekpful (lines) V. Guest Presenters The lecture given by the presenter was informative and contributed to my understanding of the topic. presenters' names are then listed with scale to side. VI. additional comments lines ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 07:33:08 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Patti Self Subject: Re: evaluations Pat, We have one that is a combination of earlier versions. Send me your snail mail address and I'll forward you a copy. We will soon have some data on WS, Chem, Bio, and FRCD courses as well with it. Patti Self frcdpas@vms.ucc.okstate.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 09:38:40 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: W: TO field duplicated. Last occurrence was retained. Comments: W: TO field duplicated. Last occurrence was retained. Comments: W: TO field duplicated. Last occurrence was retained. Comments: W: TO field duplicated. Last occurrence was retained. Comments: W: TO field duplicated. Last occurrence was retained. From: Bobbie Kolehouse Subject: Re: research on violent children In-Reply-To: your message of Thu Jan 27 12:13:06 -0600 1994 Infact it was found that the children who "suffered" > tended to be those whose mothers who wanted to work but stayed home "to > be with the Kids" or those that had to work but didn't want to "suffered" > equally ie if mother was unhappy it efects the kids- Generally speaking > the only difference between kids whose mothers worked or didn't work out > of the home was that kids in the first group were more indepandent than > those whose mothers were homemakers. >I find this extremely interesting. It is my impression that one of the >major goals of working mothers is to make their children independent--to >teach them how to make decisions for themselves and to have a certain >degree of responsibility for their own actions. My mother was a working >journalist in the 1950s--in fact, I was the only child with a working >mother in my class. My mother worked outin the 60's and has ever since. She's always claimed it made us independent. What is independence? Self-reliance? How much? Initiative? In what areas? Decision making -- things happen whether we are active or passive. Perhaps the point is not independence, but the degree of nurturing we receive. Somehow working seems positioned opposite nurturing. Nurturing defined as the training in life that gives a person the ability to interact in their culture in a positive way. (I realize how vague and contingent this is) When a parent's not *being there* all of the time (e.g. being at work), is viewed as leaving the children unnurtured -read- unmothered. Mothers can't win, and single fathers are either heros or inept victims who must marry because the children need a mother. But parents can nurture or not, *on site* or not, though their capacity is likely tied to the nurturing they received. Rambling thoughts in the morning... Bobbie Kolehouse bkolehou@uwspmail.uwsp.edu University Library UW-Stevens Point ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 10:01:50 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: W: TO field duplicated. Last occurrence was retained. Comments: W: TO field duplicated. Last occurrence was retained. Comments: W: TO field duplicated. Last occurrence was retained. Comments: W: TO field duplicated. Last occurrence was retained. Comments: W: TO field duplicated. Last occurrence was retained. From: Bobbie Kolehouse Subject: Re: research on violent children Infact it was found that the children who "suffered" > tended to be those whose mothers who wanted to work but stayed home "to > be with the Kids" or those that had to work but didn't want to "suffered" > equally ie if mother was unhappy it efects the kids- Generally speaking > the only difference between kids whose mothers worked or didn't work out > of the home was that kids in the first group were more indepandent than > those whose mothers were homemakers. >I find this extremely interesting. It is my impression that one of the >major goals of working mothers is to make their children independent--to >teach them how to make decisions for themselves and to have a certain >degree of responsibility for their own actions. My mother was a working >journalist in the 1950s--in fact, I was the only child with a working >mother in my class. My mother worked outin the 60's and has ever since. She's always claimed it made us independent. What is independence? Self-reliance? How much? Initiative? In what areas? Decision making -- things happen whether we are active or passive. Perhaps the point is not independence, but the degree of nurturing we receive. Somehow working seems positioned opposite nurturing. Nurturing defined as the training in life that gives a person the ability to interact in their culture in a positive way. (I realize how vague and contingent this is) When a parent's not *being there* all of the time (e.g. being at work), is viewed as leaving the children unnurtured -read- unmothered. Mothers can't win, and single fathers are either heros or inept victims who must marry because the children need a mother. But parents can nurture or not, *on site* or not, though their capacity is likely tied to the nurturing they received. Rambling thoughts in the morning... Bobbie Kolehouse bkolehou@uwspmail.uwsp.edu University Library UW-Stevens Point ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 10:22:38 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christine Sue-Chan Subject: Desktop Metaphor I forwarded Diane Price Herndl's comments about the perceived race and gender biases of computer interfaces to a colleague who is completing his Ph.D. in Computer Science in the area of Human Computer Interfaces under the supervision of a female faculty member who is cross-appointed to the Department of Pscyhology and Computer Science. Here is their response: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- When user interfaces are created, the designers attempt to make them as easy to learn as possible. One way this is done is by using knowledge that the people who are expected to use the software already have. The desktop metaphor was developed at Xerox because at that time computers were thought of as office tools and thus it made sense for them to use the familiar elements of an office, i.e. a desktop, paper and file folders. Any culture biases in this design are, in our opinion, excusable because the designers simply had no idea that the desktop metaphor would become as widely used as it is today. We would argue that culture biased interfaces are desirable, as taking advantage of the knowledge inherent in a culture is a powerful way to make the interface easier to learn. Of course this means that different interfaces are desirable for different cultures, which has the advantage that local software companies may have an edge in developing software for their market. We would strongly disagree however that the desktop metaphor is in any way gender biased, if we restrict ourselves to western culture -- the culture for which it was designed. The office has never been an exclusively male preserve. In fact, any computer analyst will tell you that computer interfaces are generally designed for secretaries, who, when the desktop metaphor was designed, tended to be female (this is probably still true; whether this is desirable or not is irrelevant to our argument). As further evidence in support of our assertion, it should be noted that many of the members of the Apple Human Interface Group (Apple is the company largely responsible for popularizing the desktop metaphor) are female, including the head of that group, Joy Mountford. Other metaphors, such as the suggested kitchen metaphor, are probably very appropriate for certain types of software, such as a household management program, as its users would be familiar with the elements of such a metaphor, in addition to the fact that such a metaphor would be a better fit to the application (a very important design consideration). ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 10:19:09 -500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Giavanna J. Munafo" Subject: women and whiteness results I'm posting this information to the list because I think many subscribers may find it useful. Here are the suggestions I received re: my Women and Whiteness research query to the list: Blee, Kathleen M.: _Women of the Klan_ Brady, Maureen: _Folly_ (novel--lesbian/race-relations) Caraway, Nancie: _Segregated Sisterhood: Racism and the Politics of American Feminism_ Erickson, Peter: "Profiles in Whiteness" in the _Stanford Humanities Review_ (Winter, 1993) Fowlks, Diana: _White Political Women_ Frye, Marilyn: essays in _The Politics of Reality_ (1983) Frye, Marilyn: _Willful Virgin_ Hall, Kim F.: in _Women, "Race," and Writing_ Hooks, Bell: "Representing Whiteness" in _Black Looks_ Kaye/Kantrowitz, Melanie: essay in _The Issue is Power_ Pratt, Minnie Bruce: _Rebellion: Essays_ (1991) Rich, Adrienne: selected essays from _Lies, Secrets, and Silence_ (1979) and _Bread, Blood, and Poetry_ (1986) Russo, Ann: essay "We Cannot Live without Our Lives" in _Third World Feminism_ Seagrest, Mab: _My Mama's Dead Squirrel _ Spelman, Elizabeth: _Inessential Woman_ (1988) Ware, Vron: _Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism, and History_ Welch, Sharon: _A Feminist Ethic of Risk_ 1990 Wilson, Barbara: _Murder in the Collective_ (novel--lesbian/race-relations) Young, Lisa: in _Women, "Race," and Writing_ Many Thanks to: Kim F. Hall, Debian Marty, Cynthia Nieb, Tiffany Hogan, Kathleen Barker, Marilyn Edelstein, Lisa Majaj and others whose names I may have misfiled.If anyone still has something to add, let me know privately. Giavanna Munafo gjm9u@darwin.clas.virginia.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 10:57:13 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: Call for Nominations: Editor of HYPATIA Time flies. It is already nearly four years since HYPATIA's editorial office moved to the University of South Florida. Since it is our policy to rotate the editorship of the journal every five years, it is once again time for Hypatia's Executive Board of Associate Editors to call for nominations for a new general editor. The new editor will serve for a term of five years beginning July 1, 1995. The qualifications are: a record of publications in the field of feminist philosophy; an affiliation at an institution willing to provide at least minimal support for the journal; experience in editing and administration or business; willingness and ability to work with the various philosophical orientations represented in contemporary feminist philosophy. Nominations for a joint editorship will be considered. Self-nominations