WMST-L LOG9402D ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 00:48:10 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Amanda Goldrick-Jones Subject: Request for Info About Women Performing Artists I am posting this request for an actor-activist friend who is not hooked up to e-mail. She has spent many years researching the status of women in the performing arts, particularly in Canada but also internationally, and is looking for any analyses or statistics pertaining to women on stage or in film. U.S. information would be welcomed. Please reply privately to goldra@rpi.edu (Amanda Goldrick-Jones). If there is any interest in whatever information I can collect, I'll post a summary on WMST-L. Many thanks! ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 08:40:55 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Gina Oboler, Anthropology & Sociology, Ursinus College" Subject: Re: Where do they learn? I'm changing the topic of discussion slightly away from why our students are so afraid to be labelled lesbians back to the original topic of where they and people at large get negative images of feminism. I'm involved in a conversation on another list with two independent-minded, bright, and highly articulate women. One says she still calls herself a feminist, but wouldn't have anything to do with organized feminism; the other accepted the label "feminist" once but won't any longer, though she still shares many of my views. These women have interesting stories to tell, and both were put off "feminism" by their experiences of being involved in campus Women's Centers, in which they felt there was a stifling orthodoxy and they received tremendous disapproval and hostility from other women for voicing some unorthodox opinions. I'm not going to go into the details of their stories; suffice it to say that they are convincing in the main, even if I entertain doubts about their inter- pretation of some details. They are not alleging things that are highly improbable. I have felt some hostility in feminist circles because of divergent views, too -- though I've always been committed enough to feminist goals that this didn't put me off. (A study/writing collective I was involved in was once labelled "disgustingly male-brainwashed" by a similar group from another city, when we encountered each other at a conference.) I'm trying to convince these women that their experiences are not representative and that most feminists are more open-minded, but I'd like to hear other views on the extent to which we should consider that the way we ourselves portray our interests and cause may have a role in putting people off, and whether, and to what extent, we need to encourage within our organizations and in places like Women's Centers openness to a wide variety of different ideas. (Sorry, that last sentence is ghastly complicated, but my on-line software doesn't allow going back more than one line to edit -- so I have to go with what comes off the top of my head, or start over.) I've phrased this all in general terms, but to give an idea of the specifics of the problem: one of these women considers herself a libertarian. I'm a socialist myself, though not necessarily always sure that the position of people calling themselves "socialists" is right on every topic (especially since varieties of "socialism" may differ in analyses of particular issues). I think this woman and I could exchange our views amicably ad infinitum, agree to disagree, and never- theless, work together for joint goals. She thinks, though, that most feminist women she's met won't listen to what she has to say and debate it on its merits, but are simply dismissive or hostile. So, how open do we need to be? How should we present ourselves to women who start out from a very different position? Ideas? -- Gina (roboler@acad.ursinus.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 08:12:36 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Caroline Brettell Subject: Re: Feminist & Feminist-Friendly Journals In-Reply-To: <199402190101.UAA06680@umd5.umd.edu> Feminist Frontiers is another. Isn't there one called Gender and Society? Caroline Brettell ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 09:29:28 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: STRETCH OR DROWN/ EVOLVE OR DIE Subject: Re: Feminist & Feminist-Friendly Journals There is also a journal called Genders published by the University of Texas Press. Laurie Finke finkel@kenyon.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 09:27:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sarah Richardson Subject: Women's studies in Jamaica This request is for a friend who will be going to Jamaica in the fall to work on an anthology of Jamaican women writers. Can anyone help out with contacts to women scholars there, or Jamaican writers living in other places, or any such useful information? Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sarah Richardson srich@vtvm1.bitnet srich@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive. - Mahatma Gandhi ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 09:33:13 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jennifer Alabiso Subject: research info. In-Reply-To: <199402220426.XAA15626@umd5.umd.edu> from "Beatrice Kachuck" at Feb 21, 94 08:30:14 pm I will be working this semester on full fledged reserach proposal, for which the research will not be done (at least, not at this juncture). My interest is in adolescent girls, and my proposal, now, is to research how the presence of male siblings relates to the development of (or decline in) self-esteem in these young women. I am aware of much of the work regarding the drop in self-esteem that girls at this age go through, and have been able to get a hold of several of Carol Gilligan's works. But in terms of this topic specifically my literature search has been futile, and I'm looking for any information regarding where to look for information. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please respond privately to jalabiso@ccat.sas.upenn.edu. thanks in advance. Jen Alabiso ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 11:50:30 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gaea Honeycutt Subject: WEEA Address I just caught on to the messages about the publishing center's address. Our zip code has changed. If you use the e-mail address, please put "GLH" in the subject. Here's the full address. WEEA Publishing Center EDC 55 Chapel Street Newton, MA 02158-1060 800/225-3088; in MA 617/969-7100 weeapub@edc.org Gaea Honeycutt ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 12:10:12 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Irene Isley Subject: fem friendly Each of the feminist friendly journals mentioned so far is listed, along with a good many others, in the UWisconsin Women's Studies Librarian Phyllis Holman Weisbard's "Feminist Periodicals: A Current Listing of Contents". Her phone number is (608) 263-5754. There are over 100 periodicals listed. Irene Isley ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 10:45:57 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Erin Rooney Subject: Position Announcement I'm posting this for a colleague who is not on WMST-L. Please send any replies or questions to her, at: PSEAVEY@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU (Pat Seavey) SEARCH EXTENDED. Women's Studies at the University of Arizona invites applications for the position of Research Associate with the Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW)/Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) beginning August 1994. For this position we seek applicants with expertise in science, mathematics, and/or engineering education. Ph.D. is required. Evidence of successful project development and/or project manage- ment, grant writing, and collaborative work is preferred. Preference will be given to candidates with experience in teaching science, engineering, or mathematics. The initial appointment will be for one year, renewable for a second year conditional upon satisfactory performance and availability of funding. Applicants from various disciplines are encouraged to apply. Please send letter of application and curriculum vitae to: Search Committee, SIROW, 102 Douglass Bldg., University of Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721. Review of Applications begins March 1 and will continue until the position is filled. Salary dependent upon qualifications. The University of Arizona is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Women and Minorities are encouraged to apply. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 12:38:52 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ines shaw Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network Subject: Re: fem friendly In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 22 Feb 1994 12:10:12 -0500 from Hi, this really doesn't have anything to do with the message you posted, but I was wondering if you have a copy of a message which came out today or yesterday regarding nominations for the distinguished visiting professorship in Wisconsin. If you do, could you forward it? Thanks. If you don't have the message (discarded it), that's ok, no need to respond. Ines ishaw@vm1.nodak.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 24:57:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Robert W. Jensen" Subject: Rejected posting to WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU You are not authorized to mail to list WMST-L from your JODF246@UTXVM.CC.UTEXAS.EDU account. You might be authorized to post to the list from another of your accounts or under a slightly different address, but LISTSERV has no way to associate this other account or address with you and is thus rejecting your message. Your message is being returned to you unprocessed. If you have any question regarding authorization to use the WMST-L list, please contact one of the list owners, whose names and addresses are listed below: Joan Korenman Joan Korenman Joan Korenman Joan Korenman Joan Korenman PATERIS@UMBC2.BITNET Andriana Pateris ------------------------- Rejected message (41 lines) ------------------------- Received: from utxvm.cc.utexas.edu by UMDD.UMD.EDU ; 22 Feb 94 13:51:37 EST Received: from utxvm.cc.utexas.edu by utxvm.cc.utexas.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 0024; Tue, 22 Feb 94 12:51:35 CDT Date: Tue, 22 Feb 94 12:51:35 CDT From: JODF246@utxvm.cc.utexas.edu To: wmst-l@umdd.umd.edu I am posting the following call on behalf of Ann Russo, a colleague not on the list. please respond to russo@mit.edu. WOMEN SURVIVE AND TELL ABOUT IT PROJECT WOMEN SURVIVORS OF PORNOGRAPHY I am putting together an anthology of first person stories, essays, interviews, artwork, and poetry by women who have been hurt in and/or by pornography as adults and/or as children, including in the making of homemade and/or commercial pornography, and/or through the use of pornography in relationships, in families, on the job, in education, etc. I invite all survivors to contribute to this anthology, and to talk about the pornograpy and its impact on your life. The purpose of the project is to offer survivors an opportunity to break the silence surrounding our experiences with pornography, to document the scope of the harm of this type of sexual abuse and its relationship to other parts of our lives and our experiences (including prostitution, sexual identity and practice, poverty, racism, substance abuse, etc.), to begin to address the complexity of the healing process, and to illustrate the many ways that women survive and fight back. Tape recorded stories or interviews are welcome; arrangements can be made for me to interview survivors if preferred. I will respect your wishes to remain anonymous. Let me know if you wish to remain anonymous or to use a pseudonym. My name is Ann Russo, I am a survivor, and I am a feminist antipornography activist. If you are interested, please send stories, essays, interviews, requests, and/or questions, etc. to: Women Survive, PO Box 771, Kendall Square Branch, Cambridge, MA 02142. Or you can also contact me by e-mail at: russo@mit.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 14:52:43 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mollie Whalen Subject: Call for Papers CALL FOR PAPERS, PANELS, WORKSHOP PROPOSALS A joint conference sponsored by Mid-Atlantic National Women's Studies Association AND Pennsylvania State System of Higher Educaion Women's Consortium DATE: Friday, October 21 through Saturday, October 22, 1994 LOCATION: East Stroudsburg University, East Stroudsburg, PA ESU is located in the Delaware Water Gap, near the PA-NJ border, right off Exit 51 of Route 80 THEME: Bridging the Gap Among Women's Communities The conference theme is intended to highlight both the conference location as well as the diversity among communities of women. In this conference we bring together women's studies academics, women activists for social change, and community women's groups. Together we can make a difference in the world. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS: May 1, 1994 Proposals should be limited to 2 typed pages. Please identify your affiliation and indicate whether you are submitting your proposal on behalf of Mid-Atlantic NWSA or the Pennsylvania Women's Consortium. Include a vita or brief bio of the presenter(s). SUBMIT TO: Women's Conference Organizing Committee Women's Center East Stroudsburg University East Stroudsburg, PA 18301 CONTACT PERSON: Dr. Mollie Whalen Coordinator of Women's Studies Phone: 717-424-3472 Internet: womst@esu.edu NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: July 1, 1994 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 15:08:19 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: VALARIE ZIEGLER Subject: Last hired, first fired? I am on the Tenure Committee at Rhodes College, and I need your help. Rhodes has a 67% tenure cap, and if all or most tenure decisions in the next few years are positive, the college will exceed the cap. Our president is adamant that he will not allow the faculty to become tenured in. I am particularly worried about the implications for female candidates. Like many colleges, Rhodes has only recently added significant numbers of female faculty members. Most women are untenured at present, and thus they are in the most danger if the tenure cap is enforced or if requirements for tenure are made more stringent (so that more candidates are denied tenure). It would help me ENORMOUSLY if those of you who teach at liberal arts colleges could tell me what the tenure cap is at your institution. If you don't have one, I would like to know that as well. The Tenure Committee here will use the information you provide to formulate recommendations to the president. Please respond privately to: Ziegler@Vax.Rhodes.edu Thanks! Valarie Ziegler/Religious Studies ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 17:55:55 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: d000wgsp@LEO.BSUVC.BSU.EDU Subject: Re: christian beliefs Is "Christian beliefs" a way of excluding Jews? Irene Goldman ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 15:34:58 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Theresa Thompson <60840883@WSUVM1.BITNET> Subject: Re: Where do they learn? In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 22 Feb 1994 08:40:55 EST from In response to Gina's shift (back?) to hostility to feminism, I think that most feminists are already more open than the libertarian woman has so far encounter ed. Perhaps the real issue involves how willing are non-feminists to tolerate disagreements among feminists? That is badly stated, but I am thinking of expe ctation levels connected to women in all areas. There is a myth that all women think alike, and that all feminists must agree, sisterhood rah rah rah. Well, women are able to disagree and there are many people who are feminists with who m I strongly disagree. There are even some real jerks out there who are also f eminists, probably. Still, most feminists, I think, tend to be very open-minde d and willing to listen simply because--as women-- they have encountered more c losed minds and deaf ears than their male fellow travelers--particularly their privileged male fellows.... This is not a guarantee, though, that listening an d openness will mean agreement and quiet acceptance. The family (sisterhood) m etaphor for women's lib. and feminists has never actually been a good or accura te one, I think, when we consider that the early suffrage movements among white women (for example) deliberately excluded their "sisters" of color, and so fort h and so on, and when we consider how very many of us still focus only on the s trides some American women have made towards equality and neglect so many women around the world who are still tremendously oppressed and exploited. Just some thoughts, Theresa 60840883@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 17:59:00 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Morrow Subject: Re: Feminism and Mental Illness Refs Thanks to all of you who responded to my request for references on a feminist perspective on mental illness in the family for my colleague who is presenting at AWP. Here's a summary of what was recommended to me. I've forwarded them, including messages of a more personal nature, to the author. A child psychologist in San Fernando Valley, Dr. Sandi Fischer (818) 506-4194, who might have data relevant to the topic. Recommended by Rosa Maria Pegueros. Cook, J. A. (1988). Who "mothers the chronically mentally ill? _Family Relations_, 37, 42-49. Lucy Candib sent this one and has a long file on mother blame with tons of references. Tamm Sissac suggested Phyllis Chesler's _Women and Madness_, Holly Atkinson's _Women and Fatigue_, Sandford and Donovan's _Women and Self Esteem_, Anne Wilson Schaef's _Women's Reality_, Suzie Orbach's _Fat is a Feminist Issue I and II_, and Ellen Bass's _Courage to Heal_. The others were more personal, so I chose not to include them in this message. The reference for the AWP presentation is Renee Cote, MFT, 3703 Long Beach Blvd. #E-12, Long Beach, CA 90807. Her presentation is entitled "Speaking our Personal Truths about Mental Illness in our Family of Origin and will be presented at the 1994 Association for Women in Psychology Conference in Oakland, March 3-6. Thanks again! Sue =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Sue Morrow Internet: MORROW@GSE.UTAH.EDU Dept. of Educational Psychology 327 Milton Bennion Hall University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT 84112 (801) 581-3400 FAX: (801) 581-5566 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 20:24:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WS at the NGO/Beijing Marilyn Safir (safirm@u.washington.edu) is having trouble posting and has asked me to send the following message from her to the list. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ********************************************************* Women's Studies International of the Feminist Press ( NYC) has submitted a proposal (by Florence Howe & Mariam Chamberlin) to Irene Santiago, Executive Director of the NGO's Meetings in Beijing. The proposal is for 2 large ajoining rooms, 1 to serve as a resource center in which materials can be distributed free of charge (including publications by the Feminist press) by any centers or programs and will serve for informal meetings. The second room would be used for lectures and more formal discussions that focus on WS around the world. Florence and Mariam have sponsored these activities in Copenhagen and in Nairobi. The want to use the format that was used in Denmark. They will be sending me more info to post as well. Snail mail adress is The Feminist Press, 311 E 94th St., N.Y., N.Y. 10128. Suffering from jetlag I forgot the fax number of the Feminist Press and will post it tommorrow. Florence and Mariam are willing to coordinate all submissions that they receive. They don't have an email adress. Florence is working without an assistant at the moment and ask your understanding if replies are slow. There will be a meeting at the UN on March 9/10 to establish guidlines for the NGO meetings and There may be more specific information following that aS well. Will post the Fax # tommorrow - please no telephone calls to the Feminist press at this time. Hoping to see us all in Beijing Marilyn Safir (safirm@u.washington.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 21:11:49 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: kay fowler Subject: gender and literacy One of my students is engaged in a very interesting exploration of literacy among young adults (20-29) and is trying to determine relative rates of illiteracy and aliteracy between males and females and possible relevant influences. Can the WMST list suggest appropriate readings, articles, or recent studies which address this issue? The student is at a fairly early stage in her research so basic sources would be welcome too. We would appreciate your help. Kay Fowler ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 21:15:39 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Barbara A. Crow" Subject: Information on Barbara Luck Hello - I have a colleague looking for any information about the work and publications of the poet, Barbara Luck. Please forward information to me at: crow@acs.ucalgary.ca Thank you, Barbara Crow Women's Studies University of Calgary ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 22:31:22 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Richard Blomgren Subject: sf;l fslkjsklj sfljflks lfskjf.,.,., >>?>, ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 22:46:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MARY JEANNE LARRABEE Subject: Departmental status DePaul's Women's Studies Program is looking toward applying for departmental sta tus. Has anyone tried this, after being a "program" for a decade or so? Mary J eanne Larrabee, DePaul U. Chicago--email PHLMJL@Depaul; PHLMJL@Orion.depaul.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 15:55:40 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Veronica Strong-Boag Subject: Am. Assoc. of Univ. Women Survey In-Reply-To: <199402222142.QAA28033@umd5.umd.edu> I've been asked by a high school teacher for a full citation for a survey by the AAUW on sexual harassment among students in the 8th the 8th through 11th grades. Can anyone help? Thank you very much ! Veronica Strong-Boag, Director, Centre for REsearch in WS and GEnder Relatins, Univ. of B.C. , Vancouver, Canada, stbg@unixg.ubc.ca ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 23:21:21 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marilyn Edelstein Subject: Native American Women & Feminism In class today (Fem. Theory and Criticism), we were discussing an essay by Paula Gunn Allen ("Kochinennako in Academe . . ." [sp.]) and students asked if most Native American women (whether feminist or not) would see their particular tribal culture(s) as "gynecentric," at least prior to the European invasion of the Americas. Gunn Allen seems to be the most frequently cited Native-American feminist. I realize it would be difficult to speak for/of "most" Native-American women/feminists, but does anyone out there know how Gunn Allen's work has been received by other Native American feminists, and whether her thesis about women's power in pre-colonial tribal cultures is frequently supported by feminists and/or anthropologists. I've heard it supported by at leat (that should be "least") one anthropologist colleague and one Chicana feminist colleague. Responses can be sent privately, or, if you think the issue is of general interest, to the list. Thanks very much. Marilyn Edelstein, English, Santa Clara U medelstein@scuacc.scu.edu medelstein@scu.