are encouraged. In nominating oneself, enclose a copy of your cv; in nominating another, include the nominee's address, phone, and your reasons for the nomination. Qualified nominees will receive guidelines for developing a full proposal. Proposals will be evaluated and ranked by the Hypatia Executive Board (the Associate Editors) with assistance from officers of the three divisions of the Society for Women in Philosophy. Final selection will be made by the Board in consultation with Indiana University Press. Nominations should be sent to Hypatia, University of South Florida, SOC 107, Tampa, FL 33620. Deadline for receipt of nominations is June 1, 1994. Contact the editorial office of the journal for additional information via e-mail at the address below or by phone at (813) 974-5531. *************************************************************************** ****Linda Lopez McAlister ****HYPATIA ****University of South Florida. SOC 107 ****Tampa, FL 33620 (813) 974-5531 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 10:44:15 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: mcvay pamela anne Subject: LOST Niki Beno. address Sorry to post to WMST-L. Niki, I lost your address for smail-mailing information about using electronic bulletin boards in the classroom as well as deleting your e-mail address. Could you send the message again, pamela mcvay pmcvay@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 10:53:38 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Caroline Brettell Subject: Re: working/mothering/nurturing/independence In-Reply-To: <199401281600.LAA14200@umd5.umd.edu> The problem is indeed that somehow mothering and nurturing is opposed to working. Many working mothers are always there at the other end of the telephone for their children. My mother (again in the 50s) often took her lunch hour at 10am to watch us in a school play. She was always there for advice etc. But independence to her was self-reliance. She did not bake the cookies for me for the school bake sale; she taught me how to do it; she helped; but I did it. Again more thoughts about this backlash issue. Working mothers should be praised for all that they get done not blamed for all the ills of society! Caroline ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 08:48:38 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Theresa Thompson <60840883@WSUVM1.BITNET> Subject: women's leadership I am not certain this topic belongs on this conference, but it is academic and it does relate to women's studies. I do encourage private responses. My probl em, if it is a problem, is this: I was recently nominated for an award from the Association of Faculty Women at my university (the award is for Outstanding Doctoral Candidate of the Year). I have no problem with the idea of awards and recognition of what women are doing in doctoral studies. However, the award requires that a candidate submit a pac ket of information (pretty standard stuff: cv, recommendations, personal statem ent)--and here is where I feel a problem. The directions for writing the perso nal statement ask the candidate to discuss two things: her research and her "professional potential (leadership, etc.)." As I wrote this document--a true horror for me, as I never can state why I do what I do--I realized that my rese arch areas place me almost in direct opposition to the notion that "leadership" has anything to do with my "potential" in this profession, as I understand it. The end of my personal statement ends up quoting Virginia Woolf from _Three Gui neas_ when she questions the desire of women to enter into male-dominated acade me, to accept awards and distinctions! Not a good way to win this award, I adm it. I am unclear. My research area for my dissertation is Leslie Silko and how Ind ian women writers can envision a non-hierarchical, non-patriarchal society with greater clarity than middle-class white women because (when they revise cultura l myths) they have experienced such possibilities in their own stories and cult ures rather than simply imagined such possibilities. (At least, that's a very oversimplified view of the work.) After talking about the value of non-hierarc hical systems, I find my own position toward "leadership" is a problem: how can one value traditional notions of leadership? I think what I do isn't leadershi p at all; I share. Why should we value those who "lead" rather than those who c hoose to play a more subdued or quiet role? Is academe irredeemably "tainted" by power relationships even to the extent that if one quietly does one's job, a nd incorporates non-hierarchical values into teaching and researching, that per son cannot be seen as "outstanding"????? I am not certain what I am asking here, but I do know that I need help in recon structing a less insulting personal statement! I can't "win" any award, I susp ect, by pointing out that these women have essentially bought into the patriarc hal notions of "value." Please respond privately, Theresa Thompson <60840883@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu> ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 12:26:03 LCL Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruth Ginzberg Organization: Philosophy Dept., Wesleyan University Subject: Where Do They Learn...??? I am becoming increasingly frustrated with the HUGE numbers of students who seem to have gotten their entire impression of "feminism" or "Women's Studies" or "Women's Liberation" almost entirely from popular media images of these things, and almost entirely to the exclusion of any serious study whatsoever of the political or intellectual histories of these social & political movements. Does this strike anyone else as an increasingly severe problem (especially given popular media backlashes which seem to be currently fashionable)? And if so, what do you do about it? I am not as much concerned with the students who DO enroll in WmSt courses as I am about the ones who DON'T. ----------- Ruth Ginzberg (rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu) ------------ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 11:39:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Renee McBride Subject: (COPY) request for papers Pardon any duplication. Renee McBride Univ. of Oklahoma -------------------------TEXT-OF-FORWARDED-MAIL-------------------------------- Professor Anita Skeen (Department of English, Michigan State University) and Professor Dorothy Miller (Center for Women's Studies, Wichita State University) are interested in brief narratives (1-3 pages) from unmarried academic couples (same and opposite sex) about significant issues and problems related to their professional and personal lives. Areas for consideration might include treatment by the university, treatment by the departments, career moves, salary, working together (both teaching and research), and success stories. Data and personal narratives will be used by Skeen and Miller in a book chapter on unmarried couples in the academy for a book to be published by the University of Illinois Press. Confidentiality, if desired, will be protected. Send responses to Anita Skeen, Department of English, 201 Morrill Hall, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, Mil 48824 or Dorothy Miller, Center for Women's Studies, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas 67208. E-mail address for Skeen is 21798as@msu.edu and for Miller is DCMILLER@TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU. Deadline for material: February 20, 1994. End of Anita's text. I am sure she would appreciate a cross-posting if some of you are on other appropriate lists; I belong only to this one. Thanks, all. Anne Tracy. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 11:10:46 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Marilyn P. Safir" Subject: Re: research on violent children In-Reply-To: <9401281440.AA12047@tolstoy.u.washington.edu> When I originally posted that children of working mothers wer more independant, I wasn't implying that this was bad - I think that all of us would agree that idependance is important and positive. Refering back to some of the research - I think again Lois Hoffman - findings of quality time become important. In addition - if I remember correctly, middle SES and higher children of homemakers didnot spend that much more time with their "non" working mothers. I am sorry that I can't be more specific as I don't have my library with me here. What I was trying to do waS TO CHALLANGE tODAY'S SOCALLED FINDINGS- AND TO SHOW THAT iN THE PAST THEY WERE CONNECTED WITH POVERTY AND NOT WITH MOTHER'S OCCUPATIONAL STATUS marilyn ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 14:14:44 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Chris Delbes Organization: The American University Subject: Percentage of women lawyers Hi everyone, I am sorry for posting a request to the list, since it's been so heavy lately. As a non-law student, though, it has been hard for me to find the following information, for lack of access to law libraries during non-office hours. All I need is to know the number of women lawyers in 1970-1971, 1971-1972, 1972-1973 and 1992-1993. Apparently any major American Bar Association would have it. If anyone out there is a law professor, who would easily have this info., I would truly appreciate it if you send it to me privately (not to the list). Please send me also the exact source of it. Thank you very much, and happy new year to everybody. Chris Delboni Fax # (202) 363-0402 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 15:32:40 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Maureen McHugh Organization: Indiana University of Pennsylvania Subject: Re: Feminist Theory Anthologies We are considering having a WS retreat in order to refocus/revitalize our program. We are eight years old with a minor and we usually do alot of campus programming. The faculty are only very loosely connected with the program. The retreat would serve as the starting point for a self study (evaluation). Have any of you had a successful retreat that was similar in purpose? How much time is needed to reach some decisions, or to design some structures for subsequent decisions? Would a one day retreat be long enough? Were there any incentives in place to recruit participants to the retreat? Did you have refreshments or pot luck? Did you have an outside group facilitator, or did your director run the retreat? Any kind of suggestion or description would be appreciated. Respond privately and I will summarize the suggestions. Maureen McHugh, Director, WS, IUP, Indiana PA Internet: MCMCHUGH@GROVE.IUP.EDU P.S. Thank you in advance ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 17:24:39 