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 07:44:23 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elizabeth Bounds Subject: Christan Beliefs Beatrice, I need some clarification about what you want info about. What kind o f proof that teachers needed to show or oath they needed to swear? By the way, are these teachers in 19thC US? Elizabeth Bounds, Virginia Tech, Bounds@vtvm1.c c.vt.edu. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 08:15:36 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Elza Subject: aauw report there have been so many requests for the aauw report how schools shortchange girls, is it possible to get it on a file? does aauw have an e-mail address and can you access it by a gopher? one of the papers i got from compuserve stated there once had been an e-mail access, but it didn't give an address or anything. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 08:11:06 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Benay Blend Subject: Re: Native American Women & Feminism You might want to look at the essay focusing on Native Am. women and feminism in The State of Native America. Also, there is a bibliography by Rayna Green that might be helpful. Benay Blend/ Blend@nsula.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 09:12:28 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Gina Oboler, Anthropology & Sociology, Ursinus College" Subject: Re: Native American Women & Feminism In North America, as in many other parts of the world, there was a lot of "cultural diversity" prior to Columbus. Many native North American societies had matrilineal reckoning of kinship and kin-group membership. Women in societies structured that way often have a strong voice in group affairs (though they can in other kinds of societies, too), but I think it might be fair to say that matriliny gives a society a "gynecentric bias" -- this should _not_ be understood as meaning that women "run things." It's more like gender relations are pretty egalitarian, and the female principle is valued; women and men may have different spheres of power. Paula Gunn Allen comes from one of those societies. I think it would be wrong to conclude that NO North American societies had male dominance, though even in some patrilineal societies where it seems like a case could be made for male dominance, there seems to be an ideological valuing of femininity many times. But each specific society arranges the pieces a bit differently. It's always hard and mainly inaccurate to make sweeping generalizations about whole continents. In any case, a North American specialist could do it better than I, and I hope one will reply. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 09:33:22 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Resent-From: "BS#1000_Susan Basow" Comments: Originally-From: bs#1@lafibm.lafayette.edu From: BS#1000_Susan Basow Subject: AAUW address >>there have been so many requests for the aauw report how schools >>shortchange girls, is it possible to get it on a file? does aauw have an >>e-mail address and can you access it by a gopher? one of the papers i got >>from compuserve stated there once had been an e-mail access, but it >>didn't give an address or anything. > I sent the info privately, but since there's a second request, I'll send it to the list as well. The report, "Hostile Hallways: The AAUW Survey on Sexual Harassment in America's Schools," June 1993, is available from AAUW Educational Foundation, 1111 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036-4873 for $8.95 for members, $11.95 for non-members. *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* Susan A. Basow, Psychology Dept. Lafayette College, Easton, PA 18042-1781 610-250-5294 Bitnet: BS#1@lafayacs.bitnet Internet: BS#1@lafibm.lafayette.edu *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* Susan Basow, Psychology Dept. Lafayette College, Easton, PA 18042-1781 610-250-5294 BITNET: bs#1@lafayacs.bitnet INTERNET: bs#1@lafibm.lafayette.edu *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 09:01:36 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Chris Jazwinski Subject: Where is Michelle Paludi? Does anyone know the whereabouts of Michelle Paludi? Please respond privately. Chris Jazwinski Professor of Psychology St. Cloud State University St. Cloud, MN 56301 612-255-3271 JAZ@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 14:57:00 GMT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathy Ayers Subject: Re: Where do they learn? I have been tempted to join this discussion since joining the list a few weeks ago. I have some trepidation because I often feel an inadequte(and guilty) feminist and perhaps my thoughts could possible offer some illumination. Yes, I am young(27), white, American, heterosexual, middle class, and university educated. Consequently, my viewpoints are shaped by my position in society. I have always identified myself as a feminist though I have only in the last few years actively explored feminist thought, in particular as it contributes to my academic discipline. Maybe because I am a wimp, I often find feminists scare and intimidate me. Not all, but often in women's centres and women's programs, there often seems to be a core of women who have been far more dedicated and active far longer than I have. When I might disagree with them, I feel my judgement and intelligence is called into question. I realize and rejoice in feminism diversity. I think that is one of its great strengths. For better or for worse, many people(particulary when young) seem to want complete and absolute answers. I think young women can be scared away from feminism (1) because of how society at large portrays absolute feminism; but also (2) because how dogmatically some feminists come across. It takes a great deal of courage, audacity, and self-esteem to disagree with the world around oneself. I think(and this is only my opinion)feminism is about having this courage but it also takes courage to disagree with others who call themselves feminists and often seem to have better credent- ials. Yes, many feminists are good listeners. But we all have out (make that our) bad days when we don't listen and then there are lose who are more dogmatic. Its beacuse we are people. But self-confident people(even feminists) can terrify the young who are slowly trying to find their own feet and think their own thoughts. No, I don't have a solution but perhaps it explains why it takes some of us longer to catch up with others. M.Kathryn Ayers psg0004@uk.ac.qub.v2 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 08:48:51 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ann Brigham Subject: call for papers Please read and pass along the following Calls for Papers (there are 3 total) to be proposed for special sessions for MLA 1994 in San Diego. Thanks. ****CALL FOR PAPERS**** The following is a special session to be proposed for MLA 1994. Please post and forward to interested parties. Thanks. Weaning, Whining, and Getting Our Way: The Mother/Child Battlefield in Literature, Video and Film. Explorations and analyses of family warfare in literature, video and film, with particular emphasis on the figure of mother and her positioning and re-positioning within legal, familial, political, cultural, and historical systems of signification. Readings of feminist criticism and theory on motherhood/maternality welcomed. Papers might address child custody, lesbian motherhood, motherhood and profession, motherhood _as_ profession, motherhood and sexuality, child as victim or prize, representations of fatherhood, and related issues. Detailed abstracts or papers by 22 Mar.; Ann Brigham, Dept. of English, 445 Modern Languages, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721; e-mail:abrig@ccit.arizona.edu. ****CALL FOR PAPERS**** The following is a special session to be proposed for MLA 1994. Please post and forward to interested parties. Thanks. Reproductive Labor in 19th-Century Narratives. Analyses of the cultural work of narrative deployments of family roles and/or relations as embodiments of capitalistic discourses. Readings of tropes of production, reproduction, consumption, labor as notions that cross familial-economic lines; intersections between modes of familial and capitalistic reproduction; how these narratives produce, confront, critique ideas about intersections between race, class, heterosexuality. Detailed abstracts or papers by 22 Mar.; Ruthe Thompson, Dept. of English, 445 Modern Languages, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721; e-mail: ruthom@ccit.arizona.edu. ****CALL FOR PAPERS**** The following is a special session to be proposed for MLA 1994. Please post and forward to interested parties. Thanks. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Papers on any aspect of Stowe's work, including interdisciplinary and international contextualizations. Essays might examine Stowe's narrative constructions of family, community, gender, race, and class, with emphasis on the intersections among these categories and the historical and political implications thereof. Detailed abstracts or papers by 22 Mar.; Ruthe Thompson, Dept. of English, 445 Modern Languages, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721; e-mail: ruthom@ccit.arizona.edu. Ann Brigham University of Arizona abrig@ccit.arizona.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 10:50:53 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MARJORIE PRYSE Organization: SUNY at Plattsburgh, New York, USA Subject: MacKinnon on audio tape Date sent: 23-FEB-1994 10:45:40 A couple of people have posted inquiries about Catharine MacKinnon's writings. Others may also be interested in knowing about a really fabulous speech she gave recently at the National Press Club concerning her views on pornography, why she takes a 14th amendment approach rather than a 1st amendment approach to pornography, her indictment of the media for their total silence--and silencing--of news related to anti-pornography legal work, and the relationship between pornography and women in capitalist, "media-saturated" societies. I highly recommend it for anyone interested in MacKinnon's work. I will be playing the tape (about 1 hour) for my students in our feminist theory course. She makes related comments about sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and rape. She is a clear-thinking, logical, totally effective speaker. The tape is available from National Public Radio by calling 800-500-9911 and asking for the audio tape from the National Press Club Luncheon on November 22, 1993 (Catharine MacKinnon). The cost for the tape is $12.00 plus $2.50 postage and handling and they will take a credit card number over the phone. --Marjorie Pryse Marjorie Pryse Women's Studies Program SUNY-Plattsburgh Hawkins Hall Plattsburgh, NY 12901 Internet:PRYSEML@SPLAVA.CC.PLATTSBURGH.EDU / Bitnet:PRYSEML@SNYPLAVA ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 10:59:20 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DAPHNE PATAI Subject: Re: Where do they learn? In-Reply-To: <199402221400.JAA17538@umd5.umd.edu> from "Gina Oboler, Anthropology & Sociology, Ursinus College" at Feb 22, 94 08:40:55 am Responding to Gina's message about feminists turned off by "feminism," that's not nearly as rare as many of us would like to believe. Noretta Koertge and I have written a book on this subject, discussing the causes (and possible remedies) for this sort of alienation. We think it's a big disservice to feminism to pretend it's all just "backlash." The book, called Professing Feminism: Cautionary Tales from the Strange World of Women's Studies, should be out in about August, from Basic Books. -- ====================== Daphne.Patai@spanport.umass.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 08:13:32 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: SUE MANSFIELD Subject: LOOKING FOR ADDRESSES In connection with a reprinting of the 1987 anthology RE-MEMBERING: NWSA 1977-1987, NWSA is trying to track down the current institutional connection of all of the women who contributed reminiscences. We no longer have addresses, however, for the following women: Robin Wright Aldora Lee Judith A. Sturnick Paula Hooper Mayhew Phyllis Jordan Kathy Gong Rosario Morales Leila Ahmed If anyone knows their current location, will you please e-mail the data to me privately? Many thanks. Sue Mansfield SMANSFIELD@BENSON.CLAREMONT.EDU Incidentally, the collection is a wonderful record of the early days of women's studies in general - and NWSA in particular. We'll have copies on sale at the conference at Iowa State U. this June. Hope to see you all there. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 08:46:50 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Theresa Thompson <60840883@WSUVM1.BITNET> Subject: Re: Where do they learn? In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 23 Feb 1994 14:57:00 GMT from Kathy Ayers makes some very interesting observations about the ability or incli nation of many women to speak up and make a feminist stand in the face of dogma tic feminists. (I must admit, I don't think 27 is very young anymore, though!) Still, feminism has spent mucho time and effort demonstrating that women are co nstructed in such a way in most of the U. S. that speaking out and speaking up are difficult. Personally, I think change is possible among feminists. We need to change one person at a time. Too often we adopt the strategies of change an d reform dominant culture hands us--and forget that those strategies also cause d many of the things we want to eradicate! I for one promise to listen to youn g women more closely and really try to hear what they have to say. I will try not to dismiss their fears out-of-hand. I will try very hard not to laugh when they say things I now perceive as funny but once found very troubling. I will practice the social fairness that I preach....but I don't guarantee that I won' t try to instill the ability to argue and fight with other women into these you nger souls also. We need to discuss if we want to change for the better. We n eed to recognize the differences and we need to really ... well, enough. I wil l try to listen better. Theresa 8*) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 10:00:35 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Alison Leigh Brown Subject: academic feminism and spirituality I am writing on behalf of my student Naomi Pinion. She is interested in any material on academic feminism's relations and attitudes towards women's spirituality. Alas, I am not able to be of much help to her. If any of you are aware of such material could you please respond privately to me and I will pass the information to Naomi. Thank you very much. Alison Brown ****************************************************************************** *** Alison Leigh Brown alb@nauvax.ucc.nau.edu *** ****************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 12:29:20 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Michelle Reynolds Subject: autobiography just a quick note for subscribers who are interested in "net-work-ing" around issues of lesbian and feminist autobiography, life-writing, and other personalist discourses - you are invited to join our INFORMAL discussion - to share opinions, work, ideas and resources. send your address to reynolds@bosshog.arts.uwo.ca ***NOT TO WMST-L*** thanks, michelle. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 09:44:15 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judith Gonzalez Subject: Returned mail: User unknown (fwd)[D Forwarded message: >From MAILER-DAEMON@gaudi.CSUFresno.EDU Wed Feb 23 09:41:30 1994 Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 09:41:26 -0800 From: MAILER-DAEMON@gaudi.CSUFresno.EDU (Mail Delivery Subsystem) Message-Id: <199402231741.AA14269@gaudi.CSUFresno.EDU> To: judithg@zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU Cc: Postmaster@gaudi.CSUFresno.EDU Subject: Returned mail: User unknown ----- Transcript of session follows ----- While talking to mx2.cac.washington.edu: >>> RCPT To: <<< 550 ... User unknown 550 ... User unknown ----- Unsent message follows ----- Received: from zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU by gaudi.CSUFresno.EDU with SMTP (5.65c/CSUF 1.1 from IDA-1.2.8) id AA14267; Wed, 23 Feb 1994 09:41:26 -0800 Received: by zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU (4.1/CSUF 1.14 from Berkeley 1.34) id AA05762; Wed, 23 Feb 94 09:41:25 PST From: judith_gonzalez@csufresno.edu (Judith Gonzalez) Message-Id: <9402231741.AA05762@zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU> Subject: Fem-meth biblio1 To: katiej@washington.edu Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 09:41:25 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 757 Katie, to obtain the feminist methods bib, send this command: get fem_meth biblio1 to listserv@umdd.umd.edu. You will then receive a electronic version of the bib. To download it to your PC, you can save it to your mail folder, then switch to the directory where it is stored and use kermit or some other communications software to send it to your PC. Alternatively, you can just press Shift-Print Screen to print it directly to your printer. If this does not work, e-mail back to me judith_gonzalez@csufresno.edu and I'll "snail-mail" you my hardcopy. Good luck, Judy Gonzalez-Calvo Women's Studies Program, MS 78 CSU Fresno, Fresno, CA 93740-0078 (209) 278-5148 or Fax: (209) 278-7664 Home Fax: (209) 456-8979 Home phone (209) 251-1472 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 10:26:27 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Monica P. Kendel" Subject: find carolyn gammon hello women's studies i am trying to find carolyn gammon who i beleive is still at concordia, are you out there? does anyone know how to get in touch with her? please reply privately, thanks monica kendel university of victoria kendel@uvvm.uvic.ca ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 12:42:06 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: This message was sent using Mail Drop version 1.0b11. From: James_McKeown Subject: Where/learn? Male Perspective On feb 23 Theresa wrote, inter alia: >Still, most feminists, I think, tend to be very open-minded and willing to >listen simply because--as women-- they have encountered more closed minds and >deaf ears than their male fellow travelers--particularly their privileged male >fellows.... >Just some thoughts, Theresa >60840883@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu Most men that I know (that are anti-feminists) use this "open-mindedness" as an argument against feminists positions. They claim, "Women can't agree among themselves, why should we agree with them?" I firmly believe that ERA was defeated because men used the apparent division in the women's movement as an excuse to defeat the amendment. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 12:57:04 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: This message was sent using Mail Drop version 1.0b11. From: James_McKeown Subject: LOOKING FOR Dr. Nancy Rife Does anyone know the whereabouts of Dr. Nancy Rife? She taught EngLit at LaSalle College in Philadelphia back in the late 60's. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 12:59:15 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: This message was sent using Mail Drop version 1.0b11. From: James_McKeown Subject: LOOKING FOR Dr. Nancy Rife Does anyone know the whereabouts of Dr. Nancy Rife? She taught EngLit at LaSalle College in Philadelphia back in the late 60's. Sorry, forgot to post my address: James_McKeown@baylor.edu or snail mail: P.O. Box 84440 Waco, TX 76798 (817) 754-0178 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 10:59:05 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Monica P. Kendel" Subject: papers: cross dressing, sex and gender Call for Papers International Congress on Cross Dressing, Sex and Gender This is the first call for papers to an International Congress on Cross Dressing, Sex and Gender being organized by the Center for Sex Research at California State University, Northridge, Ca. 91330. The Congress will be held in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles on February 23-26, 1995 and is being sponsored by a number of different organizations in the scholarly and cross dressing community. Papers are invited on transvestism, trans- sexualism and all aspects of non conforming gender expression. We are solici- ting and anticipate wideranging viewpoints summarizing and criticizing current research in biological, psychological, sociological, cultural, and historical aspects of gender crossing. Organized sessions are particualrly encouraged which will allow widespread discussion of where we have been, and where we are going, and what we need to do to come to terms with a variety of gender behaviours. Interested participants should submit four copies of the abstract of the proposed paper or session. Abstract should be no longer than 500 words. Personal identification of submiter should be on a separate sheet attached to the first copy. Deadline for abstracts is October 1, 1994. Send abstracts or request for information to: Internation Congress on Cross Dressing, Sex and Gender Center for Sex Research California State University - Northridge Northridge, CA. 91330 For additional information: Fax (818)885-5561 Other numbers will be available when California State University is able to reopen after the earthquake. Feminist Opinions of Transsexuals: For those interested in contributing to a session on "Feminist Opinions of Transsexuals" please contact directly: Dr. Holly Devor University of Victoria Victoria British Columbia, Canada HHDD@UVVM.UVIC.CA ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 15:00:53 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jennifer Alabiso Subject: Re: Where do they learn? In-Reply-To: <199402231925.OAA23910@umd5.umd.edu> from "Theresa Thompson" at Feb 23, 94 08:46:50 am Thank you Teresa, You've said what needs to be heard!!!!! ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 12:38:41 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Marilyn P. Safir" Subject: WS at Beijing NGO Forum Florence Howe and Mariam Chamberlain sent me a 3 page fax which I will summarize as my typing skills are very limited. They request all individuals or institutions that are interested in participating, to fax or to write as soon as possible, telling them what you would like to contribute. They are interested in knowing whether you have the financial resources to get to Beijing. They may have funds "particularly geared to support through offering "matching" grants to those who would be presenting national reports on WS in a particular country". The funds would only be available upon receipt of a publishable papaer. They are planning a vol. of national reports on WS. At Beijing they would want participants to present 10-15 minute versions of 20pp paper and to join others in roundtable discussions of major problems and achievments in WS at all levels of education. A description follows of the sessions at Copenhagen that was put together by F.P. and Simone de Beauvoir Center in Canada and Women's U in India that included both a resource center and a room for panels, workshops, etc. They continued for the 10 full working days of the conference. 500 attended, formed a mailing list, and F.P. was charged with coordinating the network which was formed: W.S. International. Florence and Mariam had made a similar request at Nairobi but weren't granted appropriate space. They describe the resulting difficulties. They suggest that the unique aspect of the conference and the Volume produced ("W.S. International: Nairobi and Beyond" - Ed. by Aruna Rao) was the effort to make connections between academics in WS and practitioners in women and development. They have kept in touch with many of the Centers, supplied resource materials to new Centers and have been meeting directors and practitioners in US and abroad. With the support of the Ford Foundation, they held a series of 4 morning conferences Within the 5th International Interdisciplenry Congress on Women at the University of Costa Rica in June 1993. 26 national reports were presented. These reports will be available at Beijing in a special edition of WS Quaterly that they are preparing for free distribution in Beijing with the help of the Ford Foundation. They then describe the proposal submitted to Irene Santiago, Executive Director of the Beijing Forum. The address and Fax which I will be presenting are Florence Howe's at the Feminist Press. Florence has asked that I tell you that she is currently with out an an assistant so to be patient in terms of her replies to you. She will also be out of town from 3/26 for about 2 weeks. So please write or fax your interests in participation to: The Feminist Press at C.U.N.Y., 311 East 94th Street New York, New York 10128 Fax #: 212-348-1241 Hope to see you all there. Perhaps we should try and organize a meeting on WS in the Electronic age? What do you Say - Joan Koreman or Paula Garber? Marilyn Safir (safirm@u.washington.edu) --- ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 16:11:04 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Judith F. Clark" wiscon biblio8 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 15:49:43 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Barbara J. Peters" Subject: Working-class list Date sent: 23-FEB-1994 15:47:44 Hi, After our discussion about class and the responses from some of the working-class academics around the list, some of us are exploring the idea of starting a SMALL discussion list to offer support to one another. If you are interested in such a list, please send your e-mail address to me PRIVATELY PLEASE.... I don't know if we will get such a list up and running, but let's see if there is interest... Thanks, Peace, Barbara 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: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 14:02:53 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rose Mary Volbrecht Subject: consciousness-raising exercises for classroom use During women's studies month this year our students want to present a demonstration of consciousness-raising as an educational tool in women's studies classes. This will be given on an evening, using a ninety minute format. The audience will be composed of mostly traditional-age undergraduate students. The facilitators are seniors who are taking the women's studies minor. Can anyone send some examples? Rose Mary Volbrecht Gonzaga University Spokane Washington Volbrecht@gonzaga.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 17:06:46 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Michelle Reynolds Subject: starting a list Could someone send me the address where I can request a guide to starting/managing a listserv? the response to my invitation for a discussion on feminist & lesbian autobiography was overwhelming! post private to: reynolds@bosshog.arts.uwo.ca -thanks, michelle. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 13:14:42 LCL Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruth Ginzberg Organization: Philosophy Dept., Wesleyan University Subject: Re: Where do they learn? >Noretta Koertge and I have written a book on this subject, discussing >the causes (and possible remedies) for this sort of alienation. We >think it's a big disservice to feminism to pretend it's all just >"backlash." >====================== >Daphne.Patai@spanport.umass.edu Prof. Patai also is the author of the POINT OF VIEW article on the back page of this week's CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, in which she discusses this topic. ----------- Ruth Ginzberg (rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu) ------------ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 17:09:53 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosa Maria Pegueros Subject: Bad historical novels A colleague of mine came up with this idea and I think it could easily be adap- ted for women's studies classes. She teaches Ancient History (Greek and Roman) and she is having her students chose a bad historical novel from a list she has compiled. They are to read the novel and then write a paper on how the novel misunderstands and deviates from real history. I think it could be a very entertaining assignment. Rosa Maria Pegueros PEGUEROS@URIACC.URI.EDU Department of History University of Rhode Island ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 16:35:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BARTLETT ANNE Subject: FYI. Sorry for length :) From: ORION::WINS%"" 23-FEB-1994 11:58:05.77 To: ENGACB CC: Subj: Clipper (fwd) Return-Path: <@CMSA.BERKELEY.EDU:owner-medfem-l@UWAVM.U.WASHINGTON.EDU> Received: from cmsa.Berkeley.EDU by orion with SMTP ; Wed, 23 Feb 94 11:57:52 CST Received: from CMSA.BERKELEY.EDU by cmsa.Berkeley.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 6223; Wed, 23 Feb 94 09:55:40 PST Received: from CMSA.BERKELEY.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@UCBCMSA) by CMSA.BERKELEY.EDU (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 4886; Wed, 23 Feb 1994 09:53:50 -0800 Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 09:46:01 -0700 Reply-To: An open discussion forum for medievalist feminists Sender: An open discussion forum for medievalist feminists From: Kittell Ellen Subject: Clipper (fwd) X-To: MEDIEV-L%UKANUM.bitnet@vm42.cso.uiuc.edu X-cc: MEDFEM-L%UWAVM.bitnet@cmsa.Berkeley.edu To: Multiple recipients of list MEDFEM-L This is being posted on more than one list, so please pardon the repetition. EK >Date: 16 Feb 1994 09:02:51 -0500 (EST) >From: Stagecraft@jaguar.cs.utah.edu (Stagecraft mailing list) >To: stagecraft-outgoing@jaguar.cs.utah.edu (Stagecraft) >Subject: Check this out - It's important. >Organization: Indiana University of Pennsylvania >Subj: Read and Forward...... > > >For those of you who already have this, I apologize, but I think it's >pretty important. Please read! > >>Sorry to waste bandwidth here, but everyone should here about >>this. No replies or followups to this message. Just read it >>and do what you feel is best. >> >> >>Hello, >> >>This message is about Clipper, a proposal which would allow the government >>to peek at our ***PRIVATE*** email. Please read it, and if you are as >>opposed to Clipper as I am, please sign the electronic petition and help >>stop this thing. >> >>please forward this to everyone you know... this is important! >> >>For those of you who don't know, Clipper is a proposal circulating in the >>government right now whereby the government will require that all methods of >>encrypting data (including e-mail) have a 'backdoor' of sorts so that the >>government will be able to decrypt and read the data. As you may have >>guessed, this is an infringement on your right to privacy. >> >>Below are details on a petition against Clipper, and how to sign your name >>to it. Please read. >> >>>----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>- >>> >>> >>> Electronic Petition to Oppose Clipper >>> Please Distribute Widely >>> >>>On January 24, many of the nation's leading experts in cryptography >>>and computer security wrote President Clinton and asked him to >>>withdraw the Clipper proposal. >>> >>>The public response to the letter has been extremely favorable, >>>including coverage in the New York Times and numerous computer and >>>security trade magazines. >>> >>>Many people have expressed interest in adding their names to the >>>letter. In response to these requests, CPSR is organizing an >>>Internet petition drive to oppose the Clipper proposal. We will >>>deliver the signed petition to the White House, complete with the >>>names of all the people who oppose Clipper. >>> >>>To sign on to the letter, send a message to: >>> >>> Clipper.petition@cpsr.org >>> >>>with the message "I oppose Clipper" (no quotes) >>> >>>You will receive a return message confirming your vote. >>> >>>Please distribute this announcement so that others may also express >>>their opposition to the Clipper proposal. >>> >>>CPSR is a membership-based public interest organization. For >>>membership information, please email cpsr@cpsr.org. For more >>>information about Clipper, please consult the CPSR Internet Library - >>>FTP/WAIS/Gopher CPSR.ORG /cpsr/privacy/crypto/clipper >>> >>> >>> >>>===================================================================== >>> >>>The President >>>The White House >>>Washington, DC 20500 >>> >>>Dear Mr. President: >>> >>> We are writing to you regarding the "Clipper" escrowed encryption >>>proposal now under consideration by the White House. We wish to >>>express our concern about this plan and similar technical standards >>>that may be proposed for the nation's communications infrastructure. >>> >>> The current proposal was developed in secret by federal agencies >>>primarily concerned about electronic surveillance, not privacy >>>protection. Critical aspects of the plan remain classified and thus >>>beyond public review. >>> >>> The private sector and the public have expressed nearly unanimous >>>opposition to Clipper. In the formal request for comments conducted >>>by the Department of Commerce last year, less than a handful of >>>respondents supported the plan. Several hundred opposed it. >>> >>> If the plan goes forward, commercial firms that hope to develop >>>new products will face extensive government obstacles. Cryptographers >>>who wish to develop new privacy enhancing technologies will be >>>discouraged. Citizens who anticipate that the progress of technology >>>will enhance personal privacy will find their expectations >>>unfulfilled. >>> >>> Some have proposed that Clipper be adopted on a voluntary basis >>>and suggest that other technical approaches will remain viable. The >>>government, however, exerts enormous influence in the marketplace, and >>>the likelihood that competing standards would survive is small. Few >>>in the user community believe that the proposal would be truly >>>voluntary. >>> >>> The Clipper proposal should not be adopted. We believe that if >>>this proposal and the associated standards go forward, even on a >>>voluntary basis, privacy protection will be diminished, innovation >>>will be slowed, government accountability will be lessened, and the >>>openness necessary to ensure the successful development of the >>>nation's communications infrastructure will be threatened. >>> >>> We respectfully ask the White House to withdraw the Clipper >>>proposal. >>[end forwarded message] > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 18:45:45 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Karen Raley Subject: Re: Native American Women & Feminism I would like to request that the discussion of Native American Women and feminism be addressed tp recipients of the list rather than only privately. This could become very interesting. Karen raleyk@hamlet.uncg.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 20:02:19 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: rebecca hill Subject: Re: New Course On Mon, 14 Feb 1994 16:38:16 -0600, Karin Herrmann wrote: >I was asked to teach a new course in the English department called "Women >in Literature" on the 3000 level. I'd like to make it as multi-cultural >as possible while also giving the students the "canon." Since I usually >teach in the German department I'd like to ask your help in putting >together a syllabus. (We are on a sememster schedule). Any insights you >could give me into making this a really interesting course would be >greatly appreciated. Please respond to me in private. Many thanks in advance. >Karin Herrmann >Kherrman@comp.uark.edu I tried to send this personally, but it didn't work....I'd suggest pairing texts in interesting ways to deal with different kinds of issues. Teaching _The Awakening_ next to _Maggie, Girl of the Steets_ for instance might provide grounds for interesting discussions of sexualized visions of class. Juxtaposition of canonical texts with texts by traditionally marginalized perspectives also can provide intersting critiques of the "canon" itself - sort of in the "teach the conflicts mode." ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 15:38:59 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Veronica Strong-Boag Subject: Proposed Course "Historical Perspectives on Feminist Theories" In-Reply-To: <199402232005.PAA00726@umd5.umd.edu> The WS Programme a t the University of B.C., VAncouver, Canada, is considering introducing a new course with this name which covers material, from the European and non-European traditions, up to about 1970. Has anyone taught such a course? We'd appreciate having course outlines. Thanks very much. Veronica STrong-Boag, Centre for Research in WS and GEnder Relations, U.B.C., 1896 EAst mall, VAncouver, B.C., CAnada V6T 1Z1 or stbg@unixg.ubc.ca ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 21:32:00 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Aletheia Turner Subject: Re: academic feminism and spirituality In-Reply-To: <199402231930.OAA24888@umd5.umd.edu> Have you seen the women's spirituality listserv? I can get more information on it if you need it. -Ali Turner turner@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 19:56:04 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ELLEN CRONAN ROSE Subject: ACLU Information (fwd) A colleague not on the list asked me to post the following message. Ellen Rose ecrose@nevada.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 17:01:42 -0800 (PST) From: MARALEE MAYBERRY To: ellen rose Subject: ACLU Information (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 13:32:04 -0800 (PST) From: MARALEE MAYBERRY To: queer-studies@ferkel.ucsb.edu Cc: ecrose@nevada.edu Subject: ACLU Information The anti-gay initiative sponsored by the same folks who brought you the Oregon Citizens Alliance has now set up office in Nevada (as well as a number of other states). The Southern Nevada Chapter of the ACLU wants to do what is possible to stop the initiative. We need information from those of you who have been involved with ACLU chapters that have, in the past, worked to stop the initiative or are currently involved in such ACLU activities. How have other ACLU affiliates organized around this issue and what activities have proved successful? Please send any information or suggestions you have to: Mayberry@nevada.edu or write me at: Maralee Mayberry Department of Sociology University of Nevada Las Vegas, NV 89154 THANKS FOR ALL OF YOUR HELP!! ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 19:57:57 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marilyn Edelstein Subject: Native American Women and Feminism Several Wmst-l'ers have written to me to request that any replies to my earlier query about Native American women's/feminists' responses to Paula Gunn Allen's work (and specifically her argument about many tribal cultures being "gynecentric") and to feminism more generally be posted to the list rather than sent to me privately. So if anyone still plans to respond, please do post to the list. And thanks very much to the several people who've already responded. Marilyn Edelstein medelstein@scuacc.scu.ed ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 23:01:24 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Maureen Engel Subject: Call for Papers Call for papers for the 1994 MLA convention. This will be a roundtable discussion of professors and students entitled "The Epistemology of the Queer Classroom". The panel will consist of several 5-10 minute papers followed by discussion and questions. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: Is there such a thing as the queer classroom? If not, how can we create one? Can there be queer learning? queer teaching? How do we negotiate and establish healthy boundaries between professors and students in a queer context? What obligations do queer students have to queer professors, and vice-versa (i.e. outing etc.)? What expectations do queer students put on their queer professors? How can queer professors better serve their queer students? Please send abstracts or papers by March 15 to: Jana Vinsky c/o Department of Social Work Ryerson Polytechnic University 350 Victoria St. Toronto Ont. M5B 2K3 or via e-mail to mengel@epas.utoronto.ca Maureen Engel ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 23:02:08 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beatrice Kachuck Subject: Re: gender and literacy In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 22 Feb 1994 21:11:49 -0500 from before your student begins a study of gender differences in literacy, i would urge her to think thru what she means by literacy. which definition and what are the implications of the definition. she might well read an article by sylvia scribner: Literacy in three metaphors. it's in Literacy in american schools, edited by nancy l. stein, 1986, u. of chicago press; also in the american journal of education, 1984, vol. 93, no. 1. unfortunately, sylvia doesn't deal with gender, even ignores it when it faces her in one situation. but a very important issue she raises is that the usual definitions make it seem that literacy is a private property; instead, she argues, it's a social process; and she suggests ways of thinking about literacy. beatrice beabc@cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 23:54:54 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Margaret Susan Thompson Subject: Feminism and sprituality/New Faith-Learning discussion list I have no idea what the new list below will turn out to be, but the person interested in the relationship between academic feminism and spirituality might find it a place to "lurk." Anyway, the announcement just came through on a couple of lists to which I subscribe. Someone else, I believe, referred to the feminist spirituality list, which I assume is FEMREL-L. While this is interesting, I frankly found it very "chatty" and not academic--though I haven't been on it for awhile. Peggy ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 18:30:01 -0600 (CST) >From: William Kooi Reply-to: Theologos@alpha.augustana.edu Subject: Faith-Learning discussion list To: theologos@alpha.augustana.edu FAITH-LEARNING FEBRUARY 1994 Announcing a new online discussion group, FAITH-LEARNING. The purpose of the Faith-Learning mailing list is to encourage creative thinking and leadership among Christian educators seeking to integrate religious faith and effective teaching, learning, and scholarship. More specificially, it will serve as a forum for discussion, a vehicle for sharing ideas and work in progress, and a source of information regarding publications and conferences. ******************** DESCRIPTION: Faith-Learning is an ecumenical, intercollegiate "forum" for the discussion of issues related to Christian higher education and the interrelationship between faith and learning. Comments, essays, reports regarding projects in progress, announcements of conferences, and notices of publications related to the relationship between faith and learning in higher education are welcome. ******************** TO SUBSCRIBE: Send the command "subscribe faith-learning" (without quotation marks) to: mailserv@baylor.edu Note that the commands must be in the body of the text. You may obtain a "help" file by sending the command "help" to the same address. Postings to the list (which will be sent to all subscribers) should be sent to: faith-learning@baylor.edu The editor of the list is Alan Culpepper (e-mail: Alan_Culpepper@baylor.edu). You may direct other questions concerning the list to Dr. Culpepper or to the associate editor, William Kooi (e-mail: kooiw@baylor.edu). 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: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 06:33:24 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Kathy Ryder (ENG)" Subject: Re: List of Feminist-Friendly Journals In-Reply-To: <199402240515.AAA27823@umd5.umd.edu> Thanks to everyone who suggested titles of feminist and feminist-friendly journals that publish articles on literature, theory, and film. Many but not all of the following journals are listed in *Feminist Periodicals: A Current Listing of Contents*, published quarterly by the Office of the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian. For more info, contact Phyllis Holman Weisbard, Acting Women's Studies Librarian--pweis@wiscmacc (Bitnet); pweis@macc.wisc.edu (Internet). Literary and/or Cultural Studies: Critical Inquiry, Critical Matrix, Diacritics, Differences: A Journal of Cultural Studies, Discourse: Berkeley Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media & Culture, Feminist Review, Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies, Gender & Society, Genders, Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art & Politics, Legacy, m/f, New Literary History, Representations, Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Trivia: A Journal of Ideas, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal Film: Camera Obscura, Cineast, Jump Cut, October, Screen, Wide Angle Art and Philosophy: Art History, Women's Art Journal, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Environment and Pedagogy: Environmental Ethics, NWSA Journal, The Feminist Teacher, Trumpeter Others: Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work, Journal of Consumer Research *Elaine Ginsberg is writing a book chapter on anti-feminism in the academy. If anyone has had experiences with journals they perceive to be anti-feminist or from which feminist essays have been rejected, Elaine wants to hear from you. Please contact her privately--. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 07:45:38 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Benay Blend Subject: feminism and spirituality For interchange between different categories of feminists (socialist, cultural,etc) and feminist spirituality, you might try looking at several of the new anthologies on ecofeminism that have come out in the past year. Also, Carolyn Merchant's Radical Ecology and Vera Norwood's Woman and Nature give historical context for these issues. Benay Blend Blend@nsula.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 08:37:33 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Roberta C. Martin" Subject: Re: Bad historical novels In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 23 Feb 1994 17:09:53 EST from re:bad historical novels--alternatively, why not have students read a good his narrative/creative process verses the demands of historical investigation? Also might be a good opportunity to talk about the narrative and fictive element of "histories" and how we decide what to do with histori<2 Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jennifer Alabiso Subject: Inquiry In-Reply-To: <199402240426.XAA22065@umd5.umd.edu> from "Beatrice Kachuck" at Feb 23, 94 11:02:08 pm I am currently taking a class about literature for children and adolescents. Last night our class discussion focused on feminist theory about folk and fairy tales. The discourse was very well balanced, and the class seemed to have a good background, and were open enough to hear several different "feminist" ideologies. However, the professor, when referencing the works about feminist theory in this field, referenced only men. Men who wrote feminist theory, and men who critiqued it. THis may have bothered me, though I'm still processing my feelings about it. I wanted to pose two questions to the group. The first is, if I approach her about the need to include women's writing on this topic, I want to go with a list of references in hand, does anyone have any suggestions (I will also do a library lit search, but first hand information is often better.)? Also, how would/do any of you handle situations like this if/when they arise? I found myself being afraid of making mountains out of molehills, mostly because her references were also good, solid articles. Respond privately, unless you think the group would be interested in some dialogue about this. Thanks Jen Alabiso jalabiso@ccat.sas.upenn.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 09:19:51 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Resent-From: "Ginsberg, Elaine K" Comments: Originally-From: Electa Arenal From: "Ginsberg, Elaine K" Comments-on: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 09:18:41 EST Comments-of: "Ginsberg, Elaine K" I am sending this for someone not on the Wmst-l. ***----------------------> Original Mail From <----------------------*** Electa Arenal ***------------------------------------------------------------------*** SABBATICAL SW0P OFFER! BEAUTIFUL HOUSE IN AMSTERDAM, MUSEUM AREA, ARCHITECTURE OF THE AMSTERDAM SCHOOL (1920'S), SPECIAL TREAT FOR ART LOVERS: TWO SPACIOUS LIVING ROOMS, TWO STUDIES, TWO-PLUS BATHS, TWO BEDROOMS, NICE SUNNY FLOWERY YARD; FOR NON-SMOKERS, TO BE SWOPPED AGAINST A BRIGHT TWO-PLUS BEDROOM APARTMENT IN MANHATTAN, LATE AUGUST-END OF DECEMBER 1994. 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Let me know if you need more info. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 10:21:09 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Patrice McDermott Subject: Re: Native American Women & Feminism In-Reply-To: <199402240242.VAA02673@umd5.umd.edu> I recall that this same discussion took place sometime last year. Is there a way to send people to an archive of messages (I'm sure there is one, I just don't have the information sheets in front of me). It is an important topic, but I don't think we all need to revisit it every six months. Sorry to be a curmudgeon. Patrice McDermott patricem@cap.gwu.edu On Wed, 23 Feb 1994, Karen Raley wrote: > I would like to request that the discussion of Native American Women and > feminism be addressed tp recipients of the list rather than only > privately. This could become very interesting. > Karen > raleyk@hamlet.uncg.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 07:33:52 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MONTGOME@SONOMA.EDU Subject: Re: Bad historical novels While I love a good groaner myself, I also think having students read good historical novels, too, is useful. It brings up questions about point-of- view, the author's social,cultural, ethical issues of her time period, v. those of her characters, reality and (that bugbear of a word) truth. Some off the top of my head suggestions include: _Dessa Rose_, by Sherley Anne Williams (slavery, a like/hate relationship between an escaped slave and a white woman) _Jubilee_ by Margaret Walker A large novel also covering the slavery period. _A Lantern in Her Hand_, by Bess Streeter Aldrich. Sentimental, but Aldrich grew up on the newly opened Nebraska prairie. _Waterlily_, by Ella Cara Deloria. A linguist, Deloria dramatizes life for the Dakota Sioux before and during the incursion by whites. Those are a few quick suggestions, all by women, all American, all which offer some "real" (there's that pesky word again) history. Does anyone else have ideas for this list? Kris montgome@sonoma.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 10:18:29 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dorothy Dean Subject: Re: AAUW address In-Reply-To: <199402231708.MAA03387@umd5.umd.edu> IN the original post the question was about schools "shortchanging" girls which leads me to believe that it refers not to the harrassment report but to the one called "Shortchanging Girls, Shortchanging America" on how badly schools do education girls in math and science. In addition to the report there is a 15 minute video available from the AAUW. Same address as is included in the message below . . . On Wed, 23 Feb 1994, BS#1000_Susan Basow wrote: > >>there have been so many requests for the aauw report how schools > >>shortchange girls, is it possible to get it on a file? does aauw have an > >>e-mail address and can you access it by a gopher? one of the papers i got > > The report, "Hostile Hallways: The AAUW Survey on Sexual Harassment in > America's Schools," June 1993, is available from AAUW Educational > Foundation, 1111 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036-4873 for $8.95 for > members, $11.95 for non-members. > > *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* > Susan A. Basow, Psychology Dept. > Lafayette College, Easton, PA 18042-1781 > 610-250-5294 > Bitnet: BS#1@lafayacs.bitnet > Internet: BS#1@lafibm.lafayette.edu > *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 12:10:25 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "NAOMI B. MCCORMICK" Organization: SUNY at Plattsburgh, New York, USA Subject: personality text reviewers needed Dear Feminist Colleagues: In response to some email I sent requesting help in locating a feminist/ inclusive, undergraduate personality textbook, David Winter replied and asked if I would like to help review his text (which he is currently completing). Unfortunately, I am involved in too many projects at the moment and am unable to be a reviewer at this time. David has given me permission to forward his request for feminist reviewers to Women's Studies and FEminist Psychology Email List subscribers. I am happy to do this. I have looked around and haven't seen any undergraduate textbooks on personality theory that have a feminist or inclusive perspective. His book will be very important to us. So, here is David's message and a way for potential reviewers to contact him. Thanks so much for your assistance. Naomi McCormick >From: IN%"USERGDYZ@UMICHUM.BITNET" "David G. Winter" 21-FEB-1994 18:12:04.84 >To: IN%"Mccormnb@SNYPLAVA.BITNET" >CC: >Subj: Personality textbooks > > > My wife, Abby Stewart, who is Director of the Women's >Studies Program and a professor of psychology at Michigan, >passed along your e-mail message of February 2, asking about >personality textbooks sensitive to women's issues. > I don't know of any as of now; however, I am completing >a personality text for McGraw-Hill. I have tried to be >eclectic, and to be sensitive to issues of gender and culture. >At present I am trying to turn in a revised m/s by June 1, >and with a one-year production process, it wouldn't be available >until Fall 1995. On the other hand, I would welcome input at >this stage from someone with your concerns. Would you be >interested in reviewing the manuscript? Brian McKeen is the >"sponsoring editor" with whom I'm working; you could contact >him if you are interested, saying that I suggested it. His >number is (617) 262-3396. > In any case, I welcome your "quest" and hope that my book >will be what you want. >--David Winter > Prof. of Psychology, Univ. of Michigan > bitnet: usergdyz@umichum > internet: David.G.Winter@um.cc.umich.edu ****************************************************************** Naomi B. McCormick Dept. Psychology State University of New York College at Plattsburgh Plattsburgh, NY 12901 USA @@@@@@@@ @@ @@ Telephone (518) 564-3076; 564-3382 @@@ (A A) @@@ FAX (518) 564-7827 @@@ L @@@ % \ {} / % E-mail MCCORMNB@SNYPLAVA.BITNET ---- MCCORMNB@SPLAVA.CC.PLATTSBURGH.EDU | | /******\ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 12:28:37 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: "Linda Lopez McAlister " Subject: Midwest SWIP Women of Color Caucus *** Resending note of 02/24/94 12:26 To: SWIP-L --CFRVM From: Linda Lopez McAlister Just received a flyer on the Women of Color Caucus of Midwest SWIP and an accompanying memo from Marilyn Frye and the Michigan State Univ. SWIPPERS asking that the flyer be copied, posted copiously and shared with all women of color who have interests in theorizing/philosophizing (very broadly construed) with other Women of Color. The memo indicates that you do not have to be a member of SWIP to participate in the Caucus and that interested participants can apply for travel grants. The text of the flyer is as follows: Women of Color Thinking Together, About, For and With Women of Color The Women of Color of THE MIDWEST SOCIETY FOR WOMEN IN PHILOSOPHYinvite you to participate in the 1994 Spring session of the Women of Color Caucus: April 910:30 a.m. at the University of Minnesota, Minnepaolis. The Society will meet from April 8-10. If you would like to do a presentation for the Women of Color Caucus or would like further information, please contact: Maria Lugones, LACAS, SUNY Binghamton, P.O. Box 6000, Binghamton, N.Y. 13902-6000 Phone: (607) 777-4864 or 4868. If you would like to do a presentation for the general program contact either Maria Lugones or Sarah Hoagland, 4123 North Paulina, Chicago, IL 60613. History of the Caucus: Several years ago the women of color at the Midwest SWIP created a space to theorize together as we kept our attention on each other. We keep each other in mind as we discuss, think, write. We began with a very wide conception of "theory." This wide conception enabled us to notice that we were reconceiving the process of theorizing, that we theorized differently (for example, many of us pay a lot of attention to particularity, detail, without any need to generalize; or for some of us generalizing is different from abstracting.) We talked about our histories, about identity, about relations among women of color, about colonization. Our very wide conception of our task is accompanied by a very wide conception of who counts as a philosopher. From the beginning we decided to include all women of color who want to think and discuss with other women of color whether they are professional philosophers, academicians, community members, poets, activists, etc. We use the vocabulary and mode of expression that suits us best: conversation, peotry, story telling, letterwriting, dense or light prose, video, etc. Travel grants: Midwest SWIP meets twice a year and subsidizes travel to meetings (up to $50.00) for members who are students, unemployed, or underemployed. Dues are modest and on a sliding scale. You do not need to be a SWIP member to participate in the Women of Color Caucus or to request a travel grant. Requests for travel grants should be directed to: Amber Katherine, P.O. Box 6016 East Lansing, MI 28826. We Request and Welcome Your Presence, Your Voice, Your Ways at Our Spring Meeting! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Linda Lopez McAlister HYPATIA _USF, TAMPA, FL 33620 F - L - O - R - I - D - A !!! Drinking orange juice makes you gay! ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 12:59:24 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Heather Munro Prescott, Department of History" Subject: origins of women's history month Could anyone tell me when, where, and for what reason women's history month originated? I need it for a local newsletter. Please respond privately. I will post the result publically if there is interest. Heather Munro Prescott Central Connecticut State University prescott@ccsua.ctstateu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 13:52:46 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Debian Marty Subject: better historical novels in response to kris' request, two "better" historical novels i teach in a women's literature undergrad course are toni morrison's beloved (1987) and linda hogan's mean spirit (1990). the latter novel is based on what the dominant media of the 1920s termed "the osage reign of terror." the osage are a native american nation forcibly relocated to indian territory/oklahoma. when oil is located on their reservation, not-so-mysterious murders of wealthy osage people ensue. hogan fictionalizes this historical event in this, her first, novel. debian marty dmarty@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 14:24:08 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Alana J. Erickson" Subject: christian beliefs in reference to beatrice kachuk's query, the christian belief requirement for public school teachers may have been an effect of the origin of public schools. from what i've read, secular public schools grew out of christian sunday schools. the sunday school movement began in the late 18th c. in england and spread to the u.s. not long after the revolution. in these regularly scheduled classes, children (usually poor) were given christian doctrine instruction, but they were also taught how to read (so they could read the bible), how to count (for some xian purpose as well, i can't remember what), etc. there was a big debate about how appropriate secular lessons were, but they were kept and eventually set a precedent for public schools. Alana J. Erickson aje4@columbia.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 14:35:53 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Karin Wulf Subject: Re: Bad historical novels In-Reply-To: <199402241840.NAA01529@umd5.umd.edu>; from "MONTGOME@SONOMA.EDU" at Feb 24, 94 7:33 am I've found that students often feel they are getting closer to the historical action through novels. I've just finished M Conde's Tituba, Black Witch of Salem, which is just terrific. She has Tituba travel back to her native West Indies and become part of maroon culture. Tituba's perspective allows students to engage a number of issues, among them of course the construction of race and gender. Karin Wulf Department of History Old Dominion University ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 14:49:24 -0500 Reply-To: Lila Hanft Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lila Hanft Subject: TECHEVAL listserv ================= Begin forwarded message ================= From: JSOSNOSKI@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (unknown) To: lxh16@po.CWRU.Edu Subject: TECHEVAL listserv Date: Tue, 22 Feb Colleagues: This message is to announce a new listserv entitled TECHEVAL which is an open forum for discussing the evaluation of computer related work in the humanities. Its address is: TECHEVAL@MIAMIU.MUOHIO.EDU You may subscribe in the usual way. Send a message to LISTSERV@MIAMIU.MUOHIO.EDU You can leave the subject line blank. The message should read as follows: subscribe TECHEVAL your@email.address firsname lastname If you have any questions, send an e-msg to me JSOSNOSKI@MIAMIU.MUOHIO.EDU One of the purposes for instituting this list is to collect information and points of view on the evaluation of computer related work in language and literary study for the Modern Language Association's Emerging Technologies Committee. jjs (Jim Sosnoski) -- Lila Hanft Internet: lxh16@po.cwru.edu Assistant Professor of English Phone: (216)-368-2372 Case Western Reserve University Fax: (216)-368-2216 Cleveland, OH 44106-7117 Bitnet: lxh16%po.cwru.edu@cunyvm ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 14:07:28 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kris Anderson Helen--Great news about the interview! I really hope it works out for you; you deserve to be in a place where you and Bill are both happy and appreciated. Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help. The conference program does look very good I think, and your paper looks interesting. As someone who had a very close relationship with all my grandparents (my last one just died a couple of weeks ago at the age of 96), I have given a lot of thought esp just recently to the institution of grandparenting and how it came to be, so I look forward to your paper. Of course, I'm not sure how many of these papers that I feel like I know so intimately now I will actually be able to hear. Anyway, I'm glad you're coming to Iowa and that you're going to WVa too. We are probably going to do a national search here for a WS director next year. The middle of Iowa may not be quite what you had in mind, but it's supposed to be a great place to raise a kid. Housing is affordable; Iowa's supposed to have the best public ed system in the country--with Ames and Iowa City (the two college towns) at the top; it's safe and easy to get around. I'm glad to be back to a large-ish public institution, which seems more democratic and more akin to my roots than Russell Sage was. Anyway, if you're still looking next year, maybe you'd want to think about it. They've got a very good spousal accomodation policy and work hard to find jobs for both members of academic couples. It's a lot colder here than in Florida, but you don't have to worry about roaches or New Yorkers (categories which sometimes blur). Let me know what develops in WVa. Kris ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 16:14:34 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: finding old discussions Earlier today, Patrice McDermott (patricem@cap.gwu.edu) wrote: > I recall that this same discussion took place sometime last year. Is > there a way to send people to an archive of messages (I'm sure there is > one, I just don't have the information sheets in front of me). It is an > important topic, but I don't think we all need to revisit it every six > months. Sorry to be a curmudgeon. There are at least two ways to look for past discussions. One is to send for the WMST-L filelist and look through it. Among its files are a number that are compilations of messages on a given topic. To get the filelist, send the two-word message INDEX WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD (bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (internet). The other way to find past discussions is to search the WMST-L logfiles. All messages are automatically recorded in the logfiles. However, you don't have to look through them: you can send listserv a special kind of message asking it to search for certain key words and send you back the messages that contain them. To find out how to do this kind of search, send listserv the message GET SEARCH LOGFILES . You'll receive some instructions that were written for another list but apply equally well to WMST-L; I put them in the filelist because they were so clear and useful. Be sure to send the above messages to LISTSERV, NOT to WMST-L. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 15:06:17 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Frances L. Hoffmann, Women's Studies," Subject: Catherine Stimpson, bell hooks For a conference, PAST IMPERFECT: DISTORTION, DENIAL, AND THE FORMATION OF PUBLIC MEMORY, tentatively scheduled for March, 1995, we are interested in contacting Catherine Stimpson or bell hooks as potential speakers. If anyone knows current addresses or means of contacting either, I would be grateful to receive the information. Respond privately: Frances Hoffmann, Institute for Women's and Gender Studies, UM-St. Louis, 8001 Natural Bridge Road, St. Louis, MO 63121; bitnet SOCFLHO@UMSLVMA; phone 314 553-5588. Thanks very much. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 16:45:13 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Temma Berg Subject: Women and Immigration I am putting together a capstone WS course (400-level) on women and immigration tentatively titled "Old Worlds/New Worlds: The Immigrant Experience of Women in America in Fiction, Histories, and Film" and I wanted to draw on the expertise of this list for suggested readings. I have many novels, short stories, and films (for example, "Darkness" by Bharati Mukherjee, "Lummox" by Fannie Hurst, "Daughters of the Dust" by Julie Dash, "The Joy Luck Club" (book and film), "Voodoo Dreams" by Jewell Rhodes, "Surfacing" by Margaret Atwood, etc., etc. I need theoretical texts. In the Introduction to "Darkness," Mukherjee makes an interesting distinction between immigrant and expatriate and then goes on to see the immigrant experience as very different in Canada and the United States. Does anyone out there know of other theoretical work on these issues? I will post a list of all suggestions if there is interest. Thank you. Temma F. Berg Department of English Gettysburg College Temma.F.Berg@gettysburg.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 16:13:04 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ishaw Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network Subject: student convers. I teach a language bias course to undergraduate and graduate students. It's a very small group this semester. It's also a quiet group, too quiet, although not totally silent. They talk, but they're different from other groups I've had, and this is the ninth time I teach this particular course. At any rate, I'm using all the teaching techniques I know to see if I can get a little more life in the class, and I come to you with a question: do you have students in a Women's Studies course that you are currently teaching who might be interested in exchanging messages via e-mail? I don't know if all the students in my course would be interested in exchanging ideas or not, but I think it's worth a try if there are some students out there who would be interested in talking to my students here. They would NOT be using the wmst-l list. They would have to have access to the e-mail system, however. My students have been reading Words and Women by Miller & Swift and The Feminist Critique of Language, ed. by Deborah Cameron. The Miller & Swift edition is the revised one. It would be interesting if we got our students talking about their understanding of what they are reading. I think this might translate into a heightened interest in what they are studying. We are on a semester system, so our classes will go until mid May. Please let me know if you are interested and reply directly to me, not to the list. Thanks. Ines ishaw@vm1.nodak.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 16:24:05 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ishaw Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network Subject: sue rosser This is for list subscribers who are interested in science, math, engineering, and who teach at universities/colleges close to the North Dakota-Minnesota border (Bemidji, etc.) Sue Rosser will be speaking on our campus Thursday, March 3, 7:30 p.m., Century Theater,(North Dakota State University) about Female-Friendly Science:TEaching Techniques to Attract Women and Minorities. The next morning she will be talking about a model for the development of an inclusive curriculum (March 4). ishaw@vm1.nodak.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 17:00:32 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: patterson martha helen Subject: American New Woman, New Negro Woman and New Morality I am looking for primary references which discuss the "New Woman," "New Negro Woman'" and "New Morality," 1895-1920. Any ideas??? Please respond directly to me. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 17:14:17 CST6CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jyotsna Vaid Organization: tamu/psycdept Subject: upcoming talk by Cynthia Enloe For those of you in the Boston area - Cynthia Enloe (Professor of Govt. and Women's Studies at Clark U and author of The Morning After: Sexual Politics after the Cold War; and of Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics) will be the keynote speaker at a luncheon sponsored by the Committee on Women in Asian Studies, to be held March 26, 11:30 during the Assoc for Asian Studies Conference. The title of her talk is: Did the Cold War Gender Asian Politics? If you're interested in attending, please send me a check for $13 by MARCH 10 to cover the luncheon cost - (Copley Plaza Hotel) made payable to AAS. Jyotsna Vaid/CWAS Chair/Psychology/Texas A & M/College Station, TX 77843. 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: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 17:11:35 -0600 Reply-To: patterson martha helen Sender: Women's Studies List From: patterson martha helen Subject: Women in American Lit 1850-1950 In-Reply-To: Is there a bulletin board for people interested in American literature by women from 1850-1950? > something wrong? I almost called you back, but decided not to disturb you. > What do you mean turn of the century stuff? I think you have tapped me out > on that period, but try me. TAKE CARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 20:07:18 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ROSA MARIA PEGUEROS Subject: Bad historical novels I believe in using good historical novels, as was suggested by Roberta C. Martin, but I was struck by the novelty of using bad ones in order to find the inaccuracies. Incidentally, if you are compiling a list of good historical novels, I hope you will post the list at the end. My contribution to this thread is not a novel, actually, but a film, *The Official Story* from Argentina. This brilliant film, whose protagonist is a woman who is a history professor, deals with issues of moral responsibility and governmental actions. Rosa Maria Pegueros PEGUEROS@URIACC.URI.EDU Department of History University of Rhode Island ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 20:54:30 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Ellen G. Friedman" Subject: journals on women in china In-Reply-To: <199402241948.OAA09996@umd5.umd.edu> An advanced student is interested in locating journals that might be appro- priate for a piece on "Courtship behavior and marriage patterns of modern Chinese women." She conducted a year's ethnographic and photographic study in the People's Republic. Please respond privately. Friedman@tscvm.trenton.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 22:12:03 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "las almas no tienen color." Subject: Re: Bad historical novels & "The Official Story" Thursday, February 24th, 1994 at 10:07pm Rosa Maria Pegueros added the film "The Official Story" to the list of good historical accounts. I just wanted to write in support of that addition. The title in Spanish is "La historia oficial" and that better reflects the situation of the protagonist. She teaches in Argentina and is giving students the government's version of history. She later discovers that the 'real history' does not match the 'official' one and that she is more deeply involved in what is 'officially' not going on than she had ever expected. I am sharing this much of the plot to tell you that it may be hard to find this movie -- I am not sure how available it is -- but that it would be well worth the search. Anne C. Barnhart barnhar@ucs.indiana.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 21:31:35 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Margaret Susan Thompson Subject: Re: teachers & christian beliefs I think another dimension to the "christian" question for 19th- century US public school teachers was to prevent Catholics from getting such jobs. The mainstream understanding of "christian" did NOT include Catholicism--which was becoming an increasingly large (and, to some, threatening) presence in the US by the 1830s and after. The "moral" and religious/christian teaching that was incorporated into the curriculum was explicitly protestant--including required use of the AV (Authorized Version/ aka "King James") Bible, which Catholics were forbidden to use. By 1850, Catholics were the largest single denomination in the US, and anti-Catholic nativism was rampant. On earlier poster asked whether this would disqualify Jewish teachers. It would (unless, as was the case with Catholics, they were willing to teach protestant doctrine--highly unlikely!). But Jews were less numerous and less "threatening" than Catholics to the protestant mainstream of the time, and thus were not the rule's primary target. Peggy Margaret Susan Thompson Dept. of History, 145 Eggers Hall Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244-1090 315-443-5882, 443-2210 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 21:21:25 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stephanie Riger Subject: Adrienne Rich citation Could someone send the the citation for Adrienne Rich's essay "Invisibility in Academe"? Thanks in advance, and please reply PRIVATELY, Stephanie Riger Women's Studies Program (M/C 360) Univ. of Il. at Chicago 1022 Behavioral Sciences Building 1007 W. Harrison St. Chicago, Il. 60607-7137 Bitnet: u29322@UICVM Internet: Stephanie.Riger@uic.edu Fax: 312-413-4122 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 22:02:07 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: patterson martha helen Subject: American new woman, new negro woman and new morality Does anyone have any primary text citations of the American "New Woman," "New Negro Woman," or "New Morality" 1894-1920? Please respond directly to me. Thank you!! ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 15:20:14 +1100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elizabeth Milewicz Subject: E-mail? Roberta Herzberg, Uni of Utah Does anyone have the e-mail address of Roberta Herzberg at the University of Utah? Drop me a line if you do. Thanks Elizabeth ------ Snail: Sociology Department, University of Tasmania, GPO Box 252C. Hobart. 7001 Tasmania. Australia E-mail: Elizabeth.Milewicz@sociol.utas.edu.au ------ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 15:27:35 +1100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elizabeth Milewicz Subject: Amer. Philosophical Assoc. Newsletter (Fem. & Phil.) Does anyone have a copy of the 1989 spring edition of the 'American Philosophical Association's Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy' on rationality? I have tried to obtain a copy but without success. Elizabeth ------ Snail: Sociology, Uni of Tasmania, GPO Box 252C. Hobart. 7001 Tasmania. Australia E-mail: Elizabeth.Milewicz@sociol.utas.edu.au ------ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 00:20:29 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beatrice Kachuck Subject: Re: Inquiry In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 24 Feb 1994 09:19:19 -0500 from on using only - or even almost all male references on feminist theories or any other topic: first, a way to erase women's work is to conceal it, not to refer to it. that's what happened in most of our own schooling, gave us no history, no sense of self as women, taught us to look to men for knowledge that counts. second, if there's not enuf literature by women, you get no sense of the diversity, no way to get a handle on what they're talking about. third, an up- to-date scholar should be familiar with women's work; your professor sounds biased and should be made aware of it. beatrice beabc@cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 12:32:12 MET Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: VAN DEN BORRE CAROLINE Subject: WOMEN ON THE NETWORK Hello, I am a student at the Free University of Brussels and I am conducting a small scale investigation about the use women make of computernetwork facilities. I would like to gain insight in the differences in use that women and men make of the network, the barriers that women meet when they want to enter the network, if cyberspace is experienced as a women friendly environment, ...Most of all I am interested in the (good and bad) experiences women have on the network because of gender differences. Anyone who is willing to answer the following questions, is to do this in a very open way. You're welkom to add remarks or to rapport experiences wherever you want. The questions are directed to women, but men are welkom to add their remarks too. It is very important for me that I gain this sort of information, because there is little emperical information available on the subject. Therefore a copy of the results will be available to all those interested. Excuse me for my unperfect english and thanks a lot to those who are willing to spend some time to fill in this questionnaire. Please answer privatly (hw39399@is1.vub.ac.be). Just fill in the blanks and use the reply key to send the answers back to me. 1. In what way do you gain access to the network? A. computer at home B. university computer C. public computer in library D. other:..... ANSWER: 2. How did you learn to participate on the network? A. special training programm B. learned it myself C. other:.... ANSWER: 3. Do you feel that as a woman you experience more barriers to participate on the network than men do? ANSWER: 4. If yes, what kind of barriers? ANSWER: 5. How do you think these barriers could be reduced? ANSWER: 6. What do you consider to be your worst experience on the network? ANSWER: 7. Do you feel this had anything to do with the fact that you're a woman? In what way? ANSWER: 8. Do you prefer women-only lists and conferences and why do or don't you? ANSWER: 9. Were you ever confronted with sexual harassment on the network? If yes, did this influence your participation on the network? ANSWER: 10. Do you use the network for your job? A. regurlarly B. now and then C. never ANSWER: 11. Do you experience differences with the use your male colleagues make of the network? In what way? ANSWER: 12. Do you feel this has implications on your carreer chances? In what way? ANSWER: 13. What is your profession? ANSWER: 14. What is your age? ANSWER: 15. If you had experiences on the network, that you see as a sign of gender differences, please feel free to rapport them here. Please reply privatly (hw39399@is1.vub.ac.be). Just fill in the blanks and send the answers back to me with the reply key. Thank you for your cooperation. -- hw39399@is1.vub.ac.be (VAN DEN BORRE CAROLINE) Student Communicatiewetenschappen Vrije Universiteit Brussel ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 07:50:07 LCL Reply-To: RGINZBERG@EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruth Ginzberg Organization: Philosophy Dept., Wesleyan University Subject: DON'T hit the 'reply' key! Yikes! A survey was posted to wmst-l with the directions: >Please answer privatly (hw39399@is1.vub.ac.be). Just fill in the blanks >and use the reply key to send the answers back to me. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This won't work! If you use the reply key, the answers will be posted to wmst-l rather than sent to the researcher. Those who may want to reply to the survey need to send our responses explicitly to the poster's private address (hw39399@is1.vub.ac.be) rather than using the reply key. ----------- Ruth Ginzberg (rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu) ------------ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 08:12:58 +119304128 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Nancy E. Riley" Subject: Re: Women and Immigration In-Reply-To: from "Temma Berg" at Feb 24, 94 04:45:13 pm For theoretical treatments of gender and immigration, you might look at: Phizacklea, Annie, ed. _One Way Ticket: MIgration and Female Labour_ London: Routledge and Kegan Paul (1983) (esp a couple articles within it: "Women in migration: beyond the reductionist outlook," by Mirjana Morokvasic and "Sexual divisions and ethnic adaptation: the case of greek-Cypriot women," by Floya Snthias and "Living in between: Turkish women in their homeland and in the Netherlands," by Lenie Brouwer and Marijke Priester). Baca, Reynaldo and Dexter Bryan (1985), "Mexican women, migration and sex roles," _Migration Today_ v 13, no 3, pp. 14-18. Imamura, Anne (1988), "The loss that has no name: social womanhood of foreign wives," _Gender and Society_ v 2, no 3, pp. 291-307. Hope these help. Nancy Riley (nriley@polar.bowdoin.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 08:19:50 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Barbara G. Taylor." Subject: Re: Catherine Stimpson, bell hooks In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 24 Feb 1994 15:06:17 CST from Catharine Stimpson is now head of the William E. and Catherine T. McArthur Foundation -- the one that gives the "genius grants." ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 09:44:13 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Patricia A. Gross" Subject: Re: Catherine Stimpson, bell hooks bell hooks currently teaches at City University pof New York ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 09:47:50 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Judith F. Clark" Subject: Re: Bad historical novels Re the idea of reading a "bad historical novel" - As clever as this idea appears at first, it does seem to me to be quite a nasty slap at sincere fiction writers whose aim is to entertain and divert. What exactly is "bad" historical fiction? Whose standards are being employed to make such a judgement? Where does one draw the line between "bad" and "good" historical fiction? I s author Mary Renault "ok," while Victoria Holt is not? As a trained historian I may be aware of many, many historical novels that I personally find boring, puerile, and useless in terms of offering reliable factual information. Nonetheless, I would never introduce students (or others) to these books with such a disclaimer. It strikes me as rude, pompous, and, at best, insensitive. It seems a less-than appropriate way to make the point... Why not choose some poorly researched and written scholarly material to make the same point? Or, as I often did in teaching the second half of an American history survey course, assign the likes of Tom Wolfe, whose satire illustrates pointedly and with sophistication all sorts of things about U.S. society and culture. Please, let's not adopt this idea as a standard practice. Trying to use fiction versus nonfiction in this way is like hoping to effectively compare apples and space shuttles. judith f. clark@dartmouth.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 09:00:33 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kris Anderson If anyone out there is or knows of Jennifer Manlowe or Janice Strout please contact the NWSA Conference office as soon as possible. These two have submitted proposals but we do not seem to have current contact information for them. Thank you. Email address is: ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 08:40:24 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sue Saavedra Organization: University Libraries of Notre Dame Subject: Re: starting a list In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 23 Feb 1994 17:06:46 EST from I don't want to be on the list serv you are thinking about creating, but I do want to start a list serv of my own, on a different topic. When you get the information on how to do this, I would appreciate you sending that information on to me. This note is directed to Reynolds. Thank you. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 09:16:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BARTLETT ANNE Subject: Re: Bad historical novels For getting students interested in the historical conditions of earlyy medieval women (a tough task, sometimes!) I suggest Julia O'Faolain's *The Women in the Wall* (Virago). I read this as a first-year grad student, and it was one of the factors that led to my taking up medieval women as a specialty. This book is also a useful counterpoint to all of the highly- romanticized "medievalistic" romances currently speeding up the bestseller lists. In agreement with one post yesterday, I'm all for teaching GOOD historical novels, rather than BAD ones (though I wonder if we can't explore our criteria for making these judgments a bit further).... :) Anne. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 07:35:58 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Wendy Thorson Subject: Violence Against Women I am doing an intensive research project about violence against women with 15 other students at Fairhaven College in Bellingham, WA. We are comparing services offered here in Washington state with those services in British Columbia, and services based on the Duluth model. We are looking for papers, articles, journals, personal testimonies, books, poetry, and literature about domestic violence and or rape. We are filming a documentary about domestic violence, and we are writing a proposal of changes to take to the legislature. Some of the weeknesses that we hope to address in our services which are lacking are as follows; children who witness violence; margenalized women due to cultural, sexual, or economic status; gender-bias by judicial system that still blames the victim; better funding for programs, education in our schools about conflict resolution, parenting, gender bias, rape, domestic violence; and state policy of only reporting felony convicted rapes on college campuses. Please mail to me directly if you have any suggestions Thanks! N9048390@henson.cc.wwu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 10:10:41 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Liz Gold Subject: Re: domestic partner benefits A few people have recently written in seeking information on obtaining domestic partner benefits. On another network, I discovered that there is a mailing list set up specifically for those working on this issue (domestic@cs.cmu.edu). To subscribe, send a request to domestic-request@cs.cmu.edu (not automated--a real live person, so requests are not answered instantaneously). The information was sent by larry@bradley.bradley.edu, who also sent some useful information he had compiled on the subject--which, however, is not the immediate interest of the list he manages. (I don't know if he minds sending this info. to other people.) Liz Gold (lizgold@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu) English Dept., Univ. of Texas at Austin ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 10:46:53 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Roberta C. Martin" Subject: Re: Bad historical novels In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 25 Feb 1994 09:16:00 CST from About exploring further the criteria for "Good/bad" historical novels--absolute ly, especially if the novels are written by women--for so many of us our respon ses, views, judgements have been conditioned by the male canon and the male rea der's views, judgments. Historical novels are so often an entry into literatur e and historical studies that this whole issue is an interesting and serious on e. Thanks, all, for addressing it. Robin. Roberta C Martin, assistant professor East Carolina University English GCB 2112 Greenville, NC 27858 (919) 757-6721 Bitnet: ENMARTIN@ECUVM1 Internet: ENMARTIN@ECUVM.CIS.ECU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 11:09:28 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosie Pegueros Subject: Bad historical novels In response to Judith Clark's note on bad historical novels-- to quote Steve Martin--"Well Ex-cuuuuuse me!" The reason I continue to think that it's a good idea, even after reflection and careful thought is that as a teacher I am always looking to combat the "been there, done that" syndrome in teaching. Students who are continuously stimulated by the media, particularly by TV, sometimes need something different and challenging to catch their interest in a subject. Fiction writers, good and sincere, or bad and sincere can distort reality in infuriating ways. (Yes, I know, so can historians and politicians...) An exercise in the context of other assignments can help students to develop their critical faculties, so that when they see, for instance, the romanticized version of the Cuban revolution in the Robert Redford film, *Havana*, they will know that this version may be only vaguely related to historical occurences. (I am substituting a film for a novel in this example because since I teach Latin American history, I assume most people are not familiar with Latin American literature--good or bad.) Too often, people's only acquaintance with history is through fiction. The most common question I get from students is what I think of historical fiction-- and usually, the next question is about James Michener, curiously enough. The questions raised in your criticism of my suggestion about who judges what is a good and bad novel, whose standards should be employed to make these judgments--these are among the questions that I would ask students to explore. This assignment struck me particularly because of the publication of John Updike's newest novel, *Brazil* which was roundly praised in the New York Times by a reviewer who said, basically, this book is wonderful if you don't mind the political incorrectness of the racial and sexual stereotypes he employees. I think that assessing the worth of a book by a superb stylist like Updike but with questionable historical worth would be an interesting exercise. So, since Dr. Clark urged you to dismiss such an exercise as pompous and without worth, I argue the opposite position. It's a free country. Rosa Maria Pegueros PEGUEROS@URIACC.URI.EDU Dept. of History University of Rhode Island ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 09:30:33 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: cara jean marianna Subject: Afro-Am. Women and Theories of Race I am looking for information and references regarding theories of race and Pan-Africanism developed and articulated by African women and women of African ancestry. I am particularly looking for the female voice that I think is missing in Appiah's book "In My Father's House". I am interested in comparing contemporary theories of race and gender. Send any info. directly to me - cara@hydra.unm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 11:37:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: starting a list Earlier today, Sue Saavedra sent the following message to WMST-L: > I don't want to be on the list serv you are thinking about creating, but > I do want to start a list serv of my own, on a different topic. When you > get the information on how to do this, I would appreciate you sending that > information on to me. This note is directed to Reynolds. Thank you. Sue SHOULD have sent the message PRIVATELY to Michelle Reynolds, who could then have supplied her with the following information. But since she sent it to WMST-L, and since I've received a number of similar requests lately, I thought I'd call people's attention to a file available from listserv called LISTS START-UP . To get it, send the message GET LISTS START-UP WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet). Also, I recommend that people send listserv the message INDEX WMST-L: that will get them a copy of the WMST-L filelist, which contains all sorts of interesting goodies. Please be sure to send these messages to LISTSERV, not to WMST-L. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 09:13:54 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacquelyn Marie Marilyn Safir from u. of Washington received a message from Florence Howe and Mariam Chamberlain, Feminist Press on participation of Women's Studies people at the Beijing NGO forum on International Women to be held in Sept 1995. She wants papers and roundtable discussions on major problems and achievements in WS at all levels of education. I intend to write her as I am putting together a tour to attend the Beijing Conference and would really like to meet with other WS people, especially librarians and archivists. Are there any WS librarians out there wanting to attend and could we perhaps put together a roundtable on librarian type interests, e.g. how to set up a WS collection whereever, larger national groups such as ACRL WS section, etc. for participation (how we set it up), issues of collection, archives and cooperation.???? Let me know ASAP on this even if you're a bit interested at this point. Jacquelyn Marie Women's Studies Librarian McHenry Library Un. of California Santa Cruz, Cal. 95064 USA E-mail: jmarie@scilibx.ucsc.edu FAX: 408/459-8206 Phone: 408/459-3255 I do mean to include women from all over the world not just US if possible. J. marie ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 10:31:09 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sonja Elison Subject: european feminist philosophy? I'm looking for a reference for a very simple, undergraduate level book on the contributions of European women to philosophical thought. I've been asked to contribute to a very basic level text, whose author would like to at least mention the contributions of some women to "western culture". I'm not sure this sounds very clear, and I'm having a heck of a time with typos, but the idea is to introduce young undergraduates, very painlessly, to the ideas of people such as Simone de Beauvoir. I won't have the space to get into feminism deeply, at all, so the more introductory, the better. Thanks for your help! Please reply privately to Elison@Gonzaga. Sonja Elison Dept of Political Science Gonzaga University Spokane, WA 99258 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 13:58:25 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sun-treader Subject: Fat Women's Gathering The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) has a Feminist Caucus... this message announces the Fat Feminist Caucus's annual East Coast spring gathering. 9th Annual Spring Fat Women's Gathering sponsored by the NAAFA Fat Feminist Caucus "Celebrating Fat Community" April 29-May 1, 1994 Ramada Inn, Kingston, NY Conference includes: Friday: Reception, clothing exchange, interest and support groups, swimming until very late! Saturday: Breakfast and welcome Panel and group discussions, Guest speaker Workshops on personal experience and community building Buffet luncheon Trunk sale (CLOTHES!!!) Activism letter-writing table Raffle Evening entertainment and late swimming Sunday: Brunch, wrap-up discussions, Caucus business meeting All Weekend: Art show: "Women Artists Celebrate Fat Women" Lots of conversations, learning, fat politics and fun! Supportive environment And a few surprises ;-)))) QUESTIONS? call Nancy Summer or Miriam Berg at 914-679-9160 for conference information, accessibility/special needs, and/or to participate in the art show or trunk sale. REGISTRATION FORM Name:______________________________________________________ Address:___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ Phone:______________________Fax:___________________________ Best times to call?________________________________________ ___I have merchandise or a service I can donate for the raffle ___I am interested in_____T-shirts in size___________ (see below) Please register me for: Members Non-Members The full conference package (Fri-Sun) Early Bird (before 3/15/94)------- $85.00 $95.00 Regular (before 4/5/94)----------- $95.00 $105.00 $____________ Late (after 4/5/94)--------------- $105.00 $120.00 At the door ------------ $115.00 $130.00 The all day Saturday package------- $60.00 $75.00 $___________ (breakfast, lunch and evening entertainment incl.) (add $10 after 4/5) The Saturday and Sunday package---- $75.00 $90.00 $___________ (breakfast, lunch and evening ent. on Sat; Sun brunch) (+$10 after 4/5) The trunk sale vendor's package----- $30.00 $35.00 $___________ (all events prior to and after sale) Vendor's selling space (full table) $50.00 $___________ (half table) $25.00 DUES: Sign me up for Membership in the NAAFA Fat Feminist Caucus! $20.00 $___________ Contribution: to help low income women attend this conf: $___________ TOTAL ENCLOSED:--------------------------------------------$______________ Please make checks payable to NAAFA Feminist Caucus. Mail registration with payment to: Carole Campbell P.O. Box 1154 New York, NY 10023 Questions abt registration, membership or conference fees: call Carole Campbell at (212) 721-8259 Conference T-shirts: Lynn Meletiche needs to order conference commemorative T-shirts in advance of the event, so we need some idea of quantites and sizes. The shirt will sell for ca. $25 and will feature a really great design with fat women... sizes available will be 2X-11X. Please indicate your interest on the top of this form. Raffle donations: Donations of merchandise and services for fundraising raffle needed! A donation earns you our thanks and a free ad in New Attitude (our publication). Please check box above if you can donate. :) Trunk sale vendors: Set up for the sale is on Sat. morning. Sale begins during the lunch break and runs until 8pm. Call 914-679-9160 for more information on sale participation. Art Show: "Women Artists Celebrate Fat Women" is a show of painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, etc. of fat women by women artists. Any artist (professional or amateur) wishing to include her art should call Nancy or Miriam at 914-679-9260. posted 2-25-94 by Candice Feldt (cfeldt@pearl.tufts.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 14:09:03 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sun-treader Subject: Fat Women's Gathering (supplement) Oops! In my first post I failed to mention details on the Ramada Inn in Kingston New York.. Phone 914-339-3900 and ask for NAAFA Fat Feminist Caucus special room rate of $55 per night. The Ramada Inn is located at exit 19 on the NY State Thruway, has an indoor pool, a restaurant, and free parking. It *IS* handicapped accessible. ASL interpreter and large size print or taped program available upon request (914-679-9160)... thanks! April 5 is the deadline for the group rate... Candy (cfeldt@pearl.tufts.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 13:11:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: kathleen Mulligan-Hansel Subject: Re: Afro-Am. Women and Theories of Race Could you please post information you get on theories of race/gender by african women or women of african descent to the list, or copy privately to me. thanks - Kathleen Mulligan-Hansel Hansel@polisci.wisc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 14:20:33 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Heather Munro Prescott, Department of History" Subject: answer to women's history month query Hi Folks, Here's the answer to my question about the origins of women's history month. Enjoy! According to <> edited by Angela Howard Zophy (1990): "In 1977 the schools of Sonoma County, California, designated March as Women's History Month as a means of raising awareness of women's history and encouraging its integration into the public and post-secondary curriculum..." (p287) This reference is found in the article about International Women's Day, which was inspired by a demonstration on March 8, 1857, of women garment and textile workers; the article continues on with a discussion of the history of International Women's Day. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 14:23:25 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Alice Delia Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown (Name server: host not found) (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 14:21:08 -0500 From: Mail Delivery Subsystem To: mdelia@umd5.umd.edu Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown (Name server: host not found) The original message was received at Fri, 25 Feb 1994 14:21:05 -0500 from yorick.umd.edu [128.8.10.37] ----- The following addresses had delivery problems ----- (unrecoverable error) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 501 ... 550 Host unknown (Name server: host not found) ----- Original message follows ----- Return-Path: Received: from yorick.umd.edu (yorick.umd.edu [128.8.10.37]) by umd5.umd.edu (8.6.4/94Jan25) with ESMTP id OAA12939; Fri, 25 Feb 1994 14:21:05 -0500 Received: from localhost by yorick.umd.edu id OAA04031; Fri, 25 Feb 1994 14:21:04 -0500 Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 14:10:42 -0500 (EST) From: Mary Alice Delia Subject: Need Info Morrison's Flying Africans To: wmst-l@umdd.umd.ed Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII My name is Chappell Marmon. I am a student at Bethesda Chevy Chase High School in Maryland. After reading Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon I became interested in the myths about "Flying Africans." Does anyone know anything about this or where I can find more information? I would like to write a paper on Morrison's use of these myths. I can be reached at this address. Thanks! ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 11:26:00 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Karen Kidd Subject: NWSA Guide to Grad Programs The National Women's Studies Association will be publishing a new edition of its best-selling GUIDE TO GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES this fall. We will be mailing our surveys out soon, and want to be sure we don't miss anyone! We're casting our net for graduate WS programs of all kinds: those offering WS minors and/or concentrations within traditional disciplines; those including WS as part of interdisciplinary degree programs; those including WS as part of intercollegiate and/or joint-degree programs; as well as those that offer certificates, MA's/MS's and Ph.D.'s in WS. Many new programs have sprung up in the past four years, and many more are currently being planned. Since WMST-L is the most likely place to find people knowledgeable in this area, we ask your help in locating any/all such programs. It will help greatly if you can supply addresses/phone numbers, too. You may reply to me privately, or post to the list. Many thanks!! -- Karen Kidd KKidd@rocky.claremont.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 14:55:30 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathleen Lowney Subject: feminism scale A graduate student in my department is doing a content analysis of battered women's shelter policies toward battered lesbians. She is also doing interviews with shelter directors and staff. Her instructor (not me) wants her to operationalize the concept of feminism (as in how much feminism is reflected in the policy statements) using some scale/index. She has come to me for help -- and I am turning to the list. I know that this raises (for her and for me) a host of "what is feminism" questions that have already been thoroughly discussed on this list. I don't want to get that discussion up again, but she NEEDS some scale/index in order to continue her analysis (and pass the class!!) Can anyone help with citation suggestions?? Please respond privately. If you're interested in what people send to me, email me and I will send it on. Thanks, kathe lowney associate professor of sociology valdosta state university valdosta ga 31698-0060 email: klowney@grits.valdosta.peachnet.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 15:21:33 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Margaret Susan Thompson Subject: Resource: US Senate Gopher (x Pubpol-l) This came through on another list to which I subscribe. I thought it might be of interest to WMST-L people who are concerned with issues of public policy and politics affecting women. Peggy Thompson ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 12:44:34 -0600 Reply-to: H-Net Political History discussion list >From: "h-pol co-moderator (Mark Kornbluh)" Subject: Resource: US Senate Gopher (x Pubpol-l) X-To: h-pol To: Multiple recipients of list H-POL Sent: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 at 17:25:58 To: ADSC@MNEMC2 (ADSC@MNEMC2) >From: Chris_Casey@kennedy.senate.gov The Senate Committee on Rules and Administration and the Sergeant at Arms office have announced the availability of a gopher server that will allow Senate personal and committee offices to make information available on the Internet. The server, which is set up and run by the Senate Computer Center, I believe can be found at gopher ftp.senate.gov and has been registered with the University of Minnesota's directory of gopher servers. Just thought you'd like to know! Chris ############################################################################ Chris Casey chris_casey@kennedy.senate.gov Office of Senator Kennedy 202/224-3570 Washington, DC 20510 ############################################################################ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 16:52:39 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nancy Ota Subject: Female genital mutilation I have a student in my Gender & the Law seminar who wishes to write about female genital mutilation, a topic which I know little about. Any help with general sources will be appreciated. Please respond to me privately, thank you. Nancy Ota ota@law.georgetown.edu tel: (202) 662-9372 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 16:11:33 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: evelyn a schlatter Subject: Re: WOMEN ON THE NETWORK In-Reply-To: from "VAN DEN BORRE CAROLINE" at Feb 25, 94 12:32:12 pm According to VAN DEN BORRE CAROLINE: > >Hello, >I am a student at the Free University of Brussels and I am conducting a >small scale investigation about the use women make of computernetwork >facilities. I would like to gain insight in the differences in use that >women and men make of the network, the barriers that women meet when they >want to enter the network, if cyberspace is experienced as a women >friendly environment, ...Most of all I am interested in the (good and bad) >experiences women have on the network because of gender differences. > >Anyone who is willing to answer the following questions, is to do this in >a very open way. You're welkom to add remarks or to rapport experiences >wherever you want. >The questions are directed to women, but men are welkom to add their >remarks too. > >It is very important for me that I gain this sort of information, because >there is little emperical information available on the subject. >Therefore a copy of the results will be available to all those interested. > >Excuse me for my unperfect english and thanks a lot to those who are >willing to spend some time to fill in this questionnaire. > >Please answer privatly (hw39399@is1.vub.ac.be). Just fill in the blanks >and use the reply key to send the answers back to me. > > >1. In what way do you gain access to the network? > A. computer at home > B. university computer > C. public computer in library > D. other:..... >ANSWER: B, D (computer at my job) > >2. How did you learn to participate on the network? > A. special training programm > B. learned it myself > C. other:.... >ANSWER: B, C (friends and grad school colleagues) > >3. Do you feel that as a woman you experience more barriers to participate >on the network than men do? >ANSWER: no > >4. If yes, what kind of barriers? >ANSWER: > > > > >5. How do you think these barriers could be reduced? >ANSWER: n/a > > > > >6. What do you consider to be your worst experience on the network? >ANSWER: i haven't really had any bad experiences--i've lost my connection > a couple times and had to retype something; i haven't been verbally accosted or criticized...things have been all right. > > > >7. Do you feel this had anything to do with the fact that you're a woman? >In what way? >ANSWER: no--haven't had any bad experiences (yet.) > > > > >8. Do you prefer women-only lists and conferences and why do or don't you? >ANSWER: no--but since i study gender and women' history, most of the people i net with are women. but i also participate in lesbian, gay, and bi discussion lists of which men are a part. i guess i really don't have a preference since i haven't had a bad experience yet and most of the participants on my lists have been women. > > > > >9. Were you ever confronted with sexual harassment on the network? If yes, >did this influence your participation on the network? >ANSWER: no, never. > > > > >10. Do you use the network for your job? > A. regurlarly > B. now and then > C. never >ANSWER: B--i have to access library data bases. > >11. Do you experience differences with the use your male colleagues make >of the network? In what way? >ANSWER: well, i can't really say--my male colleagues have other interests, so it's like comparing apples and oranges. > > > >12. Do you feel this has implications on your carreer chances? In what way? >ANSWER: oh, yes. i'm working on my ph.d. and the internet provides a communication network that is astonishing--i can talk to people with similar interests any time and i can access data banks without necessarily having to spend the money to get there personally. i think that the internet will enable me to find contacts and keep up with academia that will, in the long run, enhance my career chances. > > > > >13. What is your profession? >ANSWER: ph.d. student/candidate > >14. What is your age? >ANSWER: 26 > >15. If you had experiences on the network, that you see as a sign of >gender differences, please feel free to rapport them here. n/a > > > > > >Please reply privatly (hw39399@is1.vub.ac.be). Just fill in the blanks and >send the answers back to me with the reply key. >Thank you for your cooperation. > >-- >hw39399@is1.vub.ac.be (VAN DEN BORRE CAROLINE) >Student Communicatiewetenschappen >Vrije Universiteit Brussel > good luck...evsch@hydra.unm.edu interesting study, by the way... cheers! ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 16:56:31 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: constance morris shortlidge Subject: Re: Female genital mutilation In-Reply-To: from "Nancy Ota" at Feb 25, 94 04:52:39 pm According to Nancy Ota: > >I have a student in my Gender & the Law seminar who wishes to write about >female genital mutilation, a topic which I know little about. Any help >with general sources will be appreciated. Please respond to me >privately, thank you. > >Nancy Ota > >ota@law.georgetown.edu >tel: (202) 662-9372 > Alice Walker has a new book and a documentary film out about this subject, I believe you should be able to locate the book whose title escapes me at this moment at any large bookstore, and the address for the documentary is in there. good luck. constance shortldige ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 19:29:34 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JoAnne Myers Subject: Re: Female genital mutilation In-Reply-To: In reply to your message of FRI 25 FEB 1994 04:56:31 EST The title of Alice Walker's book on FGM is POSSESSING THE SECRET OF JOY JAM ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 08:40:26 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "H. Jayaweera" Subject: 'bimbo feminism'? Hello All, A graduate student of mine is interested in the phenomenon described by the term 'bimbo feminism'. She says she has heard the term refers to the type of popular feminism advocated by people like Naomi Wolf, and she would like to pursue this further and write her term paper on the topic. If anyone has more specific information about this topic, and particularly about books, articles etc., I would be very grateful if you could let me know, to the email address below. Thanks very much. Hiranthi. - Please reply to : JAYAWEEH@novell1.academic-computing-service.birmingham.ac.uk ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 08:46:55 ECT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pat Subject: Re: feminism scale In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 25 Feb 1994 14:55:30 -0500 from I would appreciate getting the information that is passed along on this subject. Thanks ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 09:14:50 ECT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pat Subject: Re: Female genital mutilation In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 25 Feb 1994 16:56:31 -0700 from Alice Walker's new book on the subject of female mutilation is Possessing the Secret of Joy, I think. However, I have heard she has still another book on the subject, so I culd be talking about the wrong book. pw ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 11:48:30 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: nijole Benokraitis Subject: Reviewers needed Our editor at Prentice-Hall needs reviewers for our manuscript (_Modern Sexism: Blatant, Subtle, and Covert Discrimination). The second edition will be published this fall. If you have used the book in class and are interested in being a reviewer, please contact me privately at eanbmano@ube.ub.umd.edu. Include an address and phone number, please. I'll forward the names to the editor. Thank you, n. Benokraitis P.S. Apologies for duplications on other lists. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 09:07:48 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shiyon Bradford Subject: sex-discrimination in lending In-Reply-To: <9402260032.AA02935@tolstoy.u.washington.edu> Hi, Does anyone out there know if there has been any research on sex-discrimination in lending, and access to credit in general? Please reply privately to: shiyon@u.washington.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 09:15:10 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Ariel Subject: Re: Female genital mutilation In-Reply-To: <199402260134.UAA09291@umd5.umd.edu> the book is called WARRIOR MARKS On Fri, 25 Feb 1994, constance morris shortlidge wrote: > According to Nancy Ota: > > > >I have a student in my Gender & the Law seminar who wishes to write about > >female genital mutilation, a topic which I know little about. Any help > >with general sources will be appreciated. Please respond to me > >privately, thank you. > > > >Nancy Ota > > > >ota@law.georgetown.edu > >tel: (202) 662-9372 > > > Alice Walker has a new book and a documentary film out about this subject, > I believe you should be able to locate the book whose title escapes me at > this moment at any large bookstore, and the address for the documentary is > in there. good luck. constance shortldige > ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 12:35:37 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: FREEZE PEPPA Subject: Re: Female genital mutilation The Alice Walker book is Possessing the Secret of Joy. However, it is very "western". I'm not sure if I would start there. Although I'm not ane xpert on the subject, there must be some other books which are less one-sided about the topic. Lesley Wiseman WISEMANL@Kenyon.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 13:15:40 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: To: WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU Comments: Resent-From: Erisa Ojimba Comments: Originally-From: FREEZE PEPPA From: Erisa Ojimba Subject: Re: Female genital mutilation Dear Ms. Wiseman, I have to admit I have'nt read Ms. Walker's recent book--Possessing the Secret of Joy, however, I have read several of her book reviews. There is nothing "western" about female circumcision. Its a nasty, barbaric act that needs to be openly criticized. I would recommend anyone interested in understanding the subject to read Ms. Walker's book first. It is an objective analysis on how women--for what- ever reason-- mutilate and scare their children for life. ERISA OJIMBA EOJIMBA@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- The Alice Walker book is Possessing the Secret of Joy. However, it is very "western". I'm not sure if I would start there. Although I'm not ane xpert on the subject, there must be some other books which are less one-sided about the topic. Lesley Wiseman WISEMANL@Kenyon.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 12:39:31 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Benay Blend Subject: Re: Female genital mutilation There is also a sequel to this book by Walker. It is more on the lines of documentary research, and is jointly edited with another woman. Benay Blend Blend@nsula.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 12:54:04 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Teresa Mesa Adamuz Subject: Re: WOMEN ON THE NETWORK B. university computer ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 13:49:57 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Roberta C. Martin" Subject: Re: Female genital mutilation In-Reply-To: Message of Sat, 26 Feb 1994 12:35:37 EST from >From what I understand, the Walker book IS controversial because of its "western" posture--Linda McNealy-STrong has written a dissertation on this subject which treats Walker and two African writers on the same subject. Sorry, I have forgotten where she is now, but she WILL be at Southern Illinois University, I think, in the fall. Robin Martin. Roberta C Martin, assistant professor East Carolina University English GCB 2112 Greenville, NC 27858 (919) 757-6721 Bitnet: ENMARTIN@ECUVM1 Internet: ENMARTIN@ECUVM.CIS.ECU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 14:02:58 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Roberta C. Martin" Subject: Re: Where do they learn? In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 23 Feb 1994 14:57:00 GMT from Re: Kathy Ayers. I have been a firm, but not very radical feminist for a long time, and my views change constantly, but I have noticed that my very young women students in Eastern North Carolina have begun to notice gender inequities and the attitudes of their male peers, but they will not entertain the notion of what they consider to be "feminism." I nudge them in that direction, but I have also noticed that some women, scholars among them, are beginning to call themselves "womanists." I am suspicious of this term, but I have no idea what it means and why it seems to be an acceptable alternative to the "feminism" that we have all worked so hard to develop. Any information out there? Thanks. Robin Martin. Roberta C Martin, assistant professor East Carolina University English GCB 2112 Greenville, NC 27858 (919) 757-6721 Bitnet: ENMARTIN@ECUVM1 Internet: ENMARTIN@ECUVM.CIS.ECU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 14:11:53 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rubina Ramji Subject: Re: Female genital mutilation in the book "the hidden face of eve" by nawal el saadawi, she gives a personal account of circumcision in part 1, titled "the mutilated half". rather than it being written from a western point of view, it is written by a woman in the arab world, with a first hand account. rubina rramji@aix1.uottawa.ca ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 14:59:30 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: House of Angels On Saturday, February 26, 1994, I reviewed "House of Angels" 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 review send the following command to Listserv @UMDD (Bitnet) or UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): GET FILM REV104 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 _USF, TAMPA, FL 33620 F - L - O - R - I - D - A !!! Drinking orange juice makes you gay! ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 15:37:05 +0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: May Cohen Subject: Re: Female genital mutilation In-Reply-To: <199402260358.WAA01199@umd5.umd.edu> There is also a recent book describing the making of the video. I believe it is called Warrior Marks. On Fri, 25 Feb 1994, JoAnne Myers wrote: > The title of Alice Walker's book on FGM is POSSESSING THE SECRET > OF JOY JAM ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 13:46:08 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Quarry Pak Subject: womanist See _In Search of Our Mother's Gardens_ pp. xi-xii Womanist had something to do with, in my opinion, of being more inclusive and de-marginalizing women of color as they have been in the past inthe feminist movement (and still are now? I don't know.) I don't know if Alice Walker coined the term herself, but it's interesting. It can be considered more or less radical than "feminist", I guess, depending on your interpretation. It smacks a little of Irigaray's philosophy of difference but not in such extremes. Quarry Pak Pomona College Junior, Psychology/Women's Studies qpak@pomona.claremont.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 16:55:20 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Ruth A. Solie." Subject: Re: Female genital mutilation Besides "Possessing the Secret of Joy," Walker wrote another, non-fiction book about genital mutilation, in collaboration with an Indian woman. Ruth Solie rsolie@smith.smith.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 17:39:10 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Sarah M. Pritchard" Subject: female genital mutilation One of the earliest feminists to report in the U.S. on genital mutilation was Fran Hosken; much of what was first published in her newsletter _Women's International Network News_ was then pulled together in a book called _The Hosken Report: Genital and Sexual Mutilation of Females_. A second edition was published in 1979, under the auspices of WIN News. While much new thinking and consultation has happened since then, this work has an important place in the evolution of attention to, and information about, the topic. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Sarah Pritchard Smith College Libraries 413-585-2902 spritchard@smith.smith.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 17:46:14 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Elizabeth A. Vogt" Subject: a writing job in upstate ny To those on the list who may be interested: A prof. emeritus in Ithaca, NY is looking for someone in this area (New York state) to write her biography. She has much of her story on tape, plus she's still up for lots of lively conversation. If you know of an experienced writer (particularly a science writer) who may be interested, please respond to me privately. Thank you. Elizabeth Vogt ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 17:44:38 LCL Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruth Ginzberg Organization: Philosophy Dept., Wesleyan University Subject: Re: female genital mutilation >One of the earliest feminists to report in the U.S. on genital >mutilation was Fran Hosken; much of what was first published in her >newsletter _Women's International Network News_ was then pulled >together in a book called _The Hosken Report: Genital and Sexual >Mutilation of Females_. Well, if we're thinking of history, don't forget Mary Daly's chapter about this practice in GYN/ECOLOGY (1978), and Audre Lorde's letter to Mary Daly (published in SISTER OUTSIDER, 1983) taking Mary Daly to task for imposing white American standards on African practices which Audre Lorde claimed that Mary Daly did not understand within their cultural contexts. ----------- Ruth Ginzberg (rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu) ------------ ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 18:02:58 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: David Greene Subject: women & immigration You might look at Sydney Weinberg's, "World of Our Mothers" (I tried to send this privately, but it bounced). David ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 27 Feb 1994 11:06:23 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "NAOMI B. MCCORMICK" Organization: SUNY at Plattsburgh, New York, USA Subject: Re: female genital mutilation Hanny Lightfoot Klein has written a number of journal articles (see The Journal of Sex Research etc.) as well as at least one book on female genital mutilation (or circumciscion) the latter of which was published by Haworth. She has done extensive psychological and anthropological research on the topic in areas of North Africa where the practice is most extreme (e .g. infibulation or sewing up the girl's labia to a pinhole size opening as well as destruction of the labia and clitoris). This is a more extreme and debilitating practice than in West Africa (which is described by Walker) or the sunna circumscision described by others like Nawal el Saddawi (forgive my spelling) which involves partial or at most complete removal of the clitoris. Medical as well as sexual complications are more severe although some women retain orgasmic response (albeit a weaker response). Klein writes very well and I am sure list readers will appreciate her work. Naomi McCormick President Elect The Society for the Scientific Study of SEx ****************************************************************** Naomi B. McCormick Dept. Psychology State University of New York College at Plattsburgh Plattsburgh, NY 12901 USA @@@@@@@@ @@ @@ Telephone (518) 564-3076; 564-3382 @@@ (A A) @@@ FAX (518) 564-7827 @@@ L @@@ % \ {} / % E-mail MCCORMNB@SNYPLAVA.BITNET ---- MCCORMNB@SPLAVA.CC.PLATTSBURGH.EDU | | /******\ ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 27 Feb 1994 11:36:46 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathleen Kelly Subject: query "identity politics" colleagues: a grad. stduent wants to focus on the notion of identity politics--a phrase we've both heard bandied about, but don't know the source of. Does anyone know who coined it, and does anyone have cites for its use? you may reply privately to kakelly@lynx.neu.edu thanks in advance to all, Kathleen Kelly ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 27 Feb 1994 13:04:51 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sherry Linkon Subject: WS graduate programs I have a student who is looking into MA programs in Women's Studies. She's aiming more to do activism, organizing, public policy, or Women's Center stuff than teaching. She's looked through the NWSA guide, but now she's hoping for more personal, specific information. If you have experience with or information about the programs at the following places, will you send me a brief description of the program -- what it highlights, its "style," whatever? Thanks. She's looking at: CUNY George Washington University Ohio State Rutgers Simmons And if you have suggestions of other programs that would be good for this student, let me know. Thanks for your help. Reply privately to Sherry Linkon linkon@unix1.cc.ysu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 27 Feb 1994 12:58:36 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Leslie Regan Shade Subject: Gender & Community Sources Last month I sent out a query re sources for gender and community. As promised, here's a quick cut and paste of the references I received. Many thanks to Margaret Hobart, Jeri Carter, Richard Weibl, Daryl Smith and Stuart Aitken. --Leslie Shade McGill University Graduate Program in Communications [shade@ice.cc.mcgill.ca] ******************* GENDER and COMMUNITY Tierney, William G. (1993). _Building Communities of Difference: Higher Education in the 21st Century._ Bergin & Garvey. Aers, David. (1988). _Community, Gender, and Individual Identity: English Writinng 1360-1430._ Routledge. Elizabeth Minnich , a feminist philosopher, has written on this topic using the term civic community. It is published in Higher education and the practice of democratic politics (Murchland, ed) Miami Theory Collective (Eds). _Community at Loose Ends._ University of Minnesota Press:Minneapolis. 1991 Nancy, Jean-Luc (1991) _The Inoperative Community._ Peter COnnor (Ed.). University of Minnesota. 1991. Gusfield, Joseph (1975). _Community: A Critical Response._ Harper Colophon Books. Corlett, William (1989). _Community Without Unity: A Politics of Derridian Extravagance._ Duke University Press. Rouner, Leroy (1991). _On Community._ University of Notre Dame. Selznick, Philip. (1992). _ The Moral Commonwealth: Social Theory and the Promise of Community._ University of California Press. Graver, Suzanne. (1984). _George Eliot and Community: A Study in Social Theory and Fictional Form._ University of California. Wagner, Jon (Ed.). (1982). _Sex Roles in COntemporary American Communes._ Indiana University Press. Young, Iris M. (1990). _Justice and th Politics of Difference._ Princeton University Press. Whitmeyer, Claude (Ed.) (1993). _In the Company of Others: Making Community in the Modern World._ Jeremy P. Tarcher/Perigee Books (Putnam). A "feminist" essay about community that might be relevant is Allison, D. (1978). Weaving the web of community. _Quest: A Feminist Quarterly._ _4_(4), 75-92. Ann Ferguson, who is in Philosophy & Women's Studies at U. Mass Amherst, entitled, "Feminist Communities and Moral Revolution." It deals with ethics and value systems. I cannot off-hand recall where I found it, but a good bet is the reading room on the UMD women's studies net. Anndee Hochman (1994) _Everyday ACts & Small Subversions: Women Re-INventing Family, Community, & Home_ Eightth Mt Press, Portland, Oregon. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 27 Feb 1994 13:29:55 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: FREEZE PEPPA Subject: Re: Female genital mutilation Dear Erisa- If you haven't read it you don't know. Also, I don't think Walker's book is a good starting point because it merely condemns genital mutilation without providing any analitical discussion of it. Therefore, it seems like a bad starting place for a research paper. If you think I condone this practice, you are completely wrong. I just have a problem with western feminists who preach against "third world" practices (ie; the vail) without considering the social context, etc. of the practice. Lesley Wiseman WISEMANL@Kenyon.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 27 Feb 1994 15:35:07 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Georgia NeSmith Subject: inclusiveness in core curriculum For those who have been following with interest my travails in attempting to integrate multicultural and gender issues into the standard curriculum -- I thought I'd pass on a positive note on this effort . . . Last Thursday a student (white, male, middle class) from my Fall 93 Intro to Mass Comm class dropped into my office to chat. He said he didn't want to say anything while the class was still going on for fear it would sound like apple-polishing, but he wanted to thank me for my efforts to deal with those issues. He said he's not gotten it anywhere else and he knows it's very important to him as he plans a career in journalism. (Incidentally, he is our current student newspaper editor-in-chief.) Also the department has been trying to get program revisions through our faculty senate. The revisions have run up against a few stumbling blocks, including a question as to what we were doing about teaching gender and multicultural issues. The department's response was to say that our students get it in intro to mass comm and mass comm and society. Of course, whether that will be the case after I leave at the end of this semester is open to debate, but it's now IN WRITING and OFFICIAL that those courses are SUPPOSED to deal with those issues. Many have queried me about my job search status. So far I have made first cuts for jobs in the communication departments at Cal State Fullerton and Eastern New Mexico University. If there's anyone on the list out there from either, I'd love to hear from you. Georgia NeSmith Communication Dept SUNY Brockport Brockport NY 14420 gnesmith@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 27 Feb 1994 16:20:13 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Leslie Bender Subject: Re: WS graduate programs In-Reply-To: <199402271948.OAA01724@mailbox.syr.edu> Try Syracuse University's Women's Studies Program. We only have a graduate certificate now for a masters, but we have a great program. Leslie Bender *************************************************************** Leslie Bender email: lbender@mailbox.syr.edu Professor of Law or: lbender@law.syr.edu E.I. White Bldg. or: lbender@suvm.bitnet Syracuse U. College of Law telephone: (315) 443-4462 Syracuse, NY 13244 USA fax: (315) 443-5394 *************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 27 Feb 1994 13:03:49 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: West Joan Subject: advice needed Our Faculty Council just approved (14-2) a proposal for a Women's Studies Minor. I am one of the spokespeople for this effort and have just heard that one of the two men voting against is circulating a petition to have the proposal recalled for reconsideration. The issue seems to be "academic freedom." Not as part of the proposal itself but in an appendix entitled "Guidelines for Inclusion of Courses: Course Content and Teaching Process" we included the statement (as an introduction to the course content section) "Women's Studies courses are more than simply courses about woemn. Rather, they should exhibit a sensitivity to women and women's issues and contain within them a feminist theoretical framework around which course material is organized." Following this statement we listed five points in the way of further explanation (l/3 to 1/2 course material relating directly to WS; incorporating new materials from WS scholarship; gender as central concept; materials should treat women with respect; avoiding sex, class, ethnic, age baselines). The section on teaching process listed 5 points based on Hall and Sandler's _Classroom Climate_ as well as a specific citation of that publication. What convincing tactics/arguments can anyone suggest to this accusation that we are trying to limit a faculty member's academic freedom? What danger might there be in agreeing to drop the appendix all together (given that it is _not_ a formal part of the proposal itself but was included to answer the questions we forsaw about which courses would be allowed WS credit in a category of "student can apply to the WS committee to receive credit for a course not on the formal list." Also, I would like to know how many of your programs out there do, in fact, used such a statement as the one we included. It was not one we concocted ourselves; we based it on materials that we had collected from WS programs across the US (but we only requested information from a couple dozen). Would you please reply privately and not to the list. Many thanks in advance. Joan M. West University of Idaho Moscow, ID jwest@crow.csrv.uidaho.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 27 Feb 1994 13:34:40 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Margaret Hobart Subject: Re: Female genital mutilation In-Reply-To: <9402261838.AA15272@tolstoy.u.washington.edu> The most recent issue of Off Our Backs has an interesting letter commenting on Alice Walker's film from an African woman working with other African women to stop the practice. She critiques Walker's approach and asks if eliciting horror and condemnation of 1st worlders towards what she sees as a monolithically constructed "Africa" is the best way to assist African women... Its worth taking a look at. Margaret mhobart@carson.u.washington.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 27 Feb 1994 15:32:17 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "E. Butler-Evans" Subject: Re: Female genital mutilation In-Reply-To: <9402272135.AA02192@ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu> Note: This same article appeared about two weeks ago on the OP ED page of the New York Times. It was actually authored by two African women scholars currently teaching at colleges on the east coast. The article does raise a number of interesting issues and views Walker as a Western feminist who knows little about the actual practice of cliterodectomy (sp?) and the indigenous resistance to it in Africa. Elliott Butler-Evans ebevans@humanitas.ucsb.edu On Sun, 27 Feb 1994, Margaret Hobart wrote: > The most recent issue of Off Our Backs has an interesting letter > commenting on Alice Walker's film from an African woman working with > other African women to stop the practice. She critiques Walker's > approach and asks if eliciting horror and condemnation of 1st worlders > towards what she sees as a monolithically constructed "Africa" is the > best way to assist African women... Its worth taking a look at. > > Margaret > mhobart@carson.u.washington.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 27 Feb 1994 23:13:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Geography & Gender bibliography Another bibliography has just been added to the WMST-L collection. GEOGFEM BIBLIO1 is a bibliography of works having to do with geography and gender. It results from a cooperative effort by members of the discussion list for feminism in geography, GEOGFEM, and was collated and sent to me by Larry Berg. To retrieve a copy of this file, send the message GET GEOGFEM BIBLIO1 to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet). To get a list of all the WMST-L files, add a second line that says INDEX WMST-L . Please be sure to send these messages to LISTSERV, not WMST-L. Many thanks to the GEOGFEM participants, GEOGFEM listowner Jeff Jones (in Kentucky), collator Larry Berg (in New Zealand), and WMST-L subscriber Elisabeth Binder (in Austria), who first told me of the bibliography's existence. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 04:34:55 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Odeana R. Neal" Subject: Re: female genital mutilation > Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 17:39:10 -0400 > From: "Sarah M. Pritchard" > One of the earliest feminists to report in the U.S. on genital mutilation > was Fran Hosken; much of what was first published in her newsletter > _Women's International Network News_ was then pulled together in a book called > _The Hosken Report: Genital and Sexual Mutilation of Females_. A second > edition was published in 1979, under the auspices of WIN News. While > much new thinking and consultation has happened since then, this work has an > important place in the evolution of attention to, and information about, > the topic. people should be aware, however, that ms. hoskins, though perhaps a feminist, is, i believe, an urban planner. her research in this area is questionable and quite self-referential. ms. hoskins has an important place, i suppose, in that she's managed to be quite self- promoting and so has made sure her name gets mentioned a lot, but i wonder how much scholarly merit her work has. -- odeana ********************************************************************** Odeana Neal Syracuse University College of Law, Syracuse, NY 13244 315-443-4582 (voice)/315-443-3636 (FAX)/orneal@law.syr.edu "Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative." -- Oscar Wilde ********************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 08:38:23 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Mara Siegel (Trinity College of Vermont)" Organization: Saint Michael's College Subject: Re: Female genital mutilation The book and documentary are called WARRIOR MARKS. The filmmaker is Pratibha Parmar. Mara ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 09:38:37 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Delese Wear Subject: Re: Female genital mutilation In-Reply-To: <199402260107.UAA05799@umd5.umd.edu> from "Nancy Ota" at Feb 25, 94 04:52:39 pm fyi on female genital mutilation: i teach in a medical school, and i wanted to see what was out on our enormous data base (for western medicine) called MEDLINE. not surprisingly, not much. a few, some in nursing journals, all under the broader category of circumcision. of course, lots more on male circumcision. the few in the medical journals were on the medical complications of circumcision. here's an example from TROPICAL DOCTOR 1991 OCt;21(4):146-8 "during one year 118 patients were admitted to the operative gynecological ward of Banadir Maternity Hospital, Mogadishu, Somalia, with diseases related to the practice of female circumcision. Fifty-five percent of the patients were suffering froma dermoid cyst at the site of the excised clitoris. Thirty-six percent had a vaginal stenosis and 9% an abscess at the site of the excised clitoris. These patients occupied the beds of the hospital for a total period of 1967 days which posed a significant constraint to the health services of the hospital." ie. GET THOSE WOMEN OUTA THERE.... delese wear dw@uhura.neoucom.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 09:43:25 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Judith F. Clark" Subject: Re: Female genital mutilation For one perspective on female genital mutilation as an aspect of child abuse, you might want to check out the following article by David Finkelhor and J. Korbin: Child Abuse as an International Issue," in Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal, 12:1 (1988), pp. 3-23. judith f. clark@dartmouth.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 09:41:34 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Trisha Franzen Subject: female genital mutilation An interesting addition to the discussion about female genital mutilation is Angela Davis' report from her 1985 visit to Egypt. This can be found in WOMEN: A WORLD REPORT, Oxford University Press, 1985. This piece places FGM in a context that recognizes the struggles between women/feminists in "third world" and "first world" countries. Trisha Franzen Albion College ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 09:53:17 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Delese Wear Subject: female genital mutilation see also Nahid Toubia's FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION: A CALL FOR GLOBAL ACTION. NY: Women, INK., 1993 also, you might contact CAMS (Commission INternationale pour l'Abolition des Mutilations Sexuelles), B.P. 811, Dakar, Senegal delese wear northeastern ohio universities college of medicine 4209 st. rt. 44 po box 95 rootstown, oh 44272 216-325-2511 dw@uhura.neoucom.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 09:32:02 LCL Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ventis Deborah G Subject: Re: Female genital mutilation It sounds as though the student researching this paper was interested in legal issues--I read something in the Washington Post (Health section, I believe) about the issue of genital mutilation and two different legal issues. First, performing the surgery in either this country or Canada--could it be done/prevented? Second, a case of a woman who was fighting deportment because she feared her daughters would be circumcised. In addition, I don't think anyone has mentioned selections from the edited book (Margot Badran and Miriam Cooke) "Opening the Gates: A Century of Arab Feminist Writing" which address clitoridectomy. There is an interesting piece about the role of a Peace Corps volunteer and her work with midwives in Mauritania, West Africa that includes a lecture by a local midwife to other midwives on the practice. This piece addresses many of the cultural issues that other list readers have been concerned about. Deborah Green Ventis DGVENT@mail.wm.edu College of William and Mary ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 08:36:01 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cheri Casper Subject: SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS I am working with a group of women to develop learning materials and activities that are geared toward early elementary school aged children. There has been a great deal of material developed for teachers but in our area, none that deals directly with the kids. Specifically, we want to help them to be able to discern what is harassing behavior and what is not and prevent incidents when they are older such as the Stud Possee. Does anyone out there know of anything that would be useful to our group? We are working with an April 11 deadline. Thanks. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 11:07:15 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Erisa Ojimba Subject: A REPRESENTATIVE BUREAUCRACY I am presently studying the concept representative bureaucracy in an outside America. I am interested in agencies that are actively represented--i.e agencies that are not only demographically represented, but also agencies where women and minorities have some kind of political influence. I will be interested in any suggestions, articles, books, etc... that deal extensively on this issue. Thanks for the space Erisa Ojimba email address: eojimba@uga.cc.uga.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 12:18:00 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosemary Lyons-Chase Subject: Bulletin board Dear Wmst Subscribers, My doctoral work focuses on Antonine Maillet. My dissertation will be a study of her narrative structures as they go beyond the ending of marriage or death, often into quest. I will compare her work to that of Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, And Toni Cade Bambara. I would like to exchange information with anyone writing about French speaking Canadian women, especially of Acadia, and with any other comparativist researchers on women writers. Thank you. My e-mail address is Lyons%CGCC@ALBANYVMS Rosemary Lyons-Chase Columbia-Greene Community College Box 1000 Hudson NY 12534 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 12:40:49 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Delese Wear Subject: female genital mutilation . dls' ma's;dfm s ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 13:05:30 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Judith F. Clark" Subject: Re: SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS Re Cheri Casper's request: Have you contact the Education Development Center, Inc., which maintains a catalog of their Women's Educational Equity Act Publishing Center materials? You can write them at 55 Chapel St., Suite 200, Newton, MA 02160, or they have a tolll-free #: 1- 800 - 225-3088. It may not be exactly targeted to your needs, but there is some elementary-level material dealing with gender-balance. Good luck... judith f. clark@dartmouth.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 13:07:49 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Judith F. Clark" Subject: Re: SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS Re my recent post to Cheri Casper: You may also contact the WEEA Publishing Center via e-mail: gaeah@edc.org ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 13:23:17 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from PROFS to RFC822 format by PUMP V2.2X From: "Susan Mumm, York U, Canada" Subject: Re: WS graduate programs In-Reply-To: note of 02/27/94 16:18 Someone contacted me re: York University, Toronto and its graduate program in women's studies. I was unable to reply privately, so I am sending the information to the list. York offers both the MA and PhD in Women's Studies. S. Mumm, York University. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 14:40:15 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Hannigan Subject: Re: SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS Yes, I think the following items may help: Shoop, Robert J. and Debra L. Edwards. How To Stop Sexual Harassment in Our Schools: A Handbook and Curriculum Guide for Administrators and Teachers. (Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1994). Wheeler, Kathryn. How Schools Can Stop Shortchanging Girls (and Boys): Gender-Equity Strategies. (Wellesley, MA: Center dfor Research on Women, 1994) [ [This is not released yet--but is about to be] Stein, Nan. Secrets in Public: Sexual Harassment in Public (and Private) Schools. (Wellesley, MA: Center for Research on Women, Revised 1993, No. 256, 19 93). AAUW. Hostile Hallways: The AAUW Survey on Sexual Harassment in America's Schools.Commissioned by the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation.Researched by Harris/Scholastic. (Washington, DC: AAUW, 1993). AAUW Report: How Schhols Shortchange Girls. (Researched by The Wellesley Center for Research on Women. (Washington DC: AAUW, 1992. Shoop has done several books, training manuals and a video on sexual harassment in schools. He is a Porofessor of Educational Law at Kansas State University. AAUW has a video that is 15 minutes. $19.95 to members and $24.95 to non-members. Call 1-800-225-9998 ext. 91 Title: Video: Shortchanging Girls, Shortchanging America. Some of the above documents have extensive bibliographies. Hope thisprovides some helpp. Jane Hannigan@Zodiac.rutgers.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 14:01:00 GMT-500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bea Jacobson Organization: Augustana College - Rock Island IL Subject: Feminist Biography? Could anyone direct me to a listserv that focuses on feminist biography and/or autobiography? Please respond privately. And thanks! Bea Jacobson ENJACOBSON@AUGUSTANA.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 14:12:33 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Benay Blend Subject: Re: Bulletin board Rosemary: My area of research is Western women writers. However, I teach a course in minority lit., and I'm interested in a more comparative approach. I use Erdrich, Tracks; Morrison, The bluest Eye; an autobiography entitled Talking to High Monks in the Snow (Japanese-Am.), and Terry McMillan, ed., Breaking Ice: an Anthology of African-American Lit. In my own writing I have done some work comparing Kate Chopin and Mary Austin. If any of this is of interest to you, I would be interested in exchanging ideas and biblio graphy. Benay Blend blend@nsula.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 16:02:39 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Chris Jazwinski Subject: motherhood mandate and mystique I am doing some work on the topics of the motherhood mandate (i.e., women must have children to avoid social ostracism) and the motherhood mystique (i.e., ultimate fulfillment is through motherhood; motherhood blends seamlessly into other roles; to be a good mother you must like it and everything that goes with it; intense, exclusive mothering is good for children). I am interested particularly in women who have rebelled or ignored the motherhood mandate at various points in their lives, or even throughout their lives. I am also interested in the extent to which women buy into the motherhood mystique. If you know of any books or articles on these topics, I would very much appreciate the information. I would also value any thoughts or ideas that you have on this topic. Please respond privately. Chris Jazwinski Professor of Psychology St. Cloud State University St. Cloud, MN 56301 612-255-3271 JAZ@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 19:17:39 -0300 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cecilia Maria B Sardenberg Subject: Information Needed from people in Boston area In-Reply-To: My sister heard on the news that there is a place in Boston that donates old computers (outdated but still working) and the like to needy NGO's. Computer equipment is very expensive in Brazil and I know a lot of women's groups that could use such a donation. The only problem is that all my sister gave me was a telephone number to go by: (617) 542-1234. Since phone calls from here to the US are also very expensive, I was wondering if somebody from the list, living in the Boston area, could call that number and find out the address so that we can write them via snail- mail ? Thank you very much. Please, respond privately to Cecilia Sardenberg cecisard@sunrnp.ufba.br ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 18:05:17 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Karin Herrmann Subject: Syllabus request I would like to thank everybody who responded so quickly and helpfully to my earlier request. Now I would like to ask all those of you who have previously taught a traditional "Women in Lit." course to share their syllabus with me.Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm interested in either a course moving through different centuries or a strictly 20th century one. Thanks in advance. Karin Herrmann Kherrman@comp.uark.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 18:55:29 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Benay Blend Subject: Re: Feminist Biography? Bea: The contact person for the new listserv is Michelle Reynolds at email "reynolds@bosshog.arts.uwo.ca" Your subject heading should indicate that you are interested in autobio-list, and you should note whether you want this posted privately or distributed to the list. If you have any other questions, you can write to me or to Michelle. Benay Blend blend@nsula.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 18:59:38 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Benay Blend Subject: Re: Syllabus request I've used various books by bell hooks, as well an anthology entitled The Fourth Woman. I could look up editor, etc. if you're interested. Currently I am teaching minority lit., but because women's lit is really my field, w that is where the focus is. I've used Morrison, The Bluest Eye;Lydia Minatoya, Talking to High Monks in the Snow; Louise Erdrich, Tracks. I have several texts at home that I could look up if you want. Another source friends have used is Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye, and suspect The Robber Bride would generate a lot of discussion. Benay Blend blend@nsula.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 20:02:49 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JoAnne Myers Subject: Admissions response In-Reply-To: In reply to your message of MON 28 FEB 1994 07:05:17 EST Just received the response to my letter to the director of Admissions. Thanks to everyone who helped me frame my response: it worked, we have now entered into a dialogue. He admits that the female students here need more support, but he "remains uncertain about how we can best use the annual conference of Scholarship on Women & Society." So, I will now cordially TELL HIM... much obliged. JAM ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 17:15:31 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Betty J Glass Subject: Re: teachers & christian beliefs In-Reply-To: <199402250327.WAA09484@umd5.umd.edu> The book _Women of the Klan_ mentions use of the argument of separation of church and state to exclude Catholics from teaching positions and to require inclusion of the New Testament in the curriculum in public schools. I don't have the complete citation information with me. Betty Glass glass@UNR.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 19:52:21 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosa Maria Pegueros Subject: Importing computers to Brazil If I am not mistaken, the importation of computers into Brazil, even individ- ually, even used ones, is very strictly regulated by the Brazilian government. Please check with your customs officials before you proceed with this attempt to solicit donations of computers. If I remember correctly, the Brazilian computer industry has a different operating system than that which is used in the US, and the Brazilan government wants to make sure that the foreign systems do NOT become available to Brazilian consumers. This was the case about three years ago when I was applying for a visa to bring my laptop into Brazil to do research and they would not give me one: A friend who is doing her dissertation on the Brazilian computer industry explained that situation to me. Perhaps it has changed, but if I would check. Rosa Maria Pegueros PEGUEROS@URIACC.URI.EDU Dept. of History University of Rhode Island ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 21:30:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Online Conference On Women William F. Allman of USNews Online has asked me to post the following message, which is likely to be of interest to a number of WMST-L subscribers. If you want more information, please write to the e-mail address at the end of the message, or contact Kristen Gunn, whose phone number is also at the end of the message. Please DO NOT seek information from WMST-L or me. Thanks. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************** GLOBAL ELECTRONIC TOWN MEETING ON WOMEN Sponsored by U.S.News & World Report DATES: From March 6 to April 3, 1994 LOCATION: A special U.S. News Online forum, on CompuServe U.S.News & World Report is hosting an event of historic significance: A global electronic town meeting that will bring together people from all over the world to discuss the challenges facing women today. The conference will take place on U.S.News Online, which is part of Compuserve, an electronic computer network that reaches over a million and a half people in more than 100 countries. The electronic town meeting will begin the week of March 7th, coinciding with International Women's Day, and continue for four weeks, covering a broad range of topics from economics to health care to the environment to cultural issues. The format of this electronic symposium will be part panel discussion, part radio call-in show, and part town meeting. U.S.News Online will act as a giant bulletin board: People can post a message expressing their views on a topic, which can be read by anyone else at any time. Someone else can post a response to the original message, or leave a new message of her own. The unique strength of this electronic town meeting format is that it is not necessary that people be gathered together at the same time or place. Someone in Norway can post a message in the morning, for instance, and someone else in China can read the message the next day, and respond to it. The result is a "virtual" salon where ideas are discussed and developed, and can be shared with potentially millions of people. We are asking scores of women leaders in politics, health care, economics and the arts to participate. The list of participants tentatively include a broad range of experts such as Marian Wright Edelman of the Children's Defense Fund, Congresswoman Pat Schroeder, Annette Lu of Parliament of Taiwan, Prime Minister of Turkey Tansu Ciller, Jane Dobija of the Warsaw Journalism Center, writers Susan Faludi and Betty Friedan of the USA, Mitsuko Shimomura of Japan, Mary Holland of Ireland, Susan Davis of the Women's Environmental Association, Judith Tymian of Population Services International, Jacqueline Pitanguy of Brazil, Sheila Sisula of South Africa, and Lynne Povich, editor of Working Woman magazine in the U.S.A. Because of the nature of this new technology, participation can be as much or little as one likes. It might involve preparing a brief biography, a message about the important issues facing women in one's country, or merely reading and responding to questions and comments throughout the conference. This "electronic town meeting" will run for a month, starting on the week of the 7th of March. It is not absolutely necessary that participants have access to a computer. Most important is a willingness to participate in the dialogue. For those who have a PC, access to a modem, and want to participate fully, Compuserve is offering a free start-up kit of software, which includes waiving the monthly $8.95 Basic Services fee for a month, as well as a $15 credit of connect time. Those who participate in the International Forum on Women have the opportunity to receive an additional $20 connect time credit. To order the free software, call 800 510 4247 and ask for the "US News Online" software kit. Limited participation is also possible via Internet email -- we can download and mail people responses to their posts, for instance. In special cases we'll even exchange messages via fax. That is, we'll get the messages to a participant, and she/he can answer via fax, for instance, and we'll make sure it is uploaded to CompuServe. If you have any questions about this event, please call conference coordinator Kristen Gunn at 202 955 2643, or send a message via electronic mail to 71154.1007@compuserve.com. Thank you.