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Hannigan Subject: Re: Request for Info Yes, one of my colleagues, Kay Vandergrift, called Carolyn and found it very helpful for her research. It is one of the wonders of Internet that we can "communitize" with colleagues all over the world that make teaching and research move forward quickly with expertise like that recommended by Karen Kidd. Jane ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 17:45:18 -500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Giavanna J. Munafo" Subject: women and whiteness again (fwd) Typo in the original transmission address. Here's the message: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 17:40:34 -500 (EST) From: "Giavanna J. Munafo" To: wsst-l@umdd.umd.edu Subject: women and whiteness again Before I get any more kind notes, I forgot to add the references with which I began into the 'final' list of resources on women and whiteness. Hence, Frankenberg's _White Women, Race Matters_, Morrison's _Playing in the Dark_, and Carby's _Reconstructing Womanhood_ should be included. On whiteness, but not on women per se, I must also mention Roediger's _The Wages of Whiteness_, Lott's _Love and Theft_, and Dyer's "White." Thanks to all contributors and sorry for the oversight. Giavanna gjm9u@darwin.clas.virginia.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 18:26:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: LEA MAYBERRY Subject: Re: Where Do They Learn...??? On Fri, 28 Jan 1994 at 12:26:03 LCL, Ruth Ginzberg writes: > I am becoming increasingly frustrated with the HUGE numbers of > students who seem to have gotten their entire impression of "feminism" > or "Women's Studies" or "Women's Liberation" almost entirely from > popular media images of these things, and almost entirely to the > exclusion of any serious study whatsoever of the political or > intellectual histories of these social & political movements. > > Does this strike anyone else as an increasingly severe problem > (especially given popular media backlashes which seem to be currently > fashionable)? And if so, what do you do about it? I am not as much > concerned with the students who DO enroll in WmSt courses as I am > about the ones who DON'T. I suggest a solution of one-to-one meetings with older feminists. That is how I got "introduced" to feminism. I met many elderly suffragists at a local nurs ing home. They shared their experiences and theories. It was from that experi ence and my own personal experiences that allowed me to seek feminism beyond wh at is presented via the "media" version. I have encouraged young feminists to do the same so that they receive a much "fuller" view of feminism. Hope this h elps. bleam@ksuvm.ksu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 20:19:28 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Elza Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 94 20:13:08 EST From: Mail Delivery Subsystem To: jelza@grits.valdosta.peachnet.edu Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 421 Host wsuvm1.bitnet not found for mailer ether. 550 Theresa Thompson <60840883@WSUVM1.BITNET>... Host unknown ----- Unsent message follows ----- Return-Path: Received: by grits.valdosta.peachnet.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA16439; Fri, 28 Jan 94 20:13:08 EST Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 20:13:08 -0500 (EST) From: Jane Elza Subject: Re: women's leadership To: Theresa Thompson <60840883@WSUVM1.BITNET> In-Reply-To: <199401281813.NAA01424@umd5.umd.edu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII one cannot help but lead by example. if others follow, you have led. this is the arguement that mothers can change the world by teaching their children to share. leading does not necessarily require hierarchy nor does it require telling people what to do. can you direct social change without leading? i don't think so, because you are in opposition to the status quo and leadership is directional. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 20:39:24 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Allan Hunter Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Subject: Re: Where Do They Learn...??? In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 28 Jan 1994 12:26:03 LCL from On Fri, 28 Jan 1994 12:26:03 LCL Ruth Ginzberg said: >I am becoming increasingly frustrated with the HUGE numbers of >students who seem to have gotten their entire impression of "feminism" >or "Women's Studies" or "Women's Liberation" almost entirely from >popular media images of these things, and almost entirely to the >exclusion of any serious study whatsoever of the political or >intellectual histories of these social & political movements. > >Does this strike anyone else as an increasingly severe problem And while we're at it, is anyone bothered by the tendency for courses in Feminist Theory to introduce feminist theory as if it sprung into being no earlier than 1990? Does ANYONE teach the intellectual and theoretical history of modern feminist thought? -Allan Hunter ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 21:04:02 LCL Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kirsch Vicki L Subject: the Stone Center If anyone on the list is associated with the Stone Center in Boston, could you please contact me privately. Thank you. Vicki Kirsch vlkirs@mail.wm.edu College of William and